Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:56 pm by Mazer_Rackham
Okay Guys. It didn't take as long as i thought to make chapter one, so here you go:
Chapter 1
An Old Enemy
“Where is he?” President Jacobi wasn’t happy. She was pacing back and forth on the floor.
“I’m sorry ma’am, but there’s no sign of him yet,” one of the security men tried to calm her down. He stood by the door of the right-wing conference room. They had come down to Manhattan with top security to escort the President. She was here for a meeting with Trent to try and put a stop to some recent events. They had been waiting on him for over an hour.
“Well I’m loosing my patience.” He’d never be late to anything like this, she thought. It’s obviously something important that’s keeping him.
“Ma’am. We have a report on an Eagle on the landing pad.” Suddenly, Trent rushed in. He knew what was going on. He tightened his brown jacket, and sat down without saying anything, or even, “Sorry I’m late.”
Trent tightened his eyebrows in deep thought. He looked down at the table with no emotion, but suspicion.
“You’re late,” President Jacobi said with a bit of attitude. I think that was a little too harsh . She slapped herself in the face. Everyone in the room, except Trent, was startled by the loud CRACK of her hand against her cheek. She paid no attention to the very noticeable red mark left behind, and looked across the table at Trent. “I mean, how come your late?”
Trent made no movements in response, except breathing. Then he looked up. “I would like it if we could speak alone.” He looked Jacobi strait in the eye.
This look persuaded her immediately. “But, why?” she asked first.
Trent made a look of fear. This nearly put her into shock. She gestured for her security men to leave. They closed the door behind them.
As soon as they were alone, Jacobi asked, “So what’s this about?” She sat back in her seat, calmly. Trent looked back down at the table.
“We’re not the only species in the around here anymore.” The President’s mouth dropped.
“Are you serious?”
“Would Orillion lie?” Trent looked up again with a very stern look.
“I doubt so. So that’s where you’ve been. Don’t worry, I won’t put this against you.” She said it without paying much attention to it, even though she really meant it. She was busy with other thoughts swarming her mind.
For a while, they sat there and pondered this new outcome. Trent was the one to break the silence. “We have to do something. Even though there’s not much we can do right now.” Trent got up and began to walk out the door, but Jacobi stopped him.
“Can I ask you one question?”
“Okaay,” he answered.
“What do you think we can ever do about this?”
Trent sighed. “I don't know. But I do know that after last time, they’re gonna be pretty pissed.” With that, he walked out the door. Then the security men walked back in the room. One of the men started to ask her something, but then noticed the hardened look on her face. He stopped before she could notice. He could tell something was going on.
Jacobi knew that they had reason to know what was happening, so she told them.
“The Nomads have returned.”
This put the entire room into gasps. Everyone was silent.
“So what’s the plan?” Trent asked on his communicator. They decided to have a private conversation in space. They switched to a separate channel.
“We have got to do something like we did last time. Only it has to be bigger. Much bigger.”
“Meaning?”
“We had reports of large hyperspace energy readings among some of the border worlds. Larger then normal. Not from the jump gates, or anything else.” A wave chart appeared on the view screen of Trent’s ship. It was low at first, but then, it shot up. Really up. “After we caught these readings, we lost contact to nearly all of the border planets. Confirming that is was the Nomads, we managed to get this.” Orillion sent Trent a small video that Freeport 9 had captured.
Static was crackling in the background. He could barely see it, but he noticed bright blue rings appearing in the distance. Then, when the rings were gone, hundreds of small and large florescent blue shapes came into view. Voices were yapping on the channels. Screams could be heard every few moments. Then, from one of the very large blue dots, a white beam came from it, and into Omicron Theta’s sun. After the beam disappeared, the blue shapes jumped out, and were gone. The video only lasted a few mere minute or two more. People were scared out of their bodies at what had just happened. Suddenly, everyone was screaming, “The sun! It’s exploding!”
Then the video cut off, with static on the screen. Orillion cut it off.
“Then we have a problem. They’re not gonna leave a single star still burning. They’re going to supernova all human life.”
Wait on chapter 3.
"One is never too old to be student of the enemy." -Mazer Rackham-
Edited by - Mazer_Rackham on 3/16/2005 3:23:24 AM