Chapter 1

My name is Neal Comer, I am 28 years old stand 5’8” and weigh just over 180 pounds. My father was an outfitter/guide and overall outdoorsman teaching survival training and bush crafts. My mother was an herbal and holistic healing and treatment specialist with a botany degree. I had to say goodbye to both as they were killed in a car crash a few months ago. Since both were the only child in their families and their parents are dead, I am without any relatives myself now.

Why have I explained this, humor me and allow me to continue to expand as I describe myself further.

Both my parents’ kind of spoiled me in the sense that they shared their passions with me. My father taught me as soon as I was old enough all about the outdoors, bush craft, survival, tracking, and hunting. He also taught me honesty above all else. Both parents stressed the ‘Golden Rule’ and I grew up following it.

My mother taught me all about the body, what is does, why, when, and how. She also taught me about botany and what plants were good for health and healing and which were bad, poisonous, and deadly. My mother was an apothecary in fact she was a highly respected apothecary and taught me all about it. She also was a chemist and taught me the different uses certain plants could provide besides medical treatments. There were plants that could clean, others could repel insects and other animals. There were so many different ways plants could be used and my mother showed me almost all of them.

I grew up in a normal home attending public school and all of the activities such as football wrestling and martial arts, while taking the advanced AP classes in high school like algebra, chemistry, and advanced literature. I was your average run-of-the-mill good looking guy and had my share of good looking girls. I graduated 5th in my class and completed two years of college mostly the general education requirements as I had not decided on a major yet. And then my parents were killed in the car crash which is when I chose to drop out of college.

After the funeral I found that my parents had $1,000,000 life insurance policies that paid out double in the event of accidental death which being killed in the car crash qualified as an accidental death. The insurance company tried to refuse on having to pay out the double accidental death part of the policy but in the end the court ruled in my favor and I received $4 million tax free due to the fact that it was an insurance payout for loss of life.

I put the money into several accounts and put about 1/3 into stock market and trades mostly high risk with high yield. I spent almost two years just wandering from place to place across the planet seeing sights and locations that most people just dream about and then I got bored and decided to just go home.

I was sitting on the couch in my living room watching YouTube and laughing at the stupid videos when the alien appeared.

The alien, YES, alien as in bipedal, 6’ tall, grey skin color, no hair, huge all black eyes (like a shark), no nose, and average size mouth. Appeared or well walked out of the strange dust-devil like mini-tornado that formed in the middle of my living room.

It had what looked like a one-piece jumpsuit with short sleeves and regular length pants on, along with what looked like Nike high-tops without any lacing.

It spoke almost in a metallic mechanical voice. Quickly stating that it came in peace and meant me NO harm! It was here to offer me an opportunity. He introduced himself and said I could just simply call him Grey since his name would be impossible for me to pronounce.

He asked if he could sit and took the chair across from me when I nodded yes. Then explained the opportunity that they were offering to me. His species had been studying earth for several years actually several decades and I was one of a select few that met the qualifications they needed for an experiment they were planning to start. There was a planet similar to earth almost three times larger and less land mass with local inhabitants very similar to humans and their limited studies allowed them to discover that our two species could intermingle and breed with each other. This was based solely on genetic and DNA related studies.

The situation was that this other species’ environment was at the Stone Age. They wanted to transport several humans to this planet to see if we could increase the speed at which they moved out of the Stone Age and into the modern age we were currently living in.