The Alt Four in: It (Didn't) Come From Uranus

by Bloody Simpson Chibi

A spaceship crash lands near Sally's house and the girls discover an egg. Said egg hatches into a monster which Emily flushes down the toilet and all seems fine. But when people begin to go missing in town and the girls discover why, they'll have to take the offensive against the alien threat. Will they succeed or is it game over, man? Rated M for dirty jokes and gore.

The Alt Four in: It (Didn't) Come From Uranus

by BloodySimpsonChibi

Disclaimer: I do not own the Alien franchise. Just my dumb OCs.

(So this will be a weird point in my little series, not only because we're heading into uncharted waters, going from slashers to monster villains for a change but because the following story after this one will be based off Predator which shares its FF category with Alien. I can only hope someone uploads after me or both my stories will be together and that would be weird. Anyway, there's nothing more to say now since, if you've read any of these stories before, you know the drill. Oh, and Happy Alien Day!)

It was a bright and starry night and the girls were hanging out at Sally's house watching a marathon of 50's monster movies. Or rather, Sally watched the movies while Ginger read a book, Emily scrolled through her phone, and Penny slept with a hand propping up her head. As she sunk further into sleep, however, the rest of her body followed, causing her arm to waver under the weight of her head and fall. Her chin hit the side of the couch and the punk girl awoke with a start. *snort* "Wha huh?" Her eyes still somewhat crusty from her nap, she dozily turned back to the TV and was reminded of the black and white boredom that put her to sleep in the first place.

"Ah, can't we change the freaking channel already?" Penny asked. "Let's watch wrestling or something!"

"Nuh uh!" Sally shook her head. "I invited you guys here for the late-night monster movie marathon and that's what we're going to watch!" Sally brushed the bangs out of her eyes and neared the screen. On the TV, the giant lizard-like monster broke through the street and used its long tongue to lap up the panicking people. Sally hummed in excitement but Penny just scoffed.

"Come on, Sally!" She said. "You can clearly see that it's just a stupid clay model! They're aren't fooling anyone with the black and white shit!"

"I. Don't. Care." Sally dragged out that final "care" as long as she could.

"Besides, Penny," Emily butted in without looking up from her phone. "You have to admit that it's pretty impressive work even if it isn't all that convincing. Stop-motion is hard to do, you know?"

"Shut up, Emily!" Penny retorted. "You're not even watching the damn thing!"

"Well, no, but-

"What are you even watching anyway?" Penny snatched Emily's phone and took a peek. To her surprise, she was watching the behind the scenes video on the movie, showing how the crew brought the monster to life using Claymation. She gave Emily the side eye, not understanding her logic in watching this over the movie itself and the shyly chuckling emo could only shrug in response. Penny sighed and tossed the phone back to her. "You guys are morons, all of you."

Ginger didn't bother joining in the conversation but she did flip Penny off.

"Shh!" Sally waved her hands. "Here comes my favorite part!"

On the TV, the scientist who were trying in vain to stop the monster's rampage were shocked by the arrival of a mysterious ship in the sky. The ship, shaped like your typical flying saucer, landed on the ground with a soft hum and a doorway materialized out of nowhere. A small incline descended from the doorway and two beings dressed as astronauts stepped down. "We beg your pardon, Earthlings." The first being said. "I am Fock and this is my comrade Yoo." He took off his helmet, revealing much to the horror of the human scientist, that he was in fact a lizard-like alien. "We believe our pet is running amuck."

Sally giggled with delight. "Awesome!" She sighed longingly as she laid against the couch. "Wouldn't it be amazing if we could meet real-life aliens? Actual visitors from the stars?"

"Maybe, if not for the fact that they'd most likely kill or enslave us if that were to ever happen," Ginger answered without looking up from her book.

"Please, any alien scumbag tries to probe my ass, it'll be-" Penny suddenly jumped off the couch and kicked and punch the air all while making sounds that could only be described as "Karate Noises." She continued like this for a few seconds before accidently kicking Emily in the nose.

"Yoww!"

"Oops! Sorry!"

Emily whimpered as she held her nose, already feeling blood seeping from the inside. Ginger finally put down the book and ran her fingers through Emily's hair to comfort her while Penny rubbed the back of her head sheepishly.

"Come on, guys!" Sally said, trying to break the awkwardness that had insured. "That's just what all the doomers and gloomers say. Maybe meeting aliens will be a good thing! They can fix global warming! Cure cancer! Force politicians to be honest. It could be fun!"

"You sure are optimistic, Sally." Emily sniffled as Penny handed her a tissue and she used it to soak up the blood.

"It's a gift!"

Whatever," Penny growled. "Play positive all you want, Sally. It's not like aliens are gonna start dropping out of the sky just to meet your stupid ass."

Suddenly, the house began to shake, taking the girls by surprise. The lights began to flicker off and on. The TV followed suit, intercutting images of the Lizard Monster from Planet Buusheet with loud blaring static. A great roar filled the sky, forcing the girls to cover their ears.

"What the fuck's going on?" Penny shouted.

"I can't hear you, Penny!" Emily cried. "My ears are covered."

"What!?" Sally called out.

"Guys, look!" Ginger pointed toward the window. Of course, none of the others girls actually heard her but they did see her finger pointing out the window and so gathered around it in time to see what looked like a large...unidentifiable flying object speeding above the house. It was hard to make out so much as the shape of the object due to the towering pillar of fire and smoke growing out its back end. The four friends watched in abject horror, and Penny in fascination with the fire, as the flaming object continued its descent toward a nearby field. The resulting crash shook the ground beneath the girl's feet and Emily had to grab Ginger's arm to keep from falling over.

"Easy there! Ginger said as she helped Emily to her feet. "You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." Emily quickly turned back toward the window out of both a desire to hide her blushing face from Ginger and out of morbid curiosity for what had just transpired. "Still, what was that?"

"I don't know," Sally said softly as she caressed the glass on the window. "Whatever it was, it's giant, on fire, and overall, extremely dangerous." A brief moment of silence followed. "Lets go find it and poke it with a stick!"

"Yeah!" Penny agreed whole heartedly. The two girls rushed out the back door toward the field before Ginger could so much as utter a word of defiance. "Shit! The goth girl sighed. "Well I guess we have no choice." She approached the door. "Coming Emily?"

"Huh?" Emily choked. "Oh uh! Y-Yes." She watched as Ginger left the house and jumped over the fence lining Sally's backyard. She stared out at the billowing tower of smoke that object had left and with a heavy sigh, followed her friends.

---

Thanks to that billowing tower of smoke, it didn't take long for any of the girls to find the object. It had crashed in the empty field just behind Sally's property and so far, as they could tell, hadn't caught anyone's attention but theirs. Penny felt that those government dogs would be here soon to clean up this mess and so urged the girls to explore as fast as they could. Once Emily had caught up with the rest of the group, they all slid down the crater the object had formed.

The object, which was half-buried in the earth already, appeared to be some sort of space shuttle-like vehicle, albeit one the girls had never seen before. It was mostly gray with neon green lines running through it in a intricate design. The right side of the ship was open, as if something had taken a large bite out of it. Ginger kept the other girls from getting too close until she could confirm that the smoke was only coming from the end of the ship and then, with much reluctance, led the way inside.

"Whoa!" Penny whispered as she peered inside to all the blinking lights and buttons still active on the ship. "Would you check this out?"

"I'm checking it! I'm checking it!" Sally squeezed past Penny and fell face first on the floor of the ship. She quickly bounced back and oooed and awwed at all the buttons before her. "So...many...buttons...must...press...them...all!" Sally tried to leap toward a particularly large red button sitting by itself before something appeared over her and wrapped itself around her waist. "Huh?" The scene girl looked down to see she had been lassoed by Penny's leather jacket.

"Sorry, kiddo!" Penny said as she walked up to Sally and began tying her arms together with the jacket. "Can't be having you blow us up! Once she was finished, Penny pushed Sally down on the ground. As the angry scene girl hissed and snapped at her bindings, Ginger called out. "Guys...you're gonna want to see this!

Penny left Sally alone as she and Emily made their way toward Ginger who was currently standing at the far end of the ship, just before what was most likely the control panel.

"Guys...look," Ginger pointed to the seat right in front of the panel. More specifically, what used to be the seat in front of the panel. It would seem a large portion of the ship overhead had fallen and crushed the seat, along with the poor creature that happened to be seated in it. All the girls could make of it was a long scaly blue arm with orange spots and bright purple blood splattered on the side of the debris.

Penny shook her head sadly. "Poor alien bastard. Guess we'll never know whether he came in peace or wanted to leave us in pieces."

"I don't know," Ginger said as she looked around. "He might have not even wanted to come here in the first place."

"What do you mean, Ginger?" Emily asked.

"Look, I'm no expert on aliens or anything. But this ship clearly blew an engine and look around. All there is are buttons and broken stuff. I don't think this guy intended to land on Earth." Ginger's eyes darkened. "Something happened here. Something bad."

Emily gulped as she found herself looking around as well, taken in the destruction that Ginger had already pointed out. In the midst of the destruction, however, she spotted something more intact, a cylinder of glass containing an oval shape.

"Huh?" Emily slowly approached the cylinder, the contents of which became clearer as she neared it.

It was an egg. A perfectly intact egg. Behind it were a bunch of similar cylinders, broken and empty. This was the only one still whole.

"Guys! Come look at this!" Emily shouted. Ginger and Penny approached the egg at once with even Sally inching toward it like caterpillar.

"Is that...an egg?" Ginger asked.

"Egh!" Sally struggled to pick her head up, smushing her face against the glass. "Yep! It's an egg alright!" Sally started licking the glass, prompting Emily to pick up the container. "Sally, stop that!" Emily scolded as Sally fell face-first. "You don't know where this thing has been!"

"That's so strange," Ginger leaned in for a closer look. She tilted her head as she noticed the ruined containers before her. "It looks our pilot over here was smuggling a bunch of eggs like these. Do you think they're from some sort of intergalactic endangered species or something?"

"Shit if I know," Penny replied as she tapped the container. "I'm just wondering if this thing will go better with pepper or spinach."

Ginger, Sally and Emily gasped in horror with the emo girl cradling the egg away from her punk friend. "Penny! You can't eat the egg!"

"What if it's the last of its kind?" Sally whined.

Penny's lips trembled as they curved upward. She burst into laughter and pointed at her confused friends. "Ka ha! You guys really thought..." She wiped a tear from her eye. "Relax. I was just fucking with you. Like I'm gonna eat some random egg and risk getting space worms or something."

Ginger, Emily and yes, even Sally stared at their punk friend in contempt. "Not funny." The scene girl muttered.

"It was hilarious. Shut up!" Penny defended. "At any rate, we should get gone before dear old Uncle Sam's lap dogs start sniffing all over this place."

"First good idea you've had all night." Ginger remarked. "Let's get outta here."

Emily and Sally murmured in agreement as Ginger made her way to the entrance. There happened to be a collapsible ladder right next to the entrance which Ginger straightened out toward the entrance. She, Emily, and Penny climbed out with the egg in tow while Sally inched toward the bottom, still bound by Penny's jacket.

"Uhh...guys? A little help?"

---

Once back inside, the girls set the egg on the table, gathered around it and stared at it for a undeterminable amount of minutes. Every so often, Sally would reach out to take the egg out of it's container and every time she did that, Ginger would slap her hand away. After enough minutes had passed, it was Penny who broke the silence.

"So...what are we gonna do with this thing?" She asked. "I was kinda half-joking about eating it."

"We're not eating the egg, Penny." Ginger replied grimly. "I think we should turn it over to some scientist. They'll know what to do."

"Government lapdog!" Penny cursed as Ginger flipped her off again.

"No!" Sally yanked the container off the table and cradled it close to her. "I've seen the movies! They'll just experiment on him!"

"Him?" Penny raised in eyebrow.

"I say we wait for him to hatch and then raise him ourselves! We'll feed him and teach him and name him George." She said as she lovingly rubbed her cheek against the glass. "With four mommies raising him, he might just become president!"

"Maybe," Emily reached for the container and ripped it out of Sally's hands. "Or more likely, it'll kill us all as soon as it hatches and use our corpses for nesting. The movies taught me that!"

Sally stuck her tongue out in response.

"Emily, put the egg down." Ginger said.

"Yes, Ma'am!" Emily put the container down at once. The girls were right back we're they had started. "What are we gonna do with this thing?"

At that moment, the front door rang. The girls stared at it for a minute or so, unsure if they actually heard it ring until it sounded again.

"Who the fuck would be ringing the bell at this hour?" Penny asked.

"I'll get it!" Sally jumped out of the table and toward the front door.

Anyone else getting a real strange case of Deja vu?" Emily asked.

"Huh?" Both Ginger and Penny asked.

Sally, meanwhile tore open the front door to find none other than Pam Seawell leaning on her porch. The preppy girl was half-asleep, the bags under her eyes indicating that she had been up far past her usual bedtime. Once the door open, her eyes slowly followed suit and she uttered a groan as she stood up from the frame. "Took you long enough," She muttered.

"Pam!" Sally shouted. "How wonderful to see you!" Sally's smile immediately changed into a frown. "You look exhausted."

"I still look better than you, Snothead!" Pam retorted. "Anyway, I thought I heard voices inside. Are any of your loser friends with you?"

"Yep!" Sally beamed. "The gang's all here for a monster movie marathon! Wanna join us?"

Pam scoffed. "Oh please! Only babies and virgins watch that crap!" She reached into her backpack and pulled out a stack of papers. "I just need to give everyone in class these papers detailing the next parent-teacher conference. Apparently, this kind of bullshit comes with being student council president."

"Congratulations, by the way!" Sally chirped. "I voted for you!" This, of course, was a lie. Sally actually voted for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich which she then ate but Pam didn't need to know that.

"Bite me!" The preppy girl shoved a paper into Sally's chest, pushing the scene girl out of the way as she entered the house. She could practically smell Ginger's eyeliner and so headed directly for the kitchen, leaving Sally to read the paper she had been given.

"Hmm..." She said as she held the paper upside-down in front of her. "Must be a misprint."

"Well if it isn't the Sanderson Sisters." Pam muttered as she entered the kitchen. "Holding a séance for advice to be cool?"

"Hello Pam," Ginger groaned. "What brin-

"The fuck do you want at this hour, Barbie?" Penny snarled. She really wasn't in the mood for Pam's attitude tonight.

"Chill out, Mohawk!" Pam reached into her backpack and pulled out three more papers and handed them to the girls. "I'm just suppose to give you these papers concerning the parent-teacher conference next month. I've been up all night handing these out so you better be grateful!"

The girls each grabbed a paper with Penny ripping hers in half, crumbling the pieces into a ball and then tossing it toward the trash can. She missed and the paper hit the rim of the trash can instead.

"Go pick that up, Penny." Ginger said.

The punk girl growled in annoyance but complied as Emily looked the paper over. "I know it's none of my business but maybe if you had passed these out earlier instead of going to the mall with your friends, you might be have been finished by now."

Pam's face turned thoughtful. "You know something, emo? You're right!" Then it soured back into a scowl. "It isn't any of your fucking business so butt out!"

Emily hid behind the paper as Pam's gaze shifted toward the egg on the table. "And just what the fuck is that?"

Ginger turned to the egg and then back to Pam. "We'll i-

"It's a space egg!" Sally rushed in. "We found it in a spaceship!"

"A spaceship?" Pam asked in disbelief. "Are you high?"

"No really, look!" Sally grabbed the top of the container and twisted it. The container hissed as steam came out from the bottom of the lid as Sally removed it, reached inside and pulled the egg out. "See! A genuine egg from space!"

Ginger and Emily stared at the now-empty container, a million of the same thoughts running through their minds. How did Sally do that? How did she figure out how to do that and most importantly, HOLY SHIT THE FUCKING EGG'S OUT OF THE CONTAINER!

"Sally!" They both shouted.

"Put the egg back right now, you stupid bitch!" Penny shouted.

"Get that thing away from me!" Pam backed away. "It's all wrinkly!"

"Sally, put that egg back in the container right now!" Emily shouted.

"Will you guys just calm down?" Sally said. "What's the worse that could happ-

The egg made a sickening squelching sound as four lines formed from its top. All eyes fell to the egg as the four newly formed flaps opened, like a grotesque flower. Sally was certain she thought she could see the tail end of something diving deeper into the mucus-like yolk inside.

"Sally." Emily gulped. "Put. The. Egg. Down. Now."

"Ok...Ok." Sally chuckled nervously with a slight shiver. "I'm going to put it down right no-

What happened next happened too fast for the girls to comprehend until after the fact, let alone stop it before it was too late. Whatever was inside that egg leapt from its leathery confines and latched onto a screaming Pam's face. Her screams were muffled as the creature wrapped its long tail around her throat several times over. She tried to pull it off, then clawed at it and when it became painfully clear that neither would work, she ran into the living room in a literal blind panic.

"Fuck! Pam!" Ginger and Emily got off the table and rushed into the living room while Penny vanished into the hallway. Sally whined as she wondered which friends she should follow, before dropping the empty egg shell and rushing into the living room where Ginger and Emily were trying to corner Pam.

"Almost," Emily said as she climbed onto the couch, ready to pounce on Pam and knock her down. "Almost. Got you-OOF!" Pam had moved away at the last minute, allowing Emily to hit the ground. Doing so put her in Ginger's range, however, and the young goth wasted no time grabbing the alien creature and trying in vain to pull it off. Pam's muffled screams of pain alerted Ginger to the possibility that she could pull off the preppy girl's face if she wasn't careful. "Shit! I can't pull it off! What are we gonna do!?"

"Stand back!" Penny declared with her bat in her hand. "I got this!" She uttered a battle cry as she rushed toward Pam, slamming her bat right onto the creature attached to her face. She beat at it repeatedly until at last, Pam lost consciousness and fell down, the battered and bruised creature still stuck to her face.

"Dammit Penny!" Ginger scolded. "Look what you did! You knocked Penny out cold trying to get at the alien. You really need to be careful."

"Riight. The alien," Penny whistled as she hid the bat behind her back. Ginger glared at her as Emily and Sally joined them. "So what do we do now?" The emo girl asked. "Should we take Pam to the hospital?"

"Hospital Moshspital!" Penny waved her hand. "I say we get the crowbar and pry the sucker off."

"That thing is practically glued to her face." Ginger warned. "You might just rip it clean off if you do that!"

"And your point is?" Penny asked while Ginger groaned.

"Look, before we do anything, let's at least set Pam on the couch." Emily suggested. The other three girls agreed and together, picked up the preppy girl's body and placed it on the couch with Sally even crossing her arms as if she were a dead body. She would have looked quite peaceful if not for the alien creature stuck to her face. Now that the chaos had died, the girls could finally get a good look at it. It was like a red and black spider, eight legs gripped tightly around Pam's skull and its long tail coiled tightly around her neck. It looked like a disembodied alien hand.

"It's so...huge." Ginger whispered.

"Is it...dead?" Penny whispered.

"You hurt it pretty bad," Ginger noted the small spot of green liquid on its left side. That seemed to be its blood. "Let's just hope you didn't hurt Pam that badly as well."

"Should we?" Penny asked.

"Penny!"

"Guys, this is serious!" Emily cried. "There is a spider...alien...thing stuck to Pam's face! What do we do?"

"We could burn it off!" Penny suggested as she held up a lighter.

"Can we please get a suggestion that doesn't involve hurting Pam worse!?" Emily shouted.

"Maybe we should just wait." Sally spoke up. She blushed slightly as all three of her friends stared at her like she had just spoke French out of nowhere.

"What?"

"I mean, it can't stay stuck to her forever, can it? At some point, it's gotta go to the little alien's room and that's when we'll make our move to capture it!"

There was a long period of silence.

"Maybe we can freeze it off?" Emily asked.

"Worth a try. Let's go!" Ginger led the way into the kitchen.

"Oh you'll take her suggestion but not mine! Is that it?" Penny challenged as she followed Emily and Ginger. She in turn was followed by Sally. "Guys," She said. "I really don't think you should kill the alien."

Sally watched as her friends totally ignored her, Emily grabbing a ice pack and Ginger pressing the dispenser to fill it up.

"I mean, think about it! We might be the first humans to ever make contact with a real-life alien! Isn't that exciting!?"

"A little less exciting when you consider what that alien's first act of diplomat to Earth was." Penny muttered as she handed her friends a small green towel to hold the ice pack. "I don't know about you but I'm not looking for a face hug right now!"

"Guys!" Sally pleaded as her friends walked by. "Please don't hurt Bob!"

They stopped to stare at her for the second time that night, this time their faces betraying expressions of revolting terror. "Sweet Goddess, she already named it!"

"Weren't you gonna name it George?" Emily asked.

"We better move fast!" Penny said, earning a curt nod from the emo and goth as they followed her back to the living room.

"Guys!"

And thus began the girl's attempts to get "Bob" off of Pam's face. The alien shivered when the ice pack was placed on its back but didn't let go, not even when the ice melted all over its body. Next, the girls tried loosening its grip with butter but this failed as well, mostly because Sally kept eating it. Next, they reluctantly allowed Penny to try and burn it off but the only thing she was able to set on fire was Pam's hair. A quick pop into Sally's saliva-filled mouth took care of the flames. Penny then beat "Bob" several times with a big stick she found in the yard. The other girls kept trying to stop her but she insisted this would work eventually. All that happened eventually was that the stick broke.

An hour passed since "Bob" attached itself to Pam and the girls were at their wits end.

"I say we dump her off at the hospital and drive off!" Penny suggested rather panickily. "No one ever needs to know it was us!"

"Why are we talking like we committed murder?" Ginger replied. "We just need to own up to what happened and tell an adult!"

"Right, so we can all go to prison in Area 51 or get our memories wiped by some stiff assholes in even stiffer black suits?" Penny laughed dryly. "Miss me with that shit!"

"Do you even believe in any of that conspiracy bullshit?" Ginger asked.

"No but there's a fucking alien attached to the most popular girl in school and I don't wanna take any chances!" Penny shouted. "I say dump her!"

"She needs help!" Emily interjected.

"Uh...guys?" Sally uttered, wanting so bad to stop her friends from arguing but at a complete and utter loss of how to make it happen. She sat there awkwardly with her hands raised as Ginger, Penny and Emily raised their voices over what to do with Pam. So enthralled were they by their argument that they failed to notice "Bob" uncurl its tail and fall from Pam's face, landing on its back. Nor did they notice Pam muttering as she returned to the waking world, rubbing her head as she sat up on the couch. "Uhhhmmmm...What happened?"

All four girls froze as they heard the voice behind them. Slowly, they turned their heads back to the couch, their expressions changing from confused and angry to surprised as they locked eyes with Pam.

"P-Pam? Are you alright?"

"Uh. No!" Pam argued. "What happened to me? Why does my stomach feel like crap? Why does my head hurt?" She happened to run her finger through the charred part of her golden hair and screamed as a blackened chunk came off in her hand. "And who the fuck burned my hair!?"

Penny whistled as she hid the lighter behind her.

"Pam," Emily began. "We're so glad you-

"Where's Bob?" Sally cut in.

"Who?" Pam asked.

"You know, the alien that attacked your face earlier." Sally answered nonchalantly.

Pam looked like she was going to have a heart attack. "The what that what!?"

"Here Bob! Here boy!" Sally whistled as if she were calling a lost dog. Suddenly, she pulled out a dog biscuit. "I got a treat for ya!"

"Where did you get that?" Emily asked.

"Here Bob! Bob, where are you?"

"Umm...guys?" Ginger spoke up. "Look."

The goth girl pointed to the bottom of the couch. There laid "Bob", dead as a doornail.

"No..." Sally's lips quivered. "Noooo! Boooob! She tossed the dog biscuit aside as she went to scoop up the deceased alien. "Oh Bob! You were so young! Literally, you hatched like an hour ago!"

Pam pointed a shaky finger at the alien. "You mean to tell me THAT was on my face? EWWWWWWWWW!"

Penny smirked. "If you ask me, I thought it was an improvement."

"Bite me!"

"Sally, put that thing down!" Ginger demanded.

"It's not fair!" Sally wept over "Bob.", burying the side of her face into its stomach. Everyone around her reacted with understandable revulsion.

"Cut that out already!" Penny shouted as she grabbed the alien's tail and ripped the entire thing away from Sally. "It's already dead so get over it. Besides it-" Penny stopped herself as she looked at the underbelly of the creature.

"Penny?" Emily asked. "What's wrong?"

"Whoa..." Penny whispered in total awe...before her mouth twisted into a shitty smile. "This thing totally has a vag!" She showed off the creature's underbelly, resulting in even more disgusted reactions from the rest of the girls.

"Gross!" Ginger shouted. "Put it away!"

"That's just not right," Emily shook her head.

"Oh no!" Sally slapped her hands together. "I misgendered Bob! Sorry Bo- I mean...Bobrilla!"

"Bobrilla?" Emily repeated in confusion.

"Ew! Ew! Ew!" Pam screamed as she stomped in place and spun around. "I can't believe that thing's...parts were touching my face!"

"Aww! What's wrong Pam?" Penny chuckled. "Don't want people to know you like clams?"

"Fuck right off, Mohawk!" Pam stomped toward the door.

"Wait, Pam, where are you going?" Ginger asked.

"Back home, obviously!" Pam shouted as she stepped through the door. "And if even one of you bitches speaks a word of this to anyone, I will make your lives a living, breathing Hell!" She slammed the door behind her so hard it cracked.

"Well...that happened." Penny remarked after another moment of awkward silence followed. She chuckled. "I can't believe Pam got a mouth full of alien clambake!" She laughed.

"Ugh!" Ginger squirmed with disgust as she pinched the bridge of her nose. "Penny, please just throw that fucking thing away already."

"Huh?" Penny realized she was still holding "Bob."

"Oh right. I'll just chuck this over the yard." Penny whistled as she retreated back into the kitchen swinging "Bob" like it was a cane.

"Rest in peace, Bob." Sally sniffled. "You would have loved. E.T." Sally burst into tears as Emily kneeled down and patted her head. "There, there. It's ok. Bob's in a better place now."

"You...You mean Mr. Scott's yard next door?" Sally asked through her tears.

"Yeah," Emily used her hand to wipe some of her friends tears and pulled her in for a hug. As Sally returned the hug, Emily looked back up at Ginger. "Do you think Pam will be alright?"

"I dunno," Ginger shook her head. "We still have no idea just why that thing attached itself to her face in the first place. Not to mention it's...uggh!...underbelly." Ginger squirmed. "Plus, Pam was holding her stomach before she left."

"Hmmm..." Emily pondered. "Maybe I should go check on her. Make sure she gets home safe." The emo girl patted Sally on the shoulder and disengaged from the hug before making her way to the front door.

"Are you sure, Emily?" Ginger asked. "Pam's probably not in the best mood right now."

"I'm sure," Emily said as she grabbed the door knob. "She may not be a close friend or anything but she's still a classmate." She turned back to her friends with a smile. "That's enough of a reason for me."

Ginger smiled warmly. "You know, you care too much for your own good sometimes."

"Well," Emily continued as she opened the door. "We all have our flaws I guess. "I'll be back soon." And with that, Emily left the room.

Ginger turned to Sally, "Hey, you doing alright?"

Sally sniffled. "A little. I still miss Bob though."

"Hey," Ginger patted her friend's back. "How about we forget Bob and get back to that crappy movie marathon? I think Attack of the Gnomes of Venus is on next."

"Oh!" Sally hooted in excitement. "That's the one were the main scientist lady gets naked for no reason halfway through!"

Ginger chuckled as she helped Sally. "It sure is, Sally. It sure is." The two girls returned to their usual seats on the couch, completely ignorant of the discarded bat laying next to their feet and the steam rising from its melted end.

---

It didn't take long for Emily to find Pam's house, if only because it was so unnaturally pink that it basically glowed even in the night time. The lights were still on inside, indicating that Pam was still up. Emily ran up to the door and paused to reclaim her breath. She wasn't all that used to running down the streets of Oakwood at night after all. Once she was through panting, she raised her arm to ring the doorbell, only for Pam to open the door, almost hitting Emily in the face with it.

"Gah!" Emily nearly fell backward off the porch. "Whoa! Oh Uh! Hi P-Pam!"

"What do you want, emo?" Pam asked. She looked no worse for wear save for the bags under her eyes and her slightly pale complexation.

"N-Nothing's wrong really." Emily tugged nervously at her collar. "I-I just wanted to make sure you were alright after that whole...you know...alien fiasco?"

Pam's stare intensified, making Emily feel as if she was shrinking within the the preppy girl's gaze until she was small enough to be crushed underfoot. She hated making prolonged eye contact with people yet she couldn't tear herself away. She recalled Ginger's words and realized she was right. She did care too much for her own good.

"Listen, you one-eyed freak!" Pam shoved her finger into Emily's nose. "I don't know what kind of game you're playing here but if you think you can get the last laugh over me, then you've got another thing-HUKK!" Pam suddenly clutched her chest, her face twisted into an expression of pain.

"Pam? What's the matter?"

Pam didn't bother to even try answering the emo girl. Instead, she turned back to her living room and tried to run upstairs, only to trip over the coffee table and hit the floor face first.

"Pam!" Emily rushed inside to the preppy girl's side and rolled her on her back. Now, Pam was convulsing, reddened spittle seeping from her mouth as she trashed about. "Pam!" Emily shouted. "You got to calm dow-OOF!" In her frantic movements Pam had slapped Emily across the face and knocked her down.

"It...hurr...hurts..." The preppy girl whined.

Emily sat back up as she rubbed her cheek. She reached into her pocket and pulled out her phone. "Okay Pam! I know it hurts but you need to stay calm." She pointed to her phone. "I'm going to call 9-1-1 see? Everything will be alr-

And then, it happened.

Pam's chest cracked upward, as if something was trying to break free from the confines of her ribs. Blood stained her shirt as it spread outward. Another trickle of blood flowed from her mouth as she turned to Emily and reached for her. "H...Help me..." She whimpered.

Emily reached for the preppy girl, even as she was shaking. "Pam!"

Another sickening crack, this one followed by a shower of blood and an inhuman cry. Some of the blood sprayed on Emily's eyes, blinding her. She dropped her phone and panicked as she struggled to wipe the blood from her eyes, all while continuing to hear a horrific gurgling and a soft thud on the floor. As Emily cleaned the last of the blood from her face, she was horrified to see Pam's lifeless corpse laying on the floor before her. She locked eyes with the dead body's, icy and blind.

"Oh no...Pam!" Emily whined. That's when she heard the gurgling again and her eyes trailed back to the squirming writhing mass within the giant hole that used to be Pam's chest. It slithered like a eel within the wound.

"What...the..fuck?" Emily whispered.

The creature stopped, fixed itself into position, and then leapt from Pam's body onto Emily, screeching all the while.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!" was all Emily could say as the creature knocked her on her back. She managed to grab it as its razor sharp teeth came inches to her face. And pulled it away. The creature, a tan eyeless eel-like monstrosity with four legs screeched as it trashed about violently in Emily's grasp, snapping at her repeatedly. Emily tried to pull it further away but the fine coating of Pam's blood over the creature's body was causing it to slip through her grasp and toward her face. "No! No! No!" Emily cried. She whined as the creature scraped her right cheek with its teeth.

"I'm...not...food!" Emily tightened her grip around the creature's tail and smashed it against the floor. It still moved about but seemed to be dazed from the blow to its head as theses movements were more sluggish. Emily got to her feet and slammed the creature into the floor several more times. Once it had stopped moving, she let it drop to the floor and panted heavily.

"Evil...alien...baby...Pam...dead...life...flashed...before my eyes..." Once she had reclaimed her breath yet again. She turned to Pam's corpse, its expression still displaying fear and sadness about her inevitable demise.

"Oh Pam, if only you took your responsibilities seriously for once," Emily said as she closed Pam's eyelids.

Then she heard a squeak.

She stiffened and, as reluctant as she was to do so, turned around slowly.

The alien baby was still moving, albeit much slower than before. It let out a small cooing sound as it slowly came back to consciousness.

"Oh hell no!" Emily shouted as she grabbed the alien by the tail, rushed upstairs to Pam's bathroom and opened the toilet lid. "I don't know what you are or where you come from," She said as she held the alien up to her face. "But Pam's the only person you're killing tonight!"

The alien, now fully awake, snapped at Emily, missing her face by only an inch as she moved it back. She dropped it into the toilet, slammed the lid shut, and sat on it with both her knees as she pressed the lever down. The alien bashed violently against the lid, screeching in fury before it was finally subdued by the force of the water and pulled down into the pipes. Emily breathed a sigh of relief as she got off the toilet lid and checked the now-empty bowl.

"Phew!" She said. "Glad that's over...oh shit! Pam!" Emily rushed back downstairs where the very much dead Pam still lay. "Oh no! Oh no! What do I do!? What do I do!?" As bad as she wanted to call the authorities, she knew no one would believe her about the alien, especially since she had just flushed her only evidence down the toilet. Sighing heavily, she figured it was best to retreat and hope she didn't leave any evidence behind that could incriminate her. "Sorry Pam!" She called out as she rushed out the door into the street. She was heading straight for her house, where she intended to wash off the blood on her body, throw the dirty clothes in the hamper, and sleep off this horrible night.

She wanted to forget a spaceship had ever fallen out of the sky at all.

---

"Government denies knowledge of UFO sighting in Oakwood, says the crash was just a weather balloon." Ginger read from her phone. "The mayor, who many believed was visited by the government officials prior to our reporter visiting her, has also denied claims of a alien spacecraft crash landing in Morris Field, stating, "You people watch too many movies! Go outside and lick grass or something!"

"Does she mean touch grass?" Emily asked.

"You know old people," Ginger sighed as she continued reading. "Regardless, there are still some people who believe the crash to be directly linked to the death of one local high-schooler, Pam Seawell the very same night as well as multiple disappearances that have been stacking up ever since."

Emily gulped as she was reminded of the disappearances.

"To date, the number of missing people has climbed up to at least 200. Authorities-" I can't do this anymore," Ginger sighed as she put down the phone. "This news is depressing enough even for me."

"What's depressing?" Sally asked as she sucked on her popsicle. "That the government is covering up the aliens or that all those people are missing?"

"The missing people obviously!" Ginger remarked. "Although, its mostly because of how little people seem to care."

It had been a few days since the night that spaceship crash landed in Morris field. As Penny had predicted, the government had swooped in almost immediately to contain the damage, shipping off the ship to who-knows-where and making up a story about a downed weather balloon. On the bright side, no one came knocking at any doors but the mayor's but this also resulted in Pam's gruesome death, as well as the following disappearances to be treated by an afterthought in the media. None of it sat right with the girls, least of all Emily, who constantly was trying to reassure herself that the alien was dead when she flushed it down the toilet and she was not responsible for any missing people.

"Guess you were right, Penny." Ginger sighed. "Those government guys really did cover everything up."

"I told you!" Penny shouted from the living room. "Now shut up, I'm about to beat Little Miss Metalhead on her own game!" She put the pressure on her play guitar.

"Oh yeah?" Megan followed suit and before long won the round of Guitar Superhero against Penny. "Victory!"

"What!?" Penny stared at the screen completely flabbergasted. "But...But how?"

"No one's better at copying Metallica's riffs than me!" Megan held up a victory sign.

"Grrr...best three out of two!" Penny challenged.

"That's what you said last time." Megan chuckled.

"Well I'm saying it again!"

"Fine!" The two girls started up another round as Ginger sighed back in the kitchen. "I know it's nobody's fault but I can't help but feel like we're somehow responsible for that spaceship," She said. "Maybe we should have never brought that egg out."

"D-Don't talk like that!" Emily said. "We had no idea and it could have happened to any one of us if Pam hadn't shown up." She placed a hand on Ginger's shoulder. "Don't beat yourself up over it."

Ginger sighed again and grabbed Emily's hand. "Thank Emily. You always know what to say."

Emily's face grew beet red as Ginger grabbed her hand. "Umm..Sure! Hehe. Anytime!"

Sally continued to chew on her popsicle until she felt the horrid sensation of wood cracking between her teeth. "Aww! My stick's out of popsicle!" She pulled the splintered wood from her mouth. It's useless to me now!" She threw it on the floor. "Useless!"

"Sally, don't threw trash on the floor." Emily complained.

"Penny!" Sally shouted, completely ignoring her emo friend. "I'm going to grab another popsicle from your garage, ok?"

"Alright fine!" Penny shouted back with her eyes glued to the screen. "Don't mess with my dad's tools or you'll die."

"Okay!" Sally chirped as she made her way to the garage, stepping on the discarded popsicle as she walked by. It got stuck to her foot and went with her to the garage. Both Ginger and Emily exchanged concerned looks of confusion.

"Well...at least she picked it up...kinda."

Ginger sighed for a third time.

---

"Popsicle, Popsicle, gonna have myself a popsicle!" Sally sang as she entered the garage. With Penny's van currently being at a repair shop, it was mostly empty, save for a few tools lying around and a freezer in the far corner. Sally happily bounced toward the freezer, humming her tune. As she skipped, she neared the pull-down light that would illuminate the garage for her. "Let there be light!" She yanked it, the lightbulb flashed on for a second and then crapped out, leaving her in darkness again as she continued toward the freezer. "Oops! I guess not!" Sally giggled as she stopped before the freezer. She opened it up and peered her head inside, ignoring the ice crystals forming on her hair and face and the large shape lumbering in the shadows behind her.

"Hmmm, let's see!" She said thoughtfully. "What do I want? Strawberry? Lemon? Lime?" She climbed further into the freezer as the shape moved closer, its elongated head peering out from the shadows.

"C-C-Come o-o-on!" Sally stammered as the cold was finally getting to her. "I-I-I need th-that s-s-s-sweet lemonade!" At last, she spotted the last yellow popsicle at the very bottom of the freezer, crushed and bent out of shape. "W-W-Whoo-hoo!" She screamed as she grabbed the popsicle. "Victory is mine!" Just then, she felt a cold, slimly sensation on her arm, made even colder by the freezer. "What the?" She looked up to see a sneering mouth with razor-sharp teeth looming drooling all over her.

"Oh poop!"

---

Sally's screams caught the attention of all four girls in the living room and kitchen. They all dropped what they were doing and rushed into the garage, struggling against each other as they all tried to squeeze through the doorway at the same time. At last, they popped out and fell to the floor just as Sally had fled the freezer and curled up in a corner next to the garage door, holding her lemon popsicle close. "G-Guys! Help!"

"Sally! What's wrong!?" Ginger asked as she and the other got up. "What's...Sweet Mother Goddess!"

Stalking toward Sally was a huge black creature with a elongated head and six tube-shaped growths on its back. It had no eyes as far as anyone could tell but it did have a mouth filled with white, drool-covered teeth. Its tail seemed to end in a stinger of sorts and as Ginger's eyes adapted to the darkness, she realized the creature was standing on its back legs like a man. It was unlike anything any of the girls had seen before, save for Emily who gulped as she recognized the eyeless face and sharp teeth.

"No," She whispered to herself. "It can't be. You're supposed to be dead."

"Sally!" Penny felt around the wall next to her until she found a mallet and rushed toward her friend. "I'm coming!"

"Wait Penny!" Ginger shouted to no effect. Penny roared in fury as she charged the creature who turned to meet her head on. It hissed at her and turned around quickly, hitting her side with its tail. Penny was sent flying toward the garage door, leaving a huge dent in it before falling to the ground.

"Shit!" Ginger cried. "Penny!"

The creature hissed as it turned to Sally again. The scene girl whimpered and squeezed her popsicle to the point of popping. She was too afraid to even register the frozen treat hitting her face.

"Sally!" Emily looked around at the tools and noticed a tape measurer. Unable to think of anything better in this hectic situation, Emily grabbed it and chucked it at the creature. 'Leave her alone, you...you...overgrown lizard!"

"Lizard?" Ginger asked with her brow raised.

Emily could only sheepishly laugh smile and shrug.

The tape measurer hit the creature right on the head. Enraged, it turned toward Emily and Ginger with a growl.

"Uh oh!" Was all that Emily had time to say before the creature pounced on her. It grabbed her arms and pinned her down.

"Emily!" Before Ginger could intervene, however, the creature backhanded her against the wall. She hit her head on the wall and slid down unconscious.

"Ginger!" Emily cried as the creature got in her face. It hissed and slowly opened its mouth, revealing a second pair of jaws inside the first. Emily gulped as she realized she was about to die. "This is the end," She thought. "And I never got to tell Ginger how I feel." She closed her eyes and waited for the end to come.

"Hey asshole!" Megan shouted as she stepped next to the creature. "I just came up with a name for a new song!" She held up a plugged in power drill. "Monster Power Drill Lobotomy!" She screamed as she pressed the drill against the creature's head and turned it on. The creature screeched in pain as the drill powered through its skull. It let go of Emily's arms and stood up, allowing the emo girl to crawl out from underneath it. Around this time, Sally was helping Penny up from the wall so Emily crawled over to check on Ginger. "Ginger! Are you alright?"

Ginger, still knocked out cold, failed to respond.

"Ginger!" Emily grabbed her shoulder and shook her a little. "Please wake up! Please-

Emily's pleading was interrupted by an ear-piercing scream. And in Megan's voice no less. Emily turned to see Megan groaning as she backed away from the creature, its neon green blood splattered all over her Vader shirt. She seemed to be in pain.

"Megan?" Emily asked. "What's wrong...oh my god..."

As Emily and the others watched in horror, the creature's blood began to steam. Megan's shirt melted first, then the skin underneath, followed by the flesh and muscle protecting her vital organs. These organs slipped out from the new opening in the body as Megan fell it her knees. The creature's blood continued to melt the concrete under her, causing her to sink into a seemingly never-ending hole. "Well...shit!" Was the final word Megan Olsen said before she vanished into the hole, organs and all.

"Megan!" Sally cried.

"Son of a bitch!" Penny muttered. "This thing bleeds acid!"

The creature, more enraged then ever at having been injured, turned to Emily, causing what remained of the power drill to fall away from its head. Emily trembled as the creature cornered her and the unconscious Ginger. Not sure of what else to do, Ginger jumped over Ginger and tried to shield her with her body. "Do what you want with me but leave Ginger alone!" She cried.

The creature hissed as it raised its tail once more.

"No!" Sally and Penny cried as they rushed toward the creature which proceeded to unceremoniously knock them right back to the garage door with its tail. "I hate it when he does that!" Penny groaned.

The creature coiled its tail around Emily, brought her to its face, once again showed off its secondary jaw, and then tossed her to the side. Emily hit the freezer hard and lay in a daze as she watched the creature coil its tail around Ginger.

"No...don't!" She reached out to Ginger for all the good it would do as the creature uttered one final screech and fled through the doorway. "No!...Ginger!" Emily cried as the sound of broken glass reverberated throughout the house. The full reality of what had just happened dawned on her and she softly began to cry.

"This can't be happening!" Sally cried as she got up and rushed toward the hole where Megan fell. "Megan's dead!"

"Not to mention the drill!" Penny rushed toward the ruined drill. "My old man's gonna kill me!"

Sally cleared her throat angrily, reminding Penny of where her priorities should lie.

"Oh uh...and that sucks about Megan too." Penny blushed. "At least she went out like a badass." She stared sadly at the still-steaming hole. Both of them felt tempted to look inside but both decided not to. Sally heard Emily crying to herself and went to comfort her friend. "Emily, are you alright? Are you hurt!?"

Emily shook her head through her tears. "B-B-But Guys! I-It t-t-took G-Ginger!"

"I know," Penny said grimly as she looked out the front door. "It probably intended to do that to one of us from the very beginning "

Emily continued to sob as Sally held her close and patted her back. "There there, Emily. It's not your fault this happened."

"B-B-But it is!" Emily cried. "It is my fault!"

"Shhh! No!" Sally said. "You did everything you could."

Emily suddenly pulled away from her scene friend. "No! I mean this whole thing is my fault! That creature...that...that alien! It killed Megan and got Ginger because of me!"

"Emily," Sally paused for a moment...and then put her hands to her hips and pouted. "Whacha talking about?"

"Y-You," Emily sniffled. "You guys remember that alien that attacked Pam a few weeks ago?"

"You mean the one that face-fucked her?" Penny stifled a laugh. "Yeah?"

"The reason she died that night," Emily wiped her face. "Was because that alien left something inside of her. A-Another alien inside her chest."

"Her chest?" Penny asked.

Sally gasped. "Bob 2.0!"

"It came out from her chest," Emily continued. "It was awful. There was blood everywhere. A-And then it attacked me! And I beat it against the floor and I flushed it down the toilet and I thought it was dead but its not! That thing that just attacked us! It had no eyes just like that alien from Pam's chest!"

Sally gasped. "Bob 3.0!"

Sally, shut up!" Penny growled.

"Don't you see!?" Emily screamed as she grabbed Penny's jacket. "It didn't die! It grew up! It's responsible for all the disappearances." She gasped. "Oh God! I'm responsible for all the disappearances! It's all my fault! It's all my-

Penny grabbed Emily by the scuff of her shirt and slapped her across the face. Then backhanded her. Then finally made a fist and bonked her on the head. "Calm down already!"

"Ggggk! Errrrr yoooooou puuuuuuunch harrrrrrrd, Pennnnnnny?" Emily droned.

"Look," Penny continued. "You couldn't have known what kinda freaky shit that alien would do, alright? It's not your fault and even if it is, all that means is that you have to help us fix it right?"

Emily shook her head, allowing her to get back her bearings. "R-Right!"

"But how do we even begin?" Sally asked.

"First things first," Penny spoke as she turned through the door. "It's time for a little meeting!"

---

Of all the places where Emily expected to find herself that evening, the high school gymnasium wasn't one of them. And yet, here she was, standing in the courtyard amongst a whole bunch of students from her school, every single one of them on edge thanks to the recent disappearances.

Disappearances she caused. Guilt gnawed at her like a rat on cheese. She gripped her arm tightly, afraid of what was to come of this meeting Penny had arranged.

"Alright people!" Penny called. "Places! Places! No need to push. Everyone will hear what we have to say!"

"Can we hurry this along?" Peggy asked. "I got to, like, go to a party after this!" Next to her, Carla provided a thumbs up.

"What's this about, Penny?" Octavia asked. "Is it about the recent you-know-whats?"

Hera overheard and shivered. "Eek! I already feel a shiver down my spine!"

"That's because you got your nasty ass feet on the courtyard!" Alex pointed out angrily as she pointed to the hippie girl's bare feet. "Put some shoes on, dummy!"

"Lughead!" Hera shouted back.

"What did you call me?"

The whole gym was suddenly engulfed in a uproar which Penny tried unsuccessfully to quell. "Hey! Everyone calm down! I'm warning you! Calm down! Calm-" She felt a slight tap on her shoulder and turned to see Sally smiling. Once she had her punk friend's attention, she presented her with the coach's megaphone. Penny looked taken aback at first but then she smiled as deviously as her scene friend as she grabbed the megaphone. "Good girl, Sally!" Penny patted her head and turned to the crowd, turned the megaphone on, licked her lips and shouted as loud as she possibly could:

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

The clamoring amongst the group was replaced by screams of pain and surprise then annoyed whispers and groans and Penny happily turned the megaphone off and handed it back to Sally. "Listen up people! There's no point in beating around the bush so I'll just get straight to the point! We know the deal behind this recent disappearances and it ain't because of those creepy clowns that were running around last year."

"You sure?" Gina asked as she held up a can of clown repellant and a giant flyswatter.

"No!" Penny reaffirmed. "You may not believe us when we tell you but rest assured, what Emily's about to tell you is the truth!" She gestured to Emily as she said this, causing the emo girl to panic.

"What!? W-Why me?"

"You said this was your fault so consider this your way to atone!" Penny argued. "Besides, you were the only one to see what happened to Pam first hand! You're the only person that can explain this fully!"

Emily wasn't convinced in the slightest that this was a good idea and as she turned to Sally, all she got was a thumbs up and a stupid smile. Sighing in defeat, Emily stepped up, tried her best to imagine the watching crowd in their underwear, realized that would simply be too distracting, and told them everything. She told them about the spaceship that crashed in Morris field and the single egg she and her friends found inside of it. She told them how the creature that hatched from the egg attacked Pam, impregnating her with another more deadly monster without her or the other's knowledge. She told them how she flushed said monster down the toilet, thinking it dead, only for it to survive and grow into a beast capable of breaking into Penny's house and kidnapping Ginger. She even told them how the monster possessed acid blood which killed Megan when she wounded it. Emily watched as the faces of her audience grew from shock and disbelief to quiet horror as they realized how serious she was. When it was over, she felt these same eyes staring with contempt at her, as if blaming her for the disappearances caused by the alien. She wanted to disappear herself.

"So what you're saying is, all these disappearances lately have been caused by little green men?" Alex asked.

"More like giant black dragon things from Hell but pretty much yeah." Penny confirmed. "And if what Emily said is true about flushing it down the toilet, then I'm willing to bet the thing's hiding out in the sewer."

"Eww!" Peggy screamed as Carla held her nose as if guarding it from a bad smell.

"The question is, what do you do about it?" Octavia asked. "Shouldn't we call the government?"

"Why!?" Penny asked, getting all up in the otaku girl's face as she could. "So they can nuke the whole town from orbit to make sure no one finds out their dirty little secrets?"

Octavia whimpered.

"To Hell with that!" Penny shouted. "I say we march down their and take out that slimy bastard ourselves! With enough manpower, we're sure to win!"

"That's why you wanted to have this meeting?" Emily asked. "To rally everyone into a angry mob?"

"Do you have a better idea?" Penny asked.

"No and I still think it's a better idea then yours."

"What!?"

"The emo's right!" Heather said. "If this thing is even half as dangerous as you say, what the hell can we do about it? We're just high-schoolers!" Murmurs of agreement rang out amongst the group. Penny growled and reached her hand out toward Sally, expecting the megaphone. Instead, she got a low-five. "Sally! Megaphone!"

Sally shrugged. "I don't got it!"

"Then who-

"QUIET PLEASE!" A voice overpowered the clamoring, once again reigning in silence to the gymnasium. All eyes, angry or otherwise turned to the source of the voice which turned out to be none other than Nelly Brown. The nerdy girl calmly turned the megaphone off and held it behind her back. "While I completely understand the lack of excitement in going after the alleged extraterrestrial ourselves, I agree with Penny's statement."

"Y-You do?" Penny asked. This was the first time as far as she could tell that she and the bookworm ever agreed upon anything.

Nelly continued. "The fact is, the government may not have our best interest at heart when it comes to this matter and while I doubt they'd resort to such a public display as nuking our town from orbit, they may very will quarantine us with the alien or worse."

A number of the other teens gulped.

"As unsavory a situation as this is, I think it would be in our best interest to neutralize the problem ourselves." Nell turned to Penny. "Is that giant acid hole still in your garage?"

"Should be. Why?"

"I have a theory concerning the creature's genetic makeup. You see-

"Nope!" Peggy shouted. "Nah uh! I don't wanna hear this anymore!" Peggy started powerwalking toward the exit. She was intercepted by Sally right below the vent in the middle of the room. One no one had noticed was missing its gate.

"Come on, Peggy!" Sally begged. "We got to stick together! Don't you want revenge for Pam?"

"No revenge is worth getting my expensive shoes stuck in yucky sewer water looking for nasty aliens!" Peggy retorted as she pushed Sally to the side.

"You shouldn't go off alone, Peggy!" Gina called out. "It's not safe!"

"Not safe? I'll, like, totally tell you what's not safe!" Peggy argued. "What's not safe is you assholes wanting to go down in some some smelly sewer to hunt monsters! No way! I'm not doing it!"

"Shit! Peggy!"

"No monster is going to-

SPHLCKK!

"G...get me...?"

Peggy was so engrossed in her own arguing over why she would not help the others that she failed to notice the giant, black tail with a sharpened tip trail out of the vent behind her. Before any of the others could warn her, the tail stabbed through her gut, poking out through the other end dripping blood and bits of flesh. It slowly raised the party girl off her feet, allowing one of her expensive shoes to fall off her foot and land in the gym floor. The other students screamed and cried as the shocked Peggy weakly reached out her arm for help and then went limp.

"Peggy!" Sally cried as the tail whipped about and violently threw Peggy's corpse toward the bleachers. Then it went back up, spraying some of the students with blood as it vanished into the vent. A few seconds later, the entire creature jumped out, landing on the floor with all four limbs before slowly standing up on its hind legs, snarling all the while. The hole made from Megan's drill was still somewhat bleeding.

"Oh my God!" Sally cried. "It's Bob 3.0"

"It's the alien!"

"We're all gonna die!"

"Why is it weirdly hot?"

"What!?"

"Nothing!"

The students scrambled for cover as the alien hissed, its eyeless head shaking back forth for its next victim. It spotted it in Gina who it had blinded with its blood spray earlier. Almost smiling at the prospect of a new victim, the alien stomped toward the gamer girl.

"Oh hell no!" Penny rushed behind the alien, taking out a nail gun she had been keeping in her jacket.

"We're did you get that nail gun!?" Emily asked.

"Workshop!" Penny answered quickly. "Try melting me with your acid blood now, asshole!" She shot a few nails into the back of "Bob 3.0's" head, causing the alien to cry out in pain. It turned its head and spat out a wad of steaming acid which covered Penny's nail gun. It started melting the weapon at once as Penny looked on in disbelief. "Dammit!" She shouted as she threw the ruined gun on the floor. Nelly eyed it carefully.

"Octavia is that you?" Gina asked as the alien stomped toward her. Octavia jumped in front of her girlfriend, brandishing a katana. "Leave my Gina alone, you Frieza reject!"

The alien hissed and spit more acid at Octavia's sword, melting it as well. The Otaku girl whimpered as she saw the blade reduced to a bubbling piece of metal. "Oh crap!" The alien raised its arms to grab her and Octavia braced herself for the end, hoping her death would at least give Gina enough time to get away. However, at the very last second, Octavia felt herself and Gina pushed out of the way, hitting the floor with a thud. She looked up to see Carla standing in her place, her arms outstretched. She let them down again as the alien grabbed her.

"Oh no! Carla!" Octavia cried.

The alien twisted Carla around so she faced it head on. It hissed at her and slowly opened its mouth, exposing its secondary set of jaws. Carla's one and only response to this was to flip the alien off with both of her hands, her face as aloof as ever. The secondary jaws extended and punched through her skull, coming out the other side of her head, a huge piece of her brain matter now inside of them.

"Carla!" Gina screamed, having finally been given enough time to wipe the blood from her face.

The alien retracted its smaller jaw and tossed the now lifeless Carla aside as it turned toward the young couple. Octavia and Gina huddled closer together, each planning to push the other away at the last second and follow in Carla's footsteps. Before they were given the chance, however, the alien screeched in surprise as it felt something grab its tail. It turned to see Alex pulling at it with all her might.

"Ugh! You fucking space freak!" She shouted. "You want a piece of me!?"

The creature hissed at her, only to get hit in the back of its bulbous head. Penny had placed herself between the alien and the couple now, sporting a piece of rope. "If I can't stab you or shoot you, I'll just strangle you to death!" Penny charged in and wrapped the rope around the alien's neck from the bottom. She pulled hard on both sides and got a few good seconds of strangulation in before "Bob 3.0" sliced through the rope with its claws, leaving the punk girl holding two pieces of now useless rope.

"Well, fuck."

The alien violently jerked its tail, sending Alex flying backward. It grabbed Penny and raised her up, ready to punch a hole through her skull as it did with Carla. "Fuck!"

"Penny!" Both Sally and Emily screamed.

"Hoffman!" Nelly shouted as she rushed toward alien, holding a small syringe filled with a chunky blue liquid. "Catch!" She chucked the syringe at Penny who caught it midair. She stared at the syringe, wondering how the hell it was supposed to help with her current situation shrugged and raised her arm, twisting the syringe in her hand. "Here goes bullshit!" She stabbed the syringe into the monster's head and pushed down on the plunger. The alien didn't react at first and Penny mourned the fact that she was going to die taking the failing advice of a nerd. However, the creature suddenly stopped, screeched and dropped Penny to the floor as it backed away.

"Penny!" Emily and Sally rushed to their punk friend's side. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah...I think so." Penny groaned as she got up. "What the hell's up with the S.E.T over there?"

As the girls watched, the alien let out one final howl of agony and fell to the floor dead. The body began to steam and the black skin covering the alien's body began to crack, blue and green gunk oozing out from the wounds. Before long, the once fearsome predator was reduced to a steaming pile of goo, similar to how it had left Megan.

"What...the...fuck?" Penny turned to Nelly who was making her way to the girls, a bright and cheerful smile on her face. "Eureka!" She beamed. "It would seem my hypothesis was a success! Not to pat myself on the back or anything but-

Penny suddenly grabbed Nelly by the shoulders and lifted her up. "Hippopotamus!? What hippopotamus? What the hell was in that syringe!?"

Nelly panicked at first but upon realizing that Penny wasn't angry as much as she was confused, she calmed herself and asked the punk girl politely to put her down so she could explain. Penny exchanged a nervous look toward her friends and complied.

"Thank you," Nelly said. "Now first of all, The word your looking for is hypothesis, not hippopotamus. Second, mine was born from the revelation that the alien menace that we're dealing with had acid for blood. It occurred to me that, as unscientifically feasible as that sounded, should that somehow actually be the case, its only natural that the creature would be especially vulnerable to bases."

"Bases?" Sally asked. "Like in baseball?" She imagined the now-deceased Bob 3.0 dressed in baseball garb, running toward home base. He leapt out of the path of another player trying to tag him and touched it...only to explode into a bunch of green-blue goop. Sally couldn't help but giggle.

"Bases in chemistry can be thought of as the antithesis of acids," Nelly continued. "Where as acids donate hydrogen ions to other substances they come into contact with, bases are able to accept them. Detergent, baking soda, hair dye and even gum are all bases!"

"So..." Penny droned. "That thing you gave me was chewing gum?"

"What!? No!" Nelly shouted. "What I gave you was a brand-new base tailor-made to counteract the acidity of the alien's makeup! I used a sample from the nail gun you dropped to the floor earlier."

"Wait, how exactly did you do that considering how...acidic the acid was?" Emily asked. "And how did you do it so fast?"

"I could go into excruciating detail about the scientific process involved but I that would require using a lot of big words and chemical jargon that I don't think you girls are in the mood for." Nelly responded.

"You got that right," Penny said. "Fuck that!"

"My brains hurting just from thinking about it!" Sally whined.

Nelly's expression was completely unimpressed. "Right. The important thing is that I can mass-produce the concoction."

"Why would you need to do that?" Emily asked.

Nelly sighed. "You still don't get it, do you?" Nelly walked toward the steaming pile of goop that used to be the alien. "The news reports that number of people vanishing in Oakwood is rapidly climbing up to the hundreds. Surely, you don't think this fine fellow here could kidnap so many people at once by himself now do you?"

Emily felt a chill run down her spine. "N-No way, you're not suggesting..."

"This alien was but a foot soldier." Nelly confirmed. "A single member of a entire horde working right underneath our feet as we speak. And if what you told us about Pam is true, than it's only logical to assume that's the reason they've been kidnapping people."

"Holy shit!" Alex groaned. "They wanna make incubators out of us!"

The students began to panic.

We're all gonna die!"

"That's it man! Game over, man! Game over!"

"This body is not ready to be a mommy!" Sally cried.

"Everyone chill out!" Penny roared. Even without the megaphone, she was able to once again silence the crowd. "Seriously, what is it with people acting stupid when they need to be sane the most?" She sighed as she caught sight of Emily's saddened face, no doubt reminded of Ginger when the concept of incubators was brought up. "Nelly, these people that these things kidnapped. Is there a chance they're still alive?"

Emily stiffened, not sure if she wanted the answer.

"Oh yes," Nelly answered without hesitation. "While I cannot promise anything for sure, the fact that the first generation creature you mentioned, Bob if I recall, kept Pam alive during its impregnation of her suggest that a dead host is useless to these creature's life cycles. Thus, there is at least an 80% chance all those kidnapped are still alive."

Penny smirked as she turned to Emily whose watery eyes had widened. "Y-You mean there's a chance...a chance to save her..." Tears of joy slid down her face as her lips curbed into a smile. "There's still a chance to save Ginger!"

"And it's a chance we're gonna take!" Penny promised. "Nelly, you said you could mass produce this shit right?"

"That's right," Nelly nodded. "Given a few hours, I could have several quarts of my base at the ready."

"Then make enough for three of us because we're going alien hunting!" Penny declared.

"Ahem," Alex stepped up. "Make that four. Ain't no way I'm sitting on my ass while aliens attack my town!" She flexed a little. "Besides, you look like you could use a little muscle!"

"I must insist on coming along as well," Nelly fixed her glasses. "This is my base after all. And I think that gives me the right to see it in action protecting our town!"

Penny chuckled as she realized a real team was forming before her and she turned to the other students. "Anyone else wanna play hero? Come on now, don't be shy."

"I'm going!" Octavia said tearfully. "I know this is gonna sound lame and kinda cringey but I promised myself a long time ago that if someone sacrificed themselves to save me, I would do whatever I could to avenge them!" She sniffled as she looked back at Carla's body. "And I intend to keep that promise!"

"In that case, I'm going too!" Gina spoke up. "For Megan, Peggy, Carla and even Pam!"

One by one, more students continued to cry out in agreement, their fear being replaced by resolve to both avenge the ones lost and protect who was left. Amongst the chaos, Emily kept a single thought to herself.

"I'm not completely sure if you're alive Ginger. But there's a chance." She wiped her tears away. "And that's good enough for me!"

---

The next few hours found the girls heading for their respective homes to prepare for the upcoming battle. Nelly advised them to create makeshift armor to protect them from both the alien's sword-like tails and their acid blood. A lot of this "armor" was fashioned from trash can lids, baseball and football helmets and pet gates held together with tape and underlined with cardboard. The weapons were mostly improvised too with Octavia taking two blades half the size of her original katana, Gina taking her father's hunting rifle and Alex fashioning gloves from tape, brass knuckles and chains.

Once the participating teens were finished preparing in their own homes, they made their way to Nelly's garage. The brainy teenager was waiting with super soaker gun filled with her alien-destroying base. How exactly she had precured all of these guns or she happened to have them on hand before was a question no one bothered to be asked. As the teens gathered their soakers and added them to their arsenals, three late arrivals showed up to the garage.

Penny, brass knuckles on her hands and a crowbar and bat tied to her back. She wore a thick leather jacket, her father's old welding apron and his welding mask. Sally wore a trashcan over her body with two holes, eroded naturally somehow, allowing her to stick her arms out. She wore mittens, her mother's dishwashing apron and a bucket on her head. She had a fly swatter for some reason. As for Emily, the young emo girl was wearing the aforementioned pet gate makeshift armor and leather gloves. Over her head was a football helmet she fished out of the trash and in her hands was a metal bat similar to Penny's. She also had a picture of Ginger inside her pocket but was sure as hell not gonna tell anyone.

Once Nelly, gave them their soakers, she stood back and let Penny take the stand so to speak. "Alright, guys! This is the part we're I'm supposed to give some sort of rousing speech to convince you to risk your lives for the greater good!" She began. "But that's something The Man like to do and I don't play by his rules. So I'm just gonna give it to you straight. We're going down into the sewer to fight who knows how many deadly space monsters and try to save people that may already be dead."

Emily winced as Penny said this but shook her head. She was not about to lose her resolve now.

"There's a good chance that most if not all of us will die and those that don't will be traumatized for life. But if we don't do anything at all, it's only a matter of time before these bastards take us or our loved down there to make into living incubators for their hellspawn and I don't know about you but I'm sure as hell not letting that happen to me without a fight. And just think, if you do survive this, you'll get bragging rights on being badasses for your entire life."

"I can think of at least five problems with that statement," Nelly thought to herself.

"So if anyone wants out, now's your chance!"

Penny waited, already deciding in her mind that she would not judge anyone who decided to leave. It was basically a suicide mission after all, given just how dangerous these aliens were. But to her surprise, not a single muscle moved out of place. Everyone, scared as they were, remained where they stood.

"I see. Let me just say this. You guys have balls."

A lot of the girls groaned at that comment, causing Penny to laugh.

"The plan itself is simple!" She continued. "Pointdexter here says that the aliens most likely behave like colony insects which means they most likely have a nursery or something, a place in their hive where they birth the young. Our plan is to rip and tear through these assholes until we find it and hopefully, the people those monsters kidnapped. Once we rescue them, I'll finish off the operation with a little clean up!" She snickered as she reached into her jacket and took out a couple of pipe bombs tied together. "We'll hit these monster where it hurts and cripple the infestation!"

"Why does Penny have so many pipe bombs?" Octavia whispered to her girlfriend.

"Do you really want to know?" Gina asked.

"...No."

"Once that's done, we'll pick off the stragglers and end this nightmare once and for all! Now, I ask you one more time! Who wants to kick some alien ass!?"

The crowd cheered wildly as they raised their weapons in the air. Penny took a moment to drink in the rising spirits before cocking her own gun. "Alright! Let's bust some bugs!"

She led the group into the manhole outside and unsheathed her crowbar. After a few second of loosening it up, she was finally able to get the lid off. She shoved it to the side with her crowbar and dived straight into the sewer, shouting "Heads up!" as she vanished into the murky blackness. Emily stepped up next, only to hesitate at the last minute.

"Come on, Emily!" Sally beamed. "You can do it!" She only intended to pat her on the back to reencourage her but wound up pushing her into the sewer screaming. Sally was, of course, oblivious to this. "See! I told you!" She stood sideways next to the sewer and lean to her right, allowing gravity to do the work in dropping her down, all with her tongue playfully on display. Once the scene girl was inside, the other teens, silent or otherwise, dived in as well.

...

"Ow!" Emily cried as she reached under the murky water to rub her bottom. "My butt!"

It was at that moment that Sally jumped onto Emily's stomach. "Oof! My stomach!"

"Quit your whining already!" Penny demanded as she surveyed the tunnel with a flashlight. "We're in enemy territory." She waded through the water as she waited for her friends to get up. One by one, the other teens fell alongside them, some of them busting out their own flashlights to illuminate their surroundings. There was something off about the sewer, not that any of them had really been here before but still. Blackish slime coated the walls and ceiling of the underground labyrinth. Bits and pieces of this slime broke off and fell into the running water below. The smell was even more horrible then anyone had foreseen with Nelly wishing she had created some scented gas mask to bring along on this mission. Penny approached a wall full of the stuff and scraped at it with her fingers. "This shit looks a lot like the slime that was coming out of that thing's mouth." She said as she examined the gunk with her flashlight. "You don't suppose it's the same crap do you?"

"Most likely," Nelly replied as she surveyed her surroundings with her own flashlight. "It would seem I was right about there being a nest of these creatures underground. By lining the sewer system with this...biomass, they've essentially terraformed it into their own little slice of home."

"More like slice of Hell," Gina whispered to herself in an unnerved voice.

"But is the aliens really did make all of this, where are they now?" Emily asked.

"That's the million dollar question, Emily?" Penny gripped her crowbar. "Maybe the bastards sensed us coming and ran off to Mommy!"

"Cockiness has no place on this mission, Hoffman!" Nelly warned. "We must be especially careful now that we're in the heart of the infestation. There's no telling how the creatures will react to our presence."

"Nelly's right!" Octavia said. "For all we know, these things might have a plan for us."

"Oh please," Heather said. "They might be monsters from outer space but they're still dumb animals. What kind of plan could they possibly come up with?" The young hipster girl failed to notice the walls moving behind her as she spoke, revealing several rows of dripping teeth.

Sally, who happened to be holding her flashlight above Heather, did not. "Heather! Look out!"

"Huh?" Heather only had time to turn around before one of the aliens leapt on to her. The others followed suit and when Sally heard even more crashing and growling from behind, she turned to see the wall behind her collapse into a group of aliens as well.

"Shit! It's a ambush!" Penny shouted. "Battle stations!"

Gina took out her gun, tried to shoot it, realized the safety was on, turned it off and fired a chunk away from one of the alien's heads. She uttered a squeak as she jumped away from the splattering blood.

"You want a piece of me, motherfucker?" Alex asked as she boxed an alien away from her. It tried to trip her with its tail but she ducked and gave it an uppercut, sending it falling back into the water. "Oh yeah!"

Octavia was also engaged in battle with an alien, her swords clashing with its claws and tail. Like the alien before it, her opponent tried to trip her up. She responded by jumping out of the way and digging her blades into the alien's skull. The monster was dead but its blood melted her blades, leaving her with only the hilts. "Dammit!"

"Y-You stay back!" Sally whimpered as an alien crept closet to her. She was frantically hitting it on the nose with her flyswatter which only seemed to agitate it more. "I-I'm warning you!"

Having had enough of the weird bendy weapon making its nose tickle, the alien opened its mouth and grabbed the flyswatter with its secondary jaw which snapped the poor thing in half.

"Oh man!" Sally whined. "That was my Mom's favorite flyswatter!" Sally curled up and prepared herself to be killed when Emily jumped over her and beat the alien away with her metal bat. "Sally, remember the base!" She took out her gun and sprayed the alien with Nelly's base, resulting in the creature screaming out in pain as its face melted.

"Nice thinking, emo!" Penny shouted as she currently struggled with a alien, keeping the creature at bay with her bat and crowbar crossed together in an X. As she struggled against the marauding alien, she realized she was in a prime position for a crotch kick and planted her foot right between the monster's legs. This only resulted in the alien screeching in anger as Penny recalled the lack of genitals in that area.

"Shit! Forgot these things don't have dicks!" Penny kicked it again, this time in the stomach. This seemed to do the trick as the alien backed off from the pain, allowing Penny to grab her gun and fire the base, melting the monster into a pile of goo. "Welcome to Earth, fucker!"

"Alright Penny!" Sally's cheering was short lived as Emily elbowed her to focus on the fight. The scene girl took out her gun and now all three girls were fighting side by side, spraying aliens left and right with the base. Not a single one of them noticed the waterfall behind them as they backed away to put distance between them and the aliens. At least, not until an alien on the ceiling pulled a sneak attack and whipped them over the waterfall with its tail. The girls screamed as they fell to the murky water below.

"Shit! Penny!" Octavia cried. "Emily! Sally!"

"Forget them!" Alex screamed. "We need to save our own bacon first!"

Hera, who had barely fired a shot since the fight began, through down her gun and ran off.

"That's not what I meant!"

'I'm sorry! I'm a lover! Not a fighter!" Hera cried as she ran through the water, only for the alien, Alex had popped earlier to rise up in front of her, blocking her only hope of escape. "Uhhh...hug?" Hera offered as her arms outstretched. The alien cocked its head in curiosity and then tackled Hera, mauling her to death in the water.

"Shit!" Alex shouted as she shot at another alien.

Utter chaos dominated the tunnel.

---

Penny, Emily, and Sally were carried by the current, screaming and trashing all the while. Penny was the one to finally put an end to the madness by gripping a portion of the walkway closet to her and grabbing Sally who then grabbed Emily. Penny pulled herself and the other girls onto the walkway and there they lay, breathing heavily and coughing violently. "I-I don't think I'll ever be able to go to the water park again!" Emily gasped. "T-Too many bad memories!"

"I...I think I swallowed a fish!" Sally stated.

"There aren't any fish in the sewer, dumbass!" Penny responded.

"Then what did I-" Sally suddenly erupted into a coughing fit until she hacked up what she had swallowed, a dead goldfish. "Ha! I was right!"

"Shut up," Penny sighed as she collapsed back to the ground. She felt around for her weapons and realized she only had the gun left. She had lost the bat and crowbar in the water. "Shit! I lost my stuff!"

Emily realized that she couldn't feel her bat and felt around for it as well. "Me too. I guess we just have our guns and the bombs." Her eyes went wide. "Oh no! The bombs!'

"Relax!" Penny reached into her jacket and pulled out the bombs in a plastic bag. "You really think I'd take these bad boys down to the sewer without a little waterproofing?"

Emily laughed a little. "No, I guess not." She sighed as she laid back down on the floor. "Still, we need to be more careful. Those aliens really got the drop on us."

"You can say that again," Penny said as she examined her gun. She had used a considerable amount of the base in it. She looked back and forth between Emily and Sally's guns and realized they had been quite generous with it as well. "We need to start conserving our resources."

"What resources?" Sally asked. "We didn't bring any food on this mission...did we?" She got a little excited.

"No, we didn't." Emily said.

Sally moped.

"Penny means we only have a little bit of the base between the three of us. We should save it until we really need it and try to stay low in the meantime."

"Right," Penny confirmed. "So first things first, where do we go from here?"

Emily looked around and noticed that the walkway they were on, while small and isolated from most of the sewer, did end in a tunnel in the wall. "Let's try that tunnel over there."

Penny and Sally looked toward the tunnel, the latter cracking a smile. "Alright, looks like things are finally looking up!"

"If you say so," Emily said as Penny made her way toward the tunnel. Sally followed her punk friend at first but noticed a lack of footsteps behind her and turned to see Emily standing still, rubber her arm as if it hurt. Yet, for as naive as she could be at times, Sally knew her friend enough to know that her injuries weren't physical. She walked up to Emily and hugged her. "Ginger will be alright." Sally promised. "She's Ginger after all."

Emily didn't seem entirely convinced but smiled nonetheless. "Thank you, Sally."

Sally happily nodded and held Emily's hand as they headed toward the tunnel after Penny.

---

"Hmmmmerrrr...huh?" Ginger was beyond groggy as she started to come to. She tried to move her arms to rub the crust from her eyes only to find she couldn't. She was immobilized. She didn't panic at first as she figured she was simply suffering from sleep paralysis which would go away on its own soon enough. As her vision cleared a little, however, she found that she was not in her bed but in what seemed to be some sort of giant room. The room was almost completely filled with some sort of mucus like substance. Within this substance were people, men, women and children all bound within the sticky blackened prison. Some of them were unconscious while others were wide awake and writhing, their eyes wide with panic. One of these people, a man in a tacky suit and shitty haircut, was right across the room from Ginger.

"H-Hey...it's that sleazy car salesman who's always trying to rip people off." Ginger droned, still in a half asleep state.

The man, who's mouth was covered in the substance entrapping him looked toward Ginger with pleading eyes. He cried beneath his organic gag, clearly scared out of his mind. His panic started to freak Ginger out as well.

"Hey cool it, man!' She said. "There's no need to panic, alright?"

The man looked down and panicked even more, desperately trying to get out of his bindings.

"I've dealt with this kind of thing before, alright?" The still half-asleep Ginger said. "All you have to do is take a deep breath and tell yourself that its a nightmare. That's all it is. It's just a night-

A spider-like creature suddenly jumped on the man's face from below. His gag was cut from underneath and he was allowed a second or so of screaming with his voice unmuffled before the creature clamped its legs around his head and silence him once more. The man trashed about wildly as Ginger screamed and then, he was still.

"Oh shit! What the fuck...Bob?" As Ginger finally regained full consciousness, she remembered everything that had happened recently, including the alien egg they had found on the space ship. As it dawned on her that she was not in a nightmare, she tried to move again and looked down to see she was stuck in the same substance as the car dealer. Even more concerning was the fact that, below where her feet hopefully still were, at the center of the room was a cluster of the exact same egg, one in front of each person in the room. Some of them were open and Ginger could see that the resulting spider creatures had already made victims out of those hapless people. There was an egg in front of her as well, still closed, but moving ever so slightly.

"H...Help! Help!" Ginger screamed. "Somebody help me!"

...

"Help! Help!" The cries echoed through the sewers. "Someone help me!"

"Huh?" Penny, Sally and especially Emily stopped in their tracks as the cries continued to ring out. They were faint and clearly still a way's away but the voice was unmistakable. "G-Ginger!" Emily cried happily. "She's alive!"

"As if there was any doubt!" Sally added, even as tears of joy slid past her green bangs.

"Sounds like she's in trouble," Penny said as she cocked her gun. "Let's go!"

"Right!" The girls followed the sound of Ginger's screams through the tunnels. Without any light from the Moon or from the flashlights which were either lost or damaged by the water, the girls had only the sound of Ginger's voice to guide them toward her. After a few minutes of running through the labyrinth, they found a opening completely lined with the black matter from before. Ginger's cries for help were coming from inside.

"That must be where the nest is," Penny whispered as she took out the cherry bombs. "Ok, we go inside, save Ginger and what ever poor bastards are trapped in there, light the fuse and run like hell because its going to be a big blast!"

"Sounds like a plan," Emily said. "A poorly hatched together plan but a plan nonetheless."

Penny squinted her eyes at the emo girl.

"Well what are we waiting for?" Sally asked as she took a step out from the tunnel. "Let's save Ginger!"

"Hold it!" Penny grabbed Sally by the shoulder and pulled her back in.

"Hey! What's the big idea?"

"Look, genius!" Penny pointed back to the opening, closer to the ground. On either side of the opening, nearly camouflaged against the black biomass were two more aliens. One of them sniffed the air and stood up, revealing itself to be a quadrupedal. It growled in the direction of the girls and nudged its companion who did the same. The two guard dogs were on high alert.

"What the?" Sally asked. "I didn't know these guys came in cow version!"

"I suppose those face-hugging things can attack more than just humans." Emily said. "They were probably formed from dogs or something."

Sally sniffled. "Poor doggies!"

"On the bright side," Penny whispered. "This pretty much proves that the main nest is behind that doorway. We have to get inside!"

"But how?" Emily looked down at her gun. "I'm not sure how much juice I have left in this thing!"

"We'll just have to not miss, then." Penny took aim as the dog aliens drew closer. Before she could take her shot, Sally suddenly stood up and walked out of the shadows of the tunnel, bringing herself into full view of the aliens.

"Sally!" Penny shouted in a hushed tone. "What the fuck do you think you're doing?"

The aliens hissed and drooled as they prepared to pounce on the hapless teenager. Sally sighed, reached into her pocket and pulled out a tennis ball. She held it up over her head while whistling to the aliens.

Neither Penny or Emily could believe what Sally was doing. "She's dead." Emily said as Penny facepalmed hard.

The aliens looked up at the ball, still hissing and drooling. But as Sally moved the ball left and right, the eyeless creatures somehow followed its movements One of them even opened its mouth and let its secondary jaws slide in and out of its mouth, almost as if it were panting.

"You want the ball? You want the ball?" Sally asked in a cutesy voice one usually reserved for speaking with canines. "Go get it!" She tossed the ball to her right and watched as the aliens sped toward it, following the green orb into the darkness of the sewers. Sally turned to her friends and said, ok, now we can go!"

Suffice to say, both Penny and Emily were speechless. "S-Sally...how did you..."

"You said they were born from dogs!" Sally answered. "And what dogs don't like to play with a tennis ball?"

"What...What were you even doing with a tennis ball in the first place?" Penny asked.

"Duh! You never know when you're going to need one!" Sally motioned for her friends to follow. "Now come on, time's a wasting!"

Penny and Emily exchanged a look of confusion, shrugged, and followed Sally into the tunnel.

---

Octavia had watched a lot of anime in her days, a lot of which was based on space and aliens. She always figured the knowledge she had gained from these shows would prove to be useful should she ever find herself in a real alien invasion. Alas, instead of courting some charming prince or princess from another galaxy, or showing them around the school and teaching them the ways of Earth culture, she was wading through murky sewer water, hunting and in turn being hunted by eyeless demons from Hell that would subject her to a fate straight out of a horror hentai if they caught her.

Reality had disappointed her yet again.

"How are you holding up, Gina?" She asked her girlfriend.

"Better now that we lost those damned things." She said. "I just hope the others got out all right."

"Alex was with them so I wouldn't worry too much, you know." Octavia answered. "The important thing is that we find somewhere to rest real quick."

"Sounds like a plan," Gina nodded before looking ahead. "I think I see dry land! Or at least somewhere dry to sit." She pointed to another isolated walkway not unlike the one Penny and her friends had rested on not too long ago.

"Good eye!, babe! Come on!" Octavia and Gina made their way to the walkway, the former helping the latter up as she got their first. They laid back on the walkway and listened anything that sounded like an approaching alien. So far, all they could hear was the quiet running of the water and the occasional distant screech of the invading monsters. Octavia and Gina were both confident in their relative safety at that moment but still held hands.

"It's so unreal," Gina said. "To think we might be all that's standing between Humanity and...and..." Gina sighed, somewhat disappointed in herself that she could not finish the sentence. "It's nothing like the video games, I'll tell you that!"

"Really?" Octavia laughed. "I figured you'd be better than anyone else at shooting these monsters with all the Call of Duty you play."

"Please," Gina giggled. "Give me Resident Evil zombies over these things any day!"

Both girls shared a laugh that served to lift their spirits if only for a little while. Once they were done, they sat back down and stared up at the ceiling.

"Hey, not to ruin the mood," Gina spoke up. "But is it just me or is this part of the sewer...smellier than usual?"

"Well I can't be too certain, but given where we entered and the direction we took off when those things split us up, I'd say we're underneath the zoo right now."

"You're kidding me!" Gina replied in disbelief. "Wow! I wonder if any of those animals up there could sense what's going on down here." She giggled again. "They'd be going nuts!"

"You said it," Octavia said as she sat back up. Despite putting on a cheerful demeanor, she was in fact weighed down with the reality that she and her girlfriend could very well end up dying tonight. As she stared at her own reflection in the dirty water below, she decided that she didn't want to leave anything unsaid should the worst come to pass. Part of her kept trying to fight it down, telling her to just believe in herself and that everything would be ok but even Octavia Winnie Walker knew when to face reality.

"G-Gina?"

"Yeah?"

"Listen, if something were to happen, not saying that things are going to end badly, but if they do, I want you to know..." Octavia happened to look up as she was talking and her heart sank as an alien slowly descended behind an unsuspecting Gina. This one, however, was quite different from the others she had seen so far. It was serpentine, it's upper half looking like a cross between a cobra and a centipede. It had two mandibles on its cheeks dripping with slime and, like its legged brethren, a secondary set of jaws inside its mouth which it was aiming at the back of Gina's head.

"Oh shit!" Octavia cried. "Gina!"

"Wuh?" Before Gina could ask what was wrong, Octavia grabbed her shoulders and pulled her away just as the snake-like alien made its move. Its secondary jaws took a bite out of Octavia's shoulder and the young otaku screamed in pain.

"Octavia!" Gina cried as she raised her had to her girlfriend's wound. "Oh shit! Are you okay?"

"I...I'm fine..." Octavia replied weakly as blood covered her entire left side. The snake alien, already driven mad with the taste of blood, lunged in for another bite.

"Fuck off!" Gina cried as she shot at the alien with her base gun. The alien dodged the first two shots but got hit by the third one, causing it to dive into the water screaming in pain. The water splashed both of the girls with Octavia crying out due to the water entering her wound. Gina panicked and pulled her girlfriend away from the water's edge. Then she removed her jacket, tore off one of the sleeves and dug into her pockets. "Come on, come on!" She begged herself as she dug through her jacket's pockets. "Found it!"

"What?" Octavia asked.

"Antiseptic spray!" Gina produced a bottle of the stuff to Octavia and then held it over her shoulder wound as she tore away the damaged sleeve. "This is going to hurt like hell but you need to suck it up! You ready?"

Octavia, still blushing from her girlfriend ripping her shirt the way she did, wordlessly nodded. She refused to scream as Gina sprayed the wound, despite feeling as it said wound had been set on fire. When it was finally over, she opened her mouth to gasp in exhaustion as Gina wrapped her jacket sleeve around the wound. "There!" She said. "You feeling better?"

"A little," Octavia said. "Thank you, Gina."

Gina smiled at her girlfriend confirmation of recovery but lost it when she remember why she had been hurt in the first place. "I'm sorry," She said. "If I had been paying closer attention, you wouldn't have to-

Octavia silence her girlfriend first with a finger softly placed on her lips and then her own lips. "Don't blame yourself for me protecting you," She said as she pulled away. "You're the most important person in this world to me. Any wound is worth your survival."

"Octavia," Gina whispered, her cheeks still flushed from the surprise kiss. In any other scenario, this would have led to a passionate kiss between the two girls. However, before that could happen, the walkway was shaken with the sound of not one but two more aliens jumping on the cement. Both girls looked up this time at their new guest who, as with the snake alien before them, were a little different than their usual kin.

The alien to their left was a quadpedal beast, its skin a darker shade of black than its brethren and decorated with red markings. The way it crouched low to the ground with its tail swaying in the air reminded the girls of a big cat. The alien to their right was black and tan with the growths on its back pointed. The most striking thing about this alien, however, was the blade at the end of its tail, shaped just like a scorpion.

"Gina," Octavia whispered as she struggled to sit up. "Get behind me."

"No," Gina moved herself in front of her injured girlfriend. "You get behind me!"

"No! You!"

"No You!"

"Do you really want our final moments alive to be spent fighting some pointless argument?" Octavia asked as the aliens crept closer.

"No!" The two girls brandished their guns and pointed them at the approaching predators, intending to fight until the very end. However, before the could begin their last hurrah, both the girls and the aliens were distracted by the sound of distant screaming and screeching. It was coming from somewhere behind the walls lining the room. This went on for a few seconds, the sounds growing louder and louder until part of the wall exploded. From the resulting cloud of dust and muck emerged an even bigger alien than the snake variant the girls had encountered before, blood-red and with a sharp horn protruding from its snout. Even more surprising than the beast itself was the three girls riding it.

"Alex!?" Octavia shouted.

"Nelly?" Gina followed up with.

"And Cindy!" The cheerleader introduced herself with attitude. She quickly lost said attitude as the bulked-up alien jumped up and down like a raging bull trying to dislodge its riders. In its frenzy, it rushed through the water and landed on the walkway, scaring the other aliens away. Octavia grabbed Gina and jumped out of the way as well. They watched as the rhino alien continued to buck like a mad cow until it managed to dislodge Cindy and Nelly in the process. The two girls flew toward Octavia and Gina and landed in the water while Alex continued to struggle with the beast.

"Cindy! Nelly!" Octavia shouted as she crawled toward the water's edge. "You guys alright?"

Cindy emerged from the water and spit out a mouthful of the foul-smelling liquid to the otaku's face. "Eww! Sewer water! My outfit is like, totally ruined.

Nelly also emerged from the water but she kept her spitting to the side away from her friends.

"Nelly, what's going on?" Gina asked. "Why are the aliens...different all of a sudden?"

"Well, Emily did say that the aliens needed to gestate inside of a host belonging to another species before fulling forming," Nelly began as she fixed her glasses. "If I'd have to give my two cents so to speak, and this is just wildly theorizing, its possible that the aliens extract biological traits from whatever host they happen to gestate within and we happen to be below the zoo..."

"Great," Gina deadpanned. "So you're saying they come in animal forms now? Talk about a shitty update!"

"We were just as surprised as you when they attacked." Nelly continued. "It was a massacre. Alex, Cindy and myself were the only survivors."

"Did you at least get some of them?" Octavia asked.

Nelly nodded. "We were able to dwindle the number down to two although from what I just witnessed it would seem they had backup waiting in the wings." She motioned to the cougar and scorpion alien which, now having calmed down from their freak encounter with the rhino variant, continued to stalk toward the girls.

"Wait? Two!?" Gina and Octavia asked in unison.

At that moment, one more alien variant burst from the hole in the wall. Its head was more imperial looking than the others and its body was bulker. It also had sharp-looking growths on its forearms which were just an inch or so longer than its hind legs. Its tail ended in a webbed hand like appendage with three digits. It faced the girls at once and uttered a terrifying fusion between a hiss and a roar.

"Great," Nelly sighed. "It would seem that brute has followed us here."

"We can't let things keep going like this," Octavia said. "We need to go on the offense or else we're done for."

"Right!" Gina agreed.

"Are you guys kidding me!?" Cindy cried. "We're in way over our heads here! We need to run away, call the police and...and...Look out!"

Gina was too focused on the newcomer to notice the scorpion alien's stinger about to punch through the back of her skull. She would have died without ever finding out as well had Octavia not moved in and blocked it with her arm. She winced in pain as the stinger sliced through her arm but she stood up in defiance, staring daggers at the monster that dared to attack her girlfriend. The alien hissed as it tried to retract its tail but Octavia tensed up, refusing to let it go.

"Octavia!" Gina cried.

"Don't you touch her!" Octavia screamed as she blasted the alien square in the chest. The creature screamed in agony as its stomach began to melt, its insides dripping our like wet spaghetti from a boiling pot. Octavia shot the alien in the tail, wait for the creature to fall dead and the bulk of its tail to fall with it and then ripped the rest of it away from her arm, screaming in pain as she did so.

"Octavia!" Gina ripped another sleeve from her jacket and tied it around her girlfriend's arm. "Shit! Are you okay?"

"I..I'm fine." Octavia muttered.

"Bullshit!" the gamer girl cried. "That stinger went right through your arm! What if its poisonous?"

"Technically, the correct term would be venomous." Nelly said, earning her a death glare from Gina. "Uh...I'll just go fight the gorilla variant now!" She waded off toward the hulking monster behind them.

"I already told you your survival's worth any wound," Octavia smiled. "You baka!"

"Please stop calling me that in public!" Gina smiled as well. "And you're right. We're soulmates." She cocked her gun. "Which means I can't be blamed for doing this." Gina suddenly grabbed Octavia, pulled her behind her back and fired at the cougar alien that had just pounced. It screeched as the base took effect and landed with a thud as Gina moved her girlfriend out of the way. A little bit of the acid from the alien's body landed on her back, although thanks to the base, its effect was lessened to only creating a few burns. Nonetheless, Gina could not keep from whining a little as the pain took hold. Cindy screamed and swam after Nelly as the alien fell dead before her. "Wait for me, Poindexter!"

"Gina!" Octavia cried. "Are you ok?"

"I'm fine!" Gina replied as she held Octavia close. "Just a little searing pain on my back, nothing serious."

Octavia chuckled. "You baka!" She hugged her girlfriend tightly.

"I told you not to call me that."

With two of the variants dead, it was up to Alex, Nelly and Cindy to take care of the rest. The latter two slowly approached the gorilla alien, their base guns poised to strike.

"Ok, when I give the signal, you pull the trigger." Nelly whispered to the cheerleader.

"Signal?" Cindy asked. "What signal?"

The gorilla alien suddenly leapt from its tiny hill of rubble toward the two girls.

"That's it!" Nelly shot at the alien and Cindy, while screaming hysterically, joined her. Neither of the girl's shots seemed to hit, speeding alongside the hulking predator as it descended.

"Duck!" Nelly and Cindy jumped out of the alien's path. As it hit the water, the shockwave sent both already mid-air girls flying in different directions, Cindy skipping across the water like a stone before vanishing underneath completely. A pile of rubble tripped up Nelly and stopped her trajectory early. She had barely enough time to fish her cracked glasses out of the dirty sewer water before the alien crawled over her. She turned to face it's drooling sneer as it prepared to punch a hole in her head. She gasped in shock...

...and then smiled smugly.

"Real shame you picked a great ape instead of a human to act as your incubator," She said. "Otherwise, you might have known about a little thing called gravity."

The ape-like alien tilted its head in confusion at he smugness of its prey. Then it felt a splash of hot liquid, followed by excruciating pain as said liquid melted a hole in its back. The base that Nelly and Cindy had shot up from before was now raining down directly on the hulking brute, melting him from above like a human caught in a acid rain. Steam rose from the rapidly increasing wounds on its back as the alien screeched in agony. It was so caught up in the throes of its dying breath that it failed to noticed Nelly crawl out from underneath him and run off. Pretty soon, the base made its way from the back of the creature to the stomach and made a hole, allowing its innards to fall into the sewer water below. The creature uttered one last pathetic squeak of pain and fell to the water dead.

On the other side of the room, Alex was continuing to struggle against the rhino alien. Both of them were getting exhausted from the ongoing clash and it wouldn't be long before fatigue decided the winner for them. It all boiled down to whoever could last the longest.

"Come on, big boy!" Alex challenged through her panting. "Don't tell me that's all you can do!"

The rhino alien grunted in anger as it continued to run circles in the water, bucking madly as it tried to dislodge the teenager on its back. As it was taking everything she had not to let go and risk being trampled, Alex couldn't get a clear shot of the creature's back. "I'd hate to admit it," She thought. "But I ain't gonna last much longer. If something don't change soon, this will be my last rodeo!" As Alex was going through this momentary mental configuring, her grip on the creature's head crest slipped. It seemed to notice at once as it bucked Alex off with a lunge upward, sending the athletic girl screaming in the air. Of course, for someone like Alex, such situations weren't as scary as they would be for other girls. She screamed not so much in fear as of surprise and once she stopped screaming and realized where she was, she saw her opportunity and took aim.

"Bullseye!" She shouted as she pulled the trigger.

The alien didn't realize what was happening until the base splattered across its back. It roared in agony and ran around in circle a few times before exhaustion set in and it collapsed to the ground, unable to put up the futile fight its kin had before. Alex screamed as she descended, this time out of fear, as she realized she was falling right into a messy gore hole lined with human-melting acid. The base, however, was working its magic and by the time Alex hit the water and reduced the remains of the melted alien into blueish-green slush, all that extraterrestrial gore could do was dirty her clothes. "Guh!" She cried as a little of the gore-stained water hit her mouth. She spit it out violently.

"Alex!" Octavia cried out from the walkway as she tended Gina's wounds. "Are you alright?"

"Alright!? I've never felt more alive!" Alex declared as she waded toward the walkway flexing her arms. "Every other exercise I get from now on is gonna seem like a let down!"

"You'll live!" Gina laughed right as Octavia sprayed the last of the antiseptic on her back. "Ouch!"

"I think it's safe to say that victory is ours." Nelly said as she waded through the water and joined the others. "At this rate, we may just find the nest before Hoffman and her hooligan friends do."

"Easy now, smarty-pants." Alex said. "Don't forget Penny's still the one with the bomb."

Nelly looked surprised and nervously laughed as she fixed her damaged glasses. "R-Right! How could I forget?"

"In all this excitement, who could blame you?" Gina laughed.

"Let's just be glad its over now." Octavia added. "Now let's get out of here before more show up."

"You said it!" Alex turned to the direction were Nelly had come from. "Yo Cindy! Get your pom-pom twirling ass over here so we can get gone!" It was only after Alex had finished shouting that she realized Cindy was no longer there. "Cindy?"

The other girls grew concerned as well and called out for the cheerleader. "Cindy! Cindy! Where are you?"

They scanned the entire area with their eyes but could only find still sewer water and dead melted aliens. At least, that was the case until Gina spotted a murky cloud of blood in the water. A cloud which began to bubble.

"Um...guys?"

From the blood arose the snake alien from before, half of its face melted and what remained twisted in an expression of total rage. Within its mandibles lay the severed head of Cindy, her expression frozen in terror.

"Cindy!" Alex cried.

The snake alien tossed the head away and rushed toward the girls at breakneck speeds.

"You bastard!" Octavia screamed as she and the other girls aimed their guns at the charging monster. As they pulled their triggers, however, they were shocked to find nothing shooting out. They all looked to see the base had run out inside their guns.

"Oh no! We're out of ammo!" Gina screamed.

"Nelly, can't you make more!?" Alex asked.

"Even the most implausible of cartoon logic wouldn't allow me to create more of the base in the dwindling amount of time we have!" Nelly cried.

"Here it comes!" Octavia screamed. The other girls joined her as the snake alien leapt out of the water.

---

We now return to Ginger's panicked screaming as the egg in front of her begins to open, already in progress.

"Help! Someone help me!" The goth screamed as the egg opened up. She shivered as she saw the creature inside adjust itself for launching. "Well, if I die, please at least let me leave a dignified corpse." She whispered to herself and her Goddess as she closed her eyes and waited for the end. The spider-like alien inside the egg leapt out toward Ginger's face...

...only to be blasted out of the air by a shot of base. Ginger opened her eyes upon hearing the creature's soft cries and watched as it hit the wall, tumbled down and melted into nothingness, taking some of the biomass with it. She turned the other way and gasped when she saw who took the shot.

"Did someone order a shot...no wait...um...Now that's what I call a shot...uggh I can't think of good one-liners!" Emily whined.

"Emily!" Ginger's smile grew even wider as she saw Penny and Sally appear from behind the young emo. "Penny! Sally! I can't tell you how happy I am to see you."

"Save the ass-kissing for when we get you out of here." Penny said as she approached Ginger and pulled at the biomass bounding her. She strained from the effort but once Emily and Sally added their muscle to it, the girls were able to pull Ginger free.

"Guys, Thank you!" Ginger wrapped the closest friend, who just happened to be Emily, in her arms and pulled her to her chest. "I really thought I was going to die."

Emily blushed as she was hugged by the goth, even more so when she saw Sally giggling to herself. But more than embarrassment or shyness, she just felt relief that Ginger was still alive and, on some level she hadn't recognized just yet, anger towards the aliens that had put her in peril in the first place. She returned the hug, saying, "I would never let that happen." Gah! I-I mean we would never let that happen!"

Ginger let out a sniffle as she continued to hug Emily.

As Sally was fighting urge to join in the hug, Penny whistled to get the girl's attention. "Alright, you Care Bears. Let's start helping the rest of the poor saps stuck in this dump!"

"Huh?" Ginger turned to the circle of people still trapped in the biomass, a lot of whom were still conscious and pleading. "Oh shit! Right!"

The girls set to work freeing the captives one by one, with some of the captives lending a hand themselves once enough of them were freed. Of course, the people with their faces already latched on to by an alien were ignored as they were as good as dead. This action was not taken without regret but it was taken regardless.

"Errr!" Penny strained as she tried to pull the last victims, a young boy and his puppy, out of the biomass. "Shit! This one's really stuck!"

"Here!" A young man walked up to Penny, sporting black curly hair. "Let me help you." He grabbed the punk girl's hands and slightly added pressure to them, giving them the grip they needed to tear the biomass away and free the boy and his dog.

"Thank you!" He shouted as he grabbed his dog and ran. Penny and the young man watched as the boy joined the others.

"You should get them out of here as fast as possible." Penny said.

"What about you?" The young man asked.

"Me and my friends still got a little cleaning up to do around here." Penny said. "Can't leave theses things to just kidnap you all again can we?"

"Heh!" The young man said. "I can't tell if you're incredibly brave, incredibly stupid, or incredibly crazy!"

Penny turned to him. "You're just saying that because you had to be saved by a girl. Get with the times, man!"

"Well if I have to be the princess rescued from the dragon's dungeon by the brave by foolish knights, then I guess I should play the part." With this, he gave Penny a small kiss in the cheek. The punk girl blushed brightly as the young man walked away. "Oh!" He turned around. "The name's Scott by the way. Scott Ripley."

"P-Penny Hoffman," Penny responded in a almost monotone voice as she rubbed her cheek. She watched as Scott made his way toward the crowd. She was so taken aback but what had just happened that she hardly noticed Sally skip to her side, giggling like a schoolgirl.

"Penny has a boyfriend, Penny as a boy-HIACK!" Sally trashed about violently as Penny squeezed her throat, her eyes still on that mysterious boy.

"Alright, everyone!" Scott shouted. "We gotta get out of here fast."

"Where do we go?" One of the women asked.

"The quickest out of here would be...there!" Scott pointed up toward the ceiling. There was a manhole with the biomass providing a strange but sturdy ladder.

"Huh." Penny shrugged. "Well that's convenient."

"Alright, everyone! Single-file! Women and children first!"

"Woof!"

"And dogs!"

Scott oversaw as the people climbed the biomass toward the manhole. The lid was easy enough to remove from the inside and one by one the people vanished through the hole back to the surface. As this went underway, Penny noticed some of the eggs in the nest opening up. "Oh no you don't!" She sprayed the nest at once and took delight in the sizzling sound the eggs and hatchlings made as they melted into a pile of goo. She couldn't help but snicker.

Soon enough, only Scott and the local priest, Father Bedlam, were left.

"Please Father, after you," Scott said.

The priest shook his head. "No, son after you. I insist."

Scott nodded and went ahead, making it a point to climb as fast as he could so the priest could start right away. He was already right next to the manhole when the priest had started. "You alright, Father?"

"Oh don't worry about me," Bedlam said. "I'll be fin-

It came out of nowhere. A bladed tail twice as big as any the girls had seen before stabbed through the priest's stomach. It came out of the darkness faster than any of the girls had time to realize. It took everyone a moment to realize what had just happened, even as some of the priest's blood fell on Emily's face. Then the screaming started.

"Oh, poop!" Bedlam choked as he was pulled away from the biomass and into the darkness. All eyes turned to the shadows as the sickening sound of crunching bones and tearing flesh filled the air. Then a thud, as if what remained was dropped from a great height. The girls huddled together, Penny, Emily and Sally clutching their weapons tight as a single footstep shook the nest. Then another. Then another.

With the fourth footstep, the creature's foot finally appeared. It was strangely shaped like a high-heel. As the other foot came into view, so too did the creature's towering body, twice as tall as anyone in the room. It had four arms, two long ones ending in giant claws and two smaller ones jutting out from its breast. All four hands were caked in blood. This same blood, the blood of the priest, dripped from the monster's razor-sharp teeth. The gleam of the teeth lining her second jaw could be seen from within her mouth and her head crest was quite exquisite, almost befitting royalty From her back were three blade-like protrusions, like wings on the Angel of Death.

"Guys," Emily whispered. "You remember how Nelly said that these aliens were like an insect colony? Wouldn't that make this one...

"Son of a bitch," Penny whispered as well. "It's the fucking Queen!"

"Bob was royalty?" Sally asked.

"Sally, please stop talking." Ginger asked.

The Alien Queen tilted her massive head toward the nest where her young had been melted and then back to the humans responsible. She gritted her teeth in anger and roared.

"Scott!" Penny shouted as she looked up at the young man. "Get out of here, right now!"

Scott seemed hesitant as he didn't want to leave the girls to fend for themselves. But he knew he stood no chance against that monster and considering what he had seen the girls pull off so far, he decided to nod and leave the sewer, promising himself to ask Penny out if she survived this. He always had a thing for strong women.

"Alright, you overgrown bitch!" Penny shouted as she stepped in front of the Queen. "You think you can just push us around and use us like fucking cocoons for your hellspawn? Well you got another thing coming!" She took aim with her gun. "Eat this!" She pulled the trigger...

...and nothing came out.

"Huh?" Penny examined her gun to see that it was empty. She had used the last of the base to melt the eggs. "Oh fuck me!"

The Queen hissed as it whipped Penny with its tail, sending the punk girl flying toward the wall, her bombs tumbling out of her jacket and hitting the ground as she flew.

"Penny!" Her friends shouted. She hit the wall with her back, the biomass cushioning the blow as she tumbled down to the ground and became still. The Queen, clearly not satisfied with her victory, stomped toward the girl.

"Penny!" Ginger rushed toward her mohawk wearing friend.

"Ginger wait!" Emily cried.

"You two distract the monster, I'll save Penny!" Ginger called out as she slid between the Queen's legs. The monster hissed as it prepared to grab her but was stopped by Sally spraying a little of her base onto her back. It was only enough to cause a small wound but that in of itself was enough to grab the monster's attention and she charged toward the girls with a furious roar.

"Shit!" Both Sally and Emily jumped out of the way as the Queen charged them. As she came to a stop, she whipped her tail again, this time sending Emily flying right as she was getting up. The emo girl hit the wall, crushing her gun against it with her body. She tumbled down and groaned, grunting in pain as the broken gun fell after her and hit her on the head.

She gasped. "Oh no!" She grabbed the ruined gun and tried to fire but nothing came out. It had been rendered useless. "Crap!"

"Emily!" Sally called from the other side of the room. A large shadow silenced her as she gulped as she looked up at the Queen's face. "Um, Miss...Bob? Can we talk about this?" Sally whimpered. "I know we're haven't been the best house guest what with killing all your children and melting your eggs but we humans don't like being used as breeding host! Am I getting through to you at all?"

The Queen roared in Sally's face in response.

"Alright fine! If that's how you want to be!" Sally aimed her gun, only for the monster to slap it out of her hands with its claws. It hit the wall and broke into several pieces. "Oops!" Sally giggled nervously as the Queen prepared to maul her. "Ummm..typo?"

"Hey, Queen Shithead!" Penny's voice shouted, catching the monster's attention. She was back to her feet, helped by Ginger. "I'm the one who melted your stupid eggs! Come and get me!"

The Queen growled as it stared at the punk girl who started jerking her head to the left. Sally wasn't the brightest tool in the shed but at that moment, she realized that Penny was telling her to escape while the Queen was distracted. She didn't want to leave her friends behind but she also knew better than to ignore Penny and Ginger in times like these. Reluctantly, she started toward the manhole, although she stopped halfway as the Queen stomped toward her friends. "Please Penny, have a plan."

"So, you have a plan or did you just serve us up for lunch?" Ginger asked.

"Relax, I got-" Penny stopped mid-sentence as she reached into her jacket, only to find her pockets empty. It was then and only then that she noticed the bombs already behind the Queen as she neared. "Son of a bitch! I just can't get a break today!" She sighed. "Sorry, Ginger. Looks like we're about to die due to my stupidity."

"Aw! Don't feel bad," Ginger patted the punk girl on her almost-bald head. "People have died way stupider deaths. And you're wrong, only one of us is going to die."

"Huh?" Before Penny could understand what was going on, let alone object, she was picked up and thrown over the Queen toward the biomass ladder. How Ginger could have managed such a feat could be be described as sheer determination to save her friend and the adrenaline rush she felt from knowing she was about to die . Unfortunately, it seemed that determination couldn't save her as the Queen's shadow engulfed her and she felt her drool fall on her shoulders. "I regret nothing."

The Queen opened her mouth and extended her secondary jaw, ready to take Ginger's head clean off her shoulders...only to be distracted yet again, this time by the sting of a rock hitting her in the crest. She turned to see Emily standing behind her, bleeding from the head, no gun in sight and a look of absolute rage on her face.

"Get away from her, you bitch!" She shouted as she raised another rock in her hand.

"Emily! No!" Ginger cried. "Get away!"

"Come on, you royal pain in the ass!" Emily screamed as she chucked the rock at the Queen. Come and get me!"

The Queen winced as the rock nailed between where its eyes would be if it had any. Enraged beyond reason, the monster shot out a stream of acid at Emily who dodged it at the last second. Some of the spray hit her makeshift armor and started melting it. Without a moment's hesitation, she ripped it off and tossed it aside before running away, making sure the enraged Queen followed her. Without the armor, Ginger was able to see a bulge of some kind under Emily's shirt. "Now Ginger! Go!"

"But Emily!"

"I'll be fine! I promise! Just go!"

Ginger stiffened as she watched the Queen chase Emily. She only snapped out of her stupor as Sally and Penny called out to her.

"Come on, Ginger! Get your ass over here already!"

"Hurry!"

Ginger looked toward them and then toward Emily one final time before muttering "Dammit!" under her breath and running toward the biomass ladder. She took Penny's hand as the two climbed up, stopping short of where Sally was. Even if she wasn't in the way, neither of them would have pressed forward anyway due to Emily still being menaced by the Alien Queen. All three of them hated the situation, watching their friend run for her life but having no means to intervene.

Of course, it was made all the worse for them when Emily tripped over one of Father Bedlam's arms and fell, allowing the Alien Queen to grab her and hold her up.

"No!" Emily!" All three shouted.

The Queen sneered as it transferred the emo girl from its main arms to its chest arms and held her close, savoring in the look of defeat and hopelessness on her face. If she could speak, chances are that she would be asking Emily if she had any final words. Instead, it open its mouth and lunged its secondary jaws toward her.

Unfortunately for the Queen, Emily did have some last words regardless.

"Eat this!" Emily suddenly shoved the bombs she had been carrying beneath her shirt into the creature's smaller jaw. The teeth sank into the bombs, getting them stuck. As the Queen struggled to bring her secondary jaws inside, Emily grabbed them and held them out as she lit the fuse with the lighter she had snagged from Penny before they entered the room. Penny noticed her lighter and felt around in her pockets. "Son of a bitch.."

No sooner had Emily let go that the Queen threw her away, launching her toward the ladder. She tumbled down and would have hit the ground if not for Ginger grabbing her. "Got ya!"

"T-Thanks!" Emily slurred, still dazed from her impact with the wall.

"Emily," Penny droned as she watched the Queen struggle with the pipe bombs, banging her head relentlessly against the walls in an attempt to dislodge them. "You crazy wonderful bitch! Now let's get out of here before those thing blow! There's enough of those bombs in the bunch to level this whole room!"

"Shit!" Sally and Ginger screamed in unison as they scrambled toward the manhole. Ginger popped it open and one by one, the girls climbed out to safety. Penny had managed to take her foot out of the sewer just as the bombs went off, destroying the Queen's head and sending a shockwave revibrating throughout the sewer.

---

"Well, we did it!" Alex whistled as she wiped the sweat from her brow. "I gotta tell you, that was tougher than the rhino guy!"

"I concur," Nelly said as she kicked the snake alien's corpse. "Shooting this creature with the base would have been a lot more effective than simply beating it to death with our own hands." She sighed. "If only I had made more of the base!"

"Aw, don't beat yourself up over it, Nelly!" Octavia said as she scooped the nerdy girl in a great big hug. "We won and that's all that matters!"

"Uh, not to rain on anyone's parade but do you guys hear that rumbling?" Gina asked as the waters around the girls became disturbed and the walkway started to shake.

Nelly pressed her ear down onto the walkway for a moment. "Oh dear!"

"What is it, Nelly?" Alex asked.

"Well I have good news and bad news." Nelly said. "The good news is that this tremor could only be caused by the pipe bombs going off which means more than likely, Penny and the other succeeded in their mission."

"Alright!" Octavia and Gina high-fived each other.

"What's the bad news," Alex asked with slight concern in her voice.

"Since the explosion took place within the confines of the sewer system, its only natural that the entire structure would be shaken by the shockwaves," Nelly whimpered as she pointed a finger behind Alex. "Resulting in that!"

Alex and the others turned around to see a giant wave of sewer water rushing toward them. "Oh shi-

The four girls were hit by the wave and sent rushing through the tunnels screaming when they could get their heads up from under the water and fighting for air when they couldn't. Before long, the current washed them out to a pond on the outskirts of town, dumping them right in the middle. They breached the water, coughing and wheezing as they slowly regained their bearings.

"Well, that's then end of these clothes," Alex remarked as she looked over her soaked outfit. The other girls proceeded to laugh their butts off which only served to confuse Alex even more. "What's funny?"

Back in the heart of Oakwood, Ginger, Emily, Penny and Sally struggled to stand as the tremor rocked their neighborhood. Street lamps flickered on and off and cars cried out in alarms. Tired from the experience, all four girls eventually fell onto Nelly's lawn, Sally being the only one to face face-down into the grass. Eventually, however, the tremors stopped and the girls could finally rest.

"Whew!" Penny wheezed as she and her friends panted, Sally turning herself back around. "Now that...was a fun night out!"

"Bite me!" Ginger growled, wanting to forget the experience as fast as she possibly could. She smiled as she turned to Emily. "You saved me, Emily." She said simply. "You saved all of us, thank you."

"Think nothing of it," Emily replied.

"Oh no! We are thinking everything of it!" Penny declared. "Seriously, when did you become little Miss Badass?"

"I know!" Sally agreed. "She was all like "Get away from her you bitch!"

"Guys, come on!" A blushing Emily pleaded. "I..I just got caught up in the heat of the moment is all!" Emily intended to explain more but was stopped as Ginger held out her hand and wiped some of the blood from her forehead. "Regardless, thank you Emily." The goth smiled.

Emily's blush deepened but she smiled just the same. "Y-You're welcome Ginger."

"Aww! That sucked about Bob though." Sally whined. "I was so excited to meet a real life alien we could go on adventures with and all we got were a bunch of scary jerks! I hope the next aliens we meet are friendly."

"I hope the next aliens we meet never come here," Penny replied. "One invasion was enough."

"Oh lighten up, Penny!" Emily said. "Just because these guys were bad doesn't mean every alien race is, right Ginger?"

Ginger didn't nod or shake her head. She simply laid there, staring at the stars with her arms behind her head. "I mean, there's billions upon billions of stars up there right? It's a big Universe. There's bound to be some friendly species out there."

Ginger never once took her eyes off the stars as she spoke. Emily, Penny and Sally followed her lead and gazed out into the night sky, allowing whatever thought crossed their minds to cross as they contemplated the thousands of worlds they were staring at all at once.

The End

(Another long as hell story. I don't think I've worked on a Alt Four story this much since the Evil Dead one. Thus, this is my newest longest story! For this series that is. Not only that but this is my 100th story on the site! Here's to a hundred more!)

Fanfiction has been going through that stupid email crap again so there won't be any notifications. Thus, if you made it to the end of the story and see this message, you have my gratitude.

Up next will be the Predator story which will serve as a sequel...kinda. Until then, this is BloodySimpsonChibi, thank you and once again, have a great Alien Day!)