Curiosity Rock and the Rescue of Koenig

By Thomas Anderson

A spaceship us struck by lightning as it tries to land on Earth. It ends up just 140 feet from Jeff Riker's house two miles outside Clayton Falls, Nevada. The pilot survives and using the disguise mode makes the spaceship look like a rock. He spends the next ten years trying to repair his craft.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Dec 7, 2017
• ISBN: 9781387377053

Thomas Anderson

Thomas Anderson is a specialist on German armoured fighting vehicles of World War II. He regularly contributes to popular modelling and historical magazines, including Military Modelcraft International (UK), Steel Art (Italy), Historia Militar (Spain) and Batailles & Blindes (France). He lives in Germany.

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Curiosity Rock and the Rescue of Koenig

CURIOSITY ROCK and the RESCUE of KOENIG

CURIOSITY ROCK and the RESCUE of KOENIG

THOMAS ANDERSON

Copyright 2017 Thomas Anderson

ISBN ___-_-______-__-_

Cover Design by Thomas Anderson

e-formatting by Alan M. Muir

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the creation of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

This is a story in three parts.

Book 1

Curiosity Rock and the Rescue of Koenig

Book 2

The Sad Return to Curiosity Rock

Book 3

Curiosity Rock and the Rejuvenation of Gideon

The three parts in this trilogy are all connected. When a young woman gets left a house by her dead uncle in his will, not only did she inherit his house, but also his secret. The house is two miles outside the small town of Clayton Falls, Nevada, U.S.A.

PROLOGUE

Ever since the Rosewell Incident in 1947 about a spacecraft crashing near that location there has been speculation. First it was a spacecraft, then it changed to a weather balloon, but there were so many intelligent people involved a cover-up was suspected. In fact, the story changed three times! What ever happened to the wreckage of the craft remains, to this day, a mystery but looking at the American Fighters and Bombers late in the twentieth century you must wonder how they look more like spacecraft than aeroplanes!

So, we come to my story about another two spacecraft that also crashed on this planet. One, in 1908 in the Russian region of Tunguska, and the other one just outside Clayton Falls in Nevada, U.S.A. in 1954. The latter crashed fully intact, two miles outside Clayton Falls, after being struck by lightning and crashing down a mountainside during a very bad storm. Its occupant used the disguise mode to make it look like a big rock that had been washed down the mountain after three days of heavy rainfall. It just missed Jeff Riker’s house by a hundred and forty feet. The spacecraft’s occupant could make himself invisible to the human eye so old Jeff couldn’t see him but the alien was using his tools to try and repair his spacecraft. By using the tools Jeff knew he existed but when Jeff died ten years after the incident, he left his house and all its contents to his twenty-five-year-old niece. She would go through the same thing until she accidently shoots the alien in the arm. What follows next is a comedy of errors by the woman trying to keep the secret from everyone in town that he is, actually, an alien.

It’s all fiction, but I hope you enjoy reading it.

Thomas Anderson

The Characters for back tracking references.

Characters

Linda Robinson (Writer)Plex/Deacon(Alien)

Liz Reynolds (Diner Owner)Tom Willis (Sheriff)

Dave Newton (Deputy)Billy Dean (Mechanic)

Tony Ferris (Mechanic)Levi Goldstein (Jeweller)

Joe Rankin (Dress Shop Owner)

Professor Tim Watson (Naturalist)

Old Moses (Gold Prospector/ Town Character)

Rod 1/ Rod 2 (Rankin’s Dummies)

Tug Wilson (Drug Store Owner)

Jeremiah Longhorn(Attorney)

Koenig (2nd Alien)

Old Henry (Town Dump Minder)

Harvey & Marvin Kyle(Bootleggers)

Sandra Wyatt (Waitress)

Betty Rae (Cat House Owner)

Escorts

Julie Gregg Candy Schaeffer Bamby Moir

Rose Lee Misty Raine Miranda Faith

O’Neal}

Carmody} Generals

Parker     }

Bloemburg}

Karpov} Psychiatrists

Altmann}

Asa Randall (Judge)

Efram Boyd(Green Beret)

Anson (O’Neal’s Driver)

Keeri & Lyla(Alien Women)

Glossary of Alien Words

Izmal Alien time period equal to 5 years

Groks Worthless to Aliens – Diamonds to us

PylomarAliens’ Planet

U.R.Q.7.Useful Resources Quadrant 7 (Earth)

N.R.Q.7.Nominal Resources Quadrant 7 (Moon)

O.R.Q.7.Outstanding Resources Quadrant 7 (Mars)

Light TimeDay

Moon TimeNight

Cori} On board Spacecraft

Lori} Computers

DetectVisible

UndetectInvisible

The Great Expanse of All Forms The Universe

To make non-exist (to them)Death

To stay exist (to them)Life

R.O.D.1.Rankin’s 1st stolen dummy

R.O.D.2.Rankin’s 2nd stolen dummy

Bebrat Brain Stimulant

Aliens

Plex with lost memory

Deaconwhen memory returns

Koenig                stranded on Earth since 1908. Their life span is much longer than ours by decades

Green TicketsMoney

Happy JuiceBootleg booze

Happy FuelRocket fuel made from alcohol

Ticky TickTypewriter

Landcraft Motor car

VolcorAlien word for voltage stabiliser

Chapter 1

The Inheritance for Linda

As I drive along the highway, desert either side of me, I wonder why an uncle I hardly knew left his house and all its contents to me in a will just before he died. My name is Linda Robinson and I write for a living but up until now nothing to make me rich and famous, still I live in hope! 1964 could be a good year if I play my cards right!

I’m driving to a little town in Nevada called Clayton Falls, the town where my uncle Jeff lived. I have a letter in my bag that was sent to me by his attorney. As I drive into town and along its main street, it looks a sleepy little place, not much activity. The fact is, its Tuesday and nothing happens anywhere on a Tuesday!

She parks her car and makes a bee-line to his office and enters the building.

Good morning, my name is Miss Linda Robinson. I have a letter here from Mr Wightman

She hands the letter to the secretary.

Ah, yes, Miss Robinson, please follow me

They both walk to an office at the back of the building

Tom, this is Miss Robinson

Thank you, Carol, please take a seat. Your uncle left everything to you, even though he only met you twice as a little girl and you are his last relative living. The property is two miles outside of town. It’s called Curiosity Rock, you will see why when I take you out to see it. Do you have any questions to ask me?

No, Mr Wightman

Then I’ll drive you out to view your new house. If you wish to sell it, I will be happy to do the honours for you. Shall we go?

As they leave the office he says, Carol, I’ll be gone for an hour, just go to lunch.

O.K. Tom, thank you

They drive along the highway till they reach a turn off and drive up a dusty little road until they reach the house. He opens the door and they walk inside. As they wander from room to room he tells her,

If you sell the place you will get a good few bucks

They go into the garage, every tool you can think of is on racks all around the garage and there is a pick-up truck there as well.

Come, I’ll show you how it got its name in 1954

They walk outside and she looks at the groove where the rock slid down the mountain.

God, it just missed the house!

I’ll run you back into town and we will finalize the paperwork

I still don’t know why they call it Curiosity Rock

Well, Linda, every asshole in Nevada has an opinion about that rock. Some said it was a meteor, one nut even said it could be a spaceship!

They drive back into town and with everything concluded she strolls over to the Diner.

Hello, can I have a coffee and a donut please?

Sure, honey, just passing through?

No, I’ve just inherited my uncle Jeff’s house, he left it to me.

Well, good for you, honey. It was a shame about old Jeff, went loco at the end

What do you mean, loco?

He went clean off his head! a voice behind her says. He was off his rocker, plum crazy! He talked about demons, ghosts and ghouls. He turned into a nutcase. Some of the townsfolk wanted him locked up in an asylum. If you’re going to stay there, you’ll go the same way. Some folks think the place is haunted

Shut up, Mose says Liz, don’t listen to him, he’s the prophet of doom. What’s your name, honey? My name is Liz

It’s Linda, Linda Robinson

A handsome guy comes in, Hi Liz, coffee, if you don’t mind. Well hello, darlin’ are you just passing through?

No. I might be going to live here, I’ve just taken over my uncle Jeff’s house called Curiosity Rock

Yeah, it was a shame. He was a nice old guy.

Did you think he was crazy?

Well I think he imagined a lot of things. He would accuse people of stealing his tools from his garage but every time Tom went out to see him everything was in place! I think it was senile dementia setting in

Liz asks, Where’s that asshole, Billy?

He’s working on the Doc’s car

Linda leaves the Diner and drives back out to her newly acquired House. She wanders around, she walks into the garage and looks about. There are tools missing from the wall racks and she tells herself, They were all there an hour ago, or am I going crazy? She walks into the house and the writing bureau attracts her attention. After making herself a coffee she sits down and has a rummage through the drawers. She pulls out some of her uncle’s diaries and takes them into the lounge, kicks off her shoes, lifts her feet onto the sofa and starts to read the first one.

March 16th, 1954, is this rain ever going to end? Three days solid. I thought the whole mountain was falling on top of me last night. My whole house shook. When I looked outside in the morning this bloody big rock had been washed down. In all the years I’ve lived here I’ve never seen a rock that size. Still it’s there and nothing or nobody will be moving it, that’s for sure

She puts that one down and picks up another one,

"May 8th, 1954. I’m losing my mind! My radio has gone but my house hasn’t been broken into. All my money is still on the kitchen table. I noticed some tools missing but the next day they were all back again. I think I should cut down on the booze"

She smiles and says to herself Well I wasn’t drunk earlier! every tool was in place but now some are on the missing list. Well, I may ask myself, do I sell or do I stay?

She locks up for the night, picks up her case and retires upstairs to bed. She starts to undress putting everything at the foot of the bed. Then takes of her stockings and puts them on the back of the chair but gets an uneasy feeling, thinking she is not alone. She looks around the room, walks over to the bedroom door, locks it and climbs into bed hoping to get a good night’s sleep.

The next morning, the sun shining in the window wakes her up. She gets out of bed, stretches, yawns then looks at her clothes at the foot of the bed and exclaims Wow! No way! How can my dress be on top of my slip when I took the dress off first? I know I put my stockings on the back of the chair, so why are they now on the bed?

Then she yells I’m not afraid of you so don’t think you can scare me away, you bastard! as she makes her way to the bathroom. she opens the bedroom door. Christ, I locked that last night! After going downstairs, she puts the coffee pot on, looks in the fridge but there’s nothing to eat, once she drinks her coffee, she lifts her car keys, curiosity makes her go to the garage, sure enough, all the tools are back in their proper place.

She calls I’ll say this for you, asshole, at least your tidy, then jumps in her car and drives to town thinking to herself, ‘I’d better not say a word about this or they will think I’m crazy like my poor uncle Jeff!’

In the Diner, she sits at the counter. Liz asks, So, honey what’ll it be?

Two slices of toast and a coffee, please

A voice calls, Well, missy did you see any ghosts or ghouls last night?

No old timer, it was very quiet and peaceful

I still say you’ll go crazy like old Jeff!

Liz calls over, Shut it, Mose

His reply is Bah, fiddlesticks

Don’t listen to him, honey, this town is so quiet everybody wants something to happen

The Sheriff comes in, Hi Liz, scrambled eggs and coffee, please

Sure, Tom, this is Linda, the new owner of Curiosity Rock

Hello

Hi, Sheriff, did you think my uncle was crazy?

No, Linda, I would say more troubled than crazy. It was like he was trying to tell me something without sounding crazy, if you get my meaning

Yes, Sheriff, I think I do

Well, Linda, me and my deputy, Dave, will come out now and again just to make sure you feel part of the community

Thank you, Sheriff,

Just call me Tom, Linda

Thank you, Tom

Paying Liz for her breakfast she decides to go shopping for food to take home and once she does this, it’s back to the house. She looks in the garage and laughs, again there are tools missing. As she puts everything away, she makes herself a coffee then walks back to the writing bureau to look at the diaries. In one diary she gets the shock of her life. It reads,

July 22nd, 1955. I think I now know what I’m dealing with. I went to the movies last night the movie was The Invisible Man. I think this is what my tormentor is, although I use the word loosely, as I have not been harmed in any way. I think whatever it is just wants to survive, just like me

She puts down the diary, then thinks, Yes, that could be a possibility. Last night I thought I was not the only one in my room, but anyway, I saw a rifle in the cupboard, I’ll dig it out, just in case Then starts looking for it. Once it’s all cleaned she looks for ammunition but can’t find any.

I’ll go into town and buy some she thinks, I can also have some lunch while I’m at it!

She heads for the gun shop first and buys a box of ammunition then ambles over to the Diner.

Liz asks, So, Honey, how are you liking life out at the rock?

Jesus, Liz, you make it sound like I’m living on Alcatraz!

I’m sorry, Linda, it did sound like that, didn’t it, what’s the box of bullets for? Are you planning a war?

No, Liz, it will just make me feel safer

She has lunch and returns home. As the afternoon passes she decides to take a walk down by the lake. She sits on a rock and talking aloud says, I’ve got seventeen dollars and sixty cents to my name. No job prospects. I think I’ll have to sell this place but it’s so peaceful here I’d love to stay forever

She walks back up to the house and starts to think about dinner. She looks in the fridge and exclaims, My milk! I’ve not drunk or used half a pint since this morning

She loads the rifle, walks outside and fires shots across the front of the house until the gun is empty. She is astonished to see a figure materialise and fall in a heap down by the lake. She drops the gun and runs down to the water’s edge. A voice cries, Don’t make me non-exist! I mean you no harm

Linda helps him up. Who are you? there was nobody there when I fired the gun

She takes him to the house and removes his tunic, You’re lucky it’s only a flesh wound She bathes and bandages it.

He asks, What is lucky?

In turn she asks, Who are you? Do you come from Mars?

What is lucky? What is Mars?

She falls back in the kitchen chair,

Fuck, this is going to be hard work, I can tell. I’m going to regret firing that bloody gun!

He walks to the sink and takes a drink of water.

Linda says, I see you know your way around. Were you in my bedroom last night? and points her finger upwards.

Yes he nods, I wanted to find out who you were. The last humanoid ceased to exist. They came and took him away after I signalled to them in the populated area

How did you do that?

I start fire with dead plant life, they come, find humanoid lying, ceased to exist, take him away and lock up house. I take over house until you come then move back into spacecraft

So where is this spacecraft?

He leads her to the door and points at the big rock, That is where is, was shot down by one of your ray guns!

Linda thinks back to the diary, No, you were struck by a lightning bolt. This planet does not have ray guns

What is planet?

Oh God, please, help me

She makes coffee for them, he takes a drink, It needs white powder in it She hands him the sugar bowl and he puts in two spoonsful, drinks some then nods with approval.

She asks, Why can I see you now, if you can turn invisible?

I don’t understand ‘invisible’!

Well, you asshole, I couldn’t see you in my room watching me undress last night

Ah, I was undetect, I was curious about humanoid of different colours

Now Linda is puzzled, What do you mean different colours?

You had white head, white arms and black legs. Plex say, how can this be? It was only when I inspect what you wear, Plex finds out it’s only a covering so fine

My black stockings, so that’s what had you baffled

Yes, when I take non-functional humanoid from populated area, it had nothing like that on

Linda is disgusted, How could you do such a thing!

It was difficult, Plex nearly go non-exist bringing it back here!

Linda gets up, I have to go and leaves him sitting alone in the kitchen. She drives into town and heads straight for the Diner.

Liz can see Linda is a bit flustered.

Are you okay, honey?

No, Liz, I’ve got to see the funeral director about a missing body

Again, Liz asks, Are you sure you are okay? There have been no missing bodies here Then bursts out laughing, Linda asks, What’s so funny?

Liz blurts out About eight years ago, somebody stole a dummy out of out of Joe Rankin’s Dress shop window. It was wearing a yellow floral mini dress and a wide brimmed hat she starts laughing again, Rankin was the butt of jokes for about dummies leaving him to get better jobs and better pay. It was just priceless

Both girls were laughing when the Sheriff walks in, Well, I see you girls are having fun. What’s the joke?

Missing persons, Tom. Rankin’s dummy. You never did solve that one, did you?

No Liz, that was one mystery. The hat was found near Jeff’s place. He let us search around, he even let us search his house but we found nothing. Rankin even offered a reward but still it didn’t turn up. That dummy vanished from the face of the Earth!

Linda returns home, Plex is nowhere to be seen. She calls, but nothing happens, however a little later he appears, Is Linda still sad at Plex? I did not know what I do wrong. I go leave Linda in peace

No, Plex stay. The fault was Linda’s. I thought you had stolen a real dead humanoid!

Why would Plex want to steal real non-exist humanoid? No place to put wiring or motors to make work!

Now Linda is puzzled, I’m sorry Plex, Linda doesn’t understand

He walks up to her and takes her by the hand. He leads her across to the Rock and presses a button on his belt. A door opens and they walk inside. She looks about at bits and pieces are laid out on the floor in an orderly fashion. He presses another button and the dummy starts to move. He tells her

This is my only friend on U.R.Q.7. till Linda make me break thought concentration

She asks, What is U.R.Q.7.?

He replies. Here, where I now am. What do your people call it?

We call it Planet Earth

Ah, Planet Earth, I see

O.K. Plex, let’s go back over to the house, we will have to talk. Are there any more of you kicking around?

Plex not copy what Linda mean by kicking around?

Okay, are you alone?

I am, but I have friends in ship that I can’t remember names of.  They built into craft and can’t leave

Now you’ve lost me

They fly craft, make sure Plex okay, but when get struck both cease to function after stop at bottom of mountain

Now I get it! computer voices! It’s computers that fly your spacecraft?

He nods, I can’t repair ship without them

So, your name is Plex?

He astonished her when he says, No, just before I struck mountain, the restart codes from both computers were implanted inside my head but I struck my head on the console when the spacecraft stopped at the foot of the mountain. When I come to I can’t remember anything, not even my own name. so, I just call me Plex. It is a short name and easy to remember. I fear I am doomed to stay forever. If we crash on any star, our orders are to self-destruct but Plex want to stay exist in Great Expanse of All Forms. When I come down mountain, I see light in this dwelling and say to myself Why should they go non-exist because of my misfortune?"

Okay, now I understand non-exist. We call it death

As you seen in my craft for izmals, I try to repair but it is hopeless

I’m sorry, Plex, you’ve lost me again. I don’t understand izmal

It is our time periods on Pylomar where Plex come from.

I see, just like our days and nights

Yes, he nods, Light rise, moon time

Okay, Plex, here’s the script, we will have to keep you secret

Can you explain script and secret? Plex not understand.

Well you did it for years by not letting last humanoid see you

Ah, secret, undetect

Yes, that’s right

What about ‘script’?

Oh that, just skip it!

Plex not understand ‘skip it’?

It just means forget it, it’s not important

Okay, Plex copy

Can you show Linda how you go undetect?

He disappears in front of her eyes then reappears. A van is coming up the road, it’s the postman and Linda tells Plex to do his undetect act.

Hi, are you the new owner?

Yes

It was a shame about crazy Jeff, but you’ll go the same way

Gee, thanks a lot, asshole! He hands her the mail and leaves.

She nearly has a heart attack when she opens the first letter it’s the electricity bill $250.00! she yells, Plex!

He appears, Man go?

What is this she screams, a bill for 250 bucks. What do you need all that electricity for, you asshole?

My survival on U.R.Q.7. I have to regenerate my body for this atmosphere. I can only stay out so long before my blood starts to thicken. If I don’t, Plex go non-exist.

That’s all very well, but I’ve only got seventeen bucks to my name. I can’t pay this, if they cut off my power, you will become non-exist!

Plex not understand, what is buck?

She digs into her purse and brings out a dollar bill

This is a ‘buck’ but Linda doesn’t have enough!

He jumps up Ah green tickets. You get in box in wall behind that and points to a picture.

She walks over to it trying to find out how to get to the safe. Once the safe is in view she says, That’s all very well but how do I get into the damn thing?

Plex says, six left, four right, two left

Once she does this the safe opens and she is amazed at what she finds, Gee whiz, where did all this come from as she takes out bundles of cash.

Plex says, Happy juice! he make it up the mountain. I follow him, stay undetect, watch him make it. He talks to himself, I look about then say to myself, what chance Plex have? this humanoid alone on his own star. After he go Plex stay and drink happy juice. Next light rise, unhappy juice! Head sore, stay in spacecraft bunk all time until better

So, my uncle was into bootlegging. Well, Plex, now I’ll go into town, pay this bill and buy a load of food Linda notices a change in his attitude What’s wrong?

He starts to speak quietly as though he was being watched, How they know how much power Plex use?

Linda takes him to the meter, That’s how

He studies it then says, Plex give you something to slow it down, not cost so many green tickets. Leave it to Plex

Can I ask you a question Plex. How do you pay for your power?

No one pay. Everything done for greater life for all

Not on this planet, Jack. They screw you every fucking chance they get

Who is Jack? Plex asks

It’s, just, skip it Plex

Ah, Plex copy, skip it!

Right, Linda’s going to town for grub. Tonight, my alien friend, we dine well!

She drives into town, pays the bill, buys a load of food and cigarettes, returns home and starts to prepare dinner. Once everything is cooking, she walks over to the writing bureau, saying to herself I wonder if there is anything about Rankin’s dummy? Liz said about eight years ago so that would make it 1956 She looks out the diary for that year and sure enough, there it is! The entry reads,

October 10th, 1956. They say I’m crazy! What sick son of a bitch would want to steal a dummy with a yellow floral dress on it? I bet my little invisible friend has got something to do with it! if ever I clap eyes on that fucker I will blow his head off! He’ll never hump another dummy

Linda laughs after reading the entry. Then Plex appears sending her into hysterics at the thought of him humping a dummy.

He says, Those make Linda happy, what are they?

My uncle’s diaries, it says here he would have liked you to show yourself to him

Did he? I’m sorry I didn’t do it

She starts laughing again, So was he

Then the deputy walks in holding the rifle and a handful of empty cartridges.

Is everything Okay ma’am?

Yes, It’s Dave, isn’t it?

Yes ma’am, Dave Newton. Have you had any trouble here? as he puts the shell casings on the coffee table You shouldn’t go leaving things like this lying around. Were you talking to someone?

No, Dave, just reading aloud that’s all

Fine. Tom told me to look in while I was passing

Thank you, Dave

Well ma’am, I’ll leave you in peace, goodbye

Goodbye Dave

As he drives off, Plex reappears,

Every time men with side-arms come to see humanoid, Plex get uneasy feeling. Think they come to look for me, to make me non-exist. Heart thump like crazy

The word is kill

It doesn’t matter what word you use, it means the same thing

Don’t worry my alien hero, Linda wouldn’t let anyone kill you She lights a cigarette and he tells her, You should not put poison in your body

She tells him, You just worry about men with guns and leave Linda alone

Once Plex eat, I go regenerate and see Linda at light time.

Okay, Plex, but try and say day time when its light and night time when its dark

Plex try to remember

They have their meal and then Plex leaves. Linda continues to read the diaries until bedtime

The next morning Linda up, showered and half-dressed, sitting at the dressing table putting on her stockings when Plex suddenly materialises beside her. She jumps,

You bastard, don’t you know a woman’s bedroom is sacred!

Plex disappears without a word. She finished dressing and then walks downstairs to make coffee. She calls,

Plex, coffee, come and get it

He appears, Is Linda still sad at Plex?

No Plex, Linda is not mad at you, it was just the fright you gave me by suddenly becoming visible, I wasn’t expecting it

Plex not do it no more

Fine. Let’s just forget it. What’s on the agenda today?

Plex not understand ‘Agenda’?

Oh God, why me?

Tell me, please

Okay, my mysterious Hector, what have you been doing for the last 3,000 days or in your case, moons orbits

Ah, now get ‘Agenda’. Plex work on craft

At last, some progress. Linda is now going into town, if anyone calls you know the drill

Plex not know what ‘Drill’ mean

Just go undetect, you dope

Plex know that, crazy Linda

She walks to her car, shaking her head. At the Diner Liz asks, Are you okay, Linda? You look stressed

No Liz, I’m fine. Scrambled eggs, please, can I have a coffee too?

The Sheriff comes in, Hi Linda, everything okay out by?

Yes, Tom, why do you ask?

Dave told me your rifle was lying on the porch with some shell cases beside it

Yes Tom, I was just letting off some steam, that’s all

Yeah, well, Linda those things ain’t toys

I know, Tom, I promise I’ll be careful

Old Moses comes in, Whatever’s on the stove I’ll have it

Why?

Because I could eat a horse

You look like a horse, you old goat!

Bah, fiddlesticks!

Linda pays for her breakfast and leaves. As she walks into the house Plex comes into view.

Christ, I wish you wouldn’t do that! You frighten the shit out of me!

Plex sorry, just like to talk, been too long in quietness

Well at least you are getting used to the language

Yes, Linda, I would love a sandwich

Me and my big mouth! Okay Einstein, what would you like on it?

Tombolas and feet

Ham and tomato, it is

She goes into the kitchen and makes a few sandwiches There you go, help yourself to tombolas and feet

Thank you, my friend

Now, Plex, we will have to do something about your clothes. You look like Dan Dare and stick out like a melon in a box of lemons. Let’s go upstairs and see if any of Jeff’s clothes fit you

A little later they came back down. Well Plex, at least now you look like an earthling

Yes, Linda, don’t look like alien asshole, look like U.R.Q.7. asshole now

She just shakes her head.

Please, Linda Robinson, can Plex speak plain?

Yes, by all means, please do

If I could run a cable underground from generator in garage to spacecraft and get power flowing now I am detect, I will not have to induce you into a state of deep sleep by putting pill in your good night drink every night

Oh, so that’s how Linda sleep like a baby at night so you can use your generator! You know something? You can be a right sneaky bastard if you want to be

He looks up at the sky and smiles Plex not hurt only friend

I don’t know what to say Plex. You make me feel quite humble

Yes, Linda, you do mumble, but Plex have good earsight

She smiles and he says I like your smiley face. When I see that, Plex know he not asshole

They sit on the porch eating dinner and trying to get to know each other. As the sun starts to go down both go inside. Linda makes the nightcap coffee and as she leans forward to pick up her cigarettes and lighter from the coffee table he drops a pill into her coffee.

He says, Plex go know, see Linda at rise light time

As he walks out he thinks to himself, I give her ten earth minutes then go into action

Chapter 2

Linda’s near nervous breakdown

Once again Linda wakes up feeling great. She looks out the room window, down at the big rock If I hadn’t shot him, I’d never have thought that that was a spacecraft After showering and dressing she walks downstairs.

Ah, Linda up, how was your night of rest?

Fine, and you, my space travelling friend?

Linda make fun of Plex. Not fly craft for two izmals, stuck on U.R.Q.7.

She had a little think to herself,

Well, if you crashed here in 1954, one of your izmals must be 5 years?

That would be right. This is for you. And hands her a little box.

Thank you Plex, that is so sweet. What is it?

It is the device to slow down your electric meter

Gee, thanks, Plex

He cannot understand the disappointment on her face, Save you green tickets with this

I know Plex, I’m sorry

Is Linda okay?

Yes, Plex. Linda doesn’t mean to sound ungrateful

I know, Linda your frail humanoid body was not built for such stress

You should know, Plex, you’ve been stuck on this planet for 10 years! Can I ask why you came here in the first place?

Yes, for izmals we go around Great Expanse of All Forms collecting materials for the greater good of Pylomar. This section we call quadrant 7 he points upwards Many of what your species would call planets, we visit many. Some we can’t. Too many stars, can’t visit all

I see, we call it the universe. We have the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Venus and Pluto. That is as far as we can see with a telescope in the National Observatory

One day, Linda, your species will advance and travel outward in the Great Expanse of all Forms and see all the wonders. All what you would call triumphs, but then, there are tragedies as well. Many izmals ago I lost a friend on U.R.Q.7.  we monitored it until it exploded on the other side of this star

I’m sorry, Plex

Why you sorry? You did not make that craft go non-exist with my friend

Right, I’m going into town. You don’t smoke, do you need razor blades?

What are razor blades

"To shave with. To remove hair