John Edmondson

Disclaimer – Most of the following has not been spellchecked by a human so if you spot any mistakes please leave a comment. It has also mostly been written with various htc mobile phones when I am on a bus. My current one is a 02 xda stellar.

Drums

The day came into being with a clash of drums and a guitar riff that seemed to go on and on. Finally groggy eyed he managed to hit the sleep button on his radio alarm clock. Everything went silent and he tried to remember what he had been dreaming about. All he could remember was that it was a face that wasn’t human and had a strange look on it. The phone rings and the memory is forgotten. He stretches and goes to answer the phone.
‘Matt? That you?’
‘Think so, do you know that u have woken me up?’
‘Sorry to wake you but turn on the T.V.’
‘Hu? Hang on.’ He grabbed the TV remote and turns to channel 2.
‘This report is coming to you live from Bromley Crown Court.’ said a young presenter. Just then it cuts and a reporter is standing in fount of Bromley Crown Court.
‘We are now waiting for an official announcement about the UFO that has been spotted zooming about the Kent countryside. We have no way of knowing what they are doing and why they are so interested in Kent but we think it has something to do with the weapons facility in Fort Halsted and the army container that was spotted being driven into the compound.’
‘Matt you still there?’ He mutes the volume on the T.V and answers.
‘Think so. You going to work?’
‘Yep. Its properly going to be the safest place around.’
‘Oh I thought I would go into Bromley and go and do some shopping. Then go into work.’
The alarm goes on again,
‘ And the news headlines again. UFO’S have been spotted around the world. This news just in, The UK government has declared a state of emergency. In this announcement to the public the Prime minister said this outside 10 Downing Street “Would everyone who is not needed for the running of the county should go home. I repeat that is everyone who is not needed for the running of the country should take the rest of the time off until further notice.” XFM will continue to broadcast and bring you updates of news as it comes in.’ Matt reaches over and hits the off button on the alarm clock.
‘Well looks like I’m not going to go in to work today.’
‘Come with me and go into work with me.’
‘Ok, give me 10mins and meet me outside my house. Who is it that you work for again?’
‘You will find out if you come with me.’
‘Ok cya soon.’
Bromley high ST

Outside Dixon’s a crowd has gathered watching the TV’s that were in the window. They had not heard about the news until someone saw the live alien encounter on the screen of all the TV’s. Suddenly a shout went up further down the street.
“Look a UFO.” Screaming, shouting, utter chaos reigned when a bit of the UFO came off and slowly touched down in the high street. The main ship was hovering above the street as more rounded objects detached themselves and sped towards a destination. A sudden hush spread out from the ship as the minutes ticked by. The ship on closer inspection was rounded each end and was about 10ft long. The ship pulsed bright red leaving after images in the eyes of the spectators. Then creatures came walking through the surface of the ship. The creatures were vaguely human with a head, torso and legs but other than that nothing was the same. They were dressed in a shiny material that covered their torso and legs. The material looked pliable and hard, in some places the material bulged up where joints would be making them look like skaters in pads. They were carrying objects that could be weapons or scientific instruments. There was a sharp command from one with purple stripes down his/hers/its clothing.
“Gumlesh” At that one word two of the other aliens brought out a small round object and fiddled about underneath the surface of the object. It sprang into life squeaking as one of them adjusted something. Then the purple one spoke.
“Greetings earth people we are a research team from SC3T. We are going to take some of you back to our spaceship and then you will be questioned on the different aspects of this planet. These questions will not use violence. We will now prepare the subjects for transportation to our main ship. Those there will be able to communicate freely once we have questioned them.” Then they started to move towards the people in front of the crowd who couldn’t move away fast enough in the total chaos that followed.

Outside matt’s place.

As a blue VW Campervan with blacked out back windows pulled up in fount of mats flat coursing the neighbours to look momentarily out of their windows. Matt looked at his watch and stated leaping down the various flights of stars dodging the objects that got in his way. As he reached the front door he stopped and again looked at his watch. 30 seconds he thought, come on I can do better than that. Then he opened the front door and strode out towards the VW and shouts out,
“Hiya 3D how’s things?”
“Don’t get me started mate and don’t use 3D when we get to work.”
“Oh who’s being sensitive today?”
“Belt up and get in the other side.” Matt goes round the other side of the van and gets in. The car starts up and heads towards 3D’s work.

Purple Times
As people stated screaming the aliens pointed the instrument and fired a sort of blue bubble that enveloped round a person and trapped them. The bubble was then floated over to another machine and it attached itself to it. A lot of people where trapped and they were screaming, shouting and punching at the bubble trying to get out. But in the middle of all the confusion a person was just standing in a bubble and looking around. In about 5mins people had either been taken by the SC3T or had run away. At the end the SC3T with purple braces came along and touched the controls of the bubbles, which then solidified. It turned and walked to another alien with silver strips down it and said,
“Now QX we have enough earthlings to study and the other research groups have had the same success. We can go to our research vessel which is waiting for the earthlings.”
With that the Bubbles floated towards the ship when they were all clustered around it the aliens of SC3T passed though the sides of the ship and took off.

Confusion Rules:- there are no rules for confusion
While the kidnapping was taking 3D and mat draw nearer to the place where 3D said that his work was.3D stopped the VW camper van in a road side parking lot somewhere in the outskirts of a little village on the North Downs. 3d and Matt got out of the car and walked a little way along a road and up a woodland path which finely out in the open.
“This is where I work Matt.” The path had opened out onto a filed which had a couple of silos in the middle.
“3D you know that this is just a field somewhere in the North Downs with a couple of silos in it, don’t you?”
“You are correct but you don’t know what I know.” With that 3d and matt started to walk towards the silos along a rough track in the grass. As they neared silos Matt saw that they weren’t silos at all but just looked like one. 3D drawed up along one of them and flashed a laser pen towards the middle of it. As he did this a door opened and 2 men came out holding semiautomatic weapons. After them came a man wearing a cap, leather jacket, jeans and walking boots came up to them and said,
“Donald Douglas Davies, who is that that you have bought with you? Do you know how many security breaches you have just caused?”
“Sorry Dave but you see with all these aliens and the such, I think that the public should know that something has been planned for this emergency and is been carried out. Anyway I think that Matt here could be a usefully asset to the work that we are doing.” As 3D said this both the man and 3d said in unison “how?”,

Just Madness
As soon as they said that a throbbing noise like a helicopters propeller could be heard coming into land. All 3 of them looked up and 3 Chinook helicopters could be seen landing on another field close buy. As the doors open on 1st landed Chinook a car could be seen in the distance which is rushing towards the silos along a track that had been round in-between different fields. In a short length of time the other 2 helicopters had landed and with a thud as the doors opened and about 30 people poured out with DEP12 on their flash tags. With a quick command from one of them they started to run towards the silos. As 3D sees them advancing he grabs Matt and pulls him towards the door in the silo with Dave and the 2 guards in hot pursuit. The last guard though the door slams it shut just as the DEP12 troops start to open fire with silenced weapons. Then the load sound of automatic weapons could be heard from the weapon placements on the silos. When everyone is inside the silo air tight locks slam shut and there is a sensation of travailing up and then zooming down for about 30seconds. Matt thought that it was a bit like those death plunge fairground rides that you can go on. As they start to slow down a UV light comes and everything lights up.

Fathoms down and to the left
As the lift stops one of the air lock doors opens up and the guards go out into a short corridor and open a door to the left and goes in. Everyone fallows them in
“Matt, I am going to have to leave you hear because you haven’t got security clearances to go to any other levels yet. I think that you will have company coming in form of a reporter. She wont try to get information out of you because you will only know what she knows. You can read though any books that you can find ”
With that everyone leaves the room apart from Matt who stays in and has the door shut and locked on him.

Matt looks round the room for the first time, it is quite a decent size maybe 9ft by 9ft. It is painted in a light yellow colour with blue borders. Around the room there are shelves full of books and folders, there is even a computer terminal on a desk which is turned on. On a wall there is a plasma screen TV which is turned off. On the left hand wall there is a door. Matt goes over to the door and opens it. The door leads to a small room with a toilet and hand basin matt backed out and shut the door. He walked over to one of the shelves and pulled out at random a book. He sat down on a sofa and started reading it. On the cover where the words “
“Declassified information. On the Russian star wars program.”
Contents, pg 1-10 what is the star wars project? , pg 10-30 members of ‘star wars’, pg 30-35 other united nations government bodies who study UFO pronominal and there areas of research.

As he just stared reading the first chapter the door was unlocked and thrown open. Matt looked up and watched, as a person was marched in by 2 guards. The guards left the person in the centre of the room and walked to the door and shut and locked it. Matt had a closer look at the person who turned out to be the reporter that had been on the TV at the start of the day. He got up to introduce himself but she came and sat down next to him and started to shake uncontrollable as a minute passed matt got up and went over to where he had taken off his jacket and put it round her shoulders. As he tries to make conversation, a couple of large thuds can be heard and felt and a siren could be heard wailing.
Mat looks about for something to use a weapon but sees nothing expect for a few books. The reporter stopped sobbing and looks around.
“It’s not a nightmare is t? I thought it was but I’ve woken up and faced the facts”
“Nah im afraid it’s not. This is real life. Well I think it is. How did you get here?”

I’ve been up since 7am when I was wakened by my alarm clock and my mate telling me to turn on the TV which was saying an ufo had crashed somewhere. I think you where reporting.”

“Yeh I did a report on the artefact that was transported near here”
Do you know what the object is yet?”
“Hum I think it was a part of a crashed ufo that came down in Iceland a few days ago.”
“I wonder how things are doing elsewhere?” at the precise moment in time a few more thuds where herd close to. Then the door got opened in a hurry.
“Matt!! Come with me” 3d spots the reporter for what seems to be the first time. “oh you had better come as well because we have to get out of here.” With that he starts to go out of the door.

Matt and the reporter look at each other and decide to go with 3d. They get up and have to run after him to catch up. As they run with him they beginning to notice some things on the wall but do not have enough time to look properly.

They enter another passageway that seams to be bending downwards. There is a funny musky smell to the air . Soon they come to a presher door . 3d goes though voce check and retina recognition and they are let in to a room. As soon as the door has shut behind them the lights go out and a mechanical voice goes “destarilisation in progress. A hissing noise is heard and a red grid starts to come down from the ceiling . When the grid is level with there heads a florescent light turns on causing everyone to goes spotty. After the grid has reached the floor and the smoke has dispersed a door opens and 3d walks out. The others stair at the chamber that they have followed him into.

“Welcome to project to the stars or bust . Everything down here is top secret and if you live to tell the tail, don’t. Because you will get laughed at”. This is from the man who greeted mat at the beginning of his workday. “I am Dave pleased to meat you. Can we have some introductions mat?”

“The man on my left is mat, and I don’t know what her name is”. The reporter … “my name is Stephaney and I would like to know what is happening hear.”

“As of now the earth is has been claimed by solo and all of the non earth entities have been told to get off the planet or they will be killed. So I suggest that we hitch a ride on the ambassador’s ship and become part of the von quotor empire. Questions will be answered later, for now head towards that silver ship.”
With that he turns away and starts to walk towards a group of people. 3d starts to walk towards the ship and the rest follow.

All of a sudden the cave shakes and objects rattle from there shelf and someone tries to make a tanoiy announcement “warning sc3c forces have broken *crackle*breeched level 3 security please get to a place of safety. *crackle* evacuate the caver passsh.” The announcement dies in feedback.
At that there is a rush towards the ships that are waiting for takeoff. When they get inside mat and the reporter become separated from 3d and get shoved into some seats by a viewing wall. After about a minute a voice comes over the intercom. Please be prepared for heavy eceliation as we leave earth’s gravity field all those who haven’t been in space before please stay seated until further notice. After this they felt the Gforces start to push them back into their seats. Mat and the reporter can see what is happening to the ship thanks to the view wall. As the ship accelerates to reach space the land gets further away until they start to feal themselves getting lighter. The same voice comes over the tanoy “switching over to artifictual gravity in 30 seconds please get yourself to a floor.’ a pourse “switching now” and gravity comes back.
As mat and the reporter (need name) looked at each other wondering what had justhappend, 3D comes into the room with a lady dressed in an all in space suit. As 3d is releasing the straps he starts to talk let me introduce Julie Von Quotor, the daughter of the ambassador You saw earlier. She will be your guide when I am busy.

If you wear these stars it will mean that you are serfs of the Von Quotor and you shouldn’t be abused by other aliens. If you have any skills you will be able to gain enough credits to safeguard yourselves. Right now we need you on the gun emplacements. Julie will take you there.

Without a further word 3d goes out of the door. There is silence after that and the reporter goes, is he always that abrupt¿
Yeh he doesn’t like to be drawn into conversations. Something about not wasting time with unnecessary words.

As 3d said my name is Julie and should you have any problems please tell me and I’ll try to solve them. Some of the aliens on our ship like lower gravity than we are used to so you may experience some weightlessness when we cross to their sections of the ship. Please follow me to the gun port that you will be using.

They walked down a few passageways when Julie stopped and said we are now entering the low gravity section of the ship. When they crossed over a certain point they could feal themselves getting lighter. After bounding to the gun emplacement Julie shows them how to use the weapon.
As the battle intensifies they score a few kills. All of a sudden the action intensifies and a ship scores a hit just on top of them and the gun emplacement starts to float Away from the ship.

Drifting

As matt, Julie and the reporter are wondering what will become of them they are picked up by a SC3 ship and transported to their main base when the ships captain realises that they have Julie.
Ah Julie how nice of you to drop in. Now your father will have to talk to me personally instead of sending his envoy. I am afraid that you will have to go to the captive section for a while because I cannot have you and you friend running about freely.

(c) 2008 John Edmondson