《ALIENS IN THUNDER PARK》 Chapter 1-6 Chapter 1: Pacific Village The year is 2025 and the small coastal suburb of Pacific Village bustled with activity. Cars sped down the street, parent¡¯s were walking through the park with strollers, the trucks made deliveries to the local stores. The town was quite small, and located just north of Venice beach and the Santa Monica Pier. There was a highschool in the small town, a large amount of residential houses, and a few small shopping centres. On the edge of the small town, tucked into the border of the national forest, was an abandoned amusement park. Thunder Park had been retired in the late 1980¡¯s and had become overgrown with weeds. Occasionally the park would appear in the newspapers as people reflected on the rising costs of rent in Los Angeles suburbs. The retired theme park was closed to the public, most people headed to the Santa Monica Pier instead. The waterslides of Thunder Park were drained, the roller coaster tracks had rusted and collapsed in some sections and the haunted train coaster actually looked haunted. Cobwebs covered Thunder Park. The gravel parking lot was chained closed. On the other side of the town was Pacific Village High School. The campus was massive, and had many different modern buildings. Inside a senior¡¯s chemistry classroom, the teacher was giving a presentation to a class filled with students. ¡°The compounds were combined to create gunpowder, this was first accomplished in the 9th century, by China.¡± The teacher said sitting in her chair, her eyes kept darting to the screen of her computer, where she was watching a soap opera with subtitles in a small window. At the back of the classroom, students were talking to each other quietly. ¡°My brother was talking about this place, an abandoned theme park. He reckons it¡¯s a mad spot to bring a girl.¡± Michael said to his friend Luke. ¡°You should invite Elise.¡± Mike said with a wink. Luke looked across the classroom at a blonde girl. She was Luke''s crush and one of his closest friends. ¡°Hey Elise,¡± Luke whispered. She was writing something and didn¡¯t hear, so Luke threw a pencil at her. It hit her on the leg and clattered on the floor. She picked it up and looked behind her. ¡°What?¡± She asked with a curious smile. ¡°Come to this theme park with us.¡± Luke said. ¡°We¡¯re going to the abandoned theme park after class.¡± ¡°The what?¡± She asked. ¡°The abandoned theme park, it¡¯s in the jungle.¡± Mike whispered. ¡°Thunder Park.¡± Luke said. ¡°I don¡¯t know what you¡¯re talking about.¡± She said. ¡°The gunpowder was used in bombs, and then the first guns arrived around twelve hundred AD. They were simple handheld cannons. Write this down guys, it will be on the test.¡± The teacher said, the characters on her drama show had just kissed passionately on a cliffside. Luke opened the Google images search for Thunder Park and started showing her the photos. Some retro photos with faded colours had been uploaded, showing the heyday of the park. The walkways were bustling with people dressed in denim outfits and wearing rock band tees. The other newer high resolution photos showed drone footage and explorer photos. The park had lots of graffiti in the pictures. ¡°Cool,¡± Elise said. ¡°I¡¯ll come with you guys.¡± She handed Luke his phone. Luke smiled and looked out the window, waiting for the bell. After class, Luke waited in the parking lot for his friends to show up. He drove an old pickup. The truck had four wheel drive and a solid body tub. It was dented, and had some paint scratches, but the clear coat was still shiny, and the glossy red paint had not faded. Michael arrived with another friend, Matt, a footballer. Elise arrived after that. ¡°Glad you¡¯re coming today, Elise. Are you excited?¡± Luke said, smiling warmly. ¡°I don¡¯t know. I literally don¡¯t know.¡± She said, a little confused by it all. Brian, another footballer, and Troy, an african american footballer arrived from the school doors next. ¡°What¡¯s poppin, bitches?¡± Troy said, dapping up Mike. ¡°Bouta get blazed and listen to some D12,¡± Mike said, pulling out a small bag of weed. ¡°Hell yeah,¡± Troy said, and he pulled out a lighter and started flicking the sparks at people. ¡°Yo, you got the bluetooth speaker, Brian?¡± Matt asked. ¡°Bluetooth speaker, right here. Fully charged, and Luke is banned from the Aux.¡± Brian said, and the whole group of boys laughed. ¡°What, why?¡± Luke asked. ¡°Because you play Chicago, bro, and it¡¯s too slow. Listen to this song,¡± Brian said and started looking through his phone playlists. ¡°Chicago is a good fucking band.¡± Luke said, he looked at Elise and she shrugged. Aint Nuttin But Music by D12 started to blast from Brian¡¯s bluetooth speaker and some passing highschool girls looked at the group of boys in disdain. The music spurred on the boys and they started bobbing their bodies to the drum beat. ¡°Alright get in guys.¡± Luke said. ¡°Elise gets to ride shotgun,¡± He said, and looked in her eyes. ¡°Nah, why bro,¡± Mike said, throwing his body over the door to the passenger side entrance. ¡°Mike.¡± Luke said, and he stared at him with a bizarre face. Mike understood. ¡°Whatever, Elise, it¡¯s all yours.¡± He said, he then opened the rear door and hopped inside. ¡°We don¡¯t have enough seats for everyone.¡± Luke said, doing a headcount. ¡°I can take my car,¡± Brian said. He pointed to a tiny sedan. It had a mismatched colour bumper, but it was fuel economical. ¡°Come on, Black Mamba.¡± He said, grabbing Troy by the head playfully. ¡°Fuck yeah, riding shotgun.¡± Troy said. They got into the sedan and drove away. Luke started his car and loaded up his passengers. They started driving through the small town towards the outskirts. They drove for a short time and then arrived at the chained parking lot and parked in the driveway. ¡°My service is so bad here,¡± Elise said, noticing her bars had dropped to almost zero. Her newsfeed had stopped loading on her phone. ¡°Oh no, now you have to live in the moment,¡± Luke joked sarcastically. Luke got out of his car and walked to Brian and Troy. They were standing by the chain. Brian pulled some bolt cutters from the backseat of his car and looked at the assembled teenagers. ¡°Ladies and gentlemen.¡± Brian said confidently, ¡°Let¡¯s go ride some roller coasters.¡± He clipped the chain and it fell to the ground. The teenagers got back into their cars and drove into the carpark. They parked on the edge of the concrete, close to the forest. The two cars were the only cars in sight. They got out of the cars and locked the doors. They walked towards the gates of the abandoned theme park. Troy stopped them. ¡°Hey guys, wait,¡± He said. ¡°I gotta wait for Kayla.¡± ¡°Whipped!¡± Matt yelled. ¡°Hey, at least I¡¯ve got a girlfriend.¡± Troy said calmly. ¡°Yeah but you¡¯re always hanging out with her, you never even go online anymore.¡± Matt said. ¡°Yeah well, I hate that game anyway. I liked the last one way better.¡± Troy said. ¡°Maybe you need to touch some grass.¡± The boys laughed. They arrived at the locked front gates. They looked like jail bars. They were locked with a short chain. Brian used the bolt cutters again and the boys rolled the gates open. ¡°Wait here, Kayla will be here soon.¡± Troy said. ¡°Well, I¡¯m going to start rolling a joint,¡± Matt said. He pulled out his bag of leaf and inspected it. He had some finely chopped green and a lighter inside. He pulled a rolling paper from his pocket and started to make a big jay. ¡°Hey, Elise, did you listen to that song that I sent?¡± Luke asked. ¡°Which one?¡± She responded. ¡°It¡¯s the link I sent you last night.¡± He said. ¡°I¡¯ll look at it now.¡± She pulled out her phone and started to open her messages. ¡°It¡¯s alright, just look at it later.¡± He smiled. ¡°What are you doing this weekend, anyways?¡± ¡°Probably just stay at home and not do my chemistry assignment.¡± She said, ¡°It¡¯s not like I¡¯m going to be a scientist.¡± ¡°I¡¯m almost finished with mine, I can send it to you and you can copy it but change the words.¡± ¡°Maybe,¡± she said, ¡°so how long are we staying here?¡± ¡°Maybe nine or maybe ten?¡± Luke said. ¡°We normally go to a park and smoke and listen to music. Then we walk to the burger place for some snacks.¡± ¡°Are we going to get in trouble?¡± She asked. ¡°Nah, not at all,¡± Luke said, ¡°We¡¯re highschool kids, Mike¡¯s brother brings his girlfriend here all the time. I don¡¯t think this place has tough security, they just don¡¯t care at all.¡± ¡°Ok well, could you take me home if it gets too late?¡± Elise said. She was unsure whether she should be there. ¡°Definitely.¡± He said, smiling at her. A small light blue hatchback car rolled into the parking lot and parked next to the other cars. Kayla got out of the car. She was a blonde girl with fake nails and she was dressed in jeans, and a singlet under Troy¡¯s oversized letterman highschool jacket. ¡°Hi baby!¡± She squealed. She wandered over to the group, kissed Troy on the lips and they started making out. Everyone else rolled their eyes and they all started walking inside the abandoned park. Chapter 2: The Red Bullet Coaster. The teenagers wandered around the park, the sun had gotten quite low. At sunset they found a park bench next to the Red Bullet Coaster, the largest ride in the park. They sat down and looked at the rusty steel beams supporting the red painted steel track. Some roller coaster carriages lay in the grass by the bottom of the track. The park was filled with weeds, but it was maintained well enough. There were locks and chains on most of the buildings and the tallest weeds were sprayed with poison around the main areas of the park. Vines had completely covered some of the buildings and rides. They were in a small food court area around a green mossy fountain. The fountain had stagnant water in the bottom, with tadpoles swimming in the black water. Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. They had started to smoke and play some music. Everyone smoked a little and they passed the joint around. Some of the newer smokers coughed a lot. Elise only smoked a few drags because she was in a strange place and wanted to keep her wits about in case of security guards and Luke only smoked a few puffs because he wanted to be safe on the road. The highschoolers were joking and laughing long into the night and they decided to start a small campfire around eight. They started the fire in a circle of broken footpath stones and used scrap wood from a skip bin they¡¯d found behind one of the attractions. The bluetooth speaker was playing loud music across the quiet park. Drum and bass tracks bounced as the highschoolers mimed dj-ing on decks. They inhaled the smoke of the weed and felt their stress of life alleviate. Luke grabbed the phone from Matt and the group booed. ¡°Here we go, mister Chicago.¡± Brian joked. ¡°No, I got this one!¡± Luke said. He pressed on the song¡¯s picture and Bob Marley - Three Little Birds began to play. The opening notes were met with a chorus of cheers from the assembled boys. They all joined in singing around the fire. ¡°Don¡¯t worry- about a thing!¡± They sang. ¡°Cause every little thing - is gonna be alright!¡± They bobbed to the sound of the reggae music and were stunned when something massive flew overhead. Right above them a metallic craft, a spaceship, crashed into the supports of the Red Bullet Coaster and impacted the ground. The spaceship landed with a huge blast of dirt and debris. The cool sounds of Bob Marley echoed over the quiet scenery. The crash had started small fires on the ground in spots. The impact crater filled the area with smoke. Matt stepped closer and saw something emerge from the crash. It looked like a giant wolf, it was missing all of it¡¯s fur. It stood on two hind legs and Matt realised it was almost 12 feet tall. The wolf creature looked around and then scampered into the smoke and disappeared from view. ¡°D-Did you guys see that fucking thing?¡± Matt hollered. ¡°Yeah,¡± Luke said. ¡°We should go,¡± Elise said to Luke. He noticed she was scared. ¡°Yeah,¡± Luke said, ¡°We¡¯ll take a couple of photos then we¡¯ll go, right guys?¡± Luke said, trying to force them to agree. ¡°Fine, a couple of photos.¡± Troy said. They all started to vlog the incident. ¡°Yoo! Some crazy shit just went down at the, uh, The Rocket Cola Theme Park in Pacific Village. Bruh this shit is unreal. Fucking Alien Spaceship type Shit, cuh.¡± Troy said into his selfie camera. He posed with the alien ship in the background. ¡°Hey guys, this is Matt Harvey, I am here next to what might be humanity¡¯s first contact with aliens. We are at 102 Pacific Royal Road. Me and my friends were exploring an abandoned theme park when this thing literally crashed right in front of us.¡± Matt said to his camera. The alien ship also smoked in the background. Matt didn¡¯t realise he¡¯d caught the creature stalking him in the fog. The teenagers then ran and got into their cars and sped away as fast as possible. Chapter 3: The Monster From Outer Space Luke drove Elise home. He could tell she was upset. ¡°What the fuck just happened?¡± Luke asked. ¡°What the fuck came out of that spaceship?¡± She asked Luke. ¡°What the fuck just happened?¡± Luke asked again. ¡°Mike. Why do I ever listen to Mike? His ideas are shit, I could have gone home, played some video games and had a normal fucking day.¡± Luke vented. ¡°I¡¯m too stoned for this.¡± Elise said. ¡°I¡¯m scared.¡± ¡°It¡¯s okay. I¡¯ll drive you home.¡± Luke said. He went quiet and they stopped at a traffic light. He put his phone password in, then started playing a song over bluetooth. Elise laughed as ¡®If You Leave Me Now¡¯ by Chicago started playing. ¡°I love this song,¡± Luke said. ¡°What was that song you sent me, by the way?¡± She asked. ¡°Oh it¡¯s this one,¡± Luke pulled to the side of the quiet road and started to play ¡®Listen To Your Heart¡¯ by Roxette. He started driving again. He started singing to her as they drove home. He¡¯d rehearsed every word. She laughed and went along with it. She couldn¡¯t stop smiling. Luke was being very energetic with his karaoke. As he sang, the quiet town of Pacific Village glowed in the night. A security guard arrived at the driveway and saw the broken chain. ¡°Fucking kids.¡± The fat man said. He drove his car further into the parking lot and right up to the entrance. He grabbed a slice of pizza from the box on his passenger seat and wandered into the park. The gates were still wide open. The man saw a lot of smoke ahead and returned to the boot of his car. He grabbed a fire extinguisher from the back and started to walk inside. ¡°Poseidon¡¯s Mother.¡± He said. ¡°What the fucking crikey bingo fuckin bullshit is this shit?¡± The old man cursed. He looked at the crashed spaceship and put out a few of the stray fires. He wandered up to the spaceship and it towered above him. He heard a noise behind him. The security guard turned around and spotted something tall in the smoke near him. He cursed and started to run for his car. The monster started to chase him. The monster ran on all fours. It had grey skin and a long snout. It had sharp teeth that bulged from its jaw, a grotesque assortment of slimy yellow fangs. The eyes were completely black, like a shark. It rushed at the security guard and attacked. The guard turned around to defend himself with the fire extinguisher. The beast bit down on the compressed container and the extinguisher foam escaped from the bite marks. The beast dropped the extinguisher and the guard shot twice. The alien wolf grabbed the man in its jaw and twisted. It used its front claws to hold him down and ripped the security guard¡¯s head clean off. The four legged creature then stood up on two legs and dragged the body towards the crash site. The security guard¡¯s car was still running, the driver door was open and the cab light was on. The pizza was still warm. Chapter 4: Matt¡¯s Stupid Fucking Idea ¡°We¡¯re going to be rich,¡± Matt whispered to the boys. They were all gathered by a park bench during lunchtime. Some of them were sitting on the tabletop. They were all drinking a different coloured energy drink. ¡°Teacher!¡± Troy whispered. The students all hid their energy drinks until the teacher walked past. ¡°We have to go back there and get more footage.¡± Matt said again. ¡°If we post this shit on the internet we¡¯ll be famous. Like, dude I gotta pay for college somehow. The gods are giving us this one. We just go in, take a few pictures, and go back out. The smoke would have cleared, and we can fly my dad¡¯s drone above it. We can sell them to the news.¡± ¡°I¡¯m in,¡± Troy said. ¡°I¡¯m not a pussy.¡± ¡°I¡¯m not a pussy either!¡± Luke said. ¡°I¡¯m not a pussy either,¡± Brian said. ¡°I¡¯m not a pussy,¡± Mike said. ¡°Good,¡± Troy responded. ¡°Good,¡± Brian said. ¡°Good,¡± Luke said. ¡°And I want a piece of the spaceship for my wall.¡± Matt said, with a determined tone. ¡°Me too, dude that would be sick!¡± Brian shouted. The boys all laughed and began to plan their night. A different teacher walked past and looked at them suspiciously. The boys all hid their energy drinks from view. Luke got a text. Elise: Heyy, I was wondering what you¡¯re doin tonite? ?? Luke smiled and started typing. Later that night, Luke, Matt, Michael, Brian, Troy, Elise and Kayla drove into the parking lot of Thunder Park in two cars. The sun was about to set, they had half an hour of daylight left. Luke saw the security car and they cursed. They turned back around and drove away. The security car had its lights turned on and it was still running. The driver¡¯s door was wide open. They drove away and parked up the street. Luke got out of his car and walked to Brian¡¯s window. ¡°The security guard is right there.¡± Luke said. ¡°His car is still running.¡± ¡°Maybe he¡¯s going to leave soon.¡± Brian said. ¡°Maybe the monster got him.¡± Troy joked. He didn¡¯t get a laugh from anybody. ¡°C¡¯mon guys, I¡¯m just saying, cause we saw that.¡± Troy just stopped talking mid sentence. The boys walked a little while to the gravel driveway to the Thunder park. They were dressed in black clothes now. They had planned to be more discreet. Most of their clothes still had logos. They waited for a while. The sun had gone down now. The car was still running, and nobody returned to attend it. The security car, a twenty year old sedan, was licking the last petrol from the tank. It tried to keep going on fumes but it sputtered and the engine stopped. The lights dimmed considerably as the battery started to die too. ¡°What the fuck?¡± Troy whispered. Matt started crouch-walking towards the car. He looked strange trying to crouch and run across the wide open carpark. The rest of the group started to follow him. They appeared in the red glow of the car¡¯s tail lights and saw a grimy scene. Blood covered the ground. Matt picked up a fire extinguisher and saw the bite marks. ¡°Shit.¡± Matt said. He looked through the holes in the steel cylinder and could see light on the other side. The other boys looked at the blood and goosebumps flared on their spines. Elise grabbed Brian¡¯s arm and Troy hugged Kayla. Luke looked at Elise and Brian and felt odd. He walked forward towards the spaceship. Matt followed closely behind Luke, and Michael inspected the interior of the car. He looked at the pizza and saw it was already quite old. Michael ran after Luke and Matt. Luke turned on his flashlight and approached the crash site. They saw some small fires still burning in a small vicinity. The dust cloud had settled. In a deep crater was a large steel spacecraft. It had a very strange marking that looked like an alien language. It was propelled by very four large jet engines that could rotate and spin freely. There seemed to be a glass window cockpit at the front of the spacecraft. Luke and Matt wandered to the front. It was half-buried in dirt, so they had to kneel to see into the cockpit. Luke crouched down and stared through a large hole in the cockpit glass. What he saw shocked him. Inside the cockpit was a small grey man in a metallic silver jumpsuit. The man¡¯s head was quite large, his eyes were black. His jumpsuit had writing on it, but it was in the same alien language. This alien was dead, his body had been stabbed by a large piece of shrapnel, the alien also showed signs of being eaten. It was missing some limbs and had vicious claw marks covering its body. Luke took out his camera and snapped a photo. Luke saw Elise arrive with Brian, Troy and Kayla. Luke hyped himself up, closed his eyes and when he opened them, He jumped into the cockpit. He used his flashlight in one hand and his phone to film in the other. Matt, spurred on by the balls of his friend, jumped in shortly after. Luke and Matt started looking around, the cockpit was designed for the smaller aliens. They both filmed as they walked inside. The walls were made of strangely alien forms. They walked into a large area in the middle of the ship. There were cages. Luke and Matt heard a sound from the cockpit. They turned around. It was Elise. ¡°You shouldn''t be in here,¡± Luke whispered angrily. ¡°Fuck you,¡± Elise said. Luke, Matt and Elise walked deeper, their flashlights lit up the interior of the cages. One of the cages held a dead cow. Most of the cages were empty, they varied in sizes. ¡°Holy shit,¡± Matt whispered, ¡°They abducted a fucking human.¡± Matt called Luke and Elise over to the cage he was shining his flashlight on. There was a dead astronaut in the cage. He had a Russian flag on his uniform. He lay motionless against the wall. They took photos and walked further, another cage held a humanoid alien robot. It was dismantled and wires were sticking out of the case. What Luke saw next chilled him to the bone. A massive cage had been ripped open. Luke couldn¡¯t believe the strength of the creature. Luke heard something terrifying. Raspy, laboured breathing. He shone his flashlight down the hallway. The spaceship echoed as the thing in the darkness moved and something metal dropped. Luke held his torch in front of him and walked slowly towards the sound. He rounded a corner and saw a grey alien man covered in scars, he was bleeding onto the floor. He looked up at luke. He was alive. Chapter 5: The Hunter The alien winced and pointed at a small device on the wall. Matthew grabbed it and brought it over. The alien grabbed the device and held it to his worst wound. It began healing, his wounds closed. The alien, during this healing process passed out. They heard another clang. This time from a different part of the ship, it was a much louder sound. They left the sleeping alien to check it out. They came across a cage holding a creature concealed by a tattered black cloth, it was breathing rapidly and clicking occasionally, The creature¡¯s cloth cage cover was ripped to shreds and gently floating in the spaceship¡¯s oxygen filter. Elise moved close to the cage and looked closer, Matthew pulled her back just in time, a long, grey arm, with razor sharp claws reached out and slashed at the air where Elise had just standing. She screamed and they all ran for the exit. The metal smashing sound increased in volume. Luke peeked down the dim corridor and saw the creature inside the cage in a frenzy, trying to break out. The alien appeared beside Luke with a laser rifle and fired full auto into the cage. A barrage of blue plasma balls flew from the blaster and the creature started to shriek. The alien shot almost a hundred rounds into the cage, until the creature inside the cage died. The alien looked at Jon, then pointed at the empty broken cage, and then he pointed to the now ¡°dead¡± second creature. The alien handed Luke the metallic chrome futuristic blaster and hit the floor. Luke leaned closer and saw the alien was still managing to breathe, Jason put the laser gun in his jeans at the back and he grabbed the small alien like it was a toddler. Matt helped Elise to reach for Michael¡¯s hand. She climbed out of the cockpit. Jason helped Matt to climb out next, and then he passed the Grey man up to the boys. Then they reached down and pulled Luke from the cockpit. The alien was lying unconscious on the table, breathing gently with lots of difficulty. Luke handed the alien device to the girls and Kayla held the healing beam above the gray man. Luke inspected the laser gun he¡¯d just been handed. ¡°I think there¡¯s another one of those creatures here, we need to leave.¡± ¡°What about him?¡± Matt asked, pointing to the alien on the table. ¡°We should sell him to the FBI.¡± Michael said. ¡°No that¡¯s slavery, you fucking cunt,¡± Troy said to Michael and grabbed him by the shoulder. ¡® From the roof of a nearby building, the alien wolf watched and breathed silently but very quickly. The monster was unseen and unheard, but it watched very closely. It had only met only of these things before. ¡°Let¡¯s just wake him up and ask him to kill the other monster.¡± Troy continued. ¡°It¡¯s his monster after all. Did you say you found a human in there?¡± ¡°And a cow,¡± Matt said. ¡°See, fuck this little grey dude?¡± Troy said. ¡°Heal him up and then let him deal with it. Let¡¯s go.¡± ¡°Hey fuckwads. This is our fucking territory.¡± A voice called out. ¡°Oh shit.¡± Mike said. Three guys from the Pacific Valley Football team were standing across from them. They were wearing purple and white letterman jackets. All three of the teenagers were quite tall and strong. ¡°You better not have touched our fucking weed patch you little fuckin shits. Get the fuck out of here.¡± One of the footballer¡¯s said. In the dim light, the footballers were blinded by the flashlights, and could not see much in the dark. The footballers walked away, they were tossing a pig skin between them in the dark and laughing wildly. ¡°Guy¡¯s wait, don¡¯t go out there, there¡¯s a monster. There¡¯s an alien.¡± Matt called out, trying to warn them ¡°You fucking pussy¡± A different footballer called back. ¡°OoooooH. Aliens.¡± ¡°That¡¯s some bullshit man, anyways I was fucking this chick Taylor the other day.¡± The footballer continued. The guys he was with started laughing. They walked towards the Haunted Train Coaster to collect their weed plants. They disappeared into the darkness. The grey wolf was no longer on the rooftop either. Chapter 6: Killer The grey alien woke up on the table. It looked at the humans around him and he ran to a nearby wall and cowered. Matt approached him and crouched. He held up a fist to bump and pointed at himself. ¡°Matt¡± The alien blinked and understood perfectly. The alien started to tell the humans the story of his ship crash landing, and the danger they faced. ¡°Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt Matt MATT MATT, Matt, Matt, Matt.¡± The alien said. He realised he should have paid attention to his classes in English at Alien University. The alien got frustrated and walked back to the crashed ship. He climbed inside and the group stayed outside. The alien emerged later wearing a high tech battle suit, he carried a laser weapon and a roomba-like walking robot. The alien walked into the middle of the road and deployed the device, a radar dish appeared and started to beep. The teens all guessed it was to contact a rescue team. The alien tried to tell the group to leave in his native language because of the grave and dire danger, but the teens could not understand. They heard a scream in the distance. The footballers They all ran to the direction of the sound. The waterpark, murky green water sat at a low level in all of the pools, plants had begun to grow inside some of the ponds and slides. On the middle of the footpath, they found a slashed up letterman belonging to one of the footballers. The alien took the lead and walked carefully in front of everyone, using his turtle-roomba scanner to try to detect signs of life. The scanner detected motion and they looked to see one of the Football players running towards them. ¡°It fucking got Christian!¡± The teenager screamed, tears were streaming down his face. ¡°What the fuck was that thing?¡± He howled. ¡°Let¡¯s go, let¡¯s fucking go, let¡¯s fucking go.¡± ¡°Holy shit what the fuck is that alien doing with a gun?¡± The football player continued. ¡°He¡¯s on our side, I hope.¡± Luke said. ¡°Have you guys seen Daniel?¡± The football player asked. ¡°He was at the haunted house trying to hide, I fucking tried to save Christian. I tried to save him.¡± The grey alien scanned the darkness with his eyes. Chapter 7-9 Chapter 7: The A Team Pacific Village had a small police station. Karen Walker was about to go home for the night when the phone rang. She picked it up and looked at the time. It was 8:29. One minute left on her shift. ¡°Hello, please, send someone to Thunder Park, the abandoned park. There¡¯s a spaceship, it crashed right here and there¡¯s something, an alien. It killed a person.¡± Kayla screamed into the phone. ¡°Listen, you kids better stop calling here.¡± Karen shouted. The time was now 8:30. ¡°I¡¯m serious! Send someone, please?¡± Kayla begged. Karen hung up the phone with a frustrated sigh. She grabbed her handbag and walked into the back office. Two police men were sitting there. ¡°Guys, we got a couple of prank callers talking ¡®bout some UFOs or some shit down at Thunder Park. Sounds like a couple of yahoos and drug addicts, but you better go check it out, just in case.¡± She said, then she waved cutely, jingling her keys and she walked out of the police station to go home. The officers looked at each other. ¡°Stop at Fishy Joe¡¯s for a coffee and a powdered donut?¡± Ryan said to the older officer. They were both quite round. ¡°God damn it, you son of a bitch. You read my mind.¡± Sheriff Bronson said to the younger officer. ¡°I¡¯ll get my coat.¡± The two officers left the messy police station, hopped into one of the police cruisers and started to drive away. Chapter 8: The Ghost Train Rollercoaster There was a small dark ride in the park that was also a rollercoaster. They had heard the screams coming from here. The alien¡¯s roomba turtle walked to the building and showed movement inside the walls. The haunted house had a large tree on the front yard, and a rusted 1950s American muscle car. The car had two wings on the rear, and cracked, rotted white wall tires. The haunted house was a slow ride and a rollercoaster. The ride was slow for the first half, but then went quickly when it was outside the house. It used to circle a lake with a sunken ship and then dive into an artificial cave like it was a jewel mine. It was a voodoo themed ride with lots of mannequins in costumes. The alien looked at the cobweb covered house and started to walk inside. Luke started to follow and the alien snarled. He snapped his teeth and pushed Luke back. The alien held his gun and tried to tell Luke it was dangerous. Luke just walked in front of the Alien and held up his own alien blaster and a flashlight. The Alien shrugged as Matt and Michael walked past him holding heavy steel fence bars. They were tipped with a Victorian design, and snapped off the fence due to the rust. They followed the turtle roomba towards the movement. Matt pulled out his phone to record. They walked past the train coaster, which had been parked at the station. It was a black steam train, and the rollercoaster cages were supposed to be mine-carts. The train usually meandered through a few spooky Victorian rooms, they followed the alien¡¯s tracker through the maze of corridors the train followed. The alien looked very curiously at the assortment of cryptid monster costumes. The vampires and the zombies that stood still, covered in cobwebs. The turtle robot started to beep loudly. Luke heard the sound of an alien breathing. It sounded like a squid out of water. It was horrific to hear. They could not see it. The alien stopped the teenagers. He shone his own alien light at a large pool of blood on the floor. The alien tiptoed to a corner. He looked around and then jumped into the next room. He locked his eyes on the monster and started shooting. He emptied a clip and then stopped shooting. He looked at the creature. This wolf creature was hairy, it was a mannequin. Luke looked around and they all walked inside. The alien had been shooting a werewolf display. ¡°You got him,¡± Matt joked. Meanwhile, inside the spaceship, the second creature let go of the roof of its cage and began to ram at the cage¡¯s steel bars. It had survived the plasma bullets by hiding at the top of the cage under the black cloth and staying still. After ten attempts, the creature¡¯s willpower and strength broke the cage. The monster rushed to the other cages, looking for food. It saw the cow and it grabbed a fistful of the beast¡¯s flesh and ate some. It smelled the air and walked to the cockpit. It saw the alien hunter and began to unhinge its jaw to eat the alien whole. Inside the haunted train ride Luke, Matt, Michael and the Grey Alien heard a growl nearby and the alien sprinted ahead. Luke and Matthew heard gunfire ahead and breaking glass. They entered the next room to see the alien looking at a broken wall. The monster had escaped. Laying on the floor was a very chewed body. Christian. The alien looked out of the broken wall in disgust and walked past Matthew and Luke towards the entrance. They wandered back to the rest of the group, who were waiting outside. ¡°Did you guys see the monster come out yet?¡± Luke asked. ¡°No, but we heard something. We heard some shooting.¡± Troy said. ¡°It escaped. It broke through the wall.¡± Matt grumbled. ¡°We should fucking leave.¡± Kayla said. ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± Luke said. Elise grabbed his arm. Luke grabbed her hand. This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. ¡°Lets fucking run.¡± Michael said. All of the highschoolers started running, the gray alien followed, just in case. Daniel, the missing footballer, lost and alone, runs through the park looking behind him and all around. He saw the ufo and froze in awe. Then he saw a clawed hand reach from the cockpit and a snarling beast riddled with wounds stepped from the broken windshield. Adam hid behind a trash bin. ¡°All girls are the same, they''re rotting my brain, love Think I need a change before I go insane, love¡± His phone rang, Troy was trying to call him. Juice Wrld was blasting out at maximum volume across the quiet park. Troy was at the entrance with the other footballer Adam. Adam was standing by the phone waiting to hear Daniel pick up his phone. Everyone was waiting for him. The alien monster approached the bin where Daniel was hiding. It moved silently and with a terrifying speed. It looked over the bin and saw nothing but a cell phone. ¡°Ten minutes, she told me it would take ten minutes To break my heart, oh, no, she didn''t,¡± the beast saw the device and roared. It sprinted for the national forest. At the fence, everyone heard the roar. The alien ran toward the sound, leaving the teens behind. The teens start leaving but are stopped by two police officers, who start beaming the kids with flashlights. The teens panic and start to explain the situation, the monsters. ¡°Please, call the army or the FBI to come have a look.¡± Matt begged the officers. The officers, having seen alien movies, laughed it off and told the kids to shut up. Troy got pissed off they didn''t believe it. ¡°Fucking, do your job, there¡¯s a spaceship right there!¡± Troy shouted. He got up in the face of the young officer. The cop decided to push him against a fence and pulled out some handcuffs. ¡°Calm down, son.¡± The officer said. ¡°Uncuff him, we have to go!¡± Brian shouted. ¡°The aliens will kill us if we stay here.¡± Brian tried to grab the young officer and he was hit with a baton. The old sheriff handcuffed Brian and the police officers put them in the back of the police cruiser. ¡°This is so fucked up,¡± Kayla said. Adam punched the old guy in the eye and he was pepper sprayed. He was manhandled into the back of the police car. They were all interrupted by Daniel¡¯s screams. The beast roared after that and everyone got chills. The officers got uneasy then laughed. ¡°That¡¯s a good prank. Bluetooth speaker?¡± The older cop laughed. ¡°We better check it out just to be sure, though.¡± The young cop added. ¡°Can you let them out of the squad car? They¡¯re sitting ducks in there.¡± Luke shouted. ¡°Fuck up, or I¡¯ll put you in the back with them.¡± The young officer shouted. The two police officers started walking inside. ¡°Was that blood on the ground back there?¡± The young guy asked the old chief. ¡°Karen told me it was a prank, could be some syrup, but, let¡¯s just do a sweep, it¡¯s kind of cool out here. I¡¯m glad we stopped for donuts.¡± The Sheriff said. Chapter 9 The Paranormal Investigator In a bar in a nearby town, a government agent sat on a stool nursing a whiskey. He was talking to the bartender. ¡°I can afford to drink all the time because my job involves the big hairy guy living in the forest. Let¡¯s just say I may have seen bigfoot with my own eyes.¡± The agent said. His name was Agent Harrison Cage. The bartender laughed it off. ¡°Yeah right.¡± The bartender said, smiling smugly. Harry looked at his phone. He had an important message. Harry told the bartender to order him a taxi. Luke, Michael, Matt, Elise and Kayla sat inside the four wheel drive. They had parked in the back of the parking lot, waiting for the police to return. Brian, Adam and Troy were still in the back of the police car. Out of the woods nearby, a monster appeared, walking slowly with intention towards the police squad car. Luke noticed this and he put the keys in and started the car. The footballers were all screaming, trying to unlock the doors with no luck, trapped inside. They finally got a good look at the alien. It was tall, with shiny black skin, it had a monstrous jaw that could not fit its long, sharp teeth. Its claws were very long, It had powerful canine legs that ended in velociraptor feet. Its mouth was dripping with blood and gloopy saliva. Meanwhile the police officers inside the park were walking along, joking about something when they stopped in their tracks. Emerging ahead of them stood a massive, tall monster. They spoke into their walkie talkies to try to request backup. ¡°Send backup to the abandoned Thunder Park. There is a m-monster here, it is not a prank,¡± The old officer whispered and they both hid behind some bins. The officers looked back and saw the creature had disappeared. They pulled out their guns and hightailed it back to the police cruiser to wait for backup. The creature in the parking lot was almost at the police car now. Luke¡¯s car slammed into it at high speed, which broke his car and sent the monster airborne. It fell to the ground and slid along the asphalt. It stayed on the ground for a while, then it leaped to it¡¯s feet, screamed and ran at the car. Luke tried to start the car but it wouldn''t work. They sat paralyzed in fear as the monster ran towards them. When it got close it was pelted by a huge barrage of laser bullets. It went down. The Alien stood in the open main gates of the park, his weapon was gently steaming. He then ran to the car, jumped on the roof and shot it again a lot. The grey alien turned the monster¡¯s face into a blue and purple gore puddle. It was officially dead. The teens all got out of their car and stood around the body. The head puddle was gently smoking. The officers arrived and looked down at the body, then they both noticed they were standing next to a short gray alien. They jumped at this and reached for their pistols but the teens all stopped them. ¡°He killed that thing.¡± Matt said. ¡°He might be good.¡± Luke said. They all heard another screech from inside Funland. The officers put down their pistols. The police officers opened the car and removed the handcuffs from the students. ¡°Sorry we didn¡¯t believe you, It¡¯s a unique situation. An alien spaceship is hard to believe, so I apologise.¡± The old sherif said, bluntly, trying to avoid a lawsuit. As they were talking a taxi appeared in the parking lot and a very drunk man exited from the back. He walked closer and looked at the alien on the ground. ¡°Holy shit.¡± Agent Cage said.