Chapter 55: Sphere
Eric watched in dismay as the Sphere lit up. There was a large black screen with code jargon on it, "initializing" read on the top of the screen before colors burst vibrantly. The surrounding area reflected the shine, and Eric had to shield his eyes.
"I forgot how bright the goddamn LED lights are."
He growled. His irritation turned to dread as the first images populated on the screen. It was the Iraq situation all over again. Instead of an attack on an overseas post, it was clips of apaches mowing down the wolves. People talked over each other in the news rooms as clips played one after the other.
Eric sighed, pulling out his can of Copenhagen and lighting a cigarette as he put a lip of chew in. "Mia’s gonna throw a ham if she finds out I’m smoking again, but fuck it." Clips played repeatedly while large red letters saying "LIVE" ran at the top of the screen. He turned to his soldiers. "Get back to work!" They had stopped working to stare at the screen.
Michael walked up to him.
"Can I have so chew?" He said, his voice shaking and eyes wide as he too looked at the screen with eyes wide. Eric patted the kid on the back and handed him his can.
"You know Ayello ain’t gonna like you doing that, right?"
Michael shook his head and slumped against the humvee.
"Master Sergeant, with all due respect, if I don’t have sothing right now, I might implode. We are basically broadcasting to the entire world what we have. How can you stay so calm?"
Eric laughed and walked away to help soldiers with barricades.
"Been through worse, kid."
The work to secure Vegas was going smoothly. Eric had his old platoon, current platoon, and police gather in a eting room that one of the hotels was kind enough to lend them.
"Alright, so we have Vegas barricaded and fighting positions secure, with dug in machine gun positions and ISR overwatch running 24/7. Soon, I will have soone replace . I trust that everyone here knows the stakes, so I will not beat a dead horse. What I will say, is that you have done well so far. Be ready for probing attacks, and do not let anything in that doesn’t have an ID from Earth."
Jessica looked out in the distance, she saw a massive ball of light. She couldn’t make it out clearly, and then the earth quake once more, the shaking rousing her from her thoughts. She headed back to her room, and sighed.
"What kind of tricks are they pulling now?" She whispered.
She was tired of these walls and people she worked with. Every ti she was sent out, she had to witness horror and destruction. She was told it was "for the greater good
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