Sequel to Al the Lupologist and Al Returns as well as Al's Adventure
There was once a peaceful village located in Neopia, a tiny town where Chias
made up the surplus population. It was called Furgleton. In Furgleton, you would
find many Chias bustling about the streets. Chias are industrial pets when put
together. Nearby Furgleton, a forest existed. It was called Lupe Forest because
it was inhabited by Lupes. Lupe packs dwelled in the forest, and most loved
to pick on the Chias of Furgleton whenever they wandered into the forest.
There was one Chia who managed to get picked on a lot, an eccentric little
blue Chia, with owlish glasses and a high IQ. His name was Alexander T. Chia,
or Al, as he preferred. Al had an unusual interest in Lupes. No one knew why.
Maybe it was that he loved the danger of working with them. Maybe it was a childhood
trauma that warped his mind. Maybe he had nothing better to do. Whatever it
was, he spent most of his time reading up on Lupes. He was a famous Lupologist,
and you could ask him almost anything about Lupes, and he knew it. He still
yearned for knowledge that the books couldn't provide, so he constantly wandered
into the forest, trying to observe some of the Lupe packs that went by. Of course,
those expeditions never ended well. He kept on trying though, and went to extremes
to just watch the Lupes for a good five minutes.
The beautiful night skies of Neopia. Constellations shine across the vast Neopian
universe. Novas glitter among the stars. Spaceships zoom across the night. But
one of these spaceships seem a little... odd...
Teckomer De Vilchi, the Astrologist Techo sat in his observatory, staring through
a massive telescope at the skies. He was covered in glittery stars, and they
shone every time he got excited or angry. He suddenly noticed a foreign object
gliding by in the night sky. "Huh?" He focused his telescope, turning a few
knobs. It became clear. A massive spaceship was hovering right in the sky. "Ah!
That's interesting! It looks like a spaceship!" He took to his astrology charts,
picking up a strange measuring instrument. "Let's see..." Teckomer measured
a few paces, looking at the results. "That means an Usul named Thelma is going
to marry a Skeith named Richard in a Swamp on the Fourth of July during a hailstorm,
or Capricorns are going to have bad luck..."
Meanwhile...
"Oh Richard!! Of course I'll marry you!!"
"You've just made me the happiest Skeith alive Thelma!!"
Meanwhile...
Al sat on the roof of his lab, studying the night sky with great interest.
"Wow. Look at all those stars..." He sighed. Fluffy the Cobrall sat nearby,
munching on an almost
gummy rat (lime). He sucked up the tail, nodding. "I wonder if we are
alone in the universe... I wonder if there are any martian Lupes out there..."
Al smiled at the thought. Just then, a shadow passed over Al. A big shadow.
Al blinked. "What's that blocking my view?" Just then, an eerie green light
flashed onto Al. His watch went haywire, and his glasses shattered. Fluffy screamed,
jumping into the Chimney as Al sat staring at the light, dazed. "OH PIFF..."
Al never finished his sentence.
Al woke up quite a while later. He looked around the room, blinking. He suddenly
realized his glasses were gone, and felt naked without them. Suddenly, he saw
a blurry figure.
"Mpph mhh mhh mhppp mhpp mhpppp mpph!!"
"What?" Al stuttered. He tried to wipe his eyes, but discovered that he was
chained to the ground. The blurry figure began to move.
"Terribly sorry, I had a mouthful of Grakle Soup," it said in a prim British
accent. "I said, Welcome to my spaceship, Earth Creature."
The blurry figure placed a replacement pair of glasses on Al's face. It suddenly
became clear. Al screamed.
"AHHHHHHHH!! THEY DO EXIST!! WHERE'S MY NOTEBOOK!?"
The Martian Lupe in front of him rubbed all eight of his ears (which took a
minute or two).
"Really!! You don't have to talk so LOUD!!"
"Sorry..." Al stammered. "But I'm really interested with you Aliens. It's
just those movies and all about martian Lupes."
The Lupe smiled, then beginning to laugh. "Ah, those are all just phony baloney.
Aliens aren't really like that. Now hold still while we perform experiments
on your brain."
Al screamed again. The Lupe's face twisted.
"I SAID DON'T YELL!!"
"Sorry, but I'm REALLY uncomfortable with the fact that..."
"SILENCE!!" The Lupe had an furious look on his face. "You insolent little
brat!! Prepare the Noitacifirgromsnart ray!!"
"The WHAT?"
"The Noitacifirgromsnart ray!! It's Transmogrification backwards. Clever,
really."
The Lupe giggled, then coughed. "But right now, we are going to test it on
you!!" He put on a pair of goggles as a large, menacing ray came down from the
ceiling. The tip of the ray stopped just hairs away from Al's face, and Al started
to sweat as the gun began to glow. "Now this may sting just a bit..." The Lupe
began, reaching for a button. "But it will all be over soon Annoying Neopian
Creature." The Lupe pressed the button. Suddenly, the Ray turned around, facing
the Lupe instead. "Oh fiddlesticks..." ZAP!!
Al blinked. The Lupe was a little pile of sludge on the floor. The other martian
Lupes operating machines around the room began to giggle.
"Oh, very funny, very funny," the pile of sludge said. "I'm just bursting
with laughter." The Lupe began to regenerate from the pile of ashes on the floor.
"Well, I hope your happy!! You ruined the Mystique!!" He stormed, glaring at
the other Lupes They burst out laughing, the Lupe starting to turn red. "THAT
is QUITE ENOUGH!!" He stamped one of his feet.
"Sorry sir, but you should have seen the look on your face!!" one of the Lupes
gasped, wiping a tear from his eye.
"Well, I guess the ray doesn't need testing anymore..." The Lupe grumbled.
"So we really don't need you as a lab rat, Neopian Creature. Allow me to introduce
myself. I am Gorklepaw."
Al was freed and dusted off. "Thank you," Al said, wiping his glasses. "Now
can I go home now?"
"No," Gorklepaw said promptly.
"You can't."
"Why?!?"
"Because you saw us. We are a secretive alien race. Now you have to stay with
us for eternity."
Al blinked. "I see... Say, when you were testing that ray, why didn't you test
it on yourself? I mean, you can regenera..."
"I'll answer that later," Gorkle interrupted. "But right now, we are going
on a tour of the ship."
"Here we have the mess hall. Wonderful Grakle Soup, Grundo Toes, and compressed
goos are created here for your tasting pleasure." Al watched the Lupes suck
in food through their ears.
"Uh..."
"And here we have the marvelous engine room. We use Lupe hair as fuel."
Al looked at the piles of Lupe hair. "Where did you get the hair?"
Just then, a bald Lupe walked by. There was a brief silence.
"All right, moving on, a brief introduction to the lab right here, that you
were just in. We create billions of new instruments every day. We test them
all out on abducted NeoPets, such as yourself. The Noitacifirgromsnart Ray is
now a weapon of mass destruction. Unlike Sloth's boring potions, this Ray will
turn everything into sludge!" the Lupe smiled, as though proud of this.
"And right around here is the grand central control room!!"
The Lupe held out two of his paws to a large marvelous room. Buttons, levers,
and switches were all over the place, and their were a multitude of aliens pressing
and pushing and pulling them. Al gazed at the room in wonder.
"Wow..."
"Impressive, isn't it? Our technology is far superior to those of normal Neopians.
The Lupe hair powers the core wonderfully, and soon we will be heading for the
VirtuPets space station for restocking." Al's stopped dead. 'I could contact
home from there...' He thought. "And don't even think of running away while
we're there." The Lupe smiled, as though he had read Al's mind.
"Uh, why would I think a thing like that?" Al smiled as well.
"Now docking in the Space Station for restocking and repairs. Please stand
by for standard landing procedure..." The aliens each put on a holographic costume,
looking like normal, average Aishas as they docked onto the space station. Al
sat locked in his quarters, staring at a bowl of Grakle Soup. He didn't trust
the stuff.
"Ugh, I need to get out of here..." Al thought. Just then, a familiar face
appeared at his window. "FLUFFY!?!?" Al cried, his eyes widening. Fluffy smiled,
holding up a glass cutter with his tail. "FLUFFY!!" Al cried. "GET ME OUT OF
HERE!" Fluffy nodded and began to cut away at the glass.
Suddenly, the guard burst into the room. "HA! Caught you! Now your PetPet is
prisoner too!!" She snatched Fluffy. "And now your pet will be used in our next
master experiment!!"
"THE BRAIN SUCKER!!" the alien Lupes cried. "LET'S TEST THE BRAIN SUCKER!!"
Al sat in a force field bubble, trapped, as fluffy was strapped into a seat.
Above the seat was a humongous machine. It had blinking lights, wires, circuits,
the whole works. Fluffy stared up at it, a bewildered look upon his face. Gorklepaw
smiled.
"This will tell us everything you know!! It will delve into your brain, giving
us all the knowledge of the world of Cobralls!! On behalf of our leader, Meerkadoodadhorfadorfapaw,
I test this newly created machine!"
The Lupes cheered as the machine began to lower. It stopped above Fluffy's
head. Al covered his eyes, sobbing. Fluffy stared up at the machine. The Brainsucker
started up, zapping Fluffy's head. Fluffy yawned, as though nothing was happening.
The Lupes gasped, then there was a brief silence. The machine began to shudder.
Then to rattle. Fluffy blinked. The machine exploded. The Lupes fled, screaming
as their latest creation backfired. Fluffy jumped through Al's weakened force
field, landing beside his owner.
"Fluffy?!? But how?!?" Fluffy shrugged. Red lights flashed, and the Lupes jumped
into escape pods. Al covered his face as the ship exploded. Al and Fluffy, in
their little force field bubble, were shot from the exploding ship, straight
for Neopia.
Gorklepaw sat in an escape pod, a look of hate on his face.
"Well, Neopian Creature, you have destroyed my ship. But heed my word, by Graptharpaw's
Hammock... hey, stop shoving!!"
The pod was cramped full of Lupes, all pushing and shoving each other. Their
tiny pod streamed off into the deep blackness of space, their fighting echoing
off into the distance...
"OH PIFFLE!!" Al screamed. The sides of the force field got hotter and hotter
as they plunged into the atmosphere....
De Vilchi looked into his telescope. "Oh, a Chia in a bubble is flying towards
the earth. Let's see... Dr. Sloth is wearing a pink tutu and doing the polka,
or that Chia is going to crash into my observatory!!"
And Al crashed head on right through De Vilchi's roof, leaving a small hole
behind. He splatted head first onto the floor, Fluffy landing right on top of
him.
"Ow..."
Teckomer De Vilchi laughed. "I knew Sloth would never do something like that!"
Al is currently in the NeoHospital under critical condition. Don't bother sending
him chocolates, he's in a full body cast, and all he can eat is applesauce through
a tube. As for the martian Lupes, they may return anytime... I suggest you be
ready when they do...
The End | 
