“Testing testing, Danny can you hear me?”
“Loud and clear, I am going to check out the army control”
“Great! I’m going to take a closer look at the crash site”
“Jimmy, try to stay off the radio for as long as possible, I’m going to be pretty close and I don’t want them to hear me”
“Ok.”
I kept a look out as I made my way towards the crashed up aircraft, I dodged between trees and piles of rubble until I was close enough to read the word ‘Hawk 3’. I could just make out the uniform, it was something I had never seen or read about before. They wore a tall black hat that covered the men’s face and shoulders, a dark blue coat with an emblem that had a picture of a planet and written around it was the word ‘Union’. They wore dark black trousers with a few purple stripes going from top to half way down, their shoes were also black and ended off in a point, which looked weird.
I could hear words, but I couldn’t make out what they were saying, it sounded like some strange language,
“Jimmy, Jimmy are you there?”
“Yes, talk quieter they might hear me”
“Sorry, but this is just amazing. It looks like the solders are preparing this massive machine, I saw it blow fire, shoot lasers, absolutely everything…”
“Have to go, I think one of them saw me don’t call me I will call you first”
I backed up a little keeping as quit as I could, I watched as the man slowly went away as if he thought it was just a bird or something. I was so relieved, he looked very angry and dangerous I could only imagine what he would have done if he saw me.
“Danny, it’s ok he’s gone, but that was close”
“Yeh same hear these guys also nearly saw me luckily one of the other solders got hit so he went to help him.”
“Anyway it’s getting late lets meet back in the trees where we came from”
“Ok I’ll be there.”
I decided to take a closer look at the aircraft ignoring the fact that I had just told Danny that we should meet back, I slowly crept towards it hoping that no one would notice me. I went closer then I had ventured before and could now make out an opening through which the men were going in and out of. A thought crossed my mind, could I dare, and in the end I decided to go ahead. I radioed Danny to tell him what I was going to do.
“Danny, I am going to be a bit delayed I have decided to check it out a bit more.”
“Are you mad, it’s already after 12am and it still takes another ten minuets to walk home.”
“You can go on without me, I just want to be the first person to step foot in a destroyer.”
“You want to go in that thing, they might take you hostage.”
“Trust me I will keep a good look out. Anyway, they are more interested in defending themselves not me.”
“Alright I‘ll wait, but don’t be long.”
“I wont.”
I was extremely nervous as I slowly crept towards the destroyer; it was getting bigger with every step that I took. I looked all around then took a deep breath and went through the enormous entrance. There were sounds coming from everywhere, one was getting louder and louder, so I quickly hid behind a stack of boxes until the cost was clear. I took a good look round, it was something magnificent, I had never seen so many levers and buttons before. There were stacks of strange weapons and sharp swards; there were also masks hanging on the walls just like the ones the men wore outside.
Suddenly green lights flashed all round me and before I could do anything hundreds of men marched through the doorway taking their uniforms off and hanging them in their places. The lights changed to blue and the door shut. The destroyer was preparing to leave I was trapped.
I grabbed my radio
“Danny can you hear me, Danny I’m in the destroyer, and it’s taking off, what should I do?”
“Slow down I can just about hear you, I know, I can see large flames shooting out of it, wait it’s turning, it’s moving”
“What else can you see?”
“It’s just shot a missile at the army control base, it’s in ashes there’s nothing left …”
That was the last I ever heard of Danny, I guess our radios just didn’t work over a large distance and at the speed the destroyer was travelling I was a long way from home. I didn’t know what I should do, there was no way I could contact anyone, all I hoped for was that Danny would tell someone what happened so I wouldn’t be lost forever. There was no one in sight. I had no food, and I was getting hungry. It had been over four hours since I last ate something and that is a long time when most of it was spent doing nothing.
The ride started to get really rough; I was bouncing so hard that I started to roll across the floor hitting every wall that I came across. Eventually it stopped and I found myself in a completely different room, it seemed like I was in a different ship. I looked round the room and saw a small round window, I quickly ran towards it hoping to see white clouds and hopefully a bit of land but to my horror it was nothing like that. For a second I thought maybe this wasn’t a window, maybe it was just a picture, but as much as I wanted to believe so, it was as real as it gets. At least I could see some land, but this was more than I expected, I could see all the land there was to see, I saw earth but this time I was looking at it from a distance from a big distance, from space.
Now there was nothing I could do, I was in space with no food and no way of communicating with anyone. I thought it was time to give myself up or at least to have a closer look at the men on this big ship. I grabbed an outfit from the rack in the main hall, hopefully this would give me a little disguise. I nervously walked through the hallway trying to look as innocent as possible, but as much I tried my body was shaking, it felt like it was going to fall apart. I turned a corner and found my self standing face to face with a blue scaly reptile like humanoid and there I collapsed, space travel was too much for me.
I awoke to intense pain, what was happening to me? Where was I? For days I lapsed in and out of consciousness to finally come to my senses and be bombarded by blue. They were all around me poking me with all kinds of sharp needles as if I was some sort of guinea pig being tested with new drugs. I helplessly tried to move around but the tightly wrapped chains keeping me in place didn’t budge. Eventually I just gave up and let them get on with their painful experiments that never stopped. I already knew then that these were not simply some men wearing protective clothing in a high-tech laboratory, these were a species of Extra-Terrestrials.
When I caught a glimpse of what must have been my reflection in one of the machines used I realised that I had been asleep for a long time. I could not believe it, it was a very long time indeed it must have been about ten years.
I over heard two of them speaking about me, in English, it sounded like they wanted to move me somewhere else. Then one of them came up to me and untied my chains using a long key that glowed when it came close to the lock. This caused the lock to spring open, I tried to free myself but its grip was too strong for me. It took me for a long walk until I came to a small room with no windows or furniture. I was going mad trying to figure out a plan to escape these beasts. Out of the blue it came to me it was foul proof.
I had to escape, no all I had to do was make it look like I escaped, so I decided that I would hide behind the door hoping that eventually a guard would come and wonder were I was, and in it’s amazement I’d grab it’s keys and lock it in the cell, then I would run away to try and find some sort of spaceship that I could use to get back to earth. So that was exactly what I did, and it worked the alien’s face was so funny, it had no idea what happened. All I had to do now was find a way out of here but how?
I sneaked around the ship for a bit until I saw what looked like a pod bay, this was my only way out. I walked through the large doorway separating the corridor and the pod bay; at least there were no sensors or passwords like they have at the army bases. I saw a large fighter plane, it had strange guns all over it, and working out how to fly the monster was my next task. I closed the door behind me, I had a good look around and there was as many buttons in this ship as there was in the rest of the ship…
What is that? It’s a moving fast, it’s an asteroid, I had better move out the way and quickly, that was close, it missed me by a few meters.
Well that’s how I landed up this ship running away from some aliens, it’s only another few hours until I reach Earth’s atmosphere, I hope I don’t get shot down by the defence unit thinking I am a threat, and that my friends will recognise me, well after all I am ten years older than they last saw me. Now I know that they put me into a deep coma for so long, so that I would survive for their experiments, luckily.
Oh and about those controls, I managed to figure them out, well at least after I blew a few holes in the ‘Hawk 3’.
