LOVE UNCONDITIONAL

AN ODE TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE ‘LUB’ AND ‘DUP’ OF MY LIFE!

An ode to the people who are the embodiments of LUB and DUP of my heart

“I hail from a rich-middle class family. Yes, you heard me right! Middle class, in terms of money and rich, in terms of inheritance. Though we don’t have all that we desire, we absolutely have all that we deserve. The real inheritance anyone can get is time and love from their parents, in spite of their adversities… I got them in abundance! Of course, all who come from such family may not be a winner, but a winner surely comes from such a family, if he got one! I’m lucky in that case, just like many of you are… Thank you very much! 🙂

They have given me the real inheritance… strength to struggle to survive, and wisdom to act wise. They were always there to lift me up in times of failure! They taught me, it’s not when you win a game that you are a real winner, but it’s when you’ve got people around to tap your shoulder at times of defeat! The best lesson ever! So I really can say “I’m a winner!”

There were times when I used to hesitate to aim high, because as my aims grow higher and higher, my parents may want to work harder and harder to help me meet my aim. But would they let me give up?!… NO! They offered to provide me with all that they could to help me reach my targets!

And there were times when I used to think whether I deserve to enjoy all that they were providing me. I haven’t worked for any of them, but still enjoying them! If I were to seek a boon from God I’d just ask Him to take ‘them’ before me… Yes, I can’t pass away earlier and leave lifelong grief behind for them!

God, take them first!

“Those people, I knew them since long…

but not before they knew me;

and I’m not  new to them!

Those two people, I felt…

were my two eyes;

Thus I never attempted to cry!

But whenever I see them…

I begin to cry;

Tears of joy, I suppose!

 

Generation gap alone keeps us far…

But you see, my friends they are;

God’s gift, I believe!

I see them working for me…

but not for gold;

kind at heart they are!

Wearing crowns of mercy…

Seated on my heart’s throne;

The royal couple they are!

 

With me their joys they share…

but always keep me unaware;

of their loses and defeats!

But they are real winners…

Winners of my heart, I believe;

And warmth of their love I receive!

 

Much against His will, God could…

lay only death, a barrier;

separating our bodies!

But you see we are bound…

by love, I suppose!!

I enjoy their very presence In my heart;

It says, “Mom-dad! Mom-dad!”

 

Never part from your parents, because you are part of them…

And they are what you are made of, and made your life of!

❤ speaks!

Cleo Patra – Episode: 10

10. DENVER DEVIL – PART: II

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Conspiracy executed!

On the planet Jaquano, the neighbouring planet of Ultima:

The Jaquilins were taken aback to see a ‘Zuphian eclipse’, the one they never experienced before. Gloom cast over Jaquano and so in the hearts of Jaquilins. They knew that the Ultimans, with the aid of an Outlander (the one from the Earth) have finally adopted this step to take over them. Plants on Jaquano wilted and juveniles suffered from hunger. Famine gobbled up Jaquano. Jaquar, the king set out to create alternative source of energy, while Jaquin helped him. They are the royal couple with the ‘Secret code’, the ‘Nova-MER-code’. ‘Why, when they can see the future, couldn’t they avert this catastrophe?’ Minto thought. It was because, the Outlander installed a dome of bio-firewall around Ultima, which sealed it from external perception through any means that left the Jaquilins unaware of the Ultiman conspiracies and moves. They know just until the entry of the Outlander, the accomplice, into Ultima and knew nothing after that.

Jaquin saw a bad omen. The blood thirsty Ultimans have already breached their atmosphere with their war troops. They killed the Jaquilins, young and old alike, and destroyed all that is left that can make a Jaquilin’s survival possible. Their war-crafts rammed through the sky-scrapers and the control rooms of Jaquano, Ultimans laughing wickedly. In spite of the powerful counter attack from Jaquilins, Ultimans still out did. In no time, Jaquano was turned into ashes and finally Jaquar was held hostage. But they found Jaquin missing, who was already on a destination less flight. She had the ‘Nimbus’, the decoder the Ultimans badly wanted and her son, the royal heir with her.

‘So the Star-ball is the ‘Nimbus, a microcosm of Zuphius!’’, Minto realised, ‘and the alien was Queen Jaquin….her highness. Then those brutes must have tracked her down to Earth and abducted her, hoping to recover the Nimbus from her. I must at all times protect the Nimbus’. He saw her son slip into a gorge and when she was about to follow him down, someone shot her and she felt an acute pain in her waist. ‘So, Jaquin died of the shot’, Minto realised. Then he saw Jaquin taking another route in the jungle, the one away from the gorge. ‘What about her son? Have the baddies found him?’ he wondered. She reached a covert, the one where Minto met her and where he saw her pass away.

A pot of mysteries

But, I’ll tell you what happened to Jaquin’s son, Zetor that night. Someone found him groaning in pain. He was a British general whose private flight has to land in Shadow wood on some emergency. He was lost in the woods with his entourage, in search of a shelter for the night. He spotted Zetor, the royal heir and treaded softly towards him in the darkness, having no idea what was really there. His entourage dared not go near as they felt some treacherous beast was out there and halted a few yards away. The general spotted him in his torch light and touched him, when Zetor shrunk in fear.

“It’s ok. I got you… I got you. You are safe!”, the general said taking him into his hands.

“Let’s hand over him to the A.E.C.”, someone suggested.

“So the human in you has died already?! Then do it with your own hands. Hand him over!”, the general cried passing Zetor into his hands.

“Um sorry, sir”, the person said and hung his head in remorse.

“I just had a son, my wife gifted me, and am on my way to see him”, the general said, “I can’t let another kid, which this nature gifted me, whoever it is or whoever’s child it is, to die on me”.

. . . . . . . To be continued.

Cleo Patra – Episode: 9

9. DENVER DEVIL – PART: I

Neither will tolerate the bad for long

Nature is patient. It cannot always defend the good, but will neither tolerate the bad for long… It awaits its chance!

A pandemic, ‘Cerebrialysis’ broke out in the world. The disease was dreadful, killed all the cells of Cerebrum of the brain, and lead to the death of the victim within 24 hours of infection. Scientists worked very hard to find a remedy to the disease. The disease swept the world with terror and left people hardly winking. Minto still in EURO lab, turned off the T.V. and for the first time signed out of the lab to save the world at the brink of death. He took up the project in collaboration with NCRBAS, when most of the senior most scientists gave up, as the virus, whose origins were not known, was highly unyielding to any formula, and even threatened lives of the scientists who dealt with it.

“Your life might be at risk”, Muller warned Minto, when Minto answered, “I see a soul, a sole soul binding all living beings in this universe. How can I give up on it when I’m too bound to the same soul?”

He forewent food and many of his sleeping hours and finally came up with a formula for the cure.

The world stood at awe looking at his earth shattering innovation. Minto just loved venturing into unprecedented, evolutionary and innovative elegance of science.

“I envy you!” Muller said, when Minto retorted, “I envy God!”

——-o——-

Minto retired to the EURO lab. After a long time, the gene-implantation chamber got ready. Minto had already erased all his memories about his son and his daughter-in-law and every narrow detail pertaining to them, using his unique anti-cognition formula, which can be made to act on specific memories. You know about it already, don’t you? But for the last time, before erasing his memories, he dialled his son, who did not know what was about to happen to his dad, and they had a hearty chat. Then he slid himself into the implantation slot in the Gene-implanter and sealed the lid behind him under pressurised vacuum. He kept this secret even from Kraler, who was busy in his detection.

Meanwhile, in the A.E. executive office, CandyCap:

“We suspect an alien breach to be on the go. Alien probes have detected two spacecrafts to have entered our atmosphere, but Tracer jets made a vain attempt in tracing them. Should we accredit this to the inability of the government or to the super intelligence of the aliens?” the chief in command of A.E. council and CEO of I.A.S., Mr. Tony D’souja asked.

Muller gave a vague attention to the meeting. He just sat lolling in his chair and sipping hot chocolate.

“There’s no fault from the side of the army”, Mr. Lorentz Montana, Neon army chief stated, “We only act under the I.A.S. command, which is supposed to carry out the surveillance and report us the whereabouts of the aliens. You show us where the aliens are and we’ll make sure to bring ’em down. We are only number two in command”.

“Well then, I command Mr. Hubble Procista, chief of Alien probe fleet to make haste in tracing out the U.F.Os and the aliens, wherever they are hiding on this planet, whether under an ocean or a volcano or in a camouflage. We lost once in tracing out an U.F.O., which left a shepherd in a delirious state and people in distrust for the government. This time I’m not going to let that happen”, D’souja concluded.

Hubble clad himself in his cap and left, determined to bring down the alien spacecrafts at any cost.

A lighting struck the sky marking a miracle the world has ever witnessed

That night, a lightning struck the sky from the dome of the EURO lab, marking a miracle. The gene-implantation chamber opened automatically and Minto stepped out of it, feeling overwhelming and energies bubbling up inside him. He felt like passing out for a while due to the over scaled energy, but resisted and helped himself to a chair. Then he took some revitalizing fluids and shook his head side to side to settle his consciousness. Now with a clear vision, he saw things he never expected to see, through the alien’s vision… The alien’s memories, thoughts and experiences are now his’ ! For a while, he thought he was daydreaming. But as he got into the bottom line of the situation, graveness filled his senses.

. . . . . . . To be continued!

ALONE

 

Alone… with?

“Little Hannah was alone…

in her little cottage of wood;

But she’d jump like a cheerful fawn

and try to fly like a humming bird!

 

She’d look at sky and down at earth…

and jump so high in joy and mirth;

She’d touch her heart and hear it

throbbing, “lubb and dup!”

She’d tell her heart, “I’m alone”, but

hear it say “lubb and dup”.

Then she’d cry and cry and then give up!

 

When morning greets her with its smile…

she’d think the sun her friend a while!

Lo! But when he grows hot in noon…

she’d cry, “Aw, go away soon!”

 

Then she’d calmly hope for the rising moon…

Till then she’d say, “I’m alone!”

When moon arrives though bright and round

but, she scared of the darkness around,

Would shut her eyes and fall to the ground!

 

“But she never suffered hunger…

       nor the nature’s anger

nor the winter’s shiver

       nor got drowned in a river! ”

 

At dusk she’d stand by the door…

hoping for a human heart to pass by;

She’d walk and walk across the moor…

and reach a bright blue stream nearby!

 

She’d sit by the stream and peep into it…

a pale pink face very dusty;

With dried up streams that have

passed through the dust;

reminding her that she was alone!

Hannah

Looking at the grassy lands…

and looking at the twinkling sands,

she’d cover her face with her hands

and sobs and sobs till her heart demands!

 

“But she never suffered hunger…

       nor the nature’s anger

nor the winter’s shiver

       nor got drowned in a river! ”

 

She’d sit by the furnace with a lurking hope…

in the cold-cold winters drinking her soup;

that one would come very near to her

and make her his child, so dear…

 

And one day that she saw in her dream…

was an unknown man with a golden gleam;

with eyes of sapphires and hair with curls…

lips of rubies and teeth of pearls!

 

Voice of thunder

and that’s a man of wonder…

patting her with his golden palm;

and so she slept in peace and calm…

and woke up next day bright and warm!

Hannah

“But she never suffered hunger…

       nor the nature’s anger

nor the winter’s shiver

       nor got drowned in a river!

and that’s what is her wonder!!”

 

She has always felt a guiding hand,

leading her through seas and land;

and when that night turned…

she looked at the moon with a nod

and said, staring into the darkness…

“I’m alone…….alone with God!”

“And that’s how, on sober reflection I got to know, though I was really alone, there was some force driving me optimistic and getting me through the most horrible moments of my boredom and despair…

No ship in a vast ocean too sinks unless it takes the water in and no one is really alone in this world unless they think they are!

And when there’s no one,,, there’s still God!”

You think, you’re still alone???

Cleo Patra-Episode: 8

8. THE CHANGE.

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James Waltor

For the first time in his life, Kraler trusted someone other than his subjects (his trusted spies), and himself. Minto not only caught his eye, but also his heart with his passion for living beings and his self-less approach towards the code, which can make him the Lord of the universes if he wants to. It astonished him when he learnt that Minto wanted to seal the code forever.

“But why?” Kraler enquired.

Minto took a long breath and said, “If in any case must the code be revealed to someone, it won’t stop there, but could lead to ‘reign of terror’ and ‘claim and conquer’! Because the code is a key to ‘re-creation’, which is a simulation of creation. And who ever creates, reigns! Not for the moment, but it would be true in the coming years. What say?

God said, ‘Worship none, but me!’ Do you think we will be retained with the right of worshiping none but God, if those so called ‘re-creators’ come to reign the universe?! Do you think God still keeps quite or just says, “Forgive them Father for they art not know what they are doing!” just like he said at His crucifixion? He might as well say that if He was being crucified again, but not when his people are! And do you think He will forgive those, his rivals? No! It’s gonna be a different climax, and obviously be ‘Eternal Damnation’, damnation of all and any other accesses to what God sealed as a ‘Divine secret!’

And unveiling a Divine secret is not all by human means. There’s a conspirer behind, and you know who it is! God wants it to be it, a Divine secret, not just for His own arcane reasons, but even for the welfare of us, human beings. But what will his rivals do?! They take over the reins of an untamed wild horse, the one that they haven’t dealt with earlier. They dunno how to control it and have no right to know either! And it is our Lord almighty, who knows the controls and the ways too. Don’t think I’m being too Biblical or unscientific. Being humans, we are ought only to safeguard the secrets and the soul. Nothing else!”

Kraler felt so convinced that he sighed in relief that he finally found someone who can be trusted into anything. He espoused Minto’s very thought that no human has the right to harm another human or an alien just because his dear life was at stake. The change!

“I have something important to tell you, Mr. Kraler. We must now on communicate only in code and the one we’re gonna communicate through will be the MER-code itself”. Kraler agreed.

Then they discussed about the Omnius and other things, but all through their conversation, Minto did not mention about the location of the EURO lab. Minto also advocated that there is a means that can convey memories of a person to his next generation, just like his genes. But he did not mention the word, ‘Bio-RAM’ in particular. Finally, they resolved to set up a secret campaign to dissolve A.E. council and to encrypt MER-code forever, because they cannot destroy it. Then Minto took a private train to Slipper’s shire through a secret subway set up by Kraler.

——-o——-

The James villa on fire

When he reached the premises of his house, he heard wailing sirens from ambulances and witnessed a light-lit scenario from afar. His walking turned into brisk-walking and his brisk-walking into running.

“Miranda!” he cried looking at his house on fire.

When he was about to break into the house, a police officer held him by his waist and resisted him, “Mr. James Minto, please hold on”.

Minto found no comfort hearing about his beloved wife’s death along with the valets, and looking at the tragic scene in front of him. He burst into tears and fell to his knees.

“We are sorry, Mr. Minto. We reached here as soon as possible, but in vain. Someone implanted a bomb in the basement. Investigation is set up. We’re on it and we’ll soon track down the suspects”, the police officer said.

Minto didn’t find his voice and was wondering who was behind all the mayhem.

Meanwhile, after a long wait for his father who promised to pick him up at Slipper’s shire airport, Walt resolved to go home all by himself by a taxi. On reaching home and on learning about his mother’s death, he hugged his father and wailed like a baby boy. They found no solace in the entire world for the loss! The change!

.

.

Don’t say goodbye!

“I want you to get married as soon as possible and never come back home, Walt”, Minto said turning his face towards the window, lest Walt should see the tears and agony in his eyes. Walt was taken aback. He felt like being driven into the darkness and obscureness of destiny.

James Waltor was already internationally renowned for his contributions to NASAP. He flew into space on 25 missions and broke the records of Chang Diaz who has flown into space on seven missions. No other astronaut of the world held the credit of doing this. He was just taken into ‘Neon-astro-team’ to fly to Pluto.

Minto had a gut feeling that someone was trying to harm him and his dear ones. So he wanted to send Walt, the only ‘Achilles’ heel’ he has got, away forever.

And before Walt could jump in with an objection, Minto said, “And stay with NASAP. Hire security. I can’t lose you too. You’re the only one I’ve got to say, I have a family”.

Walt understood by tacit knowledge what his father meant and then nodded his head in agreement. He just knew he’s not gonna see his loving father ever again in his life, ever. The change!

“Don’t let me know anything about you after your marriage. Mr. Bloom Wood will take care of the rest”, Minto concluded, at which Walt’s heart pricked, but he did not say anything back.

Minto was about to implant the Bio-RAM into himself after his son’s marriage, the last thing he wanted to know. After that whatever happens, will be read into the Bio-RAM, which may allow the bad guys to know the whereabouts of his son or his daughter-in-law, in case they get hold of the RAM,,, the reason why Minto did not want to know anything about his son after his marriage. Minto gave a deep thought before whatever he said or did. And Walt knew his dad in and out!

Walt left to CandyCap and Minto took back to his work at the EURO lab. Some days later, he heard that his Walt got married to a girl from India, Sheetal with whom Walt was in courtship since long. Minto sighed in relief, but felt down hearted as the news evoked his wife’s memories in him. He slid into a chair and closed his eyes. Thenceforth, Minto hardly trusted even his shadow and turned hard-headed, and didn’t go back home since Walt left. But he did not forget the ‘sole soul’ he had to save.

. . . . . . . To be continued the day after tomorrow!

Cleo Patra – Episode: 7

(For the entire episodes till date, have a look at the category ‘eBook’ and please read from Episode: 1 at the bottom if you want to understand & capture the entire gist of the story… Thank you! 🙂 )

7. KRALER.

The genie of detection and the Science wizard

A week later, in Kraler’s private office, agency Dextro, Boston:

“And this is the picture of the Star ball, I’ve been telling you about, Mr. Kraler”, Minto said, spreading a canvas out on the table.

Kraler bent over the table and gazed at the picture through his magnifier, when Minto lolled back into the chair and lit his pipe, saying, “and that’s the code”.

Kraler was considered as a ‘Genie of detection’ by his compatriots. But, he was an Evolutionary biologist by profession and thus was skilled in drawing series of incidents and interpreting their course of action. He hated Anemonian government like hell fire for its Neonist policies. He ran the private detective agency ‘Dextro’, (which means ‘right’) that trained and produced many double agents to spy Anemonian embassy in their homeland and their embassy in Anemonia, by doing which he found out many under world pacts made between the two governments, though they seemed to be enemies to the outside world.

The agents (Dextrites) were also the group who drew inspiration from Minto’s principles, ideals and thoughts. But, they differed with him in the ‘Sole soul’ concept, which interprets that ‘the power of the soul abates with killing of a person’. They advocated that the anti-social elements, enemies of the state and traitors must die, and in fact, it is due to such elements should the power of the soul abate. The Dextrites have already assassinated very brutally many of the left wing candidates that have resisted ‘the anti-nuclear pact’ from coming into force. Till then nobody knew who led agency ‘Dextro’, though Dextro made many public claims of assassinating the above said people.

And when NBC launched a public poll to estimate public support to Dextro, 78% of the people supported their acts that led to unprecedented changes in the politics of Anemonia. On the other hand, many youth yearned to be Dextrites themselves. ‘But how?’ they used to wonder, because finding or interacting with Dextro team or its leader was impossible! Minto condemned their acts. Minto, who knew that the Dextrites approve of his ideals, said, “Dear brothers, please retreat from this operation. Come back!” But the Dextrites wouldn’t yield, “The principles we’ve chosen for safeguarding this world are our life. And the day we deny them, is the day we have died!”

August 20, 1999, ten years before the A.E.C. was set up:

A typical Agent and Dextro seal.

It had been two months since the poll was launched. And they were the days when there were allegations against the agents that they abducted women, raped them and killed them brutally by ripping their stomach open. Each dead body of a woman carried a Dextro seal, which the murderers have left behind as a token of proof. But Dextro disclaimed responsibility for the murders. There were allegations also against Minto, who addressed those agents as ‘brothers’. Anemonian government launched ‘Mission Laevo’ (means ‘left’, opposite of ‘right’, that is ‘Dextro’) with $2000 million to trace out the head quarters of Dextro, demolish it, and terminate ‘Mission Dextro’. Leavo started its global hunt for Dextro. The case was still on investigation when another hard core murder came into light, which shook the world with terror.

That night, a 16-year-old boy, who has been longing to be a Dextrite, walked the subway of Slipper’s shire aka Denver all alone. A dark blue car came from nowhere and stopped by him. A person in a black over coat and a black mask on his face got down the car.

The boy was little tensed at first looking at him, but when the stranger said, “There’s no loss if a star deteriorates or if a man dies”, the boy smiled and extended his hand for a shake, “Hi, I’m Harry”.

But the stranger did not shake his hand. Remembering that he too should tell away the counter password, the boy said, “Another star will not be born, but a man will!”

The stranger then shook the boy’s hand and was about to get him into the car, when the boy said, “Sir, I have a friend, Donald who also want to be a Dextrite. Can I call him over?”

The stranger smiled wickedly behind the mask and said, “You both will surely meet!”

He shut the car’s door and they drove away.

“Can I talk to him once?” Harry insisted on their way.

The stranger nodded in agreement. That night, Donald received a mail from the agents with Dextro seal asking him to meet them in the subway. But, for some reasons, Donald couldn’t make it.

The next day, many youth along with Harry were found dead in the same condition, their stomachs ripped open and only differing in dates of their murder. The whole world stood at awe at the incident. Investigations began. The President of Anemonia resigned taking the moral responsibility. Anemonia was on ‘emergency’ when F.B.I. came into the scene. The Dextrites aware of the government’s ire over them, ceased to extend their condolences for the dead, but the very act turned the whole world against them. A boy named Donald appeared suddenly on T.V. stating that the Dextrites are the ones behind these murders.

“Harry, my friend who was killed yesterday called me last night and said he was going away with the Dextrites to be a Dextrite. How could they kill a guy who wanted to be one of their kind? I have a mail of theirs too”, he said showing the mail he received the night before, “If I have followed the path my friend did, I too might have ended up the same way as he did”.

F.B.I. officers, who have already reached the T.V. studio by then, recovered the mail from Donald as soon as he came out of the studio and took him straight away to F.B.I. headquarters.

Meanwhile, the police released the video tape recovered from C.C. cameras of the subway. It seemed that Harry wasn’t abducted, but boarded the car on his free will and got killed. Kraler was shocked to see the dress code of the guy in the video, the car and the seal depicting that of the Dextrites’. He guessed someone else was trying to shatter their reputation by giving the public a false impression. ‘But who is it that knew their moves, dress code, car and the new seal so perfectly?’ he wondered. He made a claim that they were not responsible for the murders and it was someone else. And that he wouldn’t hesitate to announce if he kills anyone. But, the world, which by then strongly believed that Dextrites were the ones behind the murders, from Donald’s statements, ceased to forgive them. The F.B.I. who did not seek Mission Laevo’s help till then, resolved to work with them, on learning that Dextrites were their ‘common target’.

Since then the agents were stamped as ‘notorious’, but the ‘Anti-Dextro league’ (Laevo and F.B.I.) hardly succeeded in finding Dextrites and terminating ‘Mission Dextro’.

——-o——-

“If not you, then who’s behind those murders?” Minto inquired.

“An impostor who proved to me for the first time in my life, that I’m a bad, unable detective. I missed the shot. Did I miss something?”, Kraler sighed, “Oh yeah, if the F.B.I. had played fair in their investigations, they would have ended up finding the real culprit. If the culprit was smarter than F.B.I., then the F.B.I. should have at least ended up without finding out the real culprit. But since neither of them happened, and they have ended up with me, it means they have played foul and are on the side of the real culprit. Or at least, they are on the side I’m not!  It was all a plot to touch me and damn my mission. Some highly influential big brothers are behind it. I’ve just been in exile these many days, since the assassination of those innocent kids, to let the heat of ‘Anti-Dextro league’ cool down, but my mission is not yet over!”

. . . . . . . To be continued the day after tomorrow!

Cleo Patra – Episode: 6

(For the entire episodes till date, have a look at the category ‘eBook’ and please read from Episode: 1 at the bottom if you want to understand & capture the entire gist of the story… Thank you! 🙂 )

6. CONFERENCE OF CANDYCAP.

Brad, the technocrat and Minto’s best buddy

The first person that came into Minto’s mind was Brad Muller, his bosom friend. They schooled together, but had to part later, on choosing different universities for their graduations. Muller left for Cambridge and Minto left for UON. Both had a common vision, a passionate insight into humankind. Nevertheless, Minto had to keep the secret even from him. He had reasons behind. One of them was that, Muller was a technocrat, a business tycoon and knew people behind desks and politics. No matter how careful he might be, word always gets out in politics. The other reason was that Muller was good, but not averse to ‘Neonist’ policies. ‘A person with no ideal will have no reason to safeguard the ‘cause of the ideal’, except for friendship’. Minto did not want that. He wanted someone who can safeguard the secret, for the love of humankind, but not for friendship or any other reason. So he gave up on Muller.

He didn’t want to make haste in sharing the secret with anyone else without a proper background check and trust. So he paused his experiments for a while. That is when Muller came to meet him after many long years. He was sorry for the loss of his parents and suggested him to get married to let go off the loneliness. But Minto wouldn’t yield. He said that he want no more relationships, only to lose later and suffer from loneliness for the rest of his life. But Muller insisted. Bloom Wood on the other hand, advocated Muller’s opinions. They theorised that something that happened once may not happen always. Happiness multiplies when shared, but sadness and loneliness diminish when shared. Finally, Minto gave in, and not if it wasn’t for his dearest pal.

Miranda, a willowy lady from Derek and Minto’s niece who loved Minto a lot, delivered her consent, and in no time, they were married. Miranda was flamboyant, stoic and always abided by her spouse’s ideals. And not before a year turned, they had a son and named him, James Waltor. From the day Walt knew his senses, he wanted to be an astronaut. Minto supported him in all aspects.

Minto resumed his work with the code. On one fine day, he learnt about the ‘Bio-RAM’ and was fascinated by it.

“Memory that can be transferred from one alien to another?! You gotta be kidding!” he cried out of an amalgam of ecstasy and distrust.

But when he learnt that the RAM can also be implanted into a human, he was thunderstruck. He couldn’t believe his own senses. ‘No kidding!’ If that is possible, he thought, he can see, hear, smell, ‘understand their language’ and experience anything that the alien has done. Is it going to be a boon or a curse? He doesn’t know. Of course, nobody will! But, sacrificing himself would be worth it, he thought, in case it is going to be a boon. Now what? He’s gotta develop a Gene-implantation cubicle? He drew knowledge from the code about how to construct a Gene-implanter and started constructing it using his Omnius.

One evening, when he was returning home from the lab through the dusk-struck, gloomy Shadow wood, after seven days of strenuous work in the lab, he sensed something was amiss. He felt someone following him, looked around but found none. An invisible structure swayed through the trees and vanished into the space. Discovering that he was already late home, he didn’t stay back to find out what was up, and went on walking his way.

Few days later, ‘Conference of CandyCap’ with a motive ‘Save the planet Earth’ was organised in CandyCap, the capital city of Anemonia. Minto and Muller represented their nation in the conference. And that is when Minto met Kraler, a scientist from Boston. They had an off-the-record conversation at a table before the actual conference began, when Minto discovered that Kraler was the highly fabled leader of ‘Agency Dextro’, and he too had the same vision like him, a coinciding scenario. As they spoke, Minto’s radiation alerter beeped and gave off a ray to the spy bug implanted beneath the table to spot it to its master. Minto immediately ducked down and spotted the bug.

“Someone’s spying on us”, he whispered to Kraler, and then they cut down the conversation to keep things to themselves.

Kraler recovered the spy bug to find out its implanter through his unique detection brio.

They stood aloof and against the ‘Alien extermination’ proposal made by other delegates in the conference. Minto spoke against invasion of alien territories, when Kraler spoke against captivity and hostility towards aliens. Muller differed with them in this matter, but by tacit knowledge, did not mention his disagreement in the conference for he was with Minto. Above all, he knew Minto and Kraler were going to lose anyway. So there’s no point in fighting against the losing opponent. His instinct proved right. The conference ended with setting up ‘Alien Extermination council’ (A.E. council). Minto and Kraler were shocked to see almost all the delegates signing up for the council within seconds of its origin.

UFO

That is when another U.F.O. sighting took place, not long after the council was set up. Minto turned off the T.V. and set off to the lab to reactivate the camouflage gadgets, as the rays from the U.F.O. might have affected its disposition. And this time Minto was sure that the Anemonian government will not give up on its hunt, whatever may come. He did not find any malice a fore thought in the U.F.O. zapping down the shepherd with its rays. The shepherd was still alive and breathing, and Minto did not understand why the Anemonian government was creating such a commotion in the public. He believed that aliens were creatures living far away from planet Earth, who visit it now and then on a jolly trip. They were to be shown hospitality, not hostility.

. . . . . . . To be continued the day after tomorrow.

Cleo Patra – Episode: 5

(For the entire episodes till date, have a look at the category ‘eBook’ and please read from Episode: 1 at the bottom if you want to understand & capture the entire gist of the story… Thank you! 🙂 )

5. THE MER-CODE.

The MER code bearer-Jaquilin DNA

The next day on reaching the lab, Minto modified the dome so as to allow lunar rays into the lab. He waited for the moon eagerly. Finally, when the moon arrived, he directed its rays towards the Star ball and it shone. He placed the microscope in the reflected blaze from the Star ball and look, what he discovered… ‘Glowing green flecks’ on a lustrous mercurous background!

“That’s what I’m talking about!”, he cried punching the air in triumph.

He felt overwhelmed and ecstatic. What he discovered may be an elixir for humankind or may also be a ‘Pandora’s box’. ‘Whatever it is going to be, I gotta deal with it’, he thought. But he didn’t know that he was going to open a ‘Pandora’s box, of course! He separated out the green flecks from the fluid and set out to sequence its codes, hoping they were the alien’s genes, which would have codes just like a human gene. But he found no any similarity between the codes of a human gene and codes of the alien gene except for the physical appearance.

So he set out to develop an ‘Omni-device’ that can decipher codes and as well transform into a gadget of any kind, any origin, human or alien. He called it ‘The Omnius’. Finally, he started decoding the genes on Omnius, by placing the sample in one of its compartments and using light from the Star ball. It took him months and years to decipher the code using all possible combinations of the characters and signals from cosmos, reaching his Transponder.

One day he received a rare signal from cosmos and look what he discovered… ‘The Nova-MER-code’, a time capsule! He read it on the monitor and to his shock; the code was revealing in the form of 3-D motion pictures, the geological and extraterrestrial history, the point of origin and termination of Earth and other planets.

He missed a breath going through the first few reels. Then he went through the code again and was shocked to see the age, sex, health status of the host, the number of the DNA replications and cell divisions undergone so far, number of times the host has conceived so far (because it’s a female in this case). He discovered that the alien was a 500-year-old ‘female’. The code also contained the formulae to design ‘Ultra supersonic’ aircrafts required to cross even the boundaries of the universe and to invade territories of a new universe.

Suddenly Minto shivered in his spine and grabbed himself away from the decoder, panting in astonishment. He remembered the ‘Big-bang’ simulation carried out by the scientists of ‘CERN’, Geneva, in 2010, which was stated as a ‘Venture into the unknown-unknowns’, which just need our patience to let them unveil themselves to the world some or the other time in the future. But, unlocking a new universe would be a ‘venture into unknowable unknowns, which would end up with a different climax and obviously it would be ‘eternal damnation’, damnation of all and any other access to what is sealed as a ‘cosmic secret’, he extrapolated!

His heart began throbbing in a kind of fear a person feels when taking over the reins of an untamed horse, and the fear a person feels when standing in front of God! ‘I have the universe in my hands now. I have its history and its future in my hands. Oh my God, I can’t deal with it because I don’t know where it leads and where it ends. This is an ultra sensitive issue, something byzantine and bizarre’ he thought, ‘Is this what the alien was trying to convey to me? But why me?’

“I can’t do this”, he gasped, “I cannot take over the reins of an untamed wild horse, can I? That doesn’t sound like something I can do!”.

He knew that he cannot control it. He thought, even if he repents now or some other time in the future, will the horse, so wild, so furious and so mysterious stay still once the reins are taken over? No! It gallops away into ‘unknowable unknowns’ when and where proceeding further scientifically or technically will be impossible.

“Access denied!” and that is what means, “Eternal damnation”. “What a disaster we will be up to if the code is revealed to the world?” he cried, because it ain’t actually about a horse, it’s all about the foundations of the universe. It’s about the END!

He wondered whether he had to continue with his fact-finding experiment or quit. Anyway, he wanted to infer a positive approach and continue with his experiments. But he wondered how and why the alien’s blood was carrying all these codes. He also inferred from this that the aliens were far too advanced in science and technology, and the people on Earth must have known better to under estimate them. And also that not all of the aliens were a threat to mankind.

He felt it was time he shared the secret with just one trustworthy person to gain synergy in finding a way to avert any possible nemesis. But he didn’t want to welcome a third person, as their ideas may not synchronise or run parallel if they are three.

He transformed the Omnius, now in the form of decoder into its default model, and hid the star ball and the fluid in an ultra safe vacuum locker. Then he encrypted the syntax of the entire code so that even the decoder cannot decipher it, unless he provides the password, and then signed out from the lab.

. . . . . . . To be continued the day after tomorrow!

Cleo Patra – Episode: 4

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4.THE EURO LAB.

The science wizard

Minto woke up the next day with more enthusiasm than ever. He also discovered that his parents were leaving abroad on some business and felt it was the right time to accomplish his deeds. He bid his parents farewell and rushed to the covert where he hid the carcass, to find to his astonishment it missing!

He searched every nook and corner, but in vain. He couldn’t find any traces of the body, but when he returned back to the covert, he found some footprints like those of the alien’s. He wondered if the alien was still alive or in case if it wasn’t, he thought, ‘Wasn’t the alien alone?’

The very thought rippled waves of thrilling fear from his spine alarmed him about the Star ball and the vial he left behind at home. He rushed home, banged the door of his room open and sighed in relief finding the ball and the vial safe in his cupboard.

He remembered once seeing a microscope in his dad’s office in the basement of their house, and took the Star ball and the vial to the office. He examined the fluid under the microscope but only saw a mercurous lustre. Then he took the microscope out into the sun and examined the fluid again, but found nothing new.

He made back to his room and kept wondering who might have found the alien’s body, when one of their valets came to him panting.

Minto frowned, “What’s the matter buddy? You seem nervous”.

Minto couldn’t trust his ears when the valet said, “Mr. Walker and Mrs. Hannah are no more, sire. The plane crashed right into pacific taking lives of all the 232 passengers aboard!”.

He fell to his knees with a dumb and heavy heart and closed his eyes tightly in a vain attempt to stifle his tears.

Days and months passed, but this time he couldn’t come back to his normal senses. He turned into a loner and struggled hard to digest the very truth that his loving and caring parents were no more. Loneliness evoked their memories in him, which he wanted to let go. So he began practising escapism. He partied, boozed and didn’t forgo anything that would make him forget his sorrows. Their solicitor and well-wisher, Mr. Bloom Wood tried to bring him out of his trauma, but in vain. Minto turned self-absorbed and was in no position to lend his ear to anyone. In course of time, Minto forgot about the Star ball, and his ‘zeal to save the soul’ began abating.

One day, he heard his father’s voice echoing inside him subliminally, “Love yourself if you want power, but love all if you want peace and liberty”. Minto woke up from his snooze and looked around. His father’s words flashed in his mind again “If you now leave the world to its fate, one day the world will leave you to yours”.

Yes, he shouldn’t have abandoned himself and his aim to loneliness. The Star ball may unveil something good to human kind, who knows? So he immediately set out to carry on his fact finding experiments for which he needed a laboratory apart from the one he was working at (NCRBAS). He knew that the world is covetous, and will try to exploit the code for an unfair advantage. So, he resolved to set up a secret underground lab……..and he felt ‘Shadow wood’ is the best place, as nobody ever dared to enter it!

The ‘baron’ assigned Bloom Wood as the attorney of his $seventy trillion property, because he wanted to be free from the mastery of money so that he could accomplish the task ahead with peace of mind. As planned, he set up a lab in the remote area of Shadow wood.

EURO lab-Robotics section, the unique mind product of Minto

He called the lab, ‘The EURO lab’ (Eclectic, Unique and Reinforced Onyx lab). He installed in it the full fledged outfit required to experiment on anything that is of alien origin, and interact with aliens with the practical and professional knowledge he had in Bioelectronics, Biophysics, Biochemistry, Robotics, Pharmaceutical chemistry, Xenolinguistics and Alienology. No wonder, he called his lab ‘The EURO lab’. Like an onyx, the lab too encompasses shades of different fields.

Euro lab was a sweet little thing, safe, 25 feet deep in the underground, with walls of Corundum blended with Mintonium, the hardest metal Minto synthesized in his lab. However, its electromagnetic-radiation-sensitive dome projects a few feet above the ground to perceive and trap solar energy, the chief source of energy for the lab. It can also sense weather changes, trespassers, cosmic rays reaching the Earth and any other sensitive detail through its ‘Hyper frequent Radar system’ (HFRS) and relay them to the control unit down in the lab through high potent transmitters.

It has no risk of being detected by anyone as the dome could camouflage with the surroundings or suck itself into the ground unsuspected, if something or someone were to touch it. It is aufait with all electromagnetic-radiations of known origins and thus doesn’t get affected by their encounter, but would lose its character and become prominent to the viewers when zapped by unfamiliar signals from UFOs. It stays in such condition until the camouflage gadgets are activated back. But on second encounter with a new radiation, it doesn’t get affected.

Minto had the remote to control all these operations even from a distance of 1000 miles, even when he’s on flight, and he had a special eye contact lens that could enable him to see the dome even in darkness and to spot it when in camouflage.

The lab also had a potential super security system with byzantine access codes, pit falls and booby traps. The dome itself had the access door, which leads into vacuum, an intruder will get suspended and trapped in. But for Minto a staircase emerges from the dome and leads him down into the lab. The whole process controlled by a DNA detector system, which activates vacuum trap on sensing a foreign DNA. If the intruder somehow tries to escape from the vacuum, he falls straight into a gooey jelly pit right at the bottom. Oops! And all the rest that appears to him from the jelly pit, from where he can’t move but can only turn his head, is pure illusion.

The actual lab begins from the next chamber, which nobody can see or enter. And before the intruder could actually understand what’s happening to him all the access doors close immediately, gas lines open into the chamber and blow ‘anti-cognition’ gases into it and the intruder should swoon out. In his unconsciousness, his memory and knowledge regarding the lab, the way he found it and entered it gets erased by some neural hormones induced by the gases. The operation is irreversible! Then a robo hand pops out of one of the walls of the lab and dispatches him, unharmed out of the lab through a tunnel that bypasses the main access route and opens out at the top of the ground somewhere away from the lab and its environs.

It’s called the Intruder Dispatch (I.D.) system. There were other byzantine mechanisms too, to avoid, bamboozle or get rid of intruders. It also had a ‘back up’ system which keeps record of all things going on in Minto’s absence, both audio and video, digital and analog.

Minto’s lab equipment was a unique one too. He designed, built and programmed it in such a way that it could customize itself to suit the purpose, by dismantling and reassembling itself into the user required model. A computer can transform into a black box, a black box into a Hubble telescope, a Hubble telescope into an automobile engine and what not, you name it! So the lab had the advantage of occupying minimum space and yet yielding a grand deal of output. Minto’s groundbreaking style had no rivals!

His works were for the benefit of everyone, but he never wanted to give his discoveries an airing, as he knew the world would not in the first place consider them bona fide. On the other hand, Anemonian government would hang him once they come to know that his works are regarding aliens.

Star ball (Nimbus) suspended in vacuum in EURO lab

He began his work. He constructed a microscope that can magnify till the molecular level, but the alien fluid still showed him nothing new, but a mercurous lustre. He observed the fluid under various kinds of radiations. But it couldn’t help. He suspended the Star ball in vacuum in a glass container.

One day an idea flashed in his mind. He took the Star ball out of the lab and waited for the moon. On encounter with the lunar rays, the star on the ball shone, and his eyes shone too. ‘This gotta work!’ he thought and left home for the night.

. . . . . . .To be continued the day after tomorrow.

 

Cleo Patra – Episode: 3

(For the entire episodes till date, have a look at the category ‘eBook’ and please read from Episode: 1 at the bottom if you want to understand & capture the entire gist of the story… Thank you! 🙂 )

3. ULTIMA.

Bozano, Ultiman clan head.

In an underworld control room of Ultima, the dark planet in a far off galaxy, Zoara:

Some dark, ugly herculean bodies were conspiring to breach the territories of Earth and destroy it. Bozano, head of the clan sat at the dashboard toggling its keys furiously, reading the climatic and security strategies of the Earth.

A shadow loomed up behind him and a humanly voice came from the shadow, “Are we done yet?”.

“Seis quer en frano xeez quer mita” (wait till the next dawn or till next dusk), Bozano replied in a stentorian and ferocious voice.

The signals produced from his voice were instantly read, and translated into English by a sensor installed within the shadow man. The shadow retreated.

Ultimans are aliens highly evolved  in technology, but notorious for their savagery amongst all other planetans (dwellers of a planet) of their galaxy. They are agile and dextrous in defending themselves. Their universal surveillance system is an unprecedented cutting edge technology no one has ever developed. It employs the finest, sensitive and highly potential telescopes, laser reflectors and diffused videotaping systems for surveillance and video breaching into other planets.

Their spacecrafts on either manual or autopilot cover a distance of one light year (10 trillion km.) in one day that makes the spacecraft almost invisible during its flight. They have a tough skin that no acid or radiation or abrasive can harm. They drink lava from their planetary volcanoes just like humans drink water from a spring, and they inhale ‘Persego’, a rare gas shielding only Ultima.

Ultima, ‘the dark planet’ is 70 light years away from Earth, a highly sophisticated and technified planet with ‘Zuphius’ as their sun, an enormous ball of rare blue gases, spewing up golden gases often. They can survive only on plants grown utilizing energy from Zuphius. On the other hand, radiations from Zuphius are toxic to all other planetans except for ‘Jaquilins’ belonging to ‘Jaquano’, Ultima’s neighbouring planet which made them rivals to ‘Ultimans’. Not just this one cause that made them rivals, but there is another cause!

No doubt, Ultimans were technologically highly developed, skilled in exploiting or manipulating anything to suit them, wicked and wily, but the Jaquilins’ ‘Super genes’ made the Ultimans ‘a fly on a pie’. Ultimans’ technology is external, but Jaquilins’ technology is inbuilt, built within their genes. The genetic code of a human decides only the genetic and physical characters of a human. But a Jaquilin’s genes store information about whatever a Jaquilin sees, smells, does or thinks in the form of codes that can be deciphered using a suitable technology which only the Jaquilins know about.

A Jaquilin’s eyes are the camcorders, thought is technology! Their ‘Bio-RAM’ found in only one special gene in every cell stores abundant info not only about what they perceive through their senses, but also stores the info they receive from an external device they have installed somewhere, just like a telescope or spy bug or laser reflector and what not! Bio-RAM can install all memories and thoughts of a Jaquilin when implanted into others.

If alone the Bio-RAM is present without the person, the events recorded in it can be visualised as a movie on a screen using the light reflected from the ‘Nimbus’. But reading a Jaquilin’s mind or extraction and exploitation of its code is impossible for an external agent due to the ‘Bio-firewall’ built within them, which allows perception of things into the Bio-RAM by a Jaquilin, but gives no way for their inference by others, unless the Jaquilin itself allows for. As the code or their mind can be read by others only if a Jaquilin’s mind says ‘Yes!’, the code is called the ‘MER-code’ (Mind Enabled Reading-code).

The ‘codes’ turn more powerful and permanent by the generation achieved by mating of two Jaquilins. If one Jaquilin has seen part of an incident and another Jaquilin the other half, they club into a total picture in the code in the genes received by their kid, but only after he or she attains an age of eighteen. Thus, any Jaquilin selected at random has perceived and witnessed all that the Jaquilins that lived before them have perceived and witnessed. Info can also be transferred from one Jaquilin to another by transferring the Bio-RAM from one to another, though they actually don’t mate. In this way, Jaquilins protect the integrity and intactness of the incidents, history and facts. The irony is that they too can’t manipulate a truth or a fact. They just can store it. Thus, facts never die with a Jaquilin!

Once in a thousand years, a male and a female Jaquilin in the royal hierarchy are born with a gene containing a ‘Secret code’ that can unveil the mysteries of the universe, both of the past and the future. However, they have only half of the code in each, which will become complete when their DNAs are merged under the reflected light from a device called ‘Nimbus’.

Usually, a DNA has two strands. When united, it forms four strands that appear like a rhomboid cylinder that can unleash the secrets of the universes when deciphered. In case, one of them (Jaquilin or Jaquar) dies before mating or in case, only one is available, the remaining half code of either the dead alien or the live one can be made complete individually and deciphered only with ‘Nimbus’.

Nobody till then exactly knew where the Nimbus was, the only secret that takes birth and dies with the alien having the secret code, the ‘Nova-MER-code’. Unlike other codes that are present in Jaquilins, which can only be read, but cannot be manipulated, the ‘Nova-MER-code’ of the royal couple, when made intact, can be manipulated, exploited and conquered to change the future and destiny of the universes.

Jaquilins also had the formula to kill Ultimans, which was written in a sacred book, hidden in a spooky and mysterious place only Jaquilins have access to and can venture into. They are that ‘Nova-MER-code’, the Nimbus and the book the Ultimans wanted!

Few years back they came to know about Jaquilins and their uniqueness, and wanted to takeover them, find and destroy the formula that can kill them, exploit the code and reign the universe! But soon they found out they were after a wild goose chase, because taking over just one Jaquilin also turned out very challenging for them.

That is when the Ultimans encountered alien signals from Earth, 700 trillion kilometres away. A highly notorious and vengeful human, longing to avenge his home planet sent some ultra signals to them that he can help them takeover Jaquilins, seeking a favour to help him destroy Earth in return. Ultimans were prone to a violent shock at this incident. They wondered how an alien (here a human), 700 million million kilometres away could read their minds and communicate with them in their own language!

Bozano could estimate the intelligence and ability of that human. He tried a lot to read his mind, but alas, he had a ‘Bio-firewall’ on him too.

“He is impossible!” Bozano stated, “And he is the one who can really help us”.

But most of the Ultimans felt it wasn’t a safe idea to trust someone into helping them, whom they don’t know anything about. But Bozano was adamant.

“He seeks a favour in return,” he said, “He is in need too. So he can be trusted!”

And once they have the code, Bozano thought, nobody can dare harm them. Reply signals went to Earth; ‘Welcome to Ultima!’ and an Ultiman spacecraft took off to fetch their guest home.

. . . . . . . To be continued the day after tomorrow.