Engine Fuel

By Jacob Olian

“Engine fuel, you say, sonny?” asked the store owner at Zakum’s Space Supplies. He was really, really old, with liver spots all over his bald head and pimples on every square inch of his face.

“Umm… Yeah…” I answered, scared of this crazy old man.

“Well it's agonnna be to yur left,” the old man said.

“Okay, uh, thanks,” I replied nervously, and walked in that direction as fast as possible, trying to get away from that weird guy.

“Whew, thank god. There are some weird people in this sector.” I grabbed the first bottle on the shelf and ran out of the store.

As I walked throughout the huge bustling city lit with neon lights and the lights of hover-taxis, I noticed really how different from my own world this sector was. The people were weirder, the atmosphere was more clogged, very much unlike my own sector, Dodilia. I reached the parking garage where I parked my gigaship, The Shadow Raider. I pressed the unlock button on my black car key, and the escalator lowered. I rode it up to the cockpit of the ship, and it promptly closed behind me. I plopped down in the captain’s seat and revved up the twin turbo engine. I pushed forward the accel-lever and the ship swiftly started to move forward. The craft picked up speed and zoomed out the launch door at 1437 mph. “Well, I better put in the new engine fuel,” I remembered, and put the ship on autopilot while taking the bottle out of my bag. I opened the cap and poured it into the fuel hatch. Suddenly, the ship started to tremor vigorously. “Uh, oh,” I muttered under my breath.

Down below, on Sector Imagination X, its inhabitants were given a fireworks show that lasted for days to come.