"Thanks." Said the girl.
"You're welcome. Do you want some help?" Alison offered.
"Sure," the girl said, looking grateful; she probably could use the help. She headed into the house and Alison followed her into the lounge.
"I'm Maria Jackson." the girl introduced herself and held out a hand to Alison.
"Alison Smith." The girl replied back as she reached out to shake her hand. "But you can call me Ali. " The TV was turned on and an advertisement of the new drink Bubbleshock! was being shown; Alison made a face of disgust.
"Have you tasted that stuff?" She gestured towards the television.
Maria shook her head.
"I tried it. I think it tastes disgusting." She replied as then the doorbell rang. Maria excused herself and went to answer it, to return to the longue with another girl in tow.
"Alison." the girl said tersely
"Kelsey" Alison said, in a similar tone.
There was no love lost between the two girls. Alison thought Kelsey was a bossy loudmouth and Kelsey thought Alison was strange. Kelsey turned and grabbed the TV remote off the top of the television flipping through the channels.
"Haven't you got any music channels?" Kelsey asked.
"Dad says they cost." Maria shrugged as Alison grabbed the remote back.
"Rude much?" she replied as she switched the TV off.
Fiona Smith looked at her mother with her eyebrows raised.
"Well,that went as well to be expected. " She said sarcastically.
They had gone to the Bubbleshock! Factory and tried to interview about the new drink and had nearly been killed for their efforts. Now they were looking for a place to hide as sirens and alarms were blaring. Fiona knew something big must have happened; this was further proof this wasn't a normal drink factory.
"Did you expect anything less?" Sarah Jane replied, calmly ushering her oldest daughter into the ladies toilets. When she opened the first stall, she was surprised to see her youngest daughter, Alison, crouching on top of the toilet, along with two other kids that looked her age; one boy and one girl.
Um, hi?" Alison said, awkwardly as she laughed nervously.
"Alison, what are you doing here?" Sarah Jane asked as Fiona came up next to her and looked down at her younger sister and the other two children.
"We should probably leave now." She suggested.
In the car park, Alison's new friend, Maria, protested against them leaving because the absence of the other girl, Kelsey, whom had been with them prior to them finding the boy in the factory.
"Maybe, she was on the bus! Come on!" Fiona urged; there was no time to waste. The three younger kids piled in the backseat. The boy, whom hardly said a word, looked around the car. He seemed lost, confused, curious and also a bit scared. Alison hooked his seat belt while Sarah Jane started the car. Then Fiona twisted around facing the backseat.
"Ali, who's this?" She gestured towards the boy.
"I don't know. We ran into him at the factory." Alison shrugged; though the more appropriate word would have been 'found'.
They pulled up in front of Sarah Jane's house. While Sarah Jane was trying to get Maria to forget everything that just happened, Fiona and Alison led the boy into their house.
"Where have you two been? And who's that?" Megan, the middle child of the family, asked as they entered the house.
"Bubbleshock! Factory and we don't know who the boy is." Fiona said as she turned to the boy.
"Do you have a name?" Megan asked gently.
"All I know is I had to run." The boy said simply.
The three sisters looked at each other and then back to the boy. Fiona decided to try again.
"Come on, you must have a name." She said. "Mine is Fiona, that's Megan and you met Ali. Who are you?"
"I am everyone." The boy replied.
"Well that was ...informative " Megan rolled her eyes.
"Maybe Mum will have better luck." Fiona said as Sarah Jane entered the lounge.
But Sarah Jane didn't have any luck. They still didn't know the boy's name, but they did however find out he wasn't your average child. After Sarah Jane did a scan of him, he seemed to have been born or rather created that very day.
"So, he's a baby?" Alison asked.
"In a way." Sarah Jane replied.
"Who created him? And why?" Megan asked, looking at the boy. Then suddenly there was a loud pounding on the door. Fiona went to answer it. Maria and Kelsey burst into the house, just as a creature with large tentacles, looking cross between a squid and a frog, ripped the front door off the hinges. Kelsey screamed as Alison and the boy entered the room.
"What is that?!" Alison exclaimed
"Hello Maria. Hello screaming girl." The boy said calmly with a slight smile to see a familiar face.
"Never mind the hellos. What is that thing?" Maria cried as Sarah Jane entered the room
"Everyone upstairs now!" She ordered.
"You said we weren't allowed." The boy replied, repeating the statement had given prior to the current circumstances.
"I'm allowing you." Sarah Jane sounded impatient.
"Come on!" Fiona grabbed the boy's hand pulling him up the stairs. The other girls quickly followed behind, as Kelsey babbled and protested the entire time; she seemed to be in denial that something like this was happening.
"This isn't happening. This is so not happening." Kelsey cried using the boy as a shield as the creature tore through the house.
"That contradicts the facts." The boy said.
Fiona ran up the short flight of stairs, disappearing into a room at the end of the hall. Quickly, she came back a few seconds later, tossing something down to Sarah Jane. She used it on the alien, in which, turned out was the guy from the factory that had given Kelsey, Maria, and Alison a tour earlier. He looked at Sarah Jane and the children frightened as he got up and quickly fled.
"It's the muffin." Kelsey sounded surprised.
"That's a muffin?" The boy asked, sounding confused.
"That was the last one." Fiona pointed out.
"So if that guy was from the factory, that means Bubbleshock! is alien." Megan said. "I knew there was a reason I didn't like it."
Now, they were in the attic with Maria, Kelsey, and the boy gazing around in amazement and wonder. Kelsey, however, was trying to look disinterested.
"Your place is beautiful." the boy said picking up a device.
"You're not so bad looking yourself." Kelsey looked at the boy through a magnifying glass.
"Is that good or bad?" The boy looked confused.
"That's bad. Really bad." Maria replied.
"Oh, he's mine." Kelsey claimed.
"Back off, Kelsey." Alison warned.
It didn't take long for to contact them, wanting them to return the boy, whom they referred to as 'The Archetype'. Sarah Jane tried to be diplomatic asking to stop her invasion, but that didn't worked and seemed very determined to go through with it.
Kelsey staggered to her feet holding a bottle of the orange drink. "Drink it. Drink it." She said as she held the bottle out in front of her as to offer it to another. It seemed they were using the drink to take people over; they wanted everyone to have drunk Bubbleshock!
They all ran downstairs and out the door towards the car; they were going to stop this. Across the road, they saw Maria's Dad come out of the house, also holding a bottle. They piled into the car heading towards the factory.
"Mum, do you have a plan?" Fiona asked softly.
"Not as such, but don't worry." Sarah Jane tried to reassure.
"Playing it by ear. Cool." Fiona said. She loved the danger and excitement that came with fighting aliens; she knew her sisters did too.
It had been a long and exhausting day. They had managed to defeat the Bane, saving the world from a Bane Invasion, mostly thanks to the boy, whom had used one of Sarah's Jane devices and managed to destroy the factory.
Sarah Jane had bought out glasses of lemonade to the garden.
"How's your friend?" She asked Maria
"Backtracking like mad." Maria shrugged. "Saying it was all fake and there's no such thing as aliens."
"She would be." Megan replied, before sipped her drink.
Fiona entered the back garden, taking a seat on the bench next to her mother and sister. In a few minutes, they were joined by Alison and the boy, whom was dressed normally in cargo pants, grey t-shirt, and trainers.
"This is good?" The boy asked
"You still need a name." Fiona pointed out. "Mum had Mr. Smith draw up adoption papers, so now all you need is a name."
"You could choose your own." Maria said.
"I like yours Maria." The boy said.
"Maybe not," Megan said with a laugh as they tried to come up with a good name for him.
"How about Paul? Or Kyle?" Megan suggested, but they decided against them. Over the next minute the girls threw out several names, rejecting each one. They didn't seem to fit him, nor did they all agree.
"How about Luke?" Sarah Jane suggested.
"I like Luke." The three sisters said, all in agreement that Luke was a good name; it seemed to fit him.
"If I had a son, that's what I would've named him, but I had daughters." Sarah Jane said.
"Well now you have a son." Maria added. "Luke Smith."
"Yep and now we have a little brother." Alison said putting her arm around her new brother.
"Welcome to the family."
A/N: Fiona is portrayed by Nina Dobrev, Megan is portrayed by Shailene Woodley, & Ali is portrayed by Rowan Blanchard.