Out of the Sky: A Military Sci-Fi Series (Out of the Earth Book 2) by Jake Bible

Author:Jake Bible [Bible, Jake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2022-04-18T16:00:00+00:00

The water laps at the sides of the canoe as Alvarez and Dr. Hall continue paddling, despite both of them feeling well beyond the point of exhaustion. Each time Dr. Hall starts to complain, a high wailing comes from the riverbank, and the two men look over to see a glowing green horde of creatures following their progress. As the night grows darker, the size of the horde becomes more and more apparent.

So, with their constant companions watching their every move, Alvarez and Dr. Hall never let the paddles stop. They slow, they stutter, but they never stop.

The Potomac River is full of ice chunks that don’t help with the progress. The canoe bangs and bumps into chunks here and there, creating a hollow clunking sound that many of the ooze creatures try to mimic. The eerie mimicry doesn’t help with the progress either, since with each deliberate echo, Dr. Hall misses a stroke and nearly drops his paddle.

“I should have brought backups,” Alvarez says.

“What?” Dr. Hall gasps.

“I should have brought backups,” Alvarez repeats.

“Backups of what?” Dr. Hall asks. “What are you talking about?”

“Paddles,” Alvarez says. “I should have brought backup paddles, since you look like you’re going to drop yours at any second.”

“I’m not going to drop mine,” Dr. Hall says. “It’s just that my hands are frozen, and those things over there aren’t helping with my mental state.”

“Your mental state?” Alvarez laughs. “I hate to break it to you, Doctor, but I don’t think anything is going to help with your mental state anymore. The world is gone as we know it. Time to move to a new mental state.”

“Easy for you to say,” Dr. Hall replies. “You get to live in ignorance. I actually have an idea of what’s going on.”

“Do you?” Alvarez laughs again. One of the creatures laughs with him, which ends Alvarez’s laugh instantly. “Okay, Doctor. What’s your idea of what’s going on?”

“If I tell you, then you’ll think I’m crazy,” Dr. Hall says.

Alvarez looks over at the glowing entourage and shakes his head.

“I think my mind is open to crazy, Doctor,” Alvarez says. “Try me.”

“Well, I should tell you anyway in case I don’t make it and you do,” Dr. Hall says. “The last view of the Yellowstone chasm showed what I thought was a mass of hundreds of tails.”

“Tails? Did you say hundreds of tails?” Alvarez asks. “Tails to what?”

“More of the monsters,” Dr. Hall says. “The big ones, not these weird ooze things.”

“What big ones?” Alvarez asks. “You mean like the flying carpets?”

“No, no, those are something entirely different,” Dr. Hall replies. “I don’t believe the flying carpets, as you call them, are anything more than carriers. Think of them as vehicles to drop the spores.”

“Spores? The eggs? You think those are spores?”

“For lack of a better term,” Dr. Hall says. “But those aren’t what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the big monsters, the behemoths. The ones that are a thousand feet tall with six legs and jaws that could swallow a house.

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