The Revenge of COVID-19

by Jackson, Noah and Kaido

“My name is COVID-19, and I want to take over your body, and THE WORLD!!! (But don’t invent a vaccine, because that would be a total slap in the face!” he said.

COVID-19 tried to walk in through the skin, thinking it would be no big deal. He tried to punch or slice it open, but it didn’t work!

Next he went in through the eye. Suddenly he was surrounded by wet, salty tears. It burned his skin and it hurt. He tried to push through the pain. It was super-duper hard. “I wish I could do it,” he said, “but I can’t!”

He shook one of the antigens off of his clothes.

Suddenly, he started to feel a pull on his body, down, down, down towards a huge hole and down what felt like a slide. He couldn’t see the bottom of the hole, so he grabbed on to the wall. It felt spongy and slimy. He burrowed through the lining.

Finally, he got into the bloodstream and floated along like he was on a lazy river. All he could see was blood, blood and more blood. But then as he looked closer, he started to see that the blood was actually made up of individual cells. There were red blood cells, platelets and white blood cells. The red blood cells looked really busy, carrying nutrients, oxygen and hormones throughout the body.

Then he noticed the white blood cells. They looked like scary beasts.

He thought to himself, “Hmm, should I go take over the white blood cells, or should I duck and dodge them and see what damage I can do?”

Just then, a mast cell came by on patrol. It was really big, and was holding a flashlight and a start gun, as if he was ready to start a track and field event in the dark. He could see the histamine molecules inside him pulsing in the dark.

Then he heard all the different kinds of white blood cells start to say, “I’m going to kill you!”

First, the macrophages came running and tried to bite him! COVID dodged up, then down, then left, then right, then up, then down. He was super tired, but he kept on fighting!

Just when he thought he was safe, he saw some friendly-looking T-cells coming around a corner. They were nicely-groomed, with all the little receptors on the surface slicked back like they were coming from a meeting. They were glowing green, like they were happy--not the sad blue glow that they usually have.

COVID thought to himself, “these T-cells look nice and very professional! Maybe I won’t have to clone them to get them to work for me--I’m not even sure I want to!”

Looking more carefully, COVID saw that the T-cells were carrying little tiny briefcases with a sticker slapped on the side that said, “COVID KILLING CHEMICALS.” COVID gasped! “Dag nabbit! These T-cells aren’t nice at all! They’re trying to kill me!”

Because their receptors were all slicked back, they weren’t on high alert, so they didn’t notice COVID creeping by.

He decided he’d better disguise himself so he could get inside a cell without being noticed. He painted himself blue so he would look like the surrounding epithelial cells. Then he realized that that wasn’t going to help him, because the T-cells couldn’t pass into another cell. If he was going to succeed in tricking the cell to open its wall and let him in, he was going to have to repaint himself like something else.

He saw another germ wearing a disguise that seemed better than his own. It was disguised as a molecule of water. He grabbed him from behind, ripped it off him and threw it on himself. Then he walked up to an unsuspecting epithelial cell on the lining of the lungs.

The cell used his scanner to scan the approaching COVID--and it worked! Then the cell nucleus looked through the peephole in the door and saw what it thought was water. He couldn’t be too careful, because inside, he was holding the codes to make an antibody to COVID!

And he tried to look as nice as possible.

I waved and raised my eyebrows to look friendly.

Then I said “hi there im chad,” sarcastically.

And he let COVID in!

COVID locked onto the receptor like a key into a lock and then concentrated really hard and let out a bunch of genetic material into the cell’s brain. The cell then realized, right after the genetic material was inserted, “Oh! I should probably do a bunch of bad stuff since I have such a boring job! And then I should self-combust so nobody knows it was me, and then all the other cells will be blaming each other and then they’ll get in a bad argument with each other, and then all the other cells will die-- and I’ll have started the French Revolution!”

Then he did a bunch of bad stuff and self-combusted, releasing his COVID genetic materials out to the other cells, while they were doing the Battle Royale, so they didn’t know they were getting infected, making the battle much, much worse!

Soon, they were all killing each other. Suddenly, lots of immune cells started rushing in from all over the body. It was getting really crowded. Then, like yelling fire in a movie theater, COVID yelled, “Bloody Murder!”

He got a sinister look on his face. The germs went crazy! Neutrophils were rushing in from all over the body but they were getting confused and couldn’t tell friend from foe, so they went berserk and started killing all the cells around, even the good ones!

COVID laughed, “Mwahahahaha! My evil plan is coming true! Now I just have to wait for the cells to kill themselves, which won’t take long! According to my evil watch, these cells will give up in 20 minutes, so I guess I don’t have much to worry about -- I just have to make sure they do kill themselves and do in fact give up and kill themselves. If they do not give up and do not decide to kill themselves that would be very bad.”

“This is like World War 4 in here!” Covid screamed. “Finally, my favorite day has come, this is the best day of my life!”

Suddenly Covid noticed that it was getting really hot all around him. “Woah, who turned up the thermostat?” Covid began sweating. He turned around to continue his fight only to see the immune cells carrying torches! “The Cytokines! They’re going to turn up the body’s temperature and kill us all with their heat!”

The temperature started to rise...100 degrees, 101 degrees, 102 degrees. Covid looked around and watched in horror as the epic destruction that he worked so hard to create was being destroyed by the immune cells! 103 degrees, 104 degrees. “Come at me! I will win no matter what! Covid yelled! And they ALL came out at him. He tried to replicate himself, but all he could do was make a small little Covid, that was too small to fight against the big bad immune cells.

The heat! It was killing him. He was losing the war! The heat was just too much. Covid surrendered. The best day of his life turned out to be the worst day of his life, because Covid lost the war.

The End.