The World’s Most Clever Boy

by James McGourty

In a back garden in Kent behind some bushes and trees you could faintly hear hammering from inside a shed. All the neighbours were wondering what creation Mohammed would make next. His hands were working so fast, that no one could see them anymore, all they could see was a blur of nuts and bolts. His brain was working so fast that he couldn't even keep up with his own thinking. You see Mohammed (Mo to his friends) was an amazing creator, he had created the most extraordinary machines over the last ten years, in fact he was only ten. Every day he wore the same old dusty clothes as he went into the shed to build something to change the world, but he just wasn't sure what.

After a month of building, Mo stood there and looked at his creation, he didn't quite know what it was. It had two large wings, and a massive space to sit in with lots of controls. There was a weird machine inside that had two multicoloured triangles sticking out, a blue square with flashing lights and jiggly bits. Mo had no idea what it did, or why there was a small pipe coming out of the side. Mo thought "let's give it a go and see what it does".

Mo jumped in and started pressing buttons. Suddenly, it made a loud rumble and flew up and away. "Aha, it's a flying machine" realised Mo "but I still don't know what that weird machine in the corner is". He soon figured out how to steer his flying machine and went over the ocean to explore the world. This is when the doodlelliser (the weird machine in the corner) started to shake and whirr, suddenly it started to pick up bits of plastic from the ocean like a giant hoover cleaning up everyone's mess. "Whoah, that's amazing" thought Mo. He thought he had made the most amazing machine in the world, when all of a sudden, his magnificent machine started to shudder and out of the pipe flew a chocolate bar wrapped in purple and gold paper, with "Mo's Munchies" written on it.

Mo grabbed the bar, opened it and shoved it in his mouth. It was delicious. He thought I need to make more of these. As he flew around the world, his fantastic doodlelliser started sucking up plastic from the oceans and turned it into the most delicious chocolate. Mo started rewarding people who didn't use plastic by giving them his chocolates. Everyone wanted Mo's Munchies because they were so delicious, so people stopped using plastic. The Queen of England was so impressed with Mo saving the world's oceans that she made him a knight. His wish had come true, he had invented something to change the world.

After everyone stopped using plastic, the doodlelliser could no longer make Mo's Munchies, so Mo disappeared back into his shed to create his next world changing machine, but that's a story for another day.