Disclaimer: I don't own The Sarah Jane Adventures it belongs to the BBC. I also don't own any characters from the show they all belong to the BBC as well. Evangelina, Kamdyn and Emily all belong to me.
Sixteen year old Kamdyn Brookshire stood inside the bedroom of his younger sister Evangelina. She was quickly brushing out her long blonde hair, she quickly plaited it down her back while letting her fringe hang over her eyes. She turned to her brother, rolling her blue eyes at his 'dragged through a hedge backwards' look, as their mother called it. His blonde hair stood up in all directions, and his jeans and short sleeve t-shirt were all crumpled from a football game with his friends earlier. Kamdyn rolled his green eyes back at her.
"I'll be out for a while. Tell Mum not to worry." Kamdyn asked his sister. He knew Evangelina would do as he asked, and that she would wait up for him even when their mum was asleep.
"Fine." Evangelina sighed. "Be careful, and have fun. I'll wait up for you, Kamdyn."
An hour later, Kamdyn made his way to Combat 3000. He was excited, he loved shooting games on the Playstation. Kamdyn entered the building and paid for a game of laser tag. Kamdyn and his group entered the laser tag arena after instructions. Kamdyn smirked in victory as he shot down three of the group, and found his way to the end of the level. He saw a door open, and slowly wandered inside. He glanced around the small room he was suddenly in before a blinding light cut off his sight. The last thing Kamdyn knew for a while was that he wasn't in that room anymore.
"Has your son ever gone missing before?" Sarah Jane asked the mother, who was in her early thirties. Emily Brookshire moved a strand of blonde hair out of her face as her green eyes pierced Sarah Jane's brown ones. Emily sat on her son's bed, while the journalist asked her questions.
"No… He told his sister he was going out. He didn't say where to, just to tell me not to worry. He's always trying to hide things from me, I worry too much sometimes. Its just, Evangelina and Kamdyn are all I have since their father left." Emily replied. Sarah Jane promised to find the boy, before leaving the room.
She found her way to the front door, and saw a fourteen year old girl sat on the step nearby.
"You must be Evangelina?" Sarah Jane asked the girl. The girl nodded.
"Yeah. Are you here about Kamdyn?" Eva asked.
"Yes. Did your brother give you any clues about where he was going?"
"No. He said he was going out, and that I shouldn't tell Mum. She worries. I promised to wait for him but he didn't come home. I know he wouldn't just get up and leave so something must have happened to him." Evangelina explained. "Can… can you get my brother back?"
"I'll see what I can do." Sarah Jane smiled at the fourteen year old.
The next day Evangelina went to school like nothing had happened. She didn't want the other kids to think her a cry-baby for hiding at home when Kamdyn wasn't there to intimidate the bullies. She bumped into two boys and a girl on her way to her class.
"Oh, sorry." Evangelina apologized. The girl moved closer and Evangelina winced slightly, expecting some kind of blow, physical or verbal.
"No problem." the girl smiled.
"Hey your Evangelina Brookshire, aren't you?" one of the boys asked. "I heard about Kamdyn, I'm sorry."
"Were you one of his friends?" Evangelina asked.
"Yeah. I'm Clyde Langer. We played football together."
"Oh… I think he mentioned you a couple times." Evangelina nodded.
"I'm Maria Jackson, that's Luke Smith." the girl pointed from herself to the other boy. Evangelina smiled a little. She found herself following the group towards the school building.
Two days passed, with still no signs of Kamdyn. Evangelina was becoming good friends with Clyde, Luke and Maria but she still missed her brother. She heard about another boy going missing, Lance Metcalf. Evangelina was beginning to worry. Her brother hadn't been the first teenager to go missing, and now he wasn't the last.
Luke and Clyde invited her to go to the new laser tag arena, Combat 3000, with them. Evangelina agreed to go, mostly as something to take her mind off of Kamdyn's disappearance. She knew there was nothing she could do, which just made the situation feel worse. Evangelina got ready to meet Clyde and Luke in town. She decided to leave her hair down today with her fringe still in its usual position.
Evangelina, Clyde and Luke made a good team. Clyde was the offensive player, Evangelina played bait for the others and Luke the strategist. They advanced through the game and arrived at 'Level Two'. This was the harder level, with only ten of us in the new level. Clyde pointed out that most of the other competitors were from athletics groups. The group had to win the level with only ten lives to get into the world championships, but Evangelina was sure the three of them could do it.
The trio shot their way into the chamber at the end of the level. The last thing the three of them saw was a blinding light before they left Earth completely.
"What was that about? Special effects?" Clyde asked, getting up off the floor and walking to the door.
"Maybe. It was weird." Evangelina replied from the ground.
"I feel a bit sick…" Luke moaned slightly.
"If they hand us the trophy, don't puke in it." Clyde replied to his friend.
The door opened and three men in black appeared. Evangelina found herself backing away, they were intimidating. They each grabbed a member of the trio, and dragged them to a crate. They were thrown inside.
"Hey! Let us out!" Clyde yelled. The men ignored him, and they felt the crate shaking as they were moved somewhere. Luke theorised that they weren't in Combat 3000 anymore, but were somewhere else.
Luke managed to get the crate open and the trio climbed out. Evangelina looked around at the room they were in, which held lots more crates. They heard a girls voice from one of the crates and went to investigate. They opened the crate the screaming came from and saw a girl around their age.
"What's your name?" Clyde asked.
"Jen."
"I'm Clyde, this is Luke and that's Evangelina." Luke introduced them to her. Luke and Evangelina went to open another crate where they heard a boy's voice shouting.
"Lance!" Clyde smiles at the boy. "Your mum is worrying about you."
"What's going on!" Another boy shouted. Evangelina recognised this voice, and ran to the crate. She opened it, and saw Kamdyn.
"Kamdyn! Your ok!" Evangelina hugged her brother. Clyde walked over and slapped Kamdyn on the back in a friendly manner.
"Good to see you." Clyde nodded to the boy.
"So we all played Combat 3000 and wound up here?" Luke asked as the larger group sat on the crates. They'd found another two kids after Kamdyn bringing the group up to eight kids.
"We played all over the place… London, Brighton, Manchester, Leeds and Inverness." Clyde replied. "Kids must have been going missing everywhere. How'd we get here?"
"Wherever here is." Jen glanced to the ceiling as she spoke. The group then hear the sound of the door numbers being pushed, and quickly hid. One of the black clothed men entered and walked to the crate where Jen had been trapped. Jen snuck out of her hiding spot and pushed the man inside. The group then ran out of the open door.
They found themselves in a corridor. They kept running as the black-clad man broke out of the crate and chased after them. They glanced out the window and paused.
"When did the moon turn blue?" Lance asked.
"That's not the moon!" Jen gasped. The group were looking out at planet Earth.
"Wow… We're a long way from home." Evangelina was surprised.
"Come on, let's keep going." Kamdyn took his sister's hand and the group kept running.
They stopped when they nearly bumped into an alien. The alien had a bug-like face and wore red robes.
"That's an alien… A real life alien…" Kamdyn glanced to his younger sister and then to the group.
"Cool!" Evangelina grinned at Luke and Clyde. Clyde grinned back while Luke looked surprised.
"You think aliens are cool?" Luke asked.
"Yeah! I do!" Evangelina looked back to the alien as it spoke.
"Such fine warriors." the alien said. It then led the group back up the corridor and into a room. The computer turned on, and a female version of the alien appeared.
"Behold your Mistress." the alien told the group.
"Welcome my warriors." Mistress addressed the group.
"We're not warriors." Luke replied.
"We're kids. My brother and I aren't going to war." Evangelina told the aliens.
"None before you escaped the holding deck. None forced my return to the ship. You are good warrior stock." the male alien replied.
"We're not warriors!" Evangelina yelled at the alien. It looked to her, and growled. "Well, we're not. I've never fought a war in my life, neither has my brother or any of the others here. We're kids not soldiers."
"You have hearts of heroes." Mistress told the group. "You will not suffer our enemies to live. You will die with honour on the battlefield."
"But if we refuse to fight, what happens?" Evangelina asked.
"You die anyway." Mistress said. Black-clad guards then came to take the group back to the room with the crates.
The group were dragged back into the main room after they snuck out of the crate room and tried to steal a rocket to get back to Earth.
"Mum!" Luke called seeing Sarah Jane in the room, Maria stood with her.
"What's a reporter doing on a spaceship?" Evangelina asked Clyde. "And how did Maria get here?"
"If we survive this without being shipped off to war… I'll get Sarah Jane to explain it all to you." Clyde replied. Evangelina nodded, and watched as the male alien, who Evangelina had learnt was named Kudlak, pointed a gun at Sarah Jane, Luke and Maria.
"I had such high hopes for you, warrior." Kudlak told Luke as he prepared to shoot him.
"None of them are warriors, they're children!" Sarah Jane shouted. "Stop. The war is over." Luke explained to Kudlak. "I found it in your computer banks."
"Trickery!" Kudlak growled.
"No. Listen to Luke." Evangelina softly begged the alien. "He knows what he's saying." she looked to the boy with respect.
"I hacked into the computer. It's how we escaped." Luke typed some codes into a computer and another male alien of Kudlak's race, apparently the Emperor, appeared on the screen instead of Mistress. The Emperor told of how the war was over, after a treaty with the Malakh, which Evangelina guessed was another race of aliens.
"That message is ten years old." Luke told Kudlak. Kudlak looked to be in shock, but argued that Mistress would have told him. Mistress argued that although the message was real, without war there was no home for herself or Kudlak. Kudlak shot the computer screen, blowing it up and stopping Mistress from communicating with him.
"Whoa…" Evangelina gasped at the damage. "That was pretty cool." Sarah Jane looked to the girl, a look of surprise and also a bit of irritation on her face. She decided to deal with her later, and turned back to Kudlak.
"I have committed an unforgivable crime against your world. You are free to go and my life is yours to take." Kudlak told the woman, dropping to his knees and holding the gun out to her.
"This is never the way." Sarah Jane told the alien.
Kudlak decided to leave to his home planet to find all the children he had taken before, and bring the surviving children back to Earth. The group made their way off the ship and got back to Earth.
"I kind of feel sorry for Kudlak." Evangelina said when they were safely on Earth. "I mean, yeah he was kinda bad but… it wasn't all his fault."
"You believe so?" Sarah Jane asked the girl.
"Yes. Mistress never told him the war was over. He didn't know. Granted, he shouldn't have taken kids to fight in the war but he thought he was protecting his people in the war." Evangelina smiled a little at her next thought. "Maybe he'll finally get a taste of peace while he searches for the kids he took." Sarah Jane smiled at the girl, nodding.
Evangelina and Kamdyn climbed out of Sarah Jane's car. She'd driven them back to their house after dropping off Lance and Jen. They saw their mother open the front door.
"Mum!" Evangelina yelled, as she ran towards the woman.
"Evangelina! Kamdyn! I was so worried!" Emily hugged her children. Sarah Jane smiled as she watched the reunion.
"Wait… So you fight aliens?" Evangelina asked Sarah Jane as she looked around the attic. It was the next day and Evangelina was excited to get to know what Sarah Jane and the others did.
"That's right." Sarah Jane replied with a smile. Usually she wouldn't have let Evangelina join the gang, but her watch had detected something about Evangelina and she wanted the girl where she could keep an eye on her. Although it also detected the same energy around Kamdyn as it did around Evangelina, it seemed the girl had more of this energy. That could make her a danger to humanity, but Sarah Jane was willing to wait and see what happened.
"She doesn't just fight them. She helps them, if they get lost or anything." Clyde told his new friend.
"And you, Maria and Luke help her? Awesome!" Evangelina grinned.