Chapter 1
The stars are vast and very bright in space. A young, human woman is walking back and forth on a spaceship, waiting for the alien she has to have dinner with. This ship has been floating in Earth’s atmosphere for months now and the government wanted to figure out what did the aliens want. Determined to spy on the beings and uncover their secrets, the U.S. government sent a member of their NASA division to gather information.
When the alien ship extended an invitation for dinner, the government jumped at the opportunity. Sophia, who has been studying space for 12 years, was surprised that the government trusted her with such a mission. Her job: to determine their plans and to see if they are friend or foe. Now, she waits, watching the Earth from the stars. Sophia is still in a daze by the mission but is in an even more daze by seeing the Earth from this view. She dreamed of what the planet would look like in space and now she has that luxury.
Earth looks so small from here. She thought to herself, All of its blues, greens, and whites were so visible up here. The astronauts are very lucky to see this side of Earth that no one can. I cannot wait for one day to wake up and go to sleep with this view alongside the astronauts.
To focus on the view, Sophia didn’t hear the sound of the doors opening and a man, looking her age, walking up behind her. When Sophia turned around, she was stunned at what she was looking at. The man looked human and 32 years old, but the air around him was strange.
“It’s a pleasure to meet you. My name is Caden.” The man introduced himself, “and you are?” he asked.
“My name is Sophia and it’s nice to meet you, too.” She replied back while shaking his hand. “Wow, you look nothing as I expected.”
Caden couldn’t help but chuckle at Sophia’s openness to his appearance. “It’s fine. I wanted to appear human, so you may be comfortable around me for the dinner.” He stated.
Relieved by this, but still slightly questioning what he truly looked like, Sophia brushed the thought away and focused on getting to know the alien and perhaps his people’s intentions.
Once introductions were finished, Caden lead Sophia to the dinner area, where there were two chairs around a large table, full of food. Some foods Sophia has never seen before and some foods she was surprised to see, like duck and steak. Cade pulled the chair out for her to sit and she did. Then, he sat in his chair next to her. They began gathering food, putting it on their plates and eating, while conducting a formal conversation with each other.
Sophia discovered that Caden and the other members of the ship came to Earth to study its atmospheric pressure, water quality and to collect soil samples to understand the geographical and physical buildup of the Earth. While there, Caden further explained that they also studied Earth’s culture, such as media, politics, and dating norms.
“Everything about Earth is so confusing, especially your mating rituals and courtships,” Caden stated, remembering the complexities of Earth’s courtship rituals that he researched.
Sophia wasn’t fully surprised by that as she was never the one interested in dating or had many suitors. “You’re not the only one. Some people on Earth are just as confused about dating as you,” she said to him, “including me.” She lightly laughed at herself for that last part.
According to Caden, on his planet, there were few females, so the idea of dating was replaced with duels over who was the strongest male. Their population remains steady, but birth rates were lacking in the birth of females.
Sophia noticed the sad expression on Cade’s face and felt bad for him. Sensing Sophia’s emotion, Cade wore a smile, “Don’t look so sad for me. It’s been the way of my world, as for other worlds in the galaxy, for a long time.” He said to reassure her on the sad topic.
The evening grew long with questions and one learning more about the other’s life. Sophia learned that Cade was a researcher for his world, has 2 brothers, and is 234 years old, apparently, time moves fast in Cade’s homeworld.
Cade learned about Sophia’s work, her interest in space, her family which consists of her younger sister and mother since her father passed away. Sophia kept asking about the other worlds in the Solar System and what they were like. The possibility of interacting with other worlds thrilled Sophia and wanted nothing more than to learn about them all.
Despite enjoying the evening, Sophia remembered her mission and went to go to the restroom. Cade kindly pointed out its location and Sophia went her way.
Sophia looked for some form of clue or hint buried within the high-tech spacecraft that Caden and his people have called home for the short term. She went through rooms, compartment spaces, anything that could help her. But, the technology on the craft was so advance that Sophia worried that if she find anything, she wouldn’t be about to access it or transfer it to any Earthy technology.
During her search for clues, Sophia found an unmarked door and went inside. In there, she found files, not digital files, but paper files. How odd. Sophia thought, Why would aliens have paper files lying around? At first, Sophia believed that they were part of the aliens’ research of Earth’s customs as Caden was talking about before.
However, after looking closely at the documents, Sophia noticed that some of the documents were looking into human physiological and biological makeup, and there were some maps with red marks over major cities throughout the world.
Fearing potential world domination, Sophia tried to contact the government through her two-way radio that astronauts use to communicate back to base, but couldn’t reach anyone.
Sophia felt something wrap around her arms and pinned her to the wall. She soon realized that they were tentacles, coming from a shadowy figure in the doorway. Walking into the light was Caden; his eyes shining bright blue and with two tentacles growing out of his back.
Still holding Sophia in place, Cade walks up to her, “Sneaking around someone’s home while having dinner with them is quite disrespectful.” he said, “I thought humans had a better sense of respect, but knowing your planet’s record, I put too hope in your kinds’ abilities.”
Sophia struggled to get free from the tentacles. Her attempts were futile, which earned her a light laugh from Caden, “I knew that you were a spy and that you planned to look around to figure out what they were planning.” He said, “That’s why I planted those fake documents in this room. To test to see if you would fall for it.” He continued, smirking, knowing that he had the upper hand.
Deciding to reveal his true figure, Caden peeled away at the human external shell and revealed a bright blue being, almost comprised of nothing but energy, with six other tentacles coming out of his back. Sophia was shocked at his appearance; he didn’t look like the traditional hideous monster but was rather a lean, strange-looking, and dangerous male.
Shaking off the daze from taking in Caden’s true appearance, Sophia asked, “Why? Why are you doing this?”
Caden’s facial expression grew indifferent and simply replied as if it were common knowledge, “Impregnation. That’s why.” Cade and the others on the ship planned to take over the world, use the males as slaves and impregnate the females to grow their population. He continued to tell her that their first plan has been taken into effect. The first plan was to kidnap Earth’s world leaders and use them to establish a new order for them to continue with the plan. At this moment, the world leaders were being taken onto another spacecraft, that was in stealth mode, ready to be sent and arrive in the main spacecraft.
Sophia shook her head, unable to believe that the world was going to be taken over by aliens. Beings that she once found to be interesting and would hope to be able to form some sort of partnership with for future space explorations. Caden walked closer to Sophia and slowly, but clearly said, “You will be impregnated by me and you will become my partner.”
Disturbed, Sophia tried again to fight away Caden, but the effort was useless as Caden held her in mid-air and carried her to his room to perform the impregnation task.
While being carried there, Sophia can hear Caden, speaking while she struggled, “You will enjoy it and you will be open to the new world as long as you stay by my side.” The door opened before them, “And besides, you will finally be able to wake up and go to sleep to the view you so badly dreamed of seeing.”
They walk inside the room and the door closes behind them, sealing Sophia’s and the world’s fates.
***********************Elsewhere***************************
It was a quiet night for U.S. president Jessica Hall as she had just completed a potential bill to help with the financial crisis that is occurring in the country. Some of her staff had gone home for the night as it was 10:30 pm on this clear Friday night.
President Hall reached for her phone and called her husband, Frank, “Hi, sweetie. I just wanted to let you know that I’m finishing up some work and will be home soon. Oh, Chinese tonight. Perfect, see you soon”. She hung up the phone and begun to head towards the door.
As she walks down the hallway towards the exit, President Hall notifies her security team that she will be leaving soon. As she walks down one hallway and another towards the main hall, she sees only two members of her team present, waiting for her. She found this quite odd as she usually had a total of ten people ready to bring her home, but she assumed the others were preparing her car.
“Good evening, Mrs. President. Your vehicle is being prepared and will be here momentary.” said one of the security guards.
Jessica thanked them and began to wait for her car.
While waiting, Jessica began to note how quiet the room was; she understood that the security team should have a quiet and low profile, but there is no threat present and they can freely speak to her as some commonly do. However, these two didn’t even talk, only gave her side glances.
Determined to confirm her suspicions, Jessica asked, “Could you two please state your code of security team to me? It’s main protocol for members of the security to state their codes before taking the president anywhere.”
The two guards remained silent and didn’t answer her. At then, Jessica knew that something was wrong. And so, did the strange men before her. Before Jessica had a chance to alert the other members of the security team, the two men removed their uniforms and flesh to reveal two bright blue beings, comprised of nothing but energy, and with eight tentacles coming out of their backs. One of them used their tentacles to grab the president’s arms, hindering her from reaching her cell phone.
Struggling to get free, President Hall saw the other being, who wasn’t holding her, walk towards her. He looked her in the eye and with a sense of indifference said, “You’ll be coming with us and will meet our leader as well as the other leaders of your planet.”
As they leave the White House, Jessica begins to recall the meeting she had with NASA, the CIA, and the FBI about the arrival of these aliens and how their spacecraft was floating, visibly in the atmosphere. She, just like everyone else in the room, wanted to know what the beings wanted and if they were a threat. They were surprised that the aliens extended an invitation to have dinner with them and sent a young woman named Sophia to investigate and gain knowledge of the aliens. Was this because of the efforts to spy on them that triggered this response or were we’re fooled by the kind gesture? President Hall wondered.
A spacecraft appeared out of nowhere from the sky. The craft must’ve been cloaked, the president thought. Her captors carried her inside the spacecraft and flew into the atmosphere. As they walked through the craft, Jessica saw how high-tech and futuristic the craft is and how advanced these aliens are.
They come to an unmarked door and walk through, seeing other world leaders standing around, surrounded by individuals similar to the U.S. president’s captors. The alien released and pushed her into the group of other world leaders, ranging from Britain, Russia, Canada, China, Mexico, and Japan, just to name a few.
Before any of the leaders had a chance to speak, an individual, similar to the blue beings, but instead of blue, the individual was a mix of pink and yellow, walking forward to face the group of confused Earth leaders.
“Hello, I am Queen Airen of Aagneixs.” The pink and yellow being introduced herself. “You all are now under the control of the Aagneixs. You will turn over your ruling powers to us and submit to our rule.” Queen Airen stated, with a smooth, yet authoritative tone of voice to the group of confused and slightly frighten Earth leaders.
The Canadian prime minister approached and asked, “Why should we turn over anything to you? Especially our ruling powers. What is the reason for your presence here?”
Queen Airen simply smiled, “We are here to impregnate your species females. We have no use for your males, so we’ll simply enslave them. In addition, we plan to rule over the Earth and its resources. Does that answer satisfy you?” The queen told the group of leaders. They all stood shocked and afraid of their planet’s future with the statement the Queen gave.
She continued, “You see? Our home planet, Allud, has lost a significant number of females and can no longer produce anymore. As queen, it is my duty to my people to find more females and to spread our rule across the galaxy.”
Anger is all that the world leaders felt and began to revolt and fight the aliens to be set free. However, they failed in doing so, as the aliens were too strong and more powerful than the humans. In addition, the Earth leaders discovered that they are in the atmosphere with no possible way of getting back onto the ground.
With the fighting contained and the sad realization setting in for the Earth people, Queen Airen went on to further explain, “Do not worry. We have already tested our plan to see if a human would be willing to serve under the Aagneixs and it was quite successful.” With a wave of her hand, she ushered in Caden and, to Jessica’s shock, Sophia on the alien’s arm. “We already knew that your kind was attempting to spy on us. So to counter your efforts, we took the spy and used her for our experimentation.” Queen Airen explained.
“Sophia? Why? Why did you do it? Why give in to them?” Jessica asked, not for a moment, believing that Sophia would join with the Aagneixs.
Sophia, in a dream-like state, replied “I am happy to be with Caden and I can’t wait to bring forth our first child.” She looked to Caden with a wholeness, content smile.
At that moment, Jessica knew that the impregnation had happened. Queen Airen called to her aids, “Restrain the humans and bring them to their respected chambers to be either brainwashed or subjected to impregnation.”
As the aliens came towards the leaders, restraining them with their tentacles, Jessica noticed that she wasn’t being moved along with the other leaders. It seemed that the queen wanted a few words with the U.S. leader before she went to her chambers.
Queen Airen called, “Galant.” She called the alien that was restraining the U.S. president. “Do enjoy your new mate. You have worked hard to accomplish great things for our species.”
Galant bowed to the queen, “Thank you, my queen. For your leadership and kind heart.”
Queen Airen bowed to Galant and turned to Caden, “And thank you, Caden. Your work has benefited our people greatly. I wish you nothing, but happiness with your new mate and future child.”
Caden bowed to the queen and said, “Thank you, my queen, for everything.” He turned to leave the room to be with his new mate. As she was leaving, Jessica Hall struggled and fought to be freed, but once inside her chamber, her fate, just like her fellow leaders and the world were sealed.
