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Invasion: the apocalypse 2.7
“Aren’t we supposed to be graduating into full-fledged soldiers at the end of the week? This is what we were told, right? I want a little space to shine too during the passing out parade.” Jamie said. There was a brief moment of silence in the room before Rhoda broke the silence with laughter, throwing the entire team into a frenzy of laughter that spread amongst them quickly. Hardly catching a breath, Rhoda walked to Jamie and smacked him lightly in the head. “The world is literally ending and you still have the mind to think about your popularity and social standing!” she lets out a sigh of relief. And said, “that is a pure-blooded Chromewell heir for you. Politics and greed flows in their veins instead of blood.” This further throws the rest of the team into laughter, including Jamie, who they are making fun of. “I am happy that we are able to make jokes even at times like these. But to be frank with you, I am a little scared that our lives may never return to normal. We have lo
Invasion: the apocalypse 2.8
As soon as the crawler realized Astra was charging towards it, it dropped the soldiers it was munching off of and made the same blood curling shriek that it made on the first day that it came out of the monolith. Making the crawlers and red hounds scattered all over the destroyed bridges to respond. Astra closed the distance between them in no time, despite a direct order for her to wait for her teammates so they can attack it as a team, she paid no heed, her attention on the monster, yet her mind stuck in the memories of the day the monoliths landed. The image of Jada’s face driving the rover as best as she could to get them out of the city and away from the persistent crawler in front of her. “Today, I shall take that life of yours!” She shouted out loud and threw her HELL-blade at it. The crawler dodged it to the right, just as Astra has predicted it would. She has dashed there and pulled back the sword. The crawler threw a strike with one of its clawed legs, Astra barely dodged
Invasion: the apocalypse 2.8.1
Before Astra could reach the where she kept her HELL-blades, the entire camp had woken up as sirens were blaring loudly. The soldiers have mounted heavy machine guns and grenade launchers on the wall. As soon as Astra picked her blades, the alpha and beta team gathered and moved together to the upper parts of the steel barricades around the base. “prepare for an all out bombardment and brace for impact!” the commander said over public address system, which reverberated all over the base. From the far distance, the ship sitting on the bank of the sea started to fire its cannons and missiles into the air in a valley headed for the island. With a thundering impact, the entirety of the island goes up in flames, shaking the very island itself. She pulls out her binocular and switched on infrared vision. She put it over her face and quickly dropped the telescope from her hands. She immediately turns on her hell blades and the other ones, which Rhoda is holding at the moment. “Get ready
Invasion: the apocalypse 2.9
Both Astra and Rhoda have reached an incredible speed of rotation, with a loud metallic clashing sound. Their HELL-blades hit each other and, just as Astra has suspected all along, the blades didn’t release an explosion of energy. When they finally stopped spinning, she realised something. The blades are pulsating with energy. The one in her hand begins to vibrate and as the alien spiders get closer and closer to them, she noticed the blades glowing brighter and brighter. “I understand what is going on, I think. Whoever made these must have made them with the ability to store the energy generated when they clash. I can feel this one is full of massive energy.” Astra remarked and started inspecting the buttons on the handle of the blade. “I have always wondered what these other buttons do, it is time I test them out, so step back into the base!” She shouted at Rhoda. She pointed the blade at the group of crawlers and pressed the second button located on her index finger. Immediatel
Invasion: the apocalypse 3.0: A WAY TO FIGHT BACK
Astra and Rhoda headed straight to the training room in the military unit together with Carter. They met the rest of the alpha team members at the entrance, waiting for them. They went straight in. the training equipment of the room had been removed and replaced with target practice dolls kept at different pars of the room. The two HELL-blades have been kept on a table by the right corner of the room, which has an anti blast shield in front of it. Carter walked to the table and sat behind the blast shield. “Come and pick your blades.” He said. Astra walked to the table and reached for her hands to pick the single blade. She stopped halfway and turned around to look at Carter. “I would like to go back to using the twin blades. I think they may be more efficient for me.” She said. In response, Carter’s face brightened up with a smile that tells Astra he has already figured what she is trying to do. She reached out and picked the blades, strapping the battery pod on her back and turn
Invasion: the apocalypse 3.0.1
Carter approached her one step at a time, walking over pieces of equipment that the massive energy wave has scattered around the floor. He collected the two blades from her hands and examine them carefully. “I don’t understand what is going on here. If the battery pod is no longer connected to the blade, how is it possible that they are still active and, even better, glowing white?” Asked Carter with clear confusion on his face. Astra smiled and picked up a little piece of the green crystal bits on the floor in front of them. She approached him and brought the crystal close to the surface of her blade. He quickly withdraws back and shouted, “Are you out of your goddamn mind? That would create another explosion.” “I can now see the reason why you couldn’t figure how the blades are still powered despite the battery pod being removed. The energy source that we need to power it is right in front of your eyes, but you are too afraid of it to harness it.” Said Astra. As if possessed by
Invasion: the apocalypse 3.1: RESCUE MISSION
“So you are saying we each get our own super weapons?” Asked Kate. “Yes, but only if you consent to partake in the dangerous missions that he will be tasking us with. Humanity is on the brink of literal extinction. Everything is on the line.” Astra answered. A few minutes later, a group of six soldiers walked into the training room and stood by the large patch of the letter ‘X’ that has been welded into the walls of the room. They turned around and saw Astra standing, with the two Japanese Katana swords on her back. They approached her and stood. Jamie suddenly stood at attention, raised his right hand and saluted them. “private Jamie, Sir, it is an honor to be in your company.” He said, and they started laughing at him. “It is okay private, Carter said that we will be working together from now on. We will be in your care.” A woman with a crew cut hair style said. She turned around where the rest of the five soldiers who came with her and stand behind her said. “Is that the girl
Invasion: the apocalypse 3.2: SURVIVORS
As soon as they flew through the door, they were confronted by man and women looking weak and starving. Some of them were wearing dirty military uniforms and some weren’t, but all of them held guns and were pointing them at Astra and her colleagues. “Drop your guns and get down from the flying board or we will not show any mercy to you useless pirates!” one of the men barely shouted at them. “Do we have to kill those too because I will if they have done anything to Eric?” she said, pulling out her gun. “Wait, I think he just called us pirates. There may be a misunderstanding here.” Rhoda said. Astra lowered her flying blade so that she could see eye to eye with the man in the middle of the crowd talking. The rest of the people were covering him so that he wouldn’t stand out, but Astra noticed a few more things. She turned off her hover blade and put back her gun into the gun holder on her waist. “These people are soldiers.” She turned back and said to her team, then turned back to