Alcantaran 1: Alien Abduction Read Online Free PDF Page A

shuffled to the elevator and then proceeded back to the hangar for the planetary flyers.   Sabah set everyone to loading and unloading just as they had yesterday.   At the end of the day Sabah took everyone back to the dining hall and then to their cell.   This was the routine for the next month.
    One day Gus stepped in the back of the flying machine to start unloading and he spotted what he guessed were fresh fruits and vegetables.   He was a little surprised because he had seen nothing like this during the previous month.   Some of the items looked similar to the fruits and vegetables on his planet.   They smelled delicious and he couldn't help himself.   He carried a load out and put it on the grav-sled.   On his next trip in, he snitched a small fruit and ate it.   It was wonderful!   Gus continued to snitch small fruits and vegetables until he knew he had to quit before he made himself sick.   He snitched a few more and hid them in his pouch on his belt.   Gus made sure no one saw him.   He needed these for himself.   There were four other creatures from his line that were helping.   One of them finally had a light come into its eyes as it recognized a vegetable similar to ones on its' home planet.   It stopped working and started eating the vegetables.   The other creatures didn't even pay any attention so Gus just kept carrying.   Sabah noticed the creature wasn't working and came into the flying machine to check on it.   He screamed and pulled his stingerray and aimed it at the poor hapless creature eating the vegetables.   When the blue ray hit the creature, it screamed in agony and dropped to the floor like it was dead.   Gus would have helped the poor creature except he saw that Sabah was still agitated and waving the stingerray.   He guessed he would be next if he stepped over there and later he found out that he was right.   Sabah waved at two of the other creatures and had them drag the disabled one out of the flying machine.   They dragged it over close to the wall and left it there.   All of the other creatures kept working so Gus did the same but he kept an eye out for Sabah .
    A short time later another Challekan glided up on its disk and started talking to Sabah .   They were gesturing at the creature lying on the floor in a heap.   The laborers had almost 1/2 of the machine unloaded and just as Gus was ready to grab another load, a huge octopod creature leaped from the middle of the pile of fruits and vegetables.   The spider-like creature seemed to be covered in long fine hair all over its body and legs.   The head had large fangs that had a yellowish liquid ready to drip from them.   The creature was over three feet across and moved with incredible speed.   The Challekan talking to Sabah had its back to the space ship and didn't have a clue of its impending doom.   The octopod creature zipped down the ramp and leaped almost 15 feet right on the back of the robed Challekan.   It knocked the Challekan to the deck and rammed those fangs into its shoulder.   The Challekan let out an anguished shriek that could be heard all over the hangar.   Sabah 's disk immediately jumped 15 feet into the air.   The octopod creature jumped at Sabah but missed by just a fraction of an inch.   The hairy creature leaped to the wall and started rapidly climbing right up it.   Sabah pulled his stingerray and fired at the hairy creature but the creature was moving too fast and he missed.   The creature went clear to the ceiling and ran upside down across the ceiling.   All of the other Challekans had flown their disks midway between the floor and ceiling.   There was a cluster of about 10 Challekans in the middle of the hangar and the octopod creature sprinted in their direction.   It shot a silky looking strand to the ceiling beyond the cluster and then swung down like Tarzan swinging through the jungle.   Several in the cluster pulled stingerrays and fired at the octopod creature.