Chapter 13 Summary: Scrimmage's to the rescue

The chapter 13 begins with Elmer very scared because he thought that an UFO had landed at MacDonald Hall but actually was a basket with a balloon that belonged to the son of an ambassador and his name was Francisco Diaz, and then he ran through the campus screaming and jelling; Elmer was making a lot of noise and because of that he make that all the students woke up from their beds. Mr. Sturgeon was very worried about Elmer and he didn’t wanted Elmer to start a chaos, so that he asked for help to Bruno and Boots, he told to the boys that they had to chase Elmer and control him in order to prevent a chaos, and then they went off from Mr. Sturgeon’s house to find Elmer and prevent the chaos, but in that moment Elmer had woke up to all the students and made a chaos. Boots got very nervous because he had never tried to stop a riot like that and he told to Bruno that he didn’t know how to stop the chaos, so Bruno thought that maybe the better action would be create more chaos, so Bruno shouted in a voice that carried from one end of the campus to the other and he was screaming things like “Who is going to defend Macdonald Hall?” and “who will protect to the innocent girls across the road at Miss Scrimmages finishing school for ladies?” and then At that moment Miss Scrimmage's P.A. system crackled and was the Cathy’s voice saying: Calling all girls! Calling all girls! This is Planetary Defense! You are needed in Earth's darkest hour! Macdonald Hall is being invaded by the aliens! And after that Miss Scrimmage went out from her bathroom to her balcony waving as always her shotgun, at almost the same moment Mr. Sturgeon, his red bathrobe flapping in the breeze, rushed onto the mad scene and he screamed saying “Don’t”, and then Miss Scrimmage shot her weapon at the basket with the balloon causing that the basket fell over Elmer’s head and making him get unconscious, so Mr. Sturgeon ran over and heaved the basket and he saw that Elmer was laying unconscious near the tree and Bruno and Boots were the next to arrive at Elmer's side and then Bruno drop his knees trying to wake up Elmer, Suddenly Cathy came tearing across the road with a brimming fire bucket and trying to help Elmer she misjudged her aim and the entire bucketful of water sloshed over Mr. Sturgeon's head and after that Elmer woke up, his eyelids fluttered and he sat up.

All of a sudden a red mini-bus came tearing up the highway from the direction of the city and its sides were blazoned with the words UFO Society and they wanted to do an investigation about the aliens and actually Elmer had called them scientific reasons, and then the UFO man from the UFO society was asking for the aliens and he wanted to know the location of the spacecraft, but then Mr. Sturgeon got very upset about all the riot and because of the UFO man that was making a lot of noise and was calling him old geezer, so that Mr. Sturgeon put the order in all he chaos by making all students to return to their rooms, and after that he showed to the UFO man that there wasn’t any spacecraft and any alien at MacDonald Hall, so the UFO society scurried to his truck, shut off the loudspeaker and drove away.

After all the chaos, Mr. Sturgeon got back to his house and he was explaining to his wife all the events, and then Mrs. Sturgeon was saying that Bruno and Boots were good boys for helping out but Mr. Sturgeon wasn’t agree with that statement.