Christine and Jason ran to the nurse's station and picked up the chart for that room. It read pick-up for therapy at 11:30, take to lab #7. They looked at each other, then Jason said,

"Not good. That is the lab where they are working on Project Zombie."

"Oh no! We have to get them out of there."

The nurse at the station looked at them like they were crazy. Christine said,

"Miscommunication we thought we were suppose to pick them up at midnight. Well we might as well go back to the lab." They headed for the front door. Walking slowly as not to draw attention to themselves, they quickly made it outside and then to the place where they were suppose to meet up with the others. As they arrived the group moved out of the shadows. It gave Christine a start and she grabbed Jason's hand. Suzanne said,

"Where are they?"

"They have been taken to Lab #7. I know where that is, but how are we going to get in?"

"What is going on?" said Angie.

"They have taken them away, but we know where they are."

"OK, so lead us there."

They started off going around the hospital. They had to stop a couple of times and let patrols go by. It took them a half an hour for a five-minute walk. The patrols moved randomly, so they had to stay on their toes. Eventually they got to with in sight of lab #7. The building had a fence around it with guards walking around the inside. They counted at least four of them. Angie and Jeniffer put there heads together and talked quietly. After a couple of minutes they signaled for the group to join them.

Gathering together Angie said,

"OK, what we are going to do is have Christine and Jason go up to the gate. This will draw all the guards to them. At that point Jeniffer and I will take them out with the tranquilizer darts. Then we move in. Any questions." The group just looked at her then Christine said,

"The darts will not hurt them?"

"No they will be all right, but out for at least six hours." Jeniffer looked at the group then moved off to her spot and Angie left in the other direction.

After a couple of minutes Jason took Christine's hand and they started to walk towards the lab. As they got closer the guards started to move to the door in the fence. When they got to with in about ten feet Christine saw the two guards on her side go down. She turned and saw the ones on Jason's side were also down. They made it to the gate and found it was locked. Christine moved down the fence to the first guard she pulled him close to the fence and checked his pockets. She did not find anything of use, so she moved on to the next one. This guard had a different uniform and when she checked his pockets she found a plastic security card with a red strip on it. She also saw but could not reach a set of keys on the ground. She went back to the fence gate and tried the card on it. The gate buzzed and Jason pushed it open.

Everyone was there and they quickly made their way to the door. At the door Jeniffer looked at the lock and said,

"Did you find a magnetic security card." Christine handed her the one she had found saying,

"Is this it?" Jeniffer looked at it.

"I don't think so." Then see looked at Angie and said,

"What do you think?"

"If it is wrong we will probably set off every alarm in the place. That will make it very difficult to get in with fifty guards breathing down our necks."

"We blow it then, at least we will have surprise on our side."

Jeniffer started to work on the lock with a ball of plastic. Angie pulled the group off to the side. She then opened her pack and pulled out three small pistols. She handed them to the three men in the group. Then she said,

"Christine you stick with Jason and Suzanne you stay with Darren. Graham you will be with me and Jeniffer, you will help us with Chris and Denise. When we get in the first couple will protect the door while the second will be at a stair well or elevator door to protect the escape route." She then signaled for everyone to move back. Then she gave Jeniffer a nod. Jeniffer flicked a toggle on a little black box in her hand. The lock flashed and sparks flew out of it. The door flew open and they started to rush in. Jeniffer signaled Jason and Christine to stay there. They took up position on either side of the door and the rest moved down the hall.

Jeniffer and Angie lead the group down the hall. They passed doors until they got to the stairs. The door was open and they went down the stairs. At the bottom there was a security door. They tried the security card on it and it opened. As it was opening Angie saw a guard at a desk behind the door. She fired and he was out cold before the door was opened all the way. They moved into the hall and Angie signaled for Darren and Suzanne to stay there.

Jason and Christine had been watching through the door to see if anyone was coming. After a couple of minutes Christine said,

"Someone is coming. See the shadows over there they are moving."

"Yes, I see it. Let's just wait and see what happens. I am not a crack shot." The shadows moved closer and they could now see there were three of them. They were just walking and had not seen the guards on the ground yet. Christine looked around for anything she could us as a weapon. Eventually she found a small length of pipe that would do. She hid behind the door but could still see out through the crack at the hinge. The men had just noticed the guards on the ground and were now running towards them. Splitting up as they came through the gate they moved to the down guards. When they were satisfied they were still alive they started to move towards the door.

Jason had moved back into a shadow. He had the dart gun up in front of him in order to fire. The first two guards walked in and all hell broke loose. Jason fired at them while at the same time Christine slammed the door with all her strength into the third one. She then pulled it open and found the guard standing there. He was dazed; she then hit him with her pipe. It was a good two-handed baseball swing and the guard went down. Jason came over and checked the man out. He was still alive so he fired a dart into him.

"Lets get all of these bodies out of sight. Check those doors for a spot to put them." Christine moved off while Jason went out and started to drag a body in. Christine found a janitor's closet and they put the bodies in there. She also found handcuffs on each one. Jason saw her collecting the handcuffs and said,

"I did not know you like that kind of stuff. I will remember that for when we get out of here." She used the handcuffs to secure all of the guards. Then they closed the gate in the fence and the door to the lab, but not so much that they could not see outside.

Darren and Suzanne took up there position. Darren put on the jacket and cap of the down security guard. Suzanne dragged the body into an office. While she was there she found a lab coat and clipboard so she could blend in at least at first glance. Darren looked under the desk and found the front was open. Good, he could keep people covered with the dart gun from under the desk. Then they just stood there and each second seemed like an hour.

Graham followed Angie and Jeniffer down the hall and around a corner. From his position he could see a small red flashing light over the door. Jeniffer said,

"This must be the place." Beside the door was a small numerical pad.

"Shit," said Jeniffer, "it has a key pad lock."

"Don't you have a way to by-pass it," said Graham.

"No and if we blow it, it will probably stay locked." They sat for a couple of minutes then Graham said,

"OK, I have an idea, I saw it in a movie once."

Graham then took a pencil out of his pocket. With his knife he scraped loose some lead dust onto his finger. Then he lightly rubbed it over the number keys.

"He told them the idea is the lead will stick to the residual oil from the fingers. The darkest key should be the one that was touched first. While the lightest will be the last number." The idea worked but it was hard to tell what the order of the numbers was. After a couple of tries they heard the vacuum seal on the door open.

Both Angie and Jeniffer looked at Graham. Jeniffer said,

"Not bad." They found themselves looking into a computerized control room of some sort. There was no one there so they moved in. They were facing a long window that obviously looked out over a large cavern or room. Moving cautiously up to the window they took in the view.

Graham could not believe his eyes. There below them, it was a hive of activity. All the people were running around in controlled environment suits. There were control panels and computers and they were all connected up to a large silver egg shaped thing. The thing was floating about six feet off the ground or at least that is how it looked. That did not make any sense because the thing also looked to be made of metal. To Graham it looked like something out of the X-Files. He said,

"What is that thing?" Jeniffer looked at him and shrugged her shoulders.

They turned to see if Angie had any answers and saw that she had a gun pointed at them. This was a real gun not the dart guns they had been using against the guards. Jeniffer said,

"What are you doing?"

"My job, why couldn't you have done the same."

"Angie your a part of all this."

"Yes, and it is going to be the best thing to ever happen to this world," she then took both there guns.

"But killing all those innocent people why, what is so important?"

"All your questions will be answered eventually but for now go out that door and across the catwalk."

Graham moved towards the door, but Angie said,

"No, Jeniffer you go first. I want Graham in between us as a buffer. If you try anything he will get it and remember he did save you at the gate the other day." Jeniffer moved to the door and Graham followed. He felt a pang of guilt at being used to pacify Jeniffer in such a way. Outside the door there was a catwalk that led to another control room. They walked across it and eventually came to the door. As Graham was walking across he was looking down into the room. He could now see that there was a door into the large silver egg. He asked,

"What is that thing?"

"Your a bright boy, what do you think it is?"

"It sounds crazy, but is it a UFO?"

"Good, now you are beginning to see how important this is."

"But what I don't understand is what is the importance of Project Zombie?"

"Well I can't tell you everything. Now get moving," and she shoved him with the barrel of her gun.

Jeniffer opened the door and saw a couple of technicians sitting at some control panels watching all the dials and gauges. There was also another man there with his back to them. The man turned at the sound of them walking in. Graham did not know how he knew but he was sure this china man was the one who had killed Denzel. He thought this must be Chico, maybe we can use that to are advantage. He said,

"You must be Chico? I hear you are the one who killed Denzel. Why was that anyway?"

Darren and Suzanne had been at there station for a couple of minutes. Suzanne said,

"I am going to see what is going on."

"Wait, we are suppose to stay here."

"I don't know why but I have to see what is going on. I have a bad feeling."

"OK, but I am going with you." She smiled at his display of gallantry, then lead them down the hall. When they got to the door with the keypad beside it. Darren said,

"Look it is open. Someone who works here would not leave it like that. They must have gone in there."

He opened the door to find the same view as Graham had. They walked in and right up to the window. Suzanne said,

"It is amazing. It looks like the spaceship out of that Walt Disney movie the Navigator. You don't think it could really be a spaceship?" Darren turned to look at her and when he did he saw Angie marching Graham and Jeniffer across the catwalk. He said,

"No it couldn't be, but that is not are biggest problem. Look." Suzanne turned to look.

"I knew there was something I didn't like about that woman. I just thought I was being a little catty and jealous."

"Thanks, I am flattered, but don't you think we should save this discussion for some other time. What are we going to do about that?" and he pointed out the window at the three people going across the catwalk.

"I say we watch and if they go into that room, we go over there and see if we can help them."

They watched and the group went into the control room. They then quickly and as quiet as a mouse followed them. They got to the door and Suzanne peeked around the corner to look into the window. She could see them talking and then all hell broke loose.

Jeniffer pushed Graham to the floor as she jumped at Chico. Graham spun around on his back and with his legs kicked Angie's legs out from under her. She went down and hit her head with a loud cracking sound. Angie was out cold. At that moment Darren came in and Graham said,

"Shoot him before she kills him. We need to trade these two for Chris and Denise." Darren pulled the trigger and the dart hit home. Chico was out like a light. Jeniffer let him go, from the chock hold she had put him in, and he fell to the ground.

Jeniffer turned on the two technicians and said,

"Sit down and don't move. Maybe you will live through this. Then she walked over to Angie and slapped her to wake her up. Looking down at her Jeniffer said,

"Why? Nothing is that important." Angie laughed a not very friendly laugh and said,

"Why for the money of course. I know it is hard for you to understand because you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but for some of us it is important." Jeniffer then shook her head and shoot Angie with a dart. Then turning to the rest of the group she said,

"Tie up the technicians. Then lets get out of here with these two." Darren and Graham tied up the technicians while Suzanne grabbed a dart gun and went back to the door. When they were done Darren grabbed Chico while Graham picked up Angie. Suzanne turned to the technicians and said,

"Stop what you are doing? We will trade these two people for our friends. If you do not think it is worth it then just imagine what would happen if they were put on public trial. You tell that to who ever is in charge now."

Then they started out of the control room and across the catwalk. When they were about half way across they all of a sudden herd a commotion from the floor of the room. The voices were loud and had a note of panic to them. Graham looked down, but could not believe his eyes. The silver egg, which Angie had said was a UFO, was starting to rise up from the floor. There were chains that were holding it in place and at first it looked like they would hold it in place. When the chains were stretched to there limit the ship seemed to shift and or shimmer, and all of a sudden the chains fell right through it. Graham said,

"Did you see that, they passed right through it. It is rising up this way, do you think we should go back to the control room?" They all looked at each other, but it was obvious that no one had an answer. When it got to the same height as the catwalk it turned and moved closer to the group. Graham, Suzanne and Darren all looked at each other. Suzanne said,

"Did you hear that, it talked to me." Jeniffer looked at her and said,

"There was no sound that I could hear. What are you talking about?" Darren said,

"It talked to me also, but you are right there was no sound it must have been some kind of telepathy."

"Well that is really nice but your silver balloon here has brought us to the attention of everyone in this room. We have to get out of here and I don't think we can sneak out of here now, so why don't you ask it how we are going to get out of here?" said Jeniffer.

Graham threw Angie's body at Jeniffer just as a bullet hit the wall where her head had been a second earlier. She got up and yelled at Graham,

"What the hell was all that about? You could have killed me." Then Darren said,

"But instead he saved your life. We have company." Then he pointed down the catwalk. There were six security guards heading their way. Suzanne turned the other way and looked to see another five guards coming from that direction. They were trapped on the catwalk with no way out.

Jeniffer grabbed Chico's body and held it up like a shield. She then yelled over to the guards,

"Stay back or I will have to kill my hostages." One of the guards yelled back,

"How do we know they are not dead all ready." She fired two shots and two of the guards went down,

"There check your men and you will see that we just put them to sleep." The guards took cover but the group could see that one had gone to check on the two that had gone down. Darren, Suzanne and Graham were still standing in the open looking at the ship oblivious to what was going on around them. The ship talked to them in a musical voice, it told them not to be afraid but they were the chosen ones. All three of them questioned what they had been chosen for. The ship said, 'They were to be give a gift that would allow them to make contact with other worlds. It then said, 'if they got into the ship it would get them to safety.' Then Graham turned to Jeniffer and said,

"We have to get into the ship. It can get us out of here." Jeniffer looked at him as if he had lost his mind and said,

"Yes, but where will we end up. I don't wont to go to Mars or Pluto."

"Anyplace is better then dead, don't you think?" said Darren. "Besides where is your sprit of adventure?"

The silver ship moved forward and a silver walkway molded itself out from the door. Suzanne climbed up onto it and Darren passed Angie to her. She dragged her inside. Then Darren followed dragging Chico who had been passed up by Jeniffer. Jeniffer started to cross and the guards opened fire on her. A silver tube at once surrounded the walkway. Graham noticed the bullets did not bounce off or even impact the tube. They just seemed to become part of the wall.

Graham then quickly jumped onto the walkway and crawled into the ship. Once inside and as the door closed up behind him they found themselves in total darkness. Then a soft light filled the room; it seemed to come from everywhere at once. Looking around they saw the room was about twenty feet long and had four doors leading to other rooms. Graham thought this was weird. The whole out side of the ship was only about ten feet long. Graham did not let this bother him he just stored it away with all the other unusual things that he had experienced in the last couple of minutes. Suzanne was looking at the wall. She reached out and touched it and it was like a solid wall of liquid if that makes sense. Her finger even sunk into it and it caused ripples to flow along the wall. She said,

"This is amazing. It is both cold and hot at the same time. I wish I knew about all of this technology think of how much better man kind would be." Then all three of them put their hands up to their heads. Graham even let out a little sound of anguish. Then all of a sudden the three of them were sitting quietly again. Darren said,

"Wow! That was amazing, did you understand it all." Suzanne said.

"It is starting to make sense. The ship has somehow given us transference of its technology right into our minds, amazing. It was to much information at first but now that I can sort through it, I am speechless." Suzanne said,

"They are here," then she started to move to one of the doorways in the back of the ship." Jeniffer said,

"Who is here?"

"Chris and Denise, they are in the back room. We have to set them free."

Suzanne then moved to the door and down a corridor. She came to a room and entered. There on two tables was Chris and Denise strapped down. They were naked, and Suzanne blushed a little. Suzanne moved to undo the straps so they could get up. She asked,

"Are you guy's OK?"

"Yes," said Denise, but something really weird happened." Suzanne realized she had not opened her mouth to talk.

"Did you just talk to me or were our minds talking somehow?"

"I don't know?" said Denise.

When they were off the tables, Chris and Denise got dressed, Suzanne said,

"Were those clothes here a second ago?"

"Come to think of it they weren't this place is really weird, but in a good way so far." Then the three of them walked out to join the rest in the control room. Darren and Graham got up when the others came in. The reunion was short and quick. As the ship said,

"Destination?" Chris said,

"I would love to go home."

"OK but we have to get Christine and Jason first. They are up at the front door guarding are escape route," said Suzanne.

Darren then started to play around at certain points on the wall. Seeing a view screen form in front of them they saw they were moving.

"There that is better," said Darren. They came to a door and moved right through it. The door was not open; they just went through it. Jeniffer said,

"What is going on? Are we in control or what?" Darren said,

"Well we are not really in control, but it will go where we say, for now at least."

They continued on and eventually they came out through the roof. They then moved to the front of the building. The ship spun around and they could see the front door as they landed. The door was closed, but they knew Christine and Jason must be around somewhere. The ship opened a door and put down a ramp, Chris moved out and said,

"God it is good to be outside again." Then he heard the ship say,

"Must leave, please exit, mission complete return to base." They all started to get out and Jeniffer said,

"What is going on? Why don't we fly back to Toronto?"

"The ship is leaving it has accomplished it's mission and now it is going back to it's base. So unless you what to go with it you should get out." Jeniffer grabbed Angie and pulled her out while Graham grabbed Chico. They started to get out and Christine came running out. Denise was still inside and so Christine climbed in and gave her a big hug.

"You all right?" she said to Denise.

"Yes I am fine now." While Chris added,

"So where is the nearest golf course?" Christine made to slap Chris but slipped and grabbed at the wall so she would not fall. When her hand touched the wall, it sunk into the wall. She grabbed at her head and Denise grabbed her before she fell. Denise said,

"Don't worry you will be find, it happened to all of us. Then she helped her out of the ship.

When they were all out of the ship, it started to move away. They were watching and one second it was there and the next it was gone. Jeniffer said,

"Pick up those bodies and let's get out of here. It will not take long before we have all the guards in the place on our trail." They did what she said and made there best speed to the jeeps. They were about half way back to La Paz, when Jeniffer said,

"We are being followed and they are gaining on us." Chris turned and saw three jeeps gaining on them. The first one even had a machine gun mounted on it. Just as Chris took all this in the one with the machine gun opened fire. In the black of the night on the lonely deserted road it looked like a giant snake spitting fire at them. The back window exploded in a shower of glass all over them and Denise screamed. It didn't do any serious damage, though Denise did find a bullet hole right near her head. She screamed,

"Jeniffer what are we going to do?"

"Climb into the back. You will see a lid to a compartment under the carpet. Open it up and you will see weapon storage. Take out something and shoot back."

Denise and Chris climbed into the back and found the weapon storage. It was filled with every kind of gun you could imagine. Chris grabbed an M-16 while Denise grabbed a Grenade launcher. Denise pointed it at the first jeep and fired. The grenade exploded but she did not know what happened as the recoil from the gun had thrown her over the back seat and on to the floor where she could not see. The grenade must have exploded right under the front jeep for it went flying into the air. When it came down it landed on the second jeep and they both flew off into the jungle and exploded. Two of the jeeps were gone buy the time Denise got back to the window. She said,

"What happened?" Chris smiled at her and said,

"Nice shooting Rambo, you took out two jeeps with one shoot." At that moment they had to duck as a hail of bullets came from the last jeep. They could not get up to shoot and the last jeep took advantage of this. It moved up beside the Land Rover. Jeniffer noticed this and just as they got beside her she swerved the Land Rover and slammed it into the jeep. There was a screech from the metal of the Land Rover smashing into the jeep. The Land Rover was much heavier and pushed the jeep off the road before the driver could react.

The guard with the gun had stopped firing at Chris and Denise. He only had time to get off a couple of shoots in Jeniffers direction before they went sailing into the jungle. A bullet caught her in the shoulder. Even hurt she still managed to keep control of the Land Rover to pull away from their pursuers. The jeep hit a tree and it and the two men were both out of service now. They drove for a sort distance then Jeniffer pulled over to the side of the road. Our jeep came back to see what was wrong. Chris called out that Jeniffer had been hurt, Christine and Jason ran to her and quickly tended her wound. Chris took over driving the Land Rover and he followed Darren who was in the jeep. The wound in Jeniffer's shoulder was not bad and Jason and Christine had it under control in no time.

When then got back to the villa they put Jeniffer to bed and asked Marie to make some food. Marie suggested put their two prisoners into a special room they had in the basement. Darren and Chris took their prisoners down to the cell in the basement. They were still out cold from the sleeping darts and did not cause any problems. While they were eating, they talked. No one knew what to do now. They had a plane but no pilot and they probably could not take a commercial flight as the people from SMI would be watching them. They were stuck and it was only a matter of time until the people from SMI would find them.