Joey’s Little Problem

By Austin M. and Ryan G.

Once again Joey was left with freezing cold water streaming down his back in the shower. Everyday it was the same, Christina, Joey’s sister, used all the hot water. As Joey dried off from another depressing shower he vowed that he would get back at all the people that hogged hot water.

First he decided to steal a NASA space ship and take everyone he liked to the moon. After the Earth was destroyed Joey and the people he liked would

be the last people left to live.

Joey decided to disrupt the Water Cycle. Joey would suck up all the water from almost everywhere he could and ship it to the moon to be his personal water supply. Just to make sure nobody on earth got any water he would cut down all the trees and kill all the plants to avoid a chain reaction of transpiration, condensation and precipitation. That’s when Joey realized that cutting down trees would also disrupt the carbon cycle. Joey thought to himself why don’t I just disrupt all three major cycles that take place on earth, the water, the carbon and the nitrogen cycles.

Joe decided to do a couple more things besides just taking all the water from the earth. He would cover earth atmosphere with steel covering. This would cut off the sunlight. That would mean photosynthesis would not take place causing carbon dioxide, a gas that would usually be turned to usable carbon in the process of photosynthesis, would build up and contaminate the atmosphere. This metal covering would also overheat the earth causing the remaining water in the ice caps to melt and flood the earth.

Joey renamed the moon Joetopia. Joetopia had been built up very well; almost half of the moon was covered with people, houses, water sources, plants, animals, and oxygen. The Earth’s Water Cycle was finished. In the far-off distance coming from earth he saw a space shuttle. It was none other than Super- Freak. The greatest SUPER HERO to ever live! He would be at Joetopia in less than a week. Joey must prepare for battle. But he can’t leave his plans on Earth untended to. So he put his friend Josh in charge of the army.

Unfortunately Josh was a horrible military leader. He leads forces out into space for a battle. Super- Freak’s forces were just too much for Josh’s forces to handle. Josh and his army retreated to Joetopia. But Super- Freak was close behind. It was over Super-Freak had already destroyed Josh’s entire army and all that was left was Josh. Josh didn’t know what to do Super-Freak was backing him up against a wall. Josh had to grab something in self defense. Fortunately for Josh he grabbed the lever that released the water coming from earth. The water came rushing out right towards Super-Freak. As much as they tried Super-Freak and his troops could not escape their unfortunate death. Super –Freak was destroyed.

Finally, the bloody battle was over an Joey could carry out his plan. With his new spaceship Joey picked up his best friends from school, his relatives and some other nice people he picked up from around the world. He asked those people only a few questions; one being “Do you waste hot water in the shower?” He had to make a couple different trips but in the end he had about 10,000 people. Once Joey took all the people back to Joetopia he started putting his plan to action to destroy the earth.

Joey cloned the amount of denitrifying bacteria on earth so there would be no usable nitrogen. Joey also took the lightning away so nitrogen fixation was impossible. Since there was no more usable nitrogen animals couldn’t survive. The nitrogen cycle was destroyed.

Joey used his flamethrower to burn all the earth’s fossil fuels. This process known as combustion released carbon dioxide into the air and contaminated the atmosphere. It became hard for everyone to breathe, soon many humans and animals became very sick.

After Joey destroyed the nitrogen and carbon cycles he could finally suck up all the water he possibly could from the earth to use as his new civilization’s water supply. This would interrupt every part of the water cycle, including precipitation, condensation, evaporation and transpiration. Once he did that it was time to seal the deal by sealing up earth. Earth was finished and flooded and Joey and his civilization lived happily ever after on the moon.

THE END

Actually I just lied; Joe forgot to bring oxygen to his moon civilization so everyone died. This was the end of the human race.

The REAL End

Glossary

Combustion: when fossil fuels are burned and carbon dioxide is released into the air

Photosynthesis: when plants use the carbon dioxide in the air and sunlight to make sugars

Nitrogen fixation: when bacteria change nitrogen gas into usable nitrogen for other

organisms

Denitrifying bacteria: bacteria that change usable nitrogen into nitrogen gas

Precipitation: the movement of water from the atmosphere to land and oceans (in form of

rain, sleet, snow and hail)

Condensation: when water vapor cools and turns back into liquid water

Evaporation: when the suns heat turn water into water vapor that floats into atmosphere

Transpiration: when water evaporates through plants or skin