Alien Invason
It was just another night or so
it had seemed to Billy,
Cal, Ros an Ginna but circumstances were soon to be proved otherwise
Billy
and Cal had been hanging around the
shops with the rest of their
but had decided to go for something to eat before heading
home. As the two lad's crossed
the playingfields something made them both look up upwards
and they glimpsed what looked like
a sort of silvery
coloured craft coming
straight at them from out of the
clouds, coming fast yet silently
toward's them. "Billy, just
what the hell
is that ?" Cal
asked his companion as he drew level again, but before he
got an answer he heard Billy cry
out and fall to
the ground holding his throat,
second's later he likewise fell to the grass and everything then went black.
When he
began to come around his
head was pounding and he
felt like hell and found Billy lying in a similar
state to himself, plus
two other still figures lying
in what could best be described as cocoons. Both lad's exchanged fearful glances as they
crossed the room again and reached across and felt for a pulse
on their new companion's neck's
and found them slow but
steady. The two girl's looked to be around a similar age
to themselves, clad in loose fitting shirt's jean's
and trainer's. But as yet
neither girl showed ai~y sign's of
regaining full consiousness just yet,they just lay totally
immoble.
"
I don't like
this Cal this
is really spooky
, like something out of the X ~iles I'm
alli~iost exspecting Mulder and Scully
to come through that door any minute
now."
No
sooner had he spoken than the
door opened again to reveal a silver clad figure holding what looked like a probe of
some sort which he then drew down the full length of
the two lad's bodies before he then passed them what they took to be a pair of silver jumpsuits,
then signalled to the two
lad's to
then remove their own clothing and hand it
over to him slow and easy.
Both did as they were bid and were
bid and were surprised to find that
they had a skin tight
fit to theirnew clothing and it
seemed to be heat reflective
plus it allso
seemed to draw off excess
heat from their bodies.
But
noticed that t~ei~ alien friend
laid a jumpsuit on the bottom of the girl's bed but made
no attempt to remove their clothing, he touched a di~c
to
each girl's f~rehead and miracle
of miracle's both girl's began to regain full consiousness again
to the am~ement of
the two lad's.
Before he then withdrew with the
lad's clothing leaveing the
foursome to be come ac~uanted with one anothe~
When the
two girl's eventually came
round they were then greeted by the sight of the two
lad's ailbeit clad
in silver jumpsuit's, but
at least they
spoke the same language which was a relief to the
two girl's.
"Who are you and where the
hell are we," the
darker girl demanded of her
three fellow voyager's
"Billy Neil and I belong to this neck of the
wood's , He's
Cal ~oung and he live's a
couple of door's down from me
"I'm Ros White and this is
my friend Ginna Price, we were
coming back from the picture's, when our
alien friend's grabbed us and used some kind of knock
out
sleeping gas on us. How
long have we been under ?".
" No idea, we~ve been in
the same boat flos
an ~inna um afraid, we were crossing the playing fieldts when we
were grabbed and brought
here."
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The
foursome threw several idea's between them as they
tried to make sense of their abduction, before giving it up momentarily at least when the
alien who'd they had allready
seen with one of his friend's bearing this time around what looked like a weapon and
a tray with what looked like medical
instrument's for measureing and giving
injection's or taking blood
sample's or tissue sample's
ect.
Before
they then separated
the foursome by putting up a forcef ield between the two lad's
and their girl companion's, and as before they got the
two girl's to change
their clothing. Before proceeding to take
their sample's of skin, blood, hair, and nail's. Whatever the method it seemed to
work. Could they be using
some kind of hypnotism or mental
suggestion Billy wondered to
himself as he felt the
cold hypo touch his skin and heard the hiss as
it drew off some of his blood into the ample
at it's base. Before
it was then withdrawn and a patch was
then placed over the site of
the injection, that
combined with his particular skin
type and blood grouping. Their sampleing completed for this particular moment in time. The
alien's then withdrew and left their four guinea pig's to
their own devices leaveing the four youngster's tp ponder what was going to happen next in the proceeding's.
As
it was too turn out the foursome did'nt have long to wait when the two lad's were forceibly separated from the
girl's and marched away to
another part
of
the spaceship, whereupon both lad's were
abruptly thrust into
a small cubicle like space
and each in turn secured into
something not unsimilar to a
dentist's chair, and were
then left there to
stew
Though the two lad's nor their girl
companion's did'nt know it
their alien
captor's
were of a specis
that could adopt the facial
characteristic's faceilly
wise of their captive's, in other word's something akin to a
shape shifter.
So
the two supposed lad's swopped place's with the real
lad's and made an abortive
attempt to seduce
the two girl's
who fiercely turned on them,
one of the alien's
had his face scratched before they quickly
withdrew. On their being
returned,the two lad's
found themselves coming under
fire an got quite a rough time from
their girl companion's, till
that is both girl's
noticed that there were no facial
scratches on Cal's right
cheek.
" If it was'nt Cal,
who made a grab for me then just who
the holl -~s it?
" I~s demanded shakeilly of
her male companion's
" It ~ust have been our
alien friend's, they must be
able to change
shape's an take on
different identities, liKe
say a Ehapeshifter".
"
Ugh no way, that's too much X ~ile's for my tir)y brain
to accept, there's no way that
bird is going to fly unless it's
in hell." Billy declaired
sotto voce
"
If it
is'nt that, then
just how can you
expl~in it any
better.1' The two girl's
deolaired in unison, before
adding " How the
hell do we
get ourselves out of this
little mess we've
gotten ourselves into".
"We
bide our time
till we can
overcome our captor's
like say when
they come to feed U5,~'
Cal replied to
his three companion's, then we get the
hell out of' here warp
speed, agreed?"
" Speaking of which I hope they bring
it soon, cause
I'm Lee Marvin, starvin."
~ -e
K
replied rubbing his
stomache ever so
slibIiti~
Yo~r old
~ o~l~ 'n-~ I'~~vc
ii('~~(1 ~ ~othex i CO~&~£~ you, that '5 for sure,
you're a born gannet."
At
that the foursome lapsed
into silence oncemore
as they stood and
sat tinie about in
their current quarter's.
Till one o~
the girl's re~eix£~ered she s~ill h~d her
~A&I~~Li i~ her ~ C~1d
suggested using lipstick or
somesuch tci' duly simulate measais or chickenpox spot's.'1
At
that ~ie foursoine
lapsed into silence
onoemore before weighing up the
pro's
and
con's of the
idea.
"It
would'nt feel or
look ribht, so~eb ouj~
would sus~ ~t ~i
they rubbed against any of us."
" We've got to do
something before we all
go stir crazy
in here."
"" If we could find" where they've
got their transporter room, we
could use it to esc~pe
and get ourseive's out
of here." ~ina posed
the c~~c~aI qu~stio~.
" What's the bet we could'nt underst~d how the control's
'~or1: once ~e get into
it ? her eom~~nion counter~d.
crc
th~ likel it
'~eul& ~ too heavilly guarded,
an the guard's woul~ shoot
on sigh~." 3il~ cAinded
his three ~oiA~anioY~ '~ IDe)
or(. '2~Ci1i¼~ thm.~h{~;lAT'& r£ther have my own
clothes back for one
thing;, this thing pinches."
indicating his current mode of
dress with a sweep
of his hand. And got a nod from his three amigo's , One
of whom reached
into her bag and produced a
perfume spray with an allmighty pong, least so
it appeared to his nose.
But
as thing's were
to transpire they
would find it had
it's use's as a
surpriseing weapon against their
current captor's.
When
the alien arrived with their food, he promptly
dropped to the floor
gasping and clutching his throat "jith hi5 frce hand, the
~oj's ~uickly ~%i'ade a grab. for the
traj' ~e2ore it
landed on the
floor.
HE fell
within reach of
the door sca~iner,
opening the do~r fully
thus ena'~leing the foursome to
le~'vc +hei~ ~ml&'ce of
cc½¼~ivi½r. Po~ ~~iAi~J her perY~ie o~.re;'f like
it was a h,'.~~id phss or,
ready to t squirt at the
slightest at the slightest
wrong move out of
the ordinary
Gina was
simarlarly armed, the
two lad's had
swiftly frisked the downed alien and had recovered what
looked like a handgun from the downed alien.
Gingerly
they eased themselves along
the passageway two to
each side, the girl's taking
the lead with the two
lad's taking the
backup position.
Till
thQr near1~~r ran
he.'3~dlong into two
elion' s coi:i# to~:~rd' ~
he'~, ~ '.42 ~~rta and they both hit
the deck, like
their companion hod. earlie~.
~j~I the two
lad's
quickly dragged them around
the corner and
into a room just
off the main passageway
before quickly returning
to rejoin the
girl's and press on
with their ongoing search for
the transporber room
or f~iling that they
might find the alie~'~
cThr~oury 0 ~ their c~c¼re
I)cd'2 Je~.c-. ~
Lxiey
had to be somewhere, but
exactly 'There was
¼~~OriC'5 guess
So
far so good we've got too ~ find
out where the
main controlroo~ ~ 'in put
~ho~e alien 'Cd'S. out of
action then we can get out of here
an back
4 home
safe an sound.
" Amen to that, they can't
be too far ahead if those
symbolws set into
th~ wall's read
correctly." Cal was
quick to remind his compadre's
as they drew back on spotting t~.o
armed alien's standing to
attention outside a large
double doored room.
" Bingo, look's like we've hit
paydirt amigo's, Gina hissed in a low whisper as she
shot a glance of
trepidation toward's the
opposition before adding " How
do we~
play it."
Do
as you did before, flash em a
big grin then zap em, warp speed,
but take it carefully
ok". 2~O taking their courage in both hand's the twosome then
boldly stepped out, po~~~e
sprc~'s a1~ 'bhC re~~ 4he
b~O5O~C ~Oldly edvanced and were instantly challenged
by the
two guard's who aimed
~heir weapon's loosely
t3~ard's ~ho two
approaching girl's before
the girl's then opened fire with their spray's, with
the desired effect.
~~iftly
the two lal's
followed and they reached
the door and on
re:~hing it, it o~~£ied
to ~ what they'd been looking for the saucer's
control area. ~ll of assorted bad guy's an every one armed to
the teeth. One
of whom took a shot which narrowly missed Gina, who
swiftly reacted by dropping her perf~me bottle ;%ich promptly shattcre~ o~ hitting
the floor and some of
the mist touched off a flash fire when the perfume touched
against the hot barrel
of
the nearest alien's
weapon.
A loud scream then burst fourth as the flames burst into an eruptive mass
around the alien inhabitant's within the confines
of the controlroom. 3ut the
£oursoi~e managed to make
their retreat from the flames before racing down the passageway
till they found themselve's in an area of' the ship they had'nt seen before.
On entering, they found exactly
what they'd been searching
for... soveral pod sizei craft, plus
what looked to all
of them like a shuttlecraft with room enough on board her for say four people.
On
entering they swiftly embarked
and activated the engine's fi~rmiy t~ey secure~i themselves in their respective seat'~ before their ship then ro~e ill
a
low hover and th~ ~p began to eas~ forward's toward's the door which the~~~ sli~ open as their
~ broke a light beam but it seemed t~ take forever to the foursome.
Barely had the smaller ship cleared the
flight bay than the b~~ger' craft
began' to list before
it plunged earthward's toward's
the big quarry that lay on the
outskirt's of the four youngster's hometown.
Turning their escape craft ever' so
slightly the fbursoi~e then watc~ed it's destructIon with mL~ed
feeling'~' as it made it's
descent toward's the
large fast approaching maw
of the
~~arry
~asping
in ~iisor at the
size of the massi~~e explo~ion a~ it
ripped the
alien ship apart, flames ~i debris
shooting high into the
night s~. F~Lielled
indirectly by a direct hit on the quarry 'S
powder magazine.
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>(eir ship bucked about
in the explosion's slipstream and the two ladfs had their hand's full, concentrateing on keeping their own craft on an
even keel. Once down
it did'nt take
them long to pus~ their own craft
over the edge to join
it's big brother in the large
inferno below before they in their turn made for the cover of
the wood's, once there
the foursome made the
startleing discovery that
their alien jumpsuits had metomorphisised ba~k into pretty fair
copies of the
clothing they'd been wearing when they'd been all abducted hour's previously.
After
that discovery the two
lad's and their girl companion's
then made the medium trek back
across the field's that
led toward's their home tow~,
where upon they were met by several
local folk hurrying back up the path that they were currently descending.
The
leading figure was an old timer
bent over with great age who gave the two lad's
a conspitorial wink as he passed
the foursome in questi()n.
Been winchin lad's, did you see a~thing when you were up the hill there
beyond the quarry then, one big bugger of; a bang tha~ wa~,
can't be the quarrymen ...
they's not due back till week Monday from holiday's:'Before he carried on up the
hill after the
other'c~
The nearer they drew to the main road
they could hear the poli~ and fire engine'B siren's likewi~e the
ambulence as the
three vehicles raced along the
main road till they reached the road
end thatled up the quarry road. Their light's and siren's blareing filled thenight
An probably would for the rest of
the night and into the
early hour's of tomorrow morning
the four youngster's were quick to realise as they made their return to their home
town.
" Ax)ybody know what time
it is, we might just have
time to make it
down the pub in time for
last order's." Cal remarked as he climbed the old gate that led into the field
in question, followed by
his f~llow abductee's, who looked horrified when they found their watches had stopped on the precise moment the
two alien craft's had cras~ed into the quarry and exploded.
Looking back they caught
sight of the flame's
and smoke blowing down from the general
direction, like the version's of hell on earth they'd
seen on some of those
television documentories... as they went
on their way.
GRACE BAIRD HALBERT AUGUST 2000.