CHAPTER 3: Philadelphia
A/N: Same as always
Morning again. I woke up and started the engine, which woke Eunan. He said, groggily, Philadelphia, now? I nodded.
Soon, we were in the air, flying to Philadelphia. As soon as we were over the city, I could see that Eunan had been right. The humans had pretty much left it alone during their war, and now Philadelphia looked just as populous as New York had been before. It would take a while, but we could probably destroy most of it with a bomb, then whatever was left over by hand-to-hand combat.
I was about to stop the ship in midair in order to fire the bomb, when I felt Eunan's hand tap my shoulder. I turned around and saw him holding three jars that looked as if they had some kind of bug in them. What- I began.
Listen, Eunan started. In these jars I have three of the most deadly human diseases: anthrax, smallpox, and cancer. If we mix them into the bomb, we could probably eliminate at least ten thousand more humans…
I looked at Eunan and thought about this for a while. It was a pretty farfetched plan, but maybe, just maybe, it could work. Well… I said hesitantly. I guess we could try it.
Eunan looked the most delighted I had ever seen him. Great. he replied. And don't worry, I've tried this with smaller forms of the bomb and smaller amounts of the diseases, and they have all been successful so far.
I then began steering the ship towards a very secluded area, which was actually near a small body of the Chemical. But, of course, we didn't need to worry about that anymore.
As we landed, I recognized the area. It was around the house that Orion and I had invaded. Perfect.
I put the camouflager on the ship as Eunan began to stir the deadly viruses into the bomb's center. After he finished, he said, Um, because the bomb is so big, and there's a lot of disease cells in it, the bomb will probably take up to a day to settle and activate.
That's OK, I said. It'll be worth it.
But what'll we do until it's ready? Eunan asked me.
I looked at him. We go kill some humans.
* * *
We were now running through the woods, dashing in between the Earthian plants. I could tell Eunan was having a hard time keeping up with me, but I didn't care. I needed to get to the house.
Finally, we found ourselves facing a huge cornfield. The cornfield was one of the most vivid memories of, possibly, my entire life. Even though it seemed that the entire Earth had changed, this one tiny spot of it hadn't the slightest bit differed from before.
I looked at Eunan, who had just caught up to me. He looked at the faint image of the house in the distance. Is that where we're going? he asked.
Yeah. I replied. Come on.
I began running through the corn. The only things I could hear was the rustling of the corn and our feet banging the tough, dirt ground. Finally, we reached the house. It wasn't boarded up like last time, either. That was when I should have gotten suspicious and turned back, but no, I was too overcome with the promise of a victorious revenge.
I crossed the humans' yard, which was filled with strange, Earthian toys. I walked in the back door, which was unlocked. Another suspicion I had overlooked.
When we walked inside, the fist thing I noticed was it was completely silent. I imagined that the humans were in hiding again, and skulked stealthily towards the basement. All of a sudden, I heard a thud.
Eunan was on the ground, fighting with a human. He had been so scared upon arriving in the house that he had apparently forgot to put his camouflage on. I at once was in front of the human, punching his face, which made him let go of Eunan. His thoughts were loud and clear, the only things occupying my mind. "You're not going to be so successful this time, Alien," he thought. "Especially right about…now."
I hit the floor as a tremendous amount of weight fell on top of me. I could see nothing but several orange flashes and the human I had been fighting getting away. I tried to battle my new attackers, but it was quite difficult with their thoughts overpowering my brain.
"So predictable…always return to the scene of the crime…"
"They won't stand a chance once we give 'em a little water…"
"This one's strong, but not strong enough…"
I was like a wild beast now; my only desire was to become free from this grasp of the humans. I could see Eunan struggling madly, but also breathing extremely heavily. When he was first assigned to my Clan, I recognized that he had a minor breathing disorder, and I now wondered how that would play out in the attack.
The Chemical was then splashed onto our heads, but it did nothing because of the pills we had taken that morning. Instead, I just felt cold, wet, and vulnerable.
I began kicking and punching wildly. The humans wouldn't have another victory, not if I could help it. I kicked the human in orange hardly in his stomach, and he keeled over, having the wind knocked out of him. I stood up, and looked down upon him, preparing to gas the ugly beast.
All of a sudden, I heard a loud ripping sound. I turned around and saw that the humans had ripped Eunan's gas emitters from his arms. It didn't take me very long to realize that they were now doing the same to me. This had to be the most painful ordeal I had ever gone through in my life, but nevertheless, I didn't scream or cry out, neither did Eunan. When we had both been training for the Force, we had been taught that those who cry out cannot take the pain.
The first human was back up, and soon, I was back down on the hard, smooth Earthian floor. I realized that I would probably not live much longer, and prepared myself for the eternal grasp of death.
The human began banging my head against the ground, and everything went black.
