Connor's+Group



__Future Comes__ It was a summer day in the city of Houston, Texas in 2036. Carl got up from bed and slowly walked to the bathroom, got a shower and put some clothes on. Today him and his two friends, Brian and Zach were going to the park to hang out and skateboard. Carl and his friends were almost at the park everyday, but for the past week some strange things were going on. When his friends would talk there voices would echo and strange voice called back to them. Skateboarding was second nature to all of them, they knew how to do every trick. But now when they all did their tricks they would slowly fall to the ground. It was weird how things that were once so perfect could now hardly be accomplished. Carl met Brian and Zach by the basketball court at the park that day. Brian, said “ I hope we find out what’s going on today.” They all looked at each other and agreed. Carl stood there with his dark brown hair and slender figure wondering what would happen and asked “ What do you want to do first today ?” His friends said they wanted to go get something to eat at the McDonalds by the park. So they all began to walk there talking about summer and how school was coming so fast.  They arrived at McDonalds and they all knew what they wanted. When the cashier came to wait on them she looked different then before she was lime green in color with yellow straight hair. Carl immediately thought that the possibility of aliens had finally became reality, even though his mother had always told him that they were just made up. However Zach reassured him that the woman just had a uncommon illness. They sat down and ate their food. Now all of them found more and more things had changed and thought back that maybe aliens really had come to planet earth. As Carl looked up from eating his burger he discovered that everyone in the restaurant now had lime green skin and disgusting yellow hair! Soon after both Brian and Zach noticed the transitions around them. All three friends knew something was up and wondered why they were undergoing these physical changes. They decided to get to the bottom of it.

They realized that the first thing that they had to do was locate who or what was causing this problem. After that they had to destroy this "thing" and fix the problem. So the plan was simple, Carl would search the north side of town, Brian the west and Zach the east. At 7:00pm, they would rendezvous at the deserted hardware store near the south side and search that part of town together. Zach had provided some walkie-talkies so that the group could more easily stay in touch. They were to immediately radio each other if they found anything out of the ordinary.

Carl was the first to notice anything unusual on his search of the north side. A neighborhood that was actually quite big was gone without a trace and in its place was nothing but some dirt and a few patches of grass. He wondered how a neighborhood as big as this one could just disappear with out any remains. Not knowing what to do he radioed Brian in search of some advice. Brian told him that he should go check it out and see if he could find any clues as to what was going on. Carl took Brian's advice and decided to search the perimeter of the empty space. After 15 solid minutes of searching he decided to give up because he had realized that the chances of finding anything were very small.

Brian had been trekking around for at least half an hour and still had not seen anything. He was beginning to think that maybe whoever was creating these problems hadn't decided to stay in the west part of town. Then, out of the corner of his eye he saw something dart down the alleyway next to him. This was very startling considering he hadn't seen much action in the past half hour. Out of curiosity he whipped out a pocket-sized flashlight and went to go investigate. As he was walking down the alley his talkie buzzed and something in a nearby trash can started to move. Brian thought that maybe this was what he had seen dart past him. So, very carefully he lifted the lid on the trash can and peered inside. Only to find that it was some sort of large cat.  Zach who had been assigned to the east side began to walk down narrow ally ways leading to highly populated streets. The east side was very populated and saw many victims to crime. As he walked down one ally way, he noticed a sort of green slime oozing through the bricks of a house next to him. He talked to himself and said “I really believe we have come to the future where there is life on Mars, where else would these types of things come from?” He stood at the end of the ally looking at kids playing ball in the street. Just then Brian radioed him to tell him he had still not figured out what this creature was that kept on following him. Zach looked to the end of the street and saw blinking lights in the sky, it was that moment in time that he knew for sure him and his friends were not going crazy. A dark haired man sitting on his porch step walked over to Zach and started asking him if he just saw those blinking lights in the sky, “ Yes” replied Zach, “What do you think it is ?”. The man replied “ Looks like some sort of alien to me!” and then walked away. Zach radioed to his two friends to meet back at the park since it was getting dark.

The three boys met back at the park and shared with eachother what they had just saw. Brain was amazed that Zach saw flashing lights in the sky. All the boys really knew that some type of space creature was now living on earth. Just then in the park basketball court they spotted a group on green skinned and yellow haired creatures, and they were walking towards them! The skinny, hairless aliens began to talk to them and tell them about there trip to earth, they said they had come to earth because they heard of humans and wanted to see them, and eventually hoped to take over planet earth. As the boys stood there it felt like a dream, they were on earth looking face to face with aliens. Zach asked the one alien that appeared to be a male, “How do you plan on taking over planet earth?” The alien replied “ Little by little, we will start with injections that turn humans into aliens and then over time there will be no more humans.” That is why the woman in McDonalds had been human the day before but today appeared to be an alien. After talking for a while the aliens vanished towards the sky like a bird with wings.

After they had left the boys needed to figure out what they had to do to stop the aliens from taking over planet earth. They did not want their parents and brothers and sisters turning into mysterious creatures that were green! As they rambled off ideas Brian finally said that he could get poison that was for sure to kill them. Brian's father was a scientist and stored many chemicals in their basements from his experiments. Zach and Carl agreed that the poison would work and that it was the best way to stop them. It was time for the three boys to get home, but they would return to the park tomorrow morning with the poison.  Zach laid in bed that night hoping that him and his friends could put all the weird things to rest. He tossed and turned and finally it was 8 a.m. ; time to wake up. Zach got dressed quickly, and called Brian to remind him not to forget the deadly poison. They met once again at the basketball court, glanced over and saw a space craft that had landed on the football field. They ran over to it with much confidence. Aliens must have a good sense of hearing because just as the three boys approached the craft all four of green creatures stepped out. Brain knew it was a good opportunity to inject them with poison since the alien eyes took longer to adjust to the light on earth. He could tell from their confusion that they could not see a thing. He filled the syringe full of poison and handed it to Zach. Furtively Zach crept behind one of the aliens, stabbed the needle into him and heard the gush of fluid enter his skin. Immediately after the alien fell to the ground with a thud. Since Zach had such good luck he took responsibility for the other three, and at once all three aliens were down and had been slayed.

It had seemed like a dream that Carl, Zach and Brian had really seen aliens in the park that one summer day, no one in Texas would ever think that such a thing would happen, it was such a small town. Zach told Carl and Brian “Don’t divulge this to anyone we don’t want the whole town knowing that we killed three green creatures, it’s only between us three.” They agreed to keep it secret. This unordinary event came to show the three boys that anything is possible. They still wondered about what was going to happen now. They figured that there must be more than just four aliens in existence. No one would believe their story and people would just call them crazy. They all knew what had happened to the town could happen to anyone at anytime. They will always now be prepared for this to happen.

Even though the aliens are dead it is hard to believe that that was it. There is no way that we could have gotten rid of the aliens for good. The boys have decided to write a story about what they had witnessed in the past days. They are doing this to spread the word of what is really happening to help it to be prevented. That all we can do says the boys. The rest is up to the people to decide whether or not to take the warning and prepare. This will also be a well selling book hopefully even though most people will think it to be a fiction novel. That is the most we can do right now. In the future they will help to monitor strange activity and take care of these occurrences before they get to out of hand. These things will hopefully permanently stop the aliens from trying to take over earth all together if we can stand together and keep them out.

Hopefully this will end all the weirdness that has been going on lately. "This was one wild summer I hope next summer is just as good, but a little less nerve racking," said Carl. All the boys agreed and began their walks back to their separate houses pondering what had just happened to them. They are all exhausted and upset that they have to start school again in a couple weeks. It doesn't really bother them that much because it was a great summer and there is always next year.