Chapter 2 is here. I own nothing, not the Monstars (weep), The Looney Tunes, nor Michael Jordan (that would be slavery. I frown upon that...)
Enjoy!
I laid on my bed back home. We left Sunday afternoon from New York and thankfully its summer vacation.
Staring at the ceiling, I recalled the conversation my brother and I had the very same night we had the alien encounter.
Flashback:
"Kari. Come here for a sec."
My brother and I share a room together in my aunts house, and our beds are across one another.
"Yeah? Wassup?" He motioned me closer. I leaned in as he looked around to make sure no one else was listening in.
"We can't tell anyone what happened during the game, got it?"
I rolled my eyes. "Sure Einstein. I know that already. Is that all?"
He shook his head. "No. Now tell me, do you think it was all a dream we just had?"
"Course not." That landing on my butt still is sore, and that's a good enough wake up call for me.
He nodded. "Yeah, me neither. We gotta find out what those guys were doing over there."
"But Hale, we leave back home in two days. There's no way we can go back to the stadium, and besides, we have Saturday and Sunday morning jammed with stuff to do."
"We'll work something out. There must be something going on between the aliens and what happened to those two players. Maybe they poisoned them.."
I looked at him like he was nuts, but he did have a point. We did see the whole thing ourselves.
I sighed in defeat and smiled at my bro.
"Fine. But we do this together, and no matter what, none of us back down okay?"
He smirked and stuck his hand out for a handshake. "Deal."
I took his hand in mine and shook it. "Deal."
End Flashback
I sighed as I sat up on my fleur décor bedspread. 'But we couldn't find them, no matter how hard me and Hale tried.'
I got up and walked out of my room towards his. There, I found Hale tossing a soccer ball up and down in the air while laying on his bed. He looked like he was in deep thought.
"Hey Hale. You okay?"
He snapped out of his reverie and glanced over at me. "Yeah, I'm fine. Just.. We haven't found where those things went. I dunno."
' I know what you mean, big bro. Trust me, I know it's irritating.'
"And in addition, the three other players that were on the news aside from Ewing and Barkley. They got the same problem too."
Yeah. The news broadcast them saying they're on suspension from playing until further notice. Talk about weird.
"Well, hey. Why don't we go play some golf tomorrow? You know, some hole in ones and such? We could walk there and I'll pay for both of us to play!"
Hale sat up and gawked at me. "Since when did YOU play golf?"
I shrugged. "Just thinking we could spend some sibling quality time. At least it will take our minds off of that alien crud."
He tilted his head up towards the ceiling for a moment in brief thought then looked at me and smiled.
"Sure. But let's ask mom and dad for some cash. We're still kids, you know. Advantage of youth."
I laughed. "Stooge. Fine, at least I made you smile."
He shook his head, "You always make me smile, Kari. Just don't tell anyone or else!" He gave a sinister grin.
I laughed even harder. He almost looked like the Grinch with that grin of his. "Alright, alright!"
Hale placed his soccer ball down and got up from his bed. He stretched then walked towards me. "Let's go get some ice cream."
I gaped at him wildly, "Before dinner? You know mom will have our heads if we have dessert before dinner."
He scoffed. "Since when did you become a rule follower? As far as you're concerned, you break rules as much as I do."
I gave him a sly smile. "True that, my good sir." We laughed as we darted down the stairs to get some frozen dairy goodness.
At the same moment back in Looney Tune Land, Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes were about to begin practicing for a basketball game. Their opponents?
The same aliens that the Rodgers siblings encountered, known as the Nerdlucks.
They came from a small rock called Moron Mountain, an amusement park that is run by their boss, Mr. Swackhammer. As an order from their boss, they flew down to Earth to kidnap the Looney Tunes and force them into slavery for the rest of their cartoon lives and entertain the customers of Moron Mountain.
Bugs and the other Tunes decided to hold a basketball tournament, so they can stay free and not leave their home.
Porky Pig came to Bugs and stammered, "H-hey Bugs. N-nice clothes, D-Daffy. T-the little aliens said it's th-their turn to use th-the court."
The Nerdlucks: Pound the orange one, Bang being the green one, Blanko the blue one, Bupkus purple, and Nawt as the small red one, were apparently 'working out', but failed miserably.
Bugs chuckled, "Eh, sure. Let the little pipsqueaks knock themselves out."
Daffy Duck smirked, "Too bad you can't practice getting taller, boys!"
As the Tunes turned to leave, laughing at the Nerdlucks failed attempts, Bang and Pound both grinned evilly, as they brought a duffle bag as the rest of the Nerdlucks gathered around.
They opened up the bag and touched the basketball they had from earlier, which was now glowing. Inside the ball were the talents of the NBA players.
As the sky darkened, they touched the ball and started to feel funny. Bugs and the others turned around and saw what happened.
The Nerdlucks began to transform, growing much taller and muscular than their previous smaller states.
They looked like their NBA counterparts from which they stole their talent from, only more sinister and almost demonic looking.
As the transformation came to an end, the now giant aliens towered and grinned over the now tiny Looney Tunes, who were shaking with fear.
Just then, Blanko leaned over to Porky and sneered, "Hey, little pig. Boo."
Porky shrieked, looked down, and stammered, "I j-just wet myself."
They mocked him, while Bang grabbed the basketball and said, "Time to play a little basketball."
He threw the basketball to the ground, causing an earthquake that surrounded the Looney Tunes.
Daffy exclaimed, "Those little pipsqueaks just turned into superstars!"
Porky stammered, "Th-they're m-monsters!"
Sylvester pointed out, "Thufferin' thuccotash! They're Monstars!"
The now entitled "Monstars" jogged away, while Bang popped the basketball between his fingers like a balloon.
Bupkus turned around and smirked, "Bye-bye."
After the Monstars made their exit, Bugs calmly and casually munched on a carrot "Eh, I think we might need a little bit of help."
After the Monstars left the Looney Tunes in a chaotic state, they all rammed into a run down warehouse, which stored a large quantity of ACME boxes, but still left plenty of space for them.
Pound chortled loudly, "Did you see the looks on those losers faces?"
Bang snorted, "Priceless! This game is in the bag now!"
"Yeah, those Tunes won't know what hit 'em!", laughed Bupkus as he took a seat on one of the larger ACME crates.
The three kept laughing menacingly about their brilliant plan going in their favor.
Blanko smirked but the smirk faded as he looked over at Nawt, who was on the other side of the warehouse, looking out at the full moon thoughtfully.
"Hey, Nawt. What's wrong?"
The red alien turned his head towards his blue comrade and sighed.
"Nothing, Blanko. Just thinkin'."
"Thinkin' about what? Come on, you can tell me."
Nawt glanced at him. "No way Jose! You'll just laugh and tell the others and make fun of me!"
Blanko wasn't exactly bright, but he wasn't a real idiot either. "I won't tell. I swear, and I won't laugh... wait. Is it about what happened three days ago?"
Nawt just stood there, still looking at the moon. He exhaled heavily, "Yeah. When that girl was chasing after us. I can't get her out of my mind."
Blanko was caught off guard. 'This I gotta hear...'
"So what happened? Now that I think about it, you did take a while to get out. Did she catch ya?"
Nawt shook his head. "I was about to get out too.. but I got caught by a cord and the box you jumped off of almost fell on me. It was full of weights."
Blanko's eyes widened at this, but remained silent. "Go on..."
Nawt took a deep breath and slowly let it out, "Well, that girl saved me. She took a risk and pulled me out of there and got out before that box hit us both. She was really brave and... Blanko, no one ever did something like that for me. Ever."
Blanko swore his brain popped like a balloon right then and there. "Whoa... she saved you?"
Nawt nodded his head. "Yep. She did. I'm in her debt, Blanko. I owe that girl my life."
A moment of silence passed between the two. Finally, Blanko spoke, "I won't tell the others. Knowing them, especially Pound, he'll just probably wanna hurt her... and the other kid too."
Nawt turned around and smiled in relief. "Thanks Blanko. I appreciate it."
The skinny blue giant grinned back. "Anytime, bud. Let's go over to the others before they catch on and get nosy."
"Agreed."
The two Monstars walked over to the end of the warehouse where the larger three were, but not before Nawt took one last look at the bright full moon, his thoughts trailing back one last time to the small girl and that fateful night.
