Don't Mess With Earth (6 page)

The cloaked ship entered Earth’s atmosphere
and flew around the planet a few times, when the crew noticed a
ship leaving a small island off the coast of the northern
hemisphere. There was a small village on it, with no other
noticeably sizable population centers for hundreds of miles. Since
the Ragnor always conducted experiments when people were asleep,
they waited until well after midnight to begin their experiments.
The ship flew over the biggest house on the island, since the
Ragnor figured the leader was living there, and used their beaming
technology to bring the human leader aboard their ship. The human
male was still deeply sleeping when he was put on the lab table to
be examined. The Ragnor examined his DNA, finding nothing of
particular interest, so they woke him up to interrogate him about
the Terrans.

The man woke up to see a tall, bluish
skinned, gangly looking, long-armed, small eyed non-human looking
right at him, which frightened him beyond belief. He began praying
out loud for deliverance from this evil demonic being, the Ragnor
looked at each other, not understanding what this foolish human was
doing, and then one spoke in a weird sounding mechanical voice, “We
are the Ragnor; we are not from this planet. We gain knowledge from
experimentation on others. We would like to know what you know
about the Terrans.”

The man was still frightened, but had the
wits about him to say, “I know not of any Terrans. Are they
anything like thee?”

“Terrans are nothing like us, but they are
like you. They are on your planet to get your species to help them
defeat us. We have determined your species is too backward to help
the Terrans. We will, however, continue our experiments on you and
the others. When do you expect another ship to come with
supplies?”

“This is all so confusing to me. I have no
idea when England will send us more supplies; Sir Francis Drake
pledged he would return though. His ships could not possibly be a
match for whatever thou are, please let me go and I won’t tell a
soul.”

The Ragnor response was to put the man back
to sleep and experiment with his DNA and brain. They transported
him back to his bed five hours later, erasing his memory of this
experience. They transported others aboard and did the same thing
for more than six months. Some of the inhabitants though, claimed
they had nightmares of weird creatures experimenting on them, that
this island was evil, and that the colonists needed to leave
Roanoke Island and go to one of the neighboring islands to get away
from these demons. So, the leader giving in to pressure, wrote
Croatoa on a post, since that was the name of the neighboring
island, and the colonists left the island. When people from England
eventually come back to Roanoke, all they find is the writing on
the post, but when they attempted to go to Croatoa, a storm
prevented them from being able to get there. Eventually, the former
residents of Roanoke left the island for the mainland and mixed
with the local Native American tribes, settling in the Appalachian
Mountains to hide from the rest of civilization. For centuries
after that, people in the Appalachian region claimed to see blue
eyed Indians with blonde hair who always avoided strangers, until
the late twentieth century when DNA testing confirmed these people
may have been the ancestors of the lost colony of Roanoke. The
Ragnor though, decided to continue on a twisted mission to mess
with the humans of Earth under the Terrans’ noses.

The Ragnor were a species that were
militaristic for their entire existence. Once they learned the
secrets to space travel and learned of other space-faring species
in the galaxy, they turned their attention on going to war with
those species. The Ragnor quickly learned how to disguise their
ships and their warriors through cloaking technology and then
attacked unsuspecting ships for no reason other than that they
could. Ragnor scientists even managed to develop the means to cloak
their entire solar system, including disguising all energy
transmitted by their sun, so no one could ever find the Ragnor
homeworld and take revenge. Eventually, they even decided, that if
they could cloak themselves, then what was to stop them from
abducting members of other species and then experimenting on them.
The Ragnor had no reasons for conducting the experiments on other
species; they did it because they felt they were superior to
everyone else in the galaxy, and really, who was going to stop
them? So, they started with the Talgerians and continued on from
there to experiment on every species they ever encountered,
eventually finding the Terrans, who were oblivious to what was
going on in the galaxy when they first traveled the stars.

The Terran government publicly treated the
rumored abductions and the occasional attack on their ships as a
small nuisance, but everything the Terrans did indicated that the
Ragnor really scared them. The Ragnor hacked into Terran computers
and found that they were the reasons the Terrans had built warships
and a sizable army to begin with, even going so far as to travel to
their original homeworld to see if they couldn’t get help in
defeating the Ragnor, but, found instead a really primitive
society. The Terrans, even if they wouldn’t officially admit it to
themselves, began to slowly manipulate the development of the
humans on Earth, which was how the Ragnor noticed so many ships
headed in a direction the Ragnor starships had never gone
before.

Once arriving on Earth and conducting a few
abductions, the Ragnor were delighted that these primitive,
pre-technological humans blamed all these mysterious happenings on
dark, evil, supernatural forces. They were responsible for what
eventually would happen in Salem, Massachusetts, when people began
to be accused of witchcraft for behaving in a stranger manner than
usual for Puritans; those humans were actually victims of
abductions and experimentations by the Ragnor. The aliens watched
with some humor, as those humans who were being accused of
witchcraft, were put on trial, were automatically found guilty, and
given their punishment. The punishment, the Ragnor thought, was
very creative for such primitives, like dunking the accused in
water to see if they could survive being underwater for longer than
their lungs could sustain them. Of course, all these humans who
were given this punishment ended up dead, since none of them could
breathe underwater. Once the Ragnor were done playing with these
particular humans, they went somewhere else on Earth to cause more
havoc.

A few years earlier, the Ragnor came across a
brilliant human who they had abducted by the name of Isaac Newton.
Newton was sleeping under an apple tree on the campus of the
University of Cambridge in England when the Ragnor found him, so
they decided to abduct him. A scan was conducted first and they
found he had a super intelligence quotient, so they took him to
their ship. Once on board the ship, the Ragnor downloaded gigabytes
of information into Newton’s brain; specifically information
related to what Newton was already interested in, mathematics and
science. Once they were done, Newton was placed back in the same
spot he had been sleeping a few hours earlier, and had no memories
or nightmares of being abducted. A few minutes later, he woke up
somewhat startled when an apple fell out of the tree and hit him on
the head. Newton picked up the apple off of the ground, took a good
look at it, began to think about why the apple fell out of the
tree, and came up with the theory of universal gravitation and the
three laws of motion a few months later. Newton set to work writing
down everything that came to him as a result and wondered if the
moon was held where it was by the gravity of Earth and why
everything always fell constantly to Earth’s center, instead of
going upwards or sideways.

As for the three laws of motion, he stated
the first one, known as the Law of Inertia. It states that an
object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends
to stay in motion unless something happens to cause it to stop. The
second law states that mass is constant and acceleration of an
object is directly proportional to the magnitude of the force
acting on that object and proportional to its mass. The third law
states that for every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction. He presented his ideas to his fellow professors at
Cambridge and they were astonished at his genius and these new
ideas he presented to them. He then decided to write all of this
into a single tome, called
Philosophia Naturalis
Principia Mathematica
. This became the standard scientific
view of the physical universe and nature for the next three hundred
years and helped the progression of modern day engineering,
launching a scientific revolution. Newton showed that celestial
bodies were governed by the same natural laws as everything else.
Once the Ragnor were satisfied that they had messed with the
natural progression of enough humans on Earth, they decided to
leave the planet and its solar system until the humans began to
progress technologically faster than they had previously.

As Earth entered its own Industrial
Revolution, the Terrans had mostly stopped interfering in human
affairs. They watched as the thirteen American Colonies declared
their independence and broke free of the tyranny of King George the
Third of Great Britain to become the United States of America, only
to descend into Civil War a little over eighty years later. The
Americans lost more than half a million men in the fighting and the
South was devastated for years to come, but the Terrans could see
the United States slowly becoming a world power. They also watched
as the French tore themselves apart in a revolution of their own,
ending up with a madman for a leader by the name of Napoleon
Bonaparte. He declared war on the English and the Russians, and was
humiliated when defeated by both, especially after the disaster of
trying to invade Russia during their harsh winters, and then was
eventually exiled to the Canary Islands where he died a few years
later. The Russians also went almost completely to anarchy in their
October Revolution, going from a monarchy to a dictatorship of
communists and fascists, led by Vladimir Lenin and then Josef
Stalin; both of whom were bloodthirsty and ruthless leaders.

The Terrans also marveled at the advance of
the human weapons, going from flintlock rifles to repeating rifles
and Gatling guns to full-fledged machine guns and submersibles in
less than forty years after being introduced during the American
Civil War. Experts on Terra predicted that the humans would have
nuclear weapons by the end of the twentieth century and possibly
space flight by the middle of the twenty-first century. The Terrans
were also amazed at some of the genius humans who all appeared
around the same time in history. Humans such as Thomas Edison,
Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and others seemed quite a coincidence
to the Terran leadership, so all of the humans were investigated to
see if they were from Terra, or, for that matter, experimented on
by the Ragnor; none of them were, which surprised the Terrans.

The Terrans also saw the First World War
coming, at least a major war among the Europeans, with their
complicated and secretive alliances; it was only a matter of time
before all of Europe dragged the world down this path. The Terrans
were completely shocked when the war started over an assassination
of the Prince of Serbia in a country called Bosnia, and the fact
that most of the war was fought in trenches between mostly the
British, French, and Germans in France also amazed them. The humans
also began using biological warfare en masse for the first time,
along with tanks and airplanes, both of which had been invented
only a few short years earlier. The Americans were dragged into the
war when the Germans promised in a telegram to Mexico to give back
to Mexico the Southwestern United States if the Mexicans would
agree to attack the United States and keep the Americans occupied;
this ploy did not work. What worked to bring the United States into
war was when the civilian ocean liner
Lusitania
was
torpedoed and sunk by the Germans, who claimed that the ship was
carrying weapons from a supposedly neutral country like the United
States to the allied nation of the United Kingdom. The outcome of
the war wasn’t affected by the entry of the Americans, because the
countries at war were beginning to think about stopping the
bloodshed, it just made the Germans want to quit faster when the
Americans entered in the western front.

A few years later, Americans were becoming
isolationistic and developing a prospering economy. Men and women
started flying aircraft that were much more advanced than the
versions that had been flying in the Great War; they barnstormed
the country and flew in air shows showcasing their talent. The
Terrans eventually noticed two Americans, because a rumor was going
around the Mars Base that Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart were
actually Terrans. Once Terran investigators delved into Lindbergh’s
background, they discovered he was a true-blue human and American;
for one thing he was too much of a pacifist to be a Terran and no
Terran would think that an everlasting peace could ever be achieved
just because they wanted it, which was entirely up to God to make
everlasting peace. Now, Amelia Earhart, on the other hand, might
possibly be a Terran, but they weren’t sure, so they waited for an
opportunity to find out.

A Terran, who was visiting Earth, made her
way to Ontario, Canada, and looked for opportunities to see those
barnstorming airplane pilots who were showing the general public
what these new-fangled machines could do. She visited an airfield,
where there were only a few bystanders, and watched as a plane was
cutting through the clouds and performing aerial stunts that she
swore these primitive machines shouldn’t be able to do. Twenty
minutes later, the aircraft landed and taxied to the hangar. The
Terran waited for the pilot to get out, so that she could express
her wonder at the fearlessness of this pilot in such a primitive
machine. The pilot climbed out of the aircraft, took off their
helmet, and surprised the Terran even more when she saw that the
pilot was a human female. As far as the Terran female had known,
most human females went out of their way not to be noticed, since
the men of the species seemed really threatened by a strong woman.
Of course, the political situation here in North America could have
changed since she last heard, but she was sure she would find out
in the next few moments.