the blueshifters, parts 1 + 2 (Complete!)

What Goes Around. . . (episode 16)

Dan was working on his third cup of coffee when he decided to make his next solo move. He would soon have to get the team together to work out plan to attack the next alien hotspot. He sat back in his chair. The radio was on and the announcer mentioned again that there was an unusual meteor shower happening this week and next week. unusual in that up until now it hadn't been detected by astronomers. it seemed to come out of nowhere. funny things was, these odd natural phenomena happened and people made a bog hoopla out of it for a few days and then went back to their daily lives and moved on to the next big story. Dan shook his head. he noted the meteor shower activity in a notepad app on his phone. Anything like that had a reason for happening.. Alien activity might be behind it. Who knew?

Dan turned off the radio when the news story ended, whistling to himself. It seemed these places were in low to no security locations, like the old building in the railyard. Or it appeared this way. A huge advantage for the team. He was studying his pin map of locations of possible alien activity, wondering if there was a pattern to discern that he couldn't see. This working alone had its disadvantages. Mary r perhaps Andrew might have discerned a pattern. What he did realize soon after was that there were several places they could destroy right here in the city. What weapons would they use? Bombs? Molotov cocktails? Jack was good at making those. Semi-automatic weapons? Hell, he didn't even know where to get those. Jack would know. Dan himself had started the inferno that burned down the building he and Mary had been trapped in. But would such low-end tactics be enough? Would such things even be effective? Most would view such actions as terrorist activity, being that most people in society were unaware of the danger they were in. The aliens were hiding in plain sight. Making such obvious attacks would only land them in prison. The advantage he and his team had was also a disadvantage. They seemed to have rested on the fact that so far they hadn't come upon high security. After all, if you're hiding in plain sight, what need is there for high security? Such things would draw too much attention to your activities.

But then now that Dan and the others had been awakened, they could be easy targets, as of now.

He examined the little red pin where he'd stuck it in near a location at the waterfront. Tom McCall Waterfront Park. This place was a mile south of where he'd first been attacked by thugs, not as built up as the northern part of the waterfront. but ti did rest close by several small condominiums.he remembered the night well. He'd been tossed into the Willamette River and rescued by Trillion. That was when his powers first started to manifest. right after that life threatening experience. Trillion had once told him that that was how such abilities manifested. He felt them growing stronger though he wasn't sure how to truly use them to the full. But the darkness of a storm of destruction was coming. he didn't have time to train for long periods of time. It was only fitting that he would feel stronger. what to do with that strength was another matter. Could he even go back there without having a panic attack? To the place where he was nearly killed? His heart flailed within him at the thought. Dan would go. He was a different person and he had a mission. This particular place that he'd pinned down previously was close to where it had all started for him. Dan charged up his iPhone. He would need a decent working camera and recorder to see what he could see.

. . .

It was late evening when he arrived, on a hot summer day. The breeze off the river came over him in small waves and made the walk comfortable. He was headed toward a place called Shafer Point, a small adjunct building near a newly built condominium called Shafer Point Heights. From his preliminary investigations coming here early in the morning and looking and asking around the waterfront he'd found out that there was going to be some sort of special function or event. Several people said that it was probably a Scientology event, others said it was a birthday bash for some corporate bigwig. An old man passing through walking his dog told him something that caught his attention.