Hira is holding a strange rock as she is struggling to carry it to her cave. I ran to find Snail until I see Hira holding him. I squeaked at Hira and she listened to my cries. 

“Hi, friend! What brings you here today?” She asked with a smile. I jumped down and pushed Snail to the ground. But since his shell is so durable, it smacks a sound as TT hears the danger. Saying that something is coming, he runs off to find Hira’s cave until she looks at him with confusion.

“I hear something that can kill!” He snarled. 

“I hear some also, but maybe someone was holding a large rock,” Hira said. She smiled after TT walked away. She enters the cave and tells us to leave. 

I push Snail out of here and go back to the treehouse. Snail whispered to me, “What about Diego and Lucy?”

Hira saw a note on her notebook that said: Call these names: Diego and Lucy. Send them to the treehouse at midnight. Sincerely, Clay the Quokka. 

Walking to her grandfather’s tent, she calls Diego and Lucy’s name. Her grandfather notices something strange about his granddaughter, and she walked away until calling more and more and more of the same name. 

At the office of the secondary commander who is named Spencer sees Hira open up and sees the tall alien with red eyes, a long chin, and a slim body. So tall it is like a tower, she said. 

Upon him asking, “What do you want, little girl?”

She wants Diego and Lucy. 

“Oh. These two fouls. I have not had time to talk to them, but please leave so I can finish up the mission reports for your other brothers and his friends,” he brags off Hira, and she left with urges. 

After his reports and calling some of the males, he went down to check a well that was hidden for a short time. He falls down ten feet, and he first sees darkness. 

“Diego and Lucy. I tied you up for reasons. Both look like us and have similar knowledge as us. Please. I want you to be part of us,” Spencer said. 

“Listen. I want the reasons why you are killing animals. We are animals, and so you are,” Diego shouted. 

“Shut the fuck up! We are aliens and we are different from you bitches! Join us, or you will die!!” Spencer roared. 

Lucy is about to rip off the rope and succeed it is, she rages it up and jumps to Spencer. Punching and kicking him until Spencer slaps her face. 

Down to the ground, Diego got up and grabbed Spencer’s right hand. Spencer smiled and kick Diego’s ballsacks. 

He yells and drops his knees. 

Hira, at the time, wants to find me, but Lucy’s cries alert her. She turns to see Lucy hitting Spencer’s back and dragging Diego’s body to his tent. Hira tiptoes towards Spencer and goes behind him as Spencer does not notice the little girl. She hides near the well after Spencer covers them with leaves and branches. 

Hiding until it is midnight, Hira hops out of the well and slowly goes inside Spencer’s tent. sHe first see Spencer writing down a novel based on the island. 

“Someday, I want to see the entire world. I want all animals to die and even humans who are going to treat us like trash,” he whispered to himself. 

Hira crawled and found Diego and Lucy tied in again. She uses her shark claws and rips out the ropes. She pulls her finger to shush the two and follow the exit. They both listen and look into Spencer while writing things down. 

Spencer notices the three escaping without yelling and throwing them to death. After the three escape, they quickly run to the treehouse, and Spencer enters the chase. He sprints down the three with no screaming but scaring them to make them run faster. 

STOMP!
STOMP!
STOMP!!

They quickly go into different oaths as Hira calls Spencer that the intruders are with her. Spencer licks his lips and dashes to the innocent girl, distracting him as Diego and Lucy are far away from her. They must rush to the treehouse, and upon them is me and Snail, reading a diary. Diego walked close to us and said, “Do you understand what I wrote?”

I nodded. Snail did not. I remember reading a book that we found from someone who was passing by. We were babies, and while my parents find herbs for him, we start reading out loud, “Gulliver’s Travel”.

We open the page and see tons of words, it makes up shiver our spines but we can do it until my mom told us to stop. 

Hira chases down to the sea and dives in the waves, where it is so big it drives her away from the island. She swam back to shore, but her right hand was caught by Spencer. He smiled to Hira that she is in trouble and sending her to his tent. Hira bites Spencer’s hand and tosses herself away to the treehouse. Spencer screams but gets an idea to get her back here by using her favorite snack: mangos and strawberries. 

Hira looks upon the treehouse as she enters. She stares at the supplies until Diego tells her there are no such things as a different brain. 

“You see. As humans, we can write and draw. Just like you,” said Diego. 

“I don’t understand. How long have you been here?” Hira asked. 

“Twenty years ago. But I never explore much around Earth, I don’t know what it looks like. I care about my freedom than money and rules by the government. My job: is showing who I really am,” Diego continued.

“Wow. How are you not scared of us?” Hira sat down and feel the wood where it is smooth and rough at the same time. 

Hmm. When we were at the zoo, I saw this kid wearing an alien shirt. I know a bit about aliens, and all people love aliens and glad to see one someday. Aliens are cool, but I am worried that people will be racist to them. 

I jumped to Diego’s desk and grab his notebook and a small pencil. I wrote down an essay about the alien and human connection. 

Everyone looked at me, thinking what am I doing?

After it was finished, I hand it to Hira. She looked confused at first until she reads it out loud. I tell her to shush because of Spencer. 

“You are right. Well, these notes said, ‘Hira, you are young, and you don’t know why your people are killing the animals. For humans, you think of them as your subspecies. As for us, we think of them as the mightiest brains of all time. Well, there is more. Hira, understand us. We have brains, and we think about others also. So please, Hira, tell your leader to stop.’ I mean. I am young and he will not trust me.” Hira gloomed. 

As she now knows, Hira wants to stay here for a while until morning. 

“Why is that?” Diego asked. 

“It’s dark; well, it's near my place. But I like to sleep here, it's warm,” she answered.