Battle for Earth: Journal One by Hammer Trollkin

Author:Hammer Trollkin [Trollkin, Hammer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shockwave Publishing Company
Published: 2021-08-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five.

BY THE DARKSIDE OF THE MOON. MOONSTRUCK.

September 9th. We slept in until almost 09:00, oh-nine-hundred. Noon would have been better. But we have a tight deadline to keep, 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 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 advanced, 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 already looking a little sick. After the first encounter, he had no desire to delve 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 signals intelligence. Mr. T introduced Para as his aid, and we were ushered into the presence of the queens.

He and Para advanced as the rest of us watched on. Para held the head of the queen bug close and stroked it. Of course, she was actually immobilizing the bug. Mr. T placed a hand on it and pulled out a pad which produced harmonic buzzing sounds. I suppose anyone in attendance thought it was some odd sort of bug talk.

It was in part 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. Perhaps it would help the delve go better. 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 didn’t struggle. Her mind was damaged. Being captured may have broken her, or perhaps it was the continual interrogation. Mr. T found it interesting that she was aware of the attack on Shockwave that had occurred just yesterday. That meant queens either had a telepathic ability of some sort or they had subcutaneous communication links.

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