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watching as Chance slowly disappeared from her sight. She blew one last kiss to all the guys and smiled before the door closed sealing her fate forever.

Chapter 3

    Gracie moved into the pilot’s seat and strapped herself in. She could feel the vibrations from explosions but ignored them a s she set the supply ship's course for the mother ship. She opened the front view screen panel so she could watch what was happening as she left the Earth’s atmosphere.

    The supply ship lifted off smoothly and moved rapidly upward following pre-programmed coordinates Gracie programmed in. Gracie looked in dismay at all the destruction to New York. She could see the fighters to the northwest highlighted against the fires burning from their attack. She prayed everyone was able to evacuate in time. In moments, she was thrust back against the seat as the supply ship went through the Earth’s atmosphere. As the blackness of space engulfed the small ship, Gracie got her first look at the mother ship. She stared at it in a combination of awe and despair as she saw how enormous it was. It had to cover at least the size of Manhattan alone! Gracie knew if larger ships were coming the Earth would never stand a chance. She needed to destroy this one. If she could take down the mother ship it would not send for additional ones. From what she was able to learn from the files she had accessed, these ships traveled great distances alone…one mother ship and its ‘offspring’, meaning the fighters, supply ships, and ground forces. If a planet was found to contain an abundant amount of resources, then the mother ship would send for more. If not, it would use what it needed before destroying the planet and moving on to the next one. Gracie needed to destroy it before it decided either option.

     

    She listened as the supply ship gave the needed code for admittance to the mother ship for refueling. As soon as the large panel doors opened on the outer edge of the ship, Gracie patched into the computer system through a backdoor she discovered a couple of months ago. The Alluthans were getting better at closing the doors but they were still arrogant enough to think the human’s too primitive to learn their language much less their computer codes. Gracie left a digital copy of her notes on deciphering both for Adam. She wanted to make sure all her work the last five years was not wasted. That was one nice thing about having parents who were researchers, they believed in taking notes and showed their children how to do it also.

    Gracie smiled as the virus she uploaded finished. It was a simple one that grew every time it was uploaded to another system, changing its signature to make it more difficult to detect and it would wipe their system clean once finished. The Alluthans would lose control of everything. Gracie watched as the supply ship connected to a docking port and an arm extended recharging the fuel cel ls. Gracie monitored the activity, frowning when she heard a disembodied voice on one channel giving directions for the attack on specific sites around the world. They were pinpointing some of the major areas where the rebels were. Gracie patched into the channel the voice said and watched as programmed instructions flooded her screen. She frowned again as she focused on the rush of data scrolling down it. Her breath caught as she picked out keywords. Typing quickly, she began redirecting the fighters to other areas away from the original commands. Most of the areas were over open water and shouldn't pose a threat to the humans. A warning flashed at the bottom showing a probe flash as the intrusion was detected. Gracie glanced at her other screen. The program to disarm the Alluthans defense systems was almost complete. It was spreading but not as quickly as she wished. Gracie quickly typed in a few commands and watched as the warning faded.

    Gracie continued uploading one code after another , determined if the Alluthans found and stopped one