10.2
The new role
“You …” Daniel looked hard into me. “You were special. Have you not wondered why
you were recruited by Kingsley? He did invite you to the event. There was a figure
that tried to hit you then during the confusion? They were all in the plans of
events.”
“What is happening here?” I
screamed out.
“Have you ever wondered why the Corsairs
are here?” That question took me off guard. There was a lot of confusion since
we landed. The briefing was to check the damages but since then I have been
chased, attacked and shafted down a tunnel.
“Tell me then.” I surrendered then to
Daniel.
“Kingsley was in from the start. When
the first samples were shipped to Earth, it underwent a series of test by the
Earth Office of the Minerals Rights. It was the sixth test when L 391 made the
contact with Chairman Ian Finney of Earth Office of the Minerals Rights. It was
not coincidental but planned by L 391. They wanted to be known to your people.
It was their mode of initial attack and soon after that they will then began
the conquest.” Daniel appeared to look at me.
“Your Chairman made a decision to
involve Kingsley Corporation.”
“How did you know?” I asked. I looked
around me and then smiled. “You were there? L 391-1.”
“Yes, there was little distinction
between us and them as mentioned before. Some of us were the stowaway as part
of the samples. We were never invited so we hitched a ride.” Daniel replied.
“We wouldn’t be doing our works if we weren’t there.”
“Spies?”
“Perhaps but it’s a crude way of giving
us such name when our tasks was for the greater good of monitoring the L 391. We
assimilated into the group that met Kingsley Corporation.”
It dawned on me then. How could I miss
the point until then. There were a numbers of L 391 on Earth already. The alien
read my mind and alleviated my concern.
“Yes, we were there since the samples
were received. It was a nice place from the reports and in the mind of L 391,
ripe for a conquest.” Daniel made it simpler for me to digest. “Anyway back to
Kingsley. They were disbelieving initially but L 391 won them over. The deal
was soon made with them for the secrets that L 391 was willing to divulge.”
“You are telling me that Kingsley
concluded a deal with …” I shouted in reply.
“Yes, L 391 did that. We did not know
until the …. the stowaway reported back when the crafts arrived. That was how
we knew of the arrangement. It was the just the formal arrangement of
announcing the successful bidder. Well, someone on Earth leaked the news to
DOD.” Daniel continued on. “We learned that too. Earthlings were so susceptible
to such needs.”
“The DOD?”
“Yes, the DOD and they got to know of
the scam. They wanted a piece of the cake. It was an expression from Earth. They
got the Corsairs to work out the attack plans.”
“The Corsairs?” It was then I recalled
Dmitri. Daniel continued on.
“If you had listened to Mark Kinsley
words, you will laugh at the threats made by the Chairman Ian Finney of Earth
Office of the Minerals Rights. His Office was a laugh on their presumed strength.
Half of those in the Fleet were old friends of the corporations.” Daniel
laughed at my innocence on the real Earth Office.
“What was arrangement?” I asked
impatiently.
“They will carry L 391 off this planet.
The earlier probe found what few survivors on the surface where the real
leaders were all beneath the barrier. L 391 shared the barrier with them. When
your plant arrived here, it tore into the barrier and then breached it after
several attempts.”
“Why didn’t you stop it? You were all
powerful and I saw your assimilations. The droids, how do you control it? What
about …me?” I was asking a lot of questions then.
“The droids? We did not control it. It
was Kingsley new work. They named it the Stealth Works.” Daniel replied. “It
was the program to remotely control the droids. The droids were to protect
Kingsley assets.”
“What about me?” I asked again.
“You were the sucker.” Daniel gleefully
told me. “That was another thing he did without telling the L 391.”
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