Great Space Adventures of Unsung Heroes

Gary T. Brideau

Description

This book is a collection of space heroes that started as an ordinary man trying to get through the day. But something happens in their lives that changes their destiny from being just a face in the crowd to saving their world.

Sujets

• Space Opera
• Science Fiction
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 14 mai 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669877486
• Langue: English

Extrait

Great Space Adventures Of Unsung Heroes
 
 
 
 
 
Gary T. Brideau
 
Copyright © 2023 by Gary T. Brideau.
ISBN:
Softcover
978-1-6698-7749-3

eBook
978-1-6698-7749-3

 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
 
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
 
Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.
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Rev. date: 05/12/2023
 
 
 
 
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Contents
THE OUTCAST
Storyline
Chapter 1Four, Minus One
Chapter 2Something New
Chapter 3A Desperate Attempt
Chapter 4The Highway to Nowhere
Chapter 5Another World
Chapter 6A Slippery Captive
Chapter 7Thor’s Help
WHITE CLOUD CHAMPING OF THE INDIAN NATION
Chapter 1Lester The loser
Chapter 2White Cloud
Chapter 3Enter, Blue Thunder
Chapter 4Blue Thunder to the Rescue
AN UNFORGETTABLE VACATION
Storyline
Chapter 1A Change of Plans
Chapter 2Trying to make it Home
Chapter 3The Final Straw
Chapter 4The search
THE ADVENTURES OF MIKE AND HEATHER
Storyline
Chapter 1Next Stop, Earth
Chapter 2On the Run
Chapter 3The Unexplained Foe
Chapter 4Missing
Chapter 5Hidden Terror
Chapter 6Staying Alive
Chapter 7Is Mike Alive?
Chapter 8Depression
Chapter 9Ralf Eats Crow
The Outcast
 
Benjamin Stile s , age 19: and Captain of DXS-1 Assault fighter
Rick Stiles age 20: Ben’s Older Brother Co-Pilot on DXS-1
Valerie Stiles 17: youngest, & communications officer on DXS-1
Viola Stiles : Ben’s Mother after Allen died she married Ray.
Allen Stiles : Benjamin’s father dies in a car accident.
Ray : The Stepfather, dies by a toxic orange slime.
Allen Stiles Senior : from the planet Avalon Prime.
Herb : A Good Friend of the Family and Margret’s husband.
Margaret : Herb Wife, who is a Makeup Artist, on Earth.
Jack : The Police Officer on Earth.
Norman : The Plastic Surgeon on Earth.
Jessica : Benjamin’s Wife, pilot and second in command.
Kora: a waitress, and a very intelligent Science Officer. Kora is a wiz at computers.
Alfred , The security Chef on DXS-1. He can flatten himself and slip under any door.
Lorie: The Cook.
Elizabeth : Yeoman, and Jessica’s cousin.
Storyline
The story starts in the suburbs, somewhere in America. Viola remarried several years after her husband died in a car crash. However, much to her surprise Ray wasn’t the kind and understanding gentleman Allen was, but a tyrant. It was only after the marriage that Viola discovered her new husband was the type who demanded strict submission from the children or else.
Benjamin’s older brother, Rick, loved the idea that he could now boss his pasty brother around and get away with it. Valerie, the youngest, was a free-spirited girl. Nothing seemed to bother her until the day her rose-colored glasses fell off.
Ben dressed in light blue peddle-pushers with an unbolted short-sleeved shirt and sneakers. Rick always dressed as if he were going out to a formal dinner party.
Valerie: put on whatever she felt that day, regardless of where she was going. Her older brother Ben, who would become an outcast from the family, had to find his way in society and stay out of the way of the stepfather Ray or be destroyed by his influence.
Planets throughout several planetary systems are dotted with mammoth craters, as whole cities come up missing. The system governments are powerless to stop this mass abduction. One can only imagine the devilish fate that is in store for the unsuspecting population. It will take a nonexistent man to defeat this dark, sinister power, which preys on its victims while they sleep.
Chapter 1 FOUR, MINUS ONE
Late one warm summer evening, Ben was upstairs getting ready to go out for the evening. When his older brother Rick hollered from the kitchen downstairs, “Ben, get down here right now.” Ben muttered under his berth, “Dim-witted older brother of mine, always trying to spoil my evening; I wonder what he wants now.” Ben then hollered back, “I’ll be there in a minute.” Rick came storming up the stairs screaming, “I said I want to see you in the kitchen, which meant yesterday, not five minutes from now.” Ben replied you lighten up, will. Yeah, you sound more much like Ray every day.” Rick grabbed Ben by the front of his shirt and said, “You’re a slacker, your clothes, everything about you shouts, I’m a freeloader. Now get out of this house; you are no longer a part of this family.” Then through him down, he stares headfirst.
Valerie screamed, “You idiot, Ben could have been killed; you don’t throw someone down the stairs like that.” Rick shouted, “Valerie, go to your room and stay there until Ray gets home.” She replied, “No, I’m going over to my friend’s house so we can go shopping, and you can’t stop me. If Ray even thinks of touching me, I’ll have his butt in jail so fast it’ll make his head spin. Don’t wait for me because I am not coming home. I don’t know what has gotten into you, Rick, but you’re not the brother I knew.” Valerie ran down the stairs and out the door.
Ben made his way up the street to a nearby park and sat under a tree, wondering what he was going to do without a home. He knew as soon as his older brother told Ray his life wouldn’t be worth two cents. Just as he got up to go, Ben heard, “Hey, you there, don’t you know that there is no loitering in the park.” He thought, “Now what,” as he turned around slowly to apologize to the police officer, but saw Herb, a longtime friend of the family, standing there smiling at him. Herb walked up to Ben and said, “Do you want to tell me what the trouble is, or do I have to beat it out of you.” Ben immediately cringed and started sobbing, and said, “I’m sorry; I won’t cause any more trouble again, I promise.” Herb rested his hand on Ben’s shoulder and asked, “Son, what’s wrong?”
Ben screamed in pain as he recoiled from Herb’s touch. Herb then said, “Son, let me take a look at you under the streetlight.” Once in the light, Herb exclaimed, “Good lord, what flight of stairs did you fall? You’re all black and blue; you need to go to the hospital to be checked out.” Ben came back with, “No, no hospital.” Herb answered, “Ok then, you’re coming home with me, Margate has an herb bath that will take away the soreness, and then you are going to tell me why you’re all black and blue.”
Margate said, “When they were inside the door, “My gracious, what happened, Ben? You’re a mess; who threw you down a flight of stairs? I’ll get the herb bath ready for you, and then you can have some beef stew.”
Ben was in the middle of enjoying his stew when a knock came to the door. Ben jumped up from the table and bolted out the back door. Herb intercepted him in the backyard and asked, “Where are you going in such a rush?” Ben replied, “I have got to hide; if he finds me, he’ll kill me.” Herb answered, “Son, you’re shaking like a leaf. You’re going to tell me what is going on, and no one is going to harm you, I promise.” It took a lot of persuasion from Herb and his wife to get Ben back inside and to calm him down.
Late that evening, another knock came at their door; Margate motioned Ben to hide while she answered the door. Ray stood on the other side of the door and politely asked, “Is my son here?” Margate replied, “Let me remind you, sir, that he is not your son, and do you see Ben anywhere in my house?” Ray hollered, “Ben, it’s me, your loving stepfather.” When there was no reply, Margate asked, “So how many times a day do you browbeat Viola’s children? Does it make you feel good to push around helpless kids?” Ray snapped back, “Do you know who you are talking to?” Margate answered, “You can hide behind your power and money if you want to, but at far as I am concerned, you’re still a bully.” Ray hollered, “I can ruin you; do you know that?” Herb, several inches taller than Ray, stepped out from behind the door, looked down at Him, and said, “Go ahead and start something; I’ll make sure everyone in town knows that you beat your wife.” Ray calmly replied, “It was never proven that I beat my first wife or Viola.” Herb got right in Ray’s face and said, “Watch your step, you hurt Viola or any of her children, and you will have me to deal with. Now get off my property before I throw you off.”
After Ray was gone, Ben crawled from behind the couch and said, “Wow, I never heard anyone stand up to Ray like that, but he doesn’t give up that easily.” Margate answered, “Ben is right, we need a plan to stop him from coming after you, and I think I know how. Ben, you are going to die; it is the only way he will stop his relentless pursuit.” Ben put his hands up and said, “Hold on just a minute; don’t you think that’s a little drastic.” Margate chuckled and replied, “You’re not going to die, but it will only look like it,” then grabbed the phone and made several calls.
The next afternoon Ben was walking in the park when Jack, a police officer, grabbed Ben and said, “