The Voice of God (standard:science fiction, 998 words)
Author: pjlawton	Added: Apr 25 2003	Views/Reads: 3444/2332	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A traveler severely injured and alone hears a voice, a voice so wonderful that it can only be "the voice of God."

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his location and they would be coming for him. 

So weak he could barely keep his eyes open, he had missed most of the
last message from the voice.  It was something about only a few more 
hours. He didn't know how long ago that had been, could have been 
minutes, could have been hours. 

Surprisingly, in the distance he could see something approaching that
looked to be some sort of machine. Must be the messengers from God, it 
had to be, the voice had promised him that they were coming to save 
him.  Forcing himself upward pushing his battered and broken body more 
than he thought was possible he moved to stand. Putting on his 
brightest smile, he raised his hand to welcome them. Suddenly darkness 
overwhelmed him. With hardly a sound he slowly toppled forward into the 
dust, a slight quiver, and he was still. 

The two Space Marines stopped their armored land speeder by the crashed
one-man space ship. 

The first stepped forward and looked down at the broken body lying in
the dust. 

“See, I told you it was an alien ship. Look. He's dead all right.” 

“Well, Sarge what do we do now? Do you think he was able to get a
message off? The ship looks pretty burned out. Hopefully the radio 
equipment was destroyed.” 

“Radio equipment? Hell, son they don't use radio equipment. Look there
behind his ear. That's a communication implant. That's how they talk to 
each other. The signal lets the message go directly into the brain. 
Don't need any radios. Come on lets go, there's nothing more to do 
here.” 

Somewhere in the darkness of space a beautiful but saddened tear choked
voice was speaking. 

. . . ARGO-1 are you there, please come in. . .ARGO-1. . . ARGO-1
please. . . 

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