Chapter 13: Cosmosis:

Dil's POV:

I know we usually start these things with Jackie, but I thought you'd like to know what's going on with us. Anyway, we were walking past the crossing guard, Harry Dribble. He's a nice guy, but kind of a weirdo, and that's coming from me.

"Don't forget to do your homework," says Harry.

Then two guys dropped a piano... I have no idea why there was a piano on the roof of a building. Anyway, I didn't notice, but it almost hit me. Luckily, Harry saved me... by flying and lifting the piano.

"Woah, how did you do that?"

"Uh... got it, you know, eat your green vegetables!"

I'm not convinced that's the real case. He has superpowers, and I'm going to find out the whole story.

. . .

I decided to secretly follow Harry. It wasn't easy because he could fly. Why couldn't I have been born with wings? Wait, I think I finally caught up to him. We're at his house. I climbed the wall. That was also difficult because I'm not Spider-Man. This whole thing was poorly planned. I looked through the window and saw Harry.

"Clanda, I'm home!"

I then saw his wife. She was blue, had a pretty big head, and extra eyes... I'm just going to say it. She's an alien. Then Harry removed his human skin and revealed he looked the same.

I then fell from shock, and they heard me.

. . .

Harry and his wife were very hospitable to me.

"So, we're aliens," says Harry.

"We're trying to keep a low profile," says Clanda.

"You know, Harry, maybe you have a whole lot more potential than a crossing guard," I said.

"That's what I've been saying," says Clanda, "so, what would you suggest, Dil?"

"A superhero!"

"What?"

"Think about it. You have those powers..."

"I do want to help people," says Harry.

"Harry, are you hearing yourself..."

"Hold on," I said, "your name really is Harry?"

"It means something different on our planet." Harry then thinks about it.

. . .

"Say goodbye to Harry Dribble and say hello to Cosmosis!"

"What do you think," I asked.

"I have a bad feeling about this," says Clanda.

. . .

Cosmosis was flying around, and I was watching. Hammerhead and the Enforcers were at a diner.

"Please," says the man who runs it, "I can't pay anymore!"

"If use done cough up da dough, da Big May'n awwns yo dinah," says Hammerhead.

"Not so fast, fiend!"

Hammerhead and the Enforcers are now faced with Cosmosis.

"Who in tarnations are you," asks Montana.

"I am Har... I mean, Cosmosis, and I'm a superhero."

"Superheroes are the whole reason we moved to San Francisco," says Ox.

"Get him, Boys," says Hammerhead.

The Enforcers try to attack Cosmosis, but he takes them down. Hammerhead then tries to ram him, but Cosmosis throws him in the trash.

"Let that be a lesson to you fiends!"

Cosmosis then flies off.

"Thank you," says the man who runs the diner.

. . .

Cosmosis has beaten other villains like the Grundel, Neugog, Pinky the Pirate, Turbo Jet, and Shikata. The weird thing is, two of those should only be beaten by magic. Oh well. Anyway, Cosmosis was doing awesome, and everyone liked him.

Shen Du's POV:

I do not like thissss Cosmossssissss. He issss ruining my new empire. He musssst be sssstopped.

"'ow do we stop 'em," asssskssss Hammerhead.

How can we sssstop him? "We need a way to defeat thissss 'ssssuperhero.'"

"Maybe we should learn his secret identity," ssssayssss Ox. "Spider-Man has one."

"I have a better idea." I then ssssent a messssssage into sssspacccce.

Scrawn's POV:

The name's Scrawn, and the guy on my back is Scrawny. We got a strange message, but I don't know where it came from.

"SSSScrawn," the voice said, "I am the Big Man. There issss a ssssuperhero on my planet, Earth."

"I hate superheroes!"

"He issss known as Cossssmossssissss, and he musssst be sssstopped."

"I'll tear him apart!"

"Good."

Shen Du's POV:

Cosmossssissss issss about to learn how dangeroussss hissss duty truly issss.

Jackie's POV:

We were all at Section Thirteen.

"So, who is this guy," asks Captain Black.

"Flying man could be magic," suggests Uncle.

"Or a mutant," suggests Jade.

I then noticed Dil snickering.

"Either way," says Captain Black, "I'm not sure if we can trust him. He just came out of nowhere."

"Come on, guys," says Dil, "he's just trying to be a hero. He took down all the bad guys we got stuck with."

"That doesn't automatically make him a hero," says Captain Black, "but everyone thought Turbo Jet was."

"Good point. Well, I gotta go."

Dil knows something.

Dil's POV:

I made it to Harry's house, but I saw Jackie having coffee with Harry's wife.

"... and the rest of the Worms can't have coffee. Only the Emperor Worm. Oh, hi Dil."

"UUUUUUUUUhhhhhhhhh... I can explain..."

"About what?" asks Jackie, "The fact that Cosmosis is apparently an alien and you're the one who suggests he be a superhero?"

"Pretty much that."

"Dil, why didn't you tell the rest of us?"

"I was trying to keep his secret identity."

"I'm just worried about Harry," says Clanda. "I mean, he might get himself into trouble."

"I'm sure he'll be fine," I said.

"Dil, don't superheroes attract supervillains?"

"What are the odds of that?"

Cosmosis' POV:

I've never felt better. I can finally do what I've always wanted to do. Help people. Back home, I couldn't help so much, because everyone has the same powers. But here, on Earth, I'm a superhero. Then I got attacked.

"I'm Scrawn and this is Scrawny. Together, we're Screan!"

"How do Scrawn and Scrawny make Screan?"

"It doesn't matter, because we're going to tear you limb from limb!"

Jackie's POV:

We heard a crash and went to check it out. Clanda flew us there, and we saw Harry fighting an alien creature with a smaller alien creature attached to its back.

"Okay, so the odds are pretty good," says Dil.

Harry was fighting this thing. I tried to help, but that was a bad idea. The bad alien was stronger, and it threw me to the dumpster.

"That Big Man guy didn't tell me about party crashers!"

I heard that. He said "Big Man."

Harry continued to try to fight this thing, but when he was having trouble...

"I'm coming, Harry!"

Clanda joins the fight and helps Harry take on the alien. Together, they were beating it, but the alien revealed he had a big bazooka.

"I'm gonna fry you both!"

I got up and threw some garbage at the alien. When he was distracted, Harry destroyed the bazooka and Clanda knocked him out.

. . .

The Alien is now locked up in a Section Thirteen cell.

"Thanks for giving me this job, Captain Black," says Cosmosis.

"Thank Jackie, it was his idea."

"I figured we could use some super help."

"Well, if you ever need it, you can count on Cosmosis!"

In the next chapter, Angelica uses the Snake Talisman to see if a guy she likes likes her.