cornflakes are good

Part Twenty-One

Warning: This part mentions violence

[At Pluto]

"AHHHH!" Karen screamed as an ugly purple alien nibbled at her feet. "GOLDFISH! GET INTO THE #COUPLEGOALS SPACESHIP RIGHT NOW!"

Another Child stared at Karen and the army of aliens in disbelief. He had found the perfect family, and now they were getting mauled and eaten by aliens. Now he was going to have to go to safety, while both of them suffered. Another Child couldn't allow that.

Suddenly there was a loud, blaring noise from above. Another Child looked up and gasped. A spaceship?!

It gently landed on the icy ground of Pluto. The whirring noise stopped, and the doors opened. Out came Child, Other Child, Emily, and Sophia.

"HEY! ANOTHER CHILD!" Sophia shouted out. "It's us! Sophia! Emily! Other Child and Child!"

Another Child brightened up.

"No time to wait now," Child said, pulling a knife out of her pocket. She looked up at the evil purple alien that was just about to eat Karen. "Die, foul beasts!"

She charged at the alien and slashed it with one of her knives. A stream of green water poured from the wound. The purple alien hissed and screamed from the pain. Using this distraction to her advantage, Karen kicked the alien and transformed into her magical ninja form. She leapt out of the alien's grasp and punched it square in the face. The alien screamed in agony once more.

"Wait a second, where did Child get those knives from?" Sophia asked.

"Probably the basement," Other Child responded,

Emily raced toward the alien and whipped out her trusty nunchucks. She spun in the air and whacked it across the face with them.

"ŠKOËÔÃRĒÉĘÖEÏ!" the purple alien shrieked.

Child proceeded to make more gashes and wounds on the purple alien's body. It screamed and screamed. Finally, it realized it still had its companions. The purple alien choked and shrieked, "Fämìłÿ, ãrįšë!"

The army of aliens swiveled their heads toward the large purple alien and attacked Child and Karen.

"GAH!" Child yelped as a long purple arm wound itself around her torso. "NO!" She slashed at it, but nothing stopped the purple alien from throwing her into its mouth and chewing her into little bits.

Karen turned around and gasped. She leapt into the air and tried to grab Child, but the alien caught her and stuffed her in its mouth as well.

"CHILD!" Other Child shrieked. "KAREN!"

[Inside the alien]

Child jumped out of the way of the alien's disgusting teeth as it chewed. She tumbled and soared, but managed to keep herself from being alien chow. Suddenly Karen joined her.

"GAAH!" Karen yelped.

"Karen, watch out!" Child shouted.

The alien was chewing again. Karen nearly got crushed by its teeth, but luckily caught herself before that happened.

Karen looked around as she kept herself steady on the tongue of the monster. "Now what do we do?!"

Child gripped her knife tightly. "I've got a plan."

She jabbed the knife straight into the tongue of the beast. The mouth opened immediately and let out a horrible scream.

"Come on Karen!" Child shouted.

Karen grabbed her hand and ran toward the opening, but the mouth closed again so quickly that the force pushed Karen and Child back into the mouth.

"AHHH!" they both screamed.

Child slipped on the tongue and fell down the throat of the disgusting alien.

"CHILD!" Karen shouted. She was pulled down as well and both fell to their doom.

[Meanwhile outside]

"MANAGER ARMY! ATTACK!" Sophia screamed.

On command, the manager army ran toward the hideous beast and fought with all their might. However, despite the various streams of green water coming from many parts of its body, the alien did not budge. It smacked the manager army and in one blow, sent it soaring through space.

"CRUD!" Sophia yelled. "EVERYONE! INTO THE SPACESHIP!" She grabbed Another and Other Child's hands.

"WHAT ABOUT CHILD?!" Other Child shouted to her with a worrying tone. She looked back at the foul beast that was aggressively chewing whatever was in its mouth and gulped.

"We don't have any time," Sophia said, "we need to come back later when we're prepared. Let's go!"

The evil alien looked at Other Child and smacked its lips, satisfied with its meal. She tugged at Sophia's grasp, but she couldn't go and save Child. "CHILD!!!" she screamed. As if that would do anything.

Eventually everyone piled into the #segsy spaceship. The children sadly watched as the doors closed and wondered about Child and Karen's safety.

Just then, the purple alien started gagging and wheezing. Other Child and Another Child looked in its direction. What was happening? Would it. . . Would it possibly throw Karen and Child and Rat up?

The purple alien vomited an anxious and tired looking Rat.

"RAT!" Another Child said gleefully.

"Wait, what?!" Emily said. She was focusing on the #segsy dashboard, preparing for liftoff. She turned around, but the spaceship instantly took off and was heading quickly back to Earth. "Rat was there?!"

"We've gotta turn back!" Other Child said.

"We can't do that right now," Emily said, frantically looking at the jumble of multicolored buttons on the dashboard. It wasn't that she didn't want to save Rat, but it would just be too much work to turn a speeding spaceship around and fly back to Pluto. "We'll come back. Once we have proper equipment."

Other Child frowned.

Everyone sat in silence for a long while. Sure, they were going to come back later and retrieve Child, Karen, and Rat. But, who's saying that they'll be there when they came back?

[Meanwhile in an unknown location]

It was dark. It had been for a long time. 

She was bored, but had no strength to stand up and walk around. Besides, she'd seen everything in that little place. She held up her hand and touched the cold, sticky wall. There was no food anymore. It needed to be restocked. But she wasn't sure if they were going to come back anytime soon. 

They had been gone for a while now. They usually left for short periods of times, like an hour or so. But it had been so long now. When were they going to come back? Did they actually abandon her now?

No. . . They couldn't have just left her to die here. . . But. . .

She dropped her hand and clutched her stomach. It let out a low growl. She needed food. But where? There were not even any bugs around that she could pop in her mouth. Miraculously, there was a creaking noise of a door opening.

A stream of light appeared as the door opened. There they were. They didn't abandon her! And they were holding grocery bags of delicious-looking food. Her mouth watered. 

As she tried to stand up, they said, "Eat up. I found a friend of yours. It's about time you reunite with them."