P is for Pressure/Proposition

With Cyrano gone, I crawl into my bed. As upset as I feel about him lying to me, I feel just as upset with myself, because I let a wonderful opportunity to see the world and other worlds. I've wanted this since I was little. And now, just because I was upset about one tiny little lie that was in actuality a wonderful honour, I miss my chance to perdue my dreams.

I roll over in bed and sigh. I needed sleep. As I was getting into a deep sleep, I began dreaming of Cyrano with his long dark hair, and the red martians. Just then, something tapped me on the nose. I open my eyes to see the 3 slender white fingers of Cyrano. I jump up. Before I can scream Cyrano begins shushing me.

"You really make quite a bit of noise. Could you be a bit quieter? I have a proposition."

I roll my eyes. I should have told him to get out because i was still upset, but I wanted to hear what he had to say.

He clears his throat. "I'm sorry for lying, I'm aware that this isn't the way you make friends, but I could use someone to travel along with me and make the world a better place. I get why it cant be you, but could I at least show you a planet youve always wanted to see to make up for it? No pressure."

As fast as I can, I say yes.

O is for Over

"Okay then, I guess its over. I'll get you home in time for your test."

I mumble a thank you.

Within a minute we leave mars and head to earth. This time, we are able to make it to my house, my room specifically. Everything is exactly as I had left it, and the clock was the exact time I had gone to bed the night I left.

"How long have we been gone?" I ask Cyrano. "And how does this ship fit in my room?"

Cyrano has a sad look on his face. "Its 30 minutes before you came to mars, and you've only been gone a day. And this," he touches the wall of the ship "is only the door. I guess this is goodbye? I hate wasting energy."

"Yeah."

Cyrano gets into his ship, and vanishes

N is for Never

We board what is now our ship and prepare to go to our homes. Before we actually take off, Cyrano looks at me and says "Y'know I really could use you as my partner in crime. Why don't we just keep doing this?"

I look him and smirk. "I won't always get Lucy enough to find a reset button."

"Yes, but I need someone here to be with me. To keep me from getting lost in my head." Cyrano shuffles around with the controls. "That's why I picked you. I had the martians lie. They didn't scan the earth, I did."

I stood there dumbfounded. How could the martians have scanned the earth, when they didn't even know that the rover came with a reset button. I shook my head.

"I can never travel with a liar. Take me home, please."

M is for Maybe

Cyrano stands up. "Well, this changes things." He walks over to the Rover and presses the reset button. It beeps.

He walks over to me, picks me up and spins around laughing. "Maybe I should listen to you from now on!" I squirm out of his arms and frown.

"Well come on, we've got to go tell the Martians what we've discovered". I sigh and follow after him.

Cyrano marches up to the space where the door to the Martians homes were, and knocks at the open air. The door appears and he steps back.

When the Martians appear Cyrano explains our findings and the Martian that has been doing all of the talking says " Thank you the shield are down now. You can go home."

Cyrano replies " no problem.  if you ever need us again, you know where to find us. Who knows, maybe we'll keep doing this. We make quite a team."

I nod my head in  agreement.

L is for Listen

The Martian replies "It will get better. There is a lot in store for you two. Should we leave you to work? We need to have a meeting to make sure that this never happens again." He narrows his eyes at the Martian behind him.

"Okay, sounds good."

A door appears out of the sand and the martians walk through it. The door disappears, leaving me and Cyrano.

"Honestly Cyrano listen to me. The Rover has-"

He interrupts me with "there is no way that Google has the answer to this problem."

I sit down my laptop and walk over to where Cyrano is crouched over the rover. I grab his shoulder. "Listen to me! I know to you I am just a stupid human. But maybe this stupid human has an idea that works!"

Cyrano rises to his full height and snarls "Fine."

He walks over to my laptop and looks at the plan laid out on the screen. "Oh."

"Yeah. I thought so." I think.

K is for Kick

"Well of course they've got WiFi, everyone does! Who do you think gave it to them? You're a bit slow aren't you?" Cyrano stands up and taps on my head. I was growing tired of being insulted for not knowing things, so I kicked him. Cyrano jumps back in pain and one of the Martians begins to snicker.

"Oi! What was that for?"

"You keep insulting me as if I'm supposed to know this stuff! Well, I don't. And I want to help out and I want to get home just as bad as you! So instead of mocking me, why don't you connect me to the internet?"

Cyrano is dumbfounded. He goes into the ship, brings out my laptop and connects me. I say thank you and he nods.

I Google the plans for the Mars Rover. On the plans, they have included a reset footage button. Go figure.

"Hey Cyrano, come look at this."

"Not now, rather busy."

I look up at the Martian and he shrugs.

"Not a very good listener is he, that one?"

"Not at all," I say.

J is for Jump

I shake my head at this Martian. This was a lot of weight on my shoulders. Cyrano probably could do it all by himself, but for some reason it required both of us. The closest thing to an engineering degree I had was  building one of my older laptops with my mom, and changing the oil in my car. I didn't think that this was enough to fix the Mars Rover.

"I don't think you really need my help. But Cyrano and I will do the best we can."

The Martian bows, and the other nine follow his lead. Cyrano jumps back from the Rover to look at me and the Martians. He frowns and scratches his head. With nothing witty to say, he resumes his inspection.

"Um. Are there only ten of you guys?" The Martians stand up and nod.

"So you don't repopulate? Or?" 

The Martian who has been speaking for the group answers. "We're not immortal  but we can be as long as no one attempts to harm us. And yes, there are only 10 of us. Which is why the humans can't see us. If they saw life on our planet, or that it was even remotely possible, they would come here. That could be the death of us."

 I couldn't disagree. 

The martian continues,"But one doofus accidentally moved when the Rover came by. And the Rover captured everything, including how to get into our homes. We need your help to delete the footage and discourage the humans."

I nodded.  "Who has WiFi?"