Chapter 12, Earth again

And so with the successful dust materials collected, the team and I found something particularly special that sparked each one of our curiosities." Pausing Sho glanced at him then at his own hands, cleaning his glasses and putting them back on

"Finding out that is a multicellular organism made us excited definitely, when it started moving inside Rory and..eating him up..that is when it went bad. We never figured something on mars would be alive in any case." Sho said this and looked at the alien they picked up from Mars, it was not regenerating its wounds

Both of them noticed this and figured out something

"It thrives and heals with human flesh" Sho connected the dots and did not think this would be the result of their landing on Mars.

It was just supposed to be a few harmless dust materials.

In a way Lance helped find out about this when he blasted it with his black laser eyes or more so heat vision

Touching the glass window overlooking space a contemplative gaze settled on Lance

"The alien will be kept in there and handed to the government, although I do not know what my identity is I am still knowledgeable in most common subjects, you and I should group up with your colleagues and then if we could head to earth I would very much appreciate it." Lance said this in a thoughtful manner to assure Sho he meant to cooperate

Sho took his time organizing his thoughts as he thought what the implications what this man would bring

Of course the man would come with them but upon coming down, the situation could turn bad

"Let me get my colleagues and think about what to do next, I recommend you keep an eye on the alien" Nodding to him Sho left as he said this and the door closed

Looking out into the deep space with the earth in front of him, Lance's thoughts swirled

The man with the abyssal eyes would soon have his fate determined

It may be a good one or a bad one in any case if anyone tried to suppress him, well let's say bad things would befall them

His mindset for now was set on survival and on what to do and to find out what his identity was

A huge question that he had been having for the time he was here arose in him

What had caused him to arrive here and most importantly, where was he?!

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Many gazes were set on the space capsule coming down from space

One of them was the people at NASA who waited with anticipation

Another was a lady with a shiny bald head who sat cross legged whispering to herself, she quickly cast her gaze to the capsule and found Lance

When she tried to peer into his future a scream escaped her mouth

Still holding on to her gaze on him, she coughed up blood and held on to her head

Quickly retracting her gaze the bald lady fell on the ground, a robed man opened the door to her room and found her unconscious

This all was unnoticed by the one being gaze at, he sat in the space capsule alongside a handsome caucasian man

The capsule they were in kept shaking and heat was coming from all directions, both of them were sweating

Lance in particular though did not seem at all responsive to any of this as his eyes were open with no movement

Sweat formed on Lance's head and the other guy, the Caucasian was breathing heavily as the minutes went by

An unknown amount of time passed and the heat was gone, the capsule no longer shaked but rocked steadily up and down...

*Swish*

The door to the capsule opened and light streamed in, it smelled salty and there was practically no sound except for the sea

Lance stuck his head out of the capsule and could faintly see in the distance a helicopter

It was a black helicopter with fast-spinning rotors and a turret sticking out of its side

'Maybe they know where this is'

The Caucasian was already passed out so he let him be, he should be fine

Taking off his ripped black shirt and inhaling in one fell swoop Lance dove into the water head first

He needed to do this for himself or else he'd die of discomfort and heat and so when the water hit him from head to toe, the sweat and grime washed away like it was never there

Floating in the water with renewed vigor, Lance saw that the helicopter was nearing where he was

A minute later, the helicopter was hovering above him

Waves parted as the rotor blades caused the water to part and the loud sound of the blades spinning against the wind blocked anything else

Rope dropped from the helicopter and Lance grabbed onto it, pulling himself up

'This is Earth I can remember that, the only other thing is the United States'

Pulling himself up as the helicopter hovered in the air a hand reached out of the helicopter

Without hesitation, he grabbed onto it and got pulled from the rope

Touching the metallic floor of the aerial vehicle and steading himself, a man dressed in a black uniform with markings and other things on it put his hand on Lance's shoulder

"I am Admiral McCarthy of the United States Navy and you will have to come with us." The middle-aged man who had white hair and a scar on the left side of his neck said this and waved his hand

Before Lance could react or do anything a man seated next to the man went to him and quickly injected him with a needle

"Wai-" Lance saw his eyes close involuntarily and unfallable sleepiness come to him

As he dropped to the floor another man picked him up and put him in a seat

The water now was becoming distant with the doors of the helicopter closing

Admiral McCarthy from his uniform put something in his lips and lit it, a cigarette

"I want you to dispose of the capsule, the man, everything..." Taking a puff of his cigar and talking to the man sitting adjacent to him, he scrutinized the man they had come to take

A man seated in front handed a black sleek phone to McCarthy

Opening it up and seeing a LCD display on it, he put it near his ear

"We have him, sir."

".....**************...."

"Yes, sir, we know about that."

Out of the helicopter, the few minutes it was going there already was something in the far distance

Five massive vessels of different proportions slowly went through the water