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"And the award goes to Jyothi and Chandini for their research which proves that there are no moon pirates on
the moon". Grinning like a Cheshire cat, Jyothi and Chandini walked towards the podium to collect their award.
After the party had finished both of them returned to their room. They were talking about their mission when they
heard a knock on the door.

"Who will be at the door at this time of the night?" Chandini glanced at the clock and asked Jyothi.

"How am I supposed to know?" She replied as she searched for the key. No one was standing outside. Jyothi
shouted if anyone was there but all she could here was an owl hooting. Before she could shut the door a man
out of nowhere came in front of her. She caught her breath and whispered, "Stan?"

"The one and only". He replied and added, "Do you know any other?" in a low tone.

At once Jyothi pulled him inside. Stan was Jyothi's half brother. "I heard some rumors that you did actually find
the moon pirates. Are they true?" He asked once he was inside. "What if it is?" Chandini asked him in a
creepy tone. "Is it?" He asked again. "Do you swear that you won't tell anybody?" Jyothi asked him in a voice
that sent shivers down his spine.

"You know me sis, I won't tell a soul". He told her confidently.

"Do you know Stan, why we were called to the NASA?" She asked him in a mysterious voice." "Mmmm… not
exactly". He answered.

"NASA called us because they knew we would be ready to do anything exciting. They showed us their latest
research in which most of the space crafts had either been completely destroyed or had vanished into thin air.
Except for one, Saturn bulk3 returned safely back but in a bad condition as you heard on the news. But they
never told how or why it happened." She told him.

"So was there any indication that there was anything on the moon which was dangerous?" He asked.

"Yes" Jyothi answered after a long pause. "Saturn bulk3 had a hidden camera in it and fortunately the film
hadn't burned. It showed some kind of disturbance. We even tried the new sound detector… oh! you know the
one the Indian scientist Ram Sharma made". Agitated by his slow grasping capacity. Once he nodded she
continued. "And the results were positive. Now NASA decided to send us along with Dr Zack and Milo two
famous space scientists."

From here Chandini continued the narration. "Once we were ready to roll they sent us to the moon through
ONIX1.When we reached the moon the first thing we noticed was that the craters of the moon was filled with
some green glowing stuff. When we tested the stuff it wasn't any of the compounds which are normally found on
the moon. In other words this compound was alien in the moon. Then Milo (he usually goes crazy when he sees
these types of stuff) jumped in one of the craters to see how it felt. No amount of persuasion would get him out
of that God forbidden crater. When he finally decided to come out he realized that he was stuck. All of a sudden
he started screaming for help…it was horrible…we saw his body getting eaten away, the flesh, the bones……..
It was horrific…we stood there helplessly watching his scream slowly dying and then he disappeared never…to
be…seen again." Her eyes welled up with tears as she spoke. Jyothi put her hand over her shoulders in a
comforting manner and continued.

"It was a great loss. We took the space mobile and drove it to about 50 km when we saw a huge…a
huge…flying disk."

"You mean a U.F.O?!!" Stan asked in disbelief.

"Yes" she said with utmost superiority." And what was funny about it was that the front door was open." Zack at
once said it was like taking candy from a baby. We had to agree with him. It looked so easy that suspicions
rose in our mind but, we dispelled them. Take snapshots of few aliens and we are finished. And boy were we
wrong. The minute we entered the spaceship it was like entering a cave full of lions. We entered and walked
straight into a group of aliens."

"What did they look like?" He asked excitedly.

"I'm coming to that." She looked at him in a funny way. He never acted like this. Jyothi continued. "They were so
shiny…like… like…"

Like this?" Stan's voice changed into a smooth satiny voice. Not only his voice but his appearance also
changed. He turned into smooth and shiny snake type of creature. Alamos? Chandini thought. Why would he be
here? He was the translator between the astronauts and the aliens. His huge green eyes flashed with anger.

"I knew I shouldn't have trusted you puny humans. If your real half brother came, the truth would have come out."
He hissed.

"Alamos listen to me; her brother can be trusted with any secret. He knows how to keep his mouth shut." She
told him.

"You swore on the moon that you would never tell anybody." And started chanting in his native language
(Moonis). "Alamos, please forgive us!" Jyothi pleaded.

You betrayed us was what he said and continued chanting. Chandini was on her knees begging. It was
fruitless. He directed his hand towards them and before he finished his chanting, someone knocked the door.
When he opened the door, he saw Dr Madhavan Nair standing by the door. Jyothi and Chandini were quite
excited to see him. He said to Alamos "I think killing them will be a waste. There are thousands of scientists
working with me in India doing more advanced research on moon." On hearing this, the alien vanished into thin
air.

Jyothi broke the silence first. "Can we come and work in India too." She asked shyly. Why not? He asked, and
they went to India the next day.