Alec's Dream

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  “This is Legion 8, we’ve lost our cloaking.”

  “Damn, not another.” Joshua’s eyes were bleary. It was 15 hours since his forces had joined the battle, turning it quickly in their favor. But the Kan-ji recovered, doubling their replacements and sizes of their squadrons. Fortunately for Earth, those efforts were wasted as it gave Joshua’s forces more targets… two for the price of one, so to say. The Kan-ji then changed strategies as their fighters filled the surrounding air with blue lightning bolts; the same discharge that came from their swords. Joshua didn’t know if they planned it or were just lucky. Though the discharge didn’t do any serious damage to their ships, it disabled the cloaking, just like it disabled the cloaking on their car in D.C. Now, only a few cloaked ships remained and Joshua knew they wouldn’t remain cloaked for long.

  “Sir, Ninja 15 isn’t responding.” Sally turned from her console. “That makes 12 ships down.”

  With their ships no longer cloaked, they were vulnerable; even with their shielding they couldn’t withstand the blasts from the destroyer’s energy cannons. “We need to pair up our ships.” he said to Sally who had stayed at her position throughout the battles. “Let’s realign our forces.” Turning to Ernie he said. “That cuts our range in half and there’s no sign of them running out of reinforcements.”

  “What are we going to do?” Ernie asked. “According to my sources, Earth’s military is beginning to run low on weapons.”

  “Look at the devastation.” Joshua pointed to the monitors showing the feeds from the observation ships. “We don’t have enough fighters here to protect Earth. We can’t afford to send them away to try to destroy a 30 mile long spaceship make of rock.” Joshua thought aloud of his options.

  “That Seeker ship needs to be destroyed.” Ernie concluded.

  “I promised Alec and Clay that I wouldn’t let that happen until their kids are safe.” Joshua put his head in his hands. “What’s the status of those nukes?” Earth’s separate military forces had all fired groupings of modified nuclear armed missiles toward the giant Seeker ship that was still hiding behind the moon. Some of the missiles have been found and destroyed by the Kan-ji, yet others had escaped detection and were still on target.

  “There are 3 groups remaining…. it’s still at least 35 hours before they reach the ship.”

  “Let’s hope the kids get out of there in time.” Joshua was now racked with guilt at sending Alec and Clay to the edge of the solar system with their kids still stuck on that Seeker ship. “I should’ve let them attempt a rescue.” He said to himself.

  “What should we do?” Ernie asked.

  “For now we need to prioritize our efforts… to take out any threats to major population centers until…” Joshua couldn’t finish saying ‘until the Seeker ship is destroyed’ with Alec’s and Clay’s kids on board.

  “I hope we can hold out that long.” Ernie said.