Alien Apocalypse: Payback
By Dean Giles
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In this gripping conclusion to the Alien Apocalypse Series, Payback, Leon must call on his fledgling leadership abilities to convince a band of survivors to follow him on a suicidal mission to destroy the alien mind that has taken over the planet. However, the alien has evolved. It has learned new ways to capture humans for its consumption and strikes first, kidnapping the survivors, including Leon’s son, Elliott. Left with an ill-tempered redhead and a shifty bruiser to help him free the captives, Leon goes on the offensive but soon discovers the alien is more resourceful than he’d ever imagined. His success or failure will determine the future of mankind’s place on this earth, either master of all things or an entrée for the alien’s insatiable palette.
Dean Giles
Dean lives with his wife and two young children in Surrey, UK. He owns a business jointly with his father, developing and manufacturing fibre optic components and instruments for the telecommunications, sensing, and data industries. His day job consists largely of shining light through fragile glass fibres, and trying to glue very small things to even smaller things.Dean is a 2nd Dan Black Belt in Kickboxing and has won national and international titles in the sport. In 2003 he spent a few months living and training at a Shaolin Kung Fu academy in Northern China.Dean writes science fiction and horror, and his short stories have appeared in webzines in the UK and US. A love of reading, gaming, and watching SF/F has given him the motivation to put his ideas onto paper.
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Alien Apocalypse - Dean Giles
Alien Apocalypse - Payback
By
Dean Giles
Copyright by Dean Giles 2014
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The M-25 motorway stretched before me. Piles of abandoned vehicles lay ruined on either side of the road. Their red, white, black and blue paint jobs were dented and rusted when bulldozer-sized plows had smashed them aside like rubbish. I wondered if creating walls of debris was Blackbeard’s intention when he cleared the motorway, a further barrier against the encroaching acid-moss. Or was his interest simply in domination over the survivors he found?
I could see where the moss had burned through windscreens and wing-mirrors, eaten holes in the steel, and dissolved tyres, now dripping green acid onto the hot asphalt.
How long before the moss finds a way to knit itself together across the roads? How long can we really hope to survive in this alien’s environment?
These were the questions that repeated in my mind, questions I dared not voice to the others. Isabel, Harry, and Elliott trudged forward in front of me, feet scuffling on the blacktop, eyes constantly scanning the area for unwanted company, both human and alien alike.
Sweat leaked into my eyes. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d taken a shower. My oil-soaked clothes and skin reeked, but without coating ourselves with the slime, the moss would’ve already eaten us.
Elliott turned around but kept walking, backwards. How long before we reach the refinery, Dad?
I looked at him. Cheekbones cut with sharp edges defined my boy's expression. All the horror he'd seen had subtly told its story through his dark, unblinking eyes. Not the face that belonged to a twelve-year-old, at least not in the old world. He held the oil-sprayer nozzle at his side. The hose ran up to his fire-fighter backpack and its pressurized canister of oil, our only defence against the moss. He never once complained about carrying that much weight on his back.
We're about six miles out, should make it before dark.
Through all of this, I still had Elliott, and for that, I felt blessed. Harry had lost an arm to Blackbeard. Isabel was a replicate of her former self, thanks to the alien. Just the same, they too were blessed, happy to be alive. Elliott had grown from a boy to a young man, the hard way. I smiled.
His lips lifted in reply, tearing down some of the hardness in his face. I’m hungry.
A hint of the child behind his oily mask.
I stepped up to him and ruffled his hair but stopped short of telling him everything was going be okay. I could only hope the people at the refinery had food to spare.
My task was simple, in theory, but practically impossible in execution. I’d have to convince the refinery people to help me fight the alien. In order to do that, they would probably die, and of course, they’d have to hand over their oil reserves to the cause. That was the only thing protecting them from the invading moss.
I didn’t even have a detailed plan how we might use all that oil to kill the alien creature. One step at a time. Get the oil first. The refinery was our only hope. And those people needed to be told about the supposed safe