Hello dear readers! I apologize again for the wait between chapters! I hope to get on them a little faster. But to be honest, I'm at the only point in the story where I have no idea what to do. I have a middle, and an ending, and I had that beginning, but I don't know how to transition this one! So please bear with me as I trudge through this next chapter!

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Sam's POV

"Daniel, if you don't sit down and get to work right now, I will have no choice but to take my notes back and you will have nothing to use but your own notes which we all know barely exist," I said in as even a tone as I could. I usually wouldn't get this frustrated over Danny putting off doing his homework. Tonight, however, I had way more homework than usual, and thus didn't have as much time to waste on telling Danny off for not working. And there was always something to be said for the extra frustration more homework brought to a person.

"Fine," the brunette boy grumbled, plopping down in his seat at the table. Mr. Smith was in the process of building a new weapon for us to use in battle: an enhanced stun gun that had the potential to paralyze victims for up to 24 hours. The only problem was that the poison needed in the gun had to be extracted from some of his feistier plants. It wouldn't hurt them too much, and the poison would only need to be run through the gun's system once, but that wouldn't mean that the extracting process wouldn't be difficult. So we'd decided to let the clubhouse alone for now, and had gone to Chris' house for homework instead.

"Has anyone started Mr. Bennet's worksheet yet?" Cathy asked, staring at the paper in front of her.

"Which question?" Chris asked in reply.

"Can I just compare them?" she asked, scooting her chair closer to his, so she could read his paper better. Chris let her have the paper and moved his attention back to his history book. We were able to exist in this state of academic silence for only about ten minutes before the familiar beeping of an alien alert interrupted us.

"Seriously?" Danny exclaimed, letting his pencil fall dramatically to the table. "This would happen on our busiest homework night of the year. Typical."

"Save the attitude for the aliens," I replied quietly, shoving a slip of paper into my literature textbook to save the page before closing it. I quickly piled all of my things together before meeting the eyes of each of my team members. "We've got some busting to do."

The others begrudgingly nodded in agreement before getting up as well. As we started to make our way to the front door, a voice called over to us from the living room, "Where are you guys going?" We all jumped, whirling around to see who had caught us. Luckily, it was just John. He had his arms crossed over his chest and a very authoritative look in his eye. We'd appointed him as the official guard to make sure that we would stay on task.

"Duty calls," I answered, holding up my left wrist and tapping the v-com twice. John looked at me skeptically.

"We promise we're not skipping out on homework," Cathy added with a convincing smile. "And you're doing excellent at your job, by the way."

"Thank you, ma'am," John said with a nod. "And I'll let you all go this time, but hurry back. From the looks of it, you all have a lot of work ahead of you."

"We'll hurry," I answered as Chris opened the front door for us.

"Thanks John, you're the best," the bluenette said as the rest of us quietly filed out of his house. With a short wave back at his brother, Chris joined us on the front steps. It was already six p.m. and the light was starting to fade.

"The signal's coming from the center of town," Chris said, checking the reading on his v-com.

"Then let's get cracking before they can do any real damage," I replied. "Because if they really are here to take over the Earth, like the last couple guys have been, then they'll waste no time in claiming dominance over our town."

When we arrived at the center of town, fully suited up, we were already too late to stop any damage being done. The alien in question had begun to encase random things in giant, pink bubbles. Luckily, they'd only succeeded in capturing a few trees, a bench, and two lampposts, but most people weren't accustomed to seeing such gigantic bubbles out in the middle of town square. Glancing around quickly, I found our culprit preparing to fire a rather large blaster at a mailbox.

"HEY!" I called out, rushing forward as our alien turned around. A smile curved up its lips as I approached with my teammates following close behind. I stopped just feet away from it and held my blaster at the ready. "Just what do you think you're doing to our town?"

"Oh this? This is just a test run to find new ways to advance my master's plan," the alien answered with a hard edge to its voice. The creature was about our height, with indigo skin, four arms, a silver suit, a female voice, and three orange eyes. The smile never left her face.

"And are you going to tell us what that plan is?" Danny prompted carefully, blaster already out and aimed.

The alien laughed, a pretty sound like rain falling softly against a roof. "Of course I'm not going to tell you my plan!" she exclaimed. "Only fools do that, and it gets them no where in life."

"True that," Danny mumbled. I'm sure we were thinking back to just last night, when that hypnotist had found it a good idea to shout his plans to the world. Looks like we wouldn't be so lucky tonight.

"And I am no fool," the alien continued, her sly smile returning. "And that's why my master has sent me to carry out this phase of the plan, as well as to compromise the only roadblock to the operation." This is when she turned her blaster to face us. "And that appears to be you."

It took no more than two seconds for all heck to break loose. The alien fired her bubble beam at us at the same time Danny and I shot our blasters at her. The beams reflected one another, her beam capturing an innocent fire hydrant, and ours crashed through one of the pink bubbles encasing a tree. The bubble ruptured and an orange goo covered the branches of the tree and oozed down all around it.

"Ew," I heard Danny comment as we mobilized into action mode. The blue alien shot again, and we all dodged it. Cathy shot her blaster next, nicking the girl in the side. She recoiled slightly with a sharp cry, but was far from finished. Instead, she ran towards a bench, dodging out blasts, and made a swift backflip off the bench with a strong beam shot straight at me.

I had just enough time to leap to the side, colliding hard with the ground. I turned back just in time to watch the beam hit Danny unexpectedly from behind and encase him in a large pink bubble.

"DANNY!" Cathy cried from off to the left. I heard her blaster go off, and watched another shot hit out opponent's leg and send her falling to the ground as well.

"Come on, Sam," Chris said, suddenly appearing at my side and helping me up. I accepted his hand and got up quickly, preparing my own blast for the blue alien.

"Stop being so difficult!" she cried, lunged in a position to strike at any second. "You're ruining my mission!"

"That's kind of our job!" Cathy replied, shooting at her yet again. The creature bound out of the way and shot two beams at Cathy. The blonde dodged the first one, but was unable to catch her balance in time to dodge the second. A large, pink bubble formed around our alien friend.

"CATHY!" I exclaimed. The blue girl laughed again, still pretty but now with an edge of menace. I had had enough of her. "What do you want from us?"

"To get rid of you!" the alien replied harshly, aiming two more shots at Chris and I, we dodged them and blasted her back. She dodged as well. "You are currently the only thing in the way of my master's plans, and it is my job to contain you all, and no one will stop me!" I felt like an evil laugh should've accompanied that statement, but it didn't. Another shot from her blaster did.

"Chris, give it all you got!" I called over to my only teammate left.

"Don't worry, Sam! I've got a plan!" Chris called back. I was satisfied with that. Chris usually had great plans. And if he had a plan to get his crazy alien under control, I had full faith in him. I dodged another shot, and blasted back a few of my own.

"Sam, get her attention," Chris said, suddenly next to me before racing away to another side of the square. I watched after him for a second before jumping back into action.

"Who is this master of yours?" I asked her, dodging another shot behind a bush that magically turned into a bubble.

"Why would I tell you that?!" the girl exclaimed. "I thought I already explained that I was not your average, crazy minion."

"Yeah, you're totally sane," I replied, taking another shot at her. She side stepped my shot and prepared to aim at me again, but was frozen in her tracks by another blast. A thin sheet of ice covered her body. I looked to where the beam had come from and saw Chris pulling out his vacuvator.

"I told you I had a plan," he said before pulling the girl into a glass container. "Thanks for playing along."

"Anytime," I replied, moving over to him. "Now to burst all of our little friend's bubbles." I looked specifically at one that was holding one of my friends and shot a blast at the top of it. The bubble broke and Cathy fell to the ground covered in orange goo.

"Yuck!" she commented, shaking her hands to rid them of some of the goop.

"I know, I'm sorry. We can get you cleaned off after we get Danny out and burst the rest of these bubbles," I explained sympathetically. Cathy nodded, her body tense in discomfort. I turned quickly to shoot a few bubble out of the trees as Chris popped Danny's bubble.

"This stuff is disgusting!" the jock exclaimed, shaking his head around to get some of it out of his hair. I had to shield my face from getting hit.

"Hey! Say it, don't spray it," I said. "We'll unleash the garden hose on you guys when we get back to the clubhouse. But just let Chris and I finish popping this bubbles…" A slight beeping noise caught my attention at that moment. I turned around, looking all around for the source of the sound.

"Sam? What's wrong?" Cathy asked before freezing herself, having just heard the noise.

"What's that?" Danny asked. We all took a look around before a large purple beam exploded towards the sky. It disappeared in a matter of seconds, but it was up just long enough for Chris to find the source of the ray. There was a small, metal box lying on the ground behind some shrubs.

"Well that's peculiar," he commented, carrying it over to us. "Let's take it back for testing."

"Good plan," I replied. "Now let's get rid of the rest of these bubbles, find a way to get rid of the goo, and head back."

"I don't think you'll have to worry about the goo," Cathy said, pointing up towards the sky as dark clouds were rolling in.

"Great. More time to finish our homework!" I said in response, turning to shoot more bubbles. I heard Danny groan and tried to stop the smirk that curled on my lips.

End chapter 3.

I've plotted out the rest of this story, so there's no way I'll be road blocked with lack of ideas this time.

Sorry again for the wait! I've been getting overloaded with new ideas for different things lately.

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