Alien Roadkill - Realization by Steve Zuckerman

Author:Steve Zuckerman [Zuckerman, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2018-01-08T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Recon

"JEFFREY! JEFFREY!" MARVIN wailed from his bedroom.

There was a loud thud as JB rushed into the old man's bedroom. He found Marvin sprawled out on the floor, still crying out for his dead son.

JB lifted Marvin back into his bed, after making sure that the bruise forming on his forehead was the total extent of his injuries.

"You took quite a spill, Marvin," JB said, though he doubted Marvin heard. The old man was staring blankly at the ceiling and muttering incoherently to himself. Jansky came into the room and gave JB a doleful look before lying down in his doggie bed at the old man's bedside.

JB fetched a wooden stool from the front room and sat with Marvin long enough to satisfy himself that he was resting comfortably. Even so, the color hadn't returned to Marvin's face, and his breathing was rapid and shallow. He decided the best course of action was to let the old man rest, at least for the next couple of hours. If Marvin's condition didn't improve, or he took a turn for the worst, he would call for an ambulance then.

As he sat there watching the old man sleep, he wondered if his arrival had anything to do with Marvin's episodes. Could the alien tech in his body be affecting the old man? Were his Sawbonites somehow responsible? He had no answers, but there was little doubt that Marvin's physical state was deteriorating. He wondered if the "episode" with the alien triangle had started it all and if his presence had acted as a catalyst, accelerating the man's decline.

Marvin had paid a high price for his curiosity, but JB knew that the old man would have never had it any other way. The most he could do now was to make sure his friend was resting comfortably. He knew the last thing Marvin wanted was a trip to the hospital, and he hoped it wasn't going to come to that.

The infiltrator had covered a great deal of ground since it had teleported down to the area near Abomination's last known location. It had a firm belief that its quarry was still alive, and hiding somewhere close by. Even though, according to the device it had continuously been monitoring, the Abomination had disappeared entirely. The detection range of the location device encompassed the entire hemisphere of the planet… Yet impossibly, it still showed nothing.

The star that illuminated this world was high in the sky, and there were many more vehicles and beings in its vicinity than there had been earlier. Over the last few hours it had been afforded more opportunity to absorb more of the spoken language, and it was able to understand much of what it overheard as it milled around the business district. Other than its earlier incident with what it now realized was a breeder and her offspring, it settled into doing what it was very good at… Blending in. And, with every passing moment, it became better adapted to pursue its mission.

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