Alien Perfection

by Megan Edwards

He continued to almost glide towards her as her insides turned to jelly. Archon took a deep breath and tried to steady his heart beat. Her body and soul were all but craving his touch by the time he reached her. Every single nerve ending in Naelia’s body exploded in pure bliss the moment his head leaned down and his lips covered hers.

  It was at that moment Archon realized telling her about the base and the possibility of rescuing her children could wait until later. Right now, he she needed this. Oh, she needed her children too but he could only offer hope not a promise. This however he could give her and he could keep this promise. In fact, they would be too busy making and keeps promises to each other.

  Chapter 23 ~*~ July 11, 3209 Earth

  When Quosk awoke, every part of his body ached. The Andromedain general was more than cruel in his punishment. He blamed Quosk and the Earthling Aftab ud din for the failed victory at Fort Nuuk and was hell bent on punishing Quosk and his entire Sahara Reptilian battalion. Sadly the leaders at the top of the Galactic Alliance agreed with the Andromedain.

  The punishment was pure torture. Sometimes he whipped them. Sometimes he made them whip each other. Then other times he used magic. Magic that allowed the Andromedain to climb inside of Quosk’s body. Those were the worst times. Times like now. Times when he couldn’t help but wonder why he had been so foolish to ally himself with the Andromedains in the first place. Oh it started harmlessly enough but it grew into something altogether different.

  The Andromedain lied and tricked Quosk into believing foolish dreams. Dreams of finding his lifemate and helping his Reptilian battalion to a better life. Now however he knew it was all a pipe dream. Hell, he wanted to believe so badly that he willingly agreed to even impregnate a Venusian just to create lives that the Andromedains could use in their sick, twisted, demented magic. Andromedains are evil to their core and this Andromedain was definitely even sicker. He was true to his race. A devious dark creature that only cared for himself and his Andromedain brethren.

  Quosk screamed and begged him to stop, and yet the Andromedain continued to hurt him. He knew it was some kind of twisted magic. He just wasn’t sure what it was called but he could swear it felt like the Andromedain was tearing bits of his soul from him. Maybe he was. After what felt like hours the Andromedain finally smiled satisfactorily and shoved him back into his tiny little cage he know called home. He looked over as the other Reptilians and couldn’t help but begin to beg Ewmjir for forgiveness for ever giving the Andromedains power over his people. Then he prayed to find a way to liberate the Reptilians from the Andromedains servitude or find his own death trying.

  It was during that prayer Quosk felt his heart tighten as it was being squeezed in a vice grip. Then the taste of blood flooded his mouth. Perhaps his heart was finally seizing and Ewmjir answer was death

  ~*~

  Naelia took the news like a real champ. Oh, she wanted to get all weak kneed and weepy but she knew she needed to be strong for her children. Most of the unit left the night before. My team would lead the assault on the Reptilian base. We decided that Naelia and Archon would remain at the base until we established control. With the battle over, I let them know it was time for them to come. I was hoping that Naelia could identify her own children. We were blessed with rescuing more than eighteen Halflings or Draconians as they preferred to be called. Based on their size, I knew they ranged in age from a year to maybe as old as fifteen years.

  The older children like their Reptilian fathers were tall, over seven feet, with dark nearly impenetrable reptile scales. All of them however have more humanoid hands with five fingers. Their features are pointed and angular, large reptile eyes and thin but muscular bodies. We also found the older children have the ability to shape shift into their mother’s species shape, size and form. There were however several younger Halflings that we hoped were Naelia’s.

  That morning as the prepared to join us Naelia was hopeful but cautious. She looked up at Archon and reached her hand out for him to take. He smiled and Naelia felt a strong hand grab his waist. Then in one swift effortless movement he pulled her into the plane and smack dab in his chest. The moment their bodies made contact heat kicked up between them. It was hard to believe her body was immediately inflamed with his touch. Before Naelia could say anything or even move an inch Archon put warm passionate kiss on her lips. Naelia pushed on his chest and create a little distance from them. She looked up at him with a small but cheerful smile and said,

  “Wow Archon was scorcher! I love you too!”

  Then Naelia sat down in one of the very cushioned seat as Archon moved to the front of the plane and started the engine. She heard him flipping switches and scribbling on a piece of paper before he got on the microphone and said,

  “Control, this is Leader NINER NINER ready to take off. Confirm.”

  Within seconds Naelia heard a voice coming back over the speakers saying

  “Leader NINER NINER, this is control and you are clear to take off.”

  Then Naelia heard the engines whine louder and felt the plane jut forward. Naelia had never before flown in a plane. Before that moment, she had a silly notion that she might enjoy it. Now however she knew she hated airplanes. She was just starting to get nervous, when Archon called to her

  “Come sit on my lap and let me rub your back so you can relax. This is a very long flight and you're wound tighter than a rubber band.”

  Naelia moved into the cockpit and sat gently on Archon’s lap and allowed him to rub her back until she felt her eyes getting heavy. The rest of the plane was eerily quiet as Naelia slept with her head in his lap. Her tongue was hanging out of the side of her mouth quickly moving up and down. It was clear that Naelia was not enjoying the flight. Archon did his best to send out as much warmth and comfort as he could. He knew it helped a little, but he too was struggling to keep his emotions under control.

  He knew Naelia had a way of acting like everything was okay and that nothing bothers her, but Archon knew the truth about what she was feeling. She was devastated and heartbroken. She was so scared that the babies were gone forever but she pretended that she didn’t care. She did her best to keep an emotional distance in an effort to protect herself. It didn’t work even a little. Naelia was desperate to find her children.

  The truth is she cries every day for her children. Fearful and anxious that they might be dead. She may not have wanted the babies, but she is totally and completely in love with them. She is trying so hard not to believe that they aren’t gone forever. Somehow Archon knew they had to get their babies back. He just knew that if they lost the children forever that Naelia was going to lose a very important part of herself with them.

  Odelin and Hannah had been watching the sky for the last hour, wondering what was taking so long for Naelia and Archon’s flight to arrive. They had the Reptilian base under control and the children secure. All but two of them that is. One Andromedain escaped with two infants in tow. He took off into the desert before the team realized what was going on. Still, they had enough elite soldiers looking for the missing children that they knew it was only a matter of time.

  They felt confident that they had plenty of people to flood the desert and flush out the Reptilian solder and the children. Besides, there were still three young children that might be Naelia’s. Hannah was motioning for Odelin to move closer to her when Jing Xu started shouting that the aircraft was approaching. They waited for the airplane to come to a full stop before Jing Xu stepped up and pulled the airplane door wide open.

  I watched from a distance as Archon and Naelia step from the plane. I saw her body shiver in what I thought was anticipation. I prayed that anticipation was going to be satisfied. I prayed that after today she would no longer have the heart wrenching pain in her chest parents carry around when their children are dead. Still, in my bones I knew none of the children we secured were hers. I just knew hers were the ones the Reptilian took off with.

  Chapter 24

  The Andromedain in charge of Quos
k’s Reptilian battalion was disappointed that the entire base was wiped out. This was going to put his and the entire Andromedain races project back years. Fortunately he had been able to successfully collect and store hundreds of batches of viable Reptilian sperm before escaping with two of the infants. If he could get his hands on more female human or Venusian he could use the sperm to create more meat suits. Meat suits is what he liked to call the Draconian Halflings he was creating in his head. The children would be conceived, born and raised for one purpose. To become meat suits for himself and his Andromedain brethren.

  He drove into the Termaritans compound and waited patiently for someone to come and welcome him. He had the SUV hidden and waiting in the desert for just this purpose. He always had an escape plan. In fact, he had been traveling between the Reptilian and Termaritans base for years. He was too important to be trapped or caught. He was after all the most renowned Andromedain scientist on Earth. In some ways, that made him the most valued and important Andromedain on Earth.

  The door to the base opened and he patiently waited for the lackey to open the door to his SUV. Then he held out his hand and again waited for the Termaritans lackey to help pull him up. His arms still held two small meat suits. He looked down at them and again smiled in satisfaction before looking around at the absolutely hidden base that was to be his new home. It was a perfect environment to raise the meat suits.

  It was quiet with no real world interference and it would allow him to have complete control over what they were exposed to. He needed to keep them meek, mild and subservient. He needed them to want to willingly give up their body for an Andromedain to inhabit. This environment was perfect. Then he laughed at the stupid Termaritans that were helping the Andromedains unknowingly to make this all happen.

  In the end it would mean extinction for all races on Earth except the Andromedains. Earth simply wasn’t big enough for all of them. All it took was a few lies and some simple manipulation. Stupid fools actually think he and the other Andromedains are doing all of this to enhance all their lives.

  “Please pull my car around back and destroy all the evidence that could tie me to this base. I need to be sure no one will ever be able to find me.”

  The he turned and slipped into the hidden doorway to the underground base. Before he slipped out of sight he stopped to look back to the greens and said,

  “We were dealt a harsh blow at the Reptilian base today. It’s a total loss. This is going to set the war efforts back. I will reach out to my comrades and the Reptilian leaders so we can plan an effort to take the base back. Still, I managed to escape with my research and these two little ones. My research and these meat suits represent the beginning of a new era...”

  Then he continued to descend deeper into the underground base to the room that was to be his home for the next few years. The feeling of greatness lasted mere moments. He’d been wrong. The UFE soldiers followed him right to the underground base. They attacked in the dead of night and brought the base down as easily as they brought down the Reptilian base. He barely escaped with his life. Still, he had his research in a bag slung over his should and both meat suits tucked neatly in a bag dangling in front of him. But, he couldn’t keep up this pace forever. The desert sun was taking a beating on him and he could hear their panting behind him. The frigging UFE soldiers just seemed to just keep coming. There was nowhere to escape. They seemed to come out of every crack and crevice. They were around every corner. He was beginning to believe that there was nowhere left for him to hide.

  He was alone and pitted against the most powerful people the UFE had to offer. He was going to have to give the babies up if he was going to have any chance at survival. He couldn’t hang on and disappear into the wilderness. If he had any chance of getting away from the UFE he would need to become completely invisible. And to be completely invisible he would need to give up his research and the children. Still he was the best scientist in the world. He could repeat the research. It and the children could be replicated, he could not.

  He stopped running and put the children down on the ground. He could hear the UFE soldiers closing in and knew that they would find the babies in just a few minutes. He turned himself invisible then began to climb up a tree until he was high up in the tree canopy. Then he jumped from tree to tree and continued doing just that for about a mile. Once he was sure that they couldn’t possibly pick up his scent he climbed down from the canopy and sprinted off into the desert.

  He would have to hide until the UFE gave up. He wasn’t sure whether it would be days, months or years, not that it matters, all he needed was time. Time for kids to grow and time for the balls he sent in motion to run downhill. It really doesn’t matter if the babies were raised by him or someone else. In the end, they would become what the Andromedains needed to end the war.

  I’d been right about the children. I wish I hadn’t been but then again I am hardly ever wrong. The kids we had on base weren’t Naelia’s. Our best bet was that hers were the two the Andromedain made off with. We attacked the Green’s base and just like last time the bastard shot out a back door and took off into the desert. This time I was on to him. I gathered my team and we took off after him. Archon came with us and Naelia followed behind.

  Not long into the hunt, Naelia starting to feel like she was never going to see her children. She wondered if maybe it was better that way since she thought she wasn’t going to be a good mother anyway. The longer they chased the Andromedain the more afraid she was that she was never going to see them again. They had been running around the desert for more than two hours, and it felt like they weren’t even a tiny bit closer to finding them. Her eyes were stinging as she tried to fight back tears.

  Suddenly Archon stopped moving and touched the tiny microphone in his hears. He smiled as he turned to her and said,

  “They have babies. They are safe and secure.”

  Naelia’s legs felt like jelly and she suddenly fell to the ground in relief. Thank god they had her children. She was ready to start running will nilly into the direction she thought the babies were in when Archon threw her over his shoulder and flew like the wind through the desert. Rocks and cacti flew past Naelia’s eyes like a blur. She’d never felt anything like this before.

  They moved faster than gas powered vehicles they would drive in. She even fleetingly considered that Archon was running faster than the aircraft that brought them here. Her stomach was tossing and turning, and she was fighting back the desire to vomit down Archon’s back. She fought hard to swallow back her fear and weakness. She just need to keep it together a little longer. She had no idea that Archon could run like the wind itself. Despite how sick it made her feel she was beyond happy because at this rate she knew she would have her babies safely in her arms in no time.

  He ran as hard as he could. He jumped over a large rock formation and caught movement out of the side of his eye. When he looked over he realized Odelin, Kazu, Alphonso and Yacine were running beside him. They zigzagged over the brush, cacti and rock formations. Archon knew they were getting close when his unit spread out and approached the area the babies were in from all directions. He knew immediately what they were doing. His team were excellent at what they did.

  Archon stopped in front of the babies and gently lowered Naelia to the ground. She was shaking, and the run clearly had not been good for her tummy as she fell to the ground. Two babies. Her babies. She knew it instantly as she pulled her two children into her arms. After a few moments he saw her tears at the same time as he felt his cheeks own become wet. After a few moments she turned her teary eyes towards Archon and said

  “Let me go home. Please, take me to my home. Take me and my children back to the lava caves I grew up in. I need to feel safe and that is the only place I believe my children will be safe. Please Archon let me go home. You need to let me go… Let me go home. Your world is no place for me and I know you can’t leave it. I love you… I do, I swear but you need to let me go home.”

 
Naelia’s words rocked him to his core. How could Archon not have made her understand that she was the most important thing in his life? He could never leave her. If she wanted to go home, he would go with her. His world meant nothing without her in it. He chose her. He would always choose her and he would never willingly let her go. Naelia was like the air in his lungs, he needed her to survive and somehow after all this time they had spent together, she still didn’t know it. He knew he had to make her understand. He pulled her into his arms and said,

  “Naelia, I love you. You're the only woman I will ever love. I will never let you go. If you need to return to your childhood home, then I will go with you. Anywhere you go, I will follow. You are my home. I understand your pain and fear. I felt it too. It’s normal. Please, don’t leave me. Let me come with you. Stay with me. We are a family. We are in this together. I love you and I want to be with you forever. You see Naelia? Forever?”

  Archon waited for her to nod her head then he dropped his head until their lips touched. Then in the heat of the desert with his entire UFE unit looking on their souls took flight and blended together. It was more amazing than Archon or Naelia ever thought it could be. It was like the cells of their bodies exploded into a million little pleasurable pieces. Then each one of the pieces took flight and started a new million ecstasy points. Their souls despite their recent pain and loss were alight with happiness. Their souls turned and moved and writhed simultaneously with each other. They dipped, bowed, touched and embraced. Every little caress caused the eruption of sheer paradise. Archon now completely understand why so many of his friends called the union the dance of souls.

  Chapter 25 ~*~ September 9, 3209 Earth

  Two days later, the two of them finalized the plans to return to the lava tubes she grew up in deep beneath the Sahara desert. Archon had already said goodbye to everyone in his unit but Sylvie. Sadly, Sylvie never made it back from the attack on the Reptilian base. Still, they had hope she was still alive since they hadn’t found any trace of what happened to her. Sylvie was a fighter and everyone including Archon was confident he would see her again.