"Jennifer! B.O.B.!" We heard Doc's voice call. I quickly stopped the music. "Are you in here?" The cockroach man frantically crawled toward us, his bulbous eyes dilated in a panic.

"What's wrong?" I asked. "Is the video done? I thought it was shorter than forty-five minutes."

"We finished it a little more than thirty minutes ago." He responded as he snatched me by the wrist. "Now hurry! You too, B.O.B.!"

"Has Monger arrived yet?" B.O.B. asked.

"No, not yet." We arrived in the back yard to find an abduction beam coming from an dome like space craft. It looked like it was trying to take Liv up, and Phyllis had her by the ankles. The chain continued as Elijah held Phyllis' ankles and Link held the coyote boy's, both trying hard not to look up the shredded skirt of the zombie costume. Susan stood her ground at the bottom and held the fishman in place.

This was getting freaky. The Murphys stared endlessly at the commotion with widened eyes. You could hear Wendy whisper repeatedly, "oh, god." The strength of Elijah, Link, and Susan put together was almost enough to overcome and rip Liv out of the abduction beam. Suddenly, something that really reminded me of a lightning bolt came down from the opening of the spaceship and hit liv in the forearm. Liv yelped in pain, and the power from the bolt travelled through the monster chain and ended inside Susan. The electricity in the house went out, and the ground trembled as the giantess fell over on her side unconcious.

The worried parents hurried to their daughter's side-face actually-in the attempt to wake her and as soon as she regained consciousness check on her. A distant hovering was barely heard over the hoving of the spaceship. A standard military helicopter that was too recognizable above us about a hundred feet from the ship. Doc gasped as another bolt of energy was being generated and aimed at the helicopter.

"Wa-! General!" Liv screamed. "Look out!"

The bolt fired at the hovercraft and orbited it around it like electricity around a malfunctioning robot. Monge jumped out in time with a petrified pilot in his arms and the traditional "Hoorah!" as the helicopter collided into the side of the spaceship and exploded.

"What in tarnation?" The elderly military man asked as soon as he landed. He set down the pilot and glanced at Susan before looking up at the terror.

Seeing what happened to Susan and what was happening now to the chain, B.O.B. immediately took action and grabbed Link's legs in the nick of time.

"Excellent!" Doc exclaimed after letting out a burst of insane laughter. "There's our key now!" I gave him a confused look. "If that bolt comes down again and B.O.B. is standing his ground as best as he can, the electricity will go right back up!"

"You hear that, B.O.B.?" I called out. "Stick to the ground as hard as you can! Or else...you're all goners!"

Another bolt shot down onto the short monster as she again cried out. The energy travelled through the monsters and ended at B.O.B., who looked at his middle with interest.

"Don't let go, B.O.B.!" Doc instructed. "Just close your eye, hang on tight tight to Link, and stand your ground." We, down on the ground, shielded our eyes as an extremely pale blue, almost white, substance orbitted inside him. It was incredible.

Susan opened her eyes a few times as if in a daze, and Carl and Wendy sighed with relief, even while seing her ankle over the newly broken fence. She slowly adjusted her askew wig.

"Sweetie, are you alright?" Wendy asked, patting her daughter's large hand. Susan nodded and stared at the commotion going on, her eyes squinted at the flashing light.

B.O.B. kept still and securely as if meditating. this had been going on for two minutes to my estimation, and as the substance grew brighter and brighter, his eye kept shut tighter and tighter. Finally, it shut open, and the bolt flashed from Liv's finger and into the spaceship. The abduction beam blew out, and the ship went flying backward, flipping over rapidly like a football. Link fell on top of the gelatinous mass at first, but with the other three monsters crashlanding onto him, he was stuck waist down with the three in his arms.

"B.O.B., uh..." I hesitated, unsure of how to get Link free. "Take a bow." He obeyed my command, and the trio-no longer quartet because Liv flew out of Phyllis' arms-fell onto the lawn. We all again became focused on the alien spacecraft while it continued flipping and attempted to regain control. Insecto came into sight and the behemoth butterfly shoved the rather damaged ship upward and out of sight.

"Way to go, B!" Link cheered.

"Hey, Sue," Elijah greeted the now fully awake giantess. "Feeling better?"

"Yeah, a bit." She replied. "Just tired."

"Perfect timing." Monger stated. "It's about I get you monsters back to the base."

And so we monsters-and Monger-gave our farewell to the Murphys. We were on our way back to Area 52; Susan fell asleep, poor girl, and Doc curled up, his labcoat as a blanket, about two feet from her side.

"B.O.B., I'm so proud of you." I told my buddy quietly. "You know, not every one can do that."

"Really?" B.O.B. asked, his face all lit up. "Who else?"

"I, uh...I don't know..."

"Good."

A short chapter, it seems. Sorry. Should have another shorty coming up pretty soon.