The Remarkable Travel

• Story Genre: Science Fiction
• Words: 1394
• Written in: 2020

Mr. Jupoto was sitting on something which can be called a floating armchair in human’s words. He closed his eyes and started to think about his upcoming journey. That journey will be very unique & remarkable in his life. For the first time, he will be doing such a journey. He has already been to more than one planet. But journey to the planet called ‘Earth’ is quite diverse. The only reason is, inhabitants of that planet are not like the creatures like Mr. Jupoto. He cannot pronounce the name of the creatures well. He has heard from Smar, his assistant from the planet Mars, about that creature.

‘Humon,’ he said to himself remembering about the journey again, ‘The most intelligent & smart creature. Is it true? Then how we are? Dull & outsmart?’ he said coldly to himself.

He is absolutely excited & simultaneously tensed about the travel which he will be doing the very next day. He didn’t stop thinking about that creature. Suddenly, at that moment, Smar came in his ‘hoya’, which means the room of the president according to their own language & culture.

‘Good evening, Sir. Hope you’re doing well,’ said Smar contently, ‘ready to meet the hamuns?’

‘Yeah, I am, of course,’ replied Mr. Jupoto blankly, ‘but is it hamun or humon? I’m confused.’

‘So am I,’ said Smar, ‘I guess it is hamun.’ ‘Alright,  hamun then. I’m not scared of them. I’ve defeated a lot of aliens, you can remember, can’t you?’

‘Yes,’ Smar nodded vividly.

‘So why would I be scared of hamuns?’

‘That’s human!’ A voice came from the door.

‘Neputen! My darling!’ cried Mr. Jupoto.

‘Jupee! Didn’t I tell you that those are humans not hamun or humon?’

‘Oh I forgot,’ Mr. Jupoto moved his hands airily.

‘By the way, I am also going with you tomorrow. I’m interested to see the humans too.’ Said Neputen to Mr. Jupoto & Smar.

Mr. Jupoto & Smar changed looks. ‘Alright, you’ll go too.’ Said Mr. Jupoto with a pensive face.

‘But I fear it, the humans.’ Smar started but stopped as the president interrupted, ‘Smar, what are they?-Humans! And what are we?’

‘Aliens’

‘Who are stronger?’

‘Humans..?

Mr. Jupoto narrowed his eyes. ‘You better get out of this room, Smar.’ He said furiously.

The next day, Mr. Jupoto, his wife Neputen & Smar were standing on a sort of thing which can be related to a stage. They called it ‘Pochita.’ Pochita is mainly the place where the president of the aliens gives any announcement.

‘My dear inhabitants of Jupiter,’ started Mr. Jupoto, ‘today, along with my beloved wife (Neputen gave a cheerful jerk hearing the word ‘beloved’) & my faithful assistant Smar, I’m travelling to another planet where live the humons.

‘Humans!’ whispered Neputen.

‘In my absence, I hope there won’t be any problem in this planet. Stay united, all of you! We will be back soon!’ Mr. Jupoto finished his announcement and the whole crowd broke into tears & started clapping with their 10-finger hands. ‘We will be always with you, sir!’ ‘Make your journey successful, our president!’ Aliens continuously wished them.

‘Alright, let’s get into the Fonj.’ Said Mr. Jupoto to Neputen & Smar. The three of them got into the Fonj, which was a car sort of thing without any wheel, engine or any other necessary things for a car. The other aliens waved at them.

After a journey of 1 day, they could realize that they were landing in a garden in a charismatic village. Their stomachs lurched. They all descended on the ground. They felt bizarre. They went beside a house. Suddenly, a person looked at them. The boy ran to them. The aliens became as white as milk. Smar whispered in a scared voice pointing at the boy, ‘Hamun! Hamuns!’ Neputen whispered back, ‘Humans! Not hamuns!’ ‘Hey! Why have you worn a costume like that? That’s weird! But I’ve liked it a lot!’ The boy spoke in his mother tongue, Spanish. ‘Can you please give that to me after you? Please!’ He touched Mr. Jupoto’s hand requesting him his body, thinking that it was a unique costume. On the other hand, the aliens thought the boy was doing anything like hypnotize as they couldn’t understand his language at all. Mr. Jupoto, Neputen & Smar swiftly got into the Fonj. ‘Shall we go back?’ asked Smar. ‘No! We just talked to one dangerous human, to know them well, we need to talk to more humans!’ said Neputen.

‘Yeah, right. We should go to other places on this planet. To capture this planet, to fight against them, we need to know them.’ Said Mr. Jupoto.

Within a minute, using the invisible Fonj, they were in USA from Spain. But the misfortune was that, they landed their Fonj just at the middle of a busy city. No sooner had they become visible & came out of their Fonj, the atmosphere there changed totally. It felt like time was stuck there. Then altogether the whole place burst into murmurs. Before the aliens could understand anything, within a minute, there were cops all around them. ‘Stupid hamuns!’ Smar quickly got into the Fonj. Neputen & Mr. Jupoto also got into the Fonj and within a minute, again, they were in another part on this weird planet called ‘Earth’. But they didn’t get out of the Fonj this time. Already they suffered a lot of problems.

‘Now what?’ asked Neputen.

‘I don’t get it! Humans are this weird & we call them intelligent!’ exclaimed Mr. Jupoto, ‘they don’t even understand our language!’

‘Just like we don’t get their ones.’ Interrupted Smar whose body was trembling with fear.

‘Moreover, we just wanted to talk to them and clear the matter of establishing either friendship or war, whatever they choose! But they are that weird that before talking with us, they are already ready with those weird things (the aliens meant guns) which can do nothing to us! Ha!’

‘Okay,’ started Neputen, ’but as we have already come to another part of this earth, let’s just try once again. Shall we?’

‘Yeah, waiting for another weirdo.’ Said Mr. Jupoto.

But when they descended this time, they became astonished seeing a very charming river!

‘This is a riverine country on this planet, I guess?’ said Mr, Jupoto smiling.

‘Yeah, so beautiful!’ Then a person came spontaneously to them, again speaking in her own language, but she looked tensed. The aliens looked at the beautiful girl. The girl indeed understood that they were aliens. But there was something different in her. She neither escaped, nor shouted. Instead, tried to make them understand that this Earth wasn’t for them and requested them to go to their own planet. After showing a lot of gestures, Mr. Jupoto nodded and said in his own language that they would go after staying in this beautiful place for a while. The girl didn’t understand the second thing. But Mr. Jupoto’s nodding made her relieved. Smar, Neputen, Mr. Jupoto & the girl sat beside the beautiful river. The girl couldn’t understand their language at all but enjoyed staying with them.

‘At last found a place on Earth where we can say humon is indeed intelligent.’ Said Mr. Jupoto.

‘Human!’ cried Neputen.

After few hours of enjoyment, it was time to go back to Jupiter. Smar, Mr. Jupoto & Neputen thanked the girl in their language & she only smiled (as she couldn’t understand their words). They were about to go, but at that moment a boy came running towards the girl & said, ‘You know! In New York City, a lot of people have seen three aliens! Isn’t that interesting? I just hope they catch them soon. Otherwise-’ the boy couldn’t complete his sentence as he noticed Mr. Jupoto & others finally. ‘Dora, who are they? What are you doing with them? What’s happening? OH MY GOD!’

The girl tried to convince, ‘No, it’s not like that-’

The Aliens swiftly got into the Fonj. Mr. Jupoto looked back once before getting into it. ‘Apart from the language obstacles & fear between the two different creatures, some humons are really nice,’ he told looking at the little girl.

‘Humans!’ cried Neputen ‘Am I here only to tell you that, we are here to meet humans, not humons!’

‘Yeah,’ said Mr. Jupoto smiling, ‘Humans.’