Navigator--The Complete Series by SD Tanner

Author:SD Tanner [Tanner, SD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: alien, apocalypse, dystopian, eotw, future soldier, invasion, space marine
Publisher: WildRide Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: Defining moment (Ark)

They’d managed to retrieve thirty-one people from NORAD. Amber and Dom were still studying the footage they’d downloaded and he was assessing what skills were left. They’d added Colonel Boris Meecham to the grid and he and Bill were having an intense discussion.

“The satellites have to stay up,” Bill said intently.

“We can probably keep them in orbit, but without maintenance they will eventually fail.”

“How long?”

“Hard to say. It depends on how much damage they take on up there.”

“But it’s not going to happen tomorrow.”

“No, and there’s more than a few anyway.”

“What about the missiles?”

“They work, but you told me the critters react well to radiation.”

“True, but there’s a nest in Pueblo Pintado we might need to blast open.”

“We don’t need to use nukes for that. We can go with a regular bomb.”

“How deep can it blast?”

“Not very, why?”

“They’ve burrowed something underground, but we don’t know how far.”

“We have missiles designed to drill. They hit the ground and burrow before exploding.”

“To what depth?”

“I don’t know. We’d have to check our files.”

He thought both men were trying to run before they could walk. The situation was critical, but it was going to be a long and drawn out battle. If there was a nest in Albuquerque, then he believed there were probably more. The critters were smart, and they wouldn’t be dependent on a single location they weren’t even bothering to hide. Once the satellites were under their control again, he would have them look for the rest of the nests he was sure were scattered across the country and probably the world.

Bill was often right about many things, but he was still trying to solve the problem with a single blow. That wasn’t how he saw it. The cities were now under siege, their people were desperate, and the critters were developing new weapons. Their enemy was more organized than they were and they needed to catch up. Any creature that could wipe out their ability to defend themselves, and transform or kill seventy-five percent of their population in a month, was unlikely to roll over without a fight.

The medical team were analyzing the critters they’d captured. The weapons team were testing a range of ways to kill them. Bill had headed the mission to save NORAD. He was working with Leon to make the Navigator team effective. They still didn’t have an army, and Bill’s attempt to enlist the preppers had yet to be proven. Jonesy had decided to become a fully functioning Navigator, but had lost his mind when he lost his family, and was now hell-bent on becoming a one-man killing machine.

Something was missing and he knew what it was. They had no leader. Each of them were independently taking actions without a cohesive and single plan. It wouldn’t work. Their enemy was too smart and they wouldn’t win this fight by accident.

While he worried about their lack of leadership, Lexie opened a private chat room on the grid. “Ark?”

“What is it, kiddo?” He asked warmly.

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