From: Ash XF Date: 24 Aug 2002 23:39:01 GMT Subject: NEW: The Final Stand Pt.5 Source: atxc DISCLAIMER: Pt. 1 The Final Stand pt. 5 They always enjoyed visiting Washington D.C. This was where William had lived with his parents before going to live with Bob and Nancy and there was alot of history for his family in this city. William enjoyed looking at the monuments and museums, the federal offices and the historic sections. This was where his godparents, Agents Doggett and Reyes and Mr. Skinner lived, as well as Jimmy and Yves, the last two Lone Gunmen. But most of all, this was where his Grandma Maggie lived. She was always so happy to see them, especially William, and always made a big fuss over them when they visited. Scully was especially glad to see her mother and this year, her brothers Charlie and Bill,Jr. would be there with thier families for a sort of family reunion. Even though William was the youngest of the children, he always enjoyed being with his cousins. He could whip Matty in VR Nintendo Mutant Monkeys and CyberMario Bros. any day. He liked his uncle Charlie alot, who didn't seem to mind much about his parents and thier pasts and was always ready with a joke or cool story from the Navy to tell. Dana Scully had decided to let her younger brother in on Aegis three years earlier and Charlie was a key role in the Navy for them. But it was Bill Jr. that William rather disliked. Even though the man was his uncle, and William liked his aunt and cousins alot, he didn't need special psychic talents to see that Bill Jr. was extremely annoyed with his sister Dana for the choices she had made in her life. And he didn't even bother to hide his disdain and hatred of Fox Mulder. It made William fighting mad to overhear his uncle berating his mother for joining the FBI, giving up being a doctor, getting involved with Mulder, having his bastard son, getting thier sister Melissa killed, it went on and on. Last year William had stormed into the kitchen howling in fury at his uncle, using language he wasn't accustomed to using, and letting his uncle know in no uncertain terms that he would not hear his mother spoken to that way. Dana had swooped down, and taken her son upstairs, grateful to escape her brother. William couldn't understand why his parents put up with it, but his father had explained that while they were guests in Maggie Scully's house, they would treat her son with respect. William had countered that he never showed them respect, but Mulder had assured his son that Bill Jr. got plenty of heat from Maggie when nobody was around for the way he treated his sister and her family. Charlie Scully also was known to tell his brother to shut up once or twice. But for the most part, the family enjoyed being together. The kids got along well enough, although once Matthew had taken his father's tauntings and called William "a bastard kid whose parents couldn't even do the decent thing and get married." William never quite knew what had happened next but Matthew had suddenly found himself sitting on the roof of the shed, mouth hanging open in shock. Mulder and Bill Jr. had had to get an extending ladder to get him down and Dana had given her son a stern lecture about losing his temper and letting the telekenisis explode. But aside form these small mishaps, the family gathering were usually quiet. They spent this visit touring the city, meeting with Aegis members, visiting family graves and being with friends. William knew his parents missed the city and wished they could live here permanently again, but it wasn't safe and the longer they were away from Roswell, the more danger there was. They couldn't stay in one place too long and there were still some indaviduals who were looking for them. On the last night of their stay, William walked out onto the back porch and saw his mother and grandmother sitting on the back swing. "Is it realy that bad, Dana?" Maggie was asking. "Yeah, mom, it is," she answered. "It's better if EVERYBODY is in Roswell this Christmas. Skinner, John, Monica, everyone's going to come. Naturally Charlie's coming, but I didn't tell Bill why. I just said it's me and Mulder's turn to do Christmas at our house. He grumbled something about Christmas in the desert. Mom, you have to make him come." "I will, I will, but Dana...are we, I mean...are we going to...is it really...?" his grandmother struggled. "Yes mom." Dana said firmly "I don't know what the outcome will be but I do know this city is a primary target." Maggie nodded glumly. Dana turned and saw William. "Are you packed Wil?" she asked. He nodded. She smiled softly, "Then you better get some sleep. We head to Europe tomorrow." William went over and hugged his mother and grandmother, then went inside. As he passed the den, he heard his uncles and father talking in hushed, but strained tones. His cousins were huddled next to the door listening. William scooted down on the floor to listen. His uncle Bill was talking. "I just don't understand why you haven't married her, Mulder." Fox Mulder's reply was clipped but slow, like a teacher explaining to a child, "You think I haven't asked her? Repeatedly. She said yes, for your information, but there's just too much going on right now. There's no way we could pull off the kind of wedding she wants, and deserves, with all that's going on right now. Besides, I don't see where it's any of your business. And frankly, Bill, I'm getting real sick of your insults over and over. Jesus Christ man, don't you ever get tired of harping on the same subject?" "No more than you do," Bill replied coldly. "Aliens and shit, invasion, conspiracies. You think I'm going to let my sister marry a freak like you? Then she goes and has your kid, like some high school girl....." William was shaking in anger and was about to storm in when he heard his father reply with a tone he had never heard before, deadly calm, "You leave William out of this, Bill. He's just a child, he is NOT to blame for anything. And neither I nor your sister regret a single thing. We love him." "Yeah? Then why did she dump him?" Bill said matter-of-factly. Charlie spoke up now, "Bill, you know damn well why, and it had nothing to do with wanting him or not wanting him. He was in danger. They've put alot of people behind bars and they have friends who are a little pissed about that. William was in danger, hell man he was kidnapped, attacked several times. If your kids were in danger and you couldn't keep them safe, what would you do?" Bill said, "Might have been different if he hadn't run out on her." Mulder was expressing a herculean effort to control his rage and said, "You know I didn't 'run out' on her. I had multiple death threats, it was either hide or die. It's still not safe. But whatever you say, it won't change anything. I love Dana. She knows it, and I know she loves me. We have a son whom we both love and that will never change. Married or not, I'm the father of your nephew, so get over it, you're stuck with me. And you're willing to let your pride and anger get you and your family killed. So Dana didn't follow the life you and your father had hoped she would. So you don't understand what we do and what we've been fighting for over a decade. Fine. But don't berate either of us. And for God's sake, listen." Charlie spoke up then, "He's right Bill. I've been a part of this for three years now. We're all in danger and it would be just stupid not to go where it's safe. Forget about the 'who's married and who isn't' crap. Forget about the past, man. This is no joke." Suddnely the door opened and all the children tumbled into the room. Mulder was looking down in pained amusement. Without a word, they scattered and William ran upstairs behind his cousins. He wondered if his uncle Bill would come to Roswell in December. It was one of the few safe places, but he didn't believe in aliens. Well, he woudl soon enough but it would be too late. William curled up in his sleeping bag, but was still awake when his parents came in the room later. Everyone was troubled, he knew, but they had done all they could. He felt safe with his parents in the room, but somewhere, in the back of his mind, he wondered how safe they really were. Were they being watched? If so by who? He felt a prickle on the back of his neck and his hand closed tighter around his phone gun under his pillow. Sleep was a long time coming. ****************************************************** For the next few weeks, William and his parents travelled all over the world, from London to Paris, to South Africa to Bejing and Sydney, Australia, meeting up with various Aegis groups, making sure everything was in place. Everyone was as alert as could be expected, and after six weeks of solid travelling, they headed back to America. They had been forced to postpone the excursion to Area 51 to meet with Morris Fletcher, a governement worker within the compound who knew Mulder and Scully. There had been a message that there were problems, so they had left for the world trip with plans to stop by Nevada on the way home to Roswell. Mulder and Scully were interested in knowing how prepared Area 51 would be with the Aurora II planes. Area 51 was still in control of vestigial Syndicate powers, but Morris Fletcher had joined Aegis a few years back and was thier principal contact on the base. William had the distinct impression that his parents weren't too fond of Morris. As for himself, he had never met the man, though he had seen a picture on one of the X-Files his parents had copied. They arrived in Rachel, Nevada, and checked into the motel. They would drive out to Groom Lake later that night, probably along with several other UFO watchers in town. In the meantime though, they stopped in for a burger at the famous Little Ale E Inn diner. As they ate, Mulder told William the stories of Area 51, from the Roswell crash to the reverse engineering of captured alien spacecraft, resulting in the Aurora and Aurora II spyplanes. As night fell, they returned to the motel and Scully made sure William had a sweatshirt on under his jacket, and they headed out to the lookout hill. One could no longer see the base itself aftet the government annexed the surrounding hills to keep trespassers away, but on a good night, an observer could still see the strange lights in the sky of the experimental aircraft. Mulder bypasssed the road leading up to the popular public hangout and continued on off the road to another hill some ways away from the gathered crowd. They got out of the car to wait for Morris. William crawled up onto the still-warm hood of the car with his father. Scully preferred to keep an eye open for any approaching vehicles. It was a beautiful night and William could never remember being so awestruck at the veiw. The sun had just set and several rays of pink, gold, purple and orange still streaked the distant horizon. The desert was slowly turning from gold to blue as the shadows of the hills elongated. The stars were clear jewels and a cool breeze with a chill swept over the area. It was beautiful beyond words. A few minutes later some lights appeared in the sky, manuvering over the dry lake bed beyond the hills. William was fascinated as his father pointed out rhe new Aurora II planes, reverse engineered from downed UFO's, and probably humanity's only real defense against attack from the air. The only problem, Mulder explained, was that human reflexes were rarely sufficient to operate at such high speeds and maybe only a handful of pilots could handle the craft. Mulder went on to tell William of the second case he and Scully had ever investigated concerning a vanished pilot who had resurfaced with his memory wiped after having a breakdown from flying the strange aircraft. It seemed like hours passed before Scully called out that she could see a car approaching. Mulder told William to get into the car and get down. His heart racing, William ducked down into the back seat with his hand on his weapon. He saw that both of his parents had drawn thier guns as well but were holding them down out of view. A white Jeep Cherokee came swinging into view and up the hill. Both Mulder and Scully stood tensed and ready. The door opened and a heavyset man with curly blond hair stepped out. He stared at the two former agents in front of him, then broke out into a grin. "Hey, Scully. Looking lovely as ever. Still havedn't ditched this loser huh?" he said somewhat sarcastically. William felt his eyes narrow and wondered how mad his parents would be if he nudged the guy with his mind and sent him sliding down the hill. But to his suprise, he father grinned. (his mother rolled her eyes) Mulder said to the man, "Fletcher, still as personable as ever I see. So what's new?" William lowered the window a little and peeked about the door to see what was going on. The man called Morris Fletcher was talking quickly and his father was listening while his mother kept a look out for company. "Basically, the whole sky's getting lively," Fletcher was saying. "The number of unidentified craft seems to be increasing, not all of them ours of course. Don't seem to be doing anything except buzzing around checking things out. No landings or even any increase in contact reports. It's simply that there are more of them. Where we'd see one or two before, we'll see three now. Alot of sightings over our nuclear stores and military bases. And they don't seem to be avoiding any of the major cities anymore, though they don't stay around. It's like they don't care who sees them anymore." "They probably don't," said Mulder. "And why not, they figure they've already got the planet anyway, it's just a matter of time. How's everything here, is everyone battle ready?" "More or less. They're ready to go at a moment's notice. It's going to be a real interesting Christmas this year." said Morris, for the first time his jaunty demeanor dropping. Mulder went on to ask him about whether or not he and his family were coming to Roswell. They seemed to be moving off into boring subjects and, without anything to do, William stretched out in the back seat and gazed up at the stars throught he back window. He didn't know when he fell asleep, but his next concsious thought was that the car was moving and his prents were back int he front seat talking. "If he's right, it looks like they're invading sooner than December. I'm going to call mom and tell her to round up everybody and come down now." his mother was saying. She pulled out her cell phone and began dialing. "You're probably right." said his father. "When your done with that, get on the line and alert Aegis. We need to go to battle ready now." William sat up, suddenly wide awake. "Is this it, Dad?" he asked with a tremor in his voice. "I don't know, son." Mulder replied. "I hope not. We're not entirely ready yet. The main stuff is in place but the details..." He broke off as Scully cut him off. "Mulder, I can't get a signal." "We're probably too far out, wait until we get back to Rachel, you can call from the motel." he said, keeping his eyes on the deserted desert road. Suddenly William felt something he had only felt once before. The back of his neck prickled and his heart went cold, his very entrails turning to ice water. Without warning his breathing sped up as his mind flashed back to three years ago, when he stood in the field by the farm, next to Bob's lifeless body, knowing both Bob and Nancy were dead and evil creatures responsible for it were in the house looking for him. He remembered his frantic flight from the farm, hiding out, the darkess of that night... Danger. Evil and danger were nearby! Scully heard him and swung around. "Wil? Wil what's wrong?" He could barely speak, "Mom, Dad, look out!" Suddenly, a blinding light flashed from above engulfing the car. William cried out and tried to duck down behind the seat. As he did, his eyes looked out of the back window and, to his horror, he saw a UFO right above them. This was no Aurora plane, no human hands had made this vehicle. And he knew, without being told, that they were there for him. Scully reached behind the seat trying to grab a hold of him but suddenly everything stopped. Time ceased to exist, there was only stillness and the light. William felt himself paralyzed, unable to move. He tried to call to his parents but he couldn't move his jaw. The only thing that seemed to work were his eyelids. He became aware of someone outside the car, which had rolled to a stop. There were many of them, short and indistinct. No! No! Go away! his mind screamed. He lashed out with angry thoughts and, to his surprise, he saw one of them stumble backwards. He got the impression the being was surprised. Suddenly everything went black and he knew no more. ******************************************* Final Stand pt6 William had no idea how long he was unconsious, since time seemed to have stopped. He wasn't even too sure if he was lying down, upright or upside down. He became aware of himself slowly, as if waking from a deep sleep. He felt a strange pressure on his back and realized he was lying down on what felt like a metal table, but it had a strange give to it, a little like rubber, though it was cold like metal and smooth. He was still wearing his clothes, though his shoes and jacket had been removed for some reason. He tried to move a hand to his face, and it was then that he realized he couldn't move, that he was totally paralyzed. Suddenly he remembered why and struggled to sit up. He couldn't. He opened his eyes, which seemed to be working, and figured that all of his voluntary muscles were immobilized, though he could breathe without difficulty. He could barely see, the room was dark. The air felt wrong, somehow, almost artificial, as if it had been recycled repeatedly and had no odor or taste. He could hear or feel the faint hum of machinery but not like any machinery he had ever heard before, the pitch was all wrong too. He became aware of whisperings around him and he became afraid. Where was he? And for God's sake where were his parents? He tried to call for them but nothing came out. He forced himself to relax and reached out with his mind. He could feel them, both of them, not far away but there were barriers, as if they were in another room. But he could also feel others, a strange alien presence. Suddenly the lights came on, blinding him. He squeezed his eyes shut then cracked them open, afraid of what he would see. Sure enough, a being came into view. Oh God in heaven, it was horrible! It was horrible! The black eyes were like pools of tar, bottomless, they didn't even reflect the light. The nose was two holes and the mouth a slit, like a gill instead of an orifice. He couldn't see any ears and the thing was hairless, with sickly skin that was more white than grey, like a blighted plant. William would have screamed if he could, but he was frozen, his entire body locked up. Instead, he let out a mental scream, and apparently the being heard it because it stumbled backwards. It showed no expression on its face, but William could feel that it was surprised. It hadn't seemed to be expecting to hear a human mind. Another being then came into view and William could hear the two communicating. It is the one. This is it. said being number one. It is but an offspring, a juevenile. It cannot be as dangerous as they say. The parents seemed to have caused more trouble then this one. replied being number two. Did you not hear it? countered number one. You heard it scream. You heard its words when we came to collect it. It can speak as we do. It is unholy proof, it must be destroyed immediatly. Destroyed? HIM?? William felt his blood run even colder than it had been. He knew they meant to kill him. And what about his Mom and Dad? 'What the hell are you THINGS talking about?' William raged at them. The two greys turned around and regarded him. The second one spoke, 'We are merely discussing about what an interesting specimen you are. Do not be afraid, we mean you no harm.' William noticed right away that somehow the communication was different. When they spoke directly to him it was as if he didn't have to use his own abilities to hear them, but when they spoke to each other, it seemed to be on a different channel of mental frequency, though he could hear it all the same. Then he had an idea. His father had often told him of abductees who said the alien communicated telepathically, even though many of them were not telepathic humans. If his grandfather was right, then the human brain was fully capable of mental abilities such as telepathy and telekenisis, but only the limited blood flow kept it dormant. The aliens seemed to activate that part of the brain so they could speak to humans, but deactivated it when they wanted to speak amongst themselves. It was like speaking to the enemy on one channel of a walkie talkie, but to thier friends on another channel. They didn't seem to realize that William could hear all channels, because, he realized, no human before him ever could. He wondered if Gibson could. But there was something else. The creatures had lied to him. He knew damn well they were plotting to kill him, then turned around and told him something else. They didn't want him to be trouble. How much trouble could he be, he wondered? 'You liar,' he replied coldly, 'I heard you, you want to kill me!' Now the creatures seemed alarmed. It heard us! said number two, but that is not possible! These creatures cannot speak as we do, it was ensured that they could not. Now do you understand? said number one, do you realize what could happen if this were reported? But, it is such an amazing discovery, a speaking adama, it should be studied. said number two. Are you a fool? number one asked stiffly, as long as it lives it is proof of the experiment, and this one speaks. There are some who might not care about the DNA base pairs, if it speaks it will be thought of as sentient. We will be held accountable for this. 'You're already in trouble, buttmunch' said William in anger. 'Sentient? Where I come from you're sentient if you're self aware and can reason. You know damn well we are a sentient race. You screwed around with my race, and that's against the law. That's why you want us all dead, isn't it. If someone else finds out about you boys playing with our genetics, there'll be hell to pay, right? What right do you have to decide who deserves to live and who doesn't? You have no business here!' We most certainly do, adama juevenile, said number one rather smugly, You are not members of the sentient race, your DNA proves that. I don't expect you to understand of course. And this planet does belong to us, your race is only here due to our graces. We have decided you are pests, and we will exterminate you as we see fit. You have no rights, you are an inferior species, you were created as such. Now be silent. William had never felt such rage and anger as he now felt. He had been raised to believe in Christian morals of forgiveness and patience and trust in God. But now, as the being's arrogant and cold proclaimation sounded in his ears, the only thing he knew was hate and anger at this creature. He could not see that they were superior in soul, if they even had one, only in technology. Take away the technology and humans were far more superior. If he weren't paralyzed, he knew that one strike from his fist, even a child such as he, could and would be fatal to these things. Scenes flashed through William's mind, Bob and Nancy at the kitchen table on the farm, Bob lying dead in the field, Nancy on the kitchen floor, his mother and father's years of turmoil and hardships trying to fight the future, his sister Emily, his aunts Melissa and Samantha, his grandfather and grandma Tina, and how many others, all dead because of these things? How many more? A mental roar rose up from his guts and burst forth in a blast of mental force. The first being was hurled by an unseen force straight into the wall. It crumpled on the floor and William knew it was dead. Without knowing why, he immediatly regretted it. He had just killed another living creature! And one with a mind and intelligence. Even though these beings were plotting the demise of his own people, William felt instant remorse. He hadn't meant to kill the creature, even if it deserved it. It was like hitting a dog with a car. But he tried to force it down. These beings didn't see him in the same light. To him, he was just a talking dog or cat. Maybe not even that. The second being was startled and alarmed. A red light flashed and pain shot through William. He screamed in agony and the light released him. 'Mom, Dad, where are you? Help me..' he called out. The second being was furious, You killed him you brutal beast! He was right, you will be destroyed, and your parents along with you. 'You're the brutal beast,' William mentally panted, out of breath, 'You paralyze me and my parents and trap us here, tell me you're going to destroy me and everything I love because you think it's ok to do it as long as the species in question doesn't have six based DNA, but you KNOW we're a sentient race, what's more we're faster learners than you. You screwed with us and you know you weren't supposed to. We're proof and you're going to destroy us to cover your own ass, if you have one. And you're cowards. I can't fight you back, but if you didn't restain me, I'd easily beat you..' Of course you're stronger, and of course you're restrained. It would be foolish not to restrain you. You were all bred for strength, your race was needed in the mines. Enough talk...the being made a move towards something William couldn't see. 'We are not your slaves! That planet's ours! YOU LEFT US THERE! You left us! So we made it on our own and we did well. It's not yours anymore, it never was, it belonged to the raptor race first, then to the Atleanteans, now to us. You never belonged here!' William raged. How could you know a history your race has never witnessed? All was erased. The being stopped, confused. 'I saw it, I saw it all,' said William. Not possible, it was not recorded. You race had not even existed and they were never told. You could not have seen it. the being said. 'I could see into the past,' said William, 'Many humans can do this if they know how. Time is only a dimension, it can be pierced and looked at.' Now the being was terribly alarmed! You lie, this is not possible. No being can do this with the mind alone. Special equipment is needed. How could you have knowledge of things you cannot possibly understand? 'You are so sure we're just dumb animals, aren't you,' William said sarcastically, 'What if you're wrong? But you know that don't you? You knew how strong we could be, that's why you limited our brains, right? So we COULDN'T talk and tell your secrets. So we COULDN'T see other dimensions. So we COULDN'T use our minds as I just did and fight back?' ENOUGH! said the alien, sounding frightened, maybe for the first time since encountering a human. You are an abomination, and will be destroyed at once, and your parents so they may never procreate another like you! The alien moved again towards whatever he had been moving too and William steeled himself, sure that this was it, he was about to die. He realized he wasn't all that scared. Mostly he was sad. There was so much he wanted to do. For some ungodly reason, he regretted never learning to play music. Why this was coming up now was beyond him, but he remembered watching the bands at the county fairs back in Midville, playing drums, banjos, dulcimers, harmonicas and violins. He had always loved music, and he wondered if humans were the only ones who made music. No, whales do, and dolphins. Was music only an Earthly thing? Would there be any future genereations or species who would hear thier music? If they all died, only the Voyager spacecraft, floating somewhere beyond the solar system, sould carry any remains of human music and whale music. What instrument would he have learned? The violin? The piano? The bagpipes? Yeah, bagpipes. His mother would never have let him, he thought with a smile. 'Well,' he thought sadly, 'At least I took one of them with me. God help everyone else on Earth. I hope they give them a good hell of a fight.' And he relaxed back, waiting for the first shot of pain or darkness that would signify his death. It never came. Suddenly a strobe light went off and some sound started ringing. The being stopped and looked around startled. Then it rushed towards William, intending to kill him, when the door in the far wll opened and another being came in, followed by several other beings. William stared. This was no grey alien! It was a little taller than an average human, and looked more human than the greys. It's skin was like human skin, with a pale sort of color, but seemed to have a greenish cast to it, as if it's blood was green. William would have laughed at the irony of bad Hollywood B movies being right about any alien having green blood if he hadn't been so scared, or paralyzed. The new creatures also had amazing eyes, not black like the greys, but not entierly like humans either. William remembered one of his dad's movies, Dune, where the people had blue glowing eyes with blue where the whites should have been. These creatures had eyes like that only they were green, with very large pupils, no irises. Thier faces were more like human faces, but without any real defined features, almost like people in old Disney cartoons. They were dressed in iridescent skinsuits and they didn't seem to be in a good mood. Cease at once, said the lead being, with yet a different mind frequency than the greys, but William could hear it. What business have you here? You have boarded us without provocation. This is a research vessel, you will answer to the Council for this! the grey alien said with pompous indignation. Keep your lies to yourself, we are hear to place every one of you under arrest. said the green-eyed being to the grey. We are investigating what looks like a gross violation of the species contamintation law. You are to desist at once and release this....whatever this is, into our custody. William wasn't sure this new creture would do any better by him in the long run, since he was no doubt in for a barrage of experimentation, but for now, it didn't seem to want to kill him as the greys did. And he had to find his parents. Maybe they would let him. 'Please Sir," said William, 'Please help me, he was about to kill me! He says I'm proof of species tampering, My race calls themselves human. I called for help, they mean to destroy us all.' The green-eyed being whirled around, and William could see surprise registered on it's face in expression, similar to humans. They all turned to face him and William could sense panic in the grey. It speaks! said the green-eyed being, You were perfoming experimentation on a speaking being!? This is revolting! How dare you? What is this creature? BE SILENT! yelled the grey to William, and turned to the green-eyed being, Of course, we do no such thing! This species does not speak at all. This one is merely an anomoly. It is being studied as a scientific specimen and will be released... 'YOU LIAR!' yelled William, 'The only reason my species doen't 'speak' as you do is because you engineered our brains so we CAN'T. But we could. And I can, and I'm not the only one. Several others can. I have a friend who can. But we can speak to each other using sounds, and we are not animals! We've developed vehicles and spacecraft that have taken us to our moon! You're here to wipe us all out! You were about to destroy me!' IT LIES! yelled the grey. SILENCE! said the green-eyed being, annoyed. It is not for me to decide, it is for the Council. And I must say, this creature certainly seems to be the object of what it says it is, or is that death serum you hold meant for another creature? William noticed that the grey was holding an object he didn't recognize. It seemed embarrassed at having forgotten it held it. Either way, my orders are to place you under arrest. A distress call was recieved by an unknown species in the vicintiy of this solar system saying its race was under attack and about to be anhilated. It certainly looks that way. Now release this creature! Green-Eyes seemed to have reached then end of its patience. Sighing, the grey pushed a button and William felt himself regain control of his muscles. Some other Green-Eyes took the grey out of the room. It called back to the Green-Eyes, Beware! It is dangerous and so are it's kind. You would do well to restrain it! The Green-Eyes ignored the grey as they led it away. The lead Green-Eyes came up to William as he sat up, but stayed well out of reach. "Please, Sir,' said William. "I am only a juevenile of my species. My parents are here somewhere, I can sense them. Please can I go to them?' William saw something that looked like compassion flicker in the creature's eyes, before it answered In a moment. Are you the one who sent the call? 'Yes, I am. Am I in trouble?' asked William. We shall see. Come, if there are more of your kind on this craft we shall locate them. The being turned and walked off. William jumped down from the table and followed. ****************************************************** Fox Mulder was furious. He couldn't move, he couldn't talk. And worse, he had absolutely no idea where his son was. He could hear Scully breathing not far away, and he knew what her breathing sounded like. But they seemed to be the ony ones in the room. He knew she was awake and they were able to slowly communicate by snorting morse code. She didn't know where William was either and she was scared to death. Why in God's name did he drag his family around out in the open? Why hadn't he left them in Roswell where it was safe and gone alone? Because he knew Scully never would have stayed behind. She always hated it when he took off without her and she hated his "I was just trying to protect you" explanations even worse. Scully was at a loss. Flashes of her previous abductions came back, even though those had been humans. This was worse. And where was her baby, her son? What were they doing to him? Why wasn't he with them? She had lost Emily, and she had been forced to give up William, she was damned if she was going to lose him to these monsters. Mulder, likewise was thinking much the same thing. He had lost his entire family to these things, he was not going to loose his kid or Scully. He'd give a kidney or something just for the chance to get to these monsters and do to them like they planned to do to all of humanity. Suddenly the lights fickered, then began to strobe in a sort of alarm. What the hell was happeneing? Where was everybody? Were they about to die? Mulder strained to reach out to Scully but he just couldn't move. He wished he could at least touch her. It wasn't fair. He wanted to talk to her, to tell her how much he loved her, how he had loved her from the moment she had walked into his office nearly twenty years ago. God damn! Had it been that long ago? It didn't seem so. He realized how much they had done, how much they had lived in those years that followed. Was it all about to end right now? Had he ever really told her what he felt for her and thier son? He felt a tear fall from his eye and he closed them, not wanting to see what happened next. Sure enough, he heard a door open. Against his better judgement, he opened his eyes. If he had had control of his jaw, he was sure it would have been on the floor. A group of beings came in, but they weren't greys! They looked more like humans, but with a weird greenish cast to thier skin and Dune-eyes that were green instead of blue. He thought he heard Scully wimper and he fought to turn his head. Were they hurting her? One of the creatures came and stood beside him, looking at him pointedly. It seemed confused, like it was trying to talk to him but couldn't get through. Another one came up and looked pointedly at him. Mulder wished he could do something other than blink. This seemed to go on forever until finally, one of the beings did something and suddenly Mulder could move. He jumped up off the table and backed away from the beings. They backed away quickly as well, pointing strange objects at him. "Mulder!" he heard Scully call, She ran over to him and he pulled her into a tight hug, relieved that she seemed to be ok. He could feel her shaking. The beings looked on with interest, they didn't seem to understand what was going on. Mulder looked at the nearest one and asked, "Where's our son? Our child, where is he?" The beings seemed a little taken aback by the noises the two humans were making. They backed away, but the one in the lead came forward. He seemed to realize that the two species communicated differently, so they had to be cautious. He could tell the two humans were frightened and angry. According to reports coming in from the rest of the craft, he figured they had a right to be. Hed didn't know what the strange creatures' noises meant, but he figued they were asking about thier offspring which has been found in another part of the craft. Perhaps the best thing to do would be to gather all of the strange creatures together, it might calm them. The Green-Eyes began leaving one by one. "Wait a minute!," yelled Scully, "Where's our son? Tell us where he is!" "I don't think they can, Scully." said Mulder. "They don't seem to have the greys' ability co talk with us." Fianlly only the leader was left, he turned to walk out, then looked over his shoulder. He seemed to want them to follow him. "I think we better follow him." said Mulder. "I don't know, what if they're leading us to be executed?" replied Scully. "Well, we can't find Wil in here. And if they're going to kill us they will. Let's go and keep a lookout for him, I don't know how we'll get out of this but in here we're sitting ducks." Mulder shrugged. Scully nodded and they followed the Green-Eyes out of the room. As they followed the being, Scully couldn't help but notice the strange design of the alien craft they were in. She kept expecting to wake up and find they had been watching some scifi movie and this was all a dream. But she knew it wasn't. What she wouldn't give to examine the strange metal of the walls and the technology! The scientist in her was thrilled. Then the mother instinct was yelling loud and clear for her son. As they rounded a corner, they saw another group of Green-Eyes, and with them was William! Forgetting about any weapons these things had, she flew forward towards him, Mulder right behind her. "Mom! Dad!" William yelped in joy and ran to his parents. Scully scooped him up and held him tight. Mulder threw his arms around both of them. All three of them were crying, relieved to see the others alive. Mulder took his son into his own arms as Scully checked him out. "Are you OK? Did they hurt you?" she asked. "No, Mom, I'm fine really. I've been talking to them. The ones with the green eyes are here to arrest the greys for species tampering. I don't know what they want to do with us but all I know is right now they don't want to kill us." said William. "You can talk to them?" asked Mulder. William nodded and explained what had happened. Scully shivered as she listened to him talk about killing a grey with his mind and nearly seconds away from being killed himself. What were the odds of that happening? Would these new green-eyed aliens help them keep the greys from wiping them out? Mostly it seemed to her that they were only interested in the fact that the greys might have broken a law, not so much about the humans themselves. William turned to look at one of the leaders and they stared at each other for a while. Then William turned back to them. "I told him you two can't talk the way I can. He seems confused by the whole thing. He wants us to follow him to his craft, this one's being confiscated or something. They want us to testify what we know about what's been done to our race." William paused, then said, "I don't think he was giving us a choice." "Ask him what they plan to do with us when they're finished." said Mulder. William turned and regarded the Green-Eyes again for a while, then told his parents, "I convinced him to send us back to Earth. I don't know how they're going to do it. He says they have absolutely no knowledge of us or our civilization, so they don't want to just fly down and drop us off. He says there's rules, kinda like the Prime Directive on Star Trek. You know, not messing with a developing primative culture. He seems shocked that we don't have anything better than the space shuttle. They have to rely on the greys' information on us for now and he says the greys are being silent." "So basically we don't know WHEN they're going to send us home," said Scully. "Well, at least he's going to, he said we wouldn't be killed." said William. "Yeah," mumbled Mulder, "Unless the greys convince him otherwise. There's no garuntee they won't decide the greys have every right to do with us as they like." William and Scully didn't answer him. The Green-Eyes turned and they followed him. They wondered amongst themselves how they were going to transfer craft. These creatures and the greys seemed to be oxygen breathing and had the same tolerance to atmospheric pressure, so pressumably they had ways of trasferring without anyone getting killed, but they were still nervous. Finally, they came to what looked like a regular wall. A few of the Green-Eyes walked up to it, then walked right though. "Cool!" said William. "I don't know about that." said Scully. "We don't know it's safe for us." The lead Green-Eyes stared at William, who then turned and said, "He says it's safe. He says to go." Sighing, Mulder took his son's hand, then Scully's. Gritting his teeth, hoping he wasn't getting them all killed, he stepped through the wall. There was a wonderful feeling, like nerve stimulating tingles all over them, and a rainbow of light danced in front of thier eyes. Suddenly it was over and they were on the other side. They were definately in a new craft. Everything was tinted green in this place, the floors and the wall. Like the other craft, the air was stale, recycled and this craft was colder. The lights were beautiful, however, seemingly white, but with a strange halo of rainbow around them. Also, it felt as if the gravity were not quite right, as if a good jump off the goround would send one stright through the ceiling. Mulder had once tried out the "Moonwalk" machine at NASA and it felt like that, like walking on the moon but with not as much bounce. Walking seemed to be as normal as before, if a little unsteady. The Green-Eyes leader led them down the hall, and, as they passed a window, William let out an audible yelp of disbelief. "Dad! Look!" he pointed. Mulder and Scully froze in awe. Outside of the window was the blackness of space and the Earth spinning on its axis. The image was too clear, to perfect to be a video or even a very high resolution picture. William wanted to reach out and touch the window but Scully frantically pulled him back, reminding him that they had gone through a wall by touching it. They watched as North America spun into veiw, and Mulder looked for Nevada, and Area 51, wondering if the car was still down there somewhere. He could see New Mexcio and roughly where their house was. It was amazing! The Green-Eyes let them look, seemingly amused by thier reaction. Finally, they tore themselves away and followed the alien down the hall. He led them to a room and motioned them inside. He loked at William for a long moment, then turned to leave, the door closing behind them. William turned back to his parents and said, "He says we'll stay here for the time being, until he makes some, I guess phone calls or something. He says they're looking through the greys' database to see what we eat, since they can't seem order up a pizza up here." His parents smiled forcefully, but didn't laugh. "Did he say how long?" asked Scully. William shook his head. Sighing, they looked around. There seemed to be furniture in the room but unlike andy they had ever seen before. There were some strange protrusions from the wall that seemed to be like bean bag chairs, that were big enough to lie down in or sit up in. Beyond that, the room was quite bare. Scully cautiously examined one of the bean bag things, then sat on it. "Hmm, these are kind of comfortable." she said. Mulder and William sat down on the other ones. 'Well, now what?" asked William. ********************************************************** The next few hours were very interesting, for both the family of three humans and the aliens whose craft they were on. It seemed that they had managed to get some information from the greys and were able to adapt the room for the humans. The first thing they needed was a bathroom. After communicting this to a Green-Eyes who periodically checked in on them, William tried not to blush as he described to the alien what they needed and why. Then food became a problem. Translating for his mother, who relied on her doctor skills and knowledge, he told the aliens the basics of human nutrition and what they managed to synthesize had all the calories and vitamins they needed, but looked suspiciously like cold snot. William chose to announce this description right as his mother put some in her mouth. She gagged and barely swallowed it, then informed her son that if they ever got out of this it wouldn't matter, because he was grounded for life for saying that. William tried not to taste it as he forced himself to swallow it all in three gulps, like his father. They passed the time playing word games, telling stories, even singing songs, but the boredom was hard to manage. Eventually some of the Green-Eyes came in to question them. William translated for his parents and between the three of them, managed to describe the course of human history with the greys. The Green-Eyes made it clear that they were not scientists or researchers interested in the evolution of a new species, that thier job was to investigate possible wrongdoing on the greys' part. They, like the greys, were an offspring race of the founding aliens who had spread thier DNA throught he galaxy, and like the greys, believed that all worthwhile life came only from that race. Since the founders had been a six based DNA race, it was assumed that all thier offspring races would also have six base pairs. The fact that the humans had four seemed to be proof enough that the humans were not even considered worthwhile, despite William's insitance that humans were descendants of the founders, he had seen it in his vision. The Green-Eyes accpeted that some mutations could have led to a four base pair from six on Earth, but they did not accept William's explanation of visions from the past. It was incredible, but it seemed that no species of the known founders' offspring had the ability to see into the past or future. However, they were intrigued by William's abilities and had him perform several strange tests, like having him control the direction of several floating, glowing balls. He listened to speaking images of several strange looking beings and repeated what they said back to the Green-Eyes. With his parents watching anxiously, one being examined him with a clear rod with a light on the tip, touching it to various muscle groups and places on his head and on his tongue. But mostly they questioned him about what they knew of the greys. William was complaining to his parents when they were alone about the absurdity of the whole situation. "It's crazy. Can't they SEE that we are a sentient race, with a developing culture and a right to live on our own planet? We have spacecraft of our own! OK, so it doesn't go beyond the moon, but so what, it's a start. They had to start somewhere didn't they? Just because we have four based DNA, not six, they say we're nothing more than parameciums!" "I think it's paramecia, isn't it Scully?" quipped Mulder. Scully rolled her eyes, "Well think of it like this, think of how during the days of slavery black people weren't considered human because of the color of thier skin. During the holocaust Jews weren't considered human because of thier religion and race. Native Americans were called savage barbarians because they didn't have the same clothes and housing and weapons as the white settlers. It's called 'descrimination' and there's never any reason behind it. When you're born and raised believing something, even if it's ludicrous, it's hard to change, even with reason." The door slid open then and they jumped to thier feet as the leader Green-Eyes came in and told William that the Council of races had enough evidence to try the greys on species tampering. William and his parents were to speak for the human race at the trial. His parents were stunned and Mulder made it clear they couldn't go too far. By the time they got home over hundreds of years would have passed on Earth. The Green-Eyes assured him they would not have to go anywhere, their testimony would take place on the craft and be broadcast to the waiting Council. William shivered as he clutched his mother, never once dreaming he would have to be a spokesman for the entire human race at the age of eleven. For her part, neither had Dana Scully. She hugged him close, wanting to spare him from all this, but it ws either testify or let everything they love be destroyed. And somehow she doubted it would be anything like a court back home. Reluctantly, they followed the leader down several winding halls to a strange room with a circle in the middle. He instructed them to step in the middle and they did, Mulder leading. William stood between his parents and held thier hands. Suddenly, what appeared to be a shimmering curtain surrounded them. When it cleared, all three were awestruck at finding themselves in another room entirely! The small room had vanished and they now stood on the floor of a huge hall with several balcony type structures, each containing a strange looking creature. William recognized a few of them from the tests he had taken and he wondered how the hell they had gotten here. There was a shimmer here and there and he heard his father speak up. "It's not really here, it's like a hologram or a VR game. We're still in the room on the ship, it's like VR phone conferencing." William turned and saw his father had stuck a hand through the circle edge and it vanished as if being thrust through a curtain. He saw his mother visably relax, for a moment. Then he saw next to them in another circle, three greys looking at them. A voice began to boom and William translated for his parents who could not hear it. "Representatives of the race of Elohim. You have been brought before the Council to answer to the charges of your race having violated the fourth mandate of the galactic code. That is, 'All sentient and honorable species, being the progeny of the venerable Founders, the noble ones who brought life to all the galaxy, shall be equal in the eyes of thier bretheren, subject to no opression by thier bretheren, subject to no experimentation, nor species altering by their bretheren, shall lay claim to no other planet occupied by thier bretheren without express consent witnessed by this Council, and that all species of the Founders shall be left in peace, thier civilization untouched. Likewise, no bretheren species shall influence or interfere with the development of a primative bretheren species.' Race of the Elohim, there have been charges that you have repeatedly journeyed to the third planet of the qui'yon sector, 4th divesion, second cluster, where a race of primative life forms had evolved, and that you have altered thier civilization, altered thier bodies, and then attempted to destroy the entire species by genocide, not once but three times, that you have succeeded in destroying a primative reptilian race on this planet, destroyed a previous civilization, and now threaten to destroy the present civilization to destroy evidence of your tampering and so that you might claim the mineral rich planet. How do you answer?" The tallest grey answered, Honorable bretheren, we are not guilty of these charges. William clenched his fists to shout back but Mulder clamped a hand on his shoulder. William understood, shouting out of turn could not be good for thier case. He forced himself to stay silent. The voice was continuing. "The Council will now hear the explination of the Elohim in this matter." The tallest grey alien stepped forward again and began to speak. Esteemed bretheren and fellow races of the Founders, we, the Elohim, are well aware of the Galactic law and honor it as you do. It is not within us to cause harm to a fellow species of the Founders. However, there is no law concerning the expansion of colonization to ensure the health and well-being of one's own race. We, like several of you, are too, colonists. For several units now, we have searched local star systems for planets that may be of some use to us for raw materials and colonization. Upon arriving at the third planet of the sector in question, we saw that it was ripe with the materials we needed, and yes, it did support life. However, let me say right now, this life is NOT life created by the Founders! Analysis of the DNA showed only four DNA base pairs in all life on this planet. My esteemed bretheren, it is well known that the Founders themselves had six DNA base pairs, as do all of thier offspring. These lifeforms were vicious creatures, with no mind and limited intelligence, who existed only to eat. While we tried several methods of deterring these lifeforms from attacking our settlements, nothing worked and we did eventually plan to colonize the planet. After much debate, we decided to leave the planet and return at a later time to see if conditions had improved Several units later we again sought out the planet and saw that the reptiles had perished, but that a new species had arisen, a species that walked upright as we do, but again were only a four base pair species and had very limited intelligence, if any, and no culture or tools at all. They were pack hunters, eating raw meat, and using no tools, they wee not sentient. However, we were relunctant to leave again, to we set about early colonization. We concluded that the species on the planet was not a Founder offspring race, but could still be useful in mining operations. We crossed the creature with some of our own DNA to give it some intelligence and other traits, but no more. It made a very good work animal, diging in the mines and clearing land for our establishments. However, many in our group wondered on the purity of our race. There were several arguments, from many factions. Some argued that the species we had created evolved to quickly, that soon they would be capable of civilization of thier own, that they would rise up and destroy us. Others argued they should never have been created in the first place, that to cross a Founder species with a random species was an abomination, others felt sympathy for them and stated they should be left on the planet to thier own devices. In the end, we decided that they should never had been created, that the best course of action was to end the horrific experiment and cleanse the planet. We directed high powered rays at the polar caps, flooding the planet and destroying the species, or so we thought. Again we left and returned several units later to discover the creatures we had named the adama had not perished, but had multiplied and now covered the entire planet. Naturally colonization would have to be put on hold, so we contacted several of the leaders of the race and began negotiating plans to colonize with the permission of the adama. However, they betrayed us! It became known to us that several attempts to further cross our race with thiers were under way. This further experimentaion and gene crossing was thier fault! Not only that, we became aware of a global plot to destroy our race on sight and destroy any colonies we might set up in peace, led by the three adama you see standing before you! Yes, bretheren, these three conspired in the death of the leaders we had come to agreements with, then proceeded to take over control and plan for war against us, a peaceful colonizing force. We had planned on studying the race we had created, to see if the influence of DNA from a Founder race could bring order and staility to savages, who seem to gow at an exponential rate. They already have primative space vehicles. How soon before they devlop star drives and then make war on all of us? Let me repeat, these creatures are not offspring of the Founders, thier DNA proves it. They are a vicious, bloodthirsty race with limited intelligence and none of the abilites we possess, such as the ability to speak as we do. They make war on each other over bits of land and foolish beliefs in imaginary forces that cannot be seen or tested to prove existence. Only in this jeuvenile you see before you is there an anomoly, the ability to speak as we do. We had been studying the creature when we were beset upon and arrested. My bretheren, perhaps we, the Elohim, are guilty of irresponsibility with concern to innappropriate tampering of a random species, and perhaps the decision to exterminate them in the past was faulty, but there is no doubt now. They are dangerous and an abomination. They should not exist, and we should not have created them. They are not offspring of the Founders, so they are not a sentient race recognized by this Council. Our race will accpet whatever fine is decided for our misconduct with a random species, however, you must see that they must be exterminated. But even if this council does not agree with extermination, know that we do not exterminate on a whim either. They are a danger to not only our race, but to all of you. And as the third planet is within the teritory of the Elohim, it is our right to colonize the plantes we own as we see fit. I am finished. The grey alien stepped back and a buzz went up around the hall. Mulder was furious at the arrogance of the creature, assuming it was ok to destroy and entire species of lifeforms based on the nature of it's DNA. But what was worse, the war he had fought all his life against these creatures would not be over with him, now it was up to his son, still a child, to fix it. He and Scully would help him as much as they could, but it would depend on how well William could communicate and reason with these aliens so different from them. He stepped forward and hugged his son. Scully stepped forward and gave William a quick kiss. William closed his eyes and thought of the dream on the beach. Despite what the greys said, he knew God wasn't imaginary, and he hoped He would help now. He crossed himself as he had seen his mother do, then, steeling himself, stepped forward and lifted his chin to the aliens who would decide all of thier fates. Final Stand pt.7 William Charles Mulder had never been so scared in his entire life, and that included the time he had fled from the super soldiers on a slow minibike from the farm where his adoptive parents had been killed and ended up hiding out in the dark. He knew deep down that this was why he had been born, this was why he had been sent. It all came down to now, and he prayed for the right words. These creatures thought nothing more of him than a talking animal, like a talking monkey or something. He tried to put himself into their place and speak as best he could. "Hello," he started. (God that sounded lame) "My name is William and I am, what the greys, um, Elohim, call an 'adama'. My race calls itself 'humans', although we recognized thier name for us in our early writings. We called the first human 'Adam'. First of all, I want to clarify some inaccuracies in the gr-Elohim's story. First of all, what your brothers forgot to mention about the reptilian race was that they, the Elohim, are responisble for thier demise. Yes it's true. They manuvered an asteroid into a collision course with the planet and it crashed, destroying all animal and plant life on the planet, including the devloping reptilian species. This was senseless destruction of a defenseless lifeform that was developing its own civilization. Later, when they returned, they found another species, ones we call mammals, beginning to evolve. Yes, they were little more than animals, but they were devloping the use of very primative tools, despite what th Elohim have said. Then, the Elohim decided they wanted a slave race, so they decided, without persmission, to alter this primative species, genetically limiting it so that if this species or its decedants MIGHT have developed the ability to communicate as I do, it was now severed and limited. Let me remind all of you, that you now only have the word of the Elohim as to whether or not any life on Earth was or was not decendant from your Founders. By thier own admission, they tampered with a primative species, so now we'll never know for sure what they might have been if they had been left alone. You don't know what we were before the tampering, they never asked for your opinion or sent any samples to you to be tested, they acted on thier own. Very convenient, I think. But aside from all of that, when the hybrid race they created started thinking for itself, forming its own civilizations, the Elohim panicked. They wanted a subservient mule that never questioned and used its brute strength to do heavy labor. Imagine thier surprise when they began to think for themselves. Two great civilizations rose from that species, who were called Mu and Atlantis. They developed rapidly, and within a space of a few thousand of our years, they had developed vehicles that used solar energy, aircraft, weaponry and knowledge. They were a threat to the Elohim who wanted the planet for themselves, so the Elohim destroyed them in a cataclysmic flood that wiped out all but a few pockets of people who manages to live on and develop on thier own, evolving with the work of a few rebel Elohim who continued to experiment on thier slave adama race. Let me stop here and point out that the actions of the Elohim up to this point are not those of a 'civilized' race. It doesn't matter, ultimately, WHERE life came from. Think about the millions of star systems that exist, of only a fw percent of those that have planets, and only a few of those can sustain life, then only a few of those lifeforms will rise in a civilization, it's amazing any of us are here at all, even with the Founders. Life is sacred, it should be protected and fostered, not wiped out for any reason, least of all how many DNA base pairs it has. That's a very bad excuse for exterminating an entire species and several other species along with it, not once but twice. And now they want to do it again. Right now, they're planning on releasing a killer virus that will destroy all humans in a horrible way, by having a new Elohim gestate inside the human as a biological incubator. They have sent entities we call Super Soldiers to infiltrate our society and prepare for the day they invade, killing anyone who gets in thier way. And they complain when some of us fight back. It's called species survival, did they expect us to roll over and die for them? Imagine, if you will, that some other race from another galaxy, comes exploring and finds all of you, and decides you're expendable and meant to be wiped out, because you only have six DNA base pairs and not eight, and they only recognize life that has eight base pairs. Does it make you any less worthy, any less sentient, just because you're different? Is your civilization worth less because you wouldn't have the same DNA as those invaders? Are humans any less worthy? And don't be so sure we're worthless lifeforms, unable to learn or speak. You never know if sometime in the future you may need us. There was a story on my planet about explorers from one continent who came to colonize another and found a race of people already living there. They considered the natives to be savage brutes, uncivilized and worthy of oppression, because they dressed in animal furs and lived in mud homes and didn't have as advanced weaponry and didn't believe the same things as the settlers. However, the settlers had no idea how to make food grow in this new land and would have died without the help of those very savages they thought were inferior. Everybody, think for a moment. Is it right for the strong to oppress and exterminate the weak? If that were the case, many of you would not be sitting here because you would have been conquered. If everyone went off and did whatever they wanted to whoever was different, there would choas and war. The actions of the Elohim only show what they really think of your laws, and that they would do this to one of the Founder races, as long as it was never discovered that the species they destroyed was really one of the Founders. Everybody, that's what I'm here to tell you now. Humans and all life on my planet ARE offspring of the Founders. because of the type of sun we have, six based DNA was unable to survive on our world until it mutated into a four base. We are at the far end of the galaxy, we were some of the last ones to be seeded. If the Founders were here, they'd verify this. And I know this because my race has one of several abilities, and that is the ability to peirce the wall of time and see into the past and future. I know you think this cannot be done, but my race can. Several indaviduals have had the ability, and the reason none of our mental abilites are apparent is because, in normal humans, they are dormant and vestigial. The Elohim realized early on in thier experiment that early adama humans could not only speak as they do, but had other abilities they didn't have, like the ability to move objects with the mind, to see through time, to manipulate energy, and many others. This frightened them, so they ensured the human brain would be so limited, even a few anomolies like myself could never use the full range they were born with. Human beings only use ten percent of thier brain, the other ninety percent does not recieve enough blood flow or nourishment to function at full capacity. And so, the average human only has glimpses of the future in hunches, brief moments of telepathy by finishing each others' sentences, and so on. This is not the fault of our DNA, but tampering by the Elohim, and it's wrong. And how do I know all of this? Because I looked back in time and saw it for myself. I know you think this is impossible but it is not, and what's more, I could do it again, with some work. Everyone, I am not here to challenge what you believe or what you hold true, or your laws. But when your laws threaten the lives of a race, please stop and think. If you allow the Elohim to go unchecked, they will return to my planet and destroy an entire race of lifeforms. To say that we are not sentient is absurd and you all know it. If I were not entient and you could not believe it, you would not have me in front of you now arguing with reason. Whether you believe we are your brother species or not doesn't really matter in the end, you have to decide what is more important, life, in all forms, or your belief that only six based DNA lifeforms have the right to live. And remember, think of how you would feel if some eight based pair lifeform said your civilization was worthless because you only have six. What if someone told you that everything you worked so hard to build will be destroyed to make way for a more worthy life form that had more DNA than you? Humans are, yes, a kind of volitile race, I'll admit. We feel very strong connections with our family groups and our tribal groups, and if one member is threatened, then the whole family feels it. It is how we have survived in the past, working together to build. It sometimes gets out of control, but I think reason always wins in the end. We have many colorful civilizations on my planet, music, stories, costumes and so much more. It shouldn't be exterminated just so the Elohim can take the planet. They already have several others they own, why can't they go somewhere else? Give us a chance, won't you? I don't care if they are punished or not, but make them leave us alone. And maybe someday, way into the future, humans will either be accepted in this Council as the Founder offspring we really are, or maybe just friends if nothing more. You may think we're animals or abominations, but we're here, and we have as much right to live as anyone in this room." William stepped back exhausted. Scully reached forward and grabbed him. Mulder picked him up and held him. Both he and Scully had helped him through his long speech, inserting a point here and there, but alot of it had been his own words, spoken from his own heart, and Mulder had never been so proud of his son as he was now. The family of three held each other as the buzz went up around the room. The Green-Eyes leader then got up and reported about what his race had found on the greys' ship, information that had been collected depicting the experiments on humans, and how they had been the ones who had received William's distress call. Finally, the greys, who were called the Elohim, stood up to make thier final arguments, which were basically rote from thier first ones. William heard his father whisper to his mother that if this were Earth, the argument that "they were just stupid animals" wouldn't get very far. Scully reminded him that this was NOT Earth, in case he had forgotten. Finally, the voice spoke, "This Council has heard the claims made in all parties and will deliberate on the next course of action. The Elohim are hereby confined to thier sector until final descisions are in, the adama, humans, will be given to the Rilans until further notice." A buzzer sounded and the Green-Eyes leader came to them, saying they would return to thier quarters now. So the Green-Eyes were called Rilans. The great hall blinked away and they once again stood in the room with the circle on the floor. They followed the Rilan back to thier rooms and sat in the chairs in silence. ********************************************************* Dana Scully had been wondering just how long they had actually been gone from Earth and how much longer it would be for the Council to come to some sort of decision. And what would become of them? Would they be sent back to Earth or kept as lab rats or specimens for some weird zoo? And who knew how time was measured around here? Maybe by the time any decision was reached, William would be seventy years old. Mulder had been pacing the room, examining every corner, every detail, as Scully and William dozed, snuggled up on a chair. If this went badly, he had to start thinking about possible escape plans, if any. The door opened and Scully and William jumped up. A Green-Eyes Rilan had come to get them for the final verdict. Trembling, William followed his parents as they went down the hall to the hologram room. They stepped into the circle and the Council hall appeared in front of them again. The Elohim representatives were standing in thier circle, and the hall was silent. Scully grasped Mulder's fingers and reached for her son. William took both of thier hands and they stood, lifting thier chins to face the crowd of alien beings who would decide thier fate. The voice boomed, "Representatives of the Elohim, representatives of the humans, this Council has considered your case carefully. The laws of the Council of beings of the Founders has its laws in place for the purpose of ensuring order and peace between interrelated species. It has never had to apply to creatures whose origins could not be confirmed as Founder-related. Our laws prohibit species tampering, but only in the case of species who are confirmed Founder-bred. However, the Founders themselves cherished life enough to ensure its growth in many diverse forms all over the galaxy, enough to leave thier unknown homeworld and travel for eons spreading their DNA wherever they could. It has been made clear that pehaps this council will never know the true origins of life on the planet known as Earth, for it has all been tampered with, and this leaves us in a very difficult position. Do we honor our own laws which only include the Founder species that are known, or do we take the chance for an unknown species based on values the Founders themselves must have cherished? The Elohim have carefully pointed out that since Founder-origin cannot be confirmed in the case of humans, there is no way of proving our law against species tampering applies in this case.." William felt his heart sinking. Scully bit back a shudder of dismay and Mulder felt his fist clenching in anger. But the voice continued. "However, the juevenile human has made several interesting points. If this Council was to condone this type of behavior against any species, it would not be long before our laws would be meaningless. We must set an example for our laws, regarding all life, for many of us can see that, Founder-origins or not, This species known as human is in fact sentient with a thriving civilization, and it deserves to grow, or perish, by its own devices, as we all do. Furthermore, the Elohim's own admittance to planning and executing three times the destruction of not just the human civilization of this planet, but also an unkown reptilian race and a now extent pre-human advanced race, shows thier gross disregard for all life, whether they be brethern species or random. It is a criminal act to commit mass genocide, and furthermore indicates that the Elohim are in fact hiding the knowledge that they knew full well that the primitive race the encountered on this planet WERE descendants of the Founders, with or without DNA evidence. It has been discovered, through examination of these humans and of data collected from the Elohim themselves, that the huma race has been forcably tampered with to prevent them from reaching thier true Founder race potential, and this is inexcusable. It is the decision of this Council that the race of Elohim is to depart at once from the appointed sector and that agents of this Council be dispatched at once to remove and dispose of all alien presence on the planet, regarding the ones known as Super Soldier and all evidence of the virus to be used against the humans. The Elohim will cooperate fully or face even further punishment than they will now recieve. The sector containing the planet known as Earth is now confiscated and within the jurisdiction of this Council, until such time as when the humans either advance to thier full potential and join this Council, or end up exterminating themselves, as it has been known to happen to other races. The species at this time is still much too primative and will be kept under close observation. As for the Elohim, for thier crimes against life, most likely life seeded b the Founders, they are relived from the last four sectors of thier territory and forbidden to enter human space ever again. They will relinquish thier seat in the science committee and trade with the Tidaxians is hereby forfeit in matters of gleamstone trading for a period of twelve units. The Rilans will return these three humans to thier homeworld immediatly." The Elohim representatives were furious! Surely you cannot be serious! Such a strong punishment for minor tampering of creatures not even of this council! And to prohibit trade for gleamstones? This will cut our space travels by half without the ability to run half our ships! "My bretheren Elohim, do you not see?" continued the voice, "it is that attutidue that has gotten you into trouble. The true measure of a race is how it treats its inferiors, and you have treated your own creation with nothing more that the worse contempt possible. One more misstep and you will no longer sit on this Council, be grateful your race has not been rejected from this assembly entirely. Now be silent. This Council stands at rest." William stepped forward and bowed, followed by Mulder and Scully. "Thank you," he called. Mulder and Scully waved as the room once again dissolved in front of them. ************************************************* They didn't return to thier holding room, but rather followed a Rilan down yet another winding hall. They came to a wall and the Rilan indicated that they should step through. Mulder turned tot he Rilan and asked, "Is it over then? Will they leave us alone?" William translated. Yes, replied the Rilan, As we speak special clean up crews have been sent to your world to remove all of the Elohim's projects and presence there. They are confined to teritory several light years from your world and the few parsecs surrounding your solar system have been siezed by the Council. You will be left in peace, for now. 'Will we see any of you again?' asked William. He thought he saw the being smile, if only in its green eyes, as it said, Perhaps someday the Council will call your race forward. You have much to learn and grow beyond your primative ways, but you seem to learn much faster than anyone has ever seen before. If you manage not to destroy yourselves, when you are ready, the Council will make contact with your race. It has still yet to be determined if you truly are a Founder-bred race or not, but even if you aren't, you will be left alone. Unless of course you become a threat. William nodded and bowed tot he creature, and it bowed back. Mulder took William's hand and Scully's, and together they stepped through the wall, feeling the pleasant tingle and seeing the rainbows of colors dance. Suddenly, they landed on the ground as if they had jumped from above about ten feet. William rolled head over heels coming to a stop next to Scully, who had managed to twist her ankle when she landed. Mulder sat up groaning, holding his side. They looked around and saw they were in a desert somewhere. William looked up in time to see a craft in the distance speeding away up into the stars. He grinned. "Is everybody OK?" asked Mulder, pulling Scully to her feet and supporting her weight from her injured ankle. "Yeah I think so," she said as William got to his feet and dusted the sand off. "Mom, Dad, is it really over?" he asked. "I guess we'll find out, son," said Mulder. "Come on, we have to get your mom to a hospital or something, she might have broken her ankle." "I'm fine, Mulder," she said. William and his father rolled thier eyes, and they started walking down the hill until they reached a road. Making a descision, they started walking. After what seemed like hours, they rounded a bend and saw, to thier surprise, thier car on the side of the road. It was still dark, but it seemed as if sunrise was near, because in the growing light, they could see it was in fact thier rental car. It was bizarre, it looked like it had simply been parked on the side of the road. For how long? How long had they been gone? The keys were still in the ignition and they climbed in with relief. Mulder started the car and they drove coming into the town of Rachel, Nevada, right as the sun came up. But even more surprising, the local radio station announced that it was only the next morning. And as his mother's favorite Celine Dion song came on, William couldn't help but notice how appropriate it was. "Where there was dark now there's light where there was pain now there's joy where there was weakness, I found my strength all in the eyes of a boy" That could be him, William realized. "...I see a light in the sky oh, it's almost blinding me I can't believe I've been touched by an angel with love let the rain come down and wash away my tears let it fill my soul and drown my fears let it shatter the wall, for a new sun A new day, has come....." William would have laughed at how ironic it was. ".....I see a light in your eyes, all in the eyes of a boy...." *************************************************************** Decmber 25, 2012 The entire Scully family plus a few additions were having the best Christmas of thier life, especially following a week long of hiding out in bomb shelters all throughout the neighborhood, waiting for the invasion they had planned for for over a decade. But it never came. True to thier word, the Council had waylaid the Elohim's plan to take Earth and had removed the supersoldiers and all traces of the greys from the planet. For several weeks, there were reports of UFO's and dissapearances of high level officials, but it had settled. On the actual date of December 22, 2012, the Scully family had congregted in Roswell, New Mexico where it was supposed to be somewhat safe. But the invasion never came. Bill Jr had been merciless in his torment of Scully and Mulder, but they just laughed, releived that Bill's ranting was all they had to fight. William would probably have recurring nightmares all his life, and no one in the world would ever know the battle they had fought to save the human race. Word had trickled down the grapevine of Aegis, of course, and most people now accepted the story of the Council, since the invasion had not come, but several others were remaining vigilant, sure that the invasion was only postponed. But for the family who had fought it all, they finally were able to rest, although Mulder doubted they would ever really believe it was all over for good. William had emailed Josh but had decided not to tell him anything. His parents hd been right, Josh didn't need the added worry of something that might not even happen anymore. Instead, William talked about baseball and the new Nintendo VR game due out for Christmas. This year, they celebrated Chirstmas like never before. Maggie Scully had made her best dressing, Tara and Bill Jr. had done the turkey, Charlie and his wife Stephanie had done the pies, and Scully and Mulder had done pretty much everything else. John Doggett and Monica Reyes and Walter Skinner had come down to join them, as well as Jimmy and Yves. Gibson was spending Christmas with his friend Doug, but Jeffery Spender came from next door at his brother, Mulder's, request. He had been especially happy to hear of the diverted alien invasion, since it meant that all of his father's treachery, including his own disfigurement, had all been dealt with justly. William spent the entire time challenging his cousins to rematches on video games and enjoying being a kid for the first time in a long time. As the family gathered around the table for Christmas dinner, William got the best present he had ever recieved when his father stood up. "Everyone, I guess now is a good time to say this," he said looking down at Scully. "I've asked Dana about sixteen times to marry me, and on the seventeenth try, she said yes. We're going to be married this spring." William jumped up and cheered and jumped into his father's arms. Maggie had jumped up and grabbed Dana in a hug. Everyone at the table was either cheering, applauding or hugging someone. Except for Bill Jr., who remained in his seat scowling until Tara kicked him hard in the shins and he clapped. From that moment on, the holiday got better and better. Later that night, William, who was sharing a room with his cousins and having trouble sleeping since Matthew snored, slowly crept down the hall to his parents' room and crawled into bed with them. Both were awake instantly, but settled down when they saw it was William. "Have a good Christmas?" asked Mulder.W illiam nodded and snuggled down next to his mother. She looked at Mulder with a smile. "Should we tell him now?" she asked. "Well, I guess we'll have to now that you've said something," quipped Mulder. "Tell me what?" asked William. "Well," said Dana slowly, "You're going to be a big brother." William sat straight up. "What?? You're gonna have another baby?" "Hey buddy, say it a little louder, maybe your Uncle Bill down the hall will hear you," said Mulder quietly."And yes, your mom's going to have a baby. We didn't think she could, but then we didn't think she could have you." Mulder ruffled his son's hair. "That's why we're getting married in March. It's due in August," said Dana. William settled back down, thinking to himself, 'Wow, Uncle Bill's gonna be pissed. This'll be great! I hope it's another boy, I can teach him to play baseball, and me and dad can take him to Indian guides. That's going to be one lucky kid.' With a smile, he settled back down drifting into sleep, where he dreamed of his sister Emily running along the beach, of grey aliens in little jail cells, and a sunrise over a beautiful mountain landscape, and he and his parents and a little baby walking along the beach, following Emily's footsteps in the sand. THE END.