/ 1 PARK, 2 MONSTERS, 4 FIGHTERS
"Daniel, are you listening ? "
Danny stopped staring at the girl of his dreams and turned his head to the teacher, blinking.
"Errr… Yes, Sir !"
"Alright, so let's check that : what did I just say ?"
Danny could feel temperature rise inside him. "You… you said… hum, that we would have to… sorry, I didn't hear the end of your sentence !" He felt like drowning into the ground.
Mr Josephson smiled in a benevolent way. "Ah, Daniel… always your head at something else, eh ? Okay, here, I'll explain it again… just for you ! Will you prick up your ears, this time ?"
"Yes, Sir, I will !" Danny said loud and clear.
The boys smirked, the girls giggled, and Danny felt a cloud of shame wrap him as he had to endure all those mocking looks.
The exercise began. Students lined up in front of the parallel bars. While waiting for his turn, the Jock admired her blond hair, her slender silhouette, her thin hands… she was perfection itself !
And when she did the exercise, she moved like a goddess ! Danny couldn't take his eyes off her. It seemed to him that after balancing for a while, she'd take flight and rise up towards the sun, like the most beautiful…
"DANNY ! Let's wake up now !"
"Y-yes, Sir !" he answered Mr Josephson. He did the exercise quickly and joined the group again to contemplate her on and on. He would never have enough of her lovely face, her cute smile, her splendid eyes… he was in love for good !
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They were now sitting in the cafeteria, at their usual table, preparing their cutlery, opening their cans and pouring their drinks, chatting and laughing. Cathy was telling a funny story to Sam, and Chris was laughing up his sleeved as he listened to them.
And Danny ? Well, the red fighter wasn't focused, he didn't pay attention, didn't listened to the funny story…he was gazing dreamily at her again, who was engaged in a conversation with her best friend. Gee, she's soooo gorgeous ! I love how she smiles… how come she didn't get a boyfriend by now, cute as she is ? If only she said yes to me… if only she understood how I love her, how I've been loving her for weeks and weeks and weeks…yeah, if only…
"Dannyyyyy ! Snap out of iiiiiiit !" the leader exclaimed, snapping her fingers right before his eyes. He jolted and blinked, a surprised stare in his emerald globes.
"Uh, yeah, Sam ? What is it you want ?" he answered in a somewhat lazy tone. This war far less interesting than losing his gaze into her, checking out her every movement, attitude, word…
"Well, you've been daydreaming again ! Lost in thought, and in contemplation ! But, Dude, you were looking at the wrong girl : Wendy is that way !" She pointed her chin to the place where the preppy had sat down with her friends and chatted like there would be no tomorrow.
"I know that Cathy and Wendy both are blond, but come on : it's their only similarity ! If you start confusing girls like this, where are you going to end ?" she smirked and winked at him.
Danny didn't get it immediately. "Confusing… girls ?" he repeated, looking at her in puzzlement.
Chris couldn't help answering in place of his African-American friend : "Well, what Sam probably means is that you've been dreamily staring at Cathy instead of Wendy. And that you must be absent-minded as never before to confuse two girls which are very different, having only their blond hair in common. You watched Cathy's hair and imagined it was Wendy's hair, or what ?" And he too smirked.
The spike-haired boy thought for a moment, then finally light shone in his eyes. But what should he answer ? Then he went for the most spontaneous answer : "Yeah… yeah, I guess I was empty-headed enough to observe the wrong girl, simply coz both are blond. Ah ah, that's just me, always dumb as a pot ! Sorry, Cath' !"
She smiled at him. "It's okay, Danny Dan. No big deal ! But you must have your head really far from here, to stare that long at the wrong girl..." She guffawed.
No, Cath', it's NOT the wrong girl I was staring at. It's the good one, the one I love. Nevermind Wendy anymore. She's not the girl I need. But YOU are ! And I love it when you smile, Cath' ! I love it when you talk ! I love it when you burst out laughing ! I love it when you stretch your arms or do other alien things ! Cathy, please… love me back !
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"Beep Beep !"
The V-com made its tiny voice heard as the "Famous Four" were enjoying a relaxing moment by the side of the basketball ground.
Chris was the quickest one at pulling up the sleeve. "Alien in the park !" he quickly whispered, looking up at the details of the signal.
"Leeeeet's bust them !" Sam exclaimed.
And with that, they all ran to the main building, up the stairs, in their lockers, down to their ships and on to the park. It took them only four minutes to be on the spot, and once they arrived, they started looking around carefully, narrowing their eyes.
But nothing unusual was there. There were only few people, wandering here and there, and two kids playing football in the distance. No semblance of an alien anywhere.
"Where the heck is that monster ?" asked Danny, to no one in particular.
"Maybe it's trying to trick us under a fake human disguise…" Cathy replied.
Chris took out the A-Scan and started checking the surroundings, until…
"There ! It's very close now, up that mound over there." he shouted, pointing at a tiny hill close-by.
Sam's look sharpened and threw an energetic spark. "Come on, we'll get it !" And she started for the place, followed close by Danny, Cathy on his heels, Chris bringing up the rear.
On the mound was an old oak tree, of an impressive height and width. The kind of tree that would enable anyone to hide behind. Anyone or anything…
"It comes from that tree" Chris let out. They all took their weapons out.
The gang now all had their eyes on the tree, and their blasters were pointing at the antic trunk. Seconds went by, slowly. A gentle breeze started to blow, moving slowly their hair. They almost didn't blink anymore, keeping their eyes wide open.
A faint noise.
And then, from behind the tree, a creepy creature came out. Its general aspect reminded of a dragon, but with a mix of insect in it, notably because of the many legs stemming from each side of its body and the long antennas on the top of its skull.
"Oh my God ! How horrible !" Cathy said in a shaking voice.
Danny immediately cast his eye on the side and noticed that the alien girl made a scared face. She really seemed to be dead frightened by the look of that hideous monster. So the red member thought it necessary to comfort her. He didn't like to see her uneasy or afraid, because he cared so much for her…
"Hey, don't you worry about a thing, Cath'. We're gonna kick the butt of that slimmy dude in no time. I'll take care of that ! Don't be scared, it'll be alright in a flash !"
She swiftly turned her blue eyes at him, gave a grateful smile and said : "Thanks, Dan' ! I'm sure you're gonna bust it in a wink !"
The next moment, the Jock started firing frantically at the creature. Sam followed, soon imitated by the other two. They were aiming accurately, but alas, the half-dragon half-insect, despite its huge size, showed much quickness in dodging the blasts following its moves. Each time the blasters were moving quickly in direction of the alien, the latter jumped or crawled elsewhere in no time, and although the four of them did their best to follow, it seemed that they wouldn't stand a chance facing such a speedy adversary.
They were so busy fighting the hybrid critter that they didn't notice a movement nearby, under the bench they were standing beside. A dark shadow cropped up from behind the foot of the bench. It was a big black crawling creature, which roughly looked like a slug, with a white globe in the middle of the head (or what seemed to be its head, as it was difficult to know given that the whole body was shapeless and didn't look like any known creature ever).
The black blob turned his white globe towards each of the MBC fighters in turn, taking time to analyze the datas its hypersensitive organ was providing him. And once it had finished, it took a time off, then started to slither silently in the direction of…
"Cathy, be careful !" Sam said as the dragon-insect alien sent a purple spurt of goo right at the Rhapsodian. The latter dodged it from a side jump, then evolved her weapon into the Double X and took back to firing.
Danny suddenly had an idea. He stopped shooting and started for the opposite side of the battle place.
"But where is he heading to ?" Chris said aloud while casting a swift glance at his teammate and back to the monster, as any moment of concentration loss could be fatal.
Sam, who had seen the Jock leaving out of the corner of her eye, answered him while taking out the Blue Shift blaster and aiming it at the huge silhouette continuously moving to counter the MBC attacks : "He probably has got his own plan. I guess he's thinking of attacking our foe from the rear, from that grove behind it."
They all kept on shooting fiercely, unaware that the black blob was almost there, gradually crawling its way to the human group.
The three members then spotted the fourth one taking his head out from behind a tree, in the back of the hybrid being. The tip of the vacuvator could be seen emerging from above his spiky hair.
"Hey, did you see where Dan' is ?" Cathy asked.
"Yeah, he's gonna get it from the back ! Just what I expected !" Sam stated. "All we have to do is keep on blasting that monster to distract him and thus enable Danny to make his move. Come on, Team !"
The blob came to a standstill, and raised what supposedly was its head. A hole formed inside of his dark mass.
Danny pointed his vacuvator at the incessantly jumping alien and fired. The noise of the device going off made the extraterrestrial turn its head to the red member, but it was already too late. The blue ray caught it right then and dragged it towards the vacuvator, inside it, up in the green glass container, which was to remain his prison before being transferred to the galactic one.
The black slug pointed its hole towards one of the teammembers and a little noise could be heard. Something was attracted to the slimmy alien and disappeared inside the hole. Then the slug turned around and started slowly slipping back to the bench.
"GOTCHA !" the braggart yelled as the now tiny hybrid was floating in the liquid of the green container. "What did I tell you, Cath' ? No big deal, right ?"
The blond nodded with a grin. "I didn't doubt you'd get that horrid beast. Congrat's, Dan' ! You're the best !"
The scarred boy smirked with a complacent smile to Sam, who shook her head from side to side and rolled her golden eyes up to the sky.
The dark slimmy monster disappeared behind the bench, inside a hole it had dug up in the first place. The hole closed up by itself, leaving no trace at all.
"Ok Team, we're done here ! Good job everyone… and especially you, of course, Offshower !" the black girl let out with a joshing smile.
"Offshower" showed all his teeth from smiling so broad, and this made Cathy giggle and Chris laugh up his sleeve.
The tech cast a glance around. "Do we go back to school now ?"
The leader looked at him and nodded. "Yes, we do. And we better get a move on, if we don't want to be late for the science class, right ?"
They all got back to the sewers' entrance, in their ships, back to their lockers and straight in the science classroom.
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The rest of the day went fine, and when evening came, they were all pretty pleased with their day. It had been a good one, especially because of the results of their science test, for which everyone had got good grades… including Danny, for once !
They had a chinese dinner and watched a thriller that Danny had brought home. And they found it very catchy, almost jolting during some sequences in which tension was almost palpable.
They all said good night to each other and made it to their respective bedrooms. Time had come for a well-deserved rest.
But that evening, one of the team members didn't feel so well : dizzy, almost queasy, and that for apparently no particular reason. That member had difficulty to fall asleep, and got terrible nightmares in which death was lurking and fate left no way out but the worst one…
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So what do you think of that first chapter, uh ? Does that sound good ? And what do you think happened with that black slug ? And who do you think is feeling bad ?
I'm waiting for your reactions. Thanks in advance !
And I'll do my best to write next chappy asap. Stay tuned and till… very soon ! ;)