Chapter six: Not So Nana
After making sure Hannah was in her room, we walked up to the top floor. I stood with Art and Lee off to the side, watching as Tom and Jake grabbed a ladder and placed it under the vents. Jake climbed up and looked into the vents. Tom joined my side and we waited.
"We've definitely slowed them down, but those buggers adapt fast." He announced, climbing down and looking at us.
"Yippee…" I muttered sarcastically. Lee nudged me and I shrugged
"We need to pull out the big guns." He continued, walking over to the box of fireworks, he flipped open the lid and turned to us.
"Black Cat Whistler or Fire Dragon?" He asked, motioning to each one in turn. I chuckled a bit, he may have a slight obsession with those. Tom gave him a slightly scared look.
"How bout not burning down the house?" He asked. Jake looked jaded, but didn't say anything. I suddenly heard the strains of a jazzy rhythm and… Hannah giggling.
"Guys! Shhhh!" I hissed, holding up a hand. They all went silent and we heard Hannah more clearly now. Definitely jazzy rythm and giggling.
"Oh no." They muttered. We all made a mad dash for the stairs and ran to Hannah's room. When I got there, the sight I saw made me come to a screeching halt, and seeinf as how he was right behing me, Jake slammed into me so hard he almost knocked me to the ground. Jerk.
"AH! He's armed!" I exclaimed, noticing the gun in his hand. Jake yanked me back a little bit,
"Enemy's armed!" He said.
"Hannah! Step away from the alien." Tom instructed, stepping forward. The little alien scrambled under the bed as Jake did a dive roll and grabbed a makeshift weapon, a Styrofoam bat… Oh yeah… Very useful. Hannah stepped in front of us
"Stop! He's my friend!" She exclaimed. My eyes grew a bit wide.
"He was just holding a ray gun to your head." Art pointed out. She leaned down and picked up said ray gun.
"It's my bubble blower…" She said, demonstrating it, the bubbles flew into my face.. Well…It worked. I waved my hand to clear away the bubbles.
"He fixed it for me." She explained. "He's not like the others." She added.
"Look." She said, we all knelt to the floor and looked under the bed. The alien was cowering in the corner. I instantly felt bad, he didn't seem threatening at all. He actually ran to the other side, far away, mumbling something about not being trained.
"Okay… But first sign of aggression, I'm taking him out…. With extreme prejudice…" Jake growled lowly, I sighed. I was sandwiched between him and Tom.
"It's okay Mr. Snugglelumps." Hannah soothed. I looked at her confused.
"Snugglelumps?" Lee asked.
"Yeah… That's what I named him." Hannah explained. Snugglelumps still looked extremely scared and confused by all the commotion.
"He's not your pet Hannah… He's a freaking alien." Tom said. Okay… Him and Jake needed to lay off, this alien hasn't threatened our lives yet, so, he's okay in my book, for now at least...
"He's my alien." Hannah smiled, waving at him. He smiled shyly and waved timidly.
"Aw." Jake smiled slightly. We all looked at him with our eyebrows raised in curiosity.
"I mean ick." He shuddered. I giggled a bit, Mr. Tough guy had a soft side after all.
"I think she's right. I mean look at his belt… I think those are tools." I said, he used two of his four arms to pat his belt. He still looked scared.
"It's okay buddy." I smiled at him.
"We just wanna talk to you." Tom added.
"Come on Snugs." Hannah started crawling off the floor.
"Back up…" She ordered us. I chuckled and crawled backwards and sat on my knees. Snugs crawled out after us. He stood there for a second until Hannah motioned him towards her. He walked over, pulling out two magnet looking things as he did. Hannah smiled and grabbed two of his arms. The other two placed the two magnets together and pulled them apart slowly. As he pulled them apart, Hannah's hair lifted up too. I watched in awe.
"How do you do that?" Lee asked. Hannah was giggling madly. After a few minutes, Jake got annoyed.
"That's enough. We need answers." He exclaimed. He grabbed a chair and placed the alien in it while Tom grabbed the desk lamp. After setting up a mini interrogation set, the questions came tumbling at the pour alien. Hannah and I sat off to the side and watched.
"Why are you trying to kill us?" Jake snarled.
"What's the invasion plan?" Tom asked a lot nicer and calmer than Jake. Good cop, bad cop... Nice.
"What's your weakness?" Jake asked.
"Water?" Lee asked.
"Earth shrimps?" Art asked. Okay, what the hell?
"Women?" Jake asked knowingly.
"Are there more of you coming?" Tom asked.
"We need the information!" Jake said. Hannah got up off the bed.
"Guys… Don't be mean!" Hannah said.
"Hannah. We have to interrogate him. Do you want the world to end? Do ya?" Jake replied, looking at her.
"No…" She replied. I decided now would be a good time to intervene.
"None of us want the world to end. But being mean and asking questions a mile a minute isn't going to get us anywhere." I said. They looked at me.
"What do you suggest we do?" Jake asked.
"Give him a chance to explain the most important question… Er… One of them at least." I said. I turned to Snugs.
"Why did you guys come here?" I asked him gently. He had trouble forming a full sentance, I decided to make it easier. I looked around and found somethin, I grabbed some crayons and a sketch pad from the desk and walked back over. I handed them to Snugs and he began sketching, a very detailed drawing of the house. It showed a flying saucer type thing under the basement.
"Whoa…" We all breathed at how well he was drawing. Then again, having four arms is an advantage…
"House here. Mission objective here." He said, pointing at the house then at the flying saucer.
"What they're looking for isn't in the basement. It's underneath it!" Tom stated the obvious.
"Yes." Snugs replied.
"What are you trying to steal from our planet?" Jake growled. What is he? A freaking pit bull now?
"Who says it's from our planet?" Tom asked.
"Yeah… It looks pretty alien to me." I agreed.
"It must be from their planet." Hannah said. I smiled as he popped the blue crayon into his mouth and began chewing.
"Yeah… Planet Fruitcake." Jake agreed. Hannah stomped her foot and glared at him. I reached over and flicked his head. The alien scoffed and pulled the wrapper out of his mouth.
"Whatever it is… It must be huge." Lee said. Snugs then proceeded to grab the box of Legos on the floor and build a model of the machine. We stood around him and watched. I'm not sure how to describe it…. Weird looking… That's about it.
"So that's what's in the capsule? Some kind of giant machine?" I asked.
"Great! A giant alien death machine!" Art groaned.
"No one said anything about death!" Lee exclaimed.
"Well I doubt it's a photocopier." Art sighed.
"Come on! We can't trust this four armed freak! He's one of them!" Jake exclaimed.
"He's not." Tom objected. We looked to see him pull apart two blocks, he smiled and handed one to Tom. Aw…. How cute!
"He's… Different." Tom smirked. Snugs smiled proudly.
"Great!" Jake scoffed, Snugs glared at him sharply. I giggled a bit.
"A geek alien." He said. I rolled my eyes.
"Jake! He's not a geek!" Hannah snapped.
"It's better than a killer alien.." Lee said.
"That's very true." I agreed. An idea popped into my brain as I played with Hannah's bubble blower.
"Tom. Why doesn't he fix your potato gun… I mean he fixed the bubble blower." I said, I pointed it in front of me then at Jake dramatically and blew some in his face, he sputtered and waved them away before glaring at me. I grinned back. I just loved to annoy him.
"I-I fix." Snugs stuttered. I stopped grinning at Jake, who had begun to stare and smiled at Tom. He looked hesitant at first, then ran to get his gun. He came back and handed it to Snugs, who immediately began to fix it up. After about 5 minutes, it was good to go looking all amped up and scientificy... and not so much like a 5th grader made it... No offense Tom...
"Modified!" He declared, handing it to Tom.
"Whoa. Cool." I said as Tom pumped the gun once.
"Sweet!" Tom smiled. I sent a thumbs up to Snugs. He smiled and said.
"Sweet!" While doing a thumbs up with all four arms. All of a sudden, I heard sirens outside. Snugs imitated it, but looked generally confused as we all rushed to the window. A state trooper was pulling up itno the driveway. Cops... Ew.
"It's the Po-Po! Be cool!" Jake exclaimed. A knock at the door made me jump out of my skin.
"Open up!" Nana's voice demanded from the other side,
"Nana!" I exclaimed quietly.
"Oh crap! We forgot about her!" Jake said.
"Hold on! Hannah! Hide your alien!" Tom said.
"Open the door! Open the door now!" Nana demanded, pounding on the door so hard it shook violently. She was strong for an old lady….
"Hold on a second." Jake called. The pounding settled for a moment.
"Children of my children! I request entry! I have candied sweets." She said. Wtf? Who the hell talks like that? Unless…
"She's an alien zombie!" I hissed.
"Don't open it! That's not Nana!" Tom said
"Are you sure?" Lee asked. Zombie Nana chose this moment to break the door down, I leaped closer to Jake who put his arms around me again. She growled at us. Yeah... That was so not Nana...
"Oh yeah! I'm sure." Tom said. She stomped towards us. We backed away.
"Surrender Engineer Sparks!" She demanded. Jake pushed me towards the twins, I stood close to them and watched in horror as Nana shoved Tom out of the way, luckily he landed on the bed. Jake grabbed his useless toy bat from the floor. Yes, weapon of the year that is...
"Nana! Don't make me hurt you!" He threatened weakly. I watched with wide eyes as Nana grabbed his arm, and bit him. She bit him. Under any other curcumstances, I would have been laughing my ass off on the floor. But this moment seemed to be inapropriate time to... When she pulled away, her dentures stayed attached to Jake's arm… Oh gross… Jake lifted his arm and stared at it, horrified.
"EWW!" He shuddered. Again, I would so laugh if I could. Nana went towards Hannah, I jumped in front of her, grabbing Hannah's toy wand from the window sill as I did so. I held it up like a sward. I'm sure I looked feirce with my fuzzy pink wand. She salked closer, unphased. She snarled at me and I jumped a little bit.
"Surrender him to me!" She demanded. I shook my head and stood my ground despite the fear that was slowly starting to grip me.
"Tom! Do something!" Jake exclaimed. I kept my eyes on Nana's advancing form… remaining ready to attack, even though I was shaking a little bit. I wasn't that big, I was about as tall as Art and Lee. Nana all of a sudden tripped on a skateboard and fell to her back, the fat alien flying out from under her dress. I screamed and jumped away, still guarding Hannah and Snugs. My breathing was becoming more and more labored now. And I didn't have my inhaler.
"Gross. Human!" The alien groaned, I looked back down at him. The doorbell rang, I looked around at everyone else.
"Someone's gotta get the door!" Art exclaimed. I looked at him.
"We can't let the cops in here! It's too dangerous!" Tom protested. I looked back at him.
"Here's Nana!" The alien exclaimed. I looked back at him and he made Nana go towards us, Hannah reached over and grabbed the bubble blower from the bed. I grabbed at her as she stepped in front of me, but she shrugged me off.
"Hey! Leave my Nana alone!" She exclaimed, shooting the bubbles in his face.
"Quiet! Squeaky voiced human child!" The alien demanded, swiping at the bubbled. They did cause him to slip and fall. The control flew from his hand and over to the twins.
"I've got Nana's controller!" Lee cried. I grabbed the net that was next to me and trapped the alien as he struggled to get up.
"Ah! Release me! Release me now or face the consequences!" He cried, struggling. I lifted him up and looked over at Jake,
"In here!" He said finally, noticing a rusting metal case at the foot of the bed. He opened it and Tom grabbed the net from me and dumped the alien into it.
"You don't trap me! I'm supposed to trap you!" He exclaimed. Jake slammed the lid shut and locked it. I backed away and over to Hannah.
"Shake all you want! We own you!" Jake exclaimed. I heard a growl from the door. I spun to see the other two aliens standing their. Where the hell did they come from? They rushed at us. We all went into attack mode. I narrowly missed being swiped with the claws again as I charged the female. Tom went after the male and barely missed him. The alien grabbed the paintball gun from under the dresser and aimed it at Lee, who was now almost crying in the corner. Wimp!
"Quiet Earth burgers!" He exclaimed. Earth burgers? What the hell? The female grabbed the suitcase that currently held Snugs and hopped onto the skateboard and kicked off of the ground. Oh shit. I grabbed the bat and swung at her as she flew past me. I missed.
"Don't let her get Snugglelumps!" Art cried, racing after her. She was a foot away from the door now... Someone better stop her!
"ART!" Lee cried, reaching to stop his brother.
"Shoot them! Shoot the humans!" She screamed, when she was out the door. The male came out, shooting the paintball gun, he hopped onto the skateboard behind her. He shot towards me and I screamed.
"Incoming! Hit the deck! Hit the deck!" Jake cried, I hadn't realized how close I was to him until I felt myself being yanked to the floor. I was still hit in the side by three paintballs, splattering my side with orange paint.. Oh that better not stain...
"You lose!" The male yelled as they disappeared around the corner. We all slowly got up from the floor. I was shaking extremely bad now.
"I'm sorry Hannah! I'm sorry they got him." Tom said to his sister, she shook her head and removed a pillow from the pile she was standing next to. Snugs popped out, I smiled.
"Sweet huh?" He asked. Tom nodded.
"This is the Creek Landing Sherriff Department! Open this door at once or I will begin forcible entry!" A voice called from outside. They began counting down.
"You guys take care of the cop, I'll go after the aliens!" Jake said, he ran out of the room before any of us could say a word of protest. God… He was going to get himself killed… The metal chest containing the alien shook violently.
"We can't leave him up here." I said. Tom motioned at the twins to pick it up.
"Heck no!" They exclaimed.
"Guys, come on!" I urged them. The door was being pounded on. They exchanged a nervous look then reached down and picked it up. We walked slowly down the stairs, Hannah had an alien in her backpack and there was another in a chest... God this was so weird... The cop hadn't stopped banging on the door since we were upstairs. Sheesh, I hope he bruises his fist... I grabbed the doorknob and looked at the others.
"Ready?" I asked. They all nodded and I opened the door to reveal an African American cop with a mustache and a scowl.
"Is there an adult present?" He asked us immediately. Well hello to you too….
"Our Nana… But she's…" Art started but trailed off and looked at Lee for help, Lee remained silent along with Tom and Hannah.
"Napping! She's t-t-taking a n-n-nap." I finished for him, feeling the nerves inch up inside me. The officer nodded, continuing to glare at us all.
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