Chapter 4: Matt’s Stupid Fucking Idea

“We’re going to be rich,” Matt whispered to the boys. They were all gathered by a park bench during lunchtime. Some of them were sitting on the tabletop. They were all drinking a different coloured energy drink.

“Teacher!” Troy whispered.

The students all hid their energy drinks until the teacher walked past.

“We have to go back there and get more footage.” Matt said again. “If we post this shit on the internet we’ll be famous. Like, dude I gotta pay for college somehow. The gods are giving us this one. We just go in, take a few pictures, and go back out. The smoke would have cleared, and we can fly my dad’s drone above it. We can sell them to the news.”

“I’m in,” Troy said. “I’m not a pussy.”

“I’m not a pussy either!” Luke said.

“I’m not a pussy either,” Brian said.

“I’m not a pussy,” Mike said.

“Good,” Troy responded.

“Good,” Brian said.

“Good,” Luke said.

“And I want a piece of the spaceship for my wall.” Matt said, with a determined tone.

“Me too, dude that would be sick!” Brian shouted. The boys all laughed and began to plan their night.

A different teacher walked past and looked at them suspiciously. The boys all hid their energy drinks from view.

Luke got a text.

Elise: Heyy, I was wondering what you’re doin tonite? 🤓

Luke smiled and started typing.

Later that night, Luke, Matt, Michael, Brian, Troy, Elise and Kayla drove into the parking lot of Thunder Park in two cars. The sun was about to set, they had half an hour of daylight left. Luke saw the security car and they cursed.

They turned back around and drove away. The security car had its lights turned on and it was still running. The driver’s door was wide open. They drove away and parked up the street.

Luke got out of his car and walked to Brian’s window.

“The security guard is right there.” Luke said. “His car is still running.”

“Maybe he’s going to leave soon.” Brian said.

“Maybe the monster got him.” Troy joked. He didn’t get a laugh from anybody. “C’mon guys, I’m just saying, cause we saw that.” Troy just stopped talking mid sentence.

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The boys walked a little while to the gravel driveway to the Thunder park. They were dressed in black clothes now. They had planned to be more discreet. Most of their clothes still had logos. They waited for a while. The sun had gone down now. The car was still running, and nobody returned to attend it.

The security car, a twenty year old sedan, was licking the last petrol from the tank. It tried to keep going on fumes but it sputtered and the engine stopped. The lights dimmed considerably as the battery started to die too.

“What the fuck?” Troy whispered.

Matt started crouch-walking towards the car. He looked strange trying to crouch and run across the wide open carpark. The rest of the group started to follow him. They appeared in the red glow of the car’s tail lights and saw a grimy scene. Blood covered the ground. Matt picked up a fire extinguisher and saw the bite marks.

“Shit.” Matt said. He looked through the holes in the steel cylinder and could see light on the other side.

The other boys looked at the blood and goosebumps flared on their spines. Elise grabbed Brian’s arm and Troy hugged Kayla. Luke looked at Elise and Brian and felt odd. He walked forward towards the spaceship.

Matt followed closely behind Luke, and Michael inspected the interior of the car. He looked at the pizza and saw it was already quite old.

Michael ran after Luke and Matt.

Luke turned on his flashlight and approached the crash site. They saw some small fires still burning in a small vicinity. The dust cloud had settled. In a deep crater was a large steel spacecraft. It had a very strange marking that looked like an alien language. It was propelled by very four large jet engines that could rotate and spin freely. There seemed to be a glass window cockpit at the front of the spacecraft.

Luke and Matt wandered to the front. It was half-buried in dirt, so they had to kneel to see into the cockpit. Luke crouched down and stared through a large hole in the cockpit glass. What he saw shocked him.

Inside the cockpit was a small grey man in a metallic silver jumpsuit. The man’s head was quite large, his eyes were black. His jumpsuit had writing on it, but it was in the same alien language. This alien was dead, his body had been stabbed by a large piece of shrapnel, the alien also showed signs of being eaten. It was missing some limbs and had vicious claw marks covering its body. Luke took out his camera and snapped a photo.

Luke saw Elise arrive with Brian, Troy and Kayla. Luke hyped himself up, closed his eyes and when he opened them, He jumped into the cockpit. He used his flashlight in one hand and his phone to film in the other. Matt, spurred on by the balls of his friend, jumped in shortly after.

Luke and Matt started looking around, the cockpit was designed for the smaller aliens. They both filmed as they walked inside. The walls were made of strangely alien forms. They walked into a large area in the middle of the ship. There were cages.

Luke and Matt heard a sound from the cockpit. They turned around.

It was Elise.

“You shouldn't be in here,” Luke whispered angrily.

“Fuck you,” Elise said.

Luke, Matt and Elise walked deeper, their flashlights lit up the interior of the cages. One of the cages held a dead cow. Most of the cages were empty, they varied in sizes.

“Holy shit,” Matt whispered, “They abducted a fucking human.” Matt called Luke and Elise over to the cage he was shining his flashlight on. There was a dead astronaut in the cage. He had a Russian flag on his uniform. He lay motionless against the wall.

They took photos and walked further, another cage held a humanoid alien robot. It was dismantled and wires were sticking out of the case. What Luke saw next chilled him to the bone.

A massive cage had been ripped open. Luke couldn’t believe the strength of the creature. Luke heard something terrifying. Raspy, laboured breathing.

He shone his flashlight down the hallway. The spaceship echoed as the thing in the darkness moved and something metal dropped. Luke held his torch in front of him and walked slowly towards the sound.

He rounded a corner and saw a grey alien man covered in scars, he was bleeding onto the floor. He looked up at luke. He was alive.