by C. O. Amal
Edgar took the apple from his pants pocket and he took a bite.
Andy and his team are pretty much alerted and they are moving by pointing their rifles. According to Andy, north base is the last surviving human refugee camp. Edgar and Katie can’t wait to see the north base.
They passed many crumbled vehicles and crumbled buildings. Greenery thrive everywhere and there are a large number of vines hanging from the top of the buildings. There aren’t any building with intact glass structures. Everything is in run and Nature reclaimed everything.
Like Edgar had thought, Andy also believes that the aliens are preparing the Mother Nature for the harvest. The crystal towers may be the first step towards obtaining the harvest.
They walked through the dark road for hours, and finally, when the evening sun brightened up in the sky, Edgar and Katie saw the outer wall of the north base.
A few minutes later, the outer wall clearly came into view. The outer wall is made up of stones and the wall is huge. And there are sentries everywhere on top of the wall.
Before long, Andy and team entered inside the north base through the wide gate. As soon as they are inside, a sentry closed the gate. There are many good looking buildings here. Buildings aren’t that pretty, and they are not that tall too.
Edgar and Katie then began to see people. Most people are doing some works around their houses. Some of the woman are in the middle of a good gossip. The whole base is alive in all way. Andy navigated his team through the crowd and finally they saw the main building in a distance. There are sentries armed with M16 all around the main building.
Andy smiled at the sentries and the sentries made a path for them to pass. Andy and team quickly entered inside the huge main building through the wide doorway. Inside the building, there are a few dozens of men and woman who are armed to the teeth. They all are talking each other and are enjoying their time.
“Everyone is here.” Andy said to Edgar with a smile. Edgar nodded.
Finally, Edgar feels home.
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Chapter 55
“People, thank you for coming on such a short notice.” The leader stood on a small podium and he shouted.
“Who is he?” Edgar asked Andy.
“He is Frank and he is the leader of the resistance.” Andy said.
Edgar nodded.
Frank continued, “I called this meeting because, it came into my attention that, the enemies are growing stronger here. They have started building their crystal towers in the north. And near that crystal tower, trees are withering and are dying. We need to act quickly or we may lose our base soon.”
Suddenly, a man stood up. “We are still having dreams, or, visions if you call that, about Mother Nature. Do you have any theory for that?” He asked.
“We are still working on that.” Frank said. “Since, so far the dreams were true to us, we have to assume that these aliens are targeting our Mother Nature. They may be draining her energy. That’s exactly why we need to act quickly. So, are you all with me?”
“Yes, we are with you.” Everyone said aloud.
“Then, we will march towards north tomorrow morning. Eat and drink and empty your hunger. A long war day is ahead.” Frank toasted a glass of wine.
A few men quickly took wine bottles from nearby shelves and they supplied the drink in plastic glasses. Edgar took a glass of wine from a nearby table and he sipped. And he looked at Andy.
“Now, I feel alive.” Edgar said. “Let’s send them straight to hell.”
Andy smiled. “For tomorrow.” Andy toasted his drink.
“For tomorrow.” Edgar said.
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Chapter 56
Somewhere in Planet Zera
The Xhilarian fleet slowly approached Samson’s ship.
“Sandy, can you get us out of here?” Samson asked.
Sandy looked at the control panel. Suddenly, A Xhilarian, supposedly the fleet commander, appeared on the control panel.
The Xhilarian started saying something in the unknown language, but Sandy’s translator didn’t said anything.
“Sandy, get us out of here, please.” Samson said with a worry.
“Ship, can you space jump to planet earth in the Milky Way galaxy?” Sandy asked through the translator.
“Yes.”
“Then do it.”
Suddenly a blue light ring appeared in front of the ship, and then, the blue light ring began to rotate at high speed. A moment later, the wormhole formed in front of the ship.
Suddenly, the Xhilarian fleet opened fire at Samson’s team. But, before the laser bolts could damage the ship, the ship entered inside the wormhole.
A few minutes later, the ship ejected out of the wormhole, and far away, through the control panel, Samson and team could make out the form of earth which is floating in the everlasting darkness.
Finally, home!
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Chapter 57
Somewhere in Planet Zera, Inside a Xhilarian base
Zabar is very busy monitoring the crystal towers. Suddenly the door to the command room burst opened and a few Xhilarians stood in the doorway.
“Sir,” One of the Xhilarian said.
Zabar looked in their direction. “What?”
“One of our ship went rogue.”
“What? When?”
“The past hour. We think that the humans are the one who behind this.”
“What’s the ship ID?”
“1001.”
Zabar quickly gestured at a nearby Xhilarian to do something. The Xhilarian frantically typed instructions into the computer.
“Sir, they space jumped into Milky Way galaxy.” The nearby Xhilarian said.
“Where are they going?” Zabar asked.
“To Earth, sir.”
Zabar’s mouth widened.
They are walking right into our base.
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Chapter 58
Somewhere on planet earth
Edgar, Katie, Andy, Frank and rest of the resistance fighters marched towards north. The black road is filled with fallen leaves and at several places there are crumbled vehicles. Each of them are armed with M16 and they all have back packs which are filled with explosives.
Before long, they exited the black road and entered into a dirt road. Then, far away, they could make out the form of a white tower. The tower is huge and its foot is not visible since there are a large number of trees all around the tower.
“People, ready or anything unexpected.” Frank reminded everyone.
Everyone nodded and they increased their pace.
Suddenly, a series of growls came from a nearby tree land. Frank motioned at everyone to get ready. Then Frank and Andy ran in the front line and they peered over the tree land in front of them. The growls are coming from nearby. Edgar and rest of the team closely followed Frank.
They quickly entered inside the forest. Everyone quickly drew out grenades from their back packs and they all braced themselves. Then they saw it. It was regular dogs. There is a pack of them there. They all are tearing down and eating a human body. And a decaying smell is all over the place.
Everyone covered their nose with their hands and they quickly moved away from the scene. The feral dogs didn’t even attempted to look at the humans. They all must be very hungry.
They then walked for hours. When they got thirsty, they drank water from the water bottles. When they got hungry, they ate fruits which they brought with them.
Finally, a few hours later, the tower fully came into view. The tower is in fact standing nearby a huge tree less hill. The whole tower glistened in the sunlight. Then they saw a cube shaped building nearby.
“People, that’s a Xhilarian base.” Frank said pointing at the building. “Get ready, and good hunting, everyone.” Frank and Andy quickly ran towards the Xhilarian base.
Edgar’s heart pounded faster. This is it. It’s time to send those bastards to hell. Edgar and rest of the team closely followed
Frank.
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Chapter 59
Somewhere on planet earth, A Xhilarian base
The Xhilarian base stood proudly on the foothills. A few guards are wandering around the base, armed to the teeth. The Xhilarian commander stood near the window and it analysed the crystal tower which is standing right next to the base.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
Suddenly gunshots broke out from outside. The Xhilarian commander quickly drew out its small handheld laser gun and it ran towards the front doorway. Then it saw through the doorway that, a few dozens of humans are approaching from all directions.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Xhilarian commander and the nearby Xhilarians quickly opened fire. A few humans quickly went down and the same number of Xhilarians also went down. The commander quickly drew out a rectangular device from its pocket and it pressed a red switch. Suddenly, an alarm went off and a battalion of Xhilarian soldiers came from deep inside the base.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Xhilarian commander stepped outside and it continued to fire
Suddenly the humans started throwing grenades. A few Xhilarians quickly went down in the grenade explosions. Then, one of the Xhilarians managed to activate the mind controlling device. It walked towards the approaching humans, showing the blue coloured mind controlling device to everyone. A stream of blue light continuously flew out from the device like a river. The light is going only in one direction.
Suddenly, all the humans stopped moving and they all dropped their weapons.
Too easy. The Xhilarian commander broke into a giggle.
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Chapter 60
Edgar slowly opened his eyes. Then, he couldn’t believe what he is seeing. His hands are restrained and an army of Xhilarians stood before him. Andy, Frank, Katie and others are also here. All of their hands are restrained.
“What the hell?” Edgar muttered.
He couldn’t remember anything. He remember operating his gun against the Xhilarians and then he saw a blue light. And that was it. He remember nothing else. A Xhilarian, probably the leader, is standing nearby and it is giggling at Edgar.
“What the hell are you laughing at, bastard?” Andy asked the Xhilarian leader.
But the leader said nothing. It continued to laugh. Suddenly, a swoosh came from the sky. A Xhilarian ship. This is it. They are going to take Edgar and his team to their concentration camps.
Suddenly it happened. The small Xhilarian war ship opened fire at the crystal tower which is nearby. Laser bolts rained at the tower from the ship and the tower collapsed on top of the Xhilarian base, just missing the Xhilarians. Dust blew in all directions and a kind of mist hovered over the debris.
The whole place then exploded in commands in the unknown language. The Xhilarians are running in different directions and some of the Xhilarians opened fire at the Xhilarian rogue ship. A moment later the ship landed nearby, and its boarding ramp slide down.
Suddenly, a few dozens of humans came out of the ship, shooting plasma bolts in all directions. Then Edgar saw that, there are humans who are in partial clothes coming out of the ship. Those people are armed with bows and arrows.
The swoosh of the arrows came from here and there. A few minutes later, everything fell in silence.
Excitement jolted through Edgar. Then the humans with plasma guns came towards Edgar and his team, and they cut down the restraints which are on the hands of Edgar and his team.
“Who are you?” Edgar asked his rescuer, with full of joy.
“I am Samson.”
“The Samson? Who went to Andromeda galaxy?” Edgar asked.
Samson nodded his head. Suddenly, with a series of swooshes, a Xhilarian fleet approached the survivors from the distant sky.
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Epilogue
The Xhilarian war fleet slowly approached Samson and the small band of survivors. Samson could make out five ships in the fleet. Samson and team braced themselves. Suddenly, two gigantic unknown ships came out of nowhere and they opened fire at the Xhilarian fleet. The unknown ships were actually coming from the rear of the Xhilarian fleet. The Xhilarians seemed to have not noticed the new ships.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Fire engulfed the Xhilarian fleet and with loud bang all the ships in the fleet exploded into pieces. The remains of the explosion landed here and there on the ground, throwing tons of dirt in all directions.
When the dust settled down, both the unknown ships landed nearby. The unknown ships are actually huge. Then, the side ramps of the ships slide opened and a few hundreds of humans marched outside. Samson actually couldn’t believe what he is seeing.
Samson then looked at the ships more closely. There are no name boards on top of the ships. The ships are entirely black in colour and there are not even any markings. The newly arrived humans walked towards Samson.
“Who are you? Where are you coming from?” Samson asked the approaching crowd.
Then a tall man came forward. “I am Johannes. We are coming from Tron Tee galaxy. Our homes were destroyed. We were told that, earth is our last hope.”
“But, they are here too. They are building crystal towers everywhere.” Samson said.
“True. But together, we can defeat them.” Then he looked at the crystal tower which is magically growing up. “You can’t destroy the towers like this. They will keep growing from the ground. To stop them, we need to burn it down.”
“So, we have to play with fire now?” Samson asked smiling.
“Yeah. To fight against fire, we need fire.”
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This story will continue in the book The Fourth Dimension, volume three in the Among the Stars Series.
About the Author
C.O. Amal lives in a small house in Wayanad district of Kerala state of the country India with his father, mother and sister. He loves to read science fiction apocalyptic books. He writes a lot. His imaginations are all about extra-terrestrial life and colonizing across the galaxy. He believes human kind will soon reach its glory in space travel and soon everyone can travel to the deep space.
He love scientists like Stephen Hawking a lot. He can be often found watching Discovery channel. He is living in harmony with nature. His best friends are the cows in his home.
He is now chasing his dream of becoming a great writer.
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