Edison and Newton watched a rebroadcast of the final battle and felt the excitement of the moment. Finally Edison looked at Newton and said, “Did you tell him?”
“Yeah, I told him.”
Edison continued staring at Newton and the small spider squirmed and said, “Well, I kinda told him.”
“What did you say?”
“I gave him the device and told him that I wanted him to live to see me grow up.”
“That’s not telling him!”
“He knows I’ll live millions of years, Edison.”
Edison thought a moment and asked, “What about his mate?”
“She was in the ship the first time he used it so she was also affected.”
Edison thought for a moment and said, “Yeah, I guess you’re right.”
“Of course I’m right; humans are much smarter than we are.”
Edison looked at Newton and shrugged, “I’m sure he didn’t thank you because he’s just so busy. He’ll probably tell you in a thousand years.”
“Or sooner,” Newton said with a smile.
“I guess our next task is to remove the threat of our species to these good people and all the other universes.”
“Destiny insists it is our responsibility and is the only way to start to atone for all the universes we killed. He says it is a moral imperative.”
Edison was quiet and then shook his head, “We at our core are also good.”
Newton looked at the screen, “Perhaps.”
The End
Excerpt From Annihilation Series, Book VI-Demon’s Sacrifice
F our hours later the Sensor Leader said, “All ships are here, Supreme Male and have received their assignments.”
“Excellent, prepare to jump to our first meal.”
The White Furred Creature heard their remarks and hit the communication panel, “They’re all here. Begin your attack.” The Supreme Male’s Ship was the target of the plotter and he jumped his five hundred mile long ship in to six miles from the huge, thirty thousand mile wide, mother ship and fired his ship’s main beam. A thousand mile wide hole was blown through the mother ship and exited the other side. The beam was targeted on the mother ships engines and communication panels and the huge green ship began drifting. The green substance of the ship’s hull was not immune to the energy being used and all of its drives were destroyed.
The ship quaked violently and the Supreme Male said, “What was that?”
“I don’t know, First Fang but our ship is disabled. We are unable to move or communicate.”
The white ship entered the hole in the mother ship and stopped at the center of the huge green ship. Immediately millions of white furred creatures began exiting holes in its surface and spread out attacking every Eight Leg in sight. The spiders viciously fought back but their fangs stopped on the skin under the fur of the white creatures. The talons and teeth of the attacking clan ripped through the Eight Legs’ armor exposing them to the vacuum of space and exploded them.
The Clan Warrior exited the white ship and immediately sensed huge numbers of green Eight Legs floating directly ahead. It rubbed its feet talons and darted toward the huge floating mass and smiled as it began striking the Eight Legs with its talons. The eighteen inch retractable talons were made from a form of matter that no substance could resist and Eight Legs began exploding in their armor as the vacuum of space entered and pulverized them. This was wonderful. Three Eight Legs landed on the Warrior and bared their fangs to attack but could not penetrate its skin which was made of the same substance as its talons. The white warrior just shrugged them off and ripped them to pieces. She saw three of her other clan members approaching and was angered to have her fun interrupted. She snarled at them but heard, “Don’t be ridiculous. There’s millions more here for all of us.”
The warrior looked around and released its senses and saw her brother was right. “Come join in, I see a much larger mass of them behind the ship our beam penetrated.”
“We see it, too. Now quit wasting time talking and enjoy the moment.” The remaining Eight Legs were hit with beams and disintegrated as the four White Clan Warriors darted toward the larger group behind the transport. The White Warrior passed a group of ten Eight Legs trying to escape and ripped them apart and then fell on the huge mass of spiders.
The white creatures carried hand guns that disintegrated every Eight Leg unfortunate enough to be hit by its white beam. Those beams killed large groups of Eight Legs that were attempting to mass to attack the boarders. Each of the White Clan killed thousands of the spiders before they could respond and the spiders quickly determined that they could do nothing to protect themselves from these creatures. They tried to escape to formulate a plan to handle these mysterious creatures but the attackers sensed them where ever they tried to hide. The White Clan could sense any creature that possessed organized thought. Thousands of Eight Legs would attack a single white creature only to be disintegrated or ripped apart by teeth and talons. The white creatures easily maneuvered in the weightless environment by rubbing the claws of their feet which directed a propulsion beam behind them. The substance of their claws absorbed energy and used it for movement. These creatures were designed to kill in the empty vacuum of space.
They flew around the interior of the mother ship killing every Eight Leg on board before landing on the hulls of the thousands of ships parked inside the mother ship. They then used their talons and guns to rip their way into the interior of the smaller ships. The huge white ship used its main beam to blow large holes in the hundred mile long transports making it easy for the Clan’s warriors to enter.
The Supreme Male could hear millions of his children dying and could not grasp what was happening. His time to develop a strategy to combat these creatures was short as the Plotter entered the bridge of the mother ship and smiled as it killed every Eight Leg in the room. He saved the Supreme Male for last. As The Supreme Male backed into a corner he heard, “Your species is weak. Is this the best you can do?” The white creature back handed the Supreme Male into the back wall where he fell and jumped back up. “No wonder you’re being replaced.”
The Supreme Male bared his fangs and rushed the advancing white creature which contemptuously slashed him in half with his talons and burned the remains with his hand gun. He looked around the bridge and turned to go back to his ship. He killed fifty Eight Legs on his way out and wondered how the rest of his Clan was faring.
Demon’s Sacrifice is a full length novel and Book Six of the Annihilation Series. It is due to be published November 15, 2011. contact: saxonandrew@msn. com
