will help build cars that will run on rechargeable batteries, so gasoline will never have to used again. They said it’s the alien’s way of helping mankind save the earth from itself. If you ask me it’s a trick. I really know what there up to. Those creatures want their technology in our vehicles. So when they attack they can switch off our vehicles. I can’t understand why such smart scientists can be fooled like this. How can they not see the alien’s lies like I can”
He walked over to his desk and picked up the phone. “Solider 28. I have just found out the location of where the saucer will be landing. I’ll be headed back down Forest Road in a few hours for a meeting with the aliens. Set up the barricade at the entrance of Forest Road so no one in town sees what were doing. Make it look as though were getting ready to spray the forest with the pesticides. Patrol the town in the black cars and scan all the houses; look for anyone acting suspicious, anyone who might know more then they should. I want to know who John Smith was talking to and make sure you look for those little kids as well. If you see them pick them up and bring them to the prison cell.”
“Yes sir” solider 28 said and hung up the phone.
The General turned to solider 12. “Make sure no one gets into the forest tonight. Have a group of soldiers patrolling up and down Forest Road, and bring your guns”
Solider 12 looked him in the eye “Yes sir, we’ll do whatever it takes to keep everyone out”
The General looked out the window towards the forest and whispered, “Whatever it takes”
With the darkness around town three black cars with dark tinted windows slowly pulled off of Forest Road and onto Main Street. Behind them soldiers dressed as forest rangers build up a barricade blocking the only exit out of Springbrook Gardens. A sign was hung on the barricade reading “danger”
As the first black car approached the first intersection it turned left down an unassuming residential street. A few intersections later the second of the black cars gradually turned down another quiet residential street. A minute later the last of the three black cars turned left and slowly made its way down a street. Each car crept along in the shadows passing by each residential house. The passenger seated to the right of the driver pointed a red laser scanner at each house. On his lap sat a lightweight sliver laptop computer. As the laser scanner passed by each house the passenger could listen in on each conversation going on in each house, person to person or on a phone. Any website someone was looking at on their computer would appear on his laptop. Any e-mail send out or received in the passed few days appeared on the laptop as well. Any information downloaded in any households computer was atomically downloaded by the man in black as the car drove passed.
The first black car rolled pass house number forty-six on Lawrence Street. Sixteen-year-old Clair Planes was sitting on her bed talking to a friend about a cute boy at school named Paul Duncan. The man in black sat in the car and heard every word. They moved on.
In house fifty-seven a twenty five year old boy was watching a movie on the Internet. When the black car drove passed the image of the movie appeared on the screen on the laptop.
Timmy sat on his bed he didn’t feel like watching any TV shows or movies. He was to busy picturing himself stopping the criminals from running into his town. He could see himself running down Forest Road after the bad guys who would surrender when they saw him coming. He could see the General catching up to him out of breath and thanking him for being so brave.
He looked at his watch. It read twenty five after ten and knew it was time to leave. An hour earlier he told his parents he was going to a friends house to play video games and spend the night. Something he had done a million times before. They would never suspect anything. He figured if he came home a hero they would over look the little lie.
He put on dark clothing and quietly made his way down the stairs and slipped out the back door. He made his way over to the park and hid in the shadows and watched as the other three boys one by one arrived in the cover of darkness.
Without saying a word they look at each other and nodded. They all knew the importance of the moment. This could very well be the night when everything changes. Fame was knocking for each of them. Within the next few days the world would know there name and want to know whose shirt they wear.
They set out down Baker Street staying in the shadows making sure the neighbors couldn’t see them. Bobby kept a look out for any black cars hiding in the shadows.
Sam looked at each of them and whispered “Ok guys this is it. Time to be heroes.”
They all nodded.
“This is our day. Our lives change right now. In the future, kids of Springbrook Gardens will know our names. They’ll probably make statues of us for the center of town” Sam added
The other kids looked at each other with a smile.
“Love to have a statue of myself” Bobby whispered, “That would be so cool”
Kyle spook up “And Warren and his gang who scared us in the woods will wish they were as cool as us”
Bobby and Timmy laughed quietly.
They slowly made there way up to Main Street. Just as they approached the corner at the top of the street and turned onto it, a black car turned onto the street they were just on at the other end missing them by a few seconds.
They walked along Main Street, lit up every few seconds as they passed under street lamps. The stores were all quiet and dark, along with the rest of the town. There was stillness in the air. They walked for fifteen minutes without saying a word, to focused on the task. They reached the barricade blocking the entrance to the Forest Road. A sign hung on the barricade reading, “Danger. Do not enter. Dusting underway. Poison. Stay away”
The kids looked at the sign, then each other and laughed to themselves. They knew it was all a lie.
Bobby approached the barricade and was about to step under it when he noticed a mysterious figure in he shadows walking along Forest Road a few yards down. Fear shoot through his body as he quickly moved back and lowered down to the ground along with the other kids.
They watched the mysterious figure move closer, wondering if he had noticed Bobby. The darken figure turned around and walked back the other way. The kids’ felt a bit of relief as there bodies relaxed. Their night was almost over before it began. They all knew if caught, they would’ve missed out on being heroes and their parents would run them up the flag poll for lying.
They stayed low and moved off the road towards the bushes.
“Looks like they got a military guard patrolling the streets” Kyle whispered “Makes sense. He must be watching so no one crosses the barrier”
“Stay cool” Sam whispered, “I know a way around this. Lets head over to hole in the tree. Follow me”
The kids stayed low making sure the guard couldn’t see them as they rose up from there spot and walked along the grass. The thick forest edge stood like a mountain to there right. Backyards from the neighboring houses to there left.
The trees and bushes of the forest made a solid wall making it almost impossible to climb or push through. If any kids tired entering the forest at any random spot, they would get scratched up, not a good idea. Or worse they might get stuck in the thorns and bushes and have to call their mommy and daddy for help. Making them the joke in school for a few weeks. They marched along in the darkness for a few minutes until they came a small opening in the brush, no more then a foot across and two feet in height, barely noticeable in the daytime much less the night. The kids in the neighborhood called the place “hole in the tree”. No one knew for sure who came up with the name. It had existed before the kids where born. Anytime kids wanted into the forest this was the spot to come to.
Sam nodded to the others and pointed to the opening. Without saying a word one by one they leaned forward and crawled through. Once through, they could stand up straight and start slowly walking.
As if the night wasn’t dark enough, the forest took away the remaining light. Massive trees stood side by side like soldiers lookin
g down upon them. They stayed low from the thick branches reaching down from above. They slowly made there way through the intense brush and twigs. Anyone new in town would easily have gotten lost or trap within minutes.
As they moved through the dark forest they made sure not to head in the direction of Forest Road, knowing patrolling soldiers would spot them. Sam led the way as the others followed behind. Stepping over and crawling under massive fallen tree branches, avoiding bushes and stepping over tree roots. None of them wanted to step on thin fallen branches and crack it, which would echo throughout the forest, possibly alerting nearby soldiers.
Kyle pushed a tree branch to the side and glanced over his shoulder and for a moment thought saw someone following behind a few yards back, he quickly looked again and saw no one. He figured it was his nervous imagination playing tricks with his mind.
Timmy looked over to Forest Road and pointed out the military guards patrolling the area. “Wow, they really don’t want anyone around here,” he whispered to Sam.
“Can you blame them? A huge arrest is about to go down.” Sam whispered back.
They kept pushing their way through the darkness with branches hanging over their head like fingers. An average person would’ve felt trapped in a cave.
Kyle could only see a foot or two in front of him. He couldn’t
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