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THE CELESTIAL ANGELS -PART SIX
Moonbase Alpha was completely exposed of course. The gamma check intercepters came out of nowhere.
Narrows needles of light.
David Kano wasn't quick enough to pass on the data that computer was churning out.
Sandra Benes was coming to an end of her shift and was too slow to see the needle like missiles on the big screen.
The first that anybody knew about the attack was when area D exploded into a million pieces of debis that drifted off into space. A huge crater left where it once was.
The suction of outer space had broke into Alpha and was screaming along the corridors of area B and C.
It was too late for technician Roberts as he tried to get to the command post - the vacuum got to him and he was sucked down the corridor and thrown to the luna rock outside at the nearest break in the wall.
The gamma intercepters made a turn and then a second salvo hit the base. This time hydroponics was smashed to nothing. The corridors and twisted metal were torn from their foundations and sucked into the black void of space.
And along with it, the staff too.
The screams helped them nothing. You couldn't scream in a vacuum.
The travel tubes were blocked. The corridors were alive with panicking personnel trying to get to the catacombs that were been so recently exploited to finding tiranium. At least underground they would stand a chance of survival.
Screens all over the base were flashing out RED ALERT.
Dr Helena Russell was hurrying down the corridor. Her face was screwed up in fear as the panic around her increased.
Victor Bergman came out of a side door and grabbed her.
"Helena"
"Victor! What is happening?"
"I don't know..."
And then there was an explosion that rocked them, and both went hurtling to the floor. Both skidded across at speed until they came to a stop at the far wall.
Helena picked herself up and held her hands out in front of her as her eyes set on Victor.
He was being sucked down the corridor. His mouth was open and his arms and legs were infront of him as he dived bombed down the corridor.
"VICTOR NOOOO!"
Helena grabbed hold of the wall as her hair was blown about her face and the suction started to pull at her cheeks...
And then she screamed...
Koenig opens his eyes. His vision his blurred but there is a harsh white light moving above him.
He blinks a few times. And his vision clears. He sees that he is in a clinical room where the light is white and the walls are made of plastic.
He is set on a metal trolley.
And then Paul Morrow comes in through a doorway that a green light lay beyond, "Oh...I see that you have come around"
John rubbed his forehead, "Where-where am I?"
Morrow shrugged, "I learned from the hub that this room is rich in oxygen. I think this is where the harvast will be stored"
"Harvast?"
"Yes...your sperm and the eggs of your kind...they need them to create a race that will defeat the enemy...", he chuckled as he finds this amusing, "...an enemy that no longer exists"
Koenig's eyes widened, "Cannon fodder! They just want to grow humans for...fighting?"
"What else? What other use is there? The war has to go on like it has since time began with these people..."
Koenig swallows down and sits up, his space suit was uncomfortable, "how do you know all of this..."
Paul laughs, "Oh come on...haven't you not guessed yet? I am NOT the unit you call Paul Morrow"
"Then...what are you? What have you done with him?"
"Paul Morrow died when he saved your people from the collective...I am what's left of the collective...and it was the collective that destroyed these people"
Koenig was finding it hard to process what he was being told. Paul dead? Collective? All that busniess a few weeks back. The events that seemed fuzzy. Like a memory that was trying to be suppressed.
"These people are attacking your precious Alpha, Koenig...they've done away with the harvast approach and are just going to take for themselves..."
The voice in his head sounds like Paul Morrow...but John somehow, now knew, that this being was no longer Paul Morrow, Main Mission Controller. It was something else.
"I can see it happening. I can see the units you once called Tara and Adam hurd two human beings into a transference wave. Male and a female...that it all they need to create the race they are set forth"
{The one from the collective knows too much...already he is thinking about putting his own agendas into practice, little does it know that his destiny has been decided...}
{And the destiny of John Koenig...?}
{His blood is starting to run cold...it will only be a matter of time now...let us get to the transference point...}
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