Stories tagged “invasion”
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Becoming Robot
When the Marauders invaded the Aegis base, I ended up all alone in the sealed-off mech lab. I’d missed the evacuation orders—when you work where giant robots are clanking around all the time, you learn to tune out most distractions. Now I might...
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Downloading
It floated in the sickly pale yellow fluid, pulsating slightly from the electrons rushing through it every half-second. Two wires, one red, one blue, were attached to either side, connecting it to a series of databases. The color of the fluids reflecte...
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Evidently Dull
“I… am a man… of few words.” Bill’s much-belated speech meandered deliciously over his thick southern accent, in slow, deadly tones. Even an accomplished dullard could see Bill wasn’t in a good mood, from the decided...
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Things Will Change
Laying in the blackest of dark, she only felt slightly worried. It must be some sort of solar eclipse. Then she heard a noise. Her heartbeat quickened. She tried not to panic. Then something touched her. She flinched. Unseen hands pushed her to the gro...
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Darwin's Theory
I’m sure a lot of you have heard of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. Survival of the fittest and all that crap. For an incredibly long amount of time, we were the epitome of survival. Man kind was the biggest, meanest kid on the block and the ...
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Sleepless Night
Unable to get any sleep, I climbed out of bed to go for a walk in the hope that it would calm the storm of images in my head. I opened my tent, and breathed in a lungful of the fresh night air, and looked over at the man on watch. His head moved side t...
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Another Day In Paradise
Like sardines in a can, we’re packed so tight inside the drop ship that we can barely move to breathe. 24 of us, our packs and our weapons are crammed into a space so small a cockroach would get claustrophobia. That’s the nature of our busi...
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Neptune and The Overlord
Prime Minister Winston Churchill watched on the huge plasma screens as fleets of Chinooks and Super Stallions headed south over the British Channel. All around him, the headquarters of the British war machine bustled and hummed. “This is HQ, conf...
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Lucifer
Scott McMurtry was almost running across the Comm Room floor. A loose sheet of paper flapped noisily in his hand. Jerome Innis was already standing at his office door when Scott arrived, and he ushered the breathless man into a waiting chair. “Wh...
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Bad Things
The sign on the general store that read FRESH PRODUCE DAILY began to swing back and forth, pushed by the wind. Its creaks sounded like slow, wheezing laughter. Carl froze in the middle of taking a step. Eyes fixated on the sign, he watched the wind car...
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The Third World
They were in utter disarray when we arrived. They were a primitive, fragmented people, bickering between themselves over land or some other resource, sometimes even fighting over differing abstract ideologies. Their technologies were primitive as well....