Battle for Earth 2012

By William Jordan Jr.

The year is 2062; it has been fifty years since the Great War broke out. Looking back now, its kind of funny in a way when you think of it. At the time of 2012, the governments of the world, as well as the science committees, were all transfixed and worried about the way the earth would be affected by the solar lineup of the planets.
There were all kinds of theories and speculations on how and what would happen. But by no means was anyone prepared for what really happened. When everything lined up as predicted by the long calendar of the Mayans, it was not a global attack by Mother Nature. The poles did not reverse as so many believed it would. No, in fact it was a doorway opening to an all-out attack by an ailing race of beings bent on raping the earth of her resources and the enslaving of all mankind.
It was a repeat of what happened long ago; as it was with the people of Atlantis, so it is with us. We find ourselves locked in combat for our lives, our very existence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469177298

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Copyright © 2012 by William Jordan Jr.

Copyedited by Charles Esposo

Reviewed by Cleofe Marie Faelnar

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 1

(The year is now July 10, 2012.)

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

But, Mr. President, with all due respect, sir, we have to be ready or at least inform our military leaders as the science committee.

PRESIDENT NASH

Mr. Gray, I am quite sure they have as good an idea as to what’s going on as we do.

GREY

Yes, sir, I suppose you’re right. I just meant to ensure their safety and place them in the underground bunkers.

PRESIDENT NASH

Yes, as much as I hate to do it, I will enact the auto-selection process of the people. I don’t like this, but at least between the new moon and the Mars base and the underground bunkers, we can maybe save about 48 percent of the world’s population. Now down to business. Are all the bunkers and the two space bases set with at least twenty-five years of supplies? Because it may be a long time before we will be able to help anyone. At least this way, between the two space bases and the underground bunkers, they will be able to support themselves without any help from the rest of the world.

GENERAL STAR

We are doing the best we can, sir. NASA assures me that within the next three or four months, they will have both bases fully stocked. With the aid of FEMA working with our own forces, we are ahead of schedule for the underground bunkers, sir.

PRESIDENT NASH

I . . . I guess for now that’s all we can do. I really hate this part.

GENERAL STAR

Excuse me, sir?

PRESIDENT NASH

The waiting. We have already told the public all we dare. Any more than that, and it would start a worldwide panic. Just the same, I would feel more useful in the middle of it all instead of standing by and twiddling my thumbs. While you guys get to at least get your hands dirty, all I get to do is sit here and wait for all the reports to come in. Oh well, as they say, someone has to do it.

(At the Observatory Institute of Science.)

RICHARDS

I don’t care if Dr. Percy is in a meeting. Get him on the phone now. Well, trust me, if you don’t get him on the phone now, your job will be the last of your worries.

OPERATOR

Yes, sir, I understand that, sir, but what I am trying to tell you, sir, is that Dr. Percy must have both his beeper and cell phone off. He is not answering our calls. And all I can do is to keep waiting for him to check his messages.

DR. RICHARDS

Well hell, lady, why didn’t you say that in the first place.

OPERATOR

I tried, sir.

DR. RICHARDS

OK then. Never mind. Miss Judy!

MISS JUDY

Yes, sir?

DR. RICHARDS

See if you can get a hold of Dr. Percy for me please. And, Miss Judy, if you do get in touch with him, I would like for you to tell him for me we have found it, but I need his clearance to verify it with the other observatories.

MISS JUDY

Yes, sir, right away. I’ll do my best to get Dr. Percy for you.

DR. RICHARDS

Thank you, Miss Judy.

(Talks to Phil.)

No, Phil. I didn’t get in touch with Dr. Percy. All we can do for now is to keep watch and record the space anomaly.

PHIL

But, Dr. Richards, can’t we at least contact—

DR. RICHARDS

No! We don’t have the authority. Hell, we don’t even have the codes to transmit what we have found for them to compare what they may or may not have against what we think we have. So to do that would be a waste of everyone’s time. So for now, all we can really do is to keep collecting all the data we can. Hell, for all we know, this might be just a simple side effect of the ailment.

PHIL

Sorry, sir.

DR. RICHARDS

Don’t worry about it. Wait, there is something we—or rather I—can do to get a little better insight on it, I think.

PHIL

Excuse me, sir?

DR. RICHARDS

Call John and see if he sees it as well. And get his opinion on it.

PHIL

Are you sure you want to do that, sir? You know how Dr. Percy feels about John.

DR. RICHARDS

I know, but it’s like this—I won’t tell if you don’t. Besides, I need to know all I can about this. It just doesn’t look right to me. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but for now, we will have to just wait.

PHIL

Observatory 1 to moon base command, this is Phil calling moon base command. Come in please.

(Turns to the doctor.)

Dr. Richards, I have been trying to call the moon base, but I have not had any luck so far. It may be some kind of electromagnetic interference with the radios, sir.

DR. RICHARDS

I see. Well, I have another way around that. That is, if it’s not too late.

PHIL

Excuse me, sir. I don’t see how you would be able to get around it. It’s fairly big, whatever it is.

DR. RICHARDS

That’s why you’re the assistant and I am the one in charge, Phil. Now change the radio frequency to 3277.6 megahertz.

PHIL

Yes, sir.

DR. RICHARDS

OK, I go it from here. Now give me the mike.

PHIL

OK, here you go, sir.

DR. RICHARDS

Thanks, Phil.

(Talks on the mic.)

Observatory 1 to the shuttle craft 3, do you copy, over?

COMMANDER WANE

This is Commander Wane on shuttle craft 3. Go ahead, observatory 1.

DR. RICHARDS

Commander, this is Dr. Richards. I was wondering if you could do me a little favor, over.

COMMANDER WANE

Well, Doctor, it depends on what you need. This is supposed to be a secret mission I’m on, or at least I thought it was. And here you are calling me as if you were looking for a dinner date.

DR. RICHARDS

Yes, and I’m sorry for the intrusion. Trust me, I would not bother you if it wasn’t important.

COMMANDER WANE

OK, Doctor, you got my attention. What can we do for you guys down there?

DR. RICHARDS

I need you to contact Lt. John Gram and have him to turn his attention to the following coordinates—n 2.7 in grid 246—then ask him to take some data readings for us and transmit them to you so you in turn can send them back to me. Also, I would like his opinion on what he finds there. He can add that to the data stream. That is if you don’t mind doing this for us, Commander.

COMMANDER WANE

Well, normally we’re not allowed to do anything without NASA, but I guess this won’t hurt. Hell, you got the security clearance to contact me, so if you skip a few channels, what the hell. Besides, if it pisses off Dr. Percy, it’ll be worth it. OK, I’ll do it, but keep in mind this will take some time.

DR. RICHARDS

I understand, sir, and once again, thank you. Observatory 1, out.

PHIL

That’s cheating, Doctor, Huh?

DR. RICHARDS

What’s that, Phil?

PHIL

Well, sir, you said I couldn’t contact anyone, and yet you just did.

DR. RICHARDS

Oh! I see. Well, desperate times call for desperate measures. Besides, I have not broken any protocols or rules. I just kind of abused my NASA security clearance a little, that’s all.

PHIL

I don’t care. It’s still cheating, Doctor. But I got to admit it, Doctor, it worked.

DR. RICHARDS

Yeah, well, Phil, we should have something back in a few hours, so in the meantime, I suggest we keep downloading all the data we can.

PHIL

Yes, sir. I tell you, I don’t like it at all. I just don’t see why we can’t just go on in and bomb the planet and bring the little monkeys to their knees like we did once before.

DR. RICHARDS

Well, first of all, what we did all those many thousands of years ago was the wrong way to do it. We got very little resources out of that little planet because of the attack. Hell, most the resources were either destroyed or unreachable due to the orbital bombing. Then there’s the fact that of