THE PASSAGE, A SHORT STORY, STRANGE NEW NEIGHBORS
The Passage is a story about several different groups as they experience a pole shift.
The Passage was first writen as a script, then later as a short story.
It is the short story that is being presented here, with character descriptions from the script.
The first parts of the story were presented earlier, during which we followed a young reporter, Danny, as he encountered the cover-up
when he tried to get a story printed.
Danny then went camping with his girl friend Daisy as the days of rotation slowing to a stop set in.
The couple and some fellow campers take refuge at a local ranch when the pole shift hits.
Netty, the lone survivor at a resort, is pursued by the Groggin Brothers, who are dealt in vigilante style justice.
Survivors of a small plane crash share their stories, as do some local townsfolk.
Some survivors deal with insanity, not able to adjust to the changes.
Seeking help from a secret military camp, the group gets a rude awakening as the military has gone rogue.
They are leaving the ranch, on the run, and discover evidence of canibalism.
The plane crash survivors split off from the group and set out to rig an air balloon to return to the East Coast, viewing horrific sights
along the way.
The ranch survivors reach the river, encountering another survival group which welcomes them, but the rogue military group and the
cannibals are both pursuing them.
On the run again, the survivors must deal with a wild dog pack.
They arrive at a Dome City in the woods, under the protection of Zetas and including hybrid children among the residents.
A Colonel, who has deserted the rogue military unit to help the survivors, sets out to retrieve his family and bring them back to the
safety of the Dome City.
In this segment of the story the young reporter, Danny, and his new girlfriend Netty, are introduced to life on other planets, many of
whom are frequent visitors to the Dome City.
Their guide is Billy, the boy from the ranch, long a contactee and familiar with the routine.
Taken on an observation ship piloted by the Zetas, they first visit an amphibious octopus, an old friend of Billy's.
On a planet baked by a hot sun, they meet hominoids covered by protective skin plates.
Another life form comes as a duo, a living ball of water enclosing an intelligent jellyfish, and Billy goes for a swim.
Poisonous planets, where the tour group must stay in the ship, include a gaseous planet with a manta ray type life form.
The residents of the Dome City soon discover they have new neighbors, also in a Dome City, who are not entirely human!
The story continues with a group preparing to go off-world:
Billy is face to face with the hybrid boy, having an animated conversation. "Heck! I seed them squirm all around so's you didn't know where they
were headed, but I weren't scared!" They hybrid boy puts his hands on his hips and leans back a bit. "They weren't squirming, silly! They were
walking! Don't you know anything?"
Later,
It is evening in the dome city, and the laser light coming from the center of the fountain is being dimmed slowly to simulate evening. The residents are
moving slowing as they take their evening strolls around the pram area on the roof of the top level. Children are being called in from play in the
center grassy area near the fountain, complaining slightly as children will about having to give it all up and go to bed. Danny and Netty are walking
slowly along the pram, hand in hand. Netty glances up at his face and says, "Don't you want to go see it?" Danny replies, softly, almost under his
breath as though speaking to himself, "Hell yeah!" Later that evening, after night has fallen both inside and outside the dome city, Danny emerges
from the entrance of the dome city. He is walking alone toward an observation ship that is hovering just above the ground a few feet from the entry
of the city. He is striding purposefully. As he nears the ship, Netty and Billy emerge in their pajamas and nightgown, jogging after Danny. They close
the gap, so that as they arrive at the ship they are altogether. A walk-up ramp drop from the bottom of the ship, the light from the center of the ship
flooding the area. The three walk quickly up the ramp, unafraid.
There is a faint light coming from the top center of the ship, as 1/2 the top area is a brown glass that allows viewing in and out. Inside the ship, they
emerge from a side corridor, one that goes directly into the circular room in the center of the ship. Danny and Netty are hand in hand, with Billy
walking eagerly just ahead of them. They all take seats side by side around the observation circle, Netty still holding Danny's hand, as she senses he
is nervous. Billy is pointing toward the floor and then the ceiling, talking excitedly. Danny looks up and just stares upward, silently, not moving for a
moment. Then he says, wonderment in his voice. "How do they do that?" Netty turns to face him and says, "The ship is turned sideways." Billy is
chirping, in his child's high voice, excited as always by these trips but contained. He sense that, in spite of his age, he is the leader here, and that this
couple needs him to stay steady for them. "We can even go upside down! It's so cool!" Billy is pointing at the ceiling as he says this, then points to
the floor. "Watch, watch! We're taking off!" The ship is turned sideways, moving slowly at first and then rapidly picking up speed so that it zooms
off into space at an angle to the Earth. The fact that the ship has a clear brown glass floor and ceiling can be faintly seen due to light coming though
the ship.
One the first planet visited,
Fog is swirling around a rocky ledge. Danny, Netty, and Billy are standing in a huddle, though are relaxed and looking around. Billy says, "It could
be anything. It could be an octopus. It could be .. yup! Its an octopus!" A large orange colored octopus, raised 1/2 way up on its many
tentacles, is approaching. It has no eye, and is dry and smooth looking, the under sides of the tentacles a creamy white. Billy puts his hands on his
knees and goes face-to-face, so to speak, with the octopus. He says, "Are you the same guy I talked to last time?" The octopus extends what
looks like a pink worm from its underside, and Billy unhesitatingly puts his hand out and lets the talking tentacle wrap around his hand. Billy says,
"Shake." Danny and Netty have stood shock still during this enthusiastic interchange between Billy and the amphibious octopus. Finally Danny finds
his voice and says, "What's he saying?" Danny steps forward, tentatively at first, then with more confidence. "How do you hear what he's
saying?" Billy steps back, having let go of the tentacle, and says, "You hear him better when you shake." Danny hesitates for a minute, then says,
"Oh." but then spontaneously reaches out a hand to get wrapped in the pink worm. After a moment he says, "Yeah, we're all from the same place,
just visiting. You live on the rocks here?" Water can be heard lapping quietly nearby.
On the next planet visited,
Billy comes into view, climbing over a some rocks in a dry, rocky place. He is talking to Netty who is following closely. "And you never know!
One time I thought it was a rock, and darned if it didn't move!" Netty is right behind him, with Danny lagging back so that his head finally pops
into view, looking around before he ventures forth. Seeing nothing alarming, Danny closes the gap between them as they move on down the rock
tumble. Suddenly Billy stops short, Netty almost bumping into him, as they both look forward without saying a word. Danny comes up behind them,
slowly, looking in the same direction. All are silent for a moment. Finally, Billy says, "These guys are new." Two short hominoids with thorny plates
like a turtles back covering their bodies are standing before them, several arm's lengths away. They wear little brown colored coats, are brown
colored themselves, and are barefoot. One of the pair is smaller than the others, shoulder height. Suddenly a large Zeta materializes between the pair
and the three visiting, motioning to the pair to come forward, which they do. Netty seems to come alive, suddenly understanding what one of the
pair, the female, is saying, the Zeta translating telepathically for them. Netty is leaning toward her, saying, "Only at night? How sad for your
children! Do they .." and falling silent as the female horned toad hominoid is grunting quietly, "Oh .. well .. that's true .. we treat fire that way .."
Some introductions are made inside the ship, where
a large living ball is almost filling the interior of the ship. It has veins over its surface, but between the veins one can see liquid in the center. It looks
like a living water balloon. Inside can be seen what look like jellyfish, very fine and fluttery, not the solid kind with a bell on top that populate Earth's
oceans, but more like a mass of spaghetti. Billy steps forward and touches the side of the living water balloon, which presses inward at his touch as
our skin does. "Neat!" The jelly fish moves toward Billy's finger, and he gets an ecstatic look on his face, in communication with the water creature.
He looks over his shoulder and says to Danny and Netty, "He wants me to come swimming with him." Suddenly Billy disappears, his clothes
falling to the floor in a heap. Netty gasps and points at the living water balloon, seeing Billy nude inside the living water balloon, peering out at Netty.
His lungs are obviously working in the water, breathing water. Netty faints to the floor as a dismayed Danny lunges forward to catch her, breaking
her fall.
They take Netty to one of the side rooms, to recover.
The center room of the ship is circled with side rooms, each with an open arch way. Danny has taken Netty to a room so sparsely furnished that
only a table with a center post to support it stands in the room. Netty is stretched out on this table, coming around. Billy has his pajamas back on, is
toweling his hair dry and running his fingers through his hair to put it into place, like a comb. Billy looks up at Danny and says, "She's doing better
than my mom. They had to send my mom back." Netty focuses on Billy and says, a confused look on her face, "I thought you were drowning ..
I thought .. I" Without hesitating, Billy replies, "Nah! You can breath that stuff, but it ain't easy! You gotta get tough, Netty! My mom made
nothing of it."
Walking out of the room where Netty was recovering, the three encounter a buffet of odd shaped cooked vegetable shapes that has been placed at
the side, finger food for those interested. Billy doesn't hesitate, walking right up and popping something in his mouth before the others have even
noticed. He turns and looks at the other two over his shoulder, his cheeks puffed out with food while he chomps away. Netty says, "Oh, that's nice!
Looks a bit like asparagus, but, ahm, brown." Netty nibbles a bit, and Danny also puts this and that in his mouth, rolling his eyes up toward the
ceiling as he tastes, trying to concentrate on the taste. His pace picks up as he realizes that he isn't being poisoned or affronted, and he starts
popping items into his mouth one after the other. They're all famished. Netty is licking her fingers as she turns to scan the interior of the ship.
Seeing something through the clear ceiling, she says, "Oooh, its like cotton candy!" Danny and Billy follow her gaze and see clouds and puffs in
light blue and rose and light yellow floating past the ship, as though the ship were standing still and fog or clouds were passing by. Suddenly what
looks like a white manta ray without a stinger comes floating by, but pulses his wings so as to stay in place in front of the ceiling panel, looking in at
the three passengers in the ship. The ship is hovering on its side, above the surface of a planet, but for the passengers the center of gravity feels like
the floor of the ship. They are all in awe, but finally Billy says, "He wants to come in, but he can't! He'd die in here, and we'd die out there.
Bummer" The ship suddenly takes off so that the horizon of the cotton candy planet comes rapidly into view. Then the planet shrinks rapidly to
where it looks as small as a golf ball, a bit of light colored fluff light out in the distance, dark on one other side but light on the other. Just as suddenly
the ship zooms back, but this time returning to the dark side of the planet. Triangulation is the fastest way from here to there, in a space ship not
limited to propulsion. Danny says, "My gosh, a perfect boomerang! What a way to travel!"
As the ship moves into the dark side of the planet, it appears at first that all is pitch black. Then the three see blinking lights, of all colors, and one of
the lights draws near the ceiling panel, taking the form of the creature that visited on the day side. It hovers, pulsing its skin wings and pulsing faintly
in the light it emits, too, a creature without eyes or ears or appendages except for skin wings like a manta ray. Netty draws near Danny, who puts
his arm around her while she lays her head on his shoulder. Returning to the dome city, the three walk in through the front entrance. It is very early
morning, the city still sleeping and quiet. Billy walks off toward the family quarters, waving good-bye wordlessly, and Netty and Danny, too tired to
do more than smile and give a half-hearted wave back, walk off to their room.
Later Martha is bringing a plateful of what looks like scrambled eggs and fried potatoes back to one of the tables set up on the pram for breakfast.
A chef in a big white hat and white coat is clanking pots and pans over a sizzling electric plate, arms constantly in motion as he works his magic.
Now and then he snatches herbs from this jar or that sack. Big Tom is sipping coffee from a mug, and Tammy is giggling with her new girl friend as
they try to get their dolls to sit up straight on the bench beside them. Billy is half asleep, blinking sleepy eyes that don't want to stay open, not saying
anything unlike his typical chirpy self. Red and Clara scuff up in their housecoats, no longer hiding the fact that they are spending their nights
together. Martha glances at Billy with a puzzled look on her face, saying, "Billy? I think you need to go back to bed, son, you look like you need
a good night's sleep." Without hesitation, Billy replies, "Yeah, OK mom." Billy drags off, leaving Martha with her mouth open. She says, "I was
only kidding!"
Jonah walks up with Ian and his gray-haired assistant. All three are grim, as though concentrating on a serious but not alarming matter. Martha has a
decanter of coffee from the communal coffee maker, along with extra mugs, and offers them some coffee. They accept with a nod of their heads.
After a sip or two, Jonah, who has been solemnly mulling over his thoughts, says, "We've heard from another city, like ours. They seem to be
friendly, seem to be doing OK, but there's something odd." Martha jerks her head up suddenly, alarmed, and says, "Odd?" Jonah debates with
himself for a moment of two and then says, "Well, I don't think they're entirely human." Martha, clearly relieved that this is the only potentially bad
news, says, "You mean like those super smart kids we've got here with us?"
Jonah, warming up and eager to talk about a matter he knows they must share sooner or later, says, "Well .. let me just say this .. the
transmission we got was carrying both audio and video, but they didn't speak. We got the signal by teletype. And in the video, they all just
stood there, smiling and waving, but not speaking. Now why would that be .. unless they couldn't speak." Martha frowns and looks down for
a moment, processing possibilities. "Did they given any indications .. I mean .. did it look like maybe the mike was just broke or .. maybe, ah
.." Jonah, spilling it all freely now, says, "No, no, and that's not all. They had little mouths, and no hair. No hair at all! But other than that ..
well, they had big brains, you could see that, big eyes too .. blue and brown and hazel .. beautiful eyes, I'll say that! But not a hair on their
heads! And not a word!" Martha smiles, relieved and obviously expecting something far more bazaar, says, "So .. did you invite them for
supper?" Everyone laughs. Jonah, smiling and likewise relieved at her reaction, says, "Well yeah! What else was I supposed to do! How weird
can it get! I mean, beyond what we're already dealing with, what the heck!"
Later that evening, when the lights reflecting from the dome city ceiling is dimming, the city has some visitors. Behind the guard rail along the top
level, near the entry way, some tall dark gray Zetas are standing next to something that looks like a large green colored worm with two big muppet
eyes at the face end, a tentacle waving. The broad back of what looks exactly like the creature from the black lagoon looms behind them, and then
the round green hand of a little green man with a dark blue smock comes up over the railing, as he is pulling himself up for a view. He points toward
the center of the dome, his round face reflecting a smile as board and simple as a have-a-nice-day symbol. There is hardly any motion in the dome
city, just a person or two moving along one of the residence patio areas that look out on the gardens, moving off to a bedroom to settle down. In the
center garden a little boy is bustling across the grassy areas past the fountain, trying to get home before he gets a reminding holler from his mother.
Billy had slept much of the day, and isn't really ready for bed as yet. He's the last person to leave the park. As he rambles past the fountain there is a
faint splash. Billy throws a comment over his shoulder, nonplused. "No swimming in the fountains, you guys." A large orange octopus with no
eyes pop up out of the fountain water and sit and the edge of the fountain, shaking water off a tentacle.
This is the end of the short story, The Passage.
My intention in writing it was to present the complexity surrounding the coming pole shift,
where the geological changes and anticipated death rate in humanity have caused the Council of Worlds to schedule other changes for
the Earth to occur at the same time.
The story, The Passage, does not focus so much on the pole shift and it's precursor signs as it does the human reaction to the changes
and the cover-up.
ZeatTalk has warned that MOST of humanity will not be warned, unless through prophecy and folklore, due to the cover-up by the
elite who want only to protect themselves and avoid panic in the populace.
Lets examine the characters in the story to see where they fell along these 4 reactions to the pole shift.
Professor Issac was certainly aware of the coming pole shift, and had prepared.
He'd figured this out from an analysis of geological changes and an astute analysis of the message crop circles were delivering.
He had a place in the hills, and planned to go there when the prophecies came true.
Daisy represents that portion of humanity just unable to deal with the changes, and into hard denial and distraction.
The Editor, Zack Maya, also was aware that something was approaching, but was told the prophecies were false, that the danger
would pass.
Buying into the cover-up line explained to those asked to assist in the cover-up itself, he was caught off guard and furious about it.
Frank and Jane had been warned by prophecy and folklore, which they took seriously, and thus did not react with shock when the pole shift hit.
The rogue military unit likewise had inside information, and had prepared.
Contactees such as Martha and Billy receive warnings via visitations, and thus were likewise strong in the face of the changes.
The scenes described by Mark, seen from their small plane and heard on the radio, are typical of the last minute panic the Zetas have described.
Another goal of the story, The Passage, was to show the polarizing toward good or evil that occurs during any Transformation period.
Those who have never grown up, remained immature and are thus Service-to-Self oriented, sense they are losing the battle for turf
and will be removed and get vicious and obvious in their maneuvers in the last days.
The Groggin Brothers in their looting rampage and the rogue military represented by General Flood's unit show this side of the
polarization.
Those not inclined to be Service-to-Self deserted General Floods unit.
Daisy represents an undecided individual, spiritually immature, who by her actions is separated from the Service-to-Other groups lead
by Ian and Jonah.
She was not alone as others in Ian's Bridgewater settlement tired of the intensity toward service required in a Service-to-Other
community.
Where this type of separation occurs more rapidly after the pole shift, it is happening today, to some degree.
The high tech communities, where Zetas and hybrids and humans live side-by-side, is also depicted in the story.
In reality, some individuals will find themselves quickly in a high tech community for the Service-to-Other, but most will find slight
interaction with high tech aliens.
In the story, the Clearwater resort for the wealthy was looted by the Groggin Brothers, typical of what is expected to occur in rich
enclaves where the mercenaries they hire will turn on them.
The cannibals in essence did themselves in by persisting on this path instead of growing or catching food.
There is also the mostly unseen assistance given by benign aliens to those humans operating in the Service-to-Other orientation.
In the story, the group is guided in their migrations when leaving the ranch, Colonel Gage and his family are cloaked so as not to be
seen when they travel, and the Dome City itself is protected from missile attack.
The Zetas have stated that after the pole shift, many people will go insane because of the impact on their lives, 43% of all survivors
are expected to be affected to some degree.
In the story, this is represented by Tammy and Brian.
In the story, Billy leads the group to what is called a life form orientation, an introduction into the strangeness of life elsewhere.
The Zetas have stated this type of orientation is being done today, and I personally was given such an orientation.
Just at Netty fainted at a certain point, I took fainted for the first time in my life during one of these orientations.
The Zetas have also predicted that many communities will be led by children, after the shift.
This is represented by the role Billy plays, where he is the prime instigator for greater alien/human interaction.