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“Will I like it?” she said.
“Hopefully it won’t matter to you,” I said. “With time.”
“You’re not married, are you?” she said.
I chuckled and hugged her closer.
“No, I’m not married,” I said.
I had no idea how she would react. But I needed to tell her. I didn’t want to lie to the woman I loved.
We jogged down the embankment toward the shuttlecraft.
The closer we got to it, the deeper the twisting sensation became in the pit of my gut.
I always got nervous when I got this close to getting what I wanted. There was always the fear it might get taken away from me at the last moment.
At the last moment.
Why did that ring a bell?
The call Klang had with whoever was in charge of this shitshow they called television. They were going to kill me in the barn roof and have Maddy get close to the shuttlecraft before killing her too.
But we’d managed to ruin their plans.
Or had we?
Was the reason I felt sick to my stomach because my senses picked up on something my brain hadn’t?
We got within half a dozen yards of the ship when I froze. I held out a hand to stop Maddy in her tracks.
She turned to me with a frown on her face.
That’s when we both heard the noise.
A high-pitched whistling sound that began far with distance but rapidly approached.
I wasn’t sure I’d ever heard it before, but due to where we found ourselves and how close we were to achieving our goal and leaving this place, it couldn’t be anything good.
I grabbed Maddy by the arm and pulled her toward me.
The noise roared past us and slammed into the shuttlecraft’s hull. It boomed with a terrifying explosion. A huge fireball blossomed like a new flower and reached for the heavens.
I felt the heat on my arms and face. Molten metal rained down and singed the grassy dew.
I wrapped my arms around Maddy to protect her from the worst of the onslaught, turning her away from the explosion and blocking it with my back. Already I could smell the thin material of my suit burning.
A tall figure stood on a lip of raised earth, just a few yards from where we’d crested a moment ago.
“There’s no escaping Iron Hoof,” Iron Hoof said.
He pulled another grenade from his costume and slapped it in the launcher. He favored his uninjured leg as he took aim and fired another grenade at the ship.
“We should run!” Maddy said. “We can still get out of here!”
“No, we can’t,” I said calmly. “The Changelings always win. Always. They’ve got us surrounded and they intend on getting the big climax for this episode they’ve promised their viewers.”
The Changelings would be sitting in their homes now, or watching on their devices at work, as yet another pair of aliens failed to overcome the might of Changeling power.
