David passed the Stilted Waters Edge and kept boating on.

The sun high in the sky, the wind cooling them as they traversed the open sea.

Finally David stopped the engine and pointed to a lonely metal rod sticking out from the water.

"Right over there is the place."

David chained the boat to the metal rod and also tied a blue flag to the rod.

"Here Kenny, take this rope and pull on it if anyone starts to come along I will make my way up, the other end of this rope will be tied around my waist."

Kenny nods "alright!"

David put on his wetsuit. While Kenny started to set up the umbrella to grab some shade.

David hooked up his oxygen tank and hooked his blow torch and bolt cutters to his side's on the rope tied around him.

He slung his spear around the air tank just right in case he needed to take it out.

David then leaves the handgun in the compartment in the stern of the boat.

" Only use it if you have to Kenny."

Kenny shakes his head.

"I don't know how to even use it."

David looks at the water.

"Right, okay, I will be right back."

David moves forward to fall into the water.

The ocean was cold and dark even with the sunlight, although in the distance David could see what appears to be a massive complex that stretches out into the abyss of darkness. Swimming toward the one skyscraper that reaches up towards the water's surface that's connected to the massive building complex underwater.

David gets to the door.

It was a large metal door with yellow stripes warring to caution of its opening and closing. David cut the rope that was tied to him leaving the rope around his waist to hold his tools.

David starts to blow torch the doors control panel and pulls the doors wiring and cuts the wires with the torch, opening the door David entered the building the door had an emergency close so David closed the door behind him the door in front of him now was the problem. David cut the panel and the wires the same way.

The metal door opens, throwing David with the water into the building. David hits the floor and looks up to his surprise he was in a large interior room that had electrical lighting.

The place was clean. The walls and halls were numbered. David walked around with the air tank still on. David pulled out his spear not knowing what to expect.

His feet slapped wetly on the pristine metal flooring.

The Halls were brightly lit up.

Then a soft robotic voice came out from the building.

" Who are you?"

David looked around trying to identify where the voice was coming from.

A blue hologram emits a beautiful woman figure. Standing in front of David.

David jumped back. Pointing the spear towards the holographic woman.

"What are you!"

"You really don't know what I am?"

David is still pointing the spear.

"No I don't, get back, I will use this spear!"

The woman disappears laughing, emitting in different positions as David takes stabs at her. Till finally she was emitting herself multiple times, surrounding David then disappearing.

David stopped and put the spear down.

Realizing it was a hopeless effort to wound the blue light woman.

"Boy I'm not going to hurt you.

I'm more than Pleased to see you. There hasn't been a human person down here since the great flood."

The blue holographic woman emmits in front of David.

" Who are you? What is this place?"

David looked at her then around the metal room they walked Into. She smiles and says I will tell you this way.

" I will follow but I have a friend waiting for me at the surface. I would like to go get him and bring him with me."

The blue light woman turned on some air ventilation.

"You can breathe down here now."

David took off his air tank mask and took a deep breath in.

"This place?"

"Was a planetary research facility government based, secret operations."

"No one else is in the building?"

She smiled " I said there hasn't been a human person in this building, but other worldly beings,there are some here in the facility as we speak."

David picks up his spear.

" No need to worry, they are of a peaceful intergalactic race."

David almost couldn't believe what he was hearing. "Intergalactic research facility, government. All of this makes no sense to me."

The blue light woman folds her arms.

"There's not much to get, they are friends of you and won't hurt you, I also can't have you going out the way you compromised on your entry into this facility."

David looked at the doorway and the panel sent sparks out from the wires David torched.

"Follow me, Sorry what was your name sir?"

"David, my name is David."

" I'm lexi, follow me this way David, to meet your new friends and to claim your new watercraft."

David followed the blue light woman down the hallways that were lightly and white with metal flooring in pristine condition. Where David walked a little floor cleaning robot came from the walls Cleaned his trail. David was in shock at this place he was in; it felt almost like he was dreaming.

The hallway led down till they came to an end that went left or right they turned right and walked a while longer. The blue holographic woman stopped and opened a doorway standing in this garage port hold which was quite a big room.

" This is the garage port hold, where we store all the vehicles to traverse the world."

"Woah." David was enamored at the sight of the large craft that had wheels and propellers and what appears to be giant guns on the side tops and bottoms.

There were four beings in blue suits working in and on the craft. They were tall, beautiful and had white hair. Their suits also had a blue light emitting from their chests.

"Greetings, planetary dweller, I'm Zan, of the Pleiades. We are a race of The Galactic Council of Nine."

The others waved to David.

"Hello I'm David."

The holographic woman. Smiled

"Beautiful I never thought I would ever see such a wonderful sight in my electrically emitted existence."

David looked at the beautiful woman. Working on the ship controls.

"David these wonderful being's made this old land vehicle, into a water based land based it can be both now. They will accompany you to find your friend on the surface to help pilot the ship."

David nodded, then the Zan smiled and pointed at the craft for David to enter. David entered following Zan into the entrance of the massive craft. They entered and the other palladians said at the same time "greetings David welcome aboard." David nodded and greeted them back.

"I'm happy to meet some new friends.what are all your names?"

Zan started up the ship as David took a seat beside him in the passenger side seat. Then second pleiadian member spoke,

" My name is Kol" then the third pleiadian spoke "my name is Saara." Then the fourth pleiadian spoke " isha is my name it means wish In your language." David smiled. "It's nice to meet all of you, we're going to pick up my friend Kenny from the surface. Kenny would love to meet all of you." Zan waited for the holographic woman to open the forcefield shield so they could drive through it without the water coming through. Once in the water the craft turned on its propellers and flew through the water at a reasonable speed to the surface. The stabilizer in the craft allowed them to enter back to the surface at increasing speed. The craft surfaces. The boat was two kilometers away. The craft started to move towards David's boat.

Then David noticed ten red boats making their way towards Kenny. Firing their guns.

"Noo there gonna kill my friend Kenny."

Zan looks at David. "We are a peaceful race and would not dare hurt another being but in the Galactic Council we are ordered to protect those in need of protection so long they are allies with the Galactic federation. "I consider you my friend David, meaning you are an Ally in the eyes of the Galactic Council."

"Team arm the guns David you can take top Cannon." David climbed a ladder to the top gun.

David took a seat at the gun control

" How do I?"

Then the familiar voice came through.

"Hello David, I'm here to guide you throughout the process of gun control."

"Lexi is that?"

"Yes it's me now place your hands on the holographic display.

David placed his hands in the display and a screen turned on showing the view and aim crosshairs of the weapon.

"Woah, everywhere I move my hand the gun goes."

"Yes, and to shoot you punch in the display towards the target."

David took a swing an shot out a huge pulse of blue energy, it's punishing blast obliterated two red ships and sent the others maneuvering to the left and right and taking a new course towards David and the Pleiadians craft.

Zan gives a command.

"All open fire." The red boats took aim firing rockets at the craft hitting it's shields, beeping went off in the craft. The crew sent blue energy blasts at all the ships, sending them into oblivion, in what was a blue multiple blast spectacle of explosions and water splashing into the air.

"Woohoo!" David yelled out.

"Your accuracy was 80% David, you have quite an eye for accuracy." "Thanks Lexi"

Zan nodded, "mission completed, personal protected and all targets eliminated"

The craft moved through the waters towards David's old motor boat. David stood up and opened the hatch.

"Kenny, it's safe, these are friends come hop in the craft we got a cool place to go check out a lot safer than up here with all the sea pirates. Kenny popped his head up. Looking at the craft.

"Woah! David!"

"Just hop in, I'll explain on the ride back to the place they call a research facility."

There were metal bars for Kenny to climb up the side.

" What about all our stuff?"

"It's all good Kenny where we're going there is plenty of stuff."

Kenny climbed up the side and entered the craft as it's propellers kicked in and the craft submerged back into the sea.

End of chapter 007. Stilted Waters Edge written by Travis Willier copyright 2021