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Odyssey’s docking bay where the drone probe and its calcium phosphate contents were met by the anxious four in yellow. With a slow whine, the docking door closed tightly. The drone probe was the size of a motorcycle.
    The arrival team was comprised of Captain Barton, Ed Lorre, Sam Suzuki and Larson Jensen.
    “Let’s see what’s arrived,” Captain Barton said.
    With Wet Willy safely in the docking bay, Ed Lorre approached the probe. There was an interior compartment where the planetary samples had been in safekeeping.
    “Detaching,” Ed Lorre announced.
    Ed Lorre double-checked the scan stats. Nothing had changed. The objects still weighed four pounds and ten ounces and its resting temperature had not changed. There were five of them in the probe’s storage compartment.
    “Any change?”
    “None.”
    “Any little green men in there?”
    “None,” Ed Lorre said with a slight, though nervous chuckle.
    There was no unusual radiation, no movement, no unusual heat source. Everything was as they had expected and so they were ready for the next step, which was transporting the detachable sample case to the lab.
    Theo, Ellie and Ravi followed with Harry Wolf as did a small group of crewmembers.
    Once in the lab, Ed Lorre placed the ivory white objects onto an examining table. Doctor Starling had a great view of the examination on his Ark computer. While this kind of discovery had never happened, there still were a set series of basic protocols and Captain Barton was following them to the letter.
    “I’m ready,” Larsen said with both his hands wrapped around his taser gun.
    “We see that,” Captain Barton added. “Just don’t nuke the thing or anyone else accidentally.”
    “No sir. Definitely not sir,” Larson said, “I’m just ready…for anything.”
    “Larson, seriously, you can take your finger off the trigger now,” Captain Barton said.
    “Okay sir. Yes sir,” Larson said as he lowered his taser to his side.
    Even Harry Wolf sat up and tried to catch a glimpse of what was going on in the lab room, though Theo doubted the dog even knew what was happening. Even in space, the dog could only think of food, slobbering and sleep. Everyone else could only think about what looked like a bunch of bones.

CHAPTER 4
EXAMINATION
    Theo knew enough about the basic process of archaeology and wondered if his father or the science team back on the Ark would be able to re-construct a skeleton from five samples. Doubtful but a guy could hope for miracles.
    Theo also knew that the Wet Willy probe had applied a laser tag number to each of the skeleton’s bones. How the bones were found, their order, their position all meant something. Five were found. Though the largest bone they had found on the planet’s surface was just a hair under four feet long, the curved ivory white, calcium phosphate objects almost all appeared bigger than life. It was history and the future, all weighed down in a series of ivory white objects, the kind which had never been found anywhere but on Earth.
    Theo was anxious and a little disappointed. He was out in the hallway waiting with the rest of the crew. Harry Wolf was sniffing shoes.
    In the laboratory, Ed Lorre did a scan. An x-ray. The first object was weighed and its temperature was taken. Since leaving the surface of the planet, the object had not changed. All readings were again unchanged.
    Back at the Ark, Doctor Starling watched and monitored the examination. His image was up on a computer screen in the lab where Theo and Ravi could both see him.
    By his side Captain Barton peered over Ed’s shoulder and asked, “They are bones, right?”
    “The objects are made mostly of dried collagen, magnesium and calcium phosphate,” Ed Lorre said.
    “Can someone please confirm or deny or disprove what we’re looking at? Is it animal? Mineral? Human? Alien? Someone tell me. Seriously guys, what kind of creature could we be dealing with here?” Captain Barton asked.
    “Hopefully a dead