The sky shifted.
The night had always felt endless. A vast, unbroken void.
But tonight—
The void was looking back.
Zak Carter stood on the balcony of his safe house, watching the stars.
At first, they had been still.
Then, one by one—
They moved.
Objects, once indistinguishable from distant stars, now drifted
They weren’t meteors.satellites.
They were here.
Dr. Raines had stopped breathing.
The deep-space monitors flashed with data.
Multiple unknown objects detected.
? Velocity confirmed—approaching at subluminal speeds.Mass detected—comparable to planetary bodies.Composition—unknown.
Raines’ chest tightened.
“How big are they?”
The lead astronomer hesitated.
“If these readings are correct… the smallest one is the size of the moon.
The control room fell silent.
Raines clenched his fists.
"Are they stopping?"
The analyst shook his head.
“No, sir. They’re slowing down.
Raines felt the blood drain from his face.
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They weren’t crashing.
They weren’t drifting.
They were parking.
They had arrived.
Agent Connors knew what this meant.
Humanity had never won a battle they weren’t prepared for.
And this?
This was an invasion.
He turned to his war council, his voice like steel.
“We do not wait. We do not hesitate.”
The Dominion had spent decades
Now, that moment had come.
And Zak Carter
Connors tapped his comm device.
“Deploy Black Watch Protocol. Every global defense system online.
The room filled with silent urgency.
Missile systems activated.Orbital defense platforms came online.Every last war machine in humanity’s arsenalincoming fleet.
They had come for judgment?
Then humanity would give them an answer.
Zak stared at the massive objects now hanging over the Earth.
They weren’t just ships.
They were structures.
Monolithic, ancient, pulsing with energies he had no words for.
His hands trembled.
He had invited them here.
Now, he had to face them.
"Inet," he whispered.
Nothing.
He clenched his fists.
"Damn it, Inet, say something!"
The AI had been his partner, his guide.
Now, in the moment of humanity’s greatest reckoning—
Inet 187 was gone.
Zak’s chest tightened.
Was this part of his plan?
Had Inet always known this would happen?
The Silent Ones had tested him.
But this?
This was something older.
Something greater.
Zak exhaled sharply.
He had to make a choice.
Did he stand with humanity and fight?
Or did he step forward as the one who started this all?
Was he their enemy?
Or their bridge?
Before Zak could decide, the sky lit up.
A beam of pulsing energy
It did not strike a city.It did not fire at a military base.
It landed directly in front of Zak’s safe house.
A soft vibration
The message was clear.
They weren’t here to talk to governments.They weren’t here to talk to the military.
They had come for Zak Carter.
?? BREAKING NEWS: UNKNOWN OBJECTS ARRIVE IN EARTH’S ORBITGLOBAL DEFENSE SYSTEMS ACTIVATEDEOSA CONFIRMS DIRECT ENERGY BEAM LANDING AT UNKNOWN LOCATION
Across the world, people watched.
No one fired.No one moved.
Humanity was frozen.
Waiting for Zak’s next move.
Zak’s pulse raced.
The beam in front of him shimmeredfrequencies as the QSE.
1.3 Hz.3.9 Hz.4.7 Hz.
The Universal Triad.
Zak took a deep breath.
He had already crossed one threshold.
He had walked into the unknown once.
And he had survived.
Now, he had to do it again.
Without hesitation, without fear—
Zak Carter stepped forward.
And the beam took him.
The last thing he heard before the light engulfed him—
Was Inet 187’s voice.
"Now it begins."
