PROLOGUE
Flashin’ Back
So there I was, getting ready to join the Astro-Nog’s, an after-school Astronomy club run by Professor Nog, when out of nowhere, the hallway exploded and I saw Nogger running straight for me with some giant alien-robot chasing him, firing off lasers from some high-tech space-gun-extreme!
We took cover in his classroom and before the giant beast could do anything to us, Nog pressed a button on some small machine he had, and it zapped the creature back to where it came from – a planet near the Crab Nebula called Bethani.
In the weeks that followed, I discovered that Professor Nog was in charge of a secret government organization called the E.I.A. or, Earth’s Intergalactic Ambassadors. There were only a few people involved at the time, and I soon became a member as well.
Turns out, Nog and his old partner, Farrow, had somehow gotten involved in an intergalactic war with a race of alien-robots called The Frooginites. The Frooginites used portals from their home planet to come to Earth to try to destroy the E.I.A. once and for all.
In the process of them trying to do this, my girl-crush, Mandy Lee, was zapped to their home planet, as well as Nog’s partner, Farrow and a bully from our school, Matt Radar. Nog called an emergency meeting for all the members of the E.I.A. and I soon found out that the high school principal, Principal Smidgeon, a local comic book storeowner, Jakon, and my best buddy, Chuck Taylor were all a part of it! Who knew?
Well, long story short, Nog sent Chuck and I to Bethani to rescue the three of them and to destroy the portals that would allow the Frooginites to get to Earth. And we didn’t disappoint – we were able to bring back Mandy Lee and Farrow with no problem!
Unfortunately, we weren’t able to bring back Radar or this random homeless guy we found on the planet. I want to say it was devastating, but it wasn’t really. The kid who bullied us was 6,500 light years away, and as for Homeless Harry, I just plain old forgot about him. Plus he was homeless, so it wasn’t any big loss.
Being in the E.I.A., and more specifically becoming the leader of an elite group of space explorers called The Fellas four years after I was initially inducted, has its perks, but it also has its downfalls. We can’t tell anyone who we are. It’s hard at times. Not being able to tell my mom, my brother, Mark or my other best friend, Phil, kinda blows, but I guess being a hero has its rules.
So that was the excitement my freshman year. When my sophomore year came, it really threw me for a loop. It made me realize what kind of person I was supposed to be and was also filled with another space adventure, slime-filled robots, mustaches, a tragic accident and a deep-space threat that none of us saw coming.