Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 2020complete | Page 25

Cantorian's Save the World! Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School, Chong, Charlotte - 6 It was 5am, new year day of 2043. I was woken up by a loud screech. I looked out from the window; there was a strange car that I had never seen. I also smelled bad gas coming out of that car. It looked petrolpowered! A petrol-powered car in Cantorin? We haven’t seen that for 10 years! Cantorin (Canton- Mandarin, we also call it GBA) is the most environmentally friendly place in the world with the best technology. The Cantorinians had been using solar- powered cars that I invented! Oops... I haven’t introduced myself! My name is Charlotte Chong. I am a fiction story writer and a scientist. I live in Cantorin and I experiment on solar-powered cars. Back to what happened that morning. I quickly put on the solar-powered wings that I invented and chased that car, but without breakfast... arghhh hungry! The car stopped at a deserted place. The driver came out and knocked on the door of an odd-looking wooden house. Someone opened the door. Hey, it was Dr. Goo, the world’s most infamous villain! He has green hair, short legs and looks like a monkey. He has a sharp voice and he can pretend to be other people. He must have come up with some bad plans, again! I peeked through the windows, they were experimenting on petrol cars! A map on the wall showed where they wanted to sell those cars. I must be quick! I called Macau’s and Guangdong’s most talented people, who went to school with me in Hong Kong. That afternoon, I took the high-speed rail to meet them in Guangdong. When I arrived, I nearly fainted. Luckily, my robot assistant ordered lunch and the delivery drone was already there to hand me my cheesy Cantorinian pizza. We worked day and night to design a machine that turns CO2 into energy to fight Dr. Goo’s cars. However, we could not get the last bit to work. Gosh! An idea popped up my writer’s mind. I decided to talk to Dr. Goo. It turned out Dr. Goo is not that bad after all. He just missed his daddy very much. His daddy drove him around in his petrol-powered cars when he was small so he wanted to keep those cars alive. When he was young, he was a very clever child in class but no one liked him because of his green hair. He is now a genius mad scientist! I told him about the machine we were making. We agreed to join forces to form “Cantorin- Goo” Team. After a year, the machine finally worked! To make Dr. Goo’s dreams come true, we designed solar powered cars with the look and sound of petrol-powered cars. I wrote about Dr Goo’s story and the new machine we made together in a famous newspapers. People then start to like Dr. Goo. Many countries now use our machine to generate energy and reduce CO2! Once again, Cantorin saves the world!