Changed Circle
by Warringer
Chapter Thirteen
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"The humans have gone to far."
The other six members of the Gray Council nodded. Delen and Dukhat were not with them, as Dukhat was still in a coma, while Delen was still in rehabilitation, since her legs had been broken in multiple places, while the other members of the Gray Council only suffered broken arms and other minor damages to their bodies.
To say that the three Warrior Satais and the three Worker Satais were furious, was an understatement. The single Religious Satai on the other side was nervous as hell, as he had problem to guess what Delen or Dukhat would mean with this.
"The humans have dared to attack out home world," the Warrior Satai continued," That is too much. First they attack us, than they invade the Protectorate, now they have attacked Minbar. We need to deal with them once and for all. We have let them get away with their ways for too long. They cannot be allowed to live any longer."
The Religious Satai flinched, while most of what the Warrior had said was true, the rest of it spoke of hurt pride. On both the Warriors and the Workers. Both of them had lost people during the course of the war. But while the Workers Caste was mostly neutral during all this, the Warriors where hurt the most. They had anticipated a fast victory over the humans and the Terran Union. The attack of the humans on Minbar itself had been the worst thing that could have happened.
But the Satai knew that the humans had only attacked factories and installations of the Warrior Caste. No one knew how the humans had been able to get informations about the places they attacked, and he had the feeling that it would remain that way.
"We must deal with them once and for all."
All the Religious Satai could do was stand there and watch as the other six Satais voted for the plan of the Warriors to attack Earth and destroy the planet.
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President Ryan looked sharply at Samuel Mordan, current head of the CIA. The where alone in the Oval Office, or at least it seemed that way. Ryan's instincts were screaming at him that there were others in the room and he was pretty sure where these others where. But Ryan was still too much Marine to let himself show that he knew of them.
He has summoned Mordan just a few hours after Mossad had given him all the evidence he needed. Only one hour ago, he had notified Mossad to act. Imprison the Senators and Representatives for high treason, while dealing with everyone else who was involved with the Za'ha'dum case, on a permanent basis.
A manila folder slapped onto the large oak desk of the Oval Office and the glare Ryan directed at Mordan intensified.
"What the hell did you think you where doing?" he asked in a very low voice and a low growl in the back of his throat.
Mordan blinked in surprise.
"What?"
Ryan leaned forward a hand closing around a Dessert Eagle strapped to the underside of the oak desk in anticipation of the things to come, while his other hand pointed at the folder.
Mordan took the folder and looked at the contents. As he worked his way through he folder he got pale and Ryan could feel that the invisible others started to move, coming closer to him.
"Your meeting with Jason Koslowski, the CEO of Janus Aerospace. The fact that the Von Braun was refit in one of Janus' drydocks. And that INI found a code fragment that was out of date for decades and wasn't to be found in any other AEGIS computer. A code fragment that caused the AEGIS system of the Von Braun to attack the Minbari."
"How..."
"Mossad is doing very good work," Ryan said and his eyes started to burn holes into Mordan, who suddenly straightened.
"I have no idea what you are talking about."
"Of cause you do," Ryan answered and his instincts started to ring the alarm bells.
The next five seconds went of faster than Mordan could react. Something seemed to solify next to Ryan who reacted with the natural born reflexes of a Wolf-morph, only strengthened by the training of a Marine. His head wasn't where it had been a few milliseconds earlier and a large black claw shattered the back of his armchair.
Ryan pulled the Desser Eagle from its hiding spot and armed it in less than a second, before aiming at the head of the now quite visible creature. The caliber .50 Dessert Eagle barked once and the head of the creature was reduced to a spray of blackish gore. Ryan turned and the other creature was now visible, while Secret Service Agents stormed into the Oval Office guns drawn.
The remaining creature lashed out, managing to slice through the fabric of Ryan expensive Armani suit, but not managing to do more than slice of a few hairs of his fur. The Dessert Eagle barked again and again it found its mark, hitting the creatures head and killing it.
The two creatures hit the ground in heaps, their bodies slowly starting to dissolve on the expansive carpet.
Ryan glared at Mordan, the Dessert Eagle pointed at the surprised mans head.
"Please give me an excuse," Ryan said as his finger tightened around the trigger.
Similar scenes started to play all over the planet and space around Earth. Two shuttles with CEOs of multiplanetary companies blew up, assassins killed several other CEOs.
Two Senators and Representatives where arrested, similar creatures like the ones in the Oval Office dying while Mossad did its job, sending only morphes to deal with the creatures, since they had the right instincts and senses that where able to see the creatures.
In less than two days, news filtered through Washington D.C. And mankind learned of the existence of the Shadows and how they had managed to manipulate the Terran Union to attack the Minbari.