Fifteen-year-old Johnny-boy and Stevie were always seen as the neighborhood geeks, the kids that were always bullied and pushed around. While most of the boys from their school were in sports clubs or telling stories about the girls they had gotten with or had planned to get with, Johnny-boy and Stevie were absolutely obsessed with the idea of extraterrestrial life forms, or in regular peoples tongue, aliens. Every day, after school Johnny-boy and Stevie, would rush to Stevie’s house and go to the garage, which at the time was their hideout, Since Stevie’s mom’s car didn’t run anyways so she never really used the garage. In that garage was a treasure trove of anything remotely alien-related. Posters of aliens and old alien horror movies filled the walls, lego star wars ships and model spaceships filled the shelves if anyone was a true fanatic it was these two boys. They would sit in their “Jabba the Hutt” bean bag chairs and talk about alien sitings and conspiracy theories until nightfall. Even though many of the kids from Joeseph F. Lamb Highschool thought of the boys as weird, they didn’t care. They had each other, even though they would never say that to anybody out of fear of being called gay by the school jocks. Johnny-boy and Stevie had known each other ever since second grade, and with the luckiness of being in the same class every year of middle school, they ended up becoming good friends. While Johnny had always been the nerd at heart, hanging out every day of every summer gave plenty of time for Stevie to take a liking to every one of his best friend’s interests. One night, as the boys were ranting on whether Area 51 had aliens or not they heard a large whistle through the neighborhood followed by a loud crash. Despite the magnitude of the sound the car alarms and neighborhood dogs didn’t seem to react and in general, the neighborhood was actually quieter the before. It was as if Johnny-boy and Stevie were the only two people that had heard it. Hell-bent on finding aliens, the boys rushed over to the field to see what had caused the noise, purple smoke was rising from where the crash happened as if the cosmos were leaking from the crash. As the boys peered over the crash they saw a large black cube that seemed unscathed from the crash inscription of a language they never had seen before was written all over the cube. Fearlessly and high on the thoughts of seeing aliens, Johnny-boy reached out to touch the cube. As his finger touched the cube a large flash of light engulfed the boys as if they had triggered something. Suddenly Johnny-boy awoken, passed out in the garage in the bed of his mother’s truck shocked by what he just witnessed. Was it a dream he thought? But as he peered down at his body he saw the inscriptions that were on the cubed etched all over his body, as he frantically jumped out of the truck’s back he saw Stevie passed out, with the same symbols all over his body as well. A scream of terror let out of Johnny-boy’s mouth and Stevie woke up somewhat dazed. When Stevie noticed the terror in his best friend’s eyes he started frantically looking around to see what had happened. As they both were in a panic a strange voice echoed around the room calling for them. It was a deep and shrill voice, causing a shiver down the boy’s spines. “If you wish to leave this dimension alive you must pass a test that proves you worthy of the mark”. The boys both looked at each other and grinned. While most normal people would be in shock Johnny-boy and Stevie’s nerdiness had them oddly prepared for a situation like this, they even had a name for it, “operation Ultimate Alien Test of Courage”. Brimming with confidence Stevie asked, ” We Accept!, what is the test that we will be taking?”. Not a second after his response large drone-like sound echos throughout the room and two swords appeared as if it was out of thin air. ” Fight to the Death, the survival will be granted a great power”. Then a grim shadowy creature appeared in front of the boys, Its dark black scaley skin and galaxy color eyes loomed over the two boys. They both looked at each other with pale looks and picked up the swords, walking to either side of the garage. As they locked eyes they both had the same idea. They both lunged at each other with the look of a hungry predator ready to kill. As they were running they both smirked and changed direction stabbing the strange creature that had dared to tell the boys to kill their best friend. An alien-like howl left the creature’s body as it disappeared in a black smog from seemingly nowhere. Suddenly the words began to float off of the boy’s skin as if it was alive. Fading away shortly after it had become airborne. They were back home, and they knew that they were safe from whatever creature had offered them. While power would have been an awesome thing they both knew they would never choose that power over their own best friend. Later that night the boys got snacks and ranted on about what powers they would have gotten and how they could have totally kicked each others asses.