Forever Young
Copyright© 2013 by Rolf
Chapter 5
There is a very old saying; it goes something like this: 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend!'
We had yet to determine that we both had enemies however. The attacks had seemed to stop for a while. Well, they did stop. Now we were seeing 'sabotage'. We had no idea how or why our enemy had changed their tactics. They were winning, so why the sudden change?
One of the 'defence' teams came up with something very interesting. They had discovered a lone person planting a bomb. He was taken captive and brought to Galixi headquarters. Since the attacks had stopped, we had expected something new to occur. What we did not expect was the discovery of an entire new species. In no way were these things who or what we had been at war with; they were something new.
In a hastily called meeting, we determined that... , that,... ! That we now were confused, very confused. We needed information and quickly. Threats, torture, captivity all seemed to have no affect on our prisoner. We tried something new. New to us at least. We marched him out to the outskirts of Hinton. We secured him, then left him for our enemy to do our job for us. We did not have long to wait.
Three days later, approaching Central City were a group of our black armoured foes. This time they came under a flag of truce. Although communication was somewhat difficult, what we determined was that there was a sense of confusion with them too.
The prisoner we had left for them was of a species from their old planet. One of the two their ancestors had fought for. They could not make any sense of why they would be here on Gaia, nor why we would just give him up to them.
What transpired then was like the proverbial light bulb coming on, for both sides. We explained, ad best we could, under what conditions he had been captured. We also were quite interested why they had changed their tactics in favour of sabotage. We were informed that no new strategy had been used. The Klax were incapable of such actions. They were warriors and would, could never be so cowardly as to hide in the shadows.
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