The Andromedan Saga (Among the Stars Book 1)
Page 16
Personal advisor quickly became silent.
A knock on the door shifted everyone’s attention. A guard opened the door. In front of the door stood two creatures who used to be President’s wife and son. Both have turned into monkeys. Martin stood by the door.
“I am sorry President. I did all I could.” Martin fell down on his knees.
Martin’s face start to cover in fur. Fur began to appear all over his skin.
“I am really sorry...” Martin completely turned in to a monkey human hybrid.
President’s wife and son wander around since no one is stopping them like martin did earlier. Martin also joined them.
“Oh Julie, My son...” President stood in his knees face down and tears well up in his eyes.
Panic began to crawl through everyone’s skin.
Chapter 42
USS Lonely, Near Earth’s orbit, Milky Way
“Fire the artilleries!” Captain said.
Artilleries of USS Lonely roared. Two rounds of artillery bullets hit the Xhilarian ship at full force. The hull of the ship exploded. Ship quickly caught fire and fell on to earth under the influence of earth’s gravity.
“Successful detonation.” One of the pilot said.
“Set course to Planet Mars. There is reports of enemy sightings.” Captain said.
The pilots typed commands in to the computer.
“Space tunnel will open in 4, 3, 2...” The pilot didn’t finish it, before that a warning light beeped indicating the presence of another enemy ship.
Two slightly small enemy ship passed above the USS Lonely at high speed. On the way they fired high calibre laser rounds.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
USS Lonely quickly caught fire.
“God speed everyone.” Captain said.
The enemy ships returned again and on the way they fired again.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
USS Lonely stripped into pieces and the pieces gained momentum gradually under the influence of earth’s gravity and fell down on to earth. The two enemy ships fly away into the distance in battle formation. In the distance, near moon, there is about fifty small battle ships all moving in formation toward earth.
Chapter 43
Saxonvilla Space Research Center, Green Planet
“The enemies have launched the biological weapon on planet Earth. Most of the people have turned into monkeys.” Miller said.
“Did they manage to strike back?” James asked.
“They managed to destroy two enemy fleets. But more are pouring in through the black hole. Someone send an armed nuclear warhead inside the black hole. They claim that they saw a high amount of heat waves indicating successful detonation. We still don’t know how much damage it is created.” Steven said.
“Did the enemies still manage to come through the black hole?” Samson asked.
“Yes. They are still pouring out through the black hole. I fear for the worst. They have also released their wolfdogs on Earth’s surface. It’s really bad out there.” Miller said.
Suddenly a light beeped indicating the presence of another ship. Everyone looked through the window. Then they saw it. Five ships have landed on the Green Planet’s soil. All wears the mark indicating that they are coming from earth. They must have left earth last year. Samson and James watched the oncoming ships with great expectation.
####
Book Three: Return of the Andromedans
Chapter 44
Deep Space, GP Mono Lark, Unknown Location, 2074 A.D
Ship’s control panel lit with a red colour and a big message PROJECT OMEGA LEAF ACTIVATED is displayed in blue colour.
“Sir someone just activated Project Omega Leaf remotely. I personally think something is happening on our planet” Ship’s pilot announced.
Captain came in front of the screen and looked carefully. “It’s been activated from our medical research center. Check all details about who activated it.”
“But sir, this project is designed to activate by our doctor, Simon, in very necessary situations. I really do think that there is actually some greater thing is happening without us knowing and it could be about our citizen’s safety.” The pilot said.
“But we don’t know whether this is done by some random hacker. A quick check won’t hurt anyone or anything.” Captain said.
“I will do that then.” Pilot said.
“Please do.” Captain said with a deep sigh.
The pilot quickly began to type in some random commands into his computer. Suddenly all the monitors inside the control room froze and they all displayed a banner in some kind of unknown language.
“Sir, some hacker is inside our network. Our firewall is down and I can’t type a single word. Everything is frozen.” Pilot said with a worry.
“Immediately do everything under code red. Initiate manual overrides and activate Zen firewall.” Captain commanded.
“Switching on manual overrides.” The screen in front of the pilot displayed a countdown procedure. “Manual override will activate in 4, 3, 2 ... Manual override terminated.”
“What?” Captain said shocked.
“Someone just take over our ship’s system network and everything is now under his or her control.” Pilot said with his own shock.
Some men quickly got inside the control room.
“Captain, we lost all our control on the ship’s engines. Our computers are frozen and a banner in some kind of unknown language is displayed.” One of the newcomer said.
“Is that like this?” Captain asked pointing to the frozen monitor which is currently showing a banner.
“Yes that’s the one.” The man said.
“You guys quickly go to engine room and freeze all controls and wipe every data, then reboot the ship’s core.” Captain said to the newcomers.
The men immediately exited control room and quickly paced away.
“Sir what do you want us to do?” Pilot asked.
“You all try to do what you think is right and wait for the ship to reboot.” Captain said to everyone.
Control room fell in silent for a moment then everyone jumped from their seats and start to do all kind of thing which they think is right at the moment. Pilot stayed in his seat and he start to unwire his computer from rest of the control panel. Suddenly a bright red light beeped.
“Collision in T minus fifty seconds” Ship’s automated system announced.
“Collision in T minus forty nine seconds...”
“Sir, we are on a crash course to planet HX-50.” Pilot said to the Captain.
“Oh, my god!” Captain said looking at the giant brown planet before them.
The ship have entered into planet’s gravitational field and is accelerating at each passing second.
“Collision in T minus thirty seconds...”
Captain took his radio. “Engineers, quickly cut off the main engines and activate pull up thrusters.” Captain’s shock is clearly reflected in his voice.
“Collision in T minus twenty seconds. Please proceed emergency protocol...”
“Sir, main engines have been cut off. But we are still gaining speed. The planet’s gravitational force is stronger.” The pilot announced.
“Did the pull up thrusters activated?” Captain asked.
“No, it hasn’t been activated yet.” Pilot answered.
The planet’s surface is clearly visible now. Ship’s outer surface is like a hot pan and the ship caught a light fire in its nose.
“Release the parachutes.” Captain said.
Pilot hit a red switch near his computer. Suddenly the ship pulled back indicating the successful release of parachutes. The ship’s speed decreased and it slowly descended to the ground.
“Collision in T minus ten seconds...”
Ship suddenly landed on the ground with a loud thud. Every part of the ship vibrated as the ship landed.
“Ship successfully landed.”
Captain and crew took a heavy sigh of relief.
�
��Everyone, check the entire ship and fix everything you can.” Captain announced.
The ship filled with commands of the crew. Everyone is doing their best to fix the ship. Captain looked at the control panel carefully. The ship is fully hacked to the core. There is no person on the planet Green who could hack like this kind of precision. The ship have been controlled remotely. The hacker must have some advanced technology, no doubt about that. Suddenly an emergency light beeped.
“Warning, incoming space craft...” Ship’s automated voice said.
“Everyone, remain in silence. Some kind of space craft is coming in our direction.” Captain said through the radio.
The ship quickly fell in silence. Everyone looked through the side windows for the incoming space craft. No one saw anything. But suddenly a ship came in front of their ship GP Mono Lark. The new ship circled around Mono Lark for some time. The new ship is a battle ship. Its exterior is filled with large guns and is in silver colour. The ship then quickly fly above and left the scene. Every crew in Mono Lark gasped.
Captain and the people inside the control room stared at the leaving ship with disbelief. They are somehow possibly near a war with a powerful galactic kingdom for sure.
Part 9: A New Hope
Chapter 45
Inside Skylark, Green Planet, 2076 A.D.
“Are you kidding? Last time we nearly died. Are you out of your mind? How do you propose us infiltrating that enemy base?” Thomas stormed at James.
“Last time we were the one who saved you. Don’t forgot that. Surviving in this planet is difficult, living is more difficult. Also Thomas, don’t forget your place. Let us, the soldiers, worry about your security. There will be no deviation from my decision. We are going to Pseudovilla to kill those bitches whether you agree or not.” James said back. His face redden with anger.
Thomas sit back in his chair silently. Samson stood up and went near the monitor in the small room. He flipped several images then stopped flipping when a satellite image of a large building came up.
“This is the building we are going to infiltrate. It will be a difficult mission. Thermal imaging showed heavy enemy activity and also we have detected more than ten of their ships circling the building’s perimeter.” Samson paused for a moment. “Well...We are going in there and eliminate all those creatures. Our real target is the prisoners they are holding. Like last time we hope there will be more human prisoners in there. We are going to storm in.”
“Do we know about how powerful those Xhilarians are?” Mason asked.
“Like I said they have an entire fleet of ships at their bidding. We have to assume these ships are loaded with heavy laser guns like we have seen before. We don’t care how strong they are. As long as they bleed, we could kill them. Our only problem is those wolfdogs. These dogs are getting stronger while the time pass on. This time we need to cut down all of them first thing during the mission for good. There may be thousands of those things. But since Stuart and team have arrived we could storm in there without getting hurt. We need to show those creatures that we are different. They should pay for what they have done to earth and to Green planet and to the planet Zera in the Santora galaxy. They think we humans are idiots. It’s time to prove that they are wrong.” Samson said raising his voice.
Everyone in the room nodded with euphoria.
“Ok then, this meeting is dismissed.” James said.
Everyone stood up and went outside the room one by one.
Samson, James and Mason moved to the ship’s control room.
“So this mission is going to be very difficult than ever. Do you plant to take anything extra with you?” Mason asked to Samson while moving.
“I am planning to take more flash grenades and may be some hydrogen grenades. We really is going to burn that building to the ground.” Samson said.
“I understand your enthusiasm, but do we have to take some precautions? At least against those ships?” Mason asked smiling.
“I haven’t decide anything about the ships. We really need some plan to take them down quickly.” Samson said thinking deeply.
“May be Stuart have brought some technology that could bring them down. He said he brought some advanced time bombs and grenades. May be there is something that could bring those ships down.” James said.
“Then where did he gone to?” Samson asked looking at his surroundings.
“He may be gone for a coffee. Let’s first go to control room and discuss about the plan thoroughly. Captain could give extra suggestions.” James said.
Samson nodded and the three of them walked inside the control room. Captain and the pilots were doing something on their computer. Captain shifted his gaze to Samson from the computer monitor.
“Samson, it’s good to see you here. So what’s the plan now?” Captain asked.
“It’s good to see you too captain. We are going for another mission tomorrow. This could be our final mission on this planet.” Samson said.
“Where is it this time?” Captain asked.
“Pseudovilla.” James said.
‘I heard that name a few days ago. Let me look at it.” Captain take out a thick document and started flipping through the pages. “This document is given by one of the men on a mission in Locovilla. I read this book when I am bored. Yes...Here it is...Pseudovilla, the first city with robot workers.”
“Well I see your reading a lot. Is there anything that could buy us a safe passage on tomorrow’s mission?” Samson asked.
“Well I read that there is big underground sewage network. May be you could go along the sewage. That could be a safe passage free from those wolfdogs.” Captain said.
Everyone looked at Samson with excitement.
Samson’s eye widened. “Sewage network?”
“Aha. It is built around 2040 and it’s wide enough for an adult to pass.” Captain said.
“This is a good information. So there must be manholes along the road in that area.” James said.
“Yeah. In fact I have a blue print of this underground network. Here you go...” Captain handed over a big piece of paper on which the blue print of the sewage system is drawn.
Stuart got inside the control room and looked around.
“Hey Steven, It’s nice to see you.” Stuart said.
“Stuart, you are here?” Captain asked confused.
Stuart nodded.
“Wait, you guys know each other?” Mason asked.
“Yes we do. I am the one who taught him to fly a ship.” Captain Steven said.
“Stuart we have been looking for you. Did you in any way bring any explosive that could bring down the enemy battle ships?” Samson asked with a great deal of expectation.
“I brought many laser grenades and hydrogen grenades and some TNT. Is that will be enough?”
“That will be just fine.” Samson said. “So how many of your team will be coming with us tomorrow?”
“We all are ready to come. But since there should be some soldiers to guard, I say a fifty will be coming.” Stuart said.
“That’s great. Now we don’t have to afraid any more. Wars are won by numbers, strategy comes later.” Samson said.
“Then let’s go and prepare already.” Stuart said.
“Steven, we leave you to do your business. And by the way thank you for the information.” James said.
James, Samson, Mason and Stuart left the control room and went outside the ship. Two military Humvees rested near the ship. All other soldiers were already inside the Humvees. James and team got inside the Humvees and Samson gestured at the driver to drive away. Drivers started the Humvees and the vehicles rushed through the gravel path to Saxonvilla. In the distant horizon sun slowly moved down and the darkness slowly crept through the land.
Chapter 46
Earth, Los Angeles, 2076 A.D.
“Willy, wake up. Today is the day we run for supply. Did you forgot it?” A middle aged man with beard said to another middle aged man who is sleeping on the small
bed in a small room.
“Ha...John...I need some sleep. I am really tired for a supply run.” Willy said in his sleep. He haven’t opened his eyes yet.