As I fall asleep in my bed, I start to feel different, like I was somewhere else. The air around me changed from the spring breeze to blazing heat, I saw an irritating red light, even though my eyes were closed. Irritated I reached for my lamp; only to find that it was not there.
I opened my eyes to find my room, as well as the entire little Village of Swords in complete ruin.
I stood up, and saw a dark shadow moving towards me.
I found myself unable to move, and when it finally reached me, I woke up.
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Tyler tried to stand up to a sitting position, only to smack his head so hard in the roof that he almost fainted. The pain was intense, but it soon faded away.
Tyler stroke his yellow hair, trying to see if he got a bump in the head, but there were none.
Still feeling a little scared over the dream, Tyler looked at his room; clothes were tossed around, the TV showed static, one of his two chairs was flipped over, with some clothes on it, and the table was filled with empty pizza packs, everything was as it should be.
That dream had happened fourteen times the last two months, each time more realistic than the other, however this time it seemed like it really had happened. Tyler thought at first that it was only a dream, but now he's not so sure anymore.
Suddenly he heard a shout down in the ground floor "Tyler, food's ready, come down before I give it to the dog next door" Tyler answered his mother with "you'll feel pain if you do", stood up from bed, even if he had to bend his back, put his clothes on and ran down to the Kitchen.
The breakfast existed of some eggs and beacon as well as some toast, which Tyler was good with. He talked a little with his mother, mostly about his dream, which she told was nothing to worry about, Tyler then took on his jacket and boots, and went to school.
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In the meantime out in space, something was arriving, it was humongous and made of metal. The structure was a bit odd, as it was looking like a Shooting star. On many places there were placed heavy weaponry, and its black-Grey color gave it an cruel, and evil look. The bridge was placed directly in the front, giving the only view of the inside, and outside.
Inside of the ship the commander was conversing with his superiors, in the control room there were no other people that listened, as there were none. The hologram of his superiors was briefing on the mission that the commander had set out on for so long ago.
The earth had been discovered to have lots of people that had sensitivity to the same Mystical power as the Rakata, and they could be used as an army to stop all that rebelled against the Rakata race, but from watching the planet for a while it was made clear that they would not do so willingly. An army was assembled, with Force-General Hod Kegle in the lead.
The four holographic Superiors were mainly concerned with the sensitive people, and had no care about the other humans, making the briefing as quick as possible "your orders are simple, take as many prisoners as possible" one of them said, he wore a hood to disguise his appearance, but everyone knew who he was "I still mean that there might be a peaceful solution to this, General Slo Gatono" said Gri tobo, the new Governor of Selonia, but his meaning was countered with the answer from Thedyn, the Emperor of the Infinite Empire "you have seen their action during the last two hundred years, they are too dangerous to just ask for the people we need".
However the new Governor were not satisfied yet "and what will become of those not force sensitive?" he asked. This question was answered by Slo Gatono "they will be enslaved" he said, pausing before he finished
"those that survive that is"
Hod had been listening the whole time, and got exited on the last comment; he could finally get to kill someone.
He feared that he would have to take almost all of the population prisoners, now he could kill as many as he would want. "Is your mission understood" Slo asked.
Hod didn't answer, he only nodded "good" the King said with an evil look before he continued "your invasion points will be on the Nations of Mexico, China, Chad, Australia and Ireland, you will leave as soon as you have prepared for takeoff. Good luck". The hologram was ended, and Hod found himself alone in the room.
Satisfied on how that meeting went he walked out of the room and to the bridge. As he entered the bridge he was greeted by two fellow Rakata and a Selonian. "Sir" said the female Selonian "what are we to do first?"
Hod thought about it then started "disturb their communications, we are invading" the answer was greeted by cheer from the Rakata, but not from the other races. But who could blame them; they were also forced to be slaves of our glorious empire...
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It was a quiet day as always, the sky was cloudy but people didn't mind, the neighborhood being quite friendly and helpful if something should go wrong, no weapon dealings were found or anything.
The school was boring, and everyone wanted to go home, a dream that became a reality a few hours later.
When I got home I went to the living room and started to watch TV. The news detailed the problems in Iraq and other problems in the world, when it suddenly went to static, not thirty seconds later.
"what the…" but Tyler didn't say any more, it wasn't needed. He tried turning the television of and on, but it didn't work, he also tried disconnecting the box and let it cool down a little, with no success.
After around half an hour of frustration, he decided to go out for a while and relax a little that way.
Tyler walked down to the food store; while he walked he met many people, some who seemed to be going wild about not having television, and some moaning about how they were going to miss their favorite show.
At the food store he met up with two of his friends, Simon Handworth, a short black haired Half Asian boy, and Jeff Haalgand, the tall, blond Norwegian kid. "Hey man" said Jeff, while waving his hand towards Tyler "did the TV break down at your place too?" Simon asked, clearly hoping that it didn't "Yes" Tyler said, followed from a loud moan from Jeff "You too? Man I hoped we could crash at your house"
"I tried to call you and Jeff" Simon said, paused but continued "but it seems like all communications are down" he stopped, clearly as angry as Jeff, but much better to hide it. "Weird" Tyler said.
Suddenly a large boom came from the sky; everyone got startled, and looked up to see that there were something coming through the clouds. At first it looked like a giant spear, big enough to crush half the Town, then the spear seemed to pull back its front, until it became a half metal Pyramid, while its sides continued to stretch further and further, like a shooting star, and in the end it looked like a engine; a spaceship.
It landed just outside the Town, and the people around Tyler and his friends panicked, frightened of what the aliens could do.
After five minutes suddenly several smaller spaceships appeared from the larger, all formed like long Pyramids with wings, five engines and a cockpit.
The ships flew over the town, and within a few minutes, large explosions occurred all over, the aliens were bombing Swords.
The food store vanished within five minutes, killing many innocent people; people were in full panic now, running wild all over the Town, occasionally pushing other people over, or even attacking them in full rage over something they did earlier.
Tyler, Simon and Jeff realized quickly what they had to do; abandon Swords, the place they grew up in, and was their only home...
and if they didn't get out, their graves...
they split up and ran towards their own houses, not wanting to leave their family, and quickly try to stock up on their supplies, however Tyler arrived to see his house already gone from one of the earlier bombs, and in the ruins, he saw his mother.
The body was torn, and her arm was missing, if it was the right or the left, one could see, she was almost blown to the unrecognizable, but Tyler recognized her immediately.
In shock he started to shamble towards her, stumbling on the way, the sounds of explosions and cries for help or fear occurred all over town now, but he saw only his mother dead in the rubble, he fell over both due to the shock and something in his way, yet he kept crawling on all four, the shock still in effect, until he reached her hand, then he broke down and cried.
Jeff arrived at the scene with his parents and little sister; Tyler heard the shock from them, but he still continued to cry, clutching his mother's charred hand as he did so, until Henrik, Jeff's father lifted him to his feet, and said with a sad heart "your mother would have wanted you to have survived this".
Tyler looked to his mother's corpse, tears still in his eyes; he knew it was true, but it still hurt to have a loved one taken away that easily.
Tyler looked back to the others, the entire family appeared to be crying over the loss, even Henrik, who never cried, not even during his uncle's funeral, which said a lot.
Yet... Simon wasn't there...
"where is Simon?" Tyler asked, confused, his and Jeff's house was much closer to each other, than either was to his own, they should have met first, then go to Tyler.
Jeff was the one who answered "Simon is still at his house, he wanted to try to collect some food before we leave.
The group heard someone close by, but if he was other human survivors, or if the aliens decided to come in and finish the rest of us, neither Tyler, nor any other in the group could say.
They started to sneak into the direction of the talking, hoping to save some more before they got out. It led them straight into a back alley with a wall that had lost a large portion, enough for the group to gaze through.
The buildings were either burning up, or already gone, there were signs of battle everywhere, probably some police officers trying to save remaining innocent lives. An Estate seemed relatively undamaged, mainly because it was used as an enemy HQ.
The house they had taken looked heavily guarded; living people were held in a gathered group, while dead ones were laying spread around the ground.
The group weren't able to see how the aliens looked like because of the masks they wore.
Then a green colored man came out of the house. The green skinned man was thin and bald, had a large egg shaped cranium, and a long nose less face, and he had no lips.
He was also carrying some small device, which we didn't have a clear view of. He walked towards the prisoners, the guards didn't stop him, he grabbed one of the male Prisoners, and set the small device on him. It made some strange sounds, and then the green man summoned one of the guards.
Tyler and the others didn't hear what they said, but they surely wouldn't understand what he said anyway.
The soldier then grabbed the prisoner by the shirt, and started to drag him towards the house. The prisoner didn't have any energy left to try to resist, so he begged, he begged them not to take him, but the soldier didn't listen, and finally followed by a loud scream once he reached inside.
Suddenly both Tyler and Jeff heard someone talk behind them; they slowly turned around, cautiously to not make any sound if it were the enemy.
There were five enemies, all wearing gray masks with yellow eyes and matching gray suits, but three of them had a mark on their left arm, one had a yellow mark with some alien script, while the two others had red marks.
They didn't see the little group... yet... giving Tyler and the others some time to at least try to escape...
Suddenly, Maria, Jeff's little sister made a fast movement that knocked a rock over, the enemy looked, now knew we were here, and were heading right for Tyler and the others.
Tyler was paralyzed with fear, thoughts and images of death swarmed in his head, images of his dead classmates, of his friends that were about to die, of his torn up mother, and what would happen to the rest of the world.
No.
His arm reacted to this thought, though only barely...
I won't let humanity be destroyed by this menace...
His hand started to move forward...
I will save everyone I care about...
His hand was directly in front of him now...
and I will stop them!
and he screamed "NO!"
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It all happened so fast...
a powerful invisible shock wave burst from Tyler's hand, plunging the enemies and all the rubble in the way backwards.
The rock hit the aliens hard, killing them instantly.
The troops were spread all over the street, with one landing in the ruined house on the other side of the street, some bleeding from the sharp rocks. The weapons didn't get damaged, though they were knocked out of the hands of the enemy.
Jeff and the others were both surprised and shocked over what they had just seen, but Tyler was paralyzed with surprise and fright, also he felt completely drained of energy, like he had just run five rounds around a football field.
Henrik and Camilla, Jeff's mother had already started to grab the weapons the troops were carrying. Jeff and Maria were still looking at Tyler, as shocked as he was, but not as tired.
Tyler was offered a hand from Jeff who must have gotten up while he wasn't watching, and Tyler, finally starting to be able to move again, gladly accepted it, but when he stood up, he ended up falling forward of exhaustion, landing on his stomach.
Tyler felt more and more sleepy, until he finally fell asleep...
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Jeff was scared. Whatever Tyler did seemed to have saved their lives, but that might have given away their position, and they needed to sneak out to get to safety...
Suddenly he remembered what was behind the wall. He dared give a peak, three masked aliens were headed for them, he whispered to his little sister "Maria, Run".
She understood quickly what he meant, and ran to his father. Jeff turned Tyler around and grabbed his arms and began to drag the unconscious boy out of the Alley, Henrik must have already understood why, because he said "hide" to Camilla, whom immediately ran to one of the wreaked buildings with three of the guns in hand.
Henrik ran backwards, trying to figure out how to use the Weapons, until he found out, nearly shooting a survivor that came running from one of the nearby streets.
The survivor came running toward them, through the ruined houses, understanding why the group was running towards it. All of them hid behind the destroyed wall, with the exception of Tyler, who was dragged behind the wall enough not to be noticed, or passed as a corpse. "What were you trying to do?" he whispered "kill me?"
"If it would shut you up, yeah..." Henrik whispered, the survivor understood what he meant and stopped talking.
The troops didn't notice them it seemed, but suddenly a machine came through the wall; it had four spider-like legs, its lower body part looked like a vase, the legs connected to a circular plate on top of the vase, its upper body had the appearance of the top of a barrel, connected with the lower through a large metal cylinder, its head was like the upper body, but the cylinder connecting it was smaller, and was also connected to some kind of gun on its Right side, and something that looked like a camera on the Left. Also an antenna was placed on the left side of the head.
It proceeded slowly towards Jeff and the others; they knew that he knew where they were hiding.
Suddenly one of the aliens said something not from the earth, and the droid seemed to be able to translate "we know you are there" it said.
the alien continued and the droid translated "he Rakata race has already conquered ninety-two planets, there is no point in resisting"...
Henrik, Camilla and the survivor grabbed a rifle each, Henrik showed the others how to operate it, they stood up and started to shoot against them.
The first seconds of the battle the Human warriors managed to kill two of the Aliens, but both the droid and the last alien was quick to shoot back at them.
Camille aimed for the droid but before she could destroy it, she was hit in the arm; she bent down in pain and was unable to fire. The survivor managed to hit the surviving alien in the throat after a long exchange of laser fire; however the droid made it hard to fire any bullets, as it fired repeatedly.
Jeff decided that it was time for him to protect his sister, grabbed a rifle and, after following how his father did it, but instead of going up to aim, he saw were the droid stood, and aimed behind the wall, then he jumped up, shot one shoot, which hit the droid straight in his gun, disabling it. The droid tried to run away, but Henrik managed to shoot his two left legs, tipping him over to the left, and stopping him from going anywhere.
The battle went quiet, and no more enemies came to aid those we killed.
Suddenly the group saw movement in the rubble of a building nearby, Henrik and the survivor took aim, and started to look through. There they found an alien survivor; Tyler's wave hadn't killed all of the group.
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"So all is going as planned?" Hod asked the Rakatan reporter.
Hod decided to lead the assault on China, in the area near an area called Tibet. His part of the invasion went as planned, and he had already managed to take one-third of China.
He had already received reports from both Brazil and Mexico, and now reports came from Ireland. In one day they had already managed to seize the entire Ireland and Mexico, while half of Brazil was under our glorious rule, Australia and Chad haven't made a report, but still we made great progress.
"Tell the forces in Ireland that the next target is the small land of Isle of Man, the land of Ice, and the United Kingdom" he thought about it "Mexico will charge the United states of America, Guatemala and Belize" the Reporter raised his salute, and moved over to the communication post.
Hod took a stroll in what used to be the nice community of Nagqu, the wreckage of buildings and smell of death and destruction made him smile.
Hod noticed a human male behind him, carrying a knife, however before the weakling could even swing completely, Hod dodged, gripped the gun attached to his belt, and shot the weakling.
It felt good, he had assisted in claiming the Town, and he had not taken a single prisoner yet.