“I need both of you to hold on to something. I’m going to turn off the gravitational pull, so that I can do a G force twist.” She barely got the words out of her mouth, when she turned to find both Jessica and James in their seat like good little soldiers.
The force in which James had taken her the last time was something that Reina could feel all the way down to her toes. Her half breed existence was unknown, but it was about to become a fact of life for her people.
“I’ve gotten word that they have begun their attack on the negotiations. There have been casualties and one marine has died as a result. We need to get to the mother ship.”
“I’ve been working on a cure for the poison and I think that I found a way. It can be instituted into the water and I’ve sent word to the CDC about what to do. We’ve been talking back and forth on the Internet and they have since started to institute a regimen into the diets of all those that have allergies. There still may be some deaths, but it won’t be anywhere near the millions that were predicted. I think that you might find a couple of dozen or even less than that that will fall victim to the poison in their system. It all depends on how long it has had time to incubate in their bodies.” Jessica felt a sense of relief, but being in danger was also making her blood pump just a little bit quicker.
“I’ve underestimated you, Jessica and I don’t think that I will make that mistake again. I’m glad that we are on the same side, even though it wasn’t exactly for the same reasons.” Reina could feel the swimming presence of his seed and it had already adhered to the walls of her sexual ovum. She did feel new life and was sure that things were going to progress quickly. Her alien DNA was helping to push things along. She would probably make it about six months by human standards. Her belly had already filled out and she was feeling uncomfortable, but also slightly energetic by the new life that was feeding into her adrenaline. “I’ve never had any need for children before, but this is different. It was my idea, but James was the one that wasn’t about to take no for an answer. I had reservations, but my mind and his were linked and we became a force to be reckoned with.
“I know that this goes against your better judgment, Reina, but we have no choice. My people have detained the delegation. They are adamant that they are not part of the problem, but the president is taking my advice. She won’t be able to hold them for long, unless of course your government decides to intervene.” James watched, as they approached the mother ship. It was huge and being this close had certainly made him well aware of the fact that they were fighting a losing battle.
“The ship is practically impenetrable. The only way that I’m going to make any sort of dent is to fire on anything that is venting. Those vents are still shielded, but not nearly as much as the rest of the hull.” She avoided the shots from their own weapons and was playing some sort of video game with deadly consequences. She fired on the ship, but she needed somebody else to be in the other seat. Reina turned to see that James had been a man of his word and had decided to put his own unique talents to good use. “I don’t want to do this, but without any form of formal surrender, I don’t see that they’re going to leave me any other way to survive. I’m going to have to blow up the mother ship and hope to god that it doesn’t bring about a retaliation of the likes that this planet will never be able to survive.”
“You look like a woman that has lost her best friend. If you need to take a step back, I’ll be more than happy to take the reins.” James could see that Reina’s alien other half was trying to insert itself. He could understand how hard it was for her to struggle between two worlds. It was already built into her DNA and was probably the reason why she was hell bent on trying to make a difference.
Reina had never had that compulsion to lift a finger against her own people when it came to other worlds that were in jeopardy. This was the only one that made her go against everything that she believed in. The chance at peace seemed unattainable.
“I can’t wait forever. We either do this now, or we risk being obliterated.” She started her attack on the right side of the ship and began to fire with the help of James on anything that looked like a vent. The explosions that ensued began to cripple the mother ship and make it practically defenseless against any sort of attack. “It’s not going to take much more and we’ve been lucky that they haven’t found a way to target us more successfully.” I don’t like this, but it’s necessary for the evolution of my people on both fronts. That feeling of being taken by James and being given the prodigy of his genes is something that I will never forget. I know that we will survive, but it comes at a high price. I’m not sure that I can pay that price without feeling like I have done something drastically wrong.”
“Transport ship numbers 17. This is the emissary. I have received your test results and I’ve confirmed with our own doctors that this is no joke. We have decided to leave this planet in peace, but in the process Reina is no longer permitted to come anywhere near our planet. The Nexus will abide by the codicil that has been part of our heritage forever. Stand down and let us leave, before you take this any further than what you already have.” The words coming through the speaker surprised all three of them, but they stopped in hopes that this was not some sort of trick to lower their guard.
Reina could see that there was hope on the horizon. She decided that discretion was the better part of valor. “We hear you, emissary and with a heavy heart, I will say my goodbyes. Do not make the mistake of coming back here again. We both know that the codicil is irreversible. If for any reason that you doubt my claim, then take the fact that I am pregnant with a hybrid baby of my own, as proof that this planet is now off limits to your kind of barbarism.”
They waited, until the scout ship from down below transferred the prisoners of the alien race back to the ship. Once that was done, both Reina and her two companions would return to the planet’s surface. They didn’t know what kind of welcome they would get, but they were heroes and that afforded them the opportunity to be treated as such. Reina touched her belly and knew that the child was going to be a new way to cement peace and prosperity. The Nexus would not be able to come back without the threat of being called before the tribunal.”
Reina discussed with her new friends James and Jessica the idea that they should be a family together. It wouldn’t be conventional and most people would turn away in disgust, but for them it was the family that they had always wanted. The baby would be born and with it a gene pool that would make sure that those alien races that aligned with the Nexus were made to stand down against earth. War was still common amongst the earthlings, but at least they were safe from alien invasion. For now.
THE END
RESCUED BY ALIEN MASTER
Chapter 1
Kelly awoke with a start in the night unable to move her limbs. This wasn’t a sensation that she was unused to, as she had had bouts of sleep paralysis since she was a child. Many of the nights that she lied in her bed trapped under her sheets, she saw large, masculine figures crowded around her, looking down at her, helpless under invisible weights. As always, she stopped and told herself not to panic. Yes, the feeling of being at the mercy of someone or something else was a horrifying one, but this was something that she was used to. She woke up frozen in the night because there was something wrong with the way her brain worked, not because she was in a trance or about to be abducted. This was a night just like any other over the course of her life, and nothing that she should be worried about. Until it was.
Unlike the many other nights that had come and gone with her stuck awake, staring at the ceiling and the shadowy figures that encircled her vision, after what she guessed was about five or ten minutes stuck under her comforter, a bright white light started emanating from the center of the circle that the shadowy figures had always formed. Initially, she panicked, her heart racing and her frozen palms growing clammy as it grew brighter and brighter. The light began to envelop the forms, which had become so familiar to her over the years, and their
predictable outlines grew blurred. Suddenly, she didn’t think that her nightly visitors were so familiar. She quickly moved to force that thought out of her head, however. She figured she would be awake soon enough. It would all be over, just as it always was.
The light continued to grow until she could no longer see what she had come to believe were hallucinations hovering over her. Everything around her became white – blinding white that served to completely disorient her. With no frame of reference or no bearing, she had no idea where she was or what position she was really in. All she knew was that she felt suspended, and that she was moving somewhere inexplicably fast.
Though the light had taken a bit of time to fade in, it disappeared all too quickly, jarring Kelly’s awareness to her new surroundings. She blinked a few times, and her mouth fell open in disbelief. All around her, she saw polished metal with smooth edges and gliding corners. Everything seemed seamless and streamlined, like it had been the culmination of astounding intellectual achievement. Clearly she had never been in such a place before, nor had she imagined that people could have made such a thing a reality, but there she was – unless she was still dreaming. She hadn’t seen any people yet, after all, and she was being moved down the hallway, around winding corner after winding corner. This was probably still just a dream, like she had always been used to, or so she told herself.
Eventually, she came to a glass door, which disappeared as she approached it. Inside, there was a pitted theater style room, which she was placed in the center of. The lights that were pointed toward the stage at the center prevented her from seeing whether or not anyone was in the presumed seats behind them. She could only hope that this dream wasn’t about to be turned into a nightmare. Soon, she would wake up and be able to move her limbs again. She’d walk into her kitchen and make herself a nightcap to calm her nerves and send her back to sleep. It would be okay. She’d go to work in the morning and just shrug it all off. Routine. That’s of course when she realized that she could actually move her head. The whole time she had been moved to her new location, she had assumed that her propped vision was the result of her waking dream, but in all actuality, she had been holding her head up the whole time on her own. That’s also when she started to panic a bit, and decided to take a look downwards to see what her state of affairs looked like.
What she found was that she was lying unclothed under a thin, but sensationless blanket on a floating polished metal disc. Her wrists and ankles were secured to the disc, but she could rotate enough to sit up and hold herself up with her hands. Nor were her restraints so uncomfortable that they were particularly noticeable either. Her mind was screaming that she was still in a waking dream, but she knew deep down that she was definitely awake. After all, she could move. That light wasn’t her just falling back asleep. It was a transport of some sort – that was the only thing that made sense given that her surroundings screamed otherworldly. Kelly wasn’t necessarily the most put-together of people – she was frequently late to work and would sometimes spend her night munching on a large container of vanilla yogurt versus actually making a balanced dinner, and to top it all off, she would regularly forget where she left her keys. However, it doesn’t exactly take a genius to notice things that are right in front of your face, and she had to quickly accept that facts were facts.
I guess it turns out that sleep paralysis isn’t to blame for all of the accounts of alien abductions, she thought. I mean, they’re pretty similar, but this is definitely distinct. I hope this isn’t one of those anal probe abductions. I’ve never been too into that. She had always been preoccupied with watching UFO based sci-fi growing up and had devoured all accounts of alien abduction as she could find. She had seen them run the gambit from profound to downright torturous, but she still couldn’t get enough of them. She even saw similarities through time, but a part of her always did want to believe. A smaller part of her deeper down wouldn’t even really mind the anal probing that much, if it was done right. She didn’t want to admit to that though, and never would publicly.
Eventually, the lights on her dimmed slightly, and she was able to make out silhouettes behind them. They looked pretty familiar and humanlike, which was a great comfort to her since she didn’t really know how many more visual surprises she could take in the near future given how shocked she was. She realized that her years of morbid fascination had rendered her incapable of really feeling anything about the situation other than a vague, animalistic fight or flight response that was woven with a mildly sexual frustration – visceral response, certainly, but dulled.
Finally, she got a visualization of what the figures always surrounding her looked like, and she was thrilled. There literally couldn’t have been a better abduction scenario – the man who walked into the amphitheater seemed larger than life and was build like a classical god. Clearly defined muscles rippled all over his form and he brazenly bore half of his chest beneath a similarly classical toga.
Chapter 2
Maybe I am dreaming, Kelly thought. However, he turned to the raised seating and started lecturing in a language that she couldn’t come close to understanding. It seemed like a mixture of every language family she had heard – a little bit of Spanish, a little bit of English, a little bit of Chinese, a little bit of Arabic – and was an incomprehensible mess. Or, maybe I’m not, she finished.
The vision of classical beauty that was standing before her droned on at his audience for a while and was met with courteous applause at what Kelly could only assume was the end of his piece. To her surprise, he then turned to her and began to speak to her directly.
“Though I won’t apologize for our actions exactly, I will apologize for any possible shock to your system that we’ve caused. We’ve been planning this for years, you know,” he began, pausing while he awaited her response. It took her a few seconds to collect herself, but she managed to deliver, not questioning that he could speak English – after all, she was in a ship that managed to make it across the universe. It would make sense that they could learn a new language or two from a less advanced civilization.
“Planning this for years?” she asked. “What do you mean by that, exactly?”
“Considering you’ll be living among our society from now on, I might as well tell you. Our faction picked you out of a large sample size of possible candidates for future integration. Our species as a whole has always been largely invested in the futures of others, and have taken appropriate action when necessary in order to preserve the ones that are favored more and can be helped. Over the eons, we’ve managed to make the process a bit easier by integrating the experience into one of the chosen specimens so that it’s a bit more… familiar by the time it actually comes around.” He paused, giving her time to digest the information that he had just given her.
“So, you mean that you all… gave me the sleep paralysis problem when I was a kid?” she asked.
“Precisely. The feeling of restriction is similar to what transport feels like, and we would have been watching over you to make sure that everything was positioned correctly to grab you up safely. If we showed you what that was like early on, then you would be more used to it when it came around for real and would be less likely to get scared or die on us.”
Kelly was intrigued at the care taken to maintain her person. “So, you want to keep me safe and happy? For what?”
“Successful integration into our society.”
“Why will I need to be doing that?” Kelly asked, suddenly somewhat panicked.
“Because we have foreseen a date of a catastrophic cosmic event for your planet. On the following date from your transport, your planet was to undergo a collision from a large asteroid that you had not been able to detect. We saved a large number from your species, but you in particular were chosen by a much smaller community.” The way he recounted the information was almost infuriatingly cool, and the news of her planet’s destruction was overwhelming and confusing.
“You saved me from the fucking apo
calypse? Why? What’s so special about me and others like me?” she was beginning to panic as the reality of the situation set in.
“You most closely resembled our ideals from the members of your species who originally gave us form. It suggests the highest possibility of successful interspecies breeding that will give us extended longevity in the stars, as we rely on the sustained, deep seated genealogical belief in our ascribed forms in order to keep them, and having form is incredibly useful in this universe.”
Kelly’s head was swimming now, but the beautiful face and perfectly toned muscles in front of her continued speaking.
“Not only does your physical form fit in with those who first created us, but you are particularly fertile and receptive. Of course, we don’t just see you as breeding stock – we do want to integrate you into our society, and others like you. We also don’t want you to see us as your gods, as you once did.”
“Don’t tell me your name is Zeus or something,” Kelly interrupted, unable to believe what she was hearing, but still somehow finding a way to listen and accept what she knew was the truth.
“Actually, it is,” he responded, smiling to reveal perfect straight white teeth, “And you and I have been bonded. It’s the most viable pairing. We’ll be doing a lot of getting to know each other over the next few weeks, and I’m sure we’ll come to love each other’s company.”
Life in interstellar transit was easier to adjust to than Kelly would have thought it would have been. It might have been made easier knowing that there was no home planet for her to return to, though she really had no way of knowing whether or not that was true. Clearly the alien masters that had abducted her had knowledge far beyond what she knew of, and they could have easily told her a farce to keep her from fighting back or becoming too depressed. She didn’t think that was the case, though. After that initial bewildering show of her person to the other Tu’Fallians (she had now learned the name of their species, which was also the name of their planet), she had been treated more than hospitably by her possible rescuers; she had her own lodgings, was never intruded upon, and areas of the ship didn’t seem off limits to her, though there were places that she definitely knew that she didn’t belong in.
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