note: when i read and watched the war of the worlds i wondered what if i fuse the musical, and orson welles broadcast together with the novel, the war of the worlds is written by h.g wells and the credit goes to him and his novel.
p.s. lightus i hope you'll love my version of the war of the worlds and enjoy and look forward to seeing the next chapter.
Part 1 Coming of the martians Chapter 1: The Eve Of The War
George Wells/narrator POV:
No one would've believed, in the middle of the 21st century... that human affairs of this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than ours which inhabited the timeless worlds of universe, yet is mortal as us. No one could've dreamed we were being scrutinized and studied as someone with the microscope that studies organisms that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency humanity went to and fo about the globe, confident of our empire over this earth. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets, yet across the gulf of space, intellects immeasurably superior to ours, vast, cool and unsympathetic regarded this earth with envious eyes... and slowly and surely ... they drew their plans against us.
In the month of july of 2018 mans work continued like every other day, I had a job in new york city as a news journalist and as a journalist I had to write information about the world news, until we had to be prepare for Donald Trump's visit to New York City's parade in a few weeks, but sometimes like any person in this world meet a special someone, like me as I was reunited with a special childhood friend, her name was Carrie Summers. She was a sight to behold, flowing golden hair with blue eyes, a dress like any actress would wear. when we were babies both mine and her parents have been best friends since high school, that's when we had a double family camp together.
Me and Carrie always played together in the forest like we were just two puppies chasing each-other while having fun, as the years go by we grew together from kindergarten to elementary school and collage.
(present day) thats when she walked over me with a greeting "hello George!" She said to me while we try to catch up with our long history, I felt a light feeling in my chest as if my heart was flying in the sky. I took a deep
breath and greeted her like she did "Good afternoon Carrie, how have you been... since collage?" I said to her like a good gentlemen would do to greet a woman. carrie smiled to me as she and I sat on the nearby table "My family have been having issues lately with the bills... but i've gotten myself a job at the beauty pageant a few weeks ago." Carrie replied to me as I was surprised to hear what she told me. I knew its been a very long time that me and Carrie have been reunited for so long that I knew I had still something to ask her since collage "Thats great to hear... but there is something I had to ask you before we graduated from collage if you would accept?"
Carrie nodded "Of course George. You can ask me anything" She said to me with a warm smile. I took a moment to speak "Carrie would you like to come to dinner with me on the 27th at my place?" I asked her, there was pause until she smiled with joy in her eyes "Why of course George I would be delighted to come to dinner with you. Its a date, but um I have to get home to my parents right away." Carrie said to me as she winked at me with a smile on her face until we came across our old science teacher from high school Harold Ogilvy "Hello mr. ogilvy its been a very long time." I said to him as Ogilvy smiled "hello there how are my favorite students doing today?" he asked us as we took a moment to speak "we're about visit Carrie's parents today I was just escorting her right now." we told him "if you need anything just call me?" he replied to us in a kind manner.
As the day finally arrived for my first date with carrie at my house I prepared a dinner especially for both of us and in edition a telescope for us to look into the deep night sky. At 11:30 P.M. Carrie appeared at my doorstep, as I welcomed her inside we sat at the table and we had stake with carrots on the side and we both drank glasses of water, after we finished our plates i gave her a tour around the house and afterwards we went outside where my telescope was already set up. we looked up in the night-skies and there were stars twinkling, there was moment where she spoke "george the dinner is great and your house is very homing." she said to me as i smiled to her as i gave her a peek though my telescope and we saw the moon very close, until an idea came to me... as i remembered that NASA reported that mars would be in close proximity with earth so i asked her if she would like to see mars.
"sure, but would it be alright if i sleepover for the night? it is almost 12:00" she asked me as i nodded yes, while i was trying to locate mars, i spoke to her "carrie... it has been a very long time since we were very little and we be came best friends over the years, but its been very lonely at home since i been away from my parents, until you came back into my life and all the memories of my 3 year old childhood to collage came with it and when im with you i feel happy." i said to her as i put my hand into my pocket, as i got my hand from my pocket i gave her a small box and inside it was a ring, not just any ring... a wedding ring. as i saw a surprised look on her face i asked her "carrie my very best childhood friend will you marry me?" as i asked her i saw her show a big smile on her face and that when she spoke "my answer is yes george." carrie replied as she began hugging me by the side.
its about 12:00 and we took a look at mars with my telescope it was incredible to see the heavens with my fiance carrie and at that very midnight on the 27th of july we looked into my telescope to take a good look at mars until we notice something very strange and unexpected, a small spec of bright green light with huge mass of luminance blue gas appeared close to the planet mars and moving fast towards earth. we immediately called our teacher ogilvy and we hurried to meet him at the Princeton Observatory at Princeton, New Jersey with his friend and colleague named professor Pierson. ogilvy and i immediately called the news and they arrived at 2:30 AM, across 200 million miles of void invisible hurling towards our planet in the first of the missiles which would've brought so much calamity to earth. as dozens of news reporters and live broadcasters entered the observatory, ogilvy himself became somehow surprised of this unexpected event that's even already occurring right now.
[meanwhile on ABC7 Eyewitness news TV]
Daisy Williams: hi there i'm Daisy Williams.
Sade Barnard: and im Sade Barnard we are here live to bring to you this news... a special bulletin from the ABC7NEWS. At 12:00 AM before 2:30 central time, Professor Pierson and his assistant Professor Ogilvy of the Observatory at Princeton seems to report observing several explosions of incandescent gas, occurring at regular intervals close to the planet Mars. The spectroscope indicates the gas to be hydrogen and moving towards the earth with enormous velocity. Professor Pierson of the Observatory at Princeton confirms ogilvy's observation, and describes the phenomenon as (quote) like a jet of green with blue flame shot from a gun (unquote).
Daisy Williams: wow! that sounds kinda strange. we will be broadcasting live with Charlie Phillips, or commentator, will be interviewing Professor Richard Pierson famous astronomer Live at the Princeton Observatory, New Jersey... Charlie Phillips.
Charlie Phillips: thank you daisy, ladies and gentlemen. as you can see I am standing in a large semi-circular room, pitch black except for an oblong split in the ceiling. Through this opening I can see a sprinkling of stars that cast a kind of frosty glow over the intricate mechanism of the huge telescope. The ticking sound you hear is the vibration of the clockwork. Professor Pierson stands directly above me on a small platform, peering through a giant lens with his assistant and I ask you to be patient, daisy and sade, during any delay that may arise during our interview. Besides his ceaseless watch of the heavens, Professor Pierson may be interrupted by telephone, assassinate or other communications. talking with prof. Ogilvy right next to him which seems to be our journalist and During this period Professor Pierson is in constant touch with the astronomical centers of the world . . . Professor, may I begin our questions?
PIERSON: At any time, Mr. Phillips.
Charlie Phillips: Professor, would you please explain to me exactly what you've seen so far when you observed the planet Mars through your telescope?
PIERSON: Nothing unusual at the moment, but this appears to be unexpected, Mr. Phillips. A red disk swimming in a blue sea. Transverse stripes across the disk. Quite distinct now because Mars happens to be the in close proximity to earth . . . in opposition, as we call it.
Charlie Phillips: In your opinion, what do these explosions signify, Professor Pierson?
PIERSON: possibly meteors, comets or volcanic activity but its unlikely there are any in the area where the explosions occurred, I can assure you, Mr. Phillips, although that's the popular conjecture of those who imagine Mars to be inhabited. From a scientific viewpoint the stripes are merely the result of atmospheric conditions peculiar to the planet, but so far NASA sent many probes and rovers on mars, its become a cold dry desert.
Charlie Phillips: Then you're quite convinced as a scientist that living intelligence as we know it does not exist on Mars?
PIERSON: I'd say the chances against it are a thousand to one. but in my assistant's opinion are a million to one.
Charlie Phillips: And yet how do you account for those gas eruptions occurring close to the planet at regular intervals?
PIERSON: Mr. Phillips, I cannot account for it.
Charlie Phillips: By the way, Professor, for the benefit of our viewers at home, how far is Mars from earth?
PIERSON: Approximately forty million miles.
Charlie Phillips: Well, that seems a safe enough distance.
George Wells/narrator POV:
while prof Pierson was being interview by a fellow friend from work charlie Phillips, i asked Ogilvy permission to look into Pierson's telescope, he accepted my request, i took a look into the telescope i notice how mars looks very larger in view, i offered carrie to take a look into the massive telescope in this large room and as we watched there was another jet of gas, it was another missile... starting its way to offered us a room to sleep for the night and we gladly accepted. Morning july 28th saturday 9:30 AM we got up at 9:30 and mr. pierson offered us breakfast, he made us pancakes with grapefruit on the side. while we were eating, pierson talked about last night and how it is interesting to have visitors in his observatory "it seems like you two made a big issue of sleeping at my observatory and making a crowd show up and all." pierson told us in a strict manner "well you see me and Carrie were having diner at my home and i proposed to her for her hand in marriage, i felt it be romantic if we look into my telescope at the stars, we even looked and the moon and mars, but when we notice the strange activity close to mars, i had to call Ogilvy." i informed pierson as we continued speaking, but pierson made a concerned look on his face but as ogilvy walked into the room "Marriage! you asked her to marry her. congratulations my boy, but first i would like to inform you that we made an urgent call to nasa and they will be keep a close watch for any more activity on the planet." ogilvy said to us in confident manner, we sighed, but ogilvy spoke "but in the mean time we'll be on the watch as well... tonight we'll be sure if there are any activity." he said to us, after breakfest i notice theres a group of news reporters and crowds with camreas outside and among the is charlie phillips still reporting. thats how it was for the next 8 days and nights a flare spurting close from the planet mars, bright green drawing a green mist behind it with particles of light blue dust and smoke, a beautiful but some how a very disturbing sight. ogilvy assured me and carrie we were in no danger, perhaps a huge volcanic explosion or a passing by comet was in progress, but he was convinced the could be no living thing on that remote forbidding planet.
The chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one he said!
The chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one, But still they Come!
George Wells/narrator POV:
then came that very night the first missile approached earth, hundreds saw it but thought it was an oddly falling star or a meteor, some say it traveled with a hissing sound and heard it landed with a green flash with the sound of thunder, a shock-wave was felt all across new jersey with a radius of twenty miles of Princeton.
[meanwhile on ABC7 Eyewitness news TV]
Charlie Phillips: Just a moment, ladies and gentlemen, someone has just handed Professor Pierson a message. While he reads it, let me remind you that we are reporting live from the observatory in Princeton, New Jersey, where we are interviewing the world- famous astronomer, Professor Pierson . . . One moment, please. Professor Pierson has passed me a message which he has just received . . . Professor, may I read the message to the ABC7 viewers?
PIERSON: Certainly, Mr. Phillips
Charlie Phillips: Daisy and Sade I shall read you and our viewers a wire addressed to Professor Pierson from Dr. Gray of the National History Museum, New York. um Daisy, Sade it seems that it says here, "10:15 P. M. eastern standard time. Seismograph registered shock of almost earthquake intensity occurring within a radius of twenty miles of Princeton. Please investigate. Signed, Lloyd Gray, Chief of Astronomical Division" . . . Professor Pierson, could this occurrence possibly have something to do with the disturbances observed beside the red planet Mars?
PIERSON: Hardly, Mr. Phillips. This is probably a meteorite of unusual size and its arrival at this particular time is merely a coincidence. However, we shall conduct a search party, as soon as daylight permits.
Charlie Phillips: Thank you, Professor. Ladies and gentlemen, for the past ten minutes we've been speaking to you from the observatory at Princeton, bringing you a special interview with Professor Pierson, noted astronomer. This is Charlie Phillips speaking. We are returning you now to our ABC7 NEWS Studio, back you Daisy.
Daisy Williams: thank you charlie and we do have multiple reports in both new york and new jersey that they indeed felt an earthquake.
Sade Barnard: yes Daisy and we also got reports of sightings of a green meteor from the sky and we will be back after these commercials.
Date: August 6th 2018
George Wells/narrator POV:
my teacher ogilvy and I searched on foot for the meteor in the early morning till we had a phone call from a farmer in a neighborhood at wilmuth's farm saying there was a landing on his farm, we just assumed it was parachute diving, however next day we arrived at the scene where the landing was reported and in the farm there was a huge crater in the middle wilmuths farm grovers mill and ogilvy and i came to examined what laid there. A cylinder, thirty yards across, glowing hot and with faint sounds of movement coming from within. suddenly the top began moving, rotating, unscrewing and ogilvy feared there was a man inside trying to escape, he rushed to the cylinder but the intense heat stopped him before he could burn himself on the still glowing metal.
The chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one he said!
The chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one, But still they Come! YES! The chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one he said!
The chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one, But still...
They Come!
George Wells/narrator POV:
that afternoon i went to new york to see carrie and her parents at her apartment, but it seems totally incredible to be now that everyone spent that evening as if were just like any other. from the highways were the sound of cars honking and rumbling soften into melody by the distance and it all seem so safe in tranquility. when i arrived at their apartment carrie was waiting for me at the door "george you arrived, i heard from Mr. Ogilvy that you found a meteor today." she told me in a nervous voice. "well you look nervous is something going on?" i asked her with worry, she gave me depressed look as if she were in trouble "its my mother... she had just passed away." she told me as her eye were forming tears of sadness of a loss. i started holding carrie in my arms embracing her with comfort. afterwards i meet her father and did my best to comfort the family of their loss, they informed me that there will be funeral that will be arrange in a week.