The Day I Was Captured
Hi, My name is Sharle-Mei 2397. 2397 is the year I was born in. On my planet your surname is the year you were born in. I am 16 years old and I live on the Planet 15 BCA, at least that's what the humans call it. I just call it home, our planet doesn't really have an official name. The planet is split in two, The Techno side, which is Highly technological and much more advanced than Earth, and The Other side,the other side doesn't really have any technology, the people there mostly live simple lives on farms with small houses and no technology, kind of like earth used to be many years ago, before they discovered technology. The other side is where I live, or at least where I used to live. I currently live on the Techno side with my aunt Jaimie. I've lived with my aunt since I was 11 years old. For the first 10 years of my life I lived on the other side with my grandmother. My parents died when I was a baby. My mother was from planet 15 BCA and my dad was human. The other thing about my planet is that everything and everyone here is in black and white, like one of earth's old movies, I'm the only one who is in colour, the only part of me that isn't in colour is my hair. My hair is white, it's a trait that I inherited from my mom. Nobody except me, my aunt and my grandmother knows that I am part human, I wear heavy makeup every day to disguise me as black and white. The other thing about our planet is that we can communicate telepathically with each other. Many years ago in the year 2020, humans discovered our planet and learned about our telepathic abilities. They tested our DNA and they saw that our DNA could potentially cure some of their Brain sicknesses like Brain cancer and Parkinsons disease, since we never get sick and we don't have any illnesses mental or otherwise. They captured many of us and conducted some kind of experiment,by injecting our blood into the sick humans, but their experiment backfired, and instead of curing their illnesses, they gave people telepathic abilities,but our DNA was never meant to be mixed with sickness, so some the humans that were gravely ill started developing mental illnesses and their new abilities were completely out of control, so out of control powers mixed with mental illness and actual Brain disease spelled out catastrophe and it drove people insane. Earth's scientists have been sending raiding parties for years capturing many of our people,trying to find a person who's DNA carries a potential cure, but there has never been anyone. Until me,because I am half human, my DNA holds the key to a cure. A few years before I was born our government, The council, who resides in the Techno side made a deal with Earth's government, they would allow them to take as many people from the other side as they like without the councils interference, as well as contribute a large sum of money to their experiment, if they leave the Techno side alone. When the next raid came when i was 10, my grandmother, send me away to the Techno side where my Aunt Jaimie, who is the treasurer in the council, lives. I have been living there ever since, I never leave the house without my make-up on, and no one is allowed to know about my parents. Being half human has made me stand out quite a bit in the Techno side, even with my make-up, for one I'm very artistic, and I'm a great swimmer. I also play guitar and I sing and I'm great with language and creative writing. All my talents made the president's daughter Leslie very jealous in school,especially since I inherited a natural talent for IT as well, which is highly prized in the Techno community and Leslie unfortunately didn't inherent a gift for IT. In school she was always put in IT 101, Which is basically Honors IT, University level on earth, and I was in honors IT. I mostly ignored her, she didn't know about my heritage, so she was harmless, or so I thought. This afternoon started out normal, I came home from school and said hello to my aunt, we ate lunch and sat in the living room talking, when we heard banging on the door. "Who could that be aunt Jamie?" I asked. "I don't know I'll go check." she said, then she got up and looked through the peeping hole in the door. As soon as she opened it, she shut it again and hurried over to me and whisper yelled "Shar, go upstairs and pack your things and run as fast as you can, don't stop,it's the people from Earth, someone must have found out about you and told them where to find you." she said. I jumped up and ran upstairs, grabbed a bag and shoved the necessities inside. I heard a commotion downstairs and a gunshot. I knew my aunt was dead. It took everything I had not to scream. I grabbed my bag and claimed out of the window. I jumped to the ground, luckily it wasn't very high, only two meters. As soon as I hit the ground I ran like hell, but I only got a few meters before they caught me. They loaded me into their space ship and locked me in a cell, down in the spaceships dungeons. The ship was pretty technological, well for earth anyway. Our stuff is still more advanced. The cell was windowless, but it had a bulletproof sliding glass door that opened and closed only from the outside with the head guards retina scan. Inside the cell was a sensored light that I could turn on and off, a single bed and a tiny bathroom with a chemical toilet and a sink with hand soap. The bathroom also had a sliding door, but the door was made of steel and was sensored like the light. I lied on the bed for a week and screamed and cried until I couldn't scream anymore, and all my tears were dried up. I was so scared, I didn't know what awaited me on earth. I dreaded to think what will happen to me there. It takes about a month to travel Earth, which gives me some of time to find read their minds, to gather information, so that I could find a way to escape once we get to Earth. Today I decided that I was going to read their minds, I've been on this ship for nearly two weeks and I have a little more than two weeks left to gather information before we reach earth. I closed my eyes and listened for whomever was close enough to me to read their thoughts properly. I found this scientist who was working in the lab near the dungeon. I focused on him and blocked everyone else out. I found a few things about the exits and shift changes from the guards in the lab on earth that could be useful. I quickly memorized it and I looked through his mind to find out about their plans for me and other information about the cure, when I came across a memory from 16 years ago. It was about my parents and how they died. I saw it like i was standing there watching it. My mom was captured when she was 17 and she was taken to the lab and used in the experiments. I saw how scared she was and what she looked like, she was beautiful, she looked like me, only she was completely black and white. I saw how she met my dad, how they talked and how he was kind to her. My dad was so handsome. He had my skin tone and my blue eyes, but his hair was brown. My dad was one of the sick humans,that they wanted to cure. During their time together there, they fell in love and my mom fell pregnant with me. I saw that They overheard the same exact scientist whose memory I was seeing, talk to another scientist about experimenting with me when I was born. I felt so angry, he wanted to dissect a new born baby, it was sick. I saw that a few months later, he went to check on my mother thinking she should be giving birth any day, and saw she was no longer pregnant. She was crying and my dad was comforting her. He assumed that she had a miscarriage and I was never born. My parents must have found a way to smuggle me out when I was born and gave to my grandmother to raise. They were so strong and smart, that must have taken a lot of courage, to give up their child like that. I also saw that they hey died shortly afterward. My dad's body rejected the Alien DNA and it accelerated his illness and he died within days. I saw his suffering and it broke my heart, but it also made me so angry, that they would sacrifice another living being like that, just to be able to create a cure My mother died from losing too much blood during the experiment. I saw her bleed to death. It was horrific, I couldn't unsee it, it send me into another crying fit for two days and made me even more scared, to think what they're going to do to me. I wondered how they even knew about my existence if they thought that I was never born, so I braced myself and looked into someone else's memory, the captain's he was a bit far away, so I had to really concentrate to read his mind but I did it. I found out that it was Leslie who tipped them off about me, she put a hidden camera in the swim team's locker room showers and recorded me with my make-up off during and after my shower after swim practice, before I had the chance to reapply it. She stole Earth's government's contact information from her mother's office and contacted them about me and my whereabouts. I couldn't believe that she would do this to me, I always knew that she was jealous of me, but I never thought that she would stoop this low. I was so mad at her, if I ever see her again, I'm going to give her a piece of my mind.
