Membrane had called Markus to come with him, he brought his bag and all but as soon as he got in the car someone put a bag over his head and injected him with…something.
"Every organ is still in place, good."Markus groaned as he got up.
"Oh you are up."A figure clad in white and with a helmet said.
Markus looked for his bag, it wasn't there.
"Where are my things and where is Membrane?"Markus said.
"He is coming; we have been waiting for you to wake up."The figure said.
"And who are you?"Markus was confused, still dizzy and angry.
"I am a scientist and so are all the people involved in this, I can't tell you everything but I can tell you that we are running from the government, they want us to make them weapons of mass destruction, better ones. We refused and they have been hunting us for decades."That made Markus reconsider.
"The way you speak, you are not affected by the pollution, how?"Markus said, surprising the man.
"So you know about that."He said.
"The difference enormous, and there is also the fact you are a scientist, there are several 'scientists' that just know how to maintain tech but they are still very stupid, Membrane is the only one…he is one of you isn't he?"Markus realized.
"He is part of the second generation, yes; I look forward to hearing your story kid."The man said as he waited to Membrane.
"Membrane, give me a good reason not to build a weapon satellite and wipe this place out."Markus said as he threatened the scientist.
"Sorry Markus but I needed to keep you from discovering the location of this facility, the others didn't allow it and you and I are here to make a great thing for science."Membrane completely ignored the serious threat, not that he believed that.
"Fine what are we doing here; please tell me it's not a world domination plan."Markus said.
"Not it is not, you see Markus since the government is chasing them there is nowhere in this world they can go to or stay for too long, therefore they are building a spaceship."Markus noticed but didn't get how that involved him, and the answer he got as they walked towards the ship was:
"They need some technologies they don't have, your batteries and weapon technology would be helpful."Membrane said, as he saw the enormous ship he said.
"There is nothing there, no weapons at all."Markus noticed.
"Yeah, they believe they won't find alien life forms, it is really unlikely but there are other dangers in space."Markus looked at the man besides him; he has been silent for a while.
"Are you sure the pollution didn't get you guys; that is a very dumb thing to do, do you want parasitic aliens taking over your ship? That is how you get them."Markus scolded the man.
Membrane and the man exchanged glances and took Markus to the workshop.
In three hours, Markus gave them the batteries, shields and Plasma Caster technologies and scaled up for the ship's size that cannon could probable make a building size hole in a place, and there several of them in it. Once he finished the design he heard Membrane say.
"Excellent, now all we need is manufacturing it, install it and develop anti-gravity technology."Membrane said.
"You need that too?"Markus asked surprising Membrane.
"Yes we still don't have it, but in a few years we might…"Membrane was cut off.
"I have it, I will put it in too, I know the design work but I still don't have the full math behind it, I don't know what causes it exactly."Markus really didn't he knew how to make an Irken energy weapon but still didn't get the science behind it, but he could make it and fix it.
The men were amazed by that, when they asked him how he knew he said it was a secret, Membrane didn't like it but accepted it.
Markus was looking at a group of man, they had masks and all, and they told him they were grateful for the help, he told them a very simple thing:
"I am glad to help, but I am not glad for being drugged and kidnapped out of nowhere with no warning, don't do that again."Markus was a little les angry but he was still pissed at that.
"We understand however our secrecy is the reason we are alive today, but we want to know, how did you create the device that manipulates gravity?"They asked him; he was ready, he had a plan if he ever had to use an alien technology he had a trump card.
"Because of me being from the wal- I mean from another universe, there was a theory there that I heard of and here it seemed to work, since the laws of the universes are different."He lied, since he is full of lies.
The man using masks were amazed by that and even Membrane bought it.
"With your help we will be able to leave soon, which is good since the government seemed to be close to finding us, having to move again would be very difficult with the ship."One of the men said.
Good, in a few more hours they would finish their work and Markus would be able to get back, as he entered the car again he said.
"Just tell me if you are going to sedate me."Membrane took out a syringe and told Markus to give him his arm, he did and was injected with the thing, and soon he started to get sleepy…
When he woke up he was in his bed in the Amish hotel, he looked for his bag and opened a box, and among the batteries there were several other things he had his computer with him and the alien technology could transmit in ways no one in the planet could detect, but what he was looking for was the dissembled transporter, he couldn't go to his station but he could make something there and send it to him, he began working in a probe, he would probably get close to the ship again, he had crafted a plan.
"What are you doing?"Julia asked.
"Oh sorry, I didn't mean to wake you up; I am just making a spy probe."Markus said as if it was a normal thing.
"Why?"She asked tired.
"To put it in a space ship."He told her.
"Whatever."She was too young and tired to care.
He knew where he would place it, and in two hours he had made the probe, it was a little big, he could never hid it like that, so he used light metals and a aspect Irken technology had, it could be 'bended' to fit in small places, the small transporter activated, and the small square appeared, it looked like a floppy disk, Markus then felt old, he remembered them, he put it aside and went to bed.
The next day Membrane told him they were going there again, he woke up inside the base again, people with masks again and he had his spy thing with him. As he checked the interior of the place he asked to see the central computer core, the big room had several good places to hide probe, he chose the ceiling close to the central core, the probe seemed to fit the place and was not detected, it would take energy from the ship and store it in a small battery, it could last for months even if the ship lost all power.
The cannon was outfitted in the ship, it looked like battleship cannons, three mounted in a spinning platform, the shields were used to test it, the canon would bring the shield down to half with one shot, the alien-human technology wasn't overkill proof.
"Well, you guys probably could take on the planet's military with that, as long as they don't nuke you, the shield wouldn't take that kind of punishment."Markus said as he looked at the ship, in a few days it would be finished.
"Indeed, good thing we will just leave the planet."One of the scientists said.
"Where are you going by the way?"Markus found himself asking.
"We will be going to the asteroid cloud, there we will gather resources and then we will try to send ships to get the others."The man said.
"Others?"Markus asked.
"Several of us were captured over the years; we will set them free and pick up some others we trust to leave this world."He said.
"Oh, I wish you all good luck with that, and be careful with the alien."Markus said making the man laugh, he was being serious but he didn't expect the man to believe him.
It took a few days, he spent most of them in the base with Membrane, the others were told he was helping out in the lab, Dib was told that it was because Markus had more involvement with science than him. Markus would explain things better when he got back, but right now he was leaving again, when he woke up he was back in the village, they were leaving tomorrow.
"Why did he take you?"Dib asked; he probably thought I had replaced him or something.
"I was needed; I invented technologies you know, shield, plasma weapon, and the batteries."Markus told Dib.
"But I know science too."He complained.
"Listen Dib, I will explain tomorrow, I am tired."Markus said as ate lunch.
"You slept in, how can you be tired?"Dib asked outraged.
"I didn't sleep; I was in a very short comma induced by a chemical I don't know."Markus was being serious, Dib didn't believe him.
As the day went on Dib was more hostile to Markus, who didn't care since he was tired. He then noticed he didn't saw Gaz or Julia recently.
"Where are those two?"Markus asked.
"They are out; I think Julia dragged Gaz out to do something."
Markus could only think of one place Julia would tolerate, grabbing the book he had gotten and already read he went to the library. He found a Julia but he wasn't sure where the other one was…until a grunt alerted her presence. She was playing a game on her Game Slave with headphones while Julia read, the level seemed difficult, he hadn't spend time with them in a while, he returned the book and walked towards his two friends.
Membrane was happy everything was going well, the ship was ready, the fusion core was already build the batteries charged, the supplies loaded into it. He and the other scientists were celebrating, he didn't bring Markus with him today because he deserved to rest.
"Enjoying the party Professor?"A voice asked him, he looked at Al; he was wearing his white suit just without his helmet.
"Yes, I can finally be glad you all will be safe, away from all this."Membrane said as he smiled.
"You know, in about one year you can come with us, we will be getting the other in the refuges, if you change your mind you can come with us."Al asked his friend.
"I know but this world needs me, I mean if someone doesn't help people here they will be doomed."Membrane left the community to keep this world working.
"When you are done will you come?"Al asked.
"I will, I will try to get my children to go too, by the way is there a third generation yet?"
"Yes they will receive most of their in their education in space, Amanda got two daughters you know, twins."Al smiled.
"Really, I haven't talked to her for a long time, is she here?"Membrane asked.
"She went to the UK base few years ago but you migh…"He was interrupted by a loud siren.
"Attention everyone head to the ship, there is an attack force heading our way, repeating…"The speaker said, everyone stood up and started going to the ship, the ship will protect them. Membrane went to his car he had to go away now; the army was probably far away he had to get them.
It's 2:34 am, I am writing this as I hear the Knights who Say Nee on youtube, I might have plowed the fields for too long…