Solar Warden

Consequences Part 29

"We just received a situation update. We made hostile contact with aliens. It would be better you speed things up Dr. Watkins," Major Diaz, the SW-6 leader, informed her.

"Hostile do we have dead?" she was worried.

"Not yet. Two are missing and two dead creatures which attacked us."

"I do my best to speed things up but much faster than my best assumption it won't get. So we still need approximately two hours. Can you arrange that we get probes from the aliens?" she replied.

"I can try," Diaz responded.

SW-4 had opened up all doors to the hangar. They considered to use C4 but opening the panels and cutting the power worked to open them manually afterward. They found some empty rooms and one with unknown equipment.

Now they were at the two bigger doors. C4 was their choice. They blew a hole in both doors. The hangar seemed to be empty except two ships. While the other big door covered a heavy lift which was just one level below. They checked the ships in the hangar, while the drone monitored the heavy lift. No one was there. Now they checked the doors to the side which led just to a corridor on the side of each hangar and a level up in the tower over the bigger hall. All rooms there were empty and there were also more semitransparent windows. Also they had no problem with the communication connection yet. There were no signs of Ryan, Caine or the lost drone. They found another door pairs that could be the possible lift doors they found in the corridor below which they didn't opened yet because they were in the cover sight of the others. But now they tried. Powering off helped again to manually open them.

"Commander Knight the doors in the corridor are as expected lift doors. Both lifts are at the top it seems. We found another stair. But contrary the way to the big doors of the hangar and the opposite lift door we found, this area here seems less protected. Also the rooms in the tower we checked are empty. I guess we should continue with the heavy elevator down. This more protected area looks more promising," Major Pearce, the leader of SW-4, reported.

"While we don't have more of those alien weapons, I don't want to use more teams on the search. Continue with the sub level. A stair down did you not find? Or does the tower elevator lead also to the sub level?" Commander Knight replied.

"No, sir. The tower elevator ends in your level. A stair down is missing. We are on the way to the heavy elevator." Pearce led the way back.