Nov. 26 1864, 2:32 A.M England, Europe

"What do you mean you found an unfamiliar object floating in space ?!!?" My friend Calvin asked.

"I don't know maybe it was a comet, asteroid, meteor an... an...-"

"Alien?"

"Nonsense Calvin, you actually think that aliens would come here? Earth?!!? Besides I don't think aliens exist!" I at least hoped so because if they did and they came here they would squash us like bugs.

"How do know they don't exist Jason?"

"They just don't!" I said stubbornly. But let me back up. I'm Jason and my friend is Calvin. I'm 14 and Calvin is 13 going on 14. Our hobby is astronomy. A couple weeks ago I found an unfamiliar object and every night I've been checking out how much it moves. So I decided it's a planet, but Calvin doesn't think so.

"Hey Jason what's that thing behind you?"

"What?" I spun around and saw nothing. Calvin was rolling on the ground laughing. I walked away and Calvin all of a sudden stopped laughing.

"Uhh Jason look at this... th-th-that thing object whatever lookup!" I did and I saw an egg shaped object. It was glowing red. I expected landing gear to come out but it didn't it just hovered there. I started to feel woozy. An opening appeared a horrifying creature came out. I got a throbbing headache. Calvin fell to the ground crippled. All I could see was a human figure with so many tentacles. I tried to see the details but my eyesight was fading.

"Somebody help us!" I cried. Then I fell to the ground unconscious next to my friend Calvin. Maybe my last minutes on earth.

July 23, 1997, 3:36 P.M. Iowa, U.S.A. North America

"Hi! I'm Rodney. I'm 15 and my friend Brad is 15 too. I am playing a just released game, Forsaken™. My friend, Brad, is kicking my butt. Will I let him? Nooooo of course not! "A ha, I got you now." I launched a titan missile and blew him away. Than I located him again. I got my scrambler missile ready and hollered right in his ear. "Prepare to die man!" I launched the missile, it was about to hit him and the power went out. "Hey! What happened? Darn! I almost creamed him. Why do things happen to me?!!?" I said in disgust.

"Maybe the fuse blew, you had better check." Brad said in a calm voice.

"Sure, I'll check. Who knows, maybe it blew itself out of the socket." I said in a sarcastic voice. "I'll check, I'll check!" I took a flashlight and looked for the fuse box. When I found it, the cord was frayed and the fuse box blew up and a fire started. "Hey! Come here quick and bring a fire extinguisher." Soon we put out the fire. "Wow that was scary, I wonder why that happened? I sure hope that never happens again."

"I do not know. Lets go outside and find out." We went outside and saw that the wires were melted. "Dude, I didn't know that could happen in a power overload. Besides, I have no idea why that wou-. Oh my gosh, MY HOUSE! C'mon now I just hope my house didn't burn down." We hopped on our bikes and got out of there like lightning. When we got there the fireman were already there putting out the fire. Brad was so relieved. When the fire was out a fireman told us that only one room was burnt. Then they went off to another house wailing their siren.

A young person came by and said "Be warned I say, be warned. They are coming again." He talked in a British accent.

"Who are you?" Brad called. Than the boy disappeared.

"That was totally weird."

"Yea, really weird" Brad agreed. "Rodney, do you see what I see?"

"I wish I didn't Brad."

"Run the aliens are coming. Vamoose, scram, scdadle, run your life depends on it."

"We get your point Brad."

"Who said that?" I asked.

"The boogie man, duh it's me Melissa. Man Brad you broke the peace."

"Oh, hi Melissa." Brad said in a shy voice. A thing about Brad, he has a weak spot for Melissa. Don't ask me why. I don't like to explain these things that get Melissa mad too.

Melissa is not like any wussy girl in my school. She a tomboy, but nobody tells her that because if you would tell her that you would finally find out how deep the Earth's crust is plus you would be wondering why your seeing stars in daylight. But she not the kind of person who steals the glasses off of the unfortunate dweeb. Enough said, back to reality. A huge panic arose. Have you seen Jumanji where that huge stampede animals goes through the house? Imagine that, yeah that bad.

I got knocked over and stepped on. That really hurt.

"Ow hey stop shoving me ahhhhhhh-" SPLASH "You idiot. You numskull." Obviously that was Melissa. Last but not least what happened to Brad well the poor guy he got slammed into a telephone in the rush and fell to the ground unconscious. These aliens were hovering about 4 feet above us. Melissa and I quickly dragged Brad to a bush and we all hid there. The aliens were so hideous.

It kind of looked like a monster Picasso would draw. I can't totally explain it that's why I made this sketch of it. The thing found us. The thing under those breathing slits glowed red. We all fell to the ground unconscious.

NO TIME PLACE RECORDED

"Jason, Jason wake up."

"Wha? Where am I? Who are you?

"It's me Calvin, I don't know where we are, but one thing for sure were not on Earth." Calvin whispered hoarsely. Then we heard a wail followed by hoarse raspy voice saying what no human could possibly understand.

"What was that? …An alien ahhhh-"

"Shut up! Your gonna get us killed!" He said after clamping his hand on my mouth.

Some weird alien said in a weird voice.

"Run, run, run!" so we both ran. I looked at the alien that was chasing us and the thing under it's vertical breathing slits glowed. Then I looked forward and ran even faster. Suddenly Calvin and I were frozen in our place. We were paralyzed, all I could see was the creamy red wall. The aliens took us, knocked me out.

I woke up. I felt like my insides were scrambled. I tried to get up but my arms were useless. Than I heard a metallic voice say "We did surgery to put a translating chip inside you. We are going to put you into the Helcon device to correct the position of your organs." I winced. Then they put me through the device and I felt fine.

"Ahhh let go of me." I heard Calvin in the distance. They moved Calvin next to me. "Good now that you are here we are going to freeze you." We looked at each other. Calvin had a blank look until he saw my facial expression. Then he had a look of pure terror. I wanted to go home and hide under my bed.

Calvin

     I had no idea what that meant until I saw Jason's face then knew it was something bad.

Suddenly I broke myself loose. I was running so fast. I climbed in a heat/cooling tube. Unfortunately it turned on. It was blasting! It blew me to the end on of the tube. Soon the substance under me disintegrated. I fell to the ground got up and ran to the end of the hall. I tried to escape, no luck. The crystal under the aliens breathing slits started to glow while they were chasing me. I tried kicking part of a wall down. A weird beam shot, I was frozen, trapped. Then I knew it was over.

July 1997, Sometime in the third week.
(At least I hope so.)
About 8 o'clock in the morning, according to the sun.
Somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean.

Yo, Brad here. I'm gonna tell ya the story, so tune in.

Suddenly I woke up. "This is weird everything is red, I wonder why?" Then I saw two young people frozen in some clear stuff. One of them was the person I saw awhile ago.

"Brad." I swear I jumped ten feet into the air out of my socks and shoes. "It's me, Rodney. I gotta tell you something. They took Melissa.

"Oh no, not Melissa. I can't bear th-."

"QUIT IT! She'll be OK." Snapped Rodney.

"Let's try to unfreeze the people and see if they can help us." We went around the blocks trying to find any control panels. No luck. "Hey Rodney, don't you have that carving knife?"

"Yeah. I might, let me check. Let's see, house key, lint, corn chips and a pocket knife."

We chiseled away. It took us about an hour to get them out. We finally got them out. They both fell to the ground.

"Thank you so much, we both appreciate you getting us out. I am Jason and he's Calvin."

"Enough said, lets try to save Melissa now." I said.

"Who's she?" Calvin questioned.

"A person we know. C'mon, lets try to ram the door." I commanded. We spend 15 minutes trying to ram the door down.

"Hey Rodney do feel that?" I asked.

Yeah! I do! Alright our ticket out of here, let's go!" We climbed into the vent and through a maze of tunnels. Calvin kept saying that the stuff under us was going to disappear. Personally I had no idea what he was talking about. After what seemed like years we found her.

"Hey! There's Melissa! C'mon let go." I exclaimed.

We took off the grate and swung to the ground. We neared Melissa, she wasn't conscious anymore. Suddenly an alarm went off, it was so high-pitched.

"Prepare to fight!" somebody yelled, but I don't know who. We heard a lot of alien talking like

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I had no idea what that was supposed to mean. We started to fight. I was ordered to carry Melissa through the vent and take her to safety with the help of Jason. When we were carrying her she woke up. She tried to fight us, but we had her pinned. We started to talk to her. She finally calmed down. We went back to the room where Rodney and Calvin were fighting. They had cuts bruises everywhere, but they were still fighting. We joined them. It was a brutal fight. It was almost unfair that the aliens had lasers coming out of the crystal things. They stunned us plus it caused pain.

I remembered something "Melissa your mirror!"

"Oh yeah, let me get it out. Got it! Now lets kick some alien butt." An alien shot a laser at Melissa. She used the mirror to bounce the beam back at the alien. And while the alien was stunned I knocked it on the back of its' head, it fell over.

"Oh yeahhh, T.K.O.!" I screamed in a voice of happiness. We finally found a way to beat the aliens.

July 27, 1997, 12:39 A.M. Outer Space

Melissa here. We just had a successful fight. We beat them. We then ran to where we thought the control room was. We finally found it, but there were alien guards so we ran the opposite way.

"Ahhh more aliens!" I shrieked. There was more aliens.

"Surrounded! We are doomed! Nooooo!" Brad yelled.

"We are going to punish you for your actions." Some metallic voice said, maybe.

"Hey I can understand those aliens." I said. Soon they grabbed us all and dragged us to this pit. It was closed except for the top. But when they dropped us in the top closed. The water level was rising.

"So we are gonna drowned!"

"God help us!"

"AHHHH!"

"Help!"

"AHHH!"

We all screamed. The water was rising up to my waist. The pit was only 10 feet tall. The water level was now up to my head. Soon I was treading water. There was only one foot of air left. The air pressure was incredible.

"We are gonna die!!!" Rodney wailed.

"Take a deep breath of air and see how long you last." I screamed.

The pit was full no air left. We knew we were going to die.

To Be Continued...

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