Part 2: Chapter Two

     "Dang! That wasn't a good idea," muttered Holden to himself. Quickly, he jumped out of his shattered bathroom window, landing on the soft soil of Dlanor's grave. "Too many have already died. Too many..." A single tear rolled down his face, falling to the Earth below. "No," Holden said. "Now is not the time for crying. Now is the time for action!"

     He ran down the street towards the UFOs, but suddenly remembered that his mom was still home, unable to leave her bed. He didn't want to run back, so he sent her a few videos on Future Snapchat to explain the situation and the tell her not to die. Just after the final video was sent, a sky blue Prius crashed into Holden, throwing him to the ground.

     "Errrrrrrggghhhh," moaned Holden as the life began to drain from his body.

     A wizard-ish looking man opened that door of the car and walked to Holden's side. "Oh, sorry bro. I didn't mean to hit you that hard," said the wizard-ish man. He pulled out a wand and said "Revivecorpus." Holden instantly felt his wounds heal.

     "Thanks bro," said Holden, standing and brushing himself off.

     "Don't mention it. Now, get into the car. We have much to discuss."

     "My mother warned me not to get into cars with strange men," said Holden. "Maybe I should ask her first." Holden pulled out his phone to send a future snap to his mom.

     Looking annoyed, the wizard man sucker punched Holden between the legs and threw him into the passenger seat of the car.

     "Dang... um... YOU!" Holden shouted. "Hey, what's your name?" he asked, Holden his tender crotch.

     "Alternate Future Holden Secretbees," said Alternate Future Holden Secretbees. "You can just call me Afhs."

     "What?" asked Holden.

     "I'm you, but from an alternate future," said Afhs.

     "Okay," Holden replied. "That flies."

     They both sat together in awkward silence.

     "Um," coughed Afhs. "Don't you want to know why I'm here?" asked Afhs.

     "Nope," said Holden, absentmindedly gazing out of the window.

     "Really, you're not curious at all?"

     "Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

     "Well, I'm going to tell you anyway," said Afhs. By now they were about three miles away from Holden's house. This was the furthest Holden had ever been.

     "In an alternate future," Afhs began "the aliens have taken over the world, and the only thing that can destroy aliens is--"

     "Water," Holden interrupted. "They do that in Aliens," he recalled. It was his favorite childhood movie, after all.

     "Exactly. Actually, well, no, but never mind. The question is, where are you going to get water?"

     "Idk, maybe the ocean," Holden sassily retorted.

     "But that isn't water. That, Holden, is future water."

     "Oh yeah, you're right." Holden slapped himself on the forehead for being so stupid. "Where am I going to get normal water?"
     "On Future Wikipedia, they speak of a Goblet of Water. It has enough water in it to kill one alien," said Afhs.

     "That's it?" asked Holden. "They have a whole fleet!"

     "Yeah, but if you kill a super important alien, you'll totally get the rest to scram."

     "So, who is this super important alien?"

     "Okay, I'll tell you, but I don't have a lot of time. My Future Wikipedia page says I get assassinated by the aliens while I'm talking to you," said Afhs, but just then an alien knife flew through the window of the Prius and buried itself into the bosom of Afhs. He died instantly. The car swerved off the road, crashing into a willow tree.

     Air turned to fire as a tractor beam from the mother ship ripped off the top of the car--if you could call it a car--and sucked Holden into the sky. The room he was taken too looked like a large metal box with complex computers lining the walls. Boxes are a popular architectural design in the future.

     Holden could see many aliens. They all looked just like the alien toys from Disney Pixar's Toy Story, except they were about five meters tall. Oh, and purple.

     "Whoa!" exclaimed Holden. "This is weird."

     "Whoa indeed, earthling," said a slightly larger and more purpler alien. "My name is Super-Sized Alien Supreme."

     "Shut it, stupid idiot," said Holden. "You just killed me from an alternate future!"

     "What evs," replied Super-Sized Alien Supreme, rolling his three eyes. "Now, tell me the location of the Goblet of Water."

     "No way," said Holden, looking around for a way to escape. He spotted a window and dove towards it, crashing through the glass, and plummeted towards the ground. "YOLO!"


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