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Tom's POV
As soon as Lucy was taken, the aliens started a war they could not win. I'm might not be the biggest and strongest of guys, but if you mess with Lucy, prepare for an ass kicking from me. Rickey smirked at us as he locked the door to the basement, swallowing the key. I hope he chokes.
"You have lost. And now the invasion will begin." he said darkly. I stepped forwards, keeping the others behind me.
"Invasion? You mean there's more of you guys coming?" Lee asked. Rickey's glare deepened and he began marching towards us.
"Many more. And we will crush you like bugs." he said.
"Not if we crush you first!" I shouted at him, only to be pushed roughly in the chest by him.
"I will not be beaten by children!" he then stopped and looked pointedly at me, a sick look on his face. "Any more signs of aggression and the ones you call Jake…and Lucy, will be eliminated." that pushed me over the edge. I leaped at Rickey, my fist flying straight into his nose. I was met with a hard punch to my eye that sent me spiralling back into the others, landing heavily with my back on the floor. My head swam as the lights began to mix in with the colours of the ceiling.
Hannah was by me in an instant and she cringed when she took a look at my eye, which I knew was going to have a nice bruise surrounding it in only a few minutes. What's a battle without war wounds. Hannah glared up at Rickey, stomping her foot loudly which snapped me out of my little daze.
"I want Snuggle-Lump back!" she demanded.
"That's it! Time to Die!" Rickey growled, glaring at us. As I was pushing myself back into a standing position I shot Art and look. He nodded, raising Nana's controller.
"Richard, you remember Nana?" Nana walked forwards.
"Game on!" Lee said through her.
"Game over!" Rickey grunted, cracking his knuckles. In the time it took me to blink, Nana and Rickey were locked in what looked like a mortal combat level from one of Art and Lee's video games. There were punches, kicks, flips and knockdowns and even Chinese getups. At one point I had to stop Hannah from trying to rush in and help Nana. It was when Rickey knocked Nana down did I spot the fat alien.
"He's on the light! Send Nana after him!" I ordered.
"Lee flying's your speciality!" Art yelled, chucking him the controller. With a back flip up the stairs, Nana dodged a charge from Rickey before sliding down the banister, leaping off and kicking the light as she flipped through the air. This managed to distract the alien long enough for Nana to unleash her full fury on Rickey, which I watched with much enjoyment.
It was only when Bethany walked in through the front door did Nana manage to knock Rickey's mind control chip from the back of his neck, resulting in a girlish scream from Rickey.
"Rickey?" Bethany shrieked. Rickey looked around.
"What the…?" he noticed Nana standing beside him, a glare on her face.
"Nana?" he asked, only to be replied with a flying kick to his nose that sent him flying backwards, straight through the basement door. Well that solves one problem. Bethany screamed as he crashed through the door, then screamed louder when the alien dangled down from the light.
"Yes! Scream human! For your species ends tonight!" he cackled happily before running off to the basement. Bethany stared at him.
"What the heck was that thing?" she cried.
"Space alien." I answered with no hesitation, ignoring the look she gave me. "To much to explain." I finished.
"We think they're here to destroy the world as we know it." Art stated simply, adding a small shrug.
"Come on! If we don't get downstairs we and Lucy are goanna be in real trouble." I stated, about to head for the basement when my mom rounded the corner.
"I'd say that's the understatement of the century!" she cried. I backed up, not needing this right now. Dad looked between us and Nana.
"Mom? Are you ok?" he asked. I quickly looked at the twins and Art shut Nana off. She stumbled slightly, looking around.
"Wha?…How?…oh I need a glass of water." she mumbled walking off. Mom watched her walk off before turning on me.
"Ok someone needs to start talking. It looks like you had a battle royal in here!" she demanded. I shared a look with Hannah and the twins.
"We did. Nana vs. Rickey." Hannah quipped from beside me.
"Not now Hannah." mom snapped.
"Dad it's not what it looks like." I tried, hoping he'd listen. No such luck.
"All of you, upstairs. Now!" he ordered.
"But uncle Stu it wasn't our fault." Lee tried. He just glared at me.
"Now." just like that I felt all of my hope, strength and willpower leave me. Lucy was gone and no matter what I did I couldn't help her. With a heavy sigh I headed towards the stairs, feeling my shame double as I caught the disappointed looks the twins and Hannah sent me.
All I knew was that I had failed Lucy.
We all sat in the room with the busted door. Hannah was hugging her sock monkey tightly to her chest while the twins just stared at the ground.
"I'm sorry guys. It's over." I mumbled sadly. I wasn't concentrating on them though, all I could think about was Lucy. She was alone in the basement and was being threatened by the aliens. "She must be so scared." I whispered quietly to myself. I felt a hand on mine and turned to see Hannah. I knew she meant well, but it wasn't the same as whenever Lucy would take it to calm me down. I heard footsteps as Bethany marched into the room.
"Over? It better not be over?" she demanded before staring down at the door she had walked over. "Rickey is still down there with that…space rodent!" she yelled.
"You don't get it." I stated, glaring up at her. "A whole fleet of those guys are about to invade." I didn't care though.
"Well man up and deal with it!" she shouted and I broke, my grief finally getting the better of me. I stood up sharply facing her.
"I have been! All day! And all that I got out of it was having Lucy taken from me!" I shouted at her. She looked a little surprised.
"Lucy's gone?" she asked and I nodded, ducking my head down. I would not cry in front of these guys.
"Well if he's to scared maybe you guys can help me?" she asked, taking her eyes off me.
"Not without Tom." Lee said simply.
"Why not?" Bethany demanded and I looked at them too, wondering why.
"Because he's our leader." Art finished.
"Come on," Lee said, standing up. "It's not just Rickey. Jake needs your help too."
"And Snuggles." Hannah offered. I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned to look into Bethany's eyes.
"And Lucy." she said.
"And like everyone on earth. Including our parents." Art finished. I looked at all of them. They really had that much faith in me? I smiled, grabbing my potato gun.
"Alright lets go save the planet. And your dumb old boyfriend." I said looking at Bethany. She smirked back.
"And your dumb new girlfriend." I blushed as I led them downstairs. When we reached the busted basement door I reached in through the window, opening the door from the other side. It banged open and we filed in, me in front with my potato gun ready.
As we headed down the steps everything seemed to be eerily quiet, everyone alert to everything. When we reached the bottom, I could see the floor had been completely dug up.
"There goes the deposit." I mumbled, earning a chuckle from Art. "Lucy? Lucy?" I called. No answer. Nothing at all. I could hear Bethany breathing heavily behind me.
"Do you want monkey? He's good luck." Hannah asked her.
"I'm fine." Bethany answered before a bang made her grab the monkey and hold it to her chest tightly.
"Stay close. They could be anywhere." I warned quietly as I walked on, grabbing a flashlight. When we reached the hole, Lee, Art and I walked to the edge, me shinning the flashlight into the hole. When everything seemed like it was just rock, something moved.
Lee screamed and tried to back away, pushing Art into the hole in the process. He landed with a thud and a head shot up, his screaming muffled by the bandana around his mouth.
"It's Jake!" he cried. We quickly helped him out of the hole, sitting him under one of the lights. As soon as we pulled off his gag he started to speak.
"Those Jerkonian's tied me up, dragged Snuggles and Lucy outside!" he informed, shaking the rubble from his hair. "This vacation really sucks." he grumbled as we untied him.
"What about Lucy? Is she ok?" I asked. Jake looked at me apologetically.
"Sorry man, I didn't know she was down here until the fat one ordered them to take her outside. Something about a bargaining chip." he said. I sighed, slamming my fist down on a bench. "Tom." I turned back to Jake. "I saw her face. She's got three nasty scratches on her cheek." he added. I felt my fury boil over at the mention of Lucy being hurt.
"We'll get her back Tom." Bethany said soothingly, rubbing my back for comfort. I smiled sadly at her, glad for her comfort.
"Did you see the machine?" I asked, trying to get some answers.
"Yeah, like you said. They stashed it here years ago. Some idiot built the house smack on top of it." he said, struggling out of his bonds.
"Guys! Guys I found Rickey!" Bethany called from a corner. She helped him up as he started to come too, only to jump back when he freaked out and leapt up.
"I know it's been a really weird day but you have to let me explain." she asked quickly. Rickey halted by the stairs.
"Ok. Explain why I keep blacking out, I'm bleeding and why your grandma did a flying ninja kick on my face down the stairs." he demanded, his voice rising. Bethany nodded and I knew she was preparing herself for the worst.
"We're fighting…space aliens. They're small but dangerous and really scary." she reasoned.
"Oh yeah of course. I believe you why wouldn't I?" Rickey said naturally and I knew he didn't believe us. "Bethany why do you wanna waste our time playing hide and seek with your stupid brother, his ugly ass girlfriend and your dumb little cousins?" he grumbled, pointing at us as we finished freeing Jake. I felt hands on my shoulders as I started forwards, Jake holding me back from kicking Rickey's ass. Bethany seemed to share my anger as she glared at Rickey.
"Don't talk about my family like that." she said in a too calm voice. Rickey scoffed.
"Well you don't have to worry about that, cause we're done. I should have stayed home and hooked up with Annie Filkins. She's smoking' hot and doesn't like talking about feelings all the time." what Rickey couldn't see was that Bethany was smirking at him. "I'm going straight to Annie's." he finished before stumbling up the steps, holding his back in pain. I walked forwards, noting Bethany's expression.
"I'm really sorry." I offered. She smiled.
"Don't be. You were right all along." I smiled back, before it turned into a smirk.
"So Lucy's family now?" I asked. She rolled her eyes.
"Yeah whatever. The little twerp grew on me." she chuckled. I smiled at my sister, glad that she had finally accepted my best friend.
"Well if it's any consolation, he won't be going straight to Annie's." I said as I pulled out the spark plug Lucy had seen him drop. Bethany laughed.
"Nice."
"Don't thank me, thank Lucy." I said, clutching it tightly. Bethany's eyes softened.
"I will, when we find her." she said and I smiled appreciatively back.
"Guys enough of the sibling bounding we're at death con one here." Jake said, breaking into our brother sister moment and pointing out the window. We could see lights flashing all around outside. How are the grown ups not noticing this? We could see Sparks as he reluctantly built the machine up, the ugly alien pushing him when he kept stopping. The machine was huge. It had long crescent shaped spikes that rose up and bent over the top. Each were glowing, looking like big luminescent teeth.
"Oh my god! They're forcing him to build it." Art said. I could see a shape lying a little way away. It was curled into a ball and was shaking violently.
"There's Lucy!" I shouted, pointing to her.
"Is she alright?" Jake asked. "She looks like she's having a seizer." he sounded panicked.
"Don't worry, it's nothing serious. She just has loneliness issues and shuts down when she's left alone for to long. I can snap her out of it." I said, Bethany nodding to confirm.
"What is that? How do you take over the world with that?" Bethany asked.
"I really don't wanna find out." I grumbled, looking around for anything that could help. "We gotta stop them before their fleet arrives." I said.
"Fleet?" Jake asked, looking a little worried.
"This is just the advanced team." I clarified, sending his scared look into full blown terrified.
"We have to rescue Snuggle-Lump." Hannah said.
"Snuggle-what?" Bethany asked.
"Lump, the four armed fella. He's on our side. The other three, not so much." Lee clarified.
"This is so not happening." Bethany grumbled. I nodded at her before looking back outside. Lucy was still shaking, the glow from the machine lighting up her face. I could see the three wide scratch marks on her cheek and the grim that coated her skin and hair. But most of all I could see the fear in her wide blue eyes.
"We gotta get out there. Now!" I demanded, heading for the door. I felt Jake grab my arm.
"Wait!" he said and I turned on him.
"There's no time!" I said struggling.
"Just wait a second. Did Nana give anyone mentos?" we all stared at him. "Come on cough em' up!" he demanded and we all fished into our pockets, pulling out the minty sweets.
"What we're goanna throw candy at them?" Bethany asked. Jake grinned.
"No, just my own little science experiment." we all watched as he disappeared upstairs, coming back two minutes later with some tape and five bottles of cola. He then set to work, emptying some of the cola out and sticking some mentos on tape to the lid before closing them again.
"Mentos bomb. You're a genius!" I exclaimed as he set the last one down. He grinned before picking one up. I followed suit, picking up one while Art, Lee and Bethany picked up the last three.
We all headed to the garden entrance to the basement, each carrying some form of weapon. I held up my fingers, counting down from five. Together we all threw our bottles then leaped out from our spot, charging at the aliens. We watched as the bottles slammed into the aliens, soaking them with cola and blinding them. I watched one bottle hit the ugly alien right in the head. Jake ran to him but I headed straight for Lucy, throwing my self down beside her to roll her onto her back.
"Lucy! Lucy it's me Tom!" I called as she just stared at me. I had to snap her out of her fright induced trance. "Come on Lucy, you know me. Tom, you're best friend for five years who would never let anything bad happen to you if he could help it!" I cried. She blinked before her face relaxed.
"Tom? What the hell happened to your eye?" she screeched as she sat bolt upright. I laughed as I took her face gently in my hands.
"My face? What about you? Are you alright?" I asked. She smiled and laughed too.
"Yeah just a scratch. Or three." she corrected. I don't think I've ever loved her more then in this moment, even if she is covered in mud, bruises and scratches.
"Tom! He's out cold!" Jake shouted, examining the ugly alien. I looked around. Everyone was fighting. Bethany was locking the girl alien in a garbage bin, yelling about how you should never mess with a girl that just got dumped.
Hannah was holding Sparks closely to her, his four arms encircling her completely. I looked around and noticed the fat alien standing up. He started coming towards us, his eyes flashing with fury. I grabbed my potato gun, shielding Lucy with my body as she clutched at my shirt.
"Get off my planet you little green son of a-" I was cut off as I pressed the trigger, the sound of the potato knocking the alien onto his own machine covering my voice. We all watched as the lights flashed brighter, multiple rays surrounding the alien and lifting him up before he was thrown of into the trees. It took us a second to realise that he was gone and we all started cheering.
"Weakness! We found the weakness! It's there own death ray!" Lee shouted as he ran towards the others, Art and Jake shouting similar things as they followed. I smiled as I held Lucy to me, her head tucked under my chin and her arms locked securely around my shoulders while mine were wrapped tightly around her waist.
While the others were talking, I looked down at her.
"Lucy, I have to tell you now that I lov-" I was cut off by Hannah who was yelling at
us to listen to Sparks, who was yelling frantically at us.
"So not sweet! So not sweet! Machine molecule expand! Make commander! Make commander big!" he shouted as he pointed at the trees. We looked up in time to see the fat alien emerge from behind the trees, knocking them over and laughing down at us.
"Who's little now? Earth maggots!" he laughed.
"You're goanna need a bigger potato." Jake murmured to me. So not the time for jokes.
"Pretty cool huh? It's over! I win!" he said before turning and walking off.
"Where's he going?" Art asked.
"Anywhere he wants." Bethany breathed from over my shoulder. All at once everyone started to panic, talking about what we're goanna do. I walked forwards, feeling like my world had come crashing down. This was my fault. If I hadn't of shot the potato then he would never have got in the machine. I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned to see Lucy staring at me with determined eyes.
"This isn't over." she said. I gave her an 'are you kidding me?' look.
"And how do you suppose we stop that?" I asked, pointing at the 50ft alien. She smirked, bending down to pick up the ugly ones gun.
"I heard them talking. This works on them too." she grinned. My eyes widened.
"Lucy you're a genius!" I seemed to be saying that a lot today. I quickly turned to the others. "Everyone listen, we don't have much time." they all looked at me expectantly. "Sparks, can anything go in that machine?"
"Theoretically." he stammered. I smiled.
"Good. Art, Lee I'm goanna need a controller. Bethany your on alien lockdown." all three nodded at me. "Jake come one! This battles not over yet." I said, grabbing the gun from Lucy and throwing it in the machine.
"What about me?" Lucy asked. I shook my head.
"No. You've been through enough today." I said. She raised her eyebrow at me.
"That's code for I'm following you then." she smirked. I knew she wouldn't just sit by. I smiled.
"Yeah pretty much." we were broken from our thoughts by the machine spitting out the gun. We ran after it, me reaching it and picking it up first.
"Cool! You super sized it!" Jake said, carrying my potato gun. I grinned as we ran after the alien, stopping by some telephone poles. "You need a clean shot at his neck." I nodded looking up at the telephone poles. I felt my stomach twist uneasily, knowing it was the only way.
"I'm going up." I said. Lucy grabbed my arm.
"There's no way you can climb that thing." she said. I smiled weakly.
"Come on. Have a little faith." I said before I started to climb. I was about halfway up when I felt a foot on my ankle. I looked down to see Lucy climbing up after me.
"Come on! Hurry up!" she shouted. I grinned. She was the best, best friend ever! The ground shook as we climbed, so violently that Lucy nearly lost her grip on the pole. She grabbed my foot to steady herself. I felt my head go light as I wobbled uneasily before I carried on. Lights lit up the sky, halting our climb as we stared.
"Oh my god they're beacons!" Jake shouted. "He's calling the invasion." I climbed faster, fuelled by our lack of time. Now the grown ups had to notice that. I was met by a firework bursting in the sky. Idiots!
"I got it! Tom! Tom I found it!" Lee shouted as ii reached the top, helping Lucy to come a sit beside me. I turned to the alien, aiming the gun. He was facing me.
"Get him to turn around!" I shouted down to Jake. He nodded before running at the alien, firing at him with the potato gun. The alien turned to him as the potatoes hit him on the back of the head. He tried vainly to step on Jake, who just jumped out the way easily.
"Tom take the shot!" he shouted. I tried but every time it looked like I could get him, he moved and his collar covered his neck.
"His collar's still in the way!" I shouted down at him. He suddenly looked alarmed.
"Tom! Tom the ugly one got big! Hurry!" both me and Lucy turned to see the ugly one coming towards us. Lucy gripped my arm tightly as it glared at us. I felt myself sweating and my vision swam. I couldn't concentrate, I was to high up. I turned to Lucy, feeling panicked as I tried to hand her the gun.
"Lucy you do it. I can't it's to high I-" I was cut off by her hand hitting my cheek.
"Yes you can Tom! I believe in you!" she yelled before pressing her lips to mine. I had never felt such a feeling in all my life. If we were under different circumstances I would wrap my arms around her and never let her go. She pulled away and smiled. I responded with a goofy expression before turning to the alien, narrowing my eyes as I stared at the aliens collar.
"50 yards. Angle over arch equals velocity squared times distance. 45 degrees." I concluded tilting the gun up and firing the shot.
"What was that?" Jake shouted. The plug fired through the air before arching down and hitting the fat alien right on target, sending him down to the ground.
"You messed with the wrong mathlete." I smirked.
"Yes!" Lucy cried, hugging me tightly. Even now I blushed. But that quickly went away when I realised that the ugly alien was still coming at us. I dropped the gun and pressed Lucy against the pole, wrapping my arms around her and closing my eyes against her hair.
Just when I thought the alien was goanna grab me, I heard a resounding thump followed by a surprised yelp. I opened my eyes to see the fat alien fighting with the ugly one, who looked a little confused.
"Commander?" he asked as Art continued to make him fight. Me and Lucy quickly climbed down, me not even registering the height as I shimmied down behind Lucy.
"Sparks! Reverse the machine!" I shouted at him. He nodded before heading towards it, Hannah following. Me and Lucy ran at Art and Lee, who looked to be having trouble as the fat alien failed to respond to the controller.
"Nothings working!" Lee shouted as he randomly flicked the toggles.
"Give it to me." Lucy shouted, taking it from his hands before lifting her knee. The fat alien promptly lifted his knee, smacking the ugly alien right between the legs. He flinched as he clutched himself. I stared at Lucy, who just looked proud of herself.
"Oh crude…" Art started.
"…but affective." Lee finished. Note to self, when you ask Lucy out, watch out for her right knee.
"That was awesome!" Jake cried as he caught up to us. Lucy grinned at him before her eyes drifted over to Bethany, who was walking towards us. I followed and saw what she spotted. The girl alien was up and running at her, ready to strike. In a second Lucy was off, running at Bethany.
"Lucy stop!" I shouted, running after her while the others watched the alien. But I was to slow.
Everything seemed to slow down as Lucy pushed Bethany out the way, taking the female aliens hit right in her stomach before she threw herself and the alien to the ground. The alien seemed surprised, lashing out at Lucy with a harsh kick to her temple that knocked her out cold.
"Lucy!" I shouted, throwing myself down beside her and cradling her in my arms. The girl alien seemed surprised, halting her attack and just staring at us.
"You care more for her life then your own." she said quietly. I glared at her. She looked back over at the ugly alien with a longing expression.
"Tommy he's done!" Hannah shouted over to me. I took the controller from Lucy's lifeless hand and flicked the toggle, making the fat alien tackle the ugly one back into the machine, causing part of it to shrivel and break as it shrunk them. They both lay there lifelessly as the machine started to click, spark and whirr. The female alien ran towards the machine, slinging the ugly aliens arm over her shoulder and leading him away. The machine started to flash and glow brighter, shrinking in on itself as a ball of the glowing stuff started to form.
I pulled Lucy closer to me, shielding her body with mine as the machine exploded, completely destroying itself. I felt a burning sensation on my shoulder, me and Lucy being quite close to the machine. I shut my eyes against the pain, Lucy being more important to me. When the light cleared, everyone ran into a group, staring up at the sky.
"What about the others?" I heard Bethany yell. I looked up at the sky to see more ships, little pods coming out of them. I gripped Lucy tighter, determined to keep her safe. I didn't know if she was alright but I wasn't about to let anyone touch her. I couldn't hear what was going on with the others, but I could see Sparks talking into his watch. Suddenly the ships started to retreat. I sighed in relief but my attention quickly went back to Lucy, who still wasn't moving.
"Lucy?" I said quietly. She didn't move. The hit to her temple had caused some bleeding, the blood washing over her cheek. I wiped at it gently. "Please Lucy. Please wake up." I chocked gently. Carefully I leaned down, pressing my lips to hers. I know it sounds stupid and cliché but it was all I could think of.
I pulled back but she was still, not even batting an eyelash.
"Tom?" I heard someone say. I turned to see Hannah behind me, clutching Bethany's hand. "Is Lucy ok?" I stared at her, tears in my eyes. Bethany came and sat beside me, clutching my hand tightly.
"You did everything you could." she said soothingly. I shook my head, burying it in her shoulder as I cried.
"I love her." I sobbed. Bethany stroked my hair. I suddenly felt Hannah shake my shoulder.
"Tommy! Tommy I think she's waking up!" I instantly looked down to see Lucy's eyes fluttering. They opened slowly.
"Hey." she breathed.
"Hey." I chocked out in relief. Her eyebrows scrunched together when she saw to see everyone looking down at her.
"What did I miss?" she asked in a softer voice. I laughed, holding her closer.
"Nothing much." I chuckled as I leaned down, pressing my lips to hers. Her hand sifted into my hair, pulling me closer to her. I smiled into the kiss.
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