The Bhavagad-Gita
We knew the world would not be the same.
Tokyo was a battleground and its soldiers were losing. All over the place, buildings that once reached towards the sky lay broken and twisted on the ground. .
A few people laughed.
A lone survivor, a soldier who had taken on the task of defending his nation, crawled from beneath a tank that had been flipped over like a small toy. He held his bleeding left arm and scanned the battlefield for his comrades.
A few people cried.
Eventually, he knew they were either crushed like bugs or were reduced to ashes. Either way, they were dead.
Most people were silent.
The soldier stood in awe at the destruction all around him. It may have been nighttime but the large number of blazing fires made it seem as if it were dawn. How could anyone have allowed this to happen. Suddenly, the man heard a loud booming noise, almost like thunder in the horizon. However, it wasn't thunder. There were no clouds in the sky.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhavagad-Gita.
The booming started to get even louder and louder. Soon enough, whenever there was a boom, the ground would shudder ever so slightly.
Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty.
It wasn't long until the soldier realized the booming wasn't thunder at all, it was footsteps of something large. Something, up until this point, he thought never could exist. It wasn't long until a reptilian foot the size of two small houses stomped down in front of him, with four talons the length of train cars.
And, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says...
The soldier soon found himself gazing at a creature larger than anything on Earth. The beast was reptilian but for some reason it stood upright like a human being. A long whip-like tail lashed behind it with the sound of distorted wind. Its build was muscular with grooved skin the color of ashes. The back of the monster was decorated with grayish-white, leaf-shaped spikes that reminded the man of maple leaves or a coral reef. Then he came to the head of the beast which looked like the unholy cross of a large cat and a dinosaur with blazing red eyes that seemed to stare right back at him.
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds".
The beast lifted its foot again, this time above the soldier, the last thing he would ever see. The last thing he could hear before the beast dropped the foot was a noise that sounded like an angry war god.
SKREEOOOOOOOOONNNNK!
I suppose we all thought that one way or another.
-Robert J. Oppenheimer