by JK Stone
RESURGENCE
By
JK Stone
Resurgence
is the fourth installment in the Imortum series. This book is also published in an Erotic content format titled Erotic Imortum: Doran & Terrah.
Terrah Tones, a Colonel in the Air Force survives an incident that puts a deadly spotlight on not only her but her sisters as well.
Being rescued by the brothers Terrah and her triplet sisters didn’t even know existed, Terrah is persuaded to take command of the derelict Time Dilation Ship (TDS 4) which has been buried beneath the Area 51 test site for thousands of years longer than the United States has even existed.
Once the ship is restarted, Terrah has to immediately step into action to avoid enemy attack from an ancient evil that has been lying dormant on Earth for far longer than the TDS ship has even been on Earth.
Nothing on the TDS ship seems to function as it is supposed to, and when she does manage to get the extremely sexy Artificial Intelligence activated, a misunderstanding ensues which sends Terrah spiraling through space and time as her adventure begins.
Terrah soon realizes that the stakes are much higher than even her brothers and their Artificial Intelligence’s are aware of, but will Terrah be able to handle the surprises in store for her.
This is a science fiction romance fantasy by Stone Age Publishing.
Acknowledgements
To my wife and kids: Thank you for putting up with my tunnel vision with regard to my stories, the open brainstorming, and never-ending proofreading’s that have driven this and the other book series I have to where they are today. To my dogs: What can I say? At least you have let me write in peace when you are not hounding me for attention that is. And finally, to my fans: I would like to thank all of you for the encouragement and prodding you have given me to push on and complete this series. I am pleased that my storytelling entertains you, and I hope I continue to release books you all can enjoy
And Special thanks to Stormy McKnight for allowing me to use aspects of her Terraneu series in my storyline
http://www.authorjkstone.com
Reader Advisory:
The books in the Imortum Series are Also published in an Erotic content Versions. This book is also published under the title Imortum:
Doran & Terrah
This story still contains mild sexual language and scenes.
There’s some overlap in this series from book to book. I hope you enjoy the fourth installment in the Erotic Imortum series: Resurgence.
Resurgence is a work of fiction and the characters, events, and dialogue found within the story are of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, either living or deceased, is completely coincidental.
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Caution:
I try to write my books as standalone as possible. However, I do recommend you read them in order for the best experience.
Table of Contents
RESURGENCE
Resurgence
Acknowledgements
Reader Advisory:
Table of Contents
List of Terminology
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Excerpt from Book Five in the Imortum series:
Promethean Ark
Keep reading for an Excerpt from book six: in the Imortum series:
Lantins Ascending
About JK Stone
Copyright and Disclaimer
List of Terminology
AI………….Artificial Intelligence
AL..………...Advanced Lifeform
ALISE…...Advanced Lifeform Integrated Synaptic Escort
DARPA …Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
EMP ……….Electromagnetic Pulse
EVA ……….Extra Vehicular Activity
GMP ……….Geomagnetic Pulse
GSO ………..Geosynchronous Orbit
HAHO ……...High Altitude High Opening
HALO ………High Altitude Low Opening
HUD ………..Heads Up Display
IPG ………….Ion Pulse Generator
Lanna ……….Mars
OIC …………Officer in Charge
PARSEC ….. Equal to 3.26 Light Years or 19 Trillion miles.
PTD ………..Phased Time Dilation
SCI …………Sensitive Compartmented Information
TDS ………..Time Dilation Ship
TPE ………Time Phased Explosive
Terra ……….Earth
Chapter One
Colonel Terrah Tones was six months away from her Senate Armed Service Committee hearing. She’d been successful with every below the zone promotion and if promoted on this next cycle she would be the youngest female Brigadier General in Air Force history.
Terrah had been stationed at the Area 51 test site for the past six years and she was the Officer in charge ‘OIC’ for the night. She walked around an ancient spacecraft carefully observing the scientists as they performed their tests. The ship was one of two ancient space ships that were found buried under untold thousands of years of sediment, in what used to be Groom Lake, just northwest of Nellis Air Force base in Las Vegas Nevada. The military had burrowed their way down to the ships but had been unable to raise them, so in the interest of research and secrecy, the military created the Area 51 base over the ship’s location.
A little over a month earlier the sensors throughout the cavern had picked up a massive energy spike shortly before they burnt out, and until that night, Terrah had never known what was on the lowest level of the base. All of the sub-levels of this section of the base from sub-level thirteen and lower were classified SCI four, so she was not privy to the details regarding those levels. Due to a strange play of events, Terrah had been the acting base commander on that night, so regardless of her clearance, she was ordered to investigate the incident.
Since that night Terrah’s security clearance had been modified. She was now authorized to be on the lowest level, as were the two Lieutenant Colonels who accompanied her that night, but the three of them still didn’t have the security clearance to enter any of the sublevels between it and the thirteenth floor.
What Terrah found when she arrived on the lowest level were two ships. One that was massive with what appeared to be weapons on every surface and the other was a pyramid looking craft, which was over sixty feet square and at least forty feet tall with a mi
rror-like sheen.
The energy spikes had originated from the smaller pyramid-shaped vessel, and scorched the ground as well as the underside of the massive vessel beside it, and once Terrah informed the base commander, Major General Hallance of what she found, the General immediately called in their DARPA physicists to run tests on the pyramid ship.
The scorching around the smaller pyramid ship indicated which of the two crafts to examine, so a modular isolation laboratory had been built around that vessel, and for the first two weeks, the room was crowded.
At one point Terrah had counted over thirty scientists of one sort or another, but by the third week of finding nothing they hadn’t already known; the scientists had dwindled to a mere six.
Terrah knew from her debriefing that the two ships had been unearthed pretty much in their current locations, and over the years since finding the ships, the military, and their private contractors had performed countless tests on the ships but had been at a loss at how to reactivate or even enter either of the vessels.
Apparently, the scientists had removed some of the weaponry from the larger vessel for testing, but from what Terrah overheard one of the scientists saying a few minutes ago, they had no luck activating them either.
Terrah examined the smaller pyramid ship as she walked around. It was smooth as glass but made of a strange alloy which had a mirror like sheen to it, and not even a single seam, hatch, or scratch marred the surface. It just appeared to be a solid pyramid shaped chunk of metal, and the scientists were having the same luck with it as they had with the larger ship’s weapons.
The scientists were currently propping sensors on the hull in a last ditched attempt to pick up any readings from within the vessel. Terrah made another circuit around the craft when all of a sudden, she felt as if her body was being pushed in the direction of the ship. She managed to regain her balance and was a mere foot from the vessel.
Looking down Terrah saw her reflection and a moment later she felt as if her arm was being pulled toward the ship. Despite thinking better of it, she placed her hand on the surface and was quite surprised at the feel of it. The ship was warmer than the surroundings, and seemed to hum a moment. A second later she felt an intense jolt of energy course throughout her body.
Terrah stood convulsing, unable to remove her hand from the ship as arcing discharges were flying from her body in all directions, and her last conscious thought was, that was a stupid thing to do. I guess Darwin was right. Survival of the fittest indeed, and Terrah lost consciousness.
*****
Terrah woke a bit muddle-headed and strapped down to a medical bed. She’d never seen the inside of this room before, but by the look of the walls and doors, Terrah felt sure she was still at Area 51, but in one of the isolation rooms on sub level twelve where the top-secret detention cells had been located.
Terrah tried to jerk her arms free of the restraints, but she was firmly secured to the bed. Fighting her mounting frustration and failing, Terrah yelled out, “Can anyone hear me!?”
A moment later the door clicked and Terrah looked over to see Sergeant Brooks peer in.
“Sergeant, remove these restraints at once,” She snapped in her most authoritative voice.
“I’m sorry ma’am. I’m not authorized to remove them,” Brooks said sounding nervous, then peering behind him a moment he looked back and said, “I’ll call for the General and the doctor,” then he quickly closed the door.
Terrah could feel her frustration mounting. She wanted to rip the Sergeant’s head off. Then she calmed down a bit knowing he was only following orders, she knew he wouldn’t be authorized to remove the restraints, but she knew she’d be able to have the restraints removed once the doctor arrived, so she took a calming breath and tried to reason out why she would be restrained. A minute later she heard the door click and to her relief, it had been the man who raised Terrah and her sisters after their parent’s deaths.
General Green entered the room and rushed to Terrah’s side.
“Thank god! I was afraid it had killed you as well,” he whispered somberly.
“Pop…” Terrah began to say, but “Pops” as he liked to be called when they were off base, silenced her by holding a finger up and shaking his head. Realizing she was probably being monitored, Terrah nodded and whispered, “Who died?”
Pops looked hesitant to answer but she asked again and he whispered back, “Everyone… everyone else in the room.”
“Could you remove these restraints? Why am I in here anyway?” Terrah asked of him.
Pops began removing her right wrist restraint, and after Terrah’s arm was freed she began working on the left wrist while Pops moved to her waist strap.
Pops sighed and quietly said, “When I arrived on base the guards that were stationed outside the modular lab said there was a power surge just as lieutenant colonel Abbas arrived to relieve you. They opened the door to find everyone charred beyond recognition, and you lying on the ground with all of your clothes seared off.
“Abbas couldn’t find any injuries on you, so he informed Bias U’san of the incident, who was with General Hallance at Peterson at the time, and the general immediately ordered you up here and under U’san’s custody.
Their jet was having technical issues at Peterson, but they are in the air now and will be landing within minutes. I’m afraid of what U’san’s going to do when he gets here. We need to get you out of here and off of the base now,” Pops said.
Pops had the belt unstrapped and moved to Terrah’s ankles. She was struggling with the left wrist restraint and just got it loose, when doctor Abbas entered the room.
“What are you doing!?” the doctor yelled.
Pops turned toward the doctor and said, “Colonel Tones is fine, I’m authorizing her release.”
“You aren’t the Medical Director here anymore General Green. You don’t have the authority—” the doctor stated coldly.
“Lieutenant Colonel,” Pops cut Abbas off, “do you see these stars on my uniform!? I still outrank you, and I may not be the medical director any longer, but you’re not the director here either, so with me being the ranking medical officer on base my orders stand.
“I can see Colonel Tones is fine, and I’m authorizing her release. Now step aside before I bring you up on insubordination charges!” Pops stated firmly.
Terrah managed to get the last ankle restraint removed and stood up on shaky legs, “I’m fine—
“GUARDS!” the doctor called out. The two posted guards entered the room and the doctor shouted, “Restrain them at once!”
Sergeant Brooks and another Sergeant Terrah recognized but couldn’t remember the name of raised their weapons and Terrah and Pops yelled at the same time, “STAND DOWN!”
The guards seemed to be at a loss for what to do, the doctor was a Lieutenant Colonel, but Terrah, a full bird Colonel, and Pops being a Major General outranked everyone in the room.
The guards looked reluctant, but lowered their weapons and stood back as Terrah walked past wondering how the hell she was going to get off of the base, seeing as how secure it was.
Somehow Terrah doubted that everyone would just stand aside and allow her to leave because she and or Pops ordered it.
Terrah could hear muttering from behind her but didn’t look back. She and Pops had almost made it to the door when Terrah was grabbed from behind by doctor Abbas, and a moment later she heard a shout over the intercom.
“This is General Hallance, restrain the prisoner at once! And bring General Green to my office immediately.”
Terrah had been tasered in the past as part of her military police training, and she recognized the all too familiar feeling of taser darts embedding in the flesh of her abdomen, and with another jolt of electricity, she lost her bid for consciousness once again.
*****
Terrah awoke once again to find herself restrained, but this time she noticed that she had guards posted inside the room with her. She looked at the guard on her left
. “Sergeant, what the hell is going on? Get someone in here to release me immediately!” she shouted.
The two guards flinched a bit at Terrah’s harsh tone but remained silent.
The guard to the right turned and exited the room, only to return a few minutes later to take up her post in silence again.
Five more minutes passed without any response to her questioning before the door opened again. Terrah looked over and cringed when she saw who’d entered the room. Bias U’san was an independent contractor and one of the two special projects liaisons for DARPA.
Terrah saw him around the base from time to time. He’d been working with Johnathan Smith, who was the other liaison for DARPA as well as the director of the special projects level, and she would always get an ominous feeling anytime she was in a room near him.
Over the past couple of years, Bias had taken to wearing a metallic armor around the base, and though it made him look ridiculous, the bloodstains covering him seemed to keep people from mocking him.
Terrah couldn’t fight the feeling that Bias was a dark and dangerous man, and not in a sexy romance novel kind of way.
The rumors about Bias’s brutality were whispered around the base, but Terrah never paid much attention to them, thinking that nobody could possibly be that brutal and still be associated with the US government. The one and only time Terrah had ever asked about him was to Pops, and he just told her to steer clear of the man.
Bias turned to the ranking guard. “Leave us,” he commanded in a firm, not to be ignored tone.
The guards immediately exited the room to take up their posts outside the doors, and Terrah watched as Bias slowly made his way around the medical bed she was strapped down to, stopping momentarily on her right side.
“You need to release me! I feel fine and I’ve done nothing wrong,” Terrah stated with a modicum of panic building.
Bias let out a menacing laugh that drew a chill down Terrah’s spine. “I don’t know how you managed to survive that incident, but before we’re done here, I will.”
