The next day they all met at the RCMP office on Front St.. They walked in and there was a sergeant behind the front desk. He had on the traditional red Mounties uniform. When Graham saw him he thought of all the tradition that went along with that uniform. He also thought, 'I wonder how are national police force got saddled with a red uniform, must be that British influence.' Denise walked up to him and said,

"We are here to see Constable Wendy Long and make a statement." The officer asked them to take a seat. He picked up the phone and Wendy came out a few minutes later. She led them into a conference room with a tape recorder on a large table. Taking seats around the table they started. Telling their story from the beginning, they told all they knew or had figured out. The whole process took about six hours. Then it still had to be typed. Wendy then said,

"Could you come back tomorrow and at that time you can read and sign them?" They all told her that they would and said their good-byes.

They all left and went their separate ways, some had to work while others went home and got on with their lives. The next couple of days everything seemed to be getting back to normal. Though they all complained of having weird dreams. The dreams had to do with visitors from another planet. They had come to earth and were helping mankind clean up the earth. It all seemed so fantastic.

Graham had forgotten about the promise to Jeniffer until one day he found the key in his wallet. He went down to the Canada Trust but could not get access to it. That night he got on his computer and hacked into the Canada Trust computer. He got into the records for the safety-deposit boxes and changed Jeniffer's box to his. He did not want to push it so he waited for a couple of days and then went back. When he did get into it he found it was full of money. After a quick count he figured there was just over 16 million dollars. He took out eight million and went to the post office. He had it in a box and wrapped it tight with heavy paper. Then he sent it special delivery to the villa. The clerk assured him that it would get there tomorrow. He wrote a note to Marie telling her of what Jeniffer had said and that she had wanted her to have the money. Also that she should keep in touch with the group and gave her his e-mail address. The other eight million he was to split with the rest of the group. Graham thought about that for a moment, 'no one knows about this I could be gone before anyone ever found out. A picture of little Jessie went through his head at that moment. Oh, what the heck, I am sure I can live off of a million dollars.' Graham then took out a thousand dollars and went out into the mall. He found a sports store and picked up seven small gym bags and one large duffel bag. Then going to the bank he put a million dollars in each one. By the time Graham was dune he was a little sick of counting money, something he never thought would have happened to him.

He went into work that night as usual or maybe even a little early. He found Darren there and said,

"Could you come out to my car for a minute I have something for you." Darren followed him out to his car and Graham presented him with a bag.

"What is this?"

"It is a little present from Jeniffer. She left it to use in her will so to speak. She wanted us to get the bastards at the CSS." Darren opened the bag and his eyes almost fell out of his head.

"How...much?"

"One million, so feel like working tonight?" Graham laughed then said; "I don't know where it's from so I would not put it in the bank. I think it has been skimmed off some government projects that she was involved with." Darren nodded and took the bag to his car.

The reaction was pretty much the same for all the guys, but when Christine, Suzanne and Denise came in together. Graham asked them to come out to his car for a second. Denise said,

"Can it wait I am going to be late?"

"It is up to you but it is a pretty big surprise."

"Oh, great the last time I got a surprise by your car it was a dead body. Well I can't do anything about it now so it will have to wait."

"OK," said Graham. He took the other two out to his car and gave them both a bag.

"What is this?" said Suzanne.

"Open it and find out."

They both did, and when they saw what was inside the silence was deafening. Graham thought they were going to faint as they both turned white as a couple of sheets. He told them to sit down on the grass and started to explain the whole thing to them. Then they both exploded in joy. They were jumping up and down and hugging each other and him. It took Graham about 10 minutes to calm them down. They had to go back to work as Graham explained about the potential source of the money.

They both threw bags in their own cars and headed back into the restaurant. Denise was there when they came back in and asked,

"So what is the big surprise?" Graham said,

"You can have yours after work like you wanted." Everyone moved to their stations and the work of the night went on in a much better frame then usual. About halfway through the night Denise came running back to see Graham.

"She was kidding, wasn't she. This could not be real."

"Oh who told you, no let me guess Christine could never keep a secrete."

"Where is it? Why didn't you tell me?"

"It was more fun this way, besides you can't do anything with it."

"Maybe not but I want to see it."

"OK, let me get my keys and I will bring it in for you."

Graham went and got her bag from the car and brought it in. When he gave it to her he explained about the money and how it was probably dirty. She said,

"Who cares."

"You will if the government come and take it away from you."

"OK, I will be careful."

That night they went out for drinks and discussed different methods of hiding the money. Though they all still wanted to get some sort of a return off of it. The idea they all liked the most was to open a little pub. They all had the necessary skills to make it work and they could hide a great deal of there money. The idea was decided and Chris and Denise were going to start looking into it.

Over the next couple of weeks everyone found different ways of hiding their money. They also went out and spent some of it. Dave bought himself a new 4X4 pickup truck. Graham bought a jeep and a laptop computer. Denise decorated Jessie's room and set up a college fund for her. While Darren bought himself a new set of golf clubs and took lessons to improve his game. They all did something they had always wanted to do. It was a good time as no one had money problems and this made work so much nicer.

At the end of the week Chris came to work and said,

"I think we found a nice little pub to buy." The group all got together the next day and went to look at it. They found it was a nice little spot in a good location. They talked about it and put in an offer. It was accepted and they were pub owners.

The next couple of months went very well the pub was busy and they had almost forgotten the whole thing. Then the dreams got more and more intense. At first they were pleasant enough though they got more and more demanding. They sat down to discuss them one night but a very strange thing happened.

They were sitting at a round table when all of a sudden Suzanne grabbed the hand of a person on either side of her. Then they grabbed the people beside them and it kept on until they were all holding hands, but for some reason the hand holding had buy passed Dave. As soon as the last two hands touched they all saw an image appear before them. Dave said,

"What is going on? Are you guys all right?" No one answered him and Dave tried to get the hands apart that were in front of him. The two hands belonged to Denise and Christine. Dave could not budge them and thought they were connected some how. The group looked to be looking at something in the middle of the table but Dave could not see anything. Dave was trying to decide what to do next.

At first the hand holders could not tell what it was, but something had materialized before their eyes. It looked to be some sort of machine but what it did they did not know. Then the information started to come to them. The device they were being shown was a transmitter of some sort. The message told them if they built the device. Then they could contact the aliens who built the silver ships. This is when they came out of their trance, Dave said,

"What happened?" Chris tried to explain to Dave what they had seen and Darren helped him out, but between the two of them they could not make themselves understood. Well how could they it did not make any sense even to them. They eventually got enough across to him that he sort of understood, and Dave said,

"What do you think we should do about it?" They discussed it and came up with two main points. Will they help mankind, or is this a prelude to some sort of conquest. They had all seen to many science fiction moves and were uncomfortable with this whole thing, after all they could be sealing mankind's fate. If they were the planning to conquer earth, why not just give the information to the military, they would build the transmitter with out a doubt. They weighed the pros and con's of doing it and the pro's won out. They just could not ignore the benefits to mankind and there was also a great deal of curiosity on their part as to what this aliens would be like.

The next day they rented an office up above the pub. Then they started to get the components together. Darren and Suzanne seemed to understand the transmitter the best and they had Dave put the pieces together as they showed him. In examining the transmitter Suzanne figured out that the signal was transmitted on a dimensional carrier wave. This allowed the signal to travel vast distances in a very short time. It was also very energy efficient and worked on normal electricity. It took the three of them about four days to get all the parts assembled. It was amazing to Dave that they did not have to really make anything very special for the transmitter.

When they were finished they were eager to try it, but decided to wait until the following morning. They all went home and tried to sleep but the excitement was too much. They ended up back at the office at 6:00 in the morning. Chris said,

"The only time I ever get up this early is if I am going to play golf." Denise looked at him and said,

"I think this is a little more important then a golf game."

"Well I don't know about that," said Darren and Chris together. The rest of the group was just smiling into their coffee cups.

Chris and Denise sat at the transmitter and activated it. A low hum filled the room. Denise said,

"What should we send?" Everyone looked at each other, but none could come up with anything. Then Denise just started to type. When she was done she hit the enter button to send the message. They sat there waiting holding their breath. A couple of minutes passed, but it seemed like hours. Then a message flashed across the screen. All it said was yes. Denise laughed and the rest of the group looked at her. Chris said,

"What's so funny?"

"I just asked, is there any buddy out there?" A little snicker went through the group.

"Interesting way to make first contact," said Darren.

They started to talk back and forth. Graham said,

"This is like being on a chat line on the web." Denise then introduced herself to the thing on the other end of the line. She got a response, it told her she was talking to a creature called Mil. Mil told them they could send visual as well as typed messages. He sent them the information on how to set it up. Denise printed up Mil's instructions and handed them to Darren and Suzanne. They looked them over and said,

"We could have this up and running by this afternoon." Denise and Chris stayed on line chatting while Darren and Suzanne went out to get what they would need for a video hook up.

It took Darren and Suzanne about four hours to get everything and came back as they had forgotten most of the stores were still closed. While they were gone Dave had done all the preliminary work on the set-up. The three of them went right to work as they were curious to see what their galactic pen pal looked like. Though with there technology, who knows what image they will get back.

Denise had been sending messages back and forth with the alien. Denise had found out that they were the first species to answer back from a scout ships contact. They had sent them out to find races that were technologically advanced enough to build the dimensional communication devise. Mil did not know what was going to happen next. It will probably depend on what the probes tell them when they come back.

Denise explained a little about what had happened to the probe. Mil said,

"That was not good. If your people are still war like our people may decide to avoid you." Denise said

"I hope you will come and visit me and my friends. I think you would have a good time." Mil said,

"He would like that." All the while Dave, Darren and Suzanne had been hooking up the video equipment. Then Dave said,

"OK, It is all ready to go." Denise sent a message to let Mil know they had the video link ready .

Dave flicked the switch and the screen slowly came to life. There was an image of a humanoid that looked to be made of light. It was a sort of yellowish gold light. Denise sent a message to say that Mil was really a cool liking species.

The chat continued on well into the night. They talked about the problems that earth is going through. Mil told them a little about his worlds history and it sounded similar to what earth had gone through but they were about a thousand years ahead. Mil told them that they had monitored their television. Mil's society was similar to the society on Star Trek. Except they had never been explorers of space, at least not in person.

The group was getting tired and they told Mil they needed sleep. Mil did not understand sleep so Christine tried to explain it to him. He was fascinated they had stopped sleeping about 500 years ago. Christine got so interested that she asked for an evolutionary chart of there species. Mil sent it and it looked very similar to humans but there were some very interesting differences.

The group slowly headed to their own homes, Christine stayed and talked to Mil about their biology and medicine. She learned a great deal about them. Even thought they looked to be made of energy they did have a physical body. Christine was fascinated and she did not even realize that in a matter of a couple of hours she had absorbed their whole evolution and a great deal of their biology. 'It was amazing,' thought Christine that I can absorb so much and so quickly. She asked Mill about it. Mil came over the communication system and said,

"is it not time for you to sleep? We would not want you to become ill." Christine looked at her watch and said,

"Yes but this is all so interesting I hate to leave. I have so many questions and you have so much to give to us in the way of knowledge."

"Yes and I will still be here after you have rested."

"OK, I get the point." She said her good-byes to Mil, but made him promise to tell her more.

She went home and went to bed but she could not sleep. She lied there thinking for most of the night. She rose early the next day and could not stop thinking about it, but she had to go to work at the pub still. She worked all day but was the most brain dead waitress the world had ever known. She had been thinking about what they were doing. Who were they to be playing with such power as this? Should they share there information with others or should they keep it a secrete? The whole thing was staggering.

The group all met at the pub for dinner that night. Christine said,

"We have something here that could change our world for either better or worse to such a degree I can't even imagine it. What are we going to do?" Suzanne said,

"We could talk to Mil about the problem. Maybe they will have some sort of idea how we can make things better." They moved up to the chat room. They had started the system up and Mil came on. He said,

"There is a problem. Our scout ship came back and gave a full report to our council. They were not very impressed with what had happened to them. Your people actually killed others trying to get the information."

"Yes we told you that, so why did the scout give us the information?"

"It seems because you were there for your friends not the information. It felt you possessed the proper attitude and would use the technology for the betterment of your people. Now the council is not sure that you can control it. I do know how you can prove your good faith. You know we sent more then one-scout ship to your planet. Well one has returned and one is on its way. If you could free the other four that will send a strong signal."

"Where are these ships?" said Chris.

A map of the earth flashed up on the screen with four little red blips on it. The first one was in England just outside of London. Number two was in Israel about 50 kilometers from Jerusalem. Then there was one right in the middle of Singapore. While the last was in central Australia someplace. Darren downloaded the information on to a disk so they could look at it later.

Christine asked Mil if they would still be able to talk while they are trying to free the ships. He said, yes but he would not be able to send them any technical information beyond what is available on the planet.

"How do you know what is available on this planet?" asked Suzanne.

"We can get into any computer on your world and keep records of what is going on." Darren and Graham had been working on hooking his laptop up to the dimensional communicator through his modem and cellular phone. They got some help from Mil and finally got it all hooked up. When they were done they could now go anywhere and still talked to Mil.

They called up the information on the location of the ship in England. It was in a secrete military base. When they gained access to the military base's computer through the dimensional communicator. They found the base was heavily fortified and the security was very tight. The place had been some sort of an intelligence head-quarters during world war II and because of it's historical use it has been well maintained and given the most modern security system. Suzanne, Darren and Dave were looking at the blue prints to find a way in, at the same time Graham and Chris were looking at the security system.

Dave noticed something when they were looking at the cooling system. The unit was outside and ducts led right to where the ship was kept. The ducts were old and large so they could crawl through them. There was security in them but it was fairly simple. He showed it to Graham and Chris. They looked at it and then pulled up any information they could find on those security systems. It took them about half an hour to know everything there was to know about them. They then went through the plans again. Finding where they could breach each system. Chris said,

"It will take five people to get someone through the air ducts. There is only one problem the security system will be flashed twice and that could draw attention. Which means we need a sixth person to watch what happens in security." Dave said,

"The hardest part I see is getting on to the base, without there knowledge." Darren said,

"No problem, we just hack into the Canadian Military computer and enlist. Then we get transfer on a special assignment to that base." He paused then continued on, "So what do you think?"

The rest of the group looked at the plans and thought over all that had been said. Denise said,

"As much as I want to help I am not leaving Jessie again." The rest of the group looked around and Chris said,

"That's all right we still have six people and it would be good to have someone here in case we need help. It would also be good to have someone here to watch the pub."

"OK, so it is all settled, Denise can stay here while we all go to England."

The next couple of days with Mil's help, they set up there identities. They assigned themselves to a special unit that had been at SMI for about 18 months. They figured that maybe they should go through some intelligence and espionage course. They found a special force course was just starting up. They had their group assigned to it. The course was starting in two days just outside of Ottawa. The next day they got everything they would need and loaded it into Graham's plane. He had sort of inherited from Jeniffer.

They flew from Toronto to Ottawa and then rented a Suburban to drive out to the military base. They got there and found their quarters. The rest of that day they were off so they looked around and went to the officers club at night. They met the other people who were on the course and sat with them. They all started to tell stories, which helped the group to get familiar with military jargon.

Christine and Suzanne were both very popular in the club that night. Anytime there drinks were low someone would buy them another. They were also on the dance floor for a good deal of the night. Neither of them paid any special attention to any one but both had a great time.

At six o'clock in the morning they were woken up. Both of them did not feel to well. They made it to breakfast and then to their first class. For the first half of the day they studied different methods of concealment. By the time they broke for lunch the two girls felt much better.

After lunch they divided into two teams. The group all ended up on the same team. They were at first to be the hunters. The hiding team was given 15 minutes to go hide then the hunters were sent after them. They paired off and started to hunt. Darren and Suzanne headed west, while Dave and Christine went east. The last pair, Graham and Chris headed off to the north. Chris and Graham had walked and looked and looked and walked, but when the whistle called them all back they had not seen anyone. They were also sure there had been nothing to see. They walked back and met up with the others.

Suzanne and Darren picked up a trail almost at once after they had moved out. Following the trail they quickly found two of the hiding group. They sneaked up behind them and quickly sent them back to the clearing. Then Suzanne noticed that someone had doubled back on their trail. They moved along quickly and quietly. Then Suzanne signaled a stop. She signaled Darren that the group they were chasing was just up ahead. She then motioned him to move up beside her. When he did she said,

"Lets have a little fun and sneak up on these two and scare the life out of them." Darren smiled and nodded yes. He then headed off to the right. Suzanne moved off to the left and was within five feet of the two hidden men in less then 15 minutes. She noticed that Darren was a little farther away. They both moved at the same time and got their prey into submission holds. The two men were very surprised and put up very little resistance. They were walking them back when the whistle blew.

Dave and Christine had moved through the bush and found a trail to follow. Christine said,

"Dave this trail is old, why are we following it?"

"Because who ever we are looking for is very good. Look." he bent down and showed her a small twig that had just recently been broken. Christine said,

"You have good eyes. I did not see that." They were following the trail when Dave signaled a stop. He noticed a slight movement up a head. He signaled Christine to move off to the right and circle around. He was going to move to the left. They moved into position, when Dave thought Christine was ready he started to thump through the woods. This gave Christine a chance to move to within 3 feet of the hidden men. The whistle went and the two men stood up and said,

"All right we did it." Christine then stood up and said,

"I don't think so, I would say you lose." The two men spun around and saw how close Christine was. They looked at each other, then broke out laughing. One said,

"Thank god there is no one here from our unit. We would never live this down. Good hunting," and he put out his hand to her, and they shook.

They made their way back to the clearing. The two groups then switched positions and the hunters became the hunted. They did much better only one group Graham and Chris was found and that was an accident. The hunter actually stepped on Graham. They then headed back to the classroom.

Over the next couple of days they had courses in hand to hand combat, weapons training, demolition's and breaching security systems. The information was invaluable, they had basically become a crack commando squad. When they were about to leave, their instructor came to them and said,

"I have some special orders for you." He handed them a large envelope, solute and walked away. Chris had been given the position of squad leader so he opened the orders. He breathed a shy of relief as they were there orders to go to London. The orders gave them a couple of days leave so they flew back to Toronto to see if anything was new.

They went right to the pub and found just about everything was as they had left it. The only thing was that the pub was under surveillance. They did not know who it was and they had not done anything, so the group let it go. They spent a day going over their plan A and plan B.

PLANS A was to hopefully be shown the scout ship and somehow reactivate it. If not Plan B was a break-in, to get at the ship. They tried to anticipate all possible scenarios and planed for them all. After a hard day of planning they felt they were about as ready as they could be. They still had a day before their flight to London. They thought they might find out who is watching them. There were two posts, the first was a car with two people in it. Then the second was in a building a little down the street.

Denise and Chris moved on the car. They had the sleep dart guns with them. They walked right up to the car and climbed into the back seat. There was a man and a woman stationed there at that time and the woman said,

"What are you doing? Get out of this car." Chris answered her,

"Now come on lets act like professionals here. We know you have been watching our pub and we just want to know who you are and why you are here?" The man looked at him and said,

"We are RCMP special investigation branch. I don't know if you know or not, but in the last 24 hours the CSS has been disbanded. It is primarily because of your statements to Constable Wendy Long."

"Oh Great," said Chris, "we have a pile of spies and assassins who have a grudge against us."

"Well that is not all," said the woman, "we also got a request from the National Security Service in the United States to have you picked up for questioning on a matter of there national security."

"God can anything else go wrong," said Denise, "we told those jerks what was going to happen, I guess that's what you get for telling the truth."

"What do you mean?"

"My god, you don't know what is going on?"

"No we were just sent to protect you."

"Well if I were you I would find out a little more about this situation. It might help to know who your enemy is and you are facing allot of them."

Chris and Denise got out of the car and went back to the pub. They explained what they had found out. Darren asked,

"Do you think we should put off our trip to London for awhile/"

"No I think we are OK, our military aliases are pretty well hidden."

"Well, I for one am glad that the RCMP is here," said Denise.

"I am to, it makes it easier to go to London knowing there is someone watching over you. By the way we leave for London in the morning. Everyone is to meet at the airport," said Chris. They all nodded their agreement and headed out. Graham then went down to the pub and ordered a beer.

He was sitting there sipping on his beer, thinking what a change his life had taken. In less than a year he had gone from a bartender working for someone else to a trained commando. Who was part owner of a pub and had over a million dollars. How had all this happened? Was it all just because they had found a dead body. He did not even know anything about Hal Robertson. Now he was talking to aliens and planing to break into super security military bases in other countries. How life could change. He sat there drinking; wondering is my life better now or was it better before? He had another beer but could not come up with any answers.