Chapter 1: What I Did Over the Summer...

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New Mexico, 2009...

It was near the end of summer, close to September. The hot sun was seen high in the bright blue cloud filled sky. The air was warm and felt so nice against my pale white face. A lovely perfect day...and a giant alien octopus looking robot attacking a city.

I flew high above, insepecting the scene through my sunglasses, flapping my bat wings above the situation below me. Below my monster friends were fighting an alien robot that looked like a metal octopus with red eyes and red ringed lights from the joints and suction cups.

Susan was ripping out the lashing metal tendrils. Doctor Cockroach was tinkering with a new invention he just made up right on the spot with random items near him. B.O.B. was...being B.O.B. He was talking to birds again; and Link...was being his tough amazing self as always... Dodging the laser beams with ease and ripping off the alien looking guns from the top of the octopus as if they were made of paper-

"Bat! We need your assistance!" Susan shouted up to me. I literally got my head out of the clouds and swooped down. The robot saw me and used a couple of its tentacles to come after me. I did a wide barrel roll, dodging them in the process.

One of the tentacles nicked me on the shoulder. I winced and bit my lip to keep from screaming out from the pain. Two more nicked me, nearly taking me down. I tried not thinking about the blood dripping down my pale arms as I came in close and screamed at the alien robot in the alien robot's force field and shields broke as the strange alien metal began to buckle and concave inward like a crushed can. It took a couple steps back from the impact, crashing into a building and causing it to crash into another building.

"Shields down!" Doctor Cockroach said excitedly as he climbed up the robot on all fours and entered into the main power core or whatever he describes the tech stuff as. I don't bother getting into details. It's his thing. I'm just for taking down the other stuff. Anything with a wave frequency or a type of force field where I can hit the right frequency and disable it.

Sometimes it doesn't work and we have to figure out a different way. I'm usually the scout. Getting the aerial view of the situation. I get chased by smaller crafts sometimes when they see me. Sometimes I get the final blow and take down the aliens. I sometimes forget how powerful my scream is.

Once Doc was inside the robot octopus' brain, Susan came in and began punching the robot octopus in the face. Link took out the last of the laser guns that were shooting at us, and B.O.B. befriended a pigeon.

"Guys! Look! He's my new friend!" B.O.B. said as he held the pigeon upside down in his four fingered blue hand. I was about to tell the blue blob something about holding his "new friend" upside down when I felt something crash into me and sent me flying to the other side. Frantic, I opened my wings up and quickly flapped them till I was right side up and in control. I got smacked by one of the octopus arms and it was coming for me again.

I was in a lot of pain and decided to get back to the ground. Once I got to the ground, I limped across the street. The octopus lifted a couple metal tentacles and was about to bring them down on me and crush me, but Link and Susan intervened in time, grabbing them. I picked up my pace and limped as fast as I could. I tried keeping myself out of sight while the others finished off the alien robot. We were almost done anyway so I needed to rest.

I sat down on the curb under a tree. Breathing heavily. My heart was beating fast and my head was throbbing. My body was shaking, but other then that, I was allright. It was not an easy job, but I think we as a team did pretty allright taking down aliens. A couple times we had alien species get away and come back again at another day, or just not come back at all.

I heard a loud crash and looked up. The robot octopus crashed into a building and was out cold. We won. Link grinned as he jumped down and landed on Susan's shoulder. "Not bad, Ginormica. You did amazing back there," he complimented her as he always did after every alien battle. He still was trying to win Susan's heart. I secretly wished he would compliment me on my part in taking down the aliens.

My thoughts were interrupted when I heard someone call my name. I look up to see Doctor Cockroach coming up to me. He went down on one knee and inspected my wounds; gently moving my arms to get a better look and cupping my chin to lift my head up.

"Not too bad this time," he said as he pulled out a roll of bandages and began to treat my wounds. I winced when he poured the medicine on my shoulder. It stung so bad. Nothing that I wasn't used to.

"You are getting better with your new abilities," he said smiling gently as he wrapped my arms. I nodded slightly as a thank you. I was too tired to talk, and my throat was sore from using my sonic screech.

I got a couple nasty looking wounds from fighting the aliens all the time. I was the one who looked worse for wear then the others after every fight. I had a powerful attack, but not a good defense. Monger has given me some protective gear for when I had to go out and take down an alien invasion, but sometimes it got in the way and made me heavier, so I was unable to fly longer periods of time. I came back looking more like a mummy then a teen with bat features. Link was the one who loved pointing it out to me. Thankfully my healing ability was fast, so within the break there were no alien invasions, my body could heal.

Doc told me in the beginning that he wasn't a medical doctor, more of a mad doctor; but he did have some years of learning the medical stuff to please his father, before moving to America and doing his crazy "mad doctor" experiments here. He didn't mind being my medical doctor and helping me whenever I got hurt. I felt bad since I seemed to be the one always getting hurt to where I required medical assistance.

This summer has been hectic.

Besides me becoming a monster, finding out I was an experiment by an ex government man named John, who took alien DNA from an alien who we named October, and injected it into me to give me these weird bat features and weird powers; Susan had her weird alien encounter too.

We fought this one alien named Gallaxhar or something. He kidnapped Susan because apparently she had his Quantonium that made her giant sized. He was pretty tough, his clones were fun to fight since they were not good at fighting, but we defeated him. Also Insecto became a huge butterfly. He got hit by Gallaxhar's blast and cocooned himself. Link was devastated when he thought he lost his best friend. Tears ran down my face losing Insecto and seeing Link in that state. I wanted to go up to him, but Doc told me to give him space. The whole thing was heart wrenching.

Thankfully when we were getting away, and falling to our deaths, Monger came riding on Insecto and saved us. It was an interesting Friday. So now Butterflyasaurous is new on the team. We don't say he anymore, Insecto-er-Butterflyasaurous prefers to be identified as a she.

I remember overhearing Butterfly asking Link something when we went back to the base. From what I gathered, Butterfly was asking Link what he thought of her transformation and gender change. He said it surprised him, but he was good with it.

"I don't think differently of you, B. You are still my best friend. If you are happy with it, I'm happy." Those words made Butterflyasaurous very happy and she screeched for joy. She stopped smiling when she saw me hiding, eavesdropping on their conversation. I quickly moved away out of their line of sight,and briskly walked down the dark hall, feeling the waves of heat burn my face.

Even after B's transformation, I dont think she likes me. Ever since I met the monsters, Insecto always stared at me, as if he knew something. When Insecto became Butterfly, she still gives me this stare. Not angry stare. Its emotionless. It creeps me out sometimes. I have a feeling she knows I have a crush on Link and doesn't like that I do. I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking it.

Once Doc was done bandaging me up, Link, B.O.B. and Susan came over to us. Link smirked at my appearance. "Hey, Bat Mummy lives again!" He joked as he stuck his arms out and did a mummy impression. I rolled my eyes as I tried getting up.

Just then there was a sudden gust of wind. Butterfly screeched as she came down to greet us. She wasn't able to come and fight with us today because she had to help the government with a top secret project. Most likely to move something to the base or something since she was basically like having nine or ten helicopters at once. With the proper gear and cables, she can lift any heavy top secret object with ease and fly it to the base.

Link waved to her. "Hey! There's my girl!" He said as he came over to ruffle her fur. B smiled happily when she saw her best friend come up to her. I limped up to her and waved shyly. "Hey B. How was the flight?" I asked. B turned and looked down at me. Her face expressionless. She gave me a quick screech. Link translated for me.

"She said it was tiring," he said for me.

"Oh...ok." I said. I looked down at my feet for a moment. "...could I get a lift? I got hurt pretty badly again," I said. B lowered her wing for me. I sat down on the tip of it. Once I was on, she gently lifted her wing till it was at an angle to where I slid along her wing till I was on her back. I thanked her, but she seemed too busy with Link. Susan, Doc and B.O.B. figured out their own ways getting up on Butterfly's back.

Once we were all set, Butterfly lifted her wings and flapped. She was very careful not to hit the buildings, even though most of the buildings all the locals in the city of New Mexico evacuated from were destroyed.

Once she was over the city, she took off towards the direction of our home. The secret government base we are not allowed to say the name out loud blah blah blah, etc. etc...

Link appeared from Butterfly's head and slid down to where the rest of us were sitting. My heart lifted when he started walking along B's back towards me, then it sank when he walked past me and towards Susan.

I turned my attention away from them and looked down at the landscapes below, wishing I didn't get beaten up so bad today so I could fly on my own...

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