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// How To Make A World 
// Story: Poniocracy Side Stories 
// by sunnypack 
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Chapter 1: Bake A Planet


The Universe is very peculiar. It likes to throw things around, burn things and in general, it likes to be a pain. So, while baking a planet, it hummed to itself the ingredients.

“One cup of magnesium, one cup of silicon, two cups of iron, two cups of oxygen, half a teaspoon of aluminium, half a teaspoon of calcium, one quarter teaspoon of sulfur… a dash of water and generous stirring, leave unattended for several billion years…”

A billion years is a long time, so once in a while the Universe would pop in and see how its creation was doing.

“Hmm,” the Universe hummed as it scooped up a bit of lava. “A bit too spicy.”

Throwing a couple of asteroids loaded with water and setting it to cool off would do the trick.

It came back after a few billion years. To it, time was relative, or more accurately, non-existent. There was no time. So it didn’t think it was gone long, but look at all this mould and moss. Yuck! What were these tiny crawling things on it. Kill it with fire!

So it flung another asteroid at it.

The dinosaurs became extinct.

The Universe came back and the thing was infested with crawly things again.

It sighed to itself. “When will these pests just leave my creation alone?” It obscured the sun for a bit.

I’ll put it in the freezer for a while.

 After thousands of years, the Universe had almost forgotten it had a pet project. It thought it started it a couple of million times somewhere else in itself. Probably.

It came back. It was all grey and those stupid things were back.

That’s it, it thought angrily. I give up.