Mission to the Gobi Desert
PLK Choi Kai Yau School, Justin Yuen, Fiction: Group 2
Introduction
For a long time, the Gobi Desert was mysterious and unexplored. People often went in and never
got out. Police officers all over the world wanted to know why, so they sent in two experienced
explorers, Henry and Tom, to do an investigation. Immediately they were summoned to an office
to be briefed about the mission. The officer said, “This is a mission of the utmost importance. You
shall venture into the desert, to find and retrieve the missing people in there; hopefully without
getting lost yourself! Try to map out the region carefully, but it would help if you can stay alive
and report back to us afterwards.” This is how their adventure started.
The Capture
Henry and Tom were equipped with a slew of equipment in two loaded backpacks: Swiss army
knives, tents, searchlights, food, medicine, matches, a compass, some flares and a star chart.
Right around noon on day 3, Henry felt that his leg was being pulled downwards quickly into
the sand. Tom reached out to pull him back, thinking that Henry had fallen into quicksand but
he started sinking also. In a few seconds both had sunk to their waist and going down fast. Tom
tried to grab a nearby cactus, hands aching from the spikes, but the cactus merely got pull along
also. Suddenly, Henry felt his feet were no longer in sand anymore. Henry could sense that there
was something alive and moving beneath them. By now his head is almost buried and he was
struggling to catch his breath. In one last ditch effort, Henry and Tom pulled out their knives and
started stabbing all around themselves, but the pulling simply paused for a while and continued.
They were now sucking in sand, and they looked upward to draw one last breath, and tried not to
imagine what might happen to them as they fell … into the jaws of a giant sandworm.
Brain Scans
“Ouch!” Henry yelled as he landed on a cold stone floor of a large, cold cavern, being regurgitated
out with their sandy bath by the sandworm. “Where are we?” Suddenly, more lights turned on
and they saw a large amount of machinery and pipes. A creature slid slowly in through a dark
entrance. It was twice as tall as Henry but looked like a grey octopus with only 3 tentacles. On the
sides of its head are five eyes looking out for each direction: top, front, back, left, right.
Tom and Henry’s hands were bound together and then were moved to a dimly lighted area
with two beds. They were fastened to the beds by mechanical handcuffs and were put to sleep
with a strange puff of odor. Next the aliens placed different kinds of wiring and electrodes on
their heads and started brain scanning. About an hour into the session, Tom had a torturous
nightmare in which he was pressed against a cliff wall while being chopped into pieces by the
aliens. He started to struggle violently on the bed and screamed out deafening cries. Suddenly,
all the lights turned on at once but went out immediately as the aliens computers next to the
bed started to smoke. Tom and Henry’s mechanical handcuffs opened automatically and luckily
