PART 3: AWAKENING THE BEASTS
Each day, a group of UNAF personnel would into the woods, unarmed, believing that nothing was in the forest, to find food. They had to live on the planet's natural resources and survive by using their instinctive skills. It seemed to be void of animal life. After almost two years of fighting, both sides are worn out, but know they must exterminate one another as duty to their species; the two forces ran low on ammo but found highly advanced weapons scattered around in unknown structures that seem to signify an intelligent race. Evidently, a warring race had once used this place as a CP (Capture Point). After all, with nothing to disturb the interior of the building, everything was well preserved; dry, flaky blood on the walls cracked and fell to the ground. Littered bodies lay near their firearms. The alien weapons were effective, and the environment provided good cover. It was a planet which on army-to-army combat, the experienced team would have won, but why had they abandoned this place? One day, a squad of Devilkillers was sent on a mission to explore a weapons cache room with minimal protection and basic standard-issue assault rifles, but even with weapons, none of them returned from the trip. The Command Point thought that Kanga had killed them. They dispatched a team of Trojans there by air.
"All right, guys! I'm droppin' you guys off here! I'm about half an hour to bingo fuel so I'll be heading back to base. Meet you back here in about an hour!"
" Roger that, this is Trojan Squad Number Two. Last man is on the ground. LZ is clear."
"Call me if you need me though!"
"I read you." The Eagle that dropped them off started back to base, its back thrusters roaring and blowing the trees sideways. "All right guys, get into breaching position. Same as usual." The soldiers stacked up along the wall with the door in front to the side of them. The person behind Jonathan, who was next to the door, stepped in front of him in front of the door.
Jonathan was a Staff Sergeant in the Marines and although he was a DT, he commanded the Trojans with his exceptional record as a soldier.
The soldier who was going to bust the door open raised his gun high over his head, brought his leg up high and kicked the door wide open with a bang. He moved aside and the squad filed in, one by one, with the iron sights of the gun to their eyes. "Breaching, breaching!" After a moment, Jonathan demanded, "Report."
"Clear up!"
"Clear down."
"Roger that. Breach the next door." They went through and there was another empty room. "Clear. Search the place and form a perimeter around the doors." There was another door leading to another unknown room.
They found nothing. Instead, they found Kanga on the floor, sprawled on the ground with no blood. The Marines that had lost contact with them were missing and the Trojans couldn't find them anywhere. One Trojan thought he saw a quick movement at the corner of his eye. He wasted no time cocking his weapon and pointing in that direction. Everyone else followed.
"What happened soldier?" whispered Staff Sergeant John.
"Thought I saw movement," said the Corporal. He silently pulled a fragmentation grenade out of his belt, pulled the pin, primed it by flicking the latch off, and then he threw it up at the second floor, if you could call it that, because the second floor was simply a thin piece of metal around the sides and it was inaccessible. Nothing happened at first, but it suddenly blew an alien out of its place. It literally exploded by itself, being shredded into tissue-like pieces, so it could not be identified.
The Trojans explored further and found a UNAF standard-issue combat helmet. It always had standard quality video recording and the Trojans watched it.
It had a recording of the Marines exploring every place, but finding no weapons. It showed KIA Kanga all over. Then it showed a door open and what looked like deformed maggots came flying out of it. The Marines opened fire on these squirmy yellow aliens that mobbed them and more showed up above. "Shit!" "What the fuck???" Profanity rang out throughout the room. The little parasites exploded and more showed up. The never ending onslaught continued to push the humans back and a Marine was knocked down. The little deformities were no taller than a foot. One of them latched onto the Marine's helmet and he screamed out. Then the video just went dark.
The Trojans had finished viewing the video when Sergeant Jonathan said, "Shit! We've got to get the hell out of here so lets haul ass back to base. Wait… quiet guys. You hear that? Oh, shit! Get the fuck outta here!" The order came too late and a yellow blob dropped on his armor. The tough armor created too much force for the alien and caused it to pop, but luckily, it barely scratched his armor. However, seeing that it couldn't latch on properly, others attacked in hundreds, maybe even thousands. They came from doorways, from the roof, and even the way out.
"This is Sergeant Jonathan requesting immediate evacuation, over! Jesus, what the hell? They're swarming us!"
"This is Echo 419. Roger that. Already on my way. I'll be there in a minute. Activating small-scale hyper drive. What's the situation down there?"
"I don't know what the hell is going on! Fucking aliens just pop out of nowhere and start swarming us in the thousands! Shit! Private Jenski is down! Hurry up or we're all going to be dead! Holy crap! One of them is digging into his armor. Oh my fucking god! It's transforming him into a bloody monster! Kill them boys! Let's go, let's go!"
"I'm here Johnson! I'm right outside. Come on."
"Roger that! Alright, let's go! Never mind Jenski, he's dead! Crap! It latched on to me! Awh, fuck!!!! GET IT OFF OF ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
A Trojan behind John tried pulling it off and popped the squirming alien, as it was extremely fragile. Of the six that went to explore, four came back. Another one transformed into one of them and had to be killed. However, they managed to bring one of the disfigured Trojans back. The armor had gone off and his head was hanging down in back of him by his elongated neck; his body had gone yellow and he was mutated. His arm had literally exploded into tentacles and needles were protruding from the body. It was extremely violent so it had to be strapped. When they got back to base, they did an autopsy on the alien and found out that the infectious blobs latches itself onto the host, drive needles into the central nervous system, and take control of the user. It then digs itself into the cavity and finds a spot between the lung and the heart. The alien takes full control of the host and kills other life forms that are susceptible to being infected. So they can be infected. This strengthens the infection form and turns it into a battle form. After the discovery, it killed many Kanga and humans as months past by. They called it the Jangs.
The Kanga and the humans once found itself fighting the Jangs side by side. They both had the same enemy and knew that they had to team up to beat the Jangs. They formed a very uneasy truce, but soon learned to trust each other and depend on each other. They also found out the Jangs wanted to activate the planet's weapon, something that could unleash a viral infection throughout the universe to kill everything except the Jangs, so that the Jangs would have virtually unlimited food that would not resist. If activated, the universe would virtually be void of life. The humans used Eagles, Trojans, and Marines to aid the Kanga. The Kanga used its Shangelis, Ugayos, Lekgolos, ships, and Wraith tanks. The two allies unleashed everything they had on the Jangs, hoping to make the species extinct. No matter how hard they try, however, more just keeps coming. Every casualty added to their numbers, every second their breeding facility would make about three of those infectious worms. After a few years, they managed to find the alien weapon, which was not disturbed by the Jangs yet. The Kanga and UNAF bombarded it with everything they had. The weapon was armored, but it could not handle this extensive damage and was destroyed beyond repair. The control panel which read Jang deoxyribonucleic acid was destroyed too so that the Jangs couldn't use it.
In this action, the Jangs switched their primary objective to getting off the planet. The humans had found out the Kanga had launched a distress signal for help several years ago, which had received in a year. It has been two years after the rescue ships launched and the ships should arrive any day. A few weeks later, a Kanga cruiser was spotted and the UNAF and Kanga felt relieved. The humans hid however, weapons cocked, just in case the cruiser would open fire on them. The Kanga leaders explained how the humans have helped, and they now deemed the humans worthy, but they were still not to be trusted greatly. Their quest to exterminate the humans was abandoned with the uneasy truce. Their leader had grumbled and snarled at this, but accepted the humans as passengers nonetheless.
The Jangs saw their chance for freedom and got on the ship. The Kanga had to sterilize the ship of Jangs, which took several, as the ship is not only big, but Jangs travel in large numbers. The humans helped out and sometimes had to kill fellow teammates to stop their suffering and gruesome transformation as their bones becomes spongy and assumed weird shapes. Damage by the Jangs had destroyed the engines and were in need of repair. Daily sterilization, daily killing, daily fixing, and daily working became a normal routine. When the engines were fixed, more Jangs were on the ship than ever before. With the risk of the whole ship being infected, they took off before becoming entirely sterilized.
The Humans and Kanga who have spent years on the planet found it strange to be back in space. The Kanga set a course for Earth and the humans sustained themselves with the food from the planet. Sterilization continued, however 13 hours away from Earth, the Jangs had destroyed the life support systems. The backups were not responding and repairs could not be made as long as the Janga was in those parts. They had been shallow breathing for hours and their CO2 levels were getting high. They finally came to the option of rotating people in and out of the vehicles and craft, which had their own oxygen supply. That bought them a few extra hours but their trip still needed at least 2 hours of air left. With the extra time they bought by rotating the crew, the Kanga scientists managed to create a CO2 filtration system, made of scrap complex alien minerals, which bought 2 hours of air. They were cutting it close to oxygen deprivation.
As they approached Earth, UNAF ships moved to intercept their line of fire among civilians on the ground.
"This is Major Sheppard of the UNAF with several Kanga. These Kanga are friendly and suggest you do not fire on us, over. After all, wouldn't want to damage your new Kanga battleship, would you?"
"Sorry, Major, we have not heard from you for years. You are listed as KIA in our database. Please identify yourself or your ship will be fired upon."
The major snapped, "Hey asshole, authentication code Charlie Oscar Zulu Alpha Delta 117. Am I alive enough for you?" There was a pause, and then he said one thing. "Hurry up! We're suffocating to death here… bitch!" The air had started getting thick and less fresh. Their normal breathing speed had gone up. The place got hotter and both armies in the ship started to sweat.
The person stammered on the microphone and said, "Roger that, Major, stand by. We're opening up the airfield for you. Marine guards will be there to escort the aliens."
The Jangs had been contained; Earth was finally safe from danger after decades of fighting with the Kanga. Major Sheppard was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel Sheppard. The Kanga and the UNAF created a special elite fighting force called the CSOAF, which stood for Coalition Special Operation Alien Fighters.
More Trojan-III's were made and their armor was upgraded to Trojan IV, which had a stronger over shield and even denser armor with new features included. The Kanga needed the armor technology and the humans needed the weapon technology. They traded information and advanced in technology together. The CSOAF set off exploring new planets, finding aliens to join the CSOAF, and warring with aliens that want power or war. Soon the combined populations of the allied races grew too large once again after the alien onslaught and the NAC, which stands for National Administration of Colonization, was put back into service so humans and aliens lived on other planets.
Once, the CSOAF had fought a losing war and retreated back to Earth. They lived underground and they had to fight for every inch to regain control. Every one of those small segments was earned in sweat, blood, and guts. Clips, rounds, shells, burn-marks, bodies, vehicles, and blood were everywhere; they had no air superiority because their ships had been destroyed and therefore, had to take ships down from the ground with anti- air forces The Kanga was usually the main attack force while the humans were decoys and to take attention away from the more efficient Kanga attackers. They infiltrated cities with humans posing as the main threat, and the Kanga leading stealth missions towards the enemy commander. They felt no mercy and wiped them all out, the same for the Kanga, humans, and the enemy. Eventually, the CSOAF had survived long enough to make the aliens surrender. There were barely any forces left. Had the civilian riots and violent rebellions, chaos finally played their part upon the enemy. The total population of humanity and the Kanga was about 2.5 billion. Humanity and the Kanga had almost become extinct, but managed to grow back into a large population.
No alien forces dared attack and those that did were pushed to the verge of extinction or currently no longer exist. This coalition force has destroyed entire species. Unfortunately, the Jangs did not become extinct and spread when a race fell under control of them. Earth was not discovered however, was but if they ever did, they would be blown out of the sky by the new defense cannon stations hovering above Earth. Humanity and the Kanga thought there was no chance they could be destroyed by anything considering that they survived all those battles. A year later, it was just like Pearl Harbor, soldiers thinking they were too powerful getting slaughtered everywhere.