Chapter 14

Jacob

I flew past the city heading north, where I had detected the alien force, I scanned the ground below. I saw 1 giant centipede like creature, it was over 1km long, it was flanked by 3 giant spiders, and several hundred smaller ones walking along side of it. They moved fairly slowly, I circled getting detailed scans, it looked like the enemy at least suspected something was going on. I wondered why they had not mobilized a larger force, it made me wonder about the intelligence of the enemy on the planet, Adam had said they where cut off from their hive mind, it didn't fit that they knew how to mine the system and build the portal, they knew to take human slaves to build for them, I had to be missing something.

I scanned for a little more before turning and heading back to the city, I flew above the fallen skyscrapers and monuments, I couldn't help but think of this being one of the cities on earth, we needed to stop them. I flew over head getting a good layout of the city, I noticed several of the smaller spiders like the one I had killed seemed to be wandering about the city, this was a puzzle I did not have all the pieces to yet.

I found the trail of the pod, I saw that it crashed into the subway system, I flew down, landing near the hole. I looked around, seeing no signs of the spiders near, I jumped down the hole, to find the pod had been moved, either Janus had gotten to it, or the spiders had, I scanned the tunnel around me, seeing that there where foot prints followed by track marks. I set out following the tracks, the tunnel began to look familiar to me.