Moral Compass To Be, or Not To Be

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Second Lieutenant Harold Johnson looked around his modern home for his family. And he couldn’t believe they were assigning him on this secret disclosed Military base. He was sitting reminiscing about the time when he had the interest to be a fighter pilot. But eventually, things changed, and finally, the events changed as well. While they stationed his family to Germany, during the Eighties, he laughed to himself thinking of the individuals who supported him to where he is now. In all his ranks, his most prized one was the rank of being a family man. He was grateful for his family, his wife Hanna, and two children, Zelda and Nolan.

As his mind wandered in thoughts, something on TV caught his eyes. A woman was putting on a coat, and he stared at the stunning colors of the jacket. He could hear the TV in the background when she told everyone to buy the new YinMn reversible coat. What a tone, he thought to himself. It had the shade of purple and blue together. I never heard about this in Kansas where they actively assigned him, he thought. A visual wake up call. Hanna came into the room. “Hi Honey, are you Okay looks like you saw a ghost or something?”

“No, honey, I was watching this ad on TV about a coat, the color of the coat changes, and blends between the two colors.

“Honey,” Hanna sat down next to him and spoke, “Honey there is a lot to discover here on the current base.” Harold didn’t speak he nodded back in agreement. He called the children in, to the same room to talk with them. “Okay, we are having our first family meeting.” Zelda stared at her Dad and listened to every word he said, even at her young age. She knew their family location differed from the past.

“It seems like we’re about to start the springtime here,” Harold told his family, although he wasn’t certain what month it was. “It looks like the spring” Nolan spoke. “How can we miss Christmas here and the New Year? I don’t remember celebrating Dad.”. They all glanced at each other looking for answers.

Pacing to the room, Hanna did not like her family missing Christmas and the New Year; these dates were important for them. She walked in the dome home while she was talking, and noticed a scale button on the wall which looked like a sundial. Around the button were weather messages and Holiday phrases.

One label said Merry Christmas and another, Happy New Year. Then there were weather words associated with Holidays words. Something puzzled her about what she had learned. Words like cold, tropical desert, blizzard, mars and moon setting. There were two words that she could not recognize, one-word was Andromeda Galaxy and the other one, Triangulum Galaxy. She called Harold, “Honey, come here. I want to show you this object.”

Walking over to his wife, he put his hand on her shoulder and said, “What’s wrong honey?” “Look what I found over here. It seems like a Temperature gauge or some sort.”

He looks at the device with some confusion. “We can’t touch this until we talk with Colonel Mathews. He can tell us the function of this button.” The children overhearing them, said something while secretly trying to look over their parents’ shoulder to see. “We have to wait. Our moving truck should be here shortly to unpack. Let’s Wait.” Said, Harold.

Underwater, Yautja knew it was time to find the Relic Key. Now with clues, she had no time to wait. She thought to herself; I must go to New Hampshire and locate the key. She punched a switch, and a screen put the travel coordinates in as 32 Hudson Street, Seabrook, New Hampshire. It was a futuristic GPS for the Fiwusho people.

Moving fast to the entrance of the ship, she whispered, “I will be back.” She advised the others who were in the space-time capsules, “I will unlock all doors.” They couldn’t hear what she said. She found the entrance, and thought could the same action happen for her while leaving?... then a loud noise as heard. The bottom twist opened, and there was a certain substance holding the water from entering, she jumped, and several lights beamed into the water. All the living water creatures disappeared when this happened. It seemed as if her thoughts dominated the ship movements.

Then the same force which carried her up carried her down. It was Yautja’s mission to New Hampshire. While looking up from the bottom of the ship, she glimpsed as the platform closing and its lights going off. Then she went into a swim motion unrecognizable to the common eye. Swiftly, she descended in the water…

Robert has been working on the Atlantic Florida ocean for many years as a tugboat operator. Now, his job was to steer other boats out of crowded harbor’s, towing them. These boats looked small but were mighty in engine strength. Their engines equal the railway trains of today. Robert worked for Towboats, US. In Fort Lauderdale, not too far from Pompano Beach, Florida.

He was travelling out to rescue a ship, and on his way, he noticed something in his binoculars. It looked like someone was drowning in the water. He looked again to make sure he didn’t just see things. And yes, there actually was a lady necessitating help. He sped up his boat as fast as he could, and he yelled, “Hold on, hold on, I’m coming.” As he got closer to her, she seemed lifeless, needing his help... he then cut off his engine and ran to the right-hand side of the boat, reached his hand down to grab her arm. And in this way, Robert pulled her into the boat.

She couldn’t speak but just be thankful...Yautja didn’t want to make a scene. All she wanted was to be near her car on Pompano Beach, Florida. She was now on Robert’s Tugboat, getting closer to start her mission. In the meanwhile, Robert calls in the situation. The company was sending another boat for Robert’s assignment. Yautja couldn’t be happier for this help.

She noticed the speed of a ship; it was slower than most. She observed the tugboat keep moving closer to shore, but she added a slight twist by having the boat operator drive closer to her destination.

Robert stirred his boat toward the right side and headed towards the northwestern shore, waters away from Fort Lauderdale. He didn’t know how this change of route took place. It took about 25 minutes to reach the right place for Yautja to jump off the tugboat, into the water closer to Pompano.

Robert went to check on her to see how she was feeling, but when he went to the front of the boat, he witnessed something unearthly. She released the blanket surrounding her and with a quick, lightening motion leapt off the boat into the water. Swimming at top speeds towards the shoreline ...

Robert looked around in a daze. Getting back to the water location, Robert asked himself, “where am I?” He knew the coordinates very well, but he had never been here before.

Everything seemed mystifying in his Tugboat. He pulled his Global Ship Tracking Intelligence screen following the coastal traffic and noticed his boat was near to the Pompano Beach. “Why?”, He said to himself. “And how? That’s about 22.4 A mile away from the harbor water where I expected to be.” He radioed in, to the main office. “Hello, this Robert calling,” while calling in on his smartphone. The main person answered in Fort Lauderdale, “Robert where have you been, I’ve been calling you for a long time. But there was no answer.”

Robert claimed he didn’t hear the phone ring, “I know where I am, and you know Tugboat doesn’t get lost in any waters.” Puzzled, he said, “I don’t know how I got here.” The other person the phone told him, “Take your time coming back. Well, see you when you get back.” Robert was still perplexed about what had just happened. He changed the boat south and went back to formula waters.

The shoreline looked right as Yautja was swimming near the ocean waters. She had noticed the area already, where her muscle car stayed parked. So that she could blend in more, she jumped out the water near the fences, not so far from her car. The gate was open as the passengers were coming on and off cruise ship liners. She noticed a lot of people wearing sunglasses that read 2019 on them, happy as they could be, for the New Year.

She saw her car parked, as before. And as soon as she saw the shape, she walked at a faster pace than most and hopped in the car. There was a GPS that she always used while she was on earth. She punched in 32 Hudson Street, Seabrook, New Hampshire. The GPS voice said, “The distance is 1506 miles, and it would take 23 hours and 11 minutes.” She knew the meaning for miles and hours on earth.

It was a straight line up the eastern coastal waters. Her eyes gleamed; nothing could get in her way of finding the Relic Key at 32 Hudson Street...