So this is a random chapter that takes place away from Hawaii but I hope you like it still Enjoy~
The White House, 2012
The President couldn't believe what he was seeing. If he had been informed about from someone else, he would have questioned their sanity- and the reliability- of the source. Looking at it now, though, he almost started to wonder about his very own sanity.
What he was staring at, being played back to him on a screen in the situation Room, was nothing less than a barrier constructed of the very Pacific Ocean itself. He certainly had experience with what nature was able to accomplishing in Hawaii. Storms, typhoons, the best and the worst that Mother Nature could bestow upon mankind. But what he was witnessing now was beyond what Earth was capable of handling. It seemed as though he were watching a fantasy movie, cooked up by a wizard as a weapon against another wizard.
The film had been taken from a distance by a naval vessel and forwarded through channels- not only to him, but to heads of state from every country being represented in the war game, which were- at the moment- suspended. Apparently a real war had overtaken the games, fought against an enemy that was outside the experience of everyone involved.
Mountains of water, impassable, impenetrable, were arrayed around Oahu. From the latest Intel on the President's desk, there were three ships- two Americans, one Japanese- within the perimeter. Everyone else was struck outside, cut off as a localized storm kept them at bay. Sheets of lightning rippled up and down the water barrier.
All of the Joint Chiefs sat around the table, waiting for the President to absorb what he was seeing. They themselves could barely believe it. Aliens were coming and invading the Earth, but the questions was where they friend or foe? Meanwhile on another screen CNN was on, muted, but the closed caption was activated:
"Little is known beyond the fact that all communication with the island state went down at 12:20 Eastern Standard Time. Extreme weather is now cutting off Hawaii from the outside world. A probable connections to events in Hong Kong is being Investigated."
The president leaned back in his chair, studying the other screens, each depicting a site around the world that also had been damaged.
"Best guess?" said the President finally.
"One of the Joint Chiefs sat forward, resting his forearms on the large table that they were all seated around." We don't have a best guess, Mr. President. Every single country that it could possibly behind this got hit as well. No one was spared."
"Which means," said another general, "It was no single country. Terrorist. It has to be terrorist..."
The Chief of Staff looked skeptical. "You're telling me that the people who couldn't even blow up a pair of sneakers coordinated something like this..."
"I'm saying the people who knocked down the Twin Towers coordinated something like this..."
The President shook his head. "No. No, I'm not buying it. Even on 9/11, they used stranded Earth technology, Earth planes..."
"Mr. President," the vice-president put up a hand as though he was still in elementary. "You keep saying 'Earth.' Are you implying..."
"I'm not implying anything. I'm saying it outright. I'm saying what Sherlock Holmes always said. That whenever you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains- however improbable- is the truth. Someone here want to try and tell me on the notion that that," he gestured to the screen that was showing the wall of water with lightning running through it, "is within the realm of possibility, based on what we know current science can produce? Because I'm looking at that giant wall of water, with lightning flashing all around it, and I'm telling you this is either the result of extraterrestrial science, or somewhere right now Zeus is instruction the Kraken be released."
"Sir," the-president started again, "you're talking about alien invasion. That's... that's the kind of thing you see in a disaster movie. Not real life."
"Sir," the Chief of Staff spoke up, "if we're are going to operate under the assumption that what you're saying is true... and considering that whomever or whatever it is were dealing with we have to assume that they have hostile intent- which we have to believe considering they've made no attempt to engage us in any way other than those that have cost human lives..."
"I believe that what that the chief of staff is saying, " said the vice-president, "is that if we're sticking with the whole 'that the world has turned into a Michael Bay movie, then we all know he has a habit of blowing monuments up and you remember what happened in Independence Day. The big alien saucer blowing the living crap out of-"
"Yes," said the President. "Yes, I remember it." He drummed his fingers on the table. "I don't like it seems like running away."
"Think of it more as a strategic retreat," said one of the Joint Chiefs. Heads around the large table nodded in agreement.
"Sir," said the chief of staff softly, "it's worth noting that there may come a point where the secret Service isn't going to give you the option. Better to walk out on your own while things are quiet that to be dragged out while the celling's caving in. Don't you thing?"
The President slowly sagged back in his chair and looked blankly around the room. So that is what it's like to be the most powerful man in the world: you go to ground when danger threatens.
"Inform Marine One and get my family together," said the President quietly in the hushed room.
So we now know what is going on in the White House. No one believes what is going on and they are having trouble wrapping their minds around the idea of aliens. So will please leave a review even if it's short.