Cow Cutters
Once we're inside the Earth’s atmosphere we have about one Earth minute to land on the surface, extract the pieces of cow and get out of there before the humans have time to realize what's happening.
We fly in two man teams for cow part extraction. We sell the parts to butchers in the dark side of Yuriba, away from the eyes of the Xeniack planet guards. What we do isn't legal, any inference with the human’s planet without special permission from the Xeniack government is punishable by a life sentence mining minerals on various moons throughout the system. Selling is easy, staying out of sight of humans is the important part. All of Earth’s transmissions are monitored by the Xeniack Earth Security Agency. Any mention of what the human’s call UFO, space ship, alien, or other keywords gets picked up by the agency then investigated, but mostly they just watch Earth TV.
From our telescope we can see the cows gathered in the field below the mountain. We fly down right under the trees that border between them. Once the door opens we move fast. First, we set the bait to lure the beast inside of the trees. From there we can work under cover without worry. One takes the bait, it starts wandering into the trees. Strike. We use a powerful sleeping agent so it won’t feel a thing. We then use our laser cutters to slice through the body with precision taking all the valuable parts as our bounty.
In the ship a motion detector has been triggered. The screen projects two humans on the mountain carrying flashlights and what looks like,
‘Cellphones.’
‘That means they may be recording us. What do we do?’
‘Abduction.’
‘Abducting without a license is a death sentence.’
‘I know but we have to erase their phones.’
‘We’ll have to move the cow too.’
‘Alright. Let’s do it.’
We raise the ship into the air. On the screen we can see the humans with that shocked look on their face. Mouths open, eyes bulging, disgusting. We shoot our tractor beams on the two of them pulling them up into the ship. We’re not quite equipt for abduction, but we can make this work.
Once they’re in the holding bay we spray the sleeping gas, the same stuff we use on the cows, on the humans. We take their phones to erase all the video and pictures of our ship. Using our telepathic ability, we enter the mind of the human to change his memory. We go back to the point where they saw our ship then implant a memory where they're asleep instead. When we’re finished we put them back on the mountain. We grab the cow’s body then dump it where it can't be found. Finally, we jet off into the open void of space to sell our meats.
‘That was a close one.’
‘Too close.’
At the Yuriba market we make a hefty 30,000 Xen for our trouble. Everything is going fine until we’re approached by the bounty hunter Orik.
‘There’s a bounty for your arrest.’
‘Why? What did we do?’
‘Your ship was caught on Earth. The Xeniack government wants to bring you in for questioning.’
‘That’s impossible.’
‘You ever hear of the Cloud?’
‘The Cloud?’
‘No. The Earthlings invented a computer memory bank that transfers their pictures and such from their communication devices to this bank through wireless signals.’
‘No. Never.’
‘You will soon.’
