Blood on the Asphalt biker
They were emerging from the ocean.
"Massive kinetic displacements detected in the Pacific," I read the data, my blood running cold. "They're crawling out of the surf. Thousands of them. Heavy, pressurized armor. Completely amphibious."
Dax stood up slowly, his hand instinctively dropping to the hilt of his Phase-Knife. "How long until they hit the perimeter?"
"They're not marching," Reyes said, her voice tight. "They're riding the weather."
Before Dax could ask what she meant, the massive, reinforced glass windows of the penthouse rattled violently. It wasn't an explosion. It was thunder.