"Eagle Four to Alpha, do you read me?"
Paul's face filled the screen, "Loud and clear Alan. What did you find?"
Carter grinned from ear to ear, "It's perfect, Paul. Absolutely perfect. Water, air, vegetation, and it's beautiful. We can settle there and have a real life."
Paul smiled, "All right, we'll finish running all the tests with the data upon your return, and then we'll make a decision."
"Make a decision? Paul! It's wonderful, you should go see it for yourself!"
Paul's smile faded slightly, "I'm sure it is, Alan, but you know as well as I do, we can't skirt the tests. We want to be certain."
"Yeah, yeah, I know. Can I help it if I'm excited?"
"I guess not. We'll see you when you get back. Alpha out."
Fraser turned to Carter, "Think he suspects anything?"
"Why should he? I'm Alan Carter aren't I?"The two men smiled at each other, and headed for the landing pad on Moonbase Alpha.
"Why are the beings known as Carter and Fraser still occupying the Inferon bodies?"
"Calm down, Zentor, sometimes driving out the Inferon's indigenous life force takes time. Both Carter and Fraser are fighting us; not as successfully as Commander Koenig, but we have not taken full possession."
"That makes them dangerous then. They could breakthrough and warn the Alphans as Koenig has done."
"And they will make the same assumptions about Carter and Fraser as they have about Koenig."
"Maybe they will, and maybe they will not. I don't like it."
Peratha interrupted, "Zentor, Natarak is the expert on transfers, I think we need to give her some time."
"Time is exactly what we have very little of, Peratha. Very little."