Meanwhile, in Birea city, Ferhal got to the premises of the meeting hall. She was accompanied by two people on the uniforms of the dormanian soldiers and putting on the soldiers' helmet. They walked into the hall, uninterrupted as William talked to Ferhal, asking her what was next to do. She took them to her office and told them to stay there and wait for her, and she then went out and called her dad, who was in the meeting room, amongst the rest of the generals. She calls him from without and he went out to meet her. She tells him to follow her, that she had something to tell him, in which he did without much effort.
Getting to her office, he asked her what was the meaning of what she was doing as he saw Stanley and William in the office. She told him they were aliens as they took off their helmets. He was shocked, but after being calmed by his daughter, he gave them audience to speak for themselves, after recognizing Stanley from the day before.
William pushes Stanley forward to speak and after Stanley had stated their business for being their, he reasoned on what to do. Stanley and William were shocked to know that the general was Ferhal's father and Ferhal told her dad right there that they have begun to develop special abilities. General Gon Fyr with no further words took Stanley and William to the counsel of generals immediately.
In the midst of the generals, the major chief general was furious of the action of general Gon Fyr and general Gon Fyr pleaded, for him to hear them out, as the counsel recognized them to be humans, seeing the difference in the colour of their hair and eyes.
The major chief general, then granted them permission to speak after a while and William pushed Stanley forward to speak. Stanley started by thanking the major chief general and the rest of the counsel for giving him the opportunity to speak for himself.
He told them that they were humans from a far away planet in a distant galaxy. He told them of what was happening to their planet and how their leaders sent them in search of a new home for mankind.
The major chief general tells Stanley, he's almost convinced by his story, saying, Stanley spoke sincerely from his heart and that he also thinks the humans are not here by chance and neither for an invasion.
General Gon Fyr then stepped forward and said that there was one last thing and as major chief general Barrok gave him license to speak, he told them that Stanley and William had begun to show signs of special abilities.
Immediately, there was a great clamour among the generals, as they said between themselves that the humans have been there for just a day and they already had powers.
This was because, normally, other beings develop powers after being on their planet for up to a month or more, forty one or forty two days making up a month on their planet.
The counsel of generals couldn't believe what general Gon Fyr had told them, as the major chief general asked Stanley and William, saying, "what are these special abilities exactly?"
Immediately the major chief general asked this, the soldier sent from the defense base, stormed into the room unannounced and he got straight to their midst and knelt on one knee as he delivered the message, given him to deliver by his superior, captain Luke (having yellow hair and eyes). He took out a small round disc, like a coin from his arm bracelet and gave it to general Gon Fyr. The general then inserted the disc in his arm bracelet and a video was played on the screen of the room round about. The video showed the humans as they trained, mastering their new powers.
There was no more strength left in the generals as they saw the video and what the humans were able to do, after just a day. This made them to cry, saying, "God help up." General Gude (a general having gold hair and eyes), a notable general in their midst, mockingly says, "which God are you referring to? The one you've all abandoned and forsaken or the false god you all now call upon?" The major chief general confronts him, to watch his tongue.
Then the major chief general out of anger called for the guards to come and take Stanley and William away, telling them that they came to find out their weaknesses and that they tricked them. The guards being scared of Stanley and William got hold of them and handcuffed their hands to the back and took them away, but Stanley and William did not resist.
The guards took Stanley and William and passed Ferhal. William called out to her to tell them that they were innocent, but she said she was sorry as she knew not what to do and they were taken away.
The generals then asked major chief general Barrok of what they should do. They requested to send word to the king of Birea city immediately. General Barrok then told them he had met the king, the day before and that the king has put all authority into his hand and that of general Gon Fyr. The major chief general and the rest of the generals then decided that the humans should be eliminated from off their planet before they become too powerful.
After the decision was made, they decided that general Gude and general Gon Fyr should lead the army to confront the humans. The counsel also came to a conclusion that if needs be, a nuclear missile should be employed to take out the humans.
General Gude says he can't work alongside general Gon Fyr and that another general should follow general Gon Fyr to his death sentence. But the major chief general tells him, it was not a request and so he went with general Gon Fyr, not being able to disobey the major chief general's order.
Commander Mark and the three captains were gathered in the control center of the spaceship, to discuss on what would be their move after the repair on the spaceship was done, Silvester being in the room. Commander Mark's mind began to change, after seeing what they could do and power began to corrupt him little by little.
The commander and captain Derrick decided on an attack, if needs be, in order for them to inhabit the planet. Captain Amanda in particular wasn't comfortable with the decision and walked out of the room. Captain John also went after her, after excusing himself, as he was on her side. As commander Mark and captain Derrick spoke, Silvester saw something on the radar and drew closer to see what it was.
Meanwhile, the hearing and sight of the humans began to get stronger gradually.
General Gon Fyr and general Gude, with the army under their command then drew near the crash site in a numerous number of aircrafts. The aircraft in which the generals were, was bigger than the normal dormanian aircrafts, but was similar in shape.
General Gude advised that they should use a nuclear missile to eliminate the humans before deploying the soldiers to finish off any survivors, if at all any of them survives the blast, to avoid any loss of life of their soldiers and general Gon Fyr agreed to his decision. The missile was locked unto the crash site and launched.
Before then, the radar of the spaceship picked up the signal of the dormanian aircrafts heading that direction. The humans knew something was wrong and prepared themselves, as even Silvester revealed that the aliens had set up a defense base somewhere in the forest and that they must have seen their training exercises.
Though the commander was angry with Silvester for not telling him that sooner, he put his anger in check and instructed captain John and captain Derrick to gather the soldiers and prepare them against the arrival of the aliens.
Before the arrival of the aliens, the commander called the heads of the scientists and ordered them to assemble Project T.P.02.
And as the generals sent the nuclear missile, the soldiers all heard and saw it coming as their hearing and vision got stronger. Captain Derrick commanded them to concentrate and telekinetically stop the missile from hitting them, but they couldn't. No one could do it, not even captain Derrick, because of the great distance and so, captain John stepped forward and gave it a try and he caused the missile to crash only two kilometers away from them.
The after effects of the explosion was felt by the dormanian aircrafts and also the humans. The humans were swept off their feet by the massive shock wave caused by the explosion. The explosion also caused more damage to the spaceship and left the humans lying on the ground.
The sun was at it's highest as the aliens aircrafts arrived at the crash site and got close to the ground and the aliens jumped out without the aircrafts touching the ground. They landed on the ground softly due to their gravity defying boots. The aircrafts were over fifty and brought over two thousand soldiers to the battle.
General Gude and general Gon Fyr then got off their aircraft also. On landing on the ground, they instructed their soldiers to engage, leaving non alive, though general Gon Fyr felt bad for wanting to end the lives of the humans.
About half of the soldiers were deployed to the ground to engage the humans, while the rest drew back in the aircrafts.
The soldiers were armed with a white laser gun that had a blast range, ranking from yellow to orange and to red, according to the power level of the gun, that is, from minimum to maximum fire power. They also had two steel bars that could get attached to each other and their edges could project a red solid kinetic laser blade and which could be a sword and could lengthen into a spear. Also their arm bracelets could shoot sonic blasts and also form blue kinetic force fields as protective shields.
The aliens on the ground advanced towards the humans, being lead by the two generals.
The humans who were not armed with any weapon as they now possessed great powers, were still on the ground, as the aliens advanced on them. Immediately, the main door of the spaceship opened with a buzzing sound and the commander came out and walked forward majestically. The humans on seeing this, were strengthened and got up and followed the lead of their leader, though they were not armed with their robotic body part nor guns.
Commander Mark with a furious look on his face, did not exitate to attack and his soldiers backed him up. The commander rushed at general Gon Fyr and the general activated his shield to protect himself against it, which caused both to shift back from each other. The commander went in again with an attack and general Gon Fyr blasted him with his sonic blast, which had much of an effect on the commander. Immediately, about ten soldiers came to help their general as commander Mark got angrier due to the sonic blast and ended the lives of the young men, though the aliens used their laser guns and sonic blast, they couldn't take a clear shot at the commander as he was too fast.
He ended them, punching them so hard that their bones broke. The army of the dormanians and the human soldiers then clashed. The clash between both sides, lead to the lost of eighteen human lives before the dormanians retreated. Due to the new powers of the humans, they couldn't die due to an injury, no matter how great. Those that died was as a result of their heart being totally consumed off by the laser blasts, that were about three times the temperature of the sun's core, at maximum power.
First, twelve humans were ended, as the dormanians aimed at the humans with their laser guns, setting their fire power to maximum. The red laser beams were so powerful that they nearly disintegrated the humans fully within seconds, about seven of the humans. Meanwhile, general Gon Fyr and general Gude were able to help to end the lives of five soldiers with their sword, cutting them in half before the soldiers disintegrated them with their laser guns. These swords were made of the strongest metal on their planet, which made metal on earth look like bread, though it would require a great deal of strength to drive it through, unless it's kinetic energy is turned on, causing it to be red hot, then even a little child could use it to cut through a diamond with ease and this sword was only possessed by the generals.
The dormanians possessed great strength and skill, but they were still no match for the human. The dormanians were able to hold off their own against the humans due to their gravity defying boots that helped them avoid some of the attacks of the humans by levitating into the air.
The commander and his captains were brought together as twelve of their soldiers dropped dead. They said they had speed and strength over the dormanians and still they were loosing. The commander also commanded his men to telekinetically take away the weapons of the dormanians, saying, it was time to make the fight fare.
At first, it looked like the dormanians were winning the battle as they were skillful with their weapons, even the sword, but as the humans took away their weapons, the guns and sword, they were helpless before the humans as they were brutally slaughtered by the humans.
The generals then called for backup and the aliens' aircrafts came, deploying more soldiers and rained fire on the humans. The commander then commanded captain John to ground the aircrafts telekinetically, which he did, causing the aircrafts to crash, but carefully, cause he tried avoided killing any of the aliens.
Back in Birea City, in the meeting hall, Stanley and William were in a cell. William tells Stanley that they should break out, but Stanley refused and said that if they do, the dormanians will see them as a real threat. William wasn't comfortable with his decision and walked from one corner of the cell to the other, while Stanley lied still on the bed in the cell facing the ceiling.
Right there on the bed, Stanley had a flash back of when he was still little. He followed his biological father, Mr. Preye on a mission. His father and about eleven other Africans were on a mission to a warehouse to collect food stuffs for their people, who were refugees in America. The mission went on successfully until Mr. White, Stanley's immediate father showed up. He was an officer and lead a team of soldiers to set an ambush against Stanley's father and his team.
When Mr. Preye and his team were almost done loading their five pickup trucks that were in the compound of the warehouse, the soldiers came up on them in unaware. They exchanged gun fires and the soldiers killed about eight of them, including Mr. Preye, who was shot by Mr. White in cold blood, though Mr. Preye surrendered.
When Stanley saw his father lying on the floor, he ran over him and wept as Mr. Preye gasped for breath. The rest of the Africans would have been killed by Mr. White and his team if not for Stanley, as Mr. White had pity on the seven years old kid and he told his team to take the others alive. The thieves were sent to prison and as Stanley had no other family member in which they could find, Mr. White decided to adopt him and Stanley became his son.
Now, at the meeting hall of the dormanians a soldier who had fled from the battle, came and gave the battle reports to major chief general Barrok and as the dormanians saw how their people were slaughtered and their aircrafts crashed, there was no more strength in them.
Captain Ferhal being present in the meeting hall, saw the video and took it and went to the prison where Stanley and William were kept and showed it to them. She begged them to go and save her dad, saying, they were her only hope in order to save her dad. William who was ready to break out before, but was told by Stanley not to do so, saying, "that if they do, it will make the dormanians believe that they were really sent by their people as spies," was glad and hoped for Stanley to say yes.
Stanley agreed and told Ferhal to step backwards, as she was at the front of the cell. He held the cell's door and ripped it open. The guards heard it and ran to the cell where they were. As the guards saw them out of the cell, they gave them warning to step back into their cell or they would open fire on them. Stanley then told Ferhal to hold on as he quickly carried her in his arms and ran to the outside of the building within the blink of an eye. As they were within the walls of the meeting hall, he dropped Ferhal and he and William, with superspeed, ran and leaped over the wall and headed straight to the battle field at superspeed.
Ferhal vomits due to the race and the soldiers came and attended to her, thinking she was a victim and so no one questioned her concerning the breakout of Stanley and William after that moment.
Back in the battle field, commander Mark, brutally beats up general Gon Fyr, causing him to bleed from his mouth. General Gon Fyr crawled backwards away from the commander as commander Mark advanced on him slowly. Commander Mark told the general that he should have given them more time, when they asked and that he brought what was happening upon himself and his people. Commander Mark then asked general Gon Fyr of what they have done to two of theirs, Stanley and William. He asked if they were still alive, but the general couldn't answer a word as the commander didn't give him room to speak.
As the general couldn't answer, commander Mark rushed at the general with a punch that would have ended his life, but Stanley reached the scene immediately and fended off the attack of the commander. Stanley then tried to talk to commander Mark to stop what he was doing, but the commander was not ready to listen to Stanley and told Stanley that he had changed sides, because Stanley saved the general's life.
William then arrived at the battle field and went to Stanley, as he fought his way against the humans, saving a few dormanians. As William got to Stanley and commander Mark, it was then that the commander noticed the uniforms that they were putting on, cause they were still on the red and white uniform of the dormanian soldiers. Stanley then asked William to take the general to safety.
Commander Mark then commanded Stanley to get out of his way, but Stanley refused and so, the commander engaged him and they exchanged punches at superspeed. Almost all the dormanians were dead and so general Gude, who was barely standing, called his men to retreat.
As the humans saw the aliens retreating and Stanley fighting against the commander, they stopped attacking and watched them fight. Stanley was then distracted as he looked at the aliens who ran for their lives and Commander Mark used the opportunity to knocked out Stanley with an uppercut punch, sending him into the air and the commander held his foot, using him to slam the ground.
William gave the general to general Guide as few dormanians aircrafts came to pick up their remaining soldiers. William then went to fight against the commander. When commander Mark saw the dormanians retreating and the rest of the humans staying back from attacking the aliens, he got furious and commanded them to attack.
Captain John and captain Amanda who all through the fight didn't kill anyone, but just knocked them out for a moment, told the commander that they were retreating and that there is no need to attack. Commander Mark got angrier and commanded captain Derrick and the rest of the soldiers to attack and to let none escape, in which captain Derrick did without exitation. William then got to the commander and seeing Stanley on the ground, he engaged the commander.
William was easily knocked out by commander Mark and as captain Derrick headed towards the generals a laser blast from the dormanian aircrafts hits a damaged aircraft of their, which in turn hits captain Derrick a little, sending him back. As commander Mark saw that the generals and their men were about to enter the aircrafts, he telekinetically picked up a laser gun and setting it to maximum power, he aimed and fired at them.
But then, Stanley who was passed out, heard the last words of his father, Mr. White, before he left earth, saying, "son, son I want you to make the right decision at all times, no matter where you are. You are the strongest person I have ever known and I'm blessed to have you as a son, a son I was never worthy of. You are good and I want you to remain that way son, you made me good, cause you are perfect. Stanley, go and let the universe know who you are ".
And as commander Mark was about to shoot at the generals, Stanley regained consciousness and saw commander mark aiming at the generals and he got up as he saw the laser beam of the gun heading towards the generals. Without thinking twice he levitated and flew in front of the generals and shielded them. Stanley sustained a massive wound on his chest and stomach region and dropped on the ground half dead. Both of his hands were also consumed in half by the powerful blast and his heart beat stopped for a while.
This brought the commander to his knees as he wept sore for Stanley and yelled massively, cause he really liked Stanley. This also made captain John to weep as he went to where Stanley was, lying lifeless on the ground. His internal organs which could not be seen, were easily seen. Captain John was devastated because of Stanley and commander Mark commanded everyone to fall back to the spaceship and to leave the bodies of Stanley and William on the field as a sign of warning to anyone who might think of betraying them again.
The bodies of the other eighteen soldiers were carried by the soldiers and taken to the spaceship.
As general Gude was about to help general Gon Fyr into the spaceship, general Gon Fyr told him he wouldn't go onboard except he goes to fetch the body of Stanley, thinking Stanley was dead. General Gude did so and went to fetch the body of Stanley and realized he was still alive, as his heart started beating immediately. His wounds were not immediately healed, cause he was unconscious. General Gude then commanded his men to carry Stanley to the aircraft gently and as he looked around he saw, he also saw William who passed out, still lying on the ground and he decided to take William along, cause he knew they the ones that went to meet them in the city.
They became airborne and left for the military base in Birea city. Still on air, some dormanian soldiers who were doctors, attended to Stanley and they saw that his tissues were repairing themselves gradually.
William on the other hand also received treatment and later gains consciousness. He asked for the whereabouts of Stanley and headed straight to where his friend was. On seeing Stanley lying lifeless on the bed, he fell on his knees before Stanley and wept, saying he couldn't protect his friend. General Gon Fyr comforts him not to weep, saying that Stanley will be alright and that he wouldn't loose his friend.
Later on, general Gon Fyr spoke to general Guide of a way to save the life of Stanley, as they saw that the healing rate of Stanley was gradually reducing, as he was dying slowly. The generals decided to use an element which was found on their planet, to try to heal Stanley. The element usually increases the powers of any being greatly, that gains powers, in contact with their planet. Though it was against their law, they still decided to use it on him, saying that, if the substance, dymax increases his powers, it would increase his healing rate also, thereby saving his life.
Not long after, they arrived at the army base when it started getting dark. General Gude stayed at the army base to deal with things over there and told general Gon Fyr to take Stanley to Project X, where he could have dymax administered to Stanley. General Gon Fyr left in a small and fast aircraft after thanking general Gude and they put aside their different that has been between them before.
On getting to the secret facility known as Project X, they landed after the watch tower gave them clearance to land, when they knew who was coming. The aircraft touched ground and general Gon Fyr got off the aircraft with his men, as Stanley was placed on an hospital bed that levitated.
On planet dorman, they were advanced in technology and all their tables and chairs and aircrafts and vehicles had no legs nor tires, but levites in the air, without touching the ground.
The one in charge of the facility, doctor Chard, then came out as he was informed by they in the watch tower of the arrival of general Gon Fyr. He met the general who was an old friend of his and exchanged greetings. When general Gon Fyr told him of Stanley and of what Stanley did and the favour he desired of him, he wasted no time, but told them to come in immediately, seeing the critical state Stanley was in.
Doctor Chard then took Stanley to the medical room to be attended to immediately. The dymax which was a red substance, was administered to Stanley in an injection, while William and general Gon Fyr and the rest of the soldiers watched from the other room through a glass wall. As the dymax was injected into his blood streams, he began to react to the dymax, while being unconscious. His heart began to beat rapidly and after some few seconds, his heart stopped beating, causing William to weep as everyone thought he was dead. Doctor Chard then instructed his assistants in the room who were males to take off Stanley's clothes and clean him up, after confirming that he was dead, as his heart stopped beating and he had no purses.
At the army base, in the city of Birea, the major chief general arrived and asked general Gude of the battle's reports and the whereabouts of general Gon Fyr. The major chief general thought general Gon Fyr was dead, as he didn't see him at the army base, but general Gude assured him that general Gon Fye was well and alive.
It was then that the major chief general asked of where general Gon Fyr was, if truly he was alive. General Gude said he couldn't tell him that and so the major chief general, tracked the location of the aircraft general Gon Fyr took, after finding out from some of the soldiers that were with the generals of the whereabouts of general Gon Fyr. The soldiers also told the major chief general of how Stanley saved their lives and that he is in a condition between life and death.
Back at the spaceship, at night, a great fire was light at the crash site and the eighteen dead soldier were buried as everyone on the spaceship was gathered outside the spaceship. They mourned the loss of their fallen soldiers that night, as many shared tears for their friends and brothers.
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journey to the unknown: the hero within us: Book One
Science FictionTowards the end of this century, the climatic conditions of earth became too harsh for living and so humans sent a team of young teenagers that had all basic knowledge of science, medicine and technology, to outer space in search of a new world for...
