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The Alien’s Request

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The Geography Club Gets a Surprise Call

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Leo squinted at the screen at the front of the classroom.

“Mountains are formed when tectonic plates—”

“Boring,” Jack whispered, slumping in his chair. “Why don’t we just climb one instead?”

Aisha shot him a look over her glasses. “Because we are learning. And if you listened for once, you’d know how mountains form instead of just jumping on them.”

Emily, sitting in the back, doodled a tiny mountain in her sketchbook, adding little climbers on ropes. She loved geography, but the textbook explanations were always so… well, textbook-y.

The Geography Club wasn’t a regular class—it was an after-school club for kids who were either really into geography or (in Leo and Jack’s case) really into improving their grades. Mr. Carter ran it like an adventure, making maps, mountains, and mysteries way more exciting than any textbook ever could.

Mr. Carter adjusted his glasses, tapping on his laptop. “Alright, let’s review. Who can tell me—”

FZZZT.

The screen glitched. The text wobbled. A green blur flickered across the monitor, growing bigger, bigger— until suddenly—

POP!

A giant green head with big brown eyes filled the screen. It had smooth skin, no hair, and a very serious expression.