In the dead of knight in Bikini Bottom, everyone was fast asleep. But little did they know that a figure snuck into the city. He was making suction cup noises and this was a telltale sign that Squidward was back. He was dressed in a black sweater and he had a black ski mask on and he went to a wall and pulled out a can of red spray paint.

He wrote on the wall "Spongebob was here ya morons"

He did his trademark laugh and ran off. But little did he know that someone was watching him from the shadows.

Later that morning SpongeBob was walking to the Krusty Krab when suddenly he was confronted by an angry mob!

Fish 1: THERE HE IS!

Squidward: Officers, I'd like you to arrest one Spongebob Squarepants for vandalism using graffiti.

SpongeBob: WHAT!?

Officer Nancy: (sighs) I guess we have no choice. Spongebob, I'm afraid we're gonna have to arrest you for vandalism.

They put the cuffs on him but the Neptune Crusaders weren't fooled. After they took him away the Neptune Crusaders looked at Squidward!

Maria: (growls at Squidward) You may have everyone else fooled, Squidward. But I know you're behind this somehow. So, mark my words. You're not getting away with this!

Squidward: O contrar. I have won and that moron will be the one sitting in a cell and I will get off scott-free.

Vypra: I don't think so! SpongeBob is innocent!

Me: Do you have any proof Vypra?

Vypra: I sure do.

She handed me a photo and it showed a figure with a big nose that looked like Squidward and it showed him vandalizing the building.

Me: That's Squidward all right.

Nico: You're kidding me! You're saying that Squidward sprayed the graffiti? And then he framed Spongebob for it?!

Ebon: That's right.

Squidward: Who are you going to believe? Those criminals? Or an honest citizen like me?

Lana reached into his pocket and pulled out a can of red spray paint.

Lana: Red spray-paint! And it also says "Property of Squidward Tentacles" on it.

Me: We got you now.

We handcuffed him and went to the police station and told them everything about what Squidward did.

Me: And there you have it officers.

Officer Nancy: My goodness we made a big mistake. Sorry SpongeBob.

SpongeBob: It's all right. I knew I didn't right that and only one person says morons and that's Squidward.

Me: Yep.

Rikki: Sorry we're late getting you out, Spongebob. But we had to find evidence to clear your name.

SpongeBob: That's all right but I owe you guys one. Thank you all.

Me: Anytime SpongeBob.

Lily: No one incriminates our friends on our watch.

Nico: Yep.

We went back to the where we handcuffed Squidward. But all we found were the handcuffs on the ground.

Vypra: Dammit! Squidward must've escaped while we were getting Spongebob out of jail. And I was planning on giving him the Curse of the Cobra too!

Me: Ah let him go Vypra. He's good comic relief.

Vypra: Hm true.

Lily: Lets go get some Krabby Patties.

Ebon: Good idea.

Vypra: I heard they are really good.

Me: When Lily makes them they are just as good as Spongebob's.

Vypra: I see.

Lily got to making some Krabby Patties and they were given to us on a platter and we got to eating and they were delicious.

Vypra: (Eating) Mmm. Really good.

Me: They are delicious.

Nico: Yep.

We were having a great lunch.


Later the U.S.S. Valorous Phoenix was flying through space.

Me: Captain's Log, Stardate 2822.4: The U.S.S. Valorous Phoenix is currently en route to a new planet located 6 1/2 light-years away from Earth. It's a planet that I remember seeing on a Documentary but I'm having a hard time remember. We're going on an exploration mission and we're going to see the planet.

Nico: What do you think this planet will be like?

Naruto: We'll find out when we get there.

Lincoln: It's gonna be really cool.

Laney: It sure will be. We've been to so many planets all over the universe and it's amazing.

Lana: It sure is.

Lisa Loud: J.D. we have arrived at our destination.

Me: Oh screen.

We arrived at a really cool planet and it was in a binary star system and it had a small blue sea and a beautiful landscape. It was called Darwin IV.


Darwin IV is a small desertic rocky planet, the fourth planet in the Darwin Binary System formed by 6 planets, is 6.5 light years away from Earth's Solar System. With a very dense atmosphere and little gravity, it is home to a large number of complex organisms characterized by lack of eyes and rely mainly on echolocation and infrared vision, with different and aberrant forms and sizes. In both the book Expedition and the documentary Alien Planet, Darwin IV is the first planet with complex life explored by humanity and where most of the events in both media happen.

Compared to Earth, the planet has far less surface water being only 5% covering the surface, which is mostly locked by the Amoebic matrix, and the rest of the water is found in the atmosphere, as well as in the polar caps and subterranean aquifers that protrude across the planet as small puddles.

The planet has lower gravity in addition to its atmosphere, allowing for organisms to get much larger than what is possible on Earth. Probably due to its small size (it is only a few hundred kilometers smaller in diameter than Mars), it has lost most of its major oceans over the eons. The terrain around the tropics and poles in both hemispheres is predominantly a plain with some geographic features probably caused by the now extinct oceans or by the now scarce rivers and lakes, while at the equator exist a series of mountain ranges which form a mountainous belt around the planet.

Environments

Due to the lack of large water bodies, its environment is predominantly arid, dominated by vast deserts, grasslands and with huge mountain ranges and long tundra around the poles. However, it still has small patches of forests, aquifers, as strange environments as the amobeic sea, and even by the density of the atmosphere the sky makes this its own environment.

The events of the planet exploration occur during the middle of the XXIV century, in a future where humanity destroyed the ecology of the earth and that the race Yma has taken care in the repair of the planet. Thanks to observations of the benevolent aliens by the use of "Faster than light" satellites, the binary Darwin system as well the planets around wwere discovered and after sending a probe to that system, a expedition began to be prepared around the year 2355 and being fully equipped a year later. This Expedition being a bi-species participation, is formed by a team of scientists, technicians and surveyors human individuals including the author and wildlife illustrator of the book, Barlowe, alongside with some Yma individuals. The 3 earth years long exploration was done through 3 vessels called "Orbitstars" in a travel of two years, arriving on the planet on January 6 of 2358. It is implied in the book that this mission is not only for exploration, but as an opportunity for humanity to re-educate itself after the mistakes made by it in the destruction of the native biosphere of the earth, as well, is being clarified by the Yma that this would be a mission of observation, without interaction or physical contact with the native life. Throughout these three years of exploration, Barlowe along with several other members explored and observed most of the fauna and flora of the planet gathering data and recording what they could find, with an eventuality that ended with the death of two Yma members in the mountainous areas, however, this had no major impact on the mission. After their supplues depleted, the mission ended and the exploration team left Darwin IV on March 24, 2361.

Alien planet

In this timeline the exploration of Darwin IV occurs in the "near future" where instead of humans, a series of probes with advanced artificial intelligence is sent in a trip of several decades as the ship they travel at 20% of the speed of light across 6 light years. After the journey of decades, the Von Braun probe is deployed, and after collecting atmospheric data by the use of a small observation satellite, it sends the Probes nicknamed Balboa, Ike and Leo, of which the first has a flaw in its capsule and explodes upon entering the atmosphere, however, the other two manage to land in a plain region.

Orbital Position: 4

Moons: 2

Class: Terrestrial

Gravity: 0.6 g

Atmosphere: Oxygen-rich (too much for human breathing)

Climate: Semi-arid

Diameter: 6,563 km

Primary Terrain: Deserts and mountains, with a few areas of vegetation

Surface water: Small water bodies, the largest body of water is covered by a major superorganism

Rotation period: 26.7 Earth hours

Orbital Period: 728 Earth days


Me: Whoa!

William: What's this planet called?

Me: I know this planet. It's called Darwin IV.

Laney: Like in that documentary Alien Planet.

Lisa Loud: And in that really amazing book by Wayne Barlowe called Expedition.

Liberty: I've read that book. It's really amazing and it's how I got the ideas for those techniques I used.

Me: Cool. This is gonna be awesome exploring all of Darwin IV.

Nico: It sure is.

We landed and we were on the planet Darwin IV. The Temperature was 70Ëš Fahrenheit and it was a beautiful and strange.

We went out onto the surface and it was amazing. We breathed in the air and it was really rich in oxygen.

Me: (Inhales) Whoa! It's really rich in oxygen here.

Lisa looked up the oxygen levels and atmospheric composition of Darwin IV.

Lisa Loud: It shows that the oxygen levels on the planet are at 73.293%. The Atmospheric composition is composed of Oxygen-Rich water vapor, nitrogen, argon and a fraction of carbon dioxide.

Me: The oxygen levels are so high because of the evaporation of all of the oceans on this planet.

Lana: It's amazing. And the view of the 2 suns is amazing.

Will Vandom: This planet is amazing!

Me: It sure is.

Teresa: Think we'll find any Pokemon here?

Me: We're 6 and a half light-years away from Earth and there couldn't possibly be any Pokemon here.

Teresa: Hm.

Me: Lets look around.

We started exploring the planet Darwin IV. We then came across huge planets that looked like giant gourds on stilts and they were huge! They were 15 stories tall and they were called Gourd Trees.


Gourd Trees are plants native to Darwin IV. They are 150 ft. tall plants supported by stilt roots. Gourd trees are either hollow or spongy inside. They have to be for the stilt roots to support them. In Alien Planet they're encountered by the probes Leo and Ike comprised their landing site. In the book Expedition they are called Steeple Gourds.


Me: Wow! These plants are huge!

Nicole: Incredible!

Shanan: These are Darwin IV Gourd Trees.

Laney: They are huge! They're as tall as Sequoia Trees of Earth.

Lana: They sure are tall.

Lily: No kidding. They're massive.

Akiza: It's amazing that these trees look so huge.

Yusei: No kidding.

Me: Lets keep going.

Horsea: Are there any bodies of water I can swim in?

Me: We'll find out. But because most of the water evaporated millions of years ago it's gonna be hard to find.

Maria: Okay.

We walked on and came across a puddle of water.

Me: There's a puddle of water here.

Horsea: Yay!

Lisa Loud: This puddle is guaranteed to house a wide variety of single-celled and multi-celled organisms.

Lisa pulled out a special magnifying glass that increases magnification up to 1,000 times. She looked into the puddle and found all kinds of amazing microscopic organisms.

Lincoln: What do you see Lisa?

Lisa Loud: A massive plethora of amazing microorganisms.

Lincoln: Wow.

Me: That's not the only thing here. Look!

We saw a huge creature and it was an ARROWTONGUE!


Arrowtongues are one of Darwin IV's most ubiquitous apex predators. They are solitary hunters, roaming the plains in search of their next meal, usually a Thornback, Gyrosprinter, Littoralope, which they kill after an almost always fatal, short and furious pursuit. Most often, they can be spotted concealing themselves amongst beds of Electrophytes, where they take advantage of this colonial fauna's electrical discharges to discourage herds from getting too close to them. To aid in their camouflage, they have adapted an organic sonar system which emits ranging pings in concert with these discharges to obscure its point of origin from its intended prey; however, this sonar also has a use in attack, allowing them to terrify their intended targets to likely cloud their judgment and give the Arrowtongue the advantage.

They stand and walk about on a single pair of large, muscular, two-toed legs. They also have two muscular limbs coming out of their sides and facing backwards. These limbs can be pulled forward to make the Arrowtongue look bigger, whether to scare away a possible threat, or as a courtship display. It has a thin phallus in comparison with it's polar cousin, the Bolt-tongue.

For personal defense outside of hiding amongst Electrophyte colonies, they have developed a symbiotic relationship with some unspecified microscopic organism, allowing them to utilize bioluminescence. These bioluminescent patches are aligned on their backs, and are used when attempting to frighten away intruders.

The Arrowtongue gets its name from a retractable appendage on its mouth that it uses to attack and subdue prey, which pierces the victim's skin and injects digestive juices into the body. As with other liquivorous species, the victim's insides liquefy, at which point the Arrowtongue uses its 8m (26ft) long appendage to suck out this for sustenance.


Laney: Whoa!

It sent out a wave of Sonar at us and it was a huge creature.

Shanan: Whoa! That's an Arrowtongue!

Liberty: Wow! Amazing.

Lola: Why is it called an Arrowtongue?

Shanan: Because of its tongue that's in the shape of an arrowhead.

Laney: Really amazing.

Lana: Cool.

Lily: That's amazing.

It emitted a wave of sonar.

Lily: What's that noise?

Me: It's sounded like a wave of sonar.

Shanan: It is a wave of sonar. They hunt via echoes of sonar.

Lucy Loud: Like how bats do it.

Nico: Very similar.

Lucy Heartfilia: Really something.

It looked at us with a growl and saw that we pose no threat.

Shanan: It's a dangerous predator too.

Me: Yep watch over there. (Points to something)

We saw a two-legged vegetarian called the Gyrosprinter.


Gyrosprinters are the fastest ground-dwelling organisms on Darwin IV, and can easily outrun many of their predators, such as the Arrowtongues and Prongheads. Evolved from quadrupedal fauna, their legs have become fused at the forelimbs over the course of millions of years, leaving them with literally "one foot in front of the other". To counteract this, they have developed a set of hyper-developed halteres in order to keep in balance, which allows them to continue careening across their home biomes despite what would otherwise be considered an unfortunate deformity.

Gyrosprinters are also extremely flexible and maneuverable, and can turn on a dime to elude most predators with ease. The have a relatively small, bony, almost skull-like cephalon (or "head") at the end of their strong neck, which serves two functions: it not only houses the primary sensory organs of the beast, but also provides a sheath-like tip for its 2 meter long tongue, which, like the Arrowtongue, is used for eating. To aid in a lifestyle of such energetic activity, they have two hearts and nostrils which have been relocated to their shoulders in order to provide a more steady stream of oxygen. Bioluminescent patches dot their back.


Shanan: Wow! That's a Gyrosprinter.

Lori: It's only got two legs.

Lincoln: Cool.

The Arrowtongue chased the creature all over. But the Gyrosprinter was really fast and it outran the Arrowtongue.

Me: Whoa! That is fast. Lets continue on.

We continued exploring and we came across a pocket forest.

Me: Wow.

Laney: There are still forests here. It's amazing that there are still forests even though there hardly is any water.

Lana: Yeah.

Lola: It's really cool.

We then saw something new. We saw a bunch of bird-like creatures flying to the trees. They got onto them and they started sucking tree sap out of the trees. They were creatures called Trunk-Suckers.


The Trunksucker is a small ray-like creature that glides through Darwin IV's forests and clings to Plaque-bark Trees, sucking their nutrient-rich sap. "Similar to Earth's woodpeckers they fly, they land on the trunk of a tree, prop themselves up with their tails and take fluid from the tree".


Lincoln: Are these birds?

Shanan: No these are called Trunk-Suckers. They act like birds and they feed on the sap from these trees.

Olga: Really amazing.

Edwayl: (Breton Accent) Amazing creatures lads.

Hunter: (German Accent) Ja. Und it's amazing that they can do that.

Lana: Look at that up there in the tree.

We saw a new creature in the trees and it was a predator called the DAGGERWRIST!


Daggerwrists are aggressive, human-sized, arboreal liquivorous carnivores. They utilize patagia - thin membranes of skin - to allow them to glide between trees, which is stretched between their front and back legs. Spines along their back aid in this gliding by providing them with extra agility, but they also serve the function of a rearward defense. They also use powerful muscles in their legs to allow them to make great leaps to maximize the distance they can cross on each glide. Like many other species on Darwin IV, they utilize bioluminescent lights.

Their species are quite clever in the catching of their prey. Their forelimbs are shaped like pitons or scythes, and are used not only for climbing, hanging and swinging on branches while up high, they are also used to make kills. Their main prey are the Trunk-Suckers, which are attracted to the large holes in the Darwinian trees that they create due to the strength and sharpness of the Daggerwrist's forelimbs. The Trunk-Suckers come for the bleeding sap, which is exactly what the Daggerwrists want them to take. Once their prey has consumed enough sap, they descend upon it. Unlike most of Darwin IV's predatory creatures, Daggerwrists have what appear to be a lower jaw, although it is in fact a portion of the skull which detaches from the rest of the face to stab its victim and inject the necessary digestive enzymes. Daggerwrists prefer Trunk-Suckers in order to consume the sap that their prey had fed on only moments earlier, making them in effect omnivorous.

If there was any Darwinian organism other than the floating Eosapiens to exhibit a well-developed social behavior, it is the Daggerwrists. Found exclusively confined to the dwindling pocket-forests dotting the planetary surface, they will travel in small bands, communicating to one another through bursts of sonar pings while following the movements of their small, quick aerial prey. However, despite this social structure, they are not above cannibalistic behavior.


Me: Whoa what is that!?

Shanan: Whoa that is the Daggerwrist. It's a carnivore of the pocket forest.

Lana: It sure looks terrifying.

Lola: Yeah.

Me: It's amazing. Lets keep going.

We went into a meadow and we saw a herd of Littoralopes.


Littoralopes are a species of 11 foot long, numerous aliens that live throughout Darwin IV. In Expedition, Barlowe encounters a small herd taking shelter in the decaying skull of a Sea Strider, and noticed that their entire bodies glowed green in the darkness. He then witnesses the entire herd feed on the Amoebic Sea before leaving them.

Littoralopes played little significance in Alien Planet. They took a role of running away, or prey for Skewers. Their only real defense is to scatter in all directions, forcing predators to target one individual.

Biology

One of the littoralope's main traits are the deceptive tail that's shaped like its head, this is used to further confuse predators as it keeps the attacker(s) guessing which direction the littoralope will escape to.


Laney: Wow. What are these creatures?

Shanan: These are Littoralopes. They act just like horses and deer. They are really cool creatures.

Lincoln: They sure are amazing.

But then we felt something and we saw a bunch of saplings move and out of the ground arose a huge creature! It had the saplings on its back and out came the GROVEBACK!


Grovebacks are one of the largest indigenous species native to Darwin IV. They spend the greater portion of their lives dormant, buried under the loamy soil and often only appearing as strangely regular hummocks surmounted by small strands of shallow-rooted Darwinian trees. They rise only sparingly to wander ponderously from one breeding ground to the next. Once mobile, they balance upon two thick legs and a single rudder-like limb used to balance them that is dragged along behind them, leaving a deep groove in their wake.

Biology

Grovebacks possess a 13 meter wide semi-circular head and two enormous nostrils, with several more nostril-like openings covering the tops of their heads. While it is very likely that they have amazingly thick skin due to their enormous girth, they are still susceptible to attacks by fields of Beach Quills, which can bring them crashing down to their deaths. While surfaced, they, like many of the huge "animals" on the planet, depend upon the protein-rich and abundant food stock that is the tiny aerophytes - microflyers that sometimes darken the skies with their uncountable numbers. These aerophytes infrequently will perform periodic expansions of their swarms, which the Groveback's rare emergences coincide with, as it is only during these times that they can easily support such beasts. When the microflyers dissipate, the Grovebacks will rebury themselves for another period of dormancy. Recent studies have suggested that they may in fact switch dietary habits during this time, transforming into lithovores who feed upon the nutrients in the soil through the skin of their underbody, and potentially through the many nostril-like orifices adorning their dorsal sides. Young Grovebacks have three legs, which, like other Darwinian creatures, will be replaced by the rear skid.

Fully matured members of this species are large enough to support entire stands of Darwinian trees, which grow along their backs during their long periods of burial. These saplings form a commensal symbiotic relationship with the Grovebacks, injecting them with sugars while the Grovebacks trade them water in return. This symbiosis is so perfect that advanced scouting drones have been unable to detect the Groveback beneath the ground. The groveback might be a distant cousin to the Keeled Slider since both species of creature walks on two front limbs and balances using a single rutter-like limb.


Me: Whoa!

Lincoln: Those creatures are huge!

Shanan: Those are the Grovebacks. They are huge creatures that are 5 stories tall.

Kira Ford: Unbelievable.

Girl Jordan: Amazing!

Nico: Really cool. That is amazing that they have trees on their backs.

Ben: Like Wildvine but cooler.

Me: Yeah. Lets keep exploring.

We later went into a meadow and saw water rivers coming from underground aquifers and it was amazing. Then we heard a ping of sonar and we saw two huge flying predators! It was the SKEWERS!


Skewers are monstrous flying animals, possessing a wingspan of approximately 15 meters (49 feet) and when combined with their sleek body structure and wide range of habitat, prove them to have no rivals more potent than they. They are the largest aerial predators on all of Darwin IV, and are both prey and predator to the planet's near-sapient species, the Eosapiens. Even Arrowtongues are not beyond vulnerability to their swooping attacks. Their species generally travel in mated pairs, but can be found less frequently in small, flying pods, using the planet's strong air currents to help migrate them from pole to pole.

Skewers are reminiscently jet-like in shape, and like presumably all other predators on their world, hunt by sonar. They hunt in small packs, and use a huge, curved hollow nasal-lance protruding from their heads, which they use to impale and disembowel their prey. Once prey has been impaled, they go into a steep climb to offset the shift in their center of gravity caused by the impaled prey. They then proceed to inject their sometimes still-living prey with digestive enzymes as any other liquivore would do, and soon begin sucking the corpse's fluids out of its now-lifeless body. Each Skewer will alternate between feeding, and dropping their prey, letting other members of their pod to feed as well. This performance appears to be almost playful, and does not stop until the prey is finally completely drained of all its fluids. Skewers have been known to kill for sport, and even for fun. The shriveled husks of such victims can be found virtually everywhere upon Darwin IV's surface.

Their species maneuver through the air by propelling themselves through the use of internally created methane gas, which is then combusted within the four jet-pods located on its wings, in a way again reminiscent of modern-day jet propelled aircraft of Earth. This is coupled with the movements of their wings. They do not flap but squeeze (similar to accordions), shifting their shape in order to shift flight patterns. With these two adaptations, they are capable of traveling at speeds of up to 322 kilometers per hour (200 miles per hour), making them likely the fastest species on Darwin IV as well as the largest aerial predator.


They flew at 200 miles per hour and we saw them kill a Littoralope in pairs. It was terrifying.

Me: Whoa! That was terrifying!

Lucy Loud: Wicked.

Shanan: Those predators were the flying Skewers. They are the deadliest predators of Darwin IV and they are amazing.

Lana: Wicked cool.

Carmen: Amazing.

Liam: (Southern Accent) Woo howdy. They sure are well feared here.

Nico: No kidding.

Emerald: I think we have dangerous predators back in Drake City.

Me: I remember that.

It dropped the carcass and we saw scavengers called Jetdarters.


The Jetdarter is one of Darwin IV's most bizarre aerial lifeforms. They are small, iridescent scavengers, feeding on the unfinished remains of any creature killed by another predator (such as by a Skewer), and have evolved a compact body that assumes a dart-like shape.

Surprisingly for an aerial species, they have no wings whatsoever to aid them in flight. Instead, they possess a biological version of a ramjet engine - complete with a turbine of bone and gristle - which is capable of launching them up to speeds of 64 kilometers per hour (40 miles per hour). When at rest, they use three legs in a tripod arrangement, which otherwise fold up during flight. They have an internal phallus in between their two rear 'legs'.

Jetdarters live in polyhedral nests in the pocket-forests and fear many predators, such as Electrophyte flora and Finned Snappers. They travel in schools, constantly changing their colors in relation to the direction of light.


Lincoln: Look at those little creatures.

Shanan: Those are called Jetdarters. They are scavengers and they are fast ones as well.

Me: Wow.

Liberty: Really cool.

Me: Lets continue on.

We went on and we arrived in another forest and we saw huge mushrooms and they were surging with electricity. They were called Electrophytes.


Electrophytes are a species of fungoid, sessile organisms indigenous to Darwin IV which share a more than passing resemblance to many species of mushrooms on the planet Earth. However, the similarities stop here. Electrophytes are predatory heterotrophs, and use what is assumed to be electroplaques throughout its body to send surges of electrical discharges outwards; it is with this that it stuns its prey, the Jetdarters (and maybe other creatures too). Once one has been incapacitated, the Electrophyte will proceed to begin consumption, while the poor prey item is still alive. Electrophytes might be considered the bane of a Jetdarter's existence, although they certainly are not its only predator.


Me: Whoa!

Lincoln: Mushrooms that emit deadly lightning!? That is lethal.

Laney: No kidding. I've never seen mushrooms that produce electricity before.

Shanan: These mushrooms are called Electrophytes and they use powerful electrical discharges to stun Jetdarters.

Lincoln: Wicked cool.

Shanan: They are predatory heterotrophs and they are dangerous.

We heard a stomp and we saw a stomp and we saw a Groveback. We saw it and we saw it get bombarded with a massive assault of BEACH QUILLS!


Beach Quills are spike-like, ambush predators with a short ranged attack, indigenous to the planet Darwin IV. They are also some of the smallest creatures to be found on the planet. They live in huge colonies within the littoral zone which can be up to a million strong, where they lie in wait for an organism to step near.

Once one inevitably does, they will launch themselves into the hide of their prey by the hundreds, propelling themselves with enormous velocity over short distances by means of a folded, muscular 'foot' which snaps the animal through the concealing undergrowth their colonies camouflage themselves in. At this point, they will inject their prey with neurotoxins, stunning the victim so that the Quills may burrow into its flesh, only to later emerge and rebury itself. Their colonies are so potent that despite being so small in comparison to other species on the world, they can bring down even the greatest beings, such as the Groveback, often causing them to suffer a slow and painful death.


The Beach Quills went into the Groveback from all over and it roared in pain and died in an instant.

Me: Geez!

Lincoln: That is rough.

Shanan: Those were Beach Quills. They are spike-like ambush predators. They poison it with a lethal dose of neurotoxins.

Laney: Deadly.

We continued on exploring and we arrived in a small area of ancient lava fields. They were formed from lava fields that have hardened millions of years ago.

Me: Wow. Ancient Lava Fields. They sure look old.

Nicole: No kidding.

Lori: Literally amazing.

We then heard another ping of sonar and we saw another new creature. It was a pack of PRONGHEADS!


Prongheads are a Darwinian species of agile, well-muscled pack hunters filling a similar niche as the Wolf from Earth. They are named for the three hollow prongs which protrude from their face, acting as tubes to siphon liquids from their prey. Digestive fluids are pumped into their victims through a pair of tubes on the sides of their foot spurs. A larger central tube is used to ingest this, now liqueous, food. They exhibit highly developed social behavior, working as a team, stalking their prey from all directions in an attempt to surround it.


Me: Whoa! These are weird creatures.

Shanan: Those are Prongheads. They are pack hunters. Just like wolves on Earth.

Laney: Amazing.

We saw the Prongheads go after another Gyrosprinter and they know how to do interception and they couldn't catch the Gyrosprinter.

Me: Wow.

We continued to explore some more and we saw a huge area with giant spires of salt! They were massive spires of salt that were over a mile high and it was incredible.

Me: Whoa! Look at all this.

Nico: Wow! What are these massive spires?

Me: These aren't rock formations. These are the accumulated remains of billions of tons of salts and minerals from the oceans when they evaporated millions of years ago.

Lisa Loud: Very amazing discovery.

Laney: Really amazing. It's amazing that an ocean can have this much salt.

Aqua: It sure is. It's hard to imagine.

Kairi: Yeah.

We got out of the spires and we saw a huge sea! But there was something strange about it. It looked a massive sea of jello. This was a most unusual sea. It was called the AMOEBIC SEA!


The Amoebic Sea is a vast, gelatinous superorganism blanketing about 5% of the surface of planet Darwin IV. With an overall profundity of ten meters, the Amoebic Sea is the largest single colony organism known.

Located mainly on the northern hemisphere, the "sea" is composed of billions of single-celled organisms. Although the sea matrix is eaten by many kinds of faunal organisms (living both on the sea and the coast), the Amoebic Sea is also a predator itself, being able to extend long tentacles out of its surface and capture small flying organisms to eat. It is also assumed that when a creature dies in the sea, it soon becomes food to the superorganism.

The planet of Darwin IV once had grand oceans, but its water slowly evaporated over the eons, leading to the evolution of the Amoebic Sea, which is able to retain water within itself. All the water absorbed by the "sea" is sealed within the gelatinous matrix in order to prevent evaporation. Nowadays, Darwin IV has no large body of water, and most of the planet's water is found in the atmosphere, in the polar caps, underground aquifers (please take note that's how forests can only exist in small pockets), or in the bodies of living creatures.

The "sea" is also home to a variety of organisms, the most famous of which is the gargantuan biped known as the Emperor Sea Strider. This 180 meter tall creature has two mouths, one on each foot. As the Sea Strider walks slowly on the surface of the Amoebic Sea; at the same time it feeds upon the gel. It is thanks to the shock absorbing, weight distributing, jelly-like substance, that the beast is able to grow to such a huge size. Among the other, much smaller inhabitants of the "sea" are flying creatures like the Diskflyers, the Stripewings, and the Sea Strider's nymphs. There is also a large number of poorly known, symbiotic organisms living beneath the surface, within the gel.


Me: What the? This is not water.

Laney: It's not water at all.

Laney touched it and it felt like a giant lake of jelly.

Laney: It feels like gelatin.

Bart: It's really squishy.

Shanan: It's called the Amoebic Sea. This is the leftover water that was once covering the planet and it turned into this huge sea that covers 5% of the planet.

Nico: Whoa! That is amazing.

Naruto: It sure is.

Nicole: It's amazing that the water can turn into this.

Me: Lets cross the sea.

We did so and we felt like we were walking on a huge plate of jello.

Me: It sure feels weird.

Varie: It's like we're walking on a huge plate of jello.

Lana: No kidding. But it's really cool.

Lola: It's squishy.

Lily: It's really something.

But then we saw a huge creature that was over 180 meters tall! It was a massive creature! It was THE EMPEROR SEA STRIDER!


Emperor Sea Striders are the best known and the largest organisms living on Darwin IV. They spend their lives within the confines of the Amoebic Sea, as it is the only source of energy on the planet to support such massive creatures. The species goes through an amazing metamorphosis at some point in its life: when they are born, they are known as nymphs and somewhat resemble more compacted versions of the adults, but differ in that they are capable of powered flight, however, this ability is lost as they mature and develop a bipedal gait, and begin feeding off of the amoebic sea. Their name comes from their ability to walk across the surface of the organic sea's yielding surface, which, despite their large stature, is accomplished quite easily through the utilization of a framework which places their center of mass around their mouths/feet and lower leg portions, with the lightest part being the top of the body. This allows them to maintain a mass light enough to not rupture the membrane of the amoebic sea, and yet retain enough mass to not topple over in the storms that are commonplace in the regions to which they are indigenous.

An enigmatic function of their physiology is their highly unusual feeding system. They possess two mouths, with each being located on their feet, effectively allowing them to eat anything they step on. With these, they shave off great chunks of the sea-matrix for consumption. Identifying traits of the species are the mouthless crested head, flanked on each side by huge orange-glowing bioluminescent cavities, smaller blue-glowing bioluminescent lights accenting their crest and multiple tentacles on their front (likely for communication), and two "tails" - one which is an actual tail and the smaller is a phallus.

The orange cavities in the sides of their head also attract the young Strider nymphs, which orbit around the adult Striders, likely for protection. Interestingly Strider nymphs are in fact prey to the Amoebic Sea itself, which extend in tentacle-like columns to catch them in mid-air.


Me: WHOA! Look at the size of that creature!

Shanan: It's the Emperor Sea Strider. It's the largest creature in all of Darwin IV. It eats parts of the Amoebic Sea through mouths on its feet.

Nico: Amazing! How big are those creatures?

Shanan: 180 meters or 590.551 feet.

Me: Whoa!

Lily: That's incredible!

Lana: It's huge!

Varie: No kidding.

Aylene C.: Amazing! And I thought the dinosaurs were the largest creatures on Earth. These creatures are the largest here on Darwin IV.

We then went across the Amoebic Sea and we went into the mountains of the planet and we got to a river and we saw a herd of new creatures. It was a bunch of creatures called Unths.


Unths are tundra creatures with long, asymmetrical tusks, the right being longer than the left. They are named for the sound they make when they take a step. These animals are social creatures, travelling across the vast tundra in large herds. Although they only have one gender, Unths still fight each other for the right to mate. After the duel, both creatures release pheromones that initiate the reproductive process. It is assumed they communicate via echolocation like most creatures on Darwin IV.

Although never confirmed, in Alien Planet it is speculated that these creatures might have two genders.


Me: Wow! I remember seeing these.

Shanan: Yep. These are Unths. They are called that because of the snorting sound they make that sounds like their name. It's how they got their name.

Brittney: Amazing.

Haiku: Really something.

We saw them fight like rams and deer do on Earth.

Me: They fight just like deer and rams do on Earth.

Nico: Really cool.

Vince: It sure is.

Carol: That is really neat.

We continued into the mountains and we heard a really shrill sound.

Lori: What is that noise?

Leni: It's coming from over there.

Luna Loud: It's really shrill dudes.

Me: Lets go see.

We went and checked it out and we saw a pair of Bladderhorns.


Bladderhorns are life forms that live high on Darwin IV's mountain ranges. Solitary and aggressive creatures, they wander the mountain passes and high plains, where they feed upon the sub-surface bulbs of alpine flora. They are highly territorial, and if one encounters another, they will perform an elaborate, ritualistic duel, which involves ramming heads and showing off their bioluminescent patches. These duels are sometimes considered somewhat comical.

During mating season, the chilly air is rent with the sounds of their bellowing - an eerie, almost haunting bellowing call which is created by the inflation and subsequent deflation of their antler-bladders' air sacs, for which they are named. Their species is oddly a bright blue color, giving them a rather comical appearance. Their antler-bladders are often inflated to make themselves appear to be larger than they actually are, which can be used to frighten away predators or rival Bladderhorns.

They have very compact bodies, with a large hump on their back. Their antlers are connected to the sides of their head, while their mouths are asymmetric. On the right side is a tentacle-like appendage, presumably lifting food to the long, thin mouth on the left side. Bladderhorns to not have tails, merely a short spike jutting out in the place where their tail would be. A short, thin phallus hangs below their tail-spike.


Me: Whoa they sure look aggressive.

Shanan: They are dad. Those are called Bladderhorns. They are very territorial.

Nico: Wicked.

We went up to one and it gave us a bellowing loud call that was really eerie.

Me: Geez!

Nico: Powerful and loud.

Vince: No kidding.

Sora: Really loud.

We then heard a sonar ping and it scared away the Bladderhorn and we followed the sonar ping and we came across something rather interesting. It looked like a caveman circle and inside it was some sort of disk.

Me: Hmm. It looks like a caveman circle.

Nicole: This is not like any kind of caveman circle that I have seen.

Nico: Very unusual.

Me: But this disk is not like anything I've seen.

I picked it up and put it in my bag.

We continued following the sonar pings and we got to the mountain top and it's there that we saw an unusual sight. We saw two robots, one yellow and one blue and they were robots unlike anything we've ever seen before. But they are not functioning.

Me: Robots are here.

Nico: Where do you think they came from?

Me: Lets find out.

We went over to them and we saw that they were robots from Earth.

Nico: These robots are from Earth. But they are far more advanced than anything we know.


This information has the three probes dispatched to Darwin IV for exploration of life. They have many pieces of equipment such as Spider Drones and Scout Disks.

Probe Features and Equipment

Sensor crammed "bird like" head mounted on moving arm.

flexible arms extending from a box attached to wing.

Wings to help adjust navigation of the probes.

Thrusters as primary form of movement.

Communication and radio to Orbiting satellite, Von Braun .

Sample collection containers.

Magnification lenses.

Hydrogen air bag for flight.

Computer brain with the knowledge of a toddler.

Tail for adjustments.

Space transport

The Three probes each had a Space vehicle to protect them on entry, but they are not flawless as seen when Balboa's craft is exploded on entry. The other two landed safely but, very conventional and with no landing gear. The Space transport vehicles look much like today's space shuttles.

Space

The Space transport vehicle in the sensors of Leo.

The Probes

There are three probes in total, two survived the entry, none survived the mission though.

Probe Davinci | Status: destroyed | Color: blue | Function: Animal life | Cause of destruction: Eosapians

Probe Newton | Status: destroyed | Color: yellow | Function: Plant life | Cause of destruction: Eosapians

Probe Balboa | Status: destroyed | Color: red | Function: Unknown | Cause of destruction: Entry Explosion

Note: Balboa could have been back up for the other probes, was nicknamed Leo and Probe Newton was nicknamed Ike.


Me: Fascinating.

Lisa Loud: Very fascinating.

Nico: Yeah.

Then we heard a sonar ping and we saw a huge creature arrive. It was a strange floating creature called an EOSAPIEN!


Eosapiens are the most advanced life form on Darwin IV with the intelligence of early Humans such as Homo habilis.

They float in mid-air by using two bags filled with methane gas. Eosapiens have fingers that they use to manipulate objects such as spears and create formations on the ground. They live in small tribes and hunt the other creatures on the planet.

They hunt, and are hunted by, Skewers.

Appearances

In Expedition, Barlowe encounters a killing pen with an Arrowtongue head near the Flipsticks, then he sees them in the Amoebic Sea harvesting floating balls of gel during the storm where he encounters the Sea Striders. In the book, they hunt by dropping their huge flechettes from the sky to cage a prey item. Then they twist its limbs off and proceed to devour it. In the documentary, they kill their prey with spears.

Alien Planet

A group of Eosapiens begin to spy on probes Leo and Ike from the very moment their shuttles land on Darwin IV. They follow both probes while at the same time hiding from them whenever they turn their backs.

Along the way, the various fauna of Darwin IV encountered by the probes are spooked by the hiding Eosapiens. The Unths and Bladderhorns Leo observes flee in terror when the Eosapien's call is heard, and even the Emperor Sea Striders turn, stop, and look around before moving away. They kill a Skewer who is mid-hunt and that tries to attack Ike later, before dragging the carcass over the hill and out of sight. The Eosapiens destroyed Leo when he launched a camera disk, which they considered a threat. When he did this again to find his location, the Eosapiens shut him down completely. On Ike's mission to find Leo, the Eosapiens were watching him constantly too.

When Ike found them and showed them the Earth communication hologram they responded correctly and the Eosapiens looked at Earth. Ike launched a camera disk to record the moment, but the Eosapiens destroyed both the disk and Ike. The main difference between Alien Planet and the book is the size of the Eosapiens and the fact that they can apparently see in Alien Planet. In the book they are 20 meters (66 feet) in height and are blind, like all of the life forms on the planet. In Alien Planet they are roughly 9 meters (30 feet) in height and have weak eyes. Also, in Alien Planet the other animals are much more terrified of the Eosapiens.

Intelligence

Their intelligence is quite simple, and they rely on crudely made weapons similar to ancient Humans. Though they speak with short gasps of air and clickings from the appendages on the sides of their heads. This is pretty advanced for such a species.

Possibly in the next 200,000 years they can form civilizations close to that of 21st century Humans. Curiously they lack any form of fire, probably because temperature is relatively constant on Darwin IV, eliminating the need for heat, most species on the planet use sound to perceive the world around them, eliminating the need for light, and finally the atmosphere is very dense with oxygen, thus making the possibility of fire on Darwin IV impossible anyway, and, should the oxygen not be the problem, the lack of resources would be. As Darwin IV contains pocket forests, which, not only are small and rare, but would be quite a distance from wherever a group of Eosapiens may be living at the time.


Me: Whoa! What is that?

Shanan: Whoa! That's an Eosapien.

Varie: Wow. It looks human-like.

Nico: Wow. It could very well be human like.

Me: Let me try and communicate with it.

I went up to it.

Me: I am J.D. Knudson, Leader of Team Loud Phoenix Storm. We came here from the planet Earth. We mean you all no harm.

Eosapien: (Telepathically to me) It's an honor to meet you J.D. Knudson. You have quite a love for exploration. You have come far to explore our world.

Me: We came here from 6 and a half light-years away from Earth. We wanted to see if this world is real like we have seen on Earth.

Eosapien: I see. I take it these creatures belong to you that sent these disk things?

Me: We have no idea who sent them but we speculate that they come from the future on Earth.

Eosapien: I can see that. You can take them back.

Me: Thank you.

We took the robots back to the ship and repaired them. Our mission of exploration was done. We got the logs from both the robots and fixed them and we got to see what they have discovered and more and it was amazing! We saw the entirety of Darwin IV down to the last detail and more. We also found the wreckage of a destroyed robot that got destroyed when it was entering the planets atmosphere and Lana and Lisa got to fixing it.

Laney: This was so awesome!

Me: It was one of the coolest journey's we've ever seen and more.

Nico: It sure was.

Laney: (To the viewers) It's cool seeing alien planets and you never know what kind of life could be out there waiting for us to see.

Me: It sure is.

We got the ship that the robots came from, the Von Braun, and the Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter onto our ship and it we went back to Earth. It was a really educational adventure.

THE END


Another awesome chapter done.

Alien Planet from 2005 was a really cool show that gave us a really awesome hypothetical view into the world of an awesome alien landscape and an alien world. Darwin IV was a really cool planet and it was really cool that it had all kinds of amazing creatures. It's all based on a book made by Wayne Barlowe called Expedition. NicoChan11 gave me the ideas for this. Thanks man. Next up is another awesome mystery with Mystery Inc and we're also going to meet the band Kiss and solve a really big mystery with them.

See you all tomorrow.