"two possibilities exist: either we are alone in this universe
or we are not. both are equally terrifying"
"ISS, This is Houston. Do you copy?"
"Go ahead." Josh Griffith answered.
"Mission abort. Repeat, mission abort. ISS, prep for immediate emergency evacuation. I repeat, prep for emergency evacuation."
"Copy all, Houston." Griffith said. "Kirari, immediate return to ISS for evacuation. Repeat, immediate return to ISS for evacuation."
"Copy that, Griffith." Yamaoka Kirari answered and began protocol for evacuation. While she was prepping for evacuation, she asked Houston to elaborate about the reason.
"Several unknown objects are traveling faster than a high-speed bullet towards your altitude. Do you copy?"
"Copy, Houston. Are they meteoroids?" Kirari asked.
"We don't know." Houston responded honestly. "Focus on evacuating, ISS. Do you copy?
"Copy that Houston. Prepping for immediate emergency evacuation aboard the Soyuz." Kirari said as she was floating towards the ISS station. Suddenly, she saw a blight light coming from the right side of her helmet. It wasn't the sun nor the meteoroids, but something else. And it was getting close towards her position and the station. Before she could notify Houston about the light, she turned and saw several more blight lights appearing near the first one.
"Houston, do yo-"
It was the last transaction between NASA and the ISS before communications were lost. Of course, they tried to reestablish communications until one of their satellites picked up a live feed of the destroyed ISS station. And the unknown objects had seemed to split up and headed towards the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean. Immediately, NASA contracted the Air Force to alert them of the coming objects.
The beaches of Los Angeles were filled with hundreds of people trying to cool off for the heat. It meant business for stores along the beach, especially the Anchor Bar. Lawson Ochoa was behind the bar serving drinks aside his bartenders to thirsty customers. He had been dealing with this amount of traffic during the summer for several years. The Anchor Bar was considered one of the popular bars that people went to during weekends. Ochoa was nearly finished with mixing the drinks when he saw someone entering the bar and said, "Guys, something's falling from the sky!"
And people, including Ochoa, immediately rushed outside to inspect the sky. When he got outside of his bar, he saw that several dozen people were looking up at the object falling from the sky. It only took seconds before it clashed on the ocean as the waves made its way towards the coast. Beachgoers began running away from the waves and towards land while the beach patrol ensured that everyone was safe. Some people started filming the whole thing on their cell phones. Inside the bar, he heard the news in the background and decided to investigate. The news anchor said that other objects also clashed into the water all over the world. Even NASA was scrambling to find out what those objects were.
Then, Ochoa heard strange noise that made him go outside again. He saw something coming up from the water that clearly wasn't man-made. It looked like a large industrial-like dome sitting in the middle of the ocean. It grew quiet for a moment until something emerging from the water. And it was clearly alien to everyone. Ochoa stared at the alien with curiosity and a bit of fear. Several more aliens also emerged from the water and stood near the shoreline. Some of the people walked slowly towards the aliens in the hopes of establishing peace, but the aliens unleashed hell upon them.
Everyone was running away from the aliens that were slaughtering people with ease. The beach patrol were outnumbered to fight them and joined the crowd of people fleeing. Ochoa ran inside the bar while several others also made their way inside. He ran towards the back to find his car keys and heard people using the back door to escape from the aliens. Before he could look at his office desk, one of his co-workers shouted for people to leave using the back door. Ochoa managed to find his car keys and bolted out of his bar while the aliens were sitting firing on everything that moved.
Everybody was running away, all the while Ochoa made his way towards the car. Once he got inside, he turned the car on and heard the radio talking about the attacks. According to the radio, the National Guard had begun their engage with the alien dome while the US government is planning on sending armed forces to deal with the threat. Ochoa drove away from the beach and planned on going back to his place to hide; but, the main road was filled with abandoned vehicles. So, he needed to find another way home.
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