[center][h2]After the End[/h2][/center]

"It was the night of July 4th. Most everyone in America was looking up at the sky, watching fireworks take off and explode in brilliant colorful lights. It was a night of fun, barbecues, bad dad jokes and laughter. None of us could've known the world would end that night. 

We saw a flash of light erupt among the stars. Before we had a chance to wonder what was happening or what it was, a blue light covered the world and screams replaced laughter. I felt like my body was burning and I passed out. When I woke up, everyone was dead. Just like that. 

Ma and Pa and my older brother and his kids, the neighbors and their kids. Not just people though, animals too. Well, most of them. The insects, and little animals like rats and such seem to be in abundance still. And most of the smaller tougher plant life is unaffected as well, though the tall trees are already starting to brown. 

I don't know why I was one of the few to survive, but I'm sure as hell going to make the grey bastards who did this pay. I won't let their mech-suits or weapons stop me."

~ Jessyka "Jess" Myers, age 23