This is War (When the World Ended and We Were Invaded: Season 3, Episode #5): When the World Ended and We Were Invaded: Season 3, #5

By Rebecca A. Rogers

The Walking Dead meets Falling Skies in this fast-paced, new adult episodic series.

Xak'thul informs the remaining survivors of yet another imminent Kyborg attack on base camp. Ella and Lin take to the skies, while Amara makes sure Shay and Matt are safe. Matt wants to fight, but Shay begs him not to leave her alone. Major Cantrell leads the resistance in their next assault.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rebecca A. Rogers
• Release date: Aug 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9798201920647

Rebecca A. Rogers

Rebecca Rogers is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and English at Southern New Hampshire University. Her first novel, Silver Moon, was published in 2011. Since then, Rebecca has published seven more novels, two novellas, two short story and poetry collections, as well as several works of serialized fiction. When she’s not writing about other worlds, she’s daydreaming about traveling our own.

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Season 3 Episodes:

Episode 1 – The Beginning of the End

Episode 2 – A Shot in the Dark

Episode 3 – Aftermath

Episode 4 – We’re Not Finished

Episode 5 – This is War

Episode 6 – Infestation

Episode 7 – It’s a Trap

Episode 8 – The End of the Beginning

Season 3, Episode #5

This is War

ELLA

Breathing a sigh of relief, Ella’s arms squeezed Lin a little tighter. They wouldn’t have to worry about those backwoods outsiders coming after them again. It was bad enough the first time, but she wasn’t sure they’d survive a second round. Not after what they did to Shay, and not after they hunted her, Shay, and Lin like they were a pack of wild animals. She and her friends were people, fellow humans, for crying out loud. But those dumbasses didn’t care.

It’s over, Lin mumbled against Ella’s hair. They’re gone.

Ella’s body quivers had subsided to nothing more than occasional trembles. The nerve-fraying sensation that had leeched onto her, feeding on her strength, suddenly dissipated. She was liberated from the crazies. They all were.

But she and the others hadn’t been freed from their other attackers in this apocalypse. Once the Kyborgs and zombies had been wiped out, they’d have a reason to celebrate. Until then, she’d just mentally throw an end-of-the-world party. Or maybe it was a beginning-of-the-world party—at least it would be when the Kyborgs were defeated.

And we will defeat them.

I need these bodies buried or burned! Major Cantrell shouted to everyone at camp. He’d been speaking to Matt about how they could reach some special room inside the Kyborg ships. Ella wasn’t positive about what was inside that room, but if Cantrell and Xak’thul had a deep interest in it, then there was more to the story.

Releasing her hold on Lin’s waist, she peered up at him and said, We better go help. Her eyes drifted to the devastation all around her. "We have a lot of work to do."

Scorched wood, and something that reeked of hot electrical wires, mingled with the bitter, ashy scent of gunpowder and the sharp, coppery stench of blood. Ella’s stomach rolled a few times. This wasn’t how she wanted to remember base camp, not after all they’d been through in the last week, fighting to retake their planet from space invaders. She wanted to remember this place as the location where a small group of humans stood their ground, assaulted the Kyborgs alongside the Naktirians, and won.

But this? This wasn’t how she envisioned base camp when the fighting stopped.

Ella stepped away from Shay and Matt. They were in good hands, and the worst was