Josh's Mystery Ending
As Cathy opened the envelope, five men broke through her front door. One of the men snatched the envelope from her hand and said, “Sorry ma’am” as he showed her his badge and warrant. Cathy’s husband came downstairs and said, “What’s going on?”
“It seems that Mrs. Cathy Setter has an envelope which contains some top secret information that is under investigation.” The men left the house. It went silent in the house as their car drove away.
Mr. Setter said, “Do you know what that letter said?”
“Not exactly. I only read three words.”
”What did the three words say?”
“It said, ‘I’ve found aliens.’”
***
By this time, David was so worried that the aliens would get angry at him for having
brought only one piece of gum that he almost started to cry. All at once the alien leader spoke.
“Do you have this thing you speak of, the thing that you can chew forever? Speak!”
David pulled the piece of gum out of his pocket and said, “Here you go. I only have
one piece. I hope that’s ok.”
The alien leader grabbed the gum, pulled out a little device, and “scanned” the gum with
it. From the top of the device came a little tray with eight pieces of gum. Each of the eight aliens
grabbed one. They all started chewing. About two minutes went by. All at once David said,
“Okay, now it’s time for you guys to answer some of my questions. Why did you guys need
bubble gum?”
A small alien walked up and started to answer, “We need this ‘gum’ for energy, not from
the sugar, but from the chewing. You see, the more we chew, the stronger we get and the faster
we run. All abilities are about thirty times better than before, so with this gum, we will have the
strength of an elephant, the speed of a gazelle, and the jump of a kangaroo.”
David replied, “Oh, now I understand.”
The small alien said, “You asked earlier, ‘So when are we planning to do it?’ What did
you mean?”
“You know, like eat my brains or something. I had no idea how friendly you would
actually be.”
***
When Richard opened the door, he saw that everything was a wreck. He saw some black
gel on the ground. The smell from it was strange, like nothing he had ever smelled. Suddenly, it
started to smoke; it burned right through the floor. He grabbed a glass, filled it with water, and
poured it on the black gel. All at once, the gel got even bigger and then started to move. He
started to worry about David. He pulled out his phone and started to dial his number.
***
Cathy pulled into the driveway of David’s apartment and noticed that the door was open.
She got out of the car and saw that smoke was coming out of the apartment. She started to run as
her phone went off. She looked down for a second. She saw that it was Richard. She flipped
open the phone.
“Hello, this is Richard. I tried calling David, but he would not pick up. I’m wondering if you
have seen him?”
Cathy interrupted, “I think David’s apartment is on fire. I need you to come as soon as you can!”
“Calm down. It’s not on fire.”
“It’s not? Then why is smoke coming out of his front door? And how do you know?”
“I’m in his apartment right now. Come inside and I will explain.”
***
At this time, David was driving back to his apartment. He thought, “Ah! This traffic was
horrid. I wonder what the holdup is?” All at once a massive explosion happened in front
of him. Then it came like a wave of dust: cars, glass, and people were flying through the air. He
ducked as he saw a flying bumper coming right at him. The bumper smashed right through his
front windshield and went out the other end of his car. After a horrible fifteen minutes David sat
up. He looked around cautiously expecting the worst. It was so quiet. No birds were singing. Just
the sound of him breathing. He tried opening the car door, but it was stuck. As he crawled
through the window, his leather jacket caught on a piece of glass and ripped a small hole in the
bottom of his jacket. As he dusted himself off he thought, “What in the world was that?” He
thought of the aliens then thought, “Or is it from this world?”
***
“Cathy? Cathy? Are you there?”
“Yes.”
“Cathy, are you alright?”
“Yes thank you. You?”
“Just a bump on the head, I’m okay.”
Cathy asked, “What was that?”
“I think it was some sort of explosion.”
Cathy replied, “It sounded like it came from the court house.”
“Yes. But for now I think we should try to get out of here before this apartment falls
down on us,” Richard exclaimed. As Cathy and Richard tried to get out of the building, Cathy
stepped on a weak spot in the floor and her right foot fell right through the floor into some three-
inch nails. She screamed as Richard came to help her. “What’s wrong?”
“It’s my foot!” Richard pulled her foot out of the nails; he could hear the bones and the blood
make this horrible sound. “We need to get you to a hospital, now!” As the blood rushed out of
her foot, she thought to herself as she passed out, “I didn’t know my foot had that much blood in
it.”
***
Mr. Setter thought, “Earthquake!” as the glass plates fell off the counter and broke into a
thousand pieces. He fell to the ground and crawled under the kitchen table. The rumbling
stopped. He got up and noticed the lights were out. He quickly thought, “I wonder if Cathy is
okay?” As he ran out the door, he stops. “Gulp.” as he saw the massive monster chewing his
dog. He walked back slowly and closed the door without making a sound. As he ran to his
twelve-gage shotgun he heard the monstrous thing break through his front door. As he got his
hands on the gun he felt a slimy thing on his foot. He turned around to find the monster
looking right at him with its four eyes. He shook as he pointed the gun at the monster and said,
“Get back or, or I’m going to have to shoot!”
“Where is product 0138472?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Tell me, human, before I become angry and devour you!” As the monster reached for
his head, Mr. Setter shot three shots right in between the monster’s eyes. It gave a horrible
scream and stepped back, then grabbed Mr. Setters by the head and threw him right through the
wall and ran off.
***
“Let’s move, troop! We got a level four attack on New York. Move, move, move!” yelled
the officer. All at once the aliens from the library ran up. The officer yelled, “Stop right there!”
The alien leader signaled for the aliens to stop.
“We are on your side. Don’t shoot, we can help you,” said the alien.
“How do I know you’re not lying?”
“You must trust us. It’s the only way your world will survive. My evil brothers will make
you slaves to their world and use this ‘gum’ for evil. Please trust us.”
“Fine, we will trust you, but the second you lay a hand on us, you’re going to be blown to
high heaven. You got that?”
“Yes.”
“Make that a, ‘yes sir,’ from now on.”
“Yes, sir.”
A man ran up and talked to the officer, then saluted and ran off. The officer turned to the
aliens and said, “I have just been informed that your brothers have just blown up the capital of
New York.”
“That must have been Hurlock, son of Bullock. He is very good with big explosions. Or it
could have been them teleporting to earth.”
“Well, that son of a gun needs to be put down!”
“Yes, sir” said the twelve aliens.
“There is no time to lose. Let’s move out!” said the officer.
***
“Oh, my head. My back,” cries Mr. Setter. He spotted a little black thing on the ground.
He thought, “What’s this?” as he touched it and cried, “Ouch!” and he pulled his hand away. He
thought, “I need to figure out what this stuff is. I have to get this back to my lab.” He ran to the
kitchen and reached out to grab a glass jar as he noticed his hand was bleeding very badly. He
opened a cabinet and grabbed a first aid kit, opened the first aid kit, and grabbed a little bit of
alcohol and rubs it on his wound. He rapped a medical cloth around the cut and taped it tight. As
he walked over to the black slime he noticed that it got bigger. Then he saw little bits of slime
going towards it and combining with the bigger slime. He scooped the big piece of slime up with
the jar and snapped a lid on it fast. He ran upstairs and grabbed his pistol, back pack, and some
ammo. He ran out the door toward the lab thinking, “What’s going on?”
***
As the aliens got ready for combat, the officer asked the alien leader, “How many
brothers do you have?”
“Twelve total, including me. You see, there was a time all of our brothers were at peace,
until they discovered this little black slime from the deepest cave in our planet ‘Vendron.’
Now, this slime could not be destroyed and it was very dangerous. So we made a vote on what
we should do. It ended up that six of us wanted the slime locked up and the other six wanted to
take it over all the galaxies. Since we all had different views on the black slime, we chose to go
to war to decide who got the black slime. The problem is that a janitor walked up, thought it was
trash, and threw it in the black hole trash can, which made the black slime land on earth on a
boy named David.”
“Thanks for giving me a short reply. (Cough.)”
“There it is,” one of the aliens yelled! Right in front of an f16 stood a sixteen foot black
slime monster. A man from the back said “Duck!” as he fired a fifty Cal. The slime monster was
pushed back by the force of the bullets into the f16 that happened to be taking off. The f16 had
been going full throttle. The monster went flying into the air as the jet flied away. A tank and
four jeeps went in the direction of the monster.
***
As David dialed his mom, he heard a noise. It was someone talking in a language he had
never heard before. It was coming from where the explosion had happened. He flipped his phone
shut with a snap. All at once the noise stopped. He stopped as he noticed three white aliens. They
made this strange clicking noise that gave him chills. He ducked behind some broken
pieces of pavement as one of the white aliens looked around.
***
Cathy and Richard rushed into the hospital. Richard yelled, “Can I get a doctor over
here?” but no one came. They didn’t see any one, but the lights were on and they heard some
noise in the back. They ran to the back and saw that everyone in the whole hospital was working.
Cathy puked all over the floor. Richard pulled a doctor over to Cathy. The doctor was covered in
blood as he said, “Just get a bandage on it. There are no broken bones. You will be fine in the
morning.”
“Okay, so where is a bandage?” Richard replies.
“We are all out. I’m sorry. Maybe rap a clean cloth on it or something. I suggest you go
to the police station for safety. I really need to get back to work.”
He said, “Okay, thanks.” as he ripped off part of his T-shirt and put it on her foot. They
walked out of the hospital toward the police station. When they were about eighty feet away
from the hospital, it exploded with a long “boom.” All at once, Cathy and Richard went flying
through the air.
***
“Sir, I think you need to see this.” The soldier said.
“What is it?”
“Sir, the New York hospital base has just been blown up.”
“Corporal, get the President on the phone now!”
“Yes, sir!”
“I want a nuclear bomb ready for lift off on the double!”
“Sir, I have the President on line six.”
“Mr. President, it seems that we have a big problem on our hands. There have been two
massive explosions in New York which have blown up the Capital and the Hospital of
New York City.”
“Well, it seems we are going to have to face WW3.”
“Mr. President, I do think we should end this war like WW2.”
“A nuclear bomb? No. we can’t just kill thousands of innocent lives. There must be a
better way!”
“It is your choice, Mr. President.”
“Clear out New York City and then I will make the choice. You have your orders,
Sargent.”
“Yes, sir.”
***
Mr. Setter thought, “Wow this slime is amazing! I haven’t seen anything like it! It’s like
water, except it can stay together much easier. I wonder what would happen if I added
some water to the slime?” Mr. Setter put the slime in one of his strongest cages, one with a
camera in it and six inch glass windows on it. He locked a tube to the side of the cage
going to a water supply. He jumped in his chair with a spin and rolled over to the computer.
He pushed ‘Enter’ and the tube filled with water. The water rushed into the cage with the
slime. All at once, the water got black and the camera went black. He turned around and
saw the cage bust open. Five monsters came running out with rage in their eyes. Mr. Setter
did not move a muscle. The five monsters sniffed around like hounds hunting
deer. They walked slowly around the room. Mr. Setter thought, “Maybe they will not see me.”
The chair squeaked and the monsters turned to Mr. Setter. Mr. Setter prayed, “Even though I
walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil.” Then he felt something like a
small earthquake and the lights flickered. The monsters acted like they heard something and ran
off. But Mr. Setter did not hear anything. He figured that they must have much better ears
compared to his. He thought, “Two times I have been attacked and survived. I must be one lucky
guy.” Then he realized he needed to find Cathy, so he got out of his chair and ran out the door.
He thought, “I will let the police know that I’m looking for her.”
***
“Cathy? Cathy?” As Richard looked around for her, he spotted her lying on the ground
under a massive piece of concrete. He ran to her then kneeled down next to her and he whispers,
“Oh Cathy,” as a tear runs down his face. He thought of past memories of her cooking
meals for him when he came over to David’s house, and how he could never stop eating her
amazing food. He thought about how she had always had a smile on her face while she cooked,
or when she washed David’s and Mr. Setter’s clothes. He closed her eyes with his hand and then
walked toward the police station as he wiped his tears off his face.
***
David spotted a nearby police station. He thought, “If I can just get over to the police
station, I might be able to get away from these aliens.” All at once, the earth shook under his
feet. He spotted a massive cloud ascending from the earth. The aliens fell over and he thought,
“This is my chance!” He got up and ran towards the police station. As he entered the police
station, he noticed that all the police had abandoned the station. He walked to the armory and
grabbed an assault rifle, a fully automatic AK47, and a couple grenades. He felt the earth move
like when a herd of cows were stampeding. He glanced out the window and saw one alien
running directly at him. David grabbed a grenade, pulled the pin and held it for a second, then
tossed it out the window. He watched the alien catch it, then he smashed it with his bare
hand. The alien jumped through the window and lunged at David. David quickly pulled out his
AK47 and pulled the trigger as hard as he could. The alien kept running at him even though the
bullets were going into his body. The white blood was going everywhere. David kept backing up
until he was up against the wall. The alien got within inches of his neck with its hands and then
fell to the ground with a moan. David found a green necklace around the alien’s neck. He looked
at it for a second, then put it in his pocket. He waited in the police station, expecting the rest of
the aliens to come. Then he heard gun shots and the sound of a jeep. He looked out the window
and saw the two aliens running away as the soldier shot his rifle in their direction. David ran
out to the jeep and the soldier said, “Would you like a ride?”
“Yes!”
“Okay get in!” David climbed up into the back of the jeep. As they drove away, David
asked, “Where are we going?”
“I can’t tell you. That is top secret, but I can tell you we are going to a base.”
“Okay,” David said as they put a blindfold on over his eyes. When the soldiers took off
his blindfold, the first thing he spotted was a huge army of soldiers. He estimated there was
about five thousand of them. They were all armed and suited in camouflage. Most of them were
holding M4s, but the sergeants were holding sub-machineguns. The sergeants barked out codes
he did not understand. The soldier said, “Follow me. Our general has been looking for you. He
says you have something that his friends want.” David replied, “Alright, lead the way.” As they
walked towards the general, David spoke. “Who are his friends?”
“I don’t know. I’m just following my orders.”
“Okay.” They entered the general’s cabin and the first thing David noticed was the scar
across his face. The general walked up to David and grinned. Suddenly, the general spoke as he
opened a door. “I think I have something you would like to see.” The general flipped on the
light, and there are the six aliens he met in the basement of the library. The general said, “They
say you’re the one who has this black slime.”
“What are you talking about? I know nothing of this black slime.”
“Don’t ask me. Ask the aliens.”
David walked over to the alien leader and said “What are you guys talking about? I’ve
never heard of this ‘black slime’ you speak of.”
The leader spoke, “The black slime you have never heard of it? That is very strange.”
“Why is that strange?”
“It’s strange because our scout watched it land on your left shoulder.”
“What’s so important about this black slime?”
The officer interrupted, “It’s a long story. Our army is about to move out and we need
your help, too. I have been informed that there are six hundred white aliens gathering in the
middle of times Square. We are going to end this with force, not bombs. There is no time to
lose.”
“Yes, sir. I’m ready.” The general handed him some ammo for his AK47 and said,
“Let’s move out!”
***
Mr. Setter walked into the police station at the same moment that Richard did. Mr.
Setter noticed the tears running down his face and asked him, “What’s wrong?” Richard replied,
“It’s your wife. She’s dead. I’m very sorry.” Mr. Setter fell to the ground crying as he heard the
news. He screamed, “No!”
“She got crushed by a piece of concrete. We need to move on. We can cry later.
We need to get out of here.” The army passed by. Richard and Mr. Setter panted as they caught
up with the army and found David. “David, we are so glad we found you! What is going on?
Where is this army going? Where did those aliens come from?” Richard said.
“Slow down. One question at a time. Take deep breaths,” David said slowly. Richard
took a deep breath.
“Look, I can explain this later. We are going to attack the white aliens in Time Square.
Now come on. We need your help.”
“No. You don’t understand.”
“What don’t I understand? Please tell me quickly!” He shouts.
“Your mom is dead. She died in the second explosion. Now we can’t just let you go into
battle like this. I can’t lose you both!” Mr. Setter yelled. A tear ran down his face as David said,
“No. I must fight for her. I will kill those monsters. I will send them to their maker!”
David screamed. “No I will not let you do this. I’m your father and I am telling you to come back
home with me.”
“Dad, I’m eighteen. I’m not a baby any more, he screams!”
“You are right. It’s your choice. Goodbye, son.”
“Goodbye, dad.”
“Goodbye, David!” Richard yelled as they watched the army march off.
“Take care of my dad, Richard!”
“I will!” Richard yelled back as they disappeared around the corner.
***
David and the five thousand soldiers are about two miles away from Times Square.
He heard screams, shouts, and gun fire in the front line of the soldiers. He spotted the white
aliens charging at the soldiers and ripping them apart. White blood was splattering. Buildings
we’re falling. The earth was shaking under his feet as David charged towards the white aliens.
He fired his AK47 rapidly into an alien. As the alien fell to the ground another fell in the white
alien’s position. A man next to David was beheaded by a white alien’s foot. As he watched this
happen, he got knocked to the ground by a white alien. One white alien jumped on top of David
and reached out its long arms to David’s neck. David punched the alien in the face. All at once,
the black slime monsters came and started to slaughter the white aliens and the soldiers. The
white alien that was on top of David started to slowly turn around as the black monster grabbed
the white alien and gobbled him up. David stood up and started to shoot at the slime monster. All
at once, his AK47 ran out of ammo. He grabbed his rifle, but it was too late. The monster had
grabbed David by his foot and bitten it off. David screamed with pain. Then David herd the
sound of a massive building breaking. He looked up and spotted a massive building falling on
top of them. The monster dropped David as the building fell on top of them. Right before the
building hit David, an alien from the library ran up and grabbed him. In the nick of time, they got
well away from the building.
***
Richard and Mr. Setter were walking down the street when Mr. Setter shouted, “Oh my
gosh! Look!” as he watched the tallest building in New York fall to the ground. “God, help
us,” Richard muttered. “We must get back and help them quickly.”
“No, Mr. Setter, it’s too dangerous.”
“But that’s my son back there! I must go and help him!”
“Wait, Mr. Setter, aren’t you a scientist and an engineer?”
“Well, you could say that.”
“Do you have any armored suits?”
“Are you kidding? I’ve spent my life working on armored suits! I have three armored
suits, but they are prototypes. I’ve might say a bit unstable. I could show them to you if
you want?”
“Yes, please do!”
“Ok, follow me.”
Mr. Setter and Richard walked to his lab. Once they got there, Mr. Setter opened a secret
room with the three suits on the wall. “All the suits are made with the lightest and strongest
material in the world. This one is called T.F.S. That stands for Tactical Flight Suit, if you’re
wondering. It has a flame thrower on the left hand. On the right hand it has a rocket launcher. On
the back is a small compressor that compresses air faster than the speed of sound. Then it shoots
out that compressed air in such a force that it makes you lift off the ground. All the suits are
almost the same. Would you like to try out one?”
“Yes, I would.”
“Okay, tell me when you’re in and ready for me to turn it on.”
Richard strapped it down tight and got ready to fly. “Okay, I think I’m ready.”
“You know you’re ready? You have to know you’re ready to fly.”
“It’s just that I don’t know how to.”
“Oh, why didn’t you tell me that in the first place? Here, I will put you in a cage with
some straps holding you still. When you feel like you’re ready, just let me know.”
“Okay.” After about ten tries Richard, got the hang of it. He started flying around and
shooting targets with no help at all. “Okay, I’m ready to help David.”
“Good. Wait. What? I thought you said it was too dangerous.”
“Not with these suits. Let’s go cream some white aliens!”
“Yeah!” Mr. Setter and Richard flied away toward Time Square.
***
“I think we are going to win this battle,” said David.
“Don’t get your hopes up,” The doctor said.
“Kid, you’re not going to fight any more. You’ve lost a foot. You have got an infection
going up the left side of your body,” The general yells.
“Okay,” David replied.
“Your friends have trapped one of those slime monsters and all together we have killed
about three hundred white aliens. The sad thing is that they have killed over four thousand
soldiers, and there are about three hundred wounded.”
“That’s too bad.”
The doctor interrupted, “Yeah and all of us doctors have to take care of the wounded
because the other hospital got destroyed by the white aliens.”
“Sorry.”
“Don’t say sorry to me. Say sorry to their families at home!” At once a massive explosion happened and cracks went up the walls. David rolled off his bed and crawled under as the roof fell. When the roof stopped falling, David pushed some boards and pieces of concrete. He climbed out and heard gun shots and bullets fly by his head. He ducked and watched four white aliens fall to the ground. He looked the other way and saw the general holding a M4 with the end smoking. David noticed that the general’s head was bleeding. David caught the general as he fell back. “Sir? Sir?” David said as the general’s eyes closed. A tear went down David’s cheek. “I need a doctor over here!” he shouted. Nobody comes. David thought, “Why is everyone in this building dead and not me? Why God? Why didn’t I die and the general live? He would have been much more help than I.” All at once, Richard and Mr. Setter landed on the ground in front of David. Richard and Mr. Setter high-fived and complemented each other on their flying. “How could you guys be happy right now? So many people just died!”
“David, we just won the war.”
“We did?” David replied.
“Yes. They have surrendered and the aliens from the library took them up to their
planet.”
“That’s great!” David said as he fell backwards. Mr. Setter caught him.
“No! You can’t die on me. It’s just a little infection! It can’t kill him! Can it Richard?”
“Well, it looks like it went up to his brain.”
Mr. Setter interrupted, “Tell me a straight answer. Is he going to die or not?” He yelled!
It went silent for a second and then Richard replied, “Yes. Yes I think he is going to die. I’m
sorry.”
“No! I knew I shouldn’t let you go!” Mr. Setter cried as he suffered.
“I love you, dad.”
“I love you too, son.” David pulled out the green necklace and handed it to Richard and
said, “Go sell this and be a billionaire.”
“Thank you. I will. I promise,” Richard replied
“Dad, you keep making inventions.”
“I will son.” Mr. Setter said as David closed his eyes and died.
Four years later, Richard sold the green necklace to the government for 1.3 billion
dollars. Mr. Setter continued to work for the government as a professional engineer and
scientist.
The End