Alpha Centauri - part VI

Her options were limited… She had to succeed or they were all doomed… her whole team… their mission… everything…

His shield made her job difficult… but she had to try… and try even harder because that was her only chance…

On the other side of the vale, Alpha was standing and observing… he did not want to get involved, he was not allowed to get involved, but knew he might have to, after all she was there.

What can I do? Our motto and conditioning says that ‘An Alpha is always by himself. An Alpha’s fight is just his own. No Alpha can help an Alpha.’ and thus I can not help her with the overseer but maybe I can do something.

She concentrated on the overseer and she could not sense him… nor if she did she could not ask for help.

Her team kept firing at the waves that kept coming… and coming… they managed to keep them at a safe distance but the monsters came in a higher number than ever… and she could do nothing to keep them at bay.

What the hell… I am trapped… if I loose the grip on the overseer the waves will keep coming… if I focus on the waves I will soon be overwhelmed… decisions… decisions… decisions… If only Alpha would be here… we could decide together…

Her mind let out a scream… Alpha… Alpha… help me…

Even with the great distance between them he could here her… but what can he do… he is far enough as not the have an influence on the waves… but close enough to control the overseer… if only she would let the overseer go and focus on the waves…

She was still fighting to decide… but to no avail… her team was almost wasted… the bullets were about to finish… they were trapped…

Suddenly she felt a mind near her own on the overseer… she felt him… it was Alpha to the rescue… his mind creeping near her own to get a grip on the overseer… he was helping… but that was not permitted… they would have his head for this…

Let me get a grip on him and then back off and take care of the waves… or else there is no chance to get out of here alive…

She listened and as he got the overseer the let go of it and focused on the waves… she could not tell her team what has just happened… thus she ordered them to gather some of the weapons that some of the monsters dropped and keep on firing… the order now was ‘shoot to kill’.

The overseer was now in a state of shock… he realized what has just happed… that she wasn’t any more in his mind trying to control him… but it didn’t sense him… he tried to move… to call upon his troops… but no thought got through… and then he realized the grip that was holding him… a force much stronger than the previous one… a force that gripped his mind as in a fist, nothing getting out and nothing coming in…

At this point there was only one thing it could do… sit by and watch as his troops are being decimated… they were out of his control… a though flourished into his mind… Let go… do not fight any more because you have no chance against me I can crush you in an instant… but I’d rather keep you in one piece… and your mind intact.

Alpha Centauri – part V
Alpha Centauri – part IV
Alpha Centauri – part III
Alpha Centauri – part II
Alpha Centauri – part I