Standing By
"Now we wait." Dr. George said while testing the base's security comms for the locked areas to make sure they were functional.
"Are we a go?" Sketch asked her uncle. He nodded in the affirmative. Penn and Teller were now standing with the others at the telescope. They wanted to see.
"You'll only see something like an infra-red image," Isotophes said. They saw the ship as it just sat there, as if mocking them.
Penn took a second look, and then looked back to the others. "Ah. . .you got a little more than one ship out there."
"There's a mother ship out there." Dr. George said flipping a few switches on the panel for the roof lights.
"Aw, the mothership brought her little babies. That's adorable." Penn said in a tone that was either sarcastic or sheer terror trying to disguise itself as bravery. Outside a gust of wind jarred a piece of faux rock loose, making it fall from its encasing.
"You two still armed?" Sketch asked Penn and Teller, who opened their jackets slightly to reveal that they were packing. Sketch’s spider ran across the telescope lens. Sketch looked at it and let it proceed. Penn and Teller were back by the basket, looking paranoid.
"Are we going to be eaten by aliens?" Penn asked.
"They would probably ask the same thing about us." Monday Eve said. "This place is designed to be invisible, even to satellites, unless you know what you're looking for. We're tracking these reoccurring phenomena known as Magnetic Spiral Storms, and the only theory NASA ever came up with was some weak myth about moon dust or some bullshit like that. Kinda like their infamous weather balloon nonsense. So anything hostile out there would be NASA, not the aliens. We're sort of like, think of us as an intervention."
Isotophes looked over at Sketch who still hadn't asked the question about the extra space on the floor plans. "Wanna know what that extra, unaccounted space is for?"
"For the solar gun, right?" Ben said.
"The 500 square feet, yes. But the floor plans for the upper level, the 10,000 square feet."
"Another level of just 10,000 square feet?"
Sketch shushed Ben.
"We're stealing a spaceship." Isotophes said.
"Fucking A." Sketch smiled, who knew it was something along those lines.
Penn looked at Teller with a confused twitch. The spider crawled up the wall and into the vent.
While the sheering whine of metal could still be heard from outside and the storm picked up, another flash of light struck. Lurch disappeared in full view of the others and reappeared seconds later. This didn't seem to startle some of the team, but it scared some of the others.
Ben came up to Lurch and looked him over, as if making a silent judgment. "You may have been abducted and had your brain washed, causing memory loss and trauma leading to delusion. Please go to the lab so we can test you for radiation," Ben said in a very concerned, yet informative, tone.
Lurch advanced to hurt Ben but the others stopped him. Ben and Lurch began to laugh. "Hey, glad to have you back, buddy!" Ben said, laughing.
"So you aren't cloned or anything, are you?" Penn asked Lurch.
"I was not abducted."
"Well, I actually saw you disappear."
"And if you're really a magician, you'd know that light can be bent to make something disappear."
"Yeah, we're magicians. NOT advanced alien life that have the technology to fucking bend light!" Penn remarked sharply.
It seemed that this was apparently one prank that Lurch was not in on, as he was obviously annoyed.
"Did you guys try this before?" Teller asked Dr. George.
"Yes. Didn't go as planned."
"So let me get this straight, the last crew panicked, pointed a tracking beam, or some solar gun at a UFO and blew everyone up?" Penn asked in a just wondering kind of way.
"Basically." Dr. George answered.
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