The Scout Brooks Story: The Freshman Invasion by Scott Donnelly

Author:Scott Donnelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Guns of Glory

I.

It was Friday. I sat in study hall, my last period, scrambling to finish my algebra homework. Who knows, it might be the last homework I ever do. Maybe I won ’t come back from space…crap. I hadn’t thought about that.

What if I didn’t survive the rescue mission, or even just being in space in general? What if our ship breaks down and we’re stuck on Bethani for light years? What would Nog tell my friends and family? “Oh, your son was permanently accepted into a school in Europe.” Seems like something he’d say. Why did all of Nog’s alibis include Europe?

No. I couldn’t start thinking about all the bad things that could happen. I had to stay on the positives. I was going on a space adventure with Chuck Taylor, and we were armed and dangerous with laser phasers, and we were going to cruise all over the universe in a pretty slick ride. We were the stuff bad science fiction TV shows were made of.

I glanced up at the clock on the wall and we had about five minutes left for the day. I looked back to the last row of seats in the lecture hall. Chuck was sitting straight up in his seat, his eyes closed like he was meditating or some crap.

Over the first month and a half of high school, I noticed such a change in Chuck. He went from being the odd kid who thought his backpack was broke, to being involved in an alien war showdown in another galaxy. I had to give him credit. He was a different Chuck – a more ready Chuck.

The bell rang to end the school day, so I scribbled an obviously wrong answer on my last homework question, packed up my stuff and met Chuck out in the hallway.

“So what’s the plan for tonight? Batt le of the Bands starts at seven,” I said.

“Well, first I have to drop off another bag of t-shirts at Jakon’s. He’s going to sell a whole line of shirts from me, man. Maybe I’ll branch off into hats, wallets and key chains when we get back,” Chuck said. He seemed sure we’d come back. I’ll just ride his confidence.

“Where are we meeting Phil?”

“We have to go get him at his house when were done at the comic book store. He said he’d keep busy until we got there. He also said he had ‘something up his sleeve’ for tonight.”

“Awesome, bro!”

“Do you want to come help me get – UGH!” Chuck was hit hard from behind and fell face first into the floor. I bent down to help Chuck up and all I could hear was laughter. I rolled the boy over onto his back and saw blood coming from his nose. Anger stewed inside me. No one hurts my friend!

I looked up to see Radar standing there with his goons. “Boom!” Radar exclaimed with a thrust of his pelvis.

I stood up fast, the rage inside me doing all the work.

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