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Attack!
It was a nightmare and a scene straight out of hell. The entire town had woken up to the sounds of explosions and machine gun fire from the few soldiers posted in this part of the country, and the few men who were brave and determined enough to defend their homeland from the invaders. At first, the families who had remained in the area believed the Russians had finally arrived, and so they quickly made their way out to their cars. The townspeople had taken up the habit of sleeping with their clothes on, partly due to the Russians invading Ukraine since they had shut down the utilities barring water, and so the people had been forced to dress warmly at all times, but they had also planned that if their towns were attacked and conquered by the invading wave, they would be ready to escape.
But the moment they got out into the open, they realised that their attackers were not the Russians. In the sky were brightly glowing objects, like balls wreathed in fire. The objects in the sky were firing narrowly focused beams of yellow energy at the houses, demolishing walls more efficiently than a demolition team could ever muster. Sometimes a house would be totally destroyed until there was nothing left, or it would collapse a small amount.
While the people of the town were screaming in panic as the strange objects hovered overhead at different heights, some of the more astute the panicked Ukrainians realised the primary targets of the objects were the cars and trucks that had been left out in the streets. As soon as the beams struck them, they ignited the fuel tanks which were kept as full of possibilities to make them more self-sufficient to cover ground to take them away from the Russian Army.
But the beams had a secondary effect once many of the cars were destroyed, which prevented the majority of the people in what was quickly becoming a wasteland from escaping them, but that didn't mean that some of them didn't at least try to make it out of the town on foot, but they were quickly met by the stun guns of the aliens.
The aliens had arrived at the town with orders to take advantage of the Russian conflict with Ukraine to harvest victims of their bodily tissue and organs for transplantation. Once the town's escape routes were shot down, driving the terrified inhabitants together in a panicked mob, some of the UFOs landed where the aliens emerged, eliciting more panic before the aliens used stun weapons on them.
The use of force was one the aliens had only used as a last resort and the commander in charge of the expedition was regretting the way they had gone about subduing the humans here. Several of the humans were already dead, and with them, dead their organs and body tissues were damaged, such a waste.
A small group of aliens had been landed on the planet to scout out the town and to prevent anyone strong-minded enough to escape from the town when the UFOs generated their mind probes and brainwashed everyone to come to them, and once that happened the aliens would kill them with the same kind of finesse as animals being slaughtered at a slaughterhouse. But the good news was there were still enough humans here to make up the difference, and there were other groups of their kind in other parts of this country. The aliens didn't understand the point of this war. But they were not shy about taking advantage of it.
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The Russians and Ukrainians in a different part of the country were walking mesmerised by the green light that was blazing so strongly that their minds were blanked out. Only hours ago, the two groups were enemies, but now such thoughts were forgotten and considered irrelevant. The light was so strong that all of the attempts to fight back were quickly stopped as the light blazed on, enticing them closer like moths were drawn to a flame.
As they walked closer, nobody did anything although they did feel a surge of primal fear when they saw what the aliens had in mind, by then it was simply too late.
