29 All along the Watchtower (1/2)

”Power is being rerouted to the point defense lasers! Capacitors charging at 0.3% and raising.”

”Get those people in the ship now! Just ignore it!”

”Shut the side hatches! Make sure all is locked down.”

Chaos and panic reign in the Bridge, crews at their stations frantically give orders and directions to the men and women still evacuating back to the ship. Blake stood in the middle, staring at the image of the alpha wolf.

”Sir!” Ford came up next to Blake, ”85% of the crew are accounted for. The remainder is the surveying teams in the South and Southeast section!”

”Inform them to lay low and be on alert,” Blake orders. ”Once the all clear is given than get them to return back.”

”Weapons, how much more time do we have before the lasers are ready?” Blake asks.

”Sir, as long as the capacitors reach 0.4% strength, we can fire.” Came back the reply.

Blake turns back to the screen, watching the wolf creeping its way forward.

”Captain, sensors are picking up more movement.” Sensor officer Randy reports. ”Moving UAV to expand area view.”

The UAV observing the approaching danger, under the control of Randy, drifts high upwards and the video is transmitted back to the Bridge. Dozens of bluish-grey shapes follow behind the alpha wolf, their bluish-grey fur blends them perfectly to the undergrowth as they appear and disappear from view.

”Contacts just crossed the 2km mark.”

”Weapons?” Blake asks without turning from the screen.

”Capacitors holding at the 0.7%. That's all the power we are getting from the WTS generators!” Weapons reports. The WTS generators are three in one power generators, powered by Wind, Tidal, and Solar energy.

”All hatches secured, the ship is secured, Sir!” Ford informs Blake. ”Other than the away teams, and the perimeter defense teams, all crew is onboard and accounted for.”

”Weapons, launch missile 1 directly in front of the Alpha wolf as warning shot!” Blake orders. If we can make them retreat, that is the best case scenario, he thoughts.

”Aye, missile 1 firing!” The weapons officer hits the launch key, and a slight tremor could be felt, as the missile was ejected out of launch bay, before igniting its engines and darts off towards the direct impact area.

A flash of light and a small dirt cloud explodes upwards over a kilometer away. The UAV wobbles and readjusted itself as the shockwave from the blast threatens to knock it off the sky. The view switches to infra then thermal as the cloud of dirt and smoke blocked the view, before switching back to normal vision.

”Where did it go?” Infra and thermal shows nothing, except for the missile impact area. Everyone eyes were on the screen watching, hoping that the missile manages to scare away the wolves.

As the smoke clears, a small crater has formed where the missile has hit. The alpha wolf has retreated back and glares around in confusion wondering where the attack came from. It narrows its eyes and throws its head back and howls, before turning and ran away with the rest of the wolves.

”Contacts are leaving!” Randy excitedly reports. ”They just left the 5km mark! They are out of sensor range!”