Alcantaran 1: Alien Abduction

Alcantaran 1: Alien Abduction by Terry Compton

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Authors: Terry Compton
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unit said it would recommend that the patient be in contact with sand or dust for at least 15 minutes each day or two hours a week.   It said this patient absorbed some of its critical vitamins and minerals through its skin.   It said the previous patient needed to have a very strong dose of ultra-violet rays every day for the next month and then needed the UV treatment at least once a week.   The patient's system couldn't digest food properly without the UV rays.
    Ron and Gus moved back to their bunk and whispered quietly.   They were trying to figure out how to get a UV light for Tik and where to install it.   They finally decided the work counter would be the best place.   They decided to wait until in the morning to ask Tik if she could order something through the mother ship computer.   Maybe she could complain about bacteria on the used parts crossing the counter and needed the UV light to kill them.
    Ron pulled the cape out of his tool pouch and examined it thoroughly.   He noticed some almost hidden buttons next to the hood.   Gus was curiously watching as Ron laid the cape across his lap.   Ron pushed one of the buttons and poof!   His legs and the cape disappeared!   Gus almost jumped off the bunk and yelled.   Just in time he remembered their sleeping cell mate.   Ron touched his legs and could still feel them.   He could still feel the touch also, so he knew that his legs were still there.   Ron felt around and found the hood on the cape.   He picked it up and held it against the bunk.   His legs appeared and the bunk disappeared.   He held it up toward Gus.   Gus kind of shied away from the cape but Ron saw that the parts of Gus covered by the cape disappeared.   It looked rather funny seeing the top half of Gus, no middle and then the legs and feet just appeared.
    Gus urgently whispered, "What in the world is that?   How did your legs disappear and then reappear?   Why are you grinning?"
    "It's the cape.   I could feel my legs under it but neither of us could see my legs.   Just now I was holding it up and your middle disappeared.   You looked funny with a top, no middle and legs appearing out of nowhere.   I wonder if this is another relic of the Alcantarans," Ron answered as he stood up and swung the cape around his shoulders.
    Ron's head was floating above his feet and legs but there was nothing in the middle.   Gus grinned because he could now see what Ron meant about looking funny.   He gingerly reached one of his huge fingers toward the middle.   He touched something right where Ron's mid-section should be.   There was nothing showing there but he could feel something.
    "This could be another tool to help us escape.   The only problem is that it won't cover you or me completely.   I guess we'll have to find something to stand behind to cover the rest," Ron said as he returned Gus' grin.
    Gus said, "It definitely won't cover much of me.   About the only one it will completely cover will be Tik.   How do you think we will be able to use it?"
    "Right now I have no idea.   I'll put it back in my pouch and we'll have it when the time comes," Ron said.   "Maybe after Tik gets to feeling better, she can use it to go to that store room in the middle of the ship to find two more translators.   It would sure help if we could communicate together all the time.   We are going to have to be ready to seize any chance we get to make our escape.   This thought transfer could really be a big help."
    Gus nodded in agreement as he said, "We won't be able to send her on the days she's mad at the Bugs.   I've seen her temper and reactions.   If she was mad and had that cloak on, there would definitely be damage to the Bugs she met."
    Ron grinned his agreement.   He had seen a little taste of her temper today when he ordered the muffler bearing.   The two whispered just a little longer before they climbed into their bunks.   They decided Tik needed to check the computer to see what

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