Double Power-Unexpected

by Freline

Four girls and four boys separately find a crashed spaceship with a dying alien that tells them of an invasion. Both groups decide to fight it with the power given to them by the alien, but they do not know about each other until much later.

1. Chapter 1

Sarah yawned and watched the others swimming in the sea. She and her friends had been here since ten in the morning and now it was four in the afternoon, yet they did not seem to get tired as she did. Cassie had just thrown a ball at Rachel, causing her to laugh, because Cassie had no sense of direction and missed her by far. They giggled like little girls and for a moment Sarah wished that she did not know them. They were both almost sixteen, they should know better. Melissa just looked dreamily at a boy next to her and did not notice what happened behind her. She turned her eyes back towards the others after the boy had swum back to the beach and said something. The three turned at the same time, Cassie picked up the ball and they came in Sarah´s direction. After they had almost reached her, Melissa looked towards the parking lot and saw Cassie´s father waving at them.

She got the attention of the other girls at him and they were soon packing everything together. Cassie´s father helped them get their things in the trunk of his car, then the four girls squeezed inside. It was Cassie´s birthday tomorrow and they had decided to have a sleepover party tonight as it was Saturday tomorrow.

When they reached Cassie´s farm in the woods, it was already getting dark. But it was still warm and the girls decided to go for a walk before dinner. They were at the edge of the forest when they spotted the meteor or whatever it was, coming down at a clearing a short time ahead of them. They raced towards it, they had never seen such a thing before. It had changed direction several times, which was unusual, but the conclusion that it might be an alien spaceship was almost as weird.

Soon they reached the crash site and stopped. The thing, it could only be a spaceship, was glowing like a miniature sun. It was shaped like a moon crest, with two cyclindrical additions to each side, which had to be the weapons and the engines. While they were standing there, a door that had not been visible before opened in front of them. A second later, the pilot came out. It was a woman that could have looked like a normal human, but she had green skin, butterfly wings and some kind of antennae on her head. She took several steps and then collapsed, exposing the wound on her left side. Melissa and Cassie went towards her to help her up, but she waved them away and said: "I am dying, you can not help me. There is not much time, the Yeerks are after me. Get in my ship, you will see a device shaped like a flower.

Bring it to me, hurry." They did as they were told. After they had given the device to the woman, she looked at each of them and a picture of a big slug appeared in their heads. The woman continued: "I have just shown you what the Yeerks look like. They have the power to get into the brain of almost every species and control them. But they have one weakness, they need to feed every three days. To do so, they have to leave their hosts and then they can be attacked. They have places they call Yeerk pools where they keep the hosts during that time. My species, the Lirandeans and another one, called Andalites, have formed an alliance to stop them, but we have lost the battle over your planet. If you agree to continue fighting, I will give you the power to let every human or alien see whatever you want them to. But you must agree to use this only for fighting, not for anything else."

The girls looked at each other. They did not have to think about it very long until they agreed. The woman asked them to place their hands on the flower. After that was done, the device glowed bright green and they felt something like an electrical shock, which probably meant the process was finished.

The girls took their hands off and then several lights appeared in the night sky. The woman turned her eyes upwards and said: "The Yeerks are coming. You have to hide, quickly." They turned without even stopping to say goodbye and went back into the direction of the farm.

Cassie´s parents were already worried. The dinner was almost ready and the table was already set. They each pulled out a chair and sat down at it. The food was excellent like always, Cassie´s mother was a good cook, but all the girls could think about was the woman from the forest and the impossibility of fighting an alien invasion. Even with their new powers, they were still only four human girls against an army of millions. They went to bed early that evening, but none of them could sleep.