Gate City.
A human dwelling common enough to many others, except for the portals to other dimensions that will open randomly throughout the city itself. In this City a Secret Organization called IDP (Inter-Dimensional Patrol) stand guard over the humans who live there, protecting them and keeping them in the dark about the creatures who arrives through the ripples in the time-space continuum.
Everything start in a rundown part of this city, where an IDP Squad is sent to investigate an high energy reading from one of these ripples in the area. The squad arrives with celerity through a brief fly in a chopper and is left to roam the streets in search of any UAC, Unidentified Alien Creature.
The sergeant of the squad is a veteran of the IDP, a battle scarred man who had plenty of operations under his belt. The same could not be said for his team of five. These were rookies, freshly out of training course and, although some of the had been experts in human warfare, it was their first mission with the IDP.
As they silently moved through the streets, each of them look around constantly, trying to be always aware of their surroundings.
“Base, Bravo Leader here, come in Base.”
“BL, here is Base. Report?”
The sergeant look around for a few second before returning to his communicator.
“Nothing Sir. Ground is cold. I repeat, Ground is cold. No energy readings anywhere.”
“Check again BL. We’ve had a large energy reading no more than twenty minutes ago in that area. There must be something there. Report only if UAC is detected. Over and out.”
“S-Sargeant?”
The only rookie he didn’t want to listen, the youngest of them, the only one who hadn’t never been on a battlefield, spoke with a tremble in her voice.
“W-What’s going on? S-Sarge?”
Joseph Kurts, Sergeant Joseph Kurts, almost spat on the ground in disgust. Here he was, member of one of the most powerful and secret of the world organizations, and had to babysit a, freshly out of the academy, Lieutenant.
“Sir, Base confirm the presence of a UAC in the area. But our sensors aren’t picking anything yet. Sir.”
“S-Sarge…Have you…Have you tried to check… underground?”
Joseph was almost out of his nerves. This wet lips of an officer was really trying to get on his nerves with her foolish questions. He made to answer back with a cold cutting edge just as he noticed said girl pointing to a large hole in the middle of the cemented street. Suddenly he hadn’t any more words to express.
“I…I hadn’t seen that…Sir.”
“It’s…It’s alright, Sergeant. I’ve almost fallen in it myself, before noticing.”
As the squad moved around the hole, their sensors began to pick up traces of energy radiation coming from it. The thing that they had been sent to search had to be in that hole in the ground.
“Ok, Squad! Break time is over. Take defensive position around the hole as we lower the scanners inside it. We’ll soon see if …Lieutenant? Sir? Step back from there. That’s too close to the…”
Before he could finish, everybody could see a large arm snake out of the hole, grabbing the girl’s head as it pulled her inside the pit. Before any of them could even react, the Lieutenant disappeared into the darkness of the underground.
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Cheryl Carter had been promoted with the highest grade out of the Military academy. She had been the brightest student of her entire class and so, her CV, was instantly sent to IDP which approved it almost as fast. Even though she had never set foot in the field, she was already considered ready for battle.
She had loved the academy. On paper everything seemed so easy. She had dreamed so much of being in the field, ready to out-maneuver her adversary with her proficiency in tactics.
She had never imagined she could be kidnapped by an unknown life being and dragged underground. She struggled as much as she could but the hold on her was stronger than anything she could muster.
Suddenly, she realized her unknown assailant had stopped and freed her, leaving her in this cave-like tunnel without any light.
“H-Hello? Hello?”
“Greetings, human-ling.”
She almost shrieked when she heard the raspy voice no more than three meters from her, coming out of the utter darkness they were in.
“We mean you no harm…until you do not harm us, of course.”
“How…How many of… you are here.?”
“It is only Us. We, seems to be in an unknown place. We, seeks answers.”
Cheryl couldn’t understand what was happening, her mind wasn’t ready to process the fact that she was who knows how many meters underground, talking with a UAC. She simply didn’t reason it, in order to avoid a total shut down of her brain functions.
“What are you? Who are you?”
“We are known as the Ktywxylsixs. Which name cannot be pronounced in your primitive language. The best translation in this language is ‘The Hive’.
This one has been named Kroggan but, you may address us as Speaker.”
“Hive? Speaker? W-Wait a…How do you speak my language!?”
“We have mentally siphoned it out of you. We have not touched your memories or thoughts, yet. Give us answers and We will let you go free.”
The girl, crouched low on the ground, began to change position, sitting there, with her knees crossed. Seeing that the UAC didn’t seem violent or aggressive, she was ready to establish a first communication with it…with them…with the Speaker, in order to learn as much as she could before she was rescued.
At least, she hoped she was going to be rescued.
“Alright. I will answer your question, as you will do in turn, agreed? Also, could you move closer? I really can’t see you within this darkness.”
The raspy voice of the Speaker echoed slightly in the tunnels as he answered back.
“Doesn’t your species have the capability of seeing in the dark? That is most unsettling.
We will provide light for you. As for your treaty…We can accept that.”
Cheryl suddenly saw some light pouring out in the tunnel, those tiny points seemed to move closer until she could clearly see what they were exactly. Fascinated, she watched as dozens of short, fat worms moved to stand at almost one meter from her. Their bodies glowing in the darkness, releasing the soothing light she was now in. Her eyes, then, were focusing on the creature moving toward her. As she watched it come closer, she couldn’t believe herself.
It moved on six powerful legs, culminating in three toed like talons, while supporting its elongated main body, just like the one on a terrestrial ant. Attached to this there was this humanoid torso, from which sprouted two strong sets of arms, with four fingered ‘hands/claws’. Its head was human looking in shape, but there ended the similarities. Three small sets of eyes looked in all directions at once, with a light green tint, while the skin seemed much more tough and resilient almost as if it was really an armor. But the most distinctive tract was the mouth, without any lips or teeth, as it seemed to Cheryl, but with two strange looking appendages just at each corner.
All in all, Cheryl had to admit, the creature seemed ult of an impossible union between an Ant and a Human.
“S-Speaker?”
“Yes. We are here. Now, what is the name of this world?”
“It is called Earth…is…is the Fourth planet in its solar system.”
“We really are not under our Great Above. The Gods may have mercy on our souls. Ask now, it’s your turn…”
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