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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 5375609" data-attributes="member: 3285">Music of the Spheres: Part 15 – Little Green MenEverything happened in slow motion.  Randy put a pistol to his head. Bob smashed his elbow through a glass case to reach for a fire ax.  And Donny just stood there.The pistol fired.  It wasn't pointing at Randy's head, but at the ceiling.  He blew his eardrums out, screaming.  If there was music playing, he couldn't hear it.Bob grabbed the ax and whirled.  He swung it into the intercom where the music was playing.  It stopped.And Donny continued to stand there.The music was still playing.  It was playing on the intercom system throughout the building.  Randy could only guess where else it was broadcasting. "Go!" he shouted, unable to hear himself think.  "Go!"Randy dashed up the stairwell, with Bob and finally Donny trailing behind. They kicked open the stairwell door.Dr. Gerald Neal had just finished smashing the lock on the door to the opposite room. The computer room.  “There!” he shouted triumphantly, sweat drenching his thinning hair.  “Now no one can interfere with it!”Randy couldn't hear him.  Bob stood there, gripping the ax in both hands, unsure what to do next.  Donny didn't react.Neal trailed off, staring in the direction of the fire escape door that wound around the outside of the building.  It went from open to closed without a sound, despite the fact that there had been a chain holding it closed only moments before. Standing before the now open entrance to the fire escape were three small humanoids.   Their bodies were elongated, having a small chest, and lacking in muscular definition and visible skeletal structure. Their legs were shorter and jointed differently than one would expect in a human. They had unusually large heads in proportion to their bodies with very small mouths, and very large opaque black eyes with no discernible iris or pupil. They wore silvery, skin-tight suits. "Space pajamas," whispered Donny.“Who are you?” asked Neal.  “I didn’t think--”Before he could finish the sentence, one of the Grays opened fire with a pistol.  Neal disintegrated in a flash, his clothes collapsing in the space once occupied by his body.Donny looked up at one screen in particular. On the screen, flashed a digital rendering of a celestial body labeled NEMESIS. A vast, rust-red sphere, its surface split by faults blurred into view.  Two oceans slowly oozed open while its surface quivered and splits, revealing red magma-scars beneath. It couldn't be…it almost looked like eyes?The leader of the three Grays tossed a knobbed sphere into the center of the room. There was a flash, and the Grays were gone.On the screen, lightning bristled over Nemesis' surface. A steady humming, throbbing sound emanated from the planet-thing. The throbbing matched the music they had heard deep within their minds, an ear-splitting crescendo. A cry.  A call. The sphere rose up into the air.  Three discs elevated a few inches from the sphere's surface, and bright rays of light shone out of the seams.  It began to spin in a high pitched whine oddly dissonant with Nemesis' beautiful music. Another sound interrupted. The thrumming of helicopter blades rattled the tower.  Through the open fire escape, Bob could make out an Apache.  He locked eyes with the pilot, who had the helicopter close enough to the tower that they could make out each other's features.  Two Hellfire missiles shrieked towards the tower, striking the joints between the dish and the tower.  The ceiling nearly gave way as the structure was torn apart. Donny finally snapped out of it when the monitor went blank.  The music stopped. The Apache turned towards the men in the doorway. The M230 Chain Gun under the nose of the Apache spun up.Using the ax like a golf club, Bob batted the sphere through the doorway.It continued to spin, unimpeded by gravity.  The sphere sailed through the air, whistling faster and faster.  It moved in a perfectly straight line from Bob's blow, as if it were floating in space.  The sphere connected with the chopper.  With a shriek it imploded, sucking the helicopter into it with a popping sound.  Air rushed to fill the void, nearly sucking Bob out of the doorway.  And then there was no sign of the Apache, the Grays, or the sphere.Randy shouted something over the shrieking of metal and the snapping of cables above them.  Rifling through Neal's pants, he found his keys.  Then he dove onto the fire escape, with Bob and Donny close behind.Then it tore loose from its moorings.</blockquote>

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