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The insect-like creature that came out of the meteor in the first part of the series is quickly shown to not be benevolent and attempts to attack Jack. Luckily he dodges it and is about to escape his house when suddenly his school's science teacher shows up. In the first part, some kids played with Jack's meteor and so Jack ran away from the school. |
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Mr. Liss, Jack's science teacher, was so worried about how sad Jack must have been that he left the school and ran all the way to Jack's house. |
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Mr. Liss doesn't believe Jack's story until one of the aliens shows up in the kitchen. Mr. Liss believes that the alien wants a hug. Mr. Liss rushes over to the slimy alien and embraces him. Unfortunately, the alien squeezes Mr. Liss so tight that the creature actually slips inside the teacher, controlling him from within. The only outward signs that there's an alien inside the teacher is a clicking voice impediment and the periodic green bubblegum bubbles that inflate out of his ears. |
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Before Mr. Liss can hug the boy, Jack's mother comes home. Mr. Liss introduces himself and tries to hug her, but Jack pulls her away. Mr. Liss leaves without infecting his mother, though he does see him hugging a mailman on his way out the driveway. Jack's mother doesn't believe him, so he decides to turn to Mr. Fleshman. He sneaks into his house and confronts the secret agent. The man admits to being part of the Alien Detection Bureau and asks Jack to keep a list of everyone he knows is being infected by the aliens for later use. |
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Jack swears off ever going to school again, as he doesn't want to run into Mr. Liss, but some of his friends come over to convince him to show up the next day for swim team practice. |
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At school the next day, Jack battles the alien invasion by running to the principal to avoid Mr. Liss. But the principal's interest is compounded by the fact that she has been infected by aliens also. She tries to hug him and he runs out of the office and through the school, only to wind up in an auditorium during a police presentation to the student body. Jack gets the bright idea of running up on the stage and announcing the whole alien invasion. Somehow neither the student body nor the police department believe his alien hugging speech and so they openly ridicule Jack. |
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The principal drags Jack offstage and tries to hug him yet again. Jack wiggles free and runs backstage, hiding in an old costume trunk. He remains safely undetected inside the chest until the assembly ends. After the applause dies down, Jack rushes to tattle to the cops, but spies the principal embracing them. |
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Jack goes to try out for the swim team. His friends Henry and Derek show up and drag him to the school's pool, where his coach is impatiently waiting. The coach decides to make up for the lost time by having five boys at a time race. Strangely, Henry and Derek won't go in the pool and disappear while Jack swims his laps. |
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In the locker room, Henry and Derek confront and try to hug Jack. They are interrupted by the non-infected coach and Jack slips out and races home. However, the house is empty and there are puddles of green slime on the floor. Luckily his mom left a note explaining that his little sister had to go to the hospital for a sore throat. The green stuff on the ground is revealed to be lime Jell-o, which Jack confirms by tasting. |
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Two more of Jack's friends, Marsha and Maddy, show up at the front door. Jack isn't sure he can trust them, so he looks out at them from behind the safety afforded by the small thin door chain. The girls beg him to let them in, as they're trying to run away from Henry and Derek, who have been acting weird. Jack decides to let them in and as he opens the door, another meteor shower occurs. Small orange balls crash down like hail all over the neighborhood, smashing into his house and around the driveway. The girls reveal their clicking stutter and get excited, as they had been waiting for the reinforcements. The girls are infected. |
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Jack locks the girls out using the chain and after a few futile hurls they give up. The balls start to hatch and the aliens roam around the neighborhood. Jack's dad calls and tells him to grow up and stop talking about aliens. The call comes about the same time as his neighbors begin running out of their houses and begging the cops to help them, only to be placated by a hug. |
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Jack hangs around his house and makes a sandwich. He thinks about visiting Mr. Fleshman, but he's too afraid to go outside. He does spy him through his window though, calmly watching TV as though nothing were happening. Taking a cue, Jack also watches some TV. Jack falls asleep and discovers upon waking that his parents had come and gone back to the hospital while he was resting. He tries every station on the dial but all the announcers have the alien's speech impediment. Eventually his mom returns and of course she don't believe his story about the aliens. Billie, his constantly fibbing little sister, merely replies that she saw a blue alien and her alien was bigger than his. Jack pretends to go to school but instead ditches and takes a bus to his Dad's work. He find that his dad and the deputy mayor are infected and try to hug Jack. |
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Jack quickly evades his dad and runs around downtown LA, dodging a fleet of infected police officers. He takes the bus back home and as soon as he starts to warn his mother and sister, dozens of police officers, led by his father, surround the house. They begin to chant "A hug... a hug...A hug" over and over. |
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Jack finally puts all the pieces together and realizes water will defeat them. He fills up a super soaker and grabs a spare bucket of back-up water, then heads outside. He sprays a stream of water into the crowd, which reacts with anger, then bemusement. Turns out water doesn't affect them at all. Henry and Derek explain that they just didn't feel like swimming. The ever-enlarging crowd encircles Jack, as he's the last uninfected person in LA. Finally, Mr. Fleshman emerges from next door and Jack begs for him to save his life. Mr. Fleshman says he'll take care of everything just as soon as Jack accepts the alien. After all, Mr. Fleshman is the alien leader of the pack. |
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Mr. Fleshman reveals that while his cover on Earth was as a special effects guru, his best special effect was his human body. He then sheds his skin, revealing his true form: a giant soft pulsating brain. He's the energy source for all the aliens. As soon as they claim Jack, the aliens will then ascend back to their home planet with their new bodies. |
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Jack thinks quick. He takes a running start and dives inside Mr. Fleshman. Jack rolls around inside Mr. Fleshman, punching wildly whatever soft tissue he encounters. The alien finally collapses, freeing everyone of their creatures. The crowd cheers Jack as their savior. Billie congratulates her brother on defeating his aliens, but there's still her blue alien to deal with. A giant alien bursts out of her closet and asks for a hug. |
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==Tag Line== |
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Revision as of 22:20, 26 April 2009
| File:Invasion of the Body Squeezers Part Two Cover.jpg | |
| Author | R. L. Stine |
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| Cover artist | Tim Jacobus |
| Language | English |
| Series | Goosebumps: Series 2000 |
| Genre | Horror fiction, Children's literature |
| Publisher | Scholastic |
Publication date | 1998 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 119 pp |
| Preceded by | Invasion of the Body Squeezers: Part One |
| Followed by | I Am Your Evil Twin |
Invasion of the Body Squeezers: Part Two is the fifth novel of R. L. Stine's Goosebumps: Series 2000. It is the continuation of the prvious novel, Invasion of the Body Squeezers: Part One
Plot
The insect-like creature that came out of the meteor in the first part of the series is quickly shown to not be benevolent and attempts to attack Jack. Luckily he dodges it and is about to escape his house when suddenly his school's science teacher shows up. In the first part, some kids played with Jack's meteor and so Jack ran away from the school. Mr. Liss, Jack's science teacher, was so worried about how sad Jack must have been that he left the school and ran all the way to Jack's house.
Mr. Liss doesn't believe Jack's story until one of the aliens shows up in the kitchen. Mr. Liss believes that the alien wants a hug. Mr. Liss rushes over to the slimy alien and embraces him. Unfortunately, the alien squeezes Mr. Liss so tight that the creature actually slips inside the teacher, controlling him from within. The only outward signs that there's an alien inside the teacher is a clicking voice impediment and the periodic green bubblegum bubbles that inflate out of his ears.
Before Mr. Liss can hug the boy, Jack's mother comes home. Mr. Liss introduces himself and tries to hug her, but Jack pulls her away. Mr. Liss leaves without infecting his mother, though he does see him hugging a mailman on his way out the driveway. Jack's mother doesn't believe him, so he decides to turn to Mr. Fleshman. He sneaks into his house and confronts the secret agent. The man admits to being part of the Alien Detection Bureau and asks Jack to keep a list of everyone he knows is being infected by the aliens for later use.
Jack swears off ever going to school again, as he doesn't want to run into Mr. Liss, but some of his friends come over to convince him to show up the next day for swim team practice.
At school the next day, Jack battles the alien invasion by running to the principal to avoid Mr. Liss. But the principal's interest is compounded by the fact that she has been infected by aliens also. She tries to hug him and he runs out of the office and through the school, only to wind up in an auditorium during a police presentation to the student body. Jack gets the bright idea of running up on the stage and announcing the whole alien invasion. Somehow neither the student body nor the police department believe his alien hugging speech and so they openly ridicule Jack.
The principal drags Jack offstage and tries to hug him yet again. Jack wiggles free and runs backstage, hiding in an old costume trunk. He remains safely undetected inside the chest until the assembly ends. After the applause dies down, Jack rushes to tattle to the cops, but spies the principal embracing them.
Jack goes to try out for the swim team. His friends Henry and Derek show up and drag him to the school's pool, where his coach is impatiently waiting. The coach decides to make up for the lost time by having five boys at a time race. Strangely, Henry and Derek won't go in the pool and disappear while Jack swims his laps.
In the locker room, Henry and Derek confront and try to hug Jack. They are interrupted by the non-infected coach and Jack slips out and races home. However, the house is empty and there are puddles of green slime on the floor. Luckily his mom left a note explaining that his little sister had to go to the hospital for a sore throat. The green stuff on the ground is revealed to be lime Jell-o, which Jack confirms by tasting.
Two more of Jack's friends, Marsha and Maddy, show up at the front door. Jack isn't sure he can trust them, so he looks out at them from behind the safety afforded by the small thin door chain. The girls beg him to let them in, as they're trying to run away from Henry and Derek, who have been acting weird. Jack decides to let them in and as he opens the door, another meteor shower occurs. Small orange balls crash down like hail all over the neighborhood, smashing into his house and around the driveway. The girls reveal their clicking stutter and get excited, as they had been waiting for the reinforcements. The girls are infected.
Jack locks the girls out using the chain and after a few futile hurls they give up. The balls start to hatch and the aliens roam around the neighborhood. Jack's dad calls and tells him to grow up and stop talking about aliens. The call comes about the same time as his neighbors begin running out of their houses and begging the cops to help them, only to be placated by a hug.
Jack hangs around his house and makes a sandwich. He thinks about visiting Mr. Fleshman, but he's too afraid to go outside. He does spy him through his window though, calmly watching TV as though nothing were happening. Taking a cue, Jack also watches some TV. Jack falls asleep and discovers upon waking that his parents had come and gone back to the hospital while he was resting. He tries every station on the dial but all the announcers have the alien's speech impediment. Eventually his mom returns and of course she don't believe his story about the aliens. Billie, his constantly fibbing little sister, merely replies that she saw a blue alien and her alien was bigger than his. Jack pretends to go to school but instead ditches and takes a bus to his Dad's work. He find that his dad and the deputy mayor are infected and try to hug Jack.
Jack quickly evades his dad and runs around downtown LA, dodging a fleet of infected police officers. He takes the bus back home and as soon as he starts to warn his mother and sister, dozens of police officers, led by his father, surround the house. They begin to chant "A hug... a hug...A hug" over and over.
Jack finally puts all the pieces together and realizes water will defeat them. He fills up a super soaker and grabs a spare bucket of back-up water, then heads outside. He sprays a stream of water into the crowd, which reacts with anger, then bemusement. Turns out water doesn't affect them at all. Henry and Derek explain that they just didn't feel like swimming. The ever-enlarging crowd encircles Jack, as he's the last uninfected person in LA. Finally, Mr. Fleshman emerges from next door and Jack begs for him to save his life. Mr. Fleshman says he'll take care of everything just as soon as Jack accepts the alien. After all, Mr. Fleshman is the alien leader of the pack.
Mr. Fleshman reveals that while his cover on Earth was as a special effects guru, his best special effect was his human body. He then sheds his skin, revealing his true form: a giant soft pulsating brain. He's the energy source for all the aliens. As soon as they claim Jack, the aliens will then ascend back to their home planet with their new bodies.
Jack thinks quick. He takes a running start and dives inside Mr. Fleshman. Jack rolls around inside Mr. Fleshman, punching wildly whatever soft tissue he encounters. The alien finally collapses, freeing everyone of their creatures. The crowd cheers Jack as their savior. Billie congratulates her brother on defeating his aliens, but there's still her blue alien to deal with. A giant alien bursts out of her closet and asks for a hug.
Tag Line
Please don't squeeze the human!