Ethan Block sat in his class at Ensworth, next to his best friend Sam Alcott. Ethan was 12 years old, so was his friend. It took about an hour for everyone to finish the math test their teacher had given them.
"Then take the five units into the ten thousand and..." The teacher said. Ethan barely took notice. After class, Ethan sat down onto the bench in the boy's locker room. He then remembered he had a basketball game that day! He looked at his watch. 12:58, it said. Oh NO! Ethan thought. His basketball game started in two minutes!

At the basketball game, the BGA team was winning. Ethan dribbled the ball towards the hoop. He was about to throw, but another boy blocked his shot. Ethan threw the ball directly backwards at Sam. Sam caught it and bounded past Ethan. He threw the ball straight at the hoop... It bounced off the backboard... And went in!

The Ensworth team won over the BGA. Ethan and Sam were still celebrating through recess. At 3:00, Ethan went to his house with Sam. First, they played Ethan's Star Wars video game. After that, they watched Transformers. Then they practiced Basketball for a while. It was 8:30 when they stopped. It was almost pitch-black - it would have been, if the garage lights weren't on. All of a sudden, a fiery comet smashed into the ground behind them. Ethan's dog began barking, and Ethan and Sam yelled and dove for cover. When they realized that aliens actually weren't attacking, they slowly crept towart the four-foot-wide crater. It was around a yard deep, and at the bottom, was a familiar-looking cube. It was about the size of a party-favor box. Ethan slowly stepped down, grabbed the cube, and ran back up to his house.