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Catfish Dave: Beginings
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This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places & incidents are product of my imagination. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead is entirely coincidental.
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Sophie Marie our grandchild.
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CHAPTER ONE
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The man sat on the creek bank fishing. It was late night because he believed that was the best time to catch catfish, which is what he always fish for. That’s how he got the name Catfish Dave, it’s what the town people nickname him.
Catfish Dave was a big man about forty, with long brown hair that had a red tint and some gray showing. He wore a long dark dress coat he had gotten at a salvation army store and a light brown cowboy hat that he pull down so it didn’t look like a cowboy hat, but more like an Indiana Jones hat. He always had a large hunting knife fasten to his belt when fishing. He wore denim jeans and black engineer boots.
The creek would flow into the river father down, it had been raining for two days before and the river had risen quite a bit, Catfish was hoping that the catfish would be working their way up the creek for better food.
The rain had quit and it was a clear moonless night. To the right of the creek was a big field of some kind, the field was surrounded with trees except where the entrance was. Anyone from the road won’t have been able see the field.
Catfish was looking at the stars when all of a sudden he happen to see a light moving his way. As he watched it moving closer he could see two other objects beside it. As they came closer to him he could make the out. One was saucer shape with a dome on the top and bottom. The bottom dome was flashing different color lights, red, blue, green, and yellow. On each side of it were two dark planes. But these planes didn’t look like regular planes. They were black with wings that started just behind what he though might have been the cockpit, and went all the way to just about the back of the plane. None of the flying objects were making any noise of any kind. He thought there should at least be a sound from the planes. The planes look like they were forcing the saucer down towards the field to his right.
Catfish quickly brought in his fishing poles and started running towards the trees surrounding the field.
As he watch form the trees one of the planes shot a green laser at the saucer while the other plane pulled in front of the saucer. As the second plan got in front of the saucer two large flat plates emerged from the back of each wing, then all at once the saucer attached to the metal plates as if they were magnets.
Then it looked like the planes were going to land in the field. But just before they came to ground level the field suddenly started rising. As Catfish watch he couldn't’ believe his eyes, there were two very large hydraulic cylinders opening the ground to show a giant underground duplex. The planes were going into the duplex with the saucer attach to one of them.
Catfish quickly started running to the open spot in the field and jump into it just before the field started closing again.
As the huge hydraulic door closed above Catfish’s head, he crowded to one corner and waited until the door was closed all the way. Once the door was closed he check out his surroundings. He was standing on a ramp that slopes gradually downward for a very long ways, where the ramp even out was lit up very bright. Catfish slowly, crowding to the darkest part of the ramp, started working his way toward the light.
As he got to the end of the ramp he quickly hid behind a truck and check his surroundings again. He was inside a very large underground complex that was pack with military equiptment, planes, jeeps, and even helicopters. Just in front of him were the two planes he had seen bring in the saucer. There was writing on them, they were called “Aquila’s”. He had never seen such a plane before and he had no idea that the army had planes that could shot lasers and run what appeared to be a form of a tractor beam.
In between the two Aauila’s planes was what appeared to be a true flying saucer. There was army men guarding it, while men in white lab coats were moving around on the inside of it.
“Man”, thought Catfish “They sure got in that thing fast, I wonder how they knew to open it.”
About that time several of the men in white lab coats came out pushing three hospital beds with human forms on them.
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The men in white coats took the alien into a side room. Catfish waited hidden outside the room for what seem like a couple hours. The then men came back out talking among themselves about the aliens.
“Did you see that?” ask the first man, “They don’t appear to have vocal cords, I wonder how do they communicate”
“Well they have mouths, so I assume they eat. And they have ears.” Replied the second man.
“And if they have ears that means they must be able to hear. “ Replied the first man.
Then they were out of sight around the corner.
Catfish quickly went into the room the men came out of. Inside were the three aliens. They were strap to hospital beds.
The aliens were gray in color, big heads, small in size, had big brown eyes, small mouths, small ears located low on their necks, and small flat noses.
“Help us,” said a voice in Catfish’s head.
“What the heck is going on,” thought Catfish.
“We communicate telepathically” came the voice in Catfish’s head, “If you have any questions please speak to us, we have been taught not to read humans minds.”
“What do you want me to do?” whisper Catfish.
“Our bodies were damaged in the crash. We have learned to control what you call our souls to leave our bodies and go to another. We need to borrow your body to get out of here” answer the Alien voice in Catfish’s head.
“Are you crazy, there’s only room in my body for me. I don’t need someone in there doing things I don’t like.” Answer Catfish.
“You will just carry us out of here, after we are outside we will find other bodies to go to”. Came the Alien voice. “We will not enter unless you agree to it. But if we don’t find a body soon these bodies will die and we will have to go on to the next plane of existence.”
“We came here to help save your planet.” Came a second Alien voice.
“The earth?” Ask Catfish
“Yes, your future is very dim if our people don’t come here and help stop the rape of the land.” Answer the second Alien voice.
“Will anything happen to me if I let you in?” Ask Catfish.
“There will be some side effects to you body, nothing bad, most of them will be beneficial.” Answer the fist Alien.
“Very will,” whisper Catfish. “Whatever you have to do, lets do it and get it over with.”
With that three shinning lights left the aliens bodies and entered Catfish Dave’s body.
“Let’s get out of here.” Came a voice from inside Catfish’s head.
“OK.” Answer Catfish
As Catfish work his way around the dark corners of the duplex looking for an exit he notice that he could see in the dark. It was shades of gray, but he differently could see everything in the dark. Even a penny laying on the floor in a dark corner that he could never have seen normally.
“I can see in the dark.” Whisper Catfish
“That’s one of the side effects of us entering your body.” Came a voice from inside his head. “Even after we leave your body the side effects will stay with you for the rest of you life.”
“Alright,” thought Catfish, “I won’t need lanterns when I go fishing at night.”
Finally Catfish came to another door. He open it just a crack & look through it. He could hear the guards walking and talking, everything seemed louder and at first it was hard to get his bearings.
“Why does every thing I hear seem so much louder?” whisper Catfish.
“Another of the side effects, if you concentrate hard enough you will be able to single out a single noise.” Came a voice form Catfish’s head.
Catfish didn’t think it was a good idea to test this theory while trying to escape from an underground Army factuality.
As Catfish was sneaking around the vehicles and wondering how in the world he was going to get out without being caught or even where an exit was he saw to army men go into an elevator to the far side of the room.
He quickly made his way to the elevator, avoiding guards and other army men as he went.
As he got close to the elevator he realize he had a problem. The elevator was out in the open with no means of cover. Even if he got to it he would surely be seen before the doors open. Looking around he saw an office to his left. It had a glass window in it and he could see no one was in it. He also notices a white lab coat hanging on a coat rack in it. He quickly went into the office grab the lab coat and put it on. Then he walk normally to the elevator, push the up button and waited. Two army men walk by talking about a Sony playstation game called “Metal Gear”. At first Catfish thought he was nailed, but they just walk on by. The door to the elevator open and he quickly go on and sigh a sigh of relief.
“Don’t get to confident, we don’t know what’s upstairs yet” came a voice from inside Catfish’s head.
“Yea,” came another voice that sounded like a female, “We knew this base existed, buy all the information on it was lost years ago.”
Catfish couldn’t help but wonder how long they had been coming to the earth, and how long had the base been here if all the information was lost years ago.
He didn’t have time to think about it long; the door to the elevator was opening. As the doors open Catfish hid in the corner expecting someone to come in and investigate. When no one show up he peak around the door to see. It was just an empty room.
As he left the elevator he couldn’t believe his eyes. It was dark, there was now electric. From all appearances it just look like an old abundant empty farmhouse about ready to fall in. There weren’t even any guards around.
When he got completely out of the elevator the door closed. As he turn around to check it out, he saw what appear to be an old clasping wall come down out of the ceiling and cover the elevator door.
“Cool.” Whisper Catfish
“Will you just get us the hell out of here.” Came the female voice from inside his head.
With that Catfish went out the door and took off running to the river.
After he reached the river Catfish started going down stream of it looking for the creek he was fishing in earlier that evening.
“Where are we going?” Ask one of the aliens inside of him.
“Where I was fishing before all this started, my fishing equipment, dog and truck are there.” Replied Catfish.
“We need to find some animals to transfer to,” said one of the aliens inside of him.
“Why animals?” Ask Catfish.
“Because it would be hard to share with a human host for long, there would be conflicts and other humans around would think they were crazy and put them away. We tried that earlier in your history.” Replied the alien.
“Won’t the same happen to an animal?” Ask Catfish.
“Animals don’t care and we can control their movements.” Answer one of the aliens.
Just then Catfish came to where the creek ran into the river and just up the creek a little bit was a red fox getting a drink.
“I want the fox.” Came the female alien voice from inside. “Please get a little closer so I can transfer.”
So Catfish quietly creep up to the fox. When he was close enough a light emerged from him and went into the fox.
Then the fox walk up to him.
“I hope I don’t have to do that very much, it takes a lot out of me. I’ll take two or three days to get over this. I guess I’m ready.” Came the alien female voice into Catfish’s head.
“Wait, if I’m going to be around and we’re going to communicate then you need a name.” Said Catfish.
“That’s easy, just call me Foxy.” Replied Foxy
“Oh great,” came one of the alien voice left inside Catfish, “I bet the only reason she wanted inside that fox was so she could finally be called foxy.”
“Now just a minute…” Foxy started to say.
“We haven’t time for this.” Cut in Catfish. And he started heading up the creek.
Daylight was just breaking as they were nearing Catfish’s fishing hole. On a fence post there was a hawk perch.
“Can you get a little closer to that hawk?” ask one of the alien voices.
“Sure can” replied Catfish. And proceeded to creep up to the hawk.
Once again, when he got close enough a light left his body and went to the hawk.
Then the hawk flew off the fence post and started flying around Catfish’s head.
“This is great, and by the way Catfish you can call me Hawk.” Came Hawk’s voice inside of Catfish’s head.
“Well that’s simple enough” replied Foxy.
“Look who’s talking.” Came Hawk’s voice. “I’ll fly up to your fishing hole and wait for you all.”
“I just realize something.” Said Catfish
“What’s that?” Ask Foxy
“I’ve been running half the night and I’m not hardly out of breath, as a matter of fact I feel pretty good.” Answer Catfish
“That’s another one of the side effects.” Answer Foxy
“That’s cool, I can see better, especially at night, I can hear a pin drop from a hundred yards and now I can run long distances without getting short winded. These side effects aren’t bad.” Said Catfish
“Hey, lets get going. I still need a host.” Came the last alien voice from inside of Catfish’s head.
With that they headed for Catfish’s fishing hole.
When they got to the hole Hawk flew up to meet them.
“There’s a raccoon trying to get into your bait.” Came Hawk’s voice.
Catfish knew what to do. He immediately crept up to where he kept his bait. When he got close enough the last alien left his body and went into the raccoon.
The raccoon then walk up to Catfish.
“Thanks, and just call me Bandit.” Came Bandit’s voice.
“Nothing like a show off.” Came Foxy’s voice.
“I won’t be talking Foxy, you couldn’t get any one to call you that name on our world.” Replied Bandit.
“That’s enough, we need to have a chat session with Catfish so he knows more about us and why we’re here.” Came Hawk’s voice.
“Yea, I am wondering why you came to our planet.” Said Catfish as he walks to his tackle box and sits down on it.
After he sit down Bandit and Foxy sit on each side of him and Hawk perch on a limb above his head.
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"Catfish Dave: Beginings" copyright 2002, author David Brenneman.
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