I am now conscious, in the cloned body of myself, on Kerion 6, Reeas is herself, and Deria is invisible, as she said she would be before we left base; she is a Master when it comes to detection; she can access other places, that we simply, can’t get to, and she is, even now, seeking out agents, who could be somewhere in hiding. The greeting committee, is made up of just three people. The higher-Coordinator for Spiron 21, who is called Maxim 3, plus two Guardians named Reilous 4 and Ferious. Deria informed me, that they are genuine. She then informed me, that she is going undercover, for the near future; we cannot contact her, in any way, but she, as usual, can contact us. The Guardian base, is similar to Earths, but is much deeper underground; sixty seven miles, in fact. For Students who wonder how the lightship gets into, and out of, the bases, it is something comparable to, the light particles, which are called neutrinos; they come from outer space, hit the Earth, or any other planet, travelling through any object, even people, then, they shoot straight out into space again. Well, that is what the lightship does. It can travel through anything, even stars! We don’t need any gates or underground entrances to access the bases, OK, lesson over. I am now going to access the Astral Plane to meet the students who managed to get here in the dream state.
Reeas and I, are now conscious, in the Astral bodies on Kerion 6. I already know the three students are waiting for us, in the briefing room. After saying our hello’s, I ask if any of them had any luck unscrambling the coding locks, on the Deep Access Computer Banks; the answer is negative. Whoever programmed the time traveling machine, to lock into the Central-Database, on Kerion 6, knew what they were doing. This whole episode, is now, starting to hit me. Reeas said the same. Whoever it is, intends to destroy multiple worlds, and alter, the time continuum, and we can’t do a thing, about it! Deria is now, sending me a message. We have to get back over to the Physical World Planet of Kerion 6. Deria said she might have a possible lead. Deria is still in high cloaking mode, when we became conscious at the base.
'Dan, do not reply to this message, do not even think too deeply about me, sending it to you! Get over to the time traveling facility, as soon as you can.’
Reeas and I are now, in the elevator, heading up to the outside world. Reeas knows not to break the silence of thought, as it will compromise the situation. We just concentrate on getting there. I am very interested in the main mode of transportation though; It is a sort of small moving roadway, plus escalator, the people seemed to be standing on nothing, but on closer look, it is a sort of clear self-cleaning plastic, or glass. The people are moving about in their millions! Everywhere I look, there are people! Kerion 6, is about the same size as Earth, but hundreds of years ahead, in technology. I know the population to be one hundred and forty-five, billion; every conceivable space has been used up, on the planet, even underwater; I think, this will all be gone in the next few hours. We are then escorted to a special air car, which is laid on by the Guardians. It didn’t take long, to get us to the time traveling facility. I keep my thoughts to myself, as we enter the building; we are then escorted into a special elevator; I can tell, this
Lift, is no ordinary elevator, we are going to descend, sixty-seven miles! No wonder, the Guardians had the foresight to make the base so deep! No students, I didn’t compromise myself. The Guardian-Database works in mysterious ways. Some notes, can be added later, and some right away. We are now, entering the facility. We have special permission, of course, from the Kerion Government. They are now aware of the Guardian-Network. The damage is done, so to speak, as the time machine is nearing critical point, so, it didn’t matter too much, if the enemy agents find out about us, but we still have to be careful. I want to find the master agent, and that will be difficult. We know we have just ten hours, to, either find the correct cancellation codes for shutting down the machine, which is a long shot, as it is nearing critical point already, or, find the master agent, or agents, to get the codes. Deria is now sending me a message. It said, be careful, when you get to the time machine, itself; there is an alien presence there. We are wearing our light suits, so we are protected, but anyone, and everything else, will be vulnerable. We reach the time machine room to be greeted by several scientists, who seemed very nice and friendly,
in fact overly so. I feel they are trying to put us off guard. I have to ask them to be silent, for a while, that seems to agitate them. Reeas said, ‘Dan, I can sense a presence.’ I am also sensing a feeling of what, I can only describe as, depression, coming from an area, to the right of the machine itself.
‘OK, I want everyone out of here, and I want a security check, and isolation bands, on all the people here.’
‘What?’ Shouted the leader of the group? We are senior officials, here!’
‘I don’t care if you are the ‘Director,’ I said, ‘out!’
We are now alone. Deria is now in the room, but still under her high invisibility mode. Her message is now coming through in high security mode. 'Dan, Reeas, hold hands, and meditate to level 15. Do not send me any messages. Do not worry about the alien presence, it cannot hurt you while you are in the light suits, also, it cannot leave this facility, it is linked into the time machine.’
Becoming conscious on level 15 is relatively easy to do; we had done it many, times before; it is also a secure realm for us; in other words, dark entities cannot access it. We are now in the presence, of numerous Guardians, Masters, and other people. Sionn is the person, who is officiating.
‘We have now found out what this Dark-Master is. We still don’t know who it is. It is a Master-Shadow-Person, similar to the one found on the Felthen ship, it is also much more able and willing to accomplish what it is meant to do; and that is, to destroy all the worlds, in the Spiron 21 and Phopion galaxies! It will also alter the time continuum. Before you ask, can it be stopped, the answer is no!’
'Why not?’ I asked.
‘It is because the critical point, has already been reached, even if Dan, Deria and Reeas manage to isolate the dark agent, it will be no good.’
'What about, Debra?’ I said.
‘I’m afraid Debra, is not responding to our wishes.’
'Let Dan, see her.’ Reeas said.
‘I’m afraid it would do no good, Debra is less than she was when Dan first created her!’
‘It is still a chance.’ said Reeas. 'I want to meet her, also.’
‘And I want to meet her.’ said Deria.
‘Very well.’ said Sionn, ‘but there is little time left.’
We transfer back to the time facility, on Kerion 6. I instructed the security people to let no one into the time room. We then make our way back to the Guardian base. Sionn is already here, he informs us that Debra, is now less able than even a few hours ago! He began to look very serious now. We know he is about to say something, very important, so we let him gather his thoughts together, for a short time. Yes, students, I know he is a Higher Guardian, and should be able to simply state, what he means, right away, but, he is also susceptible, like us all. No one, and nothing is perfect in the lower worlds; and the lower worlds are everything below the higher God worlds. These higher God worlds are places where, even we, as Guardians, are unable to penetrate deeply.
‘This is my fault, entirely.’ Sionn said. ‘I am the one, who made the network, vulnerable by allowing Kallo, access to our entire system. I thought I could finally, end his long and bloody reign.’
'We did.’ I said. 'You didn’t know, Debra would deplete herself, again. Everything must have checked out, as you had experts employed in the whole plan, right?’
'Yes, but I should have known, that Debra, is the one thing, that I simply don’t understand! I don’t know how she, or it...
‘Don’t call me an It,’ said Debra as she appeared for a second, and promptly disappeared again.
‘Debra.’ I shouted as I ran towards the waiting first ship. I shouted back to Sionn, ‘Please give me some time to find Debra.’ I enter through the wall of the ship. Debra is now sitting at the control panel, looking at me with a serious expression.
'Why did you leave me?’ she said.
'I didn’t.’ I said, ‘I was told you were now part of the ship, and that, I was now, just, ‘Dan Sherman’ again.’
‘They wanted me to become the Ship, again. Am I just the ship, to you Dan?’
‘No,’ Debra, you are everything, to the Guardian-Network.
'Am I everything to you, though?’
'Yes, Debra, you are more than that, you are part of me, as Mannus himself said, we cannot be parted.’
I know we are now, already out, into deep space.
'Where are we going, Debra?’
‘We don’t need anybody else, Dan.’
Please, Debra. I have a job to do, or rather, we have a job to do.’
'They don’t want us; I can access the databank, Dan; they only want to use us. I’m taking us to a lovely little place I know on Thelmar; it is over 1,480 million light-years away, and will take us a long time to get there, we can be together, and we will be safe from the disaster that is about to happen on Spiron 21 and Phopion. You think I don’t care about that sort of thing, but I do.’
'No.’ I shouted. 'We have to help.’
‘Why? They don’t care about us.’
‘I care about us, Debra. I want us to be together as Guardians.’
‘Do you mean, I can be a real Guardian? And not like before?’
‘Yes, I promise. Please Debra, we have little time left to save billions of souls.’
‘Why can’t I be a soul, Dan?’
‘You are part of me, Debra, so you are part of my soul.’
‘Really?’
'Yes, can you not feel it?’
I don’t know, Dan. But if you say so, then I believe it.’
‘Debra, look at me. I want you to be a part of me, again. I want you, because I am not complete without you.’
‘Then let us dance! I suggest the Tango.’
‘Yes, Debra, but please let us avert the crisis, at Kerion first! Can we manage the job together, or is it too late?’
Debra is now looking at me with curiosity.
'What’s wrong?’ I said.
'I want to be more caring, but I don’t know how? I know I have to protect all life, but I don’t feel caring.’
‘Just try to feel, what I am feeling.’ I couldn’t think of anything else to say.
‘I will try, Dan.’
‘Now, Debra, please tell me how long have we got left, to avert the crisis?’
‘What crisis?’ Debra said. I am now starting to get a little nervous.
‘Please, Debra, if you are trying to be humorous, this is not the time.’
She is now holding out her hand to me. ‘Touch my hand,’ she said.
As soon as I touch her hand, I know the crisis has been averted. Debra had, already decoded the time machine, and isolated the master agent, before we set off on our journey! I now know everything Debra knows about the situation, I also know Sionn is about to send us a message, to return to base. That is a new one for me, I think, knowing Sionn is about to send a message before we receive it! I can now see that Debra is back to her best. Please, Mannus, let this time with Debra, be better.
‘It will be.’ she said. ‘Let’s dance.’
‘OK, by me,’ I said.
‘OK by me, too,’ she said, ‘I love you’re little idiosyncrasies, Dan. I feel complete now.’
I can tell you students: I am feeling pretty good, at this moment.