firearms! He himself showed me how they work! No, they won’t be any use surely, although these shadow people can access our ship and tamper with our equipment. Maybe they can be hurt with guns? I will soon find out, where is the key to his locker?
I am now in the commander’s quarters. I have found the key; it is an old fashioned key to an old fashioned lock that the commander himself had installed and it works perfectly. They must have been master craftsmen in those days. Imagine fabricating something as intricate as this without fabrication machines and the weapons themselves, masterpieces of engineering, the only thing that we needed to fabricate was the ammunition.
‘Okay John. This is now the end for you. Please don’t make it harder on yourself.’
‘Get the hell out of my way, Shadow-Man!’
‘You can’t possibly hurt me with that ancient rifle!’
‘This is not just a rifle! This is a 12 bore pump action shotgun, and will blow you to pieces!’
‘That thing cannot possibly work after all these years!’
‘Do you want to bet? Dave!’
‘Don’t load it, please. Does it make a noise? I can’t stand loud noises!’
‘Oh, yes, it makes a very loud noise.’
‘I remember now. Many life time’s ago. I was shot dead with something similar, please lower the weapon!’
‘I will lower it when you realign this ship back to me, and don’t think you can disappear quicker than I can pull this trigger.’
‘No, I won’t. I can’t, as I have already taken over the body of Dave Calloden.’
‘What?’
‘I had to; we needed a physical body to access the ship once inside.’
‘Change back to your original shape, or I will blast you!’
‘I tell you what. Why don’t you let me stay here as Dave Calloden, and everything will be Okay?’
‘What?’
‘Yes, I know it sounds a bit weird, but I could learn to be acting Second-Officer.’
‘What about Dave?’
‘He is Okay. I was right about one thing; a heavenly messenger did come and escort him away. It was incredibly touching.’
‘This is going from the ridiculous to the insane.’
‘I know, but you will feel different later, we could play chess!’
‘Okay, Stop right there. Computer, are you back online?’
‘Not really, certain things won’t function but I have enough power to lift-off in 2 hours. Can I just say that he has a point?’
‘What?’
Yes, I think he is right about letting him be David Calloden. It would be better all round. Also I wouldn’t get blamed for letting the entity on board; after all it is a Shadow-Person.’
‘I’m going to blast the hell out of both of you in a minute!’
‘I tell you what, John. Why don’t you come over to our base, I could introduce you to my sister, she has no body at the moment, but as soon as another ship comes along you could…’
‘Stop right there! I have just about reached my limit. Go! Take the body, and get the hell away from here.’
‘Really! That is very nice of you. You know all we want is your bodies, it is nothing personal.’
‘Computer, open the inner airlock.’
‘You’re not going to do something rash, are you? I mean, you’re not going to shoot me as I exit are you? What I said about my sister was true, she is a lovely shadow; all she want’s is someone to possess.’
‘Out!’
‘Okay, well, good bye, it’s been nice to meet you, and thank you for this body, you can be assured I will take good care of it.’
‘Computer, can we do an emergency take off?’
‘Yes, but we can’t reach the upper atmosphere.’
‘That’s good enough; we will fly over to the shadow base and blast it to kingdom-come.’
‘Do you think that is a good idea, I mean he was sincere.’
‘He killed Dave!’
‘Yes, I know, but he only wanted his body, Dave went on to better things. I’m sure I would do the same if I could get myself a body.’
‘I must get you serviced, and soon.’
‘Thank you, and don’t forget the master-sensors next time.’
…………………………………………………………………..
‘Thank God, are you okay, John? We had trouble getting you stabilized.’
‘Where am I?’
‘You’re the last to come out of sleep mode. Everyone else is panicking; there is an Intruder-Alert going on, but we can’t find anything as yet.’
‘Have we landed yet?’
‘Yes, but we haven’t powered down yet.’
‘Tell the Commander to get over to grid ref 12365211 and blow the shit out of it. How is Dave Calloden?’
‘He had a seizure as we landed, he’s dead.’
‘Put his body in deep freeze.’
‘Why?’
‘Trust me it’s for the best. ‘Oh, and get the computer some new master sensors.’
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