B.Bop stood up, his body facing Do-Wah and Ange, his face towards his ruler.
"Bog." He stated, spitting it out as if it were a swear word. "Shaboom." He acknowledged. Shaboom glared at him; apparently uncaring that she was being treated as a prisoner. Bog smiled and made a gesture as if he wanted his troops behind him to fan out. The only other noise over the footsteps of troops was a small voice behind B.Bop... "Angela... oh please God, no, not my Angie..." B.Bop clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.
"Traitor." Bog growled, pointing at B.Bop as a direction for the guards to aim at, but otherwise just simply stating the fact that he'd betrayed his own race. B.Bop laughed.
"Me?"
"Yes you, I don't blame Corporal Do-Wah-Diddy or Tech Commando 2-T-Fru-T for any of this, surprisingly – you're the one that's been messing with their heads long enough... you even made him fall in love with that pathetic human being! And it's all because of you... you convinced them to do this..." B.Bop thought he'd tag along with him. He didn't want Bog taking 2-T and Do-Wah down with him, but then – no one judges him as a leader. NO ONE.
"Alright, so what?!? I love this planet, okay? I made Do-Wah fall in love with her but guess what? She's not even HUMAN!" he cried. Suddenly he clutched his mouth in despair. No... oh my God I've really said it... he thought, helplessly. Bog cocked his eyebrows and Shaboom gasped. 2-T and the kids said nothing, they didn't believe him for one minute, but B.Bop... I can't believe I told him that... I promised her... Bog frowned and stepped forward. Do-Wah hadn't looked up since this conversation began but now he looked up.
"Wh-what?" he asked. B.Bop gulped and shook. No... Angela woke up behind him, but Do-Wah didn't pay any attention. B.Bop turned to her for help but she was hardly capable of breathing, let alone talking. B.Bop's voice was dry in his throat. Do-Wah pulled himself up somehow and grabbed onto B.Bop's arm.
"What did you say?" he hissed, tearing at B.Bop's uniform. B.Bop sighed. He couldn't... he shouldn't... he WOULDN'T!
"It's okay..." Angela croaked behind him. B.Bop gulped. How to tell them???
"Angela isn't human... she-she's a Martian..." Mike laughed, he actually laughed. So did Shaboom but Do-Wah let go of B.Bop's suit and fell backwards. Damage appeared behind Bog and walked over to B.Bop, carrying a device. Do-Wah stood up and snarled.
"YOU STAY AWAY FROM MY ANGIE!" and Damage backed off. Suddenly everyone turned to see Stoat Muldoon arrive, his hover van just pulling up, casually, down the avenue. B.Bop would have laughed if he hadn't seen the little microchip on the floor. He recognised it. Angela had drawn it for him when she'd told him about... he turned his thoughts away. Ange... She'd told him it had been implanted in her neck; it disguised her to any Earth trackers, saying she was a human. The one that made her look human was in her brain... Damage looked down at Angela and nearly fell back in panic. He knew...
"Alegna..." he whispered, falling over B.Bop's feet in his effort to get away. Damage was her father... Damage shot her with his gadget and her hole in her throat was automatically fixed. He aimed it at her head and suddenly a piece of metal came flying at top speed out of it, seeming to be pulled by a magnet. It disintegrated as soon as it was high in the air and suddenly Angie turned into... the most beautiful Martian in the universe. Her forehead was pink and had a curl coming down her cheek as if it was hair, her eyes were a bright lapis lazuli blue, as blue as the ocean. Her lips were unnaturally red and her cheeks had dark blue freckles cast out neatly on them. B.Bop's legs gave way beneath him and her moaned in spite of himself. She was beautiful... Do-Wah blinked and Shaboom was crying. B.Bop was sure that every male Martian present had a heart beating like it was threatening to come out of their body. B.Bop gulped. Angela blinked a couple of times and frowned.
"Dad..." she began. Damage gulped. B.Bop couldn't believe it... it was really true! Damage had sent his own daughter to Earth because Bog's nephew had fallen in love with her and Damage thought that if they got married and had kids then he wouldn't be on the throne. He sent his own daughter away because he was jealous! A Bog Guard dropped to his feet and began to cry.
"The prophecies... the lost princess... they say that a Martian from wandering places comes forth to be crowned... from the enemies side. She be beautiful and named like an angel..." Bog gasped. The prophecies... the ancient prophecies that every Martian was taught since they were knee high, forced on them in Religious Studies... and they were really true. And Angela... or Alegna really was the lost princess. B.Bop remembered that the only reason Alegna had chosen her name on Earth to be Angela was because that was her real name backwards... Mike frowned...
"But- but I've known you all my life, I... You can't be a Martian and Damage can't be your dad I mean... I know your parents, I-"
"I was fostered and Mike, if you took time to look, you'd find out that your whole family has been brainwashed... you only think you've known me so long." Mike started to cry, really bawl out crying and squealing. How did it feel for him? He's practically been in love with Ange since, since when he thought they were in nappies together, which they hadn't... Shaboom turned and ran. What else was she to do? She felt so helpless, so... unwanted... so ugly because compared to Alegna, she was... utterly. Damage had walked forward on his knees and was hugging Alegna and, in spite of herself, she hugged back, even though she hated his guts.
"Freeze, alien scum." Muldoon had announced. Everyone turned, even Do-Wah who'd been staring at Alegna in awe. B.Bop was wondering why Muldoon hadn't stepped out before, but obviously he'd noticed there were plenty of aliens here and he wanted to see if it turned into a fight... and he'd been thinking. Muldoon turned to Alegna and his face creased in disgust, because Cedric and Mike were now hugging onto her, and B.Bop, without ever realising it himself, was being cradled by her, his head on her lap. Somehow he'd sunk to the floor without realising it and had fallen into her arms. Do-Wah was leaning on her and Damage had his arm around her. It's strange how love affects even the cruellest of people. Damage had completely turned from ice cold to complete softy. Muldoon was in a fit of rage. Why were humans hugging that alien? So what if she was gorgeous she probably was just a siren... luring them in to kill them. He couldn't take his eyes off the alien angel and was mad at himself for thinking that that girl could make ANYONE love her, just by sitting there and looking beautiful. In his anger at that thought he shot her to prove that it was just a mirage... after all, they were in the desert. Alegna turned and did the most unbelievable thing ever. She caught the bullet in mid air.
