In a not so far , there is a called Poo. 'Why is the called Poo?!' I hear you well let me that for you. It's the is made of - made of . There are no in the all the on the is and . If you off the you would the the and the is all .

It is not a very to on but do there, and in there was a boy called Leth. There was about Leth, he wasn't , he didn't have any nor was he good at . What makes him from the is his of and his of making the a . He living on a that was made of , he wanted to do something about it, to make his home a to in.

There is a why the planet is made of , it's because of a creature that on this planet that the call the 'Phooper'.

A and animal no larger than an Earth and has six short legs. Its fat, body is by -coloured spots and green . It looked like a with a of .

Its , on the , is not as to look at; its has a full of long , and in the of those is its which is on the end of a long . It has eight that go all its so it can see all the that it to , and oh boy can it ! That's all it does, all and , because it doesn't and it gets full up. It just and - big !

Even though the Phooper is all long, it does do something very ; every one thousand or so that it out, it will out a magnificent and golden .

This large golden metallic dropping emits a faint glistening glow, and in sunlight it sparkles as if it was in a million diamonds. But the most amazing thing about this golden (or Goop as the affectionately call it) is that it's super charged full of electrical energy and only one of them could power an entire city for a ! That is why everyone on the planet has a pet Phooper, some even have several, because who wouldn't want to plop a Goop into their car and have it running for a year?

Power stations have thousands of Phoopers all on conveyer belts with machines that sort out and collect the golden . There are Phooper farms everywhere that have hundreds of them all out on the fields with dozens of farmhands digging through the muck to collect the golden treasure.

But what did they do with the tons and tons of foul-smelling yucky waste ? They disposed of it, of course, by pumping it away into the and dumping it outside the cities. Inevitably the whole planet got in , the leaves on the got in gunk because the rain had sediment in it, the air turned yellow and there was a stench of everywhere; the entire planet slowly turned .

It is definitely not the cleanest solution of obtaining electricity but it is by far the easiest way to produce amounts of power; and so, the on the planet absolutely Phoopers as they had so many electrical devices that required charging.

It was just an ordinary and Leth was doing his daily chores before going to school. Just the normal everyday stuff that on the planet did, such as turning on the Crud Cleanser Cannon on top of the house.

It looked like a giant pistol on top of the roof that sprayed disinfectant at high speed. With a high-pitched hissing sound, it blasted all the disgusting sludge off the house that coated it like a thin layer of reeking chocolate.

Next Leth had to change the filters from the air purification fan which were yellow and slimy from a day's of de- the air inside the house.

Finally, he had to use the big Excrement Extractor machine to suck up the hefty hill of in his back garden that 'Spotty' his pet Phooper had produced during the .

His next-door neighbour and best friend Tigtig had three pet Phoopers and he was already busy sucking up the with his Excrement Extractor.

"Hey Leth!" Tigtig yelled over the background 'thunk, thunk, thunk' noise of the machine. Leth looked up and nodded at his friend who was standing on top of a massive mound of foul-smelling muck at least 10 metres high. The pipe of the extractor throbbed in Tigtig's arms as it slowly pumped the waste matter into the sewers and away to the .

Tigtig's grimaced with disapproval as he looked towards Leth and whimpered "urgh, it smells so bad today, I think I'm going to vomit". Leth couldn't help but feel sympathy for his best friend because he thoroughly detested living a life that was so horribly , polluted and ugly. He waved to Tigtig to come down and hollered "Hey Tig! Put the extractors on automatic and let's go to school early".

Leth didn't like going to school, he didn't it either, but he knew deep down that if he were to change the it would be best if he knew as many things as possible. He understood that creating stuff, making inventions and solving problems were a lot easier if you knew a lot of things - a vast amount of knowledge makes it easier to solve bigger problems!

He in all his classes, learning as much as he could about everything; he wanted to invent something to clean up the planet, so he liked science classes the most and picked as many science clubs and classes as was possible to attend.

He once had a idea for an invention that would launch all the into space, he would call it the Excrement Ejector and it would be attached to the Excrement Extractor. It would clean up the planet but it would unfortunately pollute the entire galaxy! So Leth scrapped that idea..

Today in science lesson Tigtig was assembling magnetic superconductors, as usual, because he hoverboarding, it was his favourite hobby.Leth was doing a study on the Goops - the wondrous golden

droppings

of pure power; the ones he was doing his analysis on were inert of course, they were powerless and

quite

safe to touch.

Today he noticed something about them that he

never

noticed before, that they were

quite

warm even though it was a really cold day. All the

other

apparatus on the table were stone cold but the Goops were abnormally warm, so he went and checked the

other

Goops in the cupboard but they were cold.

'Hmm... the only difference between them were that the Goops in the cupboard were in the dark and the ones on the table were exposed to light' Leth thought to himself.

He grabbed a Goop under each arm and plonked them down by the biggest window and beckoned Tigtig to come over. "Touch the Goops, don't they feel kind of hot? I think they absorb light" Leth told Tigtig.

Tigtig reached out with his arm to give them a feel but he was still holding one of the big magnets in his and with a loud clunk it stuck on to the Goop. The golden sphere immediately started vibrating as soon as the magnet touched it; the two things combined caused some kind of reaction in the Goop as within moments it started to sparkle a little bit.

Tigtig poked it with his finger, there was a crackle and a pop and Tigtig let out a yelp "Ouch! It shocked me!". Leth's widened with glee as he shouted out "Eureka! The Goops can be recharged by sunlight and magnets!"

With his new found discovery, Leth's path towards his of changing the was well and truly underway. He started to imagine living in a of green , blue and air.

'Where do we begin and what should we change first?' He pondered to himself. "Let's start with the farms! So instead of feeding Phoopers and collecting Goops, they could simply collect empty used Goops and recharge them to sell. That will put an end to the 1.5 billion farm Phoopers on the planet!" Leth said to Tigtig.

Tigtig had decided to team up with Leth's pursuit of a beautiful unpolluted ; just thinking about not needing to use the Excrement Extractor every morning gave him joyful motivation. "That's a idea! There are Phooper farms everywhere, and we even have seven farms close by inside our city, let's go visit them on the weekend" Tigtig replied.

It was Saturday morning and they just arrived at Gulliver's Goop Galore farm, Gulliver the farm owner came out to greet them. "'Ello my handsomes" he beamed, with a grin from ear to ear.

A tall slender man stood before them, his weathered was brown like overdone toast and his dry sun-bleached hair looked like a of yellow straw. He was wearing a Sludge Suit, which is a skin-tight rubber suit coated with a black varnish that stops from sticking to it - it made him look like a life-sized stick man.

There were still splodges of on his , his hair was speckled with bits of and his were in crusty filth. "Just come from the Phooper fields, I have, lemme clean myself up, follow me and tell me more about what you told me earlier over the phone".

While Gulliver was hosing himself down, Leth explained his discovery in detail and his suggestion on how to change the farm.

"...so Mr. Gulliver you could use magnets and recharge empty Goops to sell, then you won't have to keep Phoopers anymore, and you can use the land to grow fruits and vegetables instead!".

The grinning farmer looked at the boys and his lips separated into a smile "How much money can I make selling fruits and vegetables?! Not much at all! I'm going to keep all my Phoopers AND I'm going to recharge and sell Goops, I'm going to make even more money that way!". And with that Gulliver shook the boys' and skipped away back to the fields, his prancing silhouette like a dancing dolly in the distance.

"Well that didn't go to plan" Tigtig glumly said to Leth. "No, it didn't at all, but let's keep trying with the farms in the city" Leth said with a look of encouragement to his friend. And tried they did, but the six farms all had the same result; they all saw it as an opportunity to produce more Goops and make more money, nobody saw it as an opportunity to clean up the planet.

The boys trudged home dragging their feet after a long day of disappointing results. Leth turned to Tigtig to wave goodnight and said "Tomorrow we'll go to the power station and pitch our discovery to them, surely they will love the idea of renewable energy". Tigtig nodded to Leth and gave him a thumbs up as the boys called it a day.

The next morning the boys got on their hoverboards and zoomed down to their local power station together. After going through several security checks and x-ray scans, they were sent into a brightly lit white painted room to wait for the manager. They waited there for what felt like hours until finally a stern looking woman came in; her was screwed up with furrowed eyebrows, squinted and pursed lips. "Hello, I'm Harriet, you spoke to me earlier on the phone, I've considered what you told me and frankly I'm concerned" she said, looking at them with complete seriousness. The two boys looked at each with bewilderment and then returned their gaze back to the grey suited woman and waited for her to continue speaking.

"You two really don't get it do you? We're a power station and we're in the business of selling electricity. Collecting Goops on a conveyor belt by feeding Phoopers is cheap and easy. Whereas using a complicated system of electromagnets to recharge Goops would be costly and cut into our profits". She crossed her arms and glared at them intimidatingly, then continued talking "If learn about recharging electricity at home and stopped buying electricity from us, it would make us lose a lot of money, that's what makes me most concerned". She then towards the door, opened it and motioned them to leave. "We're absolutely not interested in this discovery. Goodbye" She snarled as she closed the door behind them with a loud bang.

The boys got on their hoverboards and made their way home, their hearts were so heavy with disappointment they wanted to cry. 'Doesn't anyone care about living on a clean, healthy, beautiful planet?' they thought to themselves.

Leth tossed and turned in bed that , he couldn't , all he could think about was his amazing discovery - to be able to recharge Goops using light is the ability for near limitless electricity, to be able to harness the power of the stars! 'The stars? THE STARS! With unlimited energy we could power incredibly fast propulsion and travel off the planet and go anywhere in the universe!" Leth leapt out of bed and wanted to go tell Tigtig his new idea right away, but instead decided to get some rest as tomorrow would be an action-packed day.

Sunrise couldn't come soon enough and Leth was knocking on Tigtig's door bright and early, he told his best friend his new idea and it didn't take much convincing to get him onboard. Tigtig was already buzzing with excitement for the opportunity to have an adventure amongst the stars and couldn't wait to get started.

"The first thing we is a spaceship and powerful boosters that can go super-fast" Leth said to Tigtig hoping for some ideas. "If only we had a giant hoverboard the size of a stadium with a door so that we can go inside" Tigtig replied. Leth looked at Tigtig with wide opened and shouted "THAT'S IT! That's a brilliant idea! We will collect empty used Goops, recharge and sell them to make lots and lots of money then use that money to buy a custom made giant hoverboard!"

Over the next few months Leth and Tigtig relentlessly collecting used Goops from the scrapyard to recharge and sell. Every weekend and school holiday they would tirelessly go back and forth from the city dumps with empty Goops; then used home-made electromagnets that Tigtig learned how to make in science lessons to recharge them.

While they were in school, they shared their idea with everyone, and soon friends and teachers alike joined the team - especially the adventurous types.

They helped out with the Goop business whenever they could and together to build contraptions needed for space travel. It wasn't long before they made so much money, millions in fact, that they were ready to approach a hoverboard factory to an order for the biggest hoverboard that the has ever seen.

They wrote a letter with the specifications for their giant hoverboard to 'Topnotch Hoverboards Ltd', the biggest and best hoverboard company on the planet. Several days had passed before Leth got a phone call. "Hello, is that Mr. Leth?" the voice on the phone said, and before Leth could answer he continued talking "I'm a representative from Topnotch Hoverboards and we received your order for a giant Hoverboard".

The man's voice was jittery and he spoke extremely fast, "You specified that you wanted it to be one hundred and twenty metres long? And the whole of the outside plated with a layer of golden Goop? Is this correct?".

"Yes, I did order that, everything is correct, and how much would it cost?" responded Leth. "It's going to be very expensive and it will take several years to build" the man said, waiting for Leth to reply. "Will it be in the millions?" replied Leth. "No, much more, it will cost 7.9 billion".

Leth remained silent while he did some mathematics in his , "we can pay you 100 million a month for 79 months" suggested Leth. "Yes, we can accept that arrangement, if you could be so kind to deposit the first instalment as soon as possible then we may begin construction".

They sealed the deal over the phone and ended the call. Leth thought about the long task ahead of him but it didn't deter him at all, he had his on the prize and was ready to for it.

The months rolled by and soon turned into years, before long almost seven years had passed and the day the giant hoverboard would be finished was upon them. Today they would launch into space! Everyone was so excited; the team had grown bigger, it was now a hundred of friends, family and teachers. Leth was standing alongside Tigtig, they both stood slightly in front of the rest of the team, he turned his slightly and said to his best friend "We did it! We couldn't stop the and clean up the planet, but at least this is something". Tigtig looked at Leth and replied "I will have to use that Excrement Extractor to clean up every morning again, that's definitely more than something!".

They both laughed as they watched the last bits of scaffolding being removed. "So, is this actually a spaceship?" queried Tigtig. "No Tig, it's not a spaceship, it's a spaceboard, an intergalactic spaceboard" Leth joked as he slapped his friend on the shoulder, "Let's go Tig! The scaffolding is off, it's ready!".

There was a roar from the crowd as they cheered the completion of the giant hoverboard. "Hip hip hurray!" everyone was overjoyed. And rightly so, because what a sight to behold! It was magnificent, a majestic structure of glistening gold - it took ten thousand flattened Goops to make enough plating to cover the entire thing.

Tigtig was noticeably excited, he looked at Leth and said "You know only 1 Goop can power an entire city for a day, we have 10,000 Goops covering this thing, all fully charged using sunlight! The magnetic superconductor propulsion system is going to be turbo charged and we are going to go so fast!". "Perfect" replied Leth. It wasn't long before the whole team was on board the Intergalactic Spaceboard, everybody was busy doing launch status checks and also making sure they had everything they needed.

The inside of the Spaceboard was even more amazing than the outside, it was with beautiful green plants from the floor to the ceiling. These were genetically modified plants that produced more oxygen than regular plants, and they would provide the air to breathe.

There were also electrical gizmos everywhere - a assortment of machines that did a variety of things. They invented a recycling machine; it was like a giant electric kettle that boiled all the waste liquids, such as wee, and collected the steam to be used as clean .

There was a machine with a big trumpet shaped pipe that tunnelled into the wall and went outside; this was the Hydrogen Scoop and its purpose was to suck up hydrogen gas that can be found plentifully in space. The hydrogen could then be combined with oxygen to make just in case they ran out; and there were hundreds of hover drones that would fly watering the plants and could dispense cups of for you to drink.

They had 3D printing machines that could print out edible at the push of a button, warm delicious straight onto your plate; this removed the for packaging and you didn't even need to cook.

Everything was ready for take-off and all the checks were done, the excitement in everybody soon turned into nervousness as the countdown was soon to begin. Leth gathered everyone into the flight control room where there was an enormous computer.

Leth gave Tigtig a thumbs up and then turned to everyone to begin talking "I'm so glad that all of you are here with me today on this quest for a new home. I know it's a big risk because there may not be another planet out there that is as beautiful as our own once was, before it got in , but we dare to chase that . You all made this a reality, let's do this!".

Leth flicked the switches and a robotic voice started talking on the loud speaker "10.. 9.. 8.. 7.. 6.. 5.. 4.. 3.. 2..1, Mag drives engaged". There was a gentle humming noise and the Spaceboard lifted off the , then suddenly, "BOOSH" it shot off towards space. It took only moments for the giant Spaceboard to be so high up that it looked like a little dazzling diamond in the sky, sparkling in the sunlight.

Everybody on board started celebrating; Tigtig was high-fiving all the him, and then he turned to Leth and said "If we do find a beautiful, blue and green planet to be our new home, let's try and keep it that way". Leth closed his , took a deep breath, and nodded in agreement.



The End.