<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>1st Squad</strong></span><br/><br/>With each passing second the sounds coming from the unknown device grew faster and faster, the interval between each beep shrinking and shrinking until suddenly they were no longer individual sounds but one solid tone. The moment this change occurred, the loud whine of a powerful charge building up began to emanate from the device. With their backs turned the members of 1st squad were unable to witness the entire spectacle taking place in the clearing.<br/><br/>What appeared to be arcs of electricity began to run across the surface of the device, each one stronger than the one before until they began to reach out from the device, striking the few trees that were standing in the clearing. Creating loud snapping sounds as the intense heat they gave of instantly superheated the air around them. As the whining noise reached it's highest pitch a sphere of blue white energy formed all around the device. As if immense explosive power was being held in check by some sort of field. Almost instantly this field seems to disappear and and the sphere of energy became a wave, which expanded 5 feet past the clearing in every direction. Wiping away any trace that anything but empty land had existed there before.<br/><br/>Despite how impressive this show was it turned out to be a mere faction of the raw power that the device gave off. The vast majority of the energy was not expelled outwards, but rather upwards. In the form of beam of blue-white energy that speared its way through the sky. And, presumably, into space.