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A Father’s Revenge.

I awoke with this strange feeling that something is drastically wrong. It came to me that this is not my bed; my bed is for most people rather hard. This bed is too soft it is not my bed. I stretched and wondered why no light was shining through my bedroom window. A voice spoke, “If you want anything just speak and your wants will be fulfilled.”

My first thought, who the hell is in my bedroom, then from my mouth I heard myself saying, “light, let there be light.” The room flooded with light. I had my first chance to look around the room. I was in a room with a chair and this soft bed, definitely not my own bedroom.

Another voice spoke, a voice that I recognized. It was the voice of my girl friends father. “ I warned you time after time not to have anything to do with my Daughter. You both disobeyed me this is my punishment and my revenge. You are both in a space ship that will keep you alive for ten years or more. You will not be able to land anywhere in the Universe.

The space ship has gravity absorbers that stop this ship from landing anywhere, where gravity is present. That means that both you and my Daughter are on the way to a certain death. I have the satisfaction that no grand children from such an alliance will pester me in my old age.

The voice of my girl friends father stopped talking and the other voice cut in. “You are free to wander around this ship the Control Room is out of bounds to you. I am the ship’s computer and I have the power to enforce all orders that I may give from time to time.

A flat table like board came from out of the wall and a smell of hot coffee reminded me that my stomach was complaining. I did no know when I had eaten last. A complete meal was on the board like table. I ate my meal washing it down with the hot coffee. After eating my meal I watched the board move back into the wall.

I heard my voice saying how do I leave this room? Where are the washing and toilet facilities? The wall opposite the bed opened and a complete bathroom was to be seen. I was relieved at seeing that I could wash myself and use the toilet. I spoke again, “open this room so that I may look around the ship.” Another wall opened and I walked out into a wide gangway. No doors were to be seen and I had to use my voice to open doors One door that I asked to be opened was right in the front of the space ship the front of the ship was a huge glass like construction. I began to wonder what engineering science had been used to form this covering that gave me an excellent view of space.

At the back of my mind were many questions how was my girl friend coping; was her space ship the same as my own. Had her Father told her of his punishment and his revenge for our disobeying his will. Looking out into space reminded me that I had somehow to get this computer to obey me and to give me entrance to the control room of the ship.

I had another idea. I spoke out in a loud voice have we a store room on board I would like to make myself a few things to make things more comfortable. Suddenly a red line ran right down the corridor where I was standing it ended with a swing to the left. The Voice again, “follow the red line and push the wall where it ends that is the store room.”

Following the red line to its end I pushed against the wall and got another surprise. The huge room was filled with all kinds of electrical and mechanical parts. I have forgotten to tell you that I am a man with a degree in Engineering and also a Doctor of physics. My heart took a leap as I gazed around the shelves. Soon I had built a most powerful computer with its own electricity supply independent of that of the space ship.

My first move was to cut the supply of electricity to the computer running the ship and its voice. To test whether the computer was now inactive I asked for a cup of coffee. No reply from the ship’s computer. My own self-built computer had taken over. I gave the command that all doors were to be opened as I approached them. I walked to the control room. The ship was fairly easy to control most of the work was done by the computer, that is my newly built computer.
I gave the order for the ship to retrace its rout back to the earth and look for the computer that my girl friend was in. I must admit I was in a hurry to find my beloved and I ordered that the ship flew at full speed. I increased the power to the defense systems no small piece of stone or whatever it is that floats around in space would harm this ship if I could stop it.

Each space ship gives off a trace of ionic dust from the ionic fuel that is used to drive the motors and rockets that propel the ship through space. It was not long before my new computer informed me that we were now following the dust track of the space ship that my sweetheart was on. I could not increase the speed any more there was a danger that the metallic parts of the ship would break.

It took two months to catch up with the other space ship. Now I had to get control of the other ship. The computer would certainly have been taught to look out for my ship and me and to take avoiding action if we came too near. It was my new computer that solved this problem. I built a small device that when fired at the other space ship would stick to it like a limpet. In this device was another computer that I built just for this purpose. It would shut off the other ships computer allowing my computer to take over the ship.

I or should I say my new computer brought my space ship along side of my girl friends ship. I will not describe our feelings as we took each other in our willing arms. Hours were spent discussing whether we should go back to earth and punish her Father for his stupidity and for his putting the two of us in these space ships; so that we would never see each other again.

We decide to couple the two ships together, live on one ship and use the other for spare parts or if anything went wrong with he ship we were on. We decided to find a planet that had no inhabitants and start off again as Adam and Eve. It has been in the back of my mind for a long time that Adam and Eve were perhaps two lovers that had been expelled from a world somewhere in the Universe and had landed on our earth.

We had three children before we passed on to where all beings must go when their time is at an end.