ALIEN ASSISTANCE

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"Eliza!?" Bonzo loudly exclaimed as we walked towards Zed and a small robot that showed Eliza on a screen. Bonzo panicked, questioning whether Eliza was imprisoned by the aliens in a robot body.

"No, the aliens didn't imprison me in this robot body, I did this!" the zombie girl declared.

"That would be kind of awesome though" I added in. Bonzo muttered about how short the robot was.

"Yeah, I would've made myself taller too" Zed agreed.

"You'd make yourselves taller? What about me? You two are already living giraffes you don't need to be any taller" I complained to my tall friends.

"At least I didn't fail my driving test Bonzo, twice" Eliza snapped.

"Ooh, too far" I snapped back at Eliza as Bonzo grumble sadly.

" Sorry, low blow. You're a genius" the zombie corrected herself " when's your application due?" she changed the subject.

"Uh today, so not totally last minute" Zed told her.

"That is totally last minute" I informed my brother with a look of bewilderment.

"So let me get this straight, the only way you can get in is as an exceptional student?" Eliza queried. We all nodded to the girl in response.

"Okay" she sighed "let me pull up your transcript".

"Hey, check it out! I'm third in our class for grade point average" Zed cheered.

"Nice man!" I congratulated but the smiles dropped off all our faces as he dropped quickly to 9th and then to 18th.

"Wait, this doesn't make sense at all. All of these grades ahead of me are..." Zed complained before a look of realization crossed his face "other worldly"

"Oh man" I sighed.

"Zed!" principal Lee called over.

"They did the entire course in twenty three minutes" the woman told us as we came over "it only took them that long cause they couldn't figure out how to work a pencil sharpener"

"Wait, seriously?" I giggled. I began laughing even more as I saw A-Li break a pencil in half in anger.

"The aliens stole all my class rankings" Zed complained.

"Well, technically they earned those spots by taking the course..." I started only to shut up when Zed glared at me.

"And beat my athletic records" Zed declared in response to Bonzo who had spoken up "wait, what?"

"Woo-ee, Zed. A-Lan just obliterated your best times" Coach declared as he began switching out Zed's plaques with ones with A-Lan's name.

"Bench press records? Blew yours away!" Coach began "high jump? He's a VFO, very identifiable flying object. He has six pack abs!" I nodded along to what coach said with an impressed look, that last one definitely caught my attention.

"I can get to eight coach, just give me time!" A-Lan called out suddenly. My face broke out into a large grin at the sight of the boy.

"And the best part? The laws of gravity do not apply to them" Coach added as everyone laughed. A-Lan then activated something on his bracelet which caused him to begin levitating high into the air.

"I would be happy to dunk on you Zed" A-Lan spoke with a grin, seemingly proud of his first trash talking attempt.

"Now monsters will never get in" Eliza complained. I was happy that the aliens were finding success here on earth but I was disappointed to hear that our chances of getting into college were slipping away. The frown that had formed on my face quickly disappeared however as my new mate walked up to us.

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