Rare minerals (m/mmm)

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Rare minerals (m/mmm)

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"They say that there are some valuable minerals in the bends and seems of these formations." The speaker was a well-attired man of middle age. As he spoke, his colleagues, a group of burly ex-special forces types bound the young man in yards of the thick cordage.

"You see, there is really nothing that will be permitted to stop these efforts to test the Bentley mesa. Environmental concerns will be swept under the rug. Or in your case, under the formation." As the man motioned, the guards hauled bound man into position next to the bore hole.

"Look- you'll never get away with this, someone will find ou-mmrrpht! Mmmpph mmmm!" The man had become bored with these protests and had approached the man as his guards held him fast in his body covering ropes, pushing a pre-knotted woolen sock into his open mouth. The captive was so surprised by this measure, a gag, for goodness sake, that he didnt try to avoid it before it was tightly knotted in place.

"Willis, the tape if you would please. I do hate the sound of yelling, that sock trick is enough for some, but not for a loudmouth like yourself Dr. Finnick." He seemed to enjoy the smooth motion of a large 3" wide strip of a powerful repairing tape was pulled off and pressed tightly across the front of the bound man's face. The grunts became far softer and strained. The tape had pulled itself onto the sock and the unfortunate man's face, sealing against his mouth like it would on a boat leak in it's typical usage.

"Now that we can hear properly, I want to tell you about your upcoming journey....to the center of the earth. That's right, we have bored far into the ground, almost to the molten material below the earth's crust. Now that the hole is open we need to take the samples back for testing and....fill in the hole. I'm so glad you've volunteered to help us with this." The prisoner grunted into his gag angrily.

"Oh I know that we shouldn't be testing so close to those old burial sites, and yeah maybe we could upset the local geology like you said. But we will be back in New York with our samples when those quakes go off." The captive seemed to take particular disgust with this, attempting to break free from his minders, managing to earn himself a punch to the gut for his trouble.

"Don't worry, we will pour some concrete down there after you arrive at your destination 2km down. That should keep anyone else from making the same mistake you're about to make! Ok boys, toss him in."

The man turned away, evidently just as uncomfortable with seeing him drop as hearing his screams. As the guards picked him up, Ash felt almost drunk with the acceptance that there was nothing he could really do. Sure he was wailing into the cloth and tape gagging him for all the good it did. And his bonds allowed him a futile bit of struggle. But he could not avoid his fate.

As he felt himself being released to open air, the guards, obviously of a different make than the man who ordered them, laughed as Ash stared up at them.

He seemed to fall forever until he wasn't falling at all. He wasn't dead and he wasn't falling. Something was wrong. Wrong in a right way, Ash thought to himself.

He lifted his head off of a marble floor and stared around. He was on a ship in space, a large viewscreen was obvious in the background. But it was what was in the foreground that made Ash start.

Little grey people. One of them seemed to invade his mind with a soothing voice not unlike his grandfather's had been years ago, "do not worry. We have removed you from your world only momentarily. We are unfortunately forbidden from releasing you. We can only interact in a way that is strictly proscribed by our laws, and only then when the need is immediate."

Ash felt calmness pervade him as he was transported to his bedroom on earth, the same voice telling him, "also, you must not worry about Mr. Gregory and his associates. They will not be drilling anymore holes through your delicate terrestrial body. They will not be doing much for 30 of your earth cycles."

The next morning his friend Calissa found him still bound and gagged in his bed and released him accepting his story of a "prank gone too far." That night as they had coco and stared at the stars together, Ash thought he saw a light wink at him from the southern sky.
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Post by harveygasson »

Definitely an interesting twist
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