Lombax

September 2022

Why'd I do this to my laptop?!

Roy regrets this decision. He changed his whole laptop to a whole nother language by accident.

What was that language that had him in a panic?

Spanish? No, he could read Spanish pretty well.

The language was Lombax,

Roy was screwed. He had a history paper on the Cold War that was due today! Thankfully he got it done but he feared the most.

The text was going to be in Lombax. Hopefully not. Right?

Right?

Roy printed out the paper. He didn't even check it. He just put it in his backpack and his laptop, then headed to school with RJ.

At school, they were in class. Roy took out his laptop. He opened it up then–

I am so dead….

He forgot that his laptop had a password, he hopes it was not incorrect when he puts it in.

Roy sighed and put his head on his desk. The teacher noticed this and then approached him.

"Roy? What's wrong?" the teacher, Mr. Stewart asked.

The Lombax picked his head up and looked at his teacher.

"Oh, hi Mr. Stewart," he said

Mr. Stewart was concerned.

"Is there something wrong, Roy?" his teacher asked him.

Roy had two options. A; lie to him and say everything was going to be okay and not worry about it. Or B; tell him what was wrong, give the history teacher his history paper on the Cold War, written in an ancient alien language.

He went with A.

"I'm okay," he said, trying again, he finally got into his laptop!

"Well, okay then, Roy, I'll be at my desk if you need any help," he said walking away.

Roy let out a sigh of relief.

They were on the school's computers. Except for the students who brought their laptops from home.

Mr. Stewart put the assignment up on the whiteboard. The freshly orange expo marker said,

Go to: Khan Academy.

He typed it up. The text said something in Lombax. He clicked on it and typed in his information.

But it said something in Lombax on the bottom in red.

Roy put his hands on his head and tried not to scream in frustration

He remembers his username and password for this website. He's used it on his laptop countless times and they all worked.

Why not today?

He sighed and put his laptop in his backpack along with his charger. He walked up to the laptop cart and took out a freshly charged MacBook. He walked to his desk and opened it up then went on the website. He logged on with no problems then he read his assignment.

"Dad? Could you help me?" Roy asked, walking up to him. Ratchet was on a ladder, getting something down for a customer. Ratchet wore his orange Home Depot. Apron

"Hey, Roy, what's up?" Ratchet asked his son.

"Dad, I have a problem with my laptop, a big problem," he said.

Ratchet smiled.

"Okay, give it here," he said, Roy gave him his laptop then theory went to the back into the break room.

The break room was large. A couch and a table were placed there. Two vending machines were there too for drinks and snacks.

Someone was inside, eating their lunch.

"Hey, Lisa." Ratchet said, waving as he pulled out a chair and sat next to his coworker.

"Hey, Ratchet," she said, taking a bite of her salad. Ratchet opened up the computer. Roy put in his password. Like last time, it wouldn't let him in. Roy sighed and tried again, and again.

He finally got it. Then he slid it over to Ratchet.

"Mmmm." he hummed as he went on his Systems presences. He clicked on a blue flag.

He saw that everything looked normal but everything was in Lombax. He clicked on Region. And under 'Oceania' it said 'Space languages'

"Oh, jeez…. Are you sure we got this off of Apple?" Roy asked his dad.

"I'm pretty sure, Roy. but I don't understand why they have languages from space?!" Ratchet asked in frustration, switching it back to English.

Something popped up in Lombax.

"Would you like to use English as your primary language?" Ratchet said.

"Yes." Roy said as he clicked the blue button that said 'Use English' in Lombax.

"How?!" Roy asked as he saw everything was switched back to English as his primary language.

"Bro, thank you!" he said as he hugged his dad.

"But, the question is, how did the computer do that?!" Ratchet asked in disbelief.

"I don't know…" he said, "But I'm glad it's working now cause it was a pain to use Lombax," Roy said, Ratchet nodded and hugged him.

"Thanks, dad for helping me… I thought I would have to use Lombax my whole life or something." he smiled. Ratchet laughed.

Notes: hey guys, sorry that I haven't posted for the last five days or so. I have been working on other stuff that is not on this account. And the writer's block wasn't helping me at all. So I hope y'all have a good day. Bye!