Chapter 56-Emergency Detour
Debra was again running at peak efficiency, she had already done the on board check and any other things that we needed to know. She is linked into me as part of my consciousness, yes, I know that sounds a bit weird but trust me, we sorted it out. Debra is now under full control. She still calls me by silly names like Danny, and dear, but I like it, Reeas, is also used to Debra. When Debra was a threat in our last adventure, Reeas and everyone at the star base were in danger of being obliterated by Debra. But now, as I said, things are OK.
We are now several hundred thousand light-years out in deep space, I was about to take a dream break when a message came through, it was in a language I wasn’t conversant with, although Debra had already translated it; It said: ‘Lightship, you are now entering Transveall Space, prepare to be boarded.’ I said to Reeas, ‘If they can board us they must be a superior race.’ Reeas said, ‘Yes, the monitors show they are of a technologically advanced race. But they won’t be able to board us.’
Debra said, ‘Do you want me to isolate the vessel, Dan?’
‘No, Debra, not yet, we will see what occurs.’
‘Dan.’ Deria said, ‘Stop the ship, I will go over and check them out.’
As you know, Deria is a higher Guardian and can access places where we in the physical world can’t. ‘Thank you Deria that would be good.’
I was now becoming aware that this little stopover could be a nuisance. We were already late for the worm-hole crisis; the worm-hole itself was at this point now traveling many times faster than light and if we were held up in any way we could miss the deadline to contact it. The Transveall are now trying to transfer their security people into our ship by the old fashioned way of transferring their bodies into basic atoms and then resembling them on board our ship. I knew this would be a failure, but I wasn’t prepared for the deaths of three of their people while they continued to board us. I said to Reeas, ‘They now know that they cannot board us yet they continue to try. Reeas said, ‘They are a very dominant race. Individual lives mean nothing to them.’
The thing that worried me now was the time it was taking to deal with this situation.
I said, ‘Let me talk with them, Debra.’
‘OK, Dan, you are now in contact.’ I then messaged them saying: ‘Transveall, we are sorry to encroach into your space, but we are on an important mission, will you please let us continue.’
Our sensors were showing that the Transveall were not people to mess with, they did everything by the book, and we could already tell that they intended to take us to their security asteroid to question us. ‘We haven’t got time for this, Dan.’ Reeas said.
I have to say at this point that the threat wasn’t coming from a ship but a retraction-beam, yes, similar to the one which took one of our ships back in our last adventure. The thing is, we knew about this retraction-beam, so it wasn’t a surprise. Debra said, ‘The beam could be dangerous to them, Dan,’
‘Yes,’ Reeas said, ‘if they try to take us with the beam, while our ship is on the defense, then all worlds within Transveall space would be destroyed. What can we do? Dan’
‘Well,’ I said, ‘if we try to leave now, it would trigger the beam. Have we got time to take a trip over to their asteroid? Debra.’
‘Not really.’
The thought was beginning to sink in that this could be very tricky. We tried to persuade the Transveall people to compromise, but we could also see that they were the ‘Dominant Race’ in this part of the Universe. They are similar to Earth people but smaller, and with very high intellect, and several hundred years ahead of Earth in technology. We could tell from their instruments that there was a very large fleet of battle cruisers on the way.
‘Time for action,’ I said. ‘Debra is there any way we can get out of this with no casualties.’
‘No, Dan, but I could take over their entire network.’
‘No, thank you, Debra, that would be too much responsibility. OK, we will have to go over and negotiate with them.’
Deria was now back. Yes, I am also forgetful of Deria, as she is often invisible and easy to miss. She said, ‘There is widespread distrust at the asteroid where we were being observed.’
Debra then said that their cannons were now trained on us, plus the retraction beam was now shielded. This means they were intending to blast us out of existence.
‘Right, I said, let’s get over there.’
We put on our light suits, which as you know, were able to protect us from any harm. I asked Debra if they could access anything about us. She said only that we were a threat. Deria said anything that was superior to their technology was considered a threat, and so had to be confronted.
‘OK.’I said, ‘let’s confront them!’ We had no need for any weapons as our light suits were all we needed, plus Debra was coming with us. She was more than capable of stopping any threat; she was the ship, but she was also the power. The light suits are part of the ship, and so we were all part of Debra. We simply pushed our way out into space, and then make our way to the asteroid which was some thousands of astronomical units away, but the distance was child’s play to us. We already knew that they wouldn’t be able to stop us; in fact, they didn’t even know we had gone. The light suits enabled us to be controlled by Debra, if need be, but we could also interact separately. We were able to do whatever Debra was able to do; this means we were able to travel to the asteroid in just over two minutes. We were dressed in jump suits, but as you know the light suits were invisible over the jump suits, that would give the Transveall’s some worry. Imagine seeing some alien people come ‘walking’ into your defended, security conscious world with seemingly nothing more than a jump suit. As we reached the asteroid, we were aware that if the Transveall’s were to fire upon our craft, it would instantly resound back to them. There would be a tremendous explosion, or rather, a sonic blast. We pushed our way in through the main doors. I was surprised to see that the Transveall’s were very short people indeed; some were not more than four feet five. Their security people were quick to react, although it felt very comical to be standing before little people with laser guns, but I changed my mind when several of them fired on us, although their weapons were set on stun, the charges bounced off us, went flying around the cargo area hitting several of their own people.
‘Please don’t use your weapons, you will only get hurt.’ I said. This seemed to infuriate them, and then two of the security staff fired their weapons on kill, this resulted in three deaths of the people in the cargo area!
‘Stop!’ I shouted. I looked at Debra, she knew what to do. The people who had weapons were now frozen to the spot. I regretted the deaths, as I should have told Debra to freeze them before. I didn’t think they would be so trigger happy.
‘Take us to your Captain.’ I said.
There was no reply. I looked at Debra. She said they don’t want to talk. ‘Dan. I know where the Captain is.’
‘OK, I said, let’s get this over with.’ It took us another two hours to negotiate a truce whereby we could cross their space!
We knew they would have killed us if they could. So from now on the space throughout the Transveall system would be tightly monitored. Of course, by now the worm-hole was out of reach. We had to return to base and report to Sionn.
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