The Bunker Story: The Sun Disappears
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There was a world where the sun rose every morning and set every night
Every day
For billions of years
The sun was part of life
It’s warmth kept people comfortable and happy
It fed the plants
It kept animals alive
It made flowers bloom
The sun was always touching the world somewhere
Until one day the sun didn’t rise like normal
It was slower
And dimmer
At first people didn’t notice
Everyone thought it was just a funny day
Maybe cloudy
Or maybe it was daylight savings time?
Whatever that was
Nobody could keep track of it
But the sun kept disappearing
People began panicking
Some people were able to get to bunkers
Made many many years ago for a war that never happened
They had electricity, heat, water, food, light, and other things
Once the sun disappeared
The world got cold
There was no heat or sunlight
Plants started dying
Animals couldn’t live without plants
So they started disappearing too
The world became cold and dark
The bunkers kept people alive
And animals
They had big underground areas for farming and growing plants
They had thousands of seeds saved to keep the plants growing and alive
There was one bunker that was special
It had a princess!
Not just any princess
The most beautiful, cutest, princess ever
She lived in the bunker with many other people
They all had jobs
Some people made sure the animals were healthy
Others made sure the plants grew
So people could eat
And so could the animals
Some people had other jobs like making the bunker stay safe and warm
The Princess was safe in the bunker
They had artificial sun and they had food
She got to stay in the bunker and stay safe and have fun
Until one day
One of the animals got sick
It was one of the chimps!
It was chimp pox!
First the chimps died
Then the humans started dying
The humans got very sick
They had horrible symptoms
Like nanner cravings
And extreme chimpy behavior
Bad decision making
And not knocking before entering a bathroom
Then they got hives!
Big red spots
All over their body
Chimp pox looked bad
Slowly the humans began dying off
The ones in charge of food and water and plants and animals made computers learn how to do their jobs
So that when they died the rest of the bunker could continue
They even trimmed the bushes in the bunker gardens
One by one
All the humans in the bunker got chimp pox
And died
Except for the Princess
She was immune to the chimp pox
She had chimp antibodies
The Princess made sure everything in the bunker worked well
She wasn’t sure what to do
All the jobs were taken care of
Maybe if there were other humans out there they would be able to find the bunker and could use the farms and the resources for humanity
Or maybe she and her animals would stay there forever
Who knew when or if the sun would come back
A lot of time passed
The Princess lived in the bunker for a whole year
She had her favorite animals to keep her company
Lucy the guineabear
Winnie and Zoey and Poochie the dogs
Mittens and Doug and Nina the kitties
There were others
But they were her favorites
The Princess did fun things
She celebrated the holidays with her pets and stuffed animals
She held tea parties and played games
She went swimming in the underground pool and beach terrarium
She exercised almost every day
And read about technology and listened to music
But after a year she felt lonely
She was the only human in the bunker
She didn’t miss the other people
Maybe some of them
But some of them had been chimps
So she didn’t mind using their bodies for fertilizer
Then one day
After a tea party
She heard a knock at the door
The door to the bunker!
She didn’t know how anyone could have survived!
They were knocking at the door to the bunker!
It was supposed to be hundreds of degrees below 0 out there
Maybe the sun had returned?!?!?
She sent one of the robots to open the door
They had an airlock to make sure that the cold didn’t get in
And neither did bad people or people with chimp pox
In the bunker airlock there was a human!
He….. gave her a big thumbs up?
He was wearing a great big suit
It looked like he was from space!
Or maybe that was the only way people could travel now
The Princess was cautious
She didn’t know who this person was
Or if he was a chimp or not
The robots decontaminated the room and the suit
The princess was waiting with her gun and her army of friends
Lucy was squeaking loudly in her pocket
Then the person took off their helmet
It was a man!
No chimp or chimp pox at all
In fact he was pretty cute
He introduced himself
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His name was Ben and he was a member of a secret order of sorcerers
The last sorcerer
He had created a magic suit of armor to protect himself when the sun disappeared
And had tried finding other people or other bunkers
But all were gone or disappeared
He had heard of a beautiful princess
Safe in the bunkers
And he wanted to find her and keep her safe and make sure the bunker stayed safe
The Princess was still suspicious
A secret sorcerer? Sounded like a load of baloney
The Wizard slowly reached into his suit
And pulled out flowers!
They were the Princess’ favorite!!!!
How has he known that?!?!?
He smiled and said
Magic!
the princess was intrigued by the cute Magic Man in the suit
So she allowed him to stay
He seemed like he would be good company at tea parties
The Sorcerer was sent to an empty room
Away from the Princess
She still didn’t entirely trust him
But in the morning the magic man had left seeds for her favorite flowers on the table outside her room
And then cooked her breakfast in the kitchen
And put some flowers in a vase for her
The Princess thought maybe the robots did something different
And then she remembered the magic man
He was in the gardens working with the plants
The kitties and the puppies following him around as he made things grow or picked fruits and vegetables
They seemed to like him
The Princess felt better already
Magic Man seemed to really care about the plants and the anumals
And he had gotten her nice things and flowers and made her food
She hoped he would stay
She really wanted to talk to him more
Ask him about the surface
And the other bunkers
But she decided to be cautious
She ate her food
And told the robots and the animals to keep an eye on him
But when they didn’t find anything unusual
The Princess decided he could stay
And maybe help her with things and tell her stories
The Princess loved stories
Magic Man agreed
He wanted to stay and spend time with her
He wanted to get to know her and what made her happy
So the wizard and the princess agreed to share the bunker
And share knowledge
They both had secrets
And they both had skills
But they both wanted to see the bunker and the animals stay alive and learn from each other
And that’s the story of how Magic Man and the Princess met after the sun disappeared! 😃