Wakening to the quiet rattle of his window as the stormy winds passed through it, the Professor sat up. He groaned as he checked the alarm clock that was placed beside him.
"Hmm 1:30am, don't have to get up for another 5 hours" said the old man as he looked around his room located on the top floor of biological research centre. The silver haired man pulled himself out of bed using his cane and half limped to the window, looking out he saw the sleeping city of Beladom so calm and so quiet. Closing the window he stumbled back to bed cramping in his back, he let out a small cry of pain then lay back in down pulling the covers over his chest. He had just managed to close his eyes when a loud noise exploded from outside as a deafening alarm throughout the city.
"Attention!" The electronic voice echoed over the city's loudspeaker. "We have identified a large extra-terrestrial object on a collision course with earth please keep calm and prepare for a potential emergency." The same message was then looped. The Professor jumped out of bed with new energy and scrambled for the keyboard of his computer and began viscously typing away. His expression suddenly froze as he read the words that lit up on the screen of his computer.
We have discovered a strange sort of asteroid headed directly for earth we are not sure when it will hit or how large the object is exactly but we will encounter it soon and it will be extremely large. It's like nothing we've ever seen before and it's hard to know what we are dealing with but we urge citizens of the world to prepare for the worst but hope for the best.
Remarks,
The Science Academy of Extra-Terrestrial Activity (SAETA)
"It's, it's impossible…" he was cut off by the high pitched screams and chaos taking place on the streets of Beladom. The old man rushed the window to see the commotion. What he saw was worse than he had imagined. Children were running on roads while cars rushed by them. People of all ages screamed and wailed crying and looking for comfort or sympathy from others. There was smashing of windows and kicking down of doors.
"Well if we don't all die from what's coming from space, I'm sure we'll all get killed by those lunatics," the man mumbled to himself. His eyes were then caught again by the screen of his computer he stumbled back to his char and began reading.
We have recorded some sort of unknown energy radiating from the object along with a small amount of alpha rays, whatever this is it's not an ordinary asteroid. It seems the object is also radiating visible light so you will soon be able to identify it from earth with the naked eye as something looking a bit like a star and will gradually grow it brightness and size, this of course depends on where you are around the globe. We believe it is headed for eastern China but it is an estimate and cannot be confirmed as of now this is all the knowledge we have gained but we are afraid it will strike us before we are able to gain much more it will hit and it will hit soon PREPARE!
Remarks,
The Science Academy of Extra-Terrestrial Activity (SAETA)
The Professor noticed a sudden quietness from outside. All but soft sobbing could be heard he rushed to the window and to his surprise the many children adults and elderly that had been enraged with insanity just before were simply looking up, staring into the clear night sky. Everyone had turned off there lights and the only light that was left was just that of the stars in the sky. The man then followed, by staring up into the night sky. He found it somewhat peaceful simply wondering what could be out there and embracing its beauty. This peaceful beauty vanished when something caught his eye. In the sky a small glowing dot had appeared, like a star that had not been there before. It was getting bigger too.
"Already!" The man thought. "I knew it would be soon but not this soon." He leaned closer to the window to get a better look hearing the sudden gasps of the crowed that that scattered on the streets below him as they noticed it to. The alarms had now silenced. The speakers had stopped announcing. Cars no longer drove. An eerie quietness fell upon the city as every person stood, whether in their house or on the streets, staring up at the sky. Stared at what they could not prevent. They waited to see the outcome of something beyond human control. It got bigger, much bigger, faster than anyone could imagine.
"I don't believe my eyes," the old man said to himself. "Is this a dream?" Soon enough the object that started as a small dot was now the brightest thing in the sky, almost blinding to look at directly. Partly shielding his eyes the man squinted at the now moon sized ball in the sky.
"It's enormous!" The man exclaimed. It began to slightly move across the sky at the same time as getting brighter. Faster and faster it moved toward the horizon. By this time it was too bright to look at and the screaming started again. The silver haired man backed from the window dazed with amazement but frozen with fear. The sky was as if it were day it was so bright it took place of the sun.
"Only moments now." The man whispered. The light started to fade again as the object passed the horizon the man tapped his feet in anxiety and began to shake. The screams from outside got louder shouting running it was too much for an old man. Suddenly a light brighter than the sun at noon exploded from where the ball had passed the horizon. Soon vison was useless because all that could be seen was whiteness. This was soon followed by a loud crack as the windows exploded and houses were torn apart. The Professor, panic stricken, flung his arms around trying to find something to hold something to stop him from flying away then darkness… no noise, no smell, just darkness.