Blue Sky of Mars: The Legend of Jethro Tull Book 2 by Christopher R Wills

Author:Christopher R Wills [Wills, Christopher R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Figure 11 Publishing
Published: 2019-08-14T06:00:00+00:00

chapter 23

Jethro toured the Research Base to ensure that the scientists were preparing to leave.

Walker returned with a report from the Methuselah.

“Not ready yet sir.”

“How long?”

“A few more days. It’ll fly but it won’t get us into space for another day and it may take up to three days to repair the heat shields so we can enter the Earth’s atmosphere.”

“Thanks.”

A few more days was time they didn’t have. The Research Base was not designed for defense.

Jethro gave the scientists an ultimatum that their stuff must be ready for transfer in three hours. Anything else they wanted to take to Earth would be hand baggage only.

He went to check on Doc. She was working in her lab.

“Found anything yet?”

She smiled at him. “Yes. I’ve found what a bunch of wusses you and your brave soldiers are when it comes to a needle.”

“You could have made a vial to drink, like what Colonel Baskerville gave me.”

“I don’t have the equipment to extract the anti-virus from a sample of your blood.”

“Did you learn anything about the alien?”

“Come and look at this.” Doc moved over to a microscope. “Look at the screen.” She pointed to a large monitor that was attached.

Jethro saw a blurry grey screen with a load of small blobs and dots swimming about in it. “What am I looking at?”

“See these dots?” Doc increased the magnification to reveal that the dots were also blobs, tiny blobs. “They’re the anti-virus.”

“Yes.”

“This is the alien blood. They already carry the anti-virus, which means somewhere somehow somebody else has got hold of an alien to have been able to get the anti-virus to put in that vial for you.”

“So?”

“Jethro. You were given the anti-virus on Earth over three years ago.”

The gravity of what she was saying slowly began to sink in.

That meant aliens were already on Earth preparing for an invasion and they might have been there for over three years. Who knows what they have achieved in that time?

“We need to get back to Earth as soon as possible.”

“Jethro. I’m frightened.”

“So am I Doc.” Jethro took her hand. “We do what we have to do.”

She squeezed his hand back. “You’re right Jethro.”

“How soon can you get all your stuff packed up and ready to move?”

“Two hours maybe. Why?”

“We’re moving out to the Methuselah today whether or not it’s ready. I want us sitting on that craft strapped in at the minute they complete the last weld. We don’t have a moment to lose. Do you need any help?”

“A hand would be good.”

“I’ll send someone in.”

Doc looked disappointed.

“I need to be out there pushing everyone and making sure we’re ready.”

“I know.”

Jethro knew too. There was a time and a place, and this was not the time nor the place.

Nobody was ready for the sudden move to the Methuselah. They only had one snow tractor, the other being already at the cavern so there would need to be two trips. Jethro insisted that the four scientists make the first trip. He wanted Doc to go

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