I was looking at the sky askance. Then I groaned pushing the door inside when Dad called my attention again. He stood with Amir who was fretting and they were all glaring at me like I did something wrong. "Why are you all looking at me like that?""He called me a phony," Amir let out with beads of tears in his eyes. "And then hit me in the nuts during a baseball practice. I was only trying to make good friends with him but I guess he's too good for me. You were right, Morty, a lot of things haven't changed," He sniffed."What the_?! You were there!" I shrieked at Morty. "No, I wasn't." Mort hid behind Kendra who passed him a dry look. She looked pretty disappointed in me too.I glanced over at Dexter and he grimaced."You need to stop being so defensive and put an end to this grievance. It's getting out of hand, right Mrs Al-Abadi?" Amir sulked. Mrs Zaman was glaring at me and she softened. "Shame on you, Zachary, that's a poor way to act," I groaned shutting my eyes and sure it wa
It stumped on a manhole. I jumped over it."Self defense mode," It fell off at the buffer."The Morphin suit belongs to the Klozars,""Tell them. You're not getting this suit," I asserted putting up my fists with the shield in front of me. "Argh!" It growled gripping my head in between its legs and it fell back over my centre of gravity. "Ah!" I felt its way as it threw me over itself. I crashed, kicked up and spun quickly to a stand. I adjusted my neck. It was fast, violent and never gave room for retaliation. It yelled and I blasted him. It did the same with its canon and our photon beams collided with a buzzing sound. I tried to see beyond the light and sparks. Its own overpowered me and I put up my buffer to evade the blast. It was like this really cool heat-resistant shield. Besides that I was laughably on the losing end, I saw it staggered pulling up its buffer too."Lance," The lance extended from my hand and I raced toward it with a battle cry and it did the same and rammed m
Zack! PSST PSSSST I rolled open my window and my eyes popped. Kendra stood on the roof. She pulled away. "Kendra..." I was lost for words at how she managed to climb that high with a plant. "Is this a bad time, chap?" She said to me. The strands of her hair was flying in all directions. She looked nervously at me and broke eye contact. "I heard you went practicing." I cringed into myself.I suddenly felt like I would to curl up into a ball. "Yes." I couldn't seem to raise my eyes up from the suddenly very interesting speck of dirt on the roof. I felt like I didn't have anything witty or interesting to say. Or cover up for that act. She heard about the game too. I crouched down thinking about my massive fail. The room was locked. I tucked my knees in and she sat back staring wistfully ahead above our neighbourhood. Her nails beat on the roof rhythmically. I cleared my throat. "So are you what doing here?" I blushed. Kendra's eyes crinkled and she half-laughed. "What?" "What do you ne
The opposing team and their fans roared in victory. I heard the A-team practiced better, even before the warmup before baseball season. The others glared at me. One dropped his mitt"Fuck you Trevor!" "Time out," The A team won. The coach looked disappointed and angry.It was only fair, The Visitors worked way harder than us. I dropped back on the sand and the rest of the team came over. I fell and it seemed that they were not done kicking me while I was down. "We failed and it's all because of you, squirt." They laughed maniacally and I clenched my teeth. Amir looked suspicious. "Boys, boys, let's not fight, we can settle this like gentlemen, leave my friend alone. You are all forgetting that we are still on the same team." He said and Wade snorted. "Same team? What team exactly? He's a lost cause. You talked us into this shite, Amir." They left and I felt unpleasant. Blood rushed into my brain until I felt like it would explode, it dripped down my nose. I rolled over shivering fe
I was scared senseless, when I looked at the crowd of them, they could easily overpower me even if I gave it a fighting chance, after all, I've been doing lately was failing. I hoped someone else would come rescue to me. I had no fighting chance. I looked around and everything seemed to be in a standstill. I looked for any signs, any loopholes. They spoke and I clenched my teeth as they uploaded my data in a strange language on their monitor. How did I know? My picture was pasted up there. They pointed and studied my details and I struggled to break lose. The mimic touched a device on its neck. "Prepare for uploading. Lord Gondomier would be very disappointed with the results I assure you."I grimaced. "The Blundering Earth boy is weak and defenseless." It said stepping around me. I pulled at the shackles. Sweat trickled into my eyes. I clenched my fists and wriggled and one of them stuck a spear into my chest. I roared in pain at the currents and my eyes closed. I couldn't believe it
"I am trying." It said tapping on the control board and it boosted us up over the ships. I hit my head against the roof and dropped. One of the ships diverged from the others flying in a triangle. "There's a rogue on the loose." "Get ready to jump." It said to my surprise and the pod opened. "We get the leader." It said and I stayed unsteadily. The wind blew violently against my face and we dived. I screamed and bellyflopped on a ship. There were more Klozarians coming at us from the top. They aimed stunners at us and I ducked holding on, then I lunged at them. The Blue Guy caught me before I slipped off the edge like a piece of paper. I flapped at the clouds. The ships engines and the wind roared in my ears. He pulled me up and held on to its arm. "Keep running." I looked forward and almost went dizzy at the distance and no thrusters to protect me. The odds were against me, Blue Guy was in trouble but I had to keep going. I lunged and rolled into the next."Go, go!" I couldn't see
I brushed my hand over my face while he spoke and I bit my finger at the prospect of Oogie finding her way here. I heard a thump on the door. I brushed my forehead and Dexter exhaled. "You will be assisting me with the car tomorrow and mind you, you better be handing in the right tools else I'd be very disappointed. Understand? Are we clear?""Yes." I said with a squeaky voice and I had to clear up the table and pick up Lois's storybooks and toys. Beck stuck out his tongue at me. "You look like shit." He said and I heaved a sigh, and Seymour cried clawing at my foot. "Ow." I replaced her toys and tucked her in. Then I headed to the bathroom and soaked in warm water. I stretched my knee and groaned at the pain. I fumed at the thump on the door. "Zack...hurry up!" I tossed and turned in my bed. Seymour was taking half of the bed. Then covered my head with my pillow away from the blaring lights and the noise. I couldn't fall asleep because of the scraping noises I heard. The flashe
I swallowed hard raising my hands and Oogie marched steadily out the trailer to the ship. I noticed that some people didn't seem to mind us. Our cloaks were on and we got to a ship not far from the one we crashed in by that hangar. Someone had taken their time to clear it up. I couldn't think of anything else asides myself and how Oogie would act had the escorts not been there to supervise us. She was strangely docile but I winced as her gloved hands clenched. They wore black capes with Ms. The stairs to a ship unfurled in front of us. The ship was shaped like big metallic message bird. With blue lights on its body. I toppled when one officer nudged me. My breath caught. I couldn't speak to her. My eyes rolled up to the inbuilt lights, the marginalised spaces where aliens could work, I saw one man without a uniform in all white assorting complicated machine parts with a hologram.We stepped on to a circle and I froze when it lowered us to a dark room. "What's up?"She was quiet. T