NTR Rogue in the Apocalypse-Chapter 170: A Window 2

"What is that... is that a party?" Zara pointed towards a point in the cloud, a cluster of lights, brighter and sharper than the rest.

It looked like a clump of stars, tiny twinkling points of light, swirling in a hazy pattern. But inside this clump of stars was a window to somewhere else.

John strained his eyes as he observed the phenomenon.

"Where is that? It looks strange?" Zara said.

"It’s not on Earth, that’s for sure."

"How do you know?"

"Look through the windows. There are two moons, the soil is almost pitch black, and the vegetation looks completely different. Purple plants, hell, even the trees are a different colour. Does that look like any place on Earth that you know of?"

As they walked toward the light, their footsteps seemed to get heavier, and it was becoming increasingly difficult to breathe. The atmosphere was thin, and the gravity was low.

"Zara, cover the device and don’t get too close. There’s something in here, watch out!"

But it was too late, Zara’s scream pierced the night as a large tentacle wrapped around her waist and began dragging her toward the darkness beyond the window.

John stepped in and slashed at the appendage, sending a spray of slimy black blood splattering everywhere. Another tentacle emerged, but John was ready for it and managed to slice it off.

"You okay?" John asked as he eyed Zara up and down, making sure she was not wounded.

She wiped her bloodied face and growled, "yeah, let’s hurry up and go, we got what we needed."

Zara showed John the device and it showed all the information Professor Myers said we would need.

"Alright, let’s go."

The trip had left them shaken and disoriented, but they knew what they had just seen was a possible way to find Julia, Stephanie, and the other missing survivors who had been reported as abducted.

They arrived at the intersection and Zara turned left, "where are you going?" John asked.

"Back to the base, where else?"

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"We’re going back to the university."

"At these hours!? Professor Myers must be asleep..."

"Guess he will have to wake up."

Zara stared at John as he walked away, her brow wrinkled with irritation, but she knew arguing would be pointless. They rushed back to the university, finding it surprisingly empty, as though most of the people had left for the evening.

Zara banged on Professor Myers’ door, and he opened it, rubbing his eyes tiredly. "What are you two doing here?"

"We got the info," John said as he pushed the device on Myers and he entered the room.

Professor Myers’ eyes widened as he looked at the information, "well, this is interesting, not what I expected."

"What do you mean?"

Myers grinned and sat down on his desk. He tapped on his keyboard, "well, it looks like the energy in the cloud you encountered is not necessarily being used as a way to communicate. It’s more likely a remnant of a teleportation device."

John’s eyes grew wide, this was the first hint at Julia and Stephanie’s whereabouts, but then Myers continued.

"Whoever used it last had teleported here from somewhere else."

John’s eyes narrowed, "how do you know that?"

Myers tapped on his keyboard and displayed a diagram, "well, based on the pattern and the way the energy disperses, it looks like they didn’t originate here. These spikes are what I assume are a signature from the teleport, but we need to confirm with more evidence before we can say for certain."

"How much longer till we can locate the women?"

"If they are there, we will know their location by tomorrow night. We will need protection while we work."

"We’ll be there, won’t we, Zara?"

"Yeah, whatever," Zara sneered.

They returned to the base to wait. John did his usual scouting missions and when the time came, they met with the tech team and got everything prepared. The machine looked like a giant cannon, and it was not operational. They would need the energy signal from the cloud to pinpoint the location of the abductees.

It was already late at night again by the time everything was prepared. John, Zara and a few other survivors defended the tech team against the incoming monsters and when the cloud of light appeared, the machine began to hum, the tech team tweaking it to adjust to the right frequency and pattern.

After a while, the machine’s lights flashed green, and the tech team began adjusting the coordinates. The device began flashing wildly and when it settled, the tech team turned the machine around and aimed it towards the cloud.

It fired a blast of blue light into the cloud, and they waited, their hearts pounding in their chests as they wondered if it had worked.

It was midnight, and they had waited hours already, but the machine hadn’t given any indication that it had received a response. But suddenly, a spark flew out of the machine and into the sky, a streak of orange and red trailing behind it.

"Did we do it? Have we found them?"

"Only one way to find out," Professor Myers adjusted the display and read it carefully, his eyes widening with excitement, "it worked!"

"Whoever teleported here came from the same planet where they have the abductees!"

Everyone’s eyes gleamed with excitement, but John’s words brought down the mood.

"Now we’re back to square one. We still need to figure out how to get there."

Zara sighed and spoke to Myers, "you said that recently someone from that planet came here, right?"

"Yes...?" Myers said.

"Then all we have to do is wait here for the next teleportation and grab them when they appear!"

"Are you suggesting we catch someone who teleports to another planet and just ask them?"

"It’s not like we have a better idea, is there?"

"We’ll do it," John said, his eyes set firmly, as if he had already decided what course of action to take.