This is a sequel to my story Mistakes and Regrets but takes a different twist. If you haven't read it, then it will be confusing. I have added a long summary to explain the plot. If you have read mistakes and regret, then you can simply skip the summary. Penny broke up with Leonard when she found out he kissed another girl on the boat trip, but they found their way back together.

SUMMERY

Leonard was sitting in a bar feeling sorry for himself and thinking about consequences of his betrayal. He knew he had blown it with Penny, and she hated him, the way she looked at him with disgust proved his point. He had lost her for good it was his entire fault, and he deserved it. He felt ashamed and worthless, his mother was right he didn't deserve to be loved He didn't want to live anymore. Maybe it was the drink talking but he was at his lowest point; his career wasn't going anywhere the only good thing in his life has now left him. As he drank more his low esteem gathers pace. He sank more and more into oblivion. Leonard was approached by two men in black suits and dark glasses who introduce themselves as government agents and wanted to talk to him about his research. Leonard was scared at first he thought he'd done something wrong or was the whole Joyce Kim thing had come back to bite him. They asked him to go with them he agreed as he wasn't in any state to argue with them. He climbed into their 4X4 SUV they blindfolded him the drive took about 2 hours He arrived at his unknown destination. The next day after sobering up found himself in a room with just a table and two chairs. After about five minutes, another man entered the room and sitting in the chair across from him, He stared at the man. He was wearing a dark suit but wasn't one of the men from the bar. The man spoke in deep-toned and curt voice. Leonard listened he was relieved that he wasn't in any trouble just the government wanted him to work on a very secret project. He was the best in his field, and if he chose to accept. He would be away for two years, and he couldn't tell anyone about it or his whereabouts he will be working in a secret location and no contact with the outside world. Leonard was given 10 minutes to make his mind up. He didn't have to think for that long.

Penny was no longer in his life she hated him and lived next to her was slowly killing him. Eventually, she'd meet someone else, so a fresh start is what he needed away from everyone and his former life. It was better than his idea of ending it. Leonard decided to accept he was briefed and made to sign confidentiality and security act papers and not to mention his work to anyone without the right authorization and also after the experiment has ended. Leonard thought things were looking up.

Leonard spends the next two years working on the secret project. The military had recovered some UFO technology, and Leonard was brought in to help identify what kind of laser was contained within this orb that the Army possessed. It was the size of a small ball and made of what they could only describe as crystal. You could see three tiny balls arranged in a triangle shape inside. And when heated to a certain temperature it forms a laser triangle that shoots laser beams in three directions, and each beam could penetrate steel. Did the number 3 have any profound significant to the orb? Like the three pyramids of Giza. Or the three wise men from the Bible or even Shiva the Hindu god who has a 3rd eye on his forehead and it's believed to be the source of his untamed energy. What was it and what's it's use? Is it a device used as a portal, a gateway to another realm he wondered? The military wanted to harness its powers and use this new technology for warfare.

Leonard put his mind into his work and after a lot of tests behind safety enclosures. Trials & Errors Leonard and his team couldn't figure out how this technology worked, it was way too advanced for them. But Leonard wouldn't give up and kept testing different theories. His bosses were quite impressed with Leonard obsession figuring out the orb. They knew they picked the right guy and was just a matter of time before he figured it out. He loved the challenge, and he had no regrets. Never in a million years did he think he would be working on a secret government project let alone alien technology, it was like a dream come true.

Leonard sat in his new apartment in downtown LA. He had been discharged a couple of months ago after nearly three years in the Army it was a two years sting, but it took longer than they anticipated to understand the orb. Leonard had time to think about the things that puzzled him about the orb. Was it communicating with a realm outside our galaxy a realm that might be designed by extra-terrestrials in a 3-dimensional space-time? Is there a message from other unknown worlds it reads one, two, three. Everything the orb did was in threes he concluded that when it was heated up, it changes directions but still forms a triangle shape, and they all follow in equal or opposite manner. Leonard felt somehow connected to the orb in an altered state of consciousness to an alien world. He wrote secret papers and blueprint based on the extraordinary power of the orb. His analysis and research contained lots of equations and was ground-breaking and was able to tell mistakes or flaws with his calculations. Leonard was now trusted to work on the orb on his own. His analysis was that it could have been designed for portals, stargate travel or teleportation. He just needs to figure out the maths. And when he did, there's a chance that they will disrupt space and time continuum. He wasn't going to share this information with the military. He was going to give them the short version. The experiment had been a huge success and Leonard manage to figure out the technology and how to control and contain it. They plan on building a prototype jet using its power to propel the craft to ultimate speeds using his specifications he had done his part, and now it was up to the engineers to build it. He never revealed the true power of the orb.

He was been chased he didn't know why? They were at least three of them as he ran across the road. He didn't see the car coming until it was too late he closed his eyes and waited for the impact. The next think he knew he was sitting in the driver's seat of the car that nearly ran him over, he looked ahead as he drove into one of his chasers. Leonard woke up with sweat pouring down him and shaking violently.

Chapter 1

Penny was on location shooting a movie. She had been in New York for over a month now she still had two months of shooting left, and Leonard flew to New York every other weekend to be with her. They also Skype every day. They missed each other terribly. It's been three months, since they got married, and their love was stronger and deeper than ever. It was hard for both of them been apart for so long. But they were determined to make it work and spend as much time together as possible but in a way Leonard was glad that Penny was out of town and safe. There was something that was bothering him, and he was keeping it from Penny and it hurt him that he couldn't share it with the love of his life. They promise to share everything be it good or bad. But this was one experience he found so hard to share.
Leonard also didn't want to worry Penny he wanted her to concentrate on rebuilding her career. If she had a hint that something was wrong, she probably abandons the movie to be with him. Leonard didn't want that, so he kept most of his symptoms to himself. She only knew about his dreams that still haunted him and was becoming more vivid. It was mostly the same being chased by these men but sometimes different. What did they want? He felt like they were after something he had but what? He could never see their faces, maybe they weren't of this world. He was glad Penny wasn't around because she will get worried about him, and he didn't want to upset her, so he kept them a secret from her. She didn't know about the strange things that were happening to him. He was sure she knew something was not right with him, though. Penny noticed his strange behavior on his last visit. He had dizzy spells, nausea, redness in the eyes, severe pains and constant high fever. Sometimes he felt frigid. He had been to his doctor, and all the tests confirmed nothing was wrong with him, the only thing he could think of was maybe it was something to do with the orb. He remembered one evening back at the base when he worked for the army, trying to figure out the orb. While studying it, there was a flash and the next thing he knew he woke up a minute later with burns on his hand. Leonard brushes it off at the time because he was okay, and he wasn't in pain. He now thought that it might be responsible for his symptoms or the missing two hours he couldn't account for recently. He had a feeling that the orb and the encounter somehow linked to what was happening to him, but why was he the target? Leonard's thoughts went back to the strange event that happened to him a week ago.

It was a misty evening and clear blue sky. Leonard was driving home from work when all of a sudden his car came to a stop. He tried restarting it several times with no luck. He check the gas gauge it was half full, and the oil was fine. He wasn't sure what was wrong and for some reason his phone was out of range. He was in the middle of nowhere surrounded by woodland; he tried a few times to restart the engine to no avail. He decided to look around to see if he could spot anything nearby and maybe get some help. He climbed out of the car and looked around, the road was deserted no incoming traffic he spotted a house in the distance it was probably about 1/2 a mile away. He decided to brave it and walk into the woods towards the house. After about 10 minutes, Leonard began to feel like he was been watched, he felt this strange sense that something was going to happen, but he didn't know what. Suddenly he noticed this unusual transparent shape hovering around some trees. He couldn't make out what it was at first. But then the blurriness and the distortion disappeared, and he could make out a definite spherical and circular object with a rim around it and three strange circles on the side of it. He could see it was made of metallic with landing legs. It was the size of a large house. Leonard had never seen anything like this in his life.

Three small orbs came out of what he now knew as some kind of craft. They were smaller than the one the military possessed and headed towards him. He began to run back to his car, but the three small object caught up to him two released a beam that attached to his legs, and he fell over. The third one released some kind of gas which made him dizzy. The orbs with the beams began to drag him toward the craft and then he passed out.

Leonard woke up and found himself still in the woods, he felt dizzy and realizes that he had been unconscious. He looked at his watch two hours had passed. He didn't know what happened to him he could only assume that during the missing time he couldn't account for he must have been in the craft. He looked around and couldn't see the object. They were also burned on his trousers. What he had experience defies logic. Leonard found his car he sat in it for a while wondering what happened to him, he had no recollection and those two hours was just blank in his mind. After recovering enough from his ordeal and was able to drive, he started the engine and the car roar to life almost instantly. He drove home trying to make sense of what just happened to him.

Leonard was busy in his lab looking at his notes on the orb, after what he experience he needed to find out more about it. He was now sure that it was related to his abduction he knew it was more than a speed device. He had a feeling it might be used as a portal hole to travel great distances, and maybe the power to timeshift and Hyperspace jumps like in his dreams. He needed to get his hands on the orb again to figure out if his theories were correct. He had to find a way to get back in the Base. But as it was on the prototype aircraft it wasn't going to be easy to access it, and he didn't even know where the base was. He had a good repo with the top guys he had works with. Maybe he might just be able to convince them that there is more to the orb than propelling an aircraft but not giving too much away about its many abilities.