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I'm going to start by posting some of my most recent and prized work. It's really long, though, so I'll only be able to post about a chapter at a time. Feel free to criticize it. I want everyone's opinions. Unfortunately only two or three will probably ever see this page.

Chapter 2
The Discovery
"What do you mean it's not a metal you know of?" The man had asked when Mitchell told him he didn't know what metal it was. He was trying to find out
how Jack had found it. He found out it was stuck straight up. Mitchell immediately thought this was bizarre and briefed everyone there on what was so peculiar about
it. He then told them to bring any more discoveries to him immediately. After that he got back to his square, and started digging.
It took several hours before there was another discovery, but soon a man yelled at Mitchell from a distant square.
"Mitchell! We've found something I think you should see. We can't pick it up it seems to be stuck to the ground with some sort of slime."
"I'll be right there!" Mitchell yelled back.
When he got to the man's square he found a small rubber-like piece of something. It was stuck to the ground with a substance like a high quality glue just like
the man had said. The substance was an odd reddish color though. Mitchell started to try to pull it up, but it wouldn't come up no matter how hard he tried. So he
told everyone near the square to help pull. It still didn't come up so Mitchell told the man to go help someone else until they could find something to get it up with. He
stood up sweating from trying to pull the rubber-like thing up.
He whistled to get everyone's attention and said "Take any discoveries to my partner Daniel over there. I'm going to see if I can find something that might get
this up," he pointed at the rubbery thing in the man's square.
He headed toward the truck, but before he could get in someone suddenly yelled toward him,"Wait! Mitchell this thing's huge. It covers my whole square!"
Mitchell was about to start over toward the man when a man next to the one that had just yelled at Mitchell yelled "I've got another part of it! It covers mine
too!"
Mitchell began running toward them, but before he could get there was a sudden flash of light, and one of the men disappeared.
"What the........!" yelled Mitchell.
"He was just trying to uncover more or the metal object when that flash came and he disappeared," one of the men said.
"Was this crack in it before?" questioned Daniel who had come running when the flash appeared.
"No, he must have accidentally cracked it when the flash appeared or something."
"Hmm, everyone get to work Greg, you can take over Daniel's," Mitchell said pointing to the man who had first found the huge piece of metal,"Sam, you can
take over mine," he said yelling towards the man who had found the rubbery object,"Daniel, you're coming with me to find something to figure this out. Go get the
piece of metal Jack found."
Mitchell headed for the truck while Daniel went to get the piece of metal. When Daniel got in the truck they started heading back to the office building. When
they got there they ran inside with the piece of metal in their hands. They went straight to the boss's office first. They didn't even knock they just barged in.
"I'd tell the construction crew they can't build the new mall there."
"Why because that little piece of metal in your hand."
"No, because of everything that we can't bring here yet. We just lost a man out there. There's a rubbery object in red slime like substance, and a huge piece
of metal that last I heard took up two guys' squares. Not to mention this is an unknown type of metal." Mitchell yelled.
"What are you suggesting that little green men crashed there," the boss said sarcastically.
"If I didn't know better yeah."
"Well you're looking to be fired if you jump to such absurd conclusions. That's probably steel. Why don't you test it before you come barging in talking about
ridiculous things like aliens."
"Fine, but I think we'll be back with the same conclusion," Mitchell said as they opened the door and left."
They started toward the lab to test the metal.
"He really gets on my nerves sometimes."
"He already gets on my nerves and I've only seen you talk to him and him yell back."
They got to the lab just in time to see it was occupied.
"Oh great we have to wait until their out to even test this. I told the boss we needed to get more labs. That someone was always in it."
Suddenly their was a tiny explosion in the lab and the two archaeologists who were in it came running out coughing. A clean up crew came running down the
hall and closed it off.
"Err. I've got to have a word with the boss why don't you go back to the site and see if they've found anything else. Here's the keys."
Mitchell started heading back to the boss's office while Daniel went back to the truck.

Daniel arrived to find the huge piece of metal now covered twelve squares and showed no sign of ending.
"Daniel, where's Mitchell?" asked a man.
"He's having a word with the boss. The lab blew up right when we got there," Daniel replied disappointedly
Everyone burst out in laughter when they heard Mitchell was having a word with the boss, but when they heard the lab blew up they groaned.
"You mean you don't know what type of metal it is. We told them to build another lab!!!" everyone yelled at once.
"Find anything besides more of that piece of metal?"
"Nope," one man said.

Bam!!!
"YOU can't just keep barging in here Mitchell!!"
"Yeah well excuse me for being a bit angry, but the lab just exploded like I'm sure you know. It happened right before we could test the metal. I told you we
needed another lab!!!"
"And I told you it's not in the budget!!!
"Not according to the stinkin' budget papers. They say there's a five thousand surplus!! That's enough to build another lab wouldn't you say!!"
"Mitchell!! I'm tired of your attitude!! Do you want FIRED!!!"
"NO!!! But I think that if there's a darn five thousand dollar surplus that we could get another stinkin' lab!!"
"That's it Mitchell I'm tired of this!! Your FIRED!!!!
"Fired!!! Fired!!!"
BAM!! Mitchell hit his former boss.
"OUCH!!! I'll make sure you stay out of archaeology as long as I live!!"
"Fine!! Fire me huh! You won't get me off this odd case so easily they'll listen to me and even if they don't you can't get rid of Daniel for this and he'll have
them do what I tell him to have them do!!"
He slammed the door as he walked out. He started running toward the parking lot. Then he remembered he'd given the keys to Daniel and he started running
toward the dig site.

A voice came over the walkie-talkie on the side of Daniel's pants,"Daniel! You would be better off if you don't listen to Mitchell when he gets there!! I just
fired him, and he threatened you'd tell everyone there to do he wanted them to do!! If you do that I'll fire you too!!!"
"Ok," Daniel answered,"Oh and we have some interesting developments out here I hope you get the lab cleaned up soon."
"Good out," the voice came back.
Suddenly Mitchell came running up and stopped in surprise when he got closer.
"You found the end of the metal huh."
"Yeah, got fired huh."
"Oh, you heard," Mitchell said groaning.
"You are going to listen to me aren't you."
"I don't know depends on how you got fired?"
"Supposedly my attitude."
"Just like old times," Daniel said laughing,"yeah I'll listen to you still as long as he doesn't find out. He's already threatened to fire me if I do."
"Good how close to getting that thing out are you," Mitchell said pointing to the huge hunk of metal which they had finally uncovered. It turned out to cover
seventeen squares.
"Shouldn't be long. I don't think it's very thick."
"Good I think there might be more of the rubbery objects under it."
Suddenly someone yelled,"We've got it!!"
"Then lift it up!" Mitchell yelled.
Everyone lifted it up at once and it went straight up and tumbled over on it's other side creating a huge breeze of sand that hurt their eyes. There was a huge
indention in the sand where the piece of metal was.
"It wasn't that thick! Why's there such a huge indention."someone said.
"I don't know, but there's something on it," Mitchell said.
Daniel quickly ran to it to see what was on it.
"It looks like writing of some sort."
"What type is it?" Jack asked.
"I don't know."
"Daniel go get a linguist to read it."
"Why don't you go Mitchell?"a man asked.
"Uh because I think I should be here if anyone find something else."
"Got fired huh!!"everyone yelled at once.
"Yep."
Daniel got in the truck and drove straight to the office building. When he got there he headed reluctantly to the boss's office. He knocked on the door.
"Come in," came the boss's voice from inside the office.
Daniel walked into the office.
"Oh I suppose you're done with your assignment and want another partner. You get your choice since you haven't screwed up like Mitchell did."
"Actually I came for a linguist, but that partner might be nice too."
"Ok who do you want."
"Aaron."
"Uh fine, but you best not be taking orders from Mitchell still," the boss said with a touch of anger in his voice.
"I'll page him along with a linguist."
The boss quickly pushed two buttons on the phone and told both the people that answered to get to his office immediately.
"You know there's nothing there don't you. That thing's probably an old aircraft."
"Still gotta make sure you know."
There was suddenly a knock and Aaron and another person walked in. Aaron had been another friend of Mitchell and Daniel's during school.
"Daniel!!"Aaron suddenly said,"I didn't know you were into archaeology."
"Yeah I'm as this guy says a rookie," Daniel said pointing toward the boss.
"I'll see you later boss," Daniel said as they all left through the door.
"Did you hear Mitchell got himself fired?" Daniel asked Aaron as they walked toward the truck.
"No, I hope it's not because of the vase."
"No, he got fired for his attitude. At least that's the reason the boss gave Mitchell."
They all laughed together even the linguist.
"I think we're onto something big at the new site of the mall though," Daniel said as they got into the truck.
"What do you need a linguist for anyway?"
"Oh just a huge hunk of an unknown type of metal with some sort of writing on the back."
They arrived and they all quickly got out and went straight to the piece of metal.
"Look who I brought along with me Mitchell."
"Hey Mitch,"Aaron said as he looked at the hunk of metal in astonishment.
"Yeah I know bizarre isn't it."
"I'd say."
"That's what your translating John," he said to the linguist pointing to the writing on the chunk of metal.
The linguist walked up to the hunk of metal and tried to translate the writing without much luck.
"Well this could be 'it' in Arabic, but this could be 'you' in Egyptian. The rest I just can't read."
"It seems we're leaning more to the boss's joke then we were even before huh Daniel."
Daniel laughed.
"I guess get back to digging especially where that was," he said pointing to the metal.
It was another couple of hours before they found something else this time it was one of the people who was digging where the hunk of metal had been.
It looks like some sort of body.
"Oh great the boss won't believe this, but go tell him that it seems we don't have green men, but we have large blue men."
"How can you tell it's so beat up."
"I can just make out the features of a head and legs."
"Let's go! Aaron, uh... John right. We can see if they have the lab cleaned up yet while we're there."
They got in the truck and once again headed toward the office building. They went straight to the boss's office . Daniel knocked and walked in.
"I don't know if you're going to believe this or not. We don't have little green men, but...."
"I told you that you were being absurd,"interrupted the boss.
"You didn't let me finish. Instead we have large blue men. I'm surprised you could fire Mitchell for his attitude because you're just as rude. Interrupting and all.
Anyway when are you going to have that lab cleaned up."
"First it's clear you are taking orders from him still because you shouldn't stinkin' know why I fired him!! Second the lab won't be clean for quite a few
weeks!!"
"Boss frankly I think you should hire him back because you just did the same thing you fired him for and I won't hesitate to get you fired," Daniel said smiling.
"WHAT!!! You can't get me fired!!! I'm your boss."
"Yes, I can. You have a boss too, and now I can get you fired. I won't though in less you refuse to hire Mitchell back."
"Fine, go tell him he has his job back. I suppose you want him as your partner too."
"Yeah, got a problem with that. Oh, and Aaron is staying on this job too."
"Err... I'm starting to hate you as much as I did Mitchell!!" the boss yelled extremely annoyed.
"Oh, before I leave you would be best to use the surplus to fix the lab in about two days," Daniel said starting to get up from his seat.
"How'd you find out about that!!"
"It's in the contract you sign when you first come to work,"Daniel said as Aaron and he opened the door and walked out shutting the door behind them.
"Go tell Mitchell he has his job back, Aaron. I guess we're done with you John. I'll meet you in the cafeteria, Aaron. I assume Mitchell will be with you."
Daniel headed down the hall toward the cafeteria while Aaron went back up the hall to the parking lot, and John headed back for his office.

Chapter 4
Treason
They had dug a few more feet without anything else being found.
"I guess we should go now. You know I feel bad about not getting to tell this to anyone," Daniel said as they were packing up.
"I know. It really stinks," Aaron said getting ready to get in the truck.
Everyone there got into a truck and started back to the offices.
When they got there they all started back toward their offices.
"It's this way Daniel," Mitchell said pointing down the hall that had the boss's office.
"I should've known it would be near the boss."
They started down the hall, but before they could get there they suddenly heard yelling coming from the boss's office.
"Come on Howard!! If you side with me we can surely get Henry to side with us!!"
Mitchell stopped and put his ear to the door to listen better.
Howard, Henry those were the other two names that were on the metal.
"No Ricky I'm not ready to betray them after all those crashes we've cleaned up!!"
"Well I am!! After those archaeologists of mine found out I realized it would be much easier to just let the Finas take out the Daynads!!"
"Ricky, you don't get if we betray them and the Finas attack then the whole planet will suffer!!"
"I've got that covered!! We'll let everyone, but us and our wives perish, but we'll live!!"
"Can't you see!! Once they're through with the Daynads they'll thank us for betraying them, but then turn right around and stab us in the back ending two
races in a matter of say months!!"
"Fine, I don't need either of you. I just need to find a way to get ahold of the Finas."
"I'm not going to let you get us all killed!! I'll find a way to stop you!! Maybe not today! Maybe not tomorrow, but I'll stop you before you can tell the stupid
Finas!!"
Suddenly the door opened, and Mitchell grabbed the man the boss had called Howard, and threw him back into the office.
"I don't know much about these Finas or the Daynads, whom I'm assuming are the same large, but I think it's our business now, and you'd best to start telling
us more about these before we decide who we're siding with. After that argument about every human dying I'm just about ready to side with this guy. Your actually
quite lucky I'm going to listen to your side first though, boss," Mitchell said.
"You better get to telling us about these guys in general before we even start talking about betrayal," Daniel added.
"Mitchell, Daniel, you two would be best to just take your noses out of this."
"I don't think so I know we agreed to, but if the entire human race is going to be wiped out because of it I think we should be in the middle of everything."
"I don't know about you Rick, but I'm going to tell them. They need to know before they side with me to keep you from betraying the Daynads, and killing us
all," Howard suddenly said.
"Finally someone sensible."
"Ok, as I heard you know the Daynads are enormous as well as blue and humanoid. What you probably don't know is they can become any form of life they
see. Another thing is that they are in a war with the Finas."
"We know about their war with the Finas and how you've been hiding them from everyone. How did they get in the war though?" Daniel asked.
"They've been in the war for years actually. It was caused when the Finas stole what the Daynads call the Slena. We don't know what it is exactly though.
Well eventually the Finas after millions of years took the Daynads down to less than eighty. That's where we come in. As you've said you know we've been hiding
them for some fifteen years. They go around looking for life that can help them get their precious Slena back from the Finas. When they found us those fifteen years
or so they decided we'd hinder them more than we could help, but they decided they'd let a few know of them so they could hide easily from the Finas. Those of
course were me, Rick here, and Henry Gordon. I'm of course Howard Wheeler if you didn't know," Howard continued.
"Ok I already want to side with you, but one more thing first. What are Finas like just so we know."
"What we know of the Finas are they're human size, and have pupils that are triangles. Everything else looks like a human except that they're red. They can
change into any creature they know of just like the Daynads can, but their eyes stay triangles no matter what shape they take. They are rarely in their own form so
that no one can tell easily if they're Finas or the creature they're impersonating. Everything we know of the Finas though is from the Daynads."
"Fine, we'll help you keep the boss here from betraying them."
"Oh, thank you. Thank you."
"Let's go we have to figure out how to stop this guy. Come with me to my office."
"Can't we just kill him or tie him up or something," Mitchell commented as they all were leaving the boss's office.
"I'd rather not," Howard replied.
They walked out the door to the office building, and through the parking lot until they came to a yellow Ford.
"This is my truck," Howard said as he pulled out his keys to unlock the doors.
He put the keys in the door, but before he could turn the keys he suddenly stopped, and looked up into the sky.
"I think Rick might have already found a way to contact the Finas."
"Oh no. How did he contact them so fast."
"I'm not sure, but I think we're in trouble."
Right there in the middle of the air was some sort of ship nothing like the one they had found at the dig site. Instead it was shaped like a triangle with three
lights one at each point of the ship.

Chapter 5
Coincidences?
Mitchell suddenly started running back toward the building. When Daniel saw him start running for the building he quickly started running behind him
followed by Howard. Suddenly as they neared the boss's office and Mitchell started to open the door Daniel saw Mitchell pull the Daynad weapon, they had
found at the dig, out of his pocket right as he opened the boss's door.
"Mitchell!! Don't do it!!" Daniel yelled down the hall.
"I can't shoot someone who's gone!" Mitchell yelled as Daniel and Howard caught up to him.
"Where can he be though?" Daniel asked.
"We better figure out what to do with the Fina ship first. We can take care of him later."
They started running back to the parking lot to find that the ship had landed and the Daynads had gathered to try their best to fight the thousands of Finas
that had started to come out of the odd shaped ship. Both were just in their regular forms. There only seemed to be a few of the Daynads compared to the several
Finas.
Mitchell pulled the gun up in front of him and tried to aim it at the entrance to the Fina ship. He fired and hit the side of the door causing the spot to fall
apart into dozens of pieces hitting the Finas near the spot.
Suddenly Howard started to smirk as more Finas got hit and died. He then ran up close to the ship where the Finas had been hit so hard there was a huge
gap between them. Once there he pulled a square object out of his pocket and put it right next to the Fina ship. He quickly started running back toward the
Daynads immediately after laying the object down. Expecting a explosion from the square object Howard had placed down under the ship Mitchell headed back
inside the door behind him pulling Daniel in with him, but instead of an explosion the square object just lit up, like the piece of the Daynad ship they'd found had
when it made the man disappear, and the ship just disappeared. Infuriated by their ship disappearing the Finas fought harder.
Not having any success at making any leeway in defeating the Daynads the Finas started running in every direction except towards the Daynads in front of
them. Quickly the Daynads started running after the Finas capturing a few before letting the rest go.
Daniel and Mitchell slowly walked up to the Daynads and Howard.
"Did pretty well to have the disadvantage. What was that thing anyway?" Daniel asked.
"It's called a hlnern, but to you its a teleporter," answered a Daynad.
"So do you know where the archaeologist we lost at the dig went then?" Mitchell asked getting excited that his coworker might actually be alive still.
The Daynad was quiet suddenly before he turned toward Howard who nodded so slightly Daniel could just barely tell he had nodded at all.
"Yes we know where your coworker is. He must of scratched our ship when you were digging it up. We can take you there now, but you must leave
immediately after you pick him up so you won't get in our way."
The Daynad started heading toward the forest next to the office building. The other Daynads, Howard, and they followed behind. They walked for what
seemed to Mitchell to be nearly two hours before they arrived at a large building in the middle of the forest that rose until just a few feet under the tops of the trees.
Just barely where it wouldn't be seen from the sky. They rapidly followed the lead Daynad into the building. Once inside they went directly to one of the doors on
the first floor.
Inside the room was the archaeologist who had disappeared at the dig site. He had been bound and gagged. Surprised and at the same time glad to see his
coworker again Mitchell ran over toward the archaeologist.
"P.J. what did they do to you!!" Mitchell yelled as he neared the tied up archaeologist.
Realizing the Daynads had tied the archaeologist, who turned out to be another one of his old friends in school, Daniel turned around to see that Howard
had pulled a Daynad gun out and was pointing it at him.
"What's going on here?" Daniel asked surprised not only to see Howard pointing the Daynad gun at him, but also to see his old friend P.J.
Without answering Howard stepped back, and closed the door as well as locking it.
"What is with all my old friends and archeology," Daniel said turning back towards Mitchell and P.J. who had been ungagged and unbound by Mitchell.
"I just got the urge to a while back," P.J. said.
Daniel suddenly started staring at the wall behind P.J.
"Hey P.J. any idea what the wall says."
Mitchell and P.J. turned to see the wall full of odd symbols. It covered the whole back wall.

Next Paragraph Should Be In Wingdings (May Slightly Spoil Part of Story)!

It read: The Legend Of The Slena: Taken from the Finas in the human
year 3000 B.C. it was originally planned to steal it for the
purpose of using the power of destruction over enemies for ourselves,
but never carried out. Before the plan could be carried out the
Kurons started to get dangerously close to getting its power. It was
stolen for both reasons, but after attempted use and failure it was
soon decided to hide it on the primitive planet Earth. The humans
soon found it, and used it successfully on enemies until it was
recaptured by us, and hidden behind this wall.

End Of Wingdings!

"No idea. It looks like some sort of code or alien language though," P.J. said.
"Let's find a way out of here though," Mitchell said changing the subject,"We can worry about codes and alien languages after we get out of here and warn
all of civilization about these guys."
Suddenly before anyone could reply to Mitchell's comment he went running into the door. The door didn't even appear to have been hit at all.
"I think we need a more reasonable way out this time Mitchell," Daniel said looking around for a way out.
"Well any other ideas then," Mitchell said.
"No, but I'd say there probably is a way, and I think the code has something to do with it."
"Forget the stupid code, alien language, or what ever already, and find a way out of here."
"Shut up you two I think I found a way out," P.J. finally said.
"Where?!" Mitchell and Daniel screamed at once.
"There's a crack straight down the center of the wall over there. The only one without writing."
"What can we dig the rest of the way through with though?" Mitchell asked.
"Would you look already there are sharp rocks from where it cracked laying on the floor."
Mitchell took a closer look at the wall there on the ground lay a bunch of sharp rocks from where it cracked.
"Get a rock and start digging then," Mitchell ordered, "We need to work hard it could be pretty thick though."
"What idiots building the walls out of rocks and dirt."
They picked up stones and started digging hoping the wall wasn't very thick.
Several hours later they were all tired of digging through the wall and everyone except P.J. had stopped digging out of frustration.
"Come on guys. It can't be much thicker."
"Forget it P.J. We're never going to get through that," Mitchell said back tiredly.
"Yeah not with that attitude."
Just then as P.J. spoke he dug right through into another room. They all got down on the ground and started crawling through the opening. When they
started to see the next room more clearly they also heard deep voices that could only be the Daynads.
"Once they find their way through into this room from there we can finally test Granga's theory. The power of the Slena will finally be ours," came one of
the voices.
"The hundreds of years in waiting are over. We finally captured three humans that are friends,"came another voice.
"All we need is for them to break their way in here so we can go get the Slena and force them to use it for us," came the first voice.
"Are you sure it's going to work though?" came a third voice.
"It took years for us to influence all those humans to go into archeology so we could plant a fake ship of ours and have Richard Pochner send them to the
site. It better work," came the first voice once again.

Chapter 7
The Agency
"I say we just forget this ever happened. As long as we act as if we don't know about the them, the Finas, the Slena, or anything then they'll leave us alone,"
an archaeologist yelled at the others in the office building. They had gone into the lab and were now trying to figure out what to do next.
"That's so untrue!! They captured us once they'll do it again. They may even be able to use the Slena now. I don't know what this Slena is, but I don't think
it's anything we want to mess with," P.J. yelled back at the other archaeologist.
"Then what do you suggest!!!" the same archaeologist yelled back at P.J.
"Quiet you two!! I think we should tell all the world leaders they can decide what they should do." Daniel said.
"They have no right to know though!!" another archaeologist said.
"Yes they do!! They have a right to know what's happening in their countries and dealing with it themselves," Daniel said back.
"Okay then lets take vote," Mitchell said,"All in favor of forgetting this happened raise your hand," Mitchell paused and counted, "Okay all in favor of telling
world leaders raise your hand," Mitchell paused again to count,"That's it then we tell."
"There's just one problem though. If they decide to tell everyone there will be worldwide panic," P.J. said.
"Fine we'll tell them to not tell and just run the countries as if they didn't know and just to make sure they have some defense against them and start to plan
some strategy," Daniel said.
"Sounds good. Let's go," P.J. said getting up.
Everyone quickly got up to head out the door, but before they got to the door P.J. spoke again.
"Whoa guys we can't all go."
"Good point. Who should go?"
"I say Daniel, Aaron, and Mitchell they've been through the most after all," one guy said.
"Hey have you forgotten I got teleported from the dig site to the building in the forest, and then got tied up for hours before getting untied by Mitchell."
"Fine then Daniel, Aaron, Mitchell, and P.J."
"Yeah!!" everyone yelled at once.
"Ahh!! Not so loud gosh!!" P.J. yelled back as he started to open the door.
He, Daniel, Mitchell, and Aaron quickly went through the door, got in a truck and headed to the airport to get a ticket for the first stop on their list, D.C.
When they got to the airport they quickly went to the front desk to get tickets. They were very lucky and were able to get tickets for the plane leaving in two
hours.
"What you guys want to do while we wait. There's not much point in leaving," P.J. said.
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm hungry," Aaron said, " See you in about half an hour to an hour."
"Well I'm going to go see what's in the news. I didn't get to read it this morning," Mitchell said.
"I'm going to go take a nap on that bench. We might not get much time to sleep with those aliens running around," P.J. said pointing to an empty bench a few
feet away.
"I'm going to go to the bathroom, and watch the TV or something," Daniel said heading off for the bathroom.
Mitchell headed for a chair near a stack of newspapers while P.J. laid down on the bench he had pointed to. Aaron soon started off toward the food court
just a little way away from where they had been standing.
P.J. was able to quickly go to sleep once he laid down on the bench while Mitchell started reading one of the newspapers.
It wasn't long before Daniel came back from the restroom, and sat next to Mitchell and started watching TV in front of them.
"Not much that's real interesting in there is there, Mitchell," Daniel said turning to Mitchell. He had gotten bored of watching the news on the TV.
Suddenly Mitchell handed him a book that had been sitting with the newspapers.
"Here read this. Just let me read the newspaper okay."
Daniel looked at the book. The title was The Wrinkle in Time.
"Come on, Mitchell. You know I hated this book as much as you," Daniel said tossing the book back at Mitchell.
"Fine what do you want to do then. It's clear I'm not going to get to read the newspaper."
"I don't know pick on P.J. until Aaron gets back."
They both started to laugh softly.
"Just like we used to huh."
"Oh yeah," Daniel said getting out of the chair he was in. Mitchell soon did the same thing.
They both walked over to P.J.
"Hmm. Let's see what can we do to him," Daniel said when they got over to the bench P.J. was sleeping on.
"I don't know it was your idea I thought you had something in mind."
"I've got it. Do you see a pillow we can use anywhere?"
"We might be able to get one from the front desk."
"Good," Daniel said headed back over to the front desk laughing on the way.
When he got there he quickly asked if he could have a pillow, and the person at the desk handed him a pillow.
He quickly headed back over to P.J. with the pillow.
"Now what are you going to do with that," Mitchell said when Daniel got back over to P.J.
"This," Daniel said sticking the pillow over P.J.'s head.
"Can he breathe with that there?" Mitchell asked a bit worried about P.J.
"He's done it before," Daniel said heading back over to the chair he'd left. Mitchell soon followed once he was convinced P.J. could breathe.
Right as they got back to their seats Aaron came over with a hamburger in his hand. Aaron started to laugh softly.
"So is he asleep under there?" Aaron asked still laughing.
"Boy is he," Daniel said back.
Aaron started eating the hamburger he had brought over, and Mitchell went back to reading the newspaper.

An hour later P.J. suddenly moved.
"Whoa that was a long dream. I can't believe I've actually been at Justin's sleepover the whole time," P.J. started to move the pillow as Daniel, Mitchell, and
Aaron burst out in laughter, "Aww, it wasn't all a big long dream!! Daniel!!"
"What?" Daniel said back.
"I know it was you who did this to me. Just like Justin's sleepover. I'll get you back."
"That's what you always say P.J." Aaron said.
"Would you guys be quiet I'm trying to watch the news," Mitchell said.
Suddenly a sound of confusion came over the TV.
"What's going on?" Daniel asked in response to the sound of confusion on the TV.
"I don't know. Come look."
They all looked at the TV. right as the confusion was dying down and the reporter returned to his seat and started to speak again.
"I hate to report the news to you tonight as it seems history is repeating itself with higher intensity. It has happened again. Another terror attack on the world.
It seems so horrible. No one thought that history would repeat itself worse that awful day in September, 2001. This time it was the whole world. We now go to Jack
Robinson in D.C."
The picture switched to a picture of a man in front of the burning White House.
"Noooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!" They all screamed.
"This is no terrorist attack guys. Either the Daynads, the Finas, or the Kurons did this," Mitchell said turning away from the TV. as the TV. started showing
pictures of every burning capital of every country in the world," I guess we may as well head back to the office now. They've outsmarted us this time," Mitchell got up
tearing his ticket to pieces as he headed out the door followed by the others.
They quickly sped through the streets toward the office building as people all over the place pulled off the road and went into buildings to see the news on
what most thought to be a terrorist attack, but the archaeologists who knew of the Daynads, Finas, and Kurons knew it wasn't a terrorist attack.
They soon arrived at the office building to find even more to be angry with the aliens for. The office building was on fire.
"What happened here? Aaron asked.
"I don't know, but their building in the woods appears to be on fire too," P.J. replied.
"I can't believe this in an hour and a half they've stopped us from getting to the world leaders as well as destroying all evidence of their existence. Everything
from their building to the fake metal ship are gone," Mitchell said.
"Well we have to fight back don't we," Daniel said.
"What are you suggesting, Daniel?" P.J. asked.
"What I'm suggesting is an agency to fight back against them all."
"So what you're saying is forget the now probably dead world leaders and fight them on our own," Mitchell said.
"Yep."
"That's absolutely insane!!!" Mitchell suddenly yelled," There's no way we can fight them all by ourselves. There's only approximately three hundred of us
including the archaeologists who were supposed to be waiting for us here. Who knows how many Daynads there are. Or how many Kurons. Or even Finas."
"Well we have to try don't we."
"Fine!! I'll give it a try."
"Besides they're fighting each other too."
"We can rebuild an agency to fight them on the wreckage of the office I guess."
"It's going to take a while though don't you think."
"So we can wait can't we. We just need it built to begin."
"Fine let's go find the others," Mitchell said getting into the truck followed by everyone else.
They drove out of the parking lot just as the fire truck was getting there.

Chapter 9
Trinkins
When Mitchell awoke he found that his cell phone was beeping extremely loud. He looked at his cell phone trying to figure out why it was beeping. When he
looked at it he found that there were two alert messages on it. He hastily checked the messages. The first one was from Aaron telling him about the situation in South
Carolina. The second he found was from Daniel, but it didn't have any kind of message on it.

Meanwhile P.J. had gotten up after a few hours of sleep, and after he ate a little breakfast had gotten back to work translating the message for Daniel. Since
he had awoken he had figured out that v was v, f was f, and that g was g. This made his copy of the message read: We have failed again in defeating the
Finas, but we have a new plan. This time we will wait for them to find the Slena or for the Daynads to find it, and
then we will be the ones who will gain its power.

"I'll never surrender to you!!" had been Aaron's response to the aliens, but they didn't take no for an answer. Instead of killing them the weapon the Fina had
been holding transported everyone it hit to a prison cell inside the ship, and the Fina had transported Aaron and several other members of his team to this prison cell
in this way. Aaron still wasn't sure why the Fina had imprisoned them in the prison cell rather than killing them on the spot.

"Hey, has anyone seen Daniel since he told us to take a break?" asked Justin trying to find out what had happened to Daniel. Of course no one answered him
because no one had seen him since he went into the pyramid.
"Well, I'm going to see if I can find him then," he said heading into the pyramid.

Meanwhile Mitchell was off the ship he had been riding to Germany, but instead of getting off at Germany he stayed on until it returned to the U.S. He was
now heading for the location Aaron had told him the aliens had landed.

Meanwhile all P.J. had to do was figure out a few more symbols, and he'd have the entire translation. Since the other symbols he had figured out o was o,
r was r, s was s, b was b, and u was u. This made his copy of the message read like this: We have failed again in defeating the Finas, but we have a
new plan. This time we will wait for them to find the Slena or for the Daynads to find it, and then we will be the ones who will gain
its power.

It was several hours before Daniel awoke to find himself in a large, dark room of the pyramid. He hastily picked up his cell phone to see if he could call the
rest of the team or not. It turned out he couldn't because he was so far down. He soon decided to go ahead, and explore the room he had fell into.

It wasn't long before Mitchell found the spot Aaron, and his team had been at, but he only found about six members of Aaron's team left on the beach where
they had been.

"Why didn't you kill us when you had the chance?" Aaron said to one of the Finas when it came around to talk to them about something.
"Your part of the agency that's out to destroy us. You know too much so we're going to hold you hostage to that Mitchell who's in charge of all of you. He'll
have to shut down the agency to get you guys, but don't worry we'll kill you one way or the other," the Fina replied in a high toned voice.

P.J. was now nearly done. He had recently figured out W was W, S was S, , was ,, F was F, T was T, and that . was .. This made it read: We have
failed again in defeating the Finas, but we have a new plan. This time we will wait for them to find the Slena or for the Daynads to find it,
and then we will be the ones who will gain its power.

Daniel was trying to find the flashlight he had been carrying with him when he fell, but he could seem to find it so he found where the wall was, and started
filling around it to figure out how big the room was or if there were any ways out of the room. He found there was no way out of the room. After he was done feeling
around the walls he felt around the floor again. He was trying to find his flashlight once more. He soon found it near where he had landed from his fall. He immediately
started to pick it up, but when he did he heard strange clicking sound, and jumped back a little.

Meanwhile P.J. had figured out the translation. Lately he had figured out p was p, D was D, and y was y. This made the message read: We have failed
again in defeating the Finas, but we have a new plan. This time we will wait for them to find the Slena or for the Daynads to find it, and then
we will be the ones who will gain its power.
He hastily attempted to call Daniel on his cell phone, but all he got was that it was out of range. He quickly called Mitchell instead telling him about how he
had finished the translation, and Daniel's cell phone being out of range.
"I guess go ahead, and fax your notes over to him. Then send something about you couldn't reach him, but these are the translations."
"Okay."
P.J. hung up his cell phone, and faxed the translations to the fax machine in the back of Daniel's truck.

"Hey, we have a fax a man yelled when he saw the translations coming out."
Everyone started over toward Daniel's truck as the translations came out. When they were out Tom pulled them out.
"Hey, they're the translations P.J. was working on. He couldn't reach Daniel so he went ahead, and faxed them over," Tom said as he picked up the first
etching, and started using the notes to translate it.

"Daniel!! Daniel!!!" Justin yelled.
Where could he be there's no way out of this room? I wonder if he found a secret passage or something.

Using the notes P.J. had made Tom was able to quickly translate the first message they had found to: We have planned a rebellion for tomorrow, but I
believe the Daynads are onto us. We plan to get the Finas to help us. I just hope the Daynads don't find out or that the Finas take over the Daynads, and put
us right back where we are now. As slaves. Tom was forced to figure out on his own, and add to P.J.'s notes that I was I, ' was ', k was k, c was c, j
was j, and A was A.
He then went on to the next message they had made an etching of that read:

Should Be Webdings

The Trinkins were imprisoned in the this pyramid today. We're afraid
the Daynads will do the same to us if we rebel any more, but we must
follow through with the plan. The Trinkins were our only friends
though I can't believe we may never see them again.

End Webdings

"Where are you taking us?" Aaron asked the Fina who had taken them out of their prison cell, and was taking them down the hall.
"We figured while we still had you we'd go ahead, and torture you to find out how much you have really figured out."

Daniel started toward his flashlight again. This time he didn't hear the clicking sound as he picked up his flashlight. He immediately turned it on. When he did
this he found hundreds of giant, purple beetle-like things all over the room. He wasn't sure how he hadn't felt them when he was feeling for a way out.

P.J. was now starting on the third language so they would be ready if they encountered it somewhere. He had already copied one of the messages he had of it
into his notebook. It read:

Should Be Presswriter Symbols

We overthrew the Daynads finally with the stupid Kurons help. We had no need
for their help, but we tricked them into helping us, and then we re-enslaved
them. The best thing is we don't have to deal with the Trinkins anymore the
Daynads over in the pyramid region imprisoned them last night before we
attacked. They deserved it.
He quickly found the letter used most to figure out what e was. It turned out to be e.
He quickly substituted this in making his copy of the message read:We overthrew the Daynads finally with the
stupid Kurons help. We had no need for their help, but we tricked them into
helping us, and then we re-enslaved them. The best thing is we don't have to
deal with the Trinkins anymore the Daynads over in the pyramid region
imprisoned them last night before we attacked. They deserved it.

End Presswriter Symbols

"What are you?" Daniel asked toward the strange creatures. All he got back were a bunch of clicks.
Darn they can't speak English like the Daynads and Finas.

I don't know how he could of gotten anywhere from here. I may as well go back outside and see if the rest of the team found any trace of him.

Using the notes Tom was able to translate the second message they had found to: The Trinkins were imprisoned in the this pyramid today. We're afraid the
Daynads will do the same to us if we rebel any more, but we must follow through with the plan. The Trinkins were our only friends though I can't believe we may
never see them again.
"Anyone hear of Trinkins?!!" Tom yelled with no response.

Mitchell wasn't sure what to do. He was unsure where Aaron was, and all he had to go by were six of Aaron's team members who appeared to have slept
through the entire incident.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Aaron yelled as the Finas and Daynads tortured him trying to get him to tell them what the agency knew.

P.J. was making speedy progress on the translation. So far he had figured out t was t, h was h, m was m, w was w, i was i, n was n, g was g, o was
o, and d was d. This made his copy of the message read: We overthrew the Daynads finally with the stupid Kurons
help. We had no need for their help, but we tricked them into helping us, and then we re-enslaved
them. The best thing is we don't have to deal with the Trinkins anymore the Daynads over in the
pyramid region imprisoned them last night before we attacked. They deserved it.

"You should give in to the torture human. It would be a lot easier," the Daynad that was torturing him said.
"Never!!!!!!!!" Aaron yelled in response.
"Well. It doesn't matter anyway we're going to contact your boss within a few minutes."
"Take them back to the cell. They're not going to talk. Go ahead and contact this Mitchell character," the Daynad ordered the Finas and Daynads around
him.

Ring!! Ring!! Ring!!, Mitchell's phone rang. He quickly picked it up hoping it was either Aaron or Daniel. When the voice started talking though he couldn't
recognize it. It was too deep to be anyone he knew.
"Who is this?" Mitchell asked into the phone.
"It's the Daynad empire. Meet back at the beach where we took your friend in two hours, and we'll talk about giving him back."
"What are you talking about?"
"You thought we killed him and his team didn't you. Well we didn't and we'll talk about the terms that must be followed to get him back."
"What are these terms?"
"You'll see soon enough now won't you."
The Daynad on the other side of the line hung up.

"So you still don't know where Daniel is huh." Justin said when he learned there was still no sign of Daniel.
"No, but we got the translations from P.J. He said he couldn't reach Daniel on his cell phone for some reason," Tom said to Justin as he kept translating the
message he was working on.

"What do you mean the Daynads kidnapped Aaron?" P.J. asked when Mitchell called him up telling him about the whole conversation with the Daynad.
"They just called me a little while ago they want me to meet them here in fifteen minutes to talk about the terms of getting him back."
"Do you believe them?"
"I don't know, but I'm going to meet them one way or another. I still have the Daynad weapon with me. I'll use it if I have to."
"I don't know if you should go by yourself though. I mean Jake is in Kentucky with his team. He couldn't get there in twelve minutes, but he might be able to
get there in the middle of the meeting."
"I guess I'll go call him."
P.J. hung up and got back to work on the translation. Recently he had figured out r was r, v was v, and a was a. This made his copy of the message read:
We overthrew the Daynads finally with the stupid Kurons help. We had no need for their help, but we
tricked them into helping us, and then we re-enslaved them. The best thing is we don't have to deal with the
Trinkins anymore the Daynads over in the pyramid region imprisoned them last night before we attacked. They
deserved it.

Only five minutes left. I hope I'm not walking into a trap. Probably good thing Jake and his team is on the way.
There was suddenly a rush of wind and Mitchell saw a ship, like the one he had seen near the office, come down and land on the ocean in front of him. The
door opened soon afterwards revealing a Fina and a Daynad holding Aaron by the arms between them. Aaron wasn't even conscious and it appeared as if he was
about to die already.
"Get on-board. We don't want to be seen much less for you to have a group on the way to come kill us. We'll talk on the ship when we get in orbit."
Mitchell quickly started up toward the door where he entered the ship. The door immediately shut behind him and the ship took off again.
"Follow me! I'll take you to the room where we'll talk about the terms. Fluna, take his friend here back to the prison cell we don't want there to be any
chance of funny business during the talks," the Daynad said to the Fina as he started down a hall followed by Mitchell.

There done.
P.J. had figured out the translation. He had recently figured out l was l, s was s, y was y, f was f, p was p, b was b, u was u, d was d, D was D,
W was W, K was K, . was ., T was T, , was ,, k was k, c was c, ' was ', and - was - which completed the translation making it read: We overthrew
the Daynads finally with the stupid Kurons help. We had no need for their help, but we tricked them into helping us, and
then we re-enslaved them. The best thing is we don't have to deal with the Trinkins anymore the Daynads over in the
pyramid region imprisoned them last night before we attacked. They deserved it.
Darn Mitchell is probably in that meeting with the Daynads by now guess I'll have to wait to tell him about the translation. Oh well I'll call him in
about half an hour. In the mean time I'll start on the last language.
P.J. quickly pulled down a message that had the final language on it that read: We shall free our best friends
the Kurons from slavery by the hands of the Daynads. If the punish us
for this then so be it.
He quickly copied it down into his notebook and got started translating it.

"What do you want for him?"
"Oh, that is for the emperor to decide. He will be here shortly," the Daynad said heading out of the room as another Daynad walked into the room, and sat
down in front of Mitchell."
"So you are the one named Mitchell," the new Daynad said to Mitchell.
"Yeah, that's me. What did you do to my friend?"
"We just had to figure out what all you knew about us. He told us everything," the Daynad lied.
"He never could take any pain."
"Yes, clearly. Now lets get down to business. What we want from you would of been the shut down of the business, but you tried to endanger our safety.
Not that it would of done any good."
"Okay, so what is it now?"
"Your life."
When the Daynad said this Mitchell turned pale, but before he answered he pulled the Daynad gun out of his pocket and pointed it at the Daynad.
"You know if you shoot me we will kill your friend."
"Yeah, but it'll deal a good blow to the Daynad empire. An empire can't do as well when their emperor has been killed."
"Fine shoot me then. Let your friend die along with his team."
Mitchell quickly pulled back the trigger on the weapon and shot the Daynad. As soon as he shot the Daynad several Daynads and Finas rushed in weapons in
hand.
"You didn't think that was the real emperor did you. Only idiots would do that. It wasn't even a Daynad or a Fina. It was a Trinkin. We freed it in exchange
for this. You actually probably did us a favor. Now we will have all of your lives. Get his friends and take them to the execution deck along with him."

"Well looks like Mitchell messed up. Now we all get to be executed," Aaron said as several Daynads led them away to the execution deck of the ship.

Beep!!!!! Beep!!!!!!!!!! BEEP!!!!!! Daniel's phone was beeping because two alarms were registered one from Aaron and one from Mitchell. He quickly
checked to see what they were about but there weren't any messages with them.
I still don't understand why the alarm gets through but the phone still won't work.

Well, it's been forty minutes I guess I'll take a break from the translation, and call Mitchell about the other translation.
P.J. quickly picked his phone up and called Mitchell, but no one picked up the phone.
Maybe he's still in the meeting I'll call him back later. In the mean time I'll continue translating.
On the translation he had already figured out was e, and e was t making it read:
eshallefrtteourebtstefritndsethteeuronsefromeslavtryebyethtehandseofethteeayn
adseeefethtepunisheuseforethisethtnesoebeite
That doesn't make sense there are too many es and the ts make it worse. There aren't any areas that make the word the much less spaces between
words at all that I can tell.

"How are we supposed to get out of this one, Mitchell?" Aaron asked as they were being strapped to chairs for execution,"You messed up big time this
time."
The Daynads and Finas strapped in the last member of Aaron's team and one Daynad started at the last member of Aaron's team and began to fire going
down the row of the members of the agency. He got closer and closer to Aaron and Mitchell.

Hmm, maybe there are symbols for a space. I guess I'll have to go back to the beginning and take the second most used symbol as e, and the third
for t.
So P.J. went back to the original message in his notebook.

"Nice job, Mitchell. You're a great leader. Now we get to die thanks to your great leadership."
"At least I didn't tell them everything the agency knew."
"I didn't either."
The whole time Mitchell and Aaron argued the Daynad was getting closer and closer.

P.J. was now continuing on with finding e by counting for the second most common symbol. It turned out to be e. Substituting this in made it read: We
shall free our best friends the Kurons from slavery by the hands of the
Daynads. If the punish us for this then so be it.

The Daynad was now only five archaeologists from Aaron, but right before he fired at the fifth one from Aaron a Kuron suddenly came in through the door
distracting the Daynad.
"Who let the Kuron in?" the Daynad yelled.
The Kuron suddenly sped toward the Daynad spitting acid like the one that had taken the Slena. Whatever the acid touch suddenly started dissolving.
"Don't just stand there fire at..." the Daynad said as the Kuron suddenly spit acid at him killing him instantly and leaving the gun laying on the floor of the ship.
The Kuron just started spitting wildly and randomly as the Daynads attempted to kill it. The acid hit several Daynads as well as burning spots in the walls and
restraints on the archaeologists.
At one point the acid hit the archaeologist next to Aaron killing him. Soon afterwards Aaron found his restraints were dissolved enough to free him so he
quickly got out of his seat and dove at the gun the Daynad had dropped and pointed it at the Daynads and Finas firing.
Soon the Kuron had killed all the Daynads and Finas with little help from Aaron, and it turned toward the archaeologists and began aiming its acid at them,
but it only hit and killed one before Aaron shot it with the Daynad weapon killing it.
"Mind freeing us now," Mitchell said to Aaron.
"I don't know how to though."
"Didn't you pay attention when they put the restraints on us. There's a button in the back that should release them."
Aaron quickly looked behind Mitchell's chair and found a button on the back of the restraint. He hastily pushed the button and the restraints were released.
Before long Aaron had freed the remaining four other archaeologists as well.

P.J. thought he was on the right track now he had figured out t was t, and assuming the was a space he figured out h was h. This made the message
read:We shall free our best frhends the Kurons from slavery by the hands of the
Daynads. If the punhsh us for thhs then so be ht.
Darn it, i must be i too.
So he put in i for the i where h didn't make sense. This made the message read: We shall free our best frhends the
Kurons from slavery by the hands of the Daynads. If the punhsh us for this then so
be it.

"We were lucky again."
"Not as lucky though there were thirty of us now there are only six."
"We have to do something they'll surely send more people and we can't hold off for long with only one gun."
"Maybe we can get to the control room and make the drivers land."
"I guess it's worth a shot."
So the small group of archaeologists left the room they had been nearly executed in and headed down the hall looking for the control room.

"Would you things at least stop looking at me strangely!" Daniel yelled at the strange creatures. He was starting to wonder if there was a way out.

P.J. was starting to get the hand of the translation now. He had recently figured out swas s, n was n, and o was o making the message read: We
shall free our best frhends the Kurons from slavery by the hands of the Daynads. If the punhsh us
for this then so be it.

"Oh, great they're right behind us now," Mitchell said when he saw
there were hundreds of Daynads and Finas chasing them.
Aaron quickly started running backwards so he could fire at them too.
"Quick get in that room everyone!" Mitchell yelled as they neared a door.
They hastily got into the room.
The room turned out to be quite small though.
"Aaron whenever that door opens fire like crazy we'll get them before they can get very far into the room to get us."
So when the door opened Aaron constantly fired at the aliens until after hours the door finally shut.
"Good work, Aaron," Mitchell said. As he said this Aaron started to clutch his arm as he fell to the ground groaning.
"I guess they hit my arm though."
Mitchell checked over the wound on Aaron's upper arm and replied,"That's a pretty bad injury, but I think it'll be fine for now.
"Lets get moving again. You need any help Aaron."
"No, but take the weapon. You'll be able to fire better at them if they send more guys."
So Mitchell took the gun as he helped Aaron to his feet. They immediately started looking for the control room again.

P.J. was still working on the translation. Lately he had figured out b was b or a in some cases, and l was l. When he substituted these in it made the
message read: We shall free our best frhends the Kurons from slavery by the hands of the Daynads. If the punhsh
us for this then so be it.

"I'm starting to get worried about Daniel. Do you think he might of gone into one of the other pyramids?" Justin asked Tom.
"I wouldn't think he would do that without telling us," Tom replied.

"I bet that's the control room they're guarding," Mitchell said looking around a turn that they had come to.
"Good, got the gun ready ,Mitchell?" Aaron asked, "We can use the turn for cover from their blasts."
Mitchell didn't even answer Aaron's question he just turned the corner and started firing until they fired back. When they did that he ducked back behind the
turn. He did this repeatedly until there weren't anymore Daynads or Finas in front of the control room.
They quickly ran up to the control room and opened the door to find a Daynad piloting the ship, and a Fina co-piloting.
"The humans!!!!!!!!!!" the Fina said standing up with a gun in his hands, "We should have killed you guys when we got the chance."
"Yeah well that's your mistake. We don't make mistakes. We'll kill you now," Mitchell said firing the gun, but before he did the Fina fired hitting Mitchell
directly in the stomach as the Fina fell to the ground dead.
"Mitchell!!!" Aaron said taking the gun back from Mitchell.

P.J. was now getting closer to figuring out the message. He had recently figured out u was u, r was r, and f was f or d in some cases, We shall free our
best frhends the Kurons from slavery by the hands of the Daynads. If the punhsh us for this then so be it.

"Land or I'll kill you like my friend killed your co-pilot."
"You don't have the guts. If you kill me you will be stranded out here."
"Maybe not but I will torture you to figure out how to drive it."
The Daynad got up out of his seat and left the room with Aaron close behind.
Mitchell was still lying unconscious on the floor of the control room bleeding severely from his stomach. The four archaeologists left in the room were doing
the best they could to stop the bleeding, but nothing was working.

"Ahhh!!" the Daynad yelled as Aaron tortured him trying to get him to tell him how to drive the ship. "Fine, fine. It's quite simple really all you have to do is
steer with the wheel like you were driving a human car. If you want to land you pull down the red lever. To take off you just push the red lever back up. To hover
you pull the blue lever and a screen will pop up. You punch in how high you want to hover above the ground. I'm not telling you how to use the weapons or shields
though."
"Oh, yes you are," Aaron said torturing the Daynad more.
"Fine, the green lever is the shields, and the yellow one is the weapons."
"Thank you, but I think I'll kill you anyway."
Aaron fired the gun at the Daynad's head killing him, and he started back to the control room.

P.J. was now nearly done. Lately he had found m was m, represented all punctuation, spaces, and capital letters, y was y, v was v, and p was p. This
made the message read like this since he didn't know what the capitalized letters were: We shall free our best frhends the Kurons from slavery by the hands of
the Daynads. If the punhsh us for this then so be it.
Now all I have to do is fix my mistakes and I'll see about calling Mitchell again.

"So he told you how to drive the ship huh," one of the four archaeologists said to Aaron when he returned.
"Yeah, I took notes too. Now lets land somewhere. Any requests."
"It doesn't matter as long as it's near a hospital. Mitchell needs help quick."
"We'll land just out of the city somewhere and take him in by car if we can find one to drive."
Aaron quickly got into the Daynad's chair and started to land the ship slowly. He landed it on Myrtle Beach where they had been taken by the Daynads and
Finas. Luckily it was still night time so no one saw them land. They hastily carried Mitchell to Aaron's truck and drove to the nearest hospital.

Hmm, can't seem to get ahold of him. I guess I'll send the translations to everyone like I did with the first two.
P.J. put his notes in a copier then made enough copies for each team to have one copy and faxed them over to every team.

"Hey, P.J. got two more languages finished."
"Good. That means he's done."
"Let me see them I can memorize them real quick probably. That's why I'm the linguist."
Justin took the translations from Tom who had taken them out of the fax machine and started memorizing them in case he had to know a message real quick
and didn't have the notes.

"You said he got shot right?" the doctor asked Aaron when he had examined Mitchell a little.
"Yeah, why?"
"That hole is to deep and large to be from some sort of gun. I'll see what I can do though. It doesn't look good."

Well that's every language I guess I'll translate the rest of these and see if I can figure out something about them.

"I'm going to look for Daniel some more guys okay," Justin said heading back to the pyramid.
Where could he be? There's no way out of here besides the entrance.
Justin once again checked the walls and started checking the floor as he did so the floor opened up like it had done when Daniel got on it.

"He's not doing so well. Do you want to see him?" the doctor said to the archaeologists.
"I guess," Aaron said following the doctor to where Mitchell was on life support.
"There's nothing left for me to do. You'll have to hope for a miracle now."

It was hours before Justin woke up to find Daniel and the giant beetle-like things.
"You're up finally."
"I guess I found you finally."
"Yeah. Any idea what these things are. They can't speak English."
"They must be Trinkins. We found out about the Trinkins in the messages. P.J. finished all the translations."
"Well, can you find a way to speak with them then."
"Yeah, I memorized the translations."

Justin Writes In Presswriter Symbols

Justin quickly wrote: Are you the Trinkins? in the sand one the floor of the pyramid.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means are you the Trinkins?"
The beetle-like things immediately wrote in the sand in response. They wrote: Yes, we're the Trinkins. We were
imprisoned here long ago by the Daynads.
"They say they're the Trinkins and were imprisoned here by the Daynads long ago."

End Presswriter Symbols

Chapter 11
Battle
"What in the world? What are those things?" an archaeologist yelled when he saw the Trinkins.
"I know we're in Egypt, but what did we do to deserve a plague of giant beetles."
"Hey, Daniel and Justin are with them," one archaeologist said heading for the entrance to the pyramid where Daniel and Justin were.
"What are these things?" he asked when he got to them.
"Tom, meet the Trinkins," Justin said in response.

"Aaron, you have a call," the person at the registration desk said holding the phone up.
Aaron quickly went over to the desk to answer the phone. When he got to it he found that it was from the archaeologist who had went back to the ship.
"I found our cell phones. Mitchell's has tons of messages on it."
"Good, we should be at the beach in a few hours," Aaron said handing the phone back to the person at the desk.

"So those are the things the Daynads imprisoned."
"Yeah. We freed them. They say they're forever in our debt too."
"I'm going to call Mitchell about this," Daniel said picking up his phone.

Ring!! Ring!! Ring!!
Mitchell's getting yet another call. I better answer it. The archaeologist who had gone back to the ship thought answering Mitchell's cell phone.
"Hello."
"Mitchell."
"This isn't Mitchell it's John."
"Oh, why do you have Mitchell's phone?"
"Long story. I'll give him the message as soon as possible though."
"Well, tell him that we have found the Trinkins and they say they're forever in our debt. In other words tell him we finally have a friend."
"Okay," John said hanging up.

"Hey guys did you get the ship," Mitchell said quietly walking into the waiting room.
"Yeah," Aaron said, "We need to get back to the beach so John can land it again." After saying this he quickly lead everyone out the door towards the beach.

Meanwhile trouble was stirring in Germany. Mitchell's team had spotted a ship along with hundreds of other citizens of Germany.

Mitchell, Aaron and the other three archaeologists arrived back at the beach right as John was landing the ship to pick them up.
"Hurry up and get in here, Mitchell, your phone is ringing nonstop," John said as the door to the ship opened. Mitchell immediately broke into a run to the ship
followed by the others. As soon as everyone was in the ship John closed the door and took off while Mitchell found where John had put his cell phone which was
ringing. He quickly picked it up.
"Hello," Mitchell quickly said.
"Mitchell, we've got problems. They're not even trying to hide their ships."
"Who is this?"
"Bob you better get back over here as soon as possible."
The line suddenly went dead.
"How fast can this thing go, Aaron?"
"I'm not sure."
"I'll take my truck to Germany. You pick Daniel, P.J. and everyone up and meet me there. I think there's going to be trouble."
Aaron immediately started to land the ship back on the beach.
"Now right after I get out you have to close the door and take off before anyone can see the ship," Mitchell said as the ship landed and he opened the door.
He immediately ran to his truck and got in it as the ship started taking off again.

"Start packing up guys I just got a call from Mitchell we're heading for Germany. Seems his team spotting a large number of ships there!!" Daniel yelled to his
team right after getting off of his cell phone," Justin tell the Trinkins Mitchell wants them to come along too."

"I'll pack the messages up and be ready for Aaron," P.J. said hanging up with Mitchell and already starting to pack the messages and other supplies up. He
finished right as he saw the ship come down. The door quickly opened and he got in. As soon as he was in the door to the ship closed and the ship took off again.

A few hours later the ship came down in Egypt, where Daniel and his team was, just as it did in Roswell. Daniel, his team, and the Trinkins got aboard the
ship. The ship immediately closed the door and took off. Inside it was extremely crowded.
"Okay, Aaron, that's everyone let's get to Germany as fast as we can," someone yelled to Aaron. Once the person had said this Aaron pulled a lever and the
ship lurched forward and sped away.

It was just a few minutes before Aaron started to slow the ship down. He quickly landed it and everyone got out to meet Mitchell's team, but they got out to
find the team strewn across the ground dead.
"Start cleaning the bodies up. We'll see if we can find the ships they were talking about," Aaron said taking Daniel, Justin, P.J., and several others to search
for the ships, and left the others to clean up the bodies of Mitchell's team.

"What do you mean they're all dead?" Mitchell yelled into his cell phone.
"Whoever's ships they were must of killed them all," Aaron said back to Mitchell.
"Well, I'm almost there. Try to find those ships."
"We're trying, but I'm afraid they might of already left."
"Keep trying. Bye," Mitchell said as he hung up.

"Hey, Justin, Mitchell wants you to get back over there and see if you can teach the Trinkins to write on paper so we don't have to depend on something they
can dig in to," Aaron said to Justin.

A few hours later Mitchell drove up.
"Any signs of the ships that did this?" Mitchell asked Aaron as he came walking over from where he had been searching.
"No, but if they want us bad enough they'll be returning for us."
"I have taught the Trinkins how to write though," Justin said when he noticed Mitchell had arrived.
"Good. Ask the Trinkins if they know how to get to the Daynad homeworld."
Justin immediately did as Mitchell had told him to do by writing down: Do you know where the Daynads live.
The Trinkins quickly wrote back: Yes.
"They say they do know where it is."
"Then, ask them if they can take us there."
Justin hastily wrote down: Can you take us there?
In response the Trinkins wrote down: Yes.
"They say they can."
"Good, then Aaron you take five Trinkins and ten men to the Daynad home world. Don't worry about landing though. This is just to examine their planet so
we can develop a plan. Get moving. Justin, tell the Trinkins about the plan."
Justin quickly did so while Aaron gathered ten men and headed for the ship. Five Trinkins soon joined him there.
"Here are the translations so you can tell what they're saying. They said you have to drive because they can't drive the ship even though they know how
because of how they crawl rather than walk. So you'll have to be able to read their directions as quick as you can," Justin said handing Aaron the translations of the
Trinkin written language.
"You better get going in case the ships do come back," Mitchell said.
Aaron and the ten men, and the five Trinkins all got aboard the ship. Soon afterwards the door closed and the ship took off.

Thanks to the high speed of the ship and the directions from the Trinkins it was only a few days before Aaron was able to hover above the ground of the
Daynad homeworld. It also wasn't long before a Daynad ship spotted them and recognized that it was the ship the agency had taken. They immediately started firing.
Aaron quickly reached for the green lever to activate the shields before the other ship hit them, but before he could a Trinkin suddenly handed him a message reading:
You have been misled if you think that is the lever that activates
the shields. Pull the orange lever that is hidden behind the wall
over there, and that will activate the shields.
Aaron quickly translated it to find he had been misled by the Daynad who had told him how to drive the ship. It turned out that the green lever didn't activate
the shields, but a orange one behind the wall did. So he went over to the wall and lifted off the panel that the Trinkins said it was behind and pulled the orange lever.
As soon as he did the ship blew up.