The Earth Fights Back

Prologue

iii  PROLOGUE wobua, the king of a small rocky satellite of Mars, known as Mungongoh, had a life’s goal, and this was to rid the earth of all humans and transfer his subjects to the earth. All the top brains in Mungongoh had thus been concentrated in an institution meant for the development of ideas to conquer the earth, popularly known as the IRDI or Institute of Research for the Development of Ideas. This institution had surfaced with various diabolic ideas, hideous enough to make Lucifer jealous that he was not the author, but which apart from causing much sorrow on earth had never actually proved efficient enough to rid the earth of all mankind. They had introduced plagues, Bird and swine flue, Ebola, HIV/AIDS and many others. They had even introduced a weapon of mass destruction, the neutron bomb, and would have completely cleared the earth of humans if their plans had worked as intended. The king had regularly taken out his frustrations on his servant dwarfs, who were generally the ones in the way when his fists went flying. Apart from being used as side stools, the dwarfs served the king’s favourite drink, mukal when ever he ordered for it. Mobuh, his flabby chief minister was his main liaison with the people of Mungongoh and paid total allegiance to him. He equally succeeded in getting the life of Professor Itoff, the head of the IRDI, spared by King Awobua after several failures by the IRDI, to produce results. Other prominent members of the IRDI, were Dr. Funkuin, Fulumfuchong and Yivissi. Non members of the IRDI worth noting were; Ngess, a simple man who had the ability to assess correctly and deduce the right outcome, but just like Cassandra in ancient Troy, his opinion, was always sought only after a seemingly impeccable A iv  idea had failed; Nyamfuka, a handsome spy attached to Dr. Funkuin. King Awobua kept ferocious lions as pets, and the mangled bodies of dwarfs that he often hammered to death by his vicious outbursts of anger were provided as choice tit bits to the lions. Mungongoh citizens that were suspected of treason equally ended up here. A few of the members of the IRDI blamed for having failed to provide the king with the opportunity of taking over the earth, also met with death through the champing jaws of the lions. The last great idea developed by the IRDI was a massive offensive against the earth, and this involved the use of every pestilence available and the neutron bomb. To achieve this, agents were dispatched in their numbers to the earth to smuggle out and take to Mungongoh, every material or item that would be used in this massive offensive. When some of these agents were apprehended and the disappearance of nuclear materials, samples of deadly viruses etc. was discovered, there was general panic. A crises meeting of the super powers was summoned by the president of America, where it was decided that there should be general alert and complete unity among nations. This meeting had been closely monitored by king Awobua, who discovered that although the earthlings were still fogged as to the origin of their problems, they were determined to fight back. Prodded by a suggestion from Dr. Kini, one of his academicians, the king had decided to order the suspension of the offensive against the earth. All Mungongoh agents were withdrawn from the earth, while all flying saucer expeditions to earth ceased. King Awobua was waiting for them to become complacent and forget about the threat from outer space, before striking. v  On earth, nations had improved upon their collaboration with each other and ceased all aggressive acts. North and South Korea were now operating on the most cordial terms. China had buried the war hatchet with Taiwan, and the Dalai Lama, who was now living in Tibet, visited China often. The Israeli were assisting Palestine through a lot of construction work and equally had embassies in all the Arab countries, while the Arabs were now speaking about Israel on the friendliest terms. Strategic factories for the production of weapons of mass destruction and other arms had now been transformed into giant factories for the production of house hold goods and other harmless but useful items. Even the Soviet Union had jettisoned communism and totalitarianism and the various socialist republics that had existed within the union were...