Spacestastic Mysteries

As Doctor Winehart entered the room, a person with thick hair and skin darker than mine but not as dark as Jake’s, that sported a rugged jaw, cold black eyes, still outfitted in a cappuccino-colored jumpsuit, appeared in the room. He had not walked in. Just appeared. Jake’s face hardened. He ran his eyes over the man before uttering, “What the-- What the actual hell? How did you just appear here?...

“It will until your hand has a chance to heal. It is going to take time to get used to it. I will bring it and the simulator to help you practice getting used to it in a couple of hours.” She looked back to Graham and then at me again. “I am staying on board until you and Doctors Morgan and Riley are recovered.” I remember this. I remember living through this before. Why was I reliving this? I put...

I sent the information over to Jake and asked, “Do you think this is possible?” He studied the file I sent him. He looked over at me. “If this is right—and I am not saying it isn’t—if this is right, we have been looking in the wrong direction.” “I don't know what made me believe that, but I know that I believed it wholeheartedly. Maybe the proof is somewhere in there, but if this is true, Heav...

Just then my QuanPad chimed, followed by the decoded information from the chip. I backed it up and sent it to Graham and my attorney, who would send it to the people on my list if anything happened to me. I studied it for a few moments before gasping. “Oh my lands, if this is true… If this is true…this changes everything, and it makes so much sense.” Jake demanded, looking from me to the QuanPad a...

For the next hour, Jake tried to talk to me, trying to make me laugh, get angry and forgive him. “Come on, talk to me, yell at me. Just talk to me,” he pleaded. I refused to give in to him. The next hour, none of us said anything until Jake looked around with curiosity. “I remember this place. We used to meet here when you could get away from Josh. I didn't remember that until now. I swear. We...

“What if the Island Committee actually,” Jake wondered, running his fingers through his hair, “brings people to the planet to expose them to the disease?  What if they knew about the disease, but they purposely brought people to the planet who they deemed their enemies to expose them to the disease.” “That would be intriguing, but the question is then why expose their own people to the disease? Li...

“What were you looking for?” “The chip with my notes on it. I really didn’t think it would be here, but it was worth a shot.” I activated one of the terminals and hacked my way into the government database. “I wonder what they actually know…and what their intent is.” “You are going to hack into their databases…as any good spy would. I am going to look around and see if I can find anything of signi...

“We are on someone’s radar,” I told Jake. To Zebby, I said with grave deliberation, “We are in the SpaceCraft we brought here. Outside of me running a high fever, we are fine. The question is who knows we are here.” To Jake, I requested, “Please contact the Lightyears. Tell them we are alive…and that we will be back as soon as we can. Then could you call Zariah and Graham and tell them we are fine...

“What reason could that be? You willingly married another man, had relations with him and produced two children.” “I told you…I don’t remember.” “I think you do. I think you just don’t want me to know. I think that—” “You think I am telling you that I don’t remember because I am covering up the truth?” “Yes.” “Okay, what? I have no trouble keeping information I do remember from you. Why would I ma...

“I have been better than you two, it seems.  I have not been captured while I have been here.  I am glad to see you are both in disguise.  They will come after you if they know it is you.”  She looked to Jake.  “They will kill you, but,“ she persisted, glancing over at me, “they want her to fulfill tradition.” “Fulfill tradition,” Jake repeated. She nodded.  “If you marry one of their sons and hav...

“And that brings us back to Project Sierra-Lima-Tango because as a part of it, a team was assigned to Kilo-Ait to observe. Their observation station was hidden in one of the mountains until there was a magnetic storm that caused some of the residents to see flashes of the observation station.” “Like when you are at home during a thunderstorm and the power is out and you see flashes of the room whe...

I ate a few bites before I answered, staring at the food, “You know how there are snipers in war?” When he nodded, I continued, “They were killing people, making me watch, and they held me back from helping them. I could have at least saved some of them.” He put down his burger and lifted my chin. “That's horrible. Especially to a doctor.” He grabbed my hand and squeezed it. “Thank you for con...

“Colonel Kassidy, this is Henrick Balsam. I have some information I think you might find interesting. I knew your late husband Josh. I grew up with him and Peter on the Island. Peter, Adam and I were not as free as Joshua, of course, but the kids who were trained in useful skills like engineering or medicine were able to leave with the understanding that there was a return date. If you didn't...

“Josh is dead? He was Adam and my best friend growing up.” “Two years ago. He died of the disease. The one we have. I don't know if you know this, but he and I married to get me out of captivity. I was there for six months too…and he took a liking to me. It gave me an advantage in negotiations to release our parents, then Josh died.” “Do you have kids beside the one with…” He gestured toward t...

“I didn’t break up with you. We had a fight…and we needed time to cool off. We would have worked it out eventually.” I shook my head. “I don’t think we would have. I don’t get over people telling me that they never loved me…that no one ever could love me…that I was way out of your league, that I was nothing but white trash.” “What are you talking about? I never said any of that. I would never say...

She looked over to me and asked, “Project Sierra-Lima-Tango?” I asked, “How much do you know?” “It is actually Intel that has come across the President’s desk…” I turned to Graham and decided, “This isn't working because if there is Intel on her desk., it is over. I believe we need to rethink this. I say we bring everyone in on it…maybe together we can solve this.” He thought about it for a mo...

Jake turned me around and demanded, “You want to tell me what that nonsense you were spilling back there was about?” “It wasn’t nonsense.  You have no idea what I have been through…and yes, I want to tell you…but like I said, it is a part of an ongoing investigation.  I am not allowed to speak of it.” “I bet your pal Graham knows about this.” “Yes, because he is in charge of the investigation…and...

"Jordana," a deep, baritone voice greeted, “how much does your partner know?” “Hello to you too, Father,” I returned, then I dropped onto the corner of the bed. “Nothing. He knows nothing. I have to keep it that way to keep everyone safe. Isn’t that what I agreed to when you came to me eight years ago?” “Yes, it is,” the familiar feminine voice interjected. “We are just making sure you r...

"You do understand that I may have to find your biological parents, right? You have always been so against it." "I think I have a right not to want to meet people who abandoned me at six months old and then go on to have at least one son that, from all indications they raised. He was younger than me." "You do not have all the facts. You have no idea what happened." I...

Close to an hour later, General Graham observed over my CommLet, a wrist-worn communication device, “Dani, you sound tired. Now that all of your crew has arrived. I am giving you and the skeleton crew that has handled all the incoming wounded over the last week three days off. I have already arranged it. No command duties. No surgery. But you can work on your next IIB assignment.” “Which is?” I pu...

A group of people burst through the doors and screamed, “IIB!”  This gave Tony and I time to knock the guns out of the people’s hands.  The people who jumped from the access tunnel try to run past the group, only to be seized by them.  Tony and I helped the group disarm the people and cuff them, leading them all in a single file line to the Brig. It took quite a while to process them and get them...

“I met your father. I shot him because he tried to shoot my unborn child,” I advised Zane. When she turned to me, I added, “He was in surgery. He is expected to recover, but he has guards posted at his Hospital door, who are going to escort him to prison when he is recovered.” "Thank you," Zane and Alli whispered as if they said it aloud, they would jinx it somehow. "I don't fee...

“To rescue my father. Because he was married to an heir to the Supervisor Seats, he has a tracking device embedded in his skin. I had General Graham read it, so we are going to rescue him.” “How do you know he is in trouble?” “He is on India-Seven.” “Maybe he decided to return home.” I shook my head. “He is in a prison on India-Seven. A prison that has not been in use for twenty years because it i...

“I don’t know if you can. I don’t know anything about you, but I have an expert on her way that has been studying you…and we can figure out if that is an option. However, I doubt that is going to stop you from killing people. How can we solve the real problem? What is your issue with Indigoids? With humanoids? What did we do to you?” “Your people–you time travelers have traveled back in time and e...

I dashed to the window. I didn’t see anyone. Then I heard it again. “Jack, no! I am not giving up being a Federal Agent just because you do not like it. I may have to marry you to keep our seats on the Supervisors safe, but I do not have to give up my life for you. I had these children, and I take care of them. You wanted them, but you do nothing to care for them, now, do you?” “You are the most u...