Invasion: the apocalypse

1.6

“What have you realized, Carter? We are in desperate need of information about these creatures so share it with us!” one of the military Generals seated said in a shout.

Currently, there are forty-seven people seated in the meeting hall, among which are the president of the global human federation, his direct deputy and all the important political and military faces on the planet.

It is no new thing for Carson to hijack an entire presentation in the meeting hall and turn it into a lecture that everyone will be happy with at the end of the day. This is because he knows exactly what he is talking about. He raised his head to look in the direction of the president, who sits in a large P-cube, one of Carter’s inventions that provides an absolute defense against almost all kinds of attacks, it combines layers of different types of bulletproof and shockproof glasses in a cube, with his own oxygen tank inside, once he locks himself inside, his absolute safety is guaranteed.

From inside the box, their eyes met just like Carter had expected. The president gave him the node of approval he has always given him when he is about to give his speech. With that, he stood up and started walking to the center stage of the room, tapping one of his earrings which he has built a custom microphone in and started talking.

“We have been expecting, speculating and assuming that the spheres in our orbit that sent down the monoliths are vessels that the aliens are in, while I do not have a reasonable theory to how the three monoliths can contain as many of the alien monsters that have been pouring out of them since they landed, I can tell you something about the spheres themselves that you may not have considered.” He said. At this point, the entire meeting hall has become mute that if you are to listen closely to the mechanical clock on the wall of the room, you can hear the gears in it move with every tick of the second arm.

He looked round the room, scanning for the minister of health, who is a behavioral biologist and a very popular geneticist whose name has permeated the global scientific community for her contribution to the completion of the genome bank for the genome database, he continued.

“I know we are dealing with something that we have no knowledge of here as we will already be aware of that our current scans of the monoliths show elements that are not on our periodic table, what if? I am only saying what if the spheres are not their vessels? What if they are similar to the drones we send out to space?” he asked.

Murmurs from all angles immediately broke the silence in the room, slowly rising in volume that Carter had to be quiet to let the whispers and murmurs die down.

The president of the federation suddenly stood from his seat inside the P-cube, raising his hands and almost immediately, the murmur died down.

“what are you saying Carter? If the sphere is a drone, why do we have extraterrestrial monsters flooding out of the monoliths that descended from them? The monsters are about to drive every last human underground in the next few days, if the spheres are similar to our drones such as our Mars rovers, why are there aliens in them?” the president asked and Carter has already conjured a wry smile on his face that is more appropriate to be called a smirk.

“now imagine the last Mars rover we sent, but lets say that our aim is not to observe the dry planet, but to find life on it and exterminate it so that we can take the planet for ourselves and we have this breed of tigers that get hungry all the time, are bulletproof, can run ridiculously fast, and can reproduce and multiply their numbers every day. If we place enough of them into a large drone space shuttle and let them run free, there is a high chance that they will do the dirty work for us, leaving us an empty planet or one with greatly reduced population to clean up and take for ourselves,” he added.

This time around, the noise that broke in the room is even more intense than the one earlier, however the president commanded everyone to keep quiet and let Carter finish his explanation and everyone kept quiet. Carter cleared his throat and continued.

“I think this is fairly an agreeable point, considering how detailed the massage they sent us is and the level of advancement in their technology, we can say without much doubt that the civilization that we are facing, are using the monsters swarming out of the monoliths as biological weapons to weaken or wipe us out before they will show themselves.” Carter added.

“if this is true, there is no need to hold back Mr. President. The aliens are highly intelligent and have the advantage of their obviously more advanced and superior technology. We should act now. I received some disturbing reports and footage through chain of command for our Air force and Ground troops. The monsters are tougher than all our weapons. They are fast enough to dodge tank shells and even stinger missiles simply throw them off. It doesn’t even kill them. We need a mission to capture one of the creatures and study them first, figure out their weaknesses and start our counter attack before the aliens decide to send even more spheres our way.” One of the Generals in decorated uniform said.