This little kid is eating a lollipop. Lets see what the lollipop is doing, with the magnifying glass.

Candy Store!!!

When the little kid eats the lollipop, it turns into sugar, or glucose, in your body! In this story, each molecule represents a person!

C

C

C

O

C

C

The C stands for Carbon and O stands for Oxygen

These three rubik's cubes are called Phosphates. The purple circle is called Ribose, and the green circle is Adenine. In total, this is an ATP, the most important molecule in your body! (It is where you get most of your energy to do activities!)

The rubik's cube are phosphoruses in real life!

A

R

Lastly, if an ATP has two rubik's cubes, or phosphorouses, that mean that it is an ADP, where the T in ATP means tri, or three, and the D in ADP means Di, or two.

This entire story is happening inside the little kid's cell, and is also happening inside your cell! Now, on with the Story!

Cells are the things inside your body that let you walk, talk and breath during your day with all the ATP that they make!

Chapter 1

The Reveal of the Glycolysis Cycle

Hey, I see you're lonely, so I'll give you one of my rubiks cubes to play with!

Ok

I'm excited!

In the playground, Glucose is bored. But as ATP comes by, he gives him a Rubik's cube!

Aww thanks man!

No problemo!

Plop!

Let us get a better look at the rubik's cube!

Yeah! Move out of the way oxygen

Ok

While they play with it...

Cool!

The right side of that group looks left out. Let me give them a toy!

Now that you have that, I don't think we can be friends anymore!

That's fine with me!

Yeah!

Let me get out of here...

Plop!

Bye!

Bye!

Guess I'll find some other friends to play with... :(

Funny thing, when they split, very, very similar things happened to both of them, so what happened to one group happened to the other group!

Hey look I found a rubik's cube on the ground!

NAD+ suddenly swoops in and steals rubik's cube parts

I have stolen your Rubik's cube bits! Now, I am NADH!

Aw man...

The rubik's cube parts are electrons in real life!

Hey! You broke my toy! Im taking it back!

Sorry...

Plop!

Argh!

Let me play with the Rubik's cube!

Ok

An ADP is coming! don't let him take it!

Idiots...

Wow... Do you feel that?

Whats happening?

The setup for something larger has just started...

The 3 carbon has turned into a pyruvate! They have discovered the way to become part of something bigger!

Yeah... What do we do with it?

I feel like I have extra energy now!

H

H

H

H

The H in the orange bulbs stand for Hydrogen!

No! You will never take us!

I need to take you to Mr. Krebbs

You don't have a choice

Ow that hurts!

To Mr. Krebbs we go!

Chapter 2

The plot of Mr. Krebbs

Welcome to Mr. Krebbs LAIR!!!!!

Population 2

I want a lawyer.....

I want my mommy...WAAA!!!

Your majesty, I brought you the chosen ones. Meet the pyruvates....

Your excused you wretched bra- I mean loyal servant?

........

Why are we here?

It is because I want to give you new friends!!! Look, here they are!

NAD

CoA

CO2

Pyruvates, meet CO2, CoA, and NAD. But there is a catch to this friendship....

What is it?

There's always a catch...

CO2 needs to be woken, and only you can do that by giving one of your three parts. The rest of you will attach to CoA, and you will all be happy. When this is done NAD+ will turn into NADH.

Alright, let's do it!!!!

C

C

CoA

CO2

NADH

Thank you!! Now you may go to play. As a token of my thanks here is a Rubix cube. CO2, NADH get back to work. The army isn't going to create itself.....

OH MY GOD!!!! YOU BROKE IT!!!!! We can't be friends anymore :(....

Hey there, what's wrong??

I don't have any friends :(.

You can become our friend!!!

WOW I'M HAVING SO MUCH FUN!!!! THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!!

Huh another one of those, well I guess this is where we depart.

Army, ATP, must help.

CO2

ANOTHER ONE OF THEM!??! WHAT IS GOING ON!!!

The test is almost done.

CO2

NADH