Ezuko:Matriarch of Death 11

the council but we were to begin planning an attack immediately, he explained the situation to us. “These beasts regardless of their inactive actions after the initial attack are a threat to the safety of Japan, I will not let us be known as the men who let the country down and I will not underestimate the threat that is before us today, for now I want Professor Carter, Professor  Karusawa, Yamiko, and Shiro to try and learn what these things are…a possible government experiment or a foreign military weapon? If we figure out what these things are maybe we can stop them, The rest of you will aid me in setting up a military defense grid with what little we have…if anything DOES go wrong we will be ready best we can, we will not be the ones who let this country fall so if you aren’t with me you need to run away now!! ” it was a stirring speech for the men whose morale had fallen quite low after the first attack and every one of them answered with a “yes sir!” as for Shiro and I we were already sure what they were and we knew that we could never be 100% ready for them if and when they do attack, the professor‘s however went right to work testing samples of the rock that were gathered in hopes they might possibly learn what these creatures were. We were transferred to my school since it was the closest building with a science lab and we all worked through the morning on various samples from the site, it was seeming hopeless but around noon we learned something…the meteor wasn’t truly one hundred percent organic, yes it appeared to be and felt as if it was but the samples were layered with several different types of unidentifiable metal…which would explain why they had such a hard time harvesting a sample…we came to the conclusion it was actually some kind of alien ship. The professor reported our findings to General Sho who then accompanied the professor back to the lab to look over our findings I could hear how stressed the general was, the first thought he had was “Just great, first we had “space dragons” and now ufo’s…I’m trapped in a goddamn 50’s monster flick!”, I could tell he was hoping it would all be over soon. The general examined all of our findings and could only verbally reply with a sigh every now and then…the professors urged him to respond and he stood and grabbed out his cell phone and dialed a number and set the phone to speaker and sat it down as he continued to examine the sample…a woman answered the phone, likely a secretary and asked how she could be of assistance ”Could you put me on with General Tatsuo” he said and then after a few moments of silence a reply “This is General Tatsuo…who is this?“ a few minutes of silence went by and then Sho spoke “General Tatsuo…this is General Sho, we have a problem. Apparently the meteor that crashed in the central district wasn’t a meteor at all…further tests have show it to be a ship of some sort”. All that was heard as a reply was silence and then three words “keep this quiet” and then he hung up…those three words were explanative enough apparently as I heard the general’s thoughts. “Just great…now what the hell should I do? The press is already all over the site and not to mention the local police…I wish I was home with them now” he thought to himself, and then he spoke to us…“keep investigating, if something else happens what you find out here could be our best chance at a defense…I need to get back to my post, if anything goes down I need to be there to respond“. With that said he left…he was drenched in stress at this point I could clearly see, I could read it from his mind, he was quite certain he was going to have to fight a war against something that no one knows about and that many loyal and brave men with families, possibly even himself, were going to die…and this ship was to blame for it all. The next thing I heard was laughter…I turned to see it was Shiro and I asked what the hell he was laughing at? “Remember when we first met and I said it was a U.F.O and the government was covering it up? Heh, the government may not have been covering it up but I guess in a way I was right all along” with that said he once again laughed but more quietly to himself and went back to work…..It was an odd time for humor but in a way I could see the comical irony of it all, the professor’s merely went back to work, I could sense that neither of them paid any attention to Shiro‘s comment and were completely absorbed into their work…it was quite dull, especially for me, seeing I knew nothing of science and was just being dragged along in it all…it was then that something came to me…I saw the creatures hovering there watching the meteor…I didn’t see what the point of it all was but then I saw it, a crack appeared on the meteor and eventually it split straight down the middle of the meteor causing it to begin to open, next thing I saw were two red eyes glaring into me, and then came the pain, my head began to feel like it was splitting open and all then all I saw was red and I heard “it‘s time“….next thing I knew I awoke screaming, the professor quickly came over to me and all I felt was immobilizing pain and I collapsed “Jesus! GET A FIRST AID KIT!” he said and next thing I saw was red…it blurred my vision yet for some reason it felt almost wet, I couldn’t move. Professor Karusawa looked at me but a moment and then ran out, Shiro came over to me and kept telling me to hang on…I asked them what was wrong? Confused by the whole event. The professor told me something was wrong with me…and that was it and he began to wipe my face for some reason…as he removed the rag he was using on my face I saw it was red…Mrs. Karusawa returned with a first aid kit and took out some gauss and applied alcohol to it

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Byaul Montgomery