The Herod's spaceship hovered over Asteroid 962, gracefully made its descent into the atmosphere, and when it was just twenty feet above the surface it opened up the shaft in its underside and ejected its newest captures from it. They all drifted slowly down onto the smooth sandy ground landing softly on their feet.

Elliot and his family and friends looked around at their surroundings. They were standing in what seemed to be a vast desert and there were what looked like many dome shaped caves of many sizes. All around them they could see hundreds of hundreds of people of all ages, races, and ethnicities who were either wandering around, talking to each other, or building what seemed to be the beginnings of houses.

"What is this place?" Elliot asked.

"I have a feeling it's far from Earth," said Erin.

"Well, let's ask someone here if they know what this is all about," said Michael.

So they went up to one old man with long gray hair and matching eyes and Elliot said, "Excuse us, sir. We just came here and we'd like to know if you know anything about what is going on around here."

The old man looked at them and smiled a smile that seemed both painful and exhilarated at once and replied, "You folks are about the hundredth to ask that around here. My name is Ernest Baldwin, by the way. Pleased to meet you."

He and Elliot then shook hands briefly. "So are we prisoners here or something?" asked Elliot.

"Well, in a manner of speaking we are," replied Ernest still smiling. "Those extra-terrestrial folks who brought us all here are called Herods and from what they let me know they're intention is to reestablish us here on this little planet because they don't like what the majority of us have done to our old home. So they've picked out who they think are the better of us and dropped us off here so we can all live in a perfect utopia with each other, and kept the more worse ones on board their ship so they can rehabilitate them as they see fit. By the way, you didn't see how they do it, did you?"

"No, we didn't," replied Elliot.

"Be glad you didn't," said Ernest seriously. "I saw it and let me tell you it is not a pretty sight to see what they're doing to them. But they say it is for the greater good."

"But this is all crazy!" exclaimed Elliot."What they seem to be trying to do is the very thing that many dictators in various parts of our world had tried to do over the last century and all it did was ruin everything, the country, the people, and the dictators themselves."

"Yes, I am well aware of history myself," replied Ernest. "But you can't tell that to them and expect them to understand it as they're heads are already so chock full of knowledge there's no room for any thing else in them. I know this because I tried to tell them myself."

"What are we gonna do?" asked Elliot. "I mean, I don't want to start a new life here in this place. I just want to get married.

"I'm afraid I don't think you can do that here with them governing over everything," said Ernest with regret. "I personally though am not unhappy to be here as no one back on Earth seem to understand me anyway just because I always wanted to meet an alien and devoted my life to trying to make that dream come true, and now it has in a bigger way than I could have ever dreamed of!"

Elliot smiled sadly. "I met an alien when I was ten years old and we're the best of friends to this day. He's called E.T. and he is the wisest and most loving creature you could ever meet. I invited him back to Earth for my wedding and so he was with us at the time of our abduction. I'm worried about what those Herods will do to him as they weren't pleased with having a stowaway as they called him."

"Well," said Ernest thoughtfully. "If he really is the wisest and most loving creature as you say he is then maybe he will have a better chance and getting through to those big heads than any of us did."

"I hope so, I really do," said Elliot. He sighed and looked toward the sky. E.T. If you can hear me, please help.

The Brodo Asogian spaceship was floating slowly in-between the Green Planet and the approaching Herod spaceship. Suddenly a capsule shot out of the underside of the Herod's ship and at the same time a hatchway opened up in the front of the Brodo Asogi ship so that the capsule flew directly into it.

E.T. stepped out of the space capsule and into the main room of his friends spaceship. He smiled as they all greeted him with their glowing heart lights. The captain of the ship stepped forward and gave E.T. a slight bowing of his head to let him know they had received his message and would abide by his wishes.

So then E.T. and his fellows all joined hands in a circle and closed their eyes as they let their heart lights brighten and expand beyond the capacity of their chests. Their heart lights floated outside of their bodies and swirled around until they met in the center of the circle where they connected together into one gigantic sized glowing red ball of light which just as it was as blinding as the light of a sun it was made of all of the love the short-stature extra-terrestrials had for their Universe and everything in it.

Then the ball of energized love floated up to the top of the spaceship and glided its way out into space and then it was between the two spaceships, one that was hovering still and one that was on its way. Then a brilliant white light appeared in the center of the red ball and it exploded like a hyper-nova out into space, scattering itself everywhere all at once.

Inside the main control room of the Herod's spaceship the Herod leader suddenly began experiencing an overwhelming sensation he never had before. He seemed to be feeling a lightness within his chest that was making him feel all warm and fuzzy all over and also strange and tingly. His mind began to feel clouded with confusion at this which was something which he couldn't bear as he was also completely unaccustomed to this kind of sensation also. He put a hand to his chest and then suddenly felt another peculiar sensation behind his eyes as his vision began to blur.

What in all of the Universe am I feeling? He wondered. Then he was shocked at himself for that very thing, that he was actually feeling something. He had never thought much of feelings before as he had always thought of them as such things that only existed within the feeble minds of lesser life forms. And yet here he was experiencing it somehow for himself and when he had identified it felt both enticing and painful at the same time. But how could such a thing be possible? It just didn't make sense at all. What was wrong that could make him feel this way?

With his hand trembling slightly he pressed on a button on his control panel and spoke into the intercom. "Send in the Herod Adviser... at once!"

Within seconds the Herod Adviser stepped in through the arched doorway. "Yes, Captain. What ails you?"

"I am being ailed by an altogether peculiarly unknown sensation," he explained. "It seems to be coming from right in here," he put his hand over the left side of his chest. "And it feels wonderful and yet disturbing at the same time, and it is also boggling my brain which is most unpleasant. Can you identify it for me?"

The Herod Adviser stared at the Captain with glazed eyes as he spoke in a slightly faltering voice. "I believe I can, my Captain. The unknown sensation you feel is coming from your heart and it is called emotion."

The Herod Leader stared at his adviser in great shock. "Why, how can you be sure of such a thing?"

"Because... I am experiencing the very same thing myself at this very moment," the Herod Adviser replied with his thin lips trembling.

"But why is my... emotion... contradicting itself?" demanded the Herod leader.

"I believe because it is new to you and therefore it is making you feel happy, and it is also bringing tears to your eyes which causes your heart to feel heavy."

"But why?" asked the Herod leader again.

"Well, forgive me if I seem impertinent, sir," the Herod Adviser said with hesitation. "I believe because your heart is telling you have been wrong and done something that was misguided."

"But what could it be?" asked the Herod leader.

"I am in the regret of saying this," said the Herod Adviser meekly. "But my own heart is telling me that we were wrong to take all of the humans that we did from their home planet against their will and wipe their minds of some without their consent and try to reestablish them as they have tried to do for centuries with failure."

The Herod leader listened to his adviser's speech with a bubbling sensation welling up within his chest. Now he felt his eyes begin to leak as he said, "I fear you are right. We have been severely misguided in our ways for many millenniums. I don't know where this new sense of right and wrong came from I admit or how we acquired it but now that it is with us we must set out to correct the wrong we have done."

"Yes, sir, indeed," replied his adviser.

"Our first action should be to attend to the humans we have attempted to purify the minds of in the laboratory," the Herod leader continued. "I will go see to them and you see that the ship is put in the reverse direction to return to Asteroid 962 to pick up the humans there and return them to their Earth."

"Right away, sir," the Herod Adviser bowed and hurried out of the room.

The Herod Leader went to the ship's laboratory. As he approached it he was expecting to hear the mindless mumbling of the zombified humans, but instead he heard happy and lighthearted laughing and chatting. When he entered the room he found them all smiling and talking amongst each other in a friendly way. It seemed the emotional energy had reached them as well.

He suddenly realized just then the true reason behind his sudden change of heart.

I don't know how you did it, little Brodo Asogian, but I am glad you did it.

On Asteroid 962 Elliot and the other human captives watched as the great Herod spaceship floated down to the planet's surface. Alongside them was a smaller spaceship he recognized as belonging to E.T.'s race and it filled his heart with hope.

"Look, it's E.T.!" he exclaimed. "He's alright."

The Herod leader stepped down from the gangway of his spaceship as E.T. stepped down from his own at the same time and together they approached Elliot and the ones surrounding him.

"I wish to apologize to all of you here," began the Herod leader with a heartfelt sincerity. "For I, and all the rest of my fellows, realize now that we were misguided in our efforts to make you a better race. Your friend from Brodo Asogi here helped us to understand where we went wrong. We have erred tremendously in our ways and we will be forever in regret for it."

"Hey, no hard feelings," said Elliot with a smile. "You guys were only doing what you thought what was right after all, and it is true that a lot of humans are bad and have a lot to learn we need to learn by ourselves without our journeys being interrupted. So, now if you will just take us home so me and Erin can get married all be forgiven."

Then all of the humans there gathered into the spaceships of the Herods and the Brodo Asogians and they were flown back to Earth.

"Now that I understand better about love and its place in the Universe," the Herod leader said aboard the spaceship to Elliot. "I would like to join you and your loved one together as it would be the least I could do to make up for all the inconvenience I have caused you."

"Sure, that'd be great," said Elliot.

And so once they were all back on Earth Elliot and Erin were married in front of all of the humans that were returned and also the Herods as well as E.T.'s family.

After the Herod leader made a poetic speech about how the Universe had heard them and their love for each other they said their vows and then he said, "Then by the power invested in by the Universe, I pronounce you man and wife."

Then Elliot and Erin kissed as everyone there applauded.