Only birds’ singing and grasshoppers’ chirring were not heard any more. Super Queen-Mother understood the reason for such behavior.
A yellowish-waxen tint colored the surroundings. This confirmed the Earth Keepers’ words.
They were here already.
Suddenly four round spaceships appeared above the bay. They were slowly flying towards her house.
Super Queen-Mother went down, closed the dogs in the house and came into the yard. The dogs also felt the presence of something incomprehensible and started barking all together.
Three ships formed a triangle, and the fourth one, in the middle, began to slowly go down to the terrace.
Their external lights slightly illuminated the whole slope.
Silence settled all around. Cars and people stopped. From time to time a dry electric crackling was heard. Many-colored flashes went over the sea and the mountains, surrounding the house.
One more moment and Super Queen-Mother was pulled inside the ship on a light lift. The next moment her ship disappeared in the vast cosmic space.
The other ships disappeared after it…
Thousands of position-radar stations tried to detect where she ships had gone, but failed. Deep space did not want to share its mysteries…
Nobody knew how long the battle would last.
The work of all ground services reached its heights.
Shelters were being filled with people, water, food and other things, indispensable to life.
The military arrived at their positions and put their machinery on an alert, not paying much attention to their personal comfort.
Thousands of position-radar stations targeted their antennas into space, carefully listening out to what was happening far from Earth.
Space battle stations and orbit satellites were turned to space. The astronauts were defending not just their ship or country; they were protecting the whole Earth – their common house.
They had no enemies on Earth now, but got many new friends. The whole Earth became their safe guard. In case of trouble, they could rely only on each other.
All orbit stations and satellites were transferred to manual actuation. They became directly subordinated to astronauts. The Department of Military Cosmic Alignments on Earth reserved the right to assist and control.
Astronauts got all the codes to use the weapons. There were no previous events in the history of the sixth civilization on Earth when such enormous power was concentrated in several hands.
Dark secrets that countries had kept for a long time, opened now.
Orbit stations and satellites were only shells hiding weapons inside them. Dozens of the most powerful thermonuclear bombs, nuclear-pumped lasers were turned off from Earth and directed into space, ready for actuation.
Military cosmic alignments formed the first safety layer of the Earth planet.
Millions of people were looking into the sky through their telescopes, and even binoculars.
Religious services never stopped – one followed after another.
Hundreds of millions of people did not leave squares, united by one goal – to help Super Queen-Mother to win.
