Chapter 2
At a low down motel a guy came inside of his house/room talking to himself while going into the kitchen. "You are a pain in the butt you know that right?. I ask a nice hot girl to come over to hang out our place, and you do you like egg salad?." said the guy as he closed the fridge, after getting a soda bottle.
When he turned around and stopped in surprise seeing a hot women, who was standing in his room with her hands on her hips. "Um, hey. Can I help you with something?." he asked, as a long neck head version of himself popped out from the book bag with a friendly attitude and ask "Do you like egg salad?."
She walked over towards them and turn her fingers into her original form, and stretch them and wrapping her fingers around their necks. "Zelena!. Why you didn't tell us it was you?." said the guy as he was trying to talk, since his throat was being tighten. Zelena smiled and said "Boys, how are you?. Now, let's get down to business. You two call me from light years away and say you guys have found the Light of Zarthra, and want to know where."
She let go of them so they can talk without losing air, as the little head said "Look, we found the Light that you have been searching for non stop for years, and we want to be paid triple. An then maybe we will give you information." With that being said, Zelena smile and then walked up to them, and put her fingers up to there ears making it travel everywhere in their heads.
"Now, here's my pay, I won't reap you from the insides of you tell me where's the Light. Now talk." she said losing patience. With having her worm fingers slithering all around inside their heads and nose. "Alright it's a deal!. We don't exactly know where the Light is, but we do know there's a guy that knows exactly where." he said feeling the pain. "We're telling the truth!." said the little head.
Zelena let them go an then grab some food on the table and said "Let's go idiots. My patients are getting very low." as she headed out. They both looked at each other and just follow her out the door. Meanwhile at the cafe shop, April and Irma was seating at the booth eating some pie.
"This is some good pie." said Irma taking a bite of her chocolate cream pie, while April was eating her favorite lemon lime. "Oh, yeah it's the best in New York. In my opinion." said April eating. Irma looked around and see a big crowd in the cafe, and said "It's a big crowd here tonight."
"Well, yeah they have some really good pie and breakfast here." April said taking another bite, until she heard crying. The person who was crying was Irma, as she had a running nose and tears falling down. "Girl, why are you crying?." April asked feeling embarrass. "Come on just say it April, you're going to neuralize me."
"Who says I'm going to neuralize?. You're tripping right now." said April seeing everyone watching them. Irma said while choking up on here crying "You take me to cafe shop and buy me some pie to calm me down, and you don't want to cause any attention or scene." April was planning on neuralizing Irma because she really wasn't NIB material, and said "Irma. You causing a scene right now."
"Really?!. I'm sorry!." she said blowing her nose making everyone hear her and making things worse, April was force to see her dig up her nose with the napkin, making her lose her appetite. With a sigh and stress, April said "Irma why did you want to join NIB?." Irma hold back her whimpering an pull herself together.
"I was use to be in the Air Force JROTC program. I love to be a leader and get recognition." she said wiping her tears away. April then said "Hmmmm, that's great passion but you're in the wrong organization. In NIB we don't do the work to get recognition, we do it because it's our oath to protect the people, mutants, and aliens so they can live without worry of terrorism or unknown threat."
April looked at Irma for a good second and said "Let me you something Irma. Tonight, I have saved a bunch of people on a subway train from a seven hundred foot giant worm, and guess what?. Those people don't remember me nor love me, and how can they give me the recognition if they don't know or love me?."
Irma started back crying after hearing the truth that April said, while April was regretting that she said it and thought "I need to get this over and done with, cause this is not worth it. And here I thought that giving her the one on one NIB lesson will help her understand and maybe get better. Boy was I wrong." as she secretly pull out her neuralizer, and hidden it underneath the table.
"How long have we been partners Irma?." she asked. Irma said while adjusting her glasses "We been partners since last month." as she continue on talking about something pointless, while April was talking to herself in her thoughts. "Really?. Dang, this partnership didn't last long. She definitely not NIB material." as she finished setting up the neuralizer, and then put on her shades and flashed her.
Irma immediately stopped talking after being neuralize, as April took off her shades and gave Irma a smile, and said "Get a boyfriend and have a wonderful life." Irma smiled and said "Sure alright." April then got up from her seat and was getting ready to walk out, until she stopped a waiter. "Hey, look my associate over there is very shy, but she wanted me to tell you that you are hot. And she would really like to be your girlfriend." she said as walked out of the cafe.
The teenage waiter looked at Irma and gave her a smile, as Irma was blushing at the boy and wave at him. While April was driving back to NIB headquarters, meanwhile at a pizzeria joint a older women who was the owner of the store was presenting her one and only employee, his employee of the year award on the wall.
"Boom!. What do you think honey?." she asked the young teen who was awe and surprise. "Wow, mom this is awesome, I don't deserve it." said the teen boy named Tony, who has black hair and blue eyes and wearing a Yankee t-shit. "No, no you deserve it sweetie. And, do you know what will people say in the next few years, when they see that picture?." she asked putting her arm around her adopted son.
"They would say that employee is spelled wrong." Tony said telling the truth. Then she said looking at him and then nudge him, and said "No. They would say that this kid was the outstanding employee of Space Pizza, in the history of pizza making." Tony just laugh at that and said "Love you mom." as he gave his mom a hug as she hugged back.
After they broke apart she said "Mommy loves you too sweetie. Now, can you be a dear and go grab some cases of Coca-Cola from the basement, and stock them in the fridge for me please." Tony said smiling "Sure thing mom." an went to go get it. When he came out of the basement he stopped and look at the star's for a minute.
He always dreamed of going to outer space and meet aliens, and hopefully that he will get into NASA one day and be an astronaut. "Like mom always said if you want to be something, then you have to go to school and make good grades." he told himself as he headed back to the kitchen.
As he went in he heard and see his mom talking to some customers, but this time she was being mug. In the eating area, Zelena was lifting Tony's mom in the air with her hand. "Now, Miss. Ross, I have zero patience as of right now. Where is the Light?." asked Zelena. Back at the kitchen and immediately put down the can sodas, Tony went up to the store phone to dial the police.
As he did the door slammed open making him hide underneath the table. Zelena heard the sound and looked at the guy, and said "The door?." He didn't budge as he was looking at her with his eyebrow raise. With a sigh and frustration, she said "Check the door, please." "Oh, right!. Sorry about Zelena." he said heading to the kitchen.
Tony covered his mouth to keep noise or heavy breathing from escaping his mouth, as the guy came in and checked out. "False alarm Zelena it was just the wind." he said walking back as his little head version of himself popped out, and said "Nothing out of the ordinary." Tony was in disbelief as he saw that, as he took a peep at the front as he sees his mom in trouble.
"I told you for the last time, I don't know what you're talking about. Please don't hurt me." she said in fear. "You know good and well that I'm not a fool. Where is the Light?." Zelena asked putting a squeeze on her face. Then suddenly she said in her alien voice "You're too late Zelena. Tomorrow midnight the Light will return back to its planet and with its people. Sorry that you wasted your time and trip for nothing." She began to laugh at the tragedy and misfortune that Zelena is going through.
Zelena was feeling angry growing after being laughed at as she turned her free hand into a whip, and lashed her into dead particles. What was left of her was her half sliced body that was completely empty. "Crap we got nothing out of her. What a waste of time." said the little head as the big guy said "Yelp, that's so sad."
Zelena looked at them as she said "The Light of Zarthra is here you idiots. We have to find it and I know what to do next, come on." as she took a tray of pizza with, as she and the guy walked out. Back at the kitchen and after seeing his own mother being kill right in front of him, Tony started crying as now has no other family but his mom.
When he started crying his eyes out, suddenly it begin to rain at the same time. Meanwhile, April parked her car beside the others an then walked out heading inside the building and was greeted by the same guy who seats in his chair reading his magazine. "Do you ever go home April?." he asked flipping the page of his magazine.
"Nope. This is home." said April walking by as press the elevator button and went inside the elevator. "You neuralized another partner I see. That's the twelve time you did that." he said reading. April then said "And, I might do it again. Who knows." As the elevator door closed she turned around as she see the HQ, as the glass door was open.
Then she stepped on the pad as it begin to pull her down to ground level. "Hey, you make sure you get that paperwork done asap." she told one of the agents as she getting down to the ground, since she was the second in command and agent leader of NIB. "You got it Agent A." said the Agent.
At the beginning, April was enjoying being the top agent of NIb until later on she took the job seriously. As she was walking by she told some agents, mutants, or alien to do something and taking charge. "Make sure those Alien and Mutant gang bangers don't cause no fight in the lobby." she said talking to another agent. "Gotcha, Agent A." said a female Agent.
"And someone please tell me why is there a dead space alien squid, in my lobby and instead of being in the autopsy room?!." she yelled as a young agent with dreads said "Sorry, Agent A, I promise this want happened again. Please don't flash me." as pulled out his shades in fear, knowing that she got a reputation of flashing young agent's.
April put her hands on her hips and gave him a anger look, and said "What the heck does that mean Agent L?." He put his shades back an then put his hands up innocently and said "I didn't say jack Agent A. Scouts honor." Sighing she leave him be as she headed to the steps were the offices was at.
She walked into the main office where Zed was, as he congratulated her. "Good work at the Subway April, I remembered Jeff when he was yay big." April took a seat in one of the chairs and said "You be surprise what earth garbage can do to an alien worm. So, what's my next assignment?."
"April do you see those agents in ninja gear out there?. They work here too, we got it." said Zed trying to give April break, but she doesn't want it. "Come on Zed you got a assignment for me to take, don't be shy about it." she said with a smile. "Look O'Neil dedication to your work is one thing, but if you make it as your full purpose in life it will chew you up and spit you right out. You don't want to round up like me when you turn fifty." said Zed.
In a quiet silents and not say anything, April was looking at Zed in a blank look experience on her face, as Zed rephrased his last comment. "Fiftyish." "Uh huh I see, well if you need me Zed, I will be alone in cafeteria being friendless and later on go to the gym, and work on my high kicks." said April as she got up and was getting ready to leave.
Zed signed knowing that April had pulled that lonesome act with him, and said "Fine. There was an unidentified spacecraft that crashed at the park tonight, and then their was a murder that happened at the Space Pizza restaurant. It was Alien on Alien, why don't you take Agent I with you and investigate it for me."
"Oooo about that Zed, well you see um well, ummmm." as April was trying to explain what happened to Irma, while Frank walked in humming with some mail in his mouth and put it on the chair. "No problem in the delivery process Zed. Hey, April." said Frank. "Hi Frank. Like I was trying to say, I neuralized Irma." said April in a embarrass smile.
Sighing and a little frustrated, Zed said "Kid you need to stop neuralizing your partners. We can't waste NIB agents like water." "Zed here me out, she was crying her eyes out at the cafe in front of a big crowd." April said as Frank commenting. "Man, I hate that. I know you were embarrassed."
"No kidding and you can't count Casey out. He wanted to go back to the City Morgue, and so I help the dude out." said April. "April even though you had NIB training, you still a teenager and it's not safe out there by yourself. You need a partner." said Zed looking at April as more than an agent, but as a daughter that he never had.
With a chuckle and put back on a serious face, she said "I don't need a partner, I'm good." Then Frank said "Don't worry Zed, I'll be the kids partner." When given the ok, April and Frank went to the garage by elevator and walked out. "Hey, April wait up!. Thanks for the opportunity kid, I thought I would never leave the mail room." said Frank wearing his dog sized ninja suite.
"Lose the suite Frank, you don't need it." said April as she was ready to go to work. "Sorry kid, I was trying to be a little bit professional but I let it go. I don't have a problem wearing this suite, although this make me look nice and dangerous not that I have problems with the ladies, I just that good looking." said Frank smiling, as April pulled out her car keys and press the button.
Then her up to date car pulled up out of the parking lot, as it pulled up. "Oooo nice ride. Does it have heated seats?. I sometimes get hives." said Frank. "I'm going to pretend that I didn't hear that. Get in please." said April trying to pretend she didn't hear it. As they were driving to the crime scene, Frank was putting his head out of the window while singing his favorite tune, while April was trying to drive and wish she didn't have to hear Franks singing.
Not that she was complaining, but she wasn't in the mood to hear Franks singing. "And, I learn to get along and so you're back. From out of space, I just walked in and saw you seating their with that sad look upon your face. I should have changed that stupid lock, I should have made you leave your key. If I know for just one second you'll be crawling back to bother me, so go now go. Walk out the door."
"Frank!. Man, you don't put your head back inside this car, I will roll the window up by your neck." April said threatening. "You got it kid." said Frank as he seat back down. "Finally, peace and quiet. I thought he want stop singing." thought April, suddenly she heard him humming the same tune. "Oh, God what did I do to deserve this?." April thought as she yelled "Frank!."
"Hey, I was trying to lighten up the mood here. Do you want any request?." he asked scratching his ear. "Let's just talk and not sing. How about that?." said April stopping at the red light. Frank smile and said "Sure. This one time I met this cute Jack Russell and she was one happy dog that night when we." "Oh, Lord please don't say it. Talk about something else please." April begged as felt her stomach aching.
"I should have said we just played the quiet game, and leave at that." she thought as the light turned green, and proceeded to move forward and headed to the scene of the crime.