Evgeniy Shmigirilov - Super Queen-Mother. Book II. Life or Death Страница 2

They were transferring their firm belief in her victory and in their general strength to Super Queen-Mother as a gift. She was their LAST HOPE for their life.

Super Queen-Mother bowed to the people, and they bowed to her. The next moment, she disappeared. The squares resounded with alarm bells and drumbeats.

Chapter 3

The hall of the Earth Keepers was filled with bright sun beams and birds’ singing.

Flowers were growing all around Super Queen-Mother, waterfalls were jetting here and there.

Numerous animals were peacefully grazing off in open areas.

Motley birds and butterflies were flying and fluttering on the screen.

People were walking in the parks, moms were sitting on the benches, and their kids were playing in sandboxes. Seas were full of fish.

Plants covered the most part of Earth.

The variety of shapes and colors was surprising.

Life was in full swing even in deserts, lifeless at first sight. Small animals, reptiles and insects animated endless sand dunes.

This beauty of Earth was shown to her as a reminder of what she would be fighting for.

The voice of the Earth Keepers said:

«It is time. We won’t say „farewell“. We believe in you. Come back. The Galaxy’s spaceships are here to take you.»

Super Queen-Mother came up to her diamond bed and stopped. Her live body was lying quietly, as if it was sleeping.

Super Queen-Mother left her combat body for a moment and entered her live body.

Having opened her eyes, she saw herself, near the bed. Super Queen-Mother said:

«I do not say «goodbye». I will come back by all means. Wait for me!», and, having left her live body, came into her combat double. This time she really said goodbye». Super Queen-Mother looked over the Earth Keepers’ hall once more and left it. The rock closed behind her, and the big adjacent room quickly filled with water. Water muscles enveloped her body; part of the rock went aside and let her out into the waste of waters.

In a minute, Super Queen-Mother was already swimming in the sea, calling for her friend to come. Having looked back, she saw the dolphin nearly flying to her on wave ridges.

It stopped sharply and pressed its body against Super Queen-Mother. Then not turning off, it started swirling around her. It understood why she had called it and was trying to tell something to Super Queen-Mother.

We don’t understand dolphins yet, but Super Queen-Mother felt the meaning: they were the words of support to her. It was enough for her.

If she received something from the dolphin, very important to her and to it, she was very grateful. May be, sometime in the future, she would understand it. Super Queen-Mother embraced the animal, kept it in her arms for a while, and swam to the shore.

At the road turn she looked back – the dolphin was not far from the shore. It was swimming there until she disappeared at the turn.

Her parents were waiting for her at home. Her mother kept silence and fixed her eyes on her daughter, and her father said only two phrases: «You’ll be back. You’ll be back, whatever it might cost you».

Super Queen-Mother went up to the veranda and looked at the bay. It seemed everything was as before – the motion of the waves, and the lights of dwellings. Cars were rushing along the highway; a regular train was coming up to the station, warning careless passengers about arrival with its whistle.

Only birds’ singing and grasshoppers’ chirring were not heard any more. Super Queen-Mother understood the reason for such behavior.

A yellowish-waxen tint colored the surroundings. This confirmed the Earth Keepers’ words.

They were here already.

Suddenly four round spaceships appeared above the bay. They were slowly flying towards her house.

Super Queen-Mother went down, closed the dogs in the house and came into the yard. The dogs also felt the presence of something incomprehensible and started barking all together.

Three ships formed a triangle, and the fourth one, in the middle, began to slowly go down to the terrace.

Their external lights slightly illuminated the whole slope.

Silence settled all around. Cars and people stopped. From time to time a dry electric crackling was heard. Many-colored flashes went over the sea and the mountains, surrounding the house.

One more moment and Super Queen-Mother was pulled inside the ship on a light lift. The next moment her ship disappeared in the vast cosmic space.

The other ships disappeared after it…

Thousands of position-radar stations tried to detect where she ships had gone, but failed. Deep space did not want to share its mysteries…

Nobody knew how long the battle would last.

The work of all ground services reached its heights.

Shelters were being filled with people, water, food and other things, indispensable to life.

The military arrived at their positions and put their machinery on an alert, not paying much attention to their personal comfort.

Thousands of position-radar stations targeted their antennas into space, carefully listening out to what was happening far from Earth.

Space battle stations and orbit satellites were turned to space. The astronauts were defending not just their ship or country; they were protecting the whole Earth – their common house.

They had no enemies on Earth now, but got many new friends. The whole Earth became their safe guard. In case of trouble, they could rely only on each other.

All orbit stations and satellites were transferred to manual actuation. They became directly subordinated to astronauts. The Department of Military Cosmic Alignments on Earth reserved the right to assist and control.

Astronauts got all the codes to use the weapons. There were no previous events in the history of the sixth civilization on Earth when such enormous power was concentrated in several hands.

Dark secrets that countries had kept for a long time, opened now.

Orbit stations and satellites were only shells hiding weapons inside them. Dozens of the most powerful thermonuclear bombs, nuclear-pumped lasers were turned off from Earth and directed into space, ready for actuation.

Military cosmic alignments formed the first safety layer of the Earth planet.

Millions of people were looking into the sky through their telescopes, and even binoculars.

Religious services never stopped – one followed after another.

Hundreds of millions of people did not leave squares, united by one goal – to help Super Queen-Mother to win.

Chapter 4

3D images of the external world sheltered the space cabin. They were around the whole spaceship.

In the middle of the cabin were two armchairs. One of them was very big; the other was a usual one, as in a good office.

The lights on the big armchair switched on, and Super Queen-Mother sat in it. The 3D views made an impression that there was no ship at all, as if her armchair were hanging in space.

Super Queen —Mother was watching as below the roof of the house and «dog ground» were slowly moving away from her. Then she saw her town, which was quickly becoming smaller and smaller.

Suddenly, the armchair tightly enveloped her body. Thousands of cold suction cups stuck to it, and the ship sharply picked up the speed.

She could judge about this from the space view: flat, as it was seemed from Earth, it was becoming extensional. All stars were becoming stretched and thinner, turning into light lines. She did not hear the noise of the engine unit, but felt the vibration of the ship’s corpus.

She felt as if she had jumped into a cold swimming pool after the steam room in a bath house.

Soon after the start – or it seemed so to her – the process of the spaceship speed-up reversed, and the deceleration began. The spaceship speed decreased, and, in a far, Super Queen-Mother saw a huge planet, nearing her.

There were no other planets near it. It was a lonely wanderer of the Galaxy. Being unremarkable, it was chosen to take part in decision making on Earth’s fate.

It suddenly struck Super Queen-Mother that she was not afraid of the battle; she was more curious than frightened. She at once pulled herself up:

«Notice and analyze everything. They did not invite you for a cup of tea…»

Super Queen-Mother shook her head and switched attention to what was happening around her.

Suction cups fell off from her and went into the armchair. It recovered itself and switched off its lights; the small armchair became lit.

Super Queen-Mother sat into it.

She saw a lever in front of her, like the one for computer games. She understood it was a manual guidance of the ship to bring it to the landing point at a low speed.

The landing point lightened on the 3D map of the planet surface, and Super Queen-Mother directed the ship to it.

The spaceship was easily controlled and readily obeyed all directions of Super Queen-Mother. At the planet’s surface it stopped.

She got up from the armchair and came into the light circle on the ship’s floor. The light lift instantly brought Super Queen-Mother to the surface of the unknown planet, which had to become the place of the mortal battle.

Super Queen-Mother saw that her spaceship had disappeared. The three escort spaceships had also vanished.

The lighted path was leading to a tunnel cut through the rock. Super Queen-Mother looked back and decisively went ahead.

The wide and tall tunnel was not long – in the distance a light was seen. Its walls were trimmed up with metallic silver tiles, very small, looking like large fish scales.

The appearance of the yellowish-waxen picture got Super Queen-Mother’s attention. She came into the tunnel and took some steps.

The «fish scales» revived, coming down to her and baring the dark walls of the tunnel. Keeping on walking, Super Queen-Mother sent a high voltage discharge at the insects around her. Lightning bolts came off her one after another, everything around was sparkling and crackling.

The insects fell on the floor, heated to bright crimson color, and then burst, like sunflower seeds. With her every step there were more and more killed insects. They crackled under the soles of Super Queen-Mother.

«So, this is your way to say «hello», she thought. «Then, this is my warm greeting to you.»

Her energy blow evaporated the mountain together with the tunnel.

Only the light path left, on which Super Queen-Mother was walking in a measured tread, not slowing down. The remainder of the energy she had produced flew away into space.

Instantly, several dozens of spaceships appeared above her. Super Queen-Mother looked up and smiled:

«Now you’ve done everything right. You have to stand up when a woman comes in. Or weren’t you taught to do this in your childhood? Now I have to teach you to respect a woman.»

Having walked a bit farther, she paid attention to numerous spaceships beneath, to the right and to the left of the light path.

The ship, she had arrived in, was also there. Super Queen-Mother recognized it at once. It was just a relief for her, as if she had met an old acquaintance.

Just in case, Super Queen-Mother remembered its location, and, at the same time, viewed the surrounding landscape.

At a distance, very high mountains were seen. Endless, rough stony fields, set with boulders of different sizes, spread before them. Small, flat stone chippings dominated the landscape.

The atmosphere resembled the one on Earth in its composition. She did not see any seas, lakes or rivers. There were no plants or animals either.

«Maybe, the territory had been cleared off for the battle», she thought.

Super Queen-Mother knew that millions of eyes of all the inhabitants of the whole Galaxy were examining her.

She was walking with her head up, vigorously stepping on the lighted path, down the ridge of a small hill.

Super Queen-Mother switched on all her abilities and skills at full. She was preparing herself for a battle, a mortal battle.

There were only her enemies around her. There would be no mercy from them for her and for her civilization. But, could it happen that they would reverse roles? Everything was possible.

Super Queen-Mother was waiting for an internal impulse, when all her strength, abilities and possibilities would join into one whole.

And this happened. Super Queen-Mother not only felt as a beast, she became a beast.

Her soul and body were compelled to solve only one task. It was a difficult task – to save the life of her civilization.

She did not know what was in store for her, but the state of a nervous strain abated.

A real Super Queen-Mother was walking down the stream – a composed, unpredictable and deadly fighter.

There was only one most important thing in the surrounding world – the life of her civilization. Let the rest of the galaxy defend itself on its own.

At the end of the descent Super Queen-Mother ran into a stripe of dense fog, but the light path was still visible. She was not in it for long. The fog border ended abruptly, and she found herself on the stadium field.

Chapter 5

Super Queen-Mother carefully looked around.

She was in the middle of the stadium, but there were no stands around it.

All judges were hanging in the air, one above another, forming a triple level ring around the stadium.

Everybody had a piece of the map of the Galaxy «Milky Way» above him; the planet, he had arrived from, was lit on it.

Super Queen-Mother lifted her head up – there was also a piece of the general map of the Galaxy above her, with the shining Earth planet on it.

She reduced her weight to zero, rose above the field, slowly turning around with her whole body, and surveyed all of them.

Their looks varied: curious and business-like; some were indifferent, but there were also glares full of hatred.

Judging from these looks, she instantly defined the degree of danger.

She did not care what looks they had. If she had such an opportunity, she would have torn off them all, without fear or regret.

The appearances of the representatives of the Galaxy were also different:

– They were short and very tall;

– Some had suckers all over their bodies, as on an octopus’s feelers;

– The bodies of some of them were quite hairy; the others had no hair at all;

– Some were twinkling in the dusk, and some were quite transparent, as if filled with water;

– They were of different colors – red, blue, yellow, white, purple, black, and others;

– Some had huge heads and eyes, but small bodies;

– Some looked like elongated flames of cold plasma;

– Others resembled dense fog, taking different shapes.

«On Earth we call such creatures ghosts», thought Super Queen-Mother.

– Some looked like big smooth stones, moving by over rolling;

– From afar, some judges resembled plants of different shapes, colors, but in a state of flux;

– Many of them looked like earthly lizards or insects;

– There were also quite exotic species – spiraling saucers, pulsating balls, and the bundles of energy, changing their colors.