At 7:50 AM on a sunny morning at the border of Jade-Plow Planet, three thousand boys and girls in neat blue-and-white school tracksuits lined up in thirty straight rows on the green grass field of Dry-Well Galactic Elementary School #42.
Up on the red-brick platform at the front of the field stood General Tie Zhan, wearing a bright red gym whistle around his thick neck, and Little Stone, who had been chosen as the Third-Grade Student Exercise Leader.
Beside the flagpole, Pei Xuan was adjusting the brass volume knob on a large wooden gramophone hooked up to the school’s silver 5G Broadcast Tower.
“Listen up, little saplings!” General Tie Zhan boomed into his microphone, grinning from ear to ear as he flexed his massive arms. “Lord Pei fused this Morning Radio Calisthenics set himself! Just follow the trumpet music from the loudspeaker, stretch your arms wide, and punch the sky like you’re knocking a space-pineapple off a tree! After fifteen minutes of exercise, everyone gets an extra fried egg at lunch!”
“YAAAAY! Extra fried eggs!”
All three thousand kids cheered at the top of their lungs, bouncing on their sneakers as their Student Badges glowed with five full bars of Rank 9 Star-Qi.
