CHAPTER 06

Within a few seconds of Sammy blacking out yet again, she slowly starts to regain consciousness when she notices a strange sensation across her body. "Am I floating?" She briefly thinks

Sammy sluggishly opens her eyes, only to realize that the floating feeling wasn't just a feeling, but she is actually suspended mid air at what looks to be a couple hundred feet above the ground, while still encompassed within the brightness of the mysterious light.

Unlike before, the brightness of the light is much more bearable to Sammy, like a hot day when the sun is shining down on you. The brightness doesn't seem to have dimmed at all, but it is no longer causing her any kind of pain.

Sammy attempts to examine her surroundings as she seems to rise to a greater and greater height, she can't help but to feel a sense of comfort and ease over herself, rather than the fear she knows she should be exhibiitng.

Sammy moves her head upward to look above her current position, hoping to determine an end point to this floating when she is instaneously shocked at the sight before her!

Sammy is able to clearly see a massive, circular craft that is silver and reflective in color, but has various circular lights that have to be 5 feet in diameter at least and seem to be evenly spaced across the craft.

As Sammy continues to examine this enormous craft, she starts to think to herself, "How is this possible?....This can't be... It's a FREAKING UFO!!!"

Sammy continues to look around, and she grows closer to the craft. At this time, the craft can't be more than 50 feet above her head and is approaching much more quickly! Within a few seconds, Sammy moves much closer and closer to the craft as an opening in the bottom of the craft appears out of nowhere.

Sammy thinks to herself again, "Th-this is really a UFO! This is really happening right now, isn't it?" Sammy is quickly startled by a response within her head from what she recalls as the red being when it states calmly, "Samantha, We are happy to see the lights are no longer causing you pain...We welcome you to our ship!"

"But, why are you bringing me here?" Sammy quickly asks back puzzedly within her mind

"Samantha, you need not worry.. It will all make sense momentarily!" The red creature responds back in its typical monotone voice."The others are impaitiently waiting to meet you!"

Sammy quickly thinks to herself, "Th the others?" Just as she crosses the threshold within the craft. Immediately after Sammy's feet cleared the gap within the floor, it instanteously closed shut just as quickly as it had opened a few moments earlier. Sammy continues to float for another few seconds before she slowly begins to regain a sense of gravity as her feet make contact with the floor.

With her feet firmly planted on the floor of the craft, Sammy takes a few small steps to regain her composure as she looks around the space she is in. Sammy is in a large open area within the bottom of the ship that is silver in color but contains a mirrored finish similar to chrome. The room is extremely large with smooth, tall walls that run as far as Sammy can see. The room houses what appears to be a fleet of some sort of single person crafts.

Sammy has never seen anything of the sort, other than maybe something similar in a Sci-Fi movie. The best she can describe the small crafts is that they look almost like motorcycles, but rather than having wheels, they seem to have some sort of sled looking rails across the bottom.

Additionally, Sammy can see that there are also 2 small ones, which look to be some sort of rocket type engine on either side of the crafts in the rear of each one. There is also a clear capsule surrounding the seat on each one of the crafts.

As Sammy makes her way through this warehouse type room, she begins to subconsciously count the crafts, but she quickly rethinks it knowing that what from she can see, there have to be at least a 1,000 of these smaller crafts lined up in rows within it, if not more.

Sammy eventually makes her way to the far end of the room to realize that there seems to be no way out of this room. All of the walls are completely smooth and don't seem to contain any doorways or windows, much like she recalled from her first encounter.

Sammy unconciously starts to take her hand and runs it along the smooth, chrome wall thinking that there should be some sort of entry way in this corridor and begins to think to herself, "I wonder how this thing opens?". Just as Sammy completes her thoughts, the smooth wall suddenly separates, creating an entryway into a small cylindrical shaped room.

Sammy immediately thinks to herself again, "Whoa, did that just open because I thought about opening it?...Well, with everything else that's happened.. It's not that strange, I guess.".

Sammy thinks for another moment and decides to enter the small cylindrical shaped room, thinking it must be some sort of elevator. Once again, as soon as Sammy crossed over the threshold of the opening, it immediately closed behind her, creating an air-tight seal.

Sammy glances around the small room to see that it is just like the previous room she was in with smooth, chrome walls, fully encapsulating her.

Sammy thinks to herself, "Hell, it worked before.. May as well try it again.... UP?"

"What the hell?" Sammy thinks to herself, "I said, UP," but once again, nothing happens.

She quickly hears the new, all to familiar voice from the red being come over her stating:

"Samantha, while elevators on Earth may travel upward and downward, things operate slightly different here!"

Sammy quickly responds, "What do you mean and where is here as you may have noticed?"

"As I told you previously, it will all make sense soon, Samantha. Please be patient!" The red being responds and continues on."You have the right idea, but as I told you just now, things are just a little different here. The cylindrical pod you are in is much like an elevator you are used to, but it is called a "Transmissioin Pod.""" While inside a Transmission Pod, unlike an elevator that only travels up and down, he pod, you are in is able to travel in any direction you choose with ease."

"But, how?" Sammy asks back puzzedly while wanting to really take the pod on a test drive!

The red being responds back promptly, "Samantha, in order to get to your desired location, you must simply think the name of that location, rather than just UP."

The red being continues, "I know you are unfamiliar with our ways and terminology, so for now...simply think of the location named "Specialized Control Center" and the Transmissiok Pod will bring you to where I am at on the craft."

Sammy quickly thinks to herself, "What is a "Specialized Control Center' for?"But before she could even finish her thought, the pod ascended at an abnormal speed.

"What the heck," Sammy thinks, "I wasn't ready to move yet, I was just wondering... This telepathy deal definitely takes some getting used to!"

"Don't worry, Samantha, you'll quickly learn."The red being immediately responds

"You knowing all of my thoughts is going to take even more getting used to!" Sammy fires back as the smooth pod abruptly opens up.

Sammy immediately begins to examine her surroundings as she sees the three familiar beings not far from her. Once again, she has found herself in another large room with smooth, chrome like walls. This room seems to be slightly different than the ones before.

Behind where the beings are situated is a large triangular shape maybe 10 feet long on each side and is colored slightly different than the rest of the room. The triangular anomaly is more of a matte gray, smokey color.

"This is the Specializsd Control Center? it doesn't look like much!" Sammy thinks to herself

"Samanrha, as you may have noticed, looks can be deceiving." The red being interjects as the three beings in unison point their hands towards the triangle.

As they point towards the triangle, much like before, their long, chopstick like fingers begin extending simataneously. Unlike before, their fingers aren't aimed towards Sammy's head, but instead the red ones finger seems to be heading to the top point of the triangle, the green to the bottom left, and the blue to the. bottom right.

Just as Sammy starts to think of the steangness she is witnessing, all three fingers simataneously touch their intended points on the triangle, the words "Access Granted" can be heard within Sammy's head as the triangle turns from a matte gray color, to what looks like a topographical map of Rigley.

"Is that Rigley? is this like the GPS maps on my phone?" Sammy quickly asks quizatively

Sammy quickly hears an odd tone emulating from the red being that seems to be some sort of laughter, momentarily puzzled, not hearing them laugh before.

"No, no Samantha," the red being starts to answer and then continues on, "While it may look like a simple map, it is much more!"

It continues on, " the Specialzed Control Center is an advanced, fully interactive artificial intelligence that controls the entire craft." It adds, "I'll show you an example... ZEUS, show me all the fuel reserves in Rigley."

Within a split second, the map transforms into a large holographic image, encompassing most of the room.

Within the holographic image of Rigley, there are what seems to be at least 100 different locations within the image that have a red, blinking area that must be indicating these fuel reserves. Additionally, the hologram has an immense amount of detail, showing everything in Rigley from the farm land to the businesses on Main Street.

"Wow, this is amazing!," Sammy thinks as she follows "What else can if do?...and wait, ya'll have names?"

"The possibilities are truly endless, Samantha!" the red being answers her and continues on, "Of course we have names.... But .as I stared previously, ZEUS is a fully interactive, artificial intelligence that allows you to manipulate the holographic image in any way you'd like! if you want to see a particular detail in a different angle, all you must do is simply use your hands. You can act as if you are holding the entire image and simply rotate your hands in the direction you would like to see, or if it's a smaller detail you would Like to examine, you can simply point to that area, it will separate from the larger image and once again allow you to manipulate it how you would like.. Go ahead and give it a try!"