Chapter Ten
"That was a fast ten minutes," said Slimy.
I saw Boss' facial expression change.
"Who's the kid?" he asked.
"My name's Zero! And I don't care if that's illegal or not. You'll never know my real name, for this is my new name now," said Zero.
He was hyper. It must've been an adrenaline rush.
"So we got Jaycee, Slimy, and Zero. What fun names. My name is Boss. Or should I say, death," he said.
He pulled knives out of his pockets with all of his arms and threw them at us.
I grabbed Slimy and we dodged each knife thrown at us.
Slimy picked one up and ran towards Boss, slicing him in the leg.
Boss fell to the ground.
"You bastard!" he yelled.
Slimy smiled evilly at Boss, holding the knife in his hand.
Zero jumped into the air and aimed his axe to Boss' head but missed and hit the floor.
Boss got up and put Zero in choke hold.
"Zero!" yelled Slimy.
I picked up two knives off the ground and ran towards boss and Zero.
I cut Boss' wrists and he let go of Zero.
Zero landed on the ground and crawled back over to Slimy by the doorway.
Zero handed Slimy his gun.
Slimy aimed the gun at Boss' head.
"War's over Boss. Either you make peace with the humans or you're dead," I said.
"Fine, fine. You win. I'll write a peace treaty to the humans and we'll stop conquering earth," he said.
He had a sneaky, suspicious smile on his face.
I didn't question it yet.
He handed me his "peace treaty" and the three of us walked out the door.
"We did it!" announced Slimy.
Zero smiled tiredly.
"It's not over yet," I said.
Flying back to earth took three days again.
When we got there, my whole world I once knew was destroyed.
We landed in my hometown, Kansas City and everything was gone and ruined.
The world looked like an old ghost town.
Abandoned, dead buildings, dead grass, everything.
Not a single soul in sight.
"Where'd all the humans go?" asked Slimy in his new, deep voice.
I found it quite creepy that he went from being a little adorable alien with a squeaky baby voice and in just a week, he was seven feet tall with a deep voice.
Aliens grew up too fast.
Slimy's antennas were still wiry and springy unlike his brother who's antennas were always behind his head as if they were combed like that.
Of course Slimy grew out of his helmet quickly.
Anyway, the three of us wandered my old hometown for a long time.
We came to my old street I lived on. My house was destroyed.
"It's…home," said Slimy.
We walked into where the front door used to be.
The furniture was gone. Every last piece.
Old photos and memories of home were scattered around the floor underneath piles of dust and rubble. I picked up a picture I saw lying on the ground.
It was a picture of my sister.
My eye was teary.
"What's wrong?" asked Slimy, looking over my shoulder.
"That's my sister. She was killed by her reflection," I said.
"Everyone's family is suffering from Boss. This isn't fair!" yelled Zero.
"I know," I said.
I looked down at my feet and saw something else lying on the ground.
I picked it up and smiled.
"What is that?" asked Slimy.
"A video tape," I answered.
I ran up the old, broken stairs into my old room.
For some reason, no one bothered to steal the old TV I had stored in my closet.
"It's still here!" I announced.
Zero and Slimy looked up at the TV on the top shelf.
Zero reached for it without any problem and sat it on the ground.
I plugged it in to an outlet and put the video tape in the cassette player.
The first few seconds of the tape was empty. Then it showed me on my first birthday.
"Is that…you?" asked Zero.
"Yeah. Me when I was a baby," I said.
This was gonna get embarrassing.
Zero and Slimy found the video tape quite amusing.
"This is so cool," said Slimy half-way into the video.
The video was showing me riding my bicycle down the street when I was eight.
Then it jumped to my Elementary graduation.
Then my Junior High graduation.
Then came the High School graduation.
The last thing on the tape was me, talking to the camera.
"Hello my name is Jaycee. I live in Kansas. I know why people are dying now, hopefully I can prove it," is exactly what I said to the camera.