Chapter 2:
Having pursued and captured Captain Espinosa Marston and Seth settled their personal disputes with him before demanding to know where current leader of the Mexican people Colonel Allende was hiding out. He went into exile to escape the current war between the Rebels and the Mexican Army currently under his command. Refusing to give them the information they needed the Captain was transported to Torquemada from El Presidio in the hopes that the cliff side would persuade him to give up the location of Colonel Allende.
Night had fallen upon their arrival to Torquemada. After detaining Captain Espinosa and confining him to his cell John took a walk to the edge of town where many a prisoner had "fallen" to their deaths. Of course that was back in the towns prime before it was abandoned for reasons still unknown. He was sat at a rusty bench with Snuff in hand and looked up at the stars that now served as a reminder of the flickering lights he sighted just a couple of nights previous. It was in this moment that the recent past came back to haunt him somewhat.
The familiar lights were coming closer by the second approaching from the east. They were also getting lower and lower. He got up and retreated into his quarters as the flat circular object approached slowly almost as if it were patrolling the area below it. After alerting Seth to the presence of this "Unidentified Flying Object" he commanded his men to take up arms immediately in the event it attacks. As the men waited a red beam of light shot out of the object and started burning down what remained of the once heavily populated town. Seth's men started shooting on site but as seen by both John and Seth were all but reduced to dust. John awoke several hours later in a state of shock and confusion among large chunks of rubble accompanied by Seth who was still alive and standing over him bleeding from his forehead and cleaning off the blood marks from John's now scarred face. They found a couple of Broncos nearby and rode with great speed to Las Hermanas.
While John was unconscious Captain Espinosa was seen fleeing Torquemada on horseback during the firefight by one of Seth's few remaining men who actually survived the attack. However, His escape had now become the least of their concerns. Marston and Seth were both in desperate need of answers and knew just the place to go for a plausible explanation. Once John and Seth arrived at Las Hermanas they went straight to the chapel to consult with the Mother superior hoping she would have some idea of this "God like apparition". Seth was known to pursue madness long before he became madness himself and was completely intent on tracking this unknown attacker himself but we'll get to that bit later.
When John Described the attack to the Mother superior she immediately escorted John to the Archive Room that lay deep below the Chapel. She grabbed a small step ladder that was needed to reach for scripture that was apparently relevant to the events that had just occurred. It was the oldest, dustiest tapestry in the whole room. After dusting it off and rolling it out John began reading and was shocked to see that it told of ancient visitors from another world sent down from the Heavens to destroy the Human race in a time long before the white man claimed the natives land as their own.
Preposterous as it sounded Both John and Seth had both witnessed the attack first hand and lived to tell the tale. It is unknown what other events took place the first time this happened as the remaining pages were missing from the archives and long since lost. They knew either way though that a repeat attack was imminent.