Chapter 5

In Europe, excess lava is been pushed up by force toward the earth through Etna, the force causes the top of the volcano to breaks covering the top. The larva reached the top with force but couldn't erupt and it goes back inside with some of it breaking and busting out from the sides and soon the lava from underneath the ground raises up the earth surface like a mighty wave in the ocean with larva rushing out and wiped out part of the continent with everything in it.

The mobile tanker drove in tunnels for hours and arrived in an underground military base which is now used as a hide out from the aliens, they all came out from the mobile tanker after it parked in the space close to the gigantic thick iron gate where soldiers stood guard, the gate opened they entered and got to a very large hall door filled with people, soldiers on corners to maintain order as few people shared blankets and food to others. Holland is lead to a bed and is been given a blanket and food, he then sees his mother from not too far away giving blankets and food to a little girl and her parents, he stood up and walked toward her with happiness and relieve as she is alive and well, her eyes caught him after sharing the blanket in her hands and tears started rolling down her cheeks as they ran into each others arms in a passionate embrace for awhile and let's go a little as Holland tries explaining himself, telling her he is sorry for leaving years ago but she interrupts him telling him it's OK and what is important is that they are alive and well and they hug tightly again not minding if people looked at them or not. Holland tells her he misses her so much and she told him she misses him too. They then went over to an unused bed close to them and sat down, then Holland asked how she was able to survive the destruction of Antarctica and she told him that her helicopter was almost swallowed by the fire tornado but was caught by the rescue ropes from the air ships in front of her helicopter. Holland blames himself for the destruction, for if he was able to stop the countdown then the world wouldn't have been in such danger but she told him not to blame himself cause she knows he did his best and she is proud of him, he still tried putting the blame on himself calling himself a failure saying he has failed humanity but she just remained silent for awhile then said to him. can you still remember when you were six and you were learning how to ride a bicycle for the very first time and would always fail and fall and once even broke your ankle but still you always got back up to ride it again and would still fall again and again until you finally knew how to ride a bicycle, you failed but still refused to be a failure at riding a bicycle so you tried over and over again until you knew how to ride it. It's alright to fail because no man is perfect and everyone fails at a point in life for it brings us one step closer to our goals and is what gives value to our success, do you know how many times your father failed and fell back to his starting point?. Many times more than enough to make him say I quit but No! he never did but always tried his best to move on and today he Is one of the world's most notable men in history. Look you can only be a failure if you quit and I know you my son, just like your father, you aren't a person that quits and that's why I love you both of you so much. She then gives him a warm embrace as few soldiers walked pass. That's it....!, Holland exclaimed. What?, asked his mother and he says with excitement that he thinks he now knows how to stop the epidemic and possibly the alien invasion and asked his mom where the office of the captain was and she pointed to the direction and he left after giving her a kiss on her forehead.

Holland got to the entrance but was stopped by two soldiers, just then the official saw him and called out from behind, Holland moves to him both glad to see each other alive. Holland then tells him that he might have the solution to the epidemics, the official says to him. I knew you will figure it out all you needed was a little time, come with me. He then showed his ID to the soldiers and they let them both in. Inside the room was filled with both military personnels and top ranked government officials and presidents from different surviving countries all deliberating and debating on a solution to their problem, the official asked Holland to stay close behind while he went to let the U.S president know of him. He whispers to the president and the president announces to his audience with a little relieve that someone has a suggestion that will help their situation as he now looked at the official to show them the person. Holland moves out introducing himself to the president and the audience wish made every one pay attention to him as they head the name Stark. Holland looked around the room slowly as every eyes from every corner of the room gazed at him "After the blackout the machine was activated from a source which apparently is the home to these aliens. I can switch off the machine from it's source using the black box to rewrite its programming" He was asked how that was possible and he told them that it was by setting course for their planet. There is a lot of murmur from the audience then someone asked How are we going to set course to another planet when we no longer have any form of space transport, at this point we can't even provide a jet and besides we do not also know which path of the stars they are from. Holland answered him saying.we lure any of them within our reach then, put them out and take on their a and then disguise as them, and take their vehicles and set course for their big ship there we will follow their transport back to their planet when it leaves. Another person said it is too dangerous and there will be no way they can sneak into a planet without been spotted and they will be risking the lives of their soldiers to a mission that might not bring any positive result and Holland answered him.Man is nothing without taking risks and if we do not take this risk we are all going to die sooner or later it's going to be either the catastrophe meets us or the aliens find us and trust me our weapons are nothing compared to theirs, so tell me what's it going to be, either we take the risk or die doing nothing!. There is murmur in the room once again, just then one of the transmitting soldiers brought news which he got from his television like frequency device that uses radio frequencies from distant locations to detect what is happening. He says that New York has been invaded by the aliens and they have lost connection with Argentina , Brazil, China along with part of Asia which meant they had fallen. After hearing this, fear and frustration went down the veins of all the government officials and the murmur got even more louder as they knew not when the catastrophe or the aliens will reach their location without much choice the U.S president spoke. If we take this risk and at all we succeed there isn't anywhere the people can stay because more than 50% of the world has been destroyed and still counting in the last 48 hours and this will bring about over population and suffering due to insufficient food and other necessities so I'm pretty much confused now than ever..... "What if I say that there is a way out" Holland spoke convincingly. "The machine is made to destroys which is the what we are witnessing now but as much as it destroys it also has the ability to rebuild which will occur after everything has been destroyed so we could use this to our own advantage we use the black box to rewrite their programming into one we can control then we shut down it's front part then make it rebuild what it has destroyed the, after words we destroy their systems so they can't stop the process and finally we use the same ships they use to capture people to bring everyone back. All I need is five soldiers to make this possible and that's all no nothing else. Without much choice the leaders deliberated and gave him permission to go ahead with the captain and four other soldiers and he thanked them and left with the official congratulating him for his good persuasiveness as he passed him.