UNITY

Chapter 10

Here it is, chapter 10! Hope you enjoy it! Just to give you a heads up, We'll be away from the main characters for this one.

The rocky areas of Utah, USA...

A convoy of US Army Humvees drove down a dirt path in the dust, coming upon some large rocks on both sides, the sun rising. In the lead one, was a driver in the front, and in the back was a black sergeant sitting in the right hand side, and a white Captain to the left with a five o'clock shadow and brown hair. They had just been listening to the broadcast over the vehicles radio, and the Sergeant and the Captain both looked at each other. "What do you make of it, sir?" The sergeant asked, the captain looking downwards at the radio again. "I don't know. It could be a fake, but... somehow, I feel it's genuine." The captain spoke as he looked ahead. A second later, as they came in between the rocks a blast appeared from the right, shooting into the road in front of them, causing the driver to slam the brakes and steer to the left a bit, the other vehicles stopping and turning left or right in the confusion. The captain opened his door and got out, looking at the blast, along with several other men from the others. "What the hell?" He asked in confusion as the sounds of a planes jets began to be heard. "Captain Harry!" He heard one of the men yell out, so he looked over his left shoulder and saw a soldier pointing out his right hand out to the right, so he looked in that direction to see a black object coming towards, the sounds getting louder, the rest of the them quickly getting out of their vehicles looking in the direction.

After a few seconds, the object came upon them and revealed itself to be an aircraft of some kind, appearing to reduce speed as it came upon them, saying right over them, the dark grey machine having a pointed front, a thin fuselage with swept/swing wings with a set of three stacked engines  at the end of it, and a T tail. All eyes upon the the machine, its shadow casting down on them as it just moved past them, then turned leftwards around to move towards the rocks of the right hand side, the soldiers watching as two rockets fired in the middle of the wings, as the vehicle stopped and began to settle down on the ground. Silence filled the area after that as the soldiers looked at each other, unsure but knew that machine wasn't one of theirs, then some looked the captain as the sergeant came around from the other side of the vehicle, on the captains left. "Orders, sir?" He asked, the captain then looked downwards then at him, then around. "Arms yourselves! Eyes peeled!" He ordered, as the soldiers held up their guns, some scrambling back to the vehicles to get theirs, and soon they were all armed, standing in a rough line in front of the convoy, gripping their weapons and scanning the rocks in front of them. Heart beats rose, breath intensified as the wind blew the dust around. The soldier who pointed out the vehicle to the captain looked ahead, when something caught his eye. A small bit of movement atop the large rocks on his front left, his eyes widening when suddenly something poked out from the rocks  a laser shot out instantly, hitting the man dead centre, making him fall down onto the ground. The rest of the soldiers reacted, looking at the body, two shooting in the area when suddenly, in the rocks before them three dozen figures emerged at the top of the rocks, shooting laser blasts at them, the soldiers all now seeing them and firing at them. "Call for reinforcements!" The captain yelled out as he fired his gun, the sergeant holding a field radio in his hands, yelling out information.

The figures, concealing in smooth pebble and ask black body suits/armour, a smooth bulge on their backs, standing on two legs with a tail, long poking mask front, holding grey guns in their hands, started walking slowly down the rocks, killing the men off one by one with precise aims. The captain noticed this and saw they were out in the open. "Take cover Behind the Humvees!" He yelled out as the men ran back to the vehicles and ducked behind them, shooting over the hoods and past the rears sides. The captain poked his head past the rear of the vehicle he did behind, the sergeant on his left side, listing to the radio. "They sending aircraft to us, eta 3 minutes!" The sergeant yelled out as The captain poked his gun out with his left hand, aimed clearly at the nearest figure he could see and let out a hailstorm of bullets. As he saw the bullets impact, he saw distortion and sparks, but no damage to the figures. "Shit, They have shields!" He yelled out in realisation. One of the figures suddenly stepped forwards a bit, before one of lead vehicles, holding a different weapon, and from it, hot blue flame bursted from it, bathing the vehicle (the rest of the men could feel the heat from where they stood) the two soldiers who were behind it, their screams barely lasting a moment, their legs falling down, the rest of the bodies gone. A few seconds later, the flames stopped, the vehicle now nothing but a lump of molten metal, all their eyes looking at it in silence which lasted for a few moments, but the laser fire rumbled, breaking them out of their gaze and they resumed firing to no effect. "They're almost here!" The sergeant yelled out, having just listened to the radio. "Smoke the targets!" The captain yelled out, before he then grabbed a smoke grenade from his belt, pulled the pin and threw it with his left hand, the grenade landing among the figures, giving off yellow smoke, three more following. But one of the figures looked at one of the grenades and blasted it, another stomping its right foot on it, another just starting at it, before he then looked around, and in his helmet headset, the view detected the incoming fighter jets, zooming in on it and showed them clearly heading straight towards them. "Fixed wing aircraft incoming! All groups, shield formation!" The figure ordered in their alien language, the others instantly ceasing their fire and ran into and area near the rocks. Four of them stood in the centre while four sat down on the ground before them, left arms held in front of their chests, three fingered hands in fists, as three more got behind the two at the end, two more getting into the rear, four more standing behind them, on all sides, pressing a button with their left hands, a black angled shield forming from the outward side of their arms, the top four holding their right arms above their heads, the shields all linking to form a pyramid.