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** by David **  **  What do you do when you wake up with a stomach ache? You probably go to your mom saying that you don't feel good, but that's not what Ben did. ** **  Ben woke up that morning with a stomach ache. He thought it was his stomach saying it wanted breakfast, but after breakfast, when his stomach still hurt, he knew nothing of the fact that that was a warning of danger in the near future. But Ben wasn’t about to let that ruin his spring break. ** **  When Ben played outside in the nice 70’s of Colorado, the air felt stuffy, as if the altitude level had changed. Ben noticed this immediately and went inside almost simultaneously. ** **  “Mom, I think our altitude level has changed a little.”   ** **  “Honey, I’m sure that you’re just imagining another one of your big time super hero stories.”  ** **  With that Ben tried to have fun but the day seemed like a year. Finally bed time! Ben had never been so happy to go to sleep. ** **  The next morning, Ben woke up to a worse stomach ache, so he tried going to get the paper and read the news to get his mind off of things, but what he found in the news made him feel worse. The lead story was a tornado in Alaska; it read: “Alaska, one of the coldest states in the U.S., and just yesterday at about 3:30 pm, the first ever tornado hit. But yet more astonishing is that the tornado managed to be an F5. State officials are saying it’s the work of global warming but others say, such as Chris Vanalsburg says, “Not even the so far, small effects of global warming, can cause an F5 tornado in Alaska.”  ** **  Ben, knowing his mom didn’t believe him the first time he said something was different, he knew she wouldn’t believe him even with this. Ben’s troubles just got worse, and they weren’t going to get better and the worst part, his achy feelings were making the days slow and that was ruining his spring break. ** **  Ben knew something bad was happening, but without an idea of what was happening, he couldn’t stop it. ** **  Another day of spring break went by and the next morning, Ben decided to watch the news on T.V. rather than take the time and to get the newspaper and read it. ** **  But the second Ben turned on the screen it went black with a warning, reading of a hurricane in Colorado. It’s being formed by all the lakes. Each lake produced its own super mini hurricane and now all of them are coming together to make the real thing! All people should go to the top floor of their house to be safe! ** **  Ben and his mom did as told and went upstairs where Ben wailed in grief. ** **  “First, I thought the altitude was different! Then an F5 tornado starts unleashing avalanches’ left and right in Alaska, and now everyone in Colorado is getting drenched IN A HURICANE! What’s next, car sized hail! ** **  Right there, Ben had spoken just too soon. Because when the hurricane ended at the end of the day and the state of Colorado was more of a swamp. The 11:00 news dropped in, with a lead story of car sized hail throughout the whole state of California. ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> “In California, hail the size of the average car is bombarding all of the state. Houses streets, and power lines are literally on their knees praying for mercy. The people with no power have no idea what to do in this situation, but most flee to their basement in hopes that the hail won’t reach them there.” The radio announcer said for all the people in Colorado who had no power too. At least they had battery powered radios. ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> “Hey, mom, do you think this is one of my imaginary stories now?” Ben said with a sense of pride thinking she would believe him now. ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> “Okay, this is real, so any ideas what it is, and how to stop it?” Ben’s mom asked with a hint of panic in her voice. ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> “No.” Ben replied sadly   ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> “O.K. then, lets’ get some rest and do whatever needs to be done tomorrow.”  ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> That morning, seeing that they forgot to turn off the radio, the 6:00 news woke them up and the report was on a title-wave about the size of Florida, and that’s where the title-wave was headed. ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> “A giant title-wave, about the size of Florida is heading north at speed of about 200 miles per hour. It will smash into Florida and it is expected to at least go all the way through it on its way north. We will have more information by the end of the hour,” the announcer said. ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> “I think this isn’t only happening in the U.S.A.” Ben said. ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Ben and his mom waited an hour, the news was a little different, the title-wave had gone through about 1/4th of Florida and its size decreased about 1/8th. ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> In the next 3 hours, on the 10:00 news, the title-wave had decreased to half its original size by the time it had finished going through Florida and was expected to stop in Tennessee. ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Which it did stop in Tennessee. ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> It was obvious that they would get no food or shelter soon, so Ben and his mom sat there listening to the news. ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> “This spring-break couldn’t possibly get any worse!” Ben said as something wet hit his cheek, then another, and another followed by a down pour of rain. “Dang! I forgot that when you say something can’t get worse, it always does!”  ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> But in Colorado, the saying is, “if you don’t like the weather, wait an hour.”, so they did and when it cleared up, there was still what seemed to be a black cloud, growing bigger by the second. But at the same time the sun was gone and they were all far away from the Milky-Way galaxy, and somewhere in the midst of space, that meant that that wasn’t a cloud. It was a black hole! ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> This was sad, not only wasn’t there time to think how to reverse it, there wasn’t any time to build something to reverse it. There wasn't time to do anything! Everyone is crying on their knees in anguish. They’re all about to die, and they know it. All hope is lost for the world, (expect for the other side of the world where everyone is sleeping and have no idea their life is minutes from death, but I’d rather not know I was going to die, so I would prefer that I was way over there sleeping in such a situation instead of expecting my death in a matter of minutes.)  ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">POOFF! **  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">  ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> “And the super hero, Ben, set to space, he then makes so much matter that it clogs up the black hole. Then he flew to the other side of the earth so no one could see him, and he pushed the Earth back into orbit, and returned to his normal life because when everyone closed while eyes crying, he saved the day, and no one knew it was him,” Ben said narrating his own story. “Mom! Why do you keep video-taping my adventures?”  ** ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> “Because, when you grow up and mature, I can watch these and remember how cute you were.”  **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> A Black Hole  ** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">