Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's bedtime stories. Tonight,
we're headed back into the Spaceship universe for a story
based on a suggestion I'll play in just a second.
If you've never listened to any episodes from the Spaceship Universe,
that's completely fine, because all you have to know is
that you're a kid who has a magical spaceship that
can do just about anything and go just about anywhere. Now,
let's check out the suggestion for today.
Speaker 2: Hi, Martin, my name's McKenna and I'm from a Lastika,
and I would like a story about a crystal planet
where you go to a planet and it has a
bunch of crystals and like the crystals, they have like
different powers or they can do different things, Like if
you see a green crystal with like a brown base,
it can grow grass wherever you take it. So stuff
like that. I love your podcast. Thank you so.
Speaker 1: Much by great idea. McKenna from Alaska. I think that's
something that a lot of other people in our audience
will like too.
Speaker 3: Before we get started.
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are working to make sure that gets corrected. Last, I
just want to give a big shout out to everyone
who's sending.
Speaker 3: Me mostly pictures.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have sent me some really cool
pictures and drawings that they've done. I appreciate that a
lot and a few people have sent me some story ideas.
So we're going all the way till I think I
said about June fifteenth for this contest, or these two contests,
the picture contest and the story writing contest. So if
you have a great story that you think would make
a great episode of the show, you can send it
to dadt Bedtime Stories at gmail dot com. Or if
you have some artwork you just want to share with me,
you can send it to the same address. But now
it's that time again. Time to get as comfy as
you can in that bed, close your eyes and imagine
yourself doing what the kid in the story does. Imagine
yourself waking up on spaceship. It turns out you fell
asleep on the couch again. You get up, swing your
legs over the side, and stretch your arms up in
the air. Ugh, good boarding, spaceship. Eh find anything interesting
while I was sleeping? Yes, indeed I did. I have
discovered a crystal planet. Oh like power crystals? You ask, uh,
the ones that power the ship? Perhaps spaceship answers. There
are some signs of very powerful crystals. However, my scans
indicate that many of these crystals are a little bit different,
different in a good way or different in a bad way.
You ask, that certainly depends on how you look at it,
Spaceship answers. My scans show that the crystals appear to
interact with living biology. Simulations suggest that each type of
crystal on this planet may enhance a different ability of
the human body. You slowly turn towards the ship. Oh,
what do you mean, enhance the human body, like give
me magical powers or something like that, perhaps, Spaceship answers,
I mean that they temporarily enhance your connection to certain
forms of energy, motion, matter, or other special forces. So superpowers,
you say, yes, superpowers. Well, Spaceship, I think it's time
to set a course for that planet. Understood, setting course Now,
Spaceship turns a little bit to the right and heads
a little bit up from your current path, then jumps
to super hyper drive. After a short trip through a
wormhole like tunnel at incredible speed, the ship comes to
a step directly above a planet that is definitely definitely
made of crystals. In fact, from far away, the planet
looks kind of like a decoration made by a toddler
that got a hold of one of those bejeweling devices
or whatever they're called. It's very sparkly everything, sparkly. Forests
glitter like glass, mountains, sparkle in all different colors. There's
long rivers that look like there are shiny crystals floating
on their surface.
Speaker 3: The whole thing.
Speaker 1: Is incredibly colorful, blue, green, gold, purple, everything just sort
of glittering in the sunlight. You jump into the command
chair and grab a hold of the joystick, steering the
ship down towards the planet. You soon find yourself gliding
over a valley filled with enormous crystal towers. Some are
red and sharp, some are yellow and bright, some are
blue and as clear as water. Others are green, white, orange,
and purple, all glowing softly, as if the planet itself
was powered or something. Spaceship lands on a flat silver
plain between several crystal fields of all different colors. The
back door opens up and you head down the ramp
and take a step onto the crystally ground. When you
step down, there's sort of a little musical jing that
plays beneath your feet. The air smells clean and cool
and changer. Your well. Shape shifting dog, currently in the
form of a earth puppy, jumps out behind you, running
around on the surface of the planet and transforming into
several different creatures before landing on a bird. The bird
floats over and lands atop a red crystal. A scanning
beam of bright blue shines out over the different colors
of crystals. The red crystals appear to be linked to
something akin to physical force, Spaceship says, possibly increasing your strength.
Is it safe to try out? You ask?
Speaker 3: It's as safe.
Speaker 1: As any other thing I've allowed you to do over
these many advents. Spaceship answers. You take a second to
think about that. Spaceship's never led you fully astray or
anything like that, so it's probably pretty safe. You walk
over to one of the smaller red crystals. It's about
the size of your hand, and it's glowing warmly. You
touch it with one finger and for a second nothing happens.
Then your whole body feels like it's full of thunder.
Speaker 3: You say.
Speaker 1: The crystal flashes, and a red glow runs up your
arm and spreads across your entire body. How do you feel,
Spaceship asks, I feel strong, You answer to what degree.
You look around and find a boulder sitting between some
of the chris one about the size of a small car. Huh,
let's find out, you say. You walk over towards the boulder.
You grab it with your hands, which somehow break into
the side of it, as if it's made out of
foam or something. You lift it up so easily that
you almost throw it up over your head by accident. Oho,
you say, trying to get a hold of the boulder
up over top of your head. Careful, Spaceship says, make
gentle movements. Your muscles are amplifying force approximately forty times
the normal amount. You carefully raise the boulder up, getting
a balance for it. This is amazing. Then you pull
it back behind you and throw it as hard and
as far as you can. You figure it'll only go
a few feet, but instead it sails across the valley
like a cannon ball, and then smashes into one of
the crystal hills, sending sparkles and well little broken pieces
of crystal everywhere.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Oops, You say that was rather destructive, Spaceship says, I
only meant to throw it a few feet. You threw
it approximately four hundred feet. Well, I guess I don't
know my own strength yet. Sorry, you'll be more careful.
I'm still learning. The red glow slowly fades away from
your body and disappears. At least we know that this
crystal is definitely the strength you say, Confirmed, Spaceship says,
let's use a higher level of caution next time.
Speaker 3: How fine.
Speaker 1: Next you turn over to one of the yellow crystals.
It's tall and thin, with some sort of light racing
inside of it, like little tiny lightning bolts. This field
appears connected to that of motion, speed, reaction, time, that
sort of thing. You reach out and touch the crystal,
and the world suddenly starts to stretch around you. The
wind stops, changers, little bird tail stops moving, or just
about stops moving. You realize that the world hasn't actually
slowed down. You have sped up. You take one step
and nearly launch across the field. Your feet blur beneath you.
You run in a circle around Spaceship so fast that
well you can only see yourself as a streak reflected
in the silver hall. Careful Spaceship eventually says, very slowly
and deeply.
Speaker 5: You.
Speaker 1: Are moving at you zip up a crystal hill, down
the other side, around a crystal blue lake, past a
row of green crystals, and back again. Before Spaceship can
even finish his sentence, danger iscity, I'm fine, you shout,
but out to Spaceship, your voice only comes out as
a squeaky streak of sound. Changer, looking at all of
the fun you're having, flies down off of the red
crystal and lands on the yellow one. A streak of
yellow power passes through him, and he almost instantly transforms
back into a dog and then zips over beside you.
The two of you race around in circles for a
few minutes before the yellow glow starts to fade and
you start to go back to normal speed, which feels
incredibly slow now. Next you turn towards a pale blue
crystal that's hovering a few inches above the ground, which
makes you think that it might have some connection to flight.
This one appears connected to gravity, Spaceship says, lift balance,
vertical movement a flight crystal. You quickly place your hand
on it, and Changer runs over and does the same.
Blue white energy curls around your body as well as Changers,
and you soon find yourself lifting up off of the
ground and floating in place. For a perfect second, you
just hover there peacefully. Then with a simple thought, you
shoot upwards. You blast through the air like a rocket,
and Changer chases after you, transforming himself into a long, thin,
dragon like creature. The crystal planet drops beneath you as
you bounce around left and right, flying between mountains over
top of hills, before eventually slowly running out of power
and drifting downwards, falling at a very safe pace towards
the ground. You're thankful that the flight crystal doesn't just
sort of immediately run out of energy. The blue streaks
of power leave your body and Changer lands beside you.
Then look over to the last crystal that you can
see nearby. It's green with a little bit of brown
on the bottom. Oh, what do you think that one is, spaceship,
you ask, I believe that this power field appears connected
to organic growth. Though on this planet, life and crystal
structures seem to be blended together, so like a nature crystal,
it'll give me the power to grow things out of
the ground by simply thinking about it. Possibly, there is
only one way to try it out. You place your
hand on the green crystal and warmth spreads through your
body as well as a strange green glow. The ground
beneath your feet starts to sort of tremble, and a
tiny green sprout pushes up through the crystal floor, then another,
and then ten more. Crystal grass grows in a circle
around you, glowing the same color as an emerald. A
small tree rises from the ground, and a whole bunch
of vines shoot up. You lift your hands up and
well you feel a sort of connection to them again,
to will the trees and vines to grow up and
over and around in any direction you like, and to
your surprise, they follow.
Speaker 5: You.
Speaker 1: Focus down on the ground below you, and imagine a
tree shooting up beneath you. It starts as a sprout,
gets larger and larger, wraps itself around your feet, and
then lifts you up into the air, high above the
crystal planet. The tree continues to shoot up and out
until all of the crystal is now surrounded by patches
of green grass, beautiful large trees, and a whole bunch
of vines. Changer swings around beside you, transformed into a
monkey and having the time of his life, swinging from
vine to vine He must have touched one of the
green crystals too, because he has that sort of glow
about him, and because the vines themselves seem to reach
out to grab him just as much as he reaches
out to hold.
Speaker 3: On to them.
Speaker 1: Before long, the green glow fades as well, but the
trees and plants you've grown seem to stay where they are.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 1: We can like transform this entire planet if we want to,
you say. And then a shadow passes over the crystal valley.
You look up and see a dark ship dropping down
through the clouds. It's shaped like a jagged metal t
Rex head. It lands in the front hatch, opens up,
a ramp lowers down and down the ramp stomps Rex
or a Rex clone, in case you don't know Rex,
or well, Rex's clones anyways, are some of your biggest nemeses.
Rex is an evolved t Rex, which means he's smarter
than a normal dinosaur and in fact, smarter than a
normal human. Only this time, instead of wearing his normal
white scientist robes, he's wearing some sort of power armor.
Well well, well, Rex says, trying out new powers without
inviting me. You fold your arms, Rex, changer starts to
growl and transforms into a much larger and scarier looking dog.
What are you doing here, you ask? Rex gestures behind him.
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 1: I'm doing what I always do, bringing you a little
bit of excitement. He gestures behind him, and a dozen
robots i'll shaped like t rexes begin to march down
the ramp, Then another dozen, and then several more. Rex,
why did you bring an army.
Speaker 3: Of robots to this peaceful crystal.
Speaker 1: Planet, you ask, Well, it could be for science, or
for adventure, or for a thrilling opportunity. Need to test
your new powers in a dramatic and exciting way. You
stand still for a second. I didn't ask you to
do that, though, well you may not have asked, but hm,
I think somewhere deep down inside you truly enjoy the excitement.
Rex makes a gesture and the robots charged towards you.
You leap back as the first one swings a metal fist,
and you instantly place your hand on one of the
red crystals. A strange red glow, accompanied by an incredible
feeling of strength, blasts through your body. A robot grabs
for your arm, but you grab its arm instead. You
spin and throw it at two of the other They
crash together in a shower of sparks. Another robot fires
a net. You grab a chunk of crystal from the
ground and throw it towards the approaching net as hard
as you can. The crystal sends the net flying in
the opposite direction and straight into the robot who shot
the thing at you. It causes the robot to almost
immediately explode in a shower of little metal bits and
well sparks, which is honestly pretty satisfying. You hear Rex
clapping in the background. Excellent, very entertaining. This is not
for your entertainment, you yell back, then, why is it
so entertaining? The red glow fades just as flying robots
roar overhead to one of the light blue crystals. Energy
passes through your body and lifts you up into the air.
You shoot upwards, this time with a little more control
than you add the first time you tried flying. The
flying robots turned towards you with their wings buzzing. One
fires a blast, but you simply roll sideways. Another dives
towards you, and you just flip over it and kick
it down towards the ground. You stretch your arms and
fly faster, weaving between robots and well skillfully causing them
to bump into one another. You move out of the
way at the last second, forcing two of them to
collide and explode in a whole bunch of metal pieces
and sparks. Once again, you lure another to follow behind you,
and then turn upward at the last second before crashing
into a crystal mountain. The robots, luckily, are not as
quick to change directions. The result is an explosion of
crystal as the robot blasts into the thing. One by one,
You out maneuver the flight robots until they're pretty much
just a giant pile of broken robot bits on the ground. Uh,
your robots aren't very good at corners, you call out
to Rex. Perhaps not, Let's see how you deal with
these ones. More robots start to march out of Rex's spaceship,
only these ones are huge. Four of them start to
march straight towards spaceship, each one care a glowing drill
of some kind. Oh no, you don't, you say. You
land near one of the yellow crystals and place your
hand on it. Speed in a strange yellow glow pass
throughout your body.
Speaker 3: The world slows again.
Speaker 1: The drill robots stomp forward like they're moving at super
slow speed.
Speaker 3: You race around them and.
Speaker 1: Begin yanking wires out, unplugging anything you can find, and
breaking apart anything that looks particularly breakable. You find that
moving at this speed makes everything rather breakable. As you
allow time to catch up, all four robots take one
more step before immediately falling over and exploding. That was
very efficient, spaceship says. You give a little bow. You
hear a strange booming noise and look up to see
a huge net being fired from Rex's ship. It spreads
across the sky and begins to crackle with electricity. You
try to dodge, but the nets too wide and the
speed power drains out of your body. You see a
green crystal next to you, so you reach out and
touch it. The powers of the crystal pass through your body,
and you use your mind to reach out towards the
planet once again. A forest answers. Crystal vines burst from
the ground and shoot upward. They catch the net before
it lands and wrap around it, pulling it tight and
dragging it away from you. More vine surge across the battlefield,
curling around the legs and arms and wheels and weapons
of the remaining robots, before tightening and crushing them into pieces.
With the last of the robots defeated, you turn back
towards Rex. Well, I guess that's it for your robots.
Any more surprises you'd like to share with me?
Speaker 3: You ask.
Speaker 1: Rex reaches behind his back. Well, there is one, you see.
I have been exploring the crystal planet longer than you have,
and as much as it was a blast to have superpower,
super strength, super speed and flight, of course I happened
to cross an other kind of crystal. Rex holds a
glowing purple crystal in front of himself. The purple power
spreads through his body.
Speaker 3: And then a blast.
Speaker 1: Of strange purple energy shoots from his body towards you.
Your body suddenly starts to feel very tired. Some sort
of psychic message passes through your mind and tells you
that it's time to sleep. It becomes harder and harder
to hold your eyes open, and eventually there's nothing you
can do about it. Your eyes close, You fall to
the ground and begin to snore. Before long, still feeling
pretty groggy, your eyes slowly open again. You look across
from you, and you see Changer lifting his head up
off of the ground as well, and Spaceship sitting there
in the distance. Good, you are finally awake. Spaceship says,
what happened?
Speaker 3: You ask?
Speaker 1: It would seem that Rex used some sort of psychic
power from the purple crystal he discovered and caused you
to fall asleep. Luckily, he only used the time to
get away once again. Why didn't you stop him?
Speaker 3: You ask?
Speaker 1: The purple crystal seemed to have some sort of effect
on me as well. I was unable to respond for
a short period of time. Since then, I have been
monitoring you, Changers to ensure your vital signs stayed stable. Ugh, thanks,
I guess. You pick yourself up off of the ground,
still feeling incredibly tired, and you walk over towards the ship,
up the ramp and straight down onto the couch. Changer
curls up on the ground beside you, and you close
your eyes as you hear the ship lift up off
of the ground. Whatever that purple well psychic crystal was,
it's left you feeling very very sleepy. You will allow
your eyes to close and you simply focus on your breath,
noticing your stomach rising and falling as your mind slow
these starts to drift off to a nice deep sleep
once again, and your mind ventures off to thoughts of
new dreams, new adventures, and new power crystals to come.
Good night, everyone, never.
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