Homecoming Chapter 10 (Serialized Novel)
Chapter 10
“I will be frank with you and say, believe me, the unfortunate truth is that this is not a war that we would want. We don’t stand a chance,” the President said with much regret to Stephanie and the rest of Operation Echo Tano One back at the barracks located at Area 51. Stephanie would have been tremendously upset to unearth the knowledge that the chamber that Eba Two was being held in was the very same that her grandfather had been interrogated and taken away from all those years ago.
Even so, it was as soon as the words had parted Joseph Biden’s lips, that an ear-piercing wailing blared all throughout the secured building signaling something wrong was a foot. The walls flashed in and out a deep dark crimson red as the archaic sirens spun in place from the locations where they were mounted on the wall.
“What is going on,” Stephanie half asked, half exclaimed, turning her head wildly in every which direction in a state of panic ridden shock, her eyes bulging in their sockets. “Is this supposed to be happening,” she went on, taking the President by the elbow. Some of the Marines in the room stiffened up and took a step towards her, but he gave them a wave of the hand that it was nothing to bother with.
“No, this was not something to be expected for Stephanie. Those are the emergency alarms that are only sounded when we are under attack,” he answered her. He too was spinning his head around in little bewildered circles, his eyes widened in an expression of authentic confusion and astonishment.
“It has begun. They are here,” Eba Two said from his place on the other side of the mirror. They had to lean in closer to better hear him because it was extremely hard to hear anything behind the screeching of the sirens. It was so loud that both David and Robert, the more elderly of the group took to covering their hears.
“What do you mean by that Malduk? Whose here,” Stephanie inquired pulling her back, kneeling down and pressing her ear against the window so that she could better hear the being through the intermittent pauses between the alarm.
“Whatever he means, I don’t much like the sounds of it. I don’t much like the looks of it all either. It gives me a bad feeling,” Craig said to the party, leaning in towards Stephanie and the President, back and forth as if he was whispering to each of them. They had to talk to each other in this way so that they could better hear one another.
“They who are sent for me. The Reptilian,” Eba Two answered, a menacing grin forming on the creature’s face that displayed his jagged teeth. “It seems the religious was that you wanted in the name of your Christ that your leaders have talked about is among you. I hope that it is everything you wanted,” he went on the smile growing larger and more disturbing.
“An all-loving God wouldn’t want that,” Stephanie said, taken back and hurt by Eba Two’s observation, them highly conflicting with her personal beliefs.
“I am God,” Malduk said in their minds in his devilish hiss, pacing to and fro in the room and looking all around for him as if he was awaiting or searching for something.
“Sir, this is all starting to kind of scare me,” Stephanie said to the President, horrified by what she had just witnessed.
“It should,” came the serpent like voice of Eba Two in the backdrop of her mind.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the building, two blackish purple portals that were as bubbles opened up in the center of one of the narrow hallways. From out of their depths emerged two dark looking figures with a deafening pop. The beings that had appeared through it were a hybrid cross between a human being and a lizard. Which is to say that in many respects, they had the physical humanoid attributes. This was seen in the way that they were bipedal, walking upright on two legs with two swinging arms, limbs, and other such appendages. They even had a face and neck, and everything that one would expect in the anatomy of the homo sapiens species. That being said, it was as if the makeup of their skin was covered in reptilian scales that were very thick. Speaking of the scales, of these two lifeforms, one was a dark green in its color, with the other being a bright red. They had claws and talons where there should have been hands, and a tail that swung from their rear end. Their faces were of the same similitude as that of an alligator that had two horns at the tops of either side of it. And their eyes, their eyes were a fierce bloodshot red, but the most magnificent feature of all was that of their tremendous wings that hung from either side of their shoulders which did seem to be coated in a thick piercing golden material. These two beings towered and loomed in the center of the hallway. Standing at over seven feet they had to crane their large heads downwards just to fit. They wore a kind of black snakeskin like leather jacket that hung at their sides. Their dark shadows cast themselves on the linoleum flooring with each of the flashes of the sirens.
They looked at one another, then the red one, which appeared to be the leader of the two, pointed down in the direction of the other side of the hallway. As this mighty sentience did so he hissed something to his comrade in their serpent like native tongue. Being interpreted, if the people of earth knew their language, it would have translated to mean, “Find Malduk, and get the woman.” The green one nodded in understanding, and they commenced to lurk along the vast corridors, their massive wings raised above them.
The two Reptilian soldier’s names were that of Kon and Tiamat. Now, the Reptilian species were experts at militarism and warfare. They were gifted in developing hierarchies and ranks of their elite fighters. So much so, that their colors signified their ranks. Reptilians were hostile predatory lifeforms, and the green ones were a lower class, much like our privates. These were more brutish in their nature than their counterparts. As for the red ones, these were the commanders or generals that oversaw and gave orders, and they were much more aggressive and violent than that of their thuglike colleagues. Not only that, but due to their ability to strategize and create amazing hierarchies, the Reptilians had an aptitude for making order out of chaos. In this particular situation, Tiamat was the red toned, commanding officer of the two, and Kon was the green brute. It was also another interesting point that the commanding Reptilian were the races females. However, they were of a matriarchal lot complete with a hivemind mentality that served a fierce queen.
Together, the two massive warriors rounded a corner and came unto another subsection of the building where there was a platoon of military officers stationed by the doorways on the opposite end, each one of them toting rifles in response to the recent emergency alarms.
“Unidentified hostile tangos,” shouted out one of the officers pointing out the threat to his comrades in arms at the sight of the frightening aliens. At this call, his squad was on guard and up in arms. Each one of them lined up in line formation at the backend of the hallway, their rifles aimed and raised at the danger lurking at the other end of the hallway.
Now, there are a few other facts about the Reptilians that should be made known. Not only are they extremely telepathic like Eba Two, but they are equally telekinetic. They are capable of moving physical and material objects in our world, just by thinking it so. In this way they were masters at manipulating the world around them. Just about anything they could fathom in their consciousness they could make manifest in the world around them. Also, in their repertoire of abilities, they were interdimensional travelers that could teleport. That, and they could camouflage themselves to fit in with their environment.
Once again, the two alien beings looked at one another, then continued to make their way down the hallway, their claws ripping out chunks of the flooring beneath them. As they did so, the group of soldiers at the other end of the hall broke into two sections. The first knelt down, and aimed their rifles, whereas the second stood behind them, and steadied their rifles on their shoulders so that there would be no chance of friendly fire when they received the order to engage fire with the tangos.
The commanding officer waiting for the creatures to take several steps toward them before making the executive decision to make the call. “Fire,” he shouted, squeezing the trigger of his M16 rifle, as the first among his troop to shoot at the extraterrestrials before them.
Back in their place in the interrogation room, the sound of heavy gun fire rang out in the distance. “Shots fired. I repeat, shots fired,” someone yelled from out in the hallway. Immediately, the President’s guard of Marines took to protecting their Commander and Chief. They did so by drawing their standard issue firearms with the whole group of them encircling him on all sides. It was at this time that the door came bursting open. The door hanging ajar stood a Private of about the age of eighteen that look terrified and shook to his very core.
“Sir, it’s an absolute nightmare. Sheer pandemonium. A worldwide invasion has started, and the base is under hostile alien attack,” he shouted over the sound of the chaotic combination of alarms and gunfire. “We have to get you out of here as soon as possible Mr. President.”
“Mr. President, if I may. This means that we at least know that the base has been compromised and we have to get you and the group secured and to safety. It is a recommendation, but we have to get you back to Washington,” one of the Marines yelled over all of the discord back in his direction, is firearm still at the ready.
“If you think it best, let’s make it so,” the President responded, the enthusiasm and excitement that he had carried and maintained having all but fled from him. His expression filled with wide eyes and a sunken face showed that he was in a state of disbelief due to what was transpiring all around them.
Luckily for them, the elevator, and the portal with it were all in the direction heading away from the imminent threat at their doorsteps. The marines still encircling the President pushed their way out of the doorway which the young private kept open for them, sweat forming at his brow. That was not to say that the threat was lurking nearby. No, far from it, but it bought them time. In this way they made their way out of the room, with the Marines acting as electrons circling around the nucleus of an atom which was the President. Stephanie and all of team Operation Echo Tango One filled behind them one by one.
“I hope you know that they are coming for you. I’ll be seeing you soon,” Eba Two that was Malduk leered in all of his telepathy in the backdrop of Stephanie’s mind as she too exited the room.
“Get out of my head,” she yelled back without so much as a second look, following quick on the heels of the rest of the group.
Bullet casings and shells littered and riddled the floor as the automatic weapons locked on their targets, which were quickly approaching on their targets that were just out of sight. Never had anything like it been seen. The second that the firing commenced, Tiamat raised her incredible arms and clenched her fists shut tight. As she did so there was a roaring rumbling that issued, the walls surrounding them cracking in place. All of a sudden, it was as if an invisible force had broken a large section of the wall out of place and brought it in front of the two alien entities to shield them. In this way, the two lizard like creatures made their way down the hall with the wall floating in front of them protecting them. Finally, when the soldiers had finished with their first round of firing, Tiamat then flung her hand out in front of her. When she did so, all of the debris of the wall was flung at the officers in front of her, knocking half of them off their feet into an unconscious state on the floor. The result of this was that the remaining officers quickly took to reloading their weapons.
For the rest of the length of the hallway, Tiamat and Kon made their way down it so that all of the gigantic golden wings wrapped around and shielded them. So it was that as the next round of gunfire rained down on them, that all the bullets bounced off and ricocheted off of them, some of them bouncing back and hitting the officers if Tiamat and Kon so aimed their wings to do so, as if they were doing it at will with precision.
More troops came pouring into the base as a result of all the commotion, but by the time that the two aliens had made their way at the end of the corridor, there were only a handful of officers left to defend their post at the doorway. They were shaking and frozen in place, to terrified to act by the time that the celestial beings approached them. These of them met the most unfortunate of death among them all, for Tiamat and Kon wielded their massive wings in an arch behind them, and then swinging them in front of them, sliced them in half. And it was done so that they had made their way through the battlefield completely unscathed and unharmed.
Once the soldiers had been laid to waste, the Reptilians moved through the doorway into the next corridor where Eba Two was being confined in his chamber. It was all but empty, for the military personnel had all abandoned their posts to ensure the President’s safety. That was their main order. At that time, all personnel were instructed to converge in the tunnels of Area 51 to protect the President from the assault. They used their infrared vision to feel out for Eba Two’s presence.
“I’m in here,” Eba Two drawled in the alien’s serpent tongue through his means of telepathy, sensing their essence from inside his chamber.
Together Tiamat and Kon marched outside the room and stopped at the location of Eba Two’s chamber. Here, Tiamat once again flung her arms out, clenching her fists as she had done before, and as she did so, all of the walls broke apart in chunks of black obsidian like debris, the room being made up of the strange alien material. This created a large whole in the wall, which both Tiamat and Kon walked through. Tiamat walked straight up to Eba Two and grabbed hold of the black shackles and chains that confined him and broke them apart in her massive claws.
“I was expecting you sooner than this. What of the girl,” Eba Two inquired of his rescuers, craning his neck and face sideways in a questioning sort of manner as he did so.
“Sorry Overlord Malduk. We ran into some minor inconveniences along the way. First, we, we had to fight off an Arcturian interception voyage, and then the humans put up more of a battle than we had anticipated for. That, and these damn constructions that they have erected throughout their buildings have made things more difficult in our travels. Hurry, while she is still here. The Arcturian are close behind and they are pursuing her as well. I sense that they have caught on to the fact that we are seeking her,” Tiamat answered solemnly.
“These setbacks are unacceptable Tiamat. I expect better of you. Kon knows better,” Malduk added, knowing that this would touch on a sore point for Tiamat, seeing that she was Kon’s superior. “Let us make haste and get her. She is not far from here. Or do I need to remind you again as to how vital she is to our mission? I cannot emphasize enough how important her role is in our plans,” he finished in a matter of factually manner as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
The three celestial beings made their way out of Malduk’s containment chamber and headed in the direction that the President and all of Operation Echo Tango One had headed. The three reptilian creatures slithered through the crack out of the room and headed in the direction that the President and all of Operation Echo Tango One had headed. In all of her wrath and fury Tiamat stretched her arms out wide to show the full capacity of her telekinetic abilities. Stopping outside in the hallway, she twirled around in place, and a deep shaking rumbling tremored all throughout the building. All down the hallway the obsidian formations that had coated the walls began to crack and break apart. But that was not the end of it. As the wall fell apart, these giant rocky formations lie suspended out in the middle of the air and began to twirl around out in front of her in unison with her movements. Then stopping, she thrust her hands forward out in front of her and fell down to the ground on one knee. The result of this was that the rubble and the debris shot in the direction of the doorway and broke the double wide doors from off their hinges out into the next subsection of the building. Part of the ceiling came crashing down on them as the structure of the wall gave way and caved in, but it seemed that in kneeling down, Tiamat had created for a force field to surround her, Kon, and Malduk from the wreckage.
“There we go. Something had to be done about that annoying construction,” Tiamat said as she rose to her feet with a sideways glance at the fierce little grey alien next to her. “That’s a whole lot better. A lot easier to move about. Anyways Sorry about the insubordination Overlord Malduk, it won’t happen again. Let us get the girl now.”
Meanwhile, the President and all of his party neared the large cargo elevator that led them back to underground tunnels located under the building. The journey that had previously took them fifteen minutes, took them only seven as the whole group had sprinted to their destination out of fear of the hostile force that lay behind them.
When they arrived on sight at the cargo elevator, it was much to their dismay, for they discovered that it had made its long trip back downwards, and that they would have to call it back up. Here they stopped, and the President’s hand trembled as he fumbled with the security apparatus that scanned his thumbprint that would call the elevator from down below.
“Come on, come on damn it,” the President let out as he pressed repetitively at the down button of the elevator.
All of a sudden, then came three distinctive faint pops down at the other end of the foyer. From these emerged three of the same blackish purple portals that allowed Tiamat, Kon, and Malduk to pass through them. They had backtracked some to a place where the rocky material from their home worlds was not located just so that they could do so.
Stephanie who was running off of the adrenaline pulsing through her veins, was alert enough to hear this slight noise, and she turned around on the spot to see what had caused it. When she saw the three alien beings closing in on them, she let out a shrill shriek. “Oh my God, what on earth are those,” she exclaimed, pointing in the direction of the impending threat of their intergalactic adversaries.
“Protect the President at all costs,” one of the Marines shouted, the whole of the group turning to face the hostile force that was closing in on them. The Marines drew closer to the President as part of the order and aimed their handguns at their targets. “Shoot to kill,” the Marine commanded.
Instantaneously, and all at once several things came to effect in the scrimmage between the Marines and the extraterrestrial beings. The twelve soldiers took to making target practice out of the lifeforms that stood barreling down on them at the opposite side of the hallway. However, the second that the bullets escaped from their chambers, the Reptilians leveraged their sense of telekinesis, the gunpowder, the small explosions from the guns, and the elements in the air to create for a larger explosion that erupted in the vicinity of the President and all of his party so that they were knocked backwards. So large was the blast that it blew a whole in the wall that was immediately to their lefthand side. Stephanie who had been nearest to this subsection of the wall, had been sent flying into the other room, the wreckage and debris caving in on top of her. Meanwhile, the Malduk, Tiamat, and Kon continued on down the hallway after them.
At the same time, there issued a loud crack, and two brilliant lights emerged in the room that Stephanie had been thrown into; so great were the lights that it completely illuminated the surrounding room in its radiance and blinded everyone on the other side of the room and its blast radius. When the lights vanished, their appeared to lifeforms that where not of this world, but that where different than those standing in the hallway.
The beings that appeared before here were etheric in their appearance. That is to say that they had no physical form. They did carry all of the characteristics of the human species, but it was as if their body was not tangible. Instead, it was as if their body was made of a bright and pure light that was blue in its color. And this light did emanate an essence to it, as if the light was pulsating some kind of energy, and this energy seemed to create wing like formations behind them. In their build, there were extremely tall, sleek, and slender. One could liken them to a ghost, for they seemed as if they could very easily walk-through walls, not being made of anything physical. However, the most distinctive trait of all was found in how bright their light did shine.
Moreover, it was at this time that there came the cargo elevator pinged, the large metallic sliding doors opening up for the group. “Hurry up, everyone inside,” the selfsame Marine that had been giving all the orders cried out, scrambling to his feet, and picking the President up from off the floor as he did so, ushering him inside the confines of the elevator all the while.
As for the extraterrestrial beings that had just appeared on sight, they had positioned themselves on the far side of the room so as they could not be seen by the group on the other side of the wall. They looked at the wreckage with expressions of deep grace and compassion. Together, the two beings waved their hands over the rubble, and using their sense of telekinesis they rubble and debris rose up from off of Stephanie and moved across the room in the same direction that the alien’s hands had went, falling safely at the monumental hole in the wall so as to create for an obstacle, and to buy them some time from the incoming threat that was nearing in on them.
“What about Stephanie? We can’t just leave her,” Craig snapped back on the other side of the wall, completely unaware of the alien presence therewithin as the party packed into the elevator.
“There is no way that she could have survived the blast. And we have to get the President to safety. She’s on her own,” the Marine answered angrily at him as the elevator closed behind them.
Back in the other room, Stephanie groggily shook her head as if shaking herself into consciousness. As she came to, one of the lifeforms that had appeared before her turned and faced the part of the wall that had been blown to bits by the explosion and held his hand out to create for a force field in the wall to protect them from Malduk and the Reptilian presence; the force field being like a great shield or barrier consisting of a pure golden light where the hole in the wall was. The other lifeform stepped nearer to Stephanie and looked down on her as Stephanie looked up to it in confusion.
“Hello Stephanie,” it said, “We are Ziv and Kryon of the planet Arcturus in the constellation of Boötes from the near future. Our people have been known by yours by many names. Throughout your history, your texts have referred to us as the Elohim, the Shining One’s, the Arcturian, and many others. The hostile presence that is here has been known to you throughout all of your portrayals of the great dragon in many of your mythologies and ideologies the world over. They come from the Alpha Centaurian constellation. It may be difficult for you to comprehend at this time, but we are manifestations of what your essence will become in the future. The being that is Malduk is another such manifestation in another timeline. There is no time to delay, or for further explanations. They have come for you. The two of us have come to protect you from what is to come. For the same of humanity come with us,” the being said to Stephanie with a soft-spoken tone of voice that was every bit as graceful as the expression on its face.
“Ziv, we need to leave, now,” the other lifeform in the room said with a backwards glance at them as Malduk, Tiamat, and Kon confronted him at the hole in the wall. Kon glared menacingly at him, and the being that was Kryon brought his other hand to his temple to better focus his attention on keeping the force field up through his telekinetic link. He grimaced as Kon took to beating against the beaming golden light with his giant claws.
Stephanie looked up at the creatures in the room with her, then at those that were trying to force themselves into the room. All that she could discern was that those that were outside in the hall were maleficent and meant her harm and couldn’t possibly want the same fate from her if they were willing to protect her from them. The only thing that was of a concern to her, was how occupied all these alien entities seemed to be with her as opposed to anything else in the building.
“I suppose it’s better than the alternative,” she said, struggling to her feet, dusting the remains of the debris off of herself as she composed herself. “What exactly is it that I have to do in order to go with you. Let me guess. It’s some other interdimensional portal that I have to pass through,” she said sarcastically, although it was hardly the time and the place for it.
“There is no time for this. It is already done,” the alien that was Ziv said, and as he said so there was a tremendous crack of white light and Stephanie, Ziv, and Kyron dematerialized out of thin air, teleporting to another location. As they did so, the force field that Kryon had been maintain gave way, and Kon feel to the floor as he went to bash against it yet again.
“Kon, get up you graveling fool,” Malduk hissed vehemently looking at the Reptilian beast before him with disdain and approach. “Seeing as to how the Reptilian methodologies are to no avail, it would seem that we would need to adapt an approach from the Zeta Recticuli. Failure is not an option. We are going to have to step things up and be more aggressive. It seems I have underestimated the Arcturian and the girl. Come let us go.
“Yes master,” the two lizard like creatures said in unison. Then Kon picked himself off the floor, and then three of the interdimensional portals appeared before them, and they entered into them in hot pursuit of Stephanie and her celestial saviors.
Meanwhile, back in the elevator, the President pounded his hand against the rear metallic cage, and hard. “I can’t believe this,” he started through clenched teeth. “In a single hour the whole world is invaded, the most secured military base is attacked, we have a breach, and an alien prisoner escape, and a death,” he said, assuming Stephanie as part of the death toll. “We need to regain the control of the situation,” he continued, being one that liked to have the upper hand and in a position of power. “We are going to hold a firm steadfast in the tunnels of the Pentagon. Nothing in or out. It is as if we are under Defcon One while we are there. Craig, I hope that you can be put to the test and know how to improvise your strategies of defense on the fly,” he finished as the elevator finished its descent.