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THE CELESTIAL ANGELS -PART SEVEN

"These people are attacking your precious Alpha, Koenig...they've done away with the harvest approach and are just going to take for themselves..."

The voice in his head sounds like Paul Morrow...but John somehow, now knew, that this being was no longer Paul Morrow, Main Mission Controller. It was something else.

"I can see it happening. I can see the units you once called Tara and Adam herd two human beings into a transference wave. Male and a female...that it all they need to create the race they are set forth"

{The one from the collective knows too much...already he is thinking about putting his own agendas into practice, little does it know that his destiny has been decided...}

{And the destiny of John Koenig...?}

{His blood is starting to run cold...it will only be a matter of time now...let us get to the transference point...}

Helena Russell doesn't quiet know how she ended up where she ended up. At first she had been cocooned in a bright yellow light and then, when the column of light disappeared, she is standing in a dim-lit room that is full of cobwebs and dust. It was silent too.

Then she turns in alarm to see a column of light suddenly materialise beside her, till it again disappears to reveal Alan Carter.

Alan and Helena grabbed one another as they look about them. There is a ring of tall podiums around them and sitting on each is a shadowy silent figure.

Helena swallows down and then whispers into Captain Carters ear, "Statues?"

Alan shakes his head.

And then there is an ear-piercing sound that sends them onto their knees.

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John Koenig can feel the beads of sweat trickle down his face from his hairline. He has wandered into the darkened tunnel that is set in a green light.

He feels cold. Like his blood is running cold...was that at all possible?

Behind him Paul Morrow calls out, "If I was you...I would stay where the oxygen is richest...and that's in here"

Koenig scratches his head and looks back to him, "I should have brought the oxygen and helmet"

Paul shrugs and begins dismantling the wall units. John frowns and comes to his side, "What are you doing?"

"Don't you want to get back to Alpha Koenig? What's left of it..."

"You said that..."

Morrow shakes his head. His expression tells Koenig to keep silent.

"...they can't read your thoughts, but they can hear us now"

John is puzzled, "But Adam told me that they could read brain wave patterns..."

Paul chuckles, "On Alpha they could...but here...on their own turf...they can't...it was their downfall"

Koenig is surveying Pauls work on the wall units, "I still can not believe that Paul's dead...it just doesn't seem possible when..."

Paul smiles at him, "...you can see him right in front of you in the flesh? I may LOOK like flesh and blood..but I am not...I have a physical form that I cannot even begin to try to make you understand"

"This Collective...It took over Alpha?"

Paul scrutinises a panel he has unclipped from the wall, "Yes...you wouldn't remember...none of you would remember...you were all locked away in stais at the core when we...sorry, old habits...when the collective took over your people"

John swallows down hard, "Everyone except Paul, right?"

"That's correct...", Morrow begins to loosen another panel, "...Paul Morrow fought us off somehow...made his way back through the darkness...away from the core...we were never complete without him...so the collective was no more..."

Koenig crosses his arms and stares at him, "And here you now stand"

Paul chuckles, "I know...ironic isn't it? There was the collective thinking they needed each and everyone so they were free and complete...and then...there's me...how is it, that I, once a part of the collective, can act as an...individual...individualism is nonexistent within the collective, it has been for..."

"For what?"

"...time...you and your people have seen so little of it"

Paul then nods his head to the panels, "This is a shaft that leads back into the plaza outside...if you are quick you might be able to get back to your Eagle..."

Commander Koenig points to the exit, "You needn't of bothered, I'll just go back the way I came in...", and as he went to leave some force of energy forces him back to the far wall. His spacesuit cushioning the blow.

"They won't let you...not that they know you want to go..."

Koenig comes to his side, "then what is there to say they wouldn't stop me through this shaft?"

Paul laughs, humans, "It's not a natural exit...they have no force barriers...you can get along your way..."

And John Koenig crawls through the shaft to get to the plaza where the Eagle is waiting for him.

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