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Story Notes:

The events in the beginning take place immediately after the ending to Our Vacation.  Please read it so you follow the story.

Author's Chapter Notes:

Please read Our Vacation and Stress Relief. You don't have too but it does help understand some references that will pop up since these  3 stories happen in chronological order.

The year was 2131. Historians would later call it the year of the “Dimensional War”.  Aaron was a typical underachieving teenager. He graduated high school barely and bounced from job to job. Finally his father had it with him quitting jobs and got him assigned to meteoroid detail. He lived on the L1 colony. L1 was just one of a series of orbiting colonies around Earth. They had been built in the 2060’s to alleviate the population problem on Earth.  They were the first major joint development between the superpowers that united under the new Earth Sphere Union.  After the collapse of many nations when oil supplies went dry, the nations still intact gathered their best and brightest to solve the energy crisis. In 2044, 4 years after the oil apocalypse (as later people called it), the first fusion reactor was created. This new development meant greater advances in technology that required more energy than was available. New laser technology, rocket propulsion, construction robots, and power plants just to name a few. By this point, the population had grown to over 10 billion; humanity was running out of room. An audacious plan was put in place to build massive colonies in space. Each over 10 miles long, 12 colonies were built. L1 was known as January City and the others named themselves accordingly. It took almost a decade to complete them all. Now it was time to populate them. Many people signed up to live in these new cities in the heavens. The overcrowded, crime ridden cites had them yearning for something different. Arron’s great grandparents were one of these pilgrims that chose to start over amongst the stars.

Arron didn’t like this job too much. To him it was boring as shit. He had to watch for meteoroids that came from the lunar accident of 2117. Lunar excavations for construction involved using specialized nukes placed at key points to “fracture” the crust. One nuke did its job too well.  It blasted loose rock and dust free into space.  The engineers didn’t know that the crater was unstable. The crater itself was the size of Downtown Chicago but the surface was the size of a parking lot. The crater was like a sinkhole, hiding its real size. For 3 days, lunar rock rained down on Earth, killing tens of thousands. The rest settled into lunar orbit. The colonies had a new job, shoot down any incoming meteoroids.

Aaron sat in his chair listening to a lecture from his boss. “Arron you need to pay more attention to your screen. It took you almost 2 hours to relay the latest meteor forecast from Earth” his boss said irritated. “Yeah man, sorry about that. I muted the system by accident” Aaron said nervously.  His boss was Aaron’s dad's old college buddy who knew Aaron all of his 19 years so he felt like his uncle. “Just be more careful kid” the man smiled. “Got it Uncle Luke” Arron replied. “That’s Mr. Luke when we’re on the clock” Luke said picking up a crumpled piece of paper on the floor and throwing it at him. Aaron chuckled and returned to his screen.   He sat there for a while awaiting any report from the surface. When 2 hours had passed, Aaron began surfing the internet looking at any news or media to pass the time. He was ENN news’ website when Luke came back. “I brought some lunch Aaron…what are you doing?” he asked. “Oh hey Uncle Luke. Got bored watching the screen so I did some surfing” Aaron said. Luke just shook his head. “Please tell me you still have the report window still up” he said. “Of course, I’m not an idiot you know” Aaron said. “Just checking. Anything going on?” Luke asked. “Naw, just some talk about what to do about the Lunar Federation these days” Aaron said. “Yeah ever since they annexed themselves after the lunar accident, relations’ have been sketchy at best” Luke said. Their conversation was interrupted by the news window beeping. “Relay report?” Luke asked. “No, breaking news on ENN” Aaron said. Aaron pulled up the window. What they saw left them speechless.

“This is breaking news at ENN. What appear to be giant humans have appeared in San Diego! We are trying to confirm the reports but local sources put these beings somewhere 175 to 200 feet tall! People nearby report a loud boom and a hole in the air forming. Bystanders reported 3 giant people stepping out of the vortex. Our local affiliate is trying to get video confirmation right now.  Wait…we’re getting a satellite feed now from San Diego. Reporter Ann Hamilton is on the scene. Ann is these reports coming in true?” the reporter asked. “Yes Tom! As you can see three giant human looking beings are now on San Diego’s beach! The Union military has been mobilized and we have reports that evacuations are being planned. Wait something is happening. The female in the group is touching her wrist and looks to be typing….” she said before the satellite feed was cut. It appears our sat link was lost. By weather, or by these beings is unknown. We…hold on we have another report coming in.  Oh god…Reports are coming in that similar vortices are appears all over the globe. Moscow, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Madrid, London, Denver, DC.  All are reporting similar events. We will stay on the air as long as…” And then the video feed went black”

In San Diego…

“Commander, I can confirm that all native comm frequencies are now offline” one man said. “Good they are deaf and soon they will be blind” the female commander said.  “I have good news commander.  This planet is ripe with resources and their technology is over 100 years behind ours. A perfect place to build another Ingress colony” the other man said looking at his holographic PDA.  “It had better be after ending up at that useless planet before here. Is the locals like those other two we saw back there?” she asked. “See for yourself” her soldier said. She looked down to see people trying to get off the beach but there were so many there was congestion and trampling. To her they were no bigger than 3 inches tall. She bent down and snatched one out of the crowd. A male teen of 16 years stared with frightened eyes at the giantess scrutinizing him. She took her fingers and ripped his swim trunks off of him. “Similar to us in every detail except the height” she said fondling his tiny prick. “Please stop “he moaned. She continued rubbing the teen until he spunked on her index finger. The boy watched as she licked it and smiled. The giantess she looked at him and licked her lips. “No please no… some help me. SHES GONNA EAT ME!” he screamed as she tossed him casually into her mouth. She played with him some trying to memorize his flavor until *gulp*, he was gone. “Yes this world will do nicely” she said patting her stomach. “Commander. I don’t want to interrupt you fun but I detect incoming aircraft” her officer said. He was right. 5 V-1 Valkyrie’s flew in at Mach 2 at them. “Pull out your pistols and take them out of my sky” she cruelly ordered. The three invaders pulled out their plasma pistols and began firing at the planes. When one of the plasma bolts hit one plane, it exploded instantly. Seeing that they were indeed hostile, they came around for another pass.

“Alpha 1 fox 2! Alpha 3 fox 2! Alpha 5 fox 2! Alpha 4 fox 2!” the pilots shouted wondering why they couldn’t hear each other’s call signs.  Their missiles fell off their racks and streaked to their targets….only to explode when hitting what looked like shimmering air. “Shit switch to laser fire!” one pilot ordered but he wing mates couldn’t her him. “Annoying flies!” the woman yelled firing at them continuously. Slowly one by one each plane was destroyed until only one was left. A glancing blow had severely damaged is wing and his plane began to catch fire. “Die you fuckin ‘monster!” he screamed as he throttled up for a kamikaze run. Seeing him fly toward her, the woman raised her hand. The pilot’s last view was a huge manicured hand impacting his plane. The plane exploded harmlessly on the woman’s shield covered hand. “Commander I detect more incoming” one officer said. “Come let’s go into their city. We don’t have time to waste. We need to report in to HQ” she said walking off the beach.  They casually strolled off the beach not caring about who thy crushed under their boots. As they left, people could see the flattened bodies of victims in concrete caved in in the shape of their footsteps.

Because of their speed, they easily crossed the city in record time. As they walked, they could see that the word of their arrival hadn’t reached everyone.  One of the woman’s soldiers eyed a cute woman in her early 20’s drying herself off in her bathroom. She noticed something funny when the light from outside got dark.  She turned to see something round and blue. From her angle she couldn’t know it was his eye looking at the naked girl. He stepped back and reached into the window. The woman screamed seeing her window and wall crumble and giant fingers emerge from the broken brick and plaster. He dragged her out and smiled at her squirming naked form.  “MONSTER!” she screamed her captor. “Nice indeed. I’m going to have fun with your kind” he said evilly. The soldier began to molest the girl squeezing her tits between her fingers. When he massaged her clit with his finger, she moaned. “Please let me go” she sobbed between moans. His commander turned around hearing her soldier chuckling as his finger raped the girl. “We can play with the locals later. Right now we need to contact HQ. Now let’s go” she said sternly. The solder just shrugged and opened his mouth. “No...please no” she said to herself. She screamed as he pushed her naked body into his mouth. His lips cut off her scream and began to suck on her. She wailed in his mouth as she felt his tongue rubbing against her body. She felt it brush her ass and pussy. She tried moving but his massive palette just held her firm. He felt her tense up in his mouth and tasted something sweet. The poor girl came from his taste buds rubbing her clit. The soldier smiled and tilted his head back. The girl slid backward and tried to stop her descent but his tongue was too slick for her bare feet to hold on to. The soldier felt her hit the back of his mouth and with a large gulp, swallowed her whole.

They reached their goal as they approached the center of town. The military was hot on their heels. “Get the uplink ready” she told her officer. The officer pulled out a device the size of minivan and pushed a button on it. The device transformed into a small satellite dish with a holographic screen. “Connecting dimensional signal to HQ” he said monitoring the device. A minute later, a woman appeared on the screen. “Report commander Leila” the woman said. “Empress, we have secured emergence point alpha. We suspect continued resistance but their defenses are estimated to fall within the day” Leila said. “You haven’t fully secured it then of there is still resistance. Well, no matter. No world in history has been able to withstand the Ingress. Actually, I should congratulate you in finding this world. The reports coming in have been more than promising. You have done well. You’re only 19 and you’ve already distinguished yourself in the service of the empire. Secure your location completely and wait further instructions. Soon I will address these creatures on their fate” the Empress said. “By your command Empress” Leila said cutting communication. “Well you heard her. Prepare to engage hostiles and secure this city” she said. The soldiers readied their weapons and waited. They didn’t have to wait long, troop transports, helicopters and tanks began to surround them. The National Guard had been mobilized nearby and was awaiting fire support from Union ships. “Surrender and disarm you weapons!” one soldier shouted through a megaphone.  “Eliminate them” Leila said to her two soldiers. They began firing into the crowd of soldiers with their pistols killing scores of them every time a plasma bolt hit their ranks. The only saving grace was they felt no pain as they were vaporized by the intense heat of the plasma energy. The tanks and helicopter returned fire with rockets and laser cannons. They saw their weapons hitting them but to their dismay the only thing they did was create a cloud of smoke around their targets. They poured on fire until the entire street was choked with smoke. “Cease fire!” the commander ordered. “Did we get them?” he asked out loud. His answer came when a blue bot of plasma ripped out of the cloud hitting the tank next to him blowing it up instantly. Another blast, and another, and another poured out of the smoke wiping out tanks and infantry. A strong gust of wind exposed their invaders and the copters and surviving solders saw that they were unharmed. “My god, they must have some kind of shield” a copter pilot said before Leila aimed her pistol at the hovering annoyance and pulled the trigger. The fireball of the helicopter fell on 3rd street as the solders wondered what to do. “Fall back! Fall back!” one soldier yelled. The soldiers scattered like roaches and the 2 remaining helicopter fell back.

Meanwhile, the Hood and the Kusanagi were readying their guns on the three Ingress soldiers. “Captain, the surviving forces have pulled back. We are receiving GPS tracking and fire relay data from one of the helicopters” the fire control chief reported. “Understood, wait till you have clear line of sight to fire” the Captain ordered. The fire control chief watched through a zoomed image of Leila and her soldiers. They were hidden by two buildings but moved now and then. Then suddenly Leila stepped out in the clear. “Firing! FIRING!” he shouted pressing a button.

(Author’s Note: A railgun is similar to conventional cannon except it uses magnetic propulsion instead of an explosive primer to launch warheads)

 

The Kusanagi railgun fired its shot. The projectile streaked through the air at over Mach 10. The project moved so fast it heated the air around it causing a thunderclap as it moved. Even though the Union battleship was 10 miles off the coast, the round crossed the distance in a matter of seconds. Seconds that saved Leila. One of her officers walked in front of her tanking the round. It didn’t pierce his shield, but the kinetic energy was directed into him throwing him into a shopping mall two blocks away. His massive body fell dead center of the mall right through the roof. Scores of people were killed or crushed under his body or by the falling ceiling. Leila ran over to him. The soldier coughed up blood and gripped his chest. Leila took out a scanner and held it over him. She saw that his ribs her fractured and one had punctured a lung. The man was drowning in his own blood.  She took out her first aid kit and injected him in the neck with a syringe full of a strange metallic liquid. The man felt an intense pain shoot through his body and tried to move “Stay still. The nanomachines are repairing you injuries. It’ll take a while but you’ll live” she said to him. The man nodded while spitting blood. “Where the fuck did that shot come from?” she snarled to the other soldier. He opened his PDA and scanned the area. “The shot came from 13 units from our location. It appears it was a primitive railgun on a water craft that shot him” he reported. “Take out your rifle and switch to sniper mode” she ordered. He did as ordered and fitted a targeting scope to his rifle. Leila used hand gestures to motion him to take cover behind an apartment building. As the battleships waited for another shot, Leila and the solder peeked around the buildings and looked through the scope. “See them?” she asked. “Yes ma’am” he answered. “You take the one to the right and get the one on the left. Wait for the scope to adjust to the gravity, planet rotation, and motion of the target” she said. They waited till the cursor in the scope went red. “Locked” he said. “Fire” she ordered. They pulled the trigger and an intense beam of plasma shot from their rifles. Far more intense than their pistol shots, the plasma bolts shattered windows from the thunderclap of superheated air. The copter giving fire support strayed into the line of fire only to be vaporized in the shot. It only took 2 seconds for them to hit the ships. The shots ripped through their titanium hull armor like it was paper effectively cutting the ships in two.  The ships reactors overloaded from the catastrophic damage and two small flashes of light and mushroom clouds signaled the destruction of the Kusanagi and Hood; all 6,217 sailors lost.

Meanwhile in January City…

 

Aaron was waiting for his uncle to return. He had rushed off to get orders from his superiors. Aaron was told by him to stay behind in case any messages came from Earth. “I’m back” Luke said. “Well any word?” Aaron asked. “No, nobody can get through to Earth. The mayor and city council is gonna call an emergency meeting in an about an hour. We have to attend” he said.  An hour passed and Aaron and Luke followed the crowd of officials and officers to the large conference hall. As they sat down, they could hear people whispering. Many wondered if it was some new weapon or hoax. Others talked about alien invasion. “Can I have everyone’s attention? As you have heard, we have lost contact with Earth. The last thing we heard was giant beings appearing around the world. Now I want no one to jump to conclusions. We don’t have any evidence that this is an invasion or the work of aliens or anything like that. And above all, do…not…panic. We are contacting the other colonies to see if they have more information. In the meantime, I want everyone to do their jobs like it was any other day. Now let’s…wait what? Where’s it coming from?” the mayor asked his aide. All of a sudden, every screen and device capable of streaming video activated and showed a woman in her late 30’s looking at them.

“Greeting people of Earth. I am the empress of the Ingress. We are the ones that have come to your world. We have chosen your world for its rich resources and you will help us collect them. We are not a cruel race but we can be if you don’t cooperate.  Simply, you have two choices. Obey us and you can spend the rest of your days as slaves collecting metals, food, water, and various other things or you can chose to fight us and die horribly as some of your military have seen. We are benevolent enough that you may keep some semblance of life. You may shop for food or relax at designated times that are allowed, live with the one’s you chose are some examples. But, there will be changes to your society other than being slaves of course. First you will teach the approved programs in you schools and if you need to worship someone, you will worship me.  Your new life begins in 3 days. That is all” she said before the screens returned to normal.

The room erupted in a chaos of shouting and people trying to ask the mayor questions. The mayor just stood there too shocked to say anything.  “Mayor…mayor!” his aide shouted. The man snapped back to reality. “Everyone quiet! I need to contact the other colonies and get with our defense forces. Until then I have no further comments” the man said rushing out of the conference hall. Luke and Aaron just sat in their seats like the world just ended. “What do we do now?” Aaron asked Luke. “For now we do our job until we hear different” Luke said to him.

Chapter End Notes:

In the next chapter, we see Earth fighting back in full force and we learn more about the mysterious Ingress

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