Year 2024
The day was just new and the daylight came crashing through the blinds and directly into my eyes. I slowly awoke and sat up in my bed, looking to the clock at my bedside. Nine-forty-seven. I don't go into work until three o'clock. I got out of bed and went through the average morning routine. Hours had past and the clock read two-thirty. I got up from watching tv and headed to work.
The wall. It was an eighty story tall, half a mile wide wall built to protect the highest valued city from terrorists, the wall also had a holographic roof that was disguised as a forest so air attacks would be much harder. I walked to my post and saw the squad I both liked and hated. I liked them because they were the squad that didn't take their job too seriously, but I hated them because of that same reason. When it was time to get serious, they struggled. My job was squad leader. It wasn't hard to get since the rest of the squad didn't have the maturity to handle the job.
"Hey Gale." Yelled Austin from across the room to me.
"Hey." I replied. The room went silent as I walked over the my desk to check my inbox.
"Well?" Carrie asked as everyone looked from her to me.
"What?" I asked.
"Where's our hello, do we not matter as much as Austin." Carrie said with an angered face.
"He was the only one that said anything, therefore he was the only one I replied to."
"Well we would still like a hey or hello." Everyone looked to me to hear my response.
"Hello then." I said. She must've had either a bad morning or a grudge for something that I hadn't figured out yet. Either way I didn't care. I sat at my desk and looked through some emails. Nothing out of the ordinary other than a request for a meeting about "employee attendance and performance."
"Well, we've got a meeting to get to." I said as I stood up from my desk. Without a single word, everyone got up from their talking and followed.
"Is this another meeting about Austin never getting here on time and Carrie's horrible performance in battle training?" asked Mary. They didn't react because they knew that is was most likely true.
"I know it most certainly isn't about you sir, you're the only person that gets a lot of work done." She said.
"Stop kissing ass." I said as she acted shocked by what I said, I wasn't ready to be attacked with compliments yet.
We walked down the hallways, Me and Mary silent and Austin and Carrie talking and snickering like 9th graders not far behind. We started seeing groups of men running down the hallway in light armor and carrying M16's.
"What's that about?" I asked one of many people standing in the doorways watching.
"Someone on the over watch crew saw a big group of unidentified creatures far in the distance." a man answered.
"Unidentified? What do they look like?" I asked.
"Don't know, I heard them say they saw a group of thirty, it's probably just an incoming group of squads with transport troubles, you know our trucks have been breaking down a lot."
"That many though?" I asked
"I dunno." We kept walking and we saw more and more men running to the front of the wall. The armor was getting heavier. I started getting worried. The last time me and my squad was in battle was about 5 months ago. Also Austin and Carrie don't train as much as they should.
There was a loud bang sound that could be heard even inside the deeper part of the wall. Then the lights went out. The red spinning emergency lights came on and the loud speaker started.
"Squads 413, 588, 324, and 606 to door H10 immediately. Take heavy armor and weaponry." We were squad 588, which was a small squad going with one's like 324 and 413 that had up to 110 men in them.
"I'm pretty sure that was an error." Mary said.
"We can't go asking questions right now, we gotta move." I said. We all ran back to our armory and suited up. We headed down the emergency elevator and ran to the door H10. When we got there, men were lined up as Commander Zenhaden told the everyone the plan. Squads 413 and 324 headed to the east and west ends of the field while squad 606 took the middle ground. The doors started opening and everyone held their weapons tighter.
"Wait, he didn't mention us." Austin said trying to yell over the loud sound of the doors opening.
"She was right, it was an error" yelled Carrie.
"He probably already said what we were supposed to do before we even got here." I yelled.
"Don't be so stupid Gale, it was an error, we aren't suppose to be here." Austin yelled back.
"Either way we're going out there." I yelled as we started moving.
"No, they accidentally put us with the wrong squads."
"We are going out there." I yelled.
"No we aren't." Austin yelled.
"We are going out there now! You wanna argue about this, wait until we get back to the armory." I yelled.
"This is fucking stupid." Austin yelled. We ran through the doors but there was nothing there. We all looked around once we got to our positions. We just followed 606 since we didn't know where to go. We heard nothing but distant fire from other squads far away. The long open field was empty. We waited. After a solid two minutes of nothing we heard a loud squeal.
Suddenly something crashed through two men in the east team. We all looked around but still nothing and tucked our bodies down as far as possible.
"That shot just went through two heavily armored men, one shot!" Austin quietly yelled, and clearly panicking. I looked down the field from cover. I saw the sky rip and tear as light built in the middle of the ripples. Everyone looked to it being both scared shitless and curious as hell. The light got ten times larger as did the ripples. No one made a sound. The gunfire that was in the distance had faded. There was complete silence. It felt like we stared for minutes.
Suddenly a huge roar was let out from the hole in the sky. We all cupped our ears as it hurt.
"What the fuck is that!" I heard someone yell. We all looked up. A huge weird looking ship came bursting through the hole in the sky. It had the front of a swordfish. As it came into our world it smashed down everything below it creating a big shock wave that was huge but didn't get to us. It was enormous. As it got closer more and people started moving back to the wall but were shot down by the same thing from earlier. Ships came from the bottom of the original one. They flew by the dozens. Three came in our direction. One stopped in mid-air. Far down the field.
Claws came from the bottom and huge creatures dropped to them and then to the ground. We knew we couldn't run because we would be shot by whatever was hiding. So we waited. We waited for whatever it was to come over the top of the hill. They came fast. Four armed things with electric swords. Few men shot at them and they vanished. Silent again. We heard a soft buzzing noise getting closer. And closer. I saw Austin's eyes grow wide and his hands shaking.
There were 334 of us based off of squad sizes. The buzzing was getting farther away now. But this time it was behind us. We waited again. Then we heard the doors behind us closing. They were trapping us. The buzzing came back. Screams came from all over as those things appeared stabbing men by the fourths. One for each of their four hands. The bullets weren't taking them down. We heard a deep roar from over the hill and saw an equal number of those things followed by one that was twice their size and with bigger blades. Gunfire rained upon them. They did nothing. Our bullets did absolutely nothing. Following behind the four armed creatures where smaller one's but with only two arms. However they had guns.
Bullets rained even though they did nothing. People were getting ripped apart by the second. I saw Austin start running back.
"Where are you going?" I yelled to him. He didn't have enough time to answer before one jumped onto his back with all four blades cutting through him. Out in the distance I saw one go down. We had killed it. I saw the biggest one running for my squad.
"Run!" I yelled as I looked to both my sides to see my squad had already abandoned me. I turned back to see him. A creature twice my size smack me. I was knocked back far. It got to me. I rolled out of the way of it's stab to the ground, pulled my pistol and shot it in the face, but it did nothing. It quickly Smashed my arm against it's own, breaking my arm. I pushed it away a little using as much force as I could using my foot as I tried to crawl backward. It grabbed my leg and broke it off with one strike from it's fist. It wasn't just gonna kill me quick, it was gonna play as it beat me. Screaming I punched it in the face. Doing broke my own fist. It's head wasn't made of bone, it was like it was made of metal. It punched me in the stomach, grabbed me by the neck and lifted me up. It stared me in the face. Pulling out one of it's swords, it stabbed it through my stomach and lifted the sword in the air, letting me slide down the blade and cutting myself wider. It then threw my body to the ground off the blade and I started fading. As I faded I saw Mary get stabbed directly through the head and I finally faded away.