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Ch. 15

Taken

Josh slowly opened his eyes; his vision was a bit blurry. His head was hurting like crazy.

"Fuck." He said out loud and rolled over on his stomach, he fell down off of what he was laying on and fell on his side; he instantly felt cold concrete touching his skin. He flinched at the feeling and sat up.

"Ugh…What the hell?" He asked himself and began to rub his eyes to clear his vision. When he opened them he found himself in a white square room, it was about 15x15 ft. There was a white colored bed, a toilet and sink. In front of him was a black window that took up half a wall, and there was a door. Josh stood up and found he was dressed in white lose fitting t-shirt and pants.

He looked around and noticed the door, he felt his head aching some more, he placed his hand over the spot and flinched at the pain.

"Ouch."

"Sorry about that." A deep voice called through an intercom, whoever was talking was using a voice changing system, "I told them that you were not to be harmed, but you with stood three shots of our strongest tranquilizers trying to get to the alien, so we had to bop you on the head."

'Alien?' Josh thought, suddenly his eyes went wide.

Josh had awoken earlier that day feeling well rested; he took a deep breath and opened his eyes to find Krystal sitting on him like last night. She was smiling at him.

"Morning." She said and used her hand to tuck some of his hair behind his ear, using her index finger she gently traced a line from his ear, to his cheek, then to his chin, down his throat and stopped at his chest.

"Morning." He replied, "Did you sleep well?" He asked, she nodded.

"I have been up for a few minutes, but yes…I haven't spelt this well in a while. I've just been up admiring how you look when you sleep." He raised an eyebrow.

"You were watching me sleep?" He asked.

"Yes…You make funny noises when you sleep, did you know that?" She asked, he yawned and shook his head.

"Nope, didn't know that." He said and rubbed the sleep from his eyes, "What time is it?" Krystal looked over at the clock on the wall.

"Time for you to get dressed and go to work." She said and leaned down and kissed his nose. She pulled back and got off of him and the couch and walked off. Josh sighed and lowered his head back onto his pillow, suddenly he remembered that something was bothering her last night. He stood from the couch and walked to the bedroom to get clean clothes for his shower, he noticed Krystal was sitting on a bed reading a magazine.

"Hey what was bothering you last night, before we left for the ball?" He asked and pulled out a clean shirt, he noticed Krystal lowered her gaze from the magazine to her feet. He then knew something was wrong.

"What's wrong?" He asked. It took her a few seconds to put the magazine down and look at him.

"Remember when you asked what would happen if I couldn't get off Earth?" She asked, Josh recalled the night they had dinner and talked.

"Yeah I remember."

"Do you remember what you said to me, if I couldn't get off?" She asked.

"I told you I would take care of you…What's going on?" He asked, feeling like he already knew what was wrong.

"The communicator uses a short range signal…Without my Arwings satellite, the signal won't be able to leave the system…Which means I'm stuck here." She said and looked back down at her feet.

Josh instantly felt bad for her, she put a lot of time and hard work into the communicator, only to find out it won't work. He walked over to her and sat at the bed, he placed one of his hands on her shoulder and used the other to cup her chin. He lifted her chin so she would look at him, he could see tears forming in her eyes. He cleared his throat and spoke.

"I'll take care of you." Krystal sniffled and a lone tear went down her face. She quickly wiped the tear away and threw her arms around his neck and hugged him.

"I'm sorry to put you through this." She said and nearly cried on his shoulder, he smiled and held her close.

"I'm glad." Krystal pulled away to look at him.

"Glad?" He nodded.

"You leaving would have broken my heart…Its selfish for me to say this but…I'm glad you're stuck here with me…I want to take care of you because…because I…" His sentence was cut short as the front door was kicked down; they both quickly looked over and saw men wearing white protective radiation suits holding guns rushing in.

As soon as they entered the room Josh grabbed Krystal and forced her into a corner, he then shielded her with his body and stared the men down.

"If you want her…You'll have to go through me." He said, then one of the men aimed his gun at Josh and pulled the trigger, instead of a 'Bang' sound there was a 'Phew' sound. Josh felt something stick into his chest, he grunted and looked down at what looked like a dart. His vision slowly started to blur and he slowly dropped to his knees.

"Josh!" Krystal shouted and placed her arms around him as he dropped to his knees.

"Search the place for her stuff." One of the men said, and the others started to look around. One of them looked under the bed and pulled out her black duffle bag, he opened it and pulled out her flight suit.

"Commander." He said and handed him the Suit and bag. The man looked at the suit and then held it out.

"Put your disguise on now." He ordered, Krystal held Josh closer and shook her head.

"Up yours." She said, the commander then pulled out a pistol and pointed it at Josh's head, Krystal gasped.

"Okay, okay…Just don't hurt him please." She pleaded. Josh hazily lifted his head to look at the barrel pointed at him. He watched as a blurry Krystal released him and put the suit on, she then activated her disguise.

"You two will be coming with us." He said and grabbed Krystal by the hand and yanked her away from Josh.

"Krystal." He quietly called out, "Get your damn hands off of her!" He shouted and slowly stood, his body was all shaky, but he managed to stand. One of the men grabbed Josh which caused him to ram his elbow into the man's face, he released his grip on Josh and held his bleeding nose, Josh then delivered a right hook which knocked the Soldier to the ground. 'Phew' Josh felt another tranquilizer dart pierce his chest.

"Stop!" Krystal shouted as she was forced out of the house, Josh watched as they took her away, his body started to go numb and he nearly fell to the ground. The Soldier that shot him walked up to subdue him, when his hands touched his body he quickly head-butted the Soldier and tackled him, he threw punch after punch.

His arms felt like they were moving in slow motion and weren't doing any harm, however the blood on the man's face told him differently. He tiredly looked up at the open door and saw a blinding white light. He grunted and forced his body to stand up and go to the light.

It felt like every step sent the door further away from him, his head started to spin and his left leg was dead, he limped the rest of the way forcing himself to stay awake and to reach Krystal. He finally made his to the doorway and was blinded by the light; he shielded his eyes with his hand. When his eyes adjusted he saw Krystal being forced into a black van, it had looked like whoever was trying to get Krystal had evacuated the rest of the apartments surrounding Josh's.

"Krystal!" He shouted, Krystal turned around and saw him.

"Josh!" She shouted.

"Goddamn it someone get him!" The commander called out. Krystal watched as two men rushed to Josh, each man grabbed a hold of his arms.

"Let him go! He didn't do anything wrong!" She shouted.

"He was harboring you." The commander said and tossed her into the van. Josh gritted his teeth, he was slowly losing his vision and strength. He looked over to the guy on his right and raised his leg up and slammed it against the Soldiers knee breaking his leg. The man shouted and released Josh's right arm and fell to the ground.

Josh then threw his right fist into the other Soldiers face knocking him to the ground, he turned to look at the black van and forced his body to move.

"Krystal!" He shouted, the commander held his Tranquilizer gun and fired another dart. The dart sunk into Josh's neck, another grunt left his mouth. Josh lifted his hand up and tried to grab the dart, but his hand eye coordination went out the window and he missed it. He tried another three times to grab the dart before he actually grabbed a hold of it. He yanked the dart out and dropped it on the ground.

His vision had all but darken and his body felt very heavy, he looked at the darken blurry black van and slowly walked to it, it felt like a day's work to move his foot in front of the other. His arms hanged lifeless at his sides. Krystal was crying her eyes out at the sight of him, he was walking like a zombie. He didn't even know where he was walking to, he was just walking, a long string of drool was hanging from his mouth.

"Krystal." He slurred as he took another step.

'Stay down Josh…Please for the love of God just stay down.' Krystal though and sent it to him. Josh looked up at the van and fell to his knees, he doubled over and started to throw up. He felt like his insides were on fire and sleep was bearing down on him like the night sky. He looked up back at the van and slowly stood back up.

"No…Stay down." Krystal cried, she then watched as a Soldier came up behind Josh and used his gun to hit him in the back of the head, Josh dropped to the ground passed out, Krystal kept crying and placed her hands on the window.

"Josh." She cried and placed her forehead against the window, a few moments later the van door opened and the Soldiers tossed Josh into the van. Krystal instantly dropped down to the floor and held on to him crying even more, she lifted his upper body up and laid him between her legs so his head was resting on her chest, she held him tight and felt her tears rush down her face on to his.

"Needlessly to say, we had to quickly flush the tranquilizer out of your system, or else you would have died." The voice called out, Josh tightened his fist and his knuckles whitened.

"Where's Krystal!" Josh shouted as he walked closer to the black window, "So help me God if you hurt her…I will tear this fucking place to the ground and I swear I will hunt every single one of you fuckers down and kill you!" he shouted.

"There will be no need for that Mr. Grant." The voice said, "We know she is trying to make contact to get off of the planet…And we wish to help her, we have no interest in causing any of you any harm." Josh scuff.

"Really? That's why you caused such a scene and took her away from me, and filled me with enough tranquilizer to kill a goddamn whale?"

"I apologize for that; while I have much power over this operation…I don't have total control over the men. You have my word that they have been dealt with accordingly, and as I heard it…You have already dealt with a few of them yourself." Josh smirked.

"If I wasn't drugged some of them would have died." He replied.

"That I have no doubt, but we are on the same side." The voice said.

"And how can I trust a voice in the air?" A few seconds later the black window faded into a clear see through window and who he saw on the other end made him gasp.

"Col. Ryan?" The older man nodded in response and started to push some buttons on a control panel, there was a loud 'Click' Josh looked around the room, nothing had changed, he looked back at Ryan who gestured to the door and then walked out of the windows view. Josh turned his attention to the door and approached it, he placed his hand on the cold steel handle and pulled it down, he pulled and the door opened. He stepped into a long white hallway, Ryan stood next to the door waiting for him.

"How did you know?" He asked, Ryan started to walk off and Josh quickly followed.

"We pulled her ship out of the lake and had it sent to this lab, needless to say everyone was willing to be a part of this project. While we were working on trying to get the space craft into working condition we went over it with a scanner. Our scanner picked something up, a finger print." They made a left turn and walked down another long hallway.

"The print was damaged beyond repair…to normal equipment, however using a new laser system we were able to reconstruct the print, we scanned it to see who popped up, and you did."

"And that's when you came for us?" Josh asked.

"No…That was a week after she crashed, no we wanted to observe her and see how she would connect to a human, we watched and watched…It was when we noticed she wasn't able to get her communicator to work that we sent for you…Once again I apologize for the harsh treatment." He said, suddenly a thought came to Josh's mind.

"So…I guess this means we weren't friends then were we?" He asked, Ryan chuckled.

"Of course we're friends Grant…Were more than friends too, you just haven't figured that part out yet." He said, Josh raised an eyebrow and looked at Ryan.

"What does that mean?" He asked, Ryan shook his head.

"All will be reviled in good time Josh." They came to a metal door guarded by four guards holding fully automatic rifles. Ryan walked over to a panel with a hand scanner on it, he placed his hand on the scanner and after a few seconds there was a beep and the metal door opened.

They walked in and Josh noticed Krystal's Arwing on a rounded platform, this was actually the first time he really saw it, some of the pieces of the ship clearly looked like they were not original. Some of them were a shiny blue and silver, while the rest were a worn out faded blue and silver, he noticed large scorch marks all over it as well as softball size holes. As they walked closer to the Arwing Josh noticed a fluffy blue and white tail swaying out of the canopy of the ship.

"Krystal?" Josh called out, suddenly the tail stopped moving and disappeared into the cockpit, less than a second later Krystal poked her head out and looked at Josh.

"Josh!" She shouted and quickly climbed out of the ship's cockpit and rushed to him.

How many of you saw that one coming I wonder?