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Aberrant: Weirder Stuff - Chapter I Homecoming


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Abel shrugged.  "it's so far beyond the normal we expect we simply accept it."  Abel smiled.  "Okay Blitz, so you're back to help them calibrate the portals, so they can avoid detection.  That's well and good.  I gotta tell you though, when we go home, you are definitely gonna have to watch who you actually talk around.  While it doesn't freak us out so much, the rest of my family is gonna be pretty unable to accept a talking dog."

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"I dunno guys, I'm kinda freaking out," Kia admitted. "I just...I don't even know what half this stuff means, you know? Aliens made your dog talk? And there's other aliens that want to invade the planet? How do you even deal with that? And that's not even mentioning all the stuff that's happened to US."

She huddled in her chair a little.

"It was almost fun while it was happening, but now I've had time to think about it, and I feel like I'll never sleep again."

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Abel reached out to give Kia's shoulder a reassuring squeeze.  "You'll adapt to this, You all will.    It might take a little time,  but I know it can be done."  
 

"As to all of this stuff happening, well scifi exposed me to the ideas of this sort of stuff.  That it's all real, well that's freaky in its own way, but as I said earlier, some of this really does seem straight out of movies and comic books.."

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Blitz hopped off the chair and went over to Kia and nudged her with his nose and and then laid his head in her lap.

Julio looked at his watch then glanced back at the door. "Man I hate to disturb you guys and all, but the Col said we could have ten minutes and it's been like twenty already. So they're like, goona be barging in here any second now you know."

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Lilly scooted her chair over beside Kia's and put an arm around her, giving her a side hug and letting Kia rest her head on her shoulder if she wanted.

"It's okay, girl. I kinda feel the same way. It's like, things have went soooo far into 'unbelievable' that they are coming back around into 'believable' again." she said to her best friend.

"Don't worry though, we'll figure this all out." Lilly comforted, resting her head against Kia's.

"You Queen has proclaimed it, so it shall be." Lilly joked about her newly crowned Homecoming Queen status with a smile, trying to lighten her friend's mood.

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Sean smiled in amusement at Lilly's joke, which turned slightly wistful, if not melancholy when she glanced down at herself. Changes indeed! If she ever attended Homecoming again, she would be named a Queen, rather than a King. For her, it wasn't so much that things had gone so crazy that it rolled back around to barely believable, but that it had indubitably happened and there was nothing but to accept it and adapt and so she had. And was continuing to do.

She sighed, causing her multicoloured hair to flutter and reached around to give Sara her own hug. "It's going take all of us some time, us and our families." She arched a brow at Abel, having heard the truth in his voice, her full lips quirking in a musing, almost teasing, grin. "You'll have to tell us how long it took you, after all this, Abel."

Sean turned, her eyes falling on everyone, getting their attention, but she used Guildchat to voice her thoughts, just in case any listeners decided to be paranoid.

<Just one more thing I want to add before they get in here. The Teddy Bear is not necessarily an actual Bear. I think the... entity or whatever that contacted us, and Blitz for that matter, chose it as an innocuous image or appearance, something that we would recognize, or at least would trigger a recognition, like when you saw the plush bear in the store. Or it can simply be something it's hiding it's real identity behind. So far, we have no idea who or what the 'Teddy Bear' actually is. Just something to keep in mind.>

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Julio stood up as the Mizuki girl made her request to “get it over with” and went to the door.

As he opened door he found Dr. Mizuki standing there, startled he stepped back. “Sorry sir, wasn't expecting anyone to be standing there.”

“Airman Sanchez, are the children about finished in there,” asked Dr. Mizuki in a low voice?

“Yes sir, I was just coming to let you know.”

Dr Mizuki steps around the airman and comes into the room, he makes a slight nod to his daughter, Kia.

“If you are finished with your discussion with Mr. Blitz, There are some people who would like to see all of you.”

Nods and responses in the afirmative follow, Mizuki motions for Julio to bring the waiting people in.

After a moment Julio returns and is followed first by Kia's mother, Iolani, who calls her daughters name and rushes to her. One by one parents enter the room until the kids are all on their feet embracing their parents. Absent are Abel's father, Alec's mother, and both of Lilly's parents.

Sean's parents are the last ones to enter the room following Sara's father the county sheriff. As Sara runs to her dads waiting embrace Sean watches his own parents search the room for their son but she is surprised when the both spot her and rush over to grab her in a tight hug, holding her with no questions asked.

Dr. Mizuki moves over to Lilly who is looking for her parents, finding neither of them. “Lilly, your mother is here on base and she knows that you are alright, but she is needed elsewhere right now,” he pause and looks at Alec who is also standing alone, and then at Abel who is hugging his mom. “She along with Alec's mother and Abel's father are in the base infirmary, seeing to the injured from the battle, doing what they can to save lives. Your father is also unfortunately occupied.”

"There are injured here? Why didn't you tell me?  I can help.” says Lilly interrupting Dr. Mizuki.”

“Yes I know you wish to help...”

“No Dr. Mizuki! I mean I can save them! Take me there now!” Lilly shouted forcefully.

Alec, who had moved close after hearing Dr. Mizuki talk about his mother, grabbed the Scientists arm, “Take us there, I can help as well.”

Dr. Mizuki looked into the eyes of the two children and realized at that moment that despite their age they were children no longer.

 

After a moments consideration Dr Mizuki called Julio over to them. “Airman Sanchez escort these two to the infirmary I will notify them that you are coming. And Julio keep them safe.” He pulled out a phone and made a quick call while Julio, Alec, and Lilly left for the infirmary.

While those two were on their way to the medical facility, Mizuki explained to the remaining Irregulars and their families that due to the extreme circumstances and the risks that the government wanted the kids and their parents to remain on the base while some things were sorted out. He then went on to explain in greater detail to the Parents and their kids the severity of the Alien Incursion. He explained about Project Stepping Stone and what it would mean too the world. He went on to explain the mysterious mutations which had occurred to a small number of those with proximity to the Project and that it was believed that some how even though the kids were never exposed to the project that some of them perhaps all of them had also been subjected to the mutational force.

He also told them that experts were on the way to examine the kids and make sure they were in know danger and that they hoped that they would cooperate fully.

While Mizuki continued to explain and answer any questions he could Julio took Lilly and Alec to the Infirmary which was in chaos. Lilly's mom didn't want to let them in , but Lilly forced her way in telling her mom that she had to help.

Lilly went to the first soldier she saw lying on a stretcher She knelt and placed her hands on the wounded mans chest and head. As she summoned the energy inside her and channeled it to her hands she could feel the mans injuries and with concentration sent the energy into the wounded soldier easing his wounds stabilizing his vital signs.

Lilly's mom stood transfixed as she saw her daughter heal the man simply, to her, by laying her hands on him. Alec moved past them into the waiting room and did the same to another young soldier. In minutes the room was full of the three doctors and the nurses who had been fighting a losing battle to save the critically wounded. Neither Lilly nor Alec could completely heal all of the wounds but they did stabilize all of the surviving wounded and gave the medical staff the time they needed to do they're jobs.

By morning all of the families and the irregulars were situated on base where they would remain for the next day or so as things sorted them selves out.

 

In Washington emergency briefings were held. At first the government wanted to pack everyone and everything off to the Area 51 site, but Dr. Mizuki and Lt Col Pryor stood fast. The contended that disrupting the children's lives further would serve no purpose and would lead to even more of a chance that containing news of the event would fail. In short order it was decided that the children would remain in Shelly and that other changes would be made to Project Stepping Stone as well.

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INTERLUDE

WASHINGTON DC

It was almost lunch time and he wanted a cigarette more right now than at any other time in the seven plus years he had been president.

He rubbed his eyes squeezing the bridge of his nose while the General and the Scientist continued their argument.

“That's enough gentlemen all you are both doing is repeating yourselves.

Let's put this out for general discussion I want ideas people it's what you are paid for.

According to the...talking dog, these aliens, the Asheen are not able to open a portal directly to earth.

Correct?”

 

“That is what the animal says Mr. President,” remarked the General, “he said that the goto fowl...”

“Guatal Feem,” corrected the Scientist.

General Craig shot the younger man a scathing look. “The Guatal Feem, they said that the Asheen couldn't open a portal with out precise data and were using our portals as a carrier wave sort of. If we are going to believe a dog and a bunch of aliens, if they even exist, that we have not met, then the prudent course is to cease all portal activity of our own. That means talking with our allies and Russia and China to make sure they follow suit.”

Most of the military in the room nodded in agreement with their general, a few of the civilians did as well.

Dr. Malcom Roberts, a very young (the youngest person in the room at 27) African American, and a genius by any standard, shook his head. “Right now Mr. President, we do not recommend this course of action. Project Stepping Stone is going to be the first line of defense against what may be an unstoppable foe. When Blitz, the dog, took that nuke through the portal and detonated it, it shut down the portals at Bulawark and those connecting Groom Lake with Bulwark and the two smaller orbital drone, Micky and Minnie. When that happened we regained control of both of those assets. However the third drone, Goofy, was not effected by the detonation. Goofy didn't have an active portal to Bulwark, only to the Alpha site, and that portal is still active and we cannot shut it down. NASA has so far been unable to regain control of Goofy and in fact as of my last briefing does not know where the drone is.”

 

The General snorted a quiet laugh, “Maybe we should send a nuke through that one too, then.”

The President glares at Gen. Craig. “Go on Dr Roberts, you were saying?”

“Yes Mr President. But the General is right at least partially, We should be prepared to send a nuke through if it comes to that. But until it does, that portal may be our only link to an enemy we are going to have to fight sooner or later. And we are going to need that portal to find them when we are ready sir.

But back to the original question. We no longer believe that the Chinese do have an active portal program, that assessment was based on purely circumstantial evidence which we now believe was in error. Furthermore it is the assumption of the leading members of Project Stepping Stone that full disclosure could lead to a war here between us and the Russians or the Chinese or both of them.”

The room is silent as the President ponders what he has just been told.

“So what are you recommending,” he finally asks?

“Sir we would like to use the Goofy Portal to monitor the situation, we would recommend a strike package be prepared should it be needed, and we want to use the information and data supplied by the Guatal Feem to improve our Portal Technology. We have already, for good or bad, opened Pandora's box. They know we are here, we have to be ready for them sir.”

The President nods solemnly, “Alright we will take this under advisement and let you know. Now what about these kids, these enhanced persons you have told me about.”

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INTERLUDE

BULWARK AFB

AFTERMATH

Activity at the base is constant, helicopters ferrying personnel and equipment from Malmstrom AFB to Bulwark, cause people to constantly watch the skies. Some of those choppers fly the wounded to the hospital at the larger base for treatment.

Specialized equipment and personnel from Groom lake have also arrived by mid morning and the first of the Irregulars is brought in for examination. Blood work, MRIs, Cat Scans, X-rays. A full battery of tests are performed on each of the seven young people from Shelly/

Special emphasis is put on the determining the results of Testing on the first Subject Sean Cassidy, the boy who is now a girl.

Just like the other 16 Enhanced persons at groom lake there is no outward sign of what has caused the odd mutations and no explanation for how the enhanced persons can do some of the blatantly physics defying actions that they have been recorded doing.

But now for the first time they have evidence of a physical mutation. Sean Cassidy, who, until his midnight encounter with a portal, was a 16 year old male, is now a genetically perfect 18 year old female. Comparisons with DNA taken from his home and compared to DNA taken from swabs have confirmed that this is indeed the same person but the chromosomal changes have occurred and the cellular growth and aging are accurate and factual.

This finding was the center point of discussion for most of the day untill about 2:45 PM when a data imagery specialist brought an anomaly to Dr. Rashoud's attention.

She immediately called for re-imaging of all seven children. By 7:00 PM the results were in and she called for Dr. Mizuki.

 

Hitoshi had taken the evening off to spend with his wife and daughter. He had never expected so much chaos, he was physicist not a politician but now he was having briefing with the President of the United States. He wished he had never taken this position.

No that is not true. What was happening on a scientific level was the most astonishing things he had ever been or could hope to be involved in. Then he stopped fork halfway to his mouth he looked at his little girl. Has this happened to her because of me.

The phone rang.

“Hello?”

“Dr. Mizuki? This is Anhita Rashoud, we met this after noon. I hate to disturb you but I need to consult with you on something we have found it concerns your daughter and the other children, perhaps all of the enhanced.

Hitoshi's blood runs cold he looks into the dining room where his daughter is giggling at something her mother has said.

“I will be right there.”

Less than thirty minutes later Dr. Mizuki is in and office with Dr. Rashoud and a technician looking at images taken earlier that day.

“All of them have it. Mr Cordeaux and Ms Pryor have the most pronounced ones, if it hadn't of been for them we would not have even seen the others possibly. They are uniform in shape, as far as we can tell from imaging the.. node, I guess we can call it, isn't causing damage to the surrounding tissue. I don't think it is a tumor.” Rashoud pointed them out for Mizuki. The largest one being located slightly behind and below the Pituitary gland of Alec Cordeaux. In size it was about 1 ½ mm in diameter and ovoid in shape. Lilly Pryor's node was slightly smaller, while the other five had nodes about a fifth the size of Lilly's.

“You mentioned the other enhanced do they have these...nodes?” Asked Mizuki.

Rashoud shakes her head. “Inconclusive at the moment we went over they're records and from the images we have it is possible that they have the same nodal growth but if so it is much much smaller than any of these. We are going to have to do some more scans and look specifically for this now. I have asked the director to reassign all of the enhanced to this facility.”

“Alright I understand and can see the need or at least the desire for that, but I don't understand why you wanted me for the consult. I am not a medical doctor.” stated Mizuki with a question in his eyes.

“No but you are a quantum physicist specializing in Biophysics, and these nodes are producing an electromagnetic field independent of the brains normal field. And,” She gestures and the technician changes images to a negative image which is animated and full of colors and swirls and flowing rivers of energy, “ they are all doing this.”

The image changes again to show a full human body obviously female, the flows from the tiny node going everywhere like a second invisible circulatory system

Mizuki sucks in a breath and has to force himself to breath again a few seconds later. What he is seeing is impossible.

“My god it's pulling energy in and redistributing like a heart pumping blood and oxygen but what kind of energy and where is it coming from?”

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This ends chapter one for good I will be starting Chapter two as soon as I get the final reunion posts in (by friday please if not sooner) if you are not going to write a post let me know.

 

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