Premonition 2: The Battle for Earth

Chapter #1: Family Man

Security had always been lax at Fox’s office. Always. However, Fox still trusted his employees to keep him safe.  Following the betrayal of the Mecha Warriors, Fox even doubled the amount of security police detail that was normally assigned to him. It was to his surprise then, that a man who looked like his janitor, was standing in front of him with a gun. Either all his security was slacking, or this man was a master of disguise. Fox chose to air on the side of positivity and believed this man was indeed a master of disguise.

Keeping his hands raised and his body as still as possible, Fox tried to stall for as much time as he could.

“You’re taking a risk coming in here today my friend,” Fox lied. “There’s more security outside my office…”

“Don’t pretend like you have control of the situation President,” scoffed William. “You will be following my orders from here on out.” Fox lamented to himself, and tried a different approach.

“Look, if its money you want, I can give it too you…” Fox said as he lowered his hands and tried to reach for his desk drawer.

“Don’t move!” William said as he c****d the gun. “One more step and you’ll have a bullet in your arm.” Fox startled at this, and remained still again. Perhaps he could stall long enough for someone else to enter his office and help him.

“Clearly, you don’t want to kill me….as you’d have done so already. What is it you want from me? You mentioned you belong to Zeta society…are you the leader?” Fox said.

“You have a keen perception President…no, I do not want to kill you….yet. Our leader has other plans for you in the meantime,” William said.

“What is his name?” Fox said.

“In time President, you shall know in time,” William said as he walked up to Fox’s desk and looked at a picture of his family. “In the meantime, I would like to know more about your family.” Fox all of sudden looked super defensive and bore a scowl. How dare this man try to threaten his family.

“You’ll have know answer from me, I’d rather die than sacrifice my family,” Fox said. William, who now close to Fox, held the gun right in Fox’s face.

“You will give me their location, or I can start gunning down everyone who’s still in your office,” William said coldly. Fox was hoping the situation wouldn’t come to that – unfortunately he was wrong. Fox remained silent and William very easily began walking to the door of the office. “Last chance, Fox.” Finally yielding, Fox granted him the location of his family – he would not have dead employees on his conscience.

“You gotten what you’ve wanted, just please don’t kill my employees or my family,” Fox began pleading.

“We shall see Fox. If it needs to come to that, then so be it,” William said. “Now, order everyone out of the building. Now.” Fox obliged and went on intercom, ordering everyone out of the building. Several minutes later, when William was sure it was just Fox and himself, he grabbed Fox by the wrists, bound him with zip ties, and ordered him to take the back exit of the building. As they exited, William instructed Fox to enter a van, and it consequently drove off.

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“Where are we?” Fox asked. The van had dropped them off near some tunnels, leading under the general surface of Mecha Station. William did not answer, but pushed his gun into Fox’s back to indicate to keep moving. After about an hour of walking they came up upon a spacious underground cavern, that was most likely for sewage. Many other people noticed William and greeted him while giving Fox a scowl. It was at this, that Fox noticed his family in small corner of the cavern.

“Join them Fox,” William said. Fox obliged and hugged and assured his family that everything would be ok. Getting in front of them now, in a protective position, he spoke to William.

“Just what is the goal of the Zeta society?” Fox asked.

“Only because things are going according to plan will I tell you. We seek to invade earth. However, we cannot bypass earth’s defenses without the power of NX7. We have taken control of the light levels building as well as the NX7 holding facility on the station. Our hope is to manufacture more purer NX7 and distribute it among our members. Only then can we hope to repay earth for what they have done to us..”

“Just what did earth do to you all?” Fox asked again.

“A story for another time Fox. Enjoy the time you have with your family, it may be the last hours you have left with them,” William said as he walked away and began talking into his communicator. “William here, I have Fox, send word to Stryker….”