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's episode is about something that's been on my mind lately.
As many of you know, I live in Ontario, Canada,
and if you've been watching the news or possibly have
been impacted by poor air quality due to a whole
bunch of fire smoke coming from Canada, then you know
that there's a whole bunch of forest fires in Canada
right now. I have even had people from Australia, the US,
and the UK reach out to make sure I'm okay
and staying away from the fires. So I'd like to
start by assuring everyone that I'm actually very far from them.
Ontario is really, really big. It's about twice the size
of Texas, and most of the fires are pretty far
northwest of where I am, so you don't have to
worry about me, but you know I am worried about
many people who are a lot closer to them and
who have been impacted by those fires. And yeah, I
don't know if I have any listeners up there, but
if I do, I'm really thinking about you guys. I
hope everything's Okay. Tonight's episode is certainly sort of a
fantasy based episode, asking the question of, you know, if
we really did have a magical spaceship or other powers
from the podcast, how would we possibly help in this situation?
And well, in reality, there are no magical solutions in
the podcast, there are and hopefully it doesn't hurt anything
to use our imaginations and you know, imagine ourselves helping out.
So that's what we're going to do tonight, and we
are going to open up the story verse and bring
in different versions of you from a whole bunch of
different universes. Spaceship, Dragon Knights, Kid Wizard, I haven't seen
Kid Wizard in a while, Quantum, and who knows what else.
Before we do that, there's just a few shoutouts. I
want to give, first of all, shout out to all
of the firefighters and personnel who are actually working on
fighting these fires. I'm sure many of you have you
left your families to go off and battle these things,
and that's really really appreciated. I'm honestly not sure if
I have any listeners who have firefighting family members, but
we're thinking about you if we do. I also want
to give a few shoutouts to some new Patreon people here.
First of all, thank you to THEO from Grant's or
again for signing up to Patreon. I really really appreciate that.
And next up, thank you to Caden and Skuyler for
supporting me on Patreon as well. All of your support
keeps the podcast alive and it's really really appreciated. But
now it's time to get onto the story. After a
possible word from a possible sponsor. If you're not listening
on Patreon, of course, close your eyes, get as comfy
as you can in that bed, and imagine yourself doing
what the kid in the story does. Imagine yourself waking
up on spaceship alert Alert Alert alert. Huh what is it, spaceship,
you say, as you sit up in your bed and
swing your legs over the side. I ambracive important news
from Earth. It seems that Canada is experiencing a major
wildfire season. As of today, nine hundred and fifty active
wildfires are burning across the country. Many of them have
spread across the vast boreal forest. Some provinces, such as Ontario,
have been hit particularly hard, though there are fires in
many provinces. Ah that doesn't sound good. Anything we can
do to help, I believe so. Setting a course now,
instant transportation systems activated. In the blink of an eye,
spaceship disappears from where it was in space and reappears
high above the earth over top of North America. You
sit down in the pilot's seat and well carefully steer
the ship through the atmosphere below the clouds until you
see huge plumes of smoke and fire rising up from
the ground. The fires look huge. How can we help
with something like this? And how did this even start?
You ask? Well to answer your second question. First, most
of the fires have started by lightning, a natural occurrence,
though some have been caused by people. In answer to
your first question, on top of our advanced technology, we
have the ability to mimic other firefighting equipment. I thought
it could be a good idea to learn some of
the options. The main display lights up with a number
of different blueprints. Option one heavy lift firefighting helicopter. These
machines are very precise. You can scoop water from almost
any nearby lake or river and drop it exactly where needed.
The downside is you carry much less water than the
airplane equivalents, so many trips are needed. The helicopter disappears
from the display and is replaced by a sleek, twin
engine airplane. Option two the air tractor water bomber. Fast,
agile and excellent for smaller fires or protecting individual buildings.
It carries more water than the helicopter, but less than
larger bombers. The ship disappears and is replaced by a
larger one. A huge red and white aircraft glides into view.
Option three the Canadair CL four one five, one of
the world's most famous water bombers. Designed in Canada. It
is capable of skimming across the surface of a lake,
scooping up thousands of leaders of water in only about
twelve seconds, and being back over the fire moments later.
It is larger than other aircraft and needs bigger lakes
and more room to maneuver, but when it comes to
fighting large forest fires it is one of the best
machine ever built. The plane disappears from the screen and
is replaced by another enormous aircraft. Option four a large
air tanker. Air tankers carry huge amounts of fire retardant.
This slows the spread of flames instead of putting them
out directly. Very effective for building protective lines of fire. However,
you must return to an airport to reload. Water cannot
be scooped from lakes. All those all look pretty cool,
but it seems to me that the COL four fifteen
is the right choice. I believe you are correct transformation initiated.
What do you mean transformation, you ask, as the entire
spaceship starts to glow around round you slowly and starts
to change shape. Huge wings stretch out to the sides,
wings with very large propellers. Before long, you find yourself
sitting in well a high tech equivalent of the CL
four fifteen, almost a mix between your spaceship and this
particular aircraft. Now, in order to help fight the fires,
we will need to start by scooping up some water.
I have located a nearby lake that should be large enough,
spaceship says, displaying a lake on the map ahead of you.
You grab a hold of the controls and carefully steer
the plane down into the right until you see the
lake directly in front of you. Now the goal is
to scoop the water up. No need to lose major momentum.
I will open the water airtakes when needed. You carefully
fly down towards the lake. As soon as you pass
the layer of trees, you drop lower and lower until
the airplane begins to skim the surface of the water.
Water intakes opening ten percent, twenty thirty, forty fifty, sixty,
seventy eighty ninety one hundred percent, closing water intake, pull
ship up. You pull back on the steering weel, and
the ship lifts up off of the water again. All right,
now what you add? Ask? Now we put out some flames.
I have put a suggested path on the map. The
goal is to whet the area just in front of
the active flames in order to slow the fire. Warning
there are other aircraft active in this area. Careful, I
will take care of communication with the other aircraft and
ensure we are coordinating appropriately. Simply follow my direction. You
follow the arrow on the map to the exact area
where spaceship wants you to drop the water. Hit the
button on my mark three two one drop. You hit
a button on the controls, and suddenly thousands of leaders
of water from the belly of the plane, putting out
some of the flames below and while instantly soaking the
area ahead. Very good. Now we must repeat many many times.
You carefully circle the plane around, baim for the water again,
and repeat the same process, diving down to skim the
surface of the water, filling the tanks, pulling up and
dropping the water ahead of the fire. At the same time,
you see other planes and helicopters doing the same. Clearly,
what you're doing is putting a big dent in the fire,
getting it under control. However, the fire's just so incredibly big,
almost unfathomably large, Spaceship, I don't feel like we're doing enough.
This is working, but it's not working as fast as
i'd like. That is an excellent observation. Perhaps we could
use some additional help. Okay, what exactly do you have
in mind? Well? I have been skimming the multiverse for
different versions of you. While some of them are completely
useless for fighting fires, others prove very useful. A surprising
number of versions of you have access to dragons. For instance, Really,
there's versions of me that have dragons. Yes. For example,
on an Earth that I have labeled dragon Knight Earth,
there is a version of you who found a small
elemental dragon hatchling. The dragon is capable of controlling all
different elements, including water and fire. Uh okay, well that
could be useful. How will we get them or me here?
You ask? I will simply modify the ship's portal to
interface with other universes. I have done it before. All right, Well,
any other useful versions of me out there? Yes? Several?
In another universe one I believe you have interacted with before,
one I label the Cards of Power Universe. You have
access to a number of powerful cards, each one containing
a creature, sure or power. Many of these would be
quite useful for fighting fires. Okay, well that's a good option.
What else you got in another version? One I call
kid Wizard? You the kid Wizard are capable of various
different magical abilities. I believe you would be quite useful here.
All right, perfect, pencil that one into any anything else? Yes,
there is one more version of you that I believe
would be useful in this scenario. In the quantum universe,
there is a version of you that came into contact
with a quantum computer rather than a spaceship. This computer
was capable of building all sorts of different contraptions from
all sorts of different universes. You have developed a large
number of high tech gadgets and technology that I believe
could be used here. All right, well, what are we
waiting for? You ask, very good question. I believe, however,
we will need slightly more room. The ship pulls up
into the air, high above the clouds, and well begins
to transform again. The ship does something that a normal
Canadian water bomber can't do. The wings tilt upward, the
propellers expand into what can only be considered well small
helicopter blades, and the ship starts to hover. Then the
entire thing starts to glow a bright blue color, and
well grow larger and larger until the back of the
ship has a very very large cargo area. A slot
in the bottom of the ship slides open, and a
huge circular portal pops up out of it. The portal
lights up first a blue color, the one you're used
to before, transforming into more of a kind of purple. Then,
one by one, different versions of use step out. The
first one is wearing some kind of armor armor with
multiple colored different veins coursing through it. The individual looks
exactly like you, though possibly a little more battle weary,
and just behind This particular version of you steps a
gigantic black dragon with veins of all different colors as well. Hi,
you say, Hi. The other version of you replies, oh,
Hi there, The dragon says, I was told we were
coming to help with some sort of fire or something.
I love doing that. The dragon, whose name is apparently Ellie, says.
The force field flashes and another version of you steps out,
a version wearing well clothes that look kind of old timy,
kind of like a tunic, And this version has a
little black dragonling sitting on its shoulder. A. Hey, we're
here to help fight the fire. We in the right place.
The dragon ling says, yeah, just step over there, you suggest.
The portal flashes again, and out of its steps or
flies another version of you, only this one is standing
atop what looks to be a floating skateboard and carrying
a large wizard staff in their hand. Hi, if you're
here to fight the fire, you're in the right place.
Just move along over there, you say. The portal flashes again,
and a gigantic mechanical creature steps through. You soon see
that it's being piloted by well another version of you,
one that looks a lot closer to the you that
you are used to. The portal shuts off and sinks
back down into the floor. All right, everyone, different versions
of myself, thank you for coming from your various universes,
and you know, putting your own battles on pause. I
hear a lot of you have a lot going on.
They all seem to nod an agreement with that. Anyways,
in my particular universe, there's quite a few forest fires
going on right now. I called you all here because
we're well having trouble putting them out by ourselves, and
sometimes you just need a little help, you know. I
think with all of the powers I'm told you have,
we should be able to put a big dent in
this thing without any trouble at all, as long as
you guys are ready to do it. The version of
you carrying the wizard staff puts up their hand. Yeah,
you me, whoever you are. I'd just like to say
that we're happy to be here, and well, if I
can ever help myself out, I like to do so.
So just point us in the direction of the fire
and let's get going. You walk up to the back
of the ship and press a button near the back hatch.
The hatch opens up, revealing a huge forest fire spreading
down below the fires that way, you say, as all
of the other versions of yourself peek over the edge
and take a look. That is a big fire. Nah,
nothing I can't handle, Magnus says, as the little dragonling
flies down to the ground and starts to grow larger
and larger and larger, until he himself is a gigantic
black dragon with veins of what look like pure sunlight
energy or something like that. At the same time, his
partner's chest begins to glow, and instantly high tech armor
appears around his body. The two of them jump out
of the back of the plane and heads straight down
towards the fire. As they fall, streaks of light shoot
out in all different directions, and each one forms itself
into a different creature. One becomes a large blue dragon,
laying almost as big as Magnus, another becomes some sort
of fire panda, another transforms into a gigantic dingo if
you're not wrong, and another becomes a nine tailed fox
with all sorts of elemental powers. Next, the kid Wizard
flies out of the back with his skateboard. Instead of
heading down to boards the ground, he flies up through
the clouds and the clouds start to follow him, forming
thicker and thicker layers before looking like they're about to rain. Next,
the Quantum version of you leaps out of the back
of the plane in their high tech mech suit, both
arms loaded with what look like freeze cannons. You're pretty
sure they're freeze cannons, but your suspicions are confirmed when
they immediately begin to blast the area in front of
the fire, causing lines of ice to appear on the ground.
And last, the dragon Night version of you, still covered
and some very magical looking armor, climbs atop the Dragon
and shoots out of the back of the ship as well.
You immediately run towards the control seat Once again, spaceship,
why didn't we just use freeze cannons? Excellent question. Primarily
I was hoping you would learn the way water bombers work.
Now that you have done so, I am happy to
provide higher tech options. Freeze cannons arming now all right, perfect,
and honestly, maybe we're better if we lose the propellers
for something higher tech two and maybe faster understood. The
propellers start to glow and are soon replaced by jet engines.
The wing shift back towards their forward position, and you
head down towards the fire once again. You watch as
the other versions of You are quickly taking action. The
sky above is getting darker and darker, and rain is
starting to fall. Cards of power, You, along with a
whole bunch of magical creatures, are making quick work of
their section of the fire Magnus. The large blade dragon
seems to be somehow absorbing the fire from all around
himself straight into his body. He then unleashes a plume
of fire, shooting straight up into the atmosphere. At the
same time, the large water dragon that the kid manifested
is spraying the whole place with plumes of water and ice.
The fire Panda is making its way through the forest,
absorbing the fires it goes, and the nine tailed Fox
is using various elements to put the thing out, splashing
areas with ice and water, obviously, but also creating huge
walls of earth to stop the fire from spreading. At
the same time, the dragon Knight's version of You is
using similar tactics. Watch as it dips down over a
lake and the water follows it up into the air,
crashing down with a huge splash before freezing in place.
Then it sends huge columns of earth up from the ground,
stopping the fire from spreading any further in that direction.
The Quantum version of you blasts the fire with ice,
and the Wizard version of you descends from the sky
as it begins to pour, and not just a little
water either, a torrential down pour begins. Slowly, the fire
has trouble continuing. The flames die down their path towards
other unburned trees is cut off by columns of ice
or earth. Not wanting to miss out on any of
the action, you fly through the torrential downpour, maim your
freeze cannons at a section of the forest that hasn't
been touched yet, and blast away. Before long, you and
well the other versions of you have created a perimeter
around one of the largest forest fires in the area,
nowhere left for it to go, and the rain is
slowly putting the thing out as well. You continue this pattern,
moving from fire to fire until the sun begins to
set and you and well the other versions of you
start to look pretty tired. All right, everyone, we've done
what we can do for one night. Let's take a break.
Everyone meet up in the sky. The wings of your
plane tilt upward once again, allowing it to hover in
the sky. You open the back hatch, and one by one,
the different versions of you come in for a landing. First,
the Cards of Power version of you, along with his
dragon Magnus land inside. The dragon immediately shrinks down to
his dragonling size, and the other cards accompanying you disappear
and shoot back into your cardcore. The Dragon Knight's version
of you lands next, followed by the huge mech and
well last the Wizard Kid. Thanks again, everyone, I'm sure
that made a big difference. Ah maybe you probably We
want to sleep in your own beds tonight, so now thanks.
The portal rises up out of the floor, lights up
with a bright red color, and one by one, the
different versions of you, along with their dragons or mechanical technology,
step through the portal and disappear. When they're all gone,
you decide it's time to take a break as well.
You head over to the couch, which is still off
to the side in the large cargo bay area. You
lay down on it, close your eyes, and with each
breath you let go of a little bit of tension
from your muscles, letting your bodies sink down into the mattress,
and the more you breathe, the deeper you sink, and
the deeper you sink, the better you feel, until slowly
your mind begins to drift off to thoughts of new
dreams and new adventures to come. Good Night, everyone, mun.
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