"This is so exciting, isn't it? Going to Earth and conducting experiments! It's like every Gray's dream come true!" Vetrucia exclaimed with excitement.

  "Except mine.." Exolin grumbled as he looked out Craft's window at the darkness of space.

  "Oh, come on, Exolin, cheer up," Vetrucia told him, walking over to him, "It's better than being stuck on the soil being teased by Skeeter and Scholl, isn't it? Besides, I've heard some experiments are actually fun"

  She walked up to Craft's screen.

  "Craft, bring up a random experiment" Vetrucia isntructed it.

  Craft brought up an image of one of their species laying ontop of a human.

  "See? We get to do that!" Vetrucia said to Exolin, pointing at the screen.

  "Oh, my mistake, Young Mistress, that is for the most advanced Experimentors" Craft replied.

  "Well, then, bring up something fun we can do!" Vetrucia snapped.

  The image on the screen disappeared and morphed into a Gray standing at the window of the ship, with a human by it's side, looking out the ship's window into space.

  "See, we get to show them the universe, Exolin. Teach them about our lives, that is not so bad, is it?" Vetrucia tried comforting her best friend.

  "I suppose not" Exolin said as he walked up to the front of Craft.

  They gazed at the round ball planet that was Earth as Craft zoomed into the blue atmosphere. The two Grays stared out Craft's front window at all the humans in the street of the country Craft idled in. It was night time there.

  "Look at them all!" Vetrucia stated, bemused.

  "Look at the amazing stuff built into the soil!" Exolin said with amusement.

  "Where shall we start?" Vetrucia exclaimed.

  "I recommend taking a small one" Craft explained, showing an X-Ray of one of the things built into the ground and in a room, was a little boy asleep in bed.

  "You better help," Vetrucia told Exolin, " All right, Craft, set up experiment and initiate abduct sequence"

  Exolin jumped to the other side as the table came out of the floor. Craft flew just above the building and witha beam of light, the little human came rising up from the bed without noticing anything and landed on the table inside the ship.

  "Okay, now, Craft, bring up experiment" Vetrucia instructed as she strapped the little human to the table.

  Craft's screen faded from the previous experiment to one with a little human, with instructions in Martian of what to do. The boy started waking up, feeling cold.

  "Mummy..?" He asked.

  "Quick, the Dream-Inducer, put it on it's head!" Vetrucia told Exolin.

  Exolin was amazed at how professional his best friend was acting. He looked around and spotted the Dream-Inducer. He quickly grabbed it and put it on the little human's head. The boy fell straight back to sleep.

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  "Good work," Vetrucia smiled at Exolin, "Come around here, this experiment's more your thing"

  Exolin walked around to the other side of the table and looked at the screen. The instructions said to grab a laser-skin remover and cut open the waist of the human to insert a gold chip into it and then tape it back on with the laser-stitch. Exolin looked around to notice Vetrucia had already set all items needed up on the table alongside the human, in the order they had to be used. Navidasia was right, she definitely had the knowledge. He picked up the laser-skin remover and removed a circle just above the boy's waist, he grabbed the gold chip and inserted it neatly into the boy's abdomen. He picked up the circle of skin and the laser-stitched and neatly stitched in back in the right place.

  "The skills of an advanced Harvester" Vetrucia smiled as she took the Dream-Inducer off the boy's head and Craft sent it back down.

  "What next?" Exolin asked as he put the tools away.

  "A slightly harder human" Craft replied as it floated towards a different house and abducted a grown man.

  It brought up the experiment.

  "This one's for your expertise" Exolin told his friend.

  Vetrucia looked at the screen. She put the Dream-Inducer on it's head and cut out a slit of the man's neck, plugging a cord of Craft's switchboard into the chip in his neck.

  "Download" She said as Craft transferred the information.

  She plugged the cord out of the man's neck and attached the piece of skin back on, turning back to Craft's switchboard.

  "And send to Navidasia and Scronton!" She exclaimed as she hit "SEND".

  She turned around to notice the human was missing off the table and Exolin coming out of the restroom.

  "Thanks for taking the Dream-Inducer off for me" She told him.

  "I haven't touched that thing since the little one" Exolin stated as he walked towards the table.

  "Craft, initate abduct sequence on same human!" Vetrucia instructed.

  "It is not possible, Young Mistress! The human has woken up and discovered it" Craft stated, showing an X-Ray vision of the house where the man was screaming and holding the Dream-Inducer, walking around in circles.

  Vetrucia looked around the atmosphere and noticed something.

  "Over there!" She said, "A town that looks like the cropfields! That should be easy, let's just conduct experiments there"

  "But we're not supposed to do it without the Dream-Inducer!" Exolin said.

  "We are going to have to. Craft, fly there" Vetrucia stated.

  When Craft arrived in the farmtown, Vetrucia pointed to a house that seemed alone, apart from five to six houses a couple of feet away.

  "There" She pointed to the house.

  Craft flew up to it and abducted the big burly man that was sleeping. The man landed on the table with a thud. Exolin bit his slit lip, afraid the human would wake at that. But it didn't. Vetrucia tried strapping the man but she couldn't on her own.

  "Exolin, grab the other strap and stretch it over!" Vetrucia told him.

  Exolin did as he was told and tried stretching it over to fit into Vetrucia's side but it was no use. All of a sudden, the man started waking up.

  "Ohh, Kentucky.." He was saying.

  "And this is where the Dream-Inducer comes in handy!" Exolin whispered to his best friend.

  "Shut up!" She told him.

  The burly man opened his eyes, blinking a few times. Vetrucia and Exolin jumped back. The man looked around the ship. The friends kept quiet. He saw the two friends and blinked a few more times.

  "Oh, goddamnit, now, you goddamned aliens!" He screamed.

  "We're the aliens?!" Exolin asked, not really expecting an answer.

  The man ran towards the two, who were standing side by side.

  "Jump to the side!" Vetrucia yelled.

  As the man was about to put his hands around them, both Exolin and Vetrucia jumped to each side of the ship.

  "Oh, you're tricky little aliens, aren't you?! Let's see how tricky you are when I do this!" The man said as he jumped and grabbed Exolin.

  He turned around to see Vetrucia was nowhere to be seen.

  "How do you put me back on the ground?! Make it put me back!" He told Exolin, squishing his skinny neck.

  "Craft...Do it" Exolin told the ship.

  "Don't" Vetrucia whispered from udner the table.

  The man heard her whisper and looked under the table. He noticed her and grabbed her aswell.

  "Do what it says, ship," The man said, "Or watch your friends be squished to death"

  Craft then beamed the man with Exolin and Vetrucia down onto the Earth's soil and began to fly away to go and alert the Leaders.

  "Oh, no, you don't" The man said, tying Exolin and Vetrucia up in each other's legs and arms and running inside.

  He came back with a shotgun and began shooting at Craft as it was flying away.

  "No!" Vetrucia screamed.

  "You can't do that!" Exolin yelled as they watched on.

  There was a loud TING and they saw Craft fall to the ground.

  "I just did" The man said, walking over to the friends.