John Edmondson

Page: The Fearless Face

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- Most of the following has not been spell checked (Apart from when I run it though word or open office and once by Elane N) 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 old one iwas an 02 XDA Stellar and my current one is a Palm 'Pre. The story sometimes get updated!!

The Fearless Face.

By John Edmondson.

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 stretched and went to answer the phone.
"Matt? That you?"
"Think so, do you know that you have woken me up?"
"Sorry to wake you, but turn on the T.V."
"Huh? Hang on." He grabbed the TV remote and turned to channel 2.
"This report is coming to you live from Bromley Crown Court." said a young presenter. Just then it cuts to a reporter standing in front 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 muted the volume on the T.V and answered.
"Think so. You going to work?"
"Yep. It's probably 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 went 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 “Everyone who is not needed for the running of the country 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 reached over and hit 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 Dixons a crowd had gathered watching the TVs that were in the window. They had not heard about the news until someone saw the live alien encounter on the screens of all the TVs. Suddenly a shout went up further down the street.
"Look, a UFO." Screaming, shouting and 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 humanoid 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 Camper van with blacked out back windows pulled up in front of Matt's flat causing the neighbours to look momentarily out of their windows, Matt looked at his watch and started 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. ô30 seconds," he thought, ôcome on I can do better than that." Then he opened the front door and strode out toward the VW and shouted 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 went round the other side of the van and got in. The car started up and headed towards 3D's work.

Purple Times

As people started 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 attached itself to it. A lot of people were 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 place 3D and Matt drew nearer to the place where 3D said that his work was.3D stopped the VW camper van in a roadside 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 finally ended out in the open.
"This is where I work, Matt." The path had opened out onto a field 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 drew up alongside 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 semi-automatic weapons. After them came a man wearing a cap, leather jacket, jeans and walking boots, who 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 helicopter 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 by. As the doors open on the first Chinook to land a car could be seen in the distance which was rushing towards the silos along a track that had been wound in-between different fields. In a short length of time the other 2 helicopters had landed with a thud. As the doors opened 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 saw them advancing he grabbed Matt and pulled him towards the door in the silo with Dave and the 2 guards in hot pursuit. The last guard though the door slammed it shut just as the DEP12 troops started to open fire with silenced weapons. Then the loading sound of automatic weapons could be heard from the weapon placements on the silos. When everyone was inside the silo, air tight locks slammed shut and there was a sensation of travelling 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 started to slow down a UV light came on and everything lit up.

As the lift stopped, one of the air lock doors opened up and the guards went out into a short corridor. They opened a door to the left and went in. Everyone followed them in
"Matt, I am going to have to leave you here because you haven't got security clearances to go to any other levels yet. I think that you will have company coming in the form of a reporter. She won't try to get information out of you because you will only know what she knows. You can read through any books that you can find "
With that everyone left the room apart from Matt who stayed in and had the door shut and locked on him.

Matt looked round the room for the first time, it was quite a decent size, maybe 9ft by 9ft. It was painted in a light yellow colour with blue borders. Around the room there were shelves full of books and folders, there was even a computer terminal on a desk, which was turned on. On a wall there was a plasma screen TV which was turned off. On the left hand wall there was a door. Matt went over to the door and opened 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 a book at random. He sat down on a sofa and started reading it. On the cover where the words "
"Declassified information. On the Russian Star Wars program."

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 uncontrollably. After 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 tried to make conversation, a couple of large thuds could be heard and felt and a siren could be heard wailing.
Mat looked about for something to use a weapon but sees nothing expect for a few books. The reporter stopped sobbing and looked around.
"It's not a nightmare is t? I thought it was but I've woken up and faced the facts"
"Nah I'm 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 were reporting."
"Yeah, I did a report on the artefact that was transported near here. ô
"Do you know what the object is yet?"
"Hmm, 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 that precise moment in time a few more thuds were heard close by. Then the door got opened in a hurry.
"Matt!! Come with me" 3D spotted 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 started to go out of the door.

Matt and the reporter looked at each other and decided to go with 3D. They got up and had to run after him to catch up. As they ran with him they began to notice some things on the wall but do not have enough time to look properly.
They entered another passageway that seemed to be bending downwards. There was a funny musky smell to the air . Soon they came to a presser door. 3D went through voice check and retina recognition and they were let in to a room. As soon as the door had shut behind them the lights went out and a mechanical voice buzzed "Sterilization in progress." A hissing noise was heard and a red grid started to come down from the ceiling. When the grid was level with their heads a fluorescent light turned on causing everyone to go spotty. After the grid had reached the floor and the smoke had dispersed a door opened and 3D walked out. The others stared at the chamber that they had followed him into.
"Welcome to project 'To The Stars Or Bust' . Everything down here is top secret and if you live to tell the tale, don't. Because you will get laughed at". This is from the man who greeted Matt at the beginning of his workday. "I am Dave, pleased to meet you. Can we have some introductions, Matt?"
"The man on my left is Matt, and I don't know what her name is". The reporter "My name is Stephanie and I would like to know what is happening here."

"As of now the earth is has been claimed by SoLo and all of the non-earth entities and related people have been told to get off the planet or they will be hunted down and killed. So I suggest that we hitch a ride on the ambassador's ship and become part of the Von Quotor family. Questions will be answered later, for now head towards that silver ship."
With that he turned away and started to walk towards a group of people. 3D started to walk towards the ship and the rest followed.
All of a sudden the cave shook, objects rattled from their shelf and someone tried to make a tannoy announcement "Warning! SC3 forces have broken *crackle* breeched level 3 security please get to a place of safety. *crackle* evacuate the cave passsh." The announcement died in feedback.
At that there was a rush towards the ships that were waiting for take-off. When they got inside Matt and Stephanie became separated from 3d and got shoved into some seats by a viewing wall. After about a minute a voice comes over the intercom. "Please be prepared for heavy acceleration 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 G-force start to push them back into their seats. Matt and the reporter could see what was happening to the ship thanks to the view wall. As the ship accelerated to reach space the land got further away until they start to feel themselves getting lighter. The same voice came over the tannoy "Switching over to artificial gravity in 30 seconds, please get yourself to a floor." a pause "switching now." and gravity came back.
As Matt and Stephanie looked at each other wondering what had just happened, 3D came into the room with a lady dressed in an all-in-one space suit. As 3D released the straps he started to talk, ôLet 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 went out of the door. There was silence after that and the reporter said, "is he always that abrupt?"
"Yeah, he doesn't like to be drawn into conversations. Something about not wasting time with unnecessary words. "

As 3D saidmy 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 ôWe are now entering the low gravity section of the ship." When they crossed over the yellow and black safety line they could feel themselves getting lighter. After bounding to the gun emplacement Julie showed them how to use the weapon. As the battle intensified they score a few kills. All of a sudden the action intensified, a ship scored a hit just on top of them and the gun emplacement started to float away from the ship.

As Matt, Julie and Stephanie were wondering what will become of them they were picked up by an SC3 ship and were about to be transported to their main base when the ship's lord ran a check on his passengers. He discovered that only one of them was registered on the government's identification system. He decided to use Julie to ask her father to speak to him directly but first he needed to talk to Julie and requested their presence for a meal in his quarters. 4 guards collected Matt, Julie and Stephanie to take them across the ship to the captain's quarters. As they are walking Julie noticed that the crew members were still running about as if they were under attack and mentions it to the others. Their party entered the room where a meal was laid out for them with food from all different regions of space. As they enter the lord and his family stand up and everyone bows.

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