(A/N: So, just thought to remind you folks, this isn't part of the main Sabrina the Animated Series continuity. Because of that, some of the plot points might be changed to enhance the story or just so it'll be tolerable for us to do this. If you don't like any of these changes, then watch the show in its original status, for we decided to change things. If you do continue, either you like our content or you ignore these warnings. Regardless, enjoy.)
Aaron's P.O.V.-Thursday, Random School Bus towards the Greendale Observatory
"I'm surprise we have an observatory," I say, sitting next in between Sabrina and Chloe as the other students were throwing paper balls at each other.
"I would be as surprised as you are, but then again, you never lived with Quigley. Ever since he got told he had gotten the job while we were in Manhattan, he never shut up about it." Sabrina complained, before turning towards Harvey and Pi.
"Harvey, what aspect of astronomy will you be writing your report on?" she asked.
"Too...many...coming too fast! Must...stay focused...to save Earth," Harvey said, playing his video game.
"Sure, when I play games, I get in trouble. When Harvey does it, he gets off scot-free?" I asked, annoyed.
"Ground control to captain Harv! Come in, captain Kinkles!" Sabrina shouted, annoyed at Harvey too.
"Huh? What?" Harvey asked, before the sounds of his game brought his attention back to it again. "Nuts, I was about to get to level 2. I only had the leader of the Zanshubi battle saucers to plasma blast," Harvey lamented.
"Wait, you're playing Plasma Blasting Zanshubians? If that was a skill, then you wouldn't be in junior high and go straight to space." Sabrina said with a eyeroll.
"You know, if they want Harvey," I added.
"Uh, sorry? Did you say something, earthlings? I mean, Sabrina?" Harvey asked, focused on his game, and flat-out ignoring Sabrina and me.
"Yes. Your astronomy paper?" Sabrina asked.
"The reason why we're even on this trip to an observatory I have no idea about?" I add.
Right at that moment, Gem put her hands on the back of Harvey and Pi's seat and stood up. "Well, Spellman and my sweet Aaron, I know what I'm gonna base my paper on. How Virgos, which include moi, and Scorpios make a perfect love match. Why, you're a Scorpio, aren't you, Harvey?" Gem asked.
"Horoscopes are astrology, Gem, not astronomy. We're not studying birth signs, we're studying stars." Sabrina points out.
"Plus, even if we were, I'm a Leo, so you and me are not compatible," I add, causing Gem to sit back down, pouting while Harvey went back to his game.
"You know, you should say hi to Quigley. And while you do that, you should give a apology gift to Salem," a familiar, and unwelcome voice, said from Sabrina's backpack.
"Sabrina, your backpack is haunted." I said.
"Either that, or the mayo in my tuna sandwich is way past its expiration date," Sabrina said, before we shrugged and say, "Definitely possessed."
I pulled out a sock from my backpack and swung it around for a moment.
"Aaron, why do you have a sock in your backpack?" Sabrina asked.
"It's no ordinary sock. It's a butter sock." I explained as I hit the backpack, causing it to yelp in pain.
"...I'm not gonna ask why you would put butter in a sock," Sabrina said, just as her backpack opened and the owner of the voice glared at us.
"Who's the genius who decided to whack me with a brick?" Salem demanded, rubbing the sore spot on his head where I just hit him.
"One, it's not a brick, it's a butter sock. And two, what are you doing here? Last I checked, obedience school is on the other side of town," I said.
"Now, there's no need to be rude. As for how I got here, well, I just remember stumbling into this backpack, I-I recall a chewing sound and the rest is tragically blank. Mainly due to being hit by a sock filled with butter." Salem said, frowning at me.
"Yeah, right. Like a blankety blank cat whose breath and motives are fishy. Just stay out of sight until the field trip is over, Salem. Then I'll deal with you about this so-call 'apology gift' I supposedly owe you," Sabrina said, annoyed as she pushed Salem back into the backpack and closed it. "Can't believe you ate my sandwich," she added.
"Complaining about your sandwich being gone? Must be full of baloney, just like you, Spellman!" Gem mocked, as everyone laughed.
"At least I'm not hammy, like you," Sabrina snapped back, causing everyone to laugh at Gem.
"Argh, I'll get even with you, Spellman!" Gem declared, sitting back in her seat.
"Nice one," I told Sabrina, fist bumping her.
Ten minutes later-Greendale Observatory
"On your right is a recreation of how the surface of the Moon appeared to the Apollo 11 astronauts. The first humans to leave footprints in the lunar dust," a guide said as Sabrina and I walked around.
"First humans is right. In my day, we just call the Moon 'Planet Kitty Litter'. We left behind more than footprints, believe me." Salem told us.
"How about no. First off, even I know you can't travel to space with your limited magic, and no one would send a cat to space, so that's a bold-face lie. And two, you lost my trust," Sabrina said.
"Not to mention that everytime you open your mouth, only lies and insults come out of your mouth," I stated.
"And you're better, Mr. I'm Gonna Emotionally Manipulated My Friend?" Salem asked.
"At least he made up for that," Sabrina said coldly.
"In more ways than one." I add, glancing down at the spot where The Spirit's spell burned through my insides, which killed me(though I got better, obviously).
Before Salem could protest more about why he should be forgiven by Sabrina, Harvey walked passed us, still playing his game.
"Wow, isn't this observatory fascinating, Harv? Uh, Harv?" Sabrina asked.
"Galaxy savior, the name is Kinkles. Ha-ha-ha. Here, let me open a can of whoop-ass, dried for you, space fiend!" Harvey shouted, playing his game.
"Harvey's missing the cool tour of this observatory all because of that stupid game," Sabrina said.
"Not to mention he's not getting any work done while swearing. ...Is it Opposite Day today, or is Harvey trying to steal my job?" I asked as Sabrina, who was taking a sip of her water, did a spit-take.
"WHAT?!" Sabrina cried out.
"Yeah. I'm usually the one who's swearing and vibrating," I say.
"When are you vibrating?" Sabrina asked.
"Right now," I said, as my whole body started vibrating.
"You're lucky the principal isn't the chaperone of this fieldtrip," Sabrina said.
Meanwhile-Principal/mayor's P.O.V.-Greendale Middle School, Principal's Office
"Finally, got that motivational poster up," the principal said, looking at the poster that said, 'Stay calm and throw your authority in everyone's faces'.
Suddenly, her phone vibrated.
"Shit, I swore I put my phone on vibrate." The principal said, taking out her phone and answering it.
"What is it?!" she asked.
"...Um, wrong number." Sabrina's voice said on the other end before hanging up, causing the principal to be dumbfounded.
How did Sabrina Spellman, of all people, got her number by mistake?
The principal checked her caller I.D.
Correction: How did the son of Jake Dimension, playboy satanist, got her phone number by mistake?
Aaron's P.O.V.-Greendale Observatory
"Guess that answer the question of why I was vibrating," I said as Sabrina put my iPod, which was the cause of the vibrations, back in my pockets.
"Yeah," Sabrina said, while zapping Harvey's game.
"Hey, what the-Can't stop now. Must save Earth!" Harvey said as the game turned off, like the batteries ran out.
"Wow, that's pure genius," I said.
"Thanks," Sabrina said, blowing on her fingers before walking up to Harvey. I followed after her because, duh, we're friends.
"Looks like your batteries wore out," Sabrina said.
"Huh? What? The batteries? Where are we?" Harvey asked.
"Harvey, are you serious? We're at the Greendale Observatory to do a astronomy paper. You know, like the teachers told us when we were getting on the bus?" I said.
"Yeah, Harv. You should join us here, on Planet Reality. Here, I'll hold this until we find some more batteries," Sabrina said, taking Harvey's game system and putting it in her backpack, ignoring Salem's cry of pain as it hit him on the head.
"But, batteries. Uh, yeah. Sabrina and Aaron, friend and traitor. Like, depend ponies," Harvey said.
"Harvey, this is why you shouldn't play too much video games. ...Great, now I sound like those cheesy PSAs from the 1900s with the cartoon characters," I say with a face-palm.
"Nonsense. I have never been, but, better. M-Mommy?" Harvey said in his new odd dialogue.
"Harvey, it's time your face meets cold water to refresh yourself," Sabrina sighed out as she and I dragged Harvey with us.
Five minutes later
"Sorry I was so nutty back there, Sabrina. My dad calls it 'The Face'. It's my game face. When I play my Gadget Guy, it's like I can't think of anything but what I'm concentrating on," Harvey said.
"Doesn't explain why you call me a traitor, or why you're ignoring me," I said as a kid, who broke one of the exhibits, tried to run away, but got caught by one of the staff members.
"Yeah, Harvey. I noticed that too," Sabrina points out.
"Um, well, that's easy. You didn't stick up to the fact that the Care Bears are real and made me a laughing stock," Harvey said with a smirk.
"Harvey, you've forgotten that I also told everyone that they don't exist, so that means you also have a problem with me," Sabrina said.
"Wha- No, of course not!" Harvey said.
"Good, then stop ignoring Aaron, or else." Sabrina said sweetly, yet with a undertone of a threat that Harvey got.
"Y-Y-Yes, Sabrina. Sorry, Aaron," Harvey said.
"I'll accept it...this time." I told him.
"Anyways, since we're here, Sabrina, why not we go see Quigley?" Harvey asked.
"I rather not. We have some issues," Sabrina said.
"Come on, we might brighten up his day," Harvey persisted and before we have the chance to protest, he dragged us to the map of the observatory.
"Fine, since you want us to see Quigley," Sabrina said to Harvey, as Salem's muffled cheer came from her backpack, "according to the map, we are here. And Quigley's office is in Section-Section," Sabrina said, pulling out more of the map, revealing Quigley's office. "Man, Quigley's office is deeper than a monologue on Dawson's Creek." Sabrina finished.
"No matter. Let's go there!" Harvey declared, dragging Sabrina and me with him.
Soon, we entered Quigley's office, which only had one huge computer. "Wow, this office is more bland than a supply closet." I stated.
"Well, hello Harvey, Sabrina. Aaron." Quigley said, happy when saying Harvey's name and sounding disappointed when saying Sabrina and my names.
"Welcome to my top-secret project." Quigley told us.
"What exactly is it? Because all I see is a giant computer," I said.
"The computer is it. It's the Search For Outer Space Intelligence Thingies. I'm beaming a message of Earth greetings to deep space and hoping for a response," Quigley said, turning on the computer. Oh, sorry, I meant to say S.F.O.S.I.T.
After statics, Quigley appeared on the screen. "I am Quigley of Planet Earth. Greetings. This message may take over 100 light years to reach your planet. Hopefully, we foolish humans won't destroy our own planet by then. Heh. Please feel free to respond." The message ended.
"You do realize light years measure distances, not time?" I asked.
"Aaron, of course light years measure time. You don't know it because you're not a scientist," Quigley said, looking pretty smug with himself for putting down someone he views is a bad influence on his great-niece(AKA, me).
"So, you're trying to be an intergalactic talk host?" Sabrina asked, a bit sarcastic.
"Cool, Quigley. Don't forget to be arrogant and rude to callers. Talk radio audiences expect that," Harvey said, only for Sabrina to elbow him in the guts.
"Don't give him any more ideas of how to act around everyone," she angrily hissed in his ears.
"I'm afraid Quigleg's phone line haven't been burning up the switchboards, Harvey." Quigley said, sitting down in his chair.
"No collect calls from Mars, huh?" Sabrina asked sarcastically.
"Afraid not. Sometimes, I fear I'm becoming a laughingstock in the scientific community. But thanks for showing concern, Sabrina," Quigley said, somehow not understanding sarcasm and believing Sabrina was concerned for his 'phone host' project.
Seriously, screw Latin class! We need a class for sarcasm, given how it's a dying language.
"Don't be ridiculous, Quigley! Me, Sabrina and Aaron support you 100%!" Harvey declared as Sabrina and I glared at Harvey.
Before we can say our protests, Quigley's phone rang, which he press the speaker button.
"Professor Quigley, there's a call on line 1. It's some members of the scientific community." A female voice said on speaker.
"Oh, uh, ahem," Quigley cleared his throat before picking up the phone handset and bringing it to his ear and mouth.
"Um, hello?" he asked, followed by laughing on the other end.
"This should be sad, but I find it ironic that this happened as soon as Quigley mentioned it," I whispered to Sabrina.
"Yeah. Do you brought the popcorn?" she asked.
"No. Didn't thought something like this would've happened today," I admitted.
"God dang it," Sabrina muttered to herself as Quigley hang up the phone with a sad frown on his face.
"Well, while you won't be a laughingstock in our eyes, we better get back to our school tour," Harvey said, causing Quigley to smile.
"See you at home, Quigley," Sabrina said, as she, Harvey and I began to leave the room. Just as we exit through the door, Quigley must had picked up the phone again, because the laughing resumed.
Five minutes later-random hallway
"Did you two saw the look on Quigley's face?" Harvey asked us as we walked down the hallway.
"The look of depression? I'm all to familiar with that one, Harv. I wore the same look when my mom died and my dad didn't want to talk about her," Sabrina states.
"Or maybe because his phone host idea is really dumb?" I asked.
"First of all, Aaron, the idea isn't dumb, and you know it!" Harvey shouted, pointing his finger at me.
Okay, confession time. You all remember how I acted before the whole Manhattan adventure, right? Kind of being a dick, treating Sabrina like dirt regardless of her actions and in general, kinda thinking about myself?(Okay, fine. Most of the times, but no need for that detail...jerks.) And you know how it was mostly thanks to garbage I call my hometown, AKA, Greendale, right?
Well, I didn't mention that some of that is due to Harvey? You know that about two years ago, I told him my secret during a Truth or Dare game while Sabrina was away with her family, right? Turns out, that's the tip of the iceberg.
After that, Harvey had always used that secret over my head, threatening to tell everyone about it. And well, I did everything I can to make sure he didn't, even going along with his whole 'seventh-grade personality' last summer he suggested. Pretty stupid, now that I think of it.
Anyways, after that whole adventure, I decided I was done with Harvey's toxic influence. Who cares if he tells anyone? Right now, nobody believes him since they think he's using the Care Bears to lie about the drugs story Sabrina and I made up, which blew up into a bigger story about him being part of a cult that forces people to be happy.
Anyways, confession time over.
"It is and you can't force me to change my opinions, Harvey." I said.
"Oh really? Not even for a secret you told me?" Harvey asked, being smug.
"Harvey, whatever secret you have over Aaron, nobody will believe you anyways. Especially after the whole admitting you were near Kim and Jason, who, may I remind you, are 10 and 6 respectively. You should be lucky you didn't got pedophile charges." Sabrina said, causing Harvey's smug expression to be gone.
"Um, but the other thing is that everyone loves your Great-Uncle Quigley, Sabrina. You know that," Harvey said, trying to get back on Sabrina's good sides.
"Not everyone. And the same can be said about his love for everyone." Sabrina said, crossing her arms in irritation.
Before Harvey could make things worse by asking Sabrina what she means(she had told me what happened the Saturday before the Manhattan roadtrip), we passed by an open door, where we heard a voice said, "Quigley, Quigley, Quigley. I'll tell you, I don't like that man. I want him fired. I'm not leaving the observatory until he's thrown out."
Sabrina, Harvey and I walked towards the door and listened in on the conservation.
"If word of Professor Quigley's preposterous experiment leaks out of the observatory, well, we'd be laughed out of the scientific community right alongside him!" the complainer, well, complained to the director of the observatory.
"I'm think you're being too harsh, Thaddeus. I happen to like Professor Quigley and I really think he believes in his experiment. After all, those two reasons are why I gave him the job last week," the director said.
"This institution has to shut Quigley down!" Thaddeus countered, slammed his fist on the desk.
"All right, all right. I'll give Quigley 24 hours. If he doesn't get a response from space, I'll shut down his program and divert his funds to you and your research," the director reluctantly said.
Thaddeus chuckled a but. "You won't regret it, sir. Studying the effects of restrictive clothing on defenseless little lab animals must be explored. That kind of research does not come cheap," Thaddeus said, holding up a squirming, squealing mouse in restrictive clothing.
"This is horrible!" Sabrina said as Harvey nodded before running down the hallway, forgetting Sabrina and me for a moment.
"I know! That is the most embarrassing thing to the science community. At least the phone call to space make sense, somehow," I said.
"Well, that too. I was meaning it's horrible that the only reason Quigley got a job here is because the director likes him. Now Quigley will use favors from higher-ups just to 'fix' me," Sabrina said.
"...You are right, that is horrible." I said as we went down the hallway to catch up with Harvey.
"Guys, we need to do something!" Harvey said as Sabrina and I caught up to him.
"We do?" Sabrina and I asked.
Before Harvey could say the same thing again, we heard a shrill whistle.
"We can call off the search. They're right here, Mrs. Drone-On-And-On." Gem said, standing in front of us with a orange safety whistle.
"Try to stay with the group, Sabrina and Harvey. I don't want Gem to have to blow that whistle again. I hate that whistle. Aaron, I would say the same to you, but I expected this, so this will be your first out of three warnings. Get all three and you'll be in the principal office." Mrs. Drone-On-And-On said, causing Gem to frown.
(You're wondering why I've never used her name till now. Easy answer: see her name and tell me you can believe it's an actual name. You can't!)
"Yes, ma'am." Sabrina, Harvey and I said with no enthusiasm.
"Uncle Thaddeus Stone!" Gem said, smiling at someone behind us...wait, did she said Thaddeus Stone? As in, the guy who wanted research funds for the most idiotic of researches?!
"Gem Stone, my favorite niece!" Thaddeus said, confirming my horrors as he and Gem hugged each other.
"I knew there was something about that guy." Sabrina said.
"And I knew there was something off about the way Gem was stalking me, given her father isn't subtle. Now we know where she gets it from," I said.
"Why, Uncle Thad, you big silly. What are you up to?" Gem asked her uncle.
"Oh, just removing some excess baggage from around the observatory, i.e., firing some hacks. All in a day's work." Thaddeus said.
"Great! Can you fire some of my teachers?" asked Gem.
"Ha, ha, ha, that's my girl. A true Stone," Thaddeus laughed while patting Gem's head. He then look around before covering his mouth with his hand. Adults do know that we can still hear, even when they do that, right? "Just point and I'll make some calls," he tells her before leaving.
"Nobody gets to call Quigley excess baggage except for me. Sure, he may be fat and a jerk and he doesn't want to get to know me, but I rather have him home only at nights than have him all day, everyday, where he just point out my flaws. Plus, calling him excess baggage is technically calling my mom excess baggage, and that's an insult to her, since she's dead." Sabrina said.
"Yeah, but it's not like anyone can get a response from space in just a day's time. I mean, it takes a long distance to get the call and by then, it'll be too late." I said.
"Aaron, Quigley said light years measure time. That's why they're called light years," Harvey said.
"Oh my gods, Harv. We don't need stupidity right now." I groaned through my hands, courtesy of a face palm.
"Yeah, Harvey. What we need to do is, even if I don't want to, helping Quigley out with his project he literally has no experience in. Now, if only Aaron and I could-" Sabrina began.
"You and Aaron could? Hold it, Sabrina. I may be 13 years old for only 3 months, but I have wisdom beyond my years. Or so I was told by a palm reader I handed my last $10 to." Harvey said.
"Get to the point!" Sabrina and I snapped at Harvey.
"Oh, uh, Quigley's a grown man. He should stand or fall on his own. Meddling in other people's business might not be such a good idea. No matter how much you love them." Harvey said.
"Did you came up with that one before or after you stole my iPod, sold it to some random person in Manhattan, and tried to ruin Sabrina and my vacation?" I asked.
"After. ...Hey!" Harvey exclaimed.
"Harvey, you can go, but you don't get to control Aaron and my actions. Plus, if you wiser than us, explain the whole Sheba incident. Or that time you skateboarded. Or when you declared me a hero without any explanations on my part. Or even the Captain Harvtastic stuff. Huh?" Sabrina said.
Harvey didn't answer her. In fact, he gave her a frown, me a glare, and then walked away. "See you at the planetarium. Hopefully," Harvey gruffly said.
"Sheesh, sounds like a dialogue directly lifted from The Brady Bunch." Salem said. I elbowed him back into Sabrina's backpack.
Sabrina and I walked into the supply closet next to us, closed the door and put Sabrina's backpack on the bench, allowing Salem to peek out while rubbing his arm.
"Did you need to hit that hard?" Salem asked.
"Walk it off, you're fine." I said.
"Aaron's right. We need to help Quigley. Mainly so he has a job where he's out of the house until night, which I'll be in bed, meaning he and I won't have to interact with each other. You know it, I know it, and Aaron know it." Sabrina said.
"We?" Salem asked.
"Yes, we. You ate my sandwich and still haven't made up for emotionally manipulating me more than once, and don't you say Aaron did it first, because he at least made up for it! Anyways, I was hungry, that was the only food I have, you owe me!" Sabrina said.
"And in case if you haven't noticed, no one besides Sabrina and I know that you broke that deal to not drag Sabrina into your and my war. So, you owe me for not telling anyone," I add.
"Look, it's none of our business." Salem said.
"Neither were Kim and Jason and yet you tried to use them to make things worse between Aaron and me last week. Also, your motto is, 'If it ain't broke, break it'." Sabrina pointed out.
"Wait, Salem's motto is the same as Jeffrey Katzenberg?" I asked.
"No. Jeffrey stole that from me. ...Hey!" Salem protested.
"Actually, I'm sure you stole that motto from Katzenberg," I say.
"Look, let's get back on the whole helping Quigley even though we don't want to thing and just use magic to create a alien response. Then he can show everyone, keep his job here, and everyone will just be happy with no interactions whatsoever. Also, Salem, you totally stole the motto from Katzenberg." Sabrina explained.
"Ah, the old artificial alien response spell. It's that time of the year again. Man, you can set your watch by it. Though you don't need the spell, just get the brat who backstabbed you to call a few of his alien pals to give Quigley the re-" Salem managed to say before Sabrina closed the backpack on him.
"Sorry about Salem. He's getting more and more egotistical by the minute." Sabrina said.
"Nah, I'm used to it from him by this point," I said with a shrug.
"You're sure?" Sabrina asked.
"Yes. Now, need help with that spell?" I asked, as Sabrina gave me a nod.
Soon-Hallway
Sabrina peeked into the staffroom, giving me the thumbs up. The signal that Quigley is indeed taking a break in there.
With that, we head into Quigley's office, knowing that we have limited time to do the spell.
"We've gotta hurry! Quigley's coffee break is almost over." Sabrina said as we head over to the desk...only to see Salem on the phone.
"What are you doing out of the backpack?" Sabrina hissed at Salem.
"I'm on hold with the Spooky Jar," Salem answered.
"The Spooky Jar has a phone?" Sabrina asked, somewhat curious.
"The more important question is, why does it need a phone?" I asked.
In response to our questions, Salem put the handset down and push the speaker button.
"Your call is important to us. We are currently assisting other witches and warlocks. Please hold on and a representative will cast a spell shortly." A automated voice said on the other end.
"Sheesh. I have no idea ceramic jars can be so busy. Make the music stop!" Salem complained.
"If you don't like the tunes, don't dial the number, fur ball." The Spooky Jar replied, causing Salem to pick up the handset.
"No, love the tunes. So can you help us? Really? Okay, go ahead. Got it. Sounds easy enough. Great. Thanks. Love you too," Salem said, hanging up the phone after writing down the instructions for the spell.
"The Spooky Jar said love you?" Sabrina asked, skeptical.
"And can I say it's weird for romance to blossom between you and the Spooky Jar." I added, looking a bit disturbed.
"No, I just said 'love you too' because it bugs him. And the Spooky Jar and I are not dating. I'm a casanova. Anyways, here's what we do. We say this spell over Quig's computer and an alien life-form will appear for 24 hours as if it's making its way to Earth, long enough for Quigley to keep his job and then it'll vanish. We just got to supply an alien," Salem said, glancing at me.
"We're not using Aaron to supply an alien." Sabrina shot Salem down.
"But he already fill half the requirements. What more do you need?" Salem asked.
"For you to be the Nice Salem permanently, but that's never gonna happen." Sabrina said simply.
"Fine. Then we have to things the old way with pictures or something." Salem pouted.
"Well, I can provide the descr-" I began.
"No! If we are doing this, we're doing this my way! And I say we use Harvey's game!" Salem said.
"Salem, you are getting out of hand. We should just use Aaron's idea." Sabrina said.
"Never! He turned you against me, so I say we use the game! Or do you want me to tell Quigley that you're planning on using magic to meddle?" Salem asked.
"Fine, but if anything bad happens, it's on you. Not me and not Aaron." Sabrina said.
"Yeah, yeah. So, the game?" Salem persisted.
Sighing in annoyance, Sabrina pulled out the game and tossed it at Salem, who caught it... after it hit him in the head.
"Ow," he complained, rubbing his head, before glancing at the paper.
"By Isaac Newton and Einstein's theories, for 24 hours this illusion will clearly fool those on Earth who see this sight. They get real for one night, but beware the twist if you deceive when one day, you, too, will believe." Salem recited the spell, zapping the game, causing the aliens from there to appear on Quigley's computer screen.
"Now just wait until Gem's uncle see this. He'll be the laughingstock in the science community for trying to sack Quigley." Sabrina said.
"Unfortunately, we won't be able to see that, since we have to catch the bus," I said, as Sabrina and I head towards the door, with Salem jumping into Sabrina's backpack, though he knocked over Quigley's coffee mug seconds before he got in said backpack.
Oh well. Even if something did go wrong, which it might not, it'll be on Salem anyways.
Meanwhile-Somewhere in space-Multiple Aliens' P.O.V.
A random spaceship flew around space when it picked up Quigley's message. However, due to Salem knocking over the coffee, the message got messed up. It was no longer a message of peace, but a declaration of war!
"I am Quigley of Planet Earth. I, with others like me, take over your planet. Destroy. Respond." Quigley's 'declaration of war' message finished, with statics, before turning off.
"I guess this Quigley Earth fool doesn't know who he's messing with, do he?" A alien captain asked his crew. They agreed with the alien captain, replying that Quigley doesn't know who he's dealing with.
"Look at him there, threatening us, trying to intimidate us with his space army, backing us against a wall. It's pitiful," the alien captain continued, as the screen show Quigley and his 'alien army'. Once again, the rest of the crew agreed with the alien captain.
"Well, he can save his breath. We're whipping lines and you all know what we've gotta do. When our proud civilization is always done for in sinky craw blues, when threatened by outside invaders, when evil gets in our faces, when we get pushed too far, we're gonna-" the alien captain began ranting.
"Surrender!" the crew interjected, waving white flags.
"That's right. There's no way we're gonna tangle with the ugly, scary-looking Earth fool like that thing. We're giving up," said the alien captain as everyone cheered.
"Helmsthingie, send a course to this Quigley on this Earth planet," the alien captain said, sitting in the captain's seat.
"Aye, aye, captain." Helmsthingie said.
"First mate Hairball 6, start building a white flag. A big one. And prepare the gift baskets," the alien captain ordered.
"Aye, captain." Hairball 6 saluted.
"Cheese Whiz 2, hand me my inflatable donut. We got a long journey ahead and my glitz nylon are killing me!" the brown alien/captain commanded, as said crewmate give him the inflatable donut, which he sat on.
"We're off to give up," the alien captain said as everyone cheered as they head to Earth to surrender to Quigley.
Meanwhile-Everyone's P.O.V.-Quigley's Office
Everyone was standing around Quigley, excited about his project working. All except for Thaddeus. However, everyone was shocked for a few seconds when the aliens disappeared in a flash of light.
"Well, I guess maybe the aliens got lost on their way to Earth." The director rationalized. "Oh well, at least Professor Quigley made contact, just like he said he would. Long live Quigley!" The director add as everyone except Thaddeus cheered for Quigley.
Later that night-Sabrina's P.O.V.-Spellman's Residence
"Ugh, I wanted him to keep the job just so we don't have to interact, not to boost his ego more. Soon, he'll call in those favors to quote, unquote 'fix me'." Sabrina groaned after reading a article from the newspaper that was all about Quigley and his project.
"Nevermind that, I wonder if Gem's uncle is enjoying the crow he's no doubt eating. I know I always do," Salem said.
"Well, at least I'll be able to escape into my 25 levels of nightmare," Sabrina said.
"Actually Quigley wants you to get dressed for when he wins the International Science Prize." Salem said.
Sabrina let out a groan of annoyance. "Of course, because he wants me to see that he's right and I'm wrong and all of that dumb male pride he can't look past," Sabrina scoffed, just as the door ring.
"I'll get it, mainly due to Hilda and Zelda are doing some last-minute make-up," Sabrina said as she went to the front door and opened it, seeing one of the last people she wanted to see.
"Harvey, what do you want?" Sabrina asked, unamused, given what happened earlier.
"Um, I was wondering if I can talk to you alone. About your internationally renown great-uncle," Harvey said.
Resisting the urge to roll her eyes, Sabrina closed the front door behind her and follow him to the front lawn.
"Sabrina, it's about Quigley and finding those aliens," Harvey said.
"I swear to whatever god, Harvey, if you're gonna go on a tangent about how it's a bad thing Quigley found aliens without doing your phone host idea, you were happy for him trying to send a message to said aliens." Sabrina said, already knowing where this was going.
"Look, all I'm saying is I've seen the footage and those aliens look a lot like the ones from my game. And, despite your misguided anger towards me, you seem to know about Aaron's secret as much as I do." Harvey said.
"So what if I do?" Sabrina asked, crossing her arms.
"So, did Aaron use his you-know-what to meddle with Quigley's project?" Harvey asked.
"First of all, we didn't meddle, we help out. Two, I may not know what you think Aaron has, but I doubt it can affect technology. And three, you don't get to act like you're better than me, because at least Aaron and I are trying to make sure those animals don't get put in restrictive clothings while you're fine looking out for yourself!" Sabrina yelled.
"So what if I was looking for myself? What you and Aaron did was a big lie! You two had hurt Quigley more than you helped him." Harvey said, trying to get Sabrina to see his side.
"No, we did not. This whole thing will blow over tomorrow, and even if it doesn't, so what? There's proof that there's life out there in space, so eventually they'll get the dumb message and come here!" Sabrina said.
"Sabrina-" Harvey began, frowning.
"No, Harvey! I'm not discussing this anymore! Now, if you excuse me, I'm going to freshen up for Quigley's dumb award ceremony." Sabrina said, walking away, but stopped so she can turn to Harvey.
"By the way, I don't get why you're jealous of Aaron, but I suggest you destroy those feelings and take a page out of his book. He had made up for his bad deeds. So either do the same or you can consider our friendship goodbye," she said, walking off to her house and leaving Harvey standing there, clenching his fist, pissed off by her words.
However, none of them Gem, who was walking Ruby, was behind the wall.
"Hmm. This time, Spellman, your little web of lies is as tangled as a-as a-as a really tangled thing." Gem said with a evil laugh, which caused Ruby to give her a raised eyebrow.
"Three words: pink dog sweater," Gem told Ruby, who whimpered.
"Such a shame that I have to drag my sweet Aaron down with Spellman, but he did help her with this web of lies, after all. And who knows? When he's paying for it, he'll realize his love for me and forgive me, maybe even propose to me, after his time in juvie is done." Gem gushed, as she head over to Thaddeus's office.
Twenty minutes later-Thaddeus's Office-Gem and Thaddeus's P.O.V.
Thaddeus had his face in his hands, wondering how did he manage to lose all of that research fund to Quigley. No, even worse, he knows that Alan Smithee will brag about how he's more successful at making movies than Thaddeus was with this research, and Alan make terrible movies.
Suddenly, Gem entered the room. "Oh, Uncle Thad. You will be getting me an enormous birthday gift this year. Just wait until you hear what I have to tell you," Gem said, before explaining to Thaddeus all about how Aaron and Sabrina helped Quigley out with his experiment.
Later-International Science Prize Banquet-Everyone's P.O.V.
"I am proud to give the International Science Prize to a colleague who makes us all proud. Professor Quigley's determination, intelligence and dedication to scientific endeavors can only be matched by-" the director's speech was cut off by Thaddeus shouting, "His blatant trickery!"
Everyone gasped and turned to Thaddeus, wondering why he would make such an accusation.
"You want to know where Quigley's 'mysterious aliens' originated from? I'll show you!" Thaddeus said, holding up Harvey's Gadget Guy, allowing the cameras to film it.
Everyone gasped at it.
"Harvey, I'm so going to kill you tomorrow," Sabrina muttered under her breath, knowing that Harvey gave Gem and Thaddeus the Gadget Guy as payback for what she said earlier.
"That's right. Professor Quigley is a fraud!" Thaddeus exclaimed, causing everyone to boo Quigley.
"Oh no," Quigley said softly.
"Oh no. He's gonna blame me, I just know it," Sabrina said, her face in her hands.
"Sabrina, I know you have something to do with this, but I'll make sure he won't blame you," Zelda assured Sabrina.
"That's the thing. Aaron and I didn't want to use the game but Salem persisted." Sabrina told Zelda.
"How is this my fault? Aaron didn't want to be the supplier for the spell." Salem countered.
"Because you're the one who wanted to one-up Aaron for no reason and you agree to take the blame if this backfires, which it did. Badly, may I add?" Sabrina hissed.
"Salem, I'll deal with you tomorrow. For now, let's leave before Quigley somehow gets everyone to be mad at us for no reason," Zelda said.
"You know, if he didn't just leave us by jumping out of the window," Hilda points out, pointing at the window, where there was a Quigley-shaped hole in it.
"Guess that's proof of how much we matter to him. Then again, I'm not surprised at this point. Just hurt," Sabrina said as she, Hilda, Zelda and Salem left the banquet as Gem and Thaddeus laugh while everyone booed at the Quigley-shaped hole in the window.
Friday-Sabrina's P.O.V.-Greendale Observatory
"That was the most humiliating thing that's ever happened to me," Quigley said as Sabrina and Salem helped him cleared out his office.
"Obviously, you've never been pantsed at a kitschy ware party," Salem grumbled.
"What I don't get is why we're helping out clean your office an hour before school," Sabrina said.
"Because you and Salem meddle. I get you believe in my project, but you still meddle," Quigley said.
"Not that you would've noticed, given how you bragged all about the job." Sabrina muttered bitterly.
"I tried to talk you two out of it," Salem gloated.
"No, you didn't!" Sabrina shouted at Salem.
"You wanted to use the game just because you're mad about being punished by me instead of Aaron being punished, which caused this plan to backfired badly! So, you're responsible for this whole mess!" Sabrina snapped.
"Nevermind that! Mortal at 3 o'clock!" Salem states as he jumped into the box Sabrina was carrying.
"What do you want, Harvey?" Sabrina asked.
"I just thought to help out Quigley. You know, since this is partially my fault. I never should've took my eyes off you and Aaron, given how he can convince you to meddle in Quigley's affairs," Harvey said.
"Or is it because you gave Gem and Thaddeus your Gadget Guy because you were mad at me for telling you off?" Sabrina asked.
The look in Harvey's eyes gave Sabrina the confirmation she needed, the confirmation that he did indeed helped destroy Quigley's reputation, as she slapped him across the face. As Harvey tenderly touched his cheek, which began to swell, Sabrina grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and rushed towards the wall of the observatory, pinning him to it.
"Harvey Kinkles, how dare you?! What the hell were you thinking when you did that?!" Sabrina cursed in his face.
Before Harvey could answer, Sabrina press on. "Don't answer, because you weren't thinking! You're willing to hurt anyone just to justified the need to hurt and control Aaron and make me fall in love with you! I don't even know what I saw in you at first, but you can forget it now! In fact, you can get rid of any romantic thoughts of us, because we are never, ever getting together!
"Hell, we're no longer friends at this point, given the stunt you just pulled, making Quigley miserable just because you were pissed at me! I may be pissed at Quigley, but I would never do anything to jeopardize his reputation! So, go the fuck away and leave me the hell alone, Harv!" Sabrina ranted, taking deep breaths as she glared at Harvey.
"...So, you chose to be with Aaron, then?" Harvey asked with a flat tone.
"Argh! How many times until it sinks in everyone's heads?! I'M. NOT. IN. LOVE. WITH. AARON! We're just friends!" Sabrina yelled, breathing fire in Harvey's face, dropping him to the ground.
"You know what, I don't have time for your stupidity, Harv. Just stay the fuck away from me or else you'll regret it. And if you go after Aaron, it's not him you should be afraid of, it's me." Sabrina warned in a dark tone before storming off, leaving Harvey in a fetal position.
Seriously, what did she ever see in him in the first place to fall in love with him, to ignore all the bad things about him? Better yet, now that she was thinking about it, was it possible that Harvey had something to do with Aaron's change in personality the summer before this school year by using the whole magic secret against him? Actually, that does seem like Harvey, now that she think about it.
"Everyone is right, though. My experiment was silly. Aliens? Yeah, right," Quigley said as Sabrina walked towards the car.
Sabrina gave a small sigh of relief. At least Quigley didn't hear her rip into Harvey. He would've just ground her for swearing instead of being proud of her for getting rid of false friends.
Suddenly, a huge shadow appear over them, making them look up in confusion.
A giant spacecraft was above them. Suddenly, a small panel opened, allowing a green beam to beam them up into the craft. Fortunately, it didn't beam Harvey up, mainly because Sabrina was not in the mood to deal with his bullcrap after she just got done reprimanding him.
"Welcome, Great Quigley," the aliens greeted as one of them gave Quigley some balloons.
"Either we're on an alien ship or Quigley's won the Publishers Clearing House Prize," Salem snarked.
"Salem, shut up. We don't know what they want." Sabrina hissed at the black cat.
"Hello, Great Quigley. We're here to surrender to you." The alien captain said as he and the other aliens bowed to Quigley, which confused Quigley, Sabrina and Salem. "And to take you back to our planet to rule over us," the alien continued.
"Rule? Over you?" Quigley asked, dumbfounded.
"We got your message loud and clear," the alien captain said, turning on the screen.
"I am Quigley of Planet Earth. I, with others like me, take over your planet. Destroy. Respond." The message said, with some statics.
"Oh no, the coffee," Sabrina said with a facepalm.
"What coffee?" Quigley asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I may have, er, spilled your coffee. Though it was because Aaron told me to," Salem said, lying about the last part.
"No, he didn't! He was out of the room when you did that!" Sabrina shouted.
"Dang it, Sabrina, let me sink the brat down with me! I mean, sure he did," Salem claimed, but this time, he was fooling no one.
"As you can see, there is no need to destroy our planet. We give up." The alien captain said.
"B-B-But I don't want to be your leader. T-T-There's been a mistake and and I send a greeting, not a threat," Quigley stammered out.
"Well, we can't dally over details. We surrender anyways. Now let's get going," the alien captain said, leading Sabrina, Quigley and Salem somewhere.
Soon
"Now sit down and relax. We got to blotso freeze you," the alien captain said, though that didn't make sense of why he would tell them to sit down. After all, they were in tubes!
"Blotso freeze?" Sabrina asked.
"At least this proves my theory there is real intelligent life out there," Quigley said.
"You know, besides Aaron. Then again, he doesn't qualify since he's half alien and he was born here," Salem snarked with a smirk.
"Salem, poke fun at Aaron again and you're meeting Big Karen the flamethrower and her brother, Darryl the chainsaw." Sabrina threatened, causing Salem to have a look of terror on his face.
"We surrender, that's what we do. We are whipping odds, we're scared, it's true," said the brown alien, playing with a paddle ball.
"And Quigley, I'm not sure all life in space are intelligent," Sabrina said, frowning at Quigley.
"Pierre, blotso freeze them!" The alien captain commanded as Pierre turned the dial.
"Sabrina, after this trip, you are so grounded!" Quigley shouted.
"No, I'm not!" Sabrina shot back.
"What was that, Sabrina? I thought I heard you back talking me." Quigley said with a stern tone.
"I am, because I'm standing up for myself! You never cared for me or anyone else! All you cared about was yourself! Well, I'm tired of it! So, yes, I meddle with your experiment, just so I wouldn't have to deal with you 24/7!" Sabrina shouted.
"I hope the planet they're bringing us to has tuna." Salem hoped.
"Shut up, Salem!" Sabrina and Quigley shouted at Salem.
"And for your own information, Quigley, Aaron's not that bad influence in my life, it's you and Harvey! So either fix yourself, become the better man, or get the hell out of my life! I'm sure if mom was still alive, she would've kicked you out of the house until you shaped up!" Sabrina shouted.
Before Quigley could make a retort to that one, he was interrupted by the alarms, probably due to something hitting the ship.
"What was that?" Sabrina asked.
"We're under attack! Squishies Thingy, put the attackers on the main screen!" The alien captain commanded as said crewmate did just that, revealing...the aliens from Harvey's game.
"Salem, don't tell me," Sabrina groaned.
"Yep. The spell warned us. 'But beware the twist if you deceive, for one day, you, too, will believe'." Salem said.
"Salem, this proves it. You're no longer helping me with the spells." Sabrina said.
"But it's not my fault, I brought those Earth-killing aliens to life," Salem began.
"Yes, it is. And because you hated Aaron for something you didn't got to do first, you doomed everyone. After this, you're stuck with Hilda and Zelda, because I'm done with you using me and my innocence and naiveness to boost your ego," Sabrina said firmly.
"Quickly, load the gift baskets torpedo tubes. We gotta make these new aliens like us so we can surrender to them!" The alien captain said as the crew did just that.
"Fire 1! Fire 2!" The alien captain ordered as the gift baskets were fired, only to be destroyed.
"They're not accepting our offerings of surrender!" Pierre stated.
"Aaron, please save me from this insanity," Sabrina said softly.
Meanwhile-Aaron's P.O.V.-Greendale, U.S.A, Earth
"Sabrina, what's happening?" I asked myself, glancing down at my iPod. Sabrina hadn't answered my texts, which was strange, even for her and school starts in thirty minutes.
I was waiting for her at the end of her block so we could walk to school together, as was our routine most days(sometimes, she would come to my block and wait for me).
Sighing, I look up and noticed a giant spaceship. ...Spaceship?! Wait, the spell...oh no, the worst thing had happened: Sabrina's been kidnapped so that she would be probed!
"Don't worry, Sabreeny! I'm a-coming!" I shouted, using a magic circle to travel in there.
Yes, I was slowly getting better with them, though I have to visualize the results. Sometimes, I thought I see markings inside the circle, but it must be my overactive imagination or something.
Anyways, I visualize myself inside the spaceship and stepped through the magic circle...
Aaron's P.O.V.-Spaceship
...and ended up in front of Sabrina, Quigley and Salem, all of whom are stuck in tubes and half submerged in green goo.
"Sabreeny!" I shouted, running towards the tube containing her.
"Aaron, how...oh, yeah, the magic circles." Sabrina said, glancing at the one I just went through, which vanished as soon as she noticed.
"Don't worry, I'll get you out!" I said, kicking the tube. Guess whoever made it was cheap or something because it broke just by one kick.
"Hey, what about us?" Salem asked, indicating himself and Quigley.
"So, what's going on?" I asked, ignoring him, as some aliens, who at first noticed me, went back to trying to send gift baskets to...aliens from Harvey's game? What's going on?
"Well, it's like this," Sabrina said, explaining everything that happened.
"So, in a nutshell, these aliens will just surrender to whoever they deem is a threat?" I asked.
"Yep." Sabrina said.
"That's dumb, and I'm going to do something about it," I said, walking towards the alien captain, which Sabrina told me was the brown alien.
"Hey, this isn't going to work." I said.
"What do you mean? All our surrenders have worked well," the alien captain said.
"Yeah, and that's why this won't work. You can't keep surrendering to everything you deem is a threat. You've got to stand up for yourself and fight!" I said.
"Well, what do we do? We have no weapons!" The alien captain, I'm just gonna call him Bob to make things simple for me, said.
"I can't believe I have to rely on Harvey's game sessions, but we have to short them out, one by one with water. Fill up those balloons with H2O, or to explain it, 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom." I said.
"Oui. Just whatever you do, don't raise your voice at me. I'm fragile," Pierre said, walking off to do just that.
"Speaking of water," Salem complained.
"You know, you could've gotten out with your 'advanced' magic," Sabrina said sarcastically as she turned the dial, freeing Salem and Quigley.
"Put the balloons in your gift baskets torpedoes tubes, that's the best way to hit them," I said.
"When did you become Captain Kirk on us?" Salem snarked.
"Salem, I don't know a Captain Kirk outside of those Mad sketches on Cartoon Network, so unless you're indicating that I could be a doormat, shut up and let the adults speak," I told him.
"After this, we're finishing the previous discussion," Quigley told Sabrina.
"No, we're done. You can either listen and change yourself for the better or get out of my house." Sabrina told him simply, before turning to me.
"So, what do we do now?" Sabrina asked.
"Easy, we do this, Star Wars style." I said.
Five minutes later
"Now I know how exciting this is to Luke and Han during A New Hope," I remarked, sitting in the captain's seat while using the controls to move the torpedo tubes so that we can launch the water balloons at the aliens from Harvey's dumb game.
"So, this is what we've been missing for all of these eons. We're never giving up again! Yee-ha!" Bob whooped in glee.
"Got one. Great therapy session, given how I can imagine blasting all of my problems away." Sabrina commented.
"Glad you're having fun," I said.
"Unfortunately, we only have one water balloon left, so this is our last shot." Sabrina said as the leader of the aliens revealed itself.
"Oh. That's a problem." I said, thinking for a moment. Usually, whenever this happens in games, I get other resources or buy more of said resources, but this is different, due to being on Pac-Man logic. One life and Game Over, restarting everything at the beginning.
"I know this is cliche, but use the Force, Aaron. Or in this case, use the magic." Sabrina said.
I took a deep breath and smile. Obviously, I can't use the Force, since I don't have it, but she's right about the magic.
Concentrating hard, I drew a small circle around my eyes, causing my eyesight to sharpen. Focusing hard, I waited for an opportunity.
One... The leader of the aliens starts getting closer.
Two... The leader is getting nearer, showing some weak spots.
Three! I fired the last water balloon, sending the leader spiraling off towards the depths of space.
"Aaron, we did it!" Sabrina cheered as I slumped in the seat, letting out a sigh of relief I didn't know I was holding.
"So, what do we do now?" I asked.
"Hmm, well, I think Thaddeus and Gem deserves a extraterrestrial shock." Sabrina said with a smirk, gesturing to the leader who I blasted with the water balloon.
Good thing I'm not on her bad side anymore, or who knows what she would've planned for me with that smirk.
Everyone's P.O.V.-Greendale Stadium, Greendale, U.S.A., Earth
"As you can see, this dog is uncomfortable," Thaddeus pointed out to the audience, pointing at a uncomfortable Ruby in a pink dog sweater, exactly as Gem predicted the night before.
"Now with the funds diverted from that fraud Quigley to my research, one day, we'll understand why." Thaddeus said, just as a spacecraft with an alien come crashing down towards him, flattening him.
"Ow, my spine," Thaddeus complained as Ruby ran off.
Aaron's P.O.V.-Bob's Spaceship
"Well, Aaron, you did it! You saved the world!" Sabrina said.
"No, Sabreeny. We saved the world," I told her.
"Oh, Great Quigley, how can we ever repay you?" Bob asked, completely ignoring Sabrina and me. Rude.
"I'm sure we all like to go home," Quigley said, as a green beam, well, beamed us back to Earth. Unfortunately, Salem came with us.
Aliens'(Brief) P.O.V.
"All right, let's go find some more balloons! We gotta take over some weaker planets! Ye-haw!" The alien captain whooped as the aliens made their way towards a weaker planet to conquer it, slowly building their own empire that would last longer that than the Saiyans or even the Frost Demons.
Aaron's P.O.V.-Greendale, U.S.A., Earth
As soon as Sabrina, Quigley, Salem and I touched the ground near the observatory, Sabrina grabbed my arm.
"See you back at home, Quigley. Aaron and I got school!" Sabrina said, while circling her fingers. The signal for a magic circle.
Before Quigley could protest, I made a magic circle.
"And Salem, we're going to continue our discussion about you, regardless of your opinions!" Sabrina said as she and I stepped through the magic circle, not realizing what the day will bring.
To be continued in Stone Broke!