The Final Stand Chapter 7

William Charles Mulder had never been so scared in his entire life,

and that included the time he had fled from the super soldiers on a

slow minibike from the farm where his adoptive parents had been killed

and ended up hiding out in the dark. He knew deep down that this was

why he had been born, this was why he had been sent. It all came down

to now, and he prayed for the right words. These creatures thought

nothing more of him than a talking animal, like a talking monkey or

something. He tried to put himself into their place and speak

as best he could.

"Hello," he started. (God that sounded lame) "My name is William and I

am, what the greys, um, Elohim, call an 'adama'. My race calls itself

'humans', although we recognized thier name for us in our early

writings. We called the first human 'Adam'. First of all, I want to

clarify some inaccuracies in the gr-Elohim's story. First of all, what

your brothers forgot to mention about the reptilian race was that

they, the Elohim, are responisble for thier demise. Yes

it's true. They manuvered an asteroid into a collision course with the

planet and it crashed, destroying all animal and plant life on the

planet, including the devloping reptilian species. This was senseless

destruction of a defenseless lifeform that was developing its own

civilization. Later, when they returned, they found another species,

ones we call mammals, beginning to evolve. Yes, they were little more

than animals, but they were devloping the use of very primative tools,

despite what th Elohim have said.

Then, the Elohim decided they wanted a slave race, so they decided,

without persmission, to alter this primative species, genetically

limiting it so that if this species or its decedants MIGHT have

developed the ability to communicate as I do, it was now severed and

limited. Let me remind all of you, that you now only have the word of

the Elohim as to whether or not any life on Earth was or was not

decendant from your Founders. By thier own admission, they

tampered with a primative species, so now we'll never know for sure

what they might have been if they had been left alone. You don't know

what we were before the tampering, they never asked for your opinion

or sent any samples to you to be tested, they acted on thier own. Very

convenient, I think. But aside from all of that, when the hybrid race

they created started thinking for itself, forming its own

civilizations, the Elohim panicked.

They wanted a subservient mule that never questioned and used its

brute strength to do heavy labor. Imagine thier surprise when they

began to think for themselves. Two great civilizations rose from that

species, who were called Mu and Atlantis. They developed rapidly, and

within a space of a few thousand of our years, they had developed

vehicles that used solar energy, aircraft, weaponry and knowledge.

They were a threat to the Elohim who wanted the planet for themselves,

so the Elohim destroyed them in a cataclysmic flood that wiped

out all but a few pockets of people who manages to live on and develop

on thier own, evolving with the work of a few rebel Elohim who

continued to experiment on thier slave adama race.

Let me stop here and point out that the actions of the Elohim up to

this point are not those of a 'civilized' race. It doesn't matter,

ultimately, WHERE life came from. Think about the millions of star

systems that exist, of only a fw percent of those that have planets,

and only a few of those can sustain life, then only a few of those

lifeforms will rise in a civilization, it's amazing any of us are here

at all, even with the Founders. Life is sacred, it should

be protected and fostered, not wiped out for any reason, least of all

how many DNA base pairs it has. That's a very bad excuse for

exterminating an entire species and several other species along with

it, not once but twice. And now they want to do it again. Right now,

they're planning on releasing a killer virus that will destroy all

humans in a horrible way, by having a new Elohim gestate inside the

human as a biological incubator. They have sent entities we

call Super Soldiers to infiltrate our society and prepare for the day

they invade, killing anyone who gets in thier way. And they complain

when some of us fight back. It's called species survival, did they

expect us to roll over and die for them?

Imagine, if you will, that some other race from another galaxy, comes

exploring and finds all of you, and decides you're expendable and

meant to be wiped out, because you only have six DNA base pairs and

not eight, and they only recognize life that has eight base pairs.

Does it make you any less worthy, any less sentient, just because

you're different? Is your civilization worth less because you wouldn't

have the same DNA as those invaders? Are humans any less

worthy? And don't be so sure we're worthless lifeforms, unable to

learn or speak. You never know if sometime in the future you may need

us. There was a story on my planet about explorers from one continent

who came to colonize another and found a race of people already living

there. They considered the natives to be savage brutes, uncivilized

and worthy of oppression, because they dressed in animal furs and

lived in mud homes and didn't have as advanced weaponry and didn't

believe the same things as the settlers. However, the settlers had no

idea how to make food grow in this new land and would have died

without the help of those very savages they thought were inferior.

Everybody, think for a moment. Is it right for the strong to oppress

and exterminate the weak? If that were the case, many of you would not

be sitting here because you would have been conquered. If everyone

went off and did whatever they wanted to whoever was different, there

would choas and war. The actions of the Elohim only show what they

really think of your laws, and that they would do this to one of the

Founder races, as long as it was never discovered that the species

they destroyed was really one of the Founders.

Everybody, that's what I'm here to tell you now. Humans and all life

on my planet ARE offspring of the Founders. because of the type of

sun we have, six based DNA was unable to survive on our world until it

mutated into a four base. We are at the far end of the galaxy, we were

some of the last ones to be seeded. If the Founders were here, they'd

verify this. And I know this because my race has one of several

abilities, and that is the ability to peirce the wall of time and see

into the past and future. I know you think this cannot be

done, but my race can. Several indaviduals have had the ability, and

the reason none of our mental abilites are apparent is because, in

normal humans, they are dormant and vestigial.

The Elohim realized early on in thier experiment that early adama

humans could not only speak as they do, but had other abilities they

didn't have, like the ability to move objects with the mind, to see

through time, to manipulate energy, and many others. This frightened

them, so they ensured the human brain would be so limited, even a few

anomolies like myself could never use the full range they were born

with. Human beings only use ten percent of thier brain,

the other ninety percent does not recieve enough blood flow or

nourishment to function at full capacity. And so, the average human

only has glimpses of the future in hunches, brief moments of telepathy

by finishing each others' sentences, and so on. This is not the fault

of our DNA, but tampering by the Elohim, and it's wrong. And how do I

know all of this? Because I looked back in time and saw it for myself.

I know you think this is impossible but it is not, and what's more, I

could do it again, with some work.

Everyone, I am not here to challenge what you believe or what you hold

true, or your laws. But when your laws threaten the lives of a race,

please stop and think. If you allow the Elohim to go unchecked, they

will return to my planet and destroy an entire race of lifeforms. To

say that we are not sentient is absurd and you all know it. If I were

not entient and you could not believe it, you would not have me in

front of you now arguing with reason. Whether you believe we are your

brother species or not doesn't really matter in the end,

you have to decide what is more important, life, in all forms, or your

belief that only six based DNA lifeforms have the right to live. And

remember, think of how you would feel if some eight based pair

lifeform said your civilization was worthless because you only have

six. What if someone told you that everything you worked so hard to

build will be destroyed to make way for a more worthy life form that

had more DNA than you?

Humans are, yes, a kind of volitile race, I'll admit. We feel very

strong connections with our family groups and our tribal groups, and

if one member is threatened, then the whole family feels it. It is how

we have survived in the past, working together to build. It sometimes

gets out of control, but I think reason always wins in the end. We

have many colorful civilizations on my planet, music, stories,

costumes and so much more. It shouldn't be exterminated

just so the Elohim can take the planet. They already have several

others they own, why can't they go somewhere else? Give us a chance,

won't you? I don't care if they are punished or not, but make them

leave us alone. And maybe someday, way into the future, humans will

either be accepted in this Council as the Founder offspring we really

are, or maybe just friends if nothing more. You may think we're

animals or abominations, but we're here, and we have as much

right to live as anyone in this room."

William stepped back exhausted. Scully reached forward and grabbed

him. Mulder picked him up and held him. Both he and Scully had helped

him through his long speech, inserting a point here and there, but

alot of it had been his own words, spoken from his own heart, and

Mulder had never been so proud of his son as he was now. The family of

three held each other as the buzz went up around the room.

The Green-Eyes leader then got up and reported about what his race had

found on the greys' ship, information that had been collected

depicting the experiments on humans, and how they had been the ones

who had received William's distress call. Finally, the greys, who were

called the Elohim, stood up to make thier final arguments, which were

basically rote from thier first ones. William heard his father whisper

to his mother that if this were Earth, the argument that

"they were just stupid animals" wouldn't get very far. Scully reminded

him that this was NOT Earth, in case he had forgotten.

Finally, the voice spoke, "This Council has heard the claims made in

all parties and will deliberate on the next course of action. The

Elohim are hereby confined to thier sector until final descisions are

in, the adama, humans, will be given to the Rilans until further

notice."

A buzzer sounded and the Green-Eyes leader came to them, saying they

would return to thier quarters now. So the Green-Eyes were called

Rilans. The great hall blinked away and they once again stood in the

room with the circle on the floor. They followed the Rilan back to

thier rooms and sat in the chairs in silence.

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000

Dana Scully had been wondering just how long they had actually been

gone from Earth and how much longer it would be for the Council to

come to some sort of decision. And what would become of them? Would

they be sent back to Earth or kept as lab rats or specimens for some

weird zoo? And who knew how time was measured around here? Maybe by

the time any decision was reached, William would be seventy years

old. Mulder had been pacing the room, examining every corner, every

detail, as Scully and William dozed, snuggled up on a chair. If this

went badly, he had to start thinking about possible escape plans, if

any.

The door opened and Scully and William jumped up. A Green-Eyes Rilan

had come to get them for the final verdict. Trembling, William

followed his parents as they went down the hall to the hologram room.

They stepped into the circle and the Council hall appeared in front of

them again. The Elohim representatives were standing in thier circle,

and the hall was silent. Scully grasped Mulder's fingers and reached

for her son. William took both of thier hands and they stood, lifting

thier chins to face the crowd of alien beings who would decide

thier fate.

The voice boomed, "Representatives of the Elohim, representatives of

the humans, this Council has considered your case carefully. The laws

of the Council of beings of the Founders has its laws in place for the

purpose of ensuring order and peace between interrelated species. It

has never had to apply to creatures whose origins could not be

confirmed as Founder-related. Our laws prohibit species tampering, but

only in the case of species who are confirmed Founder-bred. However,

the Founders themselves cherished life enough to ensure its growth in

many diverse forms all over the galaxy, enough to leave

thier unknown homeworld and travel for eons spreading their DNA

wherever they could. It has been made clear that pehaps this council

will never know the true origins of life on the planet known as Earth,

for it has all been tampered with, and this leaves us in a very

difficult position.

Do we honor our own laws which only include the Founder species that

are known, or do we take the chance for an unknown species based on

values the Founders themselves must have cherished? The Elohim have

carefully pointed out that since Founder-origin cannot be confirmed in

the case of humans, there is no way of proving our law against species

tampering applies in this case.."

William felt his heart sinking. Scully bit back a shudder of dismay

and Mulder felt his fist clenching in anger. But the voice continued.

"However, the juevenile human has made several interesting points. If

this Council was to condone this type of behavior against any species,

it would not be long before our laws would be meaningless. We must set

an example for our laws, regarding all life, for many of us can see

that, Founder-origins or not, This species known as human is in fact

sentient with a thriving civilization, and it deserves to grow, or

perish, by its own devices, as we all do. Furthermore, the Elohim's

own admittance to planning and executing three times the destruction

of not just the human civilization of this planet, but also an

unkown reptilian race and a now extent pre-human advanced race, shows

thier gross disregard for all life, whether they be brethern species

or random. It is a criminal act to commit mass genocide, and

furthermore indicates that the Elohim are in fact hiding the knowledge

that they knew full well that the primitive race the encountered on

this planet WERE descendants of the Founders, with or without DNA

evidence.

It has been discovered, through examination of these humans and of

data collected from the Elohim themselves, that the huma race has been

forcably tampered with to prevent them from reaching thier true

Founder race potential, and this is inexcusable.

It is the decision of this Council that the race of Elohim is to

depart at once from the appointed sector and that agents of this

Council be dispatched at once to remove and dispose of all alien

presence on the planet, regarding the ones known as Super Soldier and

all evidence of the virus to be used against the humans. The Elohim

will cooperate fully or face even further punishment than

they will now recieve. The sector containing the planet known as Earth

is now confiscated and within the jurisdiction of this Council, until

such time as when the humans either advance to thier full potential

and join this Council, or end up exterminating themselves, as it has

been known to happen to other races.

The species at this time is still much too primative and will be kept

under close observation. As for the Elohim, for thier crimes against

life, most likely life seeded b the Founders, they are relived from

the last four sectors of thier territory and forbidden to enter human

space ever again. They will relinquish thier seat in the science

committee and trade with the Tidaxians is hereby forfeit in matters of

gleamstone trading for a period of twelve units. The Rilans will

return these three humans to thier homeworld immediatly."

The Elohim representatives were furious! Surely you cannot be serious!

Such a strong punishment for minor tampering of creatures not even of

this council! And to prohibit trade for gleamstones? This will cut our

space travels by half without the ability to run half our ships!

"My bretheren Elohim, do you not see?" continued the voice, "it is

that attutidue that has gotten you into trouble. The true measure of a

race is how it treats its inferiors, and you have treated your own

creation with nothing more that the worse contempt possible. One more

misstep and you will no longer sit on this Council, be grateful your

race has not been rejected from this assembly entirely. Now be silent.

This Council stands at rest."

William stepped forward and bowed, followed by Mulder and Scully.

"Thank you," he called. Mulder and Scully waved as the room once

again dissolved in front of them.

0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

They didn't return to thier holding room, but rather followed a Rilan

down yet another winding hall. They came to a wall and the Rilan

indicated that they should step through. Mulder turned tot he Rilan

and asked, "Is it over then? Will they leave us alone?" William

translated.

Yes, replied the Rilan, As we speak special clean up crews have been

sent to your world to remove all of the Elohim's projects and presence

there. They are confined to teritory several light years from your

world and the few parsecs surrounding your solar system have been

siezed by the Council. You will be left in peace, for now.

'Will we see any of you again?' asked William.

He thought he saw the being smile, if only in its green eyes, as it

said, Perhaps someday the Council will call your race forward. You

have much to learn and grow beyond your primative ways, but you seem

to learn much faster than anyone has ever seen before. If you manage

not to destroy yourselves, when you are ready, the Council will make

contact with your race. It has still yet to be determined if you truly

are a Founder-bred race or not, but even if you aren't,

you will be left alone. Unless of course you become a threat.

William nodded and bowed to the creature, and it bowed back. Mulder

took William's hand and Scully's, and together they stepped through

the wall, feeling the pleasant tingle and seeing the rainbows of

colors dance.

Suddenly, they landed on the ground as if they had jumped from above

about ten feet. William rolled head over heels coming to a stop next

to Scully, who had managed to twist her ankle when she landed. Mulder

sat up groaning, holding his side. They looked around and saw they

were in a desert somewhere. William looked up in time to see a craft

in the distance speeding away up into the stars. He grinned.

"Is everybody OK?" asked Mulder, pulling Scully to her feet and

supporting her weight from her injured ankle.

"Yeah I think so," she said as William got to his feet and dusted the

sand off.

"Mom, Dad, is it really over?" he asked.

"I guess we'll find out, son," said Mulder. "Come on, we have to get

your mom to a hospital or something, she might have broken her

ankle."

"I'm fine, Mulder," she said.

William and his father rolled thier eyes, and they started walking

down the hill until they reached a road. Making a descision, they

started walking. After what seemed like hours, they rounded a bend and

saw, to thier surprise, thier car on the side of the road. It was

still dark, but it seemed as if sunrise was near, because in the

growing light, they could see it was in fact thier rental

car. It was bizarre, it looked like it had simply been parked on the

side of the road. For how long? How long had they been gone?

The keys were still in the ignition and they climbed in with relief.

Mulder started the car and they drove coming into the town of Rachel,

Nevada, right as the sun came up. But even more surprising, the local

radio station announced that it was only the next morning. And as his

mother's favorite Celine Dion song came on, William couldn't help but

notice how appropriate it was.

"Where there was dark now there's light

where there was pain now there's joy

where there was weakness, I found my strength

all in the eyes of a boy"

That could be him, William realized.

"...I see a light in the sky

oh, it's almost blinding me

I can't believe I've been touched by an angel with love

let the rain come down and wash away my tears

let it fill my soul and drown my fears

let it shatter the wall, for a new sun

A new day, has come..."

William would have laughed at how ironic it was.

"...I see a light in your eyes,

all in the eyes of a boy..."

0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Decmber 25, 2012

The entire Scully family plus a few additions were having the best

Christmas of thier life, especially following a week long of hiding

out in bomb shelters all throughout the neighborhood, waiting for the

invasion they had planned for for over a decade.

But it never came. True to thier word, the Council had waylaid the

Elohim's plan to take Earth and had removed the supersoldiers and all

traces of the greys from the planet. For several weeks, there were

reports of UFO's and dissapearances of high level officials, but it

had settled. On the actual date of December 22, 2012, the Scully

family had congregted in Roswell, New Mexico where it was supposed to

be somewhat safe. But the invasion never came. Bill Jr had been

merciless in his torment of Scully and Mulder, but they just laughed,

releived that Bill's ranting was all they had to fight. William would

probably have recurring nightmares all his life, and no one in the

world would ever know the battle they had fought to save the human

race.

Word had trickled down the grapevine of Aegis, of course, and most

people now accepted the story of the Council, since the invasion had

not come, but several others were remaining vigilant, sure that the

invasion was only postponed.

But for the family who had fought it all, they finally were able to

rest, although Mulder doubted they would ever really believe it was

all over for good. William had emailed Josh but had decided not to

tell him anything. His parents hd been right, Josh didn't need the

added worry of something that might not even happen anymore. Instead,

William talked about baseball and the new Nintendo VR game due out for

Christmas.

This year, they celebrated Chirstmas like never before. Maggie Scully

had made her best dressing, Tara and Bill Jr. had done the turkey,

Charlie and his wife Stephanie had done the pies, and Scully and

Mulder had done pretty much everything else. John Doggett and Monica

Reyes and Walter Skinner had come down to join them, as well as Jimmy

and Yves. Gibson was spending Christmas with his friend Doug, but

Jeffery Spender came from next door at his brother, Mulder's,

request. He had been especially happy to hear of the diverted alien

invasion, since it meant that all of his father's treachery, including

his own disfigurement, had all been dealt with justly.

William spent the entire time challenging his cousins to rematches on

video games and enjoying being a kid for the first time in a long

time. As the family gathered around the table for Christmas dinner,

William got the best present he had ever recieved when his father

stood up.

"Everyone, I guess now is a good time to say this," he said looking

down at Scully. "I've asked Dana about sixteen times to marry me, and

on the seventeenth try, she said yes. We're going to be married this

spring."

William jumped up and cheered and jumped into his father's arms.

Maggie had jumped up and grabbed Dana in a hug. Everyone at the table

was either cheering, applauding or hugging someone. Except for Bill

Jr., who remained in his seat scowling until Tara kicked him hard in

the shins and he clapped. From that moment on, the holiday got better

and better.

Later that night, William, who was sharing a room with his cousins and

having trouble sleeping since Matthew snored, slowly crept down the

hall to his parents' room and crawled into bed with them. Both were

awake instantly, but settled down when they saw it was William.

"Have a good Christmas?" asked Mulder. William nodded and snuggled

down next to his mother. She looked at Mulder with a smile.

"Should we tell him now?" she asked.

"Well, I guess we'll have to now that you've said something," quipped

Mulder.

"Tell me what?" asked William.

"Well," said Dana slowly, "You're going to be a big brother."

William sat straight up. "What? You're gonna have another baby?"

"Hey buddy, say it a little louder, maybe your Uncle Bill down the

hall will hear you," said Mulder quietly."And yes, your mom's going to

have a baby. We didn't think she could, but then we didn't think she

could have you." Mulder ruffled his son's hair.

"That's why we're getting married in March. It's due in August," said

Dana.

William settled back down, thinking to himself, 'Wow, Uncle Bill's

gonna be pissed. This'll be great! I hope it's another boy, I can

teach him to play baseball, and me and dad can take him to Indian

guides. That's going to be one lucky kid.'

With a smile, he settled back down drifting into sleep, where he

dreamed of his sister Emily running along the beach, of grey aliens in

little jail cells, and a sunrise over a beautiful mountain landscape,

and he and his parents and a little baby walking along the beach,

following Emily's footsteps in the sand.

THE END.