Title: When in Doubt, Hit the Escape Button
By: M14Mouse
Artist: Serenda_art
Beta: Solarbear614
Gene: SPN AU Gen
Rating: PG-13 for language and violence
Word Count: 20,200
Warning: Zombie ponies and unicorns
Summary: Sam and Dean are ordinary brothers from an ordinary planet called Earth. Until the aliens came and took them away.
“Sam!” Dean shouted as he set Cas down first before racing over to Sam.
He smiled slightly as he tightened the blankets around him. His brother forced him into arms and hugged him. He threw his arms around him and hugged him back.
It has been a long day for both of them.
Dean finally let him go and stared at him.
“Don’t you ever do that to me again?!” Dean shouted.
“Try not too.”
Dean stared at him intensely as if he was trying to figure out if something was wrong.
“Are you okay, Sammy?”
“I have been better. I had the strangest dream. It was disconnecting.”
Dean snorted.
“I was part of a nightmare.”
He smiled slightly.
“I heard you took out some monsters straight out of a monster movie.”
“Dude, one was the Swamp Thing and the other was a reject from the House of Wax.”
He laughed.
“Scared?”
“Nah…I got it covered.”
He knew by his brother’s body language that otherwise. He smiled a little bit.
“Dude, you are a mess and smell. What did these guys do to you?”
“It was part of the plan. Just ask Cas,” Dean said as he looked over at Castiel. He turned around to see Jessica patching up Cas. He tilted his head and looked at them.
“Dean almost got eaten by a creature that was posing as a child,” Cas said.
His eye brow rose slightly as he tilted his head.
“Part of the plan, huh?”
“Totally.”
After the dream he had, it was good to start laughing.
-*************-
John sighed as he put down the phone. The searchers have come up with nothing…again. When the boys didn’t come home from the date, they didn’t worry. But when they didn’t get a phone call the next day that is when they started to worry. They started calling friends and other family members.
Nothing.
Finally, a cop friend of his found Dean’s car on the side of the road. The car had a flat tire but nothing was out of place. There wasn’t a sign of struggle or anything. They started looking in the surrounding areas and they brought dogs. Mary started talking to newspapers and tv station.
But there has been nothing.
Not a single sign of their boys and it broke his heart.
He heard the door bell rang. He almost wanted to tell them to go away. But he went to answer it anyway.
Just in case, there was something…anything on their boys.
When he opened the door, there was a cardboard box sitting at his feet. At first, he was going to turn and leave it. But in the right hand corner in family handwriting, he saw his boys’ names. His heart was pounding in his chest as he picked up the box.
He ripped the box open to reveal an orb with a small post it saying Push me.
Gently, he pressed it. The orb lightened up and nearly jumped it on the floor when he saw Sam and Dean appear before.
His eyes were full with wonder.
“MARY! Come in here!” He shouted as he watched the boys mess with something.
“Are we sure that this is going to work, Dean?” Sam said.
“Missouri seemed to think so.” Dean said as he poked at the screen.
Mary came from the kitchen. Her mouth dropped.
“Sam….Dean…?”
“Well, we better get started…we don’t know how long this is going to last…” Sam said as he took a seat across from the screen. Dean took a seat next to him.
“Hey, Mom. Hey, Dad.” Sam said.
“We know that you are probably missing us like crazy. You are wondering where we are at,” Dean said as he shifted back and fore.
He knew that Dean was nervous. He always looked twitchy when he was nervous or scared.
“Well…it is kind of complicated.”
“Hell, you probably wouldn’t believe us if we did tell you.”
“But we are alright.”
“I take care of Sammy…don’t worry,” Dean said as he ruffled his brother’s hair.
Sam just gave him a look.
“I will make sure that Dean won’t get into too much trouble.”
“What? I am a good boy.”
He heard Mary sob and laugh in one breathe. He knew how she felt. He heard a loud noise in the background.
“I told you not to come into my kitchen, boy!” A woman said.
“I just want a taste,” Another male voice said.
“It isn’t dinner time! Now get!”
He couldn’t see who they were but he did see a pan fly across the screen in the background.
“OUCH!”
“That will teach you to stay out of my kitchen.”
The boys looked at each other and then the screen.
“We are with friends.”
“Crazy friends,” Dean mumbled.
“But good friends.”
Dean snorted.
“We don’t know how long we are going to be gone.”
“We are going to find ways to contact you. It just may take us a little while.”
Dean nodded at his brother.
“But don’t worry…we will and we will be back.”
“Just know that we love you and miss you.”
“Bye, mom. Bye, Dad.”
Sam waved as Dean leaned over and the screen went black.
For the longest time, he just started at the orb like it was the most precious thing in the world.
-***********-
Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away, there were two brothers from an ordinary planet called Earth. But an awesome ship called the Impala came and shown them that they are indeed extraordinary.
End
Book II: When In Doubt, Hit the Help Button (coming 2012)