The Vordox

Chapter 24

We were ready to launch. We had left some of the beta and rest of the gamma team behind on mars with sufficient resources. And we headed down to Earth. While we were in space, 2 rockets were going parallelly in front of us. Isabel and I were in the last one and from there we contacted Ethan. Soon the connection was made, "hey Ethan it's us Harison and Isabel we need you to inform all the other bases to unite and come to the Ukraine-Russian border. We have to take down who's behind this" he had a million of questions. I had to explain everything to him. I told him about the WWO's master plan and who controlled it. He was surprised to hear the name "Jack" we told him that he's on Earth and we need to get him and all of the other people he has involved. Ethan said that he knew we were up to something when we were in his base but he didn't know what. He apologized of stopping us, when I was trying to get the chip from the rocket. Soon after the connection was breaking and eventually lost. Rocket one and two had already used the space-time jump boost but because of our call with Ethan we were a little behind them. We were ready to take the jump boost. I informed everyone on board and told them to grab their seats tight. It was a massive pull back. In about half an hour we were standing there looking at the completely different Earth. A lot had changed since we had left. There were soo many changes I couldn't even recognize my own world.... Nothing looked the same from above

Earth was lush green in areas which were once dried. Earth had a lot of its water regenerated. There were less pollutants in the atmosphere. It seemed as a new planet everything seemed perfect, except one thing. I pointed it out on the land with the high detection cameras zoomed in Venice wait... wrong country. I scrolled the camera to the right and zoomed into Ukraine-Russian border. It seemed as a preplanned base was sitting there from the start. We took a closer look when all of a sudden Isabel tapped me, she said, "do you remember the night you saved me from my own sister. The night when we saw a huge blast from the other side of Romanian-Ukraine border. It was the rocket, the loud blast and heat wave. They were multiple rockets so they've been setting this for years now!" I looked at her and said, "Yes that might be it. That explains why the WWO's had informed the Italian base a few years ago, that the Ukraine and the western Russia cameras are under repair. After a few months of repair, we could only see frozen images not a single infected in the areas because they were frozen pictures. You're right! They turned off the surveillance" "now let's get revenge" she looked at me as usual her eyes were bright and shiny, I thought of writing it in my journal as usual, but I didn't maybe this time I didn't want to write it or maybe the journal wasn't that important afterall.

We had contacted the other rockets from there and told them to initialize the rocket landing phase. We had started the landing procedure together and were coming down parallelly at the same time. Aiming right inside their base. Suddenly, I got a call from Ethan in the main screen while traveling so fast that moving seemed hard. I reached out from my seat I picked up the call, my hands were so heavy they were hard to move. Ethan did all the talking he said, "I'm here right outside of the base. I informed every other base to come here and everyone came in bridges armed" I gave him a thumbs up pulled back to my seat. Ethan laughed it out. The call was cut. Interested I looked over to Isabel and in my head all I could hear was her dad telling me, "promise me you'll take care of my daughter" in a monotonous echoing voice. I could feel his firm grip in my hands and his deep calming voice saying this with pain. His wide-open eyes and looking up at me. Suddenly Isabel looked over at me too. She saw me that I was looking at her but she looked rather neutral. Suddenly in midair in landing procedure we heard a big crack in the rocket. We were alarmed and ran a quick scan. Which showed a leak in the rocket. Suddenly something in the main screen appeared and a loud beeping started. The external parts of the rocket had become dangerously hot. I checked in map for the closest water body but it was a little bit further than where we had to be I told Isabel, "if we land in the ocean it'll be a long walk from there about half a day or maybe even one because we ran out of power of our hover boots and looks like so many people are running in low batteries too...... what do we do?" someone in the crew said, "if there are condensed clouds in our trajectory they might help in some cooling" I turned around, "what is the probability of us hitting a condensed cloud in Ukraine-Russian border?" another guy said, "very less sir!" I looked at Isabel she was tensed. I said, "can we take the chances?" she was thinking for quite a while I said, "make it quick we still have time" she turned around at the passengers and looked at me and nodded slightly. I stayed in the path the same uncertain path longing for the unknown cloud. Some parts of the rocket were turning red from the inside. I turned around and said, "stay seated but use the fire extinguishers" the people sitting near the fire extinguishers grabbed them and passed it on to the ones who need them. I checked the temperature the meter was not functioning so I tapped it. The reading was increasing rapidly the glass in front of us started cracking. The glass was about to give up on us frying us like living doughnuts. The other two rockets were doing just fine. The gas leak in our rocket was causing extreme heat. Some started spraying the fire extinguishers on the red metal portions which was definitely helping. At first it was reducing it with time running out of the fire extinguisher gas. It was balancing it and keeping it stable neither increasing the redness nor decreasing but then with time. When the extinguishers were almost over, the redness grew drastically. It was almost growing from side to side traveling all the cracks when suddenly we felt a big turbulence. It shook the whole rocket everything was unstable for a minute. The beeping sound turned louder and louder. We could see nothing everything was blur nothing was clear but then suddenly turning around I saw the redness from inside was gone. We had struck the cloud. Everyone started cheering, I turned around and then looked to my side at Isabel she looked at me. We smiled I looked at the cracks of the main screen glass they were all frosty and some were frozen and in about a minute we saw condensation in the inside of our rocket, In the glass and the metal sheets. We could see nothing because of the tiny droplets. But then suddenly we were being shot. We heard guns being shot and metal clings on our rocket. The people down were shooting our rockets. The screen suddenly took the light screen cover off and once again we could see the outside. I could see that we were about to hit the ground in some time. I could see a lot of firing going on. Ethan was one step ahead of us. We landed on the ground roughly. Everyone unbuckled and ran to the back grabbing a weapon for themselves. Isabel and I unbuckled at the end. We went to the door where we heard a sharp knock on it. Someone was outside of your rocket I shushed everyone. We heard the knock again this time a voice followed, "open up!" grabbing a weapon. I slowly reached for the door everyone was standing next to the door. Ready to shoot on my command I slowly propped the door open and peeked outside and swung the door open everyone was aiming forward. It was Ethan he said, "we're here we have covered all of your rockets and we are ready on your command" I said, "my command?" "yes, your command you were right" turning around I told everyone to lower their weapon I said, "lets charge" Isabel looked at me and said, "what?" "let's charge... we out number them by 1:3 there might be only hundreds of them in there but we are hundred per ship we can do this" Isabel nodded.

We jumped off of the rockets. Some went to keep an eye with loaded weapons with them, and for the rest of us. We started gathering ourselves and made a plan, "we'll split up into 3 and attack parallelly...... In the left team Isabel and I will accompany Ethan and from there we will get inside with some other 6 people from the right team. The middle team will give cover all the time" we had a quite simple and a stagnant plan. We were aligned and ready to take charge. Isabel and I were holding hands because this was the last fight, we had to fight off as individuals. I was thinking to myself that all the fights I've been through this one is the last one but I can sure say if things don't get normal after this. Then this is the first fight because I'm not giving up so easily. All of a sudden, I felt a light tap on my shoulder. I turned around it was the same girl who saved us I said, "why are you here and not with your family? I thought I left you safe on mars!" "yeah but I sneaked in your rocket. I was sitting right behind you and besides I'm with my family" Isabel and I said with the same confused tone in our voices "WHAT?" "yes dad... I'm Emily" I looked at her, smiled and hugged her soo hard that I might've broken her ribs. I never thought I'd be meeting Emily this way she looked soo mature now.... I said "why are you telling me this now?" "because I wanted to tell you, I listened to you" "why didn't you send me any messages?" "what? I did send you 2 messages everyday" "you did?" "yes, let's keep this conversation for another time" "okay now... you're going to have to stick with us were going in" "okay" she stood next to Isabel. On the other side someone shot a bullet to the sky. That was our signal. We heard a loud war cry with bullets being fired from our side but for a few seconds we didn't have any fire back but then abruptly. The bullets were shot it seemed as if there were less people and more of automated bullets like robots controlling them or something. I looked closely and I saw a few electronic robots and hands. Something hit me...... I looked above and started shooting. Isabel and Emily saw me do that and started doing the same. Soon after some people from our team also started doing the same, and in no time, we were all shooting the 100 cables of electricity going into their base. We shot every cable one by one and with every break of one cable. The bullet fired from their side were reducing every time. As soon as we had demolished every single wire. The bullets had stopped completely. The other team members stopped their charge. They were looking at us there were just 10 steps ahead of us they looked at us seeing what were we doing. The power supply was cut from the building I said, "quick get inside before that start the generators" everyone rushed inside breaking walls, breaking doors, breaking windows and jumping inside by making human walls and climbing the one-story building. We were finally inside. We saw a huge room there were people standing there. They had their hands raised. The had already surrendered I was wrong there were only eight of them including Jack. Their hands stayed up surrendering themselves. This was one of the easiest victories but the happiest one indeed.