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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 5341527" data-attributes="member: 143">Session 30 (November 24, 2008)Chapter 137Even with the psi-amp running at full power, Mary could barely see through the blue haze that swam in washes over her vision.  So she closed her eyes, and tried to focus her nascent mental talents upon the attack.  She could sense the four aliens, but they were just puppets on strings, she saw, connected by an invisible thread to the presence that had spoken in their minds earlier.  That entity flared like a small sun in her mind’s eye.  It was close, surrounded by webs of power, ancient, mighty.  Even with that brief contact she was nearly overwhelmed by it, and had to fight off the sudden impulse to throw herself down and abase herself before the power of the alien mind. BRING THEM INTO THE ONE, it shouted into her mind.  “SILENCE!” she screamed, lifting her gun, firing it blindly at the approaching aliens.  Her first shot streaked high and blasted into the threshold of the door, and her second missed even more wildly, the plasma bolt failing to come within even two meters of the closest alien.  However, it did strike a glowing blue conduit to the left of the door, which hissed and sparked for an instant before exploding in a bright rush of flame and energy. The explosion washed over the Alphas, almost knocking them down, but it also disrupted the alien mental assault.  Hadrian, slumped against an alien machine, was able to trigger an alien grenade and bounce it into the midst of the approaching aliens.  The explosion lifted all four into the air and hurled them across the room.  Only one got up, and that one crumpled as James shot it in the face. “Where… is… it?” Vasily managed, groaning as he pulled himself slowly to his feet.  “There!” Mary shouted, pointing at the open doorway.  The iris-door had started to close, but the mechanism locked up, alien metal groaning as the damaged panels ground against each other.  Vasily headed in that direction, half-staggering, but not pausing except to lift himself through the half-opened door.  The others followed behind.  SO YOU REJECT THE UNITY.  THEN YOU SHALL BE ENDED.“Eesh,” Vasily said, moving up the tunnel, which rose slightly, a ramp that opened onto a larger chamber up above.  The place was lit by a penetrating green glow that issued from the walls.  Huge translucent cylinders descended from the ceiling, gurlging with fluid inside before they dropped into a shallow pool that dominated the rear half of the room.  Resting inside that pool was something, a big heap of undulating tissue that could only be described as a massive alien brain.  For a moment, all they could do was stare at it. “Think we need to kill that,” Hadrian finally said. “You going to pay for invading our planet!” Vasily yelled, lifting his plasma cannon.  The bright bolt of superheated gas pulsed out toward the alien brain, but as it crossed the center of the room it exploded in mid-flight, the streaks of plasma flashing against a translucent blue barrier that reverberated for a moment before again becoming invisible. The other Alphas joined in the barrage, unleashing the full power of their weapons at the alien.  The brain’s force field absorbed them all without so much as a crack in the energy barrier, and when the smoke of the plasma explosions cleared, they could see the mass of it in its pool, unharmed. “Crap, it didn’t work,” Catalina said. MY POWER IS BEYOND YOUR WEAPONS.  “Any explosives?” Hadrian asked.  “If it withstand that barrage, nothing we have going to get through,” Vasily said. “Why isn’t it attacking us?” Jane asked. “I think...” Mary trailed off, an unfocused look on her face.  “I think it can only act through intermediaries… not directly against us...”What you want, huh?” Vasily shouted at it.  “Why you do this?” ALL MUST JOIN THE UNITY.  IT WILL HAPPEN.James heard something behind them, and turned to see a group of green-skinned aliens heading up the ramp.  “Mutons!” he yelled. As the Alphas turned and both sides opened fire, the voice of the alien mind continued to roil through their consciousness.  DO NOT STRUGGLE SO.  YOU WILL BE BUT THE LATEST.  SO MANY WORLDS HAVE ALREADY BEEN BROUGHT INTO US.</blockquote>

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