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Happy Independence Day in arrears man. More wins for us and the country

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Dan grunted as he struggled to keep hold of the multiple bags he was carrying, he reached for his pocket and pulled out his key, he sorted through the bunch of keys to pick out the boot key, but it slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground.

“A little help here.” He spoke in frustration.

He remained silent waiting for a response but none came, groaning again, he rolled his eyes and walked towards the car.

“Don’t tell me you have that thing plugged into your ears again.” He spoke as he bent to take a look into the opened back seat.

He was surprised to find the seat empty and he looked further through the car but there was no one in it. He frowned and decided that the groceries weren’t the major concern at that moment as he squeezed them into the back sit and stood up, staring at the parking lot and wondering where his son had gone. He could see some people gathering some few metres away, just outside the garage, their gaze all up as they stared at something in the sky with keen interest. He shut the door to his car and picked up the key that had fallen and decided to check if his son was part of the mini crowd. He had not taken up to five steps in their direction when he found him, his ears plugged in as he looked up into the sky; he joined them and walked towards his son, gently pulling the earpiece out of his ears.

“What did we say about disappearing without telling anyone where you were going to?” He asked as calmly as he could, trying to hide the bit of frustration lingering in him.

His son frowned a little in protest to him removing the earpiece without asking first but decided to let it go as he returned his gaze to what he had been staring out. Dan scoffed in frustration, children had not been his strong point and having one of his own was not something he had planned for when he did. Love overcomes all, they had said. He sighed and followed his son’s gaze, trying to figure out what he had been staring out and he saw it.

The dark sky shone brightly as rays pierced through it, he felt uneasy watching it and almost immediately, there was a loud bang in the sky and everyone took cover as they watched with keen interest for the next event. Almost on cue, they saw a plane fly just a few metres over them, crashing into the tall building that stood few miles away. This was the cue they needed to figure out that something unsual was happening as chaos broke and everyone tried to flee the scene to find somewhere safe. Dan wasn’t left out, he quickly grabbed his ten year old son and ran towards his car as another explosion went off. He threw his son into the front sit and slid over the bonnet to the driver’s seat.

“Put your sit belt on.” He ordered, starting the car.

His ten year old son slowly dragged the seat belt and placed it over his body. “What’s happening?” He asked as the seat belt clicked.

“Nothing.” Dan said, driving out of the garage. “We have to find mom, and I want you to put your hands over your face and shut your eyes as you count from hundred backwards, we will be home before you finish.” He said as he drove into the street and zoomed off, trying his best to avoid the people that ran into the streets to get to safety.

*

“We can confirm activity on site.” One of the operators announced to Nikita.

She smiled and turned to Rachel. “It’s time.” She turned to the operator that was controlling the drone. “Let it rain.”

The operator turned to the screen and popped open a key on his controller, he moved the drone forward towards the figures on the screen and hit the key.

“Two minute to impact.” He announced as Nikita, Rachel and the other operatives in the room watched the screen intently.

*

The intensity of whatever was above us increased and I heard an unusual sound, like a chamber opening and closing and suddenly, there were two other sounds approaching us. I was alarmed but didn’t know what it was. Its intensity increased towards our direction, and at that moment realization hit me, it was not a plane or a jet, they do not possess silent engines, only something that wanted to be discreet did and only a drone fitted the category. I immediately turned to the direction the girl in black and the other guardians were, they were having an argument, one that I hadn’t noticed because I did not pay attention to them. As the sound grew nearer, I raced towards them, propelling my wings and taking off the ground to increase my speed.

“Take cover.” I screamed as soon as I was sure that I was at a distance that they could hear me.

*

The girl in black and the other guardians turned to the direction the shout was coming from and all of a sudden, some of the guardians pulled out their swords, while some others pulled out bows. The lady turned to the girl in black.

“A fallen?”

“No.” The girl in black countered. “That’s Zeke, the one I had been telling you about.

“You told us he was special and not that he was a fallen.” She said, also pulling out her sword. She held it with both hands and turned to the direction he was flying from.

“What are you doing?” The girl in black asked, walking slowly towards her.

“What you should have done as soon as you found out what he was.”

“He is not a fallen.” She protested again in frustration. “I know a fallen when I see one.”

The lady turned to the other guardians and nodded her head. “Take her away.”

The girl in black quickly moved away, pulling her sword too, Justin following suit even though the only thing he was holding was his Ipad.

“What are we going to do?” He whispered at her.

“If you are planning to harm him, you have to go through me.” She announced to the guardians.

“Uhmm, I don’t think that is what you are meant to say given my situation. It must be a slip of tongue.” Justin whispered in her direction again.

The lady gave a hysterical laugh, further gripping her sword tightly. “You don‘t know how long I have waited for this day, the day you show your real colours and who you are actually working for. It would be my pleasure tearing you down.” She repositioned her stance. “Make sure you take him down.” She ordered, lunging her weapon towards the girl in black.
*

“Eighty seconds to impact.” The operator announced.

*

I flew towards their direction, repeating myself, but they did not seem concerned with whatever I had to say. Some arrows flew in my direction and I quickly altered my route to avoid being at the receiving end of any as the intensity of the sound became louder, I tilted to the left as more rounds of arrows flew at me, making a three sixty turn before landing and then using my wings to repel any further attack. I lowered the wings when I realized that the arrows had stopped hitting it, my emotions suddenly taking an erratic turn. I took deep breath to calm myself.

The girl in black and one of them seemed to be having a tussle, and it didn’t look like practice as they aimed to arm each other and fought with extreme anger.

“Stop!” I screamed, getting fed up. “We all have to get out of here now.”

The girl in black countered an attack aimed for her lower abdomen, she slid her sword through that of the lady she was tussling with and in a moment of extreme skill and brilliance, kicked the sword away from her hand and sent another kick to her chest, sending her spinning to the ground and rolling over few metres. The ladies that had been wielding the bow suddenly hurried to the lady and tried to help her to her feet, but she grunted at them and motioned them to stay back. I couldn’t believe that this were the guardians that we had waited for to provide reinforcements to defeat Zion, it was as if the whole mission was a pathetic one and with how things looked, we were heading for doom and dragging the whole world by its ears with us.

The lady got to her feet and wiped her face with the back of her hand, she had a little bit of blood on it as she stared at the girl in black in anger.

“I hate to cut into your reunion, but we have to get out of here now.” I announced and she redirected her furious gaze at me. They remained on me for a while before a loud piercing laughter came from her.

“You also listen to the opinion of a fallen?” She questioned no one in particular.

I took a step forward, sighing. Whatever hope I had been breeding of we getting an upper hand when they eventually joined us was smothered to death at that point.

“Believe whatever you want at this point, but we are standing under a ticking bomb and in a matter of seconds, you and all your thoughts would become ashes.”

The girl in black turned to me. “What?”

“I don’t have much time to explain, but our position has been compromised and as we speak a missile is heading towards us now, so we have to get out of here.”

Justin quickly typed into his Ipad and gave a loud scream, startling some of the guardians. “We have only forty five seconds before it hits our position.”

The girl in black turned to look up. “That’s not possible, no one apart from us and the guardians know that we are meeting today, by this time and in this location, we have a traitor in our midst.”

What the girl in black said made sense and all hands pointed at the new arrivals, we didn’t know them enough to know we could trust them, but we didn’t have time to start pointing hands. I turned around to find a spot we could take cover and found a cave some miles away.

“Over there.” I spoke nudging the girl in black and Justin on. Justin was the first to take off, running with all his might towards the cave, but soon, the girl in black overtook him and they raced towards the cave. The guardians still remained caught in between decisions and there was a little murmuring. The lady was also caught in between believing us or remaining with the spaceship, but from the little I had seen on nuclear missiles, the spaceship was not going to hold against it.

“We can settle this later, but safety comes first.” I tried one final time to convince her, even though we were not on the same page, we still needed all the hands we can get.

She stared at me again, before finally nodding her head and the other guardians raced towards the cave. I turned to look up and realized that they were not going to make it before the missile hit the ground and sent waves that would definitely tear them apart and figured I had to do something about it.
*

The girl in black panted as soon as she got to the mouth of the cave and turned to help Justin into the cave, she stared and found the guardians also racing towards the cave and sighed in relief that they had finally came to their senses. She turned to look around, but there was no sight of Zeke, she strained her eyes but still found no sign of him. Her heart began racing again as she made to walk out of the cave. Justin quickly pulled her back.

“What are you doing? We have below fifteen seconds before we are hit.”

“Zeke?” She questioned as some of the guardians raced into the cave and went further into it. The lady she had been tussling with was the last person to enter the cave and she dragged the girl in black by her arm.

“We have to go deeper if we plan on surviving the afterwave.”

“Where is he?” The girl in black questioned.

“He said not to worry about him and get to safety.” She said and tried to drag the girl in black with her but she resisted, panting loudly and she tried to walk out of the cave.

The lady quickly hit her at the back of her head and she became unconscious, she raced her and placed her on her shoulders, carrying her deep into the cave as Justin’s timer counted down.
*

Nikita stared intently at the screen as she watched the heat map disappear into the rocks. He turned to the operator.

“How far does the after wave of the missile go?” She asked.

“Enough to bury them under the rock, I don’t think they can survive this.” The operator responded.

Rachel took a step forward, her gaze still on the screen. “How did they figure out that a missile was heading in their direction?”

“A device connection was detected some seconds ago.” One of the operators responded.

“No.” Rachel nodded her head. “How did they know to turn on the device to check for the missile?” She moved further toward the screen. “There.” She pointed at a heat map that was not bulging from its position on the screen. “What is that?”

“We have incoming.” Another operator announced.

“What is that?” Nikita asked.

The operator zoomed into the image that they got from the camera on the drone. “A rock?”

“Zoom in on that.” Rachel ordered, pointing to something under the boulder of rock that was flying towards the missile.

The operator obeyed and zoomed in, the image became clearer and Rachel smiled when she saw his face.

“Somebody finally heard my prayers.” She smiled wickedly.

Thanks man

Don't tell me Zeke can absorb the emission from a missile! Going for Nikita not knowing Rachel(her mind altering/reading abilities) is with her. I just hope she won't be as strong as to get into Zeke's mind. These guardians are funny though, a guy who Zion could not place, they had already classified as a fallen. This Rachel is already showing she would be worse than Nikita and those lightening bolt descending upon earth are the fallen arriving I guess. Thanks for the update.

Thanks for the update OP. These guardians are a waste of time, the are too immature to defeat Zion and his cohorts. Only an Earthling can protect the Earth_Zeke..

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Another update would be dropping today, stay tuned!

Thanks boss.....

You have a nice work here

Wow I hope Zeke knows what he's doing .

Thanks for the update. Op

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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Dan grunted as he struggled to keep hold of the multiple bags he was carrying, he reached for his pocket and pulled out his key, he sorted through the bunch of keys to pick out the boot key, but it slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground.

“A little help here.” He spoke in frustration.

He remained silent waiting for a response but none came, groaning again, he rolled his eyes and walked towards the car.

“Don’t tell me you have that thing plugged into your ears again.” He spoke as he bent to take a look into the opened back seat.

He was surprised to find the seat empty and he looked further through the car but there was no one in it. He frowned and decided that the groceries weren’t the major concern at that moment as he squeezed them into the back sit and stood up, staring at the parking lot and wondering where his son had gone. He could see some people gathering some few metres away, just outside the garage, their gaze all up as they stared at something in the sky with keen interest. He shut the door to his car and picked up the key that had fallen and decided to check if his son was part of the mini crowd. He had not taken up to five steps in their direction when he found him, his ears plugged in as he looked up into the sky; he joined them and walked towards his son, gently pulling the earpiece out of his ears.

“What did we say about disappearing without telling anyone where you were going to?” He asked as calmly as he could, trying to hide the bit of frustration lingering in him.

His son frowned a little in protest to him removing the earpiece without asking first but decided to let it go as he returned his gaze to what he had been staring out. Dan scoffed in frustration, children had not been his strong point and having one of his own was not something he had planned for when he did. Love overcomes all, they had said. He sighed and followed his son’s gaze, trying to figure out what he had been staring out and he saw it.

The dark sky shone brightly as rays pierced through it, he felt uneasy watching it and almost immediately, there was a loud bang in the sky and everyone took cover as they watched with keen interest for the next event. Almost on cue, they saw a plane fly just a few metres over them, crashing into the tall building that stood few miles away. This was the cue they needed to figure out that something unsual was happening as chaos broke and everyone tried to flee the scene to find somewhere safe. Dan wasn’t left out, he quickly grabbed his ten year old son and ran towards his car as another explosion went off. He threw his son into the front sit and slid over the bonnet to the driver’s seat.

“Put your sit belt on.” He ordered, starting the car.

His ten year old son slowly dragged the seat belt and placed it over his body. “What’s happening?” He asked as the seat belt clicked.

“Nothing.” Dan said, driving out of the garage. “We have to find mom, and I want you to put your hands over your face and shut your eyes as you count from hundred backwards, we will be home before you finish.” He said as he drove into the street and zoomed off, trying his best to avoid the people that ran into the streets to get to safety.

*

“We can confirm activity on site.” One of the operators announced to Nikita.

She smiled and turned to Rachel. “It’s time.” She turned to the operator that was controlling the drone. “Let it rain.”

The operator turned to the screen and popped open a key on his controller, he moved the drone forward towards the figures on the screen and hit the key.

“Two minute to impact.” He announced as Nikita, Rachel and the other operatives in the room watched the screen intently.

*

The intensity of whatever was above us increased and I heard an unusual sound, like a chamber opening and closing and suddenly, there were two other sounds approaching us. I was alarmed but didn’t know what it was. Its intensity increased towards our direction, and at that moment realization hit me, it was not a plane or a jet, they do not possess silent engines, only something that wanted to be discreet did and only a drone fitted the category. I immediately turned to the direction the girl in black and the other guardians were, they were having an argument, one that I hadn’t noticed because I did not pay attention to them. As the sound grew nearer, I raced towards them, propelling my wings and taking off the ground to increase my speed.

“Take cover.” I screamed as soon as I was sure that I was at a distance that they could hear me.

*

The girl in black and the other guardians turned to the direction the shout was coming from and all of a sudden, some of the guardians pulled out their swords, while some others pulled out bows. The lady turned to the girl in black.

“A fallen?”

“No.” The girl in black countered. “That’s Zeke, the one I had been telling you about.

“You told us he was special and not that he was a fallen.” She said, also pulling out her sword. She held it with both hands and turned to the direction he was flying from.

“What are you doing?” The girl in black asked, walking slowly towards her.

“What you should have done as soon as you found out what he was.”

“He is not a fallen.” She protested again in frustration. “I know a fallen when I see one.”

The lady turned to the other guardians and nodded her head. “Take her away.”

The girl in black quickly moved away, pulling her sword too, Justin following suit even though the only thing he was holding was his Ipad.

“What are we going to do?” He whispered at her.

“If you are planning to harm him, you have to go through me.” She announced to the guardians.

“Uhmm, I don’t think that is what you are meant to say given my situation. It must be a slip of tongue.” Justin whispered in her direction again.

The lady gave a hysterical laugh, further gripping her sword tightly. “You don‘t know how long I have waited for this day, the day you show your real colours and who you are actually working for. It would be my pleasure tearing you down.” She repositioned her stance. “Make sure you take him down.” She ordered, lunging her weapon towards the girl in black.
*

“Eighty seconds to impact.” The operator announced.

*

I flew towards their direction, repeating myself, but they did not seem concerned with whatever I had to say. Some arrows flew in my direction and I quickly altered my route to avoid being at the receiving end of any as the intensity of the sound became louder, I tilted to the left as more rounds of arrows flew at me, making a three sixty turn before landing and then using my wings to repel any further attack. I lowered the wings when I realized that the arrows had stopped hitting it, my emotions suddenly taking an erratic turn. I took deep breath to calm myself.

The girl in black and one of them seemed to be having a tussle, and it didn’t look like practice as they aimed to arm each other and fought with extreme anger.

“Stop!” I screamed, getting fed up. “We all have to get out of here now.”

The girl in black countered an attack aimed for her lower abdomen, she slid her sword through that of the lady she was tussling with and in a moment of extreme skill and brilliance, kicked the sword away from her hand and sent another kick to her chest, sending her spinning to the ground and rolling over few metres. The ladies that had been wielding the bow suddenly hurried to the lady and tried to help her to her feet, but she grunted at them and motioned them to stay back. I couldn’t believe that this were the guardians that we had waited for to provide reinforcements to defeat Zion, it was as if the whole mission was a pathetic one and with how things looked, we were heading for doom and dragging the whole world by its ears with us.

The lady got to her feet and wiped her face with the back of her hand, she had a little bit of blood on it as she stared at the girl in black in anger.

“I hate to cut into your reunion, but we have to get out of here now.” I announced and she redirected her furious gaze at me. They remained on me for a while before a loud piercing laughter came from her.

“You also listen to the opinion of a fallen?” She questioned no one in particular.

I took a step forward, sighing. Whatever hope I had been breeding of we getting an upper hand when they eventually joined us was smothered to death at that point.

“Believe whatever you want at this point, but we are standing under a ticking bomb and in a matter of seconds, you and all your thoughts would become ashes.”

The girl in black turned to me. “What?”

“I don’t have much time to explain, but our position has been compromised and as we speak a missile is heading towards us now, so we have to get out of here.”

Justin quickly typed into his Ipad and gave a loud scream, startling some of the guardians. “We have only forty five seconds before it hits our position.”

The girl in black turned to look up. “That’s not possible, no one apart from us and the guardians know that we are meeting today, by this time and in this location, we have a traitor in our midst.”

What the girl in black said made sense and all hands pointed at the new arrivals, we didn’t know them enough to know we could trust them, but we didn’t have time to start pointing hands. I turned around to find a spot we could take cover and found a cave some miles away.

“Over there.” I spoke nudging the girl in black and Justin on. Justin was the first to take off, running with all his might towards the cave, but soon, the girl in black overtook him and they raced towards the cave. The guardians still remained caught in between decisions and there was a little murmuring. The lady was also caught in between believing us or remaining with the spaceship, but from the little I had seen on nuclear missiles, the spaceship was not going to hold against it.

“We can settle this later, but safety comes first.” I tried one final time to convince her, even though we were not on the same page, we still needed all the hands we can get.

She stared at me again, before finally nodding her head and the other guardians raced towards the cave. I turned to look up and realized that they were not going to make it before the missile hit the ground and sent waves that would definitely tear them apart and figured I had to do something about it.
*

The girl in black panted as soon as she got to the mouth of the cave and turned to help Justin into the cave, she stared and found the guardians also racing towards the cave and sighed in relief that they had finally came to their senses. She turned to look around, but there was no sight of Zeke, she strained her eyes but still found no sign of him. Her heart began racing again as she made to walk out of the cave. Justin quickly pulled her back.

“What are you doing? We have below fifteen seconds before we are hit.”

“Zeke?” She questioned as some of the guardians raced into the cave and went further into it. The lady she had been tussling with was the last person to enter the cave and she dragged the girl in black by her arm.

“We have to go deeper if we plan on surviving the afterwave.”

“Where is he?” The girl in black questioned.

“He said not to worry about him and get to safety.” She said and tried to drag the girl in black with her but she resisted, panting loudly and she tried to walk out of the cave.

The lady quickly hit her at the back of her head and she became unconscious, she raced her and placed her on her shoulders, carrying her deep into the cave as Justin’s timer counted down.
*

Nikita stared intently at the screen as she watched the heat map disappear into the rocks. He turned to the operator.

“How far does the after wave of the missile go?” She asked.

“Enough to bury them under the rock, I don’t think they can survive this.” The operator responded.

Rachel took a step forward, her gaze still on the screen. “How did they figure out that a missile was heading in their direction?”

“A device connection was detected some seconds ago.” One of the operators responded.

“No.” Rachel nodded her head. “How did they know to turn on the device to check for the missile?” She moved further toward the screen. “There.” She pointed at a heat map that was not bulging from its position on the screen. “What is that?”

“We have incoming.” Another operator announced.

“What is that?” Nikita asked.

The operator zoomed into the image that they got from the camera on the drone. “A rock?”

“Zoom in on that.” Rachel ordered, pointing to something under the boulder of rock that was flying towards the missile.

The operator obeyed and zoomed in, the image became clearer and Rachel smiled when she saw his face.

“Somebody finally heard my prayers.” She smiled wickedly.

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and why the hell did you have to quote everything to Type that?

annayawchee:
and why the hell did you have to quote everything to Type that?

And why the hell did you have to quote me to type this?

shesawesome:
And why the hell did you have to quote me to type this?

Good evening. Quoting the entirety give a semblance of an update(albeit false). Please kindly reply next time instead of quoting. Thanks.

enirock:
Good evening. Quoting the entirety give a semblance of an update(albeit false). Please kindly reply next time instead of quoting. Thanks.

Now here's someone with manners. I apologize for the inconvenience

shesawesome:
And why the hell did you have to quote me to type this?

shut the fucck up

I promised an update yesterday but couldn't put it up because of light issues. As soon as I get light to power up my laptop, I would post it.

Sorry for the inconvenience

shesawesome:
And why the hell did you have to quote me to type this?

annayawchee:
and why the hell did you have to quote everything to Type that?

Oya, don't fight please. It was a mistake and I also understand your frustration.
Let's move on now. Thanks

frankline461:






Oya, don't fight please. It was a mistake and I also understand your frustration.
Let's move on now. Thanks

Good morning sir..

Have a great week ahead

Thank you frankline. Patiently following

Waiting oo...

really can't go out of the page, I'm here every minutes waiting

annayawchee:
shut the fucck up

Uncouth He-goat.

frankline461:






Oya, don't fight please. It was a mistake and I also understand your frustration.
Let's move on now. Thanks

Sorry about that frank

shesawesome:
Uncouth He-goat.

OK....

Overstretched punna

shesawesome:
Now here's someone with manners. I apologize for the inconvenience

Thanks.

Dear Frank,

I'm intrigued to ask for more updates............. Pls harken to me oooo

annayawchee:
OK....

Overstretched punna

Peanut-sized wrinkled ballsacs.
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shesawesome:
Peanut-sized wrinkled ballsacs.
Jargon-spouting socially-retárded nicompoop

OK... I see you are one of the evening magazines...

Carry your frustration dey go

annayawchee:
OK... I see you are one of the evening magazines...

Carry your frustration dey go

You are a sissy-ass timorous little worm deserving of the profoundest contempt. Splenetic libelous, bilious, spastic ignoramus

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

“The cores are weakening.” One of the operators shouted over to Zion.

He stared at the screen as the levels dropped rapidly and sighed, at least it had done most of what it had been programmed to do.

“How long have we been on?” He asked.

“Two minutes and thirty-four seconds, and counting sir.” The operator replied.

He took a step forward as a wide grin appeared at the side of his mouth. Orca must have been hit by surprise and he could only imagine the faces of the elders when they realized that all the troubles they thought they had put behind was only beginning to start. This was only the beginning of the things he had planned for years, and he felt more fulfilled than ever that it was finally becoming a reality.

“Start the protocol for the dome and get me an update from the other mission that Nikita is handling.”

“Okay sir.” The operator returned to his PC and clicked rapidly into it.

“It’s confirmed, the first and second wave has hit ground Africa, Asia, Australia and in Europe, we have had the first wave in America but I am not sure we have enough energy in the core to facilitate the second wave.” Another operator shouted out.

Zion sighed, his hand behind his back, he had hoped to be in full strength by the time this was over, but with this, he was going to be short of around one hundred and fifty thousand soldiers that the second wave carried, he wasn’t bothered though, the numbers that had already arrived was more than enough to defend the planet and go with him as he conquered the world.

“We are active and waiting for your order to initiate the dome.” The previous operator spoke.

“And the update from Nikita?”

“We are having issues securing a connection with their tower due to the waves, but the last time we spoke, they said they were on course.”

Zion turned to look at the screen one more time. “Activate the dome.”

*

Dan drove in front of his house and brought the car to an abrupt stop. He pulled his seatbelt off his chest and turned to his son, panting.

“I want you to stay in this car and lock the doors as soon as I step out of here. If anyone comes near the car, I want you to scream out on top of your lungs. Can you do that?” He asked.

His son nodded and he cleared his throat. “Okay, I will go in now to grab mom. On no occasion should you unlock the car without seeing me.” He opened the door and stepped out of the car. He quickly shut it behind him and knocked on the window; his son took it as the cue and locked the door from the inside.

Dan hurried towards the house, turning to look around at the chaos that was ensuing on the street. His neighbour was on the street pointing his shot gun at a man that was trying to break into his house, he could also see some bodies lying on the ground and people fighting. He turned the door knob as quickly as he could and entered into the house.

“Alicia.” He called out as he walked into the kitchen to find her.

The kitchen was empty and he quickly hurried out of it and ran towards the bedroom.

“Alicia.” He called out louder but still received no response.

He pulled opened the door to the bedroom and was startled by his wife sitting in front of the wall mirror, running her hand over her hair.

“Didn’t you hear me call for you?” He spoke angrily walking towards the wardrobe and dragging a box out as he quickly placed some clothes into the box. “Pack what you can carry, it has started and we need to get out of here now. We will move upstate to the cabin and stay there for a while till we figure out Zion’s exact plans.”

He shut the wardrobe and reached up to his rack of shoes, dragging two snickers and dumping them into his bag, quickly shutting it. He turned back and found his wife still sitting in front of the wall mirror, running her hands over her hair. He stared at her for a while in disbelief and walked towards her, grabbing her by her shoulders and turning her to look at him. He received a nerve wrecking shock when he saw her face. He quickly took some steps back, it had been a while since he had come face to face with a fallen and the image they took on arrival on earth wasn’t one that he was going to get used to anytime soon. He stared at her face for a while as he thought of his next step but this was cut short as she attacked him, jumping on him and sending him rolling to the ground.

He quickly avoided the next attack that was directed at his face and got to his feet. His skills were getting rusty because he had not put them in use for a while but he knew had to be careful if he was going to get her back in one piece. He turned to look over to his bag and realized that he was standing on the opposite side; he had to get to it. He stared her again and sighed, what audacity the fallen possessed, deciding to share the body as his wife. He took a step forward, and dodged another attack, quickly gripping both hands and sending her spiralling to the wall of the room. He quickly walked towards the bag and pulled out a small bag, he opened and picked out one syringe just in time to another scratch attack on his back. He rolled over on his bed and quickly caught her by her legs, sending her to the floor, he jumped on her and sent the syringe into her neck.

He held her to the floor as she went unconscious and placed her on the bed, sighing, he placed both hands on her head and took a deep breath, shutting his eyes as he mumbled something. He opened his eyes hoping it worked, but he couldn’t wait to find out. He lifted her off the bed, and placed her over his shoulders, he picked up the bag and walked out of the room. He walked out of the house and hurried towards the car, he knocked on the window and his son opened the door. He quickly placed her in the back seat and entered into the driver’s seat, starting the cr.

“What’s wrong with mom?” His son asked.

“Nothing, she just needs to rest for now.” He replied as he drove off.

*

Nikita stared intently at the screen as she watched the heat map disappear into the rocks. He turned to the operator.

“How far does the after wave of the missile go?” She asked.

“Enough to bury them under the rock, I don’t think they can survive this.” The operator responded.

Rachel took a step forward, her gaze still on the screen. “How did they figure out that a missile was heading in their direction?”

“A device connection was detected some seconds ago.” One of the operators responded.

“No.” Rachel nodded her head. “How did they know to turn on the device to check for the missile?” She moved further toward the screen. “There.” She pointed at a heat map that was not bulging from its position on the screen. “What is that?”

“We have incoming.” Another operator announced.

“What is that?” Nikita asked.

The operator zoomed into the image that they got from the camera on the drone. “A rock?”

“Zoom in on that.” Rachel ordered, pointing to something under the boulder of rock that was flying towards the missile.

The operator obeyed and zoomed in, the image became clearer and Rachel smiled when she saw his face.

“Somebody finally heard my prayers.” She smiled wickedly.

*

Justin pointed the torch of his tablet toward the path they were taking, his gaze placed on his timer that was steadily counting down. There was a loud explosion that reverberated through the walls of the cave, prompting an earthquake in the tunnel, he could hear the other guardians ahead scream as they all couldn’t maintain their stance. They tried to hold on to something to prevent being thrown around but most were unsuccessful, including the lady that now had the girl in black placed on her, he turned on the backlight of his tablet and realized that the explosion had gone off about four seconds earlier that projected and he wondered what changed. The lady in front of him was also having a hard time maintaining her balance and the girl in black’s weight worsened her situation, he turned off his flash as rock particles began falling into the cave and hurried towards her to help her stand.

“We have to get out of here, I don’t think the cave would be able to withstand the aftershock of the second explosion.” He shouted and placed both hands on the girl in black as they moved again.

His effort was quickly made futile as the second explosion went off and the aftershock sent him to the opposite side of the cave and he hit his head hard on a rock particle, making him partially unconscious. He groaned in pain as he felt something trickle down his face as his vision suddenly became distorted and he couldn’t concentrate on anything as more rocks fell in and the whole cave was becoming a dust house. His torch fell on the lady that had been carrying the girl in black and he discovered that she had dropped her on the other side of the cave and was pulling something off her arm. He tried to say something but couldn’t just as oblivion slowly took over. Before his eyes finally shut, he saw the lady hurry over to him, shouting something that he couldn’t put together as she pulled his hand and was placing something over it. Light out.

*

“Damage report.” Nikita asked as soon as she watched the explosion go off and the whole screen went blank.

One of the quickly pulled up satellite images of the crash site. “The missile was intercepted around three hundred metres off the ground, I put the damage at around sixty-eight percent at least.”

Nikita grunted furiously. “That’s not good enough.” She screamed. “That means there is still a thirty-eight percent chance that they survived.”

“Yes, but that is still a rather daunting percentage when it comes to nuclear weapons, even if the explosion does not kill them directly, there is still a factor of the rocks and the radiation doing the job. What you can be certain is that whoever it was that was behind that boulder won’t be making it.”

Nikita scoffed. “You don’t know his capability.”

“Send me.”

Nikita turned to look at Rachel wondering if she had heard right, as she hoped she had. “What?”

“Let me go to the site of the crash, I would finish the job if there is anyone remaining and confirm if they are all dead and accounted for before returning. If they escaped and left the site already, I can always find them with this.” She gesculated at the package Nikita had given her earlier. “I will always know where they are so far he is with them.”

Nikita felt fulfilment run through her spine, this had been the reason she had brought her along, to do the dirty job in case he was alive and she had quickly taken the bait without convincing.

“I don’t think you would find the body of whoever drove that boulder though.” The operator reiterated. Nikita shot him a glance and he quickly turned to face the screen.

“I don’t think Zion would be okay with this though.” She feigned worried so that it would go in the books that she had tried to stop her if things went sideways.

“This is what we have been trained to do for over ten years I would never be more ready than I am now to be a true hunter. I am equipped and we also have the surprise factor. They won’t even know what hit them.”

Nikita sighed and turned to the screen. “If this is what you want, I don’t think I can stop you. You have to leave now and return in two days before we finally join Zion and the others. I will keep this from him and try to stall while you finish the job.” She said, her gaze on the screen.

Rachel nodded and made to leave.

“And Rachel....” Nikita called out before she stepped out of the room. “...if he survived, make sure he pays for what he did to her. Finish the job this time.” She added.

Rachel nodded, gripping the package tightly and smiling before leaving the room.

*

“The dome is set.”

Zion smiled and walked past everyone to the front of the room, his gaze still on the large screen. He shut his eyes and muttered something. He opened them and its color had suddenly changed.

Xiu turned to Mason as they watched Zion

“Do you feel that?” He whispered.

“Yes I do.” Mason replied.

“It’s the same feeling we got before Shelby died and I have a bad feeling about it.” Xiu said folding his hands.

“You don’t need to; I don’t think there is any irregularity that can hinder him now. Notice how he didn’t make a fuss about Shelby dying? At this point, we are also dispensable.” He returned his gaze to Zion.

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