Skeleton Wars (4 page)

The extermination of the two artillery teams
signified to the army that no CIA officer was still surviving
inside the wind. Plans to destroy the whole headquarters had to be
devised in order to kill the skeletons before they could move on to
another area.

A B-52 stealth bomber from Otis Air National
Guard Base in Massachusetts arrived at the scene with an order to
bomb down the whole complex. The first bomb it dropped was directly
targeted at the New Headquarters Building but it did not reach the
ground. It collided with the huge chunks of debris that were
floating in the wind which caused it to explode before reaching the
building.

After the failure of the first one, the
bomber dropped two more bombs in succession. Although they did not
explode from within the wind, they still did not reach any of the
buildings. Instead, the wind captured them and forced them to float
within it just like the other debris. One minute later, they were
released by the centripetal forces of the wind into the
surrounding. One fell on GW Parkway while the other fell in a
nearby town. Both of them exploded upon landing on the ground,
causing many casualties and serious injuries to the civilians and
the troops.

The military was left with no other option
apart from watching from a distance! The wind was by then spinning
at a greater speed than before. It was constantly dissipating
metallic splinters in the neighborhood. All the cars that were in
the CIA parking were broken down and their parts added to the
splinters the wind was blowing away. Some of the small cars were
completely lifted up and then thrown on the troop concentrations on
the highway.

After occupying the headquarters for two
hours, the wind started compressing dramatically and reduced its
area of coverage. As it compressed, its strength kept on
increasing. It leveled all the buildings and swept their
foundations completely clean. It then shredded the rubble into
smaller pieces before scattering them in different directions. When
it reached the size of two football pitches, it gathered the
remaining debris into one huge pile at its center. It blew them up
at an upward velocity of 5m/s. They reached as high as 1500 feet
off the ground and by the time they started falling back, the
whirlwind had already left the campus.

When leaving, it moved at a peak speed of
300m/h. From the campus it headed towards the agency’s southern
main entrance on State Route 123. It avoided the State Route’s
interchange with GW Parkway by moving eastwards to Old Keene Mill
Road, and descended back into Potomac Valley. The wind then fizzled
and dissipated into the river. It emptied all the piles of debris,
leaves and dust in the river which caused temporary obstruction of
the water flow in the river.

On its way from the agency to the river, the
wind ripped off pavements of asphalt from the two roads and blew
them hundreds of yards away. All what was left were numerous
trenches of over two feet deep which it had dug in both highways.
All the cars that had been abandoned on SR 123 were piled up on
each other while the small ones were blown away. The F-15s had
managed to chase the wind and were in good positions above it but
were restrained from shooting into it for fear of repeating the
incident that had occurred at Langley.

Immediately after disappearing into the
river, seven F-15 fighters were assigned a Combat Air Patrol
mission above the river and nearby areas. Three of them were flying
above the whole extent of the river, two over the Chesapeake Bay
and the other two above the Atlantic Ocean but closer to the coast
of Virginia. The fighters were stationed in nearly low altitude and
were flying tactical patterns around their positions whilst
carefully screening the areas, in search of the alien attackers
that they were expecting to rise out of the water very soon.

Unlike in the Atlantic Ocean, It had been a
different incident for the small aircraft as it was entering the
Pacific Ocean. There had been a fleet of three fishing vessels in
the same area where the aircraft had planned to enter the water
body from. The ships were probably returning with their catch to
the Siuslaw Port in the state of Oregon. The aircraft did not
reduce its speed and ended up colliding with the ship that was in
the middle of the fleet. Due to its great speed, the impact was so
strong that it caused the ship to wreck into pieces at once. The
aircraft however did not receive any damage because of the strength
of the alloy which the ghosts had used to build its body. It
instead moved up to the floor of the ocean and settled there.

Even when the aircraft disappeared beneath
the water surface, the water on the surface continued churning
violently without stopping which prevented the other two ships from
escaping. They were completely covered by the series of high water
tides that developed and ended up colliding with each other. All
the crew on board got no chance to escape. All of them perished
with their sinking ships.

I was when the aircraft settled at the bottom
of the ocean that the hackers had started controlling the jamming
instrument which their colleagues had placed in one of the
buildings at Langley. They successfully hacked into the computer
systems at the headquarters. They pilfered all the information that
was on the electric brain and stored it on the storage devices they
had carried along.

Throughout their stay at the floor of the
ocean, the water at the surface never settled at all. When the
water tides faded away, a violent whirlwind formed above the ocean
surface in the same area. This caused the water to start spinning
like a cyclone. The inward spiraling vortex of the wind was however
unlike that of usual cyclones that rotate only in counterclockwise
direction in the Northern Hemisphere. This cyclone could spin in
both directions. It would rotate in a counterclockwise direction
for some time and would then abruptly change to a clockwise
rotation. It kept on changing like this over and over again.

For every moment that it changed the pattern
of rotation, huge volumes of water would be displaced to the coast
of Florence town. Some of this water was driven by the wind back
into the Siuslaw River and reached as far as the Siuslaw Bridge.
The wind ripped part of the bridge from its mount, tossed it up in
the air and then dropped it into the river which carried it to the
ocean.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration Center was receiving numerous reports about the
unusual phenomenon that was occurring on the Pacific Ocean but it
could not trace it with its satellite earth imaging systems. When
several witnesses who had seen the UFO colliding with the vessels
reported to NOAA, it was prompted to seek military
intervention.

NOAA contacted the US Pacific Command
Headquarters at Pearl Harbor Naval Base for help. USS Stockdale, a
guided missile destroyer from the command center was sent to the
scene to verify the claims. However, it was forced to keep a
distance away because it could not ride the turbulent waters it
found. Even its helicopters had to remain on deck lest they could
be damaged by the strong whirlwind that was blowing over the
water.

When the triangular aircraft was about to
rise from the depth of the ocean, the cyclone disappeared for some
minutes. A search for the bodies of the fishermen and wreckages
from their ships was started immediately. USS Stockdale had to move
closer to help in this operation. The rescuers were joined by teams
from the US Coastguards and Marines. Dozens of civilians also
thronged the coast to help the police pick up the ship wreckages
that were being washed ashore by the tides.

Another team of frogmen who were also
attached to the US Coastguards dived into the ocean to find out
whether the said UFO was on the ocean floor. However, the divers
had only spent twenty seconds in the water when the ocean was
mysteriously driven back for a distance of quarter a mile. This
resulted into recession of the shoreline and the exposure of the
normally submerged parts of the ocean. The wreckages of the ships
that had been scattered on the exposed shoreline attracted the
policemen and civilians to move forwards from the coast to pick
them.

Ten seconds later, a strong wind mysteriously
forced its way out of the water body at once. It lifted all the
divers from beneath the water surface and threw them up in the air!
Stockdale quickly sensed danger and rushed away from the scene at a
fast speed of 35 knots! It only stopped after reaching two miles
away, where the water was still calm. The policemen and civilians
also tried to run back to the coast but failed. Before they could
reach the dry land, the ocean recoiled with redoubled force, in a
tsunami-like style. The smashing force of the wall of water that
travelled to the coast knocked them down. All of them drowned and
were carried away by the water as it returned to the ocean.

The wind quickly turned into a whirlwind
which caused another cyclone to develop over the ocean. This
swirling wind started lifting a dome of water which turned into an
unusual waterspout. The waterspout kept on increasing in height but
was stationary in one place. The funnel of this vortex was blue in
color and was even visible from a distance two river miles away.
Its diameter was however large enough to cover the UFO which was
rising through it.

The crew on Stockdale guessed right that the
aircraft was rising through the funnel and thus fired two harpoon
missiles into it. They had targeted the middle of the funnel where
a bulge was, but the two missiles exploded midway. A hot laser beam
produced by the aircraft cut through their skins which caused them
to explode and fall into the ocean before they could reach it. The
explosion of the missiles was followed by multiple failure in the
control and weapon systems of the destroyer, preventing it from
firing more missiles at the rising aircraft.

The life span of the waterspout was
short-lived because as soon as the aircraft emerged out of its
funnel, it dissipated abruptly. Even the whirlwind that was blowing
over the ocean lost strength which caused the cyclone to disappear.
It was then that the destroyer regained control over its systems
and managed to move closer to help in the intensive search and
rescue mission that followed.

The small aircraft ascended back into space
before the medium-sized aircraft. This was because the skeleton
warriors from Langley had to first swim the whole distance from the
river up to the Atlantic Ocean. Their hideout in the Atlantic Ocean
was however never found out by the US Military because it had
concentrated much of its efforts on the river. They thought that
the skeletons had stationed their second aircraft in the Potomac
River because it’s where the whirlwind from Langley had been seen
disappearing from.

But unlike in the Pacific Ocean where the
skeletons had used a cyclone to shield themselves from human
interference, the water in the Atlantic Ocean remained calm even
when the aircraft was rising. There was neither a whirlwind nor a
cyclone that developed but the aircraft relied on its speed to
evade man’s interception.

The F-15 fighter that was patrolling over the
Ocean noticed the aircraft in time but the UFO attacked it before
it could respond. The UFO produced a hot laser beam which cut
through the fighter’s fuselage and caused it to go out of control
from its pilot. The lucky pilot however managed to escape by
ejecting moments before the plane crash landed into the ocean. But
before crashing, it had managed to notify the two fighters that
were patrolling the Chesapeake Bay about the UFO. These two
fighters tried to chase the UFO by flying supersonically after it,
but they were out competed by the triangular aircraft which was
flying hypersonically.

In the hours that followed, the Governor of
Virginia declared a state of emergency in Fairfax County. A massive
search and rescue mission was launched by the Federal Government
and volunteers in all areas that had been hit by the whirlwind and
floods in McLean and Florence towns respectively.

At the CIA Headquarters, a special team from
the US military started combing through the rubble in search for
both digital and hard paper copies of classified documents that had
been scattered over the area. No member of the general public could
be allowed to reach the site because the documents were still
considered ‘classified.’ The hard copy documents were packed and
loaded on military trucks which drove them to Pentagon for
temporary storage.

No CIA agent had managed to survive the
tragedy. Their sliced body parts that were being removed from the
rubble were wrapped in body bags and then driven away by police
ambulances. They were taken to different hospitals for DNA testing
in order to establish their identities before they were buried in
honor in different military cemeteries. Most of the trees at the
perimeter had been uprooted and broken into pieces by the wind.
Those that had survived were left completely devoid of leaves and
branches.

Initially, a handful of dead bodies were
found in the other areas where the wind had passed, but in the days
that followed, many were found buried in the rubble and many others
were pulled out of the Pacific Ocean. By the fifth day, the death
toll had reached five thousands, with two thousands estimated to
have died at Langley only. According to the experts, the energy
that had been released by the whirlwind at the CIA headquarters
only was estimated to have been more than two hundred Hiroshima
atomic bombs combined.

The US Secretary of Defense, Dick Murphy
hastily organized a press conference in which he expressed his
worry about the future of the planet. “Alarm bells are ringing for
the whole world. An attack on earth from extraterrestrials may be
imminent. We should be ready to put aside all our political
differences if we are to preserve our dignity as humans. I would
like to assure the world that the US Armed Forces shall always be
committed to preserving the sanctity of humanity by all means
.........., " he said.