MONSTER BUSTER CLUB

Season 3 Episode 5

Alien Bullies

Chapter 1

(Sam POV)

I looked at Chris. He really seemed to like science a lot. More than half of the class was asleep and Mr. Fusster was still teaching with his monotone voice. How could Chris even stand it? I admired his curiosity, or perhaps his patience to wait until the end of the class. I wasn't tired but I wanted to go out of the classroom to do some exercises so I raised my hand. It took Mr. Fusster a few minutes to notice though.

"Samantha," he said. "Do you have a question?"

"May I go to the washroom?" I asked.

"Yes," he replied. "But be quick."

I nodded and walked out of the classroom. Walking around was a lot better than sitting there doing nothing. When I put my first step into the canteen, I could tell that something was wrong. I took out my a-scanner but everything was normal. I continued through the canteen when a voice shouted behind me.

"Going so fast?" it said.

I turned around to see that Brian (from episode 'World's Toughest Kid') was standing on a table with his arms crossed.

"Surprised that I have returned?" he asked. "Or we have returned?"

"How did you come back to Earth?" I asked.

"I reversed the effect of the morpherizer, that's all," he replied.

I recognized his red headband and knew that he was the leader. When he said 'we', I realized that there was more than one Brian. The two canteen doors opened and two more Brians walked in from each of the door, each wearing a headband with different colours. I knew that I had no chance of escaping and it would be a tough fight.

I turned on my v-com but before I could speak, one Brian came close to me and grabbed it by force. I kicked hard on his chest and he stepped back to balance himself. The five Brians surrounded me as I took out my blaster. My first shot went wild, and then their leader held my wrist with one of his hand and punched my arm with his other hand. I cried in pain and as I dropped my blaster. Luckily, I avoided his next punch by quickly jumping over another Brian. But my arm still hurt.

The five Brians turned to me again and slowly approached me. I tackled two of them by sweeping their legs with mine. My fist found the chest of the third Brian and hit right on it. Three Brians fell down in front of me. But as soon as I stood up, the fourth pushed me from behind and their leader punched me right in the stomach. It was much more painful than the previous one and I fell onto the floor.

"What?" said their leader. "Chicken already?"

'So he's challenging me this time after he referred Danny as a chicken last time,' I thought. 'But this time, it's more like he's bullying at school than calling for a challenge.'

I stood up but immediately felt the pain in my stomach. My muscles froze as I covered my stomach with my hands. Their leader walked towards me. With all of my strength left, I kicked on his forehead. He did a back flip and then rushed towards me. Before I could react, he punched right on my forehead and in the next moment, darkness covered my eyes and I lost all of my feelings.

(Chris POV)

The school bell rang and Mr. Fusster walked out of the classroom. Danny and Cathy were still sleeping so I quickly woke them up.

"What?" asked Danny, rubbing his eyes.

"Sam's been gone to the washroom for a very long time," I said. "That's unusual. Should we go and find her?"

"Woo!" said Cathy, clapping her hands. "Maybe she met someone in the washroom and they were chatting happily."

"Cathy, let's be serious," said Danny. "Sam has gone missing."

Cathy looked upset when she saw the Danny wasn't impressed with her joke. I called Sam through my v-com but she didn't answer.

"Cathy, maybe you should check out the female washroom," I said.

Cathy nodded and ran out of the classroom. Danny and I followed her and made sure she didn't get into trouble. When we were in the canteen, I spoke to him.

"Danny," I said. "You seldom told people to be serious."

"Well," he said. "If you don't want to be serious, let's stop looking for Sam and play basketball together."

He stopped and walked in the opposite direction. I ran and stood in front of him, blocking his path.

"Alright," I said. "Never mind. Let's be serious then."

We turned around and saw Cathy running towards us.

"There's no trace of her in the washroom," she said. "Maybe we should try somewhere else."

"Sure, but look there," said Danny, pointing at the floor underneath a table.

There was a blaster and a v-com under the table and Cathy stretched her arm to pick them up. It was clear that Sam had dropped them.

"If Sam dropped her blaster, she's probably used it to fight someone," said Danny. "But who?"

Just then, the canteen door opened and four people came in. There were Mark, Ralph and Roy as usual, but what surprised me was that Brian was walking next to Mark!

Before I could open my mouth, Brian spoke.

"You, little man Dan," he said. "I've returned to beat you again."

"What's with you, Mark?" asked Danny. "Are you afraid to face me alone so get Brian to help you?"

"This is called friendship," said Mark. "As I said, anyone who can beat you in this school is my friend."

"You've already lost, Mark," said Danny. "Think about how many friends you've got, and how many I've got."

"You friends won't help you this time," said Brian. "We will finish our last competition: skateboard race. Meet me outside school at three."

Mark laughed as the four walked out of the canteen.

"Danny, what are you doing?" I asked. "Have you forgotten that Brian is an alien and he trapped the three of us in an electric bubble last time?"

"And we have to find Sam" added Cathy.

"Brian's sudden appearance is probably related to Sam's sudden disappearance," said Danny.

"So you've decided to find out what Brian intends to do during the race, right?" I asked.

"Not exactly," he replied. "But you will follow us and vacuvate Brian when the time is right."

"You're actually ignoring the fact Sam has gone missing!" I said.

"The other Brians are probably holding Sam as a hostage, if we could catch this Brian, we'll be under a more favourable situation and we could find out where Sam is by interrogating him," said Danny.

"That's a good plan," said Cathy. "Come on, Chris. I'm sure we'll find Sam after we get Brian."

I really wished to continue to search for Sam but if both of my teammates agreed with Danny's idea, my only choice was to join them.

"Alright then," I said.

(Cathy POV)

At three o' clock, Chris and I accompanied Danny to meet Brian. I loved to see Danny skateboarding and I knew that he's really good at it.

"Come on people!" shouted Mark. "Support the world's toughest kid and watch him beating Danny!"

"Alright Cathy, we need to go to our ambush spot," said Chris.

"Good luck Danny!" I shouted.

"Cathy," said a voice behind me. I turned around to see Jeremy.

"I was wondering …" he said. "Can we talk for a moment?"

"Well, I'm busy right now," I said. "See ya."

Chris and I ran to two blocks away from the school and took out our blasters. Within a minute, I saw Danny on his skateboard, followed closely by Brian. Danny blinked at us and we got out from out hiding position. I stretched my arm and tripped over Brian. He fell onto the ground but quickly transformed into his alien form.

"Take this!" shouted Chris.

He fired his blaster at Brian but he dodged the shots with his shield. His skin was red and I knew that he was leader. Four more Brians came from the end of the street and surrounded Danny. I stretched my arm to help him but it was grabbed and I was swung to the side of the street. Another Brian pulled up a tree from the ground and threw it at Chris. Chris tried to avoid it but it fell right onto his body and he couldn't move.

Danny took out his Double-X and blasted one Brian away. Another Brian tried to stand on Danny but he quickly jumped to avoid it. Instead of hitting Danny, the leg pierced through a lid and went half into the MBC tunnels. However, the torso was too big to go into it. The alien pulled

'Oh no!' I thought. 'What if they discover the MBC tunnels?'

I ran towards them and stretched my arms to grab one of the alien legs to pull it over. Danny fired his weapon and blasted away one more Brian but he was still surrounded by three more. One punch on his forehead caused Danny to lose his consciousness.

I threw my body at Danny, hoping to grab him to a safe place but an alien leg kicked me and I fell right into the hole leading to the MBC tunnels.

'I have to get up there quickly,' I thought.

The road surface was really high but I managed to stretch my arms and pulled my body upwards to the top. I looked around but there was no sign of Danny or Brian. To my surprise, I saw Mark, Ralph and Roy walking on the street and coming towards me!

"Brian wins the race!" shouted Mark. "Tell your friend Danny to go home!"

"I don't care about the result!" I shouted. "It wasn't a fair race anyway."

"Which part of it do you think is not fair?" asked Ralph.

"Yeah, unless you say that one of them is smarter," said Roy.

Danny was obviously the smarter one but I didn't want to argue with them so I ran to Chris and helped him to get up. Luckily, he wasn't injured, but it took me some time to lift the tree away from him.

"Let's get back to the clubhouse and track Danny down," said Chris.

I nodded as we got into our pods in the tunnel and went back to the clubhouse. I was worrying that Danny and Sam could get hurt.

'I've failed you Danny,' I thought. 'Please forgive us.'

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