Mr. Smith's Great Adventure
Part I:
It was a normal day in History class when all of a sudden there was a great white flash. As if out of nowhere, a strange woman appeared. Mr. Smith exclaimed then, "Mary-Beth? What are you doing here? How did you get here? Aren't you supposed to be teaching right now? What's going on?" Before Mary-Beth could answer there was a great flash of yellow light! There stood 14-year old versions of the Mr. Smith and Mary-Beth. The students were staring dumbstruck at their teacher and the strange woman, Mary-Beth, who were now 14. Then a red flash of light occurred and the two were gone. At that point a student named Laura shouted, "What the hell happened to our teacher?" Chaos broke loose in the classroom as students started to panic.
Meanwhile, after the Paleolithic ages, sometime during the River Valley civilizations Period of time Mr. Smith and Mary-Beth appear. They seemed to have appeared somewhere along the Nile River. After wandering around for a while they were found by the Egyptians and taken to their king, King Tutankhamen. He was having a very important meeting with his advisor, Barney. King Tut was discussing the new dance he created, the mummy and was giving a very good demonstration to Barney and his guests. But, before they could join King Tut and Barney in doing the Mummy, there was another flash of red light! Barney seeing that the guests had disappeared fainted!
Mr. Smith and Mary-Beth appeared where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers split. After once again wandering around aimlessly they were found by locals, the Sumerians, and were taken to their leader, Hammarabi. They found themselves in front of another leader of a civilization where he was discussing a new law with his advisor, Bob the Builder. Along with that they were discussing their views on justice and civil and criminal law. All of the sudden a strange man came in (consequently he looked a lot like Mr. Smith, maybe an ancestor) and said he had found the pig ear that Hammarabi was looking for and that he wanted another pig ear to replace the one that he was giving to him. At that point another flash of red light and the time travelers were once again gone.
In the middle of the Indian valley somewhere close to the Indus River Mr. Smith and Mary-Beth appeared. Off in the distance they could see some Harappa, or the locals, washing their clothing in the river. A band of people seemed to be following an old man around he was flanked by the ancient Harappa version of bodyguards. Strangely enough those bodyguards looked like Teletubbies! The sun seemed to have facial features to it and whispering to the leader of the bodyguards, maybe a spy. Heading over to the man they realized that it was Buddha and he was drinking with the men of the close by village. Mr. Smith perplexed by the fact that Buddha was drinking moonshine was going to investigate mans strange behavior that had never made it into the history books but never got the chance to. The red light took over the moving couple and they were once again thrown into the time stream.
When next Mr. Smith and Mary-Beth appeared they weren't next to a river. No they were in a market place watching a man teach a class on democracy. The teacher appeared to be Socrates and then that would mean they were in a city-state. Socrates was using his method and was going on about direct democracy and representative democracy. Everyone was paying close attention except for two strange creatures. They looked like present day Big Bird and Elmo and they were talking excitedly over if their ears were correct they were talking about how pretty they thought the other looked. Unfortunately before they could confirm what they had heard another flash of red light took them away from the marketplace.
Mr. Smith and Mary-Beth appeared in what seemed like the same place as the first time, in the middle of the desert. Not knowing the exact latitude and longitude but having a good idea of where they were Mr. Smith and Mary-Beth headed in the direction of the Valley of the Kings. There they came across the man known as Howard Carter who looked like he had just made the greatest discovery of all time. But the poor man hadn't had any sleep in a week! A choir consisting of Barney, Bob the Builder, the Teletubbies, the Baby Sun, Big Bird, Elmo, and Dora the Explorer were following around Howard Carter and constantly singing "Fish Heads"! Before they could silence the raving lunatics from children's television another flash of red light took them home.
Almost as soon as they had left, Mr. Smith and Mary-Beth had returned with a flash of red light to the present in Mr. Smith's 4th Period class. Mr. Smith had thought that as soon as he had gone that his class would have left or run amuck was surprised to see his class all in their seats except Laura who was leading the class in a song. With a flash of purple light Mr. Smith and Mary-Beth were returned to their normal ages and the class stopped singing. Mary-Beth disappeared with a flash of white light and the class returned to normal, or so they thought. Tune in next time for the next great adventure of Mr. Smith!