Unatomic Stacey
Chapter 1: The Mission and Stacey Carmichael
I dived away from another energy blast shot from the giant alien monster that I was trying to fight off. Bart, Glenissa and G911 (pronounced G nine eleven) were on a different section of Planet Calmness either fighting off the invaders or defending the non-violent; therefore totally defenseless, locals.
Come on Stacey. You can do this. Don't fail.
The alien that I was fighting hailed from Planet Anger, which was within the violent galaxy known mainly as Galaxy Murder. All the planets in that galaxy were wicked and evil or evil and violent. Planet Anger was the latter and it was the month of sacrifice for their god that they called Madman Angry, or at least that's what it was when translated to English. My team and I had to save these local people from being brutally murdered as sacrifices for some god. And no Nineteen Foot Tall monster with eight purple tentacles, no feet, one huge eye in the middle of it's face, no nose, rest of it's body green and oozing with slime and a big old mouth which only let out grunts and groans was NOT going to stop me.
I shot it in its eye with my laser gun and smiled when it started to run around blind and screaming. But then I got a call on my cell. I answered it tentatively.
"Stacey where are you?" a voice demanded angrily and I rolled my eyes skyward, "you know we need the minutes to be read to the principal today!" she shouted.
"Yes Michelle," I said formally and quickly dodged one of the monsters flailing tentacles, "but I'm kind of busy at the moment," I told her, "UNESCO is just going to have to wait awhile," I said and hung up on the president of the club, which I might NEVER be allowed into again.
I ran up a nearby tree and jumped off to land on top of the monster after putting away my cell. I looked for the red bump on it's butt that G911 told us about. I soon found it and shot it with my laser gun seven times before it exploded. The monster roared and then fell down unconscious as I jumped off and held unto the branch of a tree. I found it so stupid that a monster so huge weakness was someone blowing up that large bump with a laser gun. I jumped down and ran to where the center of the village was. But when I reached, I looked and fell to my knees. Everything was in ruins and this was the place where I left my team to go and fight that giant monster which had destroyed every other part of the planet with its crazy rampaging. Not to mention the attacks from the invaders from planet Anger. I ran around desperately looking for my team and any remaining locals.
I suddenly heard some muffled cries and ran in the direction of it until I found Glenissa and Bart tied up and gagged. I used my laser gun carefully to cut through their metal bonds then I pulled the gags out of their mouths.
"G911," Glenissa said between coughs, "the invaders have infected him with some bug that makes them able to control him," she told me, "they've made him take them to their home planet on our ship," she said and I thought of our light blue 'cloud shaped' ship carrying thousands of Calmanese (the locals of Planet Calm) to their doom.
"We have to contact HQ!" I cried, "we can't let them get away," I pursued.
"It wont work," Bart said simply and I turned to him, "G911 is an expert of galaxies and knows every trick agents will use to try and recapture the ship," he continued, "unless he shorts out, regains control of himself or is destroyed, those people are doomed," he concluded.
"This is so unfair!" Glenissa cried angrily, "how were we supposed to hold off such a large army and defend the locals as well as protect our ship from being hijacked!" she demanded, "Admiral Degill is going to blame this all on us," she blasted, "I just know it."
"But it is our fault," I said solemnly, "it might have been an almost impassable mission, but it was ours," I whispered, "thousands of people are going to be die because we couldn't protect them from invaders that are going to sacrifice every one of them," I reminded my present team mates, "and remember that Galaxy Murder itself is impossible to breach, so once they reach the Galaxy alone all is lost," I finished and sank to my knees and sighed heavily.
"I'll call Admiral Degill while you call Space Patrol," Bart said to Glenissa, "take a breather Captain," he said to me and they left me so that I could have some alone time.
I continued kneeling in silence. Another mission failed. Another angry lecture from Admiral Degill. I really hated my life right now. But most of all I really hated myself.
I could've saved them. If I hadn't been so worried about the witch detectors on this planet I would've used my powers and at least relocate some of the locals on a safer planet. But there must still be a way to save them. There's no way that I can go. I can't let my teammates suspect anything. Keeping my secret still has to be one of; if not always, my top priority. I know!
I took out my cell them looked around. Not seeing any of my teammates I quickly dialed my mother's cell number. After one ring she answered.
"Hello?" my mother asked.
"It's me Mom," I responded, "I really need your help," I continued, "it's Atomic business," I added.
"What do I have to do with Atomic business," Ms. Carmichael demanded and I explained to my mother what had happened on Planet Calm, "I'm not intervening," she told me.
"But Mom…" I started to say.
"Planet Calm is among the biggest witch hating Planets ever," Ms. Carmichael explained, "they're the ones among thousands of others that not only try to make witches unable to use their powers, but also execute them with or without trail and still witches who are proved innocent when given the opportunity," she said, "Angerians (locals of Planet Anger) hates them already because it was the Calmanese that made witches extinct from their planet centuries ago," she stated, "that so called non-violent race made special druids and sent them out to Galaxy of War (Galaxy Murder is it's nickname)to kill all witches," she said, "most Planets (with witches)like Planet Dread, Planet Fear and Planet Fury were able to defend the few witches they had, but Planet Anger wasn't," she pointed out, "Planet Anger was formerly called Planet Agitation because back them you had to really annoy them to upset them and in those times they'd only hex you or refuse to trade anything with the planet that agitatedangered them," she said plainly, "Planet Agitation's entire Religion was focused on the witches protecting them from a temperamental and Angry spirit which ruled most of the planets as the Main and mostly only God," she recalled, "when all their witches were brutally murdered the Angerians; formerly known as Agitatanesians, were defenseless against the wicked spirit and had to do it's bidding to keep their people from going extinct," she said to me, "eventually the Agitatanesians themselves became evil and now plunder, steal and destroy unmercifully," she said sadly, "so these present Calmanese are simply paying for their ancestors sins and I say good riddance and fry them all," she said frankly, "and Stacey," she added.
"Yes mother?" I asked.
"If you dare to use your powers I'll disown you," Ms. Carmichael said firmly and hung up.
I put away my cell in silence. My powers weren't strong enough to bring back all of the Calmanese anyway.
What if she meant that if I tried to use my powers to bring even one of them back? But my powers can't be used that well yet. I could try but it wouldn't work. I tried that once already when Maxims went into Space in a high-speed ship. I couldn't bring him back to where our ship was laying in disrepair and our ship is four times faster than the craft Maximus used. There was no way to bring those Calmanese back even if I wanted to. Plus I'm not going to risk disownment on an already impossible feat by trying anyway.
"Family is what matters," I told myself firmly, "and the Atomics are NOT my family," I reminded myself.
"They're not mine either," Glenissa said and I nearly jumped out of my skin and turned to see her walking towards me, "where did that whole line about family come from?" she asked looking at me curiously.
I simply shrugged and she left it at that.
"Admiral Degill's really mad at us," Bart confirmed for us as he came into view.
When is he never?
End Chapter 1