Bob’s Adventure in the Time Machine

Scoil Mhuire, Shankill, 2nd Class. Illustration by Mary Whelan

Bob the Cranky Man was on the train on the way to Dublin Airport. He was going to Australia.

Bob was frightened because there are loads of sharks in Australia. Sharks were his greatest fear. Bob’s lab was in Australia.

Bob the Cranky Man was pushing everyone on the plane. He was really cross because there were no peanuts on the plane. The pilot pushed him out the window.

“Help!” yelled Bob.

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Bob the Cranky Man was saved by Denis the Boy Superhero.

“What did you do that for, man?!” asked Bob.

“That’s mean!” replied Denis.

“I want to go to Australia! Now!” shouted Bob.

“If you don’t start being nicer, I will throw you into the sharks,” said Denis.

“No, no, no! I will be nice! Don’t throw me to the sharks!” replied Bob.

Denis and Bob flew to Melbourne. Bob’s secret lab was in a tunnel under the dinosaur exhibit at the zoo.

“I’m going to build the time machine to go and meet the dinosaurs. Do you want to go with me?” asked Bob.

“I want to go, please. I can help you to build the time machine because I am a superhero!” replied Denis. He had super powers.

Bob knew that he needed the dinosaurs’ bones to build his time machine.

Bob and Denis magically teleported to the museum after it closed for the night. Bob told Denis they needed to find T Rex bones. They found the T Rex skeleton.

“Yippee!” Bob shouted. “We found the T Rex skeleton!” He put 17 bones in his bag.

Bob heard someone coming. It was one of the guards! Bob and Denis started to run.

“Get back here, you two!” the guard yelled.

Denis grabbed Bob and flew up, smashing through window. The glass fell down on the guard and the alarm went off.

Denis tried to fly away but the wind blew them back inside.

The police came and all the other guards from the museum came as well.

“Now look what you’ve done!” said Bob.

“It was your idea to break into the museum!” said Denis.

Bob and Denis got arrested for breaking into the museum and stealing the bones. The guards took the 17 bones back.

Bob and Denis escaped from the police when Denis teleported them back to Bob’s lab.

Denis asked Bob, “Do we have to make the time machine out of dinosaur bones?”

The next day, Bob and Denis started excavating under Bob’s lab. Denis could dig with super speed and they soon found dinosaur bones.

“We should have just started here because there were bones here the whole time!” said Denis.

Bob said, “I don’t know if they are right bones or not.”

Bob tried using the new bones in the time machine. Bob shouted, “It is working!”

Bob and Denis had to choose where and when they wanted to go. They decided to go to Dublin in 1916 and see the GPO.

When they got there, there was fighting in O’Connell Street.

Bob and Denis saw lots of frightened children. Denis the Boy Superhero picked up the children one by one and flew them to a safe and secret place.

“The children’s parents will be worried sick,” said Bob. “Let’s save their parents too.”

Denis teleported all the parents from O’Connell Street to where the children were hiding. A few days later, everyone got bored of the secret hiding place.

Bob decided to be nice from now on so he invited everyone to live in Australia. He brought them to Melbourne, all in his time machine.

Now his name in Bob the Happy Man!