all stopped, as if blocked by an invisible force field.
"Hurry, I can't do this forever."
Magda looked at the brightly lit computer terminal and tried to figure out how to get the virus into the thing. She found what looked like a touch pad and pressed her palm to it. In a whoosh , she could feel the virus uploading into the Anu system. It took less than fifteen seconds.
As soon as the last bit of data transferred to the ship, the lights started to blink on and off. On the screen that showed the collection of ships, the lights of the other ships in the armada began to blink out, one after the other.
Michael let down the force field and took Magda's hand. Before she could respond, she was awake, sitting in the terminal chair back inside the mountain.
She blinked as everyone looked at her with expectation in their eyes. "Did it work?" Rafe asked.
"Yes," she croaked.
"Someone get her some water," Rafe commanded. Xavier handed her a glass of water a moment later. She chugged it down, looking around for Michael. He sat across the room, smiling at her.
"What now?" Xavier asked.
"They will be defenseless for the next six hours at least. Now is the time to launch the attack. Everyone has to get back to the meditation room."
Chapter Seventeen
The group hurried to the meditation room. Michael gave them instructions on how to fight in the fourth dimension. They had to imagine any kind of weapon in their mind and then use it against the Anu ships.
Cassie, Circe, and Magda guided the group into a deep meditative state, bringing their level of mind into the astral realm, the fourth dimension. Magda found herself floating in space with several hundred awestruck shifters, human kids, and witches. They faced the Anu ships in the distance.
The group was as one in mind, speaking to each other wordlessly. All at once, they constructed a massive vessel, equipped with powerful laser guns. The group shot at the Anu ships. One after another. The smaller vessels began to fall out of the sky.
Suddenly, half the group's ship fell away. "What's happening?" Magda shouted. They were so close. So very close.
"The Anu are attacking on Earth. Their smaller fighter jets are not on the same system as the spaceships. People are falling out of the meditation," Michael said. "I will rest no more. I love this race, and I will help you."
In the blink of an eye, thousands upon thousands of shifters and humans floated in space around the Anu ships. They took one look at their oppressor's vessels and mutually created their own armada.
Laser beam blasts shot out from every side. Ship after Anu ship fell out of the sky, but it wasn't enough. Groups continued to fall out of the human armada. The Anu on Earth were launching a full-scale attack.
Magda heard a massive boom and snapped out of meditation. All around, dust fell from the ceiling and the ground shook. The Anu must be blasting the mountain. She tried to get herself back into her meditative state, but she couldn't. She refused to distract Michael. Not that she could anyway. Michael was a highly evolved being. Far more evolved than the Anu even. He must have brought a much larger population into the fourth dimension. How he was able to do that, she didn't know.
All of a sudden, she was back in space, her consciousness creating the ship blasting away at the Anu. But the Anu would not be defeated so easily. She could see them powering back up in the distance. They shot back at the Earthlings' ships.
The Earth armada disappeared, not existing on a physical level. The Anu shot her group's ship and she felt the hot blast burn through her mind. They returned fire on the largest ship, barely making a dent.
Out of nowhere, a massive white ship, blazing with light, appeared in the middle of the battle. With one blast of light, the entire Anu armada disappeared into thin air. Magda was so stunned, she snapped out of meditation and awoke in the meditation room.
Everyone else was looking back at
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