Dan Sherman Space Guardian All Worlds

Lost Ship

Chapter 35-Lost Ship

We were now within communication distance from the lost ship. I say communication distance, but as you know their radio, or communication system is different from ours, so we had to alter things a little. I said to Reeas, ‘Do you want to take this,’ referring to the job of first-contact.

‘No, Dan, you are doing fine.’

‘Very well,’ I said, ‘but you know I’m not too good at first impressions.’

‘My first impression of you was very good.’ she said.

‘Thanks, that is all I want. OK, here we go.’

‘Star ship from Amiron, do you read me?’ I could by now see and hear everything on the Amiron ships bridge, and I could tell they had only just received my message at the time it was sent. In other words, they had no prior knowledge we were near. I could see the people in charge scrambling to the microphone.

Boy, it must have been a momentous few seconds for them.

‘Yes, please go on, who are you? Are you from Amiron?’

They were excited, and I can’t blame them. I realized they were by now over-the-moon, but I also noticed that the ships defenses were now in red mode, with the defense shields up.

Debra said, ‘Their weapons are trained on us, Dan.’

‘OK, Debra, I know.’

‘I know, she said, but I thought I would let you know anyway.’

‘Thank you Debra.

‘Please, Debra.’ said Reeas, ‘we are trying to contact them.’

‘I know, said Debra, I am just trying to be helpful.’

‘Thank you,’ said Reeas, ‘we can handle it.’

with that, Debra made a sort of humph noise, and went blank.

‘Unknown ship, can you read us?’ they said.

‘Yes,’ I said, ‘I can also see your shields are up, and your weapons are trained on us.’

The person who was in charge looked flustered.

‘Hurry up and get the Captain out of sleep mode.’ He said to one of his ship mates.

‘There is no need to panic.’ I said, ‘we are friendly.’

‘Good,’ he said, ‘we too are friendly. Will you please state your intentions?’

‘Our Intentions are to help you.’ I said.

‘Really?’ he said.

I could by now access everything I needed to sort out whatever needed to be done to get the ship back on track to Amiron, also anything else that was needed to supply and equip it. I could see the Info-Scrambler had been activated on their ship. This means they were trying to access our computer.

‘These are not very trusting people.’ I said to Reeas.

‘No, but to be fair, you can’t blame them, their computer will be unable to access anything about us, so it is only natural they will be a little suspicious.’

‘Yes, but this guy in charge is very Grumpy, I can tell by his thought pattern.’

‘Yes, said Debra, I wouldn’t trust him, Dan.’

‘Thank you, Debra.’ I said.

By now the Captain had arrived in a very agitated state, I knew what he was going through. Anyone who has been in deep sleep mode knows well enough what a pain it is to wake up. He had to sit down to gather himself together.

‘Don’t worry, Captain Kriron, we will wait till you are rested.’

I knew that would shake them up a bit.

‘How do you know our names?’ he said.

‘We know everyone’s name on your ship; we also know everything that we need to know to get you back on track to Amiron,’

‘What?’ He said.

‘Yes, you are to be sent home.’

‘No!’ he shouted, ‘we are on a mission to find new worlds.’

‘Can we come over and discuss it.’ I said.

‘Not if you insist on trying to send us home. He said.’

‘This is going to be harder than I thought,’ I said to Reeas.

‘Yes, I suspected this would happen.’

‘OK,’ I said, ‘now what?’

Debra said, ‘Their weapons are charged Dan.’

‘Yes, Debra, I know.’

‘You know we will be contacting the Veritalanian-Meridian in seven hours.’ Reeas said.

‘Yes,’ I said, ‘I know. OK, let’s get aboard their ship.’

‘Can I come, Dan.’ Debra said.

‘How?’ I said.

‘I can come as a hologram.’ 

‘You don’t need to come.’ Reeas said, ‘you can access anything we can while here on the ship.’

‘Yes,’ Debra said, ‘but I want to be near Dan.’

I glanced at Reeas with a we-might-have-a-problem look.

‘Can you actually appear as part of the ship, Debra? I mean, as a Robot.’