Invasion

 

 

 

 

A Joseph Hollister Novel

 

 

Book One of the ‘Rise of the Earth Federation’

 

 

 

 

 

By Joseph P Hradisky Jr

 

This is a work of fiction, the characters have no resemblance to persons living or dead.

 

The places, on the other hand, are real and can be found on the shores of Cayuga Lake.

 

This story, and all it contains, is the property of Joseph P Hradisky Jr.

 

All rights reserved.

 

I hope you enjoy the story, thank you for reading it.

 

I dedicate this book to my family, friends, and all those who support our freedoms. May we all stand together as one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 4th, 2020

 

 

 

I stood at the bow of the lead house boat as small waves rocked it on their way to the distant shore of Stewart Park. A hot sun tried to overcome the coolness of the ten mile per hour wind blowing from the north. This caused the trees, along the shore, to rustle loud enough I could hear it this far away. Below the trees was an army, made of humans as well as the Nekkarians invaders who controlled them. Yet, not all of them, were controlled by the aliens. Just as many were human co-conspirators who were supposedly to rule the planet when the invaders moved onto the next target. I wanted them more than the aliens, already I had one pair I had captured just after the invasion had started.

 

Yes, I had gotten lucky with this, but it wasn’t the only piece of luck. Another was the Nekkarian who had tried to take my body over. The attempt failed for one, but this alien did not like what his leader was doing with their conquest of the universe. Now, instead of being enemies, we were friends with more in common than not. Showing two alien cultures could become friends.

 

Now, as I stared at the enemy, all I could think about was how many were going to die over the next several days. I was hoping none would, based on my plan, but knew this would never happen. I went over, in my mind, the plan for the coming battle. Step one stood before me for I had sent word I was going to launch the counter attack on the Stewart Park beach. All intentional to make the enemy leader wonder why I had told them the landing point. I knew the more this contaminated their minds the more careless they would be. The next part of the deception was making them wait, I did this by thinking back to when it all started.

April 12, 2020

 

 

It was a perfect day to skip work to go fishing. Somehow, I managed to talk my wife, Terri, into going with me. Both sons, Alec and Ian, heard we were not going to work decided to tag along with us. This turned out to be both good and bad. The bad part was the idea where we were going, split rock near Mile Point on Cayuga Lake, had a lot of places where no one could see you. As soon as Terri said she would go I had other things on my mind than fishing. Besides it was my birthday and I was turning 60.

 

We arrived at split rock just after 6 in the morning. I wanted to actually fish the early feeding time, so we would have something to eat later on. I was counting on the perch to be biting. About 6:15 I hadn't gotten a single hit which was really strange. There had been many a time when I would be getting so many I had to throw the smaller ones back. At this point I could feel the hairs, on the back of my neck, stand on end. Looking quickly around, into the morning sky, I was beginning to feel there was something wrong.

 

"What's wrong?" Terri asked as she came to stand next to me.

 

I shrugged for I had no clue at the moment. She was about to ask again when I put my hand up to stop her. "Can you hear that?"

 

"Hear what?"

 

"That's exactly it, there is nothing to be heard." This is what my feelings were trying to tell my brain. I couldn't hear any sounds. No birds, insects, bugs, or any other animal sound this far from people would have allowed. "It's too quiet."

 

Carefully I set my pole down to look around more carefully. That was when I saw hundreds of birds flying north away from Ithaca and the southern shore. What made the scene so bizarre was no noise came from such a large amount of them. Nor was it just one kind but all that lived in the area. "Odd."

 

Ian had joined us right then. "Why are they so quiet?"

 

"I think that if they make sound it will bring something bad to them." I looked around for cover, any cover, but didn't find what I wanted. "Whatever is coming it will be from that end of the lake."

 

"How do you get that?" Alec asked me.

 

"It's like a tsunami, the animals know something bad is going to happen. The direction they are fleeing from is a good starting point for whatever they are afraid of." I certainly didn't like what I was seeing but it wouldn't be as bad as what came next.

 

A bright flash of light caught my eye in an area south of the city. "Hold onto something tight and brace yourselves." I yelled out just before the strange light hit the center of Ithaca.

 

If we had been standing, or even not holding tight to something, we would have been knocked to the ground. As it was none of us went unscathed. A quick checked showed no injuries I would need to worry about. This allowed me to look down the lake to the city. What I saw scared the shit out of me. A dark, grayish, cloud was racing toward us. The color didn't bother me but the vibration I was getting from it did.

 

"Everyone into the water, now." I yelled. "When you have to come up for air have a wad of shirt covering your mouth, and nose, with a hand holding it tightly. Breath only through this and nothing else. Also keep your eyes closed."

 

I made sure the three were under when, after taking one last look at the approaching cloud, I followed them. As I went under I got the distinct feeling of voices coming from it. Then all sound vanished, blocked by the water filling my ears. At least that should have been what happened. I still could hear a sound, like something sizzling in a frying pan. Looking up I could see a distinct interaction between the water’s surface and the cloud now covering it. In some place’s tiny flickers, of flame, could be seen. For some reason, seeing this, brought a sense of good to my mind. For about two minutes I could see this chemical reaction before the cloud was gone. Slowly I made my way to the surface.

 

As soon as I breached the surface I took in a huge lung full of air, through my wet shirt, before looking around. At the south end, of Cayuga Lake, a huge fire could be seen. Thick, black, smoke rising up into the morning sky. Outside of that everything else seemed to be normal. What didn't feel normal was the sudden feeling of being very tired. What else bothered me was I couldn't see the rest of my family, they all should have surfaced by now. I was about to dive back under, to find them, when all three broke the surface. For several seconds they were racked with coughing like I had been. This soon passed, and their attention turned to me. A sudden bite of shock ran through me as I saw how pale they were looking. Maybe we had come up too soon, or the wet masks didn't work, or whatever was in the air could enter the body through the skin. Whatever it was it wasn't good, quickly I formed them into a chain to get them safely to shore. Hine sight be great foresight, I realized this was the only indicator we were ever affected that day.

 

Once on shore I looked them over. "Everyone all right?"

 

"Just very tired is all." Terri said as she lay back onto the stony shore. "What the hell was that?"

 

"No clue other than a possible meteorite, which didn't burn up in the atmosphere, hit the city." I told her as I stared down the lake toward Ithaca. A tingle of nerves, hair standing on the back of my neck, and a gut feeling said there was more to it than that.

 

"So, what are we going to do?" Alec asked.

 

"Nothing, we planned the day for fishing and that is still my plan." Again, I had made a decision which saved the lives of my family. It's amazing how such small decisions can have such a huge impact down the road.

 

"What about dinner?" Ian looked a bit leery of eating fish, but we didn't have any equipment to catch anything else.

 

"Tell you what, if you manage to get a rabbit, or something, I will figure a way of cooking it." He could barely keep a smile off his face. "Just be careful is all I ask."

 

Terri looked at me with dagger eyes. "So, you are just going to let him go off by himself?"

 

I smiled at her before casting my line into the water. "Yep."

 

Ian left as Alec found a spot to fish from while Terri got out a solar charger to plug her pad in to read. She wasn't much

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Texte: Joseph P Hradisky Jr
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Tag der Veröffentlichung: 02.07.2019
ISBN: 978-3-7487-0896-4

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This book, and all my books, are dedicated to my loving wife and wonderful family. It is also dedicated to all those who serve, peace is the only goal of a true warrior. Yet they all know that until all the warmongers are gone there will be no rest. Nor is this just about those who use weapons but is also about all those who, in the corporate world, do the same with the point of a pen. They too will do anything to rule the world while not caring how many bodies they have to step on to do it.