Solar Warden

Escape Part 136

He woke up and looked around. There were strange creatures to see. He could not recognize them. His face showed the unknown situation. He started to speak in his common language.

Watkins could not understand it. She reached her hand and helped him up.

"We are from Earth. Most of us speak only English," she also didn't know what to say as response.

The awoken further said something.

Freeman and Jones were also there.

"I try something out," Watkins went back to the tablet and wrote something on it. Then translated it into the Mesopotamian symbols hoping it would be correct enough. She showed it to the awoken. He seemed now to read, then nodded.

"Great, it seems he can read his. Now we check if he can write." She wrote again on her tablet, then gave it to him.

He nodded again. Then tried to figure out how to write with the tablet. It took a while then Watkins translated it.

"Well, he has a name, I don't know how to speak. At least the system can't translate it. He is asking what he should do. I ask him what languages he can speak," Watkins wrote again.

It took a while again.

"He speaks only the language of the masters," Watkins informed after she read the reply.

"So you have awoken one of our experiments." The awoken made now a different face and was speaking English.

"What are you doing with them?" Watkins asked.

"Does it matter. That is our business," he replied.

"Sure. You are experimenting with our DNA. Abducted this one from our planet against his will."

"Not this one. The one we abducted lives now with us. He has a longer lifespan then you and an honorable rank in our society. This is just an experiment that used some of his DNA. It is similar like the Gray you met."

"Inform Ryan, again. He should be here by now." Watkins said to the others. Freeman made a gesture in Barnes direction to do it as he watched now the awoken not to make any dangerous move. With the suits he probably could do not much. Still it was possible to somehow grab a gun. The awoken stood up.

"So what are this bodies? Your avatar to move around wherever you want," Watkins tried to get information.

"That is just a function that is useful. No they are just optimized for doing some kind of jobs. We have our simple worker they need no interface. Then our explorers which are suited for space travels. You call them the Grays. They have a lot of functions, but also limits and here with that human looking ones we try some stuff on this planet. But you will learn all this when you joined our society."

"But we don't want that," Watkins replied.

"What options do you have when your ship is gone. You stayed too long and have now to pay the prize."

"We will resist," Watkins replied.

"Resistance is futile. Sure you can bore you to death or try the funny rebel stuff. But on this planet you can damage only our equipment that can be easily replaced."

Ryan was now joining them.

The awoken continued, "So the best way to not harm yourself is drop your guns. Let your ship land on this planet and cooperate."

"So what exactly do you want from us?" Watkins asked.

"That's obvious. Your DNA, your behavior, some analysis to pinpoint the sequences. You all can get here a chance to advance in our society, improve yourself how you like it and a life better as you can imagine."

"Oh and for that we give you all our lives in your custody. Let you analyze our technologies and forget you did things to us against our will and try to destroy our ship," Ryan said.

"Well, you also can wait till it is done. Curiosity is a fine thing. You stayed too long but also got the chance to get more. On your planet someone behaves like you would be just killed." The awoken looked a bit around and stepped out of the chamber.

"It was only a reaction to your actions. Call your ships back and let us leave. Then this facility stays as it is," Ryan responded.

"You are free to do what you want. We are talk about the conditions after your surrender." The face changed again.

"We do not surrender," Ryan said.

"My master does not want to speak with you anymore," the awoken spoke in a bit different voice and pace.

"Then sit down over there," Ryan replied.

He walked to the direction Ryan pointed and sat down on a chair like structure on the wall.

"He can speak English now. That is amazing despite our situation," Watkins said.

"Yes. Freeman, guard him. I don't want him to walk around. Watkins check him out what he is exactly. Is this now an organic robot or a living being temporary controlled by a device?" Ryan ordered.

"It is a living being with DNA. The question is can it think or decide for its own," Watkins replied.

"I need more details. Is he controlled or does he have a free will like us. I mean the difference between a machine or a human. They seemed to be tools for the aliens. I need to know exactly what they are. With the Gray we had not so much luck. Maybe here." Ryan wanted to know more about the others to understand their behavior and thinking.

"This will be difficult. You know machines can already master the Turing test. This means to simulate human behavior. I do my best. But our analysis methods are limited here." Watkins knew this would take probably much longer than they at least wanted to stay here.

"Yes, but also I need something to decide if we leave them here. Take them with us or even destroy them what would be unlikely because they can create them again." Ryan was not sure how the things would work out. But the best he could do now is to get intel. He went up to Knight to discuss the situation. After reporting also to the Captain he went back to the control room.