The Original Farmer Jack Story

This is my original story for my comic "Farmer Jack's Plant Mystery".

Farmer Jack was running through a forest of plants, being chased by a black shape, which was knocking down the plants as it went along.

 "Yikes!" he said as he suddenly woke up sweating. He glanced at his clock. It was 2 A.M.! 

He gets out of bed and walks to the bathroom. He gets in the shower and washes his strong arms and legs and brown matted hair. He gets on tan pants and a shirt so he can work in the field. 

He goes to the kitchen. he eats a carrot and two tomatoes and stares at the empty shelves, thinking about how hungry he is.

 He goes outside and sees wilting plants and thinks, "What is the cause of this?". He thinks of his parents. "What would they do?" he wonders. 

 His parents used to live at the farm, but a year earlier left saying the house was too small. They now lived in the city. Jack had stayed because he loved the plants and though growing them helped people.

He walks carefully still thinking what his parents might do.

"I'm sure they would check for the right bugs, how much rainwater was falling, and probably if there was poison in the soil," he thinks, counting off his fingers.  He reaches the middle of the field and put down a rain catcher, then digs some soil up with a shovel and puts a tab in it that samples for poison.  A few seconds later the tab says there is no poison in the soil.  He deploys his homemade robot that can photograph every individual plant in a day.  

The next day, he looks at the the photographs and finds all the right bugs in large numbers.  He looks at the rain and finds that enough rain is falling.

He thinks, "What could it be?  What could it be?!"

After some thought, he decides to check lighting.  Sure enough, when he looked up, he saw a spaceship blocking the sunlight!  The spaceship read, "NASA Call 1-800-PEOPLE-ON-BOARD."

He called that number and the people on board answered.

"Could you direct me to your director, please?" he asked.

"Yes, we can.  Just call 555-0000," they said.  

So Farmer Jack called that number and asked, "Can you move your spaceship, please?" 

The director said, "Yes, if you can build us a robot that can watch for aliens."  

Jack said, "Okay!"  

Jack built the robot and told the NASA director about it.  Jack deployed his robot.  NASA moved the spaceship and all was well.

The End.