Moon Escape: Book Two in the Adventures of Bobby Regal Space Commander

by Michael Berg

  Then she heard voices ahead from a distance. She was certain the patterns of sounds she could barely hear were those of people speaking and perhaps arguing. After what she thought was about ten minutes of slow walking, the voices were clearer and they were arguing. A woman in a rage who somehow sounded familiar, and a man who calmly responded to the demands she made on him.

  “You cannot delay Beth’s rebirthing Arthren. If the time is missed, she will die and so will the hope for Vindor.”

  “I know this Valeena and I know you are not the female accomplice. I know she is coming – it is within my field. You are so bound up with your desires you demonstrate as nothing but a fraud.”

  “She won’t come.”

  Miss Candice was not pleased to hear Valeena’s name and voice. She had seen her as a harlot with deceit in her eyes back on Earth.

  “Don’t be so sure Valeena,” she called out.

  Miss Candice realized why she was here. Never in her life prior to meeting Bobby could she have imagined she would end up being the female accomplice to this rebirthing for Beth, for Vindor, and no doubt, for Earth. Nothing in her wildest of her dreams as she lay in her bed towards the end of the nineteenth century, could have taken her to such a place. Yet here she was and every cell inside spoke telling her to join Arthren for Beth to emerge from the chrysalis she could see through the trees. The fountain was sparkling as bright as she had imagined it could be, and as she walked closer she was compelled to gain speed and hasten her arrival.

  The moment she appeared on the opposite side of the spring, Valeena began to despise her presence. She left Arthren to walk the half circle between them. Arthren did not follow as he knew Miss Candice. This knowing was not yet by name. It was only by her nature and thus her presence, could Arthren feel Miss Candice would endure to overcome the increasingly loose and angry rabid demonstration by Valeena. He was right.

  As Valeena approached Miss Candice, she knew there was no way to win. A look of resignation dawned upon her for Miss Candice’s authenticity was of such presence Valeena was rendered limp. With each step her desire to attack waned, as did her reasoning for wanting to attack. By the time they met, all she could do was stare at her absently as she was calmly walked by without any sense of intent directed at her. Miss Candice focused only on her place and for it amongst the setting here with Arthren to realize Beth’s rebirthing - a moment across the galaxy beyond light, speed, and time.

  She did not adore Arthren yet she did for they adored each other within the reasons of being for this spring where gold connected the magic of creation. For a second she thought of Bobby, realizing her connection…their connection. He too was of place amongst dimensions where the essence of universe expressed realities without confinement, unlike the minds of sentient beings focused on narrow visions. They were together now across light years as much as when they were in each other’s arms.

  “It is time. I am Candice…Miss Candice.”

  “Miss Candice, I am Arthren. Pleased to see you.”

  “I was not aware of my place here until my arrival Arthren.”

  “After which you have immediately recognized your true self no doubt.”

  “And more…so much.”

  “These times will ask of our focus to bring Beth to herself. It will take the passage of a few moons once she has emerged.”

  “Bring her from within the egg Arthren. I will prepare for her bathing.”

  “She must be naked in the waters for one entire moon orbit. The daily precession is the first of three. The second is our place to guide her to the third being her time of breathing.”

  “We are to cast fruit into the golden waters offering its sweetness to her essence golden to the core of galactic resonance.”

  “How do you know such things Earth woman? You are from another time. You are ancient.” Valeena looked on with contempt.

  “Leave us be Valeena. If you cannot stay still or away, then I will take it upon myself to remove you from this place. You are jealous of this real woman.”

  “What do you know about real women Arthren. I’ve seen some of the types you have silently slipped away with late at night in bars.”

  “And the power of your presumption assumption is weak Valeena. I don’t need to remind you. Take time to reflect on your foolery. At least you have plenty to eat. Perhaps a little nourishment will help your brain overcome your failures.”

  “You have no call on who I am. You know nothing.”

  “I see enough Valeena. Your actions, your language of voice and body, your eyes. Look into the waters and take a good look at your reflection.”

  “I might taint them.”

  “Ha, indeed for you have an ugliness…”

  “I meant I could make them impure.”

  “Try as you might, you cannot oppose the intentions of the waters. What has begun, is about to begin and you cannot change it.”

  “Maybe others can. I know more than I allude to Arthren.”

  “Maybe you do, but I doubt you could summon anyone who could stop this process.”

  “There are legends of others. Of ones who were seeded distant in the galaxy, yet who originated on Earth where they were sent into the cosmos on the fragments of a comet after it collided with the planet.”

  “I have heard of those stories. They are far distant from the reality creating this event Valeena. At best, they are tales made up after Vindor invaded Earth’s solar system.”

  “Some say they are tales much older when Vindor first knew of Earth’s existence long before we had the technology to travel there. I would not be so sure of yourself Arthren. It is said the distant race are seeking their origins. The legends speak of this. You can imagine across the vast cosmos, there would be many generations of them never giving up their quest.”

  “Whatever or wherever they are, they are too late to arrive on planet Dealas to interfere. It would take…”

  “Not as you imagine. There is one element connecting the fabric of creation. The very one we are here for. Do not think we are the only ones, for we know this planet is a place for many others like this spring is to Vindor.”

  “It is unique amongst the systems.”

  “And so they too might know of the alignments using gold and its resonant audio frequency.”

  “You have no means to contact anyone and bring them here. Beth is about to emerge.”

  “They can come after the event. There is time.”

  “Nothing is within your reach. I thought of you as a harlot then as I do now, but even so, my opinion does not matter. You have desperation in your eyes Valeena. If you listen to Arthren, then perhaps you will see there is more for you than this way of darkness.”

  “You know nothing of darkness Miss. You have seen nothing and speak to me as if you have experience. From a pathetic little town in time best forgotten, you think you know.”

  “I feel.”

  “We all feel and if you truly know darkness then you would have felt it Miss Candice. I have nothing more to say. You are simply not worth the effort.”

  Valeena left Miss Candice wondering if she indeed had seen enough of darkness to realize its true nature. Her life had been sheltered from the worst adversities of life. She was not spoilt and immune to hardships, but she had never witnessed anything she would describe as evil or horrifying.”

  Arthren watched her go pondering what she would do in the forest to which she was heading. At the last before merging into the trees, Valeena looked back directly into his eyes.

  “We will see Arthren,” she called. “Precious Miss Candice had best hope her Mister Bobby will come and rescue her. Yes, I could hear you talking at the farm in your beloved Jonstown. Mister Bobby. You have not known him like I have. He can be much more than anything you can offer him, and as soon as I change things, then you will see how much he can be tempted. You cannot imagine what I have in store.” She disappeared amongst the leaves, the trees, the fruits, the bees, pollination and a haze of pollen –
the abundance of this place of seed and sustenance was eternal.

  A slight breeze caressed his face. It was cool and the first of its kind he had felt since arriving at the spring. Cause for concern arose in his thoughts – so too in Miss Candice. Suddenly, what seemed impermeable to plunder, now potentially had a chance of being vulnerable. With their love directed at Beth, they had both lost sense of being threatened, yet despite her pathetic state, Valeena had managed to instill their first elements of doubt.

  “Come Miss Candice. Let us focus on Beth. She is here.”

  The chrysalis had split at the end from which she would emerge. As the next seconds passed, it continued to undo until there was sufficient opening for Beth to slip out. Like any soft shelled egg giving birth, the sound of her emergence was of wet mucus, squelches and plods. Grass did not stick to her when she lay upon the ground moving ever so slightly as if awakening from the deepest sleep. Then before anything else, Miss Candice and Arthren lifted her into the waters. In an instant Beth came more to life as the gold within invigorated her.

  They watched her for a time until Arthren was sure she had been under the water long enough to almost drown. As he reached to her, she opened her eyes, staring up at him widely for an instant, before setting off on a swim. They saw her come up for air twenty feet away before she continued to swim around the spring without speaking a single word to them.

  This was the moon of her golden bathe in which she would begin the process of mergence with the fountain. As queen she was of gold, and as gold she was connected to the essence driving conscious creation in any sector of any galaxy. It was now also the time for Arthren and Miss Candice to prepare for the following phase of the moon when Beth was to be reckoned with the universe in this manifest to align her with her connections into other dimensions as one giving guidance in her place amongst the mortal.

  “There is an alignment to be made Miss Candice. A stand of stone in a circle just beyond the orchard is how you were brought here. It is a communication and travel mechanism across space and will connect us to Vindor.”

  “Will it go anywhere else?’

  “Anywhere one wants it to go. All you have to do is to know how.”

  “Valeena?”

  “She somehow has insight, hence her presence here. It concerns me as once in possession of this knowledge, one can explore the vastness of what these mechanisms can offer.”

  “Her threat. I think we should watch her.”

  “No doubt she is working on the stones now from wherever she is. We too have to set our intentions and align the geometries for Beth to travel, otherwise she can become lost in a network so vast her essence could be lured, lost, or trapped somewhere potentially for eons.”

  “Lead the way Arthren.”

  They both saw Valeena sitting at the edge of the clearing where the stones were located. She appeared to be in a meditative state so contrasting to her presence previously, they were taken by surprise at how much she had managed to transform herself.

  “She cannot bother us Miss Candice. We need to go on ourselves.”

  “There is place within the stones we each must locate as accomplices.”

  “Yes. Intuition will lead us there.”

  “I somehow know…or feel. To each our fate Arthren.”

  They fell apart silently drawn towards the respect energies they were to align with for performing this event.

  Then it began, each to their intuition they delved, into the cosmos, into connection, and into dimensions as they aligned organic presence with energies of manifest, spanning distance, time, and concept. Through clouds of color, past star bursts spinning, and along pathways crossing interstellar space they journeyed. Passage for person, planet, and patron traversing the consciousness as transponders of aptitude tuning the manifest sound resonances defining crystals, was being as it was meant to be as being. Finally released for this moment of fated destiny, all life celebrated this moment, not just those planets Earth and Vindor, facilitated by another called Dealas. Evolution expressed beyond itself through the essence of metal precious connecting essence in expression of deliberate creation, conducive to light, to matter, and to element in any form.

  Within the matrix the worlds of many in galaxies of many came to knowing whether aware of it or not. Conscience grew in fleeting moments with foundation forever lasting infinite. Center to all was gold in its inter-dimensional forms and provisions. As preciousness, as conductor, aspiration, and creation, upon the elemental geometries all could gather, and as Miss Candice and Arthren took to places distant, so too did Valeena, at ease with their distraction.

  Within all the energy as data as electricity, Valeena sent her deepest seed of intent. She called forth the ancients born from interstellar dust millennia before Vindor or Earth had developed cities. She summoned them to the center place of all where gold in its beginning showed it had no end. Across time and space the call for Marnec was sent. Valeena knew enough of the stories to know of their name. Very few ever did and she was like very few. Her place was not as evident to Arthren as he would have thought, and now she spoke their name through the stones, calling them to this place unknowingly answering their quest to find the cosmic prime fountain leading them to their origins.

  Within the central command structure of a distant planet of the galaxy named Andromeda by humans, a stirring caused an emergency meeting to be called. Leaders from across the planet gathered to discuss what this strange force from another galaxy meant to them. Some already were convinced it was the sacred centre near to their origins, whilst others were hesitant to assume too much.

  Theirs was a planet of strict leadership, of discipline, and of seeking conquest. Their civilization of many millions of years could travel the vastness of physical space in an instant arriving light years beyond their galaxy in what humans would see as minutes. Their method defied description, as did their technology. In vast ships of cosmic electric drive, they had already seen conquest of most of their region of the distant galaxy to Earth in a manner befitting the most tragic of Earth’s battles buried deep in its history.

  Now their minds turned towards another galaxy – the one they name Shiva after their pioneering cosmological scientist who was the first of their planet to observe the object so many millennia ago. To this time they had never traveled the expanse between galaxies, preferring to be the sole dominator of their own before setting out to conquer others. As it was, their search for their origins had kept them mostly oblivious to its reckoning, so it was only now as Beth came to being with both Vindor and Earth as accomplice, did they considered the variability of a beginning so far away.

  “We must pass this fully into the leaders of Marnec science. Our call is being made. A unanimous decision must be taken.”

  “What are your words commander? They sound like those of an infant ready to jump at any notion of solving what to some is a tale of mystery.”

  “Heed only those feelings in your heart, for this is a signal if only further raising our desire to trace our celestial origins.”

  “This planet…Earth it is called so this message tells. A strange name. We are a warrior race. I hear no sense of a warrior in the name Earth.”

  “Decide. It is now we must search our warrior heart to find our reckoning. A unanimous vote is required.”

  All present raised their hands, even the sole one who had voiced the contest.

  “By decree we are to investigate this signal. Space command, make your officers ready.”

  The leader’s mind stretched through conscious to the origins of the signal…to Valeena. He could see a woman who was nothing like any woman he had ever seen. It was her feminine energy telling him she was female for the vision was more of essence than of physical appearance. In a moment for a brief moment, his telepathic mind connected with her and then he knew where she was.

  Valeena felt a warmth sweep through her the moment the mind connection was made. She fed him answers to his questions and she told him more of p
otentially what lay ahead. She begged him to come to the place of the golden spring to find her and give her what Arthren and Miss Candice had taken, and he promised her everything she desired. When she spoke of Beth, he desired her and was soon beset with finding her as soon as possible.

  “Send those ships out. I want full spectral analysis as they proceed. Have them trace the signal only.”

  Valeena knew she had done all she needed. Arthren should not have been so assumptive on how capable she really was when it came to matters beyond dimension and of creating seed. To another galaxy she had sent summons to be heard as it was heard.

  Since times as a girl, Valeena had learned how to influence minds and connect with subtle yet powerful energies at play. Soon enough, Marnec would come from the depths of space and all the work she had secretly done in learning how to make contact would pay off to her benefit for her rise beyond the highest on Vindor. If the legends were true and she was the one to lead Marnec to their origins, she would be revered across worlds.

  Through ill recorded history, whence the queen of gold arose from the spring, so it is also said where too arose did queen of obsidian. This was a loose description given to the opposite dark energy this queen drew forth to challenge the right of the gold queen. In no sense was royalty apparent for there would never be a king – this was the role of the creator connecting within the realms through dimension.