In this chapter, we're going to be ending this arc so that we can move on to different ones. Hence the title. It's time for justice to be served...as usual. I hope that you've been enjoying this fanfic so far.
Chapter 5: Thieves' Downfall
The day started off normal for the students at Torrington Academy. However, that would change soon. Seems that the school couldn't go for too long without encountering the paranormal.
Of course, since the Center kept erasing their memories, they had no idea of the paranormal happenings occurring at the academy. Well, except for Martin, Diana, and Java.
"Where Martin?" inquired Java. He hadn't seen him today.
"I'm afraid he got kidnapped..." answered Diana.
"No! Is Martin OK?" asked the caveman.
"I'm not sure yet. I will admit that I feel kind of lonely with him gone...even if all we ever seem to do is squabble..." noted Diana.
"Martin! When are you ever going to clean your room?" inquired Diana.
As usual, Martin's room was a mess. Apparently he had never heard of cleaning up after himself.
"Who do you think you are? My stepmother?" asked Martin.
"I think I'm acting more like your father, actually." noted the teenage girl.
A few days later, Diana caught Martin playing with his food in the cafeteria. He was splashing ketchup all over the table.
"Hahahaha!" laughed Martin.
Jenni rolled her eyes. And Martin wondered why she didn't want to go on a date with him. She understood why his own stepsister found him to be annoying.
"You really like to play with your food before eating it, don't you?" inquired Diana.
"Hey! I'm not exactly hungry right now..." answered Martin.
"You're wasting ketchup!" exclaimed Diana.
And the day after that, Diana caught Martin putting a whoopee cushion on his teacher's seat. Why do you ask? Because he gave him a D last week.
Martin snickered to himself.
"This is going to be priceless!" exclaimed Martin.
"You know, even though it is called a "whoopee cushion", I don't think the teacher is going to be celebrating if his students laugh in his face." stated Diana.
"It's going to be hilarious! Don't boss me around!" exclaimed Martin.
"Of course, after that, Martin ended up getting detention. He can't say I didn't warn him...like all those other times." noted Diana. Diana wondered what would happen if she wasn't around to stop Martin from doing such foolish things.
"Java miss Martin already..." answered Java. If it weren't for him he would probably still be in that cell in that Center. At least someone appreciated him for who he was.
"I know...who else am I going to squabble with? Jenni and I never seem to squabble ever...we seem to agree on everything." answered the teenage girl. It was kind of creepy.
"What we do?" inquired the caveman.
"For now, I suggest that we act like nothing happened. If the teachers ask, we say that Martin isn't feeling well and will be in his room for the rest of the day." stated Diana. Of course, if they told people that Martin had been abducted by aliens, it would be doubtful that they would believe them. They would think that they were making up a crazy story...much like Martin and his crazy theories.
"Good idea." nodded Java. Hopefully things would straighten themselves out.
Speaking of Martin's room, she decided to check on Eris.
Eris was currently crying. She was just bonding with him too. Now he was in the hands of the space thieves.
"I'm sure it will be OK." said the teenage girl, putting her hand on Eris's shoulder.
"I hope..." answered Eris.
"I'll leave you be for now. Besides, I don't think Martin wants me in his room any more than I want him in mine." noted Diana.
Diana decided to leave and head to class.
Unbeknownst to her, Bantito and Mugga were fast approaching.
"So, this is where our alien princess is..." said Bantito.
"Me looking forward to richness!" exclaimed Mugga.
"So am I..." answered the small alien.
Bantito pulled out a laser pistol.
Mugga then busted down the door.
"Alright, freeze!" exclaimed Bantito.
The students gasped in shock.
"We're looking for an alien princess! Have you seen her? Speak up if you do! We don't have all day!" inquired the small alien.
The students shook their heads.
Bantito sighed. This was going to take a while.
"Well, we're going to keep looking around until we get some answers! Until then, you better not go anywhere!" shouted Bantito.
The students nodded. It looked like they didn't have much of a choice.
Who would have thought that aliens would end up invading their school? And which of them was an alien? Was it one of their teachers? Mr. Normal had been acting weird lately.
However, one of them sounded an alarm. Seems that they panicked upon seeing the aliens.
"Darn it!" exclaimed Bantito. Well, what was the worst that the Earthlings can do? It's not like they had the technology to stop them...other than the Center that is.
In the classroom, Mr. Washington was currently instructing his students.
"Alright class, please turn to page 57 of your tex-"
The alarm went off, and Diana and Java wondered what was going on.
"What's going on?" asked Diana.
She then remembered that MOM had said that the spaceship was heading to Torrington Academy. Apparently, they had decided to search for the princess on foot.
MOM contacted Diana on Martin's U-Watch.
"I'm afraid we have bad news. The space thieves have broken into our school and are looking for the alien princess. If they keep searching the school, it's only a matter of time before they find her." warned MOM.
"If that's the case, we have to stop them!" exclaimed Diana.
"I'll leave that task for you two." answered the lady in charge of the Center.
Diana nodded.
Together, the two of them went to stop the aliens.
Java found the aliens first.
"Princess, where are you?" inquired Bantito.
"Java to rescue!" exclaimed Java.
"Huh?" asked Mugga.
Bantito turned around and noticed the caveman approaching them.
"What the heck? Oh great, it seems one of those Earthlings has gotten the bright idea to try to stop us. Admirable yet futile. Mugga, you take care of him. I'll keep searching for our little princess..." instructed the small alien.
"You got it!" shouted the blue alien. That school janitor was no match for him...or so he thought.
Immediately, Java found himself face to face with Mugga, who for some strange reason was very similar to him.
"Java stop you from kidnapping princess!" exclaimed Java.
"Me pulverize you!" shouted Mugga.
Together, the two of them got into a fight, trying to wrestle each other to the ground. Mugga was surprised how strong the school janitor turned out to be. Since when did humans have that kind of strength?
Both of them began to sweat.
"Java save day!" exclaimed Java.
"Me crush you!" shouted Mugga.
Java pushed Mugga back, causing him to crash into the janitor's closet.
"What this?" asked Mugga.
"That's Java's mop! You no touch it!" exclaimed Java.
Mugga shrugged and tossed the mop aside.
The two of them then resumed their fight.
Mugga shoved Java into a locker.
It left behind a big dent.
"Whoa! Hope school salary fix this!" exclaimed Java. Then again, their school WAS on a budget.
Java eventually managed to overpower the blue alien, and knocked him out cold.
"Yeah! Java did it!" exclaimed Java.
Java flexed his muscles. He knew that he could beat that alien.
However, he was shot by Bantito with his laser pistol shortly afterwards, who had gone to check on his comrade.
Java collapsed on the ground.
"Ow!" exclaimed Java.
"Huh. He tried so hard..." remarked Bantito.
Suddenly, Diana hit Bantito on the head with a chair.
"Aargh!" exclaimed the small alien.
Bantito fell unconscious on the floor.
"Huh. You passed out so fast..." answered Bantito.
Diana helped Java back to his feet.
"You OK, Java?" inquired Diana.
"Yeah. Java fine. Slightly burnt though." answered Java.
"That's a relief." noted the teenage girl.
Diana reported to MOM.
"We got the aliens!" exclaimed Diana.
"Good job. However, there's still one left. She just so happens to be the leader of the trio. She's still on the spaceship." said MOM.
"If she's on the spaceship, how can we reach her?" inquired Diana. It was all the way up in the sky.
At that very moment, Eris approached them.
"What on Mars just happened?" inquired Eris.
"The aliens broke into our school and tried to capture you...seems that they made Martin tell them where you were..." spoke Diana.
"We knock out both of them!" exclaimed Java.
Diana used the U-Watch to trap the two of them in a net.
"That should keep them busy until the Center shows up." noted Diana.
"How we reach spaceship? It up in the sky!" exclaimed Java. Unfortunately for Java, he did not happen to be a bird...although he did hunt birds occasionally back when he was still in the prehistoric time period.
"I think I might be able to handle that..." answered Eris.
"You can?" asked the teenage girl.
"Martians have the ability to fly..." stated the alien princess.
"You sure you can handle their leader by yourself?" inquired Diana.
"If it means rescuing Martin, then yes!" exclaimed Eris.
"OK then. Be careful." warned the teenage girl.
Eris nodded and began to head towards the spaceship.
Meanwhile, Snatcha was frustrated with her subordinates' failure. It seemed that a couple of Earthlings had beaten them up. Now the Center would most likely capture them.
"You've got to be kidding me! Now I've got to capture the princess all by myself. Well, at least I know how to flush her out..." answered Snatcha.
Snatcha pressed a button and a giant laser gun came out of the spaceship.
She then aimed it at the school.
"You can run, but you can't hide from me, princess!" exclaimed Snatcha.
Of course, there was the possibility that she might hit her comrades...but she was sure that they would be fine. They had been through worse, like the time that the Center had sent that giant robot after them.
"You're going to attack my school? Well, at least I won't have to do my homework..." noted Martin.
"Not so fast!" exclaimed Eris.
Snatcha looked around, and gasped in surprise. Seems that she didn't need to fire at the school after all. The princess was already on her spaceship.
"Princess? Did you decide to surrender? I guess you got tired of this game of cat and mouse..." said the leader of the Space Thieves.
"Give Martin back!" exclaimed Eris.
"Give him back? I was planning to use the brain extraction machine on him a bit more...see what else I could learn about the Center. Of course, there's the possibility that he'll suffer brain damage...but he doesn't seem too bright anyway given the shenanigans he gets into. Why exactly is he part of the Center anyway?" asked Snatcha.
Eris growled and tightened her fists.
"Not going down without a fight? Works for me." answered Snatcha.
Suddenly, her fingernails transformed into claws.
"You're taking this catfight thing a bit literally..." noted Martin.
"Whatever!" exclaimed Snatcha.
Immediately, Snatcha and Eris got into a fight. Martin was surprised how fast and strong Eris was.
"Two girls are fighting over me? I thought I'd never live to see the day..." remarked Martin. And Diana said that no girl would ever want him. Well, who was laughing now?
The two of them fought vigorously.
"For a princess you really pack a punch..." noted Snatcha.
"I'm more than just a pretty face!" exclaimed Eris.
"Fair enough. You'd be surprised how many people are fooled by my good looks." remarked the teenage lady. It was how she had managed to pull off many of her thefts. Of course, her comrades had helped too.
Martin noted that asking Snatcha on a date wouldn't be such a good idea...even if he did love aliens.
Snatcha clawed Eris on the face.
She rubbed it instinctively.
"You OK, Eris?" asked Martin.
"Yeah, I think so..." noted Eris.
Snatcha lunged towards the alien princess.
However, Eris was quick and she pushed Snatcha into the control panel.
All of a sudden, the spaceship began to lose altitude.
"Now you've done it! We're going to crash!" exclaimed Snatcha.
"I'm sure I'll be fine. I survived that spaceship crash landing onto Earth..." answered Eris. She was somewhat durable.
"You little..." murmured the leader of the Space Thieves.
Eris quickly grabbed Martin and flew out of the spaceship.
"I really should have installed escape pods on the ship..." stated Snatcha.
"Thanks for saving me...although, I must be a pretty crummy bodyguard if the person I was supposed to protect ended up rescuing me instead..." noted Martin.
"Don't worry about it. Personally, I appreciate what you're doing for your home planet...maybe you could help out mine someday..." answered Eris.
"But I can't breathe on Mars!" exclaimed the teenage boy.
"Eh, the Center will probably think of something." stated the alien princess.
Eris and Martin quickly left the spaceship...right before it crashed.
Fortunately for Snatcha, she was still alive, though she was still somewhat messed up.
"Ugh..." murmured Snatcha.
Unfortunately for Snatcha, she was quickly surrounded by Center agents. She had no choice but to put her hands up in the air.
"Oh c'mon! Just when my day couldn't get any worse!" exclaimed Snatcha.
"You're under arrest!" shouted Billy.
"Wait, Ganthar's working with the Center? What is this galaxy coming to?" inquired the lady.
Billy wondered how aliens kept seeing through his little green man disguise. Had he really been that infamous?
A short while later...
"Good work, all of you...though I was surprised that Eris herself entered the fray. Well, I suppose it doesn't matter now. All three of the Space Thieves have been sent to our prison." stated MOM.
MOM contacted Stella, Albert, and Sylvia.
"Yes?" asked Albert.
"We need you to erase the memories of everyone at this school...except for Martin, Diana, Java, and Eris of course. There's been an alien attack on their school recently...we've gotten things straightened out but we're sure that they're traumatized." ordered MOM.
Stella, Albert, and Sylvia nodded.
They appeared a short while later in one of the many Center portals.
Albert pulled out a memory erasing device.
"You think we can erase the memories of everyone at this school?" inquired Stella.
"We can if we work together." answered Albert.
Sylvia nodded.
Together, the three of them began to erase the memories of the students that had witnessed the alien attack.
A short while later, they were done.
"Alright, we're done!" exclaimed Stella.
"Good work. As for you Eris, your spaceship is currently undergoing repairs. When we're finished, you will be free to return to Mars." stated MOM.
"You wouldn't happen to be accepting new recruits to the Center, would you?" asked the princess.
"Excuse me?" inquired the lady.
"I figure that the Center could use a helping hand..." stated Eris.
"Well, we probably wouldn't have captured the leader of the Space Thieves without you...so sure. Just don't spill our secrets or we'll have to erase your memories." said MOM.
"Wasn't Martin going to spill your secrets?" inquired the space alien.
"Technically yes, but that wasn't his fault. We've confiscated the aliens' spaceship and by extension their brain extracting machine. You're welcome to stay on Earth, but I suggest you don't reveal that you're an alien." stated MOM.
Eris nodded. She wanted to learn more about Earth.
"The rest of you can go back to resuming your normal lives. We'll see if you can get you all another mission." said the lady.
The six of them nodded.
It had been a long day for Martin, Diana, and Java.
But at least they had managed to make a new friend out of it...a friend that was literally out of this world.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter. In the next chapter, Albert is going to meet a friend of his father by the name of Victor Mutagen...but he has secrets to hide.