Okay, new chapter here!!!! Not much to say except I'm glad this is turning out acceptable...when I first had this idea, I thought most people would flame big time...glad they haven't. Anywho, on to the chapter!


When I got home that afternoon, I checked the answering machine, like always. This was partly to check if I got any calls, and partly so that my parents NEVER got a bad call from a teacher. Anyways, there was a message. I hit play, and a very disturbing message came up.

"Ahh, This is to parents of Eric Bridge. I am being Dr. Jookiba, his science teacher at Kokaua Town High school. We are having special science project, and I am needing him to bring his part by house later. Other than that, am pleased to report he is having perfect score so far. If you are the needing to be contacting me, I can be the reached at..." he droned on with a phone number I doubt my parents would remember.

"Duh, it's only the first week. What else would I have?" I said to myself about my grade. I assumed he was talking about the pod (teachers typically have cameras hidden in the classrooms I've learned), so I put it in a pickle jar and then filled that with vegatable oil so that the pod wouldn't come into contact with water. I defiantly didn't want to take chances. After all, I might have made something horribly destructive. Or it might be a dud. But better safe than sorry, that's what my parents used to preach.

After I got my homework up (My parents never get home before 6:30), I headed out. I didn't know exactly where their house was, but Kokaua town was a lot smaller in real life than on TV. Only after an hour and a half walk I found it. I knocked on the front door (it was new), and who other than Jumba (He must have been expecting me) opened it.

"Ahh, Eric. Was thinking you might being showing up. Wondering why I called, yes?" Jumba (I can call him that after school hours I found out) said.

"No, not really...unless you count this..." I said, pulling out the pod (still in the pickle jar with the vegetable oil in it). "Any idea what this is?" I asked. I had a good guess, but I couldn't tell them that. At least, not yet.

"Ahh, yes. Be the coming with me." he said, brushing past me (nearly knocking me over I might add) and heading to a (dramatic noise here) red lump sticking up through trees. When we got there, I had no choice but to say a few words.

"If it isn't the mother ship." I said mockingly. He didn't pay any attention to it though, so I shut up.

"Please, be the coming in." he said, going up the ramp. Pretty sure I wasn't going to get abducted, I followed. "Place jar with pod there. Will be the explaining shortly." he said once were inside. I put the jar on a counter and just looked at a chair blankly. A mechanical arm (he probably didn't know what was in the jar) unscrewed the lid off and extracted the pod. "Ahh, was thinking this was what am thinking was." he said as the pod was placed on a scanner. "Is being interesting though. You made this by accidental, no?" he said, looking at me.

"Yeah...now what is it exactly?" I asked. I wanted a straight forward answer, and that's what I got.

"Is being dehydrated experimental creature...will be knowing what exactly when being activated." Jumba said. I had to keep up my façade of not knowing what these things were, so I asked.

"Activated?" I asked. Of course I knew what it meant, but he didn't know that.

"Has to be awakened, so to speak." Jumba 'clarified'. The mechanical arm dropped it into some water and nothing happened. We waited a few seconds...nothing happened. "Is being dud." he said after a few seconds. The pod was removed and when it was being blow dried, something I didn't expect (I expected it to happen in the water) happened. It activated.


Okay, cheesy chapter. Makes little sense. But remember, the pod was an accident, but Jumba thinks Eric might have enough skills to be taught a few things...remember, the Federation can't touch a human as long as they stay within Earth laws...and if I'm not mistaken, there was none on the show outlawing experiments. Anywho, please review!