More Frightening Than Evil Aliens
Set during the fifth season.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Sarah Jane Adventures, the BBC does so I'm not making any profit off of this story and I have no intention of infringing on Copyright laws.
Rani Chandra awoke in her bed and pulled the hot pink comforter off of her head. She hit the snooze button on her alarm clock and yawned a bit before rising to her feet and putting her pink robe on. She headed to the bathroom first where she showered and put her make up on. Next, she returned to her bedroom and got dressed for the day. She checked herself in the mirror before she had gone downstairs for breakfast. She made a face at her school uniform. Rani had grown tired of wearing the same thing year after year, and day after day. Yes the clothes were different because she had grown taller since she first started at Park Vale Comprehensive. However, it was the same old uniform: a white shirt, a black skirt, and a black tie. I can't wait till I go to Uni I'll never wear anything like this again, she thought as she finished getting ready for school and then walked downstairs.
Her parents were already in the kitchen. Haresh, her father, was sitting in one of the brown wooden chairs at their brown kitchen table. He was reading the paper and drinking a cup of tea.
Her mum, Gita was cooking eggs and sausage for breakfast. "How do you want your eggs, Darling?" she asked her daughter.
"Scrambled hard," Rani replied. "Do you need any help, mum?"
"No, I'm fine," Gita said as she cooked.
Rani grabbed the pot from the coffee/tea maker, poured some tea into a brown mug and then placed the coffee/tea pot back into the coffee/tea maker. She then sat in one of the brown chairs at the kitchen table. "So what's going on in the world today?" she questioned her father about the news of the day.
"Hmm," Haresh replied. "I already said, Gita, I want my eggs fried please."
Rani laughed lightly.
Gita shook her head and rolled her eyes at her husband while she tried to keep from laughing. "Haresh, you're becoming more absent minded every day." She finished his eggs and used a spatula to put the eggs and two sausages on his plate. "Come and get your breakfast."
Haresh placed the newspaper down on the kitchen table, rose to his feet, and walked over to where his plate was waiting. "I am not absent minded, and thank you," he said about the breakfast before he kissed her and went to sit back down again. He ate while reading the paper.
Rani held back from asking about the news of the day again since her father was eating and just waited for her breakfast to be ready.
Sky Smith had already finished showering and getting dressed for school. Thus, she walked down the stairs and ventured into the kitchen. She grabbed a box of cereal and a blue plastic cereal bowl. She placed the bowl on one of the marble counter-tops, opened the cereal box, and then poured some of the cereal into it. Sky closed the cereal box, walked over to the white refrigerator, opened the door, and looked for milk. Her search proved unsuccessful. "Mum, we're out of milk!" Sky bellowed.
Sarah Jane walked into the kitchen wearing blue jeans, a white buttoned up blouse, and her brown vest. "There's no need to shout, and there are pastries left from yesterday. You can have one of those for breakfast instead." She grabbed the pot from the coffee/tea maker, poured some tea into a white mug and then put the pot back into the coffee/tea maker.
"Okay," Sky said and poured the cereal back into the cereal box before getting a chocolate pastry to eat instead.
They both sat in black chairs at the black kitchen table while Sky ate and Sarah Jane read the paper between sips of tea.
"Is there anything interesting or exciting in the news today?" Sky inquired between bites.
Sarah Jane sighed. "More like terrible, unfortunately there are things in this world that are worse than evil aliens."
"Mum, what's wrong?" Sky's interest was piqued.
"Another house was broken into yesterday and this time the owner was home," Sarah Jane replied.
"Did the intruder hurt the owner?" Sky asked.
"The intruder killed him, Sky," Sarah Jane said as gently as she could.
Sky's face clouded over with fear and worry. "You shouldn't stay home alone until the intruder or intruders are caught. I'll stay home with you."
Sarah Jane smiled, and reached over and hugged her daughter. "Don't you worry I have Mr. Smith to protect me. He can put a protective barrier around the entire house."
"Is that barrier activated right now?" Sky inquired.
"Not yet but it will be," Sarah Jane kissed her daughter and then went upstairs to tell Mr. Smith, her super alien computer, to activate the shield.
Rani and Clyde walked into the kitchen while Sarah Jane was upstairs. Both were dressed in their school uniforms. Rani was also wearing her blue jean jacket while Clyde was wearing a brown leather jacket.
"Hey, Sparky, are you ready to go?" Clyde asked. "We're running late."
"Almost," Sky said. "I'm waiting for my mum to tell me that Mr. Smith will be protecting the house and my mum today."
"Which alien does the house and Sarah Jane need protecting from?" Rani worried. "What's up?"
Sky handed her the paper and Rani found the article that Sarah Jane had been reading moments earlier.
Clyde read over Rani's shoulder while Rani read it. Not long after they finished reading the article. Rani handed Sky the newspaper back and Sky placed it on the kitchen table.
"I sure hope the police catch that bloke or blokes soon before someone else is killed or hurt," Rani spoke first. "It's bad enough that they're stealing from all of those people did they have to kill that man?"
"Rani, I don't want you being home alone anymore. We'll come here after school or we'll go to my house until your parents get home each day. At least till the crook or crooks is caught," Clyde said.
"Clyde, that's silly I'm not going to give into fear. I'll be perfectly safe alone in my own house. I won't be coming here or your house just because there have been several break-ins and a murder," Rani protested.
"Oh yes you are," Sarah Jane said as she returned to the kitchen. "And so is Clyde. You three already walk home together, and now until further notice you'll be coming here."
"Sarah Jane, just because that man was killed it doesn't mean that either of us are in danger," Rani tried to reason.
"Rani, this isn't open for argument," Sarah Jane insisted. "Now get going the lot of you or you'll be late."
"Is the shield activated?" Sky asked.
"It is," Sarah Jane said and gave all three of them the code to get into the house before the kids left for school.
"My dad wanted me to stay after school and get a ride home from him every day," Rani said as she walked to school with her two mates. "So I guess this plan is much better."
Clyde nodded as he walked on the light gray sidewalk, and as they passed by a long red brick wall and a few trees. "My mum wanted to pick me up and drive me every day. Talk about a major embarrassment."
"They're just trying to keep you two safe. What is so embarrassing about that?" Sky was confused.
"Sky it's not really embarrassing it's just a little annoying since Clyde and I will be adults soon."
"Mum worries about the Doctor too and he's been an adult for a long time," Sky replied. "So she'll probably always worry about us, Luke, and Maria. Your parents will probably always worry about you too."
They discussed the situation more on the way to school.
Rani walked into her first class of the day, English, and sat at her usual desk. She pulled a purple notebook out of her knapsack and also her English book. She placed both of them on the light brown wooden desktop, and then reached into her bag again for an ink pen.
"I heard he was decapitated," one of the boys in her class said as he combed some brown hair out of his brown eyes. "And that the intruder used an ax."
His red haired blue eyed mate laughed. "Oh come on your winding me up. I heard…" The boy continued as he provided a grittier description of the victim's death.
"Shut up!" Rani shouted at the two boys.
"Oh come on, Rani, we're just messing about," the first boy said.
Rani shook her head. "What if it was someone you love and care about that was murdered would you still be messing about? Would you still be messing about if your lives were in danger? Grow the 'F' up."
"It's okay, you can say the full word in here our teacher is running a little late," the second boy joked. "And why don't you grow up and stop taking everything so seriously?"
"Yeah, mate," the first boy said.
"What happened to that man is serious." Rani argued.
Rani was still arguing with the boys when their teacher walked in and quieted the three of them. The teachers brown hair was tied up in a bun and her blue eye contact lenses, she normally wore, were already in. She started class for the day, and was still lecturing when the class was interrupted by the door flying open. Seconds later a tall muscular man with dirty blond spiky hair and blue eyes walked in aiming a gun at the teacher.
-to be continued