A/N: Hey guys. Thanks for staying with my story. I appreciate it. I know the last chapter took forever and I hope the others dont take as long. I never want to abandon my stories. I just get so busy with classes and life. I want to finish this fanfic. I think about it every day. I just get easily distracted with other things. Thank you for those who held on. I'm gonna try to get back into my fanfics. I have two or three others on the back burner, so I have a lot on my plate. Thank you for understanding and staying with the story.

Chapter 13: A Shocking Event

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I'm not usually one who likes to ditch class. I was feeling worried that I was going to get caught; but while I was flying over the trees and neighborhoods, that all washed away and I felt free. It felt so good to stretch my wings and take flight. Twisting around telephone poles and wires. I flew higher up when I saw cars drive by. I didn't want them seeing me.

The city was a little farther than I thought as I flew closer to it. The spinning UFO made it look like it was closer. I had to stop a minute to catch my breath. Adrenaline flowed through my body. I felt so alive and pumped up. I felt that I could take down that flying saucer with one screech.

Once I got there, I already saw my monster friends fighting the flying saucer. The whole city had been evacuated. When I flew over I saw a ton of people at the farthest outskirts of the city, trying to take photos on their flip phones or literal cameras.

The UFO was shooting lasers at buildings and watching them crumble. Susan grabbed it and tried pulling it down, but it was a bit bigger than her and just stayed where it was. She tried punching the edges of the saucer to get it to give in. The saucer tilted to the left, causing her to lose her grip and fall. Then it tried shooting her as she fell, but Link crushed the gun that was about to vaporize the giantess.

Doc was busy making a weapon out of trash...as B.O.B. was eating the trash. Butterflyasaurous appeared behind the alien craft and grabbed it. The craft tried pulling out of her grasp. The engines changed direction on the craft, burning her. Butterfly screamed in pain, letting go of the craft. Link came over to see if she was ok. Butterfly screeched something. I'm guessing she was out for the count for a while.

This was my perfect moment to make my entrance. I dove in. The alien craft activated a force field right when I decided to scream. My scream came back to me and hit me out of the sky.

I smacked into Susan's face. She cried out, deafening me for a moment. She quickly caught me before I fell to my death. "Bat?! What are you doing here?" She asked. I wasn't able to answer when the alien craft started shooting lasers at us. She quickly ducked behind a building.

"What are you doing here? You are supposed to be in class!" She hissed at me. I looked up at one of her huge giant blue eyes. "Class was distracted by the alien craft. I wanted to come and help," I said. Susan put me down on the ground. "We can handle this. You go back to class. School is more important." With that, she ripped a telephone pole out of the ground and ran off to hide behind another building.

I rubbed my bat ears from when my sonic screech came back to me. I felt somewhat deaf in one ear more than the other, and it felt like my bones were rattling inside my body. How long has it been? A month? Yeah. It's been a month since I fought an alien. I was not much in shape as I was. I haven't had time to work out. Also I had a feeling Link didn't really trust me with his equipment anymore.

Just then, the alien mothership started blinking and making weird noises. We stopped just for a moment to watch the big ship give birth to tiny machines, about my size, maybe a little bigger. About a good army size of them.

"Awwww it had babies. What a lucky father," B.O.B. said.

They looked really strange. Living machines that twisted and contorted. They looked like a strange creature made of knives. The body was like a couple spinning saw blades, with several longer blades snipping the air at top speed like a humming bird, and several long metal tails that came out all barbed like at the ends. Oh and they were high powered with volts of electricity. It was quite terrifying.

Susan turned to Doctor Cockroach. "How's your invention coming along, Doc?" She asked. Doctor Cockroach added one more straw to it. "Ready, my dear!" He shouted up to her. I had no idea what it was but it looked like a weird hat made of trash. Attached to the hat was a big magnet.

"All I need is one of those aliens and I'll be able to control them with my mind!" He yelled to Susan. Susan nodded and ran forward bravely towards the army of blade aliens.

Long story short, the magnet just caused a small group of aliens to get stuck to him and zap him. Susan had to pry the little aliens off of him. It was kind of funny.

I flew up along a building. I got a couple to come after me. I attempted to fly around a building, only to find myself getting entangled in those damn clotheslines that stretch from one building to another.

One of the aliens zapped me. I cried out in pain before screaming my sonic scream at it. The thing got pushed back and smacked against the other building. I flapped my wings, one of them got free, but the other I was having a hard time with. It was stuck in a big baggy shirt while my arm was looped through a pair of pants. It was very embarrassing. I hoped Link wasn't around to see it.

Another one zapped me. I screamed again, causing my wings and muscles to stop moving. I hung there for a second before falling. My body tensed up, bracing for the ground or a car to meet up with me.

Luck was thankfully on my side. One of the alien creatures grabbed me with its' tails, slicing the side of my left cheek in the process. I screamed at its wings, causing them to rip out if it's back. The thing made a weird sound that sounded like panic before crashing to the ground. I rolled along the asphalt after its body. The thing was all scratched up and parts of it were twitching. Barely alive. Then it exploded. My ears were ringing and throbbing in so much pain from all the loud sudden sounds.

I covered my face. The debris scratched parts of my wings from the impact. I groaned in anony. This was the part I hated about fighting aliens. Getting hurt and nearly dying. I was bleeding and in pain. I decided to call out from the fight. Of course I was in the center and was in a lot of pain. I decided to stay low and wait for the storm to pass.

Clutching my side, and keeping my wings from dragging on the ground, I made my way to an overturned work truck. I leaned my head against the car and sighed to myself. I made a dumb mistake. Thinking I could just run away from my problems and assume fighting aliens would be better. I don't know what I was thinking...well yeah I did:

I didn't like the school. Wanted to stretch my wings and feel the wind in my face...Also I wanted to see Link...I couldn't stop thinking of him while in class. Always hoping he would suddenly come to my class in disguise and say that the monsters needed me for something that only I could do, scoop me up into his muscular arms and take me away.

I heard the sound of four legs running along the uneven concrete and asphalt.

Speak of the devil...

Link came around and hid behind the car I was hiding behind. He hadn't noticed me as he peeked out from behind the car, checking to see where the little sawbladed, electric alien creatures were. My heart was beating fast. I needed to say something so he wouldn't leave. I cleared my throat.

"How's it going, Fishstick?" I asked, trying to sound casual, but I was in serious pain. Link jumped in surprise. "Bat!? What-? What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be learning stuff?" He asked. I sat down and crossed my legs. "Oh...I'm too smart for class," I said jokingly. Link looked out from the turned over car before turning back to me.

"How did you get here? Are you bleeding?" He asked, concerned. I quickly wiped the blood off my face. "Just a flesh wound, I'm fine," I lied. Link didn't really buy it. He could see my bleeding wings, and I must have been talking loud because his finned ears kept flicking back every time I spoke.

"Ditching class?" Link asked. I quickly stood up from where I sat. "Erm...yeah...Yeah," I said, trying to sound confident. Link tilted his head a bit. "I don't see you as one to ditch class," he pointed out. I blushed.

"I...I don't usually...I wanted to help," I admitted. He nodded. "Monger isn't gonna be happy when the school tells him you ditched," he pointed out. I looked over his shoulder to make sure none of the aliens were coming our way.

"I have someone covering for me," I said. Link gave me a confused look. "Someone covering for you? Did you knock out a kid and dress them up to look like you at your desk?" He asked. I laughed. "No-" before I could finish, the sound of buzzing and weird whirring noises interrupted our conversation.

The turned over car got lifted from its spot and tossed carelessly to the side. Seven mechanical aliens glared down at us. Their bodies buzzing loud and glowing from the electric streams moving about their bodies like glowing snakes. One decided to attack immediately and electrocuted me. I screamed from the sudden pain coursing through my body. Three of them got blown up from my powerful scream.

I collapsed to the ground. Link quickly stepped in front of me and roared. He was pissed. He jumped up to the one electrocuting him and tore it apart. Another one came at him but he was able to grab it out of the air and rip it apart too. He was able to take the rest of them out with out getting machines made weird high pitch shrills before exploding. I shielded my eyes from the scraps raining down upon me. When he was done, he turned his head to me. "You allright?" He asked. I found myself staring and looked away. "Erm...yeah...I'm fine," I lied. My voice all scratchy and hoarse from screaming.

"You should...head back to class...you don't want to be part of this fight..." he said in between breaths. His chest moving as he breathed. I didn't want to leave. I wanted to stay. Mainly with him..but after him saving me, I was feeling more like a pathetic damsel in distress than any kind of help. Link was still staring down at me. He didn't seem happy.

"Go back to class, Bat. We can handle this," he told me again.

Before I could say anything, there was another loud buzzing noise. Link turned around and saw thirty to forty of those alien machine creatures surrounding us. Link took a couple steps back.

My heart stopped in my chest as I slowly got up. Maybe I should've listened to my monster friends and stayed in class. We were going to die, all because of me. I distracted my friends and now we were outnumbered and about to be fried to a crisp.

My eyes flickered to Link. This was it. Our last moment together. The idea of telling Link how I felt about him never crossed my mind. Only grabbing his hand, pressing my forehead against his arm, squeezing my eyes shut and bracing for impact.

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"...Bat."

I opened my eyes. Link stared down at me quizzically. I looked over to the aliens. They were gone. I blinked. "What? How were they gone?" Link cleared his throat. "Could you let go of my hand, Batsy?" I looked down and nearly had a heart attack. I quickly released my tight grip on his hand.

"Wh-what happened to the...things?" I asked in a quivering voice, super embarrassed for holding his hand. I just wanted to die right where I stood. This was such an embarrassing day for me. Link pointed up.

"Something came by and took them out," he said. We both looked up and sure enough there was this dark streak zipping everywhere. Right and left it was taking out the buzzsaw electric aliens.

I thought back to that night when me and October were surrounded by the armed guards. Was this her? Was this the other experiment? Even with my sunglasses on and in the shade I couldn't see what ahe looked like. She was moving so fast. Twisting and turning sharp turns and spiraling around in the air like an actual bat in flight catching bugs. Or in this case, killing the bugs.

It rained alien parts and other debris down near us and on the ground. Link saw a piece coming my way and quickly pushed me. I fell against the ground once again. A spinning blade whirled past me. If Link hadn't pushed me, I might have lost a leg or an arm.

Overhead the mysterious bat person kept flying back and forth till there were no more aliens left, which left the mother ship defenseless. The dark figure went back a good distance and did something that shocked all of us, by surprise.

She screamed a gigantic sonic scream. It was just like my sonic scream. Her scream was super powerful. It went through the shields of the mother ship, and began to damage the surface of the ship. The mothership started to blink red before going down and crashing into the side of a couple buildings. We all had to move out of the way to keep from getting hit by chunks of building.

"Woah...shes amazing," I heard Link say in awe next to me. It made me somewhat jealous.

"Who is that?" asked Susan coming over to us.

"Looks like some kind of bat. Another of John's experiments" guessed Doc.

"It's Bat you guys. Didn't you see her scream? Right, Bat? That's you up there right now," B.O.B. said, pointing up at the mysterious figure flying several stories above us.

I didn't respond. I didn't know who that was, but something about her seemed familiar. Maybe she was another of John's experiments. An evil twin?

I could see her a little better now. I could see the bat wings, the bat ears, the paper white skin...but her outfit was different. Strange clothes. Black material under what looked to be armor of some kind. She turned her head and looked down upon us with a frown. I could see her hesitate in the air for a moment before coming down.

We all gasped. The bat girl was a good handful of years older than me. She didnt have both of her ears. One of them had been sheared off and replaced by a satellite dish about the same size as her other ear. Her right eye was a robot eye. The white part was black and the pupil slit was red. Her left arm was a robot arm too. A cyborg bat. She had armor on her wings that looked very light, but strong. Her hair was dark brown like mine but cut short and had long bangs that were dyed purple. She wore a black backpack on her back with something bulky inside.

To me, she didn't look like she belonged here. Also she looked terrifying.

She had this permanent glare on her scarred face. No one spoke as we all stared at each other. Link was the first to say something. He took a step forward and waved. "Hey there, thanks for taking out the aliens." She didn't say anything. She just stared at him. Link continued talking. "You are really good at fighting aliens," he added, flashing a sharp toothy grin at her. "Looked good doing it too-"

"Cut the flattery, Fishsticks."

My mouth dropped. None of those words were mine. They were hers. That's what shocked all of us. Only I called Link by that nickname. Link stopped and his jaw dropped slightly, but nothing came out. The bat lady sighed and adjusted the backpack on her shoulders.

"Allright...I've been trying to avoid this situation, but I guess since I'm stuck here..." she said in a low voice. Her satellite ear moved seconds slower than her regular ear as they moved to every sound around us.

"Ok...this might sound crazy to you guys but..." she hesitated for a few seconds.

"...I am Bat..." she stared right at me. "...I come from the future," she said. I felt everyone's hearts skip several beats. B.O.B. pointed at the older me. "See? I told you guys it's Bat."