Hello my name is Tyrone Parks, I am a IT specialist/Cyber security for a banking company here in Atlanta. I am 27 years old, this wasn't my first pick on job I originally wanted to be a cyber security expert and programmer for the government and obsure government applications like the NSA programs, but I had to drop out of college to take care of my now disabled mother and little sister and her kids. So I was denied my dream job but was so close to finishing school, I owe a decent amount of school loan debt now. Honestly at this point I am taking 2 steps forward and two steps back. I struggle making ends meet and my debt is growing. I woke up at 5:45 every morning I have 15 minutes to eat and leave the house. I suit up in a typical tye and white button up shirt. I wish I could wear my nike's but I have to remain professional and dress shoes hurt my feet regardless of how much I pad them. I hear my alarm clock beep-beep- I slam the snooze, I lay there for about 5 minutes asking myself do I really want to do this? Every morning I ponder Going back to work. Is this really what life is about? All the Bullcrap over and over. Same smile, same crappy boss. Same thoughts. I hear my mom cooking in the kitchen I can smell maple bacon, My door is always cracked I see my NBA poster on the ceiling barely lightened by the dirty light fixture in the hall way. My mother always has the TV on when she cooks, Just a little 20 inch sitting on the counter. I lay in bed one more moments, I hear the news channel talk about power outages in different countres and bizzare lightning storms. I also here about Nato forces ranndomly popping up in countries, they are armed, and we have f-22s doing flyovers, I thought maybe it was because of the power outages might cause chaos but why such a huge military build up? And f-22's why would we need our most advanced fighter jets flying over there? Well at this point it is 5:50 I get out of bed throw my clothes on, I usually have them on my desk chair ready and rolling. I go into the kitchen, My mother says, Hello Darling, I have your breakfast ready are you going to eat it here this time? I reply in a deep droggy voice, Yeah Mom, I sit at the table still watching the news. They are talking about RosCosMos(Russian Nasa) has been urging Nasa and The International Space Station to report the findings they have found. I thought it may been about More information on Mars and how we can inhabbit it someday. But they cut it off the TV and went back to the Nato build ups. It strikes me at odd. My mother ask me about work yesterday, I have the same reply. "it was good". In reality it sucks I always get the work that noone else wants to do. Because I know how to do it other people rely on me to do it instead of doing it themselves. I hear my sister yelling at her 3 kids, they usually wake up when they hear me. I really love them, I try to be the father figure that had left them. Thier are 2 boys and a girl the boys are 10 and twins and the girl is just turned 8 last week. They rush in the kitchen, I can hear the click of rubber light up shoes, the boys are pushing each other racing. I get tackled and asked did I bring them the movie they had been wanting to watch. I just point to the table, It is a new scary movie that was just released on DVD I rented. We can't afford to go to the movies right now. So I will either stream it online illegally or rent it. I can block our ISP from finding my torrent ripping but I figued I would rent it since it was at the market I went to on the way home. My mother is yelling at them kindly so in the warmest voice to sit down and eat their breakfast. The youngest one, the little girl runs in the kitchen and hops on my lap and tells me she loves me and missed me, I went to sleep as soon as I got home, worked late last night. I give her a hug and a kiss. I tell her to be good and listen to Grandma and Momma. I tell the boys they can watch the movie with me when I get home. I kiss my Mom good bye. She always every moring says. "Bye baby boy I love you and them angels are with you". I grab my keys out of my pocket and head to the car. I can see frost on the grass, I start up the car and back out. It is a bit chilly I usually tough it out until the heat kicks in. I drive an older green Toyota sudan. The paint is peeling off but I keep it in decent shape for a 1998 it still runs great. I hit the Typical Atlanta traffic, I turn my phone and connect it to this blue tooth speaker I have that stays in the car, I usually listen to Akon, or light R&B. My bluetooth was dead so I crank on the radio, I have to be at work at 7:30 but it usually takes an hour with this traffic. I hear more things on the news. I flip through the stations, there is this crazy talk show station called 107.7 The Truth It usually has to do with 9/11 cover ups and Aliens, bigfoot and whatever else. I usually think they are all crazy but sometimes I give them a listen they hit modern things sometimes and I was curious on what they thought about all this. So I tune in and listen "this is Kent everyone, things are not what they seem the government and NASA know about what is going on. Don't take my word for it, I just recently spoke and listened to an Unknown agent that works for the Government space defense network. He says our government and Russian space agency has detected anomalies in space based scans and the ISS has been recieving strange scary sounds that we have been decoding for weeks". These Lightning storms are NOT normal weather patterns but Extra dimensional beings from a star system light years beyond earth. They are hostile. They are the same beings from the Roswell crash! They are angry with us for shooting down and capturing their time/space bending saucer UFO. We have been under malevolent surveillance by these beings for a very long time. Our government has known about this for years. We DO have a saucer at area 51 also known as S-4. We have reversed engineered the technology from it. It is in our most advanced military applications. We have nowhere near mastered the technology. We can't even decode it! Only attempt to copy it. Now back to this message that was recieved by the government from these beings as I understand is that these beings already have what they need to destroy us here they alays have I don't know what it means, but I assure you my sources are legit. Now listen I don't know what that meens, but this message was picked up not only at the International space station but a private research center similar to SETI, the government closed down the facility 2 hours after it was recieved. People they know something something very bad is about to happen, you need to prepare I am going to put an Agent on this line William this this is Kent you are on air tell the people what they need to-" I turned off the radio though compelling if the government knew about aliens I would hope they would tell the population. I have made it a few blocks I am only about 4 miles from work but traffic is bumper to bumper. I hear a police siren probably a wreck, Probably going to be late for something I have no control over. I can barely see light in the sky, it has that dark blue purple color in the sky. My bluetooth is charged enough to turn on and I turn on my playlist and put my car in park. For some reason the sky seems to be getting darker, and it is 6:30 or so. I can see an outline of a storm cloud. I can see the affects of wind shaking cars a little. What is odd is that the wind is moving inward into the storm. I see lighting balls in the sky. I thought it was a early spring storm. Southern weather is very flip flop. I look a little closer, I see lightning over and over I can see them lighting up the skyscrapers in the sky. They are hitting the ground. I have seen 5 or more different places where they have hit over and over. They are not stopping I look over cars around me some people are froze looking up and other people are panicking in the cars, I see children looking out the windows, I can see a little girl crying and her mother is dumdstruck in awe. I hear the police siren stop. It alarmed me. I look down and my car is dead, I look up and every car is dead. No red backlights shining up the road. I noticed my R&B isn't playing. My phone is also dead it was at 94 percent about 10 minutes ago. I am scared now. I know a bit about technology, and lightning doesn't caused this. This is an EMP ElectroMagnetic Pulse. I am freaking now. Is this some Terrorist atack by China? Some kind of HAARP device that can manipulate weather. I know instinctively to get out of the car. I look out everypone is either sitting in their cars trying to turn their phones on or are just getting out like me. I make a run for the house, I live about 9 miles from my location. I start running as fast as I can people are wondering what I am doing I bump into some people I just run. I want to make it back home to my family. I am jumping on top of cars some people are cussing me some people try to grab me for it. I am sorry but I need to get back to my family. I am running under and overpass. I hear a deep rumble, I look back I hear some more rumble but I keep running. About 20 minutes into running the roadway is getting more infested with human traffic other people know they need to get out of here too. I hear a errie menacing sound i na distance back in the heart of atlanta. I can only describe it as Brrrrrrrrhhhhhhh. It sounds like fog horn kinda but louder and sounds of dispare. I can't describe it. I am running I can hear these walking thuds, boom-boom-boom- and a mechanical sound in between them. I look back again I see these bright lights. Like LED but brighter never seen anything like it. I would say they are about 250-300 feet in the air. Whatever it is Is blocked by highrisers I can only assume it is what is making those noises too. I get under another underpass I am out of breath my shirt is soaked my chest hurts. I am crying and I don't know why. I stand there for a minute and hide behind this abandon truck under another overpass. I can't make it out but it looks like smoke coming from one of those high risers. Wait...Oh my god. I am seeing a high riser tumble. I see these blue lazers cutting through it like butter. I am a few miles out from it but it is so loud I can't mke out much it is so smokey...I see those lights again. I can make out just a little bit I see this insect looking thing it is massive I can make out the top of its legs it looks like three of them. I see other people come my way. They look dusty, really dusty. I ask what is going on they don't even reply a woman is crying and her husband is struggling to breathe. I start running again. at a light pace I can't run as fast I am still hurting in my chest. I look off again behind me. I see more high risers fall. I see more of these insect like robots 5 of them I see thee using lazers just tumbling buildings they are even bigger them them. I see two more they are closer to me. they have these Tentacles...I think they are...My heart is pounding...they are picking up PEOPLE! I can't make it out but. They have these cages on them or something. The people are being put there. I hear the horn again I look to the other side of me, I see another machine it is closer to me...It is making its way across my area. I hear its arms it is picking up people and stepping on everything on the way. Nothing seems to hold up against it, houses, cars, concrete slabs. continue to run, I don't see as many people on the roads as me I have nowhere to get off the road at the concrete on both sides is at least forty feet high. It is only passing across the road I hope. I hide under this white van. I see people running this thing is about 200 or so feet across from me, I see it pick up this little girl and her brother. I look up best I can. I see other people in this thing. It has lights shining on the cages, I see people in it, they are packed. Some people dont even have emotions on their face. Other people are crying for their life. It stops...I can see its lights shining on the cars, it lights up the ground brighter then the sun. I lay quietly as I can with my hands on my mouth holding back from bursting in tears. I can hear its mechanical sounds loud now. I see it flipping cars. Does it know I am here? Can it detect me? It is flipping cars closer and closer to me. One by one. I am thinking, is this it? Is this the end. Behind the tripod machine a teenager and his dad was hiding under a car, they start running, It turns around and extends its claws and grabs both packing them in one of the cages. It pushes them in there. I can hear people moan in pain. It turns back. I thought it was still after me. It turns back in the direction it was heading and goes on. I wait a few moments before getting up. I thought about my family are they okay? Where are we going to go? Where is the military? I thought about Kent on that crazy radio show. He was right. I wish I would have finished listening. What could I have done? Was thier anything I really could have done? I got up and continued to run. Though I don't see many people on the road I can hear people all around dispersed across the city. I made it to my first intersection closer to home, I thought it was an achievement that I have made it this far. It is somewhat bright outside,this city is quiet though. All I can hear is faint sounds of thumps, and people. People screaming. Close and distance. If hell exist I believe this is what it would sound like. I prayed to god to let me make it home. So i get off the road but staying near by just passing next to shops and small buildings, I thought maybe If I encountered another one I could hide in a building instead of being in the open. I see other people small rally scattered groups everywhere, I overheard conversations about, this is armageddon, and alien takeover, a mixture of both. I hear people ask other people if they have seen their mother,son,dad, etc. showing actual photos of the people. The truth is noone knows anymore then me at this point. I keep going I am about 3 miles from my house I would say it is 9:30. I really hoped my family stayed in the house and are waiting for me. I hear something. I am in a run down part of town it is just small stores and mom and pop shops. So I look around I can't see anything but I hear the horn...I look around people are running I start running with them. I don't know where the horn is coming from I follow the pack. It is getting close. I turn to look behind me. BAM...I look up I can see purple in my left eye. I think someone hit me. I am hurting all over. People have stepped on me. I havent been out long. I can still hear the footsteps louder I see a pen on the ground with every step the pen bouces on the ground. I look over my leg is hurt. I don't think it is broke but I can't run. I look to where I can go. I can see the tripod now. I look to where I can hide. Boom-Boom-Boom- It is very close. I have less then a minute I think. I look and about ten feet in fron of me is a storm drain cover. I crawl to it. I don't think I am going to make it. -Boom-Boom-Boom- I am here. I am trying to pry open the cover. It won't budge. My heart is thumping bad. I think it can see me. I try one more time to pry it open and the lid popped open. Not from me but from the vibration of the tripods walking. I just slide inside of it. I grab the side of the ladder yank up and pull the lid. I am hanging on to the ladder with one hand and holding the bottom of the lid to keep it shut. I hear it getting closer. It is right above me. It passes over. I can barely hang on to the lid. I wait about 3 minutes and get out I just couldn't hang on no longer. I crawl out still hurting. I look out and everything has been destroyed. I see allot of clothes and dust as I walk. I think these clothing and dust are humans. The only thing left is the clothing. It looks something like an f-5 tornado went over. I keep walking I walk slow. My knee shoots pain with every step. My nose is bleeding and my shirt is of some dark grey color now. My show laces are untied but I don't care. I am 2 miles from my house may a little more, I haven't seen another person the whole time. I see a bike on the side of the road. It looks like a womans bike. I could try to ride it on a low setting and coast my way home. It would be easy on my knee. I lift the pink bike up. It has dust all over it. I see a sports hat, and gym clothing next to it. I felt bad for the lady that was on it. I get on the bike. Start to petal. I moan a bit until I get speed I have to cycle the bike. Every petal I feel pain. I get speed up and coast. I look everywhere and their is nothing but damage the morning sky looks dull and is starting to get a red tint to it. I still wonder why have I not seen helicopters, jets, or tanks, or the Army? I am getting close to my house. I am crying and cycling fast, I am hurting but every house has been destroyed. I approach my almost unrecognizable street. I see dust all over the street. I look and our apartment is flattened. I hop off the bike and run to our apartment number. I am digging through the mess trying to find my family. I still dig. I don't find anything. If they have died I have nothing to live for. I dug anf dug, Cutting my hands. I see some of my things and my familys things, I see our shoes, my moms skillet, I see other peoples things scattered into ours. I don't see any bodies I search for an hour. Maybe the tripod that was here was one of the "collector tripods"? Maybe they escaped. I search more I can hear a tripod in a distance. I don't even care. I turn to look at it. It was very far away and it wasn't coming my direction. I felt a sense of hate, towards "them" and god. I sit there on the rubble of my once so called home. I see a older man in his 50s with a pepper beard come my way. I am sitting with anger on my face. I wanted to go off on him for speaking to me, He asked if I lived here? I almost said something rude. But I just replied "Yes". He said a group of National guard came and evacted people on foot to a safer location. My heart filled with Joy. "Where? Where did they take them? How long ago? Where are they?" He said "son don't know, That is all I know. All I know is that they are going north. Don't ask anything else. My wife was in that transport group I stayed here to look for my son. If you want we can travel together and find them". I agreed. We started on foot and proceded north. This man couldn't travel long. He had a Veterans hat on. We just walked north. Neither said a word. We only had one thing in common. To find that group. I asked him what he thought about these machines to try and break the ice. He said "Well you know what they are, They are aliens isn't that obvious? The question is do they want to kill us for our planet or harvest us to take back to theirs? Or both?". I told him about the talk show I listened to and he agreed that everything was probably true. He said in his military service he had seen scetchy things. He never seen aliens. But he had friends in the military disappear that had claimed to see them. We get out of the city and it is about 2:30 or so, he has to stop often to rest. We walk along the side of the highway. Allot of trees we stick close to them. We see other people. The more we walk we seem to bundle together noone says a word. We Just walk. All I can do is find my Family.
