Escape to Earth 3: Defending Holy Ground by Saxon Andrew Read Free Book Online

nodded, “That’s the kind of man you are.” Jinks nodded and left the room.
    Lukas watched him leave and prayed he would survive to lead mankind into the future.

Chapter Four
    “S ir, the probes are reporting an approaching stream of skip trails.”
    Chad looked at his panel and shook his head; eleven hours, forty minutes. They were right on schedule. He looked at Audrey, “How many?”
    Audrey stared at her panel and pressed multiple buttons and after a few moments looked up, “I don’t know. It appears that whoever is coming is destroying our probes.”
    Chad stared at her and shrugged, “If this doesn’t turn out well, we won’t really need them.” He pressed the blue button on his panel and the battle stations warning began blaring on all ships in the fleets. He glanced at Jason, “Are the pods in position?”
    “They are, Sir.”
    Chad activated his helmet’s communicator, “Attention all ships. If the approaching ships come into normal space firing their weapons, every ship will be weapons-free. Hold your sectors above the planet and don’t get fooled into leaving. If they emerge and are not attacking, you will hold your fire until I authorize free weapons.” Chad looked at Audrey, “How long until they emerge?”
    “About thirteen minutes.”
    Chad tongued his channel selector and saw Julie appear, “Is your fleet ready?”
    “We are.”
    “Try to stay safe, my Love.”
    “You do the same, Daddy.”
    Chad smiled and changed the monitor inside his helmet to tactical. So far normal space was clear. He looked at the huge monitor on the wall and saw the void probes inside the gravity well showed a modest number of skip trails approaching. He wondered what was going on. He continued to stare at the huge monitor until ships began emerging into normal space. He looked up at the corner of his helmet display and saw that thirty-six ships had appeared four thousand miles in front of his lines. He muttered a question and his helmet answered, “All thirty-six ships are different from each other.” He looked out at the gathering and immediately noticed a giant blue ship that was flashing bright blue. It was furthest from his ships and behind the line formed by the other thirty-five ships. “Trio, tell me about that flashing blue ship.”
    “It doesn’t appear to be solid matter. I can’t determine what it’s made of.”
    “You haven’t left as I ordered.”
    “I didn’t even try.”
    “Why not?”
    “If I ordered you to move down to the surface of the planet and push it out of orbit, what would you do?”
    “That’s ridiculous. It can’t be done.”
    “So you wouldn’t even try, would you?”
    “No, I suppose I wouldn’t. However, my planet dwelling partners tell me that ordering you to leave in twelve hours or we would attack was not a fair option. They also agree that vacating a planet that fast is not possible. I’ve brought them back with me so there won’t be any misunderstandings concerning your vacating our territory. How long will you require to leave?”
    “It’s taken us seven months to move everyone here. It will take that long to get everyone moved.”
    “That is unacceptable.”
    “You asked, that’s the true answer.”
    Suddenly Chad heard a booming voice over his wall speaker, “Why have you come to our galaxy uninvited?”
    “Is there a possibility of ever being invited?”
    “No.”
    “We came here to escape an invader that is coming to destroy my species.”
    There was a long moment of silence and the voice said, “You should have stayed and fought them there.”
    “Most of my civilization is doing exactly that. However, the possibility of defeating this invader is remote. We left our galaxy to go to a new world to try and develop the weapons needed to go and take back our home.”
    “Where is this invader you refer to coming from?”
    “Do you know the giant ball galaxy about fifty million light years away?”
    “We do.”
    “They’re coming from that