The Invasion by William Meikle

Author:William Meikle [Meikle, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Adventure, Science Fiction, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780983279211
Publisher: Generation NExt Publications
Published: 2011-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

Hiscock kept returning to the email – not replying, just staring at it.

We need your help. You may be our last chance.

He’d built this bunker primarily because of mistrust of big governments, with the US at the top of his shit list. Now the Department of Homeland Security had contacted him.

It must be a trick.

But why would they bother? Was he worth the effort with the rest of the world falling apart around them?

That brought another thought.

If it’s not a trick, and they really need my help… what could they possibly want me to do?

He was quite sure he didn’t want to know the answer to that question.

Whatever it was they wanted they obviously weren’t prepared to wait. A second email arrived two hours after the first.

“We need to talk to Professor Paul Sauser. He’s a resident of Saint John at 233 Laurel Drive. We know he was alive two days ago. It is vital that we speak to him. The survival of the planet may depend on it.”

Hiscock read that one three times before the import of it really hit home. Many times he’d sat and watched movies where the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of one man.

And now that man is me.

He wasn’t sure he liked the idea. But their request was impossible to comply with at the moment in any case. He was too tired to take to the streets. Besides, night had fallen.

Saving the planet will have to wait for the morning.

He retired to bed, but sleep wouldn’t come. The emails preyed on his mind, and after an hour of tossing and turning he gave up and went back to the laptop. Even as he sat down, he wasn’t sure what to say.

“What is it you want me to do?” he typed.

The answer came back in less than a minute.

“Fetch the Professor. Get him in front of your laptop. We need to speak to him.”

He didn’t ask what about – he wasn’t sure he wanted to know.

Twenty minutes later he was fully kited up in his HAZ-MAT suit and ready to go. This time he’d added an extra precaution – a small oxygen canister strapped to his back with an attachment through to his facemask. It only held fifteen minutes worth – but it might save his life in an emergency.

He also took the Kalashnikov, and as many magazines as he could carry in a shoulder bag.

Loaded for bear.

He made a second trip to load another HAZ-MAT suit into his pickup. He had no idea if this Professor would be prepared, but a reserve suit wouldn’t go amiss.

He was about to leave the house when he heard a noise from the yard out the back. It was loud enough to make him go and investigate, and it was light enough out there to make out that there was now a large mound of dirt where his garden had been.

They really are industrious little fucks.

But it seemed to be far enough away from the house that he did not have to worry.

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