Valiant : An Epic Space OperaAlien InvasionTime Travel Adventure (Invasion: Earth Saga Book 3) by Sean Robins

Author:Sean Robins [Robins, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

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“You guys are ready?” I asked.

“Let’s do this,” Kurt said with a gleam in his eyes.

Jackson’s image appeared on one of the wall-mounted monitors in Valiant’s briefing room. He was in the same conference room where we’d met him earlier today, windows open this time. Some twenty other people, most of them in military uniforms, were sitting around the conference table. I recognized Jackson’s head of security and a few army generals.

“We’re all here,” said Jackson, trying his best to look confident and in charge. “What do you want?”

“We want to make a few quick points, if it pleases the president,” I said politely.

He made a get-on-with-it gesture.

“What you fail to understand is things have changed since the minute the Xortaag fleet appeared in our orbit,” I said. “For example, you really don’t have any actual power. The people with power are sitting here in this room. Let me prove it to you.”

A huge bomb appeared on the table right in the middle of Jackson’s conference room. He jumped out of his seat, eyes wide, face pale as a ghost. I wondered if, in his moment of panic, he remembered (or if he even knew to begin with) that SFD didn’t work on the surface, and the bomb was nothing but a projection. Several people in the room started screaming. One shouted, “Oh my God!”

Tarq giggled. “Nope. That was me.”

A few people rushed for the door, but they stopped dead when I calmly said, “This baby will go boom if anyone tries to leave.”

Jackson held up his chin and stared at me through the camera. “You’re bluffing.” His shaking voice betrayed his inner turmoil.

I laughed in his face. “Have you forgotten who you’re talking to? I’ve just slaughtered eighty million people, and Kurt here singlehandedly killed half our previous government officials. You think I’ll hesitate a second to detonate that bomb?” I leaned forward and pulled a William Shatner. “Sit. The. Hell. Down.”

He sank back into his seat. I could see his Adam’s apple bobbing all the way from orbit. Putting him in his place was so satisfying. Never much liked bullies.

“We’re here to make a few announcements,” I continued. “Three, in fact. One, effective immediately, the fleet and the Marines will operate independently of Earth’s civilian government and in coordination with the Akakie fleet. You have no authority over us.”

I looked at Tarq, who said, “Two, we have awarded Akakie citizenship to both Colonel Jim Harrison and Colonel Kurt von der Hagen, which means they are under our protection. If anything happens to them, if they are shot or arrested, killed in a car accident, or die by a sudden disease—heck, if a comet falls on them—there will be severe consequences, starting with us taking back the shiny new fleet we gave you.”

Jackson looked like he was going to have a heart attack.

Tarq chuckled. “You did not think we gave you all those fancy ships without taking the precaution of writing a self-destruct code into them, did you? I would like to see you negotiate with the Xortaags without a fleet to back you up.

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