In this chapter, Captain Underpants is going to be called upon to deal with an alien menace...again! And before you ask, nobody's going to transform into zombie nerds. Besides, one of the students at Jerome Horwitz Elementary is already a nerd. You probably know who he is.
Hopefully he can take down that alien spaceship. And yes, he's going to face the actual spaceship this time, not just the aliens. Unlike Zorx, Klax, and Jennifer's spaceship, this one actually has weapons. It's also bigger in size despite the fact that there's only one alien this time instead of three. I know, it's kind of weird. But at least it makes the alien more of a threat.
Chapter 3: Alien Invasion
Jenny decided to go see what George and Harold were doing. Once again, it was school time.
Knowing them, they were probably going to pull a prank on one of the teachers instead of studying for their tests.
As usual, they were rearranging letters on a school sign. Perhaps the teachers should keep a better eye on it so that it didn't get vandalized. Alternatively, they could try installing a security camera like Mr. Krupp had done in the original Captain Underpants.
However, it seemed this time they didn't know what to write this time. That was new. Perhaps they were having prankster's block?
The two of them scratched their heads.
"Hmm, what should we make, Harold?" asked George.
"I don't know." answered Harold.
The two of them began to brainstorm. Surely there was something funny they could make. Something that their fellow students would find absolutely hilarious. They aimed to please.
The school sign read Friday Is Our Big School Assembly Hosted By Mr. Krupp. Tomorrow is Mr. Meaner's Gym Class, Jocks!
Suddenly, George noticed Jenny.
"Hey, Jenny!" exclaimed George. It was nice to see their friend again, especially after she gave them a helping hand. Maybe she could give them a helping hand once more.
Jenny had an idea.
"Why don't you write Mr. Meaner's Big Jock Strap?" suggested Jenny. That ought to be worth a laugh.
George and Harold nodded. That sounded perfect. Mr. Meaner seemed like as good of a target as any. He loved insulting the kids. And he apparently thought bullying at gym class was a good thing.
Immediately, the two of them rearranged the letters so it read just that.
They then left the hallway laughing.
"Thanks for help!" exclaimed George. That was a good one.
At that very moment, Mr. Meaner walked by.
"Huh?" asked Mr. Meaner.
Mr. Meaner gasped in shock.
"Mr. Meaner's Big Jock Strap? Who wrote this?!" exclaimed Mr. Meaner, clenching his fists.
Sure enough, the students were laughing. Considering that Mr. Meaner's exercises were rather grueling, they were always up for a joke at his expense.
"Why does this sign keep getting vandalized?" questioned the gym teacher. He wanted to know already.
When he found out who it was, he was going to make them do a million pushups.
Maybe it was George and Harold? They put banana peels on the soccer field last week. He and his adult friends ended up tripping over them.
She had to admit, pulling pranks was rather fun...though for the sake of her permanent record she probably wasn't going to take it too far.
Besides, she didn't want to make Mr. Krupp angry at her.
Of course, she could probably simply threaten him with the superintendent again to get him to comply to her demands.
At that very moment, they were called into Ms. Ribble's class.
For some strange reason, Ms. Ribble seemed rather friendly. It seemed rather odd, considering her full name was Tara Ribble. She certainly loved baking chocolate chip cookies. She gave them to the students regularly, so they never had to miss out on them.
Speaking of which, she decided to eat one for herself. It was delicious. Ms. Ribble could probably rival Edith the Lunch Lady.
Strangely enough, she didn't see Edith much. She heard that she was rather shy. Like Ms. Ribble she seemed like one of the few members of the school staff that were actually friendly towards the students.
Perhaps she could help her out with that, not being shy.
Suddenly, she noticed something.
For some strange reason, there seemed to be a UFO outside the window.
It was vandalizing some mall signs so they said rather absurd things.
However, none of the students in the classroom seemed to notice. They were focused on what Ms. Ribble was teaching them.
It was kind of weird.
Jenny decided that it was time for Captain Underpants to go to the city and save the day.
"Psst! George and Harold! I think there's an alien invasion!" exclaimed Jenny.
"Alien invasion?" asked Harold.
George sighed. It looked like they were going to have the save the world once again. They had in fact saved the world from aliens once before, but it seemed that people weren't aware of that. They didn't seem to be aware that they had been transformed into zombie nerds, except for George and Harold since they had conveniently been at the principal's office that particular day.
Strangely enough, the alien reminded them of themselves. They weren't the only ones that liked to play pranks.
Even so, they got the feeling that they should do something before the extraterrestrials conquered the earth.
It was time to go visit Mr. Krupp and change him into Captain Underpants. Who else was going to stop an alien invasion? The military? They never seemed to show up when people needed them.
Immediately, they stopped by Mr. Krupp's office.
"What do you three kids want?" asked Mr. Krupp. It had better be worth his time.
George snapped his fingers.
At that very moment, Mr. Krupp transformed into Captain Underpants.
He took his clothes off and took a nearby curtain so that he could wear it as a cape.
"Tra la la!" exclaimed Captain Underpants.
Immediately, Captain Underpants flew outside the window.
"I have to admit, you wouldn't think a grumpy school principal like him would also be a superhero. Then again, they do resemble each other somewhat, other than the facial expression." noted Jenny.
"Well, to be honest, this started out as a prank. We didn't think it would be permanent." answered Harold.
"Figures. You think we should help him?" asked the smart girl.
"We wouldn't want him to get into trouble." nodded George.
Unfortunately, Captain Underpants believed everything that was in his comics, regardless of how unbelievable it was. Perhaps they should be careful what they write in their comic books. They didn't want him to get hurt even if his alter ego was a grumpy school principal.
Sure enough, Captain Underpants was fighting the aliens as they spoke.
Currently, Nebula was rewriting a sign. The sign read Come See Our Big Sale! We sell buttermilk pancakes!
This of course was a pancakeria.
Nebula used her laser to vaporize part of the sign so it now read "Come See Our Big Butt!"
"That's pretty funny, actually." noted Harold.
"I'll say!" shouted George.
"We need to stop her from conquering the world!" exclaimed Jenny. She had read her share of history books that involved insane dictators.
"Right..." nodded the boy with a clip on tie.
Captain Underpants noticed the flying spaceship.
He stretched out his arms and clenched his knuckles.
"An alien spaceship is attacking the city? No worries! The amazing Captain Underpants will save the day! That's what he always does!" exclaimed the superhero.
"I wonder why he's speaking in third person." thought Jenny.
Immediately, Captain Underpants flew up into the sky, and he began to attack the alien spaceship.
"OK, why is a man flying towards my spaceship and why is he wearing nothing but a cape and his underpants?" inquired Nebula. Out of all the superheroes that could have possibly volunteered to stop her, she got stuck with this one.
She decided to open fire on him. A grown man flying around in his underpants was not pleasant to her eyes. Think of the children!
Fortunately, Captain Underpants was fast enough to avoid the shots. He was faster than a speeding waistband, after all.
He then punched a dent on the spaceship. Unfortunately for the alien invader, he was strong enough to punch through metal with his bare hands.
"Hey! I didn't get that spaceship for free! OK, I got a discount on it but still!" exclaimed Nebula.
In retaliation, she pressed a button and a freeze ray came out of the spaceship.
She then proceeded to fire ice beams at Captain Underpants.
Fortunately, he was fast enough to avoid them.
In the process, they froze over several trees as well as a stop sign.
"Oh great, he's one of those superheroes that have super speed..." noted the alien. This made hitting him a lot more difficult.
"Why are the aliens so far ahead of us in technology?" asked George. Most of the aliens he read about in comic books had lasers and tractor beams.
"I can't say I'm not a little envious..." noted Harold. Fortunately, there was only one alien, so things were a lot better than they could have been.
"Tra la la!" exclaimed Captain Underpants.
"Maybe I should try the heat ray." said the alien.
She fired the heat ray at Captain Underpants.
Captain Underpants managed to evade the blast for the most part, but it ended up singing his cape.
This made the captain very angry. He apparently thought the cape was more important than his underpants.
"How dare you!" exclaimed Captain Underpants.
"Uh-oh, I think I made him mad..." thought Nebula.
Captain Underpants began to attack the spaceship even harder.
Eventually, it started to take some serious damage.
"This isn't good...I should probably activate the force field." noted Nebula.
Nebula activated a forcefield around the spaceship.
"Much better." answered the alien.
Unfortunately for Captain Underpants, the force field repelled him whenever he got close. There was no use trying to punch the spaceship anymore.
The spaceship then fired a laser at Captain Underpants.
"Ouch! That smarts!" exclaimed the captain.
The spaceship continued to fire more lasers at the captain.
"How is Captain Underpants going to get past that?" asked Harold.
Captain Underpants wasn't sure.
"Maybe he could try tossing something at it?" inquired Jenny. The force field only seemed to be effective at close-range.
The underpants-wearing hero nodded and tossed a car at the spaceship.
The force field began to falter.
"Hey! Stop doing that!" exclaimed Nebula.
That in car in question happened to belong to Mr. Meaner.
"My car!" shouted Mr. Meaner.
George and Harold couldn't help but laugh.
"You might want to hit the forcefield with something bigger." suggested Jenny. The bigger the object Captain Underpants lifted, the more damage it would likely do to the forcefield.
Captain Underpants nodded and lifted the school bus.
"Wait...don't we need that to go to school?" asked George.
"Well, that school does seem to want to suck the imagination out of you..." answered Jenny. She had to question their teaching practices.
"That's true. I'm still not looking forward to destroying school property...vandalizing is one thing, but destroying it another." answered Harold.
"Well, according to the bus company label, it has superhero insurance." stated the girl.
"OK!" exclaimed Captain Underpants, tossing the bus at the spaceship.
The forcefield disappeared.
"I wish I had a better spaceship..." said Nebula.
Captain Underpants punched the spaceship, and it crashed into the ground.
"Surrender, wicked alien!" exclaimed Captain Underpants.
"Alright, you got me." answered Nebula, raising her hands into the air.
"You're going straight to jail!" exclaimed the captain.
"I don't know...do they accept space aliens?" asked George.
"Maybe you should take her to Area 51..." answered Jenny. That seemed like a good place for an alien criminal like her.
Captain Underpants nodded and took Nebula to Area 51.
He came back shortly after.
"That was fast..." noted Jenny.
"I guess that power juice he drank came in handy." answered George.
"You gave him power juice?" asked the girl.
"It was kind of an emergency." stated Harold.
"He was about to be eaten by a giant dandelion!" exclaimed George.
"A giant dandelion?" asked Jenny.
"Yeah...we really need to watch where we pour our power juice..." answered Harold.
Jenny nodded.
Now that the alien invasion had been thwarted, it looked like the Earth was safe...for now.
It was only a matter of time before someone else decided that they were going to try to conquer the world.
But until then, George and Harold would be pulling pranks.
A short while later...
Jenny poured water on Captain Underpants's head, causing him to turn back to Mr. Krupp. Though she wasn't too fond of him, things would probably be even worse at the school if there wasn't any principal monitoring the teacher's bad behavior.
Mr. Krupp went back to his house.
"By the way, could I borrow your Hypno Ring?" asked Jenny.
"Are you going to do anything irresponsible with it?" inquired George.
"Didn't...you know, use the Hypno Ring for pranks?" asked the girl.
"Good point." answered Harold.
George and Harold gave Jenny the Hypno Ring.
She then went to go see Edith.
"I think I might know how to overcome her shyness..." stated Jenny.
However, before she did that, she decided why not make her own comic book? She enjoyed George and Harold's comic book.
She decided that she was going to make a comic book super heroine of her very own.
"Let me think..." said the girl.
It looks like Captain Underpants managed to save the day...again.
In the next chapter, Jenny's going to try to hypnotize Edith to not be shy...but it's going to backfire since the Hypno Ring has opposite effects on women...no worries, she won't become a super villain. However, she will become something else.
We're also going to see the comic book superheroine that she created. As you can guess, she's similar to Captain Underpants.