Cold weather

Saturday Ang’s sister and her boyfriends came over. We all talked and watched music videos on the TV. They stayed about 4 hours and then left. Afterwards we got the dogs out to the backwaters. I ended up crashing out on the evening and Ang woke me to feed the dogs and take them out for a wee. Sunday was really quiet and we only got the dogs out on one decent walk because it was so cold. Thankfully all our order arrived from Sainsbury’s so now we’ve got a Christmas dinner. Got to bed about 11 and woke this morning just after 8. Managed to get dogs on two walks today but still very cold so neither of us wanted to go on a third and dogs had to make do with just going onto the green. Watched the soaps on the evening and then next episode of the series about the Queen. Ang ordered an Indian to eat about 7.30 which was lovely. Managed to get some more of Alien done over last few days
Thor A’gin stepped out of the playroom shower rooms with a tissue in his hand wiping his face. He walked in a robe to the cabins and opened the door to his bunk. He let out a strange noise from his vocal tracts. Puzzled he suddenly said “Put comms on”. A light over the mirror turned green. Shouting into the air “Get this no-timer speaking our language”. With that a sequence of symbols were touched at one of the consoles in the command area and the operator made a high pitched noise into the air near his console. He touched another symbol and Thor A’gin heard the sounds he made. In Thor A’gin’s language it meant “Our no-timer now understands Ancient Oh Reeeeeeka” Reeeeeeka replied “I cannot stand English. It makes my throat hurt. I’m coming down to command in 3 loms so be ready to bring the reactor up to power in 6 loms. Finished.” With that Reeeeeeka disrobed and removed a purple kilt and black sash from two sliding drawers. He dressed himself rapidly and left his cabin and walked to the command post on the upper floor.
Entering the command area he settled himself in his chair, strapped himself in and placed on his head band and slipped on his glove. Picking up the wand he activated the console and spoke slowly “How long til we’ve got full nuclear power for the magnetic shield”. “Just over 4 loms Reeeeeeka” replied a female at one of the two forward consoles. “I want the whole lot of us back home in less than 400 loms. Parked and disembarking. Make it happen.” With that there was a flurry of activity at the other console and the operator spoke rapidly. The sound of their language was like birds screeching. Similar to some tribes on Earth. They called their language Ancient. That was the best translation although some would say “The Oldest”. At least that’s what the last of the surviving humans would call the sounds they made. No human had heard them talk in their language yet and as the ships departed rapidly Earth was none the wiser.
The phone rang as I came in from the garden with the two dogs. “I’ll get it” I said to Angela and walked over to where it lay on the table. I flipped the screen up and Dave’s image appeared. “It’s going mad this end. Every ship disappeared from orbit about 20 minutes ago. They didn’t fly away they just disappeared. It took about a minute for them all to be gone. Just disappeared from every monitoring device we had on them. They accelerated through space rapidly for half a mile and then disappeared. Took about 2 minutes from when Thor A’gin’s ship vanished. We got a transmission before they left. English then weird noises. We’re trying to translate it now. So much for their translator devices. They just give out unknown when we parse the message into English. I told them how you were feeling and the response was tell him to be patient”. I looked hard at Dave’s image and spoke slowly “Patience my arse. It’s gone tits up and they know it. They need to tell the world.” Dave frowned and said back “I can’t express more strongly from the committee that you must remain silent. Continue your work and we will do all we can to help. We’ve located the last house from your directions. It’s a family with children. We’re investigating at the minute. Looks like a poverty issue though so we’re looking at changing their income some-how. Should be easy with a lottery ticket as the mother and father both play.” I thought for a moment then said “I’m glad of that as they seemed nice people. I’m having a rest for 48 hours while I suss the area out and see what’s around. Maybe you could send me a data sheet on the local crime scene. I don’t think I’ve got time to work it out myself. I need it Friday as I’ll have run outta pot by Saturday.” Dave nodded and said “I’ll get onto it. You’re well suited for the dogs where you are. Walk 15 minutes and you’re at a small lake. There are salt-marshes and beaches local as well. I’ll get over Friday and drop you off an ounce of weed just in case you can’t get sorted. We should have a unit for you by then and I’ll bring it along. Anything else?” I shook my head and said “I’m getting a bad feeling about this but can’t think of ought else I need. Catch ya Friday.” With that Dave replied “Catch ya soon” and the screen went back to the screen saver.
As the last of the ships reappeared from no-time it was in a far distant galactic system. In Reeeeeeka’s ship the nuclear generator was powering down and they were entering the atomosphere of a blue planet in the orbit of a star. The planet looked like Earth but the shape of the land wasn’t right. This planet was known to it’s occupants as TeeKaaOoon. After re-entry Reeeeeeka’s ship flew to a landing spot next to a black and purple building in a place that looked like a desert. This was Klakmar base a military landing station south of DeCooMa.
Reeeeeeka appeared from the entrance to the ship and walked to the buildings followed by his crew. The females were last to depart heading towards the red door to left of the entrance the males went in. As Reeeeeeka entered the building a