Penny couldn't stop thinking about Leonard she was so worried about him she tried to go to sleep, but sleep wouldn't come she just lied in bed wide awake with horrible thoughts of losing him running through her head tossing and turning. It was driving her crazy. She got out of bed and tried to keep herself busy to distract herself. She did the laundry, vacuuming the apartment even watched a few episodes of Sex in the City, but her mind kept wandering she couldn't help thinking all the bad things that could happen to him. What if he got caught? Will he go to jail and what if the worst happen and he got himself killed? She began to sob. I can't cope without Leonard she just wanted to hug him tightly and lie next to him and smelling his scent she thought how amazing and powerful their love was, but she had so much to lose if anything happened to him. It scares her as she didn't know what the future would bring. She was having a panic attack she tried to breathe in and out slowly to calm her nerves. Think happy thoughts penny. She remembered their first meeting and the awkward hi, the Halloween party she smiled at this it was their first kiss, and he thought she was perfect he still thought she was. The goodnight kisses and goofy jokes or hugs in the kitchen those moments are what life and marriage are all about. I can't lose him what was I thinking letting him go by himself I'm a bad wife I should be there for him she grabbed her keys and drove towards Kelso. She didn't know what or how she could help him, but she knew she had to be there somehow for him. She wondered how he was doing. Did he get in safely she hoped the alien were protecting him like they promised she looked at her watch it had been over 2 hours since he left? He should accomplish the mission by now. She reached the parking spot where Leonard car should be. She spotted his car and decided to wait for him. She hoped he was on his way back now. Hopefully soon the nightmare will be over. Just then she saw bright flashing lights in the night sky she couldn't see from her location what it was. She got out the car to take a closer look. It was moving slowly it looked triangular, but she wasn't sure. Then suddenly it shot off and disappeared with a blink of an eye. Penny's thought went back to Leonard.


"Dr Hofstadter what are you doing here?"

"Are you working late?" No one notified us." Leonard couldn't understand why they lowered their weapons. Then he realized he had changed into a bunny suit. He wore them when he worked in low-particle clean rooms, which are more about protecting the clean room from all the particles than protecting him from anything in the clean room. He quickly regained his composure.

"Hi, guys sorry yeah was working late just finished and heading back to the lab."

"We didn't know you were working late." One of the men asked.

"Sorry just lost track of the time it wouldn't happen again."

"You scientists seem to do that a lot. Have a good night." They both laughed as they carried on with their patrols.

"Thank you he muttered under his breath.

"You are welcome" came the voice from the earpiece.

Leonard began to panic. "What do I do when they release the orb is gone, and they find out I wasn't working they will know it's me and how did you change me so quickly.

"It was an illusion using your memory to create a time when you wore that suit. Implanted in your earpiece is a device called a cloaking system augmentation it interacts with your camouflage suit. It lasts for 5 minutes, and you have to wait ten minutes for it to recharge. Use it wisely."

"Wow, this is so cool."

"It's not a toy. Now point one of your fingers at the men," he did as he was told and a beam shot out he saw the two soldiers collapsed to the ground.

"Are they dead?" he asked.

"No they are stun and their memory of this event will be wiped. You need to move their bodies to a safe place so they can't be seen, or the alarm will be raised they will be up in 5 minutes with no recollection of what happened." He moved both men to a darker area away from the open area and rested them sitting position against a wall.

Leonard continued north until he reaches a large lobby that was the security control area. He looked around and on the other side of the lobby he could see a laser grid. Touching one of these lasers will raise an alarm. Using his finger, he shot an electrical charge at the security terminal on the opposite side of the room and disabled it. There were also cameras to avoid the broken terminal took out all the camera except for one above him. He hugs the wall to walk safely under the camera. He heard some noises a voice at the back of his mind told him to be careful. He walked towards the sound he entered a hall to the right he could see a window was built into the wall it was a control room there were lots of monitors and panels and about three guards. This was where the base security was controlled from as he moved further down the hallway avoiding the guards by waiting for them to turn away from the window. Picking up his pace he came around the corner he saw a door he pressed his ears against the door he heard no sound the door was also unlocked. He was now in a passageway. There was one door on the right and two on the on the left it had a sign. It read Ufo Sighting Room he ignored it he didn't want to know what was behind that door. He walked along a passageway. He saw some stairs and head up the stairways; he turned left along an iron catwalk moving quietly as not to make too much noise. And up the catwalk stairs Leonard was now in the alien facility building.

He was careful not to be seen by the patrols guards there were one guarding a closed gate leading to the inaccessible area where the orb and craft were stored. There were two more soldiers in the middle of the half opened gate. He turns his sonar on Leonard detected they were lasers ahead a lot of lasers traps blocking his path.

"You should take your time to plan your move and observe how the laser beams are moving. This will help you figure the precise moments to activate the cloaking device. Once cloaked, you can run through the lasers without setting them off or seen by the guards." The voice said.

They two guards were talking among themselves they were so into the conversation it gave Leonard chances to sneak silently pass them activating his cloaking device. He finally got to the main area where the vault was he knew there was a mini tower with up to six guards in there.

"So how am I supposed to avoid the guards, cameras and the laser beams?" He asked.

"You can hyper jump into the vault, and if you are fast and quick, enough you shouldn't trigger the security systems or alert the guards."

"I don't like this. I'm not sure I will be able to pull this off."

"Leonard we have faith in you everything will be alright." Leonard knew he had no choice he had got this far backing down now wasn't an option. He just had to trust them and hope for the best.

"So how am I supposed to get out of the vault if there is not metal objects to jump to?"

"See that buggy over there. That should do."

"Okay but here goes nothing" he put on his goggles.

He was in the vault in a fraction of a second with the orb intact but he wasn't not fast enough. He triggered the lasers that set off the alarm. He hyper jump and hoping to get to the buggy and maybe hide somewhere. He hyper jump out of the vault and was surprised to find himself in the open area right next to the alien craft. This wasn't his plan he was supposed to appear in the buggy. He was surrounded by a dozen arms Soldiers pointing their weapon at him. Leonard thought this was it he had got this far for it to end like this only to die or locked up forever. Had he been setup by the aliens to be the fall guy he could use his speed and hyper jump to escape but was it enough to dodge all the bullets if they started shooting. He thought of Penny and never seeing her again he put his hands up the orb in one hand as one of the men shouted freeze.


Adams and Jenkins arrived at the security control room after being alert by the base going into intruder mode. And through the window they could see all the action as it happened in the launch area. They looked at each other "who the hell is that? Is that one of your men."

"I don't think so I can't really see from here and he's got goggles on": Jenkins said.

"Get the camera on him" he shouted to one of the security guards in the control room. He did what he was told.

"I can't get any visual sir."

"What"

"I think all the cameras have been disabled."

"Dammit. I want the base lockdown now, nothing gets in or out until I say so, and we've identified the intruder." Adams yelled.

"Yes, sir right away." The solider said. He went over to one of the panels and began to enter the shutdown code.

"Sir Shutdown sequence has been initiated."

"Get the backup tapes from 2 hours ago maybe we might be able to identify him."

After a few minutes he turned to Adams. "Sir I'm afraid it's been wiped as well. Adams was now getting mad he was about to yell when they were all interrupted by a deafening sound.


Suddenly there was a spark a light from the side of the cube hit Leonard as his body shook it raised him slowly from the ground and suspended him in mid-air in a laying position he began to float towards the entrance Leonard was in a suspended state of consciousness. The soldiers raise their weapons to shoot when they heard a deafened sound of the craft powering up the sound excruciating like a dam being powered up the noise was deafening everyone close by putting their hands to their ears. His body entered the cube as people panicked and ran to take cover he could hear the alarm going off in the distance. They watched as Leonard floated into the cube. A beam of light shot out and began to repair the damaged hole the light intense and blinding. The cube began to change shape it now resembled a triangle like craft and was the size of a small house. It moved slowly like it was looking for an exit lighting up in different colors as it reached the launch area it shot a beam of light at the shutter panel which triggered the open sequence. It slides smoothly and rose into the sky as it reached high attitude with extreme speed at about 800 miles an hour, it was gone in a fraction of a second.


Penny couldn't believe what she just witnessed. Was that a UFO? She heard a faint sound coming from the direction of the base It sounded like an alarm going off. What was happening she thought? Oh God let Leonard be okay. This isn't good maybe he is on his way back she went and sat in her car as the tears fell. She was a complete mess.