The bright lights of the stage were blinding as I continued to play my saxophone. The crowd went crazy for me playing this thing. Through hot bright light I saw my newborn daughter asleep in a baby stroller in the front of the audience. Next to her was my beautiful wife watching me as I continued the solo. My family was beautiful...
"Arthur. Arthur!" my wife shouted. Suddenly I was driving on the road in the middle of the- "Do you see that?"
"The Mojave Desert honey its beautiful." I replied keeping my eyes on the road.
"No that." She said pointing outside of her window at what looked to be a- spaceship. The car drifted into the left lane before I could quickly regain control.
"Maybe we should check it out."
"After what happened in New York," I said. "No way not with Heather in the car-
"Arthur Sampson Douglas when have you been scared of anything!" She exclaimed.
"Since aliens began falling out of the sky." I relied to her. "Since we had a child."
My wife rolled down her window and the cool night air of the desert flooded into the car. She looked outside for a minute before she leaned over and kissed me on the cheek. Then she tried to climb onto my lap.
"Yvette-" I barely managed to say. I stopped the car on the side of the road. She pulled the keys from the ignition and climbed off my lap and got out of the car.
"One second." she shouted at me. I exited the car and chased after her. I was always faster than her so I reached her in seconds.
"Go back to the car now." I said.
"I'm getting a picture." she said, trying to pull away from me.
"Is it a picture you want?I'll do it just get back to the car," I said calmly. "Please."
My wife handed me the phone and began to strut back toward the car.
"Honey," I said and she turned to look back. "I love you."
She gave me a slight smile. "I love you too you big idiot."
I crept up toward the ship. The spaceship was huge, as big as a five story building and looked nothing like on TV. Firstly it wasn't a saucer but multiple rectangles on both sides of what looked to be the main body which itself was at least the size of a football field in length. There was a figure whom I couldn't quite make out. The person looked about 6'5" with nothing looking extraterrestrial about them from my distance.
I dared to go closer.
As I went closer to the ship I could begin to hear what the figure was saying.
"Loki was a failure we are no closer to finding what we need on earth," he said in a rough growling voice."The humans now know know of our presence in the universe. That changes everything."
Out if the corner of my eye I could see something crawling very slowly toward the spaceship.
It was my black SUV driving slowly up toward the ship. I tried to wave at the driver and tell her to go back but my wife didn't see me.
But the alien did.
I screamed and ran toward the car and was only 10 feet away before it all exploded in my face. I fell to my knees screaming and crying.
After the wind blew I saw my daughter's car seat safe and sound still close to the wreckage. I crawled at first before I could muster the strength to get up and run to her. When I reached her, I caught my breath panting and pushed the car seat as far as I could away from the wreak.
I turned around back at the fiery metal death trap that, previously was my SUV. The tall figure was gone. I turned to my daughter who was now gone. Not dead but simply gone.
"Humans are so tiny."said the tall figure who was now standing holding my baby.
"Do- Don't hurt her!"
"I do what I'd like when I'd like human." he spat back.
"Who are you," I cried. "What do you want?"
"I want the universe."
"A-are you going to kill me?"
"What is your name human?"
"Arthur." I said looking up at him. He was a vile heartless man. The first person I'd ever feel like I could truthfully kill.
"Arthur, I am Thanos and no I would not wish of killing you," Thanos said grinning then stopped. A voice boomed from the sky.
"Bring me the child Thanos," the voice commanded. "Dispose of the human."
I summoned the courage to stand up.
"Leave me and my daughter alone.
Thanos gave one last look at me before he shot me- how did he do that? Heat and energy ran through my bones. The pain was to much I doubled over and fell in the sand watching Thanos take my child back to his ship. I let the pain take over and embraced the end I felt myself slip away from the word but the entire time I held on to one word.
Thanos.