My first fanfiction for Revolution. I was thinking about how Danny was just a baby when the power went out. He wouldn't remember having ever heard or seen a helicopter in the air. Monroe's flying beastie would have been Danny's first helicopter. So... I ended up writing this short thing.
His First Helicopter...
He heard it as they ran. It was a strange sound, a low humming, thrumming noise that he'd never heard before. Fear was driving him towards the safety of the woods, but curiosity slowed him and drew his eyes towards the sound. The others had heard it by now, and they slowed, stopping to turn as well.
The others, Charlie, his mother, Aaron, Miles, Nora, all had looks of recognition and disbelief on their faces, but he was in the dark. There was no recognition on his face. This sound wasn't one he knew. He had just heard and learned the sound of the train that week, and he hated it because of what it had meant, but this wasn't a train.
It was like the train sound, though, steady, steady, pound, pound. It beat, and it gave him a feeling of unease as it grew stronger and faster. He thought it would go crazy and explode, but it didn't. It stabilized and grew louder.
Then he saw its source rise above the hill.
It was a helicopter.
Awe swept over him.
Charlie had told him about helicopters and how the flying things had patrolled over the city to find bad-guys. She had pointed to a dragonfly and said that helicopters had flown like dragonflies, buzzing, hovering, darting. He'd been five or six years old, and he'd giggled at the thought of a big metal thing buzzing, hovering, and darting like a weightless insect. When he was older, he'd seen a wrecked one in the woods, and he'd wondered how it could have ever gotten off the ground.
Now he was seeing one in the air.
It buzzed, and it hovered. It seemed to stare at them, and he could see the hated "M" insignia on its nose. It was going to dart next, wasn't it? It would be coming for them.
He remembered the times that he had chased dragonflies. They had always been faster than him.
He'd never outran them.
Now, he had a giant metal one coming for him.