Chapter 4

“We were in the middle of the seventh week when things changed, everyone was locked in their containers early, a new mother daughter couple was brought to share our container. Other containers received new couples too. No explanations were given. We also didn’t know it would save our lives.”

“The next morning no one opened the doors, there weren’t the usual morning sounds of people opening and closing doors, we could tell that none of the containers had been opened.”

“As to the second question, it seemed like we had just shut our eyes when the container door opened and two men pulled us out of bed. We joined a group of naked women as we were escorted to the end of the cleared area. There was a pig pen and a large machine used to chop up tree limbs. A man spoke in English, it was loosely translated as “You had better do everything we tell you to do or this will happen to you and your daughter!”

“They started the machine, when it had reached full speed they tore a young girl from the embrace of her mother, two men picked her up and threw her feet first into the machine! A scream was cut short soon after it started. The mother met the same awful fate soon after. Their remains were sent into a feeding trough, the pigs began feeding on the ghoulish food after the machine was shut off.”

“We made an agreement that we would do everything they told us to do to avoid a similar end. After the third execution of women that I knew had cooperated just like we did, I realized that it didn’t matter what we did or how cooperative we were, we were all going to die. At most I figured we had eight weeks, and there was no way to escape! We just had to make the most of the time we had.”

Charlie asked his next question, “What are your plans now, will you stay here with the rest of us?

“There is nowhere else to go, there is no one left we need to see. We will stay here and learn English.”

The last question was, “If it was possible would you leave the earth and travel the galaxy in a spaceship?”

“If it was possible, yes! Living here will be hard, electricity will not last, food will have to be grown, the aliens could try and finish the job! We will go!”

Charlie went to the next two houses, he asked the same questions and received basically the same answers. The only differences were in how they were abducted. Some were taken from their homes in home invasions, most were taken in car jackings. Some husbands were killed, others weren’t with their wives. Some were single mothers. Almost all of the women had only one daughter. Two had two, one of those had identical twins. Another had three daughters. All of them were beautiful, their breasts were no larger than “B” cups, most were “A” cups or smaller.

He finally decided that in the interest of time he would have a meeting of everyone at six o’clock that evening, at the saucer in his yard. He sent girls, armed with death Ray guns and pistols to make the invitations to the meeting. Just after sending them, Freddy told him that Cathy was about to wake up from the Med-bed. He ran back to the saucer, he was feeling more confident in his new body.

Amy, Becky, and Fran, Cathy’s daughters were already in the saucer waiting on the Med-bed to open. Five minutes later it opened, Cathy’s eyes blinked several times, then she sat up and stretched. A big smile appeared on her face. Looking at her daughters she opened her arms to them, they rushed into them all talking at once. They all yelled when she squeezed them, unknowingly doing so too strongly not knowing about her new strength. Thankfully she eased up before bones were broken.

Charlie asked, “Cathy, how do you feel?” In his mind Freddy told him, “Charlie, I suppressed her memories of her rape by the Wolfin, she doesn’t need to remember that in any detail. In time those memories will fade away completely.” Charlie thought back to him, “That was a good thing to do, thanks for thinking of it!”

“Charlie, I feel great! I have no pain! The arthritis in my fingers is gone, my lower back pain is gone, my hearing is improved. And I no longer need glasses!”

“Be careful when you stand up, you are much stronger than you were! I almost hit my head on the ceiling when I stood up the first time.”

Even taking heed of his warning, Cathy still almost hit the ceiling! She was very hungry so her daughters escorted her into the house to replenish her energy.

At six o’clock, Charlie walked out of the door of the saucer shaped spaceship and looked down on the group of women and girls assembled below. They were all looking at the ship in awe. JT was the only male in the crowd. Charlie held up his hand for silence and soon had everyone’s attention.

“I called you all here to see what I found!” He stated as he swung his hands around encompassing the width of the ship. “This spaceship is controlled by an Artificial Intelligence, or AI, his name is Freddy. I am now the registered owner. Freddy and I have a plan to rid the galaxy of one branch of the species of aliens that decimated the earth. It is a great plan, but in order to carry out this plan I need at least two more people to watch my back. I would like to know if anyone here has served in the military, especially in combat? If you have, please join me up here.”

“If the plan works we will have a huge generational spaceship. Freddy will oversee the retrofitting of it to our own aesthetics and size. It should be ready in about six months, if everything goes according to plan. The question is then, who wants to explore the galaxy? Things here are going to be very difficult, we can use generators for a while, but gasoline and diesel go bad and natural gas has to be pumped after being dried. With no maintenance on these in a year, two years maybe we will be back in the eighteen hundreds. Food in cans can be eaten after their expiration date as long as there is no rust, they may not taste as fresh but they can be eaten. We can certainly live well here, it would mean a great deal of hard work. But there will always be the threat of the aliens, they may not leave, they may continue to hunt humans until we are extinct. We don’t know!”

“The generational ship is four kilometers long and seven hundred fifty meters wide and seven hundred fifty meters tall, together we can design living spaces that are comfortable, spacious and ultra modern. We can include parks, with swimming pools and other types of recreational activities. Please think about what you want to do! If you want to leave with me aboard the spaceship, think about what the interior should look like!”

As he was talking twelve women made their way onto the saucer, each had served in the military, two were Navy, four were Marines, two were Air Force, four were Army. Only three had been in combat, one in the Army and two of the Marines. Charlie invited them inside the ship and introduced them to Freddy. The women were very pretty, more the “girl next door” kind of beauty, were Janice Nickolas an Army Warrant Officer who flew helicopters, Michelle Marshal, a Marine Corps Lieutenant, and Sandy Roads, a Marine Corps grunt Corporal. Charlie reintroduced himself as Lieutenant Commander Charles Bishop, Navy Seal.

Janice had flown Blackhawk helicopters mainly transporting troops and supplies, her helicopter had been shot down and though wounded had held off a Taliban group for three hours until being rescued by other helicopters and helicopter gunships.

Michelle had been in charge of a foreword observation post that had been almost overrun. They fought for six hours before driving off the attackers. The thirty man platoon received 100% casualties, five dead, twenty severely wounded, and five walking wounded. She had received the Silver Star, along with her Purple Heart. All of the grunts surviving the battle credited her leadership as the deciding factor in winning the battle. Seventy six insurgent bodies were found in and around the post after the battle.

Sandy had been with Michelle at the observation post, and had also been awarded a Silver Star for her role in the battle. She also received a Purple Heart. After their discharge they married each other and had adopted two girls.

Charlie asked Freddy to outline the attack plan which he/it did. After hearing the plan all three women volunteered to accompany Charlie. All three were told about the enhancements and the communication device, they all agreed to receive them. Freddy had prepared three Med-beds which they lay down in. Because the Med-beds had done this procedure twice before, it only took two hours to work it’s magic this time. As the women woke up from the procedure they were warned to be very careful until they became accustomed to their new bodies.

Charlie believed that total immersion in physical training was a must given the short amount of time before the mission. The Ceremony would begin at six o’clock shipboard time which was eight o’clock PM East Texas time. That was twenty two hours away! So they began walking, then they gradually sped up as they became used to it, then a jog, and finally a run. Full speed turned out to be forty two feet per second, or twenty eight point six four miles per hour. They ran for six miles, when they returned to the saucer they were barely winded.

Next, the team went over the death ray guns, they shot several times trying different settings using the buttons on the side. One button made a narrow beam, the next a medium diameter beam, and the third was a large diameter beam with a one to one point five ratio. For every ten feet of distance the diameter increased fifteen feet, the down side was the energy output declined the farther out it went. In a hallway the beam would reflect off of the four sides and focus all of the energy within the parameters of the structure. Another set of buttons controlled the strength of the beam. Freddy told them that the lower the setting the longer the victim suffered in the disintegration process. On the medium setting each gun could fire approximately one thousand times. Set on the wide beam setting it could easily disintegrate sixty beings at twenty feet.

The plan didn’t call for a pitched battle, they were going in, gathering up the fifty three or so girls then herding them to a troopship. They had to get off of the generational ship as quickly as possible so the AI could “Open the Windows” and suck most of the inhabitants out into space to become meteors lighting up the night sky for a week or so. Charlie had absolutely no qualms about doing it, they deserve what’s coming to them!