by C. O. Amal
“It’s over man, they got us.” One of the soldier said.
Wolfdogs stopped running and stood in battle formation. They growled. Samson and Stuart don’t know what to do. They stayed there staring at the creatures.
“Orders sir.” One of the soldier yelled.
But no answer came from Samson nor Stuart.
A distant hum sound came from the skies. Everyone shifted their gaze to the sky. A ship is coming towards them at full speed. One creature said something through a device, possibly the creature’s radio. The creatures raised their gun at the ship. The ship quickly crash landed on top of the Xhilarian horde. Samson couldn’t believe what he is seeing. The ship is really huge.
In the ships side, Samson could make out the words. It reads ‘GP Mono Lark’. The ship have a logo of the Green Planet. Possibly some survivors. Wolfdogs growled at the ship. Then the ship’s ramp opened. The Wolfdogs immediately rushed at the boarding ramp at full speed. But something fly out of the ship through the boarding ramp at high speed. Wolfdogs stopped running all at once. They all looked at the sky. Some kind of human thing is flying. It stopped in mid-air and trained its hand at the wolfdogs. More things fly out of the ship and all fly in battle formation. Every one of the things trained their hands at the wolfdogs. Suddenly their hands halved transversely and a rode like structure came out of the hands. Possibly a gun. A moment later the place exploded in the sound of gunfire. Wolfdogs and the Xhilarians one by one went down. After fifteen minutes of gun fire, the things floating on the air came down and stood on the ground in a line, assembled.
Human soldiers looked at the scene in disbelief. How could they believe what they are seeing? They have been just saved from the death sentence.
From the ship’s ramp few human figures emerged. They all walked towards Samson and Stuart. Samson and Stuart stared at them open mouthed.
“That my dear is the Nano Robots, our final line of defence.” The leading human said.
Chapter 49
Pseudovilla, Green Planet
“Where were you all this time? We could have used your help earlier.” Samson said.
“Well, some bitches hacked our ship and all, we barely escaped from their attack and our ship crashed on to a planet. It took us nearly two years to repair the damage.” The leader said.
“Sorry to hear that. Any way how did you find us?” Samson asked.
“We saw the gunfire from the skies. We immediately activated the robots and came here without wasting any time. So is General Mason around? Who is leading you?” The man asked.
“General Mason is at our base and we are coming from planet earth, we are on our own.” Samson said.
“Planet Earth?” The man asked.
“Yeah. In the Milky Way Galaxy? You don’t know?” Samson asked.
“Ok I remember it now. It’s hard remembering things from the pile of information in my head.” The man said. “I am Gregory by the way. Captain Gregory.” Gregory put forward his hand.
Samson accepted the hand. “It’s honour to meet you. We have trucks waiting for us above this hill, we need to be hurry.” Samson said pointing to the hill.
“Ok let’s move out now.” Gregory said.
“What about the robots?” Stuart asked.
“What about them?” Gregory asked.
“Well can they find their way home?” Stuart asked.
“I can control them through this tablet computer. So no need to worry about them.” Gregory take out a tablet from his pocket.
“Well then let us be on our way.” Stuart said and moved in the front line.
Soldiers and the new crew quickly paced through the hilly path to the trucks parked atop the hill. Trucks are still where they have left them. Nothing bad has happened. Everyone got inside the truck and the drivers switched on the engines. With a loud sound the trucks came back to life. Drivers turned the trucks toward where they have come from and after a moment the trucks rushed through the gravel road.
“So, Gregory, when we heard about project omega and all we thought the robots where auto piloted. Didn’t know it has a remote.” Samson said.
“Well it had auto pilot system, but it was damaged during the hacking. The hacker did a pretty good damage on us. It’s actually fortunate that we all have survived, really lucky. God is really looking after us.” Gregory said. “And on the way we came across some amazing facts which will blow you guys away.”
“What facts.” Stuart asked.
“Well we don’t know what exactly it is. But we do have some theories.” Gregory shifted his gaze to one of his people.
One of Gregory’s men handed him a device.
“We got this from one of those enemy ships. It is a highly advanced piece of equipment.” Gregory said while unwrapping the equipment.
“What does it do, and how did you come by this equipment?” Samson asked.
“I will explain this when we reach your base. On our way we disabled one of the enemy ship and killed all on aboard. We got this device from their ship. It’s like a computer. But as I said before it will blow your mind once you know what it reveals.” Gregory said.
Everyone stared at Gregory for a moment mouth opened then all shifted their gaze to outside the truck.
“Well we need to reach our base fast. I can’t wait to know what it is. Driver, increase the speed.” Samson said.
Trucks jerked through the loose stones on the road. About hundreds of robots fly behind the trucks. After half an hour of journey they entered into Saxonvilla town. The town itself is very quiet.
“What happened to the people who were living here?” Gregory asked.
“They were exposed to a biohazard which causes instant mutation and they all turned into monkey like creature. Those who have escaped from the plague are hunted down by those wolfish creature you saw back there, we call them wolfdogs.” Samson said.
“Are you joking?” Gregory asked with a surprise look.
“Do I look like I am joking?” Samson said without any surprise in Gregory’s question.
“So is there any cure for this plague thing?” One of the Gregory’s men asked shocked.
“Not that we know of. Our researchers are trying their best to find a cure to this disease. So far they haven’t run into any luck.” Samson said.
“How many are you there in the base?” Gregory asked.
“There is about three hundred and fifty here in this planet including us.” Samson said.
“That’s a big number. I hope you can kill all those creatures.” Gregory said.
“With you and your robot’s help, it will be easy as taking a thorn from your leg.” Samson said.
Gregory smiled at Samson’s comment and then shifted his gaze to outside the truck. Rows and rows of trees are on one side of the road and other side is filled with houses. They finally reached Saxonvilla Space Research center. A group of soldiers were on lookout there and there. The trucks stopped in the yard of the facility and everyone got outside. In the yard soldiers and several researchers gathered to see the robots who are now landed on the ground and standing in formation.
Mason came outside to see the commotion taking place in the yard. He saw Gregory from a distance and ran for him.
“Gregory, where have you been all this time?” Mason asked while pacing toward Gregory.
“It’s a long story Mason.” Gregory said.
“I hope you brought my children with you.” Mason said.
“Of course I am. Here look for yourself.” Gregory said pointing to the rows and rows of robots standing near the gate.
“Oh, thank god. They all look in good shape.” Mason said with joy which cannot be hidden.
“They all are well. There is a problem with auto pilot, other than that they are fine.” Gregory said.
“I thought we lost you guys. What was the problem?” Mason asked.
“Some hacker did a pretty good job and damaged my ship. It took us about two year to fix the ship and these Nano robots. An
d Mason, you wouldn’t believe what we have found out about our fellow enemies.” Gregory said with a seriousness in his face.
Chapter 50
Saxonvilla Space Research Center, Green Planet
“So what is this important information you have?” Mason asked.
“Well, most of it is some theory based on pure facts. But...But you need to see this first.” Gregory took the device, which is stolen from Xhilarian ship, in his hand.
“What is it?” Mason asked.
Everyone in the small room looked at Gregory with curious eyes.
“We think it’s a vector device which could reveal higher dimensional creatures.” Gregory said with a single breath.
“What, I don’t get what you’re saying?” Mason said.
Everyone nodded in agreement with Mason.
“Well, there are higher dimensional creatures all around us and we cannot see them with our naked eyes. When we are on our way to this planet, we saw a Xhilarian army trying to destroy a planet with gigantic machines. We don’t know why they are doing, but I released our Nano robots to hunt those creatures for good. We also manage to get into one of their ships in search for information after the robots eliminated those creatures. Practically we saved that young planet from destruction. What we find inside the ship is this piece of technology. First we thought it’s something else which should not be minded. But once we take a closer look, we are amazed. Look see for yourself.” Gregory switched on the device.
The device start to show vector graphics.
“It took me a while to learn the controls. Here what you see is vector graphics. If there is a higher dimensional being it shows the life form on the screen, we still don’t know it shows all the higher dimensional beings.” Gregory pointed at the screen.
Everyone looked at the small equipment with hungry eyes.
“So did you saw any higher dimensional beings?” Samson asked.
“I am coming to that. We did saw a creature on that planet they were trying to destroy. We think this creature has something to do with the presence of life on the planet.” Gregory took a deep breath. “That planet was classified under the list of planets having life in earlier stages. The creature we saw is also very young. We strongly think this is because we saw the same kind of creature on this planet. On our planet. And this creature is very gigantic possibly a mature one. We think that we have a habitable atmosphere on this planet because of that creature. We in fact strongly think that every planet which support life have this creature. The Xhilarians are in fact trying to extract something from these poor magnificent creatures, and we think that if these creatures are dead the planet will no longer support life.”
“What are you trying to say?” Mason asked.
“I am saying is that Xhilarian’s target is this higher dimensional creatures, we somehow got in their way.” Gregory said.
“But they attacked us first.” Samson said.
“May be they thought that we are a resistance.” Stuart said.
“Exactly. They must have thought us as a resistance to their dirty work.” Gregory said.
“So, if this higher dimensional creature is responsible for our life, the thing we call nature must be this creature. Right?” One of the researcher asked.
“Of course there is higher possibility for that.” Gregory said.
Researchers are surprised by Gregory’s answer.
“So can you show us this higher dimensional being?” Samson asked.
“Of course. Come outside.” Gregory walked to the yard of the facility with the special device in his hand.
Everyone followed Gregory to outside of the facility. When Gregory reached the yard he placed the device on the yard and pressed a switch. Suddenly some sort of light rays came outside of the device and it went in all directions. Device is like a container of light and the screen seemed to be the door through which the light could go out. Several moments later the flow of light stopped and the device began to show vector images.
“Everyone gather around.” Gregory waved at everyone to gather around the device.
Everyone curiously looked at the screen of the device. The device is showing a gigantic creature in green colour.
“Is that what I think it is?” Samson asked.
“Yes. It’s a mature organism, no doubt.” Gregory said.
Everyone stood in a line to watch the creature. Those who saw it walked away for others to see it. Everyone is mesmerised at what they saw.
“So what’s the plan now?” Samson asked to Stuart.
“If they have this massacre in mind every living organisms are in trouble. We may be the only defence against the Xhilarians. We need to begin our resistance now before time runs out. First we need to wipe out all the enemies from here, then we need to move onto Earth and planet Zera in the Santora galaxy to save those creatures responsible for our life.” Stuart said.
“Ok let’s prepare for the final battle then.” Samson said.
Part 10: Enemies’ Secret
Chapter 51
Earth, Los Angeles
John looked at his small golden watch. It’s about noon, 11:50 AM.
“I think we are safe. We should go before those things come again.” John said.
“Ok, then let’s move out.” Willy said.
Both of them slowly crept outside the basement and moved to the mall. Mall is extremely quiet and no sign of break entry, the glass wall stood intact. John and Willy took some supply and placed them in their pockets. Pockets bulge out due to the size of the supply materials. Then they dragged the trolley with them. Willy opened the front door slowly without making any sound and John dragged the trolley outside.
They slowly start to walk to their apartment. The snow is really falling heavily. After a ten minutes’ walk the trolley is covered with snow. Dragging the trolley is very difficult since the tires won’t work in this thick snow.
“Where do you think those wolfdogs went?” Willy asked.
“May be to the city. They must have seen human movement. It seemed to be very important to them since a ship also went in that direction.” John said.
“But that’s the ship we saw on fire.” Willy said.
“Oh, I forgot that. Our military must be working very hard to bring them down. Since enemy ships go down easily, more of our fighters will come and surely sweep clean this mess.” John said.
Suddenly a sharp shriek came from their back.
“Shit! It’s them. Run for your life!” John yelled.
John put down the trolley and ran. Willy followed. They ran and ran until a large building is on sight. Willy take a quick glance at his back. The sight frightened him. About three wolfdogs are running at them. Presence of loose snow is decreasing their speed, but they are still gaining on them.
“Run!” Willy shouted.
John somehow manage to get near the building and opened the front door. Willy quickly rushed inside followed by John. John closed the glass door and both of them ran through the stairs for higher levels. Shattering sound of glass shifted their gaze for a moment.
“They are inside.” Willy said in horror.
“Hurry move.” John shouted.
Both of them ran again. Finally they reached third level of the building. John closed the door to the stairs and closed all the near exits. Then both of them moved onto the next level. Based on the height of this building it’s about forty story high. With each passing level John and Willy closed all the exits. A thrashing sound start to emanate from the lower levels. The wolfdogs must be thrashing open the doors. The doors won’t hold too long under the might of those creatures.
John and Willy quickly become tired after the long climb. If the elevators were working they would have been reached the top now. They have only climbed half of the levels. Willy and John start to hyperventilate. Based on the sounds from lower floor, the wolfdogs are almost on them. Those creatures are smashing and breaking everything in their path.
After the long climb
John and Willy finally reached the top. The exit door is locked. John take all his might and start to kick at the door. It seemed that the door won’t part anytime soon. Willy joined John to kick at the door. One, two, three, four, five, six.
Bang!
The door parted. John and Willy rushed outside and start to pant. Finally they are saved. Those wolfdogs won’t reach them that easily.
“So are you ready for this?” John asked panting.