The story is included in the collection "Girl from the Earth." The narration is on behalf of the pope of the girl Alice.
Instead of a foreword
The end of the 21st century. Girl Alice went to first grade. In the morning she was congratulated by numerous friends, not only from the Earth, but also from other planets.
When the turmoil calmed down a bit, Alice's dad decided to write down some stories about his daughter and pass them on to Alice’s teacher. Maybe these stories will help her raise such a frivolous person like Alice.
About three years old, Alice was a normal child, but then she acquired the ability to "disappear at the most inopportune time" and make discoveries that turned out to be "beyond the capabilities of the greatest scientists of our time." It was not easy for Alice’s parents - dad, a cosmobiologist, an employee of the Moscow zoo, and mom, who builds houses in different places on Earth and on other planets, to keep Alice from dangerous adventures.
I am dialing a number
Alice didn’t want to fall asleep for a long time, and her dad threatened to sound the video Babe Yaga. Alice did not know who this was, and dad had to explain for a long time that “Baba Yaga, the bone leg is a terrible, angry grandmother who eats little children. Naughty. " She is angry and hungry because she lives in a dense forest, and her hut is old, without a product pipeline.
Alice became very interested and began asking her dad to immediately grant Babe Yaga a favor. Tom had no choice but to dial the number at random. He got to the Martian embassy. A sleepy Martian with green eyes without eyelashes saw Alice and confirmed that Baba Yaga lives with them and will certainly come if the girl does not go to bed.
Late at night, when Alice was already asleep, the Martian from the embassy called her dad again. He asked for help and complained that the embassy still could not fall asleep. Martians rummaged through all the encyclopedias and videophone books, but never found the address of Baba Yaga.
Brontea
In a landslide on the banks of the Yenisei, tourists found a brontosaurus egg, perfectly preserved in permafrost. The egg was brought to the Moscow zoo and placed in an incubator. Hundreds of scientists and journalists gathered in Moscow - everyone was waiting for the brontosaurus to hatch.
At the moment when the eggshell finally cracked, Alice was near the incubator - they entered here with a group of journalists. From that day on, she began to come every day to the brontosaur, whom she called Brontey.
The brontosaurus quickly grew up. He was transferred to a spacious pavilion with a pool and began to feed with bananas and bamboo shoots. Soon Brontea lost his appetite and was sad. He lay on the bottom of the pool and was about to die. The best doctors of the world gathered in Moscow, but the brontosaurus stubbornly refused any food.
Alice at that time was visiting with her grandmother and heard about Bronty's disease on TV. The next day, she appeared in the pavilion of the Brontosaurus, climbed into the corral and began to feed Bronte a white roll, saying: “Eat, Bronte, ... otherwise they will starve you here. If I were you tired of bananas too. ”
The crisis is over. Thirty-meter Bronte became Alice's best friend and often rolled her on the paddock on her back.
Tutex
Alice's dad flew to the Martian conference and took his daughter with him. Showing Alice Mars, dad gave her to a special boarding school for earthly children. The Martians built a beautiful town under the dome, where the children of earthlings working on Mars lived. The dome was filled with earthly air, and earthly trees grew in the town. Going on an excursion to the Martian city, the children put on spacesuits.
It was impossible to get lost on Mars - any Martian, seeing a lonely child in a spacesuit on the street, would certainly take him to a boarding school. But Alice still managed to disappear.A terrible commotion arose, because this did not happen in the entire history of Mars. All boarding teachers, robots and Martians searched for Alice, who disappeared during a walk.
Oxygen in the girl’s spacesuit was only enough for three hours, and after two hours of searching, Dad began to worry - this Alice’s adventure could end badly.
Found a girl in the depths of the Martian desert, two hundred kilometers from the dome. On a walk, Alice climbed into a postal rocket to look for a letter from her mother. When the rocket flew, the girl got scared, started pressing all the buttons in a row and accidentally launched an emergency landing. Getting out of the rocket, Alice saw a mound, and in it - a door, behind which there was a room with unfamiliar equipment and a stone pyramid. There Alice found out which direction the dome was, and calmly went home, and on the way she was noticed by a rescue squad.
Alice's find amazed scientists, because the girl found the structure of the Tuteks - a very ancient and mysterious Martian race. Until now, scientists have found only stone pyramids scattered throughout the desert.
Two months later, Papa saw in the journal a perfectly preserved image of the Tutex discovered by scientists on the pyramid. The picture seemed dad familiar. He showed a photograph to Alice, and the girl admitted: in the room she became very bored, and she scribbled a portrait of daddy on the pyramid.
Shy Shusha
Alice made use of her extensive connections and ended up in a group of children who met an interstellar expedition that arrived from Sirius. There, the girl met with the commander of the expedition Poloskov, and he gave her a little dog - a six-legged animal similar to a kangaroo with big dragonfly eyes.
The expedition discovered a shush on one of the planets of the Sirius system. The animals turned out to be tame, friendly and terribly curious. For days, they explored the expedition camp and climbed into the most unexpected places. On the way home, Poloskov discovered three shushas in a spaceship that got lost there. During the flight, the Shushiha gave birth to six Shushi, one of which went to Alice.
Alisin Shushok Shusha grew very quickly. Two months later, he was already growing with Alice. Once Alice could not sleep. She was capricious and demanded that dad turn on her microfilm with a fairy tale - she herself did not want to get out of a warm bed. Dad asked his daughter to wait a bit, and after a few minutes he heard that the tale was on. Dad decided that it was Alice who overcame her laziness, but it turned out that Shusha turned on the microfilm.
It turned out that Shusha can not only speak, but also read. Dad asked why Shusha had been hiding for so long that he was intelligent. “He was shy,” Alice answered, and Shusha dropped his eyes.
About one ghost
In the summer, Alice and her dad moved to the cottage in the suburbs. In the afternoon, the grandmother looked after the girl, and in the evenings, dad came to the cottage, who still worked in the Moscow zoo.
One evening, Alice announced that a ghost would come to her today. Dad decided that this was another daughter’s invention, but late in the evening Alice really went out into the garden to meet a ghost. She went to the apple tree, and dad saw that a ethereal blue shadow was curling around the girl. Dad grabbed something heavy and rushed to save Alice. He frightened off the ghost and returned the roaring daughter to the house.
Alice was briefly offended by dad and soon gave him a note from a ghost. The ghost turned out to be a Japanese professor who invented an apparatus that transmits substances over long distances. He decided to test the invention on himself. During the experiment, corks burned out in the laboratory, and the professor “scattered in space”, while his “most concentrated part” was in the apple tree area in the garden of Alisina Dacha. In this state, the professor was already a week. He asked Alice's dad to send a telegram to Tokyo so that traffic jams would be screwed in his laboratory - then he could materialize.
Dad immediately ran to the monorail station and videophone in Tokyo. Upon returning, he found a guest on the porch of the guest house - a gaunt Japanese examined Alice’s herbarium and delicately ate semolina. The guest thanked dad and Alice for a long time that they saved his life.
Missing guests
The earth was preparing for a meeting with the Labucilians, the inhabitants of a distant star. Earthlings had never met these creatures, so they prepared a very solemn meeting for them. Alice did not take part in the preparation - she lived in the country and collected herbarium.
The Labucilians reported that they were entering the orbit of the earth, but instead of an alien ship, the guidance station spotted a long-lost satellite. Communication with the Labucilians was interrupted. The next day they reported that they landed in a forest near Moscow and gave their coordinates. The connection was lost again. People organized detachments and began to look for guests, but could not find. There were a lot of theories. The most popular idea was that the Labucilians are invisible. People walked through the woods holding hands to catch guests with this impromptu network.
Alice's dad was at the cottage when the Labucilians contacted again and reported that they were in the forest and sent a group in search of people. At this time, Alice returned from the forest with a basket of strawberries. She asked Dad in such detail about the lost labucilians that he asked if she knew anything. The girl handed dad a basket in which two little men in suits were sitting on a large berry.
Alice did not know about the guests that all of humanity is looking for, mistook them for fabulous gnomes and decided to keep them. The girl found the Labucilians in a clearing - tiny aliens mistook tall grass for the forest.
Your man in the past
Dad took Alice to test the time machine, making her daughter swear that she "will behave with dignity." In an experiment that took place at the House of Scientists, a representative of the Institute of Time spoke about the history of time travel and the construction of a machine.
The first attempt to get into the past, scientists failed. The kitten, sent to the beginning of the twentieth century, exploded, which gave rise to the legend of the Tunguska meteorite. Then, scientists managed to build an operating time machine, which sent people only in the 70s of the XX century. This machine worked very simply, it was enough to put on a chronokin belt, attach special sensors to the temples and enter the cabin.
Then a representative of the Institute of Time invited a volunteer to the stage to show him what the time traveler’s outfit looks like. While the adults hesitated, Alice jumped onto the stage. As soon as the representative put on the girl’s belt and sensors, she stepped into the cabin of the time machine and disappeared.
Dad went crazy with anxiety for his daughter, and the representative assured that nothing would happen to the girl, because the second cabin of the time machine was in the apartment of a reliable person. He is not an employee of the Institute of Time, "but because of his specialization sometimes happens in the future."
Alice returned three minutes later with a thick old book under her arm and said that she met an uncle from the past. Uncle, who turned out to be a famous science fiction writer, presented Alice with his book. One of the academics present in the hall noted that the book is very rare - the first edition of the famous science fiction novel - and asked Alice to present this rarity to him, because the girl still can not read. “I will soon learn and read it myself,” said Alice.
