The news broadcasts were full of it, an Alien space craft was on its way to Earth and would soon be in orbit. The governments of the Planet were finally united under one cause, that was to find out the reason for the visit. What they were to discover though was this was a gigantic mother ship and there would be other breakaway ships which would actually enter the Earth's atmosphere and not on a friendly basis either.

One of these colossian breakaway ships headed straight for us here in England. It was so massive that when it did coe come to a rest above us, it completely blocked out the sun. It covered the entire area of England. The whole area was shrouded in darkness and panic ensued in the streets. Looking up, all that could be seen was miles and miles of this gargantuan metallic monstrosity. Beams emanated from its underbelly and thoughts were of annihilation but they were proved to be unfounded.

It was discovered that these beams were like garnering machines, they were reaping in female prisoners. Hundreds of women were being taken up into the craft and were never heard of again.

Frank, a military policeman, was assigned to the task force set up to investigate the incident but he felt so hopeless. What could they do against a foe as strong as this. So many reports of missing women were turning up there was no way of keeping on top of them. He was so stressed out by it that his girl friend, Kaz, worried about him. He tossed and turned at night, troubled by nightmares of the women he could not help and seeing their dead bodies in his dreams.

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Two weeks went by and they still were no farther along in their investigations. Kaz could not stop worrying about Frank. She closed up late one night before walking home from work.

Walking along, she thought, there really is not much difference between day and night now; with that monstrous thing over us it is just as dark in the day. I wish they would go and leave us in peace.

Her path took her through a large park area and while she was going through it she heard an awful whining noise overhead and looking up she saw the bottom of the gargantuan change colour and begin to glow. Next a beam of light shot down and enveloped her entirely. Her body shook and she did not know anything more until she found herself naked and bound to what appeared to be an operating table in an operating room. This was like no operating theatre she had seen before though.

There were some strange pieces of equipment lying off to the sides of the room. There was also what looked like some sort of drilling and sawing equipment just to the side of the table she lay on. God what do they do to people here? she thought to herself as she heard movement at the entrance to the room. A strange looking creature entered the room. It studied her for a moment, seeing that she was awake. It made a strange noise and some more of the creatures came in then and gathered round the table she was on.

They must have had quite some experience at studying the female human form because they put her legs up into what can only be described as delivery stirrups. The contraption that is sometimes used during the delivery of a baby.

"What...what are you going to do to me?" she asked frightened beyond reason now. They did not understand her and continued with what they were doing. They put a probe into her abdomen through her navel button and the pain made her scream. One of the creatures reached for a type of syringe and gave her a shot which she thought would knock her out. It did not. She lay there quiet now, unable to scream or cry while they tortured her. They pushed something up into her cervix and waited to see what would result. Again the pain was excruciating yet again though she could not scream.

While they waited for the results down below they turned their attention to her upper body, in particular, her breasts and face. They injected something directly into the breasts and attached suckers to the nipples. When the suckers were turned on, they worked something similar to a milking machine on a farm, tugging at the teats.

They looked into her face then and studied the orifices, the ears, eyes, mouth and nostrils. Passing a piece of equipment over her head they could see that the nasal cavaties lead fairly close to the brain and they wanted to get at her brain. A drilling instrument was inserted into her nasal passage and she wanted to scream in agony, but due to the drug she had been given she could not do so. It would have been a release for some of the pain if she had been able to scream or even cry, but they had seen to that. Fortunately though she passed right out and never felt another thing. Not even when they removed her brain. They put her on a machine which kept most of her bodily functions active because they needed her to be alive for the cross-breed that was growing inside of her.

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Frank had not heard from Kaz for the last two days and he was worried about her now! He went through the routine of clocking in every day and each day there were more and more reports of missing woman. He flicked through the reports until one sheet caught his eye. It had been placed by the café where she worked and had not been seen for the last two days either.

When home time arrived, Frank was only too pleased to get away. He drove to the cafe where she had worked and went in for a coffee. Steve, serving behind the counter, remembered seeing Frank with Kaz in the past and asked curiously,

"Kaz not with you today?"

Frank, tired and irritated by his day's work which had not gone well, almost bit the man's head off.

"Does she look like she's with me? No I haven't seen her in a couple of days. Anyway I thought this place had filed a missing person report on her. Didn't she turn up for work either in the last couple of days?"

"Search me, I only work here. Hey Micky, did Kaz show up for work after all?" he shouted through to the kitchen. Micky came through to the service area, wiping his hands on the dirty, grimy apron he wore when cooking.

"Who's asking?" Micky asked then recognizing Frank, gave a big toothless grin and said,

"Oh hi Frank! What's up? You lose your girlfriend? Well she hasn't been round here for the last two or three days. You can tell her if she doesn't show up for work soon, she can say goodbye to her job here. I can't afford to keep it open for much longer."

"I would Micky, if I knew the hell where she was. I haven't seen her for about the same period of time. You placed a missing person report on her?"

"Well yes, I thought that would be the best thing to do. She has never gone off like this before so I thought perhaps something may have happened to her and if so the authorities ought to look into it, don't you think? But of course, you're the authorities. I had forgotten that for a bit. Have the M.P.s come up with anything at all? I just pray for all our sakes she hasn't been taken by..." and he pointed upward, indicating the large alien ship. They both knew full well what it would mean if she had been taken. Each man secretly hoping that if she had been taken, she would have a quick death and not suffer for long.

"That's what I'm dreading too. Those bodies that have been found have been so terribly mutilated, the victims must have died in agony. Like you I'm just hoping we find Kaz alive somewhere and soon. Thanks for the coffee Mick, I'll let you know if and when we find anything out about Kaz okay?"

"Sure thing, take care now!"

Frank left the place, even more convinced than ever that Kaz must have been taken by the Aliens because it just seemed too much of a coincidence that she would go missing at the same time as so many other women. He got back in the car and drove out along a country road to his home. It was dark and he put the headlights on as the road grew even more so. Something caught in the headlights ahead of him and he stopped the car. From where he was it just looked as if someone had left a bundle of rubbish in the middle of the road but as he got nearer the stink reached his nostrils and made him feel as though he would throw up. He bit his lip to try to stop himself from doing so and with the electric torch he had in his hand, took a closer look. His stomach turned and his heart missed several beats, making him light headed and he thought he was going to pass out. He felt his circulation drain from his face and he became cold and clammy; there in front of him were the remains of his lover, Kaz. Her face was distorted and blood had spurted from her nasal area but the cause of the stink he found, was her abdomen had been torn open and her innards were exposed to the open air. He could not stop himself from retching and kneeling away from the body, threw up the coffee and whatever else he had had that day.

He knew it was because he knew this woman he was reacting this way but what was worse and what had not been found on the other women, was the split abdomen. He wondered what the s.o,b.s had done to her to warrant a result such as this. God how she must have suffered, he thought. He had his duty to do he knew and so going back to the car he reached over for the radio and contacted his base. As a result he was not alone with the body for long and soon the investigation revolved around the area. The remains were taken for a post mortem and he was questioned as to whether he had noticed anything else abnormal in the area. He was questioned and questioned until he could no longer keep his eyes open and they had to let him go.

The results of the post mortem came through the next day and they were surprised to have discovered that she had been made pregnant and recently given birth but not by natural methods. In fact, whatever had been growing inside of her had been ripped from her through an incision in her abdomen, hence the awful rip in her belly area. Once the results had been officially registered, the remains were given as decent a burial as could be mustered at short notice and that was another case on which the M.P.s could close their files.