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the sixth
vehicle was, and who was in the sixth vehicle, and he looked out
the window, miles out, and tried to see the vehicles.
    Colonel Pratt had said he believed the
vehicle was identical to their vehicle, the fourth vehicle, and
looked slightly aged, but he never said where it was, and he never
mentioned anything about Dan, and if he was anything to do with
what was happening, which confused things further. Was he really
his twin? If not, how did they come up with him? Was he altered to
look like him, by some form of cosmetic alteration?
    Yet why would they have done it? There was
more of a chance of them being caught! And what was his
mission?
    A shiver ran up his spine as he thought of
what was going to happen in the next hours, and days ahead, and he
could sense it could be bad, especially after watching Major Ripley
giving unaccustomed reactions, and now looked as if he was going
over everything, making sure that he had not missed anything.
     

Chapter 7
     
    Aboard the GX1
     
    All the
vehicles were allowed through the energy screen one by one until
only vehicle four and vehicle six remained, and Kruger watched them
on the screens in the vehicle being examined and searched, before
being allowed to drive into the GX1.
    Hundreds of
engineers and military robustly examined the vehicles and men, and
Kruger noted all the vehicles had two or three people aboard, who
were familiar, even though he could not fully recognize them, and
he wondered if he had been chosen for special treatment, as they
had the same vehicle as vehicle six, and they had been the second
last to be taken aboard.
    He even forgot
why he had wanted to come out in one of the vehicles in the first
place. What time would it be before he got back to his quarters? He
could not sleep here.
    When they
finally got the signal to proceed he had almost dozed off, and he
soon woke.
    A slight haze
could be seen in the energy shield if you looked closely at it in
places, if you searched for it, and he saw that there was now
another screen going behind the vehicle, which joined to the front
screen further up, like a bubble of energy around them, stopping
anything else getting in, and Kruger knew that they, the vehicle,
and everything in the bubble was being scanned to a degree that
would not allow anything to enter undetected. The makers of it had
gone to incredible lengths to secure the safety of them and the
ship.
    The front
screen, in front of them, was soon removed and they got the signal
to move up to the spacecraft, and as they left the screen behind
them shifted in and formed the normal screen again.
    The people at
the spacecraft took them aboard, and into the immense vehicle
center, where thousands of vehicles were stored, and began their
search and investigation.
    The thing that
started interesting him was their acceptance of Dan as being part
of the crew, and he withheld what had happened, and what their
suspicions were, until he was not there.
    He also wanted
to see if they found anything unusual about him, without him
affecting the investigation.
    After an hour
of intense searching, and medical examinations, and every form of
screening they were released into the food recreation center, where
he and the other two astronauts were given their meals.
    Now that he
was inside, and Dan had been examined, he started to become more
and more interested in him, and he decided to watch him, and study
everything he did and said, and carry out an investigation of him.
If he really was his brother he should have information about him
in his quarters. There must be pictures of him somewhere! Major
Ripley now accepted him, as he had passed all the examinations, and
only had the fact that he had not remembered him being there, in
the first place.
    The sixth
vehicle had also started to intrigue him, and when he had finished
he joined the other two when they returned to the vehicle center,
just as the sixth vehicle arrived into the spacecraft, and the
spacecraft closed.
    They