Hello and welcome into my second story! Breakdown will still be the regularly updated story but I wanted to show what I can write by myself, it begins in fall and it's already winter (it is way easier to write the season you're already in, I'm going to see if I can catch this world up), and also Nathaniel has been demanding to be let out of my brain, so here he is. I really like him, but since this is fanfiction he will be used as a device to basically spark reactions and events between nations. Also, Tony isn't a main character, he just is the alien that started it all. I don't even think he'll even show up more than once, aha. And basically the first four or five chapters will be setup. So yeah! Enjoy the randomness that is my second story~! (This one will be sporadically updated when I have free time and I feel like it, also this story I do not have a deep and planned plot for like I do for Breakdown but we'll see if it continues like that.)

Nathaniel shivered as he walked down the street, wishing that he had brought a jacket. A soft breeze made the autumn leaves dance and gracefully drift down from their branches, one landing in his shoulder length chocolate colored hair. He disentangled it and let it fall onto the sidewalk, pausing to watch it float gently to the pavement and join its brothers.

He closed his eyes and breathed in, enjoying the calm of the moment as his sneakers continued to crunch the brightly colored leaves underfoot.

Nathaniel was fifteen and had moved into his new foster mother's house about a month ago. She was nice, but no amount of virtue could decode Nathaniel's thinking for her. He was always on the internet and in the library, reading manga and finding amusing things. Nathaniel loved to laugh and had ruined many serious moments because of it. He was strange, but she did her best to care for him and make his life with her pleasant, which he appreciated.

He glanced over to his right and in front of him was Alfred F. Jones's house. The man had been enthusiastically welcoming and interested in the new resident of his town, claiming that the hero had to know every citizen in his neighborhood. He was loud and conceited but his heart was filled with good intentions and overflowing happiness.

Ever since he had moved Nathaniel had been coaxed into watching horror movies with him because the man looked so desperate for someone to watch it with and everyone else had already learned to refuse. Nathaniel generally didn't mind the screaming because he could tune it out and make up his own lines for the film, resulting in hilarity and Alfred accusing him of being weird. But how was Nathaniel not supposed to laugh at a serial killer yelling, "YOU STOLE MY GODDAMN PUDDING!" in a ridiculous accent?

Nathaniel was about to turn away from the house when a movement in one of the windows caught his eye. His eyes were drawn to it and he froze completely when he realized what he was looking at. There was a tiny grey man in one of the lower windows, having a staring contest with a whale. How anyone was able to fit that whale into the house may remain a mystery forever.

As if sensing Nathaniel's grey-eyed gaze upon it, the creature began to turn around. Heart hammering in his chest, Nathaniel swung his head down and fixed his stare on a particularly brightly colored leaf. He prayed to whatever god might exist out there that it didn't know he had seen it. Running his tongue over his dry lips and playing with the hem of his shirt, he finally dared to glance up.

Something had drawn the bright blue blinds over the window where the creature had stood. Nathaniel let out the breath he had been holding and set off quickly for his foster home, his body tense. Just what was that? What was it doing? Why was it in Alfred's house?

So yeah, pretty short chapter but it's the best place to end~ I hope you all will enjoy this story~

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