The crater must have been at least a few hundred feet wide and really deep too. It had come down right in one of the bowls, leaving the snow melting around the edge. Inside sat some sort of flying vehicle, with thrusters, wings, and strange colored windows. It seemed to be made out of a material that I had never seen before.

"What the fuck is that?" I asked.

"Failed rocket launch maybe," Nick said.

"Or someone tried making a new aircraft," Judy said, "tried flying it and crashed."

Suddenly, the door opened on the side of the vessel.

"Oh shit," Emmitt Otterton said, "should we help?"

"Let's wait and see," said Viking.

A creature started to crawl out of the pod. One leg, then two, three, even more.

"Wait," Duke Weaselton said, "is that the…"

"YES THAT'S THE FUCKING CREATURE!" Finnick replied.

Our jaws dropped for a good moment, until we all spoke simultaneously.

"ALIENS!"

Soon, more were crawling out of the vessel.

"Okay," said a Coyote ski patrol who came up to us, "everyone has to vacate the area, follow the trail down to your left and you'll reach the runout. That'll bring you back to base. Spruce Peaks will be closed until further notice."

Suddenly, the creatures coming out of the spaceship grabbed laser guns and started shooting. First it was the trees that blew up, but then they started aiming for some of the mammals.

"OH FUCK LET'S GO!" I shouted.

We rushed down the mountain, dodging laser blasts from the aliens' guns.

"Don't look back!"

Some of the laser blasts came very close to me, as I ducked and continued on the runout. My eyes were only set to where I was going, and everything was moving by me in a blur. This could have been my last moment. I took a deep breath.

Before I knew, I was at the bottom of the mountain. I saw the Ottertons rush to their car and Finnick follow Duke Weaselton to his car. Nick and Judy came down right after me.

"ALRIGHT! IN THE VAN!"

We hurried into Nick's van and piled in there. Nick put his pedal to the metal and still drove quite well (foxes are very good drivers in general. There's a reason I passed my driver's test on the first try).

"Holy shit!" I said, "aliens!"

"Okay," Judy said, "even during our time on the police force we never saw anything so fuckshit like that."

"Yeah," Nick said, "and I thought that Bush Dog with the flaming dildo was weird."

"Well," I said, "even the night howlers don't phase me anymore."

"Oh fuck!" Nick said, as a huge traffic backup started. We were at Tundratown Circle.

"Look," I said, "at the TV screen up there. Look!"

The TV screen was showing a breaking news report from ZNN.

"Breaking emergency news from Tundratown," said Fabienne Growley, one of the reporters, "An unknown vessel has crashed into the Spruce Peaks ski area. The amount of injuries and possible deaths is still unknown."

"Meanwhile, a group of unidentified creatures has come out of the vessel with laser guns, leading witnesses to believe that the city has been invaded by extraterrestrial creatures."

The news report then shifted to witness accounts.

"I saw this whole thing crash!" said a Wolverine, "it was BLEEP massive, and then these weird thingies started coming out and shooting at us. They had, like, so many eyes and so many legs and absolutely no fur or hair whatsoever. All they had was a rough, scaly skin. It was so BLEEP weird!"

Everyone continued to watch and many more were panicking.

"Okay," I said, "let's go back now. My house is not too far from here. 666 Bergen Street is where it is."

"Oh, I'll be glad to take you back," Nick said as he drove the van down the street, "we live not too far from there too."

I quickly loped back inside my house.

"SNOWY!" My mom shouted, "so glad to know you're okay. I've seen everything. You could have gotten hurt bad, or even worse."

"I could even hear that from here," Blizzard said.

"Well," I said, "I was pretty much right there at the location when it all went down," I said.

"Tell more," said Winter.

"Well, I was with some friends and we were skiing down the back bowls at Spruce Peaks. We had just stopped to catch our breath when we heard this loud noise and crash. We skied over and found this giant spaceship. Before we knew, these weird aliens were crawling out of the spaceship and shooting. We eventually made it down without a scratch but got caught in terrible panic traffic on the way out."

"Wait," Blizzard said, "I saw something really weird last night. It had like 10 legs, 5 eyes, 3 mouths and was all dark green and scaly. It looked very slam metal."

"I thought I saw something really late last night just like that," Winter said, "but I thought it was just a dream."

"Yeah well," I said, "apparently this is real now. I would have never thought that we would get literal ALIENS!"

"Yeah well we had savage predators a few years back," said Blizzard, as he was sewing a Badger Omens patch on his vest, "maybe this is the work of-"

But before he could finish, there was a knock on the door.

"Oh who's here now?" Winter asked.

I went and looked and opened the door for Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps.

"Hey Snowy," Nick said.

"Nick wanted to come over to talk," Judy said.

"Come right in!" I said.

They followed me into the TV room.

"These are my friends Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde," I said.

"Great to meet you," Winter said, "I'm Winter and that is Blizzard."

"Ah, I see," Nick said, "a family of metalheads."

"Yes indeed," Blizzard said, "by the way, we got some hot cocoa in case you want some."

"So," I said, "what do you want to tell me?"

"Well," Nick said, "I remember, Judy and I did beat the whole Night Howler scare. We weren't even on the police force then."

"Oh yes because I had left the job before this happened," Judy said.

"Well," Nick said, "maybe we can try to beat the aliens this time. We've gotten training."

"I mean," I said, "I could join you, it's just that it seems very dangerous."

"Well," Judy said, "you survive Tundratown mosh pits weekly I hear. You can definitely handle this."

"Fair point," I said.

"You are totally welcome to do this," Winter said, "just be careful out there."

"And at the end," Nick said, "we can finally form out metal band. Maybe we can even get Finnick and Duke in there."

"Maybe even the Ottertons," Judy said.
"Well," I said, "I guess I will join you on your epic quest."

"Flame on," Judy and Nick both said, as we fist bumped each other.

"Now let's do it!" All of us said

"Oh wait," I said afterwards, "I have a question. How are we getting the weapons?"

"Follow me," Nick said as we left the house, "I know just who to call."