Chapter 5…..

Meanwhile Back at PDX Airport the Ball of light was still hovering above runway 12. It was motionless, made absolutely no sound. Inside the ball or what appeared to be a ball was a very slick looking space ship. If the glowing light that surrounded it was turned off you would be able to see a white torpedo shaped hull with Black Bold letters in the middle that read…” Jupiter Expedition 11”. Above and below the lettering were round porthole style windows that appeared to be for passengers to look out. It sort of looked like an airplane without wings. At the nose of the craft was a large square window much like the cockpit of our airplanes, it was surrounded by flashing red and blue lights, where they the space police?

The Nose of the ship was pointed in the direction of the control tower. Sitting in the pilot seats behind the Square window were 2 space men dressed in blue jump suits much like what our fighter pilots wear here. They looked like humans, actually very much like us. Hey I always thought space aliens looked like big white headed, bug eyed, reptile looking things, not these ones. No, they looked just like you and me. Ok, not exactly, that would be freaky!

They had been sent to Planet 17 (earth) to drop of a special Package that was part of a secret Hush, Hush inter space Galaxy science project. They had no idea what was in it, they just obeyed orders.

‘Oddball’ called so because of his quirky sense of humor who was sitting in the left seat was the first to speak as they sat watching Bill , John and the crew of air traffic control.

“This is so much fun, I always like first contact it’s the funniest waiting game ever, and that human with the name tag ‘Bill’ looks like that homeless human we picked up in Arizona and just as scruffy”

“Yes, he sure does, boy they sure eat some bad food on this planet not like our vegetarian diet back on Jupiter” said Rex, Oddball`s trusty second in command and lifelong friend.

“You know oddball we really should not be doing this, remember what the supreme commander said before we left on this mission. Just fly to planet 17 in sector 12 (Earth) drop the package and return home, and what did you do? pick up some scruffy looking homeless Human named ‘Wade’ in Arizona who was quite happily minding his P`s and Q`s I might add, and now we are at this airport freaking out the locals”

“Speaking of our new passenger is he still asleep in the pod”

“Yes, he sure is I can see him on the cargo monitor. I gave him the special sleeping pill so he will not remember where he has been or what happened”

“Good! Would not want Wade telling his friends all about us”

Just then they were interrupted by the voice of the ‘STATION 7’ mission control operator back on Planet Jupiter coming over their radio.

“Jupiter Expedition 11... Please make contact with Station seven... we have an urgent message for Oddball over”

Rex and Oddball looked at each other with that look kids give their Moms when they get caught with their hands in the Cookie Jar!

“Told you they would find out about your space pranks someday Oddball, now we are going to get it”

“Relax they have no way of knowing, we are light years away, besides these humans don’t even know we exist, even if they did! How could they contact our Planet? Be cool I have this; you have nothing to worry about.”

Oddball keyed his microphone responding with his usual coolness

“Jupiter Base seven, this is Jupiter Expedition eleven Oddball speaking “

“Oddball this is Darien, Hey Buddy your wife is in labor sooner than expected, you have the base commander’s permission to come home early, so drop the package at planet 17 at the secret location and come home ASAP”

“Wow Darien! Thanks pal, that’s great news, will do Oddball over and out”

“Ok Rex you heard Darien, Let’s drop the special package and exit this Planet I am going to be a Dad yippee‼!”

“Wait aren’t you forgetting our Homeless passenger Wade from Arizona”

“Oooops, well we don’t have time to take him back to the desert, wait here while I go back to the Cargo hold and fix this”

Oddball grabbed a writing tool , some space travel cargo Tags and headed to the hold, moments later he returned, slipped into his seat Grinning from ear to ear.

“What did you do “said Rex with a worried look although he knew some how Oddball would fix it.

Just then they heard a loud Roar as Randy flew over head in his jet.

Oddball switched on the space vehicle scanner to see what was inside the jet.

“Hey Rex it’s that crazy Human ‘Randy’ the fighter Pilot who chased us last time… Well at least this time they will believe him Hahaha….mmmmmm… this is going to be fun, watch and learn my fearful friend, boy I love this cat and mouse game”

(Yes they have cats and mice on Jupiter too although I’m told they are much bigger, must be because they eat healthy food?)

Back in the control tower all eyes were still fixed on the ball of light, Randy had just arrived over head to inspect it. Suddenly movement was spotted underneath the ship. A bright blue beam of light about 20 feet wide shone down onto the runway for about 10 seconds then it was gone, in its place on the ground was a large bright yellow plastic looking Pod thing about 10 feet long, 4 feet wide by 4 feet high. Seconds later the Ball of light rose about 100 feet of the runway and shot like a bullet into the night sky in the direction of Vancouver Washington and after it went Randy full throttle jet engines screaming.

Chapter 4

Portland PDX (Airport) control tower 20 minutes ago.

Air traffic controllers ‘John Candy’ shift supervisor and his second in command ‘Bill Murray’ (who looked as though he had not slept for a week) were having a five minute coffee break and debate away from the radar screens. They were standing side by side at the tower window looking out at nothing in particular. It had been a hectic night, Friday night always was.

“John it’s like this you Canadians may know how to play Ice Hockey and no disrespect intended big buddy, but you know tidily squat about playing American football”

“None taken Bill, but I will have you know my great Uncle ‘Norbert Jnr the Third’ on my dearly departed mothers side, God rest her sweet soul, played for the ‘Atlanta Braves’ back in the day and! And! My second cousin twice removed who got laid off from the Hersey’s chocolate factory ‘Willy Wrong-ka the first! heaven only knows why My Aunt ‘Betsy ‘on my Dad`s side called him that? Must have been something in the water back then up at lake ‘Woe-be-gone’ has a try out for the Seattle Sea Hawks this weekend ,AY”

Bill did not reply he was just staring out the window as if in a trance

“Did you hear what I said Bill, AY!”

Bill turned slowly, looked at John; spoke slowly and calmly at the same time thinking I need a vacation.

“ Tell me I’m seeing things John, but is there a giant ball of light hovering over runway 12”

“Don’t change the subject Bill”

“I am not bud, look can you see that”

“Flip me”

John turned and yelled at the controllers behind him

“Anyone seeing this …Code Red, Code Red”

“It’s not showing on the Radar screen John where the heck did that come from” said a stunned controller

Bill snapped back into reality and turned on his headset.

“Southwest Air Flight 358…. abort landing on runway 12….. Runway 12 is blocked….. I repeat Flight 358 abort landing…. runway 12 is blocked”

John put out an all call ‘CODE RED’ over the radio …..CODE RED…. CODE RED….. This is PDX Traffic Control….. This PDX Traffic Control……. All inbound traffic please hold! ... Do not attempt to land at PDX we are in Code red! we are in code red!”

The other controllers switched into emergency mode and began rerouting all incoming traffic

Within Minutes the Airport was on Lock down.

Out over the Pacific Ocean Air Force National Guard Flight Officer Randy Quaid was returning from his nightly Patrol of the Oregon Coast when he heard the code red come in over the commercial air band, he immediately switched to a secure link to The Air force controller.

“What’s Happening George I’m 5 mins out, over”

“We have a UFO Hovering over runway 12….. Looks like a big ball of light about 100 ft. wide…. need you to check it out….. Approach with caution …… circle at 300 feet all other planes are on the deck over”

“Wow…Copy that on my way”

Randy pushed his control stick forward and began a fast decent from 60,000 feet towards PDX, “Yaaaaahoooooo!” he shouted

“I finally get to see another UFO and nobody will think I’m crazy this time”

(Randy had reported seeing one a month ago but nobody had taken him seriously as he was always playing practical jokes, so he just dropped it, let it go) He could feel his pulse quicken, his heart was pounding with excitement as he raced towards PDX.

“Love this job, Mr. Space Alien! Randy has you now my little green friend, Ha-ha”

He was grinning like a Cheshire cat as he shot down towards PDX at over 800 mph.

Back at the control tower John and Bill were staring at the Ball of light, no one really knew what to do; this was the first time anything like this had ever happened. The Airport had come to a complete halt; all eyes were fixed on the UFO. It had not moved it was still hovering about 10 feet above the runway. A door in the control tower opened, ‘Jack frost’ the airport Director walked in.

“Well gentlemen what in the world is that?”

“Your guess is as good as mine Jack”

They were all thinking it, but nobody wanted to say it.

“Anybody here owe the Martians money? Think they have come to collect” said Bill

“Come on Bill you think this is some sort of you know, craft?”

“You mean ‘Flying Saucer’ Jack?”

“Well?”

“No Jack, I think it’s a flying ‘OREO’ with a really big set of headlights “

Everyone laughed nervously as they did not know what else to do.

(I mean what would you do if a flying ‘Oreo’ with extra big headlights showed up in your front yard??…..Emmm…. get some milk? All right Gracie! Good Idea: 0) ….now on with the story)

Meanwhile Back at Douglas Island nothing had happened yet, everything was still business as usual. Animals resting in the Field, humans asleep in the house, car parked in the drive way and if any trees were talking, well nobody could hear them. Nope, no one on Douglas Island had any idea what was coming. Why should they, after all they were busy occupying dream land with the rest of the 99% as that is the only true way to Experience the American Dream these days.

To Be Continued…………………… 

Chapter Three

One hour Earlier that Night!

“PDX Tower… This is Alaska air flight 237 inbound from John Wayne airport to PDX requesting permission to land…….. Eta 15 mins over”

“Alaska air Flight 237…….. Please divert to Seattle we have a situation here…….. All in bound traffic has been diverted………. I repeat Alaska air flight 237…… please divert to Seattle all inbound traffic has been diverted……… Seattle has been notified of our situation, will give you further instructions over”

“PDX this is Alaska air flight 237 …… Copy and out”

Captain ‘Mel Gibson’ turned to his co-pilot ‘Tim Alan’ and said

“Well Timmy boy looks like you won’t make that E-Harmony first Date after all”

“Yep, sure looks like it, bummer was really looking forward to it she is only in Portland for 2 days, still I can hop a flight to ….. He was cut of suddenly by the loud roar of twin jet engines coming from an Air force National Guard F16 jet fighter flying past directly beneath them.

“What the heck was?”

“ Flight 237…. this United States Air force National Guard Captain ‘Randy Quaid’ ……… sorry about that didn’t mean to scare you boys, we are chasing a UFO , it came extremely close to you ,it is now headed east, you are safe now Over”

“Thank you Randy, no harm done, so you’re playing big brother tonight happy ‘space Junk hunting’ Hahaha “

(Mel and Randy were both Gulf war air force vets. After the first Gulf war ended Mel resigned the Air Force and took a job with Alaska Air flying passenger Jets, Randy decided to stay in he loved being a Hot Shot pilot. Both Men flew out of PDX Portland)

“Hey Mel! Nice to hear that Aussie accent…. thought your green card had expired Hahaha ‼catch you later over and out”

“Attention Passengers …..This is your Captain Speaking, we have been diverted to Seattle due to a situation at PDX, we apologize for this delay, that loud noise just now was an Air Force National Guard Jet passing underneath so no need to be alarmed…. ETA to Seattle 20 mins will update you as when we have more information really sorry for this inconvenience”

The door to cockpit opened and Sally Field the head stewardess came in.

“What’s up guys?”

“Search me, won’t know till we land at Seattle, but PDX is closed to inbound my guess is it has something to do with that UFO that just passed us” Mel replied

“UFO? Thought it was an F16”

“Well that’s what the F16 was chasing”

“So that’s what that noise was all about, did you guys see it, the UFO”

“ Nope, didn’t even know it was there, it didn’t make a sound, not that we could hear anyway, whatever it was they said it passed close to us,”

They were interrupted by the radio.

“Alaska Air flight 237….. This is Seattle tower do you copy over”

“Seattle Tower …..This is Alaska Air flight 237…..we copy over”

“Alaska flight 237…… change you’re heading to ‘One Three Zero’ …… prepare to land on runway ‘Five zero’… over”

“Roger that Seattle….. Alaska air Flight 237, heading 1.3.0, runway 5.0 over and out”

With that Mel switched on the seatbelt, sign changed course to the new heading and began the slow decent into Seattle. He was just thinking to himself how he would love to be with Randy chasing that UFO or whatever it was when suddenly the night sky was lit up by a blinding white Flash! Followed by a super sonic boom! It shook the plane causing it to drop several feet, Mel quickly brought the plane back under control .Thankfully everyone was wearing their seat belts , Sally who was standing at the time fell into a seat by the cabin door, she was ok just a little shaken.

“Hope that was not Randy” said Mel with a concerned look on his face

Silence filled the cockpit

Chapter two.

Out in the north field Daisy the cow was slowly making her way towards the center of the field to her favorite spot to lay down and sleep for a few hours. Just as she was about to lower her hind legs she bumped into something, she stopped, turned her head to see, no there was nothing behind her. She walked round the spot, tried to sit but again she bumped into an unseen object, it was like an invisible wall. So, she decided to try another spot in the same area about 6 feet away, same thing. That’s odd she thought my eyesight must be bad, I can feel it but not see it. She was after all a very old cow in cow years. So she just figured her eyesight was bad and it was dark even though the moon was out. She just moved to another spot about 20 feet away, lay down and never gave it another thought.

Meanwhile on the other side of the field 3 geese where making their way towards the center of the field to see why Daisy had been acting strangely. They had been living on Douglas island 4 years now and had become used to daisy`s routine of sleeping in her favorite spot. On cold nights they would settle down beside her for warmth and her body was a great wind barrier. John, Paul and Ringo (the geese) waddled towards Daisy`s new position. Ringo was the first to arrive.

“Daisy why have you changed you sleeping spot” Ringo asked

“Well there appears to be something there so I just decided to move until the sun comes up”

“But daisy there is nothing there, I can see very clearly, I have great eyesight at night”

“Well I sure bumped into something”

“What’s up with Daisy” asked Paul as he joined them

“She thinks there is something in her favorite sleeping spot”

“I don’t see anything”

“Hey that’s what I told her”

“Well let’s go over and check it out boys” said John as he arrived within earshot

So all three waddled of to the center of the field. Ringo was the first to arrive. He was just about to say ,See nothing there, when his long beak struck something hard that made a clanking sound sort of like hollow metal. He froze in his tracks, then leaned his head forward ever so slowly, clink his beak made contact with something.

“John, Paul, bless me! There is something here I can feel it but not see it, Daisy is right”

“Ya! Right, you got in to the kitchen cupboard again didn’t you? Had some of Mr. James special water, told you that stuff would mess with your head” said John coming up beside him

“I have told you many; many times our place is in the yard stay out of the hous...”Clank‼! His words were cut short as he walked straight into the thing that was not there.

“What the…What was that?”

“Gee you have been drinking the Mr. James’s special water too” said Ringo

“No, seriously, what is that “as he touched it more cautiously this time

“You’re asking me, you’re the know it all, you tell me Einstein”

“Einstein, who`s Einstein, I don’t see any Einstein” said Paul joining them

“Do we have a new friend, I like new friends, Einstein Pleased to meet you, where are you?”

“Now look what you have started John it will take us forever to explain to him why I called you Einstein”

“Wait, why did you call John Einstein?”

“Oh boy here we go again, Listen Mac fly, I mean Paul”

“Who is Macfly, boy two new friends” said Paul excitedly

“Hey look! There is a big bag of bird seed on the house porch, last one there is a sissy”

That was all Paul needed to hear ‘BIRD SEED, and he was off in the direction of the house forgetting all about his new friends Einstein and Macfly.

“Whew! That was close, now we can try to figure out what the thing is that’s not here” said John

“Hey that was not nice”

“I know, but do you want to spend all night trying to explain why Einstein and Macfly are not here?”

“Right you are, but it still was not nice”

“Ok! Back to the real mystery, what is this thing we can’t see?

TO BE CONTINUED………………………….

The Flight of the…. WOMMOMBOMBLASTER!

The Flight of the…. WOMMOMBOMBLASTER!

Written By Michael j Quinlan…. Title by Alexys,Kolby and Gracey Lewis

Chapter 1

Many stories begin with the words “A long, long time ago in a distant land, there lived a young unhappy prince who was in debt to the local IRS and the big bad nasty sheriff of Washington DC was coming for a friendly visit” … ok, scratch that it never happened.

Our story begins with “coming soon to a Family near you”. In the world of tomorrow in a place where make believe is possible in a faraway land 10 miles north of Portland Oregon a strange event was about to take place that would change the lives of a certain Vancouver family forever!

The Night was cool and clear in southern Washington; a full moon lit the surrounding countryside for miles. Normally there was a breeze but tonight it was still, sort of like the calm before a storm.

On top of a densely forested hill sat an old white two story farm house with a wraparound covered porch. In this farmhouse a family of 5 was sleeping soundly…

Ok alright, yes somebody was snoring… I mean 5 people with nobody snoring would be too hard to believe. After all the tooth fairy needs a distraction, that’s why snoring was invented, right? Ok, no more interruption’s please! Now let me get on with my story, where was I? Ah yes…

There was a Dad and a Mom in the large master bedroom then just down the hall on the second floor were 3 children; two sisters, Alexis the big sister age 11, her younger sister Gracey age 3 who shared a room. Then there was a medium sized brother named Kolby who had the large corner office all to himself. It was really a bedroom but Kolby liked to call it His corner office! Since he was the man of the house when Dad was at work plus he was the eldest boy, actually he was the only boy. Oh Yes, Kolby was 8 and a half years old!

As I said before, all were sleeping soundly unaware of the strange mysterious event that was about to occur in the field at the north end of their home. It was a normal looking field by field standard, with green grass, a cow named daisy chewing the cud in the far left corner, some goats, 3 geese; John, Paul & Ringo and a donkey named Harold.

It was like their own private island in a sea of tall green trees. There was a long winding driveway from the main road to the house lined by tall stately looking Douglas firs who appeared to be standing guard.

Now where was I? Ah, yes the family were all fast asleep on Douglas Island, hey that’s a good name for their home don’t you think, ok the votes are in Douglas island it is.

WWWWWrrrrrrrrrrrrrr,WWWWWWWrrrrrrrrrrrrrr,mmmmmmmmmmmmm,WWWWWWWWWrrrrrrrrrrrrr Kolby was woken up by a strange whirring sound, he thought at first he was dreaming, then he thought it was just the Toilet water tank filling up after someone had flushed as it made a whirring sound and rattled the water pipes. But the strange sound got louder, he sat up in bed, listened, it was coming from outside. 

Whatever it was it had a very bright light as it lit up the whole bedroom… mmmmmm… the toilet has never done this before he thought. Oddly enough he was not afraid, so he climbed out of bed, went to the bedroom window, opened the blinds and looked out. It was too bright to see anything so he went to his toy box found his red white and blue plastic flight helmet that his uncle Roger had given him last Christmas with the really cool pull down sun visor. Helmet on, he returned to the window with visor down ready for action!

The visor really helped he was able to see the front yard , the large Pecan tree , their car parked in the driveway close to the front door but he could not see the source of the light he then looked to the left towards the field at the north end where the light was brightest. He thought he saw something or someone moving in the middle of the field. He blinked and then looked again no movement this time. The sound was starting to fade away; it was now a gentle hum. The light too was starting to dim, all of a sudden it was gone. All that was left was the light of the moon; it was as if nothing had happened. Kolby lifted his visor waiting for his eyes to adjust to the moonlight; he saw bright spots for a while until his eyes could once again focus. Wait a minute he thought why did ‘Dave’ not bark it was then that he felt that familiar soft friendly nose touching his left hand.

“Dave” he said smiling

“Did you not hear or see what was happening?”

Dave looked at him with that confused inquisitive look that dogs have , you know head cocked to one side and looking at you as if to say “who me?”

Dave only seemed interested in wagging his tail, snuggling up to Colby and looking at the bed as if to say

“Come on I’m tired let’s turn in”

Kolby looked out the window again at the North field it appeared totally normal, no sign of any strange machine or whatever it was.

“Did I dream this” he asked Dave

“I mean you don’t miss a thing boy, you can smell the post man hundreds of yards away and you bark at the sound of his truck”

All of a sudden Kolby felt very tired, he let out a big yawn, Dave looked at him as if to say now you get the picture Bed, Bed I want Bed .So Kolby decided he had had enough excitement for one night and guessed it must have been Mr. Jones the tree farmer next door working late he had extra bright lights on his tractor so that would explain the light and the engine the loud whirring noise. With that last thought he lay down with Dave snuggled against him and fell fast asleep. Within minutes he was snoring, Dave looked at him as if to say “for crying out loud not again” and placed his front paws over his Ears.

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