In this story, an extraterrestrial force threatens to destroy earth. we look through the eyes of a police officer as he tries to suppress this force......
Prologue
With feet more silent than a light breeze ruffling a few blades of grass, the pale person landed on the ceiling of Roy Enterprises, after falling 30 feet from a sleek, black helicopter. As silent as a mouse, he crept to the center of the eight floor building.
With his heat infrared vision, he noticed the invisible security systems, and the man closed his eyes to concentrate. The light in front of the devices shimmered for one second, and it stopped. He walked past them as if they were toys. No alarm sounded.
Feet were heard coming up the stairs. The pale man froze in place. A tall man in a business and a red tie came up, seemingly wanting to have a stretch after working for half a dozen hours.
“Hey!” the man yelled, and those were his last words because a bullet from the pale human hit his head with great force. Turning away from the bloody murder, he planted some thing on the ground, and ran to his helicopter. He leapt with inhuman strength, and a ladder fell down from the aircraft. Climbing up, he got into the copter and it flew away with gusto.
Roy Enterprises had been exploded. A bomb had been implanted at the top. It had been a minor bomb, but had enough power to bring down the top floor. After that, each floor crashed into each other.
This incident shocked people all around San Jose, especially the few employees left of the famous company. They claimed that nothing was heard until the eighth floor toppled down. Also, the security machines had not detected anything although they had caught hundreds of criminals in the last decade.
A policeman looked gravely at the newspaper and the picture of the company’s wreckage. If there was anything in his life he, Max Albertson, would do, it was to capture the terrorist responsible for destroying San Jose’s major pride, what it was known internationally for.
Chapter 1
“Now, Max,” SHO Matthew told him in a voice one might use for little kids, “There has been an attack on Roy Enterprises yesterday and-”
“I know all this! We have to track down the terrorist and imprison him!” He was sick of everyone teasing him because he was one or more ranks less than them, but it wasn’t his fault. He had entered one year after them.
“Oh!” Matt said with mock surprise, “Then why don’t you go catch him?”
Max stomped out of the office, humiliated. He would show them, he would show them all! He would go today and capture that unlawful bomber.
Max climbed into his airplane half an hour later. Closing the door, he pulled the gears and performed the pre flight check. After that was over, he ignited the engines, which started with a roar.
Starting at 1000 miles per hour, he lifted off, rocketing into the sky in his fast plane.
A minute later, he reached the wreckage of Roy Enterprises. Almost immediately, he made way through the collapsed ruin of a ceiling. If what he thought was correct, the terrorist would have left a backup bomb. It didn’t take him long to find it.
It was circular in shape, and perfectly blended in with the color of the ceiling. Slitting it open, he glanced at it and was extremely startled. Inside, there was a complex network of wires and technology so advanced that humans had not even reached it yet. The bomb did not resemble anything of Al Qaeda, nor that of LeT. Could it be…..? Could a new terrorist agency be coming? The thought itself made him shiver. I thought we had enough people mercilessly slaughtering others in the name of Jihad, He thought, and now we have an upcoming group who has more advanced technology that we can hope to have in this century. His thoughts were broken by a large moan from a man nearby. A victim, Max thought. Slowly, he walked forward, until he discovered something that made him swear that he would avenge the terrorist.
The man was his brother.
“No! NO! Brother, are you all right?” Tears fell like rain from his eyes.
“Pale man….bomb….shot me….” He said, before wheezing, taking deep breaths. The blood was spreading. For some reason, no blood had been drawn out by the bullet at first, but now, 16 hours later, it was weakening the man. Max failed to notice this.
“AMBULANCE! AMBULANCE! Please come, there is an emergency situation!” He yelled. Precisely on time, an ambulance landed next to him, pulled his brother onto a stretcher, and lifted off into the air.
Although his grief for his brother compelled him to go on and attack, he knew he had to have biological evidence so his plane could track the man down. He studied the ground where the ceiling had fallen, checking for any clues. At last, he found one.
It was a single hair, auburn in color. There was nothing significant in it, just as Max had expected. Very soon, his thoughts changed, as the tip of the hair sharply pricked his skin.
Ignoring this, he put it inside a tube and carried it to his plane.
This was one of his major mistakes. If he had paid attention, he would have known what he was up against.
He pushed the cartridge into a particular slot. A hidden gadget popped up that would track the terrorist.
He’s not too far, thought Max, I can follow him on foot.
Max ran at the top of his speed, taking the device with him. At last, when it said he was right next to him, he spotted the pale man. Silently picking up the gun, he shot. As the bullet hit the man, unexpectedly, a loud CLANG sounded! In one second, the man was next to him. With a crushing punch, Max was blasted so hard that he crashed through three walls. With his spine broken, he hobbled toward his plane. Without bothering to check if the plane was ready to fly, he launched it and was able to somehow maneuver it to the hospital.
Then he blacked out.
The pale man had felt as if a pin had pricked him when the bullet hit him.
Silly human, he had thought. The man had thought bullets actually hurt him. The truth was, his kind were immune to bullets.
But the pale man sensed something in the human. Something dangerous. The pale man had given his strongest blast of energy to intimidate the human. After that, the pale man had felt drained of energy. He must report to the leader.
Max woke up in the bed at the hospital. Groggily, he looked at his surroundings when the nurse came in. How long have I been asleep? He thought.
As if answering his thoughts, the nurse said, “You have been asleep for 35 hours.”
What! I couldn’t be asleep for that long! he thought.
“You have woken up early for a person whose back was broken. You will need another 2 weeks rest.”
Of course, he was confused as to why she could answer questions when he thought them. But he was already in a deep sleep.
That night, he had an extremely strange dream. The only colors he could see were green and black. The darker colors were replaced by black and the lighter by green. It was as if he were an alien. The doctors stood above him.
“Remarkable,” they were saying, “We would have thought it was near impossible.” After a few moments of discussion, they all left except his nurse and another man.
"Do you think he is.......' The nurse asked. The man shrugged, and walked out.
"Do you think he is.......' The nurse asked. The man shrugged, and walked out.
“Yes, Your highness.” The pale man said to the leader of his race.
“Hmm.” Said the leader. “Interesting. But the human will not live. No one has survived such a powerful blast of energy before. So let us forget about this and focus on other issues.”
“But sire…”
“Silence, Krypto! Do not make me angry!” yelled the leader, though he was already angry, purple faced as he is.
But to tell the truth, he himself was quite scared.
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