Short Story: Alien Invasion
Alien Invasion
Prompt: Picked a round rubber sponge with small spikes from a collection of objects.
By Grant Eagar ® 2011
Marvin, the alien-monster from the planet Snurf-Dog, looked up
from the beach where his small bubble of a spaceship had landed. All around
were pieces of broken shells and seaweed. He chuckled to himself; the takeover of this planet should be easy,
given the snurf-dog’s advanced smartness and cool alien invasion stuff.
He slithered to a beach ball at the speed of a turtle, and then rose up
to his tippy tentacles full monster height; made his most fierce face and glowered
at the happy face on the ball, and said, “Take me to your leader or there
will be big trouble!” The beach ball just sat there. Marvin tried the language
he had heard over the radio, “Owe, owe, baby, baby,” no answer. How about,
“Zumba, zumba, nah, nah?” still nothing. Maybe, “No money down; no payments for
thirty days,” still silence.
This was not going well. Maybe he had missed out on some important
information. He took out his blaster and aimed it at the beach ball, maybe the
universal language of blasters would work. The face on the ball still smiled.
“I’ll take that grin off your silly face; take this.” He fired his blaster at it;
the electricity bounced back and shocked him instead.
“AAargh!” he yelled while being shocked showing an x-ray of his
bones. Apparently these human creatures were
immune to blasters; he will have to try a different approach. He moved on
to a huge sand castle with army men on the towers and attempted to find a door
to enter and could not find one. “You will not keep me out so easily; I will
yell my demands over the wall! We mean
you no great harm, just a peaceful takeover of your planet and the draining of
your brains is all that we ask. Nothing more than what your Television is doing right now.”
There was no answer. “Pretending you cannot hear me will not stop the invasion.
It will just make it more painful.” Marvin then gave his most evil invading
monster laugh Mara ha ha!
Just then a toddler with a pacifier in her mouth approached, and began
to destroy the sand castle. After wreaking havoc she moved on. Marvin was
shocked, so we are not the only ones
invading this world, that monster was terrifying. She was completely merciless,
I don’t know if we can compete with such a barbarism.
A boy yelled, “Mom, Mia
destroyed my sand castle again!”
“Billy you can build
another one. Mia loves to pillage, that’s what babies do.”
Finally a large dog came up and started sniffing him. So this was
the leader of the world. The cunning look in the shaggy creature’s eyes could
only be that of a born leader. Marvin
bowed as only a monster alien could bow, flattening like Jello from a ball
shape to more of a burrito shape and said, “I am from the planet Snurf-dog; we
will begin our invasion tomorrow unless you surrend-aarrghh.” The dog picked
him up, gave him a shake, then carried him over to a boy who was sitting on
a bench. Why didn't they tell me these
creatures were so ruthless? This hairy creature is using me as a chew toy.
“Harley, what do you have in your mouth? Oh a ball, so you want to
play fetch, good idea,” said the boy.
So this is their leader, “Resist a n c e i s f u t i l e . . .
,”splash. “Blub, blub, futile, blub.” The dog dragged him out of the water and
carried him back to the boy. “Okay, okay maybe we can negotiate a peaceful s e
t t l e m e n t . . .,” splash. “Blub, blub, surrender, blub,” once again he
was picked up by the dog and brought back to the boy.
“I give up, no more torture; I’ll do whatever you ask,” said the
monster, but to the boy he just sounded like a squeaky toy.
“Billy and Harley, it’s time to go home,” said the boy's mother.
Since everyone obeys this creature she must be the ruler of their
world.
“Billy, what does Harley have in his mouth?”
“Mom, it’s a ball we found on the beach, can I keep it?”
“No, no you don’t know where it’s been, just toss it.”
Marvin was tossed into a garbage can. So this is their prison, it will not hold a snurf-dogonian warrior for
long. It took him ten minutes to climb out and two more to get back to his
ship. Finally turning on his radio, he croaked, “Stop the invasion, these
monsters are merciless. Get away while you still have a chance.” He quickly
climbed into his ship and sped away.
Mia from her car seat said to her mother, “Spaceship” and pointed
at the small ship disappearing into the sky.
Looking up from the steering wheel, the mother said, “Honey those
are seagulls not spaceships, silly girl.”
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