Area 51: Excalibur by Robert Doherty

Author:Robert Doherty
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780440237051
Publisher: Dell
Published: 2002-03-05T11:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11: THE PRESENT

Gulf of Mexico

“When you partook of the Grail,” Dr. Garlin asked, “did anything else happen?” “The minute I put my hand in,” Duncan said, “it took over my body.”

“What about before?”

“‘Before’?”

“You were in the Hall of Records,” Garlin said. “The Ark was there. You were wearing the robes and crown of a priest. The only things you didn’t have were the stones. Did anything happen before Aspasia’s Shadow gave you the one stone?” Duncan frowned. “There was a connection on the top of the Ark. Leads. That went to the crown I was wearing.”

“And you made the connection?” “Yes.”

“And?”

“I saw something when I was connected to the Ark,” she said. “Something strange.”

Garlin leaned forward slightly. “And that was?”

“I saw a mothership,” Duncan said. “I was inside it. There were bouncers in cradles.”

“The main hold of a mothership,” Garlin said. “Similar to what was found inside the one at Area 51.” “Yes.”

“What else?”

“I saw the Ark.” Duncan closed her eyes, replaying the vision. “An Airlia was putting the Grail inside of it. They put it on board a bouncer. The large bay doors opened. We were about a mile up in the air. We were over water. I saw a talon fly by. The bouncers began flying out of the hold. Going in different directions.” She fell silent for a moment, her face tight as she drew up the memory.

“Perhaps that is how the Airlia arrived here,” Garlin said, “and began—”

Duncan held up a hand. “No. It wasn’t. It wasn’t how they arrived here. Because when the talon passed by below the hold I saw its shadows.”

Garlin frowned. “What?”

“Shadows,” Duncan said. “Plural. There were two suns in the sky of this planet. It wasn’t Earth.”

“It makes sense the Airlia would have traveled to other worlds,” Garlin said. “But taking a Grail and an Ark to other worlds?” Duncan asked.

“Interesting,” Garlin said. “Two suns. We’re going to run a full-body MRI on you.”

Duncan seemed resigned. “What do you hope to discover doing that?”

“We have Majestic’s EDOM data. We want to see if you’ve been—” He paused, searching for the right word, but Duncan interrupted with a sharp laugh. “Changed?”

“We know you’ve been changed by the Grail,” Garlin said. “We want to find out what else has been done to you. Before the Grail.”

Pearl Harbor

If a nanovirus could be disappointed, the collective swarm that controlled the humans at Pearl Harbor would be expressing that emotion. The hope had been to catch the remaining American fleet in the Pacific in the harbor and absorb the ships and crews into the Alien Fleet that was still approaching. With that combined might, the next step would be a multipronged assault on the West Coast of the United States.

Instead, the harbor was empty, everything that could move having gone to sea. As per commands from Easter Island, scout planes were sent out searching while the nanovirus spread, taking over all shore personnel. Civilians were ignored for the time being as they had no useful skills and there was no present need for cannon fodder.

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