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Speaker 1: Alien's a coming, said Willow's dad from his chair in

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front of the TV. Is that a film or a show?

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Asked Willow's mom, not looking up from her phone. It's

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all the news, said Willow's dad. He didn't seem all

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that concerned about it. Willow, though, thought that this was

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important enough to put her pen down and push her

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homework aside. The TV was showing an alien spaceship looming

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over Earth from somewhere between the planet's surface and the Moon.

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What do they want, asked Willow's mom, still not looking up.

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They'd better not be invading. I'm supposed to be meeting

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Wendy for coffee in the morning. Willow watched the newsreader

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talking about the alien threat as if it was a

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minor earthquake or a celebrity wedding. Then, just as they

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were about to talk to a studio guest about what

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an alien invasion might mean for the people of Earth,

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Willow's dad changed the channel to a baseball game. Mom,

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what do we do if aliens attack? Willow asked, You'll

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do nothing, young lady, replied her mum, eyes still fixed

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to her screen. Not until you've finished that homework. Willow

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had her brother's old iPad in her bedroom, So that

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night she tried to find out more about the alien threat.

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She opened a new site where the top story was

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President drops hamburger sauce down his shirt, followed by superhero

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actor stuck in bathroom. Again. The news story about aliens

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was third. Willow clicked on the link, read a little,

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and then clicked on a video, which she was surprised

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to see was a message from the alien ship. Since

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some time ago, people of Earth boomed a deep, angry

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looking alien with four eyes, surrender your planet to new

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overlord's or faced total destruction.

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