Apocalypse Now (part2)

It must’ve been 40 years later from the left off point where Captain Benjamin Willard is standing in a sea of fog staring at an image of a silver spacecraft in the marshes of Vietnam. He is not sure what he is seeing, his vision is blurred by the past memories of drifting through the Cambodian canals of the patrol boat Long long ago…….🪖🪖🪖

He creeps slowly towards the craft where he sees lieutenant colonel Bill Kilgore sitting cross legged inside the structure with an older person resembling a yogi with a thick white beard. Tears are streaming down his face as the Yogi pinches his nose as if cleansing his soul from all past experiences. The Yogi and Bill begin to rise up as if elevated from an unknown source. He hears the Yogi speak as his voice becomes louder and echoes throughout his chamber. “God is blessing you” he is saying this over and over. Benjamin cannot believe his eyes, this is the strangest scene he had ever encountered. Suddenly there was a woosh sound and a stream of colored lights flashed from the bottom of the craft. He could tell it was about to take off as the silver door began to close. He then made a beeline for the passageway and jumped inside as the craft rose up looking like a flower swirling in orbit of the night sky. He fell back against the wall and hit his head knocking him unconscious, strange music played in his dream that gave him euphoric pleasure while stars from the heavens surrounded the craft like a mother holding her child. Benjamin could see Bill in his dreams interacting with a space woman as the two seemed completely comfortable in the alien universe as they were flying through hyperspace. The Yogi had disappeared and the space woman was feeding Bill some golden fruit as they sat in a small pool of water with a waterfall trickling down as they played and laughed. While Benjamin was dreaming this, he wanted to see who was flying the craft and so he Astro projected his mind to the front of the ship. There was a control room and yet it seemed to be traveling unmanned, controls set an auto pilot. Quickly someone entered a small compartment, an elf like man with a fairytale like beard curled & fell past his knees. His ears were pointed as Benjamin decided that he must be a male fairy. Like the girl with Bill he was about half the size of a human man as he too moved a little magical as if he had wings invisible to the naked eye. Splash! “Hey someone just threw water on me, “ Ben yelled as he shot up to see Bill and the fairy girl laughing. They ran back to the pool and seemed not to care about his presence as if preoccupied by thoughts of only pleasure. Ben wondered if Bill was under her spell or if she was a witch. He didn’t seem like his real self, the one he knew back in Nam. He walked over to the pool and waited in. It was full of leaves and vines, the kind he knew from the war but this was for decoration, and it seemed a like a sheer fantasy. He decided he would try to talk to Bill to see if he was on a hallucinogenic drug or in his right mind. He waded through the waterfall and grabed Bill by his shoulder, turning him around to look him right in the eye. “Hey Bill it’s me man, are you all right? “Groggy and spaced out, he said , “yeah man, sometimes I go to Mars, sometimes I go to Venus, right now i’m just taking some R&R. I don’t know how these things fly but they sure do fly. ““ so what’s your point? “Bill who liked to be called big Duke six, couldn’t understand Benjamins serious concern. “The point is, we’re up here flying around when we’re supposed to be on a recovery mission.“ “Forty years has passed and now the situation has changed.”“Right, this world seems to be connected to the past world as I don’t remember how we got inside this craft as it has affected my senses.” “ Its a dream within a dream, as we don’t know if we’re in a dream or not. But once you relax, and take the drug it won’t matter what is real and what is swamp gas”“ I see, there is a drug involved, can you show it to me?” The fairy girl who was practically naked was combing Big dukes hair as it had grown long in a short amount of time. They were still standing there underneath the waterfall inside the spacecraft as big Duke held out his palm concealing a red liquid gel pill. Benjamin Took the pill out of Dukes hand and held it up to the artificial light to examine it. “What is the ingredients? “He was now squinting through the pill and moved it real close to Dukes face. “Maybe some exotic DNA, I don’t really know, but it Will take you there. “ dukes eyes were big saucers as he spoke about the red drug. “I can live to be hundreds of years old, and never die. “His eyes looking like madness. “How so.” Duke stepped out of the pool and over to a machine , Ben followed. “This machine processes your DNA and conformers it to this pill 💊with added chemicals. “ “What does it process.?” Ben’s face was blank with concern. “ well, er The body. “ Big Duke smiled a crooked smile.

Ben touched the machine, pulling out an inner shelf that was big enough to hold a body. His eyes then understood as he gave Duke a serious look. “the craft mostly hunts for bodies by air, abducting them for the drug” suddenly the male elf who was flying the craft emerged looking concerned. “ he doesn’t like us near his machine.” He motioned them back to the pool. “ I don’t know what they hunt, human or animal, but they have a killer defense system Of laser beams that I saw when I floated around.” “ These peaceful elf creatures don’t seem like killers. i’d like to see a body of what they hunt.” As the two were conversing in the pool, a small crew of fairies wandered in dragging a captured body of what appeared to be a gray alien. “ 👽So that’s the source !” Ben’s face looked horrid as he felt awful for the creature. It’s a big moon eyes looking up at him from the stretcher. He ran over to the elf man Begging,please don’t hurt the alien! “ he just goes into the machine and then we get paid. “His Oz face reported. ” but it’s wrong. “We have our orders. “Ben fished for money stashed in his wallet, he held out a $20 bill. ” look, I’ll pay you. “”we get paid in rubies your paper is useless. “ Ben was feeling hopeless as they put the body in the compartment and closed the door. A light turned on and the process started. “The woman love it, they all look so beautiful after taking it. “Duke tried to explain while the girl fairy in the pool was waving her hands gesturing that it would be OK as she seemed mute. “they have farms of aliens like this breeding only for consumption. The pills are sold to planets and galaxies and is a farming business.” Ben thoughts were traveling through space as he remembered watching the movie close encounters and felt so mystified as the tiny creatures emerged from the landed craft. He wondered why they had all disappeared. “Is there someone who is in charge of all this?” “ The queen, the queen of the universe Who is located on Saturn. If you want I can take you there.” There were other Elven crew members onboard who slowly emerged from hidden rooms and upper decks. Ben looked up at them, they seem to say we don’t like what we do, if you can help us end the drug war. Please! There eyes all staring at him underneath a spotlight overhead growing dimmer.

The craft slowly emerged above Saturns glittering and rings and then they were up on the planet and then out to where the queens glass castle stood. It wasn’t easy getting past the guards, but the elf pilot persuaded the guards with a little fairy dust and they entrance way opened. Inside the grounds were covered with several glowing plants and giant flowers as Ben spotted her crowned figure inside what looked like a large floating bubble. Her wand was a glittering Star as she was surrounded by tiny dancing flowers underneath the night air. “ do you always water your flowers underneath the full moon?” Her glittery dress swirled as she turned to face the man’s voice that had startled her. “ Who are you.” She towered above the soldier of war. “ my name is Benjamin, i’ve come a long way in search of “He replied with a bow. “ these are my night creatures , I like to feed them after a full day of work giving orders is not so easy” “ they are very pleasant, I like pleasant things.“ “ you a soldier Ha!” She laughed, “ OK soldier man what do you need from me?” “ i’ve come to beg you to stop the breading of extra terrestrial life for DNA harvest. Her eyes grew heavy at the request.” easy for you to ask but it’s a business that stops the aging process.“ she said as she walked to a tree with the tree lift. “ come come I’ll show you.” Soldier man stepped into the elevator with the queen as they went up for miles it seemed as the lift stopped stepping out to a view overlooking the entire city. It glistened in the twinkling air. “ what do you call this town?”” it’s called Enceladus after the sixth moon of Saturn. Overthere is Titan our capital.” The Saturn sky around them started raining diamonds as she lit up a pink cigarette having pink smoke.” I like this world “He said walking up to a telescope that he found interesting until he zoomed in on what looked like an alien farm.” “whats that😠a whole alien harvesting farm!” Soldier turned around to confront the queen, his eyes looking sarcastic. “I can’t do much about the harvest, as there is no antiaging replacement. “Her eyes looking sad.” what if I told you there is a replacement?“” what do you have to offer? “He found a container of pills he had in his pocket. Holding out for her to see.” these are moon pills made from moon sand.”” do you think they will help stop the Aging.” “ yes we have moon harvesters on many moons, it’s the ingredients the aliens use since they glow white with big pure moon eyes. Didn’t you stop to think what they ate? “we don’t have much scientist, just mad people Greedy to never Age. before we harvested aliens they harvested cats, The cream manufactured in secret labs for the eccentrically vain. I had to oversee the ritual that is as horrid as the fur trade business. “Ben’s stomach became upset as he couldn’t imagine, even being a soldier. He didn’t like the stench of death. He handed her the jar of moon sand, “can you give this out to your clients?” “ i’ll send more to help replace the harvesting of these innocent souls. ”We are a peaceful people of the rings”she took the jar of moonsand down the tree tower as they went out. “I shall try” she said as he took her hand.” where are you .from?” the queen asked as soldier man headed towards the waiting craft. “ Earth.” He said, and I’ll be in touch…..He waved in the air as the queen understood that she had met and encountered something that felt like serendipity that brought a tear to her Saturn eyes. hope and upliftment followed in the following days to fulfill her soldiers request.