For all of you that may be or are reading this story, I would like to let you know that I have hopefully finally edited the chapter list of the first book. I did this on the first page of this thread today and it amounts to 98 chapters. As you can see by today's post, I have only managed to edit and post 40 chapters. I sincerely hope you are enjoying this story so far. So at least you can now see something of the future posts or at least the name of the chapter.

Our imaginations can and do carry us to anywhere so we have no boundary's.
Thank you all so very much for being.

Steven

40 MISSION PREPARATIONS

Kevin and Kristyl had packed and stored the additional things that were needed for the mission aboard their chopper. Bill had taken Mark in the transport to the North portal and out through the cave and showed him the landing strip or road carved through the forest. ‘This is where you will take off and land once you return.” Mark was amazed at the width of a road that could not be seen from the air. Bill told him that “this road runs for about 300 meters and at the end is a very large meadow where the trees do not grow. You are going to get your speed up in that 300 meters and when you see that meadow coming up you will be lifting off around 50 meters from it. The trick is, to just be above the ground once you enter the meadow, then pull the throttle and rise almost straight up from that point. Do you have a problem doing that?” Mark said he had done that more than once and it almost became a habit down in the Caribbean. Bill said “okay so when you come back with the plane, you see that v cut in the forest on the other side of the meadow? That is were you will come through on your way down to hit the road. You are going to drop fairly rapidly to the open meadow once through the v. You must be down to 10 feet from the ground before you enter the forest on this side. You can then touch down and taxi to the portal and beyond.”

Back at the chopper Kevin had tested the stealth gear and Kristyl had activated the dispance cloak. When Bill and Mark drove up in the transport they could see nothing and hear nothing. The pad looked totally empty and there was no noise. Bill spoke into Kevin and Kristyl’s mind and asked how they felt inside the chopper. Kristyl spoke back in the mind and said it is like we haven’t spun the rotor yet. Can you here anything out there. Bill said no not even a whisper however there is a strong breeze blowing. Kevin spoke and said that is the only part of this that we are going to pay real close attention to when we get to our destinations. Mark spoke up and said “where is the plane may I ask?” Maria spoke up in his mind and said it is directly in front of you my dear. You can’t see or hear it I take? Mark said no and how does it sound in there? Maria said it sounds very quiet. I was beginning to think maybe I did not turn the engine over. I bet if you stand behind this little sweetie it will blow you over. Bill spoke again and said well now, we know all of this stuff works real well, the only thing we have to contend with is the wind factors from the engines. I am going to back up for about 100 yards and Mark; you go about the same distance back behind the plane. I want to see if there is any wind noise at that distance. We will slowly advance until the noise is no more.

Bill started to move forward. At 100 yards he could hear a sound that resembled a wind tunnel but it was as if one was standing on the other side of a 2 foot thick concrete wall. As he advanced the sound dissipated but the wind or breeze became stronger. So he thought the sound is louder the further away one gets but the wind is less. At 50 yards the sound had almost completely disappeared but the breeze became stronger. Mark had discovered the same thing with the plane engine. The sound was not all that bad but could be detected the greater the distance became. As him and Bill approached the aircraft Maria shut the plane down and Kevin turned off the rotor. They all shut down the stealth gear and the dispance cloaks, and climbed out to gather around the work tables. Bill spoke and told them all that “the sound was quiet but could be heard at 100 yards out. The breeze or wind it you will gets stronger as one gets closer. But the noise becomes null and void. Mark has found the same thing with the plane. So it would seem that we are going to be limited with landing too close or too far, and that just applies to between 100 yards and 0. “Any suggestions”. Kristyl spoke and said “well we could land a distance of around 500 yards away and use the Jet belts with the dispance cloaks to get to the entrances from there. We are going to have those on any way so what’s a little distance going to matter. Bill shook his head as if to agree but Kevin posed a question. “Okay we can land further away and travel from there to the entrance. When we are done we are going to have to climb out and get away fairly fast. Is that distance going to hamper our escape?” They all looked at him and Maria smiled and said, “Kevin you are such a wet blanket.” Everyone bust out laughing. Kevin stood there with a smirking surprised look and then started to laugh also. Bill settled down and said “that is a very good question and one we do need to take serious. Here is another, what if we cannot land further that 100 yards or even less?”

It was mid afternoon and they all sat there contemplating these two questions. Kristyl and Maria were sitting together and discussing alternatives when Kristyl bust out laughing and almost fell from her chair. The three men had been talking about ways to cut down on the noise and wind when they heard Kristyl laughing hysterically. They all turned and that is when they saw Carolyne walking towards them. Every body cracked up and guffawed with deep belly laughs. Carolyne had dressed up in full military body armor. She had the camouflaged fatigues on with tan combat boots laced up tight. The bottoms of the fatigues were tucked into the boots. She had the plate holding bullet proof vest on over the battle vest full of magazines of 7.62 rounds of AR 30 ammo. On her side was the Velcro holster with the handgun stuffed into it. On her head was the latest battle helmet with the grasshopper goggles covering her eyes. Her neck was completely covered with the metallic chain male that was under the fatigues. She had the AR 30 strapped across her shoulders with the barrel pointed down in the ready position. When she walked up she stopped and saluted. She then said “Lieutenant Jamie Carol reporting for duty Major.” Every body cracked up even more and Kevin began to role on the ground. Bill just continued to stare with such a surprised look on his face. One could tell that he was on the verge of cracking up also. He managed to hold his laughter and said, “Well soldier, looks as if you are ready for combat” and then he could not hold himself any longer. He broke out in hysterical laughter.

Carolyne was smiling to herself but she knew that these missions were not going to be fun or easy. She continued standing there until everyone began to settle down. She looked Bill directly in his eyes and said. “You know that this is going to be a very deadly bunch of missions we are undertaking. Any one of us could be killed. I heard the questions that came up. Perhaps another important question to ask is this. When we destroy that first base and leave are the other ones going to be notified and put on top red alert and if so have we got plans to get in and out with even more security measures being put in place? Sure this may look funny to you all but we all need to take extra precautions. Eryne and Evelyne both told me that they will be watching over us but they will also be helping the animals and all other life forces in this battle. We have been given the extra gifts from the Divine through Theresa yet these physical bodies can still bleed and be destroyed on this plane of existence. So I have gotten these clothes for all of us to wear. The weapons are just an added bonus to get everyone to laugh. We have other weapons that are far better than these things.”

“On the first missions to Wyoming, Bill and I are going to wear the uniforms of high ranking officers to gain access to each one of those bases. We will have the jet belts on under our jackets. Kevin, you and Kristyl will enter on our heels only your dispance cloaks will be on and you are going to carry the time machines. Each one of you will have one, in fact we all may have one if Bill can get them constructed in time. When we reach the labs and inspect them for the experiments that need to be destroyed you will get this sign:” she showed them what that would look like. “I expect we will be in there for less than 10 minutes per lab. We do not know how many labs there are at this point so this is going to be touch and go when we arrive.’ I almost forgot to tell you that the time machines have been improved upon and they now work in a much better stealth manner. The only way you will know how they are working is to press this button and look at this readout. Bill and I are going to speak into the minds of the scientists to give them a chance to leave the experiments and come to the positive side from the darkness. The people are going to be the first to save or not. The ones that are willing to leave the darkness are going to stand and move toward the exit. The ones that are going to battle will turn on us. That is when you are going to send them into a place where they will be ineffective. We will discuss that further in due time. The ones that are coming into the light, you are going to send here. This is another modification made to the Time gizmos, they can transport matter through time and just space/distance and we have adapted the portal tech to them. Now as for the poisons which include viruses and serums of very ugly things, when you get the signs, record each into these machines to be sent to this vacuum atmosphere. She showed them the destination. Bill and I are going to seal the labs and set short fuses to destroy them along with all the research. When we are all out we will make sure that the bases are caved in completely.”

“I know this question is on your minds and I will answer it now. Why can’t we just use the portal tech to get in and do what is needed? First of all we can not see the locations to think of a place to open to. So we will have to enter physically to find our way to these labs. We may and/or will run into opposition on our way down. We are not murderers but we will remove whoever tries to stop us. As we proceed and come across the guards we will read their minds to see if they want to leave the darkness and come to the light. You will then transport them out and to a place here that they can get re-orientated to. We have folks here that will be waiting to do just that for these people. As I say, our missions are to destroy the experiments and research and save as many that want to be.” After the conversation concluded, Carolyne assigned reconnaissance missions to Samuel and Mary for the Northern tier missions and Michael, Susanna and Daniel to the southern tier missions. The next day the teams left. Two days later all except the recon teams were on the field once more and receiving more information and asking deeper questions about the missions when they all heard a noise like a wind through the trees. Carolyne turned toward the North Portal and said “Ah one of our reconnaissance team has returned”.

Everyone was facing the North portal when the wind sound dissipated and the breeze picked up. All there hair was waving as if a wind had picked up as they all looked on; the second chopper appeared on the landing pad in front of them. Mary jumped down from the open hatch and Samuel followed. They both walked over to the crowd. Samuel and Mary both had the fatigues on and each was carrying one of the time machine gizmos. As they got closer, Carolyne said “Welcome back you two, come we must all sit in the garden and you can tell all of us what you have discovered”. Mary spoke and said “I have an answer for one of those questions, the one about the time factor of getting back to the choppers or the suburban.” Everyone fell silent and gave full attention to Mary. “Well I was just thinking about the portal tech and how we have to be able to picture the place to open the portal to. So if we all know and picture the choppers and suburban where ever we land or stop why can’t we then just open the portal back to them when we are done so that way we won’t have to make a long distance run?” The slap of a 2x4 up along side the head could be heard miles away as they all in tandem said “Duh.” “Okay that is one answered so we will talk about the other two later, shall we go have a restful sit down and get some food?”

As they all sat down in the Garden, Samuel had asked for Jonathan and Samantha to be there. While they were waiting for them the food carts started to roll out and meander around. Kristyl asked about Michael, Susanna and Daniel. Carolyne told the group that they were on the recon mission to the south and should be returning this evening. They had taken the suburban and drove to the military base. Until they were able to get another chopper that is as far as they would go until the actual missions began. Jim walked into the garden from the garage portal and sat down next to Mark and Maria. Samuel had given the building of the extra belts to him and he had been working and had managed to assemble enough of them so that everyone on the missions could have one plus the folks that would be operating the café and service station. Jonathan and Samantha wondered into the Garden and sat down next to Samuel and Mary. Carolyne saw that everyone was there that could be and asked Samuel and Mary if she could talk about another gift that needed to be given before these missions got started. “As soon as that is accomplished we all need to hear what you have found. I know you have been gone for a few days and you are going to need some rest but we need to get as much info into all of us as possible. Our missions will start the day after tomorrow so we will all get rested prior.” Samuel and Mary both nodded in agreement and sat back while munching on some tasty foods.

Carolyne pushed a thought into Jonathan to stand up and walk to the building and stop. Jonathan stood up and walked over to the entrance and stopped. He turned around and just stood there. Samantha started to speak to him to ask what he was doing but Carolyne pushed a though into her and said you must go to him and give him a kiss. Samantha stood and walked over to Jonathan and wrapped her arms around him and planted a big loving kiss right on him. Everyone sitting in the Garden just looked on in surprise. Carolyne planted another thought into both of them and said you will come back here and not even know what you just did. They both turned and walked back to their seats and sat down. Jonathan looked puzzled for a moment and then asked Carolyne what she was going to tell everyone. Everyone looked at him with a surprise and then turned to Carolyne. Kevin spoke up first and asked what had just happened. Everyone was thinking the same question when Evelyne and Eryne showed up from nowhere it seemed. One second the center space was empty and the next both girls were standing there.

Evelyne looked at Carolyne and then began to speak. “Carolyne was given the gift of being able to control the mind thoughts and actions of others. She can plant a thought into another’s mind and they will obey. She planted the thought into Jonathan to go over to the entrance of the building and stop. She then planted the thought into Samantha to go over and kiss Jonathan. You all saw what transpired. She then told them both to come back and forget what had just happened. These gifts both Eryne and I have had from birth in this time period of physicality. Carolyne was taken to a place in a dream or so she thought and given learning. She has other gifts that will be revealed in time. For now she is going to give this gift to Maria, Mary, Susanna, Kristyl, Christine, Samantha and Theresa. You all are going to need them on your upcoming missions. Susanna and Theresa are not here at the moment but they will receive this within the next few hours just as all you will.” With that both girls began to giggle and turned sideways into a disappearance. Samantha appeared to be embarrassed but Jonathan reached over and touched her. She looked into his eyes and he said, “how about we try that without being controlled?” Samantha practically fell into his arms and they both kissed for a long time. Carolyne smiled and said “what a lovely couple you are making.” Carolyne stood up and all the women stood up. They all walked over to a group hug and stood quite still for a few minutes, afterward they came back and sat next to the men respectively. Christine and Theresa who were attending the Café both felt a rushing into there being and by telepathy from Carolyne new what had transpired. They both smiled at each other. Susanna who was with Michael and Daniel felt the same rush and telepathic voice. She just smiled.

41 NORTH TIER RECON

“Okay now that we have accomplished this, Samuel and Mary are going to fill us in on the northern tier bases.’ “Samuel you have the Garden”. Samuel spoke up and said, “I need to fill everyone in on the new modifications to the choppers, the plane and the cars. Just before Mary and I left Bill and I figured out how to give these vehicles fuel without running out or having to recharge. Michael helped us out and we came up with a fusion device that would keep these things running for 50 years before having to think about any refuel. So we outfitted both choppers the plane and the cars. The engines still look the same but will run on this device for ever it seems. Enough said about that for now”. “Mary would you like to give your account of the bases in the northern tier?” Mary stood up for a minute and stretched, yawned and sat back down. “Okay I have one more thing about the modifications to the vehicles. We also outfitted them with something that makes them move like a jet.

“When we left here we flew up to West Virginia and scouted that nasty place. The entrance to it is on a hill side with over grown brush and trees. Mark, you and lionhawk, Jim and Maria are going to have to approach it on foot from about 1 mile to the east. The closest area we could find for you to land was roughly that far away. There did not appear to be a heavily guarded area within that distance so it should be fairly easy to get there using your dispance cloaks. I would think that once you physical get in there you are going to have to be very careful. That place has a lot of blackness in it so get in destroy it and use your portal to get back to the plane. Arie and Chephirah are on their way to that spot and will be there waiting for you to arrive.”

“The North Dakota base is under the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The entrance is located at the South Unit. Near Medora and actually in a grove of trees located just west of Cottonwood Campgrounds. The entire grove of trees is cordoned off as a wild life preserve and only government official’s can enter it. It will have to be approached from the southern edge and there is an electrified 20 foot high fence built around it. One more thing, there seems to be a small guard post with some Quonset hut structures so I would say that there are Military guards patrolling it day and night.”

“Okay these are the ones that are guarded the heaviest. The two in Wyoming and I suspect because the first one was destroyed when you two and all the other folks here left the military high and dry and so fearful. The first one is near Powder River. The base is roughly around 30 miles to the southwest from the town. 20 miles from the entrance is a guard post with a very high electric fence. That fence stretches all the way around what seems to be a very large government reserve. We checked out the voltage and it is some where close to 1200 volts, enough to fry one to charcoal at the slightest touch. Inside that perimeter are constant guards in humvees with dogs. Looked like they were driving all the time and there was hardly any distance between each vehicle as they patrolled. We also noticed a sensor net and radar structures so they are also guarding the air. I would not put it past these paranoid freaks to have mine fields around the entrance or entrances. They are doing something down there that is very nasty and they are not going to chance another episode like you two pulled off. I am not sure you want to fly into that web of security. Yes I know the stealth devices and the dispance cloaks are modified beyond what they may have at the moment but do we know for sure that they will not be able to detect us?” Bill and Carolyne both filed that info away for now. Mary sat back and closed her eyes for a few moments and then took a sip of some hot chocolate. Samuel reached over and gave her a kiss and said “let me talk for awhile.”she smiled and nodded at him as she closed her eyes once more.

Samuel said “the second base in Wyoming is located just west of Banner. It is also heavily guarded. The guard post and fence are virtually the same as the one around Powder River although the entrance to the underground is only possibly a few hundred yards from the post. When we got through the gates we used our jet belts to get close enough to investigate the entrance. It would seem that they have erected a small building over it. We kept looking for something in the side of a hill that rises just behind that building but could not spot anything until we saw two white coats exit the building and walk to some cars and head towards that guard post. We still were not sure until a car pulled up and two other people got out put on their white jackets and walked into that building. We got closer and looked into the windows. The building did not have anything in it. It was just bare and that is when we saw the floor raise up and two more people came out and left the building. So that is the way in and out for those that work there. We were able to detect the mine field’s semi surrounding the building. Seems there is a narrow opening in that field and it is just in front of the door, where the cars park is outside the perimeter of the field. So there are your first two stops unless you want to hit the Dakota base first and then move to Wyoming.”

Carolyne said “so tell us about the Montana ones. Samuel told them that at least two bases in Montana appeared to be unguarded. When they had come across them they thought they might be abandoned. “The one in Flaxville is nothing more than an abandoned mine or so we thought. We set down and just watched for awhile then some military suits and a couple of civilians walked out and moved to an old shed or barn that looked as if it would fall over at any minute. They opened a barn door and someone went in and drove out a rather new skimmer. They all piled in and drove off towards Flaxville. The best we figure is that particular base is very low key and whatever they are developing down there does not seem all that important. That one could be a piece of cake. The one at Gerou or about 20 miles South West of a resort or something that is a top of a pass looks to be something similar. It also appeared to be abandoned so we checked it out further and found that it has more activity than the first one so after checking, it appears to be a bit more difficult to get into. Now the one outside of Butte will be the toughest of all three. We thought it might be abandoned also but when we got on the ground we found mine fields and barbed wire fences with no trespass signs about every 100 yards or so and we even found motion sensor cameras. It did not appear to be a very big perimeter of fence and after some looking we finally found the entrance. There is a very large clump of brush and we skirted it for awhile until Mary spotted an opening in the brush. We flew up and looked down on a clearing in the ring of brush. One would not notice anything out of the ordinary by flying over unless you knew what to look for. In the middle of this clearing is a large mound and as we were hanging in the air, the thing opened up and two armed guards came out and ducked through the brush. As we watched further they spread out and walked the perimeter of the fence. So that leads us to believe that something a little more important may be happening at this base.”

42 THE COLD CHILL

Vilhelm and Helga had been driving on the old route and passed an old abandoned service station Vilhelm took note of it and continued. In the café/service station 20 miles further up the road, Christine and Theresa were sipping there hot beverages when a Cold chill made both of them fold there arms around there body and stand up sharply. Christine starred out the window for a few seconds and then immediately closed the blinds on the windows and turned off the neon lights. Theresa turned all the power to the service station off and made sure the old garage was just that. She turned and looked at Christine with a worried look on her face. They both could feel the chill and it was getting colder by the minute. Christine grabbed Theresa’s hand and they both scooted out the back door. Christine made sure it was locked and then they moved to the cloaked garage and both disappeared through the door. Once inside they moved to the back office and began to telepathically send their voices to those in the Garden. Something very dark and evil is coming up the road from the west; we are in the cloaked garage. In the garden everyone stopped talking and looked up. Jim jumped up and began to move towards the back of the old garage. Bill grabbed his arm, “you must wait we will only go out there if Christine and Theresa become in mortal danger.” Jim almost lost it but Evelyne stood beside him of a sudden and touched him. It immediately settled him she looked at her father and said “Bill is right we must wait.” Everyone sat in perfect silence while all their thoughts flowed to Christine and Theresa.

The green scrammer pulled into the café parking area and became quiet. Two creatures crawled out each side. They each began sniffing the air and then the ground. The bigger one loped around the front and disappeared around the side of the café. Inside the cloaked garage Christine and Theresa were holding each other as the cold chill seemed to get stronger. They both heard the sniffing noise and stopped breathing until it went away. Outside Vilhelm had come around the corner of the café and loped along the back of the building. He hesitated at the back door and looked towards the cloaked garage. He began to sniff the ground for a few feet and then stopped again. His black eyes with the pin point light looked up and all he saw was the forest. He turned and loped over to the old garage and sniffed heavily around the garage doors. He stood up on his hind legs or human legs and walked to the man door on the side. He tried to open it but it was locked. He pulled something from a vest pocket and jimmied the door until it opened. He disappeared inside and was in there for about 5 minutes and then reappeared out side the jimmied door. He closed the door and moved towards the front. Helga had been crawling around the service area sniffing everything when Vilhelm walked back to the front. He asked her if she had found any more of that human military scent they had discovered at the bridge construction. Helga said “yes the scent has been here but it appears to have moved back towards that bridge so it could be that the human had come here first.” Vilhelm shook his head and said that “there is strong scent of other military humans and I picked up something in the back that suggests that even human police scent has been back there. It all seemed to move off into the forest. I went into that old garage back there and I could pick up no human scent at all.’ Come: this place is closed up and we must go further this night. I sense there is more up ahead for us to investigate.” They both climbed back into the car and pulled out towards the east.

Christine and Theresa were both very cold and while sitting in the back office they heard the car pull out and move down the road towards the east. As it moved further away both women started to warm up. Theresa said “what was that?” Christine said “I don’t know but it felt black to me.” Theresa said “yes I tried to read its mind but all I could get was blackness mostly. There were faint animal thoughts but I could not read more than something bloody.” As they both stood a flood of thoughts entered them from the garden and they sent back thoughts of ok. They both moved towards the front door and it flew open. Jim rushed in and grabbed Christine and held her tightly. Bill had entered right behind him and did the same with Theresa. Christine and Theresa both broke down in tears from the shock of what just happened. They all headed out and Bill locked the garage. Once through the portal and in the garden questions started to flow. No one had any answers. Evelyne and Eryne both were standing there in the middle of everyone. Every body stopped speaking aloud and in the mind when Evelyne spoke. She began to tell everyone that what just paid a visit to the café was something that was created by the Army in one of there underground laboratories. “The Army has opened something that they know not what it truly is and it will perhaps destroy them. There are two of these black creatures and as far as Eryne and I know they are the only ones for now The Army has experimented long and hard to create them and they are very dangerous to us all. They are part animal and part human and they are on the scent of us all at this very moment. If they find a way into this safe haven it will not be good. We all must be extra careful while these things are on the loose. Thank the Divine Creator that we can feel their presence.”

It had become early evening and everyone sat around eating and talking about the occurrence. Carolyne asked Samuel if he could speak more about the recon and tell about Idaho and Washington. Mary appeared to almost be asleep and Samuel looked at her lovingly and asked Carolyne if they could continue with the debriefing after they both got some rest. Carolyne told Samuel to take Mary to bed and get some sleep; they could talk in the morning. Samuel picked Mary up and floated to the building where their quarters were and disappeared inside.

Kevin and Kristyl were both eating some fruit when Michael, Susanna and Daniel all walked into the Garden. Theresa stood up abruptly and literally fell into Daniels arms. Daniel held her tightly and asked her if she was feeling alright. She was shaking and began to weep into his chest. He guided her to a lounge and they both sat down. In his mind Theresa was speaking almost incoherently. He held her and gently spoke into her mind. She began to settle down and relax. Daniel looked up and saw Carolyne starring at him. He had heard in his mind from Theresa about a very cold dark thing that visited the café and how Christine and she had to hide. So he asked Carolyne what had transpired while they were gone. Carolyne told all three of them about two creatures that had stopped at the café and appeared to be animals of some sort but were also humans. She told about how Christine and Theresa both had hid in the old garage and how everyone down in the garden had to keep from throwing any thoughts out and everyone had to be quiet. What ever was moving around up top was very dangerous and able to sense our beings. Daniel shook his head and began to speak. “I mentioned something about experiments with humans and animals. I did not know how far along they had gotten but I do know that a lot of people and animals died. Those experiments were done somewhat in one of those bases in Idaho but I think they moved them somewhere different.” Carolyne said, “Evelyne and Eryne have told us about these creatures and we are all going to have to be on the alert while they roam around up there. I believe we are going to confront them at some point and we will see what happens then.”

43 SOUTHERN TIER RECON

Carolyne asked Michael, Susanna and Daniel if they felt like giving their account of what they found at the Military base to the South West. Susanna spoke up and said, “Before we get started I need to say something.” When we got back and pulled around to the cloaked garage there appeared to be an eerie gray haze in the air. When we got the suburban parked and came out of the door I sensed something cold and dark in the air along with that eerie gray haze. Does all of that have something to do with whatever paid a visit?” Christine said “yes whatever it was that came here has left that floating around”. She looked at Bill and Carolyne and asked if there was a way to erase their sent from the portal to the café and inside while they were tending it. Bill spoke and said “I think that is something we are going to have to work on immediately. I can get Harvey Jacobs to get on that, He is into the Pheromones research and I am sure he can come up with something that will mask our body scents. I will also ask if it can contain something that would cause a reaction to something that may be trying to track us. Now for that recon information, you may begin Michael or Susanna or even Daniel if you wish, we are all ears.”

Susanna began to explain what they had found at the base. “When we got there a large contingent of choppers was sitting on the field. There were choppers patrolling the skies all over. The Suburban cloak and stealth devices worked perfectly. We turned the cloak on when we left here and drove all the way invisible to anyone and anything. Once we were on the base we drove to the back or southern area. The underground lab and research opening is very close to the black op prison where they keep the police men and women that are their experimental subjects. The opening is a patch of pavement that opens and one can drive into and down and then it closes again. The only marking we could distinguish was a double yellow line that began at one end an ended at the other where the hinges are located. On the approach end there is just a single yellow line and at the hinge end it becomes one single yellow line again. We think we can enter at a time when they enter and find the labs and all the research materials and destroy them. Then open our portal and step into the Suburban just out side the fence perimeter. Daniel spoke and mentioned something about robotic metal parts being delivered so they may be creating robotic soldiers or something down there. We will not be certain until we get in.” Bill and Carolyne both shook their heads in agreement. Mark and Maria both stood up and excused themselves to go and get some rest. Everyone said Good night to them and they floated to the entrance of the living quarters. Christine stood and spoke into Theresa’s mind and said before you and I go back top side to open the café we are going to have something from Harvey that will mask our sent an as Jim stood beside her she mentioned that the scent masker would have to be applied to anyone leaving the portal through the old garage above. She had caught a phrase from the creatures mentioning something about human military and police scent before the blackness engulfed that thought.

Michael spoke up and said “we managed to scoot into northern Florida and the area that Kristyl directed us too.” Kristyl was dozing lightly and woke up of a sudden when that was mentioned. Kevin had been lounging and Kristyl had been lying with her head on his chest. When she perked up she asked if it was in the area she thought it might be. Michael said “yes close enough. We drove into Tallahassee and left for the north border. We sat outside for awhile and then a military Humvee came by us so we followed it to around 30 miles or so until it turned off on a back road headed east. The Georgia border wasn’t to far from that turn off. We followed it until it came to a high electrified fence and a gate with a guard post. We parked off the side of that road and decided to use the jet belts. So after the cloaking we flew up over that fence and caught sight of a vehicle as it was sitting just at the bottom of a small hill. We were going to land when we saw a sliding door that looked like the hill side open and the vehicle drove in. After that the door closed and it looked like the hill side once more.” Daniel spoke and said “I remember something about that place being used as a manufacturing plant or something but we never got any definite info on it.” Kristyl stood up and Kevin semi woke and stood with her and they both excused them selves and floated to the quarters building and went in. Michael and Susanna both asked to be excused and floated off. Daniel picked up Theresa who had fallen asleep against him and floated off also. Carolyne said, “We all need some rest so we will pick this up again in the morning.” Jim and Christine both were moving to the quarters.

44 A DREAM OF GREEN

Carolyne and Bill were sitting there getting ready to go off and join the dreams when Evelyne and Eryne materialized in front of them. Eryne said “Father you are going to need to go to that Junk Yard and cover scents and the old garage you have cloaked needs another barrier” and with that her and Evelyne both touched him on his head and the surprise was very evident on his face. Eryne then turned to Carolyne, “Mother you will give this to Harvey to add to his experiment of scent masking.” She handed a vile of some green looking liquid to Carolyne. Carolyne took it and put it into a pocket on her fatigues. Both girls put it into their minds to not go outside until these things were accomplished. Eryne did tell Bill that he would have to gather Michael and Daniel both within the next few hours and go to that garage in the junk yard to keep that opening closed. “We are going to hamper these creatures by making them drive to the 10 mile grade and investigate that area. Even though it has been cleaned there is something there that will join these two and it will be entered into there blackness. They will not come back to the junk yard until late morning. These beings have a power that reaches into the spirit realm but it is the darkness that they only see. They must be destroyed and the research that created them must be utterly destroyed to close the hole that is open at the moment to allow things from the depths of blackness to enter into the humans that are being encapsulated.”

Four hours later, Michael and Daniel dreamed that they awakened and climbed from their beds, dressed and walked to the garden where Bill was waiting for them. Carolyne gave a large container to Bill that was filled with a greenish colored liquid. It had a spray dispenser on the top. It looked like one of those old time spray canisters that people used to kill weeds with on their lawns except the canister was clear. As they stood in the garden Carolyne used a smaller dispenser and sprayed both of them and Bill. Their dreams showed a greenish hue starting from their feet and completely engulfing their entire bodies. Bill waved to them to follow him and he began to walk to the east from the garden. They followed along as if they were floating just above the ground. All the rest of the people that lived in the underground haven were having a similar dream of being sprayed with a soothing liquid that spread from their feet to their heads with a greenish hue. The feeling was one of stepping into a warm shower that completely relaxed the entire body.

Bill, Michael and Daniel floated through a beautiful field of vegetables and into a large forest of fruit trees. As they approached a large cherry tree, Michael knew the tree by name and walked up and hugged Grey bark. The tree gave a welcome to him and Bill and asked who the younger human might be. Daniel looked up into the boughs and a large cherry bonked him on the forehead. He caught it and took a bite, it was very sweet and he enjoyed the flavor. He continued to look up and saw faces on the leaves and as his gaze lowered there was a warm friendly face on the trunk of the tree. It starred at him and captivated his gaze. He heard Bill tell the tree that this was Daniel, Theresa’s spiritual mate (husband). Grey bark shivered and a deep resounding laugh rang out. The Tree spoke again and said “I am much honored to meet you Daniel. Theresa is one of our closest friends she spends a lot of time talking to us and feeding us we love her deeply. Daniel walked over while munching the cherry and touched Grey bark. An instant connection was made and all the forest sighed. Grey bark spoke once more and said, “I see that you are on a mission and must hurry to accomplish this.” It looked as if the tree turned and a limb reached out and pointed to a hole in the fabric of the air. Daniel heard him say “this is the entrance to that place you must guard”. They all looked and saw the old cars and other junk. It looked just like the garage doors were open and they were looking out. Bill said thank you dear fellow and we will come back this way shortly. Grey bark seemed to shake and smile. Bill said come; “we need to get busy for a space of time.”

They all walked out into the Junk yard and Bill produced two more of the canisters that he was carrying. He told Michael and Daniel that they must spray the ground from the entrance to this spot. They all walked to the front entrance where there was an old wood gate. The old wood fence stretched out of sight on either side of it. Bill began to spray the gate and then the ground and told them to spread out and create a wide path towards the garage. When they reached the garage they all sprayed the garage doors and Bill walked into the garage and began spraying the benches and anything else that lay around inside. Once that was all done they all stood at the entrance to the garage and Bill told them to wait while he took care of something. When he came back he motioned them to follow him once more. They walked into the front of the garage and stood next to Grey bark once more. Bill walked up to the tree and leaned his face into the smooth bark and the portal disappeared. It now appeared to just be more forest for as far as the eye could see. The dream continued with all three men sitting at the base of the Hugh cherry tree munching on cherries as they fell into their hands and laughing hysterically as the tree told them stories.

Michael opened his eyes to see the most beautiful woman looking at him. His dream was quite vivid but this woman lying next to him made life seem totally peaceful and right. Susanna bent over and kissed him fully on his mouth and then said come on sleepy head we have to get up and meet every one to finish our debriefing and plan our mission. She rolled over and climbed out of the bed and shuffled towards the shower. As he watched her moving away he thought he might still be dreaming but got up and joined her. Daniel awoke to a beautiful red head. Theresa was bent over him and kissed him and said you better get up my love. I think you may have been more exhausted than you thought last night. Get up and shower and I will start some coffee. We are supposed to meet in the Garden in an hour or so. He climbed out of bed and she tackled him and began to tickle him. He began to laugh and she said “where did you get the cherry juice on your face?” He continued to laugh as he rolled to the other side of the bed and shuffled himself toward the shower.

As they all began to enter the Garden the food and beverage carts began to roll out. All the other folks began to arrive also. Bill and Carolyne were sitting in their favorite lounge and chatting Evelyne and Eryne were sitting under a trellis of flowers and there was something floating between them. They appeared to be touching it every so often and then giggling as it turned and twisted. Kevin and Kristyl walked over to sit down on a lounge and Kevin asked Evelyne what they were playing with. Evelyne spoke and said “this is just a holographic map of the world. It is a puzzle and we are moving pieces around to see how different land masses and oceans would look.” Kevin smiled and said “I would like to play that sometime.” Both girls giggled and popped the holograph away. “We will be happy to show you how to make it appear and how to play with it.” When everybody had arrived and filled their plates and cups with food and drink Carolyne asked Samuel and Mary to continue with their recon of the North tier.

Samuel spoke up and said “we discussed the Dakota and the Wyoming bases and we also talked about the Montana bases yesterday. So today you get the rest of these that we checked out. The Idaho bases have one that is guarded and it actually resembles a military installation. The other one is not guarded above ground. The first one is located just outside Ft Hall and is very blatant. It has access from a main route and the city is only a few miles. There are subdivisions all around this base so it seems normal to all the residents. The main gate is just off a local freeway that runs completely around the city. The fence is 10 feet high with outward bent barbed wire and it completely surrounds the base. There is another entrance or exit on the south side and it has the same type of guard post with barriers so nothing really looks out of the ordinary. I suspect that a lot of the local population works on this base. We rented a car and actually drove onto it. One can obtain a visitors pass and they have a very large museum located in the center of the base. So our recon was fairly simple and when we visited the museum is when we found a secret entrance to the underground experiment and research facility. What really tipped us off on that was the concentration of standing guards. They appeared to be guarding an entrance to another part of the building but we soon found out that just inside the doors was an elevator that could only go down. How they keep that secret is only through the amount of guards and the signage. Just says keep out and Danger, with those old radiation signs. Ha! So devious on their part, don’t you think. So we figure the best way in is to go in at night with the dispance cloak activated and wait for the right moment to enter the doors and the elevator. That will be the trick.”

Mary spoke on the next one and said the second facility is located about 20 miles south of Paris. It is also a devious location but one can spot it. The military really thought they would be clever with this one. We flew over this old dirt road following a rather inconspicuous military skimmer. It pulled up to a small fenced off area that said Danger Keep out, with the name of an old mine on the signs. We watched this skimmer go through the fence and then into the mine entrance. Once that vehicle disappeared into the mine something very interesting happened. The ground appeared to raise and lower or something and all sign of tracks disappeared. The gate seems to be remote controlled and it all just looks so normal. Any locals traveling down this road just pass by without even noticing. That dirt road goes to some lake and it is a one way in and one way out scenario. We think that is where they do the experimenting on the children or did and the research is or has to be there also.

45 THE BLACK POOL

Vilhelm and Helga had passed the old Junk Yard and continued to a place that had been planted into their minds. Vilhelm had received a thought about some accident on a stretch of road that started to climb a mountain up ahead. He steered the scrammer around a curve and onto a straight run of the road. He could see the mountain in front and continued in that direction with purpose. They came across the blown out scrammer sitting on the side of the road and pulled over to investigate it. The two creatures climbed out and began sniffing around the car. Vilhelm stopped in the road just in front of the wreck and sniffed the ground heavily; He stood up and said “this has scent of human police and one civilian. The civilian scent shows damage of some type. I smell blood here and here”. Helga had crawled around the wreck in the brush next to the car and sniffed it thoroughly. She said “I smell the civilian scent in this brush and it also has blood scent. The humans that were here moved up the road in this trench towards that hill.” She began loping off towards the hill and came out on the road about 200 yards from the wreck. She looked at the hill and then back at the wreck and loped back. Once back she stood up on two legs and said “the humans walked up to that point and entered the road and the scent ends their. It is possible that they entered another vehicle at that point.” Vilhelm crawled back into their scrammer and waited for Helga. Once she crawled back in he pulled out and headed towards the hill.

Climbing the hill Vilhelm slowed around all the curves and slid along looking for something that kept pressing on his mind. He came around a sharp curve and slowed down. Something told him to stop so he pulled over on the inside pullout of the road. They both crawled out and immediately began to sniff the air and the road. Just in front of the car there were piles of wood chips and saw dust. Vilhelm sniffed all of this and turned his black eyes towards the uphill bank. He saw a broken tree trunk and looked back at the piles of sawdust and out across the road. There were small piles of sawdust that had been swept by passing cars so he followed them over to the edge of the slope. When he reached the slope he saw the broken and sawn parts of an old tree lying down the slope. He turned to Helga and said “there must have been a tree that fell into this road not long ago and something happened here that caused a car to run off this slope. We must investigate this slope and down to the bottom.” The both started moving down the hill on all fours, 20 feet down the bank Helga stopped and sniffed around profusely, she stood up for a moment and said “this is where a car landed or something very heavy. It continued to roll down through here” and she pointed to a swath of low growing brush. They both crawled down the hill for another 50 feet or so and Vilhelm stopped. “There is the scent of human blood and something that is kin to us.” He moved off to the right and crawled another few yards until he reached an old tree trunk and crawled onto it and walked along it until he came to a broken branch and stopped. He sniffed it hard and told Helga that it was totally solid with human blood. He crawled back up the trunk and jumped off to the right again and disappeared into the brush. When he jumped back up on the trunk he held something in his hand that resembled cloth and skin. Helga asked what he had found and he said it is human skin and clothing. “It appears that something was removed here and taken away.” Helga had reached a large rock near the bottom of the slope and began to sniff it and the ground around it. She climbed on the rock and looked over to the downhill side and jumped down there to sniff around and then jumped back onto the rock and said “there is something down here that we must explore.” She jumped off the rock and moved to the right of it. Vilhelm had moved down and they met just to the right of the boulder. “Something over there is calling to us shall we see what it is?”

Yahto the bluebird had flown to a perch in an old oak half way up the opposite side of the ravine and began to watch these two creatures crawl down the slope. They sniffed around and kept stopping and standing on their hind legs. He had seen them in another place and knew that they were dark entities. The blackness around them emanated out and made it hard to see them even in the daylight. All he could see was movement of the blackness. They both looked like human forms but when they crawled they looked like animals and that gave him a very scary feeling in his spirit. When He had landed on the perch he heard the rock shiver and grown as one of the dark things crawled across its surface. Yahto heard the rock calling to all life. “I am Granitchel you must listen there are black creatures here to collect another black creature. The black pool that has trapped it here will release it into these things that have come here to find it.” Yahto sent a thought to Granitchel to tell him that he had heard and would relay the message. He then flew off.

Vilhelm had heard something and looked up the opposite bank just as a blue streak flashed over the hill top. He saw it and then it was gone so he turned back towards Helga as she jumped over some boulders and stopped abruptly. Vilhelm loped over and jumped the boulders and landed beside her. They both just starred at the black pool in front of them. Vilhelm smelled human blood but the pool looked like a thick liquid tar. The pool began to undulate and then bubble. Vilhelms black eyes covered his pinpoint light and he began to blink rapidly. He and Helga both were on all fours when something came out of the tar. It manifested as a thin smoke at first and then began to swirl in a tight spiral. It floated up till it became a thicker cloud and then split in two halves. One side shot forth and into the pinpoint light of Vilhelms eyes while the other half did the same into Helga’s eyes. As this smoky looking substance disappeared into the humans the black pool stopped bubbling and once again became a smooth surface of tar, obsidian was more the look now. The humans stood and began to walk up the slope. Once at the top they walked across the road and climbed into the scrammer and turned it around and headed back down the hill.

46 JUNK YARD BLUES

On their way down the hill and on the flat straight away Vilhelm mentioned to Helga that he had scented human military blood all over the hill side. He had also smelled the scent of a deer and a lion. It was quite confusing because the lion scent was the same as they had sensed at the creek and the bridge that was under repair. Helga spoke and said “I sensed the same human military smell at that old café we stopped at and it was all over that hill side.” Vilhelm shook his head in agreement. “Something appears to be connecting with that café. I think we must pay a very close visit there on our way back through. We are going to investigate this old Junk yard first so we must be thorough.” Helga agreed and they continued towards that goal. Meanwhile inside of each of them the black creature that had controlled the human General began intertwining into the blackness that was residing within these two.Vilhelms black eyes became even blacker and the pin point white pupil became red. The same was transpiring in Helga.

Driving towards the Junk Yard Helga saw the other old abandoned café coming up on their right. She told Vilhelm to stop there for further investigation since it was mentioned in the files. Vilhelm nodded and pulled over into an old parking area. They both crawled from the car and began to sniff around as usual. Helga caught the sent of human military and moved towards the broken door of the old café. Once she reached it the scent stopped. She peered into the empty room and saw nothing but broken furniture and glass from the exterior windows. The old counter top had been partly demolished and the floor looked as it someone had fallen through it. She turned and crawled back to the car. Vilhelm had loped around the old building and found nothing so he had returned also. “Human military had been here once before but it is no scent that I recognized.” The scrammer pulled out and continued on down the road.

Coming out of a dense patch of trees on the road, Vilhelm saw the old wooden fence. He kept his eye on it as they moved west. About 500 yards beyond the corner a pull off and the gates came up. Vilhelm pulled over and both studied the fence and the gates. “I will see if the gates can be opened. If they can and I open them you will drive the car into the yard. I want to shut the gates so no one will discover or interrupt us as we explore. Vilhelm crawled from the car and approached the gate. Something seemed a bit strange but he shrugged it off and proceeded to observe the gate to see if it could be opened. He found an old paddle lock through a hasp. It looked as if it had completely rusted so he picked up a stone and gave it a whack. Sure enough it broke and fell from the hasp. He pushed on one side of the gate and it opened about 2 feet in He walked over and began to push it enough to get the car through. As soon as his feet touched the inside soil he felt a slight tingling running up his legs. The sensation ran to just above his knees and then stopped. He thought about it for a moment and shrugged it off. Helga drove the car in far enough that Vilhelm could shut the gate. He moved to the inside of the gate and pushed it closed. That tingling feeling happened in his hands and moved up to his elbows. He managed to close the gate and found something to prop against it so it would not arbitrarily open. Helga turned the car off and climbed out. As soon as she stepped on the soil she had the tingling sensation in her feet and lower legs. She looked down with a surprised expression and then looked up at Vilhelm and asked about the sensation. “Have you felt this?” Vilhelm said yes he did but “we have more important things to examine this just may be something in the junk yard that keeps humans from getting sick” “Shall we begin to search?”

Helga dropped to all fours and began to move along the fence line to the east. As soon as she dropped the tingling started in her hands and moved up her arms, she passed it off but when she put her nose to the ground she sneezed and the tingling encapsulated her face. She loped over to the fence and ran off to the east. Once she was 100 feet to the east the tingling stopped and she did not sneeze again so she forgot about the strange occurrence. Vilhelm had the same reaction and he headed along the fence towards the west. When both had run the perimeter, they each met at an old garage close to the western border. Vilhelm said that they should investigate it so they entered through the large opening in the front. As soon as they stepped into the path in front of the opening they both felt the tingling again but kept moving toward the inside. Once in the garage they moved around and both were sneezing incessantly by now. Their eyes were watering and Helga had to stand up while having a sneezing fit. She turned and walked to the opening and sneezed some more. She hurried over to the side and walked about 20 yards away from the garage where she stopped sneezing. She was bent over trying to breathe when Vilhelm came trotting out of the garage and ran over to her. He bent over and tried to breathe also.

Once both of them were able to breathe steadily again Vilhelm found a place to sit down and Helga joined him. “Something is in that garage and on the ground by the car that is causing us to react strongly” Helga was looking down and agreeing with him when she noticed a strange green hue on her legs and arms. She looked up at Vilhelm and saw the same on him and his face. Her surprised gasp and look caused him to look at her and he saw the same thing. They both stood and wobbled further away from the garage until they began to feel better.Vilhelm began to smell something resembling human police and military scent. He began to look around and sniff the air. The scent was very weak but he started to trace it further into the junk yard. Helga began to follow him because she was smelling the same thing. Moving through some old junk car bodies they came to a semi clearing and both stopped abruptly. In front of them about 25 feet or so was the body of an old Jeep. It looked identical to the pictures they had seen of the Jeep that was found abandoned. The human police and military scent was much stronger here and both of them had visions of finding all the answers at this spot. Vilhelm said “This is something finally that we can get answers to this entire mission”

They both moved over to the Jeep and in doing so they looked down an empty area and saw their car sitting by the gate. Standing next to the jeep, Vilhelm sniffed the body and said “this is definitely were the smell is coming from. Let us explore this further.” They both sniffed around the entire wreck and Vilhelm came to the hood in the front. “Something is under here where the engine is supposed to be. Come help me open this”. They both grabbed the hood latch and raised it. As soon as it opened up something sprayed both of them with a blue fluorescent mixture of sticky fluid. Both of them backed away from the Jeep and began to violently throw up. An eerie screech came from both of them. They fell on the ground and continued to vomit and retch. After a while they both lay in the dirt and could not move. Their skin had a fluorescent light shade of blue from head to feet. They both passed out and stayed there for a couple of hours in the prone position. Vilhelm was the first to awaken and began to sneeze. Helga woke and started to do the same. They both rose to their knees and began to crawl towards the car. As they got closer they could see the green mist close to the ground and both of them stood up and ran to the car. They continued to sneeze violently until they crawled into the scrammer. Vilhelm started the car and turned it around. He did not want to get back out so he activated the mini guns and blew the gate doors into splinters.