Inter Galactic Peacemakers

by Yathansh Sharma

Inter Galactic Peacemakers

  Copyright 2013 Yathansh Sharma

  Chapter 1 - Introduction

  There are many small things around us like a pea, an orange, entire Earth…. Well Earth isn’t that small, at least not for humans, but what if the perspective of vision is changed? Earth compared to the entire universe, which is quite huge enough, and Earth compared to it is way too small. To guard something as huge as the universe is quite a tough job. And so it is divided into different, small parts. The final responsibility lies in the hands of the Inter Galactic Police. Technically police is not the correct word, it’s just that they like to call themselves by such name but the truth is that it is a private organization working for only those planets that pay them according to a contract, a contract that is signed by the representatives of any particular planet, the contract that Earth signed 20 years ago. Agents from I.G.P. are sent to that particular planet to guard them from any kind of inter galactic crime. They either hide their actual identity or show themselves according to the level and knowledge of that planet, and so when I was allotted Earth I hid my identity as I.G.P. thought that Earth is an under developed and un-evolved planet but trust me I have seen many changes since I first stepped here. So Earth was left under my guidance, and I lived here as a normal human, what I have observed in these years is that humans have a brain which surpasses all the other organisms in the universe. It’s just that their existence here have been from a very short time and they have a lot to discover, all that this small planet can offer to then is a verity of knowledge, and this makes it the most important and incredible planet in the entire galaxy, as far as I know. Last 20 years have been very peaceful for me; life on this planet is not that tough, I almost have no big responsibilities, and quite a high payroll, and maybe that’s what I.G.P. thought when they decided to send a one month old boy to such a planet. I am from a planet of a galaxy far off from this one, and there I was supposed to be the king but I had some ego issues at that time and thought of going out and exploring the universe and so I denied all the responsibilities of the king and set sail for an unknown place. People on my planet grow very fast, around 100 times as fast as compared to a human, until a certain age and that’s why when I went to join I.G.P. they considered me eligible to join and so I chose my path to be an agent of I.G.P.

  Once I clarified all the tests and got my destination as Earth, I set sail for this planet, whatever the responsibility was won’t be irritating than ruling a planet. I have a family over here too which love me as much as their real son. I studied in a school here and slowly developed a habit of being human. Life was great in those last 20 years, until I.G.P. received that strange signal from a well known place on Earth ‘THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE’. This kind of strange activity was recorded first time on Earth. Many people are busy trying to discover the truth of Bermuda triangle, even me being a part of them, but who knew that I will succeed in such a strange way, on a mission cause we are the Inter Galactic Peacemakers (Yeah! That’s what is the logo of I.G.P.)…

  Chapter 2 – Strange Things

  I.G.P. R&D Department office… North…

  Time – 7:45 AM (According to Earth G.M.T.)

  “Sir, some strange things are happening on Earth and we are reading high readings of radiation from a small island.” A blue creature with around seven and very thin eyes reported to his boss. “EARTH? That’s not possible.” Replied the red hairy creature with two canines as long as a vampire (Though I am sure he not one). “I can understand sir but the results are positive, this is the first reading in the last 20 years”.

  “But Earth is a very under developed and un-evolved planet,” (See I told you that’s what they think) “we must report this to headquarters as soon as possible”. And here we reach the H.Q. of I.G.P. where the news had already shaken all the, creatures there. The President of I.G.P. went running to receive the shocking call. Oops I forgot to tell about him, he is a very wealthy man wearing the same kind of formal coat every day. Some even think that he was born with that kind of coat, however he had a face exactly similar to any human, I can’t say about the rest of his body, never looked under his pants… or shirt. Heading back where we were, as soon he received the call a holographic screen showed up. “Sir we had got a fluctuating reading of Zemo radiation from Earth for the last two hours” that same red hairy creature was on the screen.

  “That’s impossible Earth is a very under developed and un-evolved planet (look now it is going out of hand).”

  “I know sir but the readings are absolutely true and something really bad is going over there (I can say that you all have also estimated this if not than now at least you know), and we have to stop it at any cost.”

  “Alright I will take care of it or perhaps our agents over there. Diz have we informed them?” he simply asked to his secretary who was following him all the way. “Not yet sir, shall we?”

  “Of course we must.”

  “Alright sir”.

  I.G.P. Earth base… (Primarily situated in India, a good place to hide ourselves)

  Time exactly 6:42

  The entire base was empty and that was when I stepped in. Now you may think that I am a tall muscular handsome looking guy with eight pack abs and all that, then let me tell this that this is absolutely wrong. Means technically I am like that that only but in order to hide my identity I live like a clumsy, fat boy with a medium height, all thanks to the device which was developed some time ago which can alter the shape and size of our body to some extent. The same holographic screen opened but by a keyboard. Madam Diz was there the same beautiful lady and one time winner of the Miss. Universe, but only on their planet, actually by the perspective of humans she is a lizard with totally black eyes (and sometime I even feel like vomit when she had removed the makeup of her face), so all the boys just forget about dating her on valentine’s day.

  “Agent (Vinod, Na, bond, doesn’t suit me, Sharma much better, so I am agent Sharma) Sharma we are getting a strange radiation from an island on Earth.”

  “Well don’t look at me I haven’t opened my navigation system even once in last decade. It’s even started rusting.”

  “I don’t care get it replaced I am sending you the coordinates of the island.” And here they reached me.

  “Impossible (no I am not going to repeat the same line) it’s the triangle, you must be kidding me”.

  “Are you nuts how the hell I can kid you?”

  “No you fool it’s a word of English you must get your translator improved.”

  “Look I am not here to waste time it’s just check it out what’s going on.”

  “Have you applied the new makeup you got on your birthday?” I asked.

  “Yes, am I looking pretty?”

  “Kind of, over and out…I was lucky not to be there.” I said after I had switched off the holocom.

  “Yeah you really were.” Said a voice similar to mine (This one is brain, no not mine, it’s still with me. I am in kind of a habit of making things like this generation 5 operating system which is right now operating on my super computer).

  “By the way what had happened for the last two hours none of the devices were working properly?” I asked.

  “It’s the Zemo all the devices had stopped working because of it” it replied.

  “Then what about the screen and my Body Transformer (the same device that transformed my looks.), and you?” I asked again.

  “All these devices are Zemo compatible and work even in its presence.” it replied.

  “Alright so the triangle, show me the list of flights that are going to fly over the triangle in next three days.” And the screen popped up with the list of five flights including their passengers. I was just scroll
ing through the flight list when one of the passenger caught my sight. “Bloody hell, she is going to Africa.”

  “Who?” brain became curious.

  “One of my old classmates” I answered.

  “And she might be…”

  “Kanika” I answered again “Brain I am boarding this flight”.

  “Are you serious? For that you have to board the flight from New York tomorrow, at 6:10 AM. How the hell will you do that?”

  “Just get the visa ready we are leaving.”

  “Now?”

  “Exactly now, let’s Rock baby”. And I came out of the base. Just let me get my hand on my telecommunicator, people over Earth call it a mobile phone and I called the other Agent (Vinod, alright I admit it this was really a pathetic one) Joshi. Hands over to him…..

  Chapter 3 – Second Agent

  Hey everybody this is agent Joshi and now the narration is handed over to me. So where was I, yes I was with my girlfriend in her room kissing her, and that’s what every boy on Earth do on valentine’s day and suddenly that idiot made a phone call to me. Buzz. My phone which was at silent vibrated and so did my leg. “What the hell are you doing?”

  “Nothing else but kissing you.”

  “No your leg...”

  “Oh! Shit”. And I was forced to pull it out, my phone, “Hell man it’s Sharma”. “Does your friend have a habit of disturbing us?” she got frustrated and left the room. “What the hell you think you are doing man?” I picked up the phone and answered. “We are going off to Africa.”

  “Africa?”

  “I mean Bermuda and we will part ways from the rest of the passengers over Bermuda by jumping down from parachutes without letting anybody else know”.

  “When?”

  “Tomorrow, and right now we are leaving for New York exactly at 6”.

  “Are you crazy at 6?”

  “I think I said that only”

  “For what reason? Any kind of your stupid research?”

  “Nope we are on a mission from I.G.P., codename the triangle”

  “This will be my first mission since I have joined I.G.P. two years ago”

  “Exactly so get your luggage packed.”

  “Still this was not more valuable than that kiss”

  “What kiss?”

  “Over and out”. Sometimes I think I have joined the military instead of I.G.P. However I went to my house and made some kind of an excuse for going to Africa due to our company project over there. Well the company was just a setup from I.G.P. in order to hide their agents. And exactly at 6 I was with him to leave.

  Chapter 4 – Lets Fly Off

  Back again it’s agent Sharma and I am still waiting for that idiot Joshi even when it’s 5:45, he is nowhere to been seen, and I even got our boarding passes. Such a big fool, I wondered why his girlfriend always got irritated of him, he is always late. But now he finally reached, and I got a bit of relief.

  “Joshi do you even know what the time is?”

  “Don’t ask do you even remember which day it is?”

  “No maybe Friday the 13th?”

  “No you idiot it’s Feb. the 14.”

  “I think it is a bit familiar…”

  “Exactly it’s valentine’s day”

  “Oh no and I even forgot to wish her…”

  “Wish her, you would have been with her, just like I was until you came in between us”

  “I can’t be she is not in India at the moment, also I am really excited about the flight tomorrow”

  “I don’t remember this to be our first flight from which we are going to make a jump in the center of Bermuda triangle?” (A bit of information we usually do that in order to research on the triangle but still we have explored only one or two islands)

  “Some reasons are better kept secret”

  “What all have you got?”

  “Ah just my small invisible pouch with all the required things.”

  “Let’s get going or I am going to become insane”

  “It’s almost time, we better pass the security check-in before it closes”

  “Do you have the boarding pass?”

  “Yup and I also got the visa ready in just hours…”

  “You or I.G.P.?”

  “Hmm… that’s the same thing…”

  And we went in the flight after 20 mins. Both of us went to our seats and I just closed my eyes to take a nap as I was too much tired. Meanwhile Joshi was looking at the list of passengers.

  “Now I understand why you are so excited about tomorrow’s flight”

  “Then I will be glad to listen to you” I simply replied.

  “It’s Kanika; she is also boarding that plane too”

  “You got me” I said.

  “Come on what’s the point?”

  “What do you mean to say?”

  “You know. How many times she was in front or near you, how many times you had the chance to talk to her, but each time you wasted the chance, and so will happen tomorrow”

  “No this time I will really talk to her”

  “$10 if you prove me wrong” I gave him a strange look “What we going to America and we better get a habit of it quickly (by this mentality you are going to make me an aborigine soon “What we are going to Bermuda triangle and we better get a habit of it quickly”)”

  “Deal” I replied.

  And we both slept for next Eight hours.

  (This part might get a bit boring so FAST FORWARD…) And we reached New York. Such a beautiful (I better say or the Americans will kill me (Just kidding)) place. The time was 5:20. Both of us went to get our boarding pass for the next flight but before reaching there I met someone.

  “Hey Sharma” at first that someone called me from behind, and I just simply turned back.

  “Ah! Do I know you?”

  “What you idiot you do know us” said the girl that was with ‘the someone’. She was of medium height, extremely slim, wearing spectacles and looking straight at me. The men with her (Who actually was ‘the someone’) was a bit healthy (or I can say a bit fat) and was of almost the same height as the girl (let me tell you I am still taller as compared to both of them).

  “Well I still don’t recognize you…”

  “Try to emphasize a bit more on your brain, and then you might remember us” the man said.

  I held my chin with my hand and started thinking (this is my usual way, and I must say that it works).

  “I just have one word, or two to say, any hint?”

  “We used to study together in the coaching center…”

  “Ah! I… no you can’t be them…”

  “Who? Who did you guessed?” asked the girl.

  “Varun and Srijita, I used to study with them, but Varun used to be a bit more fat, and Srijita a bit more thinner. Here we have a thin Varun and a fat Srijita.”

  “You idiot am I fat?” she replied.

  “Come on Sriji (that’s the name Varun usually calls her with) he remember us, he is just fooling around.”

  “No seriously I thought you to be Varun and her to be Srijita.” I said pointing Varun as Srijita and Srijita as Varun.

  “Then what am I suppose to be?” said a voice from behind. As I turned around I saw that Sakshi was standing behind me with a bag in her left hand and her purse in her right (according to the prequel- which is still under construction- she is my current girlfriend). She is of height comparable to mine with a good enough figure and a swarthy complexion. She was behind me and I was just able to say this much that “Happy belated valentine’s day”.

  “Yeah you arrived a day late here.”

  “By the way I don’t remember your flight was of India was today.”

  “Because it is not, all three of us are going to Africa today.”

  “Technically all five of us…” Joshi interrupted in between “Unless we don’t have any kind of important work and we have to leave the flight in between of the journey…”

  “Hahahaha… (techni
cally, a fake laugh) nice one… by the way guys this is my collogue Joshi, and Joshi these are my friends Varun, Srijita, and Sakshi”

  Chapter 5 – The Long Lost Friend

  Everybody started discussing something when my eyes moved (actually my head moved, that was just a, figure of speech) to the gate and I say her coming in. The girl who once studied in my school with me, she had got her long black hair straitened, which used to be curly earlier and came in directly while looking around a bit cutely (a bit kind of we can say stupidly but had a kind of playful attitude which seemed to have unchanged since then). I saw her and passed a smile to her, and so did she also smile. She directly went to get her boarding pass.

  “Ah! Friends I better get our boarding passes” I requested to the others.

  “No problem bro I will do it for you” Joshi replied, most probably because he had seen her coming (so much for $10).

  “Oh how sweet of you” Sakshi replied.

  “No, allow me to do it for everybody” I grabbed hold of the tickets of which everybody had already given to Joshi.

  “Come on Sharma you can enjoy over here I will do it for you”

  “You don’t understand Joshi I will enjoy much more while getting the boarding passes” I murmured, “So please let me do it”

  “It’s just an act of revenge for what you did yesterday.”

  She was almost going to take the passes when I got an idea in my mind, I said to myself, now or never, and I secretly stepped on Joshi‘s foot. He left his hold on the tickets, and I ran towards the counter. Kanika was still there when I positioned myself just behind her sliding on the frictionless floor.

  “Wow, what was that?” she looked at me in shock.

  “Just a bit of wind.” I replied. She turned around again towards the girl who was giving her boarding pass. While she was turning her shock had turned to a smile, and the dimples can be easily seen on her cheeks. “Ah! Well do you remember me?” I asked her.

  “Of course, I do Mr. Sharma” she replied turning towards me, with the boarding pass in one of her hand. “I remember you used to have a crush over me.” She said again while walking towards the security check-in gate.

  “Yeah… kind of… can I have your number?”

  “You serious?” she gave me a puzzled look.

  “Yeah, means technically I am kind of, I mean…”