Early night at Peach Creek. The birds were quiet, all was still. The only signs that life was being sustained were the lights in the window of Sarah's house (Jimmy was sleeping over, and she was reading him his favorite story). What a peaceful scene.
But when the Eds are in the neighborhood, it can't last for too long. So, as if on cue:
"ASTRONOMY LESSONS, ONLY 25 CENTS! GET 'EM WHILE THE NIGHT IS YOUNG!"
The night was no longer silent. Groans were heard from every house, except for Jonny's and Rolf's.
"Cool, Astronomy! Maybe we'll see aliens, Plank!
"Astronomy? The Great Nano would approve of this, yes?"
The two fools walked slowly to the woods, past the models of the moon and planets, and to a small clearing with five telescopes set up, along with a huge banner which bore the message: Astronomy Lessons 25 cents. The shortest Ed saw them approaching, and ran to the smartest Ed.
"Hey, I didn't think this'd work, Double D!" Eddy whispered to Edd, grinning broadly.
"See, Eddy? Education can be fun if you approach it the right way!" Edd beamed.
"Cool! I can see a colony of hair people on the surface of Mercury!" called Ed.
"Monobrow, you've got your hand in front of the lens!" Eddy snapped, slapping the lovable oaf on his head. "Get outta the way, we got customers!"
The foreign child began to observe the telescopes intently, while the bald kid was running around yelling nonsense.
"Woohoo! We get to look at aliens! Aliens! This is great, Plank. Huh? We need to use the telescopes? This sure is fancy, Plank!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jonny. Now, pay up! That is if you wanna see the aliens." Eddy laughed. He held out his hand, and Jonny gave him not one quarter, but two.
"What the-? Why two?" he asked
"Plank wants a lesson." Jonny explained as though pieces of wood paid for Astronomy lessons all the time.
"Oh…Well, Rolfie-boy, how about you?" Eddy asked, whirling around to see where the son-of-a-shepherd was.
"Eddy, Rolf already paid. He gave his quarter to me." whispered Double D.
"Oh, well in that case: HAND IT OVER, AND GET TO THE LESSONS, SOCKHEAD!" Eddy yelled in Double D's ear.
"Ow! Alright, alright." Edd said as he gave Eddy the quarter. Edd moved across the clearing to two telescopes. "Jonny! Rolf! Over here, please!"
The two boys walked over to the telescopes, which appeared gray in the lack of light; even though they knew they were white. In fact, these looked very familiar…just like the ones at school…
"Hey! These are the school telescopes!" Jonny cried.
"Yes, they are, but we asked permission to use them, I assure you. Now, we have a few types of lessons: Stars, Planets, and Moons. Now, which would you like to do?" Double D questioned.
"I believe that the Great Nano would approve of the stars, yes?" Rolf said to no one in particular.
"Plank and me wanna look at the planets! We could see-." Jonny said
"Yeah, yeah aliens." Eddy said from the entrance. He was already annoyed and Jonny had only been there for 2 minutes.
"I assure you; aliens have not been proven so far. Anyways, here are a few star charts." Double D said as he passed out the star and planet charts. "Now, Jonny, that red dot right there is Mars, one of the closest planets to Earth. It was named after the Roman god of war, probably because war was connected to blood. Now, I could go into deeper detail about mythology, but I think we should focus on Mars for now. So, I want you to point your telescope at Mars, and sketch it here on the chart. Now, I gotta go to Rolf."
The smartest Ed walked over to the blue-haired boy and set up his telescope to look at the sun.
"Now, do not look into that telescope without these on," Double D said as he pulled out a pair of sunglasses.
"What are these, sock-on-the-head Ed-boy?" Rolf questioned.
"Those, Rolf, are sunglasses. They are used to reflect light away from your eyes. They were invented in-."
"No, no, Ed-boy, those flying specks of light in the night sky!" Rolf shouted
"Oh! Meteors! What a coincidence, I wonder where they are going to land?" Edd gasped. At this point, Eddy was paying attention. Suddenly, his instinct and intelligence(there wasn't a lot) simultaneously realized a crucial fact.
"They're going to crash RIGHT HERE!" Eddy screamed. "Everybody, OUT! Ed, get the telescopes!" Everyone did as Eddy asked, and just in time. The meteors, about 3 or 4 crashed at the spots where the telescopes previously stood.
"Oh my freaking GAWD!" Eddy screamed, as he cleared the smoke. Anyone who could see Eddy copied him. When the smoke was gone, all was silent and still. Until Sarah tackled Ed.
"ED! What's the idea making an explosion at 10:00 at night?" she screamed. By then, all members of the cul-de-sac had gathered by the clearing full of meteors.
"Yeah, dorks, you were yelling about Astronomy lessons. When do you look at stars, and your stargazing ground explodes?" Kevin said angrily, brandishing the baseball bat in his hand.
"When cool meat eaters crash on it!" Ed announced a grin on his face.
"What the-?" Kevin walked closer to the clearing. "The dork's right! There's about 3 or 4 meteors here." All of the kids walked closer to the small canyon that the meteors had made.
"Wait! What kind of meteors do THAT?" Edd yelled, panicking. For, when he glimpsed the stellar rocks, they were glowing a silver color. Also, they were shaped like diamonds, with little prickles on the lower ends, and those pricks were growing into thorns. Immediately, everyone backed away from the meteors.
"I have a bad feeling about this. How about we each take turns sleeping and watching the meteors. But first…" Double D ran out of the clearing and returned about a minute later, holding his microscope.
"I'll just need a sample from this…" he said, grabbing for his scalpel. He shredded off a sliver of the rock, and placed it on a slide, which he slid under the microscope.
"Oh, I need a light source. Eddy, could you hold that tiny flashlight of yours right…here?" Double D asked, pointing to a spot about an inch from the mirror.
"Uh…sure, whatever." Eddy replied, reaching into his pocket. He pulled out his lucky flashlight, the one he'd had since he was 3, and clicked it on, pointing directly at the mirror.
"Ah, excellent. Hmm…these rocks are definitely not rocks. This sample I took would've taken a longer time to cut if it was a regular space rock. Hmm…I think these are plantlike creatures, I can see small silver like things moving around in it. Oh wait…keeping watch. Oh, Rolf, can you please keep first watch? Then Kevin, Sarah, Ed, Eddy, Jonny, Nazz, and then me."
"What about cry-baby Jimmy, yes?" Rolf asked, a confused look on his face.
"Well, if I'm right, Jimmy should be-." Double D began.
"He's under my bed, hiding." Sarah said with a wave of her hand.
"Alright then. Rolf, could you please begin your shift?" Double D asked politely from his microscope. "I'll probably need to check some data for a little while."
That night, few slept. Well, then again, how could you when you had seen aliens appear outside of your house? The only people who slept were those who believed this to be a dream, and wanted to wake up at a normal day. Jonny (and supposedly Plank) didn't sleep at all, but because "It was so cool that aliens came to Earth!" Kevin didn't sleep either, but mainly because Nazz was scared. The others waited until it was their shift, but mainly just watched Edd study the sliver of meteorite or the trail of smoke that the meteorites caused. The night went on for what seemed like forever, until Edd finally stood up with a final look on his face.
"Well, it's my shift. I think I've found out a good amount of data about the aliens. Could you all please wake those who are still sleeping?" he said politely. They did so, and the few kids who were asleep came to.
"Okay, now. These aliens are plantlike, as I said earlier. There are small, chlorophyll-like organelles in each cell, only these ones are silver. Also, these creatures seem to be hydrogen based, just like we are nitrogen based. These-erm- seeds I traced to a far off area in outer space, possibly farther than Neptune. In about a month, we should be able to see the planet. Now, based off of this information, I have an idea of what the planetoid or planet should look like. If you give me a few minutes…"Double D ranted and trailed off, grabbing some paper and a pencil. After about a full hour, he turned around.
"Now, this planet is most likely bigger than our sun. I'm not sure about elements such as nitrogen and oxygen, or anything about water, but it would seem that these seeds need a very strong light source in order to sprout. Because of that, I believe that this planet is very close to a large sun. Now, on the other side of this paper, I drew what I believe to be germination to the seed, which I believe, happens the moment sunlight hits it. So… It is about 5:59. The sun should come up in 3…2…1!"
At the moment that Edd said "1", the sun began to rise over the horizon. But that wasn't the kids' concern. They're concern was towards the seeds, which, at that very moment had began to move. The small spikes on the bottom of the seeds began to grow deeper, as though rooting them in place. Also, the tops of the seeds were opening, and inside were things almost indescribable. They could only be described as tentacles, clumped together in the shape of the seed.
"OH MY FREAKING GAWD!" screamed Eddy, running around like a maniac. The other kids were on levels of hysteria, Nazz, screaming and running home, Kevin rubbing his eyes like it wasn't real, Jonny, running around and yelling "Alien plants!" over and over, Ed had his eyes bulging and muttering something about "the Invaders of Planet Kremlin", Sarah was running home, Rolf was running home screaming "The Great Nano is displeased!", and Edd was sitting on a log looking bored. Wait a minute…Bored?
Yes, bored, as he believed this to have happened. He waited for about five minutes when 4 other kids remained, and told them to be still.
"Alright, alright." Edd said calmly "Now, we all know that we have just been invaded by aliens. But, what we need to figure out is whether or not they come in peace."