The Invisible Invader

STORYLINE:
(Spoiler Alert!)

If you feel you must, you may read the storyline before the novel. The author would prefer that you read the novel first and determine the gist of the story from it.

However, there are some philosophical or metaphysical underpinnings that – if they do not appear evident to the reader after perusing the novel – can be gleaned from this synopsis before, during, or afterward.

Originally this story was titled The Invisible Man so I may sometimes refer to the Protagonist as The Invisible Man while the Antagonist is the actual Invisible Invader of the title.

The Invisible Man is the story of an alien humanoid from a mirror sister-planet of Earth that has synchronously orbited the Sun on the opposite side it undetected since the Inception of the Solar System. He has come to Earth in pursuit of a fugitive member of his species who is determined to use human beings to (what else) Rule the World.

Chimera is a planet that originally – at the Dawn of the Universe – was an invisible non-corporeal single entity of conscious energy. Hence – besides the fact that it’s existence is shrouded by it’s position always opposite Earth on the other side of the Sun – it has always been undetectable by Earthlings.

Once a Single Unified Being comprised solely of Thought, Chimera is suffering from a gradual degradation towards physicality. This degradation is equal but opposite to the progress of Earth’s inhabitant’s towards eventual Unification as a Single Perfect Eternal Being.

At the time of our story, Chimera has degraded to the point that it has individuated into many separate consciousnesses although they are in general unified by their linked mind and their guiding principles of truth, right, beauty and justice. Despite their degradation, Chimerans still retain their ability to be invisible (although if they lose their energy sufficiently they can become somewhat visible or translucent). They still communicate telepathically, are clairvoyant, can pass through material obstacles, can levitate and fly (although not all that fast except for short periods of time) and have visited Earth on occasion to observe it’s progress and that of it’s inhabitants, which has given rise to many of the supposed sightings of ghosts, UFOs and other paranormal phenomena on Earth. However they have always tried to respect the Universal Directive of Non-Interference. Until now.

Raa’gan (pronounced Ray-gun or Reagan if you wish) is a Chimeran who has degraded so much that he has become Totally, Cynically Self-Centered. He has decided that he will escape to Earth where he can use his powers to Reverse his Fate and regain his Immortality. He can do this by using another power of Chimerans, that of Occupying other beings, particularly humans.

His first choice of someone to occupy after he arrives on Earth is a young up-and-coming drug dealer. Raa’gan sees him as his opportunity to gain power since the control of such Substances seems to Confer great Power upon the Dealer. He takes over the body and mind of the drug dealer and assumes his identity (it requires nothing more than that he do it). He then begins to develop his Aspirations to Dominate the drug trade in the city. Towards this end he decides to use the media to Enhance his Notoriety. He agrees to allow a tabloid to interview him.

Della Dream is the young female journalist to which this assignment falls. She has built her reputation on successfully debunking paranormal phenomena. But she has her own Ambitions to report more Substantive stories. So she is eager to interview this drug-dealer. She takes along her photo-videographer sidekick, Reginald Von Doppleganger the Third (Reggie), to accompany her.

Before she can conduct the interview, however, it is interrupted by the appearance of the other Chimeran (Da’an) who has been sent to capture Raa’gan and return him to his home planet.

Da’an (pronounced ‘Dawn’) is a kind of a law enforcement type, an Avatar of Justice, whom the Chimeran’s send to Retrieve Raa’gan once they realize he has fled. Da’an utilizes reflective surfaces like mirrors or still bodies of water to transport himself from here to there and to Earth. Once there he is able to Clairvoyantly sense where Raa’gan is and sets off to track him down. (Raa’gan cannot similarly sense Da’an as he has been on Earth long enough and been occupying a human so much that his powers have diminished somewhat. Plus, he’s not expecting him).

Da’an shows up coincidentally just as Della and Reggie arrive to interview the drug dealer (Raa’gan, although they are of course totally unaware that the subject of their interview is hosting an alien life form).

Before they even meet up with the drug dealer – who is accompanied by a couple of his sycophantic henchmen – Da’an intervenes and attempts to persuade Raa’gan to return to Chimera. Raa’gan, of course, refuses and resists. A confrontation ensues in which the two combatants attempt to use their psychic powers to defeat each other. Raa’gan exits the body of his host, the drug dealer, which promptly falls lifeless to the floor unable to sustain life without the parasite. There is a Spectacular Battle between Raa’gan and Da’an observed by all present including Della and Reggie, who even attempts to video-record it.

The battle exhausts both combatants of their vital energies in one final Spectacular Psychic Explosion. In an effort to survive Raa’gan enters first the body of one of his henchman who dies from the Shock of the alien’s Dark Evil Force, then the other who suffers a similar fate before Raa’Gaan finds refuge in a rat in which he Scurries away and escapes.

Da’an, similarly Mortally Enervated, under cover of the Explosion, seeks refuge in Reggie, who falls unconscious as Da’an has insufficient energy to sustain them both in a conscious state. The scene ends with Della trying to revive her comrade and wondering what just happened here. She is unaware that her friend and colleague is now hosting an alien life form although she has just Witnessed events and phenomena that till now she thought were hoaxes or otherwise rationally explicable.

Later Della visits Reggie in the hospital. He is in a coma but the doctors can find nothing wrong with him. In fact he is in better health than he has ever been due to the restorative efficacy of Da’an’s presence within him. Da’an while conscious within Reggie is too weakened to help himself until he can receive the also restorative energy of Solar power, from Sunlight. Fortunately, from time to time, the nurses take Reggie (Da’an) out to the Solarium in a wheelchair. There he can Absorb the Power from the Sun and begin to be Resurrected.

A few weeks go by. Della has lost her job at the tabloid after what happened with the drug dealer interview although she remains on good terms with the publisher, an older woman who sees her younger self in Della.

About that time Della receives an odd phone call from the mother of her former college roommate. Her husband (the mother’s) is a Senator who is running for President of the United States. The woman tells Della that something Strange is happening with her husband. He has become quite Energized and Charismatic unlike his usual mild-mannered deferential personality. Perhaps it’s the campaign but she senses it is Something Else, Something More. She has witnessed strange phenomena with her husband, other-worldly phenomena, which has prompted the phone call to Della, whom she knows has had dealings with such paranormal activity. So Della agrees to meet with her.

At that meeting, at the woman’s house, the Senator’s wife relates to Della how she has seen her husband at times late at night standing in front of the window of their bedroom. He seems to be looking up at the moon and the moonlight seems to be streaming down upon him and even as if it is entering him. At times she has seen another form separate from her husband as if it were uplifted by the force of the moonlight. The experiences have frightened her and she wonders if Della can help.

What the woman describes sounds suspiciously like what Della had witnessed at the drug dealer interview. She had caught glimpses of strange humanoid forms and shapes as the two aliens had fought, although at the time she could not tell what she was seeing. Her own normal Rational Skepticism didn’t help.

Della agrees to help the wife of the Senator who already has prepared a plan to hire the journalist to do public relations tasks and perhaps create a documentary of the Senator’s campaign. In that way Della could closely observe the Senator and, hopefully, his strange behavior. Just at that moment the Senator (Raa’gan) arrives. He is Suspicious of Della but can’t quite figure out why since he really didn’t meet her before when he was the drug dealer. Instead he ends up welcoming her with the Charismatic Persona he has adopted as the Senator.

Later, Della goes to the hospital to see Reggie. He is sitting in a wheelchair alone in the Solarium. He is still in a coma. Nevertheless, Della sits with him as she often has since he went into the hospital, and talks to him, relating to him her meeting with the Senator’s wife and what she told her about her husband. As Della is speaking, Something stirs in Reggie.

Suddenly, a Translucent Figure emanates from the young man. The Figure rises up right before Della’s astonished eyes. He tells her not to be afraid. He tells her who he is and where he is from. He relates the story of why he is there, who Raa’gan is, etc. Della can’t help but believe what is right before her eyes.

Ultimately the two of them decide that he, Da’an, will accompany Della on her assignment with the Senator. He will disguise himself as Reggie, the photo-videographer. At some point he will again attempt to capture Raa’gan and return him to Chimera. They must be careful though; the real Senator would die if Raa’gan is extracted unless steps are taken to prevent it. The plan is to capture Raa’gan in a Interior-Mirrored sphere device that the Chimeran’s created and gave to Da’an; once he has captured Raa’gan with it, he will enter the Senator until he has recovered sufficiently to function on his own. Then Da’an will be able to Extract himself from the Senator and return to Chimera with Raa’gan.

All of this must somehow additionally be done, if possible, without anyone else knowing that alien life forms are on the planet. Della would be the only one who really knows about the Chimerans.
But as soon as they begin their assignment they start running into trouble. Raa’gan, as the Senator, despite the Diminishment of his senses and powers as a Chimeran, is very suspicious of these two new additions to his entourage. He dispatches his Chief of Secrecy and Security to do a background check on them. In this way he discovers that Della is the reporter that was supposed to meet with him the night Da’an first tried to capture him. In a Fit of Outrage, he accuses Della and Reggie of plotting to assassinate him. He sics his security thugs on them but before they can be taken, Da’an casts down the mirrored sphere, which Explodes into a Billion Bits of Blinding Light, disabling all of them and allowing he and Della to escape.

The two of them go underground, being chased not only by Raa’gan’s henchmen but also the Secret Service, the FBI and most all other law enforcement. They managed to contact Della’s former employer, the tabloid publisher who doesn’t believe for a minute that Della is an assassin. She agrees to provide Sanctuary for the two fugitives at her remote cabin near a lake in the mountains.

There Da’an hatches another plan to capture Raa’gan. It requires, however that he transform Della into a Chimeran (temporarily) so that she can assist him. Without the mirrored sphere they need another way to capture and imprison Raa’gan. The only way would be for Da’an to absorb Raa’gan with his own Self. Della then, as a transformed Chimeran, would enter the Senator in order to keep him alive until he could function on his own.

At first Reluctantly, Della, over the next two weeks or so, goes through the process and training required for her to become a Chimeran. It necessitates Da’an transforming her DNA into Chimeran fundamental thought quanta through a process akin to hynosis. Then she has to undergo training in order to be able to control and Master her new Chimeran powers of levitation, flight, clairvoyance, telepathy, etc. Da’an also transforms Reggie into a temporary Chimeran so that Della can use him to recover after extracting herself from the Senator.

Eventually, Della and Da’an – in the guise of Reggie again – proceed towards the city where the political convention that will crown the Senator (Raa’gan) their nominee for President is about to take place. They manage to catch Him in a moment when he is alone just before he delivers his Acceptance speech. Da’an is able to Extract Raa’gan from the Senator whilst he is distracted admiring himself in a full-length mirror. Della enters the Senator but then must go out and deliver the speech. Afterwards, she says goodbye to Da’an who then returns to Chimera through the mirror with Raa’gan Captured in His Heart.

The End.