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The airlock hissed in preparation to opening, the sound woke Theo. She
jerked up to a sitting position and looked around in the darkness. Her
thoughts were a jumble, second after second they put themselves back
into order. 'I'm still blind... I'm in a alien girl's body... I'm in a
lab... I was asleep!' The last puzzle piece hit her hard. 'It's been
more than a week since I've slept.' She thought. Theo closed her eye's
and reveled in the memories of early morning consciousness. The buzz of
fluorescent lights filled the quiet room as Beth groaned and shifted to
hide from the light. The door clicked open and a cool breeze followed.
Heavy foot steps chased the breeze into the room.
"Sorry to interrupt but I need you to come with me," Farris told Theo.
Theo put her memories on hold and opened her eyes. "Why?"
Farris sighed. "Our exploration team is trapped on the other side of
that gate."
A factoid of her trip through the fold popped into her brain. "How
long?"
"11 hours here or..." Farris tapped his fingers against his palm to
match the math in his head.
"Almost seven days there," Theo finished.
"Yes, so time is of the essence here."
"What am I suppose to do?!" Theo said in disbelief.
Farris spoke his next words through gritted teeth. "Anything you can."
Theo felt her cheeks flush. "Okay... let me get my pants on."
She swung her legs down and felt the floor near her for the pair. "Beth!
Where are my pants?" She said over her shoulder.
"What's going on?" Beth asked as she opened her eyes. Seeing the others
in the room she yelped and covered herself in the sheets.
Foot steps moved across the room and stopped, a second later the pair of
pants were thrown into Theo's lap. "Thanks...Beth get up, these guys
need me to try and help them. We need to go."
"I'm not your chauffeur! She's staying here," Farris barked at Theo.
Theo pulled the zipper and fastened the button on her borrowed pair of
pants. "Yeah okay. Beth, I'll see you later."
"Where are you going?" Beth asked.
"The Monolith."
"I'll try to get there as soon as I can. Be safe..." Beth said with
concern.
"Come on princess, lets get going," Farris ordered.
By habit Theo looked down to her chest and saw in her mind's eye the
princess shirt she was still wearing. 'fucking hell.' she thought as
Farris lead her out of the room.
The carrier bumped and jostled Theo around in her seat as she glowered
the best she could at anyone who sitting across from her. She didn't
want to be here, and she certainly didn't want to go back to 'there'.
She didn't want to go back the room she calls 'The kidnap scene'.
"Hey Princess..." Farris called out. Theo snapped her head towards
Farris's direction and gave him the evil eye.
"Do you think you're a fake?" Farris asked.
Theo grimaced and turned away. "Screw you."
"Just asking a harmless question."
"Would you?!" Theo tried her best to get a more gritty and authoritative
sound out of her voice box. The best she could do with her new equipment
was a sound most people would agree is cute.
"Would I what?" Farris answered almost knowing what question was coming
up next.
"would you feel the same if you were in my place?"
"Yes, If I was in your position I would think I was a fake," Farris said
immediately.
Theo didn't know how to take that comment, was he sympathizing with me?.
Or was he accusing me of being a robot? She realized she had a response
to both, she lowered her head and clammed up.
The stairs, she was being taken up the stairs to the Monolith. She could
hear the birdsong out in the park, it didn't sound like music to Theo.
Filtered through her brain it sounded like bad premonitions.
She heard one door, two doors, and then murmuring and shuffling and the
click of many keyboards. The escort's hand left her arm and swung back
into the fog. Standing still she swept her head across the room and
tried to process all the sounds. A clich? scene came to her of agents
and techs scrambling from terminal to terminal trying to stop the next
terrorist attack. No doubt there was a coffee pot in some corner with a
pair of agents talking about a recent intelligence report. Amidst the
orchestra of sound She swore she heard someone say, "Zoom and enhance."
The hand was back and it moved her to the center of the room. The
orchestra faded and conductor Farris spoke.
"You have some kind of connection to this, either its like you said and
the monolith itself changed you or the aliens who built it built you too
as well, it's doesn't matter though cause we've ran out of ideas and
you're one of our last options."
The quiet audience in the room faded from Theo's mind, it was just her
and Farris in this room now. "I don't know what to do! It's like you
expect me to flip a switch and open it up! I don't even know how that
thing works, even the fact that it floats here creeps me out," Theo
moaned.
"At least touch it."
The hand spun Theo on her heels and guided her to a few steps away from
the smooth surface.
"Fine I can do that," she said over her shoulder.
She raised her arms to her sides and slowly extended outwards. She
reached out and kept reaching until she started to lose balance. She
waved back and forth trying to find the surface of the Monolith.
"Did you point me in the wrong direction?!" Theo said aghast.
"Nope, you are touching it now, in fact both of your arms are in it,"
Farris said in amusement.
Theo never recovered her lost balance stumbled a step forward. "Woah!
Don't go any farther!" Farris warned her.
Theo kept falling in when Farris called out "Mobilize! Follow her in
there!"
Theo noticed a slight chill move up her arms and wash over her face as
she fell forward. Her hair was tossed around with a passing of a wind
vortex. Then light, a bright light came into focus and she recognize it
as the other end of the fold. Her eyes slowly adjusted to the light
after a whole day of darkness. She took in the sights, floating limbs
attached to a skinny female body and a corridor made of squeezed space
with a laminated finish. The feeling of falling passed as she
concentrated on the fold opening that was rolling around her. She kicked
her feet around and flapped her arms in a vain attempt to stop her spin.
Her world kept spinning so she closed her eyes and forgot about it. By
the time she made it to the end she knew what is like to be in an
sensory-deprivation tank. She rolled out into the gravity and felt its
pull as her back made contact with the ground.
Theo bolted up to a sitting position and caught her breath and opened
her eyes to view the alien world again.
"I can still see!" she exclaimed.
No sooner as she said that the settlement and dunes around her started
to stretch in two directions. Theo started to panic, out of some kind of
instinct she squinted her eyes like you would try when seeing a double
image. The stretching slow to a stop, she remember what it felt like
when stuff was stretching. She took that feeling and reversed it, she
fine tuned the feeling until the landscape snapped back into focus. Theo
moved the feeling into the background of her mind and concentrated on
standing up. On her feet Theo looked across the black sands, the dunes
stretched a bit but a little concentration made them snap back into
place. Theo studied the nearest fin shaped settlement and practiced
making it stretch and constrict to her will. After twenty minutes Theo
could make the settlement stretch in just one direction she choose. She
played with the stretching, trying to figure out which was the
'futurepath' and which was the 'pastpath'.
The sound of feet impacting on sand turned Theo's head. The sight of the
four man search team set against the monolith's inter dimensional
opening made Theo think of 'SG-1'.
"I can see now," she informed them.
"Good for you," The black soldier stood about six foot with a strong
build and sported a healthy beard, Theo guessed his aged to be 42. His
name tag said 'Gibson'.
Gibson turned to his team. "Let get down to those settlements, maybe we
can find a clue to where the exploration team is."
"The sand would of eaten up their trail by now," said a skinny, smooth
faced lieutenant named 'Williams'.
"Maybe they left a note," 'Ford' said through perfect teeth, he was a
jockish looking fellow. 'He's too bulky to be a quarterback, maybe a
defensive line or something,' Theo thought.
Gibson started down the dune towards the settlements with his team
following. Bringing up the rear was another skinny guy named 'Parker',
he was the youngest of the group. 'a total red shirt.' Theo said to
herself.
"Hey! I could maybe find them," Theo called out.
Gibson kept walking while he yelled over his shoulder, "Your job is
over, princess."
"God dammit! Stop calling me that!" Theo wined.
The commandos chuckled and kept walking, leaving Theo behind at the
Monolith. Theo took a deep breath and decided to test her vision on the
search team. She extended them in one direction, their paths took off at
a run leaving the commandos behind. She constricted their future paths
back and kept pulling until their past paths started to scaled back up
the dune. She tried pulling harder, their paths sped up. The dunes
around her stretched out longer and longer until she was waist deep in
the perfectly smooth fog. Theo kept it up, soon enough she couldn't see
any movement through the curved plane of fog. After a minute she caught
sight of three tan 'snakes' passing over a dune towards the settlements.
"Over here! They went that way!" Theo pointed.
One of the soldiers yelled something but the distance and wind covered
his speech. Theo closed her eyes and concentrated on her starting
position, opening her eyes Theo saw everything put back into place. The
search team was still hiking away from her, so she took chase.
"I saw them! They walked out that way," Theo called out as she neared
the team. The commandos stopped and looked to each other before turning
to Theo.
"You saying you saw them in the past?" Parker asked.
"Yes."
"In a report I read, you said that ability made you blind," Gibson said.
"Well I was standing on that dune, it was high enough I could see over.
And then I saw them walk over that dune there," Theo pointed again.
"We haven't picked up their radio sir, they're probably out of range,"
Williams said.
Gibson gritted his teeth in contemplation as Theo came with a few steps
of the group. The sound of sand grinding against sand drew the search
team's attention. The Monolith was inching towards them and pushing sand
aside with ease. Theo turned as the Monolith came to a stand still with
sand cascading down the dune. She unconsciously took a few steps back in
awe of the sight. The Monolith responded by moving a few more feet near
them.
Parker looked back and forth between Theo and the Monolith then spoke
up. "Walk ten feet over there please."
"Huh?" Theo asked.
"Humor me please."
She complied, walking backwards with her eye still on the Monolith. It
delayed for about two seconds but sure enough it moved another ten feet
closer almost clearing the dune it had been in. The commandos all turned
to Theo and gave her a questioning stare.
"I didn't do that!" Theo nervously laughed.
"But you did," Williams said.
"Hey boss, if we take her it would save us the trip back," Ford pointed
out.
"yeah yeah, alright princess if you're up to it you can join us," Gibson
said.
"I will if you stop calling me princess," Theo demanded.
"No deal," Gibson responded.
The other commandos laughed as Theo blushed in frustration.
"Let's move," Gibson ordered.
The team marched out in the direction Theo had pointed, Ford turned and
called out. "Come on kid move you feet!"
Theo shook her head and followed the search team. Behind her the
monolith pushed it's way out of the dune and matched her speed, keeping
itself no more than sixty feet away.
The local star was dropping below the horizon as the search team was
setting up camp on the flattest piece of sand they could find. They had
hiked as long as the day lasted which was around seven hours. It had
been a hard trek, they stopped often and rested in the shade of the
Monolith. The hike had really brought out differences her new body had
over her old one. She would watch the commandos drop down and wipe the
sweat off their brow and drink their own weight in water. She'd realized
while watching that she hadn't broke a sweat all day and her throat
never so dry it would call out for water. The hike had made some impact
on her, making her legs sore from constant use but she felt that she
could keep going with rest.
The team hadn't offered water at first, wanting her break down and plead
for a drink all in good humor. After the second stop they grew a little
uneasy when she still hadn't asked.
Gibson finally broke the silence. "Princess, you need some water, you
haven't had a sip for 3 hours now."
Theo was laying down with her head turned towards the group. "I don't
think I need any... I haven't been sweating anyways."
The commandos stared at her for a few seconds before turning to each
other and murmuring. Despite Theo's larger ears she didn't hear what
they were saying but she had a good idea.
The small tents were up by the time the sky turned a deep red. The group
circled around a bright camp lantern and watched the last of the light
faded from the sky.
"Jesus look at those stars!" Ford exclaimed.
"Yeah I almost trick myself today into thinking we were still on earth,"
Williams said.
"How far out do you think we are?" Gibson asked.
Theo was still looking up into the alien sky. "If we were only a dozen
light years away the constellations would look almost the same."
"Time to make our own then," Parker said.
"There's the big pencil," Theo pointed.
"I see god's ruler," Parker pointed in a another direction.
"Well gentlemen and lady, lets get some rest, I want to start early
before the sun comes up," Gibson said.
Ford compared the tents versus the number of people in their group.
"Who's the lucky guy that gets to sleep with the princess?"
"I... I don't need to sleep so," Theo stammered.
"It's going to get pretty cold out here, don't want to see you freeze to
death," Williams said.
"Suck it up and pick a tent," Gibson said.
Theo sized up the guys in front of her. "Parker... I could probably take
him in a fight if he tries anything."
The guys laughed as Parker blushed. "Gee thanks."
Theo felt a sense of dread as she followed Parker to his tent. He ducked
into the tent and Theo stuck her head in opening.
"Oh god... one sleeping bag," she moaned.
Parker gave her a whithering look. "Jeez come on, we'll sleep back to
back and no funny business I promise."
"Fine."
Parker already in the sleeping bag as she crawling in, Their feet got
tangled up as she crammed herself in.
"Sorry," Parker said.
"No it's alright..."
They stayed silent for a while and Parker started to drift off to sleep.
Theo remember back to when they offered her water and whispered to each
other after her refusal.
"Do you think I'm a robot? Or do believe my story," Theo asked.
"Wha..." Parker had almost fallen asleep. "What story?"
"Oh they didn't tell you, need to know I guess. I'm not an alien, My
name is Theo, The guy they said disappeared in that thing that's
following me."
"You're a guy?" Parker asked.
"Well not anymore..."
"What changed you then?" Theo imagined Parker was asking so he could
avoid a similar fate.
"There was a girl in the Monolith, she looked like I do now, she said I
would of died if she didn't change me."
"Huh."
"Yeah..." Theo mumbled.
"Well get some sleep okay?" Parker said as he shifted to get more
comfortable.
They set out as the planet's star was rising behind the Monolith.
"At least we'll have some shade for an hour or two," Gibson said.
The trek was a silent affair, it was only interrupted by the sound of
the Monolith cutting it's way through a sand dune or the occasional
radio check. During their breaks Theo would crawl up the tallest sand
dune she could find and stretch out the past and look for the tan
'snakes'. It had been day for about eleven hours when Theo took another
look for the exploration team. The dunes stretched out like usual but
coming over the horizon was a lumpy wave of dark green. As it neared and
passed through Theo, she made her guess.
"I think we are close to a forest of some kind, the team went straight
for it."
"Good news," Gibson called out.
The forest was a two hour walk away. The desert had flatten out and
walking became much easier. The flat sand soon became peppered with
rocks, then the sand receded to reveal cracked water parched clay. A
mile after the sand was gone they spotted the forest. The trees looked
like they were made out of huge grasshopper legs with large segmented
leaves at the top. When they reached the edge of the forest they saw
that the massive leaves didn't let any light through. Scattered among
the trees were short cactus with segmented bug armor, in between each
segment rows of course hair stuck out.
"These things are making me nervous," said Theo.
"don't touch then, Can you see where they went?" Gibson asked.
"All the trees block my sight."
As they reach a little farther into the forest they were rocked by a
crunch and a wet snap. The Monolith pressed into the forest knocking
down the first few trees at the edge.
"Shit..," Theo sighed and turned back to the Monolith. "I'm no use to
you guys anyways, how about I stay here, guard this thing and wait for
your return?"
"Sit tight then, princess," said Gibson.
"That's getting old!" Theo called out to the departing search team.
Theo turned back and walked back out of the forest, towards the
Monolith. It sat lower to the ground than it's sister in New York, two
feet or so rather than the twenty feet back on earth. She strolled up to
it and ran her hand along it's surface, the towering Monolith didn't
push back. Theo couldn't tell if she pushed it away or the Monolith was
repelled by her touch. She put her hand out again and the Monolith moved
to her touch.
"Fucking weird," Theo muttered.
Theo put both of her hands out and pushed the Monolith out of the
forest. The star was past it's zenith and it headed to the horizon
behind the forest. Theo took a few quick glances at the star before
burning her eyes out. 'Looks like it would be four o'clock right now'
Theo said to herself.
It had been five hours since they left but the sun told Theo is was only
six in the afternoon. Theo was propped up against the smooth surface of
a grasshopper tree. She was staring off into the distance in that
meditative state when you run out of thoughts to think. The sound of
rocks scuffling on dirt broke her Zen state. Theo whipped her head
around the base of the tree to find the source of the sound. The forest
was thick enough that Theo couldn't see more than thirty feet in. She
got to her knees and tensed up, waiting to run for it at the first sign
of trouble.
"I wish they gave me a gun or something," Theo whispered.
Theo jumped when she heard something rooting around about forty feet
away. She could tell a lot of dirt was being moved out in the forest.
The digging stopped and Theo heard the thing out there breathing. It
sounded like wind passing through a tube and it's repetitions sounded
exactly alike. It's breathing had a almost instrumental quality to it,
no wheeze or variance a mammal would have. The digging picked back up
for another couple of minutes before stopping again. Next came a sound
of tearing like someone was pulling the bark off of a tree.
'It sounds like it's an herbivore,' Theo concluded.
The fear in Theo faded and her curiosity took hold now. She raised
herself up as quietly as she could. On two feet she listened for the
sound of the creature eating. Confident the animal didn't know she was
there she slowly advanced towards the noise. Edging closer and closer,
Theo stepped on a brittle patch of dried clay that cracked and broke.
There was a second of silence before Theo could hear the animal running
off in the opposite direction. Theo decided she really needed to see the
animal before it got away so she gave chase. Theo darted and weaved
between the trees and jumped over a freshly dug hole. Theo reached a
barren strip of ground spanning eighty feet long with a wall of trees on
each side. The creature was half way down the treeless corridor and
still running. It looked like a insect, a five foot long and two feet
high insect. It had only four legs but it's feet looked far more
dexterous than a humans. The creature crawled away almost like a
salamander.
Theo kept paced until she heard trees breaking behind her.
"Shit!" she cursed.
Theo slowed to a stop and took in as much detail of the animal as she
could before it disappeared into the forest. It neared the end of the
corridor and dove back into the forest, it's iridescent armor strobed
between the trees as it faded from sight. Theo stood staring at the spot
it disappeared for a few minutes while she processed what she saw.
"HELL YEAH! I SAW AN ALIEN CREATURE!" Theo cheered.
Theo was back at her tree, to Theo sitting was just as useful as pacing
around. The shadows where almost to the horizon and still no word from
the search team. Theo passed the time by playing around with her new
vision. She made the landscape stretch faster and faster with every try.
She threw a rock and made it's path arch back to her. She grabbed
another rock and wound up to throw it. She stretched out the future and
looked for it's path. Nothing, everything around her moved in it's path
but the rock had no future.
"Maybe I'm never going to throw it?" she pondered.
She snapped back time and tried again, the rock still didn't have a
path. Looking at the rock in her hand Theo noticed that she didn't have
a path either. That put a pit in Theo's stomach 'What does it mean?'.
She tossed the rock and after leaving her hand the rock's path jumped
out and traced it's movements to the ground.
Thoughts of destiny and free will floated through Theo's mind. Am I the
only person with a choice now? Theo wondered. How am I effecting the
world with my actions? Could I of killed the next Einstein cause of my
mucking about? Theo felt like she was a wild card, she didn't fit into
the world anymore. She didn't have a path that flowed with the rest, She
imagined making wakes and rips in the fabric of space time with every
movement she made.
The shadows faded into the night as Theo still sat against her tree. The
planet's night time unnerved Theo, unknown alien monsters lurked out in
the darkness. The wind died down after the star had dropped passed the
horizon. The whoosh and whistle of the wind was replaced with the
unbearably silent forest. The lack birdsong or insects buzzing in Theo's
ear made her uneasy.
'How do you know when a monster is coming when the crickets aren't there
to stop chirping.' Theo to herself.
It was quiet enough now that Theo could hear the voices in her head.
Someone called her name but she couldn't recognize who. Murmuring and
unintelligible conversations drifted around Theo. A twig snapping in the
distance? No there aren't any twigs here. Theo threw a rock into the
open desert in front of her, the impact made the voices quiet down.
The hiss of a beer can opening, 'strange' Theo thought. A high pitched
whistle, Theo still thought it was her mind playing tricks on her. That
is until she saw orange lit shadows moving across the ground. Theo
bolted up to her feet in time to see the flare reach it's zenith and
start falling back to the earth. 'Earth? No not earth, alien soil,' Theo
thought fleetingly.
The ramifications of what the flare meant hit Theo in her gut. The
implications made her stomach threatened to release its empty contents
on the ground. She paced a circle in front of the forest waiting for her
brain to tell her what to do.
"Shitshitshit..." She felt wobbly, like each doubt and fear attacked her
motor control. She remembered feeling a little like this before going
back through the fold.
'Anything you can,' she remembered Farris telling her. It didn't stop
her legs from shaking but it did help push her to a decision. The
crouched down with her hands on her knees and took a deep calming
breath.
"God dammit," Theo said as she walked into the forest.
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