HEY PEEPS! Sorry I haven't posted in a while. My job had me working over time and I got sick. How sick? Hospital sick man. I was at the hospital the late night of Sunday, December 3rd, had surgery the afternoon of Monday, December 4th, and was in the hospital trying to recover until Saturday, December 9th, around the evening time. I just started work Tuesday, December 19th, at midnight so yeah. I had my appendix removed, had to wait 15 hours, threw up blood, last 2 hours was with no pain killers until the surgery so I was in horrible pain, no fever until after surgery and if they had made me wait an hour longer I would've died. That would mean no more fanfiction for you guys from me...EVER! But I lived. I lost 4 lives and still have 5 left. Sorry for lack of update and the small scare. Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Kwanzaa! Happy New Year! And Happy Holidays in general!

Chapter 43: Extra Terror-Estrials!

*Aria's POV*

It was now Tuesday night, a day after the worm incident, at the top of the peak, looking over Riverdale and in front of the woods, showing off a clear sky. Spring break, while normally lasting only a week along with the weekends so 10 days the longest, lasted two weeks here in Riverdale, or 16 days total. We were outside on the clear night to do our astronomy homework. Lame, I know, but it's the only homework we have and we were told this would be the best night to have it because of certain stars that become visible, certain planet alignments and I read there might be a comet coming this way tonight. Might! It's a very small chance. Dilton was on a trip for the next four days with his mom and dad so I couldn't see him tonight but I got to see him this morning at least. Plus, I get to see Jughead tonight. Archie was next to Ronnie, looking up at the sky, Betty was setting up the telescope and I was with Jughead, in the car, looking up at the sky. I rested my head on his shoulder with a sigh. (For those who wonder about her hight, she's half a head shorter than both Archie and Jughead. They all seem to be the same hight to be honest so, yeah. She only looks taller, like Betty and Ronnie do, because of heels.) I pointed out a star constellation to him and he smiled.

"Which one is that?" He asked me.

"If I remember correctly, then it's Scorpio." I told him with a smile.

"I love it how you're so smart." He told me as I giggled in response.

"You're smart too." I pointed out. For girls, Betty and I are the smartest in the school, for the boys, Jughead and Dilton were the smartest. It was actually impressive. Jughead offered me a jelly bean and I nodded. He tossed it and I caught it in my mouth. I was wearing my original outfit with my awesome corset like chocker on, that I thought was lost, as I caught another jellybean.

"These are good." I commented as he tossed me another.

"The best in Riverdale." He replied as he ate a few. I could hear Betty comment on the stars she calls heavenly bodies and I heard Archie agree but knew he was talking about Ronnie. I nearly gagged at hearing that. Jughead chuckled and pulled me close to him.

"I know I see one right next to me." Jughead whispered the comment softly in my ear before nibbling on the lobe. I giggled and pushed him away while I grew a blush.

"Jughead. Archie might scold us again." I whispered lightly as he suddenly pulled me closer.

"He's to busy to notice." He said to me before kissing my cheek.

"Betty? Can Jughead and I eat the rest of you're jelly beans? I'll replace them." I asked her.

"Great balls of fire!" She said in surprise.

"Alright, alright, we'll save you some." Jughead commented back.

"No! Not the candy. There's a ball of fire." She exclaimed. We looked up and, sure enough, it was a ball of fire. I jumped up and moved myself to stare at it.

"Cool." I said as Betty mentioned, because of it's movements, it could be a space ship. Archie hopped in the car and began the weird mystery article before I realized something.

"Um, I think it's heading this way." I said as my excitement turned into a massive amount of worry. I was right, but it didn't crash where we were. Instead, it barely flew over us and landed a ways away. Soon, everything was packed up and we went on our way. The road was bumpy.

"They don't build roads like this anymore, and you really can't blame them." Jughead commented as I giggled at the joke. We got there and it was, indeed, a spaceship.

"Reporter sense tingling." Archie soon mumbled. All 5 of us stepped out of the car and surrounded the one side of the ship. It was, small, yellow and kinda reminded me of the ship stitch had from Lilo and Stitch.

"Tick~ tock,~ tick~ tock.~" Jughead said in a creepy tone. I lightly smacked his arm.

"Seriously? I bet that's scaring Veronica." I told him.

"It is!" She whined out.

"So what do we do?" Betty asked.

"We open it!" Archie and I said at the same time. We looked at each other with a smile before walking over to the ship, determined to open it. Veronica runs over and stops Archie.

"No Archie! Don't! What if there's an alien with eight arms and a face like guacamole?" she asks him in fear. I rolled my eyes at her.

"Then we shake all eight hands and serve him chips." I say as I open the hatch. Everyone freaked out except me. I cleared the smoke and looked inside.

"No! I'm allergic to ugly." Veronica whined while I rolled my eyes. I went inside and saw an adorable little alien. It kinda looked like an albino orangutan creature.

"Aw!~ He's adorable!" I said as I opened the lid and helped him out. I carried him out and laid him down on the ground. I could feel he was breathing so I knew he was alive. I heard everyone aw as well.

"See Ronnie, he's not ugly." Archie said to her.

"He seems to just be sleeping." I commented as I made sure there were no wounds on him.

"Aw, he looks like a sweet little angel. Don't you just want to hug him?" Betty asked as she rubbed his cheek.

"Maybe later. Right now, he needs help. That landing must've knocked the stuffing out of him." Archie said with worry. Something wasn't right. He looked cute but something was off. I didn't know what though. Maybe it was nothing, but my feelings were usually spot on.

"Aria, Did you hear me?" Betty suddenly said.

"Huh?" I asked. I had spaced out.

"I said help me with him." She told me as I say a blanket over him and some Jelly beans and a bottle of water near him.

"Oh. Right, sure." I said as I bent down to assist. Betty rested his head on her knees, calling herself aunt Betty, while I put some water on my hand and gently rubbed it on his forehead. He woke up with a fright and saw Betty.

"Please don't hurt me! I'm innocent I tell you! I didn't do anything wrong!" He shouts out in fright. Now, after watching the twins a lot I know, when something cute claims innocent like that, they did something wrong.

"Shh. Easy fella, you had a little accident. That's all." She tells him as he raised himself up to look at her better.

"Where is this?" He asked softly in a cute little voice.

"You're on earth. Third planet from the sun." I informed him. He looked at me for a moment before looking around.

*I don't trust him.* I think to myself.

"Mind if I ask you a few questions?" Archie asked as he came back over with his laptop and sat down, crossed legged, and opened it up to start typing his article. Oh boy.

"How do you know our language?" He asks.

"Universal translator. Implanted in our heads at birth." The little alien replied. That was actually a smart idea.

"Of course. Brilliant!" Archie marveled as he started typing it all down.

"Do you have a name?" Archie asked him.

"Gleebo." The little creature replied.

"Hi Gleebo. I'm Betty. Here, have some jellybeans." She introduced herself and offers him some jellybeans. I saw Jughead pout and felt bad.

*But they are Betty's.* I thought. She then feeds him one.

"How do you know he likes jellybeans?" Jughead asked as Gleebo chewed and swallowed one down.

"Mmm.~" He said with a smile.

"How can anyone who looks this sweet not like candy?" She asks us. Jughead and I smacked our foreheads at the same time.

"Careful Betty, looks aren't everything." Jughead warns her.

"He's right." I added in. She handed Gleebo the box and he took a handful to eat, then a second, then a third before he looks up at Betty.

"Gleebo likes Jellybeans." He said adorably to Betty.

"See?" She says to both of us. I go over to Jughead and stay by him.

"So he has a sweet tooth. I still think you're jumping to conclusions." Jughead scolded her.

"I agree with Jughead 100%. He might seem cute and sweet but I don't trust him one bit." I say as I fold my arms over my chest.

"Now what do we do with the little guy? Take him to the candy store?" Veronica asked sarcastically.

"No. We have to hide him from those government agents." She tells us.

"What government agents?" Veronica asked her.

"The government agents like the ones from that alien movie." Betty told us.

"Betty, I doubt government agents are after him. Maybe another type of alien, but not our government." I tell her.

"She's right. Intergalactic government after Gleebo." He says in a panic. I smack my forehead and sighed.

"Wonderful. I make an example and I turn out to be right." I say in a low and annoyed voice.

"Well, Betty Copper's not going to let that happen." She says while Gleebo hugs her tightly.

"Fine. But he stays at your house. Allegro will think he's a chew toy or something." I tell her as I made up an excuse to keep him away from me.

"That's fine by me." She says happily as she picks him up and takes him to the car. I sigh as Jughead and I follow. As we got in the car Gleebo used a watch to show us what the two aliens looked like that were hunting him down.

"Those are two ugly spuds." Archie commented as he started the car. The image soon disappeared.

"Anything that ugly, can't be any good." Betty commented.

"Not true Betty. Reggie 'supposedly' has looks and he's a jerk most of the time." I commented before feeling Jughead pull me closer. I look up at him and smiled.

"I said supposedly. You're cuter." I told him as I kissed his cheek. He blushed but smiled, feeling better.

"Yes, very bad. They want to find Gleebo, hurt Gleebo, and take Gleebo away again." He whines out. I rolled my eyes. Is this act really going to-oh crud, Betty's buying it.

"Don't worry, we'll protect you. Right?" Betty said before asking all of us. Archie and Veronica agreed willingly. Sheesh. Then Jughead agreed.

"I'm declining." I flat out tell them all.

"What?!" All four shouted.

"I'm sorry, but this little, Gleebo, is an alien I don't trust one bit." I say to them.

"How can you say that about this adorable little guy?" Betty asks me.

"Because watching the twins enough has taught me looks are deceiving and those two are trouble when they play innocent. I think his innocents is an act and my feelings are not wrong." I tell her my strong opinion.

"Fine. We don't need your help anyways." She scolds me with a huff.

"One more thing please." Gleebo interupted.

"It would really help Gleebo out to find Gleebo some electronic parts." He says. Now my suspicions were on high alert.

"What for?" Archie asks him.

"So Gleebo can phone home." He tells them. Everyone agreed.

"You're all seriously buying into this?" I ask in pure shock.

"He just wants to go home. Relax." Archie tells me.

"He could use his watch for it!" I yell out.

"Gleebo can't call. Watch not work like that." He tells me.

"See? We need to help." Betty tells me. I huff and fold my arms as I glare at the back seat. Something was wrong and I knew it. I just hate it when everyone is against me. We got back and I stormed off to my room. Jughead followed me inside.

"I'm only helping to keep an eye on him. I don't trust him either." He tells me.

"Then you should've defended me Jughead. I felt like even you were turning your back on me." I said as I felt upset.

"I know, and I'm sorry, but I need to show Betty things aren't always as they seem." He explains. I sigh but turn and hug him.

"I understand, but I'm your girlfriend. I'd like for you to support me, even if I'm wrong." I say to him as I tried to calm down. He hugs me tightly.

"I'm sorry Aria, I just don't want Betty hurt either. She's my friend." He tells me.

"I get it." I tell him. He lets me go and kisses me softly.

"I'll talk to you tomorrow alright?" He asks me. I nod my head yes to him. He smiles and goes to Archie for a ride, since Ronnie needs one too, as I go get ready for bed.

*Morning Aria's POV*

I woke up and got ready.

"Allegro! Walkies! Go get your leash!" I tell him as I put on eye liner. Today I wore shorts and my rip tank top I fixed because I had work today. I rushed downstairs and saw Allegro with his leash in his mouth.

"Good boy." I said as I pet his head. I put on my ankle boots and grabbed a few dog treats. I put his leash on and gave him a treat. I grabbed a candy bar and left. I saw Jughead talking to Betty and showing her a box of Jellybeans. Um….Okay? He then came over to me.

"Hey." He greeted as he hugged and kissed me. I hugged and kissed him back before pulling away. I looked and saw the box was empty.

"Teaching her things aren't always what they seem?" I asked him.

"Yeah. Kinda went well." He told me.

"Want to walk with me?" I asked him with a smile.

"Sure. I need to head into town anyways." He tells me as I noticed the list. I looked it over quickly.

"This is what he wants? Are you sure?" I ask him.

"Yeah. A few other things too." He tells me.

"I dunno. These don't seem like parts for a transmitter." I tell him as we started walking.

"Then what are they for?" He asked me.

"I'm not sure actually. It could be anything from a shrink ray, to a machine that can cause a nuclear melt down." I tell him as I try to think.

"If I knew the other parts, would it help?" He asks me.

"Maybe." I say as I sigh.

"I'm not sure actually. Just be careful please." I say to him as I start to eat my candy bar.

"Alright. Will I see you at Pop's later?" He asks me.

"Yeah. I got a full shift into the night. If you see Archie, tell him not to forget to pick me up tonight." I say softly.

"No problem." He says to me. He kisses my cheek and then turns right to head into town while I turn left to go around the block to head back. Once I get back I grab my uniform and put my skates on and rushed to work.

*After work at 9:15 pm*

I helped Pop's clean up and start to close up before he let me go. I thanked him and walked outside. Thank goodness Jughead reminded Archie to get me. I hopped in the car and we drove off as I buckled myself up.

"Thanks for getting me." I say softly to him.

"No problem. Hey, you sure you don't want to help us? We could really use your help." He tells me.

"Yeah Archie, I'm sure. I'm not helping out with whatever bad thing Gleebo is planning." I tell him.

"He's not planning anything bad." Archie tells me.

"Archie! How many times have my feelings been wrong?" I asks him. He tries to tell me but stops talking.

"You can't can you?" I ask him. He keeps quiet.

"Exactly." I tell him.

"He's not bad." Archie tells me. I roll my eyes and sigh in annoyance.

"Fine. Don't listen to me." I say as we get home. I go inside and get ready for bed.

*3 days later 9:27 am Aria's POV*

I wake up really late and rush.

"Crud crud crud!" I whisper out as I hurry down the stairs. I missed a step half way down and tumbled down the stairs.

"Ow. I'm okay." I yell out as I get up and ready. I saw a note telling me Archie was at Betty's. I rolled my eyes and rushed out the door, skates on and a candy bar in my mouth. I only worked half a shift and enjoyed my day. I decided to go back to the ship today and see what clues there where to help me prove Gleebo was bad. Archie refused to take me up to the spot, no surprise there. It took a couple hours and I had to hurry. I was wondering around when I saw two green aliens looking at the ship. They soon spotted me and held their guns up at me.

"Freeze human." The skinny one tells me. I hold up my hands to surrender.

"I want to know what Gleebo did to get you after him." I tell them. They stop and look at each other in confusion before looking at me.

"Why do you want to know?" The bigger one asks me.

"Because I think he's not as innocent as he looks." I tell them. They get closer to me and start to tell me.

"I know you, a human, can't read our patches, but it says Planetary police on it." The skinny one starts off.

"I knew something was off with Gleebo. He's a criminal and was your prisoner. He stole your escape pod there to get away right?" I ask them.

"Right. And he hops from planet to planet, using his cuteness, to steal plutonium and sell it on the black market." The big one tells me. Uh oh.

"There's a nuclear reactor near here that has plenty of that. *Gasp* My boyfriend, friends and cousin think he's innocent and are helping him build a machine! It must be to steal the plutonium. We have to warn them!" I say in a panic.

"You know where he is?" The skinny one asks me.

"Yes. I can take you too him." I tell them. They put the ray guns away and guide me to their ship. We hop in and hurry. I guide them to Betty's just as they we're leaving and getting into Archie's car.

"He's there. Disguised as a kid." I point out to them. They start flying after them until they hit the woods.

"I know where they are going." I tell them. I tell them about the tree house and they land the ship.

"Stay here and don't touch anything." The skinny one tells me.

"Why?" I ask him.

"In case he gets in here without us." They tell me. I understood the plan and hid just in case. It was 20 minutes or so before someone boarded the ship. I looked and saw Gleebo steering the ship suddenly.

*I have to stop him.* I thought as I started to sneak over to him. As I was about to jump him, he turns and hits me with the ray gun. I Fell to the floor and blacked out.

*Archie's POV*

We all felt horrible. They explained everything to us, has us go fix our wrongs and we find out Aria was right. Wait a minute.

"Where's Aria?" I suddenly asked.

"She was on the ship. She's either trying to stop him or he used the sleep gun on her already." The skinny alien tells me.

"Then we really need to hurry!" I yelp out as we hopped in my car and sped off.

"This is my fault. Aria was right and now she could be hurt." Betty said as she tried not to cry.

"It's not your fault Betty. We were all fooled." I tell her.

"I wasn't but I should've stood up for her." Jughead said with sadness.

"You were trying to teach me and I didn't listen at all. I'm sorry Jughead." Betty apologized to him.

"We'll work it out later. We need to hurry." I say as I started speeding. I pulled up just as Gleebo started to wheel out the plutonium.

"Hold it right there Gleebo!" I tell him as I stand up in my car and point my finger at him. He pointed the sleeper gun at me. Then I got hit. I barely saw Jughead and Veronica get hit too before I black out.

*Betty's POV*

Oh no! This was bad! Archie, Veronica and Jughead were out cold and I didn't see Aria anywhere. I sneaked onto the ship and saw her there on the ground. I was mad now. On the way here, I had rigged the jellybean box as a surprise for Gleebo. I started to get Aria up when Gleebo came aboard. He set up when he realized he wasn't alone.

"Who's there?" He asked in a rude tone.

"It's me." I tell him as he sees me near Aria.

"Oh yeah. The dumb blonde. Step out here where I can see you better girly." He orders me. I leave Aria as I grabbed the jellybean box and go over to him.

"What's that?" He asks me in a harsh tone as he pointed the sleeper ray at me.

"I wanted to leave this on your ship and then grab Aria before you left." I tell him.

"What is it? A bomb?" He asks me. I had to keep playing innocent.

"No. It's-" I started to say before he interrupted me.

"Set it down! Right now! Right there!" He orders. I do as he says.

"Now open it! No false moves." He tells me. I open the gift wrapped box to reveal a box of jellybeans.

"Yummy beans!" He shouts with glee and licks his lips.

"I know you like them. I thought you could eat them on your trip." I told him. I heard Aria moan. She was waking up. I stayed on my knees right in front of him though.

"Well how nice. Even though you know I'm a crook, you're still like me. Isn't that just typical." He says rudely to me before grabbing the box.

"Betty?" I heard Aria groan out.

"You know, there's always one gullible creature like you on every planet I've been to, and they just fawn over my cuteness and try very hard to help me out." He tells me as I stand up.

"Well, I'm sorry I fell for your trick." I tell him.

"That's because only a fool judges by appearance. Actually, that girl there, Aria, is the only one to figure me out quickly out of all the planets I've been too. And yet, even though you're her friend, you're still an idiot and ignored her." He says and laughs a bit. I went over to her and helped her up. He then guided us to the door.

"Now, get out of here!" He orders. I take Aria and run off the ship and he fired a warning shot at us. Then the ship door closed as he began to fly off.

*Aria's POV*

After Betty helped me off the ship I saw Gleebo take off.

"Goodbye. Enjoy your jellybeans." I heard Betty say.

"You still gave him something?" I asked as I looked at her. I saw the look on her face and stopped myself from scolding her before smiling.

"You rigged the jellybean box didn't you?" I asked. Before she could answer we heard the ship fly lower. We looked and saw it had a minor crash landing.

"You and Jughead were right. I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions like that." She apologized to me. I went over and hugged her.

"Mistakes happen. I'm just glad this could be fixed." I tell her. While Betty checked up on Archie and started to get lovey dovey with him, I woke Veronica and Jughead up. Betty didn't want me waking Ronnie up, which I understand in a way, but I wanted to at least wake Jughead up. When I did, he bolted out of the car and held me close to him.

"Are you alright?" He asks in a panic.

"I'm alright." I tell him as he pulls me as close to him as humanly possible. After a while Ronnie woke up, the girls slightly bickered over Archie, we returned the plutonium and then we all went out to lunch to get everyone's point of view on things. Archie typed half and I typed half before we called it quits. We celebrated our victory and enjoyed the day together. Archie took everyone home before we went home. We had dinner before we went to his room to type up the last part of the Article.

"And so, we returned the stolen plutonium before the workers woke up. The planetary police recaptured Gleebo and returned him to an intergalactic prison. Good thing too. He was a lot of trouble. ~Aria. He thought Betty was just a dumb blonde with some candy. I guess even a cosmic criminal can make a mistake of judging a book by it's cover. ~Archie. And Betty isn't so easily fooled by appearances anymore. Trust me, after watching the twins, Luke and Duke, enough times you know better. She now knows that sometimes, ugly can be good and cute can sometimes be bad. ~Aria.….Even in a little town called Riverdale! ~Archie and Aria!"

We finally finished.

"Hey Arch. Do you notice how, not only we tend to do the conclusion at night but we also do this in your room." I say to him. He stops and thinks about it.

"You're right. It's a force of habit I guess." He says with a shrug. I shrug too.

"I don't mind." I tell him. We said our good nights and went our separate ways. I went to my room and got ready for bed. I was happy because I finally get to see Dilton tomorrow for our full day date. I hurried to bed and cuddled with Allegro before falling asleep.