Nemesis: Book Four by David Beers

Author:David Beers [Beers, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

18

Present Day

Marks had been inside the tent with the creature for an hour. No one else was allowed in. Not guards, not even Knox.

The General didn't care, really. He had no interest in going in there and trying to converse with whatever the hell that thing was. Marks did, and that's what truly concerned Knox. Marks sent Will in, and got back something from another world. He did use the neutron bomb, but why would he spend so much time in there talking to it? The end game was simple: defeat the enemy. Yet for the past hour, no one had worked on that objective. It seemed that Marks was waiting for the time he had to report back to the President, hoping that the creature might be able to give him something more than "It didn't work."

That's what Knox wanted to think, anyway, though he doubted it was true. Marks was plotting something else besides trying to kill the invasive species.

Knox put the binoculars to his eyes again, for what felt like the millionth time. Something changed each time he did it, though. Changed plenty—the white cake was moving, spreading out miles and miles beyond Grayson.

The bottom line, the neutron bomb did nothing, as far as anyone could tell—except perhaps make a large portion of Georgia uninhabitable for a little while. Perhaps wiped out whatever wildlife still remained.

And then Marks disappeared, leaving Knox with the Rigley woman and his assistant.

Neither of whom he wanted to speak with, at all.

"Lieutenant," he said, pulling the binoculars back down.

"Yes, sir?" The man stood behind Knox, to his right.

"Go see what Marks is doing. Don't say anything, just see if he's speaking with it."

"Yes, sir."

Knox waited, staring out at the coming dawn. The sun was on the way up, the moon on the way down, and when morning came, the world would be changed. No one could hide it after the sun rose. The President would get on television and say whatever he wanted, but other countries had satellites too, and they would see exactly the same thing Knox did sooner or later. Whatever hid this shit from aerial views right now wouldn't hold other countries back forever. They would know, and soon. The jig was nearly up, and real warfare would start. No more covert operations. No more bombs in the dark. The military would come in and wipe out everything not of this planet. He didn't know if Marks understood that yet, but Knox would tell him, and if he didn't listen, then surely the President would make him.

Marks' way of doing things was done here, and thank God for it. Marks' way had gotten a lot of people killed, and one possessed by something no one understood. Marks would change, one way or another, because Knox wouldn’t stand here and watch the whole world burn.

"Sir," the lieutenant said from behind him. "He is talking to the prisoner."

"Thank you," Knox said, turning around. He handed the binoculars to his subordinate and walked across the open tent.

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