by C. O. Amal
Samantha collapsed on the floor. Her body immediately responded to the virus. Her face filled with fur. Lucy wore the face mask and moved toward Samantha. Lucy sat on the floor and placed Samantha’s head on her lap.
“Oh! Girl, what have you done?” tears well up in Lucy’s eyes.
Chapter 39
Saxonvilla Space Research Center, Green Planet
“Move her to quarantine area.” Lucy said to the medics.
Medics take Samantha’s hand in their hand and lead her to a small quarantine area. Samantha have fully turned in to a monkey. Her lips bended in an unusual way as that of an ape. Her hands and legs and all other body parts are filled with fur.
“I can’t watch her like this. I can’t continue this. More people are turning to monkeys.” Lucy said to a nearby medic.
“Well, you have to adjust to this life. Life isn’t fair all the time. Sometime we have to take sacrifices.” The medic said.
“But she doesn’t deserve to be like this. She is still young. May be she didn’t even get a chance to enjoy her life.” Lucy said.
“I don’t know how to calm you down. You just have to understand. As the head it is you who should be confident. It is you who should encourage us.” The medic said.
Lucy don’t know what to say. She felt lonely. She is becoming lonely in this planet too. On earth she joined military after the tragic accident which took the life of her entire family. She needed a change. But now she is becoming lonelier. Everybody she knew is dying. She is the lucky one often. It is really lucky that she manages to survive the explosion in the Saxonvilla forest. May be someone above is watching over her.
“Ok, continue your work.” Lucy said to the medic.
“Lucy, come here. You may want to see this.” Graham called out.
“What is it?” Lucy stood behind Graham looking at the computer monitor.
“It’s that mysterious gas obtained from the forest. It is actually a pathogen. Very small artificial pathogen. And look at its DNA. It is encoded.” Graham said.
“What?” Lucy carefully looked at the DNA structure. It is actually encoded. “Do you know how to decode the information?”
“It will take time. First I have to extract the pathogen and then its DNA and have to look through the entire sequence. May be it takes few weeks or more.” Graham said.
“Ok then. I will look at it too.” Lucy said.
Suddenly a sound of an explosion came from outside.
“What is that?” Graham asked.
Then the gunfire started. Plasma bolts and laser bolts cut through the walls. Everyone inside the medical tent ducked. Glass equipment burst into pieces. The leather wall quickly caught fire. Everyone ran outside with panic. The site in front of them increased their panic. A big ship full of Xhilarians have landed outside the gates and they all are shooting down the human soldiers. Soldiers are doing their best to hold them back. Suddenly wolfdogs emerged from the ship and ran to the nearest soldier. In a fluent movement the first wolfdog killed the soldier with a single blow using it paw. Blood oozed down from the soldier’s neck.
Lucy, Graham and other medics quickly ran inside the building. Soldiers also followed them in to the building. Soldiers closed the doors and trained their guns on the window to outside.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Mini plasma cannons roared. About ten Xhilarians and about the same number of wolfdogs went down. Suddenly a Xhilarian took out the blue light thing and showed it up to the soldiers. Quickly the soldiers who saw the blue light dropped their guns and stood up.
“What are you guys doing? Shoot them down.” Lucy screamed from under the table.
“It’s the mind controlling device.” Graham said.
Thomas and Jasper came out from the communication room and saw the soldiers who are surrendering. They quickly take out the laser guns from its holster. They ran behind the soldiers and stopped them from leaving. Suddenly a loud thrash came from the front door.
“It’s the wolfdogs.” Thomas said.
Thomas took a plasma gun and trained it to the door. He pulled the trigger. The door burst in pieces along with the wolfdogs. The creatures lifted the blue light device again. But Thomas is shooting by closing his eye. He moved the gun in an arc. The plasma bolts cut everything in the line of fire. One Xhilarian in black suit dodged each plasma shots and ran to Thomas. In its hand is a big sword. It ran and threw the sword in Thomas’ direction. Jasper quickly pushed away Thomas on to the floor. Thomas didn’t take his hands off from the trigger even though he is down on the floor. Plasma bolts pierced the wall and moved at high velocity to outside. Thomas finally take his hands off and looked back. Jasper is standing on his knees and a big sword is inside his stomach. Blood oozed down from the wound.
“Jasper!” Thomas said. He couldn’t believe what he is seeing.
“It’s ok Thomas. Please finish the work and make sure those...those creatures are dead.” Jasper said with pain. “Ahh...” Jasper went down.
The creature in black suit came through the open doorway. Some soldiers fired at the creature. But it masterly dodged each shot and it take out a knife from its holster from its waist. With a fluent movement the creature cut open the soldiers’ throat. Soldiers who were firing collapsed to the floor. Lucy take out her gun and came from the creature’s back side. She raised her gun and pointed to the creature’s head and fired. But the creature dodged the shot and kicked at Lucy’s stomach. Lucy fell down after a small flight through the air. Lucy stood up and cleared the blood from her lips using the back of her right hand.
“Come on sucker.” Lucy stood in battle formation and taunted the creature.
The creature grinned and walked toward Lucy. It launched a powerful blow at Lucy’s face using its fist. Lucy fly again in air and collided with the wall and collapsed. She stood again. The creature said something in the unknown language.
“Stand down human vermin, only if you want to live.” The device strapped to the creature’s waist translated.
Boom!
The creature’s head exploded. In the doorway James and Samson stood pointing their plasma guns.
“James!” Lucy said.
Chapter 40
Saxonvilla Space Research Center, Green Planet
“We were just in time.” James said.
“If you weren’t here I would have been dead.” Lucy said.
“Don’t worry about it again.” James said.
Soldiers surrounded the place. One soldier took the blue light device from the hands of the dead creature and give it to Samson.
“It’s that mind controlling device.” The soldier said.
Samson handed it over to Graham who took the device from Samson’s hand.
“We may be able to find the secret behind it soon.” Graham said.
Soldiers outside searched the ship resting near the gates. There is no sign of creatures inside it. Samson came outside and walked toward the ship.
“Anything good?” Samson asked to the soldiers who were searching the ship.
“Nothing sergeant.” One of the soldier answered. “This ship is indeed a high tech one. All controls are possibly voice activated.”
“Can we fly it using that translation device?” Samson asked.
“May be.” The soldier said.
“Then we may able to go to all of their bases and can easily take them down.” Samson said. “Ok then, search everything for anything good”
“We will.” The soldier replied.
Samson left the scene and moved inside the facility.
“So you’re actually from another galaxy other than this and the Milky Way galaxy?” Lucy asked to Amber.
“Yes. We are really from Santora galaxy.” Amber said.
“How did you survive?” Lucy asked.
“We somehow escaped the virus pandemic and were living inside a rural region. But those things captured us and moved us here. They were planning to experiment on us.” Amber said.
“So t
hat Xhilarians are really searching for something.” Lucy said.
“Yes they are. They are turning us into monkeys so that experimentation will be easy.” Amber said.
“Are you hungry?” Lucy asked.
“Yes I am. I am dying to taste something.” Amber said.
“Then come with me.” Lucy leaded Amber to cafeteria.
Mason walked toward James. James smiled at Mason.
“So what is your plan now?” Mason asked.
“We will strike back again.” James said.
“So how did the Wintoria mission go?” Mason asked.
“We lost five soldiers. And as you have seen we saved humans who are neither belongs earth nor this Green Planet.” James said. “Do you know about them?”
“We do know about Santorans. They live in harmony with nature and they are not so advanced race.” Mason said.
“How long did you know about the extra-terrestrial life forms?” James asked.
“We knew this for centuries.” Mason said.
James looked back in disbelief. “And you have kept it as a secret?”
“James, we took this decision for everyone's sake.” Mason said. “Powerful knowledge comes with greater responsibility.”
“You could have at least anticipated a mass scale attack such as this.” James said.
“We did as a matter of fact. But it turned out to be a failure.” Mason said.
“I need to get some air.” James left Mason and went outside.
Mason stood there for some time and then went inside communication room. Most of the people are cleaning the mess now. Walls are entirely collapsed.
“Jasper’s hacking skill were awesome. What a waste.” Thomas said.
“How could you say things like that? He saved your life.” Thomson said.
Thomas became silent.
Suddenly the computer monitor came to life.
“What is this?” Thomson asked.
Thomas looked carefully. “It’s a message from earth.”
Thomson clicked on the button and suddenly a voice message came to life.
“Earth is under attack. Xhilarians are everywhere. They have destroyed most of our star fleet. Make sure your safety and god bless you all.” The message ended.
“What should we do?” Thomas asked.
“We should tell this to James.” Thomson said.
“What are you all discussing?” Mason asked.
“Earth is under attack by those Xhilarians!” Thomas said.
“What? When?” Mason asked.
“Actually it is happening right now as we speak.” Thomson said.
Mason quickly walked outside toward James. James was standing by the front door watching soldiers near the Xhilarian ship.
“James.” Mason called out.
“What is it?” James asked.
Mason nearly panted. “Earth is under attack. A message came just moments ago. What are you going to do?”
“What can we do? First we need to make this place safe. Meanwhile the people of earth need to handle the problem themselves.” James said. “I am sure they could handle this easily. They were preparing for this attack for days before.”
“I hope they will be safe. Mason said.
Samson heard the commotion from behind James. “We should return to earth and assist them.” Samson said.
“We will Samson. But our mission is clear. We need to make this place habitable again. We need to find a cure and save these Andromedans along with your Jenny.” James said. “Do you really want to leave Jenny when we are this close to finding a cure and to end the war?”
Samson became silent. “Ok.”
Suddenly James’ radio beeped. “James, this is captain Miller. Do you copy?”
“Loud and clear Miller. What is it?” James asked through the radio.
“We were in a video conference with earth and they are saying that the Xhilarians have begun to attack. They are calling back all the ships for the war.” Miller said.
“We got the message too. But we are not ready to leave this planet. We need a little more information from this planet and we should also make sure Andromedans’ safety. How copy?” James said.
“Loud and clear. Looking forward to it.” The radio became silent.
Chapter 41
White House, Washington DC, Earth
“Mr President, these Xhilarians are everywhere in our air space. Two of our ships has been destroyed by them. We need to act now before those things release any biological weapons.” Defence Minister said.
“Kill them all then. Take everything from our arsenal. Use even nuclear, if necessary.” President said. Do everything under the code red alert.”
“Thanks Mr President. Everything will be in effect soon.” Defence Minister said.
Suddenly a guard opened the meeting room door and rushed inside. “Mr President, sir, those aliens have launched a biological weapon. The gas is spreading everywhere. You may need to wear this.” The guard handed a face mask to President.
Panic began to stir inside everyone.
President accepted the mask and wore. “Everyone move to the bunker now. There will be more masks.”
Everyone stood up with panic face. A moment of pause. Then everyone start to move out of the room to the bunker. On the way everyone saw the gaseous material through the window. The gas is green in colour and is spreading instantly. They all increased their pace toward the bunker. Two guards where in front of the bunker. They opened the door for President. Everyone rushed inside the bunker.
“Martin, please bring my wife and kids here immediately.” President said to a guard.
Martin, the guard is a big man with beard. “I will see what I can do sir.” Martin left the room to another part of the white house.
“Switch on the television.” President commanded.
Another guard came forward and switch on the television. He changed the channel to a news channel. The screen is filled with enraged people. People are storming everywhere. Then the news lady came up.
“Most of the major countries are under the plague. The victims shows unusual hair growth on their body. They are actually becoming more like monkeys. We will update to the most relevant news soon. People are storming everywhere for explanation and for a possible cure.”
Then the screen shows the plague victims. They have actually turned in to monkeys.
“What should we do now? I have kids in my home and they are all alone.” One of the female staff cried.
“It will be alright soon.” President try to calm down the lady.
Then a sudden explosion filled the screens. The news lady came up again.
“Most of the American cities have effected by the plague. Looks like the plague is active only for five minutes. The aliens have started war all over earth. They are hunting down the plague survivors. Also watch our latest update.”
The screen showed images of wolf dog hybrid creatures. They are hunting down humans and are not showing any mercy. The images are taken from high above a building.
“Poor souls.” President said. “What should I do?” President asked confused.
“We can’t do anything about it now. We have to wait for our soldiers to act.” Defence Minister said. “They are already prepared for everything so you don’t have to worry about it.”
“Do you thing the situation is under control? Did you watch the news? These things are hunting down every one of us, humans.” President enraged.
“Patience sir. It will take some time to get control of everything.” President’s personal advisor said.
“As you have watched, these images are taken from above ground level. These wolfish dogs are cutting down human population. So far government is not involved in anything. Are they hiding safely under the roof? Will they help us? Questions still remains but there will be no humans alive at this rate.” The news reporter said.
“Turn off that damn thing. I don’t want to hear anymore.” President said, still e
nraged.
“Please calm down sir. You need all information that can get to tackle the situation.” President’s personal advisor said.
President suddenly punched him in the face. Guards quickly pulled away president.
“Do you really thing calming down will solve this problem you idiot.” President said angrily.