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F rank opened his eyes and saw bright steel above him. He tried to turn his head but couldn’t move. His arms and legs were also tied down. ‘What’s going on? Get me out of here’.
‘Just relax; it’ll be over soon enough’. Hazel appeared over him and smiled. ‘What are you doing to me?’
Heather appeared next to Hazel holding a small laser.
‘This won’t hurt. We have our orders to do the procedure, so just close your eyes and relax’.
Frank shook his whole body but he was strapped down tightly. ‘For fucks sake, why are you doing this to me? You are supposed to be doing it to your husbands and those two little shits. Let me speak to them and explain it’.
Heather shook her head and switched on her laser.
‘Our leaders have decided that you need to be next. That is part of their plan’.
‘Wait, what plan? I thought they wanted to test their procedure on you two as you both had a unique genetic make-up? What do they want with me?’
Heather put down the laser and moved close to Frank’s face. He could see her glazed eyes sunk in to an expressionless face.
‘The plan has now changed. You will become like us and help to wipe out the human race’.
‘Hold on, we got told they wanted to help us, to reverse death. They have done that with you, so I don’t understand?’
‘That is the trouble with human beings. They think that they understand, but they really have no idea. You do not need to understand, just close your eyes and relax’.
Frank looked in to Heather’s eyes and spat in them.
‘Fuck you’.
Heather wiped the spit out of her eye and turned to Hazel, who nodded and left the room.
‘That was a very silly thing to do Frank’.
‘I thought the opposite, considering the circumstances. You can’t just go and kill everyone; there are government agencies all over the world that won’t let it happen’.
‘How many of them know we are here Frank? You know it is only your government as you wanted all the knowledge for yourself, didn’t you? No one else knows we are here, which is why it’s going to be so easy’.
Frank knew she was right and looked around the room for something to try and grab. He spotted a scalpel on the table but it was out of reach.
‘I have our leader’ said Hazel as she walked in to the room.
Frank shuddered as he had not seen one of them in the flesh.
‘I hear you are no cooperating?’ came a deep voice from the corridor.
Frank darted his eyes around the room but couldn’t see anything.
‘I can’t see you’.
Heather and Hazel stood in the corner of the room and pointed to the
floor. Frank brought his head up a couple of inches and saw a small
grey object on the floor.
‘What is that?’ asked Frank.
‘Our leader’ said Heather and Hazel in unison.
‘That? It looks like a fat squirrel’.
The grey object jumped up on to the bed and put one of its small arms around Frank’s throat.
‘We may be small but we can cause you more pain than you ever imagined’.
Frank looked closely at the alien. It had a square head with two glazed over eyes and small arms. It seemed to be supporting itself with two webbed feet, but no legs.
‘I just thought you would be much bigger, considering what you can do, that’s all’.
‘And what we can do is much more than you could ever begin to imagine, and it starts now’.
Before Frank could reply he felt a sharp blow to the head and fell unconscious.
‘Push a bit harder, it’s almost there’.
Kyle and Carl shoved against the fire door as it swung open, sending them on to the floor.
‘Well done chaps, it’s worked’ said Harry stepping over them and walking out on to the concrete.
‘Ah, we seem to be on the roof of the hospital’.
Graham picked himself up and looked over the concrete ledge to the car park below.
‘Ok, this means there must be an easy way to get down there. Those bastards are brave hiding all this in the grounds of the hospital. Can’t believe that no one has noticed’.
‘I does seem strange, but then it’s a government agency, so nothing surprises me nowadays’ replied Harry.
‘Can someone help me up?’ said Carl still sat on the floor.
‘Sorry dude’ said Kyle picking him up.
‘Why are there not guards out here looking for us?’ asked Kyle.
‘I don’t know but I’m not hanging around to find out’ said Graham as he walked towards a ladder at the end of the wall. ‘This leads down to the car park, follow me’.
Graham edged his backside over the wall and started to descend down the ladder.
‘You two boys go next and I’ll go last, I don’t want to hold you up by being old and slow’ said Harry.
‘You sure?’ asked Kyle as he swung his leg over the wall.
‘Quite sure. Let me help you Carl’ replied Harry as he helped him on to the ladder.
Harry waited until Carl had disappeared over the ledge before he walked back in to the building.
At the bottom of the ladder Graham helped Carl on to the tarmac. ‘Where’s Harry?’
‘He was right behind me’ said Carl looking back up the empty ladder. ‘Shit. I need to go back and get him; you guys may as well just disappear before they catch you’.
Carl started to hobble off towards the road when Kyle grabbed him.
‘What are you doing? Get off me’.
‘We can’t leave them here, what if they get caught?’
‘Not our problem. Do you want to go back in there and have a bullet in your head? Fuck that, I’m out of here’ said Carl as he hobbled back towards the road.
A dark 4x4 screeched in to the car park and drove towards Carl at speed.
‘Look out!’ screamed Kyle as he ran towards him.
Carl looked up just as the bonnet slammed in to him, sending him ten feet in to the air and crashing back down on the floor. Kyle fell to the floor in shock as the jeep lurched forward towards him. He turned and ran back towards the ladder, jumping on to the fourth rung as the jeep slammed in to the bottom of the ladder.
‘Fuck off!’ shouted Kyle as two men got out of the jeep and climbed the ladder after him.
He pulled himself over the wall and ran towards the fire exit door, slamming it behind him. Harry was stood in the corner of the room with Hazel and ushered him over.
‘What are you doing Harry; we need to get out of here. Two of them just ran over Carl in the car park, I’ve got no idea if he’s dead or not, and now they’re about to come through that door’ gasped Kyle without taking a breath.
‘It’s ok Kyle; no one is coming to get you. You’re safe now with me
and Hazel’ smiled Harry.
‘Hold on, isn’t she an alien?’
‘We’re all aliens in a way Kyle. We’ll both look after you, come on’. Harry eyes had glazed over as he walked towards the corridor holding Hazel’s hand.
‘I might go and check on Carl if you don’t mind’ said Kyle as he edged towards the fire door.
‘I don’t think that’s a good idea said Hazel’ as she waved her hand sideways, dragging Kyle across the floor towards them, crashing head first in to the wall.
‘That’s better’ said Hazel as she grabbed Kyle’s hood and pulled his unconscious body down the corridor.