Dan Sherman Space Guardian All Worlds

Halfa - part two

We came out of orbit in the cloaking mode. We could see the destruction the Llantrea had done to the landscape. Any buildings that were still up had been engulfed by Greenery, but not ordinary greenery, this greenery was a menace to the whole galaxy. We accessed the computer on board to find out that there were only a few dozen small areas of land left that were free of the Llantrea and that was because they were mostly concrete or rock. I suppose the Llantrea needed soil to grow or exist in. OK, I thought let’s get this show on the road.

We landed in a clearing near to a small fortress like building. We couldn’t contact the people by radio or other means as I suppose communications had broken down. Right, I said, let’s meet the locals. I made sure I brought an axe just for comfort. A double bladed battle axe in fact! If I was going to be eaten then I wanted to even the score. Yes, I know you students will say your Karma is going to increase. I know, I say, and I don’t care, I don’t feel very spiritual in this body, Yes, I also know we could blast a hell of a lot of Llantrea, with our cannon from the ship, but in reality it would only be a fraction of the entire population, so let me have my fun. We approached the base at an easy walking pace. I saw a meeting party of about eight beings. Three were Tourgens and the others were different life forms, all humanoid. When we got to within fifteen feet they said ‘Stop right there, intruder.’

Of course they couldn’t see Deria as she was using her invisibility shield.

‘What do you want?’

‘I just want to chop a little Llantrea.’

Before they could answer, I noticed that there was a sudden Panic from the group as Llantrea were approaching fast from the wooded area to the North of the base. They started to run back to the base, but I could see they wouldn’t make it in time. I started to run at speed, but not for the base, but for the Llantrea! I reached the leading large tree like creature. I hit it with the axe, slicing it in two. It fell dead. Apparently, if you cut a Llantrea in two it dies. But that wouldn’t actually be an option would it? It would take a lot more than that to stop them, like me being eaten, and the data being analyzed to find an answer to their feeding process. But for now I’m going to enjoy the show. I could see the group was impressed as they also joined in slicing and cutting at the Llantrea with an assortment of weapons.

 Now I was getting into it. I killed another four before one got hold of my arm, I had to let go of the axe. The pressure from the Llantrea on my arm was intense! I started to bite at it, when another branch type arm grabbed my other arm. Now I was stuck. I could now see the mouth of the creature; it was something like an Octopus, a sort of beak. All of a sudden one of the Tourgens from the group saw my predicament and sliced off the branch that was holding me. I grabbed the axe and swung it killing the Llantrea.

Now our small group was in a sort of semi-circle with the Llantrea all around us. Three of the group were now dead and being eaten as we were looking on. I could now sense a telepathic message coming from one of the Llantrea, although it was protected by the others, and several yards behind them. I told the rest of the group to stay together. I then jumped over the front line of Llantrea then bringing the axe down as I fell I hit the leader which split it in two. The leader was now dead. The result was surprising! All the Llantrea within about one hundred yards suddenly fell dead! This had a profound effect on the rest of the Llantrea, as they started to retreat back into the wood.

‘Who are you?’ said one of the Tourgen’s.

‘I have come to help you.’

‘Are you a clone?’

‘Yes, does it matter?’

‘How can you jump so high?’

I’ll explain it later. Let us get into the base camp first.’

I Instructed Debra to take a sample from a dead Llantrea to Analyze. In the base camp I told everyone that I would help them to overcome the Llantrea. Most of them didn’t even want my help, so I had to persuade them by having trials of strength; arm-wrestling and lifting things. Yes, I know it is asinine, but that is the way these people are. I instructed the ship to park herself outside in invisibility mode. The people in

the base camp now trusted me. I said I would be back in a short while. I then accessed my recent conscious brain patterns to get the telepathic frequencies to access the Llantrea leaders, this was relatively easy to do, and the hard part was fabricating some sort of device to give to the people at the base so they could fight the Llantrea. In two days I had several machines to combat the Llantrea.

Yes, my student friends, I know we could just blast them with the ship, but that was not an option. It is not up to me. I contacted Halffa sub base for instructions and was told to give the machines to the people to help in the fight, you see it is not up to the Guardians to annihilate a species, all we can do is help a little. It will take a long time to restore the balance but it will happen, (Thought message coming through) a large part of the Llantrea leaders would be destroyed by Guardian ships, that means an enormous part of the whole Llantrea population would be gotten rid of. OK, I was wrong; maybe the Guardians do help more than they should, all I know is I didn’t need to get eaten! Good news eh?

Halffa sub-base also said they would supply weapons such as cutting machines like chain-saws to combat the Llantrea by the people, it will give them something to do and there will be lots of wood to build things.

Now for another lesson: yes, I know we said that this Universe wasn’t humanoid! But don’t forget life forms such as the Tourgen are man-made and have been brought here by man also other beings like the ones at base camp are immigrants; so to speak, it is the Llantrea which are native to this Universe. Yes, I hear you say, Man is poking his nose into things again! Enough said eh?

Deria said we had a return-to-base-signal from the ship, so we said our goodbyes and simply walked into the ship which was invisible. Don’t worry, no one saw us leave, if they did what a story that would make for future generations, a Tourgen clone that battled the Llantrea and could jump further and was

stronger than any other life form, who brought magic weapons that defeated the enemy then simply disappeared! Even I’m impressed!