The students in the class fell silent as the teacher handed out the test papers. They sat and worked at their papers, with puzzled looks on their faces and chewing their pencils. Elly wrote her Earth name for the first time. What a strange way of communicating she thought. Why don't they just look into your mind? But then she remembered that Earth people couldn't do that.

Elly laughed when she saw the questions. What baby stuff they learnt here! She wrote all the answers in three minutes and put her pencil down on the table. The red-faced teacher looked at her.
"Ha! No good at maths, hey?"
He walked over to her desk and picked up the test paper. He couldn't believe his eyes. He walked back to his own desk muttering.
"She must be cheating. It's impossible…only fifteen."

Elly sat there for the rest of the lesson and then the shrill bell rang again. The students got up and rushed out of the door into the moving mass in the corridor. All except Sandeep.
"Come on, it's break now," he said. "I'll show you where to go!"
They went outside into the school yard. Again the young Earthlings were jumping around and shouting.

A group of Earth boys watched her.
"Ah, look at Sandeep getting all friendly with Miss Weirdo Swotty!" said Brian Nelson.
"Look at her pointy ears! What a weirdo!" said Lee Baxter.
"Leave her alone!" said Sandeep.
"Ooo, trying to protect Miss Smarty Pants are we?" said Brian.
Elly held up her arm in front of Sandeep and pushed him back. She faced the two boys.
"Ha, ha! She thinks she's brave too!" said Lee.

Elly held out her two arms in front of her. Her powers flowed through her arms, her wrists and her fingertips, and she sent a blast towards the two boys. They flew up into the air and came down 'thud' against a brick wall. They both collapsed into a heap. Elly walked away with Sandeep.

Wow, Elly, how did you do that? They are the school's two biggest bullies!"
"Well, they won't be any more," she replied.
Inside her head Elly heard a voice. 'No powers Elly… only for your mission.'

Elly spent the rest of the morning in strange lessons like 'technology' (she thought this was studying antiques), geography which was studying different bits of the earth, and music when the young Earthlings made horrible noises called 'singing'. She was glad when the lessons were over.

The shrill bell rang again and Sandeep took her to the school canteen for lunch. All the food was very odd. She ate a triangle of something bizarre called 'pizza' and drank a horrible drink which they called 'cola'. They sat at a table in the canteen. In the corner the television was on. The news came on but Elly didn't understand much of it, then the weather forecast. She watched it intensely. The weather man was reporting strange stormy activity over all the continents of the world, from Africa to Asia.

A voice in her head said, 'Elly, this is the time.'
She stood up and went outside the school building. She walked out into the large green open space away from the buildings and the trees. She stood in the centre of the field, waiting.

Elly looked up into the sky. It was darkening at the edges. It was very still and quiet. And then she heard a rumbling noise and saw a flash of light. The first one came quite suddenly out of the darkness. Elly raised her arms and focused her eyes and directed her forces against it. Silver flashes filled the sky and the asteroid exploded. Then she saw the hail - a whole cloud of asteroids of all sizes approaching.

She concentrated fully with her mind, her eyes, her Earth body and her own powers given by her people in the outer reaches of the universe. One by one asteroids forming the hail flashed silver light and then exploded into smithereens and floated harmlessly down to Earth.

Elly sat down. She was exhausted but her mission was accomplished. The Earth was safe and life here would continue. She stood up and turned around. Sandeep stood there staring at her with his mouth open.
"Goodbye, Earth friend!" she called and then concentrated her mind for her journey back through space.

Sandeep watched as she dissolved into a shimmer of coloured light. Then the field was empty.
"Wow!' he said,' Wondergirl saves the world!.. but where is she now?"