Earth on Target (Survival Amidst the Stars) by Angel Bright

Author:Angel Bright [Bright, Angel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Angel Bright Books
Published: 2018-07-07T22:00:00+00:00

19 Battle for the Planet Prima Davos

“Waste of time,” I thought. They said Nolen insisted. Let’s hear him.

“Bring him here!” I said.

Several minutes later, they brought the first in command into the room.

He had a huge short-legged torso, a thick neck as if it were made of separate twisted pipes, and a triangular muscle on the back of the neck. His solid head narrowed toward the crown, with a high forehead transitioning into a bone cone. It was solid natural protection, but the weight of the head would impede rapid response with the inertia of its excessive mass. Big gray eyes without eyebrows, a hooked nose, and proportionate mouth greeted me.

I waved at the security guards to free his hands but did not invite him to sit down. I released two of the guards.

“I’m listening,” I said.

There followed a series of rattling and popping base sounds.

I understood the phrase he uttered; he was asking for an interpreter. OK. We had to wait for about ten minutes while studying each other.

He was not upset with my sitting in his royal presence. The interpreter arrived, and I began the questioning.

“What is the reason for your eagerness to meet with me?” I asked. “We have everything we could possibly get from you. What more can you offer us?” I stared him down, and he seemed to shrink before my eyes.

“We were forced to come to your system. There is nothing for us here. It wasn’t worth it for the great power we are to come here to threaten to destroy you. We put off the inevitable attack under various pretexts with the hope that the parties would come to some sort of an agreement. There was an overlord in each of the star cruisers whose task was to demonstrate a show of power by killing any commander who exhibited signs of hesitation or disobedience. And then you defeated us. It was a complete surprise, considering your backward tiny star system. I witnessed the panic of the hated overlord when our cruiser split, despite its protective force fields, and I was happy there was someone who could crush them. I prayed for you! I hope you are the ones whose coming was eagerly awaited and dreamed of by the entire population of our planets.”

“Where did this overlord disappear?”

“They teleport somewhere when in danger. But ours was a little different and stayed with us with the hope that you would take us in.”

“And where is he now?”

“On Mars…or somewhere else. You met him and talked with him.”

“Me? I talked with an engineer.”

“It was him.”

I was embarrassed by my surprise. It was a new failure if this were true.

“But we tested him. We didn’t detect anything different.”

“You have tested the actual commanding engineer. The overlord wanted to see you to get an idea of who you are.”

When and how was it that he had managed to get away? It was from our base on the moon, of course. I had left him there. He must have switched identities with the real second in command.

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