Homesick

Chapter 9

Lewis scrunched up his face in concentration, his tail slowly waving back and forth as he thought. “I dunno Tinker. Jet engines are neat and all, but I don’t think it’d be safe to go that fast in a tunnel system.” The gremlin thinker sighed in disappointment, then began to tap their goggles as they …[continue reading]

Homesick

Chapter 10

Pandora stood in silence. Before her was Lewis, standing with a childlike grin on his face in front of a car that looked like it had two wheels in the junkyard. The whole thing was comparable to a three year old with a crayon drawing, showing the “masterpiece” to their parents. “So. Let me get …[continue reading]

Homesick

Chapter 11

Lewis stretched out his arms and tail. Getting the opportunity to run around in an open space in his half-gremlin form was well worth the extra effort of hacking into a NASA satellite to find an uninhabited island. Now, what next? The bulldozer hadn’t arrived yet, so no sandcastles. He didn’t know how to swim, …[continue reading]

Homesick

Chapter 12

Shock’s silky dark red mask flapped in the wind as they watched the other gremlins work together on a sandcastle. They wanted to join in the fun, but the other gremlins weren’t their friends yet. Shock needed to come up with a plan to make the others ask to be friends, something to make themself …[continue reading]

Homesick

Chapter 13

Chief growled, their mouth involuntarily furling into a pointed scowl. “<Shock. Not only have you failed to properly alert the troops to a potential threat and participated in a recon mission without permission, you have completely failed at said recon mission. You can’t even tell me the identity of the enemy that sparkling killed you! …[continue reading]

Homesick

Chapter 14

Pandora stood quietly, nodding absentmindedly to Lewis’s rant about how cool his submarine was. As much as she would have loved the window into gremlin technology and culture, she was too distracted by how damp the floor was. Normally, a wet floor would be a minor irritation. In a waterborne vehicle however, it invoked slightly …[continue reading]

Homesick

Chapter 15

Lewis stood on the edge of a rooftop, stretching out all seven limbs. He had thought taking full gremlin form would be relaxing. After all, his form had been mostly human for the past several months, without a single break. Returning to his true shape should have been a relief, so why did it feel …[continue reading]

Homesick

Chapter 16

Poffa sniffed the glass of wine in his hand, his tail twitching cautiously. Truly humans were a bewildering species. He would never understand why they held alcohol in such high regard. The only use for such a caustic fluid was- The quiet but attention grabbing sound of breaking glass came from the living room. “It …[continue reading]

Homesick

Chapter 17

Lewis snarled, a repetitive buzzing noise forcefully awakening him. Reaching to turn off the alarm, he discovered three things in rapid succession. The first was that he was still in full gremlin form, the second was that he was still on the ceiling, and the third was that he needed the claws of all four …[continue reading]

Homesick

Chapter 18

Pandora took a deep breath. She could hear herself now. “Yes officer, I know I was trespassing in the air ducts of ScrapTech, but my short-ish blue friend from another plane of existence implied that the CEO might also be from another plane. That totally negates the whole breaking and entering thing, right?” Well, at …[continue reading]