Elliot arrived home after having been out on a date with his girlfriend Erin. He pulled the car into the garage and then went into the house. Inside he found Mary and Keys sitting together on the couch and watching the evening news. He paid little attention to what the news caster was saying as he climbed the stairs up to his room.
"There have been numerous reports of unexplained cattle mutilations in the surrounding countryside."
Once he was in his room, Elliot went to the billboard on his wall and touched two Polaroid photographs that were pinned to it. They were each taken five years ago. The first one was of him and Michael on Halloween night in their costumes and in between them was E.T. hidden beneath a white sheet, only a small glint of his eyes could be seen through two holes cut in the sheet. The next picture was of him and Michael and Gertie and E.T. sitting underneath the Christmas tree surrounded by presents that same year. E.T. was seen fully in this one with his heart light glowing a ruby red.
He smiled wistfully as he rubbed his fingertips lightly against the pictures and reminisced about his otherwordly best friend. He knew of course that it always takes a little time to find a best friend that you really trust and love, but he believed that no one else could ever find a better best friend than that which he had in E.T..
If only I could see him again, he thought. Even if just for a moment.
Just then he heard what sounded like a faint humming noise coming from above him. He looked and saw that the clay balls E.T. had made to represent the planets of the solar system that were hanging suspended by wires on the ceiling were slowly spinning around as they had done when E.T. had first made them.
He looked at them wonderingly for a moment and then his heart leaped up into his throat as the realization of what this had to mean came to him. Was it true though? He had to make sure. So he went to his window and opening it he looked up as far as he could. He saw the transmitter E.T. had built out of various household objects on his first visit and noticed the umbrella attached to it for an antenna was moving slightly and then he relaized the humming noise he had heard had been coming from the transmitter itself!
So now he was sure of it. He raced out of his room and into the one across from his where he found Michael sitting at his desk and studying for finals.
"Mike! Mike! You've got to come with me now!" he exclaimed breathlessly.
"Not now, Elliot!" said Micahel very annoyed. "Can't you see I'm trying to study here!"
"But this is very important, Mike!" Elliot pressed further.
"Aw, come on. What could possibly be more important?" demanded Michael.
"He... is... coming... back!" Elliot said slowly and pronouncing each word very carefully.
Michael's face lit up with surprise and joy. "Well, that is more important! Why didn't you say so in the first palce?"
Elliot just grinned. Then he and Michael rushed into the next room where they found Gertie had just put on her nightgown and was about to get into bed.
"Gertie! Come quick! He's here! He's come back!" they exclaimed ecstatically.
Gertie needed no further pressing. She knew instantly what they meant and she slipped on her night slippers and robe and hurried out with them.
They dashed out of the house through the back door, went around to the garage and got on their bicycles and rode them speedily to the woods, not pausing a second until they reached the clearing in it where they felt they knew they would find what they expected to find there.
And, sure enough, there in the clearing they saw a huge round object with many small glowing lights around it, nestled in between the trees. They dismounted their bicycles and gazed in awe upon the dark contours of the massive space machine.
"You were right, Elliot," said Gertie excitedly. "This is it alright!"
"Yeah," said Michael. Then he looked more closely at the spaceship in the distance. He squinted his eyes at it and frowned slightly. "Hey, wait a minute. I thought E.T.'s spaceship was blue with yellow lights. This one is black with red lights."
"It is?" Elliot looked squinting at the ship ahead of them also and saw that his brother was quite right. "It is!" He then got a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach as he somehow felt that this couldn't be good news.
Just then they noticed a shadow of an undefined figure's form lurking around the trees by the spaceship. It was a very familiar looking figure to them.
"But wait!" whispered Elliot. "Isn't that E.T. over there?"
He pointed toward s the figure and the others looked and saw the figure did indeed look a lot like E.T. having the same body shape and height.
"It does look like him," said Michael uneasily. "I wonder why... Look! He's coming up here!"
They watched as the small figure approached them with a peculiar waddling motion. As it got closer they were able to make out its features. They saw unto their great astonishment and chargrin that it looked almost exactly like E.T. only its eyes were blood red instead of ocean blue and it had long fangs hanging out of its mouth like a saber-toothed tiger, and it also had extra long fingernails that left long marks in the dirt as they scraped against it.
They all got a most unnerving sensation at the sight of him, especially Elliot. When he was within a few feet away from them he stopped and spoke to them in a garbled alien tongue. They all cringed at hearing it and couldn't understand it at all. The alien, realizing this grimaced as he switched to an English dialect.
"Who are you, and what are you doing here?" he demanded angrily.
"Uh... We didn't mean to bother you," said Elliot very nervously. "We... thought you were someone else... we just saw your spaceship and thought it belonged to someone we knew."
The alien gave them a very hard stare that told them instantly that he was up to no good at all. He then spoke again.
"You thought I was someone else? Do you mean to tell me that you have been in contact with one of us before?"
"Uh... Well... someone who resembles you anyway," Elliot said falteringly.
"Someone who resembles us...?" the alien looked deeply troubled for a moment and then his eyes glowed a bright red glare as he said very demandingly, "Then it seems you must have met with Brodo Asogian who we received contact from on this puny little planet of yours!"
Elliot's eyes were wide in horror as he remembered that Brodo Asogi was the name of the planet which E.T. lived on.
"Tell me," continued the alien seethingly, "where is he?"
When Elliot spoke his voice was like a frightened squeak from a mouse facing a hungry cat. "He's not here anymore. He went abck to his home planet."
The alien snarled and let out a loud angry growl as his eyes squinted up into tight slits. "You're lying!" he screeched.
Then before they could feel the pounding of their hearts against their chests, the alien unleashed a paralyzing yellow glow from within his chest towards them. They all clutched at their heads for a moment feeling as if they would split apart, and then their bodies went stiff and their vision blacked out completely.
When they finally regained their senses, they found themselves surrounded by the demonic looking extra-terrestrials on all sides. They were all snarling with their fangs bared and had their long arms with the sharp claws on the ends upraised towards them.
Elliot looked at them and tried to be brave as he took a step toward one and said, "Look, we don't know what you want with us or our friend E.T., but maybe if you would just explain things might be worked out."
Then all of a sudden the alien closest to him lunged at him with its mouth wide open and its hands outstretched. Elliot fortunately was able to leap backwards just in time to escape from being bitten and perhaps also killed.
"Now you see we mean business," said the alien who was their leader. "Now I will ask you again, and I want the truth this time. Where is the Brodo Asogian?"
"I told you. He went home a long time ago," Elliot said helplessly.
The alien leader growled loudly as did all his troops. It was obvious they weren't gonna believe him.
"Take them aboard the ship!" ordered the leader. "And maybe then they'll be able to cooperate!"
Then the three of them helplessly went with the aliens as they poked and prodded at them with the tips of their claws towards their spaceship. They didn't want to eaten by these little monsters, but they didn't know just how much worse an alternative could be.