A/N: I have been frightfully busy as of late andI don't get to write as often as I'd like, but I found myself with a free afternoon, giving me the time for this. I would really rather not keep you waiting another two weeks for another chapter, but in the event that such a thing occurs, I sincerely hope this keeps you both interested and entertained in the meantime, this is the part of the story where the unspecified parts of the "Signs" universe are starting to be explored, so I hope you dig it and find my ideas interesting.

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The front door swung open and late afternoon light filled the dimly lit home, two imposingly tall aliens, with a color and skin pattern eerily resembling the gravel they stood on, stood just over ten feet from the door on the driveway. The aliens appeared to be conversing in their strange rapid clicking language, they did not directly face the door and didn't seem to notice J or K. Instinctively, J aimed and pulled the trigger of his silver gun, a rapid and high pitched 'ping' sound erupted from the weapon followed immediately by a bright blue shot which met the side of his target's head, blowing it back several feet and practically destroying everything above its shoulders. The other alien darted its head in the direction of J and K, but before it had time to react further, K fired a second shot that grazed the alien's upper left leg, leaving a sizable chunk burned off. The alien let out an unsettlingly loud and distinctively inhuman screech, obviously from the pain. With surprising speed, the alien half ran, half limped in the direction of the cornfield. They chased it. Even when injured, the alien was just as fast as any person, but far slower than a fully able alien. While running, J looked to K.

"You never miss like that, what happened?" J said while trying to pace his breathing.

"I wasn't trying to kill it, I was trying to wound it," K gasped, obviously having a harder time keeping up, "we just saw two, maybe there are more, we can follow it when it's wounded like this, we wouldn't have a snowball's chance in hell if it wasn't, and maybe it can lead us to the rest." J agreed silently, they had followed the alien all the way around the house and saw as it entered the cornfield, with them only a few yards behind. They found it difficult to keep track of the wounded alien in the thick corn, but managed to stay on its trail. The sound of rustling corn filled their ears. They reached a crop circle in the corn, obviously having been created by the alien's two or so weeks prior, it seemed to be roughly 200 feet across. They watched as the alien desperately limped through the circle, and it was clear that it was making its way towards the wooded area just beyond the corn. At the end of the circle, K stopped, bent over and exhausted.

"Kid, I gotta take a breather," K gasped, "I'll catch up." J nodded and continued into the corn after the alien. J reached the end of the cornfield and into the wooded area; he stopped and looked into the woods, and saw the alien making a mad dash right into the heart of it just a few feet ahead. The woods weren't quite dense, but they appeared to stretch over a long distance, and J knew the sun would be setting in a couple of hours.

"Aw damn." J uttered to himself as he chased after the alien into the woods. There had better not be another 50 of these guys waiting to get me in here. He thought nervously as he ran through the woods after the wounded alien. For several moments, all that could be heard was the hurried footsteps of J and the alien, paired with both of their heavy breathing. J found a comfort zone 10 feet or so behind the alien, he knew he could keep on its tail, but he wouldn't have to smell it, there was something unnerving about the sour smell the alien produced. After a short time, the alien appeared to suddenly disappear into the ground, J sprinted to see what was happening, only to realize that there was a very large clearing, and in the middle of the clearing was a very large crater. The alien's descent into the crater gave it the illusion of being sucked into the ground from a distance. J looked down into the crater, and heard a noise comparable to that of the opening of a city bus's doors. A black rectangle appeared in the crater, the alien climbed into it, and J realized it was a doorway, a doorway into one of the alien's invisible ships! J couldn't believe it; they had actually found one of the ships. He had actually found one of the alien ships. The doorway disappeared with the same hiss it made when it opened. Moments later, K arrived, panting and exhausted.

"Did you lose it?" K gasped, bending over slightly, grabbing his knees.

"Well naw, I mean, uh, damn, it's just -" J blubbered in nervous surprise.

"Spit it out, kid." K said, slightly annoyed and very out of breath.

"Just uh, look." J said, bending over to pick up a rock. He picked a rock of medium size off the ground and hurled it into the crater, it made a loud clanging noise as it hit the top of the invisible ship and slid off the side.

"You did it, slick." K said in surprise. "You found one of their ships." J and K tried their best to maneuver down the crater without falling down; they faltered a few times, but never fully fell. When they reached the bottom of the crater, J pointed to where the doorway had appeared.

"So uh, there was like this uh, swishy sound and this doorway appeared right here." J explained. "And then he walked into it and it uh, closed up." K gestured towards where J had pointed.

"So right there?" Queried K.

"Yeah." J answered.

"Alright." K said simply, he pulled his silver weapon out. It gleamed a bit in the late afternoon light that cracked through the trees. He adjusted the weapon's settings. "You uh, might want to step aside, slick." K warned. J stepped next to K. He aimed his weapon, and squeezed the trigger, resulting in a brilliant blue flash. The blast hit its mark, with a loud bang accompanied by a dazzling small explosion, the invisible door was blown into oblivion and the dark, rectangular doorway was revealed. Being closer, J realized that the doorway was impressively tall, twelve feet at least. K approached the doorway, while J remained stationary. K, just a couple of feet from the doorway, glanced over to J.

"You coming, slick?" K asked.

"Man, this is bullshit. If we go in there, none of us are comin' out." J argued defensively.

"Well I'm going," K started, "and if you make me go in there all by myself, how do you expect me to come out at all?" J rolled his eyes and let out a sigh, walking slowly towards the doorway.

"Fine." he said unhappily as K walked into the doorway, J close behind. "But this is still bullshit."