Okay, I finally have enough time to write another chapter or two! Yay!!! Well, I know it has taken a while, but I hope that the real action and drama will kick in soon. I have so many ideas to take this, so it is hard to choose a single path for the story to take. I am also trying to limit chapters somewhat (lengthwise, but not in content), but I will have to apologize if I get carried away from now on out through the rest of the story.
Chapter 7: …by giving yourself to that which you love the most.
Date: June 19, 2055, Minutes after the General Quarters was announced
Location: General Redding's Meeting Room
"Sorry to interrupt your training Jedi, but we just have had some things develop. Please sit down so we can begin." Redding was serious. Something was worrying him greatly, but like how you can tell it's going to rain when you don't have a cloud in the sky, Jedi couldn't tell why.
Jedi sat down in between two guys; one had a large nose and orange hair that reached back as though stuck perpetually in the wind. The other had an onion for a head, with the glare to prove it. "I'm 007, GB you can call me, and my compatriot in arms on your other side is 002." The human onion spoke up. "Jet, but don't get in my way, otherwise you might not like it." The Speedy Gonzales wannabe spoke defiantly.
"Okay boys, I know that you want to get to know the new guy, but we have more important things to get to. Now in front of you…" The general stopped a second to allow the holographic image to be brought up. " ..is the most recent picture of the area around Normandy in France. Notice that there are little potholes every couple of hundred yards. Now here is a picture of Moscow. Notice the same potholes. Now Washington D.C., and finally, New York City, right on top of the United Nations building.
What you see in all of them is the evidence of the invasion that we have feared would be the result of all of our exploration. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Dortde."
The hologram changed to an image of an absolutely appalling figure. It had three eyes, two on a light bulb shaped head, and the third on an antenna off of the top of its head. There were two legs, and its skin was a sickening mix of brown and red.
"Three days ago, one of our ships intercepted a message from them. It was sent on all frequencies, and was extremely powerful. Evidently, it was meant to be broadcast to everyone on the planet. Computer, play the message if you would please."
A 3-d picture of a Dortde replaced the silhouette of the general. It began to speak,
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"Citizens of Earth, this message is intended to warn you that we are coming. You are the next in a long line of worlds to be conquered by the glorious Dortde Empire. We warn you so that you will be able to prepare a suitable welcome for us. We will be your rulers, and you have no weapon that can stop us. Thanks to your own people, we received messages telling us that the pathetic things you call weapons would never be able to harm us by the ones you call, Black Ghost.
HUMANS! You have three of your solar settings to prepare for us, we will be entering your system then, and advance forces will have landed on your planet. Do not try to resist, for we will stand on your corpses and take your world for our own, and not allow a single inhabitant of Earth to live!"
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The lights faded back up as the general stepped forward. "We had to be careful with the message, we traced it back, and it came in the general direction of the Beta Centari system. The analysts were still going over the message to make sure that it wasn't another prank by some pimple faced 16-year old, when we saw the pictures that I just showed you. Team; minus you Jedi, the world needs your help. Now you don't have to help, but if you do, the American, no the World's peoples will be thankless to you."
Jedi was astonished as one by one they stood up and all agreed to help. Jedi stood only to be looked at with disdain. "Why can't I help? I am a Cyborg too."
"Yes you are, but they all have international commissions in the Space Force, you are still a civilian." The general explained as he began to shuffle papers.
"BULLSHIT! You told me that I won the Medal of Honor! To win that you have to have been in a branch of the United States Military. Now tell me, if I am not in the military, and I am still a civilian, how then, did I receive that honor? Look, it isn't that I am scared, it isn't that I am suffering from any ill thoughts, all I want to do is help my country! MY PEOPLE FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! All I want to do is serve them! They are all I have left; everyone I knew and loved has or is about to parish. What good would it do them if I appeared after being "dead" to them for the last half-century! Can you answer me that? What does that leave me to do? That only leaves me with one purpose in life, to protect. I don't see why I can't help!"
"Son, you just passed the test. Come on. Oh, and by the way, you were in the Navy, which is now the Space Force, so Lieutenant, you answer to me as sir." Redding said with a grin as he walked with the other 00 Cyborgs out the doors.
Associated Press International Headline: MYSTERIOUS CREATURES LURK IN AND AROUND MAJOR CITIES
Date: June 20, 2055. 1:55 AM EST
Location: Major Cities Around the World
There have been numerous reports of exchanges of fire between mysterious creatures, which some are calling aliens, and local polices around the world. Citizens in these cities are fleeing as these reports spread. Without much to go on, the United Nations declared that it would help as much as it could, but that member nations were pretty much to 'do as they see fit to these menaces.'
As the reports come in, it is easy to see that there is no hope. Some of the world's best Special Forces groups are being beaten back, taking heavy losses, and not hitting anything they shoot at.
The United States also declared today that it will be closing the boarders, and will not allow anyone to enter illegally, and they will be shot on sight if found crossing. According to the President today in his speech to the Nation, "We hate to do this, but right now, the United States is not ready in any way shape or form to take on any more people. We have a hard enough time keeping the 1 billion people we have now fed. I am sorry."
All this reporter has to ask is, where has the light of the world gone as we enter this darkest night?
He he so the fun begins…….
