Battle for the Earth (36 page)

‘That’s just about what we thought what was left.’

By this time Jumouk had joined them.

‘How far out are they?’

‘They’re still a fair way away ... wait a second, Can we just move a tiny bit closer to the sun?’

Lee was looking at the depiction from every angle.

‘I thought so. They’re right in the path of the CME cloud and it’s heading straight for them.’

Pausanias looked at Jumouk. They both still looked bewildered. Lee turned round to them.

‘Don’t you see? If it was only a normal-strength CME cloud, it wouldn’t be a problem. Look ... imagine a large ship at sea. It meets a twenty-foot wave, no problem. Bumpy maybe, but still no problem. But if you multiply that twenty-foot wave by forty and then you get a eight-hundred foot wave, end of game for that ship. It’s exactly the same scenario with the CME cloud.’

Enlightenment dawned on the faces of Jumouk and Pausanias.

‘You mean the CME cloud is going to destroy them?’

‘Well, it’s certainly going to give them an extremely hard time. Bear in mind, nothing of this nature has ever been recorded before.’

The irony of the situation wasn’t lost on any of them. A bomb that the Annunaki had planted to wipe out mankind was now threatening to do the same instead to the Annunaki.

‘What do you want to do about it?’

Jumouk was not sure what answer to expect. After a long pause, Pausanias replied, ‘I don’t know. Morally, I suppose we should warn them.’

Lee’s reaction was immediate.

‘We’ve been fighting them tooth and nail for months now. This is our chance to do away with them once and for all. They’ll never come back after this.’

‘When will the cloud hit them, then?’

Lee looked at the depiction and began muttering to himself and drumming his fingers.

‘Best guess two days but, given time, I can work it out exactly.’

‘Do that please, Lee,’ Pausanias requested. ‘We’ll meet up with them and, if there’s no change in attitude, we’ll leave moments before the cloud strikes, telling them nothing and leaving them to their own devices. Does that sound reasonable?’

‘That sounds fair enough.’

‘Good, we’re all agreed then?’

‘Agreed.’

Lee moved over to one of the other consoles to make his calculations. Jumouk and Pausanias sat down together to plan the confrontation with the Annunaki.

**

Three of the Atlantian battle cruisers appeared out of hyper-space right in front of the Annunaki fleet and opened a communications channel straightaway.

‘This is Pausanias, the high commander of the Atlantian fleet, will your commander, please respond?’

The call was put out twice more before a response was received.

‘What do you want?’

‘As you can see your plan to destroy Earth and its inhabitants has failed. Your device for creating anti-matter out of matter was destroyed. We are now warning you formally that in future your presence in this part of space will not be tolerated, and any incursion will be seen as an act of war which will result in any vessels in this space being destroyed. This is your last opportunity to leave peacefully and not come back.’

Pausanias turned to Lee and asked how much time.

‘Four minutes exactly.’

On the main communications console Pausanias continued.

‘What is your response?’

Suddenly all hell broke loose. The Annunaki battle group had opened up with everything it had. Pulse weapons fire was intense, smashing into the Atlantian battle cruisers.

Lee gave one word of command and, as suddenly as they had arrived, the three Atlantian battle cruisers were gone.

**

The Annunakis were delighted that they had finally seen off the Atlantian battle cruisers. Sutan was delighted with himself. So carried away were they that they didn’t even see the CME cloud coming.

As soon as Sutan realised what was happening, he ordered every craft into hyper-space. Virtually every system on every craft was failing as they desperately tried to make hyper-space. Air locks opened, weapons shorted out and started to explode. Life support failed.

None, apart from two cruisers and the large transport, ever made it to hyper-space. Those that did make it were damaged almost beyond repair, and faced a very long and arduous trip back to Nibiru.

**

As the three Atlantian battle cruisers arrived back at Dulles they knew they had seen the last of the Annunaki.

Now came the hard part: counting the cost of the survival of Earth to its inhabitants. At least they would be able to start afresh and had their new friends, the Atlantians and the Dropas.

Earth might after all have a brighter future ahead.