EarthBound 5: Survival

By Robert Cottom

In this chapter of the EarthBound Saga, there's something new hatching. It will take everything Hunter and his team has to wipe it off the planet for good.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Cottom
• Release date: Jul 11, 2010
• ISBN: 9781458190291

Robert Cottom

My name is Robert Cottom, I'm thirty-eight, I live in La Belle, Florida. I have always wanted to be a writer and now I'm taking a shot at it.

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EarthBound 5: Survival

By Robert Cottom

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2010 by Robert Cottom

The year is 2015, a research team was sent out to the Bermuda Triangle to check on a disturbance. The crew saw something out in the water just west of Bermuda islands. What happened after that still remains a mystery. The crew that was on the ship never came back.

The F.B.I steps in and finds nothing, but when a mysterious man finds them and offers to help, the F.B.I discovers that they are in way over their heads.

Something is out there hunting and mankind will find out what it means to survive.

Chapter I

The ship was later found off the coast of New York harbor, empty. The coast guard found the ship, covered in blood. They reported it and once the proper authorities showed up, the ship was then boarded and checked out. All that was found was the ships manifest.

It had one last log in it, We have come to check out what we were told, and we found something in the water. I don’t know what it is, but it has a blue glow to it. I’m moving the ship closer to make sure it’s not a boat in stress. Oh my god, what is that? There’s something out there on the bow of the ship, it’s attacking my crew!

In a building not far from the coast, a group of agents from the F.B.I were going over the log.

I warn you all, the next part is a little disturbing, a man said.

This is Captain Walton, my entire crew is dead, I think. I am so scared to go out to check to make sure, there’s something out there on the ship, killing everything in its way. I don’t know what else to do but to blow up the ship so that whatever this is, doesn’t make it to land,

Is there anything else? a woman asked.

Yes, there is, the man said back.

I can’t believe what I have seen, they’re all dead, and something ripped them apart. I have managed to set the ship to blow up, oh my something’s in the cabin with me, I can’t see it, where is it, oh god, oh god, there’s something in here that I can’t see!

As everyone in the room listen to the tape, the next thing they all heard was just as frightening; they heard the ship’s captain screaming for his life. On the tape, they heard something attacking the man and even the sounds of the man’s body being torn apart.

As the taped ended, they all looked around at each other.

Was there anything on the ship that would back this up? a voice said from behind the group.

Everyone turned around and saw a man in his late twenties standing there.

Can I help you? the man asked.

I believe you can sir, let’s talk in your office.

As they both walked out of the room, the rest of the group wondered who this man was. Shutting the door to his office, the man walked over and sat down.

Who are you?

My name is Ian Johnston, look, I know what you’re going to ask, and I’m here because my office got word on what happen here,

The man sitting behind the desk was Agent Wilson, he is thirty-four, his dark brown hair combed back, and he was the head of the F.B.I group that was in New York working on the case.

What agency do you work for?

That doesn’t matter, what does is, I know what he out there and we need to work together to find it, Ian said.

What is it that you think is out there?

Look, I’m not here to answer your questions, I’m here to help you out or I will do this myself,

Luke was starting to get really pissed by now and was going to let him have it, until he got a phone call. The call was for Ian Johnston. Luke handed him the phone and sat back in his chair and listened. Ian hung up the phone and told the agent to have a good day.

What? Wait a minute, what is going on?

When you need to know, I will tell you, he said, walking out of the office.

Luke got up from his desk and headed out into the hall, looking around, the man was gone. Luke walked back into the conference room; he saw that everyone was still in there.

What did he want? a woman asked.

Agent Smith and Agent Lockwood, I would like for both of you to head out and just patrol the area, Luke said.

What are we looking for? Agent Smith asked, as she was standing up from her chair.

At this point, anything that doesn’t seem right, he said back. They both nodded and then headed out of the room.

Carlin Smith has been with the F.B.I for three years and Matt Lockwood has been there for four years. They both work together really well and that’s why Luke sent them out. Carlin unlocked the doors and they both got in and drove away. Carlin kept thinking about the man that came into the room at the meeting. She couldn’t put her finger on it; something told her that this man was on their side.

Ian was up on top of a building not far from the F.B.I building. He was keeping a close eye on them. He knew that his team has worked with them in the past, but this time he just wished they would stay out of it. Ian moved his attention away from the building and watched as the truck with two of them in it drove away. He wondered if they were out looking for him.

Ian decided to head down to the docks to check out the ship on more time, just to make sure he didn’t miss anything.

Ian made his way up onto the ship, reaching behind him; he pulled out a flat console and started scanning the ship’s deck. While he was doing this, he was coming up with nothing. He had been all over the ship, opening the door to the bridge, he headed inside to have a look around. Ian was about to give up when he saw something on the back wall down in the engine room.

What is that? he asked himself, as he reached over to feel the marks on the wall.

Once he had removed the blood that was there, he saw that the marks were claw marks. Taking a picture, he put the camera back and then headed topside. Ian knew he would have to get this back to his home base to check it out.

Crouching down on the dock, he sat there looking at the ship. He closed his eyes and started to concentrate.

There were twelve men on the ship all working on what orders they had. The ship pulls up to the blue glow in the water to check it out. The captain can’t believe his eyes and reached over to the log recorder. He reports on what he is seeing and then he hears on of his men screaming out. Blood sprays the front windows of the ship and the captain steps back. He can hear his men being attacked by something but cannot see it.

Ian sat there trying to get an image of what was killing the men, when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Breaking his concentration he looked up to see who it was.

Can I help you? the man asked.

Ian saw this man, mid-forties, old worn out clothes, and a scruffy beard looking back at him.

No not really, he said back, standing up from the crouch position.

Wait a minute, I know you. You came here five years ago to do something, I can’t remember, but I have seen you before,

What is your name? Ian asked.

Carlos, my name is Carlos,

I got it the first time, so what are you doing here? Ian asked, while the whole time he had his hand behind him on his gun.

Carlos couldn’t remember that well, he couldn’t remember what he had for dinner the other night, but he remembered Ian’s face.

I use to be a cop here in New York, but that was a long time ago,

Ian thought back and then he knew who this person was and released his grip on his gun.

Well it’s good to see you, but I have work to do, so,

Carlos knew that he was checking out the ship and it started to come back to him.

Is this another invasion? Carlos asked.

I don’t know at this point, but I would like for you to go home and lock your doors, Ian told him, as he started to walk away. Carlos nodded and then headed back down the dock.

Ian sat down in his car and started to think back to when the Hentars came. He knew all about them going back in time trying to change history, but it didn’t work out the way they had planned. Ian remembered how the Hentars were killed even though the time line had changed they were still wiped out. He just hoped after all this time; they aren’t here trying to do the same thing again. Starting up the car, he drove off, heading for the extraction point.

The two F.B.I agents were sitting at a red light when they heard a person screaming. Carlin stepped on the gas, and the truck squealed it’s back tires.