Out of the Fire: A Military Sci-Fi Series (Out of the Earth Book 3) by Jake Bible

Author:Jake Bible [Bible, Jake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2022-05-23T16:00:00+00:00

“Is everything in position?” VanderVoort asks. “Where are we with the satellites?”

“Ones we can spare have been tasked and are in position,” a tech replies. “Eyes in the sky are wide open.”

“Don’t get cute,” VanderVoort says. “I’m the cute one. Just say they’re in position.”

“I did,” the tech replies. “They’re in position.”

“Good,” VanderVoort says. “What do we see?”

New views pop up on the screens, various images of North America, especially the western and eastern coastlines. One image flickers and zooms in, flickers and zooms in, until it shows a churning sea and something pulling itself from the heavy waves.

“Landfall at Nova Scotia,” a tech announces. “The Icelandic creature has come ashore.”

All eyes watch as the massive monster crawls its way up onto land, its giant body dwarfing the small fishing village it tromps through. No one says a thing as the satellite tracks its movement, the image sweeping along as the monster destroys everything in its path before finding the other side of the huge island and sliding back into the water.

“Where’d it go?” VanderVoort asks, breaking the silence.

“Trajectory would suggest it is heading south,” a tech says. “We won’t know until it…. Hold on. I think it’s surfacing again.”

The satellite pulls out, changes view, then zooms in on the eastern seaboard directly above Boston. The image adjusts, refocuses, pulls back, zooms in, adjusts then stabilizes. Pixels become sharp images, and there are more than a few gasps as the Icelandic behemoth pulls up out of Boston Harbor and onto Logan International airport. Or what is left of it. Most of the terminals look burned down to their steel struts and beams.

The thing stands tall on its webbed rear legs, its fin wings flapping and flexing back and forth until everything in its path that isn’t bolted into the earth begins to shudder, shiver, then blow away as if a massive box fan has been turned on. The monster lifts its head to the sky and opens wide.

“Is it safe to say we don’t have sound?” VanderVoort asks.

“Yes, ma’am,” the tech replies. “All local surveillance is fried, so no way to tap into that.”

“Then our imaginations will have to do,” VanderVoort says. “I’m thinking it sounds somewhat like a giant seal, but I could be way off.”

The creature closes its mouth and begins walking across the airport, destroying everything still standing, creating more loose debris in its wake. It reaches the far side of the airport and keeps going until it runs into where the Chelsea and Mystic Rivers converge. But instead of slipping into the water, it flaps its fin wings and leaps high into the air, gaining enough altitude to carry it over the bay and far into the mainland.

“Didn’t know it could do that,” VanderVoort says. “Doesn’t have a ton of range, but the thing is so big it covers—”

“We have another coming!” a tech announces.

A new view pops up, this one of the Mid-Atlantic region. Everyone recognizes the location instantly.

“Where is it landing?” VanderVoort asks.

The situation

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