"You jerks! You ignorant creatures!"

Maho stomped her small feet over and over on the metal floor of the ship, pulling at her hair. As she carried on, Miruru quietly floated behind the little alien girl, cocking her head to the left, her mouth open in amazement.

"Maho, what seems to be troubling you?"

The youngest of the Kazami females slammed her fists on the ship's control panels, paying no attention to her mother, Hatsuho, coming up behind her. The craft lurched even faster toward Earth, but was soon stabilized as Hatsuho quickly pressed a few circular buttons on one of the panels. Everything became still, but Maho continued her tantrum.

"Just look at 'em, Mother! Look at 'em! Look at 'em! Look at 'em!" the girl shrieked, her face glowing red in contrast with her deep blue hair. She pointed to the surveillance screen. Kei, Mizuho, and everyone else were chewing on food, sipping drinks, and having a great time as they watched the alien movie.

"Go get him, you speed demon!" Koishi yelled as the racer on screen jockeyed for position with the alien he was barreling around the volcano with. The driver and the extraterrestrial on the TV screen eyed each other with glares and bared teeth as they fought.

"I don't get it, sweetie," Hatsuho remarked, flipping a strand of her long pink hair behind the silver sleeves of her spacesuit. "They're just watching some kind of movie."

Maho began to growl even louder than before, making Miruru move back to the ceiling, shivering. The little technological marvel covered her eyes with a pale arm, not wanting to see the girl blow up even more.

"They're making fun of beings from other worlds…" Maho said through clenched teeth. Indeed, everyone in the Kusanagis' apartment was smiling and chuckling to some degree as the film played. Maho raised a pink-dress-covered arm to the screen and pointed at a happy-looking Mizuho. "And look at my sister, Mother… She's just going right along with it! I knew that Kei was up to no good, brainwashing her like that! They're probably laughing at us when we aren't around, like we're those three-headed serpents from the Zeta Kappa Galaxy! "

Hatsuho just giggled. "So much to learn."

"Excuse me, Mother…"

"Relax, Maho," the matriarch said, putting a soft hand on her daughter's shoulder. "There may be many insensitive and prejudiced people on Earth, but I've seen many others like Kei and his friends, and they are so kind. In fact," she pointed to Matagu, who was occasionally shifting a look to Koishi and then to the others, then back to the screen again. "they want to meet and welcome visitors from distant places. And by the way, we're meeting the delegation from the ZK Galaxy again next week. Think they'll like knowing you wouldn't want to be compared to them?"

"Ah, they're fine, of course," Maho replied, waving her mother off. She then shook her head and shouted, "I won't hear it! I won't! They're just carrying on, not knowing our real might!"

Hatsuho kept smiling and kept watching the surveillance screen. She saw Kei, Hyosuke, Matagu, Koishi, and Kaede on the floor while Ichigo and Mizuho sat on the couch. Mizuho could be seen touching her feet to her husband's while both of them stifled giggles, and Hyosuke was cradling Kaede to his chest with one arm. Ichigo couldn't stop grinning, but the same could not be said for the other two kids, who glanced at each other with heavy eyes and pursed lips. In the corner of the room, Marie watched everything going on, chomping on a stick of Pochy; Miruru's cheeks glowed as she saw him.

"Looks like it's up to Mom again," Hatsuho thought to herself.

"I think you just want to see Mizuho and Kei, honey," the alien woman said to Maho, closing her eyes and pressing forward on the controls. The spaceship then began to gradually move toward Planet Earth. "Why don't we pay them a visit?"

Maho's angry expression suddenly left her in a moment of surprise, then her forehead wrinkled and her eyes half-closed again. This time, her mouth was curled in a mischievous smile.

"They want scary, huh?" she whispered. "I'll show 'em scary…"

As soon as the movie's credits appeared on the screen, Matagu reached into a black case, pulling out a single DVD and placing it in his computer's disk drive.

"That was a pretty cool movie. How are we gonna top that?" Kei asked. He patted his friend's shoulder and slapped five with Matagu as he traded places with Ichigo, grinned at Kei and made him blush.

"It was pretty funny," Mizuho said. She leaned her head on Kei's shoulder and kissed his cheek. She then whispered, "Those aliens did look like some old friends from the Gamma System."

Kei ran a hand through his mop of blonde hair, kissed his wife back, and replied, "I wonder if the director knew about…"

"Uh…"

The two on the couch, and everyone else in the room, focused on Kaede, who hid her eyes behind the blue kerchief on her white shirt. Ominous music began to play as Matagu's next selection began to play.

"I've seen this show…" she muttered. "It's super scary!"

"Unsolved Mysteries?" Kei spoke, adjusting his glasses as the stark purple and white letters came across the screen. "I don't know what this is."

"It's an American show from years back," Koishi explained. She shifted in her seat on the carpet, getting just an inch closer to Matagu, who was all smiles now. "It investigated everything from hidden treasure to crime…"

"To UFOs!" Matagu shouted, jamming a fist in the air. "And after we see some of these stories about close encounters, we'll sure be in the mood to go alien hunting at the lake tonight!"

This caught everyone's attention and garnered several looks: nervous smiles from Kei, Mizuho, and Marie; a gasp from Kaede, a wide grin from Hyosuke, and a small smile from Koishi.

"I guess you were right, Hyosuke," Ichigo piped up, her face as neutral as ever. "This must be the goal he had a goal to make."

Hyosuke let out a short laugh and answered with a chipper voice, "Sure sounds like it! This could be a hoot!"

Before Hyosuke could get another word in, Robert Stack, the show's host, walked in from the shadows, ready to address the audience with his low, ice-cold voice. Hyosuke took one look at the man on the TV and froze.

"Fun…" he quietly said, chills running down his spine.

"Yup," Matagu replied, rubbing his hands together with glee.

Unbeknownst to everyone at the Kusanagi's place, a sparkling column of white light cut through the darkness outside, revealing Maho and Miruru. A shoulder bag slung over her left shoulder, the little girl dug into a pocket and took a look at a miniature version of the surveillance screens on the ship. She was able to see everything going on in the apartment, and she giggled when she saw the viewers shudder as the program played.

"This is going to be what I call fun," she told herself.