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Neo MoroengThe tide is turning. After weeks in orbit, our survivors finally return to Earth—but it’s no longer the home they knew. In this chapter, we explore the first encounter between hope and horror on the ground. The General is forced to choose between his personal mission and the lives of desperate civilians. Every step forward now comes with a cost. The enemy remains mysterious, but one thing is clear—they’re not here just to conquer. They’re here to collect. The Nova Corrective Facility, a place of dark purpose, sets the stage for what’s next: survival, escape, and uncovering the truth behind the invasion. Thank you for reading—every like, comment, and follow fuels this journey. Let’s push forward.
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Chapter 38: Price of Freedom
The tower’s steel door slammed shut behind us, its thunderous clang echoing like a final verdict. We were free—no longer prisoners of the Nova Corrective Facility—but it felt more like we had traded one cage for a far wider, deadlier one. Behind us, the facility—part alien monolith, part relic of Earth’s forgotten infrastructure—lay in ruin, shattered across the R503, about seven kilometers from Mahikeng’s CBD.“We have to move!” I barked, adrenaline still crashing through me. “They’ll swarm this place in minutes.”We were on the outskirts of Dihatshwane Village. The name itself felt like a warning. The R503 stretched before us, a cracked and ruined ribbon of tar lined by the skeletal remains of a small industrial park. But it wasn’t the silence that chilled me—it was the scent. Not just the metallic tang of alien air, but something else… musky, primal. Baboons.Dr. Kim motioned us forward, urgency etched across her face. “This way—those service buildings!”We bolted, slipping between
Chapter 37: The Red Ground Rebellion
The first sensation was cold. It seeped into my bones from the graphene bench beneath me, a stark and sterile chill that was the opposite of death. I swept my body for wounds, surprised to find only the phantom aches of a brutal impact. I was alive. I was lying in a transparent cell, a fiberglass cubicle framed by thin carbon tubes. My mind, still swimming in a fog of ozone and desperation, slowly began to piece together my surroundings.My gaze drifted to the necklace around my neck, a small pendant made from a fragment of the Red Rock. I wrapped my fingers around it, the familiar weight a tangible anchor to a life I'd left behind. A memory, sharp and vivid, cut through the haze. Jarek’s smile, his infectious enthusiasm for the Martian landscape, our shared sense of wonder at the Rock’s unique properties. The bittersweet reminder of what I'd lost hit me with a physical pang. I held the pendant for a moment longer, a symbol of my past, a tangible connection to the Martian world, a sile
Chapter 36: Landing and Last Stand
The pod’s landing was a violent, bone-shaking crash—not a controlled descent, but a brutal end to our fiery plunge. We hit the ground hard, a thunderclap of tortured metal and ruptured glass that sent us sprawling against our harnesses. The cabin groaned, a final, dying protest, before the shuddering ceased and the silence descended. A thick, metallic dust filled the air, the scent of a dead world.I unbuckled my harness, my body bruised and aching. Dr. Patel, Uchendu, and Professor Tanaka were all alive, but their faces were masks of shock, their eyes wide with the terror of a fall we should not have survived. We were no longer on Horizon's Edge. We were on the ground, in the heart of the new apocalypse.The pod’s emergency hatch hissed open, revealing a landscape of total desolation. The air, thick with dust and the acrid tang of alien presence, was a stark contrast to the sterile environment we had known. The sky, a bruised, reddish hue, was a constant, menacing reminder of our defe
Chapter 35: The R49 Crossing
The R49 highway stretched before them, a ribbon of cracked tar under the bruised twilight sky. Crossing it felt like stepping through a membrane—leaving behind the familiar wreckage of suburban Mahikeng and entering the untamed world of Aslaagte, where civilization frayed into the wild."Keep your eyes peeled," Mr. Nkosi murmured, his pistol raised. "This used to be quiet, but being near the reserve always meant spillover."They moved in silence, boots crunching softly on gravel. At first, the changes were subtle. A flicker in a shattered shop window revealed a mutated ground squirrel—its eyes glowed like dying embers, its movements twitchy, wrong. It vanished into the shadows before they could get a better look. Further ahead, a mongoose with matted fur and an elongated snout slithered out from under a dead smart car. It sniffed the air with an intensity that prickled Nancy's skin, then disappeared into the garden hedges.“They’re everywhere,” the burnt man whispered, clutching his ri
Chapter 34: Landing in Mahikeng
The escape pod shrieked like a wounded animal, a defiant protest against the violent thrust that hurled it away from the stricken hub. Behind us, Horizon’s Edge—the crown jewel of our orbital defense—dwindled rapidly, its lights swallowed by the encroaching shadow of the alien vessel that now loomed like a black moon. Around us, hundreds of other capsules, sleek and menacing, hurtled toward Earth. Their hydrogen exhausts bloomed like angry, ephemeral flowers in the void, only to vanish into the cold dark.Ours was the lone human vessel among them. A fragile shard of resistance slicing through the heavens while a silent cosmic ballet of invasion unfolded behind us.I pressed my face to the viewport. The alien mothership swelled in view, monstrous and absolute. A monolith of impossible design, every inch of its shadow a threat. I’d read signals, monitored anomalies, run simulations. None of them prepared me for the scale of this.“General, trajectory confirmed,” Dr. Kim called from her h
Chapter 33: The Watchers of Sol
The hum of the control room’s machinery provided a steady background thrum, a low and familiar comfort in the vastness of space. Five years. Five years since the Covenant had been forged, since Ka!ri left for Mars, since we pulled humanity back from the brink. Five years since I last stood on scorched Earth, looking up at a red star and made the hardest choice of my life.Now I was orbiting the planet I chose to stay and rebuild, a General still wearing the skin of a soldier, stationed aboard Horizon’s Edge, humanity’s first orbital surveillance hub. Earth below was no longer dying. Oceans pulsed blue again. Forests regrew like stubborn ideas. Africa—our continent—had become the beating heart of reconstruction, not because it was spared, but because it had learned how to rise.I leaned back in my chair, scanning rows of data crawling across my screens—defense diagnostics, environmental vitals, deep space monitoring. Routine. The quiet kind of duty. But some days, I still felt the tug.
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