It was 4:47 in the morning, me and the other miners were just getting up from a very short night, for our schedule was to stay up till 11:45 mining, then get up at 4:45, eat breakfast, and begin mining again. This whole sleeping-for-only-five-hours thing was not working out well for me, and I was beginning if I should have signed up for this after all. You see, when the gold strike was found it all sounded so promising, at least the breakfasts are good! I was about to help myself to some waffles, eggs, and toast, when a voice from behind yelled “hey Brandon, I need to show you something” I groaned loudly and regretted it when I found out that that it was the boss, Kody Savage, the strongest, toughest, biggest man I had ever known. Kody was standing next to an important looking woman in an odd-looking lab coat, who was fiddling with what looked like a video game controller, and was standing by a cool looking robot. I slowly walked over, hoping that Kody hadn’t noticed. “Come on, Professor Plante wont bite you” he laughed. After I saw that Kody was in a good mood, I felt a lot better. You see, you have to be lucky for him to be even slightly happy.
“What is it, boss?” I asked. Brandon, this is Professor Heather Plante, Professor, this is Brandon Lloyd “glad to meet you Brandon, You see this here robot?” “Y–” I started, though she just kept talking “it is called a Gemini-Scout, this robot tests air to see if it is safe for miners, brings them supplies, and can find living things by using a thermal camera.” “and you are telling me this because?” I asked. “Because Kody says that he thinks you would be the best one to drive it” heather replied. “I'm going to do what!” I started freaking out. “Calm down” Kody said, “it is just because you have played the most video games out of all of us here” “what does that have to do anything?” I said, starting to calm down. “you see, this robot’s controls are quite similar to a video game” spoke Heather calmly “take a look at this, what do you see” “an Xbox 360 controller” I answered “this here controller makes the Gemini-Scout move, take a look at this sheet of paper, these are the controls to it” she replied. “I see…” I said, thinking. I then turned around to see if any breakfast was left, and to my despair, not even the table was left. I then consulted my watch; it was about 5:00. I let out a sigh and picked up the controller, suddenly someone shouted “Gold!” then both Kody and Heather ran down the mine, to where the gold was, while I sat down and stared at the controller.
Everyone, except me of course, helped remove all the gold. When it was done, I had just worked up the courage to tell my boss that I quit, even though we found gold, when suddenly somebody yelled the most frightening two words that a miner could hear: “cave-in!” apparently, taking out the gold took out some major support from the top and sides of the part of the mine where the gold was, causing this cave-in. And though I did not like it, I knew that I would have to use the Gemini-scout. Though before anything I, of course, called 911. I then activated the Gemini-Scout. I sent is a bit closer to the cave in and tested the air, i found that it was unsafe, so I then knew that I would have to stand back, though unfortunately I was not quite sure where the cave-in happened, so I was looking around for a while, but by using the thermal camera, I was able to find it. When the paramedics, policemen, and firemen came, the miners received help much quicker, and fortunately nobody died. In the end, everyone was very grateful for this, and I, Brandon Lloyd, became a hero.
The End