Apex 3: Shaylo Attacks by Adam Moon Read Free Book Online Page A

distance or the laws of physics. He felt it wash over the entire universe, bringing back feelings he barely understood.
    His body started to shake as his friends sat him back down. He could hardly focus on any one of them.
    And then, just as he grew accustomed to the feelings washing over him, he felt his body start to phase.
    He yelled, “Oh, shit!” because whatever was about to happen was going to be bad, he just knew it.
    His vision flickered as physical objects appeared and vanished rapidly . His skin tingled and his mind reeled.
    And then he vanished.
    He didn’t expect to arrive in a desert this time. He expected far worse, and he wasn’t disappointed. He saw the black of space all around him, dotted with pinpoints of starlight. He phased away, and saw a planet, up close, like he was seeing it from an orbiting space station. It was red and purple and the night side was speckled with unnatural light; there was a civilization down there.
    He tried to breathe, but he couldn’t and wasn’t even sure he had to.
    Then, without warning, he appeared above a different planet, this one smaller and darker. Soon, he was watching as planet after planet flickered before his eyes in quick succession. Some were bigger than others. Each was a different swirl of colors. One planet would disappear, only to be replaced by another. He knew that the planets weren’t appearing before him, he was appearing before them. Each time he saw a planet, he felt the emotions of its inhabitants. He was being given a personal tour of the universe by his own out of control abilities.
    Then things got more personal. He started to see alien landscapes, all different, as he appeared on the surfaces of planets. Some of them felt familiar , in ways he could almost understand, while others were so alien he could barely wrap his head around what he was seeing. Before he had a chance to become familiar with any one, a new one would appear before him.
    Just then, he started to see creatures. He saw a yellowish creature first. It was as tall as he was but it had no facial features he could make out and it balanced on a dozen spider-like legs except that the legs looked like they were woven of thick strands of black hair or some other type of fibrous horn-like material.
    That creature barely even noticed him when it was replaced by another, this one small and white, like a fish but with a single, lidless eyeball that was held above its head by a thin filament. It walked on two long legs with fat suckers at the base of each that acted as its feet. It only looked like a white fish because it breathed through gill-like apparatus on either side of its head. It was making guttural noises with its mouth as it operated some type of alien technology that made no sense to Jack.
    The fish was replaced by a black tentacled creature with a huge boxy head and way too many tentacles it used to support its weight. It had thick, muscular arms that jutted from its trunk in all the wrong places. There was no pattern to their distribution around its body. Each moved fluidly, like they either had no bones in them or else they had a hundred elbows. Its box shaped head spun all the way around, its sunken, jet black eyes, swiveled this way and that as it took in a panoramic view of its world.
    Then Jack found himself inside a metallic structure, staring at a pink, gelatinous blob that was working some advanced alien controls. He was aboard an alien spacecraft. The blob squelched and farted as it moved around the small space, flipping switches and pressing buttons frantically. Its body looked like it could just melt away into a puddle of sludge. He was glad he phased away before he had to see its face.
    He saw so many creatures, in such quick succession that he could barely contain all of the information. Sometimes he’d see one for a few minutes, and sometimes for just a second. He’d see terrestrial creatures, and then aquatic, and then airborne ones. Often he’d appear in