With the sounds of chaos faded Sonya climbed out from the
rubble of the desk that had barely saved her life. She saw Kelly and Gordon climbing out from under their own obliterated desk as well. The hole in the library
was now visible from the back of the room where they were standing. There were
small fires in several places as ship debris had set stacks of books a light.
“What the hell was that?” A voice cried from under a destroyed desk In what used to be the library’s computer lab. She scrambled over the ruined books shelves and discovered the boy was trapped under his desk by a section of wall that had fallen.
“Guys I need help!” Sonya called out. She turned back to the desk to find another kid climbing out from under his own rubble.
“Don’t worry, we’ve got this.” He said getting a grip on the section of wall. “lift on three okay?” He confirmed. Sonya got a good grip as he counted up. “One, two three.” They lifted the wall enough for the trapped kid to escape and then dropped the wall with a crushing smash.
“Thanks…” Sonya offered, waiting for a name.
“Warren” He offered.
“Yeah thanks Warren” the newly rescued kid said.
“No problem Dante. Now do you three know what the hell just happened?” Warren asked. Pointing at the burning wreckage of the ship and library.
“Clearly that is an alien spaceship that has crash landed into our school’s library.” Sonya pointed at the crash.
“The only logical explanation is that you are being punk’d.” Kelly interrupted. Everyone looked her way, no one laughed. “What? I’m not allowed to be the funny one?” She threw her hands in the air.
“Moving on, how do we know its alien?” Warren asked. Again clueless looks passed among the group. One by one they made their way toward the spaceship. They got close enough to see that the cockpit window had shattered and the pilot was a robot. It’s left arm had been severed around the bicep and was missing.
“That, is a weird looking alien” Dante commented while trying to keep his balance on a pile of book and broken shelving.
The pilots face lit up and the frayed wires sticking out of his arm stump sparked. “That’s because I’m not an alien. I’m a robot.” The kids all flinched in shock. The robot looked at his severed arm and groaned in annoyance. “Well that’s not good, kinda need that to get us out of this mess.” He grabbed the central metal cable sticking out of his arm and shook It vigorously. A few feet away a pile of books wiggled. “Someone wanna grab that so we can get out of here?” Gordon scrambled over the wiggling pile of books tossing them aside until he uncovered the severed arm opening and closing its hand.
“What makes you think we’re going with you?” she asked ask Gordon made his way back to the ship. The robot held up his functional had with three fingers up and dropped them one at a time, counting down. When he dropped his third finger Two dinosaur looking humanoids appeared in the giant hole in the library.
“look Ungar!” Humans!” Commander didn’t say nothing about bringing back no humans! Can I eat ‘em?”
Ungar pulled a brutal looking sword off his back. “Not if I eat them first!
Sonya looked to the robot with Terror in her eyes. “Where are we going?”
The robot grabbed his severed arm out of Gordon’s hands and held it close enough to the cable sticking out the stump that the two halves sensed each other and reattached. The stump pulled the severed piece in and the metal rebounded. In the blink of an eye it was over and it was impossible to tell it had ever been damaged. He held out his hands. “everyone hold hands if you want to live!” The five kids scrambled to reach the robot and clasped hands. The second the circle was completed they were gone. The two dinosaur troops reached the empty crashed ship.
Ungar smelled the air but couldn’t sense where the humans
had gone, just that they had disappeared. He dropped the tip of his sword to the ground in disappointment “Commander
won’t like this.”
