Prologue
The Crazy Vid
It was just a viral video at first. A stupid clip on YouTube that was worldwide within a few hours. It was dubbed 'The Crazy Vid' and wherever you went someone was talking about it. Always talking about it. It wasn't that great of a video though and the assumption was made that it must've been a promo vid for a new movie. No one knew what it was called though, or what movie it was supposed to be selling, hence the name 'The Crazy Vid' It was pretty crappy quality, but you could make things out quite well in it still.
There was this girl, German probably if her accent was anything to go by. She was crying, breathing skittishly into the web cam she was filming on. She looked a mess, her hair was everywhere and something red- blood?- was smeared down the side of her pretty face. She was scared. More scared than any other actor could hope to portray. So so scared. She was sobbing into the camera, "Hide..." She coughed, "Hide... Please..."
Then there was the bang, slightly distant but still painfully close, and she looked up frantically almost knocking the laptop clean off her bed before screaming, "They're coming! They're coming, you have to-!"
And then it cuts out.
Despite the shoddy quality though, everyone was buzzing about it. Nobody could wait to see what this promo vid was for.
Then ten days later the Internet cut out.
Two days after that every communication flatlined- phones, landlines, computers, tablets, tv, radios.
Everything.
And three days later they finally came.