Veezee: The Invasion
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Later, in the afternoon, Marilee reported to Ed that trucks were arriving, so they went out to see. And sure enough, there were a half a dozen old style wheeled trucks coming through the gate. “Great! We must have got a pretty large load!” said Ed. “They couldn’t carry them on floater transports.”
Soon, troops were unloading crates and stacking them into the unused office rooms of the headquarters building. Ed and Marilee opened some of the crates. The first held laser pistols, much like the one Marilee already had, and more crates held shoulder fired laser guns, that looked quite like the rifles in the old movies. “Those are for firing longer distances,” said Ed. “You can hold them steadier than you can a pistol, and this gadget on the top is a telescope sight. It works on either visible light or infrared, whichever you set the switch for.”
Marilee was impressed.