Speaker 1: He Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
I'm Martin, and you are listening to a weekend compilation
episode of Dad's Bedtime Stories. This week, we're going to
continue with our Summer Camp Planet theme and I'm gonna
present to you the next couple Summer Camp Planet episodes
we've done in hopes that as we approach this next summer,
I get a bunch more ideas for new ones. If
you have ideas for a Summer Camp Planet episode, please
please please leave me a speak Pipe message or you
fill out the Google form. I'll check out both of those,
and if you really like hearing my voice tell stories,
please consider checking out Dad's Anytime Stories. It's a little
different than this podcast. Mainly it's not set up for
bed time, so there's no background music and that sort
of thing. But I am doing a chapter of one
of my books every single week in order, season by season,
and we are just wrapping up season one, which is
the first Cards of Power novel, so you can check
that out anywhere podcasts are distributed, and you can even
binge most of the Cards of Power audiobook at this point. Anyways,
it's now that time again, time for a possible word
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lights on around here. Now, get as comfy as you
can in then bed, close your eyes, and get ready
to enjoy a couple episodes from the Summer Camp Planet.
Imagine yourself waking up on Spaceship. You get up out
of bed and you go towards the main part of
the ship, the part with everything you'd ever need to survive.
A kitchen, a living room, a play area, a library,
and of course, a command center. You walk straight towards
the command center and look out the main view screen.
For some reason, it just looks black, completely dark. Uh,
good morning, Spaceship, you say, Good morning, Spaceship replies, is
the viewscreen broken? You ask, I don't see anything. That
is because we are currently in a void, a large
expanse of space with absolutely no stars. I expect at
least two days until we are near something interesting again.
Spaceship explains, Oh, well, I guess I'll just entertain myself,
then you say, and you try to do that. You
spend some time reading books and playing with all of
the crazy numbers of toys on Spaceship. You eat a
little breakfast, and then you sit down on the couch,
grab the remote, and start flipping through channels. Now, the
strange part about Spaceship's television is that it isn't only
connected to channels from Earth. I mean, it is connected
to channels from Earth, but it also gets channels from
all over the universe, from all different kinds of alien
planets who, at one time or another send signals out
into space. Luckily, all of the channels are automatically translated
into English. As you're flipping through channels, you suddenly see
a commercial. Come on, Welcome to the Summer Camp Planet.
The commercial says, your number one destination for a camp
for the kids and a vacation for yourselves. Choose from
thousands of different camp options. As you watch and start
to see some of the highlights of different summer camps available,
your heart longs for the Summer Camp Planet. The fun
you had there. It was a really good time, certainly
better than sitting around in a small room watching a television,
although that could be fun too. Spaceship, noticing your excitement
at the commercial, speaks up. May I make a suggestion,
Spaceship says, uh, yeah, what is it you say? You
could simply go back to the Summer Camp Planet any
time you wish. Well, we are very far away at
the moment. I took the liberty of building a miniature
portal near the entrance to the planet. You can use
the portal on the ship to travel there and back
whenever you want. Oh, that's a great idea, you say,
But won't you be lonely? I am not programmed to
become lonely. Plus, Changer will have to stay with me. Changer,
your shape shifting alien dog currently in the form of
an Earth puppy, looks up from the couch and turns
his head slightly sideways. Somehow he seems to know that
you're talking about him. Well, what about the money for
the Summer Camp Planet. It took you quite a while
to print enough gold for the last visit, you say,
I have already calculated that, spaceship replies. For the past
two weeks, I have been constantly printing money, particularly gold,
using that as a queue. Little openings slide open in
the walls and the floor, and tiny little flying robots
fly out of them, each one carrying a small chest
of gold coins. They pile the chest of gold on
the ground right beside you, and then disappear back into
the walls and the floor of the ship. Ah. Whoa,
this should certainly be enough gold, you say, looking at
the giant pile of gold chests on the ground in
front of you. Some are camps. Certainly aren't cheap, are they? Again?
I have already taken the liberty of packing as well,
Spaceship says. Another little slit in the wall opens up,
and a long robot arm carrying a duffel bag extends
out of it and drops the duffel bag right beside you.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Thanks, you say, as you pick the duffel bag up.
You can't help but think that Spaceship is maybe trying
to get rid of you or something for a little while.
Could he want some time to himself? You shake off
that feeling and pick up the duffel bag, slinging it
over your shoulder. You look down at the pile of gold.
I will have robots deliver that, Spaceship says, looking down
at the pile as well. A long, narrow door slides
open in the center of the floor, and a gigantic,
circular portal raises up out of the thing. The portal
powers up and glows a bright blue color. You look
at spaceship one more time. Then you take a deep
breath and jump into the portal. You find yourself flying
through a wormhole, a wormhole of all different colors. Somehow,
you stay directly in the center as you wind left
and right and up and down, until eventually you pop
out the other side. You find yourself beside a little
tree tucked away hidden by some bushes, right by the
main building on the Summer Camp Planet. A group of
robots carrying a tray of gold fly out behind you.
You carefully push through the bushes and walk towards the
main building, followed by your little robots carrying the gigantic
thing of gold. As soon as you get inside, one
of the workers immediately notices the gold. Their eyes widen
a considerable amount, and they walk over to greet you. Welcome,
The woman says, I see you've decided to return to
the Summer Cap Planet. Payment in hand, after all, Well,
let me show you all of the Summer Cap options.
Screens suddenly appear all around you, a whole bunch of
tiny floating screens, each one a video of a different
Summer Camp. There's so many you don't even know what
to look at. You pass by summer camps full of ninjas,
camps of people playing instruments, camps of people cheerleading, I guess,
camps of people building battle robots. Until you set only
see a picture or a video of the cutest puppy
you've ever seen in your life. I mean, just imagine
the cutest puppy you could possibly think of, and then
make it even cuter. Fluffy, soft looking fur, giant puppy
dog eyes, and it's surrounded by all sorts of other
different pets, flying unicorns, griffins, fish that look like they're
floating in the air, and all kinds of other creatures.
Oh what's that camp, you ask, pointing at the screen. Boo,
That is an alien petcat camp, A camp designed to
teach you the ways of taking care of pets of
all different in shapes and sizes. You can care for
the pets, you can sometimes ride the pets band. Generally
you just enjoy being around very cute pets. Would you
like to check it out? Ah? Absolutely, you respond, that's
the camp that I want to go to. Very good,
The woman says, Now, will transportation be required? I noticed
you don't have a ship with you this time. Uh, yeah,
you respond, I'm definitely gonna need some way to get there.
Follow me, she says, will take care of the payment.
As the woman walks away, she makes a snapping motion
with her fingers, signaling for other workers to go and
collect the gold. Several people automatically jump to action and
carry case after case of the stuff off into the
back room. You follow the woman through a series of
doors and out onto a gigantic balcony, a balcony that
looks out on the sky. She grabs a hold of
a cord, pulls it a couple times, and a bell sounds.
Your ride should be here soon, she says. You soon
hear a strange noise, a noise that, if you didn't
know better, you'd say with some sort of wail call,
like a kind of high pitched squealing or singing or calling.
But then you see something rather unexpected. A gigantic whale
with a huge platform strapped to its back, floats along
through the air and hovers right beside the platform you're
standing on. There's the shuttle to the pet cab planet.
May I introduce you to Gary the helium whale. You
look at the giant whale and his eye turns towards you.
Then he kind of waves the fin on the one
side to say hello, and makes another one of those
strange whale calls, only this time it sounds kind of happy.
You reluctantly walk over towards the gigantic floating whale with
the platform on its back. The workers place a little
ladder over towards the whale, and you climb up the
thing and then jump onto the large platform on the
whale's back. The whale makes another happy noise and begins
to fly up into the air. You've never ridden on
a helium whale before, mostly because you didn't know they existed,
but you find the ride kind of peaceful. It's certainly
not as fast as an airplane or a spaceship, but
it does travel rather high and the ride is pretty smooth.
You spend the time bathing in the sun, feeling the
breeze against your face. As Gary the helium whale leads
you past a whole bunch of different summer camps until
he finally arrives at the Alien Care camp. As he
descends down towards the camp, you see a beautiful forested
area spotted with all kinds of lakes, and rivers and
full of all sorts of different animals you've never seen before.
Even as you float down through the air, you can
see flying unicorns, griffins, birds, podactyls, and what seemed to
be other types of helium fish just kind of swimming
through the air. The whole site is very, very strange.
Gary lands right beside another cabin or chalet, they lift
another platform up towards you. You climb on top of
it and slide down it almost like a little slide.
Welcome to Alien Pet Camp. A woman says, my name
is Zoya, and I will be your camp counselor. This week,
we seem to only have you and one other student
or camper. I should say this one over here. The
person reaches over and you see a familiar face, your
friend Pip, the shy one from Adventure Camp. Hi, there,
good to see you again, Pip says, good to see
you again. Do what are you doing here? You ask, Well,
I am kind of on a tour of different summer
camps this summer. My parents have to work, and they
send me to these things to keep me busy and well,
hopefully make me more. I don't know how to say it. Adventurous,
I guess, Pip explains, well, I'm certainly glad to see
a familiar face. Now Caaba's Zoya, the camp counselor says,
follow me to your cabins, and then we'll head to
our first destination. As you walk down the path towards
your cabin, to the left of you and to the
right of you, you see all sorts of super cute animals.
Not only are there strange and interesting animals flying through
the air, but there's very fluffy and very cuddly looking
animals walking around on the grounds. You see a particularly
cute looking puppy dog. You kneel down beside it, reach
out your hand, and it moves over and brushes up
against it. Its fur is incredibly smooth, almost silky. Soon
other pets who see how that particular dog is being
treated notice you and want some attention too. It doesn't
take very long until you find yourself surrounded by fluffy cats,
and fluffy dogs and fluffy bunnies of all different kinds. Now, then,
come now, Zoya says, we must get moving. Don't worry,
they'll follow you, and sure enough, as you get up
and continue to follow, Zoya, the camp counselor back towards
the cabin. Some of the puppies and bunnies and kiddies
do decide to follow you. In fact, they follow you
all the way back to the cabin and even inside.
Now this will be our cabin for the time you're here,
Zoya explains, We certainly welcome all pets from the pet
Cab to come and visit. All of them are very
safe and their shots are mostly up to date, so
you probably shouldn't get rabies or anything, though you find
that last comment kind of strange. You find a bunk bed,
throw your stuff into it, and continue to play with
all of the cute dogs and cute cats. Now it's
time for our first activity, Zoya says. Follow me. You
follow Zoya out of the cabin along a path and
down to war It's a large wooded area. Ah first
activity will be one of my favorites. Magical pet riding.
Zoya says. We have a stable of very well trained pets,
flying pets of all different kinds. You will be able
to choose one, saddle one and ride one around. You
walk through the forest until you come across a clearing
with a whole bunch of magical winged animals standing in
front of you. A pagasays, a normal sort of looking
horse with wings, Unicorns also with a horn and wings, griffins,
and some type of super ugly looking teodactyl like creature. Honestly,
you would not get on that thing if you got
paid to do so. You may pick your favorite, the
woman says. You immediately find yourself attracted to the pagasus,
a large winged horse. You walk towards it and hold
out your hand. It presses its nose into you and
then moves closer toward you. Pip, on the other hand,
reluctantly approaches a griffin. The griffin, half bird, half lion
like creature walks towards him and presses its head up
against his hand. Very good, I see you've already made friends.
Next to saddle them up, Zoya leads you to a
bunch of saddles. She helps you grab the saddle, get
it over the pegasus, and tie it on properly. When
all of the animals are saddled up, you Pip and
Zoya climb on top of your own. You on your
flying pegasus, Pip on his flying griffin, and Zoya on
none other than a flying unicorn. Follow me, Zoya says.
She gives the unicorn a couple light kicks, and it
begins to run. It spreads its wings and flaps them powerfully,
shooting her up into the air. Following the example, you
give your own pegasus a little kick and it begins
to run forward, galloping faster and faster before jumping into
the air and spreading its wings. It feels weightless as
the thing finally catches the air, it flaps its wings
more and more, and with each flap it takes you
higher and higher into the air until you find yourself
side by side with Pip gliding above the pet camp.
The place is absolutely amazing. You swoop down over top
of the tree tops and fly past other unicorns, other pegasuses,
other super ugly looking pterodactyls, and a whole bunch of
flying helium filled fish. It's absolutely beautiful. You dip down
a over a lake and your pagasus flies so close
that it dips its foot inside the water. You and
Pip begin taking turns, first you chasing Pip and then
Pip chasing you. You spend a good part of the
afternoon just flying around on the beautiful creatures, looking down
on the beautiful forests and lakes and generally having a
good time. Well, I believe our time is up, Zoya says,
as she swoops down past you. Follow me back to camp.
You follow Zoya back towards the camp area. You land
on the ground and climb off of your pagasus. There's
another person there, though, who looks somewhat familiar. Zoya hands
the person the reins of her unicorn. Well, now, please
give your animals to Jeff here, she says, Jeff is
one of our newer caretakers. You walk towards Jeff and
hand over the reins to your pegasus. But as you do,
you get the best look of the person you can,
because you know that that man is not, in fact,
Jeff as he claims to be. That man is the Zookeeper. Now,
if you haven't listened to every single story inside the
Dad's Bedtime universe, you might not know who the Zookeeper is.
But as a short summary, in some of the past episodes,
he was kind of responsible for well kidnapping gigantic groups
of alien creatures and holding them hostage on his gigantic
spaceship Zoo for alien creatures. When the zookeeper looks towards you,
you quickly turn your head, not wanting to give him
a very good look. Why, thank you, the man says,
I will take care of all of these magical creatures. Yes,
just leave them to me, he says, in an incredibly
sinister way that you can't believe. The camp counselor doesn't
seem to notice. Thank you, Jeff, she says, and then
she leads you away from the area towards the main lodge.
It's time for dinner, after all. The main lodge is
almost an exact replica of the main lodge at Adventure Camp,
full of tables and chairs with a buffet of pretty
much any food you could ever imagine. After gathering your
food and sitting down at the table, you decide you
have to speak up about the zookeeper. Ah, listen, Zoya.
I know this will sound crazy coming from a kid,
but that Jeff guy back there, his name's not Jeff.
I know him from somewhere else. It's kind of a
long story, but essentially, he's an evil zookeeper. You explain
to the best of your ability. You're past with Jeff
defeating him in his various attempts to abduct alien creatures,
and when you're done, Zoya simply says, well, that is
certainly an interesting story, but I assure you the person
you see there is none other than Jeff. We have
a very rigorous criminal records check here on the Summer
cap planet. We would never let through a person as
you describe. Oh, no, I'm sure he looks similar, but
I assure you that is Jeff. For some reason, it
doesn't seem like she's going to acknowledge your concerns. She
seems certain that the vigorous criminal records check is actually
enough to keep the kid safe. But you saw the
man yourself, and you're certain it's the zookeeper. After dinner,
you head back to your cabin. Zoya turns in the
lights and you and Pip lay down to sleep. But
you can't let the zookeeper thing go. Hey, Pip, you say,
I don't know if you believe me, but I'm sure
that that's the zoo keeper, and if it is, none
of those animals are safe. I'm gonna go check it out.
I totally understand if you want to stay here, but
I I, oh, I'll go with you. I can't let
you do that alone, Pip says. So you and Pip
very quietly sneak out the cabin door, sneak past the
counselors and down the forest path to where all of
the magical creatures seem to be kept. You duck behind
some bushes and you gout what's going on. Sure enough,
you see him, the zookeeper, leading some of the pets somewhere.
We have to follow him, you say to Pip. And
you and Pip do exactly that. You follow the zookeeper
down a little path over to a gigantic clearing where
he guides two of the animals, the pegasus and the
griffin that you and Pip had been riding over towards. Uh, nothing,
you guess. Then he reaches out and sort of pokes
at the air, as if he's pressing buttons on a keypad.
A door suddenly opens up out of nowhere, a door
to an invisible ship. Oh no, he's doing the same
thing again. He's gonna take those animals hostage, and we
can't let him, you say, And with that you jump
out of the bushes and whistle as loud as you can.
Hey run, you say to the pagasus and the Griffin.
That man's not nice. The Griffin and Pegasus look at
each other, look at you, and then look at the zookeeper.
What I'm perfectly nice, the zookeeper says. Now go through
the door. The zookeeper tries to pull the two creatures
through the invisible door into what you're certain is another
version of his zookeeper spaceship, but the animals pull back.
You run towards them as quickly as you can. You
jump up in the air straight onto the Pagasus's back,
and Pip does the same thing to the griffin. Come on, buddy,
we have to get out of here, you say, and
with that the Pegasus listens. It rears up on its
hind legs, waves its two front hooves in the air,
and kicks the bad zookeeper deep within his own ship.
Then it turns away and runs the other direction, with
you still riding on its back. The Griffin, along with Pip,
follows closely behind. The two creatures take to the air
and fly back towards the main cabin. You land on
the ground outside the lodge, and the camp counselors all
get up and come to see what happened. You and
Pip quickly tell them the story about the zoo keeper
and how we tried to take the Pegasus and the
Griffin away. Pip backs you up, but the camp counselors,
including Zoya, don't seem to buy it. Well, if this
were true, then all we have to do to be
sure is to ask the animals, did you too see
this too, Zoya says to the Pegasus and the Griffin, Yes,
I can confirm that that is exactly what happened, says
a voice coming from the Pegasus. You're both shocked to
realize that the Pegasus could talk this whole time, and
also still shocked that the camp counselors didn't believe you
in the first place. Well, Zoya says, I I have
to believe this is true. I will call it into
management right away, Zoya says, and then she runs back
into the main lodge dials of phone, and before very
long at all, flying police cars arrive on the scene.
Not very long afterwards, you see the zoo keeper being
carried away in handcuffs. Well, thank you very much for
keeping our camp safe, Zoya says, I'm sorry I didn't
believe you anyways. I will promise you one free camp
on us. Now, that seems like a pretty good idea.
You and Pip make your way back to the cabin
and each of you climbs into your bed. A whole
bunch of very fluffy cats and very fluffy dogs jump
up on the bed with you. You close your eyes,
and as you gently pet one of the creatures, you
focus on your breath. With each breath, your body becomes
more and more relaxed, and slowly you begin to drift
off to dreams of new camps and new adventures to come.
Good night everyone, now, friends, If you don't remember where
we left off last time in the Spaceship Universe, were
sound asleep at a different summer camp, Alien PetCare summer Camp.
You wake up on Alien PetCare summer Camp. You look
around the room and you see that you're absolutely surrounded
by all sorts of adorable puppies and adorable kiddies, and
pretty much all of them want to backscratch. You and
your friend Pip get up out of bed and you
pet as many of the cute little animals as you
possibly can before Pip tells you his news. Oh well,
I guess I'll see a leader, he says, Oh, why
where are you going, You ask, well, you know how
I said, I was kind of on a summer camp tour. Well,
it's time for me to leave this summer camp and
go to one of my favorite summer camps of all time,
Battle Robots Summer Camp. Wait a second, are you telling
me there's a battle robot summer Camp? You say, yeah,
there totally is. Pip explains, you get to work with
artificial inteligence to create and print a battle robot of
your own, Then you train it, and then you battle
it against other battle robots that other kids have created.
I think I might need to go to this summer
camp with you. You respond, You quickly and quietly head over
to the corner of the cabin. You lift up your
wristwatch and press the communication button on it. Spaceship You say, yes.
Spaceship response, can you call the summer camp Planet people
and have me switched to Battle Robots summer Camp? You ask, understood,
It will be done. Spaceship announces, and with that you
and Pip begin to pack up your belongings back into
a large Duffel bag. Then you wave goodbye to your
camp counselor and head back to the pickup area. Sure, enough,
a gigantic floating helium whale with a large platform on
its back is floating just above you, waiting to take
you to the next destination. All right, A voice from
some teenager sitting on the back of the whale says, well,
I'm gonna need the following people. Uh, just climb on
the whale if I call your name. Sure enough, the
kid goes through a list of names, and both you
and Pip are on it. You climb up a long
and large ramp that they've draped onto the helium whale
and sit down on the large platform. Before very long
at all, the whale begins to float into the air
and high above the summer camp planet once again. Once again,
you look off the side of the whale and you
see camp after camp appear below you. Some camps look cold,
some look hot. One seems to be definitely designed for
snowboarding entirely. You're blown away by how many camps they're
actually are on this planet. And what's that down there,
you ask as you point below you. Oh, that's a
trash camp. The teenager in charge of the helium whale says, well,
most people don't really like to go there, but well,
they think it's important to have options for everyone, I guess,
and let me tell you, it certainly beats Slippery Coffee Camp.
Oh man. They once had me stationed at Slippery Coffee Camp,
and I just a bit went insane. Nobody wanted to
be there, so it was just me. I'm all by
myself walking around slipping on coffee. One time I slipped
so badly that I flew into the side of the building.
Luckily it was made of chocolate. But unluckily it was
made of melting chocolate, which is just gilly and sticky,
and it made me slip even more. You just stand
there for a second, staring at the teenager in some
kind of disbelief that the owners of the Summer camp
Planet actually created both of these camps. But you just
shrug your shoulders and move on. All right, We're finally
arriving at Battle Bought Camp, the same teenager announced. Slowly,
the helium whale lowers down over top of what seems
to be a very high tech camp. You look around
at buildings that are almost entirely white and modern and
look really high tech too. Floating around the camp or
a whole bunch of different helper robots or something a
lot like the ones that fly around Spaceship from time
to time. The whole place looks like a marvel of
robotic engineering. Once the ramp is lowered down from the
helium whale, you and Pip climb to the bottom, only
to be greeted by a man wearing well a lab
coat and a high tech eyepiece of some kind. Welcome
to battle Bot Camp. My name is cork Meant. I
will be your camp counselor let me show you around.
You follow Quirk as he leads you down a series
of pathways.
Speaker 3: This is our building and testing center, the place where
our young campers work beside and AI computer system and
design and print a robot of their choice. As you
look through the windows, you see a whole bunch of
different cubicles, each one with a large computer screen and
a large three D printer. Kids are talking to the computer,
typing things and snapping together pieces that come out of
the three D printer and the robots of their own.
Speaker 1: Next up, we have our training center. Here our young
ones train their robots, teaching them how they want them
to respond in all sorts of different scenarios. You raise
your hand, yes, you. The man says, uh, you mean,
we don't have to like program these robots in the
traditional sense. You ask ough prograb them in what traditional sense?
Since the advent of artificial intelligence, the most popular programming
language is well language. Your job is to tell the
computer exactly what you wanted to do, to give the
robot all sorts of scenarios that spell out if some
one else does this, the robot should do that. In fact,
the same goes for creating your robot. There's no need
to draw up designs or test out prototypes. All you
have to do is communicate what you imagine to the
computer in the most detailed way possible. The computer then
takes that information, mixes it together, and shows you how
it's interpreted it. From there, you can have it change
the design or print the design. There's no longer a
need for humans to do the actual constructing that sort
of thing. Their job is simply imagining. Wow, cool, I think,
you respond. Not sure how you feel about this artificial
intelligence stuff after all, but you do decide that it's
probably the only way to actually build, train, and fight
a robot of your own within the span of a
week or less. Now, heading over to a cabin. Your
cabin is almost the same size as every other cabin
you've stayed in, only this one looks like it was
three D printed by a gigantic three D printer. A
bright white little cabin building made with absolute precision. As
you enter the cabin, you see that the inside is
no different, all made out of beautiful, polished white metal,
computer screens and video games all over the place, and
of course, a few helper robots. Would you like us
to gather your things? A robot says, as it flies
up towards you. Uh sure, you say, and you and
Pip hand over your duffel bags. We will take care
of this. Have fun programming your own robot, they say,
And then they bring your duffel bag over to your
bed and begin unpacking it in almost the same way
you would have. Very good. Now that that's completely tie
can take the two of you to the creation zone.
The man leads you back down the path to the
very first building you came across. You enter inside and
pass a whole bunch of different campers, all working with
a large computer screen and creating a robot of their
very own. He leads you and Pip to a station
of your own, a little cubicle off to the very
side of the room. Inside the cubicle is a large
computer screen with a little digital face on it and
a medium sized three D printer of some kind. Now,
I'd like to introduce you to your AI. I believe
this one calls himself Quantum. Nice to meet you, Quantum says, Now,
just a few more things before I go. Number One,
you can have as long as you need to create
your robot. There are different battle competitions on different days,
and you can join at almost any time. Second, well,
there are many pretty deadly things that you could possibly
build into a robot. Some people are excited about that, well,
others are apprehensive, with good reason, of course. As a
the result of that and of course insurance companies, all
robots programmed here will have a built in system that
only allows them to use their weapons and gadgets against
other robots. That means that you can go as wild
as you like with the building of weapons and gadgets
and not be afraid of hurting anyone. And last, but
certainly not least, when your robot is done being built,
you can take it over to the training area. There
are all sorts of practice robots to battle. There all
sorts of different rooms and all sorts of different countermeasures
that you can use to train your robot how to
respond to others. If after training you are not happy
with your robot design, feel free to come back here
and make some tweaks as long as you're done by
the time you're ready to battle. I have no complaints,
And unlike other summer camps, there are no other activities.
You build your robot and you like it. You know
where the cabin is if you need a sleep, and
the kitchens are over there if you need something to eat, Now,
farewell and good building er. Call me if you need anything.
The man waves goodbye and just walks away. Well, folks,
are you ready to work together and build one of
the best battle robots the world has ever seen? Quantum
masks You turn back towards the computer. Then you look
at PIP. I think we are, you say, and so
you begin telling Quantum all sorts of different ideas for
a battle robot. I think it's gonna need like a
giant blade that spins around and you know, comes out
of the robot at the front. You say, yeah, And
maybe like something that can flip other robots that just
like goes underneath them and flips upward. Pip suggests, Oh,
and can you can you add like a shock ray
or something like that? You say, Oh, and like, we
totally need a freeze ray doo and a heat ray.
You and Pip continue to go through a list of
different crazy weapons and devices that you plan to have
your robot use, and Quantum continues to take note, I
have mocked up what I believe the robot could look like,
Quantum says, and a picture generates on the computer, a
picture of a large, square robot with big wheels and
a whole bunch of different devices sticking out of it,
a saw blade, a whole bunch of different ray guns,
that sort of thing. I can't help but think it
looks just kind of like an everyday battle robot, you say,
as you look around the room at everyone else's boxy
robot designs. Yeah, Pip says, but maybe it's what we
should go with, maybe, you say, or maybe Quantum, do
you have the ability to create transforming robot parts? You ask,
what exactly are you thinking? Well, what if our little
boxy robot was just what everyone saw it first? I
mean sure, it'll be pretty capable with that saw and
those ray guns and stuff on it. But if that
doesn't work, what if it transforms into a like a
humanoid looking robot and just picks up the other robots
and throws them. You suggest analyzing idea now, Quantum says,
I believe your idea could have a lot of merit.
You are correct in thinking that most people who build
robots build a design similar to your first one. Humanoid
robots are extremely rare, and transforming robots. Well, I'm not
sure anyone has suggested that before. Can I add to
the design, Pip says shyly, Of course you can, Pip,
Quantum says, what did you have in mind? Well, back
on adventure Camp, we kind of got these memories of ninjas,
and I was kind of thinking, like, what if the
robot transforms into like a Ninja bot with all sorts
of different swords and throwing stars, and then we could
train it in ninjits it as well. That is an
awesome idea, Pip, you say, Quantum, what do you think.
I believe it could be done. However, our printing time
may take a little while. Before long, Quantum mocks up
a picture of the Ninja robot. You and Pip make
a few different adjustments until the robot looks exactly like
you'd expect a ninja robot to look, all black, metallic
mask and covered from head to toe with all sorts
of different ninja weapons. When you and Pip are completely satisfied,
Quantum begins to build the parts one by one, and
part by part, you and Pip begin to snap them
all together. It takes a couple of days to actually
finish the robot completely, but soon you have a fully
built Ninja robot that transforms into a little boxy robot.
All right, you say to the robot, Are you there?
You ask, yes, I am here. The robot responds, what
are your orders? Well, first let's see if you can transform,
you suggest, understood. The robot responds, and then quickly transforms
into a little boxy robot with a bunch of robotic
arms sticking up out of it, some of them with
ray guns, some of them with blades, one of them
with a gigantic spinning saw blade. All right, perfect, Now,
I think it might be time to train, you suggest,
So you and Pip take your little robot Ninja about
three thousand as you've decided to call it, and you
go to the training area. You start by battling some
of the practice robots, little robots designed for this sort
of thing. When the first robot runs at Ninjabot three thousand,
the bot doesn't seem to know what to do. The
other robot slams into it head first, and your robot
just kind of stands there. All right, robot, your goal
is to try to avoid the other robot and then
strike back against it with one of your own weapons,
You say, understood, Ninjabot three thousand replies. This time, when
the other robot comes towards it, it spins its wheels,
turns out of the way, and slams down on the
other robot with the giant spinning sob blade, sparks fly everywhere,
and the other robot just kind of collapses completely broken.
Ah yeah, more like that, you say. And then you
and Pip get another battle robot, and another, and another
and another. Each one attacks your robot in slightly different ways,
with slightly different mechanical devices and techniques. Each time you
see a new technique, you give ninjabad three thousand a
little coaching session, telling it how it probably should have
moved away and how it should counterattack understood, Ninjabad three
thousand responds every single time, and then it does exactly
what you say. When you're done with ground training with
Ninjabud's boxy form, you have Ninjabod transform into its ninja form,
and from there you decide to train it in the
ways of ninjitsu. Now. Luckily, in case you haven't you know,
listen to the first Summer Camp Planet episodes. You and
Bip have downloaded the memories of many different ninjas directly
into your brains. These memories come in very handy as
you train the robot in just the way whoever had
the memories trained themselves. You teach it to block, you
teach it to strike, you teach it to dodge to
the side, and of course you teach it how to
jump through the air and do perfect front flips and backflips,
something every ninja needs to know how to do. After
a few days of this, the Ninjabod is picked up
every single move you could think to teach it, and
there's nothing left but to join a battle. A robot battle.
You have the Ninjabod shrink back down into its original
size and you walk it towards the signup table. Alright,
so we're gonna enter your what did you call it,
Ninjabot three thousand, I believe, into the next competition, which
we'll be starting in five minutes. Please go stand over
there with your robot. Someone will tell you when it's
your turn to battle. So you move towards where the
person told you to stand, and you wait. You wait
until before very long at all, there's a little announcement
and a series of curtains lift up towards the ceiling,
revealing a gigantic protected robot fighting ring in the center.
Ladies and gentle men, people of all ages, Welcome to
the six hundred and fifty fourth robot competition of the day.
Today we have ninjabout three thousand competing against the Crusher.
The crowd goes wild. You look around to see that
the crowd is actually made up of a bunch of robots,
though human looking robots, who seem designed to just watch
the competitions and cheer in excitement. What else did you expect, anyways,
like a whole bunch of humans just sitting around all day. Anyways,
the doors opened and the two robots wheel in the
announcer counts down from three two one and announces begin.
As soon as he says that, the other robot comes
running towards Ninjabad three thousand with two gigantic hammers on
two gigantic robot arms. One hammer lifts up into the air,
slams down, but luckily, Ninjabad three thousand spins to the side,
lifts up its saw blade and cuts directly through the
other robot, blowing it into a whole bunch of pieces.
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we have a winner. You
advance to the semi finals, where you take on yet
another robot, this one designed a lot like yours, with
a whole bunch of flying sob blades. After battling it
out for a little while in its normal form, Ninjabad
three thousand decides to suddenly transform. It jumps up in
the air, transforms into a ninja, and draws several katanas
at the same time. It takes a perfect ninja fighting stance,
and as the other robot attacks, it slices through the
robot arms with ease, and then well, it slices the
robot in half as well. Ladies and gentlemen, I believe
we have a winner again, Ninjabot three thousand will go
on to the finals against let's see here, uh Rex Junior.
I believe is what it says. Little flying robots fly
into the battle area, pick up the broken pieces of robot,
and fly away. Then the door opens on the other side,
and into the arena walks well medium sized, fully mechanical
Terranosaurus robot. A spotlight appears on his programmer, and you
find yourself staring at none other than well Rex, but
Rex as a kid kid Rex. Hey, you say, are you?
Are you Rex? Well, the dinosaur like creature respect bonds,
I see you've heard of me before. Well, I am Rex,
and I'm not Rex technically, I'm a Rex clone, a
Rex clone that never grew to maturity. Well, all of
the other Rex clones got to become adults right away
and then go off into the universe and cose havoc.
My development was cut a little bit short, ah, a
little bit young, I should say. So, Rex just put
me here on the summer camp planet, saying it was
the perfect battle ground for an evil genius to grow up.
I didn't know what he was talking about until I
started discovering camps like this one. Camps that allow me
to create things like this. With that, the robotic Tarannosaurus
roars and breathes out a huge plume of fire. Luckily,
Ninjabod three thousand ducks out of the way, then jumps
up into the air with two katanas in hand and
attempts to cut the other robot into pieces. But just
before it can strike, the other tarannosaurus spins around in
a circle and sweeps Ninjabod using its tail. Ninjabod falls
directly onto its back, and the Tarannosaurus jumps up into
the air, opens both of its claws and attacks Ninjabod
with every pound of biting force it can. Luckily, Ninjabod
sticks his swords up in time and catches either side
of the Tarannosaurus's mouth. The Tarannosaurus chomps directly through them
and goes back for the bot. The bod moves to
the side and the Tarannosaurus smashes into the ground. Then
it lifts up its head again and attempts to eat
Ninjabod once again. Once again, Ninjabod sneaks to the side
and pushes the dinosaur into the ground. He shrimps out
from below the dinosaur creature and jumps on top of
its back. The Tarannosaurus starts to move around quickly, trying
to shake the ninjabod off of its back, but the
ninjabud holds on as tightly as it can, spinning around
in circles, crashing up against the side of the cage.
As it slams up against the side of the cage,
you notice something just below the neck of the bot,
A little slot where a wire is visible. Ninjabot, you say,
I think I see a weak spot on the back
of its neck. Ninjabot nods in confirmation and looks at
the spot you're talking about. It lifts up its hand
into a perfect karate chop shape, and well, it chops
the Taranosaurus as hard as it possibly can, breaking apart
its steel and breaking open a big enough slit to
rip out the wires. The ninjabod yanks a series of
wires out, and the Tarannosaurus robot begins to spark and
sputter and move around in an even crazier fashion. Ninjabad
three thousand jumps off, and the Tarannosaurus bod runs into
the wall, falls over on its side, and then falls
apart completely. A man not again, minnie Rex says, as
he immediately turns around and leaves the battle area. Ladies
and gentlemen, I would like to announce the winner of
this particular competition. I give to you Ninjabot three thousand.
The crowd of robots once again cheers as loudly as
they can. The door to the battle arena opens up,
and Ninjabad three thousand walks out. Good job, buddy, you
say thank you, Ninjabad says. Together, you, Pip and Ninjabad
walk back to the cabin. After days upon days of
building a robot, A good night's sleep sounds even better
than ever. Ninjabad transforms back into his little boxy shape,
and you and Pip climb into your beds. You pull
the covers up to your chin, close your eyes and
begin to imagine every muscle in your body just releasing
all tension and sinking down deeper and deeper into the mattress.
And with each breath you sink a little more, and
your mind starts to wander off to thoughts of new
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