EARTHSTUCK

EPISODE 1

HER THE WITCH OF SPACE

Every evening after school, four friends would contact each other through whatever they had available. They called themselves "The Travelers", and had very different personalities corresponding to their individual group nicknames. Their true names however were John Egbert, Jade Harley, Rose Lalonde, and Dave Strider.

Anyhow, John, who had been very much into horrible movies, was now contacting Jade on his ghost buster, sticker infested laptop computer. She was describing this new "incredible spell program" that she discovered not too long ago. See, this was the stuff they liked to talk about in their travelers group. It involved time travel, computer games, or whatever the crap they felt like talking about. Mainly though, it was about the paranormal. This meant ghosts, aliens, big foot, you name it.

"we have to check this out John! i really think that it'll work!" Jade's uncapitalized text popped up into John's pester chum as though she had been typing incredibly fast.

"are you serious?" Replied the messy haired male teen. "what's it suppose to do anyway?"

"i'm not exactly sure really..." Typed Jade. "...something to do with summoning outer dimensional aliens im guessing"

"oh sweet! do rose and dave know about this?"

"no, i haven't told them yet. to be honest, im not really even sure if they would believe me on the subject. you know, considering all my other attempts at magic and programming stuff sort of kind of failed horrifically"

"oh yeah, i'll never forget the time you accidentally drowned that one fish trying to make it into a frog. how do you even manage that? aren't fish suppose to know how to swim?"

"um...i don't want to talk about it... On the other side of the computer Jade was scratching her head in a way that expressed embarrassment. "but anyway, im at least 90 percent positive that this one is going to work this time!"

"ok. good luck then."

"awww...you're lacking in enthusiasm john! could you please note the others and tell them about my discovery? im a bit too nervous to do it myself"

"no. i think that you should do it jade, considering you are the one who found this spell thing in the first place. why do you need everyone to know about it anyway?"

"because i can't do it otherwise!"

"ok"

"and anyway, this seems like it would be so cool if it actually worked the way i want it to! wouldn't you just love to be the first in the world to discover a new possible alien species? think about it john! you would be just like one of your heroes in those movies you watch! i can't really name one off the bat, but you know what im talking about right?"

"ok, ok! calm down, i get the picture. i guess that would be kind of cool if we actually did it."

"yay! :D"

"but again, if you want rose and dave to be involved in this, you're going to have to tell them yourself."

"oh ok..."

"well, i have to clean up the kitchen or dad is gonna have a cow. talk to you later jade!"

"alright john! see ya tomorrow in school!"

This was their usual conversation. Most of the time Jade would get overly excited about something, and poor john would have to cope with it. He didn't mind it too much though, considering he was use to her antics. But man would it be awesome of all of this stuff actually worked! They would be able to do so much together! He started to think about it for a moment while doing the dishes.

Rose finally finished fixing her connection problems when she got Jade's message. The girl seemed to be pestering her for a good five minutes now in excitement.

"Hello Jade." Lalonde finally replied.

"oh good! you have connection now!" Jade said happily.

"Yes. It took a while, but I believe I have a good stable connection. At least until the power goes out again."

"you're having power problems again?"

"Unfortunately yes."

"too bad...well, i better tell you this quickly then. i found this really awesome programming thing that may help us summon...wait for it...aliens from another dimension!"

"Oh? Believe me Jade, I am absolutely jumping for joy at this incredible discovery."

"wait, was that sarcasm? never mind. my point is, the only way i can actually have this thing to work is if i have three other people to do it with me, and you're one of the candidates!"

"Am I?"

"well yeah! if you want to of course. i wouldn't want to force you into doing something you don't want to do."

"Well, alright. I suppose I can put in some effort. So how does it work?"

"ill explain that to everyone as a group once i get dave to join us. we can do it at my house tomorrow if plans succeed!"

"Alright. Keep me in the know Jade. You may tell me the results of this hopeful Dave recruiting in school tomorrow."

"will do! :D talk to you later rose."

Jade got off happily. Two down, one more to go. And he may be the least willing to cooperate: Dave Strider. He liked to keep things cool. No worries. Simply record scratching and dj remixing all day long. Nothing but chill to strike his face, because extreme emotions were so in the category of "uncool". Not to mention that he seemed to be the most skeptical of the group. Jade figured he joined them simply because he had nothing better to do, and you wouldn't catch her complaining. Actually, she had somewhat of a crush on the guy, ever sense he moved in from Texas actually. He had a wicked accent!

"Ok..." She said to herself before even typing a word. "Here goes! Now to chat with Mr. Cool!" She began typing.

"hey dave! :D" A few minutes later, Dave replied.

"jade, sup?"

"i have a question for you!"

"oh yeah?"

"yup!"

"and that is?"

"well...what if i told you that i found a way to...now don't judge me when i say this, 'summon an outer dimensional race of species that could possibly be the opening of some sort of brilliant scientifical discovery?"

"i would say that thats pretty fucking crazy, but hey, if it works, go for it"

"really? well what if i told you this, the only way i can actually get this thing to work out is if i have three other people helping me on it"

"oh?"

"yeah, and, i already have john and rose agreeing to it! it's just that, now all i need is one more person..."

"and i was the only one left you could think of, right?"

"exactly! so...will you do it? pretty pretty please?"

"i dunno jade, this sounds pretty out there"

"come on dave! for me?"

"i'll think about it i guess"

"yay! :D"

"dont get your hopes up too high though, ive got a lot of shit to do for bro tonight, and if i dont get it done today, i wont be able to do anything tomorrow after school"

"oh"

"im guessing you wanted me to join you guys at your place around that time huh?"

"yeah, sort of"

"ill see what i can do, but again, no promises"

"ok"

Jade was slightly disapointed after getting off the computer with Dave because of his indefinate answer, but that wouldn't stop her from suggesting that they do it another time if all else fails. She was quite determined to succeed! So the next day when everyone entered the school building, she was excited to see all of her friends in school. Currently, John was putting away his books.

"Hey John!" Jade popped out from behind the boy's open locker door. It was covered in stickers of Nick Cage and other unique movie stars. Out of surprise, John dropped his notebooks.

"GAH! Jade! You scared the crap out of me!" He stammered.

"Sorry John!" The messy haired girl apologized while helping him pick up all of his scattered papers. "I guess I just got excited!" She handed the worksheets to him.

"It's fine." The boy replied. "So what's up? Did you tell the others about your little project?"

"Yup yup!" Jade smiled.

"And?"

"Rose said that she'd be ok with joining us! But Dave has yet to give me a solid response. He did however say that he would see what he can do! I guess it all depends on if he got his chores done or not...whatever those are. You'd think a guy as cool as him wouldn't have to do things like that!"

"Uh huh." John seemed very much distracted in putting away his things. The bell rung.

"Oh boy! Ok, Dave is in my fist class, so I should be able to tell you what he says by second period, ok?" The girl grinned.

"Righto." John replied with a nod.

Jade's first class would be biology. It was only one of her favorite classes because of the plant and animal science involved, and boy did she love both! She even had her own garden set up at home. Dave was suppose to sit at the desk in front of her, but he didn't seem to be there just yet. This got the girl a little bit worried, that is until right at the last second he came in with a mess of hair and sat down. Morning did NOT agree with him, and that was obvious, because right when he got to his seat, his blonde head fell down over his arms as though the desk was some sort of pillow. Jade tapped the back of his shoulder, and he just groaned.

"Do you have an answer yet?" She whispered while the teacher was setting up the class's assignments.

"Merf..." Was all the boy's reply.

"Oh...well...that's ok, you can tell me when you wake up!"

"How are you so awaaaaaaaaake...?" Dave groaned, momentarily lifting up his head to speak, only to slump it back down again over his arms. Jade only giggled.

Biology seemed to take forever. Jade was actually starting to fall asleep herself this time, until finally, the bell sounded off yet a second time and the girl's head popped up quickly with a piece of paper stuck just above her eyebrows. It drifted off slowly, revealing her excited catlike expression. Dave put his hand on her desk and rolled his eyes, but smiled some.

"Well, I'm able to come over." He said finally. Jade nearly jumped right out of her seat and pumped her arm downward.

"YES!" She exclaimed happily.

"Yeah...actually I'm kind of glad about it. I almost didn't make it last night." He said while turning around and stretching his arms out towards the ceiling.

"Really? How come?" Jade asked while collecting her things. Dave paused immediately.

"Four words..." His eyes narrowed. "Smuppets...LOTS of them..." And with that, he walked out of the classroom, still shivering from his apparent previous excursion. Jade just smiled.

During lunch, the four friends got together to talk things over.

"So that's the plan, ok guys? We'll all meet up in my greenhouse and get this program installed. It should be pretty easy according to the manual, and if it fails, we can just hang out for a while. How's that?" Jade explained happily.

"Sounds good to me!" John said while putting his hand in the middle of the table. Rose and Dave just looked at him funny. "What! This is just like-"

"One of your lame movies right?" Dave interrupted.

"Hey, my movies aren't lame!" Egbert pouted.

"Yeah yeah..." Replied the blonde.

"Well, we can always humor him I suppose." Rose shrugged.

"Boo yeah!" John exclaimed. Again he put his hand in the middle of the lunch table, followed by Rose, then Jade, then a reluctant Dave.

"3, 2, 1 GHOST BUSTERS UNITE!" John had officially herped the derp, and Dave face palmed.

"Awesome! Tonight, my house, four o'clock sharp!" Smiled Jade.

It wasn't too long before the hour of four arrived at Jade's house. Everyone showed up, just as planned, and Jade got out her laptop and readied the program. The first thing the group noticed whenever the item was installed, was a list to type in four individual names with titles above each of them. One of which said "leader".

"Um...which one of us would be considered a leader?" Jade asked the others.

"This was your idea Jade, so it seems as though it would only be fair if you signed under that title." Rose explained.

"Oh no! I couldn't do that! I would make an awful leader! Besides, what if the aliens show up at my house or something? I would hate that! Maybe you would be better at it Rose."

"I say no. But that's only because knowing my mother, she would attempt having a party with the creatures. If it works of course." Replied the blonde female. "What about you Dave?"

"Nah man, my bro would hate that! He has to fight out enough bull with his shitty swords as it is. Besides, what am I gonna do with a bunch of aliens?"

"Have rap offs perhaps?" Suggested Lalonde.

"Still a no go Rose. Bro's smuppets are enough of a hassle."

"Guess that only leaves us one choice then!" Jade smiled and turned her head to look at John who was currently distracted by a floating spec of dust.

"Oh, what, huh?" Egbert snapped out of it.

"Leader?" Harley smiled. Her eyebrows were lifting up and down as though trying to tempt him to say yes.

"Me? You can't be serious!"

"Oh we are John." Rose chimed in.

"Yeah man, you're into all that alien shit right? You could be another men in black or somethin." Dave said.

"Well I-"

"Gettin' them aliens like no tomorrow..."

"Er-"

"Being digested by giant ass cockroaches..."

"Duh-"

"Transformulating into alien dung..."

"WILL YOU LET ME SPEAK DAVE?"

"Sure man, I was wondering why you were taking so long to say anything."

John face palmed.

"What I was trying to say, was that I'm not to sure that it should be me as the leader. Do leaders have any huge qualifications or something Jade?"

"It doesn't really say." She replied. "But I'm sure you would be great at it!"

"Yeah, you could be the A Team of alien whoop ass!" Dave interrupted.

"I can understand you without all those movie jokes, you know that right?" John sighed.

"I know. It's just fun as fuck messing with you."

"Sigh...I guess I'll do it then." Egbert said.

"Yay!" Jade handed him the digital pen for him to sign in the leader position. After he had signed it, words formulated underneath the word "leader" as some kind of subtitle. It wrote, "The Heir of Breath".

"Well that was kind of cool." He said, a little bit more optimistically about it this time.

"Alright John, hand me the pen and I'll sign next." Jade said with a smile. He did so, and she wrote her name on the next line down. Her title formulated into the words "The Witch of Space". After her, Rose signed and became "The Seer of Light". Whereas Dave became "The Night of Time".

"Alright, so we have wicked nicknames. That's cool. Now what?" The blonde boy asked coolly.

"Now we press enter!" Jade answered. She then took the pen, and pressed the last button titled, "SUMMON" in all bold print.

The light in the greenhouse started to flicker rapidly, until it finally decided to completely shut off. Then from the computer screen, there projected a large realistic map of many, many galaxies replacing the glass rooftop above them. Everyone's eyes dilated at the sight of the stars rotating about the room in slow motion. The rush of it all was so fantastical even, that everybody's hair started to wave around like a heavy breeze was embracing each of them.

"Select your Galaxy"

The computer spoke to them in a low and female digital voice. Meanwhile a vivid list of names appeared before them in green projection.

"Um..." Jade stammered.

"Galaxies starting in 'U.M.' shall be searched immediately. Processing now."

A loading circle design projected itself at 45 percent, then quickly filled to a full logo.

"Category U.M loaded in 5.2 seconds. Planets found: 1. Select this planet?"

Jade looked at the others with a dumbfounded expression on her face for their approval. John was distracted by the lights and said nothing, and Dave shrugged. Rose put her hand on Jade's shoulder and nodded. She seemed very intrigued now. Jade then turned back to face the screen of lights and said with slight hesitance, "Yes".

"Planet of Alternia selected. Please wait."

Just then, a multitude of stars collided together to make a zodiacal circle. Each lit up like a flame, until finally, the entire projection shut off, and all was quiet.

After about a minute of silence, someone finally spoke up.

"Um...did it work?" John asked, frozen in the darkness.

"I dunno man..." Dave replied while adjusting his sun specs in awe.

"Astonishing..." Rose joined in utter amazement.

"That...was...SO COOL!" Jade squealed. Her hair was even messier than before and her glasses were quite crooked. She turned to face the others behind her. "We have to see if it worked!"

"And how do you suppose we go about that Jade?" Lalonde asked.

"Well...we can maybe start by looking outside for anything out of the ordinary?"

"Sounds cool to me bra." Dave intervened.

"Yeah, let's do it." John agreed.

"Alrighty!" Jade smiled then got up quickly. "To the outside!"

When they got out front, there was nothing incredibly notable. It was just a quiet evening. A gentle breeze was strolling across the grass. Jade scratched her head.

"I guess it didn't work then?" She said with a more questioning tone than a disappointed one.

"It could have..." Rose replied.

"Yeah. For all we know we could have summoned a bunch of aliens to land in...I dunno, Spain or somethin'." Said Dave.

"Why does it have to be Spain?" John questioned.

"I dunno. It was the first thing that popped into my head?"

"I see..."

"Yup..."

There was another long drawn out silence.

"So...wanna snack on popcorn or something guys? Watch a movie?" Dave finally suggested.

"Sigh...I guess so." Jade let out her disappointment with a low exhale.

"Sorry it didn't turn out the way you wanted it Jade." Strider apologized. Jade simply shrugged it off as they began to go back inside.

"That's ok. Maybe next time." The door closed behind them, and an odd falling star flickered out of sight in the sky.