Charger the Soldier (31 page)

Another room slowly seemed to meld into the
room they were all standing in, and small figures came into view.
This new room was dense with technology, and light from unseen
sources filled it. Some of the scientists jumped, startled because
another figure was standing just inches from where they were
standing. The two rooms were actually merging. The room the
scientists were in still existed, but was vague and hard to focus
on. The new room was equally vague and difficult to see. But the
small occupants of the new room were clear. They were obviously the
Dinosauroids from the pictures on the wall.

One of the scientists said under her breath,
but loud enough for the others to hear, "They must be in a parallel
universe, with the technology to merge with ours at will." The
stunned scientists realized the truth of this and were awe-struck
by the incredible power these beings wielded.

The Dinosauroids had never traveled to the
stars; they simply traveled to another dimension. They were and
always had been on Earth; it was just that they lived several
seconds into the future. Now they were pulling the two time lines
parallel to make contact.

"We are so supremely fucked!" Phil spoke
loudly. "I want all of you to move to the far side of the room.
NOW! Don't talk, don't look at them, and don't move when you get to
the other side of the room. GO NOW!"

The scientists did not hesitate. They all
seemed to realize what was happening and some grabbed the
dignitaries who happened to be there and forced them to comply.

One lone Dinosauroid stood in the center of
the room and faced Phil. It stretched out its arm almost as if
looking for a handshake. Then the hand tipped up and it made a
circular motion in front of Phil. It stopped for a moment, then its
hand pointed down, and a single finger of three pointed toward the
ground. Phil was devastated; he had no idea what this meant.

After a moment, Phil reached for the pocket
watch his grandfather had given to him as a child. He pulled it
from his pocket, then lifted it to his ear. He posed that way for a
moment, then handed it to the lone Dinosauroid. It held the watch
to the side of its head. The Dinosauroid seemed puzzled, perhaps
because it realized that the watch made no ticking sound, but
instead was playing a small tune. The pocket watch would play a
melody when a button was pressed on the watch face, and the
Dinosauroid seemed fascinated by the music. It handed the watch to
another Dinosauroid, which had appeared in the background, and it
too seemed fascinated. They apparently conversed for a moment, then
the watch was returned to Phil.

Phil surmised that the Dinosauroids heard
music as a type of mathematics for they responded by handing Phil a
small device that emitted a tone he knew was based on mathematical
principles. Phil had no idea what the tones meant, but one of the
attending scientists did. She approached Phil and explained that
the Dinosauroid was sending tones based on a progression of
mathematical sounds, and that the binary communicating device they
had developed might be of some value here. After one of the binary
devices was sent for, the female scientist approached the lead
Dinosauroid and presented a single pen, then added another pen,
then a third. This went on for some time as she tried to establish
a system for counting, to build a foundation for math to be used in
future communications.

It was agreed that a dot would represent the
number one, and two dots the number two. This went on for some time
until both the female scientist and the lead Dinosauroid had
established a common mathematical groundwork. When the binary
device was brought to the room, many of the group set about
reprogramming it to be used to create words that both the
Dinosauroids and the humans could use in establishing a common
language.

Many hours passed as the two groups labored
to build a usable language with which to communicate and, when it
was done, a rudimentary working device began emitting speech that
both sides understood. They stood facing each other, distant
cousins for millions of years on planet Earth, two worlds in
parallel in a room shimmering with light, and began speaking with
one another.

The Dinosauroids had the technological power
to keep the humans' room bridged with their universe for several
days, while the two groups worked to expand the mathematical
language they had created. In the fullness of time, Phil and others
managed to translate the history of the Dinosauroids for
researchers to examine. What follows is a brief sample, a page or
two, of all that was discovered.

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The history of the Dinosauroid as transcribed by Dr.
Phil Curtis and Dr. Jennifer Abdulla:

After the destruction of most of the life
forms on planet Earth 65 million years ago, the Gray aliens, who
had fired the light beam which altered the path of the asteroid and
sent it to Earth, killing many dinosaurs and most other mammals
weighing over 50 pounds, decided to travel to this world to extract
all the resources it held. They felt confident that no intelligent
life was present.

However, a vast amount of time had passed
from the date of the initial impact to the date the aliens again
arrived in Earth's orbit. This had allowed Earth to recuperate from
the impact and its repopulation by vegetation and animal life. A
surviving group of bipedal Troodont dinosaurs, on the continent we
know today as Australia, had become the top predators. Thus, when
the aliens landed and began surveying to see what riches this new
planet could provide for them, they were curious about these
intelligent and social meat eaters.

At some point, the Grays decided to begin
breeding and genetically altering these Troodont in hopes of
creating a servant class of animal which they could use as labor.
This was only done as an experiment at first, for the highly
advanced Grays had no real need for servants. But the birth of the
Dinosauroid was successful. Hundreds of years passed and the
Dinosauroids created a society based on serving the religious and
scientific needs of the aliens. They gained much intellect and
science, which they began to employ in a struggle for freedom.
Inevitably, war broke out and the Dinosauroids were almost
destroyed. Though they knew it might be impossible to defeat the
Grays, they kept on fighting. The aliens finally retreated,
temporarily, after hundreds of years of war.

The technology of the Grays was vast and
advanced and, as they returned in larger numbers to Earth after a
war ended, they would once again conquer the Dinosauroids. In the
end, the Grays were themselves almost wiped out by a virus which
hardly affected the Dinosauroids at all. The remaining Grays put
themselves into a time-lock.

The Dinosauroids, having stolen most of the
Grays' technology, realized they could escape the Grays forever.
Using the Grays' own forbidden technology, the time-lock, they
shifted their entire society one second into the future.

Time in this parallel universe did not pass
at the same rate as time in the universe they had escaped from.
After a few hundred of their years had passed, the Dinosauroids one
day received a signal that could only have come from the world they
had escaped. Curious, they merged a portion of their world with the
old world to investigate and, to their surprise, as they discovered
that sixty million years had passed, they faced the human
civilization of Mahoud.

The humans, awed by the nature of the
Dinosauroids, looked upon them almost as gods. The isolated peoples
of Mahoud had developed technologies far more advanced then the
remainder of Earth's inhabitants and what they learned from the
Dinosauroids greatly enhanced their science. At about that time,
and due to the contact with the Dinosauroids, the peoples of Mahoud
sought sanctuary from the world. It was only because of the ringing
of mountains on all sides, save for the single passage to the
continent, that the society of Mahoud had remained unaltered by the
primitive humans massing on Earth.

Many discoveries made by modern humans after
the disappearance of Mahoud, such as the Antikythera, a solar
system clock-like device discovered under water, were considered
built in the time of Archimedes. This technology was actually the
theft of existing inventions from the time of Mahoud, or Atlantis,
as it became known. Archimedes lived on the south coast of Italy
where the story of Atlantis originated, and where Mahoud would have
been found. The Antikythera, which was the central cog that drove
the robotic guards, was developed to protect the city peoples from
the remainder of the world. These robots, or primitive versions of
Taskers, were in fact powered by radioactive particles and were
also used to power and drive the death rays spoken of in mythology.
All was developed on the Dinosauroid technologies that they had
originally learned from the Grays.

Deep in the language of the Dinosauroids was
discovered the term 'Shang Lie' or 'Shangri-La' as pronounced by
the humans, and this was the direct link to the mythical city of
the Dinosauroid world. The great library of Alexandria, eventually
burned to the ground, had held the story of Atlantis and its
machines, recovered from Dinosauroid histories. Now much of Earth's
previously unknown history was translated from Dinosauroid
chronicles, similar to the way knowledge, in the works of Arabic
philosophers, had been rediscovered during the Renaissance which
followed the dark ages.

M
ark Dixon spoke to the students in his third-year
university class. "About one million years ago, the First Ones, the
escaped creations of the Grays' initial experiments, begin building
an empire in present day Egypt, Britain and Somalia. Their
structures were, according to the Dinosauroids, magnificent and
more advanced than any of us today could imagine. But they were, of
course, long ago ground under relentless ice ages."

Mark, with his companions of old, Andy Kent
and Mickey Petrov, were pioneers in a recent educational
development. With the discovery of the buried complex under
Stonehenge, anthropology had expanded into a whole new
discipline.

This live version of anthropology dealt with
the latest discoveries of humanity's history and remains. The
interactions with the Dinosauroids meant that scientists no longer
had to guess at the past, for the true answers were found in the
Dinosauroids' records.

Mark continued. "But not all the creations of
the First Ones were destroyed. They built three mammoth structures,
one in Egypt, buried deep beneath the Sphinx and the shifting sands
of time. Another was built in Britain, buried over time, then
rediscovered under Stonehenge. The last is still safely buried
under the city of Dhuusamareeb, Somalia."

"The First Ones aren't still living there,
are they?" one of the students asked.

"Well, yes and no," Mark said, with a smile.
"Once the cities were fully functional, the First Ones became pure
mind and shed their bodies. The three underground cities were used
to store the discarded bodies, while their minds ranged freely
through space."

The student blinked, but remained silent.

"It was at this time," Mark said, "that the
First Ones took the name of Enoch, the ancient word for 'people of
one planet' and adopted a hands-off policy for primitive humanity,
which continued evolving without influence for almost a million
years."

Mark glanced down at his notes. "Then someone
decided to write about Enoch. The way the story went was that this
being, who had walked with a god for three hundred and sixty-five
years, finally was no more, for the god took him away."

"That sounds like it came from the Bible,"
another student said.

"I believe it did," Mark replied. "One
particular individual of the entity which called itself Enoch
decided to reject the terms of non-interference imposed by the
others of its kind, and willingly interacted with human descendants
at a time of great tribulation."

The students leaned forward.

"Apparently, a god appeared to humanity and
created much chaos," Mark said. "This god was destructive and
unstoppable, a vengeful and spiteful presence bent on dominating
and oppressing humanity. To the writers of this early time period,
the Enoch eventually became known as angels, intermediaries between
the vengeful god and the simple humans."

Mark went on. "We have also learned that
these Enoch are not helping humanity out of goodness. Rather, their
goal is to deter this destructive god from discovering their great
underground structures and the bodies they left there." He paused.
"Those structures represent peace and safety to the Enoch, a place
of retreat where they can escape the lesser beings of the
world."

"That concludes my introduction," Mark said.
"Today we have two guest lecturers, Dr. Andy Kent and Dr. Phil
Curtis. Both men have been studying the British complex we now know
as the ancestral home of the Enoch. Phil, over to you."

Phil began his lecture. "Good day, students.
Dr. Kent will later describe the rationale behind the British
complex. I will start by addressing our interactions with the
Dinosauroids, and what we have learned from them."

It had been nearly a year since the migration
of the Dinosauroids from the time-lock found in the British complex
to their resettlement on the continent of Australia. This
repopulation was not without its critics. Many humans felt that
giving Australia to the Dinosauroids was unjust but, with the
population of Earth so low, there was plenty of land to go
around.

"These living fossils from Earth's past are
quite amazing. Once we had worked out a common mathematical
language, we quickly discovered the limitless intellect these
beings possess. It wasn't long after we established a working
language that the first of many Dinosauroids, or as they prefer to
call themselves, Reptoids, began using our English language to
communicate."