Skeleton Wars (3 page)

“Our interests there are the CIA World
Factbook and the CIA electric brain called WALNUT. The electric
brain stores and retrieves countless information about every major
topic that takes place on earth on a daily basis. This brain stores
and updates details about all countries, in terms of weapons and
the military capabilities they possess and biographies of all major
people on earth. This brain’s information can be accessed by a CIA
officer by means of a photo tape robot called Intellofax, but our
spies shall simply hack into its computer systems in order to
access this vital information."

“Our spies shall also get access to the
scientific laboratory where CIA officers perfect their tiny
weapons, unique explosives and other miniaturized devices. We may
be intrigued to make advanced copies of some, just in case. This
information about the headquarters had been gathered from the few
dead CIA officers they had managed to get on their side.

To the ghosts, attacking CIA was equivalent
to sending spies to all the Intelligence centres of all countries
on earth because they believed that they could get all the
information they wanted from this place.

The next day, two aircraft were brought to
the surface from the underground facility. They started performing
a flight test which lasted for two hours, in anticipation of their
first mission on earth. Both aircraft were triangular in shape, but
of different sizes. The first one was a medium-sized aircraft which
was to carry over one hundred skeleton warriors. The second one was
a small-sized aircraft and was to take a team of ten computer
hackers on board

The warriors in the first raid were to attack
the CIA Headquarters and place a jamming instrument in the New
Headquarters building. The hackers were to remain in their aircraft
and use the advanced computer systems they had carried on board, to
pilfer all the information from the electric brain. According to
Gen. Cov, none of the two aircraft was to engage the US military
planes in a dogfight. Their main weapon was to be speed! They were
to enter the US airspace at a blinding speed and leave it in the
same way.

The send-off of the two aircraft was
witnessed by Lord Ghost, Roth, Gen. Cov and the other nine generals
only. All the ghosts, including the warriors, were not allowed to
attend the event. With all crew on board, the pilots started the
engines and within two seconds only, the aircraft were airborne.
Throughout their flight in space, the aircraft moved in a close
trail formation and always maintained the same speed. They
succeeded in evading detection from all manmade space based
satellites and telescopes.

After spending ten hours in flight, they
reached low earth orbit, one hundred miles away from the surface of
the earth. It was then that they separated, with the small aircraft
heading towards the Pacific Ocean and the other towards the
Atlantic Ocean. Above the Atlantic Ocean, the medium-sized aircraft
first reduced speed before diving into the water body. It entered
the water swiftly but without causing any sound that could have
alerted sailors on the ocean.

The warriors went out of the aircraft by
means of a pressurized exit system at the rear of the aircraft
which could not allow any water to enter into it. They swam the
whole distance from the ocean up to the Chesapeake Bay until when
they reached the mouth of River Potomac. Once in the river, they
continued swimming until when they reached Langley. Throughout the
whole course, the skeletons maintained a deeper position near the
ocean floor and river bed, to avoid being spotted by sailors and
fishermen who were moving over the water surface. They only
resurfaced at the time of leaving the river.

Upon stepping on the river bank, a strong
whirlwind enveloped them. The wind then started blowing towards
George Washington Memorial Parkway with the skeletons running
within it at the same speed. For its path from the river bank to
the highway, the wind caused no major structural damage. Branches
of the large trees were thrown into constant motion while the
smaller trees were left swaying. Most of the leaves from these
trees were carried away by the wind. The wind was traveling at a
speed of 70 Km/h while rotating counterclockwise like a tornado.
However it was not a real tornado because it lacked a funnel
contact with the clouds in the skies. In fact, all the skies had
remained clear, indicating no major change in the weather.

The wind took everyone by surprise because
there had been no tornado warning issued by the US National Weather
Service. The sound of an approaching freight train had served as
the only warning to those who were in its path. The lucky ones who
had been quick to recognize it managed to run away while those that
remained in its way found themselves being hit by piles of leaves
and other debris that were floating in it.

Upon touching GW Parkway, the whirlwind
increased its speed to 90KM/hr. Though the cars were not picked up,
the light ones were pushed sideways which caused numerous
collisions among the cars as the drivers panicked to stop them.
Pieces of flying debris knocked the car windows and shredded their
glasses into small pieces which the wind carried away. Many
passengers sustained several cuts on their bodies from these broken
glasses. Pedestrians who were on the highway were also blown
sideways. Many fell to the ground but were not picked up by the
wind. Walking became difficult to those who remained standing. They
had to stand still and wait for the wind to pass.

Although the wind had picked up much dust
which made it translucent, visibility had not been reduced very
much. Passengers could see through it, but with some degree of
obscurity. Cars jammed as drivers and pedestrians gazed at the
sight of human skeletons which were running within the wind, armed
with very glittering swords. Only those within the coverage of the
wind could see these alien creatures. They tried to contact the
police several times but their claims were taken lightly. Others
went on to capture photos and videos of the incident on their smart
phones and posted them on social media for the whole world to
see.

Authorities in Fairfax County tried to reach
the US National Weather Service and NASA for help. However,
meteorologists at the two centers had already been puzzled. They
were receiving numerous reports about the same incident from
different sources, but they had failed to track the wind on their
Satellite and Doppler radar systems. They could thus issue no
appropriate response at the moment.

Local fire departments decided to sound
sirens on their own. Traffic on GW Parkway was stopped and the
police started directing all the cars off the highway.

When it reached the private road that links
GW Parkway to the CIA Headquarters, the whirlwind changed course.
It was now evident that the wind was headed for the headquarters!
CIA officers who were at the headquarters started hearing sounds of
rushing water rapids moving in their direction. The sound was
continuously turning into a strong whooshing roar as it went closer
to the headquarters. The ground and the buildings at the campus
started shaking, a phenomenon which they had never experienced
before.

All the CIA agents were thrown into a
commotion after realizing that something dangerous was imminent.
But before they could get out of the buildings to escape, the
whirlwind blasted open the windows. Communication antennas fell
from the top of the building and broke into smaller pieces. These
broken pieces joined the piles of debris which were constantly
knocking hard on the walls of the buildings to create ways for the
skeletons to enter through. With the heavy forestation around the
perimeter, the skeletons found yet another tool. Broken branches
and barks scrapped from the trees added to the hitting power of the
debris.

Within only two minutes, all the two hundred
acres of the campus land had been engulfed by the wind.
Surprisingly, Instead of blowing to other parts, the whirlwind
became stationary and started rotating over the headquarters only.
The sound from it could be heard even at a distance of a mile
away.

Although the wind was very strong at the
periphery, it had a very calm center of extremely low pressure,
especially near the buildings. The wind was therefore throwing
every solid it had picked, from the periphery to the center. These
were the solids which were puncturing holes in the walls of the
building, which provided quick entrance for the skeletons.

The agents who had been entrapped in the
building had no way of escaping. Many had already been seriously
injured by the huge chunks of debris which were passing through the
holes that had been punctured in the walls of the buildings. More
to their disadvantage, visibility was very low, which made it hard
for them to see the solids that were flying towards them plus the
skeletons on time.

As they would be wandering in different
directions looking for safe hideouts, they would come across one or
two skeletons that were also searching for them. Using their double
edged swords, the skeletons would slash them into pieces before
continuing with the hunt for others.

Due to poor visibility, the security guards
at the headquarters had been forced to start shooting aimlessly in
different directions. At some instances, they ended up shooting
their own colleagues who were running away from the skeletons. The
skeletons would attack them by surprise and cut off their arms that
were holding the fire arms. As they fell to the ground in pain, the
skeletons would further go on to slice their bodies into pieces

As some skeletons were checking within the
buildings for CIA agents others were busy manipulating the jamming
instrument. It was a small triangular instrument which was
constantly rotating in air within one room in a clockwise
direction, whilst flashing blue light sequentially. The warriors
had no control over its movement as it was receiving signals from
the hackers that had stationed in the Pacific Ocean.

It was not until when the whirlwind became
stationary over the CIA headquarters that a military solution was
sought by the authorities. The National Weather Service together
with NASA contacted Pentagon and the Joint Canada-US North American
Air Defense Command, NORAD. With request from NORAD, the Federal
Aviation Administration which controls the whole US airspace
imposed a temporary flight restriction on all civilian planes which
were in the US skies at the moment. Air traffic controllers started
issuing orders to all pilots of these planes to descend to
designated airfields. This was done to avoid collisions between
civilian planes and the military planes which had started rising to
patrol the skies.

When the airspace was cleared, it became
militarily controlled by NORAD. The US National Weather Service
also ordered for an immediate evacuation of all locals from all
towns near Langley because they could not determine where the
whirlwind was to head next.

Troops were amassed in different parts of the
state of Virginia but mostly in Fairfax County. Foot soldiers and
others who were moving through armored cars began patrolling the
streets which the civilians had abandoned. Special military teams
were deployed in Washington DC at all major US landmarks like the
White House, Capitol Hill and Pentagon itself. Each of these
buildings was assigned an F-15 fighter plane and a B-52 Stealth
bomber to patrol the air above them.

Police helicopters and convoys of armored
cars were sent to those buildings to help in the evacuation of all
VIPs who work from there. The US President had been taken on board
the Air Force one before it soared into the skies. The Vice
President had been rushed to a secure bunker underneath the White
House. The Secretary of Defense and the other high ranking officers
of the US Military had also been transferred from the Pentagon to
Site R.

NORAD ordered for the scrambling of two
fighter planes from the 1
^st
Fighter Wing at Langley Air
Force Base to patrol the air above the occupied headquarters. The
fighters had not been ordered to shoot into the whirlwind at the
moment because there were still hopes of having some CIA agents who
had not yet died. Plans were underway to have them rescued.

The vortex of the whirlwind later changed
mysteriously after the all skeletons had entered the buildings.
Instead of pulling more debris into its center, it started throwing
them away. Many piles of such debris were reaching as far as two
miles away from the headquarters. They would act as ammunition
wherever they fell, resulting into massive structural damage and
casualties.

The greatest concentrations of the military
forces were on GW Parkway and State Routes 123 and 193. The
highways had been blocked by the falling debris which the wind was
throwing from the collapsing CIA headquarters buildings. These
falling debris prevented the soldiers from stepping out of their
armored cars for fear of being hit on their heads. Military
officers at Pentagon were uncertain of what to direct the troops to
do! The whole periphery of the wind was by then encircled by a
cloud of flying debris which made it difficult for the infantrymen
to cross into it.

But after the wind had occupied the
headquarters for over one hour, the US Military decided to use
force. Two teams of artillerymen each consisting of one hundred
soldiers were sent into the howling wind. These brave soldiers who
were moving inside heavy military tanks and armored cars entered
the wind from two different directions. Their mission was to search
and rescue the CIA agents that were still stranded inside the
buildings.

However, immediately after entering the
whirlwind, its spinning speed more than doubled. All the tanks were
blown, rolled and mangled on the ground. The skeletons hurriedly
attacked the soldiers and pulled them out of their disfigured
tanks. They sliced them into pieces with their swords and released
them into the wind. The pieces started floating in the wind until
when they were thrown in the neighborhood. Many of these body
pieces landed in the nearby highways where the majority of the
troops had been stationed. The soldiers who were seated in their
vehicles could see countless body parts of their colleagues
knocking on top of their vehicles before falling to the ground. The
body parts were followed by metallic fragments that had been broken
from their tanks. It was as if the whirlwind was dropping them on
the troops to deter them from attempting to enter it again!