The Dark Side

Chapter 16

I met up with James at the new star bucks. He showed up with his daughter because his wife needed to take Michael shopping for new shoes, and James had to babysit. We both sat in the corner of the restraint so no one would over hear us talking. I waited at the table with his two-year-old daughter while, James got us some coffee. The line was long, so I got tired of waiting and called him over.

"Look, this is serious." I started. "We need to go back."

James looked confused. "To the hospital?"

I put my hand up to my forehead and rolled my eyes. "No, the moon."

James' eyes widened in shock. I knew that it was a long shot, but we had to get things right.

"Mellon, they might not let us go back to the moon for years, and those aliens might not even remember you. The moment that we show, they will tear us to shreds."

I stared at James for a moment, remembering that he is a complete idiot. "A Day on the moon is like a month here! Remember?" I said.

James sat back in his chair relived. "Oh...So, why can't we wait till our next mission?"

"Cause I will be either retired or dead by the next mission." I fused. "So we need to work now."

"Mellon, no matter what we do we can't convince them to let us schedule our own mission." James said as he wiped the drool from his daughters face.

"Who said anything about convincing them." I said.

James looked at me like he knew were this was going, he leaned in close to whisper "So, whats your plan?"

~~~~~~~~~~~~ An Hour Later ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"This is bad! This is so bad! I'm gonna get caught, and go to jail, and you know what will happen when I'm in jail? It rhymes with grape...!"

"James! Shut up!" I yelled.

"Hey when are we gonna get to chucky cheesssssss.." Joe moaned.

"Why are we doing this?" James complained. "Why do we have to kid-nap a hospital patient?"

"James, come on. Joe is the only one who knows how to override control to the ships." I explained.

"Why couldn't we wait till he got better?" James cried

"Because by then we would be fired." I said.

"Why would they fire us?" He asked.

"We know about the aliens!"

Joe's head fell back and he began to snore. We had to get him high, because I knew he would disagree if we asked nicely for him to come with us. So we were running him through the halls, pushing him in a wheel chair in the middle of the night. Once we got out we had taken off in the car and headed on our way.

Joe was knocked out, but talked in his sleep a bit.

"Ma! I need to go to the bathroom!"

"Were is my.......Ma!........Hurry up!"

Then Joe put his hand on my shoulder and pulled me close "Mell, come here...." His mouth was rubbing on my ear awkwardly. "Tonight.....let's.......play monopoly." I looked at him annoyed. "I call the car." He whispered.

I got a cloth and a bottle full of liquid that would make him fall asleep. I poured the liquid in the cloth and held it to Joe's mouth, and he fell asleep on my shoulder. I could hear James quietly giggling.

"Shut up and keep driving." I yelled.

Once we got to NASA I broke into the garage that held all the alternative shuttles, while James waited by with Joe hiding from security. I also had to open the garage door for James and Joe. But before that I had to take out the guard to get his garage key. I had the cloth soaked with liquid that I used on Joe to make him fall asleep to use on the guard. I'm too nice to hit.