Danny VS Dylan
Chapter 4
Danny was so jealous. He was basically dragging me towards the clubhouse muttering on about how much dirt he was going to get on Dylan, this could not be good.
"Danny, I'm not even sure if the computer can get information of humans, I mean it was built to get info on aliens," I said as we neared the clubhouse.
"It doesn't hurt to try and if the computer in the clubhouse can't do it, then there's always some computer in town that can access any information on anybody," Danny said determinedly.
"I'm not breaking into Town Hall just so you can get can some dirt on a guy who you're a jealous of because he asked Cathy to the dance before you could," I said angrily and I have expected Danny to turn around and punch me, but he didn't, thankfully.
"I just want to make sure Cathy is going out with a nice guy," Danny said and I snorted.
"Yeah, right," I murmured and Danny sighed.
"Okay, I want some dirt on this guy what's so wrong about that?" Danny admitted and I smiled.
"You're fighting for the girl you want," I said and then glared at Danny. "Leave me out of it."
"Come on Chris I can't do this alone," Danny begged.
"Sam and Cathy aren't going to be exactly happy about this," I said nervously. I had successfully asked Sam to the dance and that took a ton of guts for me, if she got mad at me...I shuddered at the thought. She'd be furious and would probably break our date, which placed me back at square one.
"Are you actually scared of Sam?" Danny asked glancing at me with a teasing glint in his eyes.
"Yes and you should be very afraid of Cathy," I argued. "You know what she can do when she gets angry and its not very pretty." Danny shrugged and we walked on both of us defending our point of view on the situation until finally we halted in front of Cathy's house.
"It's now or never," Danny said firmly.
"I told you, this is not going to work out well," I replied.
"Chris come on, Sam's not going to find out and you don't want Cathy to get hurt do you?" Danny asked and this made me groan. Cathy was my friend just as much as she was Danny's or Sam's and I guess I didn't want her to get hurt...ugh why did Danny always have to get me into these type of things.
"Fine," I said caving in. Danny smiled triumphantly and together the two of us snuck around Cathy's house and into the clubhouse. Danny locked the door so that Cathy or Mr. Smith wouldn't come in while they were doing their research. Danny flipped the switch which turned the normal looking clubhouse into the high-tech MBC headquarters. I instantly walked over and sat at the computer and started first a the search engine. I had to go deep in the computer's system to see about changing the settings to find out about humans. Surprisingly it was one of the setting option, I guess this was because we could use it to see if a human was maybe an alien or something, I brought the search engine back up and typed in Dylan Anderson and clicked send. The information was being sent and in the meantime I turned around to watch Danny curiously. "What are you actually going to do with the information if there is any at all?" I asked and Danny shrugged.
"Do something that will make him so embarrassed that he'll definitely break his date with Cathy," Danny said and I shook my head.
"You mean blackmail him into doing what you want?" I asked and Danny thought over my words carefully and then nodded.
"That's a nice way to put it," Danny admitted and I shook my head.
"Have you even thought this plan through exactly?" I asked and Danny nodded again.
"Of course, 1. get info, 2. blackmail, 3. Win Cathy over," Danny said and I sighed.
"No, what I meant was have you thought about the results of your little experiment," I said and Danny shook his head. "Well, you could severely ruin whatever social life Dylan has gained including his friendship with Cathy, your plan could backfire if Dylan or Cathy found out, or Cathy would be all mad and depressed and would have to blame someone and could easily track you down as the main suspect," I explained and Danny sighed.
"I don't care okay," Danny said. The computer beeped behind me and I turned around and Danny walked up and leaned over my shoulder to see the information that had appeared on the screen...nothing.
"See there is no information about him which means there is nothing wrong with him," I defended and Danny shook his head.
"There is something fishy about this whole thing," Danny said and I threw up my hands in defeat.
"First you say you want some dirt on the guy and now you're saying that you think there is something fishy about the fact that this guy who just moved to Singletown has no criminal record!" I shouted angrily.
"Return the normal search engine settings," Danny whispered.
"Danny, I'm putting my foot down here," I stated. "I think you need to realize that someone else likes Cathy and you've just got to work through your jealous stage," I added.
"Return the normal search engine settings," Danny repeated softly his eyes never leaving the screen.
"Danny how is it possibly possible that Dylan is an alien?" I asked. Danny was able to tear his eyes away from the screen long enough to look at me seriously.
"In this town, pretty possible," Danny replied and we had a stare down for a few minutes before I went back into the computers settings and restored the search engine to its normal setting which was aliens from all over the galaxy. I stopped before typing in Dylan's name in the search engine and looked at Danny.
"Are you sure about this?" I asked and Danny nodded. "When nothing shows up do not get all mad with me," I said and typed Dylan's name in and then pressed send. I turned to Danny as the information was slowly gathering, if there was any info.
"So," Danny began looking at me. "I heard you asked Sam to the dance," Danny said and I instantly looked away. "Come on Chris it was only a matter of time," Danny added.
"I like Sam, so what? I mean you like Cathy," I argued and Danny shrugged.
"I didn't say there was anything wrong with it, its just not Chris-like," Danny said as he started to pace around the clubhouse.
"Again, so what if I like Sam," I said in my own defense. Danny like Cathy and I liked Sam, I mean everyone says that all love relationships start out as friendships. We were living proof of this theory, but no one I guess said they always started out so easily. Sam and I had been friends for a long time and Danny and Cathy have a strong friendship, but Cathy chose someone that she had known for no more than a day over someone she had known even longer and was part of an alien busting group with. I prayed that no aliens appeared in Singletown, because busting them would be a really awkward experience for all four of us.
"I'm just saying that you've broken out of your geeky shell and are getting out there," Danny said and I tried hard to ignore the 'geeky shell' comment Danny had so fruitlessly thrown out there. Sometimes his endless teasing nature go really annoying, but I guess he did give us something to laugh about...or at. BEEP! BEEP! I turned in the chair back to the computer ready to see nothing on the screen, but what I saw really surprised me.
"Whoa," I whispered.
"What?" Danny asked walking over. We both gaped in surprise as on the screen of the computer was a large profile all about Dylan Anderson which could only mean one thing...he was an alien.
"This is not even possible," I stuttered in shock not believing what was right in front of my eyes.
"The computer never lies," Danny said. "Read it," Danny said nudging me roughly.
"Okay so he lives on a planet called Dureous which is inhabited by a bunch of aliens resembling humans which makes it easier for them to travel to Earth and not have to worry about morphing issues," I began.
"Yeah yeah, tell me something actually worth all of this trouble," Danny said. I scanned over the page irritably reading over all of the info most of which was just about his personality, his status on his planet, his parents, nothing exactly interesting. I was about to report nothing to Danny when a list of his powers caught my eye. It was actually just a light amount of inhuman knowledge and controlling powers.
"I think I found something," I whispered. "It says here that his powers are listed as slight inhuman knowledge and controlling powers which allow him to control any person, matter, object, etc. anywhere he goes," I said.
"So he's controlling Cathy," Danny said. "He must have tried to get close, but she pushed him away so he used his powers to get her to be his friend and he probably controlled her to say yes to his invitation to the dance," Danny concluded.
"So he's using her to get his social status higher, yes that's kind of stupid and low, but how is it completely bad?" I asked.
"Because, if he can control Cathy, he might be able to get her to say anything about the MBC," Danny said and I looked back at the screen. Dylan did not strike me as someone who would be out to get all the secrets about the MBC, but of course Danny was right. We had to keep our secret hidden and kept as a secret.
"We've got to tell Sam and Cathy about this," I said quickly.
"Right, we'll tell them both tomorrow at school," Danny said.
"We can do some more research and maybe get some real answers," I said and Danny nodded. Maybe Dylan wasn't so innocent after all, and whether he was or wasn't we were going to get to the bottom of why he was here and why he was controlling Cathy in the first place.