By: Yi Chen

About a year ago, a squirrel accidentally ate a smart pill. He suddenly became way much smarter. That squirrel felt like he was looking at the world in a whole different way. He bought a lot more of these smart pills with chunks of gold that he dug up around the forest where the squirrels lived and gave the pills to other squirrels to eat. They started a revolution.

They discovered fire, spaceships, and telescopes. Since the squirrels have good eyesight, they see a hidden planet with trees and call it Leafer. They started planning to create an entire society over there.

Meanwhile, humans find out that squirrels have been acting weirdly. It appeared on the news. Humans decided to watch the squirrels. Humans find the squirrels going to an unknown destination on a space telescope. The humans begin researching and discover the squirrels are going to a habitable planet. Preparing for a big war, humans decide to follow them and equip weapons on their spaceship.

The squirrels weren’t happy that the humans were coming to steal their beloved land. They weren’t going to let them win easily. They had a big war, and squirrels developed dangerous weapons from bits of metal, rubber, and wood. The powerful robots from Earth and Leafer could not calculate the outcome, so they remained neutral.

A young pacifist squirrel called Hazel is reading about historical human articles. He discovered what they needed and wanted was more land. He started searching for another planet. After around two months, Hazel found a planet with lots of metal, water, an atmosphere, and microbial life. It was very suitable for humans, so he told humans about it. Humans apologized to the squirrels and went to the planet.

They lived happily ever after and made many trades.

Image Credit by Natalija Mislevicha