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Authors: R.L. Stine
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Dad yelled up the stairs.
âYeah, Dad?â Chad-Two shouted back.
âTime for that test drive!â
âCome on, ooligooch!â Chad-Two said, punching my arm. I followed him down the stairs and through the kitchen. I managed to sneak the phone back onto its base.
Mom and Dad came into the kitchen. Chad-Two and I followed them through a side door I had never seen opened before.
The door led to the garage.
There was nothing else in the whole garage but this huge round metal thing with an opening in it. The aliensâ spaceship!
Dad ducked and crawled into the opening. Chad-Two shoved me, so I followed Dad into the ship.
Chad-Two and Mom crawled in behind me.
We crawled through a narrow dark tunnel for a while. All I could see were Dadâs feet ahead of me, and the slick shiny walls. Little lights ran across the walls like fireworks. The floor was damp and spongy.
Then the tunnel opened out into a round room and we could stand up. There were pools of bubbling liquid on the floor, and spiky bad-smelling plants grew from the walls and the ceiling.
When we got to the other side of the room, Dad ducked and crawled into another dark tunnel.
I felt like toothpaste being squeezed out of a tube by the time we got to the other end!
Finally we ended up in a round room with a big console like the Starship Enterprise. It had four sets of touch pads on it.
Mom went to one of the center sets and put her hands on two big gray touch pads.
Dad stood beside her and put his hands on matching gray pads in his set.
Chad-Two went to the set of touch pads on Momâs other side, so I took the only set left. I made sure to touch the same two pads everyone else was touching.
âReady?â said Mom.
âYes,â we all said.
âGood. Now zum.â
The others all started humming. I joined in. Then the ship itself started humming!
It was weird. I could feel the metal humming under my feet!
Lights flickered and flashed. For a second I could see right through the ship into the garage. We were lifting off the ground!
I glanced at Dad, and he was flickering and flashing.
I looked down at my hands. They were flickering, too!
I felt as if everything in me was fizzing and sizzling. Like I was burning up! I looked up at the garageâs ceiling when the flashes lit it up. I thought we were going to bump into it.
But more flashes, and then I saw the sky! The ship was going right through the ceiling and taking us all with it!
âUh-oh,â Mom said. âZum down!â
We hummed softer and softer. The ship dropped back down and settled gently on the ground.
âAll systems functioning perfectly!â Mom said. âPack up everything you want to take. Leave the storage module out back for last. We need that machinery up and running until the last minute. Now, weâll want to switch back to our own bodies as close to departure time as possible. Be ready to leave at two P.M. local time.â
âDonât forget anything,â Dad added. âWe wonât be coming back.â
15
N o! It couldnât be!
They couldnât be leaving! As in leaving the planet!
Oh, man! What if I couldnât get Chad to give me my body back before two P.M .? Then the aliens would take me with them into outer space! Away from my friendsâaway from my family!
I was so scared I couldnât even think. I followed as Chadâs family crawled out of the ship and went into the house.
The next thing I knew, I was upstairs with Chad-Two in our workroom. Packing for space travel.
Chad-Two opened drawers and took different machines out of them.
He tapped tiny black touch pads on the edges ofthe machines, and they shrank down to the size of quarters.
He took a case out of one of the closets and opened it. It had a whole lot of slots in it, and each thing he shrank fit into one of the slots.
âOn the next planet we explore, we get to have six legs!â Chad-Two said. âItâs got
âYeah, Dad?â Chad-Two shouted back.
âTime for that test drive!â
âCome on, ooligooch!â Chad-Two said, punching my arm. I followed him down the stairs and through the kitchen. I managed to sneak the phone back onto its base.
Mom and Dad came into the kitchen. Chad-Two and I followed them through a side door I had never seen opened before.
The door led to the garage.
There was nothing else in the whole garage but this huge round metal thing with an opening in it. The aliensâ spaceship!
Dad ducked and crawled into the opening. Chad-Two shoved me, so I followed Dad into the ship.
Chad-Two and Mom crawled in behind me.
We crawled through a narrow dark tunnel for a while. All I could see were Dadâs feet ahead of me, and the slick shiny walls. Little lights ran across the walls like fireworks. The floor was damp and spongy.
Then the tunnel opened out into a round room and we could stand up. There were pools of bubbling liquid on the floor, and spiky bad-smelling plants grew from the walls and the ceiling.
When we got to the other side of the room, Dad ducked and crawled into another dark tunnel.
I felt like toothpaste being squeezed out of a tube by the time we got to the other end!
Finally we ended up in a round room with a big console like the Starship Enterprise. It had four sets of touch pads on it.
Mom went to one of the center sets and put her hands on two big gray touch pads.
Dad stood beside her and put his hands on matching gray pads in his set.
Chad-Two went to the set of touch pads on Momâs other side, so I took the only set left. I made sure to touch the same two pads everyone else was touching.
âReady?â said Mom.
âYes,â we all said.
âGood. Now zum.â
The others all started humming. I joined in. Then the ship itself started humming!
It was weird. I could feel the metal humming under my feet!
Lights flickered and flashed. For a second I could see right through the ship into the garage. We were lifting off the ground!
I glanced at Dad, and he was flickering and flashing.
I looked down at my hands. They were flickering, too!
I felt as if everything in me was fizzing and sizzling. Like I was burning up! I looked up at the garageâs ceiling when the flashes lit it up. I thought we were going to bump into it.
But more flashes, and then I saw the sky! The ship was going right through the ceiling and taking us all with it!
âUh-oh,â Mom said. âZum down!â
We hummed softer and softer. The ship dropped back down and settled gently on the ground.
âAll systems functioning perfectly!â Mom said. âPack up everything you want to take. Leave the storage module out back for last. We need that machinery up and running until the last minute. Now, weâll want to switch back to our own bodies as close to departure time as possible. Be ready to leave at two P.M. local time.â
âDonât forget anything,â Dad added. âWe wonât be coming back.â
15
N o! It couldnât be!
They couldnât be leaving! As in leaving the planet!
Oh, man! What if I couldnât get Chad to give me my body back before two P.M .? Then the aliens would take me with them into outer space! Away from my friendsâaway from my family!
I was so scared I couldnât even think. I followed as Chadâs family crawled out of the ship and went into the house.
The next thing I knew, I was upstairs with Chad-Two in our workroom. Packing for space travel.
Chad-Two opened drawers and took different machines out of them.
He tapped tiny black touch pads on the edges ofthe machines, and they shrank down to the size of quarters.
He took a case out of one of the closets and opened it. It had a whole lot of slots in it, and each thing he shrank fit into one of the slots.
âOn the next planet we explore, we get to have six legs!â Chad-Two said. âItâs got
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