Defying the Odds

When Irisa and Tommy apprehend two thieves for stealing a rover, they are shocked by the appearance of one of them. She looked exactly like Stahma Tarr, except for the fact that she was human.

Prologue

When he opened his eyes he was staring at a grey concrete ground. He fell quite a long way down. He placed his hands on the ground and slowly picked himself up. He groaned as he realized he twisted or sprained his ankle. He brought himself to a sitting position to examine the rest of his body. It appeared that only his ankle was injured.

From his sitting position he looked around to see where or what he had fallen into. There were piles of wooden beams and bricks. From what he could tell it appeared to be some sort of storage facility. If there was anything here it was buried beneath the rubble.

He was interested in exploring the facility but he needed to find a way out of first. Then he would come back and bring what he could to his lab for further analysis. He used one of the still standing beams to lift himself up, careful to not put a lot of weight on his ankle. He found a metal pole to use as a cane as he started venturing into the facility looking for an exit.

His head whipped around when he thought he heard something. He didn't know how big this place, it looked endless, so there could be someone else trying to steal whatever was in here. But then the sound started getting louder, so he hobbled over to the nearest room. The sound suddenly stopped. He was quiet and listened to see if he'd hear it again. There was nothing but the sound of his own breathing. He must've made it up in his mind; there was no one here but him. He looked around the room it was filled with tons of statues. He walked closer; the statues were in all sorts of weird positions as if they were suddenly frozen in place. Humans were strange creatures. He thought to himself.

He looked to other side and saw some kind of large upright tubes that looked like a poorly designed hyper sleep chambers. He walked over to the console in front of one of them. He pulled the cobwebs off of it and wiped the dust with his sleeve. The screen was still intact as well as they board with keys on it. Out of curiosity he started pressing the buttons. He stared at the screen as "Beginning Debronzing" flashed across the screen. What did that mean?

He jumped when the chamber started making sounds. He turned to look at it, he was so enthralled watching the ancient machine that he didn't have time to react when the door slid open and a human female with curly black hair stumbled out if it.

She appeared confused and held a small and strange looking gun in her hand. He'd seen those in their records it was an old human designed weapon, one that has not been in use for years. She blinked a few times then pointed her weapon at him.

While it was an old design it was still a weapon and he was unarmed. He used one hand to hold himself up and put the other in the air to show her that.

"Who are you?" they asked simultaneously.

Myka looked around as she held her weapon at the alien. Indogene she said as she went through the species data in her head, highly intelligent and valued science and knowledge above all else. So now she knew who let her out, but what she couldn't figure out was why she was in the Bronzer in the first place and what happened to the Warehouse.

She remembered when the Votan ships were spotted in orbit and when Earth's military immediately went on the defense. Artie wanted the Warehouse team to operate as they normally would. They needed to protect the artifacts from falling into the wrong hands. Helena rejoined them and they continued to collect artifacts.

Then the last thing she remembered was walking to the B&B with Helena. So they weren't even in the Warehouse. "Helena" she screamed out startling the Indogene. She ran to the second Bronzer that they had installed, peered inside and sighed with relief to find Helena inside of it and typed the buttons on the console.

She caught Helena when she fell out of the chamber. She was also armed. What were they doing? Why would someone bronze them with weapons? And why couldn't she remember anything about what happened?

Helena looked at Myka, and then at the Indogene staring slacked jawed at them. What happened? Why was she bronzed again? "What year is this?" was the first question she asked. Something obviously happened and they were bronzed, but for how long.

He looked at the two humans. He was unaware that humans had hyper sleep chambers. They thought them to be on the lower level of intelligence scale, but it appears they were wrong. "It is 2043" he replied to them.

"2043!" Myka coughed out. "We've been in there for twenty eight years?"

Tbc…