River Goes to Space

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to Kit
Short Stories. I need to make sure that you have
smashed the follow a button. You know that follow button.
It kind of looks like a plus sign, or it
might say follow or something like that, so you don't
miss out on any of our awesome stories every single day. Well,
today's story comes to us from River. Hey, River, I

(00:26):
cannot wait for this amazing adventure into outer space. Are
you guys ready for today's story? Me too, Let's go.
River was just waking up and rolling out of bed.

(00:50):
What seemed like a normal kind of day would end
up being a very unusual one. Well, you see, River
was actually used to unusual days because he was an astronaut. Yes,
he was on the space squad and so it was
his job to zoom around and make sure that everything

(01:12):
in space was nice and safe. He ran downstairs and
grabbed a big bowl of cereal and gobbled it up.
That was his favorite breakfast. Do you have a favorite
breakfast that you love to eat every morning, or maybe
you like different breakfasts and switch it up. Well, whatever

(01:33):
it is, make sure it has lots of good energy,
because we all need good energy, and especially River, who's
about to blast off to space. You see, every Thursday
is when River would blast off to space. Thursday's that
was his day to protect outer space, and then it
was other kids jobs different days of the week, but

(01:56):
Rivers day was Thursday. He loved exploring all kinds of
different parts of outer space, traveling to the planets, stars
and moons. There was so much out there to explore.
But like I said, today was a very unusual day.

(02:16):
As he entered Space Headquarters, and that's you know, where
all the astronauts get on all their uniforms and prepare
for blast off, he took one step inside and was
met with some emergency instructions. River, here, we need you
to go to these coordinates on a far moon. We've

(02:37):
observed some movement, very unusual movement. We need you to
check it out. Oh absolutely, I'll get right on it,
said River. He raced over to the changing room to
put on all his astronaut gear. That meant boots and
pants and jackets and helmets and gloves and the whole thing,
and even an oxygen tank. As he tested the oxygen,

(03:03):
it tasted and breathed like really clean air. Ah, that's
some fancy air for astronauts, the oxygen that they have
to breathe. Yeah, because oxygen what we need to breathe
is not found in space. So that's a really important thing.
If you ever want to be an astronut, you have
to make sure that you have your oxygen tank with
you at all times. Three two one, the rocket that

(03:33):
River was sitting in had blasted off to space. River
always loved that part of the blast off on the
rocket as he was thrown back into his chair because
it was going so fast. It even made his face
make some silly faces. Can you make a really silly

(03:55):
face like you're blasting off to space? In your mouth
are pulled back in your cheeks, sir, almost touching your ears.
Those are some amazing space launch faces. But you should
have seen Rivers face. Even though he was screaming, he

(04:18):
loved it, and pretty soon he found himself floating through space.
His rocket ship thankfully knew exactly where to go because
they had put in the coordinates of the location of
this strange activity appearing on one of I think it
was Jupiter's moon, well one of them at least. Yeah,

(04:39):
Jupiter has has a lot of moons. How many moons
does our planet Earth have and just one? Right, yes,
just one moon? But Jupiter has more than one. Do
you know how many moons? Jupiter has seventy nine moons?
Holy smokes, that is a lot of moons, But there

(05:01):
was one in particular that That's where River was headed
to figure out what in the world was going on
on that little moon off of the planet Jupiter. It
took a very long time to arrive, but thankfully his
spaceship was very very fast, so instead of it taking

(05:22):
years and years and years, it just took a couple hours,
which I would take a couple hours over years of traveling, right, Yeah,
a couple hours, I could do that. As a spaceship
carefully landed down on the moon, River grabbed a flashlight
and opened the door and started to search around. It

(05:44):
was a very strange looking place. The dirt was all gray.
It looked like everything was in black and white. River
had been on many moons before, so he was used
to looking at this because most moons look the same.
River didn't know exactly what he was looking for because
they didn't give him very specific instructions, only that they

(06:09):
saw some movement or something happening on the moon. What
do you think it could be? Do you think it's
like an alien? Or was it just you know, some
dirt being blown around in the wind. Do they have
wind on the Moon's I'm not sure, les River kept exploring.

(06:29):
He saw something. Huh, what is that? He shouted. It
had all kinds of tentacles and eyeballs and it was moving. Alien,
shouted River. His dream had come true, except his dream
was a little scary, exciting, and a lot of things.

(06:52):
He didn't know what to feel, excited or scared. What
would you feel if you saw a real alien? Would
would that be scary or exciting? Well? Either way, it
was an alien moving in slow motion. River walked over
to it and said, hello, are you Are you okay?
Why are you moving in slow motion? Well? Low on

(07:19):
batter and he just stopped. River stood there in front
of what looked like a completely frozen alien. Did he
say he was low on battery? Said River. He bent
down and kind of turned his head to the side
and saw something that looked like a charging port, like

(07:41):
for a cable or something. He ran back to his
spaceship and grabbed one of the cables that had a
solar power charger connected to it, He attached it onto
the alien and instantly room mean, hey, ay, thank you
the show. I was riding low and bettery. But are

(08:05):
these soulent powers? Oh? Thank you so much. What's your name?
River was a little confused. Hi, my name's River. What's
your name? You can call me Charlie. Charlie went on
to tell River everything about alien life, which was amazing

(08:29):
to learn about. River had always wanted to meet an alien,
and thankfully he met a nice alien. I don't know
if all of them are nice or not, but Charlie,
he was a nice, tentacled alien. And that day River
not only helped recharge Charlie, which I didn't know aliens
needed charging. It's kind of silly, but River saved Charlie

(08:52):
and also learned all about aliens and so on his
trip back to planet Earth, he was very excited to
share everything he had learned with his entire space crew.
This may be the end of our story, but I
think it's just the beginning of River's amazing space adventures.
The end. Great job, you listened all the way to

(09:19):
the end, and you know what some it is. It's
time for kurd shout out. I want to say Hey
to Creek from Maryland, Nora from Nova Scotia, Haven from Denver, Colorado,
Allie and Levi from Alberta, Aurora from Austin, Texas, Kieran
and Robbie from Indianapolis, Ryan from Cleveland and sit in

(09:41):
oliverrom Illinois. I'm so glad that you're all on the
Kid Short Stories family and on our spy team. We
could not stop Doctor Stinkybreath and his crew without you,
my friends. Well, you have a super duper day and
I will see you on our next adventure. Bye.