The crew and I were innocently gardening in the backyard just now... when "WOOF!" says Ty. "An ALIEN AN ALIEN HAS LANDED!" (semifloating teardroppish shaped object ca 12 inches high bounces off the inside of my fence, drifts to the grass and stands there, wavering in the wind).

"Who will save us from that horrible spacecraft, with it's tenticle dragging down to snare us??" (Ty checks it out). "Not me Not me!"

"Jordan! Jordan! You can save the world!" says I.

Jordan sees the monster, "An ALIEN AN ALIEN, I must save the world!!" He ZzOOMS up to it, Zzips away "AH the TENTACLE is trying to snare me!" He zips and zooms, back and forth, back and forth, in a hemisphere around it where it's trapped along the fence. "I'm wearing it down!" As he hemispheres closer, and closer, and closer. "It's really tired now!" He gets closer and closer and closer, still hemisphering the spacecraft. "Well," says I, "is it tired now?" "Yes, oh Yes!" says Jordan, stopping and staring very closely at it. He bonks it with his nose a couple of times. "They're helpless now! Come help me get them."

I go up to the spacecraft, bounce it to the center of the yard. Jordan goes up to it, snares it by the dastardly tentacle!!

"AH, IT'S FOLLOWING ME IT'S FOLLOWING ME gonna GET me! ATTACKED ATTACKED!" as he dashes madly around in a circle, the spacecraft bouncing off his back (Me aside, laughing very histerically: "yes Jordan, if you let go it might quit following you").

Jordan lets go, it slowly stumbles across the yard. "Now it's ready for the deathblow! They WON'T take over the world!" Jordan, Jaws of Steel, seeks to penetrate the mighty elastic shell of the spacecraft. Boing BOING it bounces, "It's trying to FLEE!!" It bounces off of Ty ("AH, it's trying to Kill me!!!") Boing BOING Jordan bounces off of it, Mighty Jaws of Steel CLASHING on the surface.

KABBOOOMM!!! "I Killed it I KILLED IT!! Mom, I saved the WORLD."

Thank you Jordan.

Sigh, one of those times the camcorder would be handy. Wonder what poor kid lost her cute pink balloon? Boy that was a sturdy sucker. Took one heck of a lot of tooth work to kill it. It's now buried safely in my garbage can, so the world-saving dog can't get the potentially gut-wrapping remains.

Story by: Elizabeth Myhre