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At the end of the cave, we saw a red button. On top of the button, there is a message saying ‘DO
NOT PRESS!’.
“Let’s press it!” I said.
“Are you crazy?” She said.
“What could possibly happen?” I said.
“You’re being a little too—
Before she could even finish her sentence, I pressed the red button. That was when I made the biggest
mistake ever.
Chapter 3: The Alien Invasion
“LAUNCHING KILLER SPACE DRONES! ALI-ARMY, PREPARE FOR ATTACK!”
“What was that?” I screamed.
“You pressed the red button! I told you not to! Now they're sending drones and aliens to Earth!”
“Uh oh.” I said.
Before I knew it, loud, rumbling noise started to appear outside the cave. The floor of the cave started to
crack.
“Run!” Cathy said.
We ran out of the cave. The skies were filled with killer drones and all that stuff.
“What do we do now?” Cathy asked.
“Destroy them!” I said.
“I mean how?”
“We can blow up the Earth’s core, also known as planet domination!” I said.
“What! We’re going to destroy Earth, our own planet?” Cathy said, surprised.
“That’s our only choice! There’s too many of them. We can’t do anything to destroy them unless we
destroy this whole planet.”
“Then where will we go when we destroy the Earth?” Cathy asked.
“Planet-23172D. It is also a second earth. For some reason, that planet is linked with Earth with some
sort of connection. So that means everything on Earth would be over there. We won’t lose anything. Even
the temperature is the same.” I explained.
“Everyone is going to come with us?” Cathy asked.
“Yeah, exactly.” I said.