Battle for Earth by Hammer Trollkin

Author:Hammer Trollkin [Trollkin, Hammer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult
ISBN: 9781393876854
Amazon: B081275CKJ
Barnesnoble: B081275CKJ
Goodreads: 48892817
Publisher: Shockwave Publishing Company
Published: 2019-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

BY THE DARKSIDE OF THE MOON. MOONSTRUCK.

September 9 th We slept in until almost 9:00, 09:00, whatever. Noon would have been better. But we have a tight deadline. And the Moon operation is going to be ... complicated. There is no rover on the Moon to help us locate the bug base. We are blind and need to get some good intel from the two queen bugs captured during Operation BrightLight. Mr. T called upon our general yet again. The conversation developed like this.

Mr. T: “Hello general. We need to talk to the two bug queens we recently captured, in order to develop a plan of action for the Moon.”

General: “Shockwave can speak to the bugs?”

Mr. T: “We have to try.”

General: “I’ll make arrangements. Let’s say, tomorrow 09:00. I’ll upload the coordinates to your device.”

Mr. T: “Thank you general.”

The general must not know about the delving. Rock did a quick reconnoiter of the area where the queens were being held. He picked out a nice untangle spot for our team. At 08:58 on September 10th , Shockwave arrived at the location where the NSA, National Security Agency, was keeping the queens. If a ship in orbit could pick us out by thermal imaging or something more exotic, we would have been dead by now. Still, we were careful to stay out of direct view.

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A PAIR OF QUEENS

Well before the interview time, Mr. T was starting to look a little sick. He hates delving into the mind of a queen bug. I’m not sure if these guys, military types attached somehow to the NSA, knew we were the team that captured the queens. Probably not. They certainly seemed dismissive.

We were introduced to the commander in charge as a special group attached to signal intelligence. They allowed us in to see the queens. It went the same way with each of the bugs, though Mr. T spent more time with the second interview.

He and Para acted like they were being nice to them. Para held the head of the queen bug close and stroked it. Of course, she was actually immobilizing the bug. Mr. T gave a nice long pat too. He pulled out a pad and played a tape of some harmonic buzzing sounds. I suppose those watching might think it was some odd level of bug talk.

It was actually his attempt to play some relaxing sounds for the queens. Extrapolating from his first queen delve, he had worked with Communal to make the recording. He really did want to start out with a relaxing atmosphere. If the officials thought it was an attempt at communication, that would be fine too. Yeah, Mr. T was walking a thin line over the pit of deception. And I know it bothered him.

The first queen did not struggle. Her mind was damaged in some way. Being captured may have broken her, or perhaps the continual interrogation. Mr. T found it interesting that she was aware of the attack on Shockwave that had occurred just yesterday.

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