Team 5: The Threat of Green Stone

By Irina Glushchenko

The novel follows the team of intergalactic guardians who monitor the security of the planet Earth and keep earthlings safe from an alien invasion. Corvin, Diego, Jack, Matthew, and Carroll form Team 5, the last hope of humanity to deflect the Varuan invasion. Supervised by the representative of the Intergalactic government, Cameron, Team 5 secures the inter-temporal and inter-dimensional portals.
The team receives the mission from the intergalactic government to check the emission of strange energy surges near the portal. At this point, the heroes are bound to face the enemy - two aliens from the planet Varu, the long rival of Intergalactic community. The aliens plant the special artifact from their home planet to enslave humanity and adapt our home for their vicious needs.
Will the guardians find a way to outsmart the invaders and secure the balance of peace in the intergalactic community? Together, they will do their best to protect our planet and preserve the ever so fragile peace.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Irina Glushchenko
• Release date: Aug 18, 2020

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Team 5: The Threat of Green Stone.

Glushchenko Irina

CHAPTER 1

All five members of Team 5 sat at a white oval table and looked at Cameron.

‘ I see, the whole team is here, I’m glad to see you!’ Cam smiled. ‘How do you assess the situation on Earth now?’

We looked at each other in wonder: there had been no incidents lately.

‘Everything is calm,’ I replied.

‘Is there any cause for concern?’ Carroll quickly reacted.

Cam hesitated a little and nodded.

‘Yes, there is. We have noticed in the Intergalactic center a time oscillation on Earth. These fluctuations are not strong, but there are many of them. Your Circles of Power, probably, don't fix them. At first, we thought about something related to climate events. But the amount of fluctuations has increased and they come from points close to the portals of the Gate. We can't understand what it is and where the changes come from.'

‘The background of the Gate itself is interfering, right?’ Jack asked.

‘Yes,’ Cam nodded.

‘What are the oscillation sway parameters? Frequency, strength? Rhythm?’ Jack kept prying.

Cam turned on the Earth's projection. The portals were lit with yellow light, and next to them the red dots flashed and went. There were a lot of them.

‘Radius from the Gate is up to one mile. The points appear every five minutes, but chaotically, there is no regularity. The wave strength is less than that of small portals. It's been going on for a week. We don't even know if it's artificial or natural energy emission. That has never happened before.'

Matt gushed,

‘It's a viral disease. I think it's measles. We'll smear the ointment and cure it. Diego, what do you say? Are we going to do the sanitary treatment?’

‘Has the place of the point ever happened again? This is what the system is all about,’ Diego concluded impassively.

Cam thought about it and started typing the query parameters.

‘Yes, these emissions differ,’ she confirmed. ‘They are not repeated. The place is different.’

‘Then we have a clear coverage area,’ Jack drew a circle.

‘Here, look, if you restore all the dots, we get the area. It's not fully completed yet, but it's a matter of time. What is this area filled and for what? That's the question.’

I got up.

‘We have to look at the place. Let's go.’

Cam got up, too.

‘Yes, your task now is to find out what's going on and what we're dealing with. And then we will decide whether this a problem or not. Just check, don't do anything. Got it?'

‘That's right, Ma’am! Let me start to cure our home planet!’ Matt jokingly saluted.

And we left our base.

Now, it’s time to explain who we are, Team 5.

Changes on Earth began to occur not so long ago, for twenty years or so. Humanity is still in sincere ignorance. The sweet dream continues. People think they are the most-most: smart, intelligent, technological. They have no one to compare. People has come to the only possible decision: We are alone in the Universe! So funny!

Now scientists are taking the very first steps, hardly beginning to understand how the world works. And I know a lot about the multidimensionality of measurements, the movement of time, intertemporal transitions and much, much more. But, if you simplify, the whole space is like a doughnut, when you put it on a tube for Coke. Measurements are blocks-sections inside a doughnut, and a pipe-time is a trunk. And a thick layer of chocolate. I'm kidding, our doughnut stuff is different. That's how we exist like the whole universe is a Donuts diner. But I was talking about distracting things. My name is Corwin. I'm an earthling, although, now I don't think I have a home, in a way too much I've seen. But let's speak about everything in order.

Twenty years ago, Earth joined the One Gate. Our entire universe and space are connected by the aisles. There's time slowing down, a matter is deforming, something else is happening, well, in short, you go in the aisle at Alpha Centauri, and you go out on Mars. There are crucial intergalactic entry points, they are closed by the Gates. You can enter the spatial passage and go out elsewhere at a comparable time. And you'll go back to the same time point you come out of.

But using the Gate, you can get into a significant time node, from where it is possible to manage time and return to the past in any dimension. There's no other way to go in the past. And that is the most dangerous thing. Everybody has seen in the movies how the course of history can be easily changed if you make minor interfering in the past. It's all true! Therefore, time travelling is under strict control.

The entry points to the time tunnel, the so-called Gate, are specially created under the supervision of the Intergalactic government, but sometimes they appear on their own. When they manifest themselves, a particular wave impulse is transmitted. In the space of the universe, there are dormant entrances, which for some reason, suddenly, wake up, become points of change of history. They start to pulsate. The Special Commission of the Intergalactic government records each point, reads pulses, and puts on a map. This is necessary to understand the scheme of these tunnels and control the entrances and exits. Yes, that's the kind of news for people, the Intergalactic government with its bureaucracy exists! Someone must make sure that evil genius will not explode the world a thousand years ago.

The government is quickly attaching these new points to a single system and setting the Gate. The gate is a multifunctional system. They serve as a transmitter-receiver, a temporary change analyzer, and read a visitor ID that has passed through the portal. When a person tries to pass through the Gate by hiding the identity, it is regarded as unauthorized access. The offender is detained, wanted, if he manages to escape. The Intergalactic police assess the measure of guilt and punish. The government always tracks the balance of time, if changes are noticed, there is a possibility of external influence. And the reason for waking up a vital time node is not always explained. The Commission is investigating what the catalyst is but sometimes finds no answer. And the reason for waking up a knot of time happens, oh, what a bad maybe…

At first, Earth was a sleeping point, somewhere on the periphery of the universe. Well, there was a habitable planet. Not particularly intelligent creatures swarmed slowly: they fought, then built, then fought again, destroying what they had built earlier. In general, no one was particularly disturbed. Of course, there were through passages - the so-called one-sided mole burrows through which the wanderers moved in space. Even people sometimes fell into mole burrows. If such travelers were found, they were returned back, discreetly instilling them that it was a dream. It didn't always work out. But such people were local lunatics that no one believed. Have you met the aliens? Fed with grass a flying dinosaur in the constellation Hound Dogs? That's funny! Take antidepressants and do not tell anyone about this!

But mole burrows were not reflected in the system of global interspatial access. They were given only light fluctuations of time. However, even an ordinary Earth hurricane could cause such weak time waves. So, these entrances were fixed, but were not paid attention to. And all of a sudden, Earth begun to pulsate. Very slight fluctuations at the level of error, no one even noticed at first. And then suddenly there was an active release of time energy. The Intergalactic bureaucrats started to set the Gate. And the changes happened quickly. The slowdown of time began on all continents, but in the place of the oceans, time remained the same. Water in large quantities could reduce the impact. First, it was noticed by the pilots. If part of the flight passed over the water, they thought they had arrived faster. But the devices did not show anything, only subjective sensations. What woke up Earth, I would tell you some other time.

CHAPTER 2

There are Guardians, to keep the Gates, those who monitor the entrance and can prevent danger, find the intruder, neutralize the impact. There are a dozen types of professional villains in our universe. Mostly, the Guardians protect the nodes of time from them. So, we are the Guards, Team 5.

There are only five of us, one on every continent. I’m Corwin - Australia, Jack from Africa, Carroll - Eurasia, Matthew - North America, Diego - South America. We didn't know each other before and didn't even know our purpose.

There is no planned apply for the Guards' position. It would be great to drink coffee some sunny morning and find an ad in the newspaper: Guards of the Gate needed! Job details: irregular working day, health insurance - maximum, payment – high. If you interested in a position, you may apply today. it doesn't happen that way, unfortunately. The choice is determined by the Gates. They scan the entire population of the planet and choose those who do not create a background when moving to other spaces. These are the ideal Guardians: invisible, fast, doing justice. But sometimes I think about, what happens, if there appear violators with the same abilities?

Each of our five had their way to become a Guard. Representatives of the Intergalactic government met with us. I understand now the difficulty of a task before them: to convince ordinary people of their choice, and at the same time to tell about the other civilizations. Each of Guards had a history behind. As we were offered cooperation, we needed to pass through the test: to become the Guardian of the Gate, it was necessary to die. It is a rebirth, physical, and spiritual.

As for me, for example, I remember swimming in the pool, popping out at the side, and there was a woman in a strange wetsuit. And she said, Don't be afraid, now you have to die, it's going to hurt a little. And she shot at me with a strange plasma gun. I felt my body was starting to disappear, right from the bottom up, all the organs were dissolving. Oh, I still remember my emotions! And then I opened eyes and realized that I was alive! A whole new sensation appeared you felt like a superman. Later I learned that I became almost immortal: the aging process slowed to zero, and when wounded, there is a rapid regeneration. With other Guardians we checked this feature: Matt cut off Diego's ear, so it grew up in a minute. Diego, however, at first yelled at all of us and then took offense and did not talk to us. But we experimented for scientific purposes, you know! And I think we'd had a little brain tucked in. I've never noticed before the desire to save humanity right in the morning, and then that’s feeling continuously rolling over me. Joke!

Of course, we visited other planets, passed through space, even were at points of the time change. We were taught to analyze changes, explain how spatial transitions worked and why important time nodes needed to be protected. The Galactic government had armed us with a kind word and powerful weapons and sent us to defend the borders.

I told you our health was coolly modified. But we also get a Circle of Power built in the wrist: it looks like a tattoo. In an active state, it is transferred mentally and becomes glowing on the skin circle, like a big watch. The Circle helps much: you can communicate with the center and with each other, you can read the information, you can turn on the protective screen, you can direct the shock wave at the enemy, you can become invisible, you can find your coordinates at any point of space, you can look for an intruder, a lot of things you can do with it. Our Circles are connected in one system. They also transmit our requests to the Intergalactic government. That's probably our most powerful weapon. Alien guns are prohibited on Earth. We also have an extended visual property, we can see in any spectrum, even unknown on Earth. It helps to find violators. So, one old alien lady, illegally carried to Earth seeds from the constellation Cygnus. She wanted to grow plants. Everything would be fine, but the flowers mutated on Earth and began to turn into bloodthirsty monsters, fortunately of a small size. Then the old lady was terrified, when she saw the biting critters climbed out of the flowerbeds.

Well, we, the Guardians, caught the beasts and sent them home. And I looked at that lady, and I saw that she had an appearance of a woman, but in the matrix spectrum she was a multi-armed alien creature.

CHAPTER 3

Before starting a new mission, we usually gather at the base. We call this place Alpha. After our rebirth we met here to learn to be Guardians. Alpha is a timeless and out-of-space place. You can get there through the portal, if you have a Circle of power.

Our whole team gather today, and each member comes in from his area of responsibility. We are met by Cameron. She is