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‘
That doesn’t mean there aren’t any’ replied Jack nervously ‘I’ll tell you, this building is just weird’ he added.

‘What makes you think it’s a building?’ asked Stuart
as Jack just gave him a curious look.

‘But it must be, w
hat else can it be?’ he puzzled.

Then he looked at Stuart as he shook his head.

‘
Oh, you’re not seriously telling me it’s a
spaceship
?’

‘Why not
?’ replied Stuart.

‘But it
can’t
be? I mean, the sheer size of it, how could something as gigantic as
that
land on Earth and
none
of us even know about it?’ Jack queried.

‘But if they discovered a way to neutralise all our elec
tricity how could we even detect it? And a jet black spaceship could just slip through our atmosphere at night undetected and unseen out here by anyone’ suggested Stuart.

Jack was just nodding his head now.

‘I’d say you were quite mad, Stuart, if what you said didn’t make g
ood scientific reasoning’ he agreed ‘and anyway, after seeing those weird creatures I’d believe just about anything you told me right now.’

‘Will anyone believe
us
though?’ questioned Stuart.

‘Well they damn well better
as someone’s got to stop these things from killing people and quickly!’ stated Jack angrily.

Day Five:

11
^th
January 2021

Pentagon H.Q.

Arlington Court,

Virginia, U.S.A.

T
he airship had regained its engine power again the very second they left the dead zone.

Then the next day, Stuart, Joan, Jack, and Jenny were all flown to the newly set up Pentagon H.Q. along with the film they took ready for processing.

The
y then informed General O’Dowd of their findings, which of course, he found hard to take seriously.

The President himself was present when they finally brought the processed film into the meeting
room for everyone to see. Fortunately, the old cine camera and its old fashioned film were one of the few things that had still worked during their journey.

‘HERE IT IS!’ shouted a Pentagon worker in a white coat as he rushed
the film into the meeting room. He then handed it to another man who quickly loaded it into a specially adapted projector.

‘OK
, LOWER THE LIGHTS PLEASE!’ shouted the worker as everyone instantly stopped talking and instead turned their attention to the large screen in front of them.

‘God Damn!’ uttered General Iram as he stared at the screen ‘what is th
is, a nature film or something?’

‘No,
General, this is showing the unusual behaviour of all the animals in the area’ explained Stuart.

Then he moved to the front and jumped up next to the screen.

‘If you notice, we have huge numbers of animals all gathering together, but more importantly, we even have animals grouping together that would usually be mortal enemies’ explained Stuart.

‘But is that an elephant next to cattle?’ queried one scientist.

‘Yes, there are even zoo animals out there’ nodded Stuart.

‘But how’s that
even possible?’ puzzled one of the military men.

‘We think
either the keepers released them or they just escaped’ replied Stuart.

‘And
gee whiz, there’s a tiger in with a herd of wild deer’ another military man puzzled.

‘More to the point,
it doesn’t seem to be making any attempt to attack anything?’ puzzled one of the scientists.

‘
Exactly
!’ nodded Stuart.

‘But how is this
all possible?’ all the scientists now pondered as they all quietly talked amongst themselves.

‘It is bec
ause they are all fleeing’ suggested one scientist.

‘Fleeing?’ all the others puzzled ‘fleeing from
what
exactly?’

Just then
, the large black building came into shot and they were suddenly all completely quiet again.

‘What the hell is that?’ queried General O’Dowd ‘some sort of building
or something?’

‘We’re not sure, General’ admitted Stuart
‘we were hoping you could tell us? Has the government perhaps built this as a secret research facility or something?’ queried Stuart.

‘Not that I’m aware
of’ puzzled the General as he ordered someone to have it checked out.

‘But it’s massive!’ observed one of the scientists
watching the film.

‘Precisely’ nodded Stuart ‘we believe it to be over a mi
le across and either circular or slightly oval in shape.’

Another scientist was looking
down at a head computer and he took the eye piece off before he looked up.

‘No,
I can’t find any building in that location on any search I’ve just done and that’s whether highly classified at the highest level or otherwise’ he announced.

‘It’s not
a secret government building then?’ concluded another scientist.

‘No
, definitely not’ announced the man ‘I can confirm the US government doesn’t have any such facility in that location and never has had’ he announced firmly. ‘Also I’ve done a search as to anyone owning any such building and that too has come up negative’ he explained.

‘Then what the hell is it?’ asked General O’Dowd.

Stuart now took a deep breath before answering.

‘General, we believe it is a spaceship’
he openly admitted.

Instantly there was uproar in the room as there were cries of ‘nonse
nse!’ and ‘what is this rubbish?’

Just then though
, the shots Jenny took passed the giant building came into view and they could see her quickly zooming in on something moving.

All of a sudden everyone
in the room just fell completely silent.

‘But what are those figures?
Are they people or something?’ queried General Iram screwing up his eyes as he tried to make out exactly what he was now looking at.

Now though, the pictures steadied and they could all see exactly what was going on.

‘But what is this?
Is it a science fiction film or something?’ queried General O’Dowd as he just stared at the screen.

Stuart just shook his head solemnly.

‘I’m afraid not, General’ he answered as he could now barely look
up at the screen himself.

‘
Oh my God, they’re killing people!’ uttered a scientist as he almost fell off his chair in shock.

‘
We need an explanation of this Professor Keys,
Now
! What is the meaning of you showing us these horrors?’ General O’Dowd demanded angrily.

‘But these are the scenes my daughter filmed, General’ Stuart replied
honestly as the General then looked to Joan for a confirmation.

‘It’s true, Gen
eral, I wish to God it were not’ she uttered as everyone was now stunned into complete silence as they now all looked completely horrified as they watched the shocking scenes Jenny had just about managed to film.

‘Two
of them got on board my blimp!’ added Jack.

‘But how was that possible, you
must have been flying low?’ queried another scientist.

‘Nope, one climbed up one of the mooring ropes and I don’t know h
ow the other one got onboard’ Jack admitted. ‘If it were not for Stuart risking his life by leaning out to kick one of them off and Joan for smashing the second one in the face with a fire extinguisher, I would not be here talking to you right now’ he admitted.

Everyone
in the room now looked very shocked indeed.

‘Then the
se things are for
real
?’ questioned someone in military uniform.

‘You’d better bet your gold medal they’re
for
real
, Soldier’ added Jack.

Then he turned his attention to General O’Dowd.

‘General, these things are fast,
really fast
, they can run we estimate at least 30 MPH. What’s more their bodies seem incredibly strong. Why, we dropped one from my blimp from a height of around sixty feet and it just got up and walked away uninjured’ explained Jack now looking very serious indeed.

The President now looked up at the horrific scenes
again and asked for the projector to be immediately turned off.

‘I’ve seen enough!
Can we turn this off and have the lights up again please’ he stated firmly.

‘Mr
President, these things can also jump incredibly high, why the two that got onboard must have jumped thirty feet or more to have grabbed hold of our mooring ropes. Why, we never dreamed we were in any danger that high up’ stated Stuart
.

‘But what the hell are these monsters?’ asked the President.

‘
We believe they are a cricket or grass hopper like creature’ interrupted Joan.

‘But exactly how big are these things?’ asked the President.

‘Our height’ shrugged Joan ‘well, at least
,
your
height, Mr President, I’m only five foot four’ she added.

‘But we saw millions of them
up on the screen?’ puzzled the President ‘how the hell did they get here?’

‘We
, well rather I believe that large black building is in fact a spaceship’ replied Stuart firmly.

‘Nonsense!’ uttered a scientist
sitting nearby.

Then he turned to speak to the President.

‘Mr President, our satellites would detect anything even the size of a bag of sugar landing on Earth, let alone anything that
big’ he insisted.

‘Well, the evidence of my eyes proves you very wrong, Bud’ answered Jack indignantly.

‘
But it looks like there are so many of these creatures’ uttered the President now looking deeply shocked.

‘Could they have not come up from the ground?’
suggested one scientist ‘I mean they look like some kind of insect, perhaps ants of some kind?’

‘
Are we talking in terms of giant ants? It sounds like we’re all in some sort of God damned B movie now’ uttered General O’Dowd.

‘Could they
have come up from the ground though?’ pondered another of the scientists as they all began discussing it.

‘
You’re all forgetting one thing’ uttered Joan, as they all stopped talking and just looked around at her. ‘Where did that giant building come from if these things simply came up out of the ground? Something that massive couldn’t have just appeared up out of the ground overnight’ she insisted.

‘At this point in time I don’t care where they came from
, I just want to know how we are going to stop them’ interrupted the President.

‘Don’t worry, Mr President, we’ll send the army in!’ stated General O’Dowd forcefully.

‘
That won’t work’ insisted Stuart ‘they can somehow prevent our electricity from working and also prevent anything from igniting as well.’

‘Hence none of your guns or bombs will
work, General’ insisted Joan.

‘Then how do we kill these things?’ puzzled
General O’Dowd.

‘We don’t know’ replied Jack honestly
as he just shrugged his shoulders.

‘We don’t know?’ uttered the
President ‘well that’s no good. We have people being violently killed out there so we’ve got to somehow get in there and wipe these monsters out!’

‘If I might make a suggestion?’ asked Stuart as the President
just nodded his head. ‘If we could rig something up on the airship, we could then capture one of these creatures and then perhaps discover their weaknesses.’

‘Are you mad?’ questioned Jack ‘we
’ve only just had a lucky escape getting back the first time!’

‘We’ve got to do this though, Jack, otherwise millions of people
could die if we don’t find a way to somehow stop these things’ insisted Stuart.

‘He’s right, Jack, if we could capture just one of them, we might find an answer to how they cancel out our electricity or ability to light flame. Then we might get our weapons back on track’ suggested Joan.

‘But where the hell did these things come from
anyway?’ asked the President again.

‘As I’ve already said, Mr President,
I believe the only explanation is that they are from outer space’ nodded Stuart.