Thankies to everyone that read and reviewed the story as I was uploading chapters for my other stories, Book of Memories and Thank You Notes from the Birth by Sleep Characters. So, without further ado, chapter 6. As always, I own no ideas (except some of the ones that involve character injury XD)
-miano53
Winter Vacation and "Alien Invasions"
Feb 20, Winter Vacation at the Pellegrinos…
Due to the recent snowstorms and low funds on snowplows, it was decided that the capital and areas near the capital were to have a "winter vacation". Everything, including schools, businesses, and other places, were closed. The only exceptions were the hospitals, police stations and other emergency things. Due to this, Ven was very, very, very bored.
Seeing Terra watching TV, Ven (now out of his wheelchair) thought to prank the guy. Terra, who was watching his daily soaps and shows (The Maury Show and a few Telenovelas) didn't hear the snickering Ven who was holding a cold water balloon. He sat there with his hot chocolate, donuts, tin of chocolate kady-dids* and cover and began watching TV.
"Oh come on! It's obvious he's not the father. Just look at the kid!" Terra yelled at the TV.
"In the case of two year old Sequoia, Dennis…you are not the father! Leonard, you are the father," Maury Povich said to the black father who was getting a DNA test. The crowd went into shock and the dad look at his wife and best friend in anger.
"Told ya so, dude," Terra said, eating his donuts.
"Oh, he's not the dad?" Aqua said, coming downstairs in her blue, butterfly picture covered pajamas. Her hair was tied up in a bun and she plopped on the couch, not seeing Ven.
Ven stopped snickering and thought, 'Shoot!'
Aqua went under the covers and began eating the tin of chocolates. "Nope. His wife cheated on him with his best friend and had a baby with him. She dragged him on TV to tell him that," Terra said, eating donuts.
Ven, who was still determined to prank Terra, held the water balloon over the guy's hair. "Ven…Do it and I'll clobber ya," Terra said, still looking at the TV.
"Aw! How did you know I was there?" Ven asked.
"I smelled ya comin' a mile away," Terra replied, turning around.
"You smell like peanut butter. That's why," Aqua said.
Ven grumbled and put the balloon in the trash. He then returned to the living room and plopped on the couch in between Terra and Aqua. "So…Who's the father on this one?"
"Shh!" Terra and Aqua said, eating the donuts.
The three saw a white American man sitting with his wife. His wife turned to him and said, "Jerry. I have to tell you something. I…I slept with your brother, Terry."
The audience booed her and Terra and Aqua said, "Sad…"
"What'cha mean you slept with him?" the man, Jerry said.
"And I think…Perry is his," the wife said.
"What? Are you nuts?" Jerry yelled.
"Slut…" Ven mumbled.
"Ven!" Aqua said.
"Well, she is!" Ven said, defending his opinion.
The man's brother, Terry entered and everyone saw that they were identical twins. "Oh, that's messed up," Terra said, drinking his hot cocoa.
The two twins started fighting each other and the bodyguards broke up the fight. "Sad…" Aqua said, eating more kady-dids.
The three heard Eraqus enter the house and he said, "I can't believe that the University is closed."
"Told ya so. It was on the news this morning," Terra said.
Eraqus, who had bags of groceries in his hand, came in the house and he was covered from head to toe in snow. He placed the groceries in the kitchen, put them away and took off his winter gear. After doing that, he grabbed a cup of hot cocoa, his box of chocolates, and a bag of peanuts and entered the living room.
Sitting on his recliner, he threw the bag of peanuts at Ven (who eyed it with crazed hunger) and said, "Is this Maury Povich?"
"Yeah. That guy Jerry's about to find out if he's the father to his one year old," Aqua said.
"In the case of one year old Perry. Jerry…You are not the father," Maury said.
"Rough…" Aqua said, still eating.
Ven was about to say something when there was a knock at the door. He headed for it and opened the door. He saw a freezing Yuffie, Luneth and Isa. Yuffie's father accompanied her. Cloud and Tifa and accompanied Luneth while Saïx accompanied Isa.
When Ven saw Saïx, he screamed, "Saïx!"
Terra and Aqua's faces blanched and they turned around. The guests entered the living room with food and blankets and Cloud, Tifa and Saïx saw Aqua and Terra in their pajamas. When Saïx saw them now watching telenovelas, he said, "Wow Terra…Gay much?"
That offended Terra on so many levels and he yelled, "Shut it, Psycho!"
Saïx laughed and Tifa said, "Cloud and I like telenovelas. You're a jerk."
"Um…Why are you guys here?" Ven asked.
"'Cause the power went out on our blocks," Cloud said.
"Oh, well, we only have two extra rooms; the guest rooms. Terra, get the cots and Ven, put their groceries in the kitchen," Eraqus said.
Terra, who was in his relaxed mode, muttered curses under his breath and headed for the basement. Ven did the same, but headed for the kitchen with everyone's groceries.
'This is going to be one interesting week,' Aqua thought.
The next morning at the Orunitia household (3 blocks away from Ven's house)…
Vivi had a dream that he was walking in a field of corn. The sun was shining and it was a great day. "Good day world!" Vivi yelled in happiness.
He frolicked in the field and saw his trusty moogle doll and teddy bear walk next to him. Each had donuts in their hands. "Ooh, donuts!" Vivi said, taking them.
A bird carrying a bottle of tea dropped the bottle and gave it to him. "I'm so awesome!" Vivi said.
He then arrived at this train station. The small train carried Vivi to his next destination. The sun then said to him, "Good day, Vivi."
"Good day, Mr. Sun!" Vivi said in happiness.
The train then took him pass his friends. "Hi, children of the city!" Vivi said.
"Greetings to you too, Vivi," Ven said.
"Your hat look so divine today, Vivi," Garnet said.
"You look like a million munny today, Vivi," Zack said, smiling.
The others greeted him in a similar manner and Vivi said, "Sorry to say, but I'm on my way. Bye-Bye!"
He then arrived at the Jenova brothers who were tied up to chair and were being hit on their backsides by an old world grandmother. "Hello, Jenova Brothers! I see Granny No-No! She's stopping you from wreaking havoc on this fine day," Vivi said.
"'Havoc'? Oh, like the fish!" Kadaj said.
"No. That's 'Haddock', Kadaj," Yazoo said.
"Ooh. My butt's got a haddock!" Loz said, looking quite stupid.
"You guys are so weird," Vivi said and headed for Yuffie's house.
He got off the train and saw her running towards him. "There she is! My raven haired angel. My pummeling protector!" Vivi said.
He then ran towards her but smacked his entire body onto this giant, pizza cutter that fell from the sky. Vivi looked up and saw that the entire sky went black and storm clouds rolled in. The pizza cutter cut the ground as if it was a pizza. It then went back into the sky. "Vivi, help me!" Yuffie yelled.
Vivi jumped in horror and ran towards her. He then jumped the gap that was created by the pizza cutters and fell face first onto the cement. "What's happening?" he screamed and fell.
He managed to grab a nearby stake and began dangling from it. "Vivi!" Yuffie screamed.
Vivi looked up and said, "Yuffie….Robot wiggly! ROBOT WIGGLY!"
He was pointing to the alien tendrils that started attacking. Yuffie dodged and the tendrils turned to claws. "Help me, Vivi!" Yuffie screamed.
The claws then plunged themselves into the ground and began pulling the ground up. "Yuffie! Yuffie! Aah! Oh no! Oh no!" Vivi screamed.
Yuffie leaned down and said, "Take my hand, Vivi!"
"I'm trying, Yuffie! I can't reach you!" Vivi said.
The land was pulled away from the area and began being pulled into the sky. Vivi's grip failed him and he fell. "Vivi!" Yuffie screamed.
"YUFF-FF-II-II-EE!" Vivi screamed.
As he screamed, he woke up and saw that he was still in his bed. In a cold sweat, he opened up his curtains and saw that it was morning. The streets weren't plowed and he heard someone in his room.
"Boy, I thought you'd never wake up," Yuffie, wearing her winter gear, said.
"Oh, Yuffie! I had a horrible dream! These Herculean-mechanical creatures appeared from the sky and snatched you away," Vivi screamed, hugging Yuffie.
"How many chili bombs did you eat before bed, mister? You know they give you nightmares," Yuffie asked.
"Um, maybe one or two…" Vivi said, looking innocent.
Yuffie checked under his bed and saw a fast food bag. She opened it and saw twenty wrappers for the chili bombs. Vivi saw it and said, "Um…Oops."
"Okay, I'll be over at Ven's house. We're gonna watch All My Children today," Yuffie said, leaving.
Vivi quickly changed and rushed downstairs. He then saw that he had a postcard from his uncle, Mr. 133 (don't ask). "A postcard? I love post…" Vivi said.
His mind was then taken back to his dream. After having the flashback, he dropped the card in fear and Yuffie said, "Vivi?"
She then dragged him out of the house and the two headed for Ven's…
At the Farron's household…
Tidus, Shuyin and Yuna, who were walking to Ven's house for study day walked in the alleys and were chatting away. The three stopped once they saw a bright green light come from the Farron household. "Huh? What's that?" Yuna asked.
"I don't know, but…Firion lives there, right?" Shuyin asked.
"Yeah. He's staying there 'til his family moves in their new house," Tidus said.
"Let's see what he's doing," Yuna said. The boys agreed and they entered the house…
Back at Ven's house…
Yuffie, Zack (who came over for pie), Luneth, Isa, Ven and Vivi were playing outside in the snow while Terra, Saïx and Cloud stayed inside for…tutoring with Eraqus. The three, who were in Eraqus's home classroom, stared at the chalkboard in boredom. 'I really could be watching my telenovelas…' Terra thought, getting very bored.
'So bored…' Cloud thought, slamming his head on the desk.
'Why did I come here? I rather freeze to death,' Saïx thought.
"We can rewire the electrical currents of the engine. Therefore, adding an integer to the equation can be a hazard to the engine…You can have a volatile bomb on your hands…Any questions, men?" Eraqus said.
He then noticed the men staring out of the window. Terra stared at the scene and said, "What are Tidus and Yuna screaming about?"
Outside, Yuna and Tidus began screaming as if the end of the world was at hand. "You gotta believe us! We're all dead ducks! DEAD DUCKS, I TELL YA!" Tidus screamed, looking like a prophet of doom.
Aqua, who was outside and noticed the two's "suntan" on their faces, said, "Harsh sunburn…You need some Aloe Vera."
"Excuse me…If it's not too much to ask, please keep your voices down. My class requires that…." Eraqus said, now outside with Terra, Cloud and Saïx.
"You'll believe us!" Yuna and Tidus screamed, jumping on Eraqus.
"There's flesh eating aliens! Invading the Farron household! Firion said so! He did!" the two screamed.
"This is gonna be good," Saïx said, sitting on the porch with his coffee.
"'Flesh eating aliens'? Yeah right…And we got a Russian cheerleading team, camping out in our backyard," Isa said, agreeing with his brother.
"They don't believe us, Yuna! THEY DON'T BELIEVE US!" Tidus screamed.
"WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" Yuna screamed.
"I believe you guys," Vivi said.
The other giggles while Yuffie said, "Ah, ha, ha. Oh Vivi, you're such a kidder."
She then pulled him to the side and said, "What the heck's wrong with you? Get real, Vivi!"
"I've never been more real in all my life, Yuffie! My dream has come true," Vivi said, sobbing.
"What dream?" Terra asked.
"Giant blades will fall, slicing the Earth like a deep dish pizza! IT'S THE END OF ALL HUMANITY!" Vivi yelled. He immediately passed out, receiving mixed reviews from everyone.
"Hold on…Where's Shuyin, Tidus?" Zack asked.
"He got captured," Yuna said, sobbing.
"Just put an end to it and check the house out, already!" Luneth said.
The group then grabbed him and headed for the house…
Back at the Farron household…
Yuffie, Aqua, Ven, Terra, Zack, Cloud, Isa, Luneth, Saïx, Eraqus, Yuna and Tidus all headed for the Farron house, via walking, and saw that the house's perimeter had no snow. "Well, it hardly appears to be the ground for an alien invasion, does it?" Luneth said, walking to the perimeter.
He was followed by Terra, Cloud and Ven. The heat got to the four and Luneth said, "Is it me or is it suddenly…unbearably warm?"
He took off his winter gear and Ven said, "I'm frying like an egg over here!"
Ven took off his coat, shirt and scarf, receiving awkward stares from everyone else. Luneth checked the temperature by the steaming mailbox and said, "Odd…How did the land temperature change from one area to the next?"
"See? We told ya," Tidus said, using Yuna as a human shield.
A rumbling was heard from the house and large, green object shot out of the chimney. It shot through the sky crashed near the school. A mushroom cloud was seen and snow began to head towards them. "Holy cra…!" Yuffie attempted to say.
The gale from the explosion hit, sending everyone and snow flying everywhere. When it died down, Luneth yelled, "The school!"
"Follow me!" Cloud yelled and ran off. Unknowingly to him, everyone else was still holding onto a nearby light post. After defying gravity for several moments, everyone fell and crashed on top of each other.
At the school, a large crater with a "meteorite" was seen in the middle of the school's parking lot. Cloud, who arrived first, stared at the crater. Everyone else arrived and saw the "meteorite". A horrible smell came from it and Ven asked, "The heck is that?"
"Well, whatever it is…it reeks," Terra said, holding his nose.
A hand popped out of the rock and the first one to scream was Aqua. "AAH! AAH! AAH!" she screamed and ran away.
"AAH! AAH! OH! AAH!" everyone else screamed.
Everyone, but Terra, ran either out of the parking lot and headed back home or behind or inside cars. When everyone was gone, Terra looked down and saw the meteor split open. Thinking it was an egg, Terra screamed, "It hatched, man!"
He then ran behind a tree, hoping to God it wasn't an alien. Ven, Zack and Luneth hid behind a trash bin. Yuna, Tidus and Yuffie hid behind a swing set. Vivi and Aqua climbed up a nearby tree. Cloud hid behind a sign while Eraqus, Saïx and Isa ran home to Tifa.
Seeing that the swing set was squeaky, Yuna sprayed Oil-Sheen on the swing set and the squeaking stopped. "Let's make a break for it!" Tidus whispered loudly.
The three rushed off and crashed into someone covered in goop. "Aah!" the three screamed, holding onto each other.
Noticing who it was, Tidus said, "Shuyin?"
Shuyin, who was only wearing his underwear, shook in fear and said, "Squeezed…Cheeks pinched…Ribs prodded…Grizzly faced beings that smell like moth balls! I'm so pooped."
He then passed out and everyone gathered around the poor guy. Tidus leaned in and said, "The aliens experimented on Demon-Child!"
"Protect yourself, Tidus, as they will use you as an ottoman for their scaly feet!" Shuyin yelled, grabbing his brother.
"No! Not the Ottoman!" Tidus yelled, knocking his brother to the ground.
"That's it! We're stormin' that house!" Cloud yelled.
"Hold the phone! Who made you in charge, Chocobo-head?" Terra asked.
"Oh, so I guess you wanna go in the house, first?" Cloud said.
Terra, remembering the horrors of what happened, said, "Okay, Cloud can be the leader."
"Okay, I'll go to the library and research everything about aliens. There may be something that can deal with our alien insurgency," Luneth said.
"I'm coming too," Yuna said.
"Me three," Ven said. The three then headed for the library. Cloud looked at his troops and nodded towards the Pellegrino house. He then left and the remaining members followed him like a flock of lambs…
An hour later in the library…
Luneth, Ven and Yuna were deep in their research of aliens. One talked about aliens being "inappropriate pinchers from beyond". Another was about them being "space nose miners". The last one talked about them having heat vision.
"Coincidence?" Luneth said.
"I don't think so. Almost every movie and TV show like V have stuff like that," Ven said.
"Yeah," Yuna said, agreeing.
The three then heard a rumbling sound in the relatively empty library. "Hello?" Luneth said.
The sound got louder and Yuna and Ven began gathering the books they had with haste. The three then headed out of the library and Luneth's coat got stuck in the door. "Oh for God sak…" he said and was scared off by another rumbling sound.
Back at the Pellegrino house, the three knocked on the door and Tidus's peeked out of the mail slot. "Password," he said.
"'Password'? We weren't informed of any password," Luneth said.
"Yeah and it's my house," Ven said.
Tidus closed the slot and Yuna said, "Tidus?"
The door burst open and the three saw that it was Shuyin (as he had only his underwear on). He yelled a bat in his hands, started swinging and yelled, "I see through your disguise, creatures from beyond our stars!"
"Shuyin! It's us! Yuna, Ven and Luneth!" Yuna screamed.
Shuyin lowered the bat and said, "Guys? You're alive!"
He then grabbed them and ran inside, shutting the door behind them. There in the living room, they saw Cloud in a strategy meeting. "The Alpha team will circle the perimeter here. And the Beta team will go here. The Omega team will wait in the front and that's when we take them. Any questions?" Cloud said.
Vivi raised his hand and he said, "Vivi!"
Vivi then jumped on him and said, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
He then started kissing his feet and the ground Cloud stood on as if he was a god. "Okay…Everyone, start prepping your weapons. Luneth, what did you guys find out?" Cloud said.
"Well, what we found was that aliens produce heat from their eyes," Yuna said.
"Heat vision, huh?" Cloud said.
"With that, we created these sub-zero battle suits. It'll protect us from the detonation of heat," Luneth said, pulling out makeshift battle suits made of frozen foods.
He then started passing out the battle suits. After everyone had the armor on, they began preparing their weapons. Aqua had a baseball bat. Vivi had a racket. Terra grabbed an ax (don't ask). Yuffie had Vivi's homemade perfume for Yuffie (which she called a stink bomb).
Ven had a stun gun. Tidus and Shuyin had stink bombs. Yuna had a large, wooden pole. Cloud had his bazooka that shot out tear gas missiles. Luneth had a makeshift gun that used cereal as bullets. Zack grabbed a pair of butcher knives.
When everyone was ready, Cloud said, "Ready?"
"Ready. I'm ready. Everyone's ready," several of them said.
Luneth, who thought they were going to die, stood in front of the door and said, "It is here, friends…on the threshold of fate, in the gaping mouth of uncertainty. In this, our darkest hour, I wish to express my…"
Cloud, who didn't like the long speech, pushed Luneth out of the way and said, "Listen up. These space things made a big mistake, invading our city and taking one of our own hostage. Let's give them an old Radiant Garden 'welcome'!"
The group cheered and Cloud yelled, "Let's do this!"
He then kicked the door open. "We're comin' for ya, Rose Kid!" he yelled and the group headed for the Farron Household.
At the Farron household…
Everyone went into their positions around the house and contacted each other using walkie-talkies. "Yuffie, go!" Cloud ordered.
Yuffie headed to the front window and opened it. She then opened up the stinky perfume and threw it in. She then ran back and said, "I did it, Cloud!"
Someone from the inside saw that and threw the perfume back outside. The contents hit Yuffie and she smelled it. "Bwah! They got me!" Yuffie screamed and passed out due to the stench of rotten milk and flowers.
"Yuffie, I'm coming!" Ven yelled, running after her.
Terra grabbed Ven and screamed, "What are you, nuts? Those aliens will eat your brains!"
"Zack, go!" Cloud ordered. Zack (who was on the other side of the house with a few of the others) jumped onto the roof and into the chimney.
"Let's dance, baby!" he said and…got stuck in the chimney.
The pressure from whatever was inside the house caused for Zack to be shot in the air. Sadly, the poor guy landed in the cold pool in the backyard. Luneth started laughing and Aqua said, "That's not funny, Luneth."
Back in the front, Cloud attempted to shoot a tear gas missile into the house. "Feed me some ammo, Tidus!" he ordered.
Tidus, who wasn't paying attention, didn't hear him. Cloud turned around and yelled, "Move it!"
Instead of doing what he said, Tidus grabbed the ammo and yelled, "Go back from which you came, aliens from the unknown!"
He then threw the ammo towards the house and it hit the wall with a thud. "Touchdown!" Tidus yelled, throwing a hand in the air.
"Um, I hope you pick that up," Yuna said.
Cloud was then angered and screamed, "I've had it! Everyone's on their own!"
Everyone (even those behind the house) rushed to him and Vivi grabbed his legs. "Cloud! My dream! We'll be sucked up into the sky!" Vivi yelled.
"Yeah, chill out, Cloud!" Aqua said.
"Yeah, we gotta get Firion out of that house!" Zack yelled.
"Well, don't aliens like female to eat?" Ven asked.
Luneth checked his notes and said, "Ven's right."
"That's so dumb," Aqua said. Everyone then looked at her and she looked around in fear.
"Oh no! No! No! No! No! No!" she yelled.
A bit later, Aqua was tied up to a lamppost and Luneth walked over to her. "Aqua, find it in your heart to forgive me. You should probably see this as a selfless act to save…" he said and was slapped in the face by Aqua.
He was knocked all the way back to Cloud and the others and the light from the post started to flicker. It then flickered off and a green glow came from the house. Aqua began hyperventilating in fear and the door opened.
She then saw an octopus-like creature in the doorway and she screamed, "Please don't eat me!"
"AAH!" everyone but Luneth, who was unconscious, screamed.
Luneth then woke up and saw the "alien". "AAAH! OH! AAH!" he screamed.
The light then faded and everyone saw that it was Firion. "Heya, guys!" he said with a smile on his face.
"Firion?" Aqua asked.
"You guys have come to join in the party, right?" Firion said. Everyone then noticed that he was sweaty.
"Party?" Vivi and Yuffie asked.
"Man, I'm so sweat 'cause my relatives turned the furnace up too high," Firion said.
"That's what he said, Tidus. Relatives," Shuyin said.
"Relatives. Yes…My adoptive parents, brother, sister and others all the way from Fynn," Firion said.
"Oh…Now I get it. Firion wasn't being literally attacked by aliens. It was just his family visiting," Luneth said.
Tidus and Shuyin started crying. "They are so otherworldly!" they cried.
"Well, Maria and Leon thank you for letting the little kids to use your clothes as emergency bibs, Shuyin," Firion said, giving Shuyin's now dirty clothes back.
"Come inside!" Firion said running back in. The group followed and Cloud was the first to leave after seeing what looked like a pile of meat and weird slop on the dining room table.
"I guess Guy wants a kiss under the red rose, Yuna," Firion said, pointing at his cousin, Guy.
"AAH!" Yuna screamed, taking Tidus and Shuyin with her.
Everyone else then started to leave when Firion grabbed Zack and Ven. "You two should stay. Lightning sees the footrest potential for your backs," he said, dragging the two by their feet.
"No! Lemme go!" Zack screamed.
"I don't wanna be an ottoman! Terra, help me!" Ven screamed.
Terra then left, leaving Ven and Zack to their now footresting career. Sadly, he also left Aqua to be a temporary ice statue…
Poor, poor Ven and Zack. Becoming ottomans for people you barely know…Review please. Oh and Kady-Dids are little chocolate candies that have caramel and nuts in them. They are SO good. I miss eating them...
-miano53