Frontier's Reach: A Space Opera Adventure (Frontiers Book 1) by Robert C. James

Author:Robert C. James [James, Robert C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-20T22:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Four

The mysterious soldiers stood there as if statues watching over the group with their weapons trained on them.

“What do you think they look like under those helmets?” Tai thought out loud.

“Well, we can rule out three heads and tentacles,” Jason assumed.

“Three heads and tentacles?” Tyler eyed Jason crookedly. “Invasion of the Octopus Men?”

“I loved that movie.”

“Do you really think this is the time?” Tai said to them.

“You don’t want to talk about favorite films? Fine,” Jason said. “You didn’t bring Hungry Hungry Hippo with you by any chance?”

Marquez steered the discussion toward something not so childish. “How long has our government known about the existence of extraterrestrials, Susan?”

The doctor struggled to look away from the opening of the sphere. “A little over thirty years. He was discovered as an infant in orbit of a moon in the Galilei System.”

Jason wondered how subsequent governments could cover up something of such magnitude for so long. Humans had looked into the sky for millennia pondering whether they were alone in the universe. If it weren’t for their predicament, he’d obviously appreciate the significance a little more.

“And you left the service to oversee the study of this being?” Marquez almost appeared betrayed. “What did you know about Doctor Tyrell?”

“Only that he was my predecessor. He was attempting to release all the information on Kione to the public. Or so I’d been told.”

Many assumed Tyrell was the one responsible for Nash’s death. Jason wanted nothing more than to dole out the justice he deserved. But now everything had been turned on its head. He was glad the man had got away. While all these questions about Kione were fascinating, his only thoughts were of his friend. He was of course happy that he was alive, but at the same time he couldn’t help but wonder whether it was the same Christian Nash who’d died in the nebula that day.

Everyone stopped and turned to the sphere as it wailed a metallic, high-pitched scream. They covered their ears, and Nash strolled out. The soldiers followed, dragging a unconscious Kione along with them. The door sealed itself shut, and the wailing turned into a loud humming.

“What’s it doing?” Tyler yelled over the cacophony.

As if to answer his question, the sphere rose into the air. The rock beneath shattered from the vibration, and it broke free. Everyone stepped backward as it ascended toward the antechamber’s ceiling.

But instead of colliding, the sphere moved through the rock, as if it were a hologram dissipating through a solid object. Jason assumed whatever Nash had done inside the sphere, with Kione’s help, it now had new instructions. He imagined once it’d risen to the surface, it would be taken aboard his ship.

Moments later, the sphere had completely disappeared, and Nash approached the group. “Well, it’s been good catching up with you, Jason.” The insincerity was glaring. “Unfortunately, reunions aren’t meant to last forever.”

“What about Kione?” Tai asked, watching him get dragged from the antechamber into the outer tunnel.

“Kione?” Nash glanced over at him. “Well, we still have lots of work for him to do.

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