It was a summer's day in the middle of a desert as there was a science research team locating and scanning about intelligent life on other planets, along with a couple of summer interns with super genius teenage girls who were students at a science institute in their hometown. The twins had crimson red hair with glasses and they looked a lot a like, but there were plenty of differences in them, but they were the genius Test twins, Susan and Mary, and they volunteered to work in this program for their summer off their school. One of their co-workers had headphones on and yelled out as another one was reading the newspaper, this job was getting boring with nothing too important happening so far.
"What happened?" the woman with the paper asked.
"I got a blast from something." the man said, rubbing his ear and taking the headphones off.
"Something the matter?" Mary queried.
The woman came to take a look and saw the scales going up with frequency. "Hey, he's right! It's over 120 on the meter!"
The man put his headphones back on, then looked puzzled. "I don't hear it anymore."
"Hey," a young man with long brown hair came in to see the others with a chuckle. "What's going on?"
"We just got a reading." Susan and Mary told him.
"A loud one." the man with headphones nodded in agreement.
"What do you think it is?" the young man asked.
"We don't know." the woman shrugged.
"It could be aliens," Mary suggested. "Maybe..."
"Aliens, really?" Susan glared at her twin sister. "Mary, there's no such thing!"
"That's what you said about mole people, but remember when we sent Johnny and Dukey to get Dad's camera back in time for dinner?" Mary reminded her.
Susan scoffed, folding her arms in disbelief.
"Well, whatever it is, it's gone now." the man shrugged as he looked on the sonar.
"Do you think it'll come back?" the woman asked.
"Look, I know you all want to get another shift here, but I need to get some rest too," the young man said to them, then turned to the Test twins. "Besides, you two are still thirteen and I'm pretty sure college students or not, you need to go to bed."
Susan and Mary simply hummed to him.
"Well, we earned our pay from 'Uncle Sam' today." the headphone man said as he stood with the twins and the young woman.
"Who knows?" the woman shrugged. "We may have actually reached someone out there."
"As if..." Susan refused to believe in unscientific facts.
"Maybe they're already here..." the young man said as he put on the headphones and got a stronger read with the sonar.
Susan looked startled while Mary looked curious and felt right about something.
"Are you okay, Susan?" the woman asked, looking at her.
"It has to be an asteroid or something..." Susan bit her lip.
"Wouldn't be the first time you're wrong..." Mary teased her twin.
They all decided to take a closer look.
Meanwhile, Cindy was walking on the roads with Mike, Lu, Eddy, Frida Suarez, Manny Rivera, and Sammy.
"I can't believe the jet broke down..." Cindy panted. "We haven't found a gas station for miles!"
"For cryin' out loud!" Eddy cried. "I'm hungry!"
"Calm down... We'll find a gas station, get gas for the jet, and we can go on..." Mike calmed them down, trying to distract herself from hunger and dehydration.
"Need morchata..." Frida clung to her new boyfriend. "Eddy, I'm going to become a zombie..."
"Manny, can't you do something?" Lu whined as she wiped her forehead. "I'm sweating and princesses don't sweat!"
"I'll carry you." Manny offered.
Lu smiled and jumped onto his back.
Manny grunted, he switched her to carry her in his arms like a bride and kept walking. "There, is that better?"
"A little..." Lu sighed as she grasped her arms around his neck. "Still better than riding on the Lancelot's back..."
Sammy stopped as she looked ahead, putting her hand above her eyes and squinting. "Hey, I see a car coming..."
"A CAR!" Frida became animated. "Alright, we're gonna become hitchhikers!"