MARSHALL BOOK 2

Trafford Publishing

Contents

CHAPTER ONE ALIEN AFTERMATH..........................................................1CHAPTER TWO DAUNTLESS TO THE RESCUE..................................................10CHAPTER THREE THE UN VISIT...........................................................23CHAPTER FOUR HEATHER TAKES CHARGE....................................................36CHAPTER FIVE BRANDY DOES VEGAS, THE MISADVENTURES OF ROCKET GIRL.....................48CHAPTER SIX THE WILD, WILD WEST......................................................70CHAPTER SEVEN IT WAS ONE OF THOSE DAYS...............................................85CHAPTER EIGHT AMALGAMATION...........................................................97CHAPTER NINE THE HARBINGER...........................................................113CHAPTER TEN CALL ME SUPERSTAR........................................................139CHAPTER ELEVEN HARBINGERS OF WAR.....................................................159CHAPTER TWELVE THE FURY OF SUPERSTAR.................................................180CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE FURY AND PASSION OF CONQUEST....................................196CHAPTER FOURTEEN RISE OF THE HARBINGER EMPIRE........................................222CHAPTER FIFTEEN LIFE AFTER THE HARBINGER.............................................257

Chapter One

It is a bright and sunny day in Washington DC. There is a large crowd of reporters camped out on the Capital steps. Connie Banger, a reporter of Asian descent, is fidgeting before her cameraman, who admonishes her saying, "Connie! Stop squirming around, you look fine. You'd think you had never done this before."

Defensively, she snaps back, "I want this to go better then yesterday, I let Dauntless get away."

"You got her to say hi," Tim replied.

"Some piece of reporting that was," Connie replied sounding downhearted.

"Why don't we shoot the promo now and get that out of the way?"

She cheers up, "Good idea."

"Why don't you lead in with something like, the alien attempt to take over the Earth has been foiled?"

"No one says foiled anymore."

"How about, the Earth is safe for now?"

"We don't know that. You've been reading too many tabloids. Let me do the reporting." She clears her throat and he raises his camera signaling her to begin. "This is Connie Banger reporting from our nation's Capital. Congress is in its second day of hearings to determine what happened in Chicago."

A short distance away, Heather Carter, a drop dead beautiful twenty something blond with wavy hair, sees the crowd of reporters and makes her way around to the side of the Capital building, and makes her way in through the entrance near the Congressional cafeteria.

In the cafeteria, three high school age boys in white shirts and ties are mesmerized by the sight of sunlight flashing off her shapely legs as she walks down the dark hall. Her entire body seems to magically sway back and forth just a bit as she tosses back her hair with a flick of her hand. "OH YEAH!" The youngest of the boys gushes.

"That's her!" Another boy announces as they all jump to their feet and rush to meet her. As they confront her in the hall they realize, "You're not Dauntless!"

Heather stops and stares at the boys blocking her way. "Never said I was. But can you tell me were they are holding the hearings? I'm kind of lost."

One of the pages starts to answer and then it comes to him, "Hey! Wait a minute, you, you're in the picture with Dauntless! He pulls a rolled up newspaper out from his back pocket and shows it to her.

Amused by all of the attention, she takes the paper and looks at it. "Yep! That's me, BUSTED!"

"You know her! What's Dauntless like? Is she coming back today?" The younger boy asked.

This put her off just a bit not being the center of attention, but she quickly perked up saying. "No, she's back in Chicago, you know, ... doing hero stuff." She hands the paper back to the taller boy adding, "You'd like her, she's nice."

"What are you, some kind of secret agent?" The youngest asked.

She smiled and stooped over a little to be face to face with him. "My, aren't you the smart one. If I told you I'd have to kill you and we don't want that do we?" She gave his cheek a tweak and continued past them down the hall.

"WOOO! I think I'm in love."

"She even smelled good," he gushed. "Just like vanilla."

Later, Heather is sworn in before a Congressional fact finding committee. Mr. Morvan, the committee's chairman, is seated at the center of the bench before her with several other members of Congress. After making the necessary greeting he asks, "Agent Carter, I know you were assigned to investigate what happened in Chicago. What are your findings?"

She adjusts the mic in front of her and answers, "That's a big question. I cannot tell you anything about how the UFO came to crash in Chicago, I wasn't involved with it at that time."

Mr. Morvan leaned forward and spoke into his mic. "We know the UFO was actually an alien space ship carrying alien prisoners to a prison planet when the Russians shot it down. We have also already heard from Dauntless and know how she became so strong. We are more interested in what happened on the day of the anti-matter explosion that nearly destroyed Chicago."

Content to be the center of attention again she explained, "I don't have the alien technology that General Solo used yesterday, so, you'll have to bear with me. From my interviews with MaCos Ex, one of the surviving escaped aliens, I have learned that they had three anti-matter bombs. They were going to set one off destroying the city of Chicago as a show of force. They were hoping the anti-matter blast would signal other aliens to come and help them take over the planet."

"MaCos Ex, the alien engineer, and Mogo were captured by Dauntless as they tried to escape. Adack, the pirate leader, was captured by Marshal and Major Otis at Ground Zero. Marshal couldn't disarm the bomb that was about to go off, so he fashioned a spear throwing stick out of a tank gun barrel, and used it to toss the bomb as far away as he could."

"He did all of that while being poisoned by the radiation?" Morvan asked.

"That's right, the radiation literally burned his body up as he threw the bomb. You must understand that I wasn't actually there for most of my report, no one was. It took place over too big of an area for any one person to have experienced," she replied.

"Yes, of course we understand that you have interviewed many of the people involved during the course of your investigation. That's why you're here, please continue," the chairman directed with a wave of his hand.

She paused to ponder the events of that day, and the images came rushing back to her. She could see them in her mind as if it was just happening.

There was a partly cloudy sky over Chicago as a small spark raced up from the cities' Southwest side. As the spark arched over the city it flickered and grew in intensity until it was brighter than the sun. The second sun just cleared the line of tall buildings bordering the cities' lakefront. About two miles out over the lake the new sun started to fall. As it was about to plunge into the cold waters of lake Michigan, the new star starts to go super-critical giving off a...