As you already know, I'm not from from this version of earth. I'm from a parallel earth that was invaded by humans from a much more advanced parallel earth.
I've been living here for a good few years now, and this version of earth is very similar to my old home in many ways.
Well besides that it seems this version of earth has much more violence and crime then we had.
By now all my people have either been wiped out of they have been integrated by the invaders. I prefer to use the term enslaved as we were not really given any choice.
I have not met or made contact with anyone else from my home. But I doubt it will ever happen.
To be honest, I'm not even sure how many of us made it out. I do know that many of our military units have already integrated with your military. But in order to stop the coming invasion there is still a lot of work to do.
Since arriving here I've made preparations for when the invasion happens. We started growing food, increased our security, I got to know your animals, or shall I say snakes, it seems the animals are slightly different on each version of earth.
But that's not why I'm writing this to you now. Something happened the other day. I was on my usual morning hike when I heard a familiar voice calling out to me. I stopped and looked around, but I couldn't see her, that is a voice I would never forget, the voice from the woman on the tape, the voice from the soldier that brought me here.
I kept looking around, but I couldn't see her. I spoke to her and asked where she was, she only replied with, do not freak out or run, I come in peace, I am here to help. This gave me chills, why would she say that? She already helped me and she gave me a new life.
I laughed and told her to stop playing around and show herself. That is when she did show herself. I could feel my heart sinking, it felt like I was going ice cold, but I could feel the sweat dripping off my face.
"I'm not here to kill you" she said.
She decloaked right in front of me. It wasn't the soldier that saved me, it was the woman from the tape. But she looked different.
She took her helmet off and her hair fell out, covering the side of her face where the implants are, the last time I saw her she didn't have hair, it was shaved off. "Look I'm not here to kill you, I need your help."
"Why my help? I'm not a soldier. And why are you here? You destroyed my home. "
"There is nothing I can say to change that, but I'm no longer that person, I defected and so did my whole unit, we have seen enough death to last us a hundred lifetimes, we saw too many versions of earth destroyed, we had to kill outselves on each and every earth we invaded, we saw billions killed, if not trillions. We had enough, this must stop now. "
"Wait a sec, how did you even find me? And how am I suppose to help? "
"We never lost you, who do you think taught your people how our technology works? Who do you think suggested they bring the refugees here? We all agreed at the time to keep it quiet as we didn't know who to trust. "
"Okay, but I'm not a soldier, how must I help? "
"You have killed the most of our best soldiers in a short time that I've ever seen, and they never even knew you were there, even without our technology and cloaking technology you managed to never get seen."
"Okay, now let me ask you a question, you guys wear this advanced armor, how is it that your people died so quickly from snake bites and animal attacks? "
"Long story short, we don't have sickness on our earth, so our bodies can't fight certain attacks, thus the suits. And we haven't had any animals on our earth in years, so most of our soldiers didn't even know what snakes are. "
"I've seen arrows go through your armor and bullets, so what's the point of the armor? "
"Look we don't have time for the chit chat, I've got more survivors to visit, at-least think about it, and if you need confirmation, just watch the night sky, our ships light up after jumping to a parallel dimension or before leaving it, just watch the sky, we have to reach a certain altitude before we can make a jump. "
"Where is your unit? "
Then she pointed around me, I looked around and saw more men and woman appearing as they turned their cloaking systems off, all removing their helmets.
She then turned around and started walking off towards a clearing, "I will be in contact soon. "
That night I couldn't sleep and went to sit in the lawn and watch the stars. That's when I saw them, a few lights appearing out of nowhere moving in formation and as they moved the lights dimmed and they vanished.
The next day I was out mowing the lawn when the dogs started freaking out and they ran into the house, now I know that reaction. So I looked around and I could see thin outlines moving towards me, I looked at the grass and I could see the shapes of feet coming closer to me. Here we go, luckily I know how their tech works, so I grabbed a paintball gun I kept close and shot in their directions hitting each one of them, at-least that will make them a bit easier to see.
I immediately turned and ran for the house, but how the heck did they find me, that's when I heard screaming, I turned around in time to see them all laying on the ground decloaked, just then 3 more decloaked behind them and took their helmets off, "she told you we are not here to kill you, but she knew it would be just a matter of time till they find you. That's why she asked for volunteers to stay behind and keep an eye on you. "
"So what now? "
"We will need to... just then his upper body exploded. "
"Get down!!! " Was the last words I heard before one of them pushed me out of the way and the last thing I saw was his body explode.
The last one crawled to me. "We have to get you to safety. "
"No, you guys drew them here. "
"No, we didn't. When you jump dimensions you keep a residual energy from your home dimension, our technology allows us to track it. Now move. "
"What about you? "
"I will take the ship out. "
"How?"
Just then he pulled a strange looking gun off his back, "with this. "
That's when he put his helmet back on and vanished.
It felt like forever crawling back through the gate and hiding, but that's when I heard it. An explosion.
I tried to see where it came from but got pulled back through the gate and thrown on the ground and saw the gate getting locked. He appeared in front of me again, "we are going to have to get you a suit. "
"A suit? Why? "
"It absorbs the residual energy and hides it. And it will give you a fighting chance. "
A few days went by, but then the one morning I came out for coffee I found a package waiting for me with a flash drive and a note saying. "Instructions."
So I finished my coffee and put the flash drive into my laptop.
The moment I put the flash drive in my laptop connected itself to the internet and a window opened. After a few seconds the woman appeared on the screen. "Well it's good to see you are still in one piece, but you took your time, let me guess, your morning coffee is more important then your life?"
"Uhm. "
"Never mind, I need to explain a few things to you, to put the suit on all you need to do is hold it against your body and it will fit itself to your body. Oh and it charges it's energy from your body heat. It will take it a few days to absorb the residual energy from your home dimension, but till then I suggest you wear it when you go out, or wear it and don't go out, that's even safer. "
"Did you get that?
Why don't you try it on quickly? "
"Right now? "
"Yes, I want to make sure you do it right. "
"Okay, " so I turned my camera away so I can take my clothes off.
But as if knowing what I'm thinking she chirped in.
"You can keep your clothes on, now turn the camera back and stop acting like a girl. "
So I turned the camera back and put the suit against my body.
It suddenly started unwrapping itself and crawling all over my body, I could feel it closing around me and forming a strange metallic metal. "But it feels like I can't breath. "
I could feel it pressing on my chest. "I can't breath, it's crushing my chest. "
"Don't worry about that, just keep breathing, it will take a few minutes to adapt to your bodies biorhythms because you don't have the implants. "
"I need to go now, but whenever you need to make contact just put the drive back into your laptop, or dial the first number in your phone, we had my number programmed into your phone. "
Then the window closed and the flash drive ejected itself.
And there I sat, wearing this strange suit that reminded me of the venom movies, well besides the high tech arm band on my wrist and the different views the helmet gives me.
So I wondered to myself "how does this thing even work? What about weapons", then a list of icons appeared in the visor, showing gloves with an electric charge, a set of claws, wrist blades, and wrist guns.
That's interesting, so I guess it can pic up your thoughts, I thought of the electrified gloves and I saw the gloves chance shape and a charge form, "oh nice. "
So I decided to take it for a test drive, I went up to the mirror and looked at myself in the mirror, "cloak? " Just as I thought it I saw myself disappear.
"That's not a toy, and only use it when you really need to." I looked around and saw the soldier that saved my life standing behind me, decloak.
"How do I take this thing off?" Just then I felt it loosening up and I saw it fell on the ground.
"That's how, it picks up your electrical impulses in your nerves and interprets it.
I see you had coffee, how about making a cup for me as well? "
"Sure," so we went to sit on the veranda having coffee, as we were about to have our coffee we saw all the birds flying off and the cats and dogs rushing into the house.
"Well looks like we will get to give you a test drive of the suit sooner then I thought, put it on now, they are here. "
A few minutes later I find myself standing next to him, "should we cloak? "
"No, they didn't. "
"What then? Fight?"
"No, we are outnumbered and outgunned. Wait for the commander, she's on her way with help. "
"Help? "
He looked at me and smiled, still holding his helmet in his hand, "you will see. "
Then I heard it, "really? Army helicopters? "
"Not just any, these pilots are all from worlds my people invaded. Every helicopter has been armed and modified to withstand our weapons and to destroy our jump ships. "
Then I saw them, coming from all directions. Helicopters, but modified, they were not painted like military helicopters. They had a strange metallic shine to them, if I wasn't paying attention I would not have seen them.
They surrounded us and the enemy, and there is her voice again. "You are surrounded, stand down and surrender."
The invaders one jump ship tried to take off but before it even started lifting off the ground it exploded.
"Escape is not an option, surrender and you will live, remove your suits right now and prepare to be taken into custody."
Just then I felt a tap on my shoulder, I looked to see the commander standing next to me smiling, "I told you we are here to help."
I looked at her and back at the helicopter, "wait if you are here, then who is talking to them?"
She smiled, "well I'm here, that is me from your earth and well the other me from this earth is standing over there."
I looked to where she was pointing and saw her standing in the field with more soldiers pointing their weapons at the invaders, who have now removed their suites standing there in just black military uniforms with their hands raised.
I watched as the ground soldiers move in and arrested them all removing their weapons.
Eventually everything calmed down and I found myself sitting having coffee with John the soldier who stayed behind all this time to protect me and the commander who introduced herself to me as Kim, well now there are three Kim's sitting having coffee with me.
Eventually I asked the burning question, how am I going to explain this to my Kim?
That's when the one Kim bursts out laughing, "my love, I've always known."
I almost fainted, "but you are an artist, not a soldier. "
"Yes I am an artists, but now I'm a soldier as well, we all are. The war has already begun."
Okay, I haven't been completely honest with you guys. The commander and all the Kim's always looked exactly like my gf, they spoke like her and everything. But I always thought it was just doubles, you know, look a likes.
I guess that's why they never told me their names till now.
"So what now?" I asked dreading the answer.
So the Kim with the implants spoke up. "We fight, unless my people establish door ways they can only jump in and out of this dimension at certain points. And that's where we stop them. "
"Which points"
"Northern Alaska, the pyramids, and any ancient stone circles. That's where the veil is thin enough to open jump portals between worlds. Keep the suit and we will arm you and Kim with weapons. "
"So the two of us must fight them off alone now."
"No, John and a few others will stay behind and help you, but they will become part of the local community. "
Just then we heard a loud screech followed by what sounded like loud trumpets... the sound was so loud and intense we all fell on the ground covering our ears. All I could make out was the commander and John putting their helmets on and the rest of us followed. And it went silent.
"What was that."
The commander looked at me, "what I feared."
"Don't be cryptic, is it the end of the world? The biblical apocalypse."
"You can call it that, but yes, we are not ready, my people are. That means they are preparing to open a mega portal."
"Meaning?" I heard one of the other Kim's ask.
"Meaning they are trying to open a portal to send in a full scale invasion. Our largest jump ships, we only used them once before."
"When was that? "
"We only used them against an extra terrestrial threat before. We should take that as a compliment."
"Extra terrestrial threat?" I wanted to laugh, "compliment?"
"Yes, there are extra terrestrial life out there as well, you should know, you've had contact. And yes it's a compliment, it means our resistance are stronger then I thought and we send a message to them that we will not give up."
"Contact?" I heard the other 2 Kim's say in unison.
"Yes, your boy here has been taken, have you ever seen eyes like his on any other person? And why do you think my people couldn't see him?"
"Explain. " I heard John say, his voice shaking.
"Our systems can detect humans, we could never detect the extra terrestrials unless we removed our helmets and looked at them directly, that's why our people couldn't see him and why they deactivated their views every time they tried to attack. He is our best weapon to stop the invasion. "
I jumped up and removed my suit, "I'm nobody's weapon and I'm not part alien."
"If that's true, then tell me about your childhood." I heard the commander say.
She has a point, I can't remember my childhood. I have no memory of existing before a few years ago.
I felt her putting her hand on my shoulder, "It's okay, I know this is a shock to you. But you are our best chance of survival."
I turned to look at her "why me?"
She removed her helmet and looked me in the eyes, "those eyes, I can never get use to them, they way they swallow light and colour, I've never seen such eyes, only hybrids have them. That's why you can see my people even when we cloak, and that's the boring part about your capabilities."
"I can't see your people, only outlines."
"That's because you don't look hard enough, we need you to win this war, you are the last hybrid that hasn't been killed or captured by some crazy agency. You can defeat my people and stop the invasion. You can free the enslaved worlds."
I looked around the table, everyone has now removed their suits and are looking at me, well besides John who is standing in the corner fully suited up, "John what's wrong? Why are you suited up?"
Then John walked back, and took his suit off, "you are correct Kim, he looked right at me as if I wasn't cloaked. We can win this."
She looked at John and back at me, "I told you, now are you with us?"
I found myself hesitant for a bit, "why do I need the suit then? "
"You don't, but we needed to be sure and couldn't risk putting you in danger."
I could feel my anger boiling up, and I noticed it getting darker.
"That's strange," I heard my Kim say. "There is no rain or clouds in the weather prediction for the entire week."
"No there is not, it's him doing it. All hybrids can do it."
"So how's a little rain going to stop the invasion? " I heard johns voice, a bit annoyed.
So I lifted my hand to gesture to him to keep quiet, but instead I heard him scream and when I looked at him he was pinned against the wall struggling.
The commander Kim then gently put her hand in my arm and pushed it down, "like that John. " then she looked at me, "you can let him go now. Now you've accidentally discovered some of your gifts, but we got a lot of work to do to prepare you, and time is running short. "
"No, I don't even know what happened now, it was a fluke."
She then took out her gun and the last thing I knew I felt a pain in my face. When I came to I was laying on the couch, my face still burning. "What the hell was that?"
"Oh nothing, I wanted to see something."
"She just shot you in the face, blew your face away, and yet here you are."
"What? " I tried to get up, but fell back down, my whole body hurting. "Why does everything hurt?"
"We don't know yet, but every hybrid was out of action after been severely wounded, it took them hours to fully recover. You grew your face back in minutes. "
I laid there for what felt like hours, but eventually I got up, "okay, so what now?"
"We prepare you for the coming war."
And that's when it happened, a bright flash of blinding light in the sky and once again the screeching sound followed by the sound of trumpets.
She then looked at me with a very serious look in her eyes, "or maybe your friends decided to come and help us. "
And that's when I saw three strange looking beings appear and walk up to us, all holding their hands in the air as to gesture they mean now harm.
I could hear them in my mind, "we are here to help, but if you are going to survive you will have to listen to us."
We have since relocated to a more remote area where I'm been trained by a combination of humans and yes you guessed it, aliens. I'm not sure how this all happened, but who would have thought that the very species that tried to invade earth, will now help fight off an invasion? What is their intentions and motives?
I don't trust them, but I know we need them, they can change their appearance to look human.
So if you are reading this then prepare for the worst, between a highly advanced group of humans from another dimension and an even more advanced alien race we are in trouble.