Solar Warden

Consequences Part 44

SW-7 arrived and reported to the commander. At the same time a communication came in.

"Sir. We are ready to go. Just waiting for the suits," Newman informed.

"Good. SW-7 just arrived I send them with the suits to you," Knight replied, then switched to Icarus communication. "Captain we are ready for lift off in about 10 minutes."

"Proceed as planned," the Captain replied.

The Commander went with SW-7 into the ship. The squad helped to put the replacement suit on.

"The escort is waiting after the canyon. Don't fly to fast with that ship. Stay low. We have time. Then we will follow as planned in three to four hours. If all works well you should arrive at the Icarus by then. The shuttle will be faster and the transfer of the others should take not much time," the commander informed.

"The canyon is big enough for this ship and the display also has night vision. There should be no problem," Owens replied.

Ryan and Caine could now speak normal and move a bit. This helped to put the simpler suits faster on. This suits had fully transparent helms and the oxygen supply was on the back.

"You have the sample weapon and the other requested samples?" Knight asked Newman.

"Yes, I stored it back there. We took one with the least power and some fruit samples as well as the alien sample. They are all in boxes," Newman replied and showed it by opening the storage space. "We will transfer this also to the shuttle so it is faster on board the Icarus."

"Very well. Then good luck." The commander went out.

After SW-7 were finished with putting on the suits they also left. Then the door of the alien disc closed.

Newman waited a bit then gave the signal for the hangar doors opening mechanism. He was checking his connection to the outside, it was weaker now. So he signed off from the network and switched to on demand communication after informing the outside. Owens did the same.

The hangar was open now. They lifted off and went out of the hangar following a direct route to the canyon in low altitude. It was no problem to fly with about 300 kilometers per hour through it, while Newman worked on the translation and exchange calculation of the instrument readings. The exact speed Owens could not determine, through the satellite signals it was only an average. Finally, they were through and landed nearby the shuttle where already the pilots were waiting with two stretchers. There were five pilots which made the transfer fast.

Owens then lifted off as he had seen the last wasin the shuttle. They went away with two escort fighters. A bit later they sawsome fireballs on the horizon. That must have been the shuttle and it's escortthey thought. Not knowing what the alien ship can do, let Owens fly muchslower. To stay hidden and stay in the limit of an unknown construction.