Child From the Sky: A Science Fiction Story

August 1

For Angie Torella, it was a night like no other night. She was out on a drive with her brother Joe. They parked at a remote spot, and got out to gaze up at a clear sky filled with stars. Suddenly Joe saw a strange bright light in the sky. Joe and Angie looked up with awe at the amazing sight. The light grew brighter and brighter in the sky, until it seemed larger than a full moon. 

Suddenly, a beam of light came out from the UFO, towards Angie. What happened next caused Joe to scream. Angie floated up into the air, as if the beam of light had some strange power of levitation. She rose up higher and higher, rising toward the UFO. Joe kept calling her name, as he watched the strange dazzling light in the sky.  The UFO remained motionless in the sky for twenty minutes. 

Then the inexplicable levitation was reversed. Joe saw Angie floating down from the UFO. She landed on the ground safely.  As soon as she had touched the ground, the UFO darted off, disappearing from the sky at amazing speeds. 

Joe asked Angie what had happened up at the UFO, but Angie didn't remember anything. The last thing she remembered was looking up at some bright light in the sky. 

Joe drove Angie back to her  apartment.  He wanted to take her immediately to a doctor, but she said she just wanted to get a good night's sleep.

August 2

The next day Angie woke up and felt enormously hungry. She ate the biggest breakfast she had ever had.  This was followed two hours later by a lunch bigger than any she had ever had. 

Joe arrived and drove Angie to the doctor. He insisted on the doctor giving her a full medical examination. Neither Joe nor Angie said anything about the UFO incident. They thought the doctor might claim both of them had lost their minds.  

Eventually the doctor asked Angie, "How long have you been pregnant?"

"Pregnant?" said Angie. "That's impossible.  I haven't dated anyone for six months."

"Having some problem with your memory?" asked the doctor. "Not only are you pregnant, but your pregnancy is almost half-way through."

Joe and Angie staggered out of the doctor's office. "Let's go get dinner," said Angie. 

"Dinner?" said Joe. "It's only three o'clock."

The 3 PM dinner was followed by another dinner at 6 PM and another dinner at 9 PM.  Angie's belly grew bigger and bigger. 

At one of the dinners, Angie and Joe tried to figure out what was happening. 

"That light you saw in the sky was a UFO," said Joe. "It levitated you up from the ground. Something weird happened up there. Somehow you got pregnant."

"But how could I be halfway through a pregnancy?" asked Angie. "I wasn't even pregnant yesterday."

"I don't know," said Joe. "Maybe this is the result of some weird power of extraterrestrial visitors we don't understand." 

August 3

The next day Angie had a huge breakfast, a gigantic 11:30 lunch, and then another enormous lunch at 2 PM. Angie wolfed down a great variety of foods. Her belly kept growing bigger and bigger. 

Joe stayed with her and kept shaking his head at the strange transformation.  After a very large 5:00 dinner, Angie made a sudden announcement:

"My water has broken," said Angie. "Drive me to the hospital!" 

Joe drove her quickly to the hospital. Very shortly thereafter, Angie gave birth to a son. 

Joe came into Angie's hospital room, and saw her holding the baby.  The baby looked like a normal human, except for a rather strange color of the skin, and eyes that seemed larger than any baby eyes Joe had seen. 

"No one will ever believe us if we tell what happened," said Joe. "No one will ever believe that three days ago you weren't even pregnant."

"Let's just keep it secret," said Angie.

"What should we call the kid?" asked Joe.

"Let's call him Tony," said Angie.

"Tony," said the newborn baby.

Joe put his hands over his mouth when he heard that. 

"This is insane," said Angie. "How can a newborn baby be speaking?"

August 4

Early in the morning Joe went to see Angie and her baby in the hospital. He couldn't believe what he saw. The baby was no longer even a baby, but a toddler. He was crawling around on the ground, and speaking in sentences. 

"We better get out of here as soon as possible, before the doctors hit us with a thousand questions," said Joe. Joe drove Angie and the child back to Angie's apartment. 

Angie's appetite had gone back to normal. But now it was the young Tony who seemed to have the appetite of three men. Joe spent much of his time making one meal after another for the child. It seemed that not long after Tony finished one meal, he was asking for another. 

By the evening Tony had grown to the size of a four-year-old boy. His mind took equally great leaps. Soon Tony began talking as if he knew very many things his mother knew. 

"How did he learn all those things?" said Joe.

"It's so weird," said Angie. "He says that if he just holds my hand, all things that I've learned flow from my mind to his mind."

August 5

"We'll have to register him for school pretty soon," said Angie. "I'm sure he'll have no trouble keeping up with the other kids."

After eating a gigantic breakfast and an enormous early lunch followed two hours later by a very large late lunch, young Tony asked to hold Joe's hand.  Later Tony seemed to know everything Joe  had ever learned. 

August 6

Tony kept eating enormous meals throughout the day. By 2 PM Tony had grown to the size of a ten-year-old boy. 

"I think we should go to the library," said Tony. Joe and Angie drove him to the local library. 

Tony started with simple books. His hands rapidly turned the pages. After turning all the pages of a book, Tony would say, "I've learned all that." He went very rapidly through book after book. Quickly he passed through first-grade books, then second-grade books, then third-grade books. He was up to the seventh-grade books when the library had to close. 

Angie and Joe drove Tony to a restaurant for an enormous meal, in which he ate more than two men would eat for dinner. 

August 7

After eating an enormous breakfast, Tony insisted that he be driven back to the library. He picked up where he left off before. Turning the pages of the books very rapidly, he passed through the textbooks of the eighth, ninth, and tenth grades. After pausing for a huge lunch at a nearby restaurant, Tony quickly scanned the pages of senior high school textbooks. 

"There must be a quicker way to learn," said Tony. "I should find a crowd. Let's go to the mall."

Angie and Joe drove Tony to a crowded shopping mall. By the time they all get out of the car, Joe noticed that Tony was now almost six feet tall. 

Tony walked through the mall, shaking the hands of strangers. Whenver he shook hands with a stranger, he paused, as he instantly soaked up everything each person had learned.  By the time Tony was finished he had shook hands with sixty adults from a large variety of professions.

"You're so big, I guess there's no point in applying to the local high school," said Angie. "I guess you're ready for college."

"Why waste years going to college?" said Tony. "In another few weeks, I'll know enough to take over this planet."