Alien Invasion: and the origins of mankind

by Mark Douglas Doran

do we do about the trouble makers who put us in there?”

  Kyle looked to the two of them. “I have an idea, you two go to the end of the hall, hide around the corner and watch the janitor’s door. When Warrens gang goes into the room looking for us you close the door, trapping them inside”

  “But how do we get them to go inside the room?” Bobby asked.

  Kyle gave a little smirk “Leave that to me. After you see me go out the back door call to them and they’ll come running down the hall”

  Bobby nodded.

  The three of them turned and ran down the hall and hid around the corner.

  Timmy and Bobby got down low and peaked around the corner ever so slightly.

  Kyle took off running down outside the back doors.

  Bobby waited a few seconds; he needed to wait until there was silence coming from the auditorium. When the band stopped playing he called out in a loud voice. “Sam good to see you, thanks for opening the door”

  Brad stopped and quickly turned around and looked at Martin who was looking in one of the storage rooms “Did you hear that, sounds like Sam is down the hall”

  Cindy ran to the end of the corridor and looked down the long hallway “What? Are you kidding me? The door to the janitor office is open.” She turned to Marin “I thought you locked the door”

  Martin looked stunned “but, but…I did lock it. I placed the chair under the door handle. There’s no way he could’ve gotten by us.”

  “Look at the door now” Cindy yelled out. “Its open. What do you think Warren is going to say when he sees the door open? We have to go down there and make sure the kids are still in there”

  The three of them took off running down the hall. There feet sounding like thunder off the floor of the empty hallway. They reached the door and stopped quickly as they looked inside the room. It was hard to see anything with the light off.

  “Great, would you look at that, they got away” Cindy yelled out.

  “Were in trouble now. How did this happen?” Brad asked while staring into the empty room.

  “Hey where still in here. Come and get us” Kyle’s voice echoed from the back of the room.

  Brad quickly looked at Martin “You hear that, there still in there. They haven’t gotten away yet.”

  “But I don’t understand. I can’t see them in there, are they hiding?” Martin said.

  “Enough of this silliness lets go in there and teach them a lesson. Find out once and for all what’s going on with Sam, is he here or not?” Cindy yelled out.

  The other two boys nodded and the three ran inside in the room. They looked around and saw no one. They stop suddenly for a moment confused.

  “What’s going on in here? They’re all gone.” Brad asked.

  “Then who called us into the room?” Cindy yelled out.

  “Are you three looking for me?” Kyle asked while standing outside the building standing on the grass looking through the small window.

  “What? No way?” Cindy yelled out “He’s outside? How did he get out there and we’re in here?”

  Bobby peaked around the corner and watched the three kids run inside the room. He looked over to Timmy. “Now’s our chance”

  Timmy nodded and the two took off down the hallway towards the janitor’s storage room and slammed the door.

  Timmy grabbed the chair next to him and pushed it under the door handle, stopping it from turning.

  Martin jumped when he heard the door slam and quickly turned around and ran towards the door in anger. He started hammering on it. “Hey, open the door, don’t get me angry, open the door and let us out of here”

  Cindy looked over Brad “Great, now how are we going to get out of here, how can we explain this to Warren?”

  Kyle laughed, “See you losers later.” He stood up and ran across the grass towards the backdoor of the building. He ran inside and high fived both Timmy and Bobby as they waited for him at the door.

  “Yeah, we got them” Kyle called out.

  “Now we can do what we came for, and warn everyone,” Timmy said.

  “Lets not waste anymore time. We need to move now” Bobby called out.

  They took off running up the hallway leaving behind the sounds of hammering and yelling coming from the janitor’s storage room.

  The three kids pushed opened the wooden doors that lead into the auditorium. The massive room was packed to capacity, row upon row of seats. Each row slightly higher then the one before allowing the people in the back to see over anyone in front. Each seat padded with a drink holder.

  Seemed everyone in town was inside watching the stage. Anyone not seated was behind the curtain getting ready to go on. Getting a ticket was next to impossible. Bright lights lit up the large stage, as the wide seating area was dark.

  The boys stood at the back looking out at everyone. It was difficult to see the crowd with the lights only focused on the stage.

  The grade five class from the local elementary school where on stage playing a classical song they had rehearsed all year. They finished there last few notes and and lowered there instruments. Everyone in the hall applauded loudly, as the parents of the kids took pictures.

  Bobby pointed towards the front row “Look guys, I see the General, in the front, middle seat”

  Timmy and Kyle looked where he was pointing and nodded after seeing him.

  Timmy shook his head “Oh great, how are we going to clear this room? Everyone’s attention is on the stage, no one has a clue to what’s about to happen”

  “We have no time.” Kyle yelled out “The invasion can start at second. Follow me” he took off running up the aisle towards the stage.

  Bobby looked over to Timmy. They were both shocked to see Kyle running as fast as he could towards the stage. “Ah, what’s he doing? What is the plan?” he yelled out. “We haven’t talked about this”

  Before Bobby or Timmy knew what Kyle was up too, they both to took off running up the aisle towards the stage as well.

  Everyone was in their seats looking over their programs to see what was coming up next.

  The three kids ran up on the wooden steps and onto the stage as the large red curtain was closing. Kyle was the first one up on the stage, followed by Bobby and Timmy.

  Kyle grabbed the microphone at the speaker’s podium on the right hand side of the stage. “Everyone you have to leave the buildings and clear the town.” His voice echoed throughout the room. As everyone stopped and looked at him, the room fell silent. “There are aliens outside who are ready to attack and the army is planning on fighting back by shooting lasers into the sky which will bring down the mother ship that will land right on top of this building. The General knows about it and he will be leading the attack on the aliens. We need everyone to leave the building and get out of the town”

  For a brief moment there was silence throughout the auditorium. Everyone looked at each other and then back up to the kids.

  The General started to laugh lightly and stood up “Best joke I’ve heard all day, I love it. Well done. I love this town”

  Everyone else in the hall started laughing as well.

  Kyle looked over to Timmy in shock. “What? They’re laughing. We just warned them there lives are in danger. Why are they laughing? They should be getting up and running out of here”

  Miss Carter seated in the third row pointed at them “Oh looks it’s the little kids from the grade school who put on a skits at our senior center. Are they not the cutest little kids? This must be their skit. How nice. I bet they worked on it for weeks.”

  Someone else in the dark back row stood up “They sure are living up to there names being called the cry wolves. Running around town with their made up stories, this must be one of them”

  Everyone in there seats started to applaud.

  Bobby looked out into the crowd in shock and yelled out. “No really, what your hearing is true. Aliens are outside this building as we speak. You can’t see them because their ships are invisible, but t
he military has a supergun that can shoot them down. They’re on their way into town right now. There’s going to be a battle between aliens and humans. Whoever wins, this town losses.”

  Barker Jones, the host of the event walked across the stage towards the kids and gently took the microphone from them, looked out over the crowd with a smile “Ok little kids off the stage. That was funny. Everyone here has had a good laugh, but now its time to get back to the show. We have a schedule to maintain.” He smiled for the crowd. “Give the little kids around of applause for trying to make us laugh. Are they funny or what? Telling us about cute little aliens and laser guns. You know how kids are with their comic books”

  The crowd applauded as the kids walked back down the steps and off to the side into the darkness in shock.

  Barker Jones started introducing the next act as everyone attention went back to him.

  “They don’t believe us.” Kyle said “Now what?”

  Timmy and Bobby truly felt all was lost. What could they do?

  As the kids stood still trying to come up with another plan a deep rumbling sound started echoing throughout the town hall. Barker Jones stopped talking and everyone in the hall stood up looking at each other with concern.

  Bobby looked nervous “Oh boy, I know what that is”

  The kids ran down the aisle passing everyone in their seats and pushed opened the wooden doors. They ran down the hall and pushed open the glass door and headed outside down the concrete path as the bright sun lit them up. They stopped next to the police car and looked down Main Street.

  Some of the adults