Ever-Life the Two Book Set: The C.P.T Incident and Time Trust (56 page)

He opened the cell door, and Marshal made eye contact with Angie. “Christ, it’s you! What the hell are you doing here?”

The guard seemed protective and spoke for her, “Be decent, or I’ll beat you to a pulp. She came to visit…You’ve got 15 minutes, young lady. Call me if you want out, earlier.”

The two entered the cell; the guard closed the door and walked back out to his desk. Marshall sat on the cot and quizzed Angie. “So, I never expected to see you. Your boss, Swanson, said he would see me again. Are you here for him?”

“No, I am here for me. I don’t even know where to start, or, if anything I say will mean anything to you.”

“Well I have time. They don’t take me upstairs for the verdict for a while.”

Angie sat down next to him, while Brian stood, uneasy at the cell door.

“I’m not sure where to begin…”

“Oh just tell him, babe. She thinks she was transported back in time and is stuck, in some time warp here. She thinks it happened, here in the courthouse. So, we are here to find out where…There; was that so hard?”

Marshall stood up, looking and listening intently. He paced and then looked at Angie.

“Christ, it does work…But, why are we here?”

Angie interrupted him, “What are you saying? You know about it? Tell me; tell me what’s going on!”

Marshall ignored her concern. He went to the wall and stood, no more than a foot away from it. Angie could hear him say, “D.M. 006004.”

As he did so, Angie and Brian stared at the wall too. A nine inch by twelve inch area, at his eye level transformed, and two Knofers appeared, as if sticking to the wall. He pulled them off, held one in each hand and turned to face the two young people.

“Christ,” Angie said. “How did you get those?”

“They are my insurance policy, girl. Sit down and be quiet.”

“But, I thought you were a prisoner here, brought by Mr. Burns. How did you get those?”

“Now, be very careful how you answer me, young lady. If you play games, I’ll see to it you stay with me, here forever. You wouldn’t want that, now would you?”

Brian stood against the cell bars and had to face outside, to hide his rage toward Marshall. Angie simply replied, “No, I wouldn’t. Tell me what you know and I’ll do everything I can with the GGM.”

“Hah, GGM; you don’t get it. These little gadgets are my ticket out of here. Fuck your GGM! I had these programmed, long before the morgue murders. I gave samples to Brock, so he would get me out; so I would be free of that hell hole. These things have a defense protocol, you know, that will bring us home from where ever we are. That includes whatever time, we may be in. Don’t you see, all we have to do is take them apart, duplicate the science, and voila, a time travel gizmo.”

“But they’re programmed to Ever-Life citizens. You’re not one. Those won’t function.”

“Well, none of us can function without money, luv. At least that’s what I told Brock. If he doesn’t get me out soon, I have a special present for him. He’s tied to me, no matter where I am. His little toys won’t function the way he thinks. These are my insurance, to get me out.”

Brian couldn’t control himself. “You’re insane, you bastard!”

Brian lunged at Marshall, pushed him hard and he fell against the wall. Angie moved quickly to the cell door and watched the two men. Brian grabbed his throat with both hands and screamed, “You fucking bastard, you killed my Dad.”

Angie screamed in a whisper, “Brian, stop it! Stop it!”

But, he only heard his own shouting. Marshall thrust his two hands upward between Brian’s, and broke his grip. Then, he hit him. Brian fell on the mattress and Marshall jumped onto his back. Angie, instinctively, leaped toward Marshall, expecting to land on him; but that didn’t happen. She landed in her own bed, back in her apartment, with the covers over her. She flung the covers off; and, this time, Brian wasn’t there. She looked around in a panic and then focused, on the clock. It was 7 a.m. again. A two hour period of the anomaly had ended. It was shorter this time and repeating again.

It took her several minutes to collect her thoughts.

“Holy crap, I’ve got to get to the courthouse and find that sweet-spot.”

Chapter 27

The Fathers’ Return

Somewhere between now and then, between this and that, the three fathers lay in a time travel Carrier, riding on a wave in
the Sidron highway. But they were not in the arms of tentacles, as they were, when they left Dr. Bellos’s office. Now they were lying on padded lounges, next to each other. Each man slowly opened his eyes. A stranger stood before them, of average height and weight. He smiled and gestured saying, “Hello my friends. Welcome back. You have been resting for some time, by my calculations. Do you remember what you saw?”

James was the first to speak. He sat up slowly and surveyed the empty room.

“We saw the prophet, our teacher, Moses!”

Ahmir sighed, reacting, “Allah be praised, we saw the one true prophet, Mohammed; blessed be him who believes.”

Kristos stood up and said calmly, “Same old, same old; we saw them both. We saw our Lord and Savior, as he willed us to. Who are you, and where are we?”

“I am a man, as you see me here; however, I am in truth, but a representation of this vessel you ride within.”

James politely asked, “And why are we all here? Dr. Bellos said we would return to his office.”

“What happened, back in that cave?” Kristos asked.”

“So much for the unity you conspired to achieve. You each saw something different, I take it? I wonder what you heard?  Let me explain a few things, which perhaps you can agree on. I represent a species, which is quite different from yours, in many respects. On the other hand, we are also quite similar in some.”

Ahmir interrupted, “What do you mean, you are a representation of this vehicle? This was a statue. Then it became a transport, right? A Carrier, Dr. Bellos said.”

“That is correct. I am a solid projection, given by the Carrier. We, unlike you, are a hive mindset-a collective consciousness, if that helps you understand. My name, in your language, is Tyree Master. A variation of this image is what we use, when appearing to your kind. I contain and express the will and thoughts of our entire species.”

The fathers seemed to studythe stranger. “And, what exactly is going on?” Kristos insisted.

“Before you leave our hospitality and end your trip, we have several questions and observations to share. Please, may I proceed?”

The fathers’ nodded yes.

“We are most curious why you negotiated with Mr. Marion Brock, in the first place?”

Kristos thought and offered once again, “We did not. I did. I was foolish to believe his parlor trick pawn, or to think any scientific explanation could prove God’s power on Earth. I accept the responsibility.”

“You miss my point…Let’s say you succeeded with Mr. Brock. Would the rest of your kind unite, as you planned, and accept one major religion?”

Kristos turned aside to think, while James replied, “I would have, knowing what I knew then; but, now; no. And I believe none of us can speak for any other. What we believe is a matter of individual choice. Our kind has laws, which we must follow; but, short of that, we have free will to act and believe what we choose.”

Then, Kristos added, “And it is our ‘free will’, our different choices that bind us, when dire threats or fear overcome us.”

Ahmir stepped directly in front of the stranger and said, “For God is One; and we are too, as mankind, when we need to be.”

The stranger grinned. “And so it is. That is what makes you so different from us. We are of one mind.”

The man walked a few feet away; and the three fathers watched as a table appeared out of nowhere. He opened a drawer, took out several papers and handed them to Kristos.

“Are these yours?”

Kristos read the first few lines and replied, “How did you get these? I wrote these, before I met with Brock.”

“We have monitored and helped many surface people over the centuries. Your kind has killed most of them. The point is; you have been contemplating, for a long time, how to stop the killing, haven’t you?”

The man reached in the drawer again and handed duplicate copies of Kristos’s notes to the other two clergy.

Kristos said, “Yes; at that time, my thinking was; if we could discuss the root causes of our differences, we could compromise and stop terrorist acts. But the more I thought, the more I became convinced that my compromise thinking would never be accepted as doctrine. Only proof would be accepted. So when Brock approached me, I negotiated with him.”

The stranger gestured to them all, “Read the pages.”

The three examined Kristos’s hand written notes.

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Goal: Unity-One faith…

Basic Challenges:

1] Argument regarding the name of God: Examples: Jesus [Christian name for Lord God in man]; YHWH [Jewish name for God]; Allah [Islamic word for God]

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Christianity
defines Jesus-a man, as Devine, God in three persons, 1] God the Father…2] God the Son…3] God the Holy Spirit; The Holy Trinity…
According to other faiths
, Christianity
‘pluralizes’
the word, God...

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Suggested pamphlet or short letter for dispersing globally-Through Brock distribution Network:

God made Himself a man to reconcile Himself with men, who choose to be apart from God. In human form, as his Son, he could…a] directly communicate with men…b] He would show people who he is, what he is capable of, and take responsibility for giving man free will to be apart…c] God, Himself, would pay for man’s iniquities-repeated sins. God would no longer punish humankind; rather, He would allow them back with Him by grace-his gift of unmerited favor… d]All men would have to do is choose to believe in Him-Worship. The sins of men are the result of free will, given by God in the first place. So, by example, because men have been incapable of understanding their plight, God would pay a ransom to himself and allow men to witness it…e] Men, witnessing the horror and willingness of sacrificing a Father’s son, in favor of all other humanity, would surely return to Him; moreover, Men would witness the ‘Resurrection’ of His Son-Himself, showing that God has the Love and power to do anything…f] It had become evident that, because of man’s ‘free will’ and selfish nature, only ‘impressing mankind’ would persuade him back to God… g] Finally, God would show humanity what life is like with, and without Him…Choose wisely.

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Judaism
and
Islam
reject a pluralistic definition-word for God. Contrary to Christianity, whether in Arabic, Hebrew, or any other language, they define their ‘word for God’ to mean ONE.

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In
Islam
It was sinful, reprehensible, shameful and discreditable to identify the Creator in any sense other than the ONE, All Mighty-Allah…

... All men are equal to each other; none to God. Men are born, live and die. It is written that Jesus was a great prophet, given power to do what he did, by Allah; but, he was a man, and died as a man. Allah cannot die. To say Jesus is God means the Christian God died and is to say he was not God in the first place.

2] Argument of Idolatry: To many
Muslims
and
Jews
, Christianity has idols, representing man and woman, which are to be worshiped; such as figures, or statues of Jesus, Mary, the Saints, the Cross…etc. Judaism and Islam have no idols of any kind. To them, no person should be worshiped or bowed before. Pray only to the unnamed all mighty ONE.

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Ahmir was the first to remark, “This is not new. But, for centuries now, we have respected each other’s differences; and we all translate or interpret words between languages differently. The ‘Terrorist War’ stopped long ago.”

“Kristos was quick to remind him, “Yes, the war stopped, but not the killing. Each of us is bound by our doctrine to bring peace to our brothers. These are just my notes. I tried, again, to explain the truth as I knew it. When Brock approached me, I was convinced proving the resurrection would unite us all. I knew it!”

Ahmir replied, “You didn’t want to unite us. You wanted to convince us!”

The stranger listened, as their arguing intensified; and then, he interrupted, “You call this peace? You can’t even convince each other.”

The three fathers stopped.

“You three were given a great gift today, in what you witnessed and who you met. My kind has no choices about such things. I speak for all of us, in all matters. Do you really think having a hive mindset about God, is the answer?”

The three men looked at each other and James quoted a platitude, “My God, our God, one God; all things are possible through him.”