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had been designed for foot soldiers by the United
States Army Soldiers Center in anticipation of a second attack from
these obscure aliens.
    It was intended to absorb or deflect
slashing, bludgeoning and penetrating attacks from swords and
flying debris, which the skeletons had used as their main weapons
in the first raid. It was consisting of three layers. The innermost
layer had been made from Kevlar, a synthetic fiber of high tensile
strength. Given its excellent fragment stopping power, it could
provide full protection against slash attacks from swords and other
close quarter weapons.
    The middle layer had been fitted with
metallic plates to provide protection from rifle rounds. The
outermost layer was a thickened strap of rubber. This could
perfectly deflect off bludgeoning weapons and flying fragments. A
special insert had been put at the back to protect the spine. Each
soldier was putting on a helmet that had been designed in almost
the same way as the uniform. It was a full suit that was covering
even the limbs. It was however ridged at the joints especially the
knees and ankles, to allow for flexibility when moving.
    The soldiers separated themselves into
different companies and each company was assigned two or three
scientists to escort to different military sites. From that
university, there were two scientists from the department of
Microbial Evolution who happened to be married at the same time.
These two were Prof. McDonald Ressy, a specialist in Microbial
Evolution and Molecular Phylogeny and his wife Dr. Christine Ressy,
a specialist in Bacteriology and Molecular Biology. They were being
escorted to a secret underground facility in Santa Cruz Mountains
in a convoy of ten armored vehicles which was being accompanied by
two Pave Hawk helicopters which were also full of soldiers.
    When the convoy reached at the north end of
Scotts Valley where State Route 17 begins winding an ascent of the
Santa Cruz Mountains, the soldiers started hearing sounds of a fast
moving wind which was accompanied by strong shaking of the ground.
The soldiers were forced to stop the vehicles and turned their eyes
behind. They were shocked to see a large translucent wind which had
covered the whole road. The wind was sweeping a damage trail along
its path on the highway. It was blowing away all the cars that it
was coming across and it was piling them onto each other. Wreckages
from these cars were being released into the surroundings, causing
extensive structural damage and casualties wherever they fell.
    Surprisingly, the wind moved passed the
convoy without causing damage to any of the vehicles. When it
reached sixty yards away from the convoy, it became stationary but
kept on rotating. It was spinning at a faster speed than a dust
devil. Lt. Col. Tim the commander of the company ordered the
soldiers to jump out of the vehicles. They took up different
positions behind the vehicles with their guns aimed at the rotating
wind.
    Lt. Col. Tim pulled out a megaphone and
started giving instructions to the wind. “If there’s anyone there
freeze……. freeze.” He paused for five seconds before shouting
again, “freeze….. I said fre--eee--eze!” As if to obey him, the
whirlwind lost its strength at once and exposed the skeletons. They
were twenty five human skeletons in total and were all armed with
glittering double edged swords. One of the skeletons was carrying a
body bag in their other arm and another was carrying a toolbox
which was containing the dissection apparatus.
    When the skeletons started walking towards
them, Tim was prompted to pick up the megaphone again. First, to
his soldiers he said, “Don’t shoot!! Night visions on…..!!” and
again to the skeletons ‘’Freeze…..Freeze….” But the skeletons just
continued walking and when they reached twenty yards away from the
vehicles, the whirlwind reformed and covered all of them. The wind
kept on expanding until when it reached the cars. When it started
enveloping