Rebooted (AI Reborn Trilogy Book 3) by Isaac Hooke

Author:Isaac Hooke [Hooke, Isaac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-05T22:00:00+00:00

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Eric and the others retreated through the thin shrubs and traveled the ten kilometers back to the giant footsteps. They maintained traveling overwatch, with Dickson leading the point team, and Marlborough the drag. When they reached the large imprints, they resumed following the corridor those massive treads had carved.

The shrubs continued to thin here, until eventually they ended entirely. The footsteps swerved to follow along the eaves of the forest formed by the remaining shrubs.

After half an hour, Tread, on point in T1, raised a hand. Both fire teams stopped.

“What is it?” Dickson asked over the comm.

“On the horizon,” Tread said. “A ship of some kind.

Eric zoomed in, searching, and spotted the ship Tread referred to. He switched to the scope in his ZX-9 to zoom in further, to its maximum level. The ship was sphere-shaped, with a surface that appeared very mechanical—all interlinked pipes and conduits.

“Who designs aircraft like that?” Dunnigan said.

“They’re aliens, bro,” Slate said.

“Yeah mate, I know,” Dunnigan said. “But there are no aerodynamics…”

“Like I said, bitch,” Slate said. “They’re friggin’ aliens!”

“Look at how smoothly it’s moving,” Frogger said. “It’s almost as if it’s not affected by friction, or even gravity.”

“Just like the alien mothership,” Brontosaurus said. “It must generate the same gravity dispersion layer, allowing it to move without experiencing the effects of inertia.”

“But friction should affect it then,” Frogger said.

“Maybe it also has a friction dispersion layer,” Brontosaurus said.

“Oh, of course,” Frogger said. “More handwavium."

“Hand what?” Brontosaurus asked.

“Never mind,” Frogger said.

“I’ve seen things like this before,” Eric said. “On Earth.”

“What are you talking about?” Slate said.

“In my time, when I was still alive,” Eric said.

“What, you’re saying these aliens visited Earth when you were alive?” Eagleeye asked.

“In secret, yes,” Eric said. “I remember watching videos released by the Air Force. They’d sighted these small, spherical objects, that seemed to defy gravity. Skimming the surface of the sea, they’d follow along with the fighter jets, and then suddenly accelerate skyward, quickly vanishing from sight.”

“Somehow, I don’t think these are the same things,” Slate said. “Those were experimental drones or something. Created by the Chinese. Read your history, dude.”

“I have,” Eric said. “And while the sightings stopped, they were never explained.”

“Well, whatever it is, it’s moving in the same direction as the footprints,” Marlborough said. “Which means we’re on the right track.”

The sphere craft continued moving away from the mech platoon, and soon vanished over the horizon.

The Bolt Eaters proceeded alongside the deep tracks, though they retreated closer to the shrubs, ready to make a run for the deep forest if anything decided to show up along that corridor.

But nothing came.

In an hour, they sighted a base on the horizon, and Marlborough called a halt. They all dropped, flattening themselves against the ground.

Eric zoomed in with the scope of his ZX-9. He saw different spherical structures, covered in interlinking pipes and conduits. Very industrial looking. In the air above those structures resided two smaller spheres, clones of the aircraft he’d seen earlier. They simply hovered in place.

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