“That’s why I keep on telling you that you must not repeatedly do your nonsense overacting” Joshi said.
I turned my attention back towards the alien and said “Alright so what exactly you were doing in there, for so long?”
“Oh! Come on can’t an alien like me suffer from a bad stomach?”
“So this wasn’t part of your plan?”
“Nope,” he said and then we heard shouts of others outside the washroom “That was…”
We both turned towards the door and he stabbed me with a knife in my back. Blood started to flow which also melted the metal of the knife. The blood reached one of his foot and the floor dissolved in it. The wound had healed by now (this fast healing was the specialty of my people and was really necessary as if the blood keep on flowing then all of the metal which comes in contact with it will be lost in it). The leg of that man got stuck in the hole and he was trapped like that one leg in one leg out.
“Help me please” he cried.
“Stay like that I need your gun.” I replied.
I picked it up and both of us went towards the… aliens.
As we had cover behind a small curved design of the wall, we managed to see what was going on.
Chapter 10 – Joshi, Have You Ever Done Skydiving?
All the aliens were ready with their smuggled guns aiming towards the door from which we were supposed to come out.
I just took a peek at them and the one shouting was an alien whose breed was totally scared of insects (Now that’s something useful).
“Alright what’s the plan?” Joshi asked.
“I don’t have a plan.”
“What? You are supposed to be the leader.”
“Yeah but that does not make me the planner too.”
“Can we do anything right now?”
“Try some belly dance to distract them while I do the aiming practice.”
“Forget about it, I am going to make a jump behind the seat and then you will shoot one of them and I will grab its gun. After that I will go ahead while you will cover me.”
“Good idea, go”
As Joshi jumped forward according to the plan, I realized that the gun in my hand was empty and so the plan failed in the second step. When I raised my head I saw them holding Joshi also as their hostage. (Well I better not ask but what worse can it be?)
“Sharma we know that you are there hiding come out or we will blow her head.” The apparent leader said this pointing his gun towards Sakshi. (Shall I step forward, I mean if it was Kanika then I should have thought to get out of this cover, but for Sakshi, I can risk it.)
“Or her life might be much more important to you.” He changed his target from Sakshi to Kanika. (Why do I even say?)
I hurried back to the washroom.
“Where is the ammunition of this gun?”
“I won’t tell you…”
I stepped on his leg which was free plane and started to crush it.
“Oh! Stop please ok I will tell you…”
“Good, tell me now”
“I don’ have it.”
“What then who have it?”
“Our arms expert, the scumbag who is shouting out there, all that which I should have said.”
“You are there leader?”
“Yeah at least of this group, and I should have said that, why the hell you humans use garlic in your food?”
“Sorry Mr. Leader, our food is specially made for pure humans, enjoy your day”
“Oh yeah sure, I am enjoying being stuck in a hole”
But till then I had moved out. (Quite frankly I was not at all interested in what all he said)
“It seems like you don’t care about the lives of anyone present here and so I will shoot them one by one.” The arms and … (AAE is much better) AAE said.
“No don’t, please… I am here.” I came out with my hands above my head and my B.T. switched on.
“Drop your Gun”
“Here it is” I said keeping it on the floor. “Although it is of no use as it is empty”
“How does he know you?” Varun asked.
“I don’t know, maybe I am a celebrity?”
“From when? And why didn’t you tell us?” Srijita replied. (I don’t know in which language I should tell her that it was just sarcasm.)
“From now, you idiot, even I don’t know how the hell he know me.”
“Oh! Then it’s fine”.
“Agent Sharma why don’t you tell them the…”
“Hey what’s that crawling over your shoulder?” Joshi said to the AAE.
“What? What is it? Quick remove it.” And he started jumping up and down acting like a baby.
“Boss actually there is…”
“Shoot it, quick” he replied while jumping.
“But…”
“Now, or I will blast the grenade.”
“No don’t sir…” but it was too late he slipped on the floor and the bomb fell on the ground and rolled to the end of the plane blowing half of it. Most of them flew out and some grabbed the left seats and so did the humans. One of the alien jumped out with a bag pack and opened the parachute in it, so I and Joshi grabbed one of them who had a bag pack, and snatched it kicking him off in the air. I quickly wore it and shouted “All of you they have parachutes in the shelves try to get them.”
So everybody tried to get a bag pack except Kanika who was holding the end seat and had no other option but to keep her hold on the seat. One by one everybody jumped out expect me and her. But then her grip on the seat of the falling plane loosened and she flew out in the air without any parachute. My mind suddenly turned into a super computer and had millions of thoughts running in there that what will happen if she died, the newspaper reports, I being unable to save the girl whom I truly love (Despite of the fact that we were going to fall at a place that is even unknown to us). I just let my grip off and let myself also get out of the falling plane through the gap formed due to the explosion.
Chapter 11 – Landing On The Triangle
One by one I passed by everyone falling who have already opened their parachutes and some of the aliens even tried to shoot me. But I left a bio pulse bomb between them (I can’t belief that even here they had made groups, habits of small school children), and all of them were frozen by the effect of the bomb. I grabbed Kanika and she was so much scared that she didn’t wanted to open her eyes.
“We are not going to make it” she said.
“We are, everything will be alright.”
“No leave me and go if we remain together both of us will surely die, the parachute will not be able to hold both of us”
“It will, TRUST ME” I replied (Whenever I say that to a girl she is forced to accept that whatever I am saying is correct, kind of my advantage), so I opened the parachute but it opened wrongly and the cloth of the parachute went up to the frozen aliens making them mix up between themselves. I saw that in shock and then opened the alternate parachute, as we were about 30 ft from the ground and hence we survived the dangerous fall, and landed on a mountain.
Joshi was already there as he opened the parachute at the correct time (All this is part of our training at I.G.P. academy).
“Didn’t expect you two to reach together”
“And I didn’t expect you to make the fall, so everything didn’t went according to the plan”.
“What plan? What the hell is going on here?” Kanika said.
“It’s a kind of a long story.”
Kanika looked at the others who were still in the air floating with the parachute “We have a lot of time.”
“So, exactly… the story… alright… ah… I, and Joshi, are… an…”
Just then Mishra arrived there, removing his parachute, “What the hell just happened up there?”
“Don’t you have some other question to ask?” Joshi said.
“Right now, we were attacked by some terrorist in a plane which was full of only those terrorist who wanted to kill you both a
nd you want us to ask about something else? Alright let’s see, how to make a butter chicken?” Kanika replied.
“Hey chill I know there must be some good explanation for all this.” Mishra said.
“Or a grilled chicken?” Kanika said.
Then suddenly we heard a blast of the plane crashing, and it was on fire and that part of the forest also.
“Kanika you see that fire over there.” I said.
“Yeah, what’s with that?” Kanika asked again.
“If we don’t reach the planes before the fire reaches us, you will get the answer to your grilled chicken one” I replied.
“Right now I have only one question, what the hell is going on here?” and she started to stare at me with angered eyes.
“Look you can do whatever you want but I can’t tell it to you, it’s a secret, please TRUST ME”
“Alright I can take it as an acception”
And she walked by pass us a bit.
“What did you do to her?” Joshi asked.
“I just asked her to trust me, that’s all”
“It’s really strange”
Just then Sakshi, Varun and Srijita arrived there one by one.
“What the hell just happened up there?” Varun asked.
“Someone one else ask that question and I am going to kill him” Joshi replied.
“We saw your location from some height and somehow managed to reach you.” Sakshi said.
“Well that’s intelligent, how come you were able to do that?” I asked her.
“Keep quite you jerk.” She replied.
“You know what I was feeling that I was going up instead of down, the air was making me move up.” Srijita said.
“Oh why not if you were not 1 and ½ kg it would have not been like that.” I said.
“Hey everybody, half of this mountain is on fire, we better leave it by night or we are gone, roasted in this fire, do you understand” Joshi said.
“I agree with Joshi we must move on.”
“Just one more question, are we on the triangle?” Mishra asked.
“Maybe yeah, maybe we are in the core of the triangle.” I replied
“What worse can happen?” Varun said.
“Don’t ask…” Joshi replied.
We started moving ahead while it was still some sunlight, because if once it goes down we have to make a camp at that place and this mountain was not the correct place for that.
While we were walking Sakshi came to me “You are paying way too much attention towards that girl, Kanika.”
“Jealous?” I replied.
“Not at all just tell me what exactly do you want? Why are you ignoring me?”
“Is that what you think? You think that I don’t want to talk to you just because of her? (How the hell does she got to know the truth?)”
“Yeah… I don’t just think I know that and…”
“Sharma there is no connection here, what should I do?” Srijita came to me and asked.
“How can a fucking island like this have mobile signal?” Sakshi replied.
“Obviously there are no mobile tower and so no network coverage. By the way whom were you going to call?” I asked.
“I don’t have balance how can I call someone?”
“How am I suppose to know that? Why do you need signal in your mobile then?”
“Just thought to update my status on Facebook ‘on the Bermuda triangle and, kind of enjoying’” she replied.
“Are you a cartoon or something?” Sakshi replied.
“Hey Sharma quick come here and look at that.” I heard the voice of Kanika.
“Coming da…” Sakshi looked at me with red eyes “… there just a sec. sorry got to go”.
As I reached Kanika she said “Look a dragon?”
“Yeah! How is this possible anyway?” I saw that flying creature with my own eyes, but I was not at all shocked. I knew him, an alien, from a far away planet (Now what should I tell you about that creature long story, you will get confused, so back on track) “What is it doing it here?” by then all others had gathered there.
“Is it pissing?” Varun asked as he saw something leaking from the dragon.
“Hey my phone is malfunctioning?” Srijita said.
“Mine too…” Varun said after taking out his phone from his pocket.
I looked at my bracelet and it was also going down, and suddenly it went off.
“My phone it’s off.” Srijita said.
“Not just yours, Everyone’s” Mishra said after looking at his phone.
“The triangle has just started to play its tricks, we better move on” Joshi said.
Chapter 12 – A Strange Man
As we were going forward Kanika came to me and asked “What all is happening? Is it a dream?”
“I wish it is” I replied. Just then Sakshi came there and interrupted “Hey, Oh sorry, am I disturbing you both?”
“No not at all” Kanika said.
She looked at me, “Oh yeah, not at all” (Technically you are really disturbing us).
“So Kanika what are your hobbies” I asked.
“Well a bit of cooking, acting and…”
“Stealing someone’s boyfriend?” Sakshi said again.
“Excuse me please.” Kanika said and moved forward.
“Are you nuts?” I said to Sakshi.
“That has started irritating me.”
“I don’t want to listen all that shit” and I walked forward to Kanika.
“I am sorry for all that.”
“It’s ok, I mean if you were my Boyfriend and…”
“I wish I was…” I replied.
She froze there and just looked at me without moving her eyes and we made eye contact, her eyes had some sort of addictiveness because of which I didn’t wanted to move my face.
Then suddenly I felt a push on my back and everybody turned around to see what happened as the sound was worse than just a push. I was on the ground with my face down and felt someone above my back. When I got up I realized that it was Sakshi who had pushed me, and there was a landslide just behind me, then I realized what just happened, the landslide happened and Sakshi pushed me to save me from crushing beneath those rocks (although I could have saved myself anyway but let’s not tell them that) Then everyone ran towards the cliff and looked down, and so I became curious that why does they wanted to see the falling rocks? (Although I can expect this from Srijita but the others, not at all, and especially not from Kanika) But then I realized that Kanika was not with them. So I too quickly ran towards them and saw her hanging on a rock. As all of them were thinking what to do, I made my plan and used the rope of our parachute to tie myself with the large boulder that has just fallen.
All of them were still thinking and saying that ‘hold on, we are coming’ when I just jumped with that rope still tied to me.
“Kanika give me your hand, quick”
“No I might fall.” She replied.
“I won’t let you fall, please”
“No it’s too dangerous.”
“It will be safe, TRUST ME” then what she just let her grip off the rock in order to give me her hand, but her other hand slipped and she started to fall. (No this time my mind didn’t turn into a supercomputer) All I do at that time is to rely on my reflexes and suddenly I grabbed her arm. There was a cheer up above there. I pulled her up and she quickly grabbed me by my neck and her hold was so strong that I couldn’t breathe for a sec.
“Kanika you aren’t letting me breathe.”
Then she realized and loosened her grab a bit “Oh sorry.” She said.
As I climbed up, I saw a human like figure wearing a lab coat although it was a bit difficult to see his face in the twilight (really I have seen the entire series and I didn’t saw his face in any of the movie) so it was a bit difficult to say that weather it was an human or an alien, but a circular device fell from the pocket of his coat as he turned to run away.
“What is this thing?”Joshi ask
ed.
“Circular dual blades used to cut rocks in one slice, very sharp, you better be careful” I replied, “We better keep it with us”
“We should keep moving, this mountain will be on fire in no time” Joshi said “Also perhaps we seem to be close to the planes”
All of them nodded and we started to move ahead. I reached to Kanika and asked her “Can you walk?”
“Yeah I am fine” she replied.
“Good let’s get back on the track.” I said.
In around thirty minutes it was almost dark and we can’t move any forward, the only thing that we can do was to jump from the mountain, but then I thought why don’t we perform a river crossing, we had a rope, and a device which can work like a descender and we have guts to try it (At least I have it).
So I asked everyone whether they want to give it a try. To my surprise none of them agreed for my plan not even Joshi. Well I can handle the girls (You know ‘TRUST ME’) but Varun, Mishra and Joshi were a bit hard to reason with. This was getting worse as we felt that the fire has reached us and if we don’t do something quickly we will be grilled meat soon.
So I proposed that I will go first and then after I had tied the rope everybody else will come, and somehow they agreed maybe the fire had scared them off. So again I jumped in the same way as I did to save Kanika and then I started to swing in a circular manner, I could see the fast currents of the river below me, and land was just beside it. After swinging a bit I was able to grab one of the tree trunks which were not at too much height from the ground. And I tied the rope with it.
One by one all of them started to slide down, and in the end it was only Kanika remaining up there. But she disagreed to come down, as she had noticed the same thing that I had, the rope had become weak due to the sliding of that rock slicer.
“Come on you can do it.” Mishra said.
“No I can’t, the rope is way too weak.” She replied.
“Joshi I am going up there, she won’t be able to do it that easily” I said.
“You can’t do that, you know, the rope can’t handle both of you, it might break”
“And if I don’t do that she might get herself grilled in that fire, I have to do it.”
“Good luck, you need it.” He replied.
And so I started my way back up with the blade in one of my hand and I can hear the voice of the cracking rope. I was up there in time, but she was still scared to do it.
“No not at all we both are going to fall”