okay, from the reviews I've been getting you guys have been telling me that this story is sad, and it is, but I just thought we might need a break from sadness and add some humor, and I do hope you find this short chapter at least somewhat funny. enjoy-

Chapter 12

The Black Hole Backpack?

"Is she going to be okay?" Rad turned to ask Red Alert about Emrial, who once again lay on a giant metallic table.

"I don't know, if only there was some way to see what bones were broken, then we could immobilize them." Red Alert replied, a grim look on his face.

Suddenly an idea struck Alexis like a bolt of lightning. "You could build an x-ray machine!" She exclaimed.

"How would I do that? I don't even know where to begin." Red questioned.

"Well, any encyclopedia would tell you the basics about it." Alexis sighed. "But I don't have any with me."

"Hey, I think I might!" Carlos jumped up and ran to grab his backpack. "Let's see." He mumbled as he rifled through his bag. "Which edition do you want?" He asked, looking up at Alexis.

"Um.any one would do Carlos." Alexis replied, unsure of what in the world Carlos was doing.

"Here we go!" Carlos grunted, as to the amazement of his friends, he pulled out an entire set of encyclopedias. "Will the science special edition work?" He asked.

"What the.how did you.how many do you.what in the world?" His friends stood speechless, their mouths agape.

"Let's see, x-ray is under x, right?" He continued, searching for the correct book. "Here you go!" He smiled, handing the sought after book to Alexis, who still stood there dumbfounded.

"What else do you have in that bag?" Rad finally came to speak as he walked over to Carlos's backpack.

"Hey, hands off the bag!" Carlos scolded as he proceeded to stuff the rest of the encyclopedias back into the said bag.

"But, if you must know," he casually added, "It does hold a fairly large plasma flat screen TV and a PS2!" He smiled, whipping out the extremely large TV and the Playstation 2 with all the games you could want.

"Whoa! Buddy, I don't care how you got all that stuffed in there but this is totally awesome!" Rad grabbed a controller.

"You ready for some serious gameage?" Carlos reached for the other control.

"Bring it on!" Rad glared down his buddy as they began playing some far out game that was alien to Alexis's knowledge.

"Okay, that was weird. I guess boys will be boys." She commented as she handed over the encyclopedia to Red Alert.

"Uh." Red started, holding the book carefully in his large fingers. "I may need some help."

well, I thought it was funny. Carlos seems to be a funny guy so please don't hate me if I make him sort of do weird things to add some funnyness into this story. (hence the mention of star trek in the last chapter and rad thought he was weird. I like star trek and all my friends think im weird because I do so I just brought that into the story.) *sigh* doesn't anyone besides me watch Star Trek????????!!!!!!!