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loitered underground until I gave her the signal and then I stopped dead
still.
Dr. Daniels, the male, had been following hot on my tail and when I hit the
brakes he rammed me hard. Tatiana, of course, had been forewarned of my plan
and burst through the soil at warp speed and forced her bubble into both of
us. Daniels's warp system exploded violently and this time with my
faster-than-normal vision I saw fragments from the belt penetrate his body in
several places. The violence of the warp bubble collisions flung us more than
a hundred meters into the side of the lunar dome. Daniels fell down onto the
roof of a two-story house at the end of a cul-de-sac near the edge of the
dome.
Daniels lay there lifeless and the other bubble swooped down and stopped with
him and engulfed his
body as it rested on the rooftop, no longer pursuing us.
Tatiana started to take action.
No, Tatiana! No! I told her.
Then both Tatiana and myself were slammed together and were being squeezed
together as if we were in the clutches of a giant fist. A booming voice filled
the town dome.
"NOT IN MY CITY YOU DON'T!" came from an older man standing beside General
Clemons.
The two of them were wielding some sort of device that hovered several feet
above the ground. "MAKE
ANY FURTHER MOVES AND I WILL CRUSH YOU INTO A SINGULARITY."
I wasn't certain if his machine could overpower our modified systems or not,
but the box he was using was bigger and I guessed had a larger power system.
My guess was that he would win. But, I
didn't come here to fight anyway!
We didn't come here to fight!
I told Tatiana. The adrenaline had gotten the entire encounter way out of
hand. But again, that 'Becca girl attacked us. We were just standing there.
Mike, can you put me through whatever broadcast system he's using?
Done!
Good.
"I am Steven Montana, an American citizen. This is Tatiana Carolovic Svobodny,
daughter of the
Russian deputy ambassador to the United Nations. We were abducted by the Grays
and then we revolted against them and stole their ship. We have been stranded
in space for months now and just now figured out how to get home! We mean you
no harm, but you fired on us first! We were merely defending ourselves!"
They were startled for a second by the fact that we could so quickly override
their technology. But the older couple kept their cool. I could also see that
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'Becca had picked up Lieutenant Ames and Dr.
Daniels and was flying off with them. I hoped to an emergency room.
"I am Anson Clemons and this is General Tabitha Clemons, the leader of this
base. She, Lieutenant
Ames, and Dr. Jim Daniels have met Steven Montana and have assured me that you
look very different from him. And you appear to have miraculous technologies
and superhuman abilities. Is there a way you can prove who you are?"
"How would I do that? The only thing I can think of is reciting the meeting
where I met your cohorts verbatim. I met them in Virginia at CIA
headquarters!"
YOU DID WHAT!
Tatiana screamed in my mind.
I couldn't tell you, sweetheart. It's deeply classified and I didn't know what
I should or shouldn't talk to you about, sorry. But our lives depend on it
now. I will fill you in later.
Steven?
Yes, Mike?
I have completed an analysis and sensor sweep with the ship's sensors. There
is no way that we can modify the miniature warp systems to withstand the force
available by the system they are using.
I thought so. Thanks, Mike.
You are welcome, sorry.
Then I recited the conversations that took place in Virginia as swiftly and as
accurately as I could. I
finished up with: "Listen to me. We were stranded on that alien ship for
months and learned how to use their technology. I fear that Dr. Daniels and
Lieutenant Ames were hurt badly. We can save them very easily if you will let
us."
"We are still not certain we can trust you!" Anson Clemons replied.
Tatiana, I think we should surrender to them.
What? Why, Steven? They tried to kill us.
They thought we were aliens. What would you've done?
I would've tried to kill us.
Okay then?
"Okay. Please don't kill us, but we are going to turn off our warp bubbles
now!"
Tatiana, turn it off!
I don't know, Steven, they'll crush us!
Tatiana, turn it off now or they will crush us!
No, Steven! I . . . I'm afraid.
Tatiana, if you love me and trust me you will listen to me now. TURN OFF YOUR
WARP
BUBBLE ARMOR, NOW!
She did it. I wasn't sure she was going to. It seemed that the only thing in
the world she trusted was her ability to act and, fortunately, me. Who could
blame her, after dealing with the Grays?
I turned my warp armor off and Dr. Clemons lowered us to the ground. Tatiana
held my hand and I
could tell she was shaking slightly. I told Mike to calm her down. Something
didn't make sense. Mikhail should have been able to suppress her fear better,
but Mike got her under control.
We settled on the ground at the edge of one of the cul-de-sac streets just in
front of Dr. and General
Clemons.
"It's his face, Anson! I don't know though, he has lost a lot of weight and is
in better physical condition," General Clemons said.
"Y'all just keep your distance, son, until we get to know you a bit better!"
Dr. Clemons warned and touched on personal warp fields around the two of them.
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"Look, I can explain why I appear so different! The Grays use nanomachines
that are controlled by those Quantum Connected Central Processing Units that
you have been trying to reverse engineer. We figured them out. That is how we
stole the ship from the Grays. Watch this," I told them, and stood straight up
in front of them and had my clothes change through several different styles
and colors. Then I
started to bend over and Dr. Clemons stopped me.
"Now let's not make any fast moves, son!"
"You don't understand. If I wanted to, the nanomachines have made my reflexes
so much faster than human that I could move and you wouldn't even be able to
see it. But don't worry. We really are just glad to be home, or well, you
know! Please allow me, I promise no swift moves." I slowly knelt down and took
a knee on the asphalt. I placed my hand on the street and caused the asphalt
to rise up from the ground into a statue likeness of the general. I could tell
that several years ago she was very attractive and
I made the likeness of her as a younger Tabitha, as I recalled more vivacious
astronaut. Then I had the asphalt statue move and blow them a kiss. This sort
of amused them.
Make it salute, Steven.
Nice touch, beautiful!
I then made the statue salute.
"Allow me," Tatiana said and followed my lead. She was standing on the asphalt
so there was no need of bending down to touch it she always did grasp this
technology quicker than I did. A statue of
Dr. Clemons rose up from the street beside the General Clemons statue. Then
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