The Trigamon Project

@Temporal = Noon

A boy is sitting with his back against the wall in a carpeted room, eating his lunch and typing on a laptop. This room is about 8 feet wide, 12 feet long, and 8 feet high. Nothing else is in the room save for a pair of walking sticks propped against the wall next to the door.

The boy types something on his keyboard, then presses the "delete" key. After a few seconds, suddenly a faint knock comes on the door, and the boy hesitates, listening carefully to make sure he heard the sound. The knock then comes again. The boy puts his laptop down, and starts to get up. The following lines are spoken as the boy approaches the door.

Narration: It wasn't until that day why I would begin to understand why characters in anime, boys primarily, always wanted the quiet life. I had a quiet life, and was quite frankly growing bored with it.

Theme Song

The boy turns the doorknob and opens the door, which opens inwards. The boy looks out of the office into the hallway. He looks around, first to the left, and then to the right, but seeing no one there, starts to close the door, when suddenly a sound is projected onto QST.camera, which the boy appears to hear, too:

???: Hey! Listen! Down here!

The boy blinks twice, then looks down to see a light pink incubator in the doorway

Incubator: Hey listen! How would you like to make a contract with me and become a magical boy?

Boy: That's the last time I have dad make my lunch.

Incubator: ?

With this, the boy closes the door in the pink incubator's face.

Boy: Now that I think about it, what the zark was in that sandwich anyway?

The boy stares at the incubator unblinking.

Narration: I was in ninth grade at the time, and this was my office, my compensation for being an unpaid student intern. But as it turns out, fantasy and reality aren't too sides of the same coin. They are the coin.

Incubator's voice: Let me in!

The boy goes over to his computer and the rest of his lunch, and as he begins to sit down, a bell sounds. The boy quickly packs up his computer and lunch, returning his computer to its carrying case and his lunch to his lunch box. The boy then picks up a sweatshirt he had been sitting on, and ties it around his waist.

Narration: Fantasy and reality of course all depend on one's frame of reference. At least two universes, we really don't know how many, had been leaking into each other for a matter of hours, but as usual I was the last to know. The strange thing was how many of these creatures resembled things that we thought we made up. Was the collective imagination of humankind suddenly interfering with reality? Had this collective imagination suddenly become god?

The boy adjusts the sweatshirt around his waist and then heads towards the door.

Narration: This isn't one of those stories where we leave you hanging, the answer is no.

The boy now opens the door, and exits his office, setting his laptop case over his shoulder. The pink incubator on the floor jumps backwards.

Incubator: Hey listen!

The boy pays no attention to the incubator and turns and heads off down the hall to class. The incubator darts ahead to keep up with him as the door closes behind them.

Incubator: Hey listen!

Boy: I knew those pickles were trouble.

The incubator darts in front of the boy, who doesn't stop walking, and as a result, steps squarely on the incubator, half-squishing said incubator and getting it stuck to his shoe. The boy doesn't seem to notice this, and continues to walk down the hall. Coming to the end of the hallway, the boy turns the corner and proceeds down another hallway. QST.camera follows him.

Narrator: Realie Academy. As in, is this Realie a school? Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Realie is known for it's nerfed academic standards and the mysterious super PACs that fund it.

The boy continues down the hallway past three classrooms before finally turning and entering a fourth classroom, the pink incubator still stuck to the bottom of his shoe. In this classroom the desks are arranged in two rows which curve around a young woman in the middle of the room. The boy walks to an empty desk close to the door, and sits down next to another, blond boy.

Blond Boy: Hey Benjy…

Boy → Benjy: Hm?

Blond Boy: I think I figured out why your calculator stopped working.

Benjy: Why?

Blond Boy: It's possessed.

Benjy: You off your meds?

Blond Boy: Well, yeah, but seriously.

Benjy rolls his eyes. A girl sitting behind him leans forwards.

Girl: The legend states that the only one who can exercise a calculator is he who owns the Brooklyn Bridge.

Benjy cringes as the girl talks.

Benjy: Kate, your breath… stinks…

The girl leans further forwards.

Girl → Kate: B-but I had a mint!

Blond Boy: That wasn't a mint!

Kate: Then what was it?

A brown-haired girl sitting next to Kate now speaks up.

Girl: We don't know!

Kate: Then how do you know it wasn't a breath mint?!

Blond Boy: Because of where you zarking found it!

Girl: No one leaves a breath mint in the–

Benjy: I really don't want to know, Alex.

Girl → Alex: I thought you…

Benjy: I'm not feeling well.

Alex: Okay, okay.

Incubator: Technically it could be anything,

All four students turn as the incubator pries itself off of Benjy's shoe and climbs up onto the desk.

Incubator: That is, since you don't know what it is.

Blond Boy: Except we know what it isn't…

Incubator: But if you know what it isn't, then shouldn't you be able to determine what it is by process of elimination?

Blond Boy: Except that we could only determine that if we knew everything it isn't. We only know a few things it wasn't.

Incubator: Don't you mean "isn't"?

Blond Boy: Well it doesn't exist anymore. She ate it.

Alex: Uh, Max, what is it you're talking to?

Max (the Blond Boy) stares straight at the pink incubator and blinks.

Blond Boy → Max: Who are you?

Incubator → Beybey: My name is Beybey.

Alex: And uh, Beybey, what are you?

Beybey: I'm an incubator!

Benjy has now opened his laptop and is looking over some Sapphire code (it looks like Java)

Benjy: Why won't this zarking thing compile?! All it says is error, but it doesn't say what the zarking error is!

Kate: And what are you doing here Beybey?

Beybey: I've come from a galaxy far far away, so that I can make a contract with Benjy so he'll become a magical boy.

Max: Hey, Benjy, did you hear that?

Benjy shakes his head.

Kate: This little creature has come to grant you magical powers!

Alex: And how does one make a contract with you?

Beybey: All you have to do is make a wish?

Max: Make a wish? That's it?

Beybey: That's all you have to do.

Kate: So that's all you have to do? Make a wish?

Beybey: That's right!

Max: Benjy, make a wish!

Benjy shakes his head.

Narrator: And just like that, a lifetime of tragedy was circumvented.

Kate: Benjy–

Benjy is staring intently at his computer screen.

Benjy: Why won't you tell me what the problem is? Maybe if I restart the plugin…

Max: Benjy, you need to make a contract!

Benjy now looks up.

Beybey: You said it, not me!

Benjy: I'm not making any kind of contract with something that's obviously a hallucination.

Max: But we can see him too–I mean, what's your PGP, Beybey?

Beybey: I believe I'm closest to what you humans would call a girl, so use 'she'.

Benjy: You always claim you can see my…

Kate: Just make a wish already!

Max: But what should Benjy wish for…?

Beybey: I don't know, that's really up to him.

Alex: He's beginning to bug me, just wish that he goes away.

Kate: N-n-no! No-no! He should wish for a cake!

Benjy eyes Kate skeptically.

Max: Benjy, just wish for something stupid, like a cake, and you'll have magical powers!

African-American Boy: Objection!

This African-American boy quickly sticks his finger between Benjy and Max in a meme-like pose.

African-American Boy: You're cake, Madam Incubator, is a lie!

Benjy now turns his attention back to the computer screen. The African-American Boy twitches.

Alex: Brett, can you knock it off, I'm trying to read.

Max: Holy (bleep), how much coffee did you have?

African-American Boy → Brett: Don't get off topic!

Max: Can I make a wish then?

Beybey: Well, I came for Benjy, but–

Kate: What about me?

Beybey: Well I suppose–

Kate: Great, then I wish for–

Kate is cut off as the teacher picks up Beybey around the mid-section. Max and Kate gasp in horror.

Teacher: Don't worry, I'll return the Beanie Baby after class. I've just got a feeling that it will be a distraction during the lesson.

Narrator: And just like that, another lifetime of tragedy was circumvented.

Max and Kate watch as the teacher walks back to her desk, Beybey in hand.

Max: Benjy, close your laptop!

Benjy shakes his head.

Max: Benjy–

Benjy shakes his head again.

Max: You should have wished for your code to compile!

Kate: Why waste only one wish on something like that? You need to wish for a cake!

Teacher: In math, there is no wishing.

The class suddenly looks up at the teacher, who is standing in the center of the room with a laser-pointer in her right hand.

Teacher: Now before I get back to models of linear systems, there's a eighty-nine percent chance that we're going to be interrupted in the first twenty minutes of class by something that totally derails us, and there's fifty percent chance it will be within the first four minutes. That said, I'm going to wait a few minutes so we don't get jumbled.

Max: That means we can have our Incubator back, Ms Vandervis?

Teacher → Vandervis: What are you talking about?

Max and Kate both look at Ms Vandervis hopefully.

Vandervis: No, look how long it took you to settle down. If we have to go through that again there's a seventy-five percent chance class won't get going.

Max: But there's a twenty-five percent chance it will though.

Benjy: She's onto you. (Whisper to Max)

Vandervis: Statistics is next year. And now, if I–

Voice From Hallway: Excuse me.

QST.camera shifts to where a man with two tufts of pointy hair pokes his head in the classroom.

Narrator: This is Realie's principal: Richard Hoover. In case the tufts of pointy hair didn't give it away, he's really more of an obstacle than anything else.

Pointy-Haired Man → Hoover: I hope I'm not disturbing anything.

Vandervis turns to Hoover expectantly.

Hoover: B…ut I was hoping to introduce you to our new transfer student.

Hoover now steps out of the doorway, and suddenly a Gardevoir walks into the doorway, scanning the classroom with an expression that humans would associate with nervousness.

Hoover: She's a little shy and doesn't speak the language very well, but I'm sure you can make her feel at home. Now I've got to run. Bye!

With this, Hoover disappears down the hall leaving the Gardevoir to wander into the room, while Benjy taps away at his computer.

Vandervis: Uh… Hello there?

Gardevoir: Deh?

The Gardevoir touches the red object on her chest with her two fingers, then extends them towards Ms. Vandervis's chest. Ms. Vandervis backs up abruptly.

Blond-Haired Girl: Uh, I don't think that's a human.

Alex: Yeah, neither do I…

Vandervis: It's always something. Please sit in the desk behind Sid here.

The Gardevoir stares confused at Ms. Vandervis, causing the latter to sigh and show the Gardevoir to the desk and have her sit down in it. Seated in the desk, the Gardevoir looks somewhat like the other students. Sid, seated in front of her, turns around.

Sid: Hey sweet thang, how about you come to my place when this is all over, okay?

Sid makes kissy-lips at the Gardevoir, which responds by raising it's hand in front of Sid's face. Sid kisses the hand, and immediately convulses, seizing up. He then slumps over in his desk knocked unconscious.

Narrator: Lets watch that again in slow motion.

@Temporal -= 10seconds.story

Sid moves his lips in to kiss the Gardevoir's hand, and suddenly the Gardevoir's hand sparks. A split-second later, a spark jumps from the Gardevoir's hand to Sid's lower teeth, causing his motions to stop, then become erratic as he thrashes about.

Ms. Vandervis is already at the telephone dialing, as she begins to talk into the telephone, Beybey jumps down from the desk by way of the chalkboard, and lands on the floor, speaking as he does.

Beybey: Hey! Listen! This is the perfect time to make a wish! Have you thought about what you'll wish for?

Benjy is typing on his computer. As soon as Beybey lands on the carpet, he makes another leap towards Benjy. Instead of landing normally, Beybey is caught in the Gardevoir's telepathy, and pulled towards the psychic pokémon.

Beybey: W-wait a sec! I'm working with him right now! I'll grant you a wish in just–

Beybey is cut off as he is pulled into the Gardevoir's arms.

Beybey: Look, please, just five minutes–

QST.camera now synchronizes with the Gardevoir's field of vision as it licks it's lips with an inhumanly long green tongue, staring at Beybey, and holding him tightly. Then suddenly the Gardevoir jerks it's head forwards, biting off Beybey's head.

Max's Voice: And now we lost our chance. Good going, Benjy.

QST.camera de-synchronizes with the Gardevoir's field of vision as she continues to devour the rest of Beybey, save for the rings floating around her ears, which she instead puts on her arm as a bracelet. Vandervis now hangs up the phone.

Vandervis: Alex, I'm appointing you our interim nurse's aid.

Alex: Me?

Vandervis: You're job right now is just to get the school nurse. You know where she is?

Alex nods, and breathes a sigh of relief.

Vandervis: That's all you need to do.

With this, Alex gets up and excuses herself.

Vandervis continues to lecture, while it starts to rain outside.

Benjy: It's been one thing after another today. To the calculator screwing up, I have to say "Daianu". That would have been enough. To the rainstorm, I have to say "Daianu". That would have been enough.

Alex now returns to her seat, and the nurse (a young man) enters the room behind her, and walks over to Sid, who is a little woozy, but reveals that he can walk. He doesn't want to leave the class, but the nurse insists, and he reluctantly agrees to follow the nurse.

Narration: Even today, I still enjoy watching rainstorms. Where will the water go next? Old things have to be washed away in order for new things to come. I'm no poet, but even I know what happens when it doesn't rain. I live in California, and here, when we don't get enough rain, things burn. If it's not by water, it's by fire. The universe supposedly tends towards entropy, and it will get it's way one way or another.

Vandervis: Alright, I think that's enough for today. Your homework is chapter two, problems two through twenty even. Twenty-one through twenty eight are extra credit.

The students in the classroom write this down, and the bell rings. Slowly, as the students finish writing these things down, they pack up and leave at their own rate. Benjy writes down the homework in a comment of his program, and then exits the room, with Max behind him.

➜ It's a call to all peoples that stay in the know;

➜ Watch as all the winds of change now start to blow;

➜ And hold on to your everything before it's time to go;

➜ If your sanity is really worth saving.

➜ And if you really don't care, then just remember to hope;

➜ Because space-time has just begun changing;

Benjy walks back through the hallway, and enters a restroom on his left, and stays in there for the second line of the song. He exits the restroom at the start of the third line, and the sound of him washing his hands can be heard slightly prior to this. QST.camera then follows Benjy, who walks back slowly through the hallway towards the stairs, and begins to climb them. Benjy reaches the bottom of the stairs as the first verse finishes.

Benjy walks towards the door of his office from the top of the stairs.

➜ Children, you're the future, so please heed the call;

Benjy continues walking towards his office, reaching the door at the end of the above line.

➜ Don't dam up the river when you tear down brick walls;

Benjy pushes the buttons on the keypad on his door, and opens his door.

➜ And you might even want to catch bricks as they fall;

➜ The catalyst of mayhem is blazing!

➜ It's easy to survive, should you give it your all;

➜ And the world, beneath you is shaking;

Benjy enters his office and closes the door behind him, and goes back to where he was sitting at the beginning of the episode, pulling out his computer and starting to look at his code again. This time he stares at it intently as the power goes out.

➜ The line can't be drawn when no spells can be cast;

➜ And there's no guarantee the past will stay in the past;

➜ Sometimes there's no difference between first and last;

➜ When equations are constantly changing;

Benjy's computer makes an odd noise and powers off. Benjy stares in confusion, and then slumps down and lies down on his backpack, holding the laptop on his lap. He tries to power it back on, but only weird patterns appear on the screen. Lightning flashes outside, illuminating his laptop.

(At this point, thunder drowns out the last two verses of the song)

Benjy continues to stare at his laptop in confusion.

Benjy: And… How? It wasn't even plugged in.

Benjy closes his laptop and turns it over in his hands.

Benjy: Maybe there's electricity in the air… But air is such a poor conductor… I'd definitely feel it. Maybe it has a residual charge in some capacitor somewhere?

Beybey: So, about that wish?

Benjy looks down to see Beybey at his feet.

Benjy: Forget it.

Beybey: Can you speak verbally? For some reason I am unable to communicate with you telepathically.

Benjy: Maybe it's a robot.

Benjy reaches down and picks up Beybey, looking for a place where batteries are stored.

Beybey: What are you doing?

Benjy: …

At this point Max walks by Benjy's office door.

Max: Benjy! We're going to be late for… Oh, you found Beybey!

Benjy: More like she found me. Can you take her away?

Max: Well we have English together, so…

Benjy: Hold on, let me get my umbrella.

Benjy and Max walk out onto the Realie courtyard through a small hallway with large glass double-doors on both ends, with Beybey following them. Benjy has an umbrella and Max is wearing a raincoat with a hood.

Max: This is really weird weather for September.

Benjy: Another effect of global warming.

Narration: The planet on which I live, Earth, is currently heating up due to chemicals released into the air by human activity. The increase in temperature is causing all sorts of bizarre weather patterns across the planet.

As Benjy and Max walk across the courtyard, they walk past another boy with an umbrella who is staring up at the sky.

Max: Hey WG! You're going to be late for English!

WG: Holy zark guys, look at that.

WG points into the sky.

Max: We're going to be late for class!

WG: Max, Benjy! Just look!

Benjy: K.

Still holding his umbrella, Benjy starts to look up, and QST.camera synchronizes with Benjy's vision as he does.

Narration: And then we saw something that was not caused by global warming.

In the heavily overcast sky, a huge red light which slightly resembles a comet is shining brightly through the clouds. After about five seconds QST.camera de-synchronizes with Benjy's vision and Benjy looks down.

Benjy: What is that?

WG: I don't know!

Max: Uh…

Max now looks down.

Max: Do you know what that is, Beybey?

WG: Who're you calling baby?

Max points down at Beybey.
Max: That thing is called a Beybey.

QST.camera synchronizes with WG's vision as he looks down at Beybey.

WG: I don't see anything.

Max: Hold on, you don't–

WG: Wait, I see the rain hitting something invisible–err, translucent.

WG reaches for Beybey, still invisible to him and misses, then tries again and once again misses. WG catches hold of Beybey on the third attempt.

WG: Rain gave your location away, little guy

QST.camera now de-synchronizes with WG's vision. With this Beybey turns visible to WG, and sparkles for QST.camera.

WG: Woah! So you're Beybey?

Beybey nods.

WG: So what is that thing!?

Beybey: First, Benjy has to make a contract with me to become a magical boy.

WG: Why him?

Beybey: I'm not at liberty to say that.

Max: You guys! We're late for English!

Benjy and WG suddenly realize this, and rush across the courtyard to the English classroom where the other students are already seated. They open the door and go inside the classroom.

Benjy and WG enter the classroom as Max takes his seat. WG closes the door behind them.

M3LL: Hey, you guys are late.

Benjy and WG now collapse their umbrellas and put them against the wall with the other students' umbrellas.

WG: Got distracted by the red light in the sky.

M3LL sighs.

M3LL: It's probably nothing.

WG: It's really bright though. It's not like a plane light or a comet even.

M3LL: I see.

M3LL walks back to her computer, and lets out another sigh.

M3LL: Well, it'll appear in the news sooner or later.

Benjy has now set his umbrella out to dry and taken a seat. Alex now speaks up.

Alex: I think it's a missile.

M3LL looks up in horror.

M3LL: A missile?!

Alex: Well, I heard that the FBI were here…

M3LL: Benjy! Turn off the lights!

Girl: What?! Why?

Benjy, sensing urgency, quickly follows this direction.

M3LL: We're going into lockdown mode. Everyone away from the windows!

M3LL now rushes over to the internal telephone and starts dialing.

M3LL: Just until we know what's going on. Everyone, be absolutely silent and don't open the door!

The class quickly falls silent, and Max hears Beybey's voice in his mind:

Beybey: Can someone please let me in.

Max: Hold on!

M3LL hears Max's reply, and looks up as Max rushes to the door.

M3LL: Max what are you doing?!

Max: I–I think I left something…

WG: No, Max!

Before Max can respond, WG tackles Max away from the door.

M3LL: Hello?

Max: Beybey is…

WG: You're not opening that door!

Benjy and Alex now approach Max and drag him away from the door, while M3LL motions for everyone to be quiet.

Max: Let me go! (whisper)

WG: No! What if that creature is the cause of the lockdown! (whisper)

Max: It's not!

Footsteps can be heard outside, and something scratches at the door.

Beybey: Help!

Max: Hold on! Their not letting me–

M3LL: Quiet!

QST.camera now focuses on the teacher, M3LL, and synchronizes with her hearing.

M3LL: Is this the main office?

Person_on_Phone: Yes.

M3LL: I just heard that the FBI are here, is that true?

Person_on_Phone: Um… No. The FBI are not on campus at this time. Is something the matter?

M3LL turns to Alex.

M3LL: Alex, what did you hear?

Alex: I just heard someone say the FBI were here, and that was it.

M3LL: Were they here?

Person_on_Phone: No, the FBI did not arrive on campus an hour ago.

M3LL quickly hangs up the phone, at this time QST.camera de-synchronizes with her hearing.

M3LL: (bleep)hole.

M3LL: Everyone, get away from the windows! Get under the desks and be quiet!

Max: Then make them let me go! (loud)

M3LL: What do you think you're doing?! (whisper)

Max: I need to–

Max is cut off as Alex stuffs Benjy's sweatshirt into Max's mouth, causing him to gag.

Beybey continues to scratch at the door in the pouring rain, but no one shows any sign of letting her in. After a few moments, footsteps can be heard, and Beybey perks up her ears as a flashlight beam is cast on the ground. Beybey sees this, and turns and darts across the pavement.

Woman's Voice: It's moving!

QST.camera zooms out as a group of men and women in black FBI uniforms run after Beybey, before shifting inside the English classroom to where Benjy and the other students are watching through the windows. M3LL drops down behind her desk and pulls out her cell phone, scrolling through the contacts to the superintendent, and hits the talk button.

Max: Let me go! (muffled)

QST.camera now shifts to where Benjy and two other girls are huddled together, all visibly shaken. One of the girls has a long ponytail, and the other has medium-length hair, and both look extremely moe. Benjy is as just as nervous as they are. The girl without the ponytail now speaks:

Girl: If the FBI are here, that's a good thing right? (whisper)

Benjy: I think so, Alexandra. I mean, I can't think of any situation where that wouldn't be the case. (whisper)

Girl → Alexandra: Okay. (whisper)

QST.camera shifts over to M3LL who gives them a dirty look, and Benjy returns the glance.

Max: Let me go! (muffled)

On the floor Alex whispers something to Max, and he instantly shuts up, staring at her suddenly scared.

Beybey runs into some bushes as the FBI squad continue to chase her through planters with flashlight beams.

Beybey: This is bad! Chance of destruction if caught is ninety-nine percent. Forget that boy and his karma! I need to contract a magical girl quickly! But why can't I sense anyone?!

Beybey continues running and runs into a drain pipe, and scurries up the inside while the agents quickly move to stop her. QST.camera shifts inside the drain pipe as Beybey attempts to climb. About five seconds later, something blows up the drain pipe a few inches above where Beybey is, and Beybey leaps through the explosion to get away from the FBI. The agents lunge for her as she scampers across the planters, then across the pavement towards the main building of Realie.

Beybey: What's going on?! Why is my en being blocked?!

Beybey darts across the ground, and makes a b-line for another drainpipe, and two of the FBI agents collide as they try desperately to grab Beybey, but she slips through the fingers of a female agent and quickly scampers into the drainpipe, which moves up the side of the building, traversing the first eight feet of drainpipe in five seconds, immediately after which, the FBI rip the drainpipe from the building just in time to see Beybey's pink tail disappear into the next segment of drainpipe.

In the darkened classroom, someone knocks on the door. When no one answers, a woman's voice calls out:

Woman: This is the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations! Is anyone in there?

Man's Voice: Lace!

Man's Voice: Wait until we've caught the incubator. (quiet)

The girl with the ponytail now speaks.

Girl: Incubator? (whisper)

Benjy: Shh, Lana. (quieter whisper)

The girl (Lana) nods.

Benjy: If the FBI is chasing it, then… Wait a minute! That creature must be an alien! Then…

Benjy shudders.

Benjy: The red light must be it's spaceship!

Narration: Soon, I would learn that I was completely wrong about the red light. But while my friends and I hid in the classroom, the FBI was chasing down an extremely dangerous extraterrestrial life form right under our noses. It's common knowledge that the United States Government is bad at handling large projects, but it is very adept at dealing with small things.

Benjy starts trembling a little more.

Narration: The weird thing is that I'm alive today because I trusted the government. I still don't know what would happen if I had made that wish, but I know what would happen if a normal person did.

As the narration plays, Beybey climbs up the inside of the drainpipe. Something blows up the drainpipe right below Beybey, but Beybey hangs on with her ears, and quickly pulls herself into the pipe, but this time QST.camera doesn't follow her into the pipe.

Beybey is only in the pipe for a few seconds before a strange floating metal rectangular pyramid creature with only one eye floats next to the pipe, and zaps the pipe with a bolt of electricity coming from it's eye. As the pipe breaks QST.camera goes into slow motion. The pipe breaks with Beybey in the part that's broken off, but Beybey leaps through the pipe and into an open window, leaping into the room. This window is shattered by an unseen force behind Beybey. QST.camera now returns to normal speed as Beybey lands and quickly takes off across the floor of the empty classroom.

QST.camera shifts down below to where one of the FBI takes out their walkie-talkies and calls into it:

Agent: It's on the second floor.

Voice from Walkie-Talkie: Roger.

The door glows as if someone is controlling it telepathically and quickly closes, but Beybey darts through before it can close. Beybey lands on all fours in the hallway, and quickly darts off to the left.

Beybey: Why isn't my en working?!

Beybey runs down the hall towards another hall, but hears footsteps and so suddenly darts into an empty classroom, and runs across the floor, quickly climbing up onto one of the desks. QST.camera now quickly follows Beybey's gaze to where she spots an air freshener can on a shelf. Beybey quickly darts over to the can as footsteps can be heard in the hallway, then suddenly the door is swung open wide.

Agent: There she is!

Beybey does something to the can as two agents rush into the classroom and run at her. As they get close, suddenly Beybey hits something and rides the can through the window like a rocket, spraying the agents in the face and shattering the window as she flies into the sky.

Beybey: ♫I believe I can fly!♪

QST.camera follows Beybey as she shoots into the sky over secret service vehicles. Down below someone gets a text on their communicator, and quickly all eyes converge on Beybey. A split-second later, someone shoots the can out from under Beybey.

Beybey: ♫I just got shot by the FBI♪

As Beybey starts to fall, FBI agents quickly grab an empty trash can, and place it under where Beybey is falling.

Beybey: You can try that, but I'm just going to escape again.

Beybey crouches into what looks like a spring-loaded position as she falls, but as soon as she falls into the can, someone quickly slams the lid on the trash can, and one of the agents calls out that they got her (although they refer to Beybey as an 'it' not a 'her').

The trash can is quickly surrounded and sprayed with something that seals it shut. This is followed by a pair of agents who quickly arrive with a can of spray-paint and a stencil. One holds the stencil while the other spray-paints a biohazard symbol on the can.

The lights are on in the classroom, and M3LL is sitting at the teacher's desk while two FBI agents are in the doorway. One agent is male, the other is female. The students are seated at their desks, but the ones closest to the FBI are visibly nervous.

M3LL: So there was no bomb?

Agent_m: Yeah, it was just a false alert.

WG: So what's that thing in the sky?

Agent_m: We don't know. They think it's a gigantic supernova in the Andromeda galaxy, but we're still researching it.

Lana: But why did you need all these people for just a bomb threat.

Agent_f: We were expecting multiple insurgents, but it's looking more and more like a prank.

M3LL: So kids, know that bomb threats are serious business.

Agent_f: It's not from anyone here.

M3LL: You already–

Agent_m: We already found them. There's nothing to be worried about. It's all taken care of. Good to go?

Max: Hold on. I heard someone say something about an incubator.

Agent_f: That's the kind of bomb we heard was planted.

Max: Then it wasn't a hoax!

The agents look at each other.

Max: There's a little pink creature called an incubator running–

M3LL: MAX! STOP!

Max: YOU STOP!

The male agent now takes out a device that resembles the memory-erasing device from Men in Black and holds it up to the class. He presses a button and a bright flash lights up the room.

WG: You trying to erase our memories?

Agent_m: We're just taking a picture.

M3LL: MAX!!

Max turns to M3LL angrily.

Agent_m: It's OK.

Agent_f: That thing that looks like a mouse is a device we use to look for the person responsible. It's asks you for a wish to search for culprits.

Max: Then wh–

Agent_f: Excuse me.

With this, the female agent grabs Max by the wrist and whisks him out of the room.

It's after class, and Benjy is walking back to the main building. It's no longer raining as hard. Lana and Alexandra are walking back with Benjy. The double doors to the entrance open and the three enter the small area between the outside and the inside. Here, one of the FBI agents is picking out his umbrella.

Alexandra: And you said it wanted to turn you into a magical boy?

Benjy: Yeah, something about a contract.

Agent: Excuse me?

Benjy: Oh, sorry–

Agent: No, I mean what did you say?

Alexandra: Just your bomb-sniffer said it wanted to make a contract with Benjy.

Benjy nods, and the agent looks surprised.

Agent: It went after you, huh?

Lana: Does that mean it thought–

Agent: I thought it was supposed to go after girls…

Agent: See, we're supposed to tell you that it was a bomb threat that turned out to be fake. Really there was something, but we took care of it.

The agent continues to speak to Benjy, Lana, and Alexandra in the background.

Narration: And there was when we learned the truth.

Agent: Yes, it was an alien. And it's trying to kill you.

Alexandra: Then was that light in the sky it's ship?!

Agent: No. We don't know what that is right now, but it's too far away to be a starship.

Lana: You look like you're lying.

Agent: Look. You really shouldn't know any of this, but in case you see something like that in the future, don't interact with it. Don't even acknowledge it.

Alexandra: And–

Agent: Interacting with it is all it takes for it to kill you.

Benjy, Lana, and Alexandra watch dumbfounded as the agent walks out into the rain. All three are shaking from head to toe. Alexandra looks like she's about to cry, but she's unable to speak.

Benjy and Lana sit Alexandra down in Benjy's furniture-less office, where Alexandra is trembling.

Lana: Look at it this way. There are millions of people in the middle east who want to kill us, and they can kill us whether we interact with them or not. Compared to them, a little alien is nothing to be worried about.

Alexandra: Now you just made me doubly worried!

Lana shrinks away from Alexandra.

Alexandra: What if they're working together?!

Benjy: Well, that's unlikely, but not impossible I guess.

QST.camera starts to zoom out slowly.

In an office a few stories off the ground a young man looks out over the parking area, watching the rain. Soft footsteps can be heard in the hallway, and a middle-aged woman enters the room.

Woman: Lightsman–

The man abruptly turns around.

Man → Lightsman: What's the matter [L]?

Woman → [L]: One of our students is giving the police a hard time.

Lightsman sighs.

Lightsman: Thats to be expected. Can you send him in?

[L] shakes her head.

Lightsman: They didn't take him, did they?

[L]: No, no. He's just a little too dazed to walk right now.

Lightsman: Did they–

[L]: They didn't do anything, they were just really ticked off.

Lightsman raises his eyebrows.

[L]: Really ticked off.

Lightsman: How bad is it?

[L]: Not so bad.

Benjy sits in the Realie cafeteria with Lana and Alexandra, the latter of whom is still shivering. The cafeteria is bustling with students, and it's still raining outside, but the sky is lighter now.

Alexandra: But I can't help thinking about–

Benjy: My usual plan of action is to tell the authorities, but that won't work this time because–

Benjy hiccups as he suddenly realizes something.

Benjy: Because the authorities are already handling it.

Benjy lets out a sigh of relief which causes Alexandra to look up.

Alexandra: ?

Benjy: Just let the authorities handle it. It took them minutes to arrive, so it's not something we have to worry about.

Lana looks at Benjy curiously, and then takes a bite of her sandwich, looking ridiculously cute as she does so. Alexandra also begins to eat her lunch, also looking ridiculously cute.

Narration: But as sure as the rain comes down, things were beginning to change. My next encounter with an unearthly creature would be far more…

Benjy is walking by the side of his house, carrying a large bag of paper recycling. As he walks, a faint munching noise can be heard, and Benjy looks around to see where it is coming from. After a few seconds, Benjy's gaze falls on a large trash can that has a leaf sticking out of it.

Narration: …pleasant.

Benjy walks past the trash can, and keeping an eye on it, deposits his bag of recycling in the recycling bin. He then comes back to the trash can, and lifts the lid. Underneath is a blue-eyed Chikorita munching on the trash. As Benjy opens the trash can the Chikorita looks up at him.

Chikorita: Chiko!