Post #2817938 in The Multiverse, a roleplay on RPG

The ticking noises continued over the Taiyou radio stations, persisting on every channel as the black glassy egg-like rock inside the shredded nanosteel box on the truck began to vaporize and disintegrate. The mantis-like extraterrestrial continued to hover in mid-air between the two armoured tanks as the gunners started to back away. The truck drivers, wanting nothing to do with the situation, began to pull forward and drive away. The creature remained motionless, clicking its mandibles while looking at the tanks. It was trying to communicate with them through their radios, but it was so alien and foreign to humans that the tank drivers didn't even realize what was happening.

Meanwhile, calls were coming in from the north. Phones were chiming left and right as police stations and news stations on Niihama began to receive calls and reports of military aircraft flying over the skies. Was something wrong? Whatever was going on, the area had been evacuated and restricted as much as possible to contain the threat. Nevertheless, hundreds of civilians gathered around in troves, wanting to get a better look or perhaps trying to figure out what was going on. News teams were on the ground just behind the barriers, cameras flashing and video recorders running as they began questioning the police. Of course, even the police themselves were confused and operating under limited authority. The roads and highways had been blocked off far away from where the threat had been located, and although the reporters broadcast live that they were at ground zero, the fact is, that wasn't entirely accurate. Ground zero is where the Falcons were headed, as they prepared to engage.

The creature had its back turned towards the Falcons, as it assessed the tanks in front of it who were backing away at considerable speed. But its large black shrimp-like bulging round eyes gave the alien a 360° view of its surroundings. It was already well aware of the aircrafts in the sky above, for the insectoid being had optics and physical senses which far exceeded anything that the Taiyou military currently possessed. It was picking up heat signatures, radio frequencies, satellite systems and electromagnetic waves all at the same time, assessing its location and calculating the situation like some kind of machine or A.I. super-brain computer. Only once the huge transport trucks and convoy tanks put enough distance between themselves and the creature did their radios stop malfunctioning and began working normally again.

By now, the self-destructing egg from which the insect had hatched had vanished completely, disintegrating into thin air. All that remained now was the creature itself, as the first of six Falcon pilots zoomed in on his target. The creature would descend straight down and land softly on the hard orange rocky dirt, retracting its four wings and standing upright on two legs bipedally. The pilot calibrated his target parameters. The creature was now on the ground and not moving. Now would be the best time to pull the trigger.

"Fox one," the pilot said as he made the call. His message came through clearly, as the Falcons were far enough out of range that their computers and radio systems worked just fine. Yet right as he hit the switch on his master arm, he thought he noticed something. In less than the fraction of a second, there seemed to be a blip. A mysterious anomaly appeared on his targeting screen, almost like a second target of equal size some fair distance away from the first target, closer to the proximity of the approaching craft. But the blip happened so quickly, and vanished in an instant as the air-to-air sidewinder missile began its descent towards the alien creature. Oddly enough, the other five pilots would immediately notice the same blip. Yet nothing seemed to happen, and the alien creature did not seem to have moved. It was still zoomed in on the flight screen.

In almost no time at all from the instant the missile was launched, it made contact. The pilot would watch as the missile appeared to hit the creature directly in the back, exploding upon impact. The warhead was detonated, and suddenly there was a large explosion followed by a soaring black, red and white cloud of smoke and debris as chunks of rock, sand and earth were blasted up from the surface of the desert-like terrain. It was enough firepower to completely vaporize an entire frigate. At that moment, the large cloud of smoke and dust was obscuring the pilot's vision, but he was almost sure it had been a direct hit. They just needed visual confirmation. That is, if the target hadn't been completely vaporized and there was any evidence left of its carcass. So far, they couldn't see anything at all but a huge crater where the alien had been standing. No dead body. Just a crater.

Was it really that simple? So much for E.T., he must have thought at that moment as a slight smirk formed in the corner of the Taiyou pilot's lips. Yet in the back of his mind, he was still trying to process what he saw. Was it a giant winged insect? No way were the boys going to believe this.

Snippet #2817938

located in Niihama, a part of The Multiverse, one of the many universes on RPG.

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