Date: august 9th 2018
George Wells/narrator POV:
it nearly becomes morning, the sounds of guns grew low, and the sounds of engines and machine sounds start to bother my ears. i found my ear-muffs i kept in the living room table-drawer, when i put them on i took a look into the window and find that a few dozen bodies of burn solders and wounded naighbors laying on the ground. most of the entire naighborhood was nearly in ruins, i kept a close look for the source of the loud machine noises, until caught the sights . . . of a horror that filled me with dred, of what they are doing to the dead and wounded bodies of people who remained on the ground. morning finally arrives and as my watch started working again i took a look at the time and it was 6:30 A.M. but it seemed almost like a slience but there were only a small amount of guns pounding in the distance. i carefully took a peek in the window, but this had givin me an alarming, confusing and very shocking sight. . . everything . . . was gone. every car, every shell, every shot in battle, every piece of metal and everyone of the dead and wounded. my naighbors were taken, their bodies were stolen, but for what? for food? fuel? or slaves? but whatever happend to them i only learned of whatever was at work here, but this might be why those monsterous creatures are here for. . . they came for our planet, or worse they came. . . for us? i knew i had to warn carrie of what happened but i had to use my iphone to contact her. then i made a call to ABC7 news where i work at, and informed them of my experience of the horror i saw.
[meanwhile on ABC7 Eyewitness news TV]
Daisy Williams: good morning everyone This is ABC7 News, im Daisy Williams.
Sade Barnard: and im Sade Barnard, it been nearly several hours since yesterdays power-surge last night and due to the techincal difficaulties we have here -
Daisy Williams: wait a minute Sade this an ugent story just came on my desk just now . . . oh my um it appearse that I have a grave announcement. Incredible as it may seem, both the observations of science and the evidence of our eyes lead to the inescapable assumption that those strange beings who landed in the Jersey farmlands tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from the planet Mars maybe underway.
Sade Barnard: what, oh boy i wonder how this will effect the parade and the president's visit to new york.
Daisy Williams: yeah i better call my husband and kids to take shelter. . .
Sade Barnard: wait a minute Daisy it seems we have a an urgent iphone call from an eyewitness at Rabbit hill in new jersey, it seems he has info and proof of an alien attack at his hometown. so the live footage on screen you see will be that of our journalist named George Wells of Rabbit hill, new jersey. at the scene of the tragity he will share with us of what he had seen.
George Wells: thank you guys, now im standing outside my house, but it seems that theres a lot of damage on the streets and theres almost a certian amount of damage, as you can see it seems like a tornado hit this naighborhood and left a lot of ruble and a few dozen burned houses, but as for last night it seems the battle at grovers mill seemed to have been destroyed by the invaders of mars.
Daisy Williams: yes and how did you know that its the invaders, were you awake when this happen?
George Wells: well due to the loud noises of shreading and machine sounds it kept me up all night and i hid in my pantry when the attack started, but at the time my watch on my rist just stopped which problaby by the activity of the martians, but when i came out and looked outside i saw herds of what looked like bugs with armor and they were like moving in the streets but it was hard to see due to how dark it was outside.
Sade Barnard: wait you say there were machine sounds what kind of machines and what were they doing, can you describe what you've witnessed?
George Wells: well i assumed they were passing across the streets like scouting for any survivors, but they were sweaping on the bodies of my naighbors and possibly surviving solders running from the alien attackers. but when morning came, i looked out the window and every thing was gone, the shells, shots, cars, tanks, every piece and scrap of metal and the there were no dead bodies . . . every naighbor i knew in town and all the dead and wounded solder that fallen . . . disapeared . . . vanished.
Daisy Williams: what they just vanished, just what happend to them, what do you think those creatures are here for?
George Wells: what ever happend to them and why they were missing might be some kind of grave robbing or some form of harvesting, but what ever reason those things came here for, we have to warn the other cities and towns to evacuate now and fast.
Daisy Williams: thank you George for informing us of this horrific tragity we will be announcing a full evacuation of new jearsy.
Sade Barnard: yeah this is seems to be a shock, but we have yet another story coming in. it seems a message just came in from a group a few survivors in grovers mill in which the battle took place last night. it seem the battle at Grovers Mill has ended in one of the most startling defeats ever suffered by any army since WWI and WWII; seven thousand men armed with rifles, machine guns and tanks pitted against a single fighting machine of the invaders from Mars. there were twenty known survivors. The rest strewn over the battle area from Grovers Mill to Plainsboro and Rabbit Hill, crushed and trampled to death under the metal feet of the monster, or burned to cinders by its heat ray, but dude to the reports givin to us by our journalist George Wells it seems the dead and wounded had been taken to the landing site of the martians. The monster is now in control of the middle section of New Jersey and has effectively cut the state through its center. Communication lines are down from Pennsylvania to the Atlantic Ocean. Railroad tracks are torn and service from New York to Philadelphia discontinued except routing some of the trains through Allentown and Phoenixville. Highways to the north, south, and west are clogged with frantic human traffic. Police and army reserves are unable to control the mad flight. By morning the fugitives will have swelled Philadelphia, Camden, and Trenton, it is estimated, to twice their normal population. At this time martial law prevails throughout New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. We take you now to Washington for a special live feed on the National Emergency . . . ladies and gentalmen president of the president of the united states donald trump . . .
Donald Trump: my fellow americans, a historic, unpresidented event has occored, the question of if we were't alone in the universe has been answer and i asure you that I shall not try to conceal the gravity of the situation that confronts the country or our planet, nor the concern of your governments in protecting the lives of others and property of its citezens. however this formidable enemy is still confined to a comparatively small area, and we may place our faith in the military forces to keep them there. if the time comes we will be asking the assistance of many contries and nations across the globe. In the meantime placing our faith in God we must continue the performance of our duties each and every one of us, so that we may confront this destructive adversary with a nation united, courageous, and consecrated to the preservation of human supremacy on this earth. my god forgive us and protect us. if you feel the need to leave your homes, please do so in an orderly fasioned. i thank you.
George Wells/narrator POV:
after hearing the news on televison, i heard more hammering from the pit and the pounding of guns grew silent after the attack on grovers mill and on my hometown. but that was when i heard sounds of someone creeping into the house, i peaked through downstairs in order to see what came inside my home. i quietly tip toed down the stairs in order to be as quiet as a mouse, until i heard sounds of my refrigerator door opening. then i peeked into the kitchen door and i saw it was a young artillery man . . . he was weary, with dirt on his clothing. i secretly looked outside on my front doorstep and was still nothing, no dead bodies or any piece of metal anywhere, but blood and dirt on the streets. until i steped on a large piece of glass that was on the floor during the attack on rabbit hill. this starteled the artilleryman and started to make a stance, then pointed a shotgun at me across the house "Freeze right there, who are you and is there anyone else here?" he shouted in a demanding voice, i took a deep breath and spoke "my name's george wells, im a journalist and i live here." i said to him as he lowerd his gun and began walking towards me "a journalist eh, so you live here eh, i asumed that all the people in this town are already dead, sorry for the intrusion . . . i'll be going." he said to me as he went outside my front door, but if can invite him into my house and do an interview on him and what happened in the battle field. " wait! you can come in if you like, its been too quiet living alone like this but i sure like to have visitors. would you like to come inside?" i asked him with aproval. . . he turned to face me and nodded willingly, then walked into my house. i went to the kitchen and filled a glass cup with water "here drink some water, you really need some H2o in your system." i said to him as i offered the glass of water to him and in order to make him more comfortable i offered him a seat on one of my chairs. as he drank the water i started to speak to him "introductions are in order, i told you my name, i guess its your turn to introduce yourself?" i informed him and he nodded "names flint. . . jeffery flint thank you?" he said to me as i stared at him in a curious way. i took the time to wait as he drinks the glass of water i gave him and i asked him "so jeffery how did you get all the way here from grovers mill? what just happend?" i asked him as i prepaired my notepad and mechanical pencil for his story, as he put the glass on the table he spoke "we were on grovers mill and prepaired for the battle... they attacked us, they wiped us out . . . hundreds dead, maybe thousands?" he said to me in a worried voice "you mean the heat-ray?" i asked him, till he shook his head "not just the heat-ray . . . the martians! they were inside the hoods of machines they made, they were massive metal things on legs . . . giant machines that can walk. they attacked us... they wiped us out!" flint said to me as i was surprised of what he just told me "Wait did you say machines?" i asked him with confusion, if it was the machines at dawn or something else. he nodded me till i told him what i saw at dawn "you mean the machines that were gathering the bodies at last night. his eyes widened of what i asked him, until he shook his head "not those kinds of machines i ment fighting machines, they were setting fire to everything in sight and picking up men and bashing em ageinst trees just hunks of metal, but most of our armory didn't hit em, its like they have a shield on their armor or around them before we can do damage to them and they knew exactly what they were doing!" he said to me as he continued talking "why do you think that there are machines that are gathering bodies?" he asked me in a curious way, i took a moment to speak "you see when my naighborhood was attacked I think I saw herds of machines that resembles some form of insects, then i heard them making loud sounds as they moved across the bodies of dead and wounded, but it was hard to see since it was so dark, when daylight came I saw that everything was . . . gone, no bodies, no metal, no shells nothing . . . all the bodies just vanished." I said to him as I told my story and experience of the horror i saw. jeffery flint sat there, he frozed of what i told him "good god! so your tell me that my fallen brothers were taken, but for what?" he asked me as i paused as i took a moment of what was about to say to him "whatever the reason, they could be enslaving em, they could be using them for food, or they could be using them for fuel? but why the martians are invading earth is that they could be here for us, for our planet or both." i said to him as he stood up and shouted "WHAT, if your say is true . . . I . . . have to warn the remaining forces of the attack." he said with worry as if its the apocalipse. I start trying to calm him and inform him that i called the ABC7 news about the attack on rabbit hill and grovers mill. "its alright i already called the ABC7 news about the tragity and they will be evacuating." I informed him as he sat down on the chair with relife. as we continued to talked about the battle, he showed me something, it was a diary he had in his chest pocket on his army suit. It contained information of the battle at grovers mill, I asked him if i could look into it and accepted my permission. As i opened the cover of the diary i started to look into, the things he wrote in his diary where not just the about the battle at grovers mill, it was filled with how he survived and how he got to grovers mill, but along with his writtings were scetches of the machines he saw in the battle. The diary reads:
Date:8/8/2018
Date:8/9/2018
it was cloudy at grovers mill when we arrived at the scene where those hidious beasts landed, many of us were prepairing for the attack. but as we got close to the edge, towering shapes emerged from the cylinders, but they wern't creatures they were machines. I whisper to god for protection, but in responce . . . our artillery exploded to life. many of our weapons started fireing every shot we have, even our canons. we could'nt hold em, our lives are being torn apart, burned alive, our weapons are like toys ageinst them. we have to retreat!
TBA
George Wells/narrator POV:
As I read his diary, this came a shocking surprise to me, but as for the green star of green mist, I have to ask where it landed "The cylinder that came last night . . . where did it land?" I asked as he gave me a concerned stare "I think it landed in the south, but its hard to tell if the compasses were working" Flint said to me. I became silent as i heard this, but how can a compass not even work? "can i look at your compass?" I asked him as he nodded and starts handing his compass to me, but something surprised me, the needle isn't pointing north. as I looked at the arrow of the compass it appeared to be pointing where grovers mill is at. he and I were surprised "its pointing at grovers mill where the cylinder landed?" I said to you Flint as he amazed of what was going on with his compass.
[meanwhile on ABC7 Eyewitness news TV]
Daisy Williams: Now that you heard the president of the united states at from the white house at Washington D.C. We are just informed that the central portion of New Jersey is blacked out from television to radio communication due to the effect of the heat ray and martian activity upon power lines and electrical equipment.
Sade Barnard: well if you think thats bad here is a special bulletin from New York. Cables received from the UK, Russia, Europe, Germany, Japan and China that they will be assisting the united states for the war-front againts the invaders.
Daisy Williams: speaking of our attakers, astronomers report continued gas outbursts at regular intervals close to planet Mars, but nasa scientists are unable to explain the cause of this activity. Majority voice opinion that enemy will be reinforced by additional rocket machines. but attempts made to locate Professor Pierson of Princeton, who has observed Martians at close range. due to comunications with him have been cut by the attackers from mars, or It is feared he was lost in recent battle.
Sade Barnard: hold on a miniute daisy, it seems that Langham Field, Virginia: Scouting planes report three Martian machines visible above treetops and along with a mass of smaller machines, moving north towards Somerville with population fleeing ahead of them. Heat ray not in use; although advancing at express-train speed, invaders pick their way carefully. They seem to be making conscious effort to avoid destruction of cities and countryside. However, they stop to uproot power lines, bridges, and railroad tracks. Their apparent objective is to crush resistance, paralyze communication, and disorganize human society.
Daisy Williams: oh boy thats um wait a minute this just came on my desk here it seem like a bulletin from Basking Ridge, New Jersey: Coon hunters have stumbled on a second cylinder similar to the first embedded in the great swamp twenty miles south of Morristown. Army fieldpieces are proceeding from Newark to blow up second invading unit before cylinder can be opened and the fighting machine rigged. They are taking up position in the - foothills of Watchung Mountains. Another bulletin from Langham Field, Virginia: Scouting planes report enemy machines, now three in number, increasing speed northward kicking over houses and trees in their evident haste to form a conjunction with their allies south of Morristown. Machines also sighted by telephone operator east of Middlesex within ten miles of Plainfield.
George Wells/narrator POV:
me and jeffery flint were surpised after hearing this news, but thankfully humanity is moblelizing but as for the landing site of the second cylinder in morristown, we understood where the second cylinder had landed "so thats where the second one had landed." he said, until a flash of light came like summer lightning and another green falling star landed in the far distance, I knew that it was a third cylinder. Until i notice that the artilleryman stared in shock as he stood there next to me. "Is there something that is worrying you?" i asked him as he nodded "yes, its that third cylinder, it looks like its in bound for new york." he said to me as my eyes widened "New york? oh no! Carrie! I had never dreamed there could be danger to Carrie and her father so many miles away from here . . . I must go to new york at once!" i informed him as he nodded in understanding "and me i need to report to headquarters! if there is anything left of it?" i said to me as we both nodded in aggreement. we immediately went outside my mouse and started our travel to new york, i only had a little time to get to new york before the third cylinder opens, i even brought with me my journal for the trip.