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Part Twenty

[Meanwhile on Earth, in the bunker]

"OW!" Senpie's Ghost screamed as Emily smacked him across the face. He and Spookman were tied to a support beam with duct tape. Eventually after Another Child went missing, Emily and Other Child took care of Spookman and him quickly. "WHY DON'T YOU FIGURE OUT WHERE MY SON IS INSTEAD OF BEATING ME UP?!"

Everyone in the bunker was freaking out. They had no idea where Another Child could have gone, and they already searched the entire bunker.

"It was like. . . He was here. . . And then a second later, he wasn't!" Child shouted with a mixture of confusion and anger. "Where could he have gone?!" She turned around to look at Emily. Her face turned red immediately. "What are you doing? Leaving us to take care of this?"

Emily was climbing up the entry/exit ladder of the bunker. She turned to look at Child and said, "No. I noticed something." She pointed at the door of the bunker on the floor and then up above. "The security door's off its hinges. . . So that could mean. . ."

Other Child gasped. "He. . ."

". . .Could've gone outside. . .," Child finished with a glum look on her face. She gulped. "He could be anywhere!"

"This is b—" BAM! Emily collapsed to the ground. A rectangular object had hit her square in the face. . . A phone!

Sophia ran over to Emily's unconscious body and picked up the phone. "A phone? Falling from the sky?" She looked up at the portion of the sky above her. "Weird."

"Yeah, definitely. That doesn't just happen," Senpie's Ghost said.

Sophia gave him a serious look and then turned back to the phone. Its case was a bit questionable. It had an image of a middle-aged blonde woman with a hideous hairstyle on it. Wait. . . Sophia thought. That's Karen! This could only mean. . . "This is Rat's phone! No other person would want a middle-aged woman on their phone case!"

She turned it around and turned it on. The lock screen background was also questionable, except it wasn't just a picture of his wife. It was a picture that was probably taken in space. The star of the picture though. . . Was a hideous purple alien.

"Why's there an alien on his lock screen? Did Karen turn into an alien or something?" Other Child asked.

"Probably not. . .? But— Wait—" Child stopped. She looked in the far corner of the picture. "IS THAT ANOTHER CHILD?!"

Sophia and Other Child looked where Child was looking and gasped. It was Another Child! Did that mean. . . He was in space! With Rat and Karen!

"Oh my gosh! Another Child's with Rat and Karen in space! And. . . He's being attacked by an alien!?" Child shouted out loud. "Oh my gosh! We have to help!"

Other Child turned to Sophia. "We've gotta go to space and save them!"

The two remaining children anxiously looked up at Sophia. They were disappointed when Sophia frowned and told them, "You guys can't go. You're already in so much danger with the bunny drama, and you could get kidnapped again!"

"But this is Another Child we're talking about!" Other Child objected. "Not to mention his father and Karen! What if they get eaten?"

Everyone was silent. Sophia looked Other Child directly in the eye and thought for a while. If they didn't get to Another Child and the others, it would be their fault if they all got eaten or died. Plus, they're probably completely defenseless out there. They could all die. . . And. . . Sophia didn't want to think about the rest.

She sighed. "Fine."

This let out a cheer from Other Child and Child.

"What's our plan?"