“By your leave Madam,” Jeff and Russell said together and returned to their ships.  Russell’s sleep gas was loaded on both craft, fuel and armament racks were full and the crews were well fed and rested.  Russell and Jeff’s vessels lifted from their pads, hovered a moment above the base and faded like smoke from view.


    Everything was ready at the RACE compound.  Chambers met them and ADAM and loading got underway immediately.  The races marched onto the ships ten abreast each unit separated by a five meter long space there were The Hausa, The Nubians, Mandingo and Masai, The Assyrians, The Hittites, The Hebrews and Philistines, The Egyptians and Persians, The Thracians, Greeks and Spartans, The Romans and Goths, The Huns and Vandals, The Britons and Celts, Danes and Swedes, Germans and Franks, The Spaniards and Turks, The Carthaginians and Scythian, The Poles and Cossacks, The Indian Nations all one hundred twenty of them from Apache to Seminole.  The Polynesians and Hindi, Sihks and Tibetans, Maori and Australian Aborigines, Samoans and Hawaiians, Japanese and Thais, Cham and Chinese, Mongols and Kemer.  Beside each man walked his races living totem, his companion in war.  The Indian Tribes marched with their wolf, eagle, cougar, bear, wolverine or buffalo beside them.  The Mediterranean races were accompanied by lions, horses, dogs, hawks, jackals, panthers, and elephants.  The African Tribes walked cheetah, rhino, wildebeest, tiger, hyena, baboon, and gorilla.  The South East Asians and Islanders with komodo dragons, monitor lizards, orangutans, sloths, pandas, bats, and brahmas.  Altogether two hundred groups of one hundred men each with twenty animals in escort of each group the divided evenly and marched into the two ships.  Ten thousand men in each hold and four thousand animals packed the ships to their limits.


    Chambers force was formidable all right but would they get along until the battle started, Chambers said yes.  “I took the long view from the start,” he said, “if we told them up front what was happening and what we’d give them for helping in the war, they’d see reason and cooperate.  Also I strengthened their paternal instincts and race preservation drives.  They’ll fight the devil himself if you point him out.  Every one of them has a wife and child here Russell ready to join them on the world they win when the war is over.  That’s right, Jeff every RACE in your command is a dedicated loving father with the highest motivation to win and return home alive.  Now they all are armed with their traditional weapons but also carry gas masks, water canteens and nets for capturing the Denebians.  They’ve been instructed to collect and return Denebians to their camps as prisoners, but kill any Panit, Panor, or Panome they see.  The animals have the same training but reinforced by Hypno-Learning.  Those creatures have dreamed themselves being beaten and tortured by Shapers for years.  The self destructive device is automatic if the RACE or ACE brain, heart or lung activity stops a cellular poison is released into the blood stream within minutes no living tissue will remain. *ACE=Animal Clone EnhancedThe genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there.


    “Did you tell them about that too, Walter?” asked Russell.


    “Yes Russell, I did and I told them why.  They also agreed after viewing ADAM’s pictures of Hathlon’s people (before and after) Alteration.  This death was more preferable than that.  So you have two days before the Sphere will send its troops out to meet you.  Help them stay motivated both of you, camp them together for camaraderie and strength in numbers, plug up the enemy’s projective tubes quickly, and wait until all the Deneb slaves are outside before you use gas.  Our RACE’s will mask themselves at the first sight of your canisters popping.  The cargo (time hop) ships will collect the Denebs from the camps.  If you breach the Sphere the ACE’s will go in and clear it out before any RACE enters.  Be sure ADAM’s ‘blanket’ is deployed.  If they transport away your troops will be confused and easily defeated while trying to figure out what’s going on.  Time travel was the one concept none of their minds could grasp.  Not from a lack of intelligence either just that most of them don’t grasp the concept of time let alone traveling within it.”