A Gremlin!

It was a creature he'd never seen before! It was dancing and prancing as if doing a jig on the left wing of the plane! It's face was hideous, its ears were huge, and its body was lizard like. It seemed to be happy for some odd reason because it was definitely grinning like a Cheshire cat. James couldn't believe his eyes. He blinked twice, He rubbed his eyes. He closed them tight, and he still saw the dancing monstrosity out on the wing.

It was about that time Donna was making her rounds. James waved to her to come over. "Is there something wrong Jim?" she asked him. She could tell right away jim was very upset by something.

"Could you look out my window, and tell me what you see?" he asked in response.

Donna bent over Jim, and looked out the window. She saw the cloud bands they were flying through, and the plane's left wing. There was nothing much else to see. She looked at Jim, puzzled. "All I see are cloud bands and the wing of the plane. Did you see something out there?"

Jim was uncertain whether he should tell her about the creature, or not. She might call him crazy, or paranoid, or delusional. Well, maybe it was just his imagination playing tricks on him. "I thought I did, but maybe I didn't" he calmly answered.

Just then, a passenger who had dozed off underneath a blanket woke up screaming. "Someone stole my clothes! I'm naked!"

This caught the attention of Donna and Jim. Donna ran back to the screaming, naked woman who was still covered in a blanket. Jim followed after her slowly. "What seems to be the problem Miss Chapel?" Donna asked.

"I fell asleep, and someone stole every stitch of clothing I was wearing. I'm naked under this blanket. If you don't believe me, see for yourself." The woman was hysterical.

Donna tried her best to calm her down. "Are you sure they're gone? You didn't take them off in your sleep?"

"If I had taken them off in my sleep, they would still be right here with me. They're nowhere. What kind of airline is this? I am a highly respected member of the medical profession, and I demand to know what happened to my clothes."

Donna, not knowing what else to do, gingerly lifted the blanket, and looked underneath. Sure enough, Miss Chapel was naked. Every stitch of clothing she had been wearing was gone, and nowhere to be found. "This is quite a mystery we have here. No one could have undressed you without being seen by someone." She turned to Jim. "What did you see out there?" It was grasping at straws, she knew, but she had to find an answer.

"All right. I'll tell you, but you won't believe me." Jim took a deep breath. "I saw this hideous looking creature, dancing on the wing of the plane. It was about half my size with a body that reminded me of a lizard, and it had ears that looked more like bat's wings than ears."

"Oh no!" Donna palmed her forehead. "It's happening again!"

"What?" Jim was insistent. "What's happening again?"

Donna held her finger up to her lips as a sign for Jim to be quiet. "Come with me" she said as she took him by the hand, and led him to the back of the plane to the galley area. She smiled reassuringly at the nervous looking passengers as they passed by. "Don't worry. There's nothing wrong. I'm just showing Mr Shatner where the bathroom is. There's nothing to see."

Jim waited curiously for Donna's explanation. They stood in the plane's galley in silence for a few moments as Donna collected her thoughts. She took a deep breath, and sighed. "All right. What I'm about to tell you is classified. I'm not really a stewardess, and my name isn't really Donna. If I told you my real name, I'd have to shoot you. I work for the CIA. Back during World War Two, our government, along with Chinese scientists, developed this creature called Mogwai, or as we know them, Gremlins." She took her finger and put it up against Jim's lips to silence him. "Yes, they are very real. Yes, we used them as a weapon to destroy Axis planes. They are fast, crafty, and practically invisible except to a few. You happen to be one of the few."

"And here I thought all these years a Gremlin was just a bad car made by AMC!" Jim found himself shaking his head in disbelief. "I don't know who's crazier here, you or me."

Donna suddenly wrapped her arms around Jim. "Neither one of us are crazy. A bunch of these left over Gremlins from the war escaped recently. These are untrained Gremlins who have never been out of their cages. They're discovering new ways to create mischief. Unfortunately, they're very attracted to human females. They like to strip them naked, and look at their bodies. They have fun poking them with their long, funny fingers, among other things."

"So what can we do to stop it from stripping all the women on the plane naked?" Jim asked as he looked into her eyes. "There's got to be some way."

"Yes, there is a way. I have a weapon that was designed to incapacitate them for a lengthy period of time. What I want to do is use myself as bait. When the Gremlin starts to strip me, you jump out and shoot it. Do you think you can handle that?"

Jim thought it over for quite q while before giving his answer.