Chapter 2

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"Elizabeth Cooper, you wake up right now!" Alice shouted at her daughter through the door.

Betty sat up in bed immediately startled and looked around. The last thing she remembered she had been in Jason's El Camino trying to get away from some Southside Serpents only to get thrown out and into the pit of the quarry. She had no idea how she had gotten home.

"I'm up! I'm up!" Betty responded. "My alarm clock just didn't go off."

"Well hurry up, you need to be at school in forty minutes," Alice said.

Betty was surprised, the incident at the quarry had happened on Saturday night and now it was Monday morning. Betty had no idea what had happened on Sunday.

Betty made way out of her room and to the bathroom still feeling a little groggy. She shut the door and locked it behind her. She reached into the shower/bathtub and turned it on and then went to pull the shower curtain closed. However as she did she end up ripping the curtain off leaving herself standing there holding it and a dumbfounded look on her face.

"What the…?" Betty said in surprise.

She did her best to put the curtain over the rod carefully so it would still sort of work. She then pulled off the XXXL T-shirt that she slept it going over to look at herself in the mirror. Betty's eyes went with shock at what she saw.

Not only did Betty not have a scratch or mark on her body at all, but Betty noticed she looked much different. Betty had been fairly fit from playing basketball where she had been a star player; but a big reason for that was because Betty was 5'11" which was much taller than most girls. Now however Betty noticed that her arms were looking a lot more toned and her flat stomach was now ripped with six-pack abs.

However the biggest change was her breasts. Betty had always been on the smaller side somewhere in between an A-Cup and a B-Cup. However now Betty seemed to have at least D-cup breasts somehow. Betty reached up and grabbed her own breasts and groped herself not sure if they were real or not.

"How is this possible?" Betty asked her reflection, which of course didn't reply.

Betty then got into the shower and began shampooing her hair.

"Maybe I'm just seeing things," Betty said to herself as she rinsed her hair.

Betty finished showering and turned the shower off. She then reached out to grabbed her towel and as she did she ended up pulling the towel bar right off the wall.

"What…" Betty wondered in disbelief as she stared at the towel rod in her hand.

She hadn't even been pulling that hard she thought but as she looked at the wall she could tell that it hadn't been loose since she'd pulled a couple pieces of tile free as well. Betty tried to put the towel bar back but it wasn't sticking. She then just set it down on the floor and wrapped herself up in her towel and hurried back to her room, closing the door behind her.

"What the hell is going on with me?" Betty asked as she looked at herself in the mirror on her dresser.

Betty then looked down and saw something sitting on her dresser. It was the red stone from the quarry. If she had the stone then that meant that she had been at the quarry and everything she remembered had happened. That just left her with more questions than ever.

"Betty! Hurry up!" Alice shouted from downstairs.

"I'm coming!" Betty replied.

Betty went to get dressed however none of her bras fit her anymore. Betty considered perhaps borrowing one of her mothers, but that wouldn't necessarily have been a proper fit either and decided not to bother and just threw on a t-shirt and a black vest and some jeans. She then went to tie her hair back into a ponytail like she always did, but then stopped. Instead Betty decided to put her hair into two side ponytails. Betty then slid the red stone into her pocket.

Betty then made her way down to the kitchen where her mother was. Alice's back was to Betty as Betty entered the kitchen.

"I don't know what's wrong with you Betty. You were in bed all day yesterday and somehow you get up late today and you… What is with this?" Alice asked as she turned around and saw Betty.

"What's with what?" Betty asked.

"The hair, the outfit and… are you stuffing your bra?" Alice demanded.

"No," Betty replied defensively covered herself with her hand. "Geez there's nothing wrong with what I'm wearing Mom, and I wanted to try something different with my hair. It's not a big deal."

"Not a big deal, this is how people end up becoming serial killers Betty," Alice said.

"Don't be ridiculous Alice," Betty's father Hal said as he entered the kitchen. "I like what you've done with your hair Betty."

"Don't encourage her Hal," Alice snapped at her husband.

Hal went to say something and stopped. He then reached into his wallet and pulled out a twenty and handed it to Betty.

"Go get yourself some breakfast somewhere," Hal said.

"Oh so you're just going to buy her love now?" Alice shouted at Hal.

Betty quickly left the kitchen and the house. She could still hear her parents shouting as she made her way down the driveway. Betty made her way to school, stopping at McDonald's along the way to grab a breakfast sandwich. When she got to school Betty was still quite early, however she knew that Chuck's father always came in early to coach morning practice and brought Chuck with him.

Betty found Chuck in the library sitting at one of the tables working on his cartoons.

"Chuck," Betty called out.

Chuck looked up a little surprised to see Betty.

"Betty, what are you okay?" he asked. "You look… different."

"Yeah, I'm fine; I feel great actually," Betty replied. "And something is different."

She reached into her pocket and pulled out the red stone and set it down on the table. Chuck pulled out the blue one he had and put it down.

"We should have died on Saturday but somehow we're still alive and I think these are responsible," Chuck said.

Betty nodded in agreement.

"This morning I yanked a towel bar in my bathroom right off the wall like it was nothing," she said.

"I had something similar happen, I crushed my cellphone with just my hand by mistake," Chuck exclaimed.

"We should head out to the quarry after school see if we can figure this out," Betty suggested.

"I don't think I can wait till after school," Chuck said. "I think we should go out there now."

"Now?" Betty asked in surprise.

"Do you think you'll be able to focus on anything with all these nagging questions about what happened to us in the back of your head?" Chuck responded.

"Yeah you're right," Betty admitted. "But how are we going to get out there?"

"We can use my dad's car," Chuck said. "He's going to be busy with practice for a while still."

Betty was a little apprehensive but her curiosity over what had happened to her was becoming overwhelming. After considering for a moment she nodded in agreement.

"Okay, meet me in the staff parking lot in five minutes," Chuck said. "I've just got to get the keys."

Betty nodded again and the two of them left the library and then split up and went separate ways. Betty made her way towards the staff parking lot, along the way she ran into Dilton Doiley. Betty and Dilton had been in competition to be the class valedictorian; however after her meltdown it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that it would go to Dilton.

"Betty," Dilton greeted her coolly.

Betty just stopped, but said nothing.

"I've been meaning to thank you," Dilton said.

"For what?" Betty asked.

"For losing it," Dilton replied. "You made my path to valedictorian so much easier."

Betty just rolled her eyes and sighed.

"Although I've been meaning to ask, why did you snap? But now looking at you I can see it was over a boy," Dilton said with a smug look on his face.

"Over what?" Betty asked confused by his statement.

"Well look at you," Dilton replied pointing at her. "Normally you do not dress to impress, now you're stuffing your shirt to be like one of the cheerleaders."

"There's no stuffing here," Betty said poking herself in the breast. "And this is not about a guy, and I don't want to be a cheerleader. As far as what's going on with me, it's none of your damn business. So just take your valedictorian win and go away. I never wanted it anyway; it was all my mother pushing me to it."

Dilton's smug expression vanished. He had his victory, but Betty had just made it into a hollow win. Without another word Dilton walked away. Betty then continued on out to the staff parking lot. A couple minutes later Chuck arrived with his father's keys.

"Okay come on let's go," Chuck said.

He walked over to his father's truck, a blue 2010 Ford Ranger. Chuck and Betty both got in and Chuck started the truck up.

"So, I kind of want to apologize for that cartoon I was drawing the other day," Chuck said as they drove along.

"Don't worry about it," Betty said with a smile. "It kind of actually turned out to be true."

"What do you mean?" Chuck asked.

"You didn't notice?" Betty responded pointing at herself.

"Notice what?" Chuck asked. "What you're wearing a push-up bra?"

"No, I'm not wearing any bra," Betty replied, and then flexed her arm. "And I didn't have this before."

Chuck looked at Betty's bicep, which looked like it came from a fitness model.

"Whoa," Chuck said in surprise.

"Nothing like that happened for you?" Betty asked.

"Not that I noticed," Chuck replied. "But I've always been in good shape because of my dad."

There was a bit of an awkward silence between the two of them as they drove on.

"You know, I'm kind of glad that had that meltdown and beat up Reggie," Betty said. "I'm not glad about hurting Reggie, he's a jerk yeah but he didn't deserve that. But the fact that it freed me, now I don't have to be the person my mother wanted; to do whatever she told me to do. I can actually make my own decisions for once. Figure out what it is I want to do."

"Well no offense but you seem to be making some pretty shit decisions," Chuck commented. "I mean right now you're skipping school with me to go to the quarry where just two days ago we should have been killed."

"Mistakes are only bad if you don't learn from them," Betty stated.

"And if they don't kill you," Chuck added with a chuckle. "Oh good we're here."

They pulled into the quarry and Chuck brought the truck to a stop and they both got out. Across the pit they could see two figures on the far side of the quarry, one male and one female. From their red hair Betty and Chuck were pretty sure that it was Cheryl and Jason. Betty and Chuck made their way around the quarry to where Cheryl and Jason were; the two of them were just staring down into the water below.

"I take it you guys remembered what happened too," Jason said as Betty and Chuck approached.

"Right up until we fell into the water," Betty replied. "After that…"

"It's all a blank," Cheryl finished for her.

"When I woke up I looked outside thinking I'd see my car that it was all a dream," Jason said. "But it was gone and I'm guessing it's down there."

"Well there's really only one way to find out," Chuck said.

Just then there was rustling in the forest behind them. They all turned around and were surprised to see Veronica emerge from the forest.

"You guys are all alive!" Veronica exclaimed.

"Does anyone else think that these are responsible?" Betty asked as she pulled her red stone out of her pocket.

The others all reached into pockets and got their own stones out.

"I think you're right," Cheryl agreed looking at her own pink stone. "There's something… weird about these things."

"How did you get here?" Jason asked Veronica.

"I ran," Veronica replied. "I don't know why but I have never felt better in my life. I think I ran like eight miles to get here at almost a dead sprint and I'm barely out of breath."

"It's weird right? I broke my cell phone and Betty smashed up her bathroom this morning," Chuck said.

Betty then turned around and ran to the edge of the pit and leapt off. She jumped nearly ten feet into the air before she did a graceful dive down into the water. The other ran to the edge of the pit in time to see Betty slip beneath the water.

"Okay, has she been drinking again?" Cheryl asked.

"I don't think so," Chuck replied.

Just then Betty resurfaced.

"Guys, you've got to come down here," she called up. "Jason's car is down here, but… well there's something else you need to come see."

The others looked at each other and then Chuck jumped down to join Betty and Jason soon followed him.

"How come we're all following her?" Veronica asked Cheryl.

"Why you have something else you'd rather be doing?" Cheryl responded.

"Actually yes," Veronica replied.

"Well, then I'm sorry," Cheryl said.

Before Veronica could react Cheryl grabbed her and jumped down into the pit with her. The two of them surfaced with Veronica spitting out water angrily.

"Don't do that again," Veronica sputtered.

"So what exactly do we need to see?" Jason asked.

Betty held up her stone which was glowing faintly. The others all took out there which were also glowing.

"Follow me," Betty said.

Betty dove beneath the water, holding the stone out in front of her like a dim flashlight. About ten feet below the surface were the destroyed remains of Jason's El Camino. The doors were both torn off and lying separate from the car.

However the destroyed car wasn't the most fascinating thing underwater. Rather than lying against the expected rock bed that one would expect to find at the bottom of a quarry, the El Camino looking like it was just floating on top of a larger round pit that was pitch black.

As the five teens all swam towards the wreck their stones began to glow brighter. Betty was the first to reach the car, but she was more interested in the strange pit that it seemed to be sitting on. Cautiously she reached her hand out and was surprised when her hand went in and it felt like she was breaking the surface of the water. Curious Betty pushed further in and suddenly found herself falling until she landed with a thud.

Picking herself up Betty looked around to see that she was in some sort of underground cavern. Suddenly she heard a startled cry above her and Betty looked up just in time to see Chuck falling towards her. Betty barely got out of the way but then a moment later Jason landed on top of her and then Veronica and Cheryl both landed nearby.

"I'm so sorry," Jason apologized as he got up.

"It's alright, it actually didn't really hurt that much," Betty commented.

Betty picked herself up, wiped a bit of dirt off when she noticed Jason staring at her.

"What?" Betty asked.

"You didn't have those yesterday," Jason said pointing at her chest.

Betty looked down to see that her wet T-shirt was clinging to her skin and since she wasn't wearing a bra her nipples were quite visible through the damp fabric. Embarrassed Betty quickly covered herself with her arm.

"Don't stare!" Betty exclaimed.

"Yeah, yeah she's got boobs, all girls do Jason," Cheryl said dismissively, clearly focused on something else. "You've seen mine plenty of times, get over it."

Cheryl held out her stone which was glowing quite bright at this point and began making her way deeper into the cavern. The others followed behind her their own stones also glowing brighter. They went about fifty feet or so into the cavern before they came to a shop.

In front of them was a set of stairs and what looked like a round door with six swirling edges on it. It looked as though it was some sort of alien space craft that had been buried underground.

"What the hell is this?" Veronica asked.

"I don't know but I think somehow these stones are connected to this," Chuck said.

Betty slowly made her way towards the spaceship or whatever it was. As she reached the bottom of the stairs the door pulled open the six segments all pulling into the frame.

"I don't know if we should go in there," Cheryl said. "It seems dangerous."

"These stones saved our lives; otherwise we would already be dead right now. If whatever is in there wanted us dead then we would already be dead," Betty replied.

"She right," Jason agreed as she stepped up beside Betty.

Slowly the five of them headed up the stairs and into the ship.

Our main characters survived somehow, but how remains a mystery. Will they find the answer in this alien vessel that seems to have been buried for millions of years? Find out in Chapter 3! Please Review!