It was a crystal clear Friday night, and Candy, Ronnie, Bennie, Kiki, Daniel and Kiki's older brother Tyson were in the backyard of the Cherry residents doing some stargazing.

"I'm glad you came over for a visit, Tyson," commented Kiki. "It must be hard when it comes to college."

"I know, Kishori," Tyson said to his sister as he patted her on the head.

"What?" asked Candy and Daniel as they looked at each other in confusion.

"Kishori," Kiki explained. "It's my real name. During a school project in kindergarten we were asked to bring in a store-bought product with our names on it. Of course, we couldn't find one with my full name, so we got one that says 'Kiki.' Plus, it's common for people to take a while to get my name right."

"My real name is Tuvidyumna," explained Tyson, "but no one in my first grade class could get it right, so I decided to call myself Tyson."

"I remember my art class when you were around," recalled Ronnie. "You made an acronym of your full names based on Indian culture."

By the door, Aunt Regina came to check on them while doing sign language

"So, soldiers," she signed, "did you see any aliens because I remember Lionel mailing me another newspaper article about UFO sightings?"

Candy replied in sign language, "It's fine, Aunt Regina. It's just...why are you signing? Did you lose your hearing aid again."

"I did, Cadet Candy," Aunt Regina said in sign language. "I was coming out of the shower when some stole it. Without it I can't hear in my right ear."

Kiki, Daniel, Tyson, and Ronnie were surprised, but Bennie looked nervous.

"Good thing it's Friday," replied Candy. "We'll look for Aunt Regina's hearing aid in the morning.

XxoxX

During the middle of the night, Candy was sleeping peacefully when a light blinded her. She placed on her slippers, put on her robe and crept downstairs without waking Ronnie nor her aunts up. Kiki and Daniel on the other hand, came along so they won't see her get in trouble.

In the basement, she spotted Tyson, Bennie, and the Jets using a gizmo. "What are you doing?" asked Candy.

"Contacting alien life," Bennie answered quietly. "We needed to get ideas for our new music videof for our Viewtube channel. None of us know anything about contacting aliens nor building gadgets to do that. Then we remembered that Kiki's brother does something like that back in high school."

"Yeah," whispered Tyson. "Stay quiet before your aunts wake up."

"Hold it," whispered Daniel. "I know I hate getting in trouble, but we want to get along with the whole alien hunt. We did this before."

Bennie and the Jets didn't believe them, but they decided to due to Candy's imagination. "Okay," replied Bennie. "We'll join in on your imagination quest."

XxoxX

Within five seconds, everything changed into a "Galaxy Quest"-like setting. Everyone was dressed like the crew on the NSEA: Protector.

"Captain Candy!" shouted Dr. Kenji. "It seems logical that we have contacted an alien life form thorugh."

"Don't sweat it," replied Captain Candy. "We're going to boldly go where no man has gone before."

While they were on a flashy planet, Captain Candy activated her log. "Captain's Log, Stardate 9.8.1966: We have reached a deserted yet groovy planet where we believe to have found life. The only problem is, no escape, no change of heart, no anyplace to hide."

"Look at the stars," Kiki pointed out as they looked up. "They're showing us Pegasus and Orion."

The Pegasus and the Orion pointed them to a bunch of familiar aliens. "Look at that," said Dakota. "The aliens look so cute."

"And that's the strange aliens we saw at the Halloween party," recalled Kiki. "We know that they could come back."

"Greetings, Earthlings," greeted a Crowrockian. "We are the Crowrockians of Crowrocker. On our last visit to Planet Earth, we scanned the DNA of Candy Cherry. She has the imagination of Larry the Cucumber, Frida Kahlo, and Elton John."

"Yeah," Dana replied. "Candy has been livening things up since she came here. Normally, Kiki, and Tyson would get involved in the action.

"Someone's gotta keep an eye on her while Principal and Vice Principal Cherry aren't looking and Daniel needs to remember who helped him find his talent."

"We want to see his dancing skills!" shouted a Crowrockian.

With a big gulp, Daniel danced to the song "Is It Written in the Stars." After he finished his dance, two visions of Cassiopea and Virgo came in. "Human grownups!" shouted a Crowrockian. "Abort mission!

With one puff of pumpkin smoke, the Crowrockians escaped.

XxoxX

In reality, everyone spotted Principal and Vice Principal Cherry and Ronnie up and atom and they were carrying flashlights.

"Guys," Ronnie groaned, "It's 1 in the morning. We're trying to sleep."

With one gaze, Principal Cherry spotted her missing hearing aid. Bennie explained to his adoptive mother that their band needed ideas for their music video and figuring that getting an alien contact device would do it. The only thing they needed is a sound transmitter. So they took her hearing aid for the operation.

"I was going to give it back after the alien contact," Bennie admitted. "But you already know."

"I appreciate your honesty, Cadet Bennie," replied Principal Cherry. "I know it's the weekend, but I'm afraid you'll have to fix us up cranberry bread with sweet potato hash browns for breakfast at 700 hours."

Gladly, Bennie accepted his punishment. "Are we paying for some crime?" recalled Bennie. "It is that all that we are good for?"

"Now get your little selves back to bed," VP Cherry advised. "This place smells like a pumpkin pie."

XxoxX

Back in Candy and Ronnie's room, Kiki was looking through her telescope while Candy and Daniel were watching her. In the telescope, Kiki could see a purple shooting star.

"Funny," she said in confusion. "As an artist, I can clearly remember shooting stars being white or yellow. This one is purple. Looks like the Crowrockians didn't wanna blow their cover."

Candy remembered what she saw in cartoons: that UFOs were often mistaken for shooting stars, which was good because they didn't want Earth government to dissect them. "Your right, Kishori," she agreed. "It's probably for the best that it's part of my imagination again."

"Kishori!" shouted Tyson. "I'm quite impressed that you got Daniel to dance with those Crowrockians. Those costumes looked really real."

"They are," Kiki smiled as she crossed her fingers behind her back. "We better get to sleep, Mom needs you to help her fix some Samosa Dal and rice chicken in a crockpot."

The End.