A pre-teenage child sits at his desk, tapping the eraser-end of his pencil, while the entire class watches a movie on global issues.  A couple of children whisper to each other behind him, the female teacher stares at them to be quiet.

            The sky seems to have gotten brighter quickly, maybe the sun has broken through the clouds.  But then one student begins to mutter about something through the window on the side of classroom.

            The child looks through the window, as does a few others, and all are amazed at what they see.  In the sky a fair distance away, a bright orb of light hovers in mid-air.  The children rise from their desks and head to the window, the teacher tells them to sit down but once she sees it for herself, she stares on like her students.

            Then to everyone's surprise, a dark cloud forms around the orb and spins around it.  It looks like a very odd cyclone but the cloud does not lower and the clouds don't cast shadows on the ground by the natural sun.

            The video turns to static, spooking the class slightly.

            Onboard a United Federation StarShip, the U.S.S. Enterprise E, the crew does their regular jobs as they explore the galaxy.

            A small alarm sounds on Data's navigation console.  Captain Picard and Commander Riker wake up from their empty trances.  Data studies the incoming analysis, trying to understand what it is.

            "Captain," says Data without turning around.  "We are picking up and unknown object on our sensors., twenty-thousand kilometres ahead of current position."

            Picard stands up from his chair, "On screen."  On the bridge's main viewing screen, a small spot of light appears in the middle of star-filled plane.  "Magnify."  The picture zooms in and the spot becomes a circle.  "Again," the circle becomes a large bright sphere of light.  Riker gets from his chair as well and comes up to just behind the Captain's side.  "What is it, Data?" asks Picard.

            "Unknown, sir.  Some sensors say that it is not there, others say it is.  It could be a hole into sub-space."  Data reads more the sensor readings, "It also appears to be shrinking."

            The main screen begins to get interference, for their technology, this is a rare occurrence.

            "This is one-twenty blue-alpha, reporting a UFO."  A military jet flies around another orb of light, but keeps at least a mile between it and him.

            "We have a confirmed sighting, one-twenty.  What is it's appearance from your position?"

            "Well, it's… stationary, … pure white, … I don't know!  It looks like a miniature white sun."  He notices something, "There's a fog or … cloud coming out from it…  I think."

            "One-twenty, we will be sending…"  Static.

            "Come in, base zero-two, you are breaking up."

            "I can't believe he's gone," moans Ash Ketchem, Pikachu's owner.

            "I'm sorry, Ash," says Misty, "but we've been searching for him for over two weeks."

            "Hey!" yells Brock as he climbs up the steps.  They all sit on the far top row of a wooden pokémon stadium for amateur pokémon trainers.  "I gave a few posters to staff here, and they will post some around town."

            "Thanks, Brock," replies Ash.

            Down below on the grass painted field, two trainers use their pokemon, a Diglet and an Abra, in their battle.  Just as one is about to call an attack, the speakers surrounding the stands get feedback from somewhere.  Strangely, they weren't even turn on.

            Then a large monitor, which was in its early construction stages and shouldn't be operational yet, turns on to show only static.  The two pokemon are the first to notice that the strange clouds have filled the sky.

            "Has anyone seen Mugena lately," asks a teenage girl running up to a group of fellow classmates.  "She hasn't been in school the last two weeks."

            "I don't know," replies a boy in the group.

            "Maybe we should go and see if she's at home.  She might just be sick," suggests the youngest teenage girl in the group.

            "But I seen her last week," says the youngest teenage boy.

            "Where?" asks the first girl.

            "Down eighteenth street.  You know, near Mrs. Dutchinson's place."

            "Why would she be down there?" says another girl.

            A late-teenage boy bobs hits head as he listens to a disc-man, which is turned up to as high as it could.  "Could you turn it down, I might go deaf any minute from that!" yells the first boy.

            There is a loud screech from the headphones and the boy tears them off his head and turns off the disc-man.  "WHICH ONE OF YOU SCRATCHED MY CD!!" he yells.

            "Not me," replies each one, one at a time.

            "Maybe it finally broke," suggests a girl.

            But then, the disc-man begins to scream out static, the volume is still jacked up to its limits.  "What the—?!  I turned it off."  He checks it again, "It is off, there's no lights on."

            "It's broken."

            The static gets louder but begins to pulse in a non-pattern rhythm.

            A sweating office worker drives home from a long day.  He drives with the rush-hour traffic, which becomes slower as he tries to get through the downtown core.

            His radio turns to static, he tries to select a new station but they all are static as well.  At first he thinks that it maybe his car, but then his eyes notice something between the buildings, and is now hidden.

            He keeps his eyes on the road until he can see into the same direction.  He, as well as others on both the street and sidewalks, is shocked to see a bright orb of light hovering very low and inside the city.

            It's not hard to guess what everyone is thinking about their situations.  But what came next on every television, radio, computer screen, and communication devices took everyone by surprise.  Here's what they heard and/or saw…

            "YOUR WORLD WILL SOON BE DEAD!  YOUR DEFENCE HAS FAILED!"

            Pictures of different worlds, villains, and fallen heroes fill the screens all over.  Shinnok's, Xavier's, and Onslaught's voices are doing the yelling at everyone.

            "The Earth forces have failed.  Their leaders have been slaughtered!"

            "SOON OUR WORD WILL BE ABOVE LAW, IT WILL BE REALITY!"

            "A spy was placed in the group.  Their foolishness caused them their fall."

            "THE WORLD YOU KNEW IS GONE FOREVER!  EVERYTHING IS NOW OURS!  YOU ALL ARE NO MATCH FOR US NOW!"

            "NOT EVEN THE GODS CAN SAVE YOU NOW!  WE ARE NOW THE ULTIMATE GODS!!"

            "THIS IS IT!  NO MORE WAITING!  PREPARE FOR CHAOS!  PREPARE FOR THE INVASION!  …  PREPARE FOR WAR!  PREPARE FOR WAR!  WAR!!  WAR!!  WAR!!!  PREPARE FOR WAR!!!"  Static.

            On the Enterprise, the crew looks on at the screen which has turn back to normal and shows the orb of light.  They are all surprised and shocked at what they just saw, but the first thought on Captain Picard's mind is that it is most likely be a hoax.

            The F-16 pilot doesn't understand what happened but is obviously frightened by the words spoken.  While he was distracted, the ball of light has shrunk slightly.  When he turns around to see if it still there, the orb begins to generate electricity around itself.  It then explodes in a white, non-transparent wave and engulfs him.  He screams in horror.

            At the pokemon stadium, the ground begins to shake wildly and a wind suddenly comes in.  Ash, Misty, Brock, and the two pokemon trainers get out of the arena in time before the wind collapses it to the ground.

            Mugena's friends look at the sky at the shadowless clouds, lightning begins to flow from cloud to cloud until a bolt strikes the ground.  The gang runs for safety but once they turn the corner of the building, they notice the wall of white rushing towards them.  They all yell and scream in fear…

            The man gets settled back in his car so he can get home in a hurry but the traffic is terrible.  His car suddenly dies and he desperately tries to get it to turn over.  He tries it a few times, not knowing that something was coming down at his car.

            The car finally starts but it quickly dies again when a large creature lands on the hood and cripples the car.  The man slowly looks up at the creature through the cracked windshield.  Mutant Baraka brings his arm back and drives his arm-sword into the window, just missing the man.  He jumps out of the car in a panic and runs.

            Some of the children begin to cry because the television which seemed to have yelled at them.  But some of the child and the teacher are even more freaked out when another orb of light appears a little further pass the first one.

            Everyone screams as both orbs explode and their white surfaces race towards them.

            What is going to happen to these people is going to change their lives forever.

Andrew Logeot and Elecbyte present

Mortal Kombat

M.U.G.E.N 3

INVASION