using multiple shots. They quickly lost their balance and fell. Making their way to the elevator Wolf looked at his hand held device and noticed that his ship was approaching the base. When they got to the elevator door he pressed the button that would open the doors. When they did, they stepped in and Wolf pressed another button that would take them to the surface. “What is that thing?” Sarah asked referring to the device he was carrying. He hadn’t told her what it was yet. He guessed this was a good time as any. “It’s a remote control for my ship. When I activated it, it sent out a homing beacon to come to my location. It will be here any minute,” he explained. “Where are we going?” she asked. “Back to my home planet in the Andromeda system. It’s not safe for us to stay here on Earth right now. They’ll be looking for us,” he told her as the elevator ascended to the top. “What about that guy in San Francisco who is reeking havoc? I thought you said you could stop him,” Sarah said. “I can but not without my suit which I didn’t bring with me,” he said finally deciding that if no one on Earth could stop him then he would take the responsibility himself and go against the wishes of the Oracle. When the door finally opened they found themselves in the hangar staring at his ship along with a dozens guards who were already on the ground knocked out cold. The ship had made a large hole in the roof of the building. At one end of the ship a portion of the surface seemed to materialize into a ramp leaving an entrance for them to enter. They quickly made their way into the ship and Wolf took his seat in front of the console that was used to pilot it. He pressed a button on the console that raised another seat from the floor. “Have a seat and hang on,” he told Sarah who seemed mesmerized by the interior of ship. It looked so alien to her as if she had never anything like it before. Grabbing the controls, Wolf lifted the ship straight up into the air and was soon out of Earth’s orbit. A wormhole, which he activated on the console in front of him, was now visible in front of the view screen. He then guided the craft into the wormhole setting a course back home to Andromeda.
Chapter 13
It felt good to be home. When Jonathan’s ship exited hyperspace, dozens of other ships could be seen leaving and entering the atmosphere as he guided the ship towards the huge planet of Mirach. “Incredible,” he heard Sarah say from behind him. Her recent change in her attitude finally left a smile on his face. She was no longer the stubborn, grumpy woman he was with back at the base on Earth. “Welcome to Mirach,” he said. Jonathan flew his ship towards a large hovering landing platform that resembled the space needle back on Earth and gently landed on it. When the ramp finally descended they disembarked. “It’s so beautiful here,” she noticed looking around. “That’s because there is no pollution for one thing. This galaxy hasn’t used fossil fuels in over three thousand years. That’s how advanced this civilization is compared to Earth,” he explained to her as she followed him over to a glass tube with a rounded opening on the side of it. “What about crime?” “That is almost non existent now. When our races, in this solar system and those adjoining like mine, began to evolve, we stopped being greedy, corrupt and naïve,” he explained as they entered the tube. Then like a scene out of Star Trek, they vanished and suddenly reappeared in front of hallway with exotic plants sitting next to the walls and underneath their feet laid a glass floor with water underneath that revealed sea animals not unlike the ones on Earth. “There are dolphins living here?” Wolf heard Sarah ask pointing to the familiar species she recognized. “They didn’t originate on Earth. They’re highly intelligent creatures and they’re my friends,” he smiled as they walked into