by Adam Moon
At the rate it was descending and based on the immense size of the ship, Jack couldn’t imagine it could pull out of its dive, which meant that it was a kamikaze mission, with his house and the people he loved right in its path.
He focused on the approaching ship and teleported the entire left side away. Several aliens tumbled out of the gaping hole to their deaths but the ship kept firing at them and heading their way.
Sally’s eyes bulged and her hands shook as she erected the largest force field she’d ever created. It sliced through the ship like a hot knife through butter. The back half came away from the front neatly, separating and tumbling through the air. The ship was now immobilized but it was still heading right for them, on a collision course. It was going to crash into them like a missile, only much larger.
Jack was just about to try and teleport it elsewhere when it erupted into a massive fireball, blowing itself to tiny molten bits. The shrapnel rained down on them harmlessly, but it set his house on fire on contact.
Sally patted the smoldering fires on her clothes out while Jack teleported the water from the bird bath in his front yard onto the flames spreading across the roof. But there wasn’t enough water to do the job. There were too many fires eating away at the roof for him to douse them all so he teleported inside his house. He found his mom rushing around frantically trying to find him. He grabbed her and teleported them both outside to relative safety.
The house was already engulfed in flames by the time he rejoined Sally.
She was staring up into the sky, transfixed.
Jack looked up and he immediately saw what had her so mesmerized.
A vast blue cloud hung over them, nearly blotting out the sun. It looked exactly like the same alien enhancer that had given them their abilities. Liktar’s ship must have been synthesizing it because there was a ton of the stuff.
A mighty wind kicked up and whipped the cloud around, spreading it far and wide.
Sally chuckled. “That’s going to be a game changer.”
Jack smiled as he watched the blue contagion float around but he was uneasy. The mist would create many more just like them. He didn’t know how to feel about that.
Super Earth
The alien President got a sinking feeling in her gut when she saw what the super humans did to Liktar’s ship. Since she was the one to order Liktar to poison the powerful young human, her people believed that she was responsible for alerting him to their presence. The consensus among her people was that if he destroyed their world now, it would be because she had provoked his ire. She had little choice but to lead the invasion herself. That young Earthling was a hazard who needed to be eliminated at all costs.
President Blimtot demanded, “I want up to date intel on the Earthlings. What can we expect from them when we strike?
One of her advisors rushed into the command hub and said agitatedly, “Mrs. President, we have a situation.”
“Spit it out.”
“We’re receiving reports that the contagion stored aboard Admiral Liktar’s ship was disbursed when the humans destroyed it. It spread in the Earth’s atmosphere.”
“What does that have to do with the invasion?”
“It means it needs to be cancelled.”
“Why?”
“Because now there are thousands of super humans.”
The End
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