Ch. 11
After stepping off the monorail and entering the park, the 2 headed for spaceship earth. After putting on special suits and entering a time machine, the 2 were sent through a tunnel and a small robot that looked like roger from Vanellope's previous adventure in Disneyland flew out of the time machine and began to speak
"Hello, please enter your names in the screen in front of you" said Roger
The 2 typed their names on the screen and hit enter
"Welcome to Spaceship Earth Rancis Fluggerbutter and Vanellope Von Schweets, my name is Richard and I will take you through the history of communication. Along the way coins will appear in certain places, use the guns below you to collect them when you see them, they will come in handy to move onto the next time period. If you don't have any coins to continue you'll have to answer a question about Disney history. In some scenes there are multiple coins and tickets, those will be of great help. Now please put on your helmets and fasten your seat belts as we take you across time"
The 2 did exactly what Richard said and the time machine sped through the tunnel landing them someplace cold
"Since the beginning of time, mankind has been able to communicate with each other through many different means. But where are we going, how did mankind communicate, the answers lie in our primitive past" said Richard
The machine passed by a group of hunters trying to take down a mammoth. Rancis saw a coin floating above the mammoth and shot it, the coin appeared in his lap
"Our story begins in the beginning of time; we are alone, struggling to survive, until we learn to communicate with one another. Now we can hunt as a team and survive together"
The machine moved into a cave filled with cavemen telling stories around a fire and the walls were filled with paintings that were moving
"It took 15 thousand years to come up with the next bright idea; we recorded our knowledge on cave walls. But there was a problem, when we moved on the knowledge stayed behind, but something amazing is about to happen in Egypt, please insert coin into slot to continue to the future"
Rancis put the coin in the slot in the ship and the 3 moved onto Egypt where a man was pounding on paper. Around him was a chest full of coins, which Vanellope shot
"It seems my brother was too lazy to separate the coins to the different scenes, just insert them when I say so, I have a wife and 2 little bots to look after when I'm done here" said Richard "Now this unknown Egyptian is inventing papyrus, a sort of paper. With the invention of paper, we can invent new things such as books, and unfortunately taxes. There's nothing good about that. Please insert coin now"
The 3 were sent into somewhere in the ocean and the time machine served as a boat. It began to float towards a ship where 2 men were talking to a man on a rowboat
"The Phoenicians were traders who wandered the seas delivering many new things. They also came up with the basic learning alphabet. Remember how easy it was to learn your abc's? well thank the Phoenicians, they invented it" said Richard
The 3 were sent to a classroom in Greece
"The greeks invented things such as public schools and mathematics, which would lead to the high tech lives we enjoy today like your phones, those suits and time machine you're sitting in, they helped us make those"
The 3 were sent to Rome
"I can get used to this time travel gimmick" said Vanellope
"The romans invented the first world wide web, a system of roads that led everywhere. But alas something terrible happened
The 3 were sent to rome again but with it on fire
"What happened?" asked Rancis
"Due to attacks from invaders, rome falls and the great library of Alexandria in Egypt is burned and destroyed. This event began the beginning of a time known as the Dark Ages. Most of our knowledge is destroyed and lost forever, or so we thought…..
The 3 were brought to a library where monks were writing and old men were talking
"It turns out there were copies of some of these books being watched by scholars in the middle east, the books are saved, call it the first backup system"
"That's cool I guess" said Vanellope
"In Europe monks work tirelessly by hand to hand write copies of the books, until something amazing happened"
The 3 were brought to a place in Europe where a man was working on a machine and people all around him were making art
"Gutenburg invents the moveable type printing press, with it our knowledge can be made much faster"
"So this is the place that robot guy didn't send us to yesterday" said Vanellope
"I'm pretty sure a battle isn't wasn't supposed to be on the tour" said Rancis
"Pretty soon everyone began making art through paintings, music, and statues. This began an important part of time known as the renaissance" said Richard "Now I'm going to stop for a bit to let you see what we've accomplished through time"
The 3 were sent to the 20th century. They went past a radio station, a factory, and even inside a movie theater where an old mickey mouse cartoon was playing until they landed in someones living room
"By now everyone on Earth is communicating, but in 1969, something incredible happened"
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" said Neil Armstrong on the family's tv as he stepped on the moon
"To send a man to the moon, we had to invent a new language, one not spoken by man, but by computer, of course large and very expensive computers, but they helped us a lot" said Richard as the time machine entered a lab where people were working on computers
"What I would do to have one of these in the castle" said Vanellope marveling at all the technology
"It's amazing" said Rancis
"What if everyone could have one of these amazing machines in their own house? There's only one problem, they're as big as a house"
"Well that sucks" said Vanellope
"But the solution comes in 1977 in of all places a garage in California"
"Amazing stuff happens in garages" said Vanellope "That's where I started making my handmade kart business a reality"
"Young people with the passion for shaping the future put the power of the computer in everyone's hands, and once again we stand on the brink of a new renaissance"
The machine sent the couple into space where they could see the entire Earth
"Wow" said Rancis
"It's beautiful" said Vanellope
The 2 took their phones out and started taking pictures
"After 30,000 years of time travel here we are. A truly global community networked online poised to shape the of this, our grand moving spaceship we call home, spaceship earth" said Roger before settling back in the time machine as the machine turned towards Earth, backwards.
"Attention, your time machine is now rotating backwards for your return to Earth, please remain seated with your seatbelts fastened and enjoy the view before returning back to the station" said the onboard computer
The 2 held hands and got close to each other as they returned back to Earth. They look back at the moon and all the stars around them. Vanellope layed her head on Rancis's shoulder and he put his arm around her body
"I love you Rancis" said Vanellope
"I love you too Vanellope" said Rancis
The 2 attempted a kiss but they banged their helmets on each other's heads
"Well that ruined the moment" said Vanellope
"Didn't see that coming" said Rancis
The time machine returned back at the station on Earth. As usual 2 pins appeared out of thin air and landed on their hands
"Another for the collection" said Rancis
The 2 took their suits off and exited the ride
"Well that was fun I guess, we learned something" said Rancis
"So what should we do next?" asked Vanellope as she opened up a map
"Let's see, how about….
You decide, tell me where they should go next on their Disney adventure. Leave a review and tell me, until next time, bye