ALIENS: VOYAGE IN TIME (BOOK ONE) Page 20

I started writing this Alien Fan Fiction (I am a huge Alien fan) back in the early 1990s. I have been updating it. The premise of the story is what if Aliens, Colonial Marines, and the 19th century were to meet?

RECAP [“Gilmore spins around and falls on his back. Within seconds his body is overrun by aliens and quickly torn apart.  Body parts are flinging everywhere as blood explodes all around.  From the fort, muskets begin to”]

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fire and cannons to erupt, lighting up the once peaceful darkness.  The cannons strikes a group of aliens making their way near the entrance of the fort. The aliens’ lethal blood spins and shoots through the night air, striking the fortress’ gates.

          The aliens that do make it through the bombardment storm the fortress’ gates, screeching and howling. From over the tops of the forest trees, flying alien swoop overhead. A few are shot down by cannon fire; their bodies, flaming brightly, fall to the earth.  The surviving flyers dive down on the soldiers manning the cannons, gutting them with their sharp tails.

          Everywhere is the sickening sound of pain and suffering.

“Lt. Thomas, sound the retreat!” Captain Kilroy hollers, firing his musket at the invading aliens.

“Yes, Captain!” The Lt. raises his bugle to sound the retreat, but suddenly from overhead an alien pounces on him. Severed by a swift swing of the alien’s deadly tail, the Lt.’s head falls to the ground; his knees buckle and he lands, chest first, onto the hard ground.

Captain Kilroy watches, as his first mate slowly dies, a pool of freshly drawn blood all around him; he raises his musket at the alien and fires it at the monster’s head.  The alien is sent back a couple steps, shakes his head and opens his mouth, exposing four shiny rows of razor sharp teeth.

“What in blazes are you?” Kilroy questions the creature.

From behind Kilroy another alien appears; unmercifully it sends its flipper like claws upward and into captain’s body, splicing the man into three parts.

Although the Lt. had never got the chance to sound the retreat, the soldiers in the outpost begging to fall back into defensive units, pointing their muskets at the charging aliens.

“Fire at will, men!” The remaining leader, Corporal Higgins cries out.

to be continued….