Chapter 25-Tourgen Base
Deria had located the Tourgen base. She informed us of the location and that at least one of the containers was there, she also said she was going to check out the Dresden base. I couldn`t reply as that would have compromised us so I just had to trust Deria to know we would infiltrate the Tourgen base and retrieve the container.
We boarded the ship. I knew the coordinates to the Tourgen base just by thought process with the ship, and I also took the time to study the Tourgen people from Debra the ships computer, although she was much more than that, as you know. I was amazed at the brutality of The Turgen’s and The Dresden’s. My mind was reeling from the utter barbarity. How could something like the Tourgen’s evolve? The same could be said about the Dresden’s, and then I knew! Both races had been manufactured by other beings. Could it possibly be Kallo? The Dresden’s were very similar to the Tourgen in build and strength. Debra said there was no planet of origin for either the Tourgen’s or the Dresden’s! How could this be? My mind was in turmoil again. Why hadn`t Sionn told me this? There is only one thing to do. I told Reeas.
‘We will have to go in under invisibility mode and take our chances of being discovered. Reeas agreed as there was no time to spare.
The landscape over which we travelled was scorched and dead! Very few buildings were standing, I wondered where people lived, then I realized, these really weren`t people at all, but cloned-beasts, well, the majority would be beasts; the leaders would be cloned from other intelligent life forms. We came to a large building that was protected by a large wall and watch towers, something like the buildings I saw in Roman-Britain many years before, only these were made from concrete and steel. There were guards on the towers and also on the walls. The only thing we could do was bring the ship in over the wall and simply jump out when near the ground under our cloak of invisibility. The ship would then stay at a short distance until we needed to escape. I accessed Debra for any other info it might have but she didn`t respond, I guess the consciousness of the place was such that she couldn`t relate to it. Like Sionn said, the technology we were using was too great, so with the quest for greater and greater technology we certainly lost something in that respect.
One thing I did know was the leaders must have some form technology but kept it to themselves; they were simply keeping the consciousness of the planet down. We had to destroy the control base as soon as we found the containers. We were in invisibility mode which was powered by a small wrist device that enabled the ship to cloak us from a short distance, although I dearly wished we had our light suits on. Reeas jumped out of the ship as it neared the ground, I followed, we headed for the obvious entrance and waited until a Tourgen guard came out we then went in.
There were no security people on the door and I was surprised to see no one until we came up to the guardroom. Fifty yards along the corridor we encountered two Tourgen guards who had only crude machete type weapons. Their senses seemed to know something wasn`t right but without our light suits on, and the invisibility mode in operation, I was worried that they might be able to smell us and they might be able to hear us. We had to be very still and wait till someone came out of the room. They might not be able to smell us but I could certainly smell them. The feeling was eerie, they couldn`t see us but we could see them and we could also see ourselves, I felt like a ghost! The door opened and a Tourgen came out. He stood there for a moment while another Tourgen who obviously was a leader as he ordered the other one to check the area. Then he shouted to the other two guards to go off duty and send two more guards. They went off to do as ordered leaving the door open, we walked in very quietly suddenly the guard said, ‘Hello, I’ve been expecting you.’
I went for my blaster but before I could get it out I was frozen to the spot! Reeas was also in the same position.
‘I assume you are the two agents who have come to locate the containers.’
Obviously he could see us and disable us. I thought back to what happened with Kallo on the ship at Relmar7. It was the same thing happening all over again.
What happened? I thought.
‘You underestimated me, trainees. Don`t you think we could figure out that someone would try to retrieve the containers like this? Who do you think you are dealing with?’
‘Who are we dealing with?’ I said.
He didn`t say anything, but just smiled.
‘One thing is for sure, you won`t be seeing your loved ones for a very long time, also you will not be allowed to sleep or die! You will be chained in the dungeon and kept alive while I decide what to do with you. Oh, and be assured, we will find your ship, It will make a nice little prize for me, thank you.’ With that, the two guards came in and dragged us off. My anger was starting to get the better of me, but I felt totally useless. Reeas could talk to me, and I could talk to her, but that was all. We were chained to a wall in a stinking hole in the basement with no light or any sort of fresh air.
Reeas said, ‘Don`t worry, Sionn will get us out.’
‘What about the plan?’ I said.
‘They know they can`t detonate the containers, it would be the end for them also.’
I thought, yes you’re right, who in the Universe would go through with a plan like that. I asked Reeas who she thought the Tourgen officer was. She said, she didn`t know, but he had to be someone big, I said how come Sionn didn`t know about this guy? Surely with all the info we have he must be aware of these things?’
Reeas said, ‘Dan, please relax, we will be OK, he knows he can`t kill us.’
No, I thought, but he can torture us and we can`t do a thing about it. I didn`t want Reeas to know this so I kept silent. I may not be able to contact Sionn, but I will try to contact Deria by meditation. I imagined I was back in my home on Earth sitting up in bed with my eyes closed, and my mind focused on the inner screen, or the third-eye as it was known in Yoga. Sometime later, I don`t know how long, Deria’s voice came through.
‘Dan, I know what has happened, please be patient and I will try to disable the control panel, do not try to send any message back but just stay as you are, and relax, you are doing well for a human.’
The relief was something I knew might be of use to the enemy so I had to use all my will power and just stay calm. I didn`t even say anything to Reeas in case we were being monitored. I didn`t even risk calling the ship to smash our way out, which was something I would do later if we had to. Several hours went by and then the two same guards came in; one said, ‘You will be stripped and flogged, and then your skin will be sliced off bit by bit. What do you think of that?’
I said, ‘If I had my strength back, I would kill you both.’
That seemed to infuriate them. He said,
‘You’re only a cloned Tourgen, you wouldn`t last two minutes.’
‘Give me a chance then.’
They looked at each other before stroking Reeas on the leg as though they were going to assault her, and then they walked out. Maybe they were trying to get me to divulge my thoughts, I had to keep calm.
Reeas said, ‘Don`t worry, Dan, things will work out, I can take whatever these animals give out’
I thought, no, I won`t let them touch you. Our luck must have been running as half an hour later the two Tourgen guards came back. The biggest one said, ‘OK, Clone, you will be able to move in the next minute. If you can beat me in a fight to the death, which is unlikely, you would then have to fight my partner, and if you beat him, you can both go free, but if we beat you, we will take the female as our prize. Is it a deal?’
‘Yes, I said.’ I felt good, I also felt a strange liking for the way the Tourgen’s do business, they are animalistic, but they are also warriors. Maybe I was wrong; maybe they do come from a planet somewhere. All I really knew was I had to kill them. I started to get my feeling back, Reeas also. Within a short time I was back to my old grumpy self. Obviously the leader didn`t know about this contest. I said, ‘what about the officer, won`t you be disciplined for this.’
/> ‘We are our own boss; we can make our own decisions.’
I thought, no, he doesn`t know. So be it, I said to myself.
‘Where do we fight?’
‘Here.’
‘OK, are there any rules?’
‘Yes, no weapons, we just use pure strength, and our nails and teeth.’
‘Right,’ I said. I knew Reeas could take the other one as she had twice his strength. Looking at him he was about the same size as me but I had many times the strength, but I didn`t bargain for the speed at which he came at me. He lunged for my eyes with his claws; I managed to dodge him and punched him in the stomach. He fell back in agony; I felt pity as I knew I could to kill him. Maybe I didn`t have to kill him? It was the other Tourgen I wanted, the leader.
‘Look.’ I said, ‘you don`t have to die, tell me where the leader is, and I will spare you.’ Reeas knew it wouldn`t make any difference and went for the other guard, she ripped his throat out in one movement. The other guard saw this and went for Reeas; I jumped on his back put my arm around his neck and broke it with one pull.
‘What now?’ Reeas said, ‘we can`t risk going to the guardroom in case the leader is there. We don`t know if he could still disable us. We have to find the source of the power to the control panel.’
I said, ‘We will have to risk bringing the ship close by the underground room and blasting the wall out. The plan is discovered anyway, so we may as well use force. Reeas agreed, but said what if the leader has managed to access the ship? I felt cold just thinking about it, if he has, he is truly Kallo`s equal. I was about to summon the ship when a message from Deria came through, she said, ‘I have managed to disable the control panel you should be able to get to the power room which is near to the room where you are destroy it with whatever you can.’
OK, I thought, I can send a message to Deria, so I asked her where the leader was; she said he was trying to locate the ship. Reeas and I focused our minds on the ship, or Debra, as I called it, and within a minute we managed to bring it to the outside of the wall were we were located. Then all we had to do was simply have it push its way through the wall, much easier than blasting through. The hull of the ship was like a knife going through butter, in the meantime, there were Tourgen guards beginning to make their way down the corridor to us. The ship was already all the way in the building, so all we had to do was simply push our way in through the ships wall. We could already see the Tourgens trying to do the same thing, only they just slid off the surface, like a ski on ice. We located the power room and blasted it to oblivion; In fact the whole place was destroyed. I knew Sionn was going to be angry, well maybe not angry, Sionn didn`t get angry but disappointed. The first thing to do was locate the leader which wasn`t too hard as Debra found him simply by his DNA, the only problem was, he was dead!
Deria said he had detonated the container! Before he blasted himself!