In a comedic SF story in a linked collection of mine, a human is abducted and has to do a test to keep the Earth from being blowing up. It is built up to be this hard test (and which no one is allowed to describe) but ends up being super easy. All she has to do is color a picture of the Earth. Blue for water and green for land.
The test is easy not because the aliens think humans are dumb, but because the Emperor of the aliens likes humans and doesn't want Earth to be blown up, so he makes the test easy.
However, a bad guy presses the button to make the Earth blow up, prompting the adventure in which the rest of the short story collection takes place during. So, in way the human passing the test is not the end, but the end to the problem in the first short story.
Anyways, is the test still too anti-climatic? I was shooting for funny, but I'm not sure.
Thanks!
The test is easy not because the aliens think humans are dumb, but because the Emperor of the aliens likes humans and doesn't want Earth to be blown up, so he makes the test easy.
However, a bad guy presses the button to make the Earth blow up, prompting the adventure in which the rest of the short story collection takes place during. So, in way the human passing the test is not the end, but the end to the problem in the first short story.
Anyways, is the test still too anti-climatic? I was shooting for funny, but I'm not sure.
Thanks!