Chapter Seven
The rest of the town is what gave me concerns.
The whole town was rows and rows of wooden plank houses.
In the center of the town was a tall, leaning building made of wooden planks and scraps of metal.
The three of us stood out in the middle of the road staring at the strange-looking building.
"That's it," said 509092.
"Boss," I whispered.
Slimy nodded.
The whole town was silent as the three of us were standing on the old dirt road.
There were tracks in the dirt from where some kind of vehicle used to drive on.
No one drove anymore on this planet.
This planet was dying.
"Our home used to be beautiful," said Slimy.
"Yeah. Back when I was a kid, there were cars driving down the street every day. Mom would walk me to school as Dad would walk down the street to work for Boss. The Boss we had back then was different. He didn't try to dominate other planets. Boss now is just horrible beyond belief. Jaycee, if there is a way that you can stop Boss from dominating the universe, then we need you," explained 509092.
I looked up at him.
He wasn't looking at me or Slimy.
He was looking in the distance, thinking about his past.
His bottom lip was sticking out and his piercing sparkled in the sunlight.
Creepy.
Just then we all heard an annoying beep noise which sounded like a cell phone ring.
509092 reached into his pocket and pulled out another funny device like what Slimy used on the rocket.
He pushed a button and answered it.
"Hello? Mom?" he yelled.
Slimy's face lit up.
"No…What'd you do to them!" 509092 yelled into the phone thing.
Everyone was getting scared.
"Damn you!" he yelled and threw the phone on the ground, smashing it to pieces.
"We gotta run," he said to us.
He picked up me and Slimy and ran into the house.
"Help me pack bags, their coming. It was a trick! They tracked my cell phone," he said fretting and shoving clothes and food into something which looked like a trash bag.
Slimy helped shove more supplies into more trash bags.
I also helped, though I didn't know exactly what was going on.
I saw Slimy shove more of those funny cell phone things into bags.
509092 put money in a bag along with blankets and more clothes.
I walked past the front living room window and saw large aliens in black suits examining the phone device 509092 smashed.
"Guys, they're here," I said.
Slimy and 509092 looked at me and saw the aliens through the window.
"Okay we got enough I think," said 509092.
Slimy nodded and each of us grabbed as many bags as we could carry and we ran out the back door.
"What will happen if they see me?" I asked as we ran.
"You're dead," said 509092.
"We're all dead if we get caught," said Slimy.
We ran for a long time, until we reached some kind of mountain where we hid inside a cave.
509092 lit a fire in the middle of the cave.
"They're gonna find us," said Slimy.
"No. And if they do, I won't let them get you guys," said 509092.
"Wait, you'd sacrifice yourself for me?" I asked him.
"Well, you and Slimy are gonna save the universe right? That's important. I believe you'll accomplish your mission," he said.
I smiled.
We sat inside that cave all night. We ate some of the food we packed and when it got cold and rainy that night, we all got in warm blankets and fell asleep together.
In the morning, it was wet and cloudy outside.
509092 was awake first.
I was awake second.
When I woke up, I saw him sitting by the fire cooking some kind of breakfast pastry thing.
"Hey you're awake. Finally I'm not alone anymore," he said.
I rubbed my eyes.
"Yeah, good morning 509092," I said.
He laughed.
"Seriously? You don't have to call me that. Just call me Zero. That's what everyone always calls me," he said.
"Why?" I asked.
"Apparently my life amounts to nothing. Also I have two zero's in my name so therefore I doubly amount to nothing," he said.
"So what do you guys call Slimy?" I asked.
He half smiled.
"We just call him Buddy usually. Slimy's kind of creative though," he said.
"He is slimy though," I said.
"It's puberty. Aliens have it too. It's not just humans. Just wait, in a couple of days here he'll grow rapidly and start growing hair on his head. I can tell he's ready. Look at his antennas, they grew again," he said.