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Planet Kill
Chapter 21 — Taking Back Earth
Germans. Japanese. Native Americans. Hiro had seen it a hundred times in movies and TV programs. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn’t. Now it was his turn to enter the enemy gates with a gun at his back.
Zoe was second in line, with Cheryl behind her. An alien dressed in black escorted each earthling into the camp. Then Fred waited at the gate and spoke to the guards in their clicking language before proceeding into the compound after a guard waved them in.
A human-looking alien with an air of authority met Fred shortly after the survivors entered the complex. He clicked something to Fred; Fred nodded, and they headed to a different pathway.
When they were a safe distance from the guards, Hiro asked, “What was that all about?”
Fred answered, “Up ahead, they have a pen for prisoners. So that’s where we’re headed.”
Cheryl groaned, “Pen as in pig pen?”
“We’ll see.”
“Forget the pig pen,” Hiro said. “We have to find the shield generators.”
Fred responded, “I remember the layout here. We take the next left, and then, it’s not too far down the pathway.”
“Let’s make it fast. Those shields have to come down before the missiles get here.”
