Nightmares and Monsters

Part 7

Chapter 7.

(Lennox and his squad are sat in one of two Black Hawk helicopters that are transporting them to where they are to meet with the SecDef about what they saw in Qatar.)

Cali decided to make the most of the silence and plugged her ear buds of her MP3 player into her ears and listened to some of her music, she was bobbing her head along to the beat of 'Highway to the Dangerzone' and smirking as she listened, she knew the lyrics by heart and was gonna have to wait til they got back to base before she could sing her heart out the way she liked... usually after a few beers with a while they landed the Black Hawk helicopters and disembarked into the awaiting black government SUV's.

As soon as they placed their duffels in the back of the SUV's, Cali looked around and spotted a group consisting of a young boy, one blond woman, a brunette girl and a dark skinned chubby guy,'now what could the government want with those four?' she wondered to herself as she climbed into the SUV with Lennox and Epps. Sergeant Burke and the two other members of the group were in a third SUV and followed theirs.

45 minute drive from drop-off point at the Helicopters

Cali gawped at the sight before her, they were being driven to the Hoover Dam. But what confused her was 'WHY!' She had always wanted to visit this tourist attraction, but she never for the life of her thought it would be with her Squad members at the request of the SecDef. She mentally squeed at the thought that her brothers would go crazy when they found that she had been without them there. She followed the rest of her Squad members to one of the side pylons off of the Dam and stood in line and awaited for the SecDef to arrive and tell them why exactly they were 20 minutes after they had arrived, Cali and Epps noticed the SecDef walking up to where they were stood, she hid the smirk that came to her mind as Epps yelled out "Team attention! Present arms!"

The Squad moved in synchrony as they saluted the SecDef and stood rigid at attention."At ease. Captain's, Sergeant. Got your intel. Excellent work." said the SecDef as he faced the Squad looking at all the remaining members. "Thank you, Sir." came the quick and crisp response from both Lennox and Cali. Lennox then decided to ask the one question that was bugging nearly all of the troops. "What about the gunship's?"

The SecDef smiled at both the Captain's as he said, "They're being retrofitted with sabot rounds now. If they hit us again, we'll be ready for them. But it wouldn't do us much good if we can't get world communications back up."

The next 45 minutes was spent traipsing through the corridors of the Hoover Dam following a man, that Cali was sure was related to a rat with his hair and expression of superiority that irked her really badly. She wanted so badly to just wallop him and not have to deal with his snide comments about things that were minor. They finally made it out at the bottom of the Dam and yet again the rat-guy, who she found out was named Simmons, started to talk. "All right, here's the situation. You've all had direct contact with the NBE's."

"NBE's?" asked a bemused Epps, as he beat Cali to the punch so to speak.

"Non-Biological Extraterrestrials. Try and keep up with the acronyms." replied Simmons.

The group slowly walked through a large service tunnel into a giant room. While this was happening Simmons decided to continue with his spiel. "What you are about to see is totally classified." Everyone that was present in the group stared wide-eyed in awe at the monolithic robot-man that was being held in what Cali deemed to be a type of Cryo-stasis. What was said next: "Dear God. What is this?" by none other than the Secretary of Defense, made everyone want to know the answer. A man, that Cali would find out later was named Banachek answered the SecDef's question.