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Overpopulation, disease, and ecological disaster were edging humanity toward extinction. Hope arrived in the haan, an alien race that promised us a future. And what they wanted in exchange seemed so harmless... Sam Shao has found out too much about the haan, by accident. All humans have to get along with themwe owe them our livesand Sam even counts a haan among her best friends. But the more she learns, the less she trusts them It doesnt help that the building of new haan colonies seems to be coinciding with a rash of missing persons cases. Sam and her hacker friends are determined to reveal the truth about the haan, before its too late. The aliens are still promising salvation, and they seem set to deliver, but with things already spinning out of control Sam is confronted with a possibility no one wants to admitthat what salvation means to humankind and what it means to the haan may be two horribly different things.

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James K. Decker

FALLOUT

For Mom, Dad, and Kim.

Chapter One

Alexei, you ready? I sent over the 3i chat. His little heart icon beat in the tray that floated just in front of my eyes.

Almost. U here?

Were here. Start packing up.

Vamp and I headed down the hallway of the Jianwei apartment high-rises top floor, and I could feel him watching me from the corner of his eye. When his look lingered, I pulled one strap of my tank top down to flash him a tattooed shoulder and he laughed.

Sorry.

Its okay, I said, cocking a bony hip at him. I guess I am pretty irresistible.

He let it lie at the joke, but Id stalled his advances for months. Id have to get serious about it sooner or later, one way or the other.

But not tonight.

Outside the hallways windows Hangfei sprawled as far as the eye could see, a sea of liquid neon color and blazing white. Streams of aircars flowed past, layers crisscrossing over one another as they zipped between buildings and the congested streets below. I slowed as we passed by, and then stopped for a minute to look. Id seen the city and the haan ship that had crashed inside it all a thousand times before, but these days it all looked different somehow. Through the window I could make out the arc of faint blue from the haan force-field dome, which glowed around their massive ship. Above it, the defense shield theyd constructed for us made a dark pocket of shadow in the sky near where the star of Fangwenzhe, the size of a large coin, shined. The clusters of hexagonal panels hung suspended high in the air, each part of a roughly spherical array. The filaments that connected them looked hair thin from the ground but I knew each panel was the size of a buildings footprint and the tethers were as thick around as railcars. Channels on the surface of the shield panels flickered with soft orange light, making it look like an angry, flaming eye that stared out toward the sea as if daring the foreigners forces to try to approach.

You okay? Vamp asked.

I nodded. It went up so fast.

They say the haan have made more progress in Hangfei in the last six months than they did in the ten years before that.

Six months. The six months since they attempted to destroy the Pan-Slav Emirates to the north, and failed. Six months since their shell got peeled back almost, but not quite, far enough to let everyone see that they had a lot they werent telling. Theyd used that time to shower us with tech, pull back on their calorie demands, and get very close to the citys new governess. Public opinion had always leaned in their favor, but now more and more of their detractors had begun shifting their positions.

They think theyre running out of time, I said.

Are they?

Id always believed the haan were our friends, that they were gentle, fragile, intelligent, and kind. I learned the hard way that while they were certainly intelligent, and that they could be gentle, they were very powerful and not always kind. They could be brutal, and while their previous female, Sillith, had failed to wipe out the Pan-Slavs and earn much-wanted space for her people, before she died shed released something into our world that even now festered in the streets below.

They think they are, I said. Thats all that matters.

Vamp looked down at the streets below, his breath fogging the window.

You think it could really be true, what the haan told you? he asked.

Who knows? I said, but the truth was that I believed it. Maybe thats why the city looked different to me now. It was different. Everything was.

Our dimensions overlapped, and then merged, collapsing your universe. After the collapse the field surrounding our world broke down, and in your universes last moments, your instance was pulled through to replace ours. It began at the opposite side of the planet, and circled the globe in hours. In our last minutes we managed to reestablish a field around the facility, to stop the collapse there, but by then it was too late. All that was left is what you call Shiliuyun, the facility where the experiment took place. Your universe is gone. It died with my world.

The haan ship hadnt crashed here. It had never moved. The world around it had been overwritten by ours until they stopped it and a quarter million of our people were displaced out of existence by Shiliuyun, and as crazy as it sounded, I believed it. We now lived in the universe the haan had lived in, though almost no one knew it. The haan, with the help of our government, had managed to keep it a secret in spite of the fact that the harder you looked, the more obvious it became. The generations who might have known certain stars and planets hadnt existed before the haan arrived had begun to die off. All contact with the world outside our borders had been cut off, lies were streamed over the wire, and anyone who tried to tell the truth disappeared.

How do you think the haan will react when the truth gets out? Vamp asked, stopping to look out at the ship with me. The black specks of scaleflies swarmed past the light of the dome.

I dont know, I said. Knowing them, they probably wont. Theyll offer us something even newer and shinier, something to distract us. Its security that will react.

And how do you think theyll react?

Badly.

Alexeis chat popped back up.

Sam?

Yeah, yeah. Hold on.

Alexeis asking where you are, Vamp said.

I laughed a little, and Vamp joined me as I stepped away from the window to continue on.

He loves that chat, I said.

So, how are things going with him? Vamp asked.

Hes doing better.

Yeah?

Youll see. Hes getting there. Hes been through a lot, you know?

It felt like kind of an understatement. His father had been killed near the Pan-Slav border zone, and then Alexei got rounded up in a refugee camp and handed over to the haan. Hed seen his mother die in front of him when she and Dragan, my adoptive father, rescued him but he saw even worse, I think, down in the ruins underneath the haan ship. Hed been eight years old then. After Dragan had saved me from the brink of death at the hands of Hangfei meat farmers, hed taken me in, just like hed taken in Alexei. Id given him years of grief in return, years of lashing out before we became as tight as we were. Alexei had decided to give me a run for my money, spending months almost catatonic before he began to crack at the seams.

Hows Dragan holding up?

Hes holding up.

Did he get assigned to secure the protest in Xinzhongzi?

No, we shouldnt run into him there.

I felt a tickle through the surrogate mite cluster before I ever even saw the haan. I turned the corner and saw a young woman up ahead, walking in our direction while cradling a squirming bundle against her chest. From the cocoon of blankets, I saw the glasslike, spindly little haan fingers pawing at the air. Then it peeked its head up. It had detected me, too, and its eyes, like orange embers, found me. My stomach growled, then, as the connection formed. The little haan hadnt eaten, and his hunger was contagious.

The stray signal sent an empty pang through my chest, but even so, I found myself savoring it. He saw me see him as we got closer and he reached toward me, groping with his delicate little hands. I disabled the junk filter, and let him in for just a second. Right away, a chat window popped up in the air in front of me.

hi

I gave him a little wave and felt a surge from him. Excitement and a rush of happiness that made my throat burn even as I smiled. I missed it. I really missed it. In spite of what I knew about them, nothing quite compared to that connection and when I quit the program it had left a void behind I hadnt been able to fill.

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