Part 5: Sam and Emma Defenders of Earth

Be sure to read parts 1 through 4 first.

Emma tried to keep up. When she got to the pod, Sam was throwing levers, flipping toggles and pushing buttons for lift off.

Emma tried to ask Sam what was going on, "Samuel Gene, just what is the meaning of this. I don't mind you running off to play, but we can't just dine and dash like that!"

Sam pointed to a seat and said, " Put your belt on."

"Emma could hear the pod's engines come on. She jumped into a seat and buckled in.

The sunset befan to move in reverse as the pod ascended back up to the ship.

Sam eyed Emma, "Did you eat the orange beetles with black heads?"

Emma gagged, "Are you kidding?"

Sam relaxed, "Good, they were bugged."

"I'll say! Wait, what?" Emma didn't like the look on Sam's face.

The computer slowed the pod and guided it into the side of the ship.

As Sam jogged out of the pod, "I'll show you in the lab."

Sam spent a lot of time in the lab. He studied with thee computer and made little projects.
Sam shoved a bunch of things off his workbench onto the floor.

"Computer, scan this." Sam placed a small blue object onto the scanning pad. There was a tiny blinking light on one end and the whole device smaller than a popcorn kernel.

The computer spoke flatly, "Working...working. It is a very sophisticated biological scanning device."

Sam picked the device up again, the light was getting dim. "How does it work?"

"It is powered by weak acids and transmits scans of nearby tissue to a remote location."

"So it has to be in your stomach to work." Sam said to himself.

Emma was very glad to be away from the Matawans at the moment. She turned Sam away from the counter to face her.

"What is going on? Where did you get that?"

Sam began his story, "I was playing hide and seek with 'Click-click-tock' and I climbed into a vent in a side-room. There was a light on the other end so I crawled over to peek. Inside were four Matawans looking at computers. One was watching you in the library and the other three were looking at my insides on the computer. There was a video of the inside of my stomach and scans of my lungs and stuff. I couldn't tell what they were saying, but I don't think they are as friendly as they say.

Emma plopped onto the stool next to Sam.

"That was in your stomach?"

"Yep." Sam said.

"How'd you get it out?"

Sam grinned.

Emma grimaced. "Eeewww!"

"Wait till they smell that vent."

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