Where was Ian McAllen on 9-11?, Sander

Early in the morning of 11 September 2001 Ian McAllen suddenly woke up. It was 05:30 AM. He was in a hotel in New York. In just a few hours he had to be at the airport where he would get into a plane and fly to NASA.

Het jumped out of bed, made himself some coffee and took a shower. Then he turned on the TV while he was reading the script for a new film that he would be playing in.

It was 08:40, he was late now. Then ‘As The World Turns’ was interrupted by a special news item. Het didn’t mind, he had never liked the melodramatic soap.

Then he heard an enormous bang. When he looked outside, he saw one of the Twin Towers was burning. It was 08:46 AM. Then he looked at the TV. For one instance everything looked normal.  Then he saw the plane flying into the tower.

He was shocked. But he didn’t have any time left. He grabbed his cell phone and closed the door of his hotel room. He jumped into his Ferrari and started the engine. As always the streets of New York were crowded with yellow cabs and SUV’s.  He floored the pedal and soon he was driving at highly illegal speeds.

He had to slow down though. There were people everywhere. Yelling, screaming, crying. A disaster had happened.  He was scared. He decided to pretend everything was all right and that the WTC was just like it was before.

After a long time he reached the suburbs of New York. He was close to the airport now. After about a quarter of an hour he could see the airport. There were cops everywhere. One of them gave him a sign. ‘You must be Ian McAllen?’ he said. That’s right, there should be a few NASA-guys to pick me up.’  The officer stared at him for a moment. ‘You do now that the WTC has just been attacked by terrorists in planes that were hijacked from this airport?’ 'Yes I do!’ he said almost too loud. He couldn’t believe the officer was only thinking about that unimportant attack while he would be in space for the first time in just a few hours. He didn’t feel like talking with this dumb man any longer.

So he floored the peddle once more. The tires screamed and het left de cop behind in clouds of smoke.

Than he saw a plane with a big NASA-logo on it and a few people in white coats looking very much like rocket scientists.

While Ian was sitting in the plane they told him everything he had to be aware of when he was in space. He also had to sign dozens of contracts that he didn’t read, but they probably said he would most certainly be killed, and NASA was not responsible for that .

After a lot of boring instructions he was now sitting in the spaceship, looking ridiculous in this Yeti-suit.  He heard the noise of the engines. Then he had a weird feeling in his stomach, the ship was taking off. What is coming now is probably too boring to write down, so I will just skip that part. In a nutshell; Ian saw a lot of stars, the food was terrible and going to the toilet was no pleasure.

When they finally reached the moon , Ian was very tired.  While the NASA-guys did their research, Ian decided to go to bed for a few hours. He thought he was all alone in the spaceship, but was he?

Suddenly he heard strange voices. They were not like human voices. They were like the voices your heard in alien movies.

Then he saw a creature walking into his room. I wasn’t one of the NASA-guys, it was … a zombie! Then everything went black.

When he woke up he saw that he was lying on a bed. He was unable to move. Then he felt it, a terrible pain, like he had never felt before. A zombie stood in front of the bed. ‘I will now take out your brain so we can have a lovely dinner tonight!’ 'I have already made a cut in your head.' Ian knew his life would come to an end now. 'So how did you learn to speak English?' he asked. 'I was once a human, just like you are, but then my brain was taken out by zombies, and replaced with a new brain. And now I will do the same with your brain.' This is al a dream, Ian thought, but it wasn't. Then he was injected with a medicine that would make him unconscious instantly. 

That was the end of Ian McAllen as we now him, and he lived happily ever after on the moon with the other zombies