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This is just a funny little story, not meant to be taken seriously at all. The ending is a bit rough and there are probably a plethora of gramatical and spelling errors. Hope you enjoy. Please critique!
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It all started in 5th period Spanish. They thought it was a joke, but I took them seriously.
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I was talking to my friends when Lincoln told us that he had a plan for world domination. He told us the key to world domination was Antarctica. My friends dissmissed him, but I kept my mind open. He said he would raise killer penguins and let them run rampant over the earth. His plan was highly improbable, but I knew with some help, it could work.

His penguin idea was smart, yet ignorant at the same time. There was no possible way normal penguins could be used as mercenaries. That's when it hit me, what if they weren't normal penguins? I realized that if I altered the DNA slightly that I could produce the ultimate soldiers... It was then that I started making plans to conquer Antarctica. No one ever knew what I was thinking; I just pretended to dismiss the idea as well, but kept a michievious glint in my eyes.

After class I was supposed to go to lunch, but I went to the library instead. I needed to learn everything about Antarctica, its inhabitants, and genetics. I soon realized that no one really cared enough about Antarctica enough to do major research there so the only information that I gathered was this: It is cold, uninhabitable, has penguins, has polar bears, has fish. Not much to go on.

The biggest problem I faced was not altering the DNA (everything I needed to know was on the internet and I am a certifiable genius) or conquering Antarctica (like I said, no one really cares about it), but making it livable.

After my day of researching ended, I began my plan to conquer Antarctica. I knew it would be expensive, me being a sophomore with no job. Luckily my grandparets were seile, rich (they won a couple of lawsuits), and willing to give me aything wanted. I knew they wouldnt be able to provide me with all the money I needed, but it would give me a good start. After my grandparents wired me 500 thousand dollars, I set up a new bank account under the alias of T. A. Keover.

I had to make up this account for obvious reasons. I knew that there was no way any government would claim Antarctica as a country if it was going to be run by a 15-year-old girl. I knew they would have to take T. A. Keover serioulsy after he (I) formed a massive army, a blossoming economy (fish market), and a thriving economy. There was no way they could ignore me- I mean him. I knew it would take a while to be recognized as a country, then as a world power, but I knew that it would work- and that it was worth it.

I would get most of my population from Alaska and Russia because they were underappreciated and used to the cold weather. All the while I was studying genetics and (without other people's knowledge) I did live testing.

I injected into some rats specific genes from the DNA of a cat, and sur enough, when the rats had children, the children had the red fur of the cat. Now that I knew what I was doing, all I needed was Dna from different, more fierce, animals. I woul accomplish this talk by getting a part-time job at the local zoo.

I soon had crats (cats and rats combined). These animals could compress their bodies to fit under tight spaces like rats, but they also had the grace and agility of cats.

A few days later I soon had a small army of crats, a job at the zoo, DNA from over 500 different animals, and a slowly rising political identity.

T. A. Keover was active in just about every political debate and was soon in newspapers, webzines, magazines, television, and just about anything else that covered politics. People were soon using T. A. Keover as a househould name. Every time he was mentioned in my classes I just listened and prenteded to be indifferent, but I kept that michievous glint in my eyes. One class period, World History, while we were doing our current events, my teacher, Coach Mo Ron, told me I needed to be more like T. A. Keover and be more involved and gung-ho about politics. I told him that "I don't really think politics are really all that important because all poiticians do is lie to you, so you can't actually listen to political debates and come out with any real truths, and for all we know T. A. Keover could be some 15-year-old having a big old time fooling everyone from the comfort of his/her own computer." He told me that not all politicians lie and that until I become a politician I shouldn't jude the others. That made me grin because I am a politician and I do lie... a lot. I made T. A. Keover nice and polite and caring. Little did the people know that he was going to take over the world and be the next dictator- and there was nothing they could do about it.

After a few weeks T. A. Keover had the deed to more than 3/4 of Antarctica. Many of the world leaders thought I was crazy for claiming Antarctica, but I simply stated that I like the cold and moved on.

No one at school suspected a thing. My biology teacher, Mrs. Streightn Narrow, was wondering how I knew so much abbout genetics. I simply shrugged my shoulders and said, "Internet" and that was enough to pacify her.

My job at the zoo was boring at most, but well worth it. I was now able to create bircats (birds and cats), tibers (birds and tigers), and many more ferocious creatures. As I was creating my bircats I realized that I had just ended a life-long species war by combining the two. For a nother split second I thought about all of the good my extensive knowledge of genetics could do for the world, but I quckly dismissed the idea and decided to take over the world before fixing it.

In two months I had a growing army of various new species, enough DNA samples to quit my job at the zoo (Thank goodness!), and complete control over Antarctica and all that reside there.

All this accomplished, I thought it was time I made Antarctica livable. I had made several prototype tents that, in theory, would keep out all of the harsh Antarctica cold. I soon realized that these wouldn't work because they were to small and wouldn't house several thousand people. I soon changed the size of the tents and found out how to make them look and feel more like the homes they were going to be.

One more month passed and I had several towns and cities set up and ready to be lived in. To solve my lack of poppulation problem, I would have to find a way to get some immigrants. My main targets were (as I said before Russia and Alaska). After I did some research on the two countries I learned it wan't going to be too difficult to get them to come. There lives would be much richer nd prosperous if they lived in Antarctica.

I sent pamphhlets and videos to Russia and Alaska about how glorious Antarctica was, The people, of course, believed every word I fed them, and I, with the help of my grand parents cruise ship, sent for them. The immigrants were glad to be there and soon fell in love with my "tent" houses.

I soon had their immigration legalized (after, of course, getting Antarctica deemed a country), and my population soon grew to be over 10,000 people.

I soon told my parents that I wanted to move to Antarctica because it was the place of the future, and I needed a challenge that my school just wasn't supplying. I assured them that Antarctica's school system was outstanding (which will be true soon) and it would give me the challenge I was looking for. My parents didn't want to move because they were obsessed with their jobs, but they said if I could find a relative who would move there with me, I could go. I immediatly went to my grandparents and they said they would gladly go with me.

When I landed in Antarctica, I went to my lab and started creating T. A. Keover. Now tht my country was established, it needed a leader, and I knew they weren't going to accept a now 16-year-old as their leader. Given time they might, but not now. Thus the hologram T. A. Keover was created. Eat your heart out Victor Frankenstein.

I soon had penguin ranchers, teachers, fishers, and factory workers. My people were confused at first on why I needed penguins, but I told them that I was planning on making them pets for the children after I tamed them.

Months went by and I now had a massive altered-penguin army. I let a few unaltered penguins be pets as I promised. The first time we had a casualty involving a polar bear, I told the people that all of the polar bears needed to be captured, not killed. The people were confused, so I told them that these bears could be used as great fieald workers and they believed me (as always).

I soon had a massive altered polar bear army along with my altered penguin army. I, like I promised gave the unaltered polar bears to the people. I was getting to know my people more and more everyday beause I was one of the school teachers. I taught reading, computer, and various other useful skills in my working hours, and in my off hours I taug ht a select few some of the things I knew about genetics, so they could help me create my armies.

My armies were at their strongest, so I sent them to destroy all of the European nations. I was successful at this, so I started to devise my plans to take over the United States and Canada.

When my plans were complete, I sent my army. I won every battle with few casualties. It seems that people were so afraid of the animals that they had a hardd time attacking them. I listened joyfully to the Prsident's speech. It went along these lines, "People of the world, as you know, we have bee invaded by Antarctica, and it is in my deepest regrets that I have to inform you that they have..."

"Tell me the answer to the question!" Coach Nag was yelling in my ear,

When I finally came to, I realized that everything was just a dream; I hadn't taken over anything...
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Not yet anyway...

The, it was all a dream, ending is a little weak even if it is classic.

I hate word limits. I like it a lot, it's quite good. I have some suggestions about how to make it better though, please don't take any of this offensively.You could have just ended it with a few short sentences about how she succeeded in taking over the world. Also, the two lines about keeping the mischevious glint in her eye are a bit weak. For one thing, how can she tell wether or not she has a mischevious glint in her eye? It's not like she can see her eyes. And how can she choose wether or not she has a mischevious glint in her eyes, and if she could, why would she want to? Another thing, there are a lot more cold countries then Russia and Alaska, what about Canada, Greenland, and all the cold countries down south near Antarctica. People from the countries near Antarctica would be more logical to bring to Antarctica then people from across the world.

hmmm... -snaps fingers- idea You should kidnap the penguins from Madagascar!

well i`ve read a story awhiles back *as in 3rd grade* Called Mr. Poppers Penguins *catchy title 'tis why i remember* sweatdrop but anyway those penguins could be used! 8D

hey if you can train them to dance why not to kill? surprised

Arnt penguins 'sposed to be agressive in the wild through?