The flash of fear passed through the spine of Samuel. Afterall, he had never seen Johnny so hopeless!
All of a sudden, there were glowing light inside the tent, dazzling their eyes.
It was Ultrina. Her eyes were beaming lights on the DeTriLo device. Johnny shouted, "Ultrina, I asked you to maintain complete darkness. Douglas can sense even a small amount of light from miles away. Turn it off!"
Ultrina didn't turned off instead, she turned static light beams into pulsating one.
Samuel always subtly thought of Ultrina as a menace in their friendship. He immediately yelled, "See your tin machine is not......". Before he could complete cursing Ultrina, he noticed something in DeTriLo and his tone changed, "Hey where is that circle and those moving dots? Is your device dead?"
Johnny now understood what Ultrina was trying to convey. He jumped with joy, "They are gone, DeTriLo turns off display when Degolins changes their direction. This device can sense their energy field from 50 kms far."
"So......! We are out of danger?"
"Yes Sammy Yes," Johnny replied happily.
Their sighting on Mt. St. Helens is a rare occasion as they live in ancient untraced caves of Mexico. But anyway, they may be just passing by. And they aren't coming this side. WE ARE OUT OF DANGER NOW."
Samuel took a breath of relief and said, "You should give this skull face a voice atleast, if you can't give her a face. She could have told us this had she had the voice. You know, we are not much good in interpreting her sign language"
"Hmmm, "replied Johnny while still in deep thoughts.
"How about giving her voice of Lucy?"asked Samuel intentionally to his commitment phobic chum.
The dart hit straight on the target. Johnny was immediately out of trance like state and tried to decipher why Sammy has poked the name he is trying to suppress in his memories. He could see Sammy smiling cunningly.
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Few moments later both the pals were sleeping on thermal bed, with heater built in blankets covering up to their corses up to necks. Being out of danger, both were now out of the tent too! Enjoying pleasing beauty of star studded sky and vivid aurora.
Both were conversing petty things with their eyes stuck on the beauty of night sky.
"Johnny, you are an epitome of friendship, I swear! I ruined your years of hard work and one in a million chance of installing rovercube in the crater. And yet you have not been bad with me," said Samuel in sleepy voice.
"I know you saved my life Sammy. I am grateful for that. But what's squeezing my heart is the fact that perhaps we might have lost the only opportunity to plant rovercube into the crater. After years of struggle, I could find that greatest threat to mankind will enter our world through Mt. St. Helens's crater" Johnny answered while still being mesmerized with aurora and spine chilling cold.
"You mean those Aliens? Come on, it's just a myth." Samuel was not ready to believe.
"Crater of Mt. St. Helens is actually a portal that has connection to the other world. The portal is protected by a robust unshakable layer of some unknown mater. Rovercube would have found if the layer is intact!" Johnny tried to explain, "Sammy it's not about ME or YOU. It's about entire human race. The threat is real and closer than anyone could think. We are going to go back tomorrow to see if anything can be fixed."
Sammy was totally sleepy by the time. He blabbered in somewhat indistinct voice, "I don't understand these big philosophies about saving entire planet. Why can't we start with saving the ones who care for us more than themselves? Only if you could understand...." Sammy slept before finishing the sentence.
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The invisible invasion
AdventureA scientist turned spy comes to know the closely guarded secret during his research. He has no proofs to prove his theory, so he has to take up the mission all alone to save the earth and save his loved ones from invasion by other worldly entities. ...
