The old man first called out to the young guy. Seeing that he couldn’t get through to him, he walked up and tapped on the man's shoulder.
Being tapped on the shoulder jolted the youth out of his trance. “Ugh…, owe sorry! How may I help you?” The youth turned his head and spoke awkwardly while taking off his headphones.
“Young man, are you not aware of what is going on outside?” The old man spoke with excitement and wonder. His eyes shone with a gleam as if he had seen something new for the first time.
“No” the youth replied with a questioning look on his face.
“Alien’s! There are aliens outside!” The old man shouted while grabbing both the young man’s shoulders with excitement.
“Excuse me, sir, is this some kind of joke? You know aliens don’t exist, right.” Replied the young man while looking at the senior man seriously.
“I’m not joking nor am I intoxicated or crazy. You’ll know if you go outside and look up towards the sky.” The old man spoke calmly after realizing that he may have gone overboard, just a bit.
“Okay, sir, I’ll go,” replied the young man while looking down at his tablet. ‘It’s getting late; I should just head out and see what he is talking about.’ He thought while looking at the time.
The old man nodded and said, “This could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you.”
He then left the youth and went to go and tell all the other people in the library about what he had seen.
Getting up and putting all his stuff away, the youth made his way out of the building. What greeted him were quiet streets. After looking around, he noticed that no one was moving; everyone stood still, looking and pointing up toward the sky. Noticing this the youth also looked up.
What he saw were the aliens the old man spoke of, or to be more precise, their ships. Looking up, he saw choppers flying toward the strange ships. As if the aliens understood this action, they responded by opening up their ship-hanger doors.
The helicopters noticed this and stopped flying towards them, indicating that they meant no harm.
“Do you think they understand us?” A stranger close by spoke to the person next to them.
“Maybe they do? They have been floating there for almost three hours.” The other stranger replied to the question while nodding.
The youth heard all of this, and mentally took note. But just then, everything took a sudden turn for the worse.
A building came crashing down next to the youth, covering the whole area in heavy dust. As everything settled the Chaos had begun.
‘The Earth as we know it has come to an end?’ He thought, losing all hope for survival… until he was awoken from his despair, by an unbelievable seen.
A Mech just got hit by a missile and broke apart, but what happened next blew his mind.
“Is that Mech Regenerating…?”
The broken Mech started to repair itself. That scene scared him from the deepest
Parts of his being.
“Th… this… this is madness; I need to get out of here!”
So, he ran as fast as he could as he thought to himself, ‘I need to get out of the city. I need to run as far as possible.’ He witnessed the Alien Mechs killing people and destroying the high-rise buildings and wiping out the military and its air force.
He noticed that the Mechs were only targeting people in large groups, where they piled up their bodies. ‘I must separate myself from groups of people to increase my chances of survival; I must get out of town.’ He had no time to think so he just ran. He ran as fast as possible and as far as possible.
As he ran, the sounds of explosions and the screams of people started to fade out. He made it out of the city alive, but it was not the time to relax. He still spotted the occasional Mech killing people in the suburbs. They not only killed people but also dogs trying to protect their masters.
He managed to stay out of sight of those killing machines; maybe they noticed him but didn’t pay any attention to him because he was alone.
That didn’t stop him from running; his only thought was to get out of the populated areas and avoid all the roads. He managed to leave the city and its towns altogether. Even though he was exhausted, that didn’t stop him from running.
He started to get his thoughts together and began to think, ‘When did all this happen, and why did this all happen?
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The invasion should have happened about three hours ago or around there; I remember sirens going off around that time, and then they appeared, the Mechs. It happened so suddenly at first, we were all amazed by those strange cube-shaped ships.
They kept descending, and their hanger doors opened up to reveal strange, almost humanoid-shaped robots, which I call Mechs. The strange Mechs flew out of the ship’s hangers and descended while holding strange weapons that looked like guns.
One of the Mechs aimed its gun, but there was no sound nor light, nothing, or so we thought; just then, a group of people standing looking at the strange sight just dropped dead.
Then the slaughter started I can still smell the blood and hear the screams of the people… it was terrifying. A few minutes later, the military arrived, but that didn’t change a thing. It just made the place more chaotic.’
Getting his thoughts together he realized that the Earth had been invaded. So, he started to wonder why they were using those strange weapons to kill people and animals. These questions kept rising in his mind.
“What are they here for?
“Why is this happening?”
“Why are they using those weapons on people and animals but not on the military?”
He remembered how those aircraft were shot down by lasers and the tanks were sliced in half from a distance by strange swords. His questions didn’t stop there, he muttered in a low voice
“Who… are… they?”
Yes, that was the biggest question that he had. By now, he was getting tired from all the running, so he slowed down and gasped for air while thinking, ‘I think I’m going to die of exhaustion.
It was at that time that he noticed his surroundings, he was in a forest not far from the city.
‘I must have run twenty to thirty kilometers; my body is giving in,’ he thought.
“I… must… rest,” he spoke as his lungs struggled to cope with his body’s oxygen needs.
He looked around for a bit before spotting a tree not far from where he was, so he decided to rest under it.
Breathing heavily, he sat down on one of the tree roots. His mind still brewing with questions about what was going on.
‘Come on Gray get your head together, this is not the time to get yourself lost in questions,
That you don’t even know the answers to.’
Just then, Gray heard a strange sound; it made his hair stand on end.
He shouted while looking around for any danger.
“Oh… sh*t… that almost gave me a heart attack! Phew… it’s my phone.” Gray spoke as he relaxed. He took the phone out of his pocket and looked at the caller ID. On the phone screen there was a picture of a middle-aged woman, under the picture was just one word…
Gray didn’t hesitate to answer the video call. “Hello Mom, how are you? Are you safe? Are you alright?”
He bombarded his mother with questions. In this world, there was only Gray and his mother.
His father, Nick Heart, died in a car accident when he was just a baby; Gray’s Mother, Linda Heart, has been taking care of him since then.
The middle-aged woman spoke… “Hello Gray, calm down. I’m fine, where are you? Did those things appear where you are?”
Just then Gray breathed out a sigh of relief.
Gray replied, “I’m fine, Mom, don’t worry about me. Where are you?”
Gray’s Mother started to explain her situation to him. “Gray, don’t worry. I’m safe. I managed to evacuate with the neighbors; we are in the council hall at the moment.”
At that moment, all of his worries arose, and he remembered how those alien Mechs were targeting people in groups; he instantly spoke up to warn his mother not to stay in groups of people.
But alas it was too late!
Gray watched on the screen as a Mech tore off the roof of the council hall and fired its strange weapon on the poor, unsuspecting civilians, including his mother. Right before his very eyes, on his only relative, his mother had died at the hands of those strange invaders.
Gray screamed at the top of his lungs; his eyes went bloodshot while tearing up at this frightening sight.
“Noooo! MOM! Mother! Are you there…?”
But there was no answer to Grays cries, the screen went black and all he heard were the screams of random people and the sounds of machines moving and the ground rumbling. After a few minutes, the call was cut; Gray could not believe what had just happened; his breath quickened, and his already sweaty body became even more drenched.
“What… just happened…?” Gray muttered in a weak and trembling voice.
From all the shock and exhaustion he had received, Gray passed out. After a while… he awoke, and his leg muscles were trembling from all the running he had done earlier; his head felt like it would explode from a sickening headache.
He managed to stand up and look at his phone, the time was two in the afternoon. Gray muttered in an exhausted and helpless voice, as he looked at his phone after trying to reach his mother again for nth time.
“My Mother should have… died. No! I… I refuse to accept that. I will find her or what’s left of her… enough moping around!” Clenching his fists with all the force he could muster to try and get his act together.
“The invasion started around twelve this afternoon, so they were here around seven this morning; it took me five hours to leave town, then I passed out for about an hour and forty minutes….
Here I am in the middle of nowhere, alive and kicking. But I swear that If I ever come face to face with those F**kers, I will tear them apart with my bare hands and drink their blood!” He shrieked in a horrifying voice.
After some time, he calmed himself down. He then came up with a plan to survive. “Not far from here is a farm. It will take about an hour to get there on foot, I might be able to find some supplies and something to eat.” He spoke as he looked at his phone.
‘I’m starving.’ Gray thought to himself while listening to his stomach rumble.
He started to make his way slowly to the farm that he mapped out on his phone.
He paid close attention to his surroundings while making his way to the farm. As Gray got closer to his destination, he noticed a strange cuboid-shaped structure occupying space in a brown wheat field.
The wind picked up and blew by, creating a strangely beautiful scene. Standing at the edge of the forest observing his surroundings. He noticed that no Alien Mechs were guarding it, nor were there any Mechs around. Gray still did not let his guard down as he surveyed the Alien ship.
“That thing must be thirty meters high, wide, and long It’s huge.”
Gray said in a low voice as he carefully crawled through the wheat field while circling the ship in the center of the field. As he circled the ship, he noticed that the hanger bay door was open and there was no one guarding it.
Then, a dangerous thought started popping up in his mind. ‘Dammit, those things have my mother or, even worse, killed her; besides, how long can I survive this invasion? This is an opportunity to get answers, at least I can see the faces of those bastard’s that killed my mother and maybe get some revenge on them.’ As he thought about it, he went against his usual cautious personality and decided to take the risk.
“Here I go” he whispered and started to make his way to the ship.