Lives Of The Unknown Book 1: The Legend of Andrew Lockeford by G. L. Argain Page A

accepting manner that
conveyed, “Bring it on, show me what you’ve got.”
    However, there was no tractor beam
like Andrew had expected, nothing to slowly pull him up in a
colored ray of light. Instead, he found his entire sight flashing
rapidly with light for two seconds, then he instantly found himself
in a small cylindrical space. There was sleeping gas in the space
that made Andrew fall unconscious in less than a second.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter 8
    After the spaceship left Earth along with the
solar system, the side of the cylindrical tube—a teleportation
cache—that Andrew was held in had opened up on the side. A creature
appeared before him while he was still asleep. It looked anorexic,
it had no hair at all on its body, it had holes where ears and a
nose should be, and its skin was gray. Just like how we think most
aliens would look. However, it had eyes similar to a human’s, with
white eyeballs, colored irises, and black holes for pupils—not like
the black marbles for eyes most commonly imagined. Unlike a
human’s, on the other hand, its eyes were farther apart from each
other and the major axis of each eye was forty degrees above the
horizontal axis. The alien stood upright with a total height of five
feet, had two arms and two legs, and spoke with the vocal cords
inside its mouth. This is not a human, just to make clear; it
really is an alien—it’s just similar.
    The alien looked down at Andrew discontentedly, seeing that he alone with his physical
body could not carry the unconscious human. The teleporter to the
analysis room was malfunctioning for the time being, so this alien
would have to find another way to transport the subject. He called
in another alien, who looked different—this one did have “black
marbles” for eyes, and its muscles appeared dark enough to show
through its skin. However, it wasn’t any taller than the first, and
its muscles weren’t any larger. It lifted up Andrew with ease,
though, carrying him in one arm like a log.
    Andrew had been laid down onto a table in a
spherical room, with the two mentioned aliens along with three more
surrounding him. Three of the aliens in the room at this time had
regular eyes while the other two had black-marble eyes. All of the
aliens were wearing the black suits typically found on Ku-an Doel.
The original one that found Andrew shone a light upon the human’s
body that made his clothes, skin, and some of the muscles
underneath look invisible down to a specific distance—they intended
to view the organs within. Another alien tapped and slid its finger
on a floating screen in order to record what it saw.
    However, while this process allowed the
aliens to see Andrew’s insides without surgery, they still needed
to take out some blood, spinal fluid, stomach acid, and samples of
various tissues to determine physical properties. These aliens may
have visited Earth a few times and abducted humans before, but
anyone should use several samples or subjects in a scientific
experiment in order to account for error; Andrew was one of many
subjects. His clothes were removed for the extraction
process—compared to the sanitary black suits, human shirts and
pants were rather dirty, to say the least. The alien placed rubbing
alcohol onto the underside of Andrew’s elbow, then sticking a
syringe through the spot to draw out a trace of blood. This method
is used for diabetics to track their blood sugar, but aliens use
this trace of blood to determine his overall health, blood content,
genes from the DNA, and even some personality traits. The wound was
small enough to clot within seconds.
    Afterwards, the alien doctor took a small
tube and inserted it through the human’s esophagus, reaching the
stomach to retrieve some stomach fluids. This wasn’t so much to
determine what humans in general ate as it was to know how healthy
of a diet this human had.
    They decided not to draw out some fluids
such as synovial (joint) fluid or