Invaders of Tomorrow's Sky by Chucho Jones & Gentry Race

Author:Chucho Jones & Gentry Race [Jones, Chucho & Race, Gentry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gentrifiction
Published: 2018-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 18

The caution light blinked closer and closer as the transport came to a halt. The tired fighters got off, looking as heroic as any brave warrior could given the circumstances.

Leon walked towards Oliver. He looked at his uncle in a new light, a man of action to aspire to. “Great flying out there, ‘Captain Thunderbolt’,” the kid said in a sarcastic tone.

“Ah, it was nothing I never trained for,” Leon answered in the same tone.

“Ready to go to space, since you graduated flight school?” he asked.

Oliver noticed the worrisome look on his uncle’s face, and he wondered why he wasn’t excited to discover the unknown. Like Oliver, Leon had overcome a lifelong fear in just a few moments. Oliver was beginning to think that keeping a positive attitude might be the right way to stay on track.

“I could use a breather, kid. Did you see what just happened out there?” Leon replied while trying to regain his strength.

They walked through the hallways and into and elevator that took them to a prep room. General Banks was waiting for them inside. He was wearing a form-fitting yellow space suit that had a hydraulic rig on his bad leg. Oliver noticed the general looked like something out of the ‘Bald Eagle’ comics.

“Are these our space suits?” Oliver asked in awe.

He looked around and saw a red suit and a smaller blue suit being arranged by engineers. General Banks stood without limping and walked naturally towards Oliver.

“That’s right boy. Lucky for us we had a prototype child space suit,” the general said.

Oliver looked at his suit and realized there had always been a plan for a skilled young pilot to go to space. He looked at Leon, realizing a bit of his mysterious past. He didn’t seem to pay attention to what was going on. He just moved on to getting his suit and gear, as if trying to pass the moment by, or so he thought.

Leon stood in front of his suit. He then saw the general’s contraption on his leg.

“Your suit has a hydraulic knee, right? It helps you walk normal,” he said to the general.

“That’s right. Brand new prototype,” Banks answered.

Oliver thought of Leon as a stranger in that moment. It seemed odd for him to know about such things, but it seemed that he had seen more than he claimed he did in his younger years.

Oliver felt relief that he could count on some sort of life mentor since his uncle had a stressful life around secret facilities. Oliver and Leon got in gear, and Doctor Dicken’s came in to walk the crew to the rocket.

The rocket stood magnificent and tall as the crew approached the launch pad’s freight. The engines where being loaded with a great quantity of stale vitro-plasma. They rose to the cockpit and boarded. Oliver’s heart pounded with excitement, a rushing feeling overcoming him as he took his chair right in front of the Vitro-plasma slot.

The crew got into position. Oliver raised his arm and inserted it in the slot.

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