Chapter 5: It Begins
As the officer handling the resources and the one who led the discovery of the spherical organ, Tyrelle was in touch with all teams that handled the sphere, including the scientists who were doing all kinds of tests trying to either awake the seemingly dead organ or clone it, but every test they performed only led to the same conclusion, it was just dead biomass, it could not be cloned or awakened, at best, they could maybe use genetic engineering to create a replica.
^^ Many of the sentences run on for far too long. They're separate ideas in and of themselves. They don't need to be slammed together like this.
At that point Tyrelle dropped the sphere from the list of top priority items, the scientists moved on, as for the object, it was left aside for apprentices to toy with it as it waited for the transport to the federation hub worlds.
All was well for about three days before the team of scientists that made the first contact started to become scared, as if they were constantly being threatened by something, all of them took mental health services and all of them were plagued with nightmares, they were so afraid to sleep that some collapsed and died a week later, from lack of sleep.
That death was a trigger for Tyrelle to notice something was wrong, he personally talked to the miners but they had no such strange happenings, turns out all the biologically attuned scientists who came within a distance of 5 meters of it were starting to show the same symptoms, nightmares and severe insomnia. The range gradually increased to include people who were in the building, promoting Tyrelle to put the damnable thing in a safe location, deep underground, the symptoms seemed to stop suddenly, until the federation transport came to pick the organ.
^^ The structure makes it somewhat difficult to read. Breaking things up by topic would go a long way towards making the text friendlier. Likewise, many "paragraphs" are simply one or two sentences that complete a thought but not a topic.
They came fast, as to be expected, any technology that is on par with either the Bionics or the Psionics was treated like a treasure. And that was when the nightmares started.
When the team who came to take away the spherical organ got in touch with it, people started to re-experience the feeling from when they had the nightmares, and as soon as the team left the building with the nightmare sphere in a secured container, the world ceased to make sense.
^^ Keeping the narration focused on a single area, as in physical area, is best. Jumping from place to place is like a camera angle change in film. It's to be used sparsely, or else the audience gets confused as to what
Tyrelle was in his office watching a live feed of the transport operation, technically he was responsible for monitoring the thing until it was secured unto the transport ship, it also paid lots to watch the security feed, the federation had a knack for rewarding those who follow the rules better than most.
Before the team took a step into the shuttle, all hell broke loose, or so he thought, he had yet to understand what true hell was.
As if out of nowhere, those fantasy-type water disk portals started opening around the shuttle, and from them came the most identifiable creature from any folklore, the hell hounds, big black dogs, nearly the size of mules, red eyes and matted, needle-like fur, smoke coming out of their nostrils and blood; instead of saliva, dripped from their bared maws, the escort team was not heavily armed but they were carrying enough firepower to deter a few bandits, they dropped the case and emptied the clips of their ballistic rifles, reloaded and shot again, out of the four hounds that arrived, only one was left standing when there were no bullets left, its brethren were now melting into ponds of tar.
The hell hound jumped forward, his jaws snapped shut and a soldier was decapitated, it took a lunge and another was skewered by metallic claws red from the inner heat, just like that, it only took a few moves for the hound to end the guards, before it turned to is brethren, it licked the tar before feeding on the humans, it swallowed flesh and bone and licked the blood clean from the helipad, it looked around and saw no living human readily available, it then opened a portal that looked like a disk of rippling water and vanished through it.
Tyrelle was in a daze, he watched the scene waiting for it to develop further before he realized this was not a movie, he immediately pressed the alarm, called the authorities and the army was alerted, citizens were evacuated and the vicinity of the building was quarantined, Tyrelle almost got himself imprisoned for insubordination and disrespect to get the army to stay at least five hundred meters away from the sphere, his words were "it was that bloody sphere, I swear it! If it could make people have nightmares, then it can bring nightmares to life!".
"I was the one who found it and kept monitoring it, this thing is structured like a Bionic, we all know how those bugs feed on types of energy we don't even know exist, its functionality is similar to the brains of the Psionics, it amplifies and manifests the energy it feeds on, I am not a genius, but I can tell you it has to do with fear and sentience"
The officer was not an idiot either, he had already read the reports on the way and reached the same conclusion, even the nightmare incident was not overlooked, but what he was more concerned about was the feasibility of weaponizing this thing, his superiors already had that thought in mind, the federation had decided that since transport failed, they would use this planet as test site. The officer's job was to use the fewest casualties possible to make sure this thing can be a weapon, how to transport it and how to use it.
Tyrelle was allowed to watch the army handle things from a secure location, the higherups decided that his performance was too good, for anyone to catch on lack of sleep and nightmares, even more so attribute it to the nightmare sphere, just from watching over it, that took some brainpower and extreme attention to details, people like him were too precious, whenever found, they would be taken in by the federation, they would serve in locations with higher sensitivity, and have higher worth.
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