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A strange neon green light shined on the windows of a family of four. Then, in a blink of an eye, they’re sucked up. The UFO flew away, succeeding in their abduction mission.

And across street from the family, there was a small house, and a small window, from which a boy peered out. “I told you aliens were real!” Michael cried out to his sister. He held binoculars in his hands, watching the sinister aliens fly away.

Although Michael was already 10 years old, he still believed in everything that’s real, and what’s not. He believed in unicorns, ghosts, zombies, and vampires. But he knew aliens were real. But, of course, no one believed him.

His mother sent him to bed early for his “nonsense.” While he was lying in bed, Michael thought to himself that if the Earth was taken over by aliens, everyone would see that he was right and cry to their hearts that they didn’t believe him.

The next day, more missing posters of people around the neighborhood went up around the town of “Reality”. At first, his mother shook it off like nothing, until when they went on with their day and they saw that the most popular restaurant in town had only three families eating and the town park which was filled with children, had only five kids playing. And it was then, Michael’s mother and sister were worried. Then, they started to believe him….at last.

“Ok, something strange is going on!” His sister, Amanda, said. Michael’s mother’s bottom lip began trembling, unable to move, and unable to speak. Her hands twisted in pain, pointing behind them.

“A-aliens? I-I told you!” Michael quivered. Behind them were two disgusting, pale green creatures, with void black eyes and a gleaming smile. They beeped and bopped to each other and sucked in Michael, Amanda, and his mother into the UFO.

And then, they were in space. The view was breathtaking. Earth had never been so beautiful. The aliens gasped in delight. And the three were speechless.

“We took all humans here to enjoy the universe. We thought us aliens needed other people to see what Earth is worth. And to see why they should stop trashing the Earth,” a robotic voice came on beside the aliens.

Michael laughed and hugged the aliens. Then, they saw the other UFO’s, all with speechless humans in them.

“Maybe not all of Earth’s 7 billion people have seen this, but you have the responsibility to make sure the word gets out to save the Earth!” the robotic voice said again.

They nodded and enjoyed the view before they were taken down again. And they learned that Earth is a beautiful planet and is important to mankind and the three tried to spread the word.

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