Here's chapter 26 everybody.
Chapter 26: Alien Arrival, Attacker & Tactics.
At a entrance checkpoint at Stonehenge, a guard notice a large group of RVs, cars. and pickup trucks. He goes outside the booth with two guards holding automatic weapons to stop one pickup truck, where Jason was riding at the back.
"Captain Jason Gates, ISAF Air Force." Jason said as he salutes the guard. The guard returns the salute.
"I'm sorry, Captain. This is a restricted area. I can't let you pass without clearance." the guard said.
Jason was annoyed by this.
"Okay. Come here." Jason said wanting to get the guard to come forward. "You want to see my clearance?"
The guards walk forward nervously at what Jason is about to show him. Jason then grabs a part of his parachute to reveal the unconscious alien underneath it. The guard gasped and stuttered at the sight.
"Maybe I'll just leave this here with you." Jason said.
"Let them pass. Let them pass!" the guard ordered the two guards holding the weapons.
"Get the heck out of the way." Jason said as his truck starts moving along with the other vehicles.
"Did you see that?" the guard asked another guard.
Meanwhile, back at the underground facility, Doctor Beckham and his assistant is leading Guy, Andrew, Drake, Thomas, and Mobius 2 inside the alien attacker's cockpit. the pilots were looking around the cockpit. Beckham starts talking once everyone climbed down the ladder to get inside the cockpit.
"This craft is officially known as the 'Agile Fighter'. Now, obviously. this cockpit was designed to seat three pilots, though how they sat on that, I don't know." Beckham said referring to the alien's narrow seats that are still inside the craft. "Okay, you see these gizmos flashing?" Beckham said referring to flashing lights at the control panel.
"Yeah." Guy and the pilots said.
"We've been working around the clock trying to get a fix on all this crap. Some stuff we figured out right away." Beckham said as Guy takes a seat on a stool. Beckham turns his attention to other stuff in the cockpit. "Uh, this, we're pretty sure, is the life support system for the cabin. And this is connected to-was connected to the engine. Here. Take that, will ya?" Beckham said handing a device to his assistant. Beckham then turns his attention to some display screens. "Uh, these configurations, uh...Well, to be honest, we don't know what the heck this crap is."
"You don't think it could be their version of a radar or Heads Up Display?" Thomas asked.
"We really don't know." Beckham replied before he press some button. "But this is clearly what they use to guide and navigate their craft."
"That's very good." Guy said. "Somebody grab my laptop there? Mobius 2, can I just have the computer inside there?"
"Here you go, sir." Mobius 2 said handing the laptop.
"What?" Beckham asked as Guy turns his attention back to the display screens.
"See these patterns here? They're repeating sequentially, just like their countdown signal. They're using that frequency for computer communications. See?" Guy said as he shows the same patterns on his laptop. "That's how they're coordinating their ships."
"Huh. Ya know...you're really starting to make us look bad." Beckham said.
Meanwhile, Andrew was looking and surveying the alien seats. This got Cipher's attention.
"What are you doing, Phoenix?" Drake asked.
"Yeah, I have no idea how these aliens sat on these seats. Too narrow, very uncomfortable, for a human of course, and it feels like you're doing a exercise routine when you try to sit on them." Andrew said.
Meanwhile, outside the ship, one doctor runs up the ramp before yelling...
"They got one! They got one alive!"
"They got one. Alive." Beckham's assistant said.
"Jesus! Look, will you guys be okay in here?" Beckham asked.
"We'll be fine, Doctor Beckham." Mobius 2 said.
"Yeah-Uh, don't touch anything." Beckham said before he left.
"Why am I always told not to touch anything.? Look." Guy said touching the craft before noticing some stuff on his hand. "Oh...that's why."
Back on the surface, ISAF soldiers, scientists, and doctors, including Beckham, were running towards the pickup truck where Jason was riding with the alien body.
"Right here. We got her in the back of the pickup." Jason said before saluting a ISAF Army commander. "How you doing, sir. Captain Jason Gates, ISAF Air Force. Guess who's comin' to dinner."
Meanwhile, Dean was desperately calling for a doctor to check on his son, Samuel, who is awfully ill. Beckham approached the alien body that was placed on a stretcher.
"Oh boy. How long has it been unconscious?" Beckham asked.
"About 4 hours." Jason replied.
"Let's get him into containment, stat." Beckham said.
"My son, he's very sick. He needs immediate attention." Dean said trying to get attention.
"He's drying out. I want him sprayed down with saline." Beckham said referring to the alien.
"He has a problem with his adrenal cortex. Please!" Dean said while his oldest son Justin looks on.
Beckham's assistant was about to punch in a code, but Dean grabs him in frustration.
"If you don't do something about it right now, my son will die!"
"Okay! Just help him!" Beckham ordered.
"Okay. Smith, Martin, you come with us. You take us to him, okay. Let's go." the assistant said.
"Okay. Move it! Move it! Move it!" Beckham ordered to the ISAF soldiers as they bring the alien inside.
Meanwhile, at a communications room at the underground facility, Donaldson was upset with General Harris.
"As the former base commander of Stonehenge, you knew about this place. When were you planning on informing the rest of us?" Donaldson asked.
"It has been deemed classified." Harris replied.
"You should have told us about this when they first arrived. You should have warned us before we launched a counterattack that cost us the lives of hundreds of ISAF and foreign pilots!" Donaldson yelled.
"There was no way we could have known that our fighters would have been that ineffective against their attackers." Harris said as Galm Team, Brian, Mobius 2, and Mobius 3, Scarface, Razgriz, Garuda, Windhover, Avalanche, Stingray, Sky Kid, General Bartlett, the AWACS, and the other leaders arrived.
"Mr. President." Hurley said to Wilford.
"The little bit of information that we have comes directly into this room." SkyEye said.
"Mante, Emmeria, Darina, Yuktobania, Apito, Osea, and Los Canas...destroyed." Wilford said.
"We've learned that Osean and ISAF Installations were the first to be taken out. Then we were all hit. They knew exactly where and how to hit us." Bartlett said.
"And military forces?" Wilford asked.
"Osea, Yuktobania, Emmeria and ISAF are down to 15%. Belka, Erusea, Estovakia, and Ustio are 10%. Other countries are unknown. If you calculate the time it takes to destroy a city and move on, we're looking at the worldwide destruction of every major city...in the next 36 hours." Bartlett said.
The Aces couldn't believe what they just heard. It came to them what the alien invaders are doing to the human race.
"We're being exterminated." Brian said.
"Like roaches." Larry said.
"Mr. Secretary. Colonel Fenton." This is Captain Jason Gates." Major Bishop introduced.
"Captain." Brian said shaking Jason's hand.
"Colonel, Mr. Secretary." Jason said shaking their hands, trying to hide his excitement that he's meeting Colonel Brian Fenton, aka Mobius 1, and his former squadron commander who happens to be ISAF's Secretary General.
"Well done." Brian said.
"Where is it now?" Donaldson asked, knowing about the alien arrival.
"We have it isolated down in the containment lab, sir." Bishop replied.
"I'd like to go see it." Wilford said, who heard the conversation.
"We all like to see it." Donaldson said.
The flight leads and the leaders all agreed to see the alien at the containment lab. Jason, however, approached General Harris.
"General, I'm really anxious to get back to Scott Air Force Base." Jason said.
There was a second of silence before Harris spoke.
"Hasn't anyone told you? Scott Air Force Base has been completely destroyed. I'm sorry." Harris said before leaving.
Jason didn't want to believe what he heard. Scott is destroyed. He doesn't want to think that his wife Amber and his son Danny are killed, but he doesn't believe that. What can he do now?
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