CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE, principal from another planet

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"Hey, what are you guys doing?" Bree and Emilia walked out the front door to see Donald, Adam and Chase huddled around a telescope before the latter answered. "Lookin' at the Lunar Eclipse."

At his response, the girls looked up to the sky and gasped. "Whoa, cool! Let me see!" Bree said and shoved Chase out of the way, making him fall to the ground with a groan. "Oh, come on!"

Emilia sighed before going over to help Chase off the floor as Adam pointed out. "Now that's worth watching." He chuckled.

"Seriously?"

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With the team now back in the house, they sat on the couch with snacks filling their mouths, when their eyes were pulled towards Leo who walked in while talking to a camera that was filming all parts of the house.

"Leo Dooley's video log of the Lunar Eclipse. I'm recording tonight's events as they happen and in real time, no editing, no filters and no special effects." Leo narrated before turning the camera around to Donald who was in the middle of cracking his back. "That's right, folks. He's as old as he appears."

"Hey, what are you filming?" Chase asked and his girlfriend looked at him with her brows furrowed before playfully reminding him. "He just told us. Were you not listening?"

"Oh—" Chase stopped himself before sticking his tongue out at her like a child, making Emilia and Bree laugh before turning to Leo as he opened his mouth before explaining. "The bizarre events that happen during Lunar Eclipses. Lakes go dry, rivers turn red—"

"People won't stop talking." Adam interrupted.

Donald raised his hands in the air, looking at his step-son as he said. "Leo, please tell me you don't buy into all that lame folklore."

"It's not folklore, it's true." Leo told him. "During the last eclipse, I saw a bird fly backwards and no one believed me."

"It's not that we didn't believe you. We just don't care about the things you say." The Davenport girl corrected awkwardly before Donald had got Leo's attention again. "Leo, an eclipse is an astronomical event, okay? It's not witchcraft, it's science. Nothing bad is gonna happen tonight."

To their surprise, Perry quickly ran inside before shutting the door behind her. "And I spoke too soon." Donald corrected.

"Quick, everybody hide." She rushed further into the living room with a warning. "Get down, get down, get down, get down." And she jumped next to the couch to hide behind the arm of it as Chase was first to ask. "Principal Perry, what's wrong?"

"It might be faster to ask her what's right." Emilia scoffed, her words being directed towards Chase before Perry stood up from the floor and gained their attention as she started off. "Okay, I was up on my neighbour's roof borrowing their solar panels... when I saw it."

"Saw what?" Leo looked more intrigued at Perry's story as she continued to recite. "The spacecraft. The aliens are using the Lunar Eclipse to hide their spaceship and invade Earth."

Leo, who had his mouth open wide in shock, then turned to Adam who recalled. "Yeah, I read about this in line at the supermarket. It's true. Aliens live among us. Oh, and Ryan Seacrest has a great meatloaf recipe. The secret— crackers."

"You see?" Leo gestured to Adam. "You see, I told you. Weird things are gonna happen tonight." He affirmed. "First, Principal Perry sees a spaceship, and then, Adam claims to have read something."

"Okay, that one I can agree on." Emilia hummed in thought.

Donald sighed, still not believing anything about Leo's theory on the bizarre events that take place during Lunar Eclipses. "Look, there are no such things as aliens. Okay? It's all made up. There's a reason it's called Science Fiction."

"Hey, I know UFO's." Perry contradicted. "I spent a lot of nights sleeping alone in the desert, and not just because my family dumped me there and drove off. I definitely saw a spaceship tonight."

"Just like the time you 'definitely' saw Bigfoot, and it was just your toes in the mirror?" Chase reminded the woman.

"It was dark!" She snapped in defence and Chase held his arms out in fake surrender before letting out a 'sorry'. "Look, I know what I saw, and when the aliens invade, I'll be safely barricaded in your underground lab." Perry informed them before running out the room."

"Well, on the bright side, a girl apart from Emilia actually showed up to Chase's party." An amused Adam pointed out, getting a look from the couple.

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The team walked into the underground lab where Perry said she would be and they stopped in their tracks at the sound of her voice. "Don't anybody move." She called out from inside the fort in the corner that she made.

"Why not?" Donald asked, rolling his eyes before Perry explained to the group. "I wanna remember exactly what you look like before you get ripped apart by Aliens."

This received a wide-eyed look from Adam before his sister opened her mouth and asked. "Do you have any redeeming qualities?"

Perry moved from hiding in her fort, but was still stood behind it when she looked at the group and rhetorically asked. "Is having violent mood swings considered redeeming?" When she didn't get a vocal response, she snapped. "I asked you a question!"

"Okay, I'm going to put this whole alien nonsense to rest once and for all with real science." Donald typed into his computer, showing everyone the screen as he explained. "This is NASA's satellite feed of the Lunar Eclipse, and as you maniacs can see—"

"Wait." Leo interrupted and pointed towards his computer screen. "Something just moved in front of the moon. Look, right there in the shadow." He pointed out, which evidently gave him something he needed to make his friends start believing his theory as Emilia agreed with him. "I can't believe I'm gonna say this because normally he isn't most of the time, but Leo's right."

"It's the spaceship." Perry identified to the group before elaborating. "Like an infected mole, I can spot 'em a mile away, or a foot away since I got a chunk of 'em on my hands."

Ew.

Above all that, Donald continued to wave it off as if it was nothing, being the only one to have not changed his mind on the alien theory. "I'm sure there's a simple explanation for that. It's probably just space debris."

However, Perry shook her head, disagreeing with the Davenport. "No, trust me." She insisted and carried on. "I watch a lot of alien documentaries. This is the first phase of their plan."

The Dooley boy rushed to stand in front of Perry before eagerly wondering. "What plan? Talk, and look right into the lens. Just direct your breath that way." He pointed in the direction behind her.

"First, they hover and analyse the planet. Then, they infect someone and use their body as a host to multiply and then—" Perry was interrupted by Donald who appeared next to her before he spoke to the camera. "The movie ends, and everybody goes home. Good night, crazy."

He started guiding Perry out the room before Leo stopped him. "No, let her finish." He pressed and looked at the woman so she could continue. "And then, the infected human lays alien eggs, and in a few days, they take over the planet."

Leo and Adam gasped dramatically, making Bree scoff in disbelief. "You cannot be taking this seriously. Why are you gasping?"

Adam shrugged. "I enjoy a good gasp. I'm a gasper."

All of a sudden, a loud rumbling sound was heard and Emilia backed away from Chase, now looking concerned when she noticed him clutching his stomach with a groan.

"What was that?"

"My stomach is killing me. Must've been all those astronaut pellets I ate." Chase groaned, however, Perry interpreted that as something else as she stepped towards him in theory. "Or you were infected by an alien!"

Leo and Adam gasped once again, leaving Emilia and Bree looking incredulous as Chase defended himself. "I was not infected by an alien!"

"How can you be sure? You were gone for fifteen minutes." Leo pressed.

"Aha!"

"I was in the bathroom." Chase explained, raising his voice slightly as he shouted. "Should I invite you next time?"

His stomach began rumbling again, causing more worry in Emilia when she turned to him. "Yeah, that doesn't sound so good. Bubs, are you sure you're feeling okay?" She asked.

"I'm telling you." Perry started to back away from Chase in fear. "It's only a matter of time before his stomach explodes, and five eggs pop out. Six if he's the Queen."

"So you think that Chase here is just gonna start squirtin' out alien squid babies?" Bree looked too amused to even consider that, on the other hand, Adam started crying. "I'm gonna be an uncle."

"Well, congrats Em." Bree placed her hand on the girl's shoulder, jokily saying. "You're gonna be a parent."

Emilia widened her eyes. "Huh?"

"There's only one way to find out what's going on in there. I'm gonna need two clamps, a roll of paper towels, and a machete." Perry listed off and charged towards Chase who screamed before running out of the lab.

"Emilia, help me!"

"Always the one saving people." Emilia muttered to herself and sighed before running out of there with the others following behind.

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"Leave me alone!" Chase ran into the living room and stopped on the further end of the couch, with Perry on the other side, holding her arms out in front of her. "I'm not gonna hurt you. I'm just gonna split you open," The others finally arrived and stopped behind Perry. "and destroy the alien babies inside you."

"No!" Chase yelled as Emilia ran ahead and stood in front of him and he moved to hide behind her as the rest of them had grabbed onto Perry to stop her from attacking the boy.

"Chase was not infected by an alien." Donald told the woman. "Settle down, Captain Kirk." But that still wasn't going to work. "Hey, I've been around enough truck stops at 3:00 am to know when something weird's goin' on. And trust me, there's a bunch of ET's living in his little boy guts." She rushed past Donald and pushed Emilia aside so she could tackle Chase and the others instantly went to try and pull her off him.

But they seemed to be struggling. "I don't know what's more shocking— Perry thinking Chase is an alien, or three bionic people struggling to subdue her!" Bree yelled, until Perry was finally thrown away from them.

"Hey. What if Chase really did get taken over by aliens?" Adam panicked. "They're gonna say 'Take me to your leader', but he is our leader. Oh, this is so confusing."

"Stop it. Okay, you're being ridiculous. No one is an Alien. Everything's fine." Donald continued to reassure the group before Emilia, with her brows furrowed, spoke up. "If everything is fine, then why does she have green stuff oozing out of her ears?"

The Hunter gestured towards Perry who wiped it off her ear before examining the substance in her hand. "It's probably just another ear infection from that robust lake bacteria. Every Sunday, me and the gals go bare-hand trout wrangling."

"Ew. It's dripping all over the floor." Chase wore a disgusted expression, as did the others, apart from Adam who declared. "I want to lick it." He stepped forward but couldn't go any further as his siblings, Emilia and Leo had stopped him.

"Principal Perry." Donald stopped in front of the woman. "I'm very concerned about you... making a mess in my house. Out. Let's go." He started to push her out of the house. "I'm fine!" She called in attempt to stay before turning around to face them and shocked them when she yelled out in a demonic voice. "This planet is ours now!"

"That's probably just the bacteria talking." Bree stammered nervously, more reassuring herself than the others before they watched as green goo started to sputter out of Perry's mouth.

"You were saying?" Emilia, this time, hid behind Chase with her hand gripping his.

"Everybody calm down. There is no such thing as aliens." Donald again said, but was now hoping it were true before he turned to Perry who roared at him, sending him falling back onto the couch.

Instantly, the team had moved to hide behind the couch as they watched the woman speak in what they assumed to be alien language, causing Leo to turn to Donald and ask. "Got a scientific explanation for that?"

"Well, it is cold and flu season." Donald chuckled nervously before a giant tail had shockingly left Perry's mouth and slap green goo across his face, leaving him in more distaste.

"Still think it's a cold?" Bree shouted at the adult in the room who was now panicking. "No, I'm on board! She's an alien. Emilia, do something!"

Emilia shook her head. "I'm not going near that freaking thing!"

"My spawn will wipe out humankind!" Perry once again, declared in a demonic voice, until her body shook and the woman looked at the group and chuckled. "Hey, why is everybody staring at me?"

"You have a little schmutz on your... everywhere."

"Okay, obviously, Principal Perry has been taken over by an alien." Chase started recapping. "She doesn't realise that it's wrestling for control of her body."

Adam furrowed his brows. "Wow, the aliens want her? Man, how bad are things on that planet?"

"Uh, I'm starving." Perry told them. "Feel like I'm eating for six." She clutched her stomach before turning around, not hearing Donald panic. "She's eating for six. She's gonna have alien babies. I don't wanna see that. Don't make me see that!"

Her body shook once again and she stormed over to the refrigerator. "Uh, family meeting!" Chase called out and they all ran over to the other side of the living room, when Donald panicked. "This is bad. This is bad. This is really, really bad. What do we do?!"

"Well, I guess we can check panicking off the list!"

"Okay. All right, we need to subdue Perry until we can find a way to get the alien out." Chase told the others before they turned around, looking in the direction of a loud roar to see Perry throwing all the pizza to the floor before beginning to eat the box.

"Okay, I'm pretty sure the alien wants out of her, too. Okay, it cannot be good in there." Bree said in worry and Emilia agreed with her.

"Aliens exist?" The teenagers turned to Donald as he started rambling. "Everything I know about the universe is wrong. But, if I can't trust science, I don't even know what's real anymore. Am I even good looking?"

Emilia groaned. "Really?!"

"I'm a little bit more concerned about the way she looks!" Bree yelled as she pointed towards Perry who had new added features on her face, causing them all to scream.

"All right, we have to get her down to the lab and get her trapped in a capsule. Maybe then we can find a way to save her." Chase instructed.

"Wait. If Aliens and Perry are wrestling for control of her body, maybe Perry'll win." Adam thought out loud, and they all looked back to see alien Perry take a bite out of the plate before she spat it out.

"Does it look like she's winning?" The auburn haired girl rhetorically questioned.

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After failing to capture Perry in a capsule or even trying multiple ways to weaken her, the team had ended up back in the living room where they were running from Alien Perry again, when they stopped in their tracks at Adam's voice.

"Guys, wait! My cooking show's on." He smiled as he picked up the remote to turn it on, when he was interrupted by a growl. Reminding himself of the situation, Adam corrected. "I'll record it." He dropped the remote before he followed everyone else as they continued to escape from Perry.

Returning to the lab, everyone apart from Donald were hiding behind the fort, and with the camera still in Leo's hand, he was able to film everything, including Donald who had ran in through the tunnels, screaming. "Will somebody please do something? Daddy's scared."

Emilia huffed before standing up from inside the fort. "Would you quit being such a big baby?" At that, the ones behind the fort, looked back to see Perry roaring at them, and they all screamed before continuing their escape.

As if they were going back and forth between the living room and the lab, finally, the team found Perry on the ground, asleep.

"Chowing down on all those plates must've really tuckered her out. She's sleeping. Now's our chance to trap her." Chase whispered, reminding them of their opportunity.

"I have an idea." Bree mentioned before Leo had interjected, holding out his phone and he began to step forward while saying. "I just wanna get one quick close up." He ignored the objections coming from the group. "When the creature is at rest, it almost seems gentle." Leo loved to crouch down in front of her.

"Leo, be careful." Adam whispered, warning Leo who shushed him. "Don't wake her up."

Bad idea.

Alien Perry woke up at that moment, scaring Leo even more as she grabbed onto him and started pulling him into the tunnels. "Stop her, we can't let her escape!" Chase declared and they all went to step forward, only to stop as Perry suddenly began vomiting green goo in front of them.

And her and Leo disappeared. Although, it wasn't a tough obstacle that was blocking them since the three bionic teenagers carefully stepped over the goo, unlike Emilia who had literally jumped over it before running out of the lab and after Leo as soon as they made sure Donald was with them.

Finally, they had ended up at school, where they found Leo stuck to the wall with alien green goo strapping him down.

"Leo, what are you doing?" Chase whispered.

"Oh you know, just chilling. Hanging out in an alien web, waiting for the alien eggs to hatch and eat me!" Leo shouted the last three words.

The four bionic teenagers turned around to stare at the three alien eggs in shock. "Where did those come from?" Bree asked.

"Well, it wasn't the Easter Bunny!" Leo snapped at the brunette, making Emilia point a finger at him before scolding. "Okay, that tone is gonna get you nowhere."

Noticing Perry coming out of her office, the four teenagers moved to hide behind one of the pillars as Leo worryingly pointed out. "Those things are gonna hatch soon, and when they do, I'm dinner!"

"No, dinner was hours ago. Technically, you'll be a midnight snack." Adam corrected, receiving a look from Leo.

"Wait!" Chase interrupted when he came up with an idea and told them. "Maybe we can keep her from multiplying. Adam, use your heat vision to take out the pods."

Adam did as his brother said and aimed his heat vision towards the pods which melted the eggs, causing Alien Perry to scream.

Suddenly, a light beam came shining down from above and surrounded Perry who spoke in an alien language. Donald, who had been hiding in the trash bin, peeked his head out to see what was happening. "The mother ship must be able to sense danger. It's calling the alien home."

Alien Perry was sent up into the sky, causing Leo to be let out from the alien web. "I'm free!" He smiled in relief.

"Wow! I can't believe they took Perry." Adam was still looking up where Perry had just gone, before followed by Donald who spoke up from his hiding spot. "She's gone forever."

"I'm sure we'll miss her someday." Leo chimed in before the light beam appeared once again, and Perry fell to the ground.

"Hey, look. They left a note." Chase walked over to Perry before grabbing the note off her back to read it. "It's in an alien language. I'll do my best to translate. 'If this thing represents humankind, you can keep your planet. We're moving onto Mars'."

"Wow! They really are a higher intelligence."

THE END.

The next day, they all crowded around Leo at the computer after reviewing his movie that they had made together.

"There you go." Leo smiled. "Bionic family versus Alien Principal. What do you think?"

"I loved it. Well done, Leo." The Hunter girl said with a proud smile before the rest of them joined in on the compliments.

"Great job, Leo. That is guaranteed to win this year's amateur sci-fi festival."

"Perry as an alien, yes. Four bionic teens, I don't buy it."

"You know who really nailed it, though?" Chase began to say. "Mr Davenport. I totally believed you were scared."

"Well, I am quite the actor." The Davenport man bragged. "But in real life, it's gonna take a lot more than some alien to scare me— Oh!" At his interruption, he shrieked in fear when Leo held out a fake alien hand in front of him.

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