Daisy Williams: Good afternoon everyone im Daisy Williams and standing next to me is Sade Barnard. we are here broadcasting in our studio live to inform you that new york will be on alert of martian assult in which will be on its way here to new york, this is a warning. we'll be broadcasting live at the mayors office.
Mayor: good afternoon ladies and gentelmen, my fellow citizens of new york! in respons of the martian threat to new york we will be at city hall to discus the evacuation of our city, if you have any questions during the meeting, we will have a member of the national guard there, who will explain to you in detail, but if you are urgeing to leave the city then please do so in an orderly fashion.
Daisy Williams: well thats good to hear from the mayor, but it seems that he already answered our question!
Sade Barnard: yes Daisy, it sounded like he did, but ther was something i was going to ask him i wonder how it effects the parade and the president's visit? im planing on going to that meeting at city hall myself.
Daisy Williams: i guess it means that i'll be the only anchor man here am i?
Sade Barnard: its alright daisy but if the invasion does begin, i might come with you on our last broadcasting on ABC7 NEWS.
Daisy Williams: i guess that might sound nice?
Two Days later New york city
Aug 11, 2018
Daisy Williams: ladies and gentelmen this is Daisy Williams and standing next to me is Sade Barnard and we're in our studio live as this could be our final moments of ABC7 NEWS.
Sade Barnard: yes as so it seems our parade is possibly ruined by our party crashing alien invaders from the planet mars, even our president donald trump might be busy with other issues on this matter.
Daisy Williams: yes and in the mean time we will be having our traffic reporter Diana Wayne who has just arrived by taxi, but stuck in traffic as well.
Diana Wayne: thank you Daisy, i am standing here where there are a mas of traffic jams here, but it seems that after yesterdays meeting at city hall, it has been estimated that within the last twelve hours thare are three million people have been packing things with packages, boxes, and suitcases as they moved out along the roads to the north, but it appears that Hutchison River Parkway is still being kept open for car traffic. Avoid bridges to Long Island . . . hopelessly jammed. back to you Daisy and Sade!
Daisy Williams: thank you diana, now we just got reaports of martian landings in the UK at horsell common and a landing in the behimian forest at the heart of europe. but thankfully that the german empire are already mobalizing and are going for war against the martians.
Sade Barnard: seems like theres hope, but theres only a little amount of the army for the us left.
Daisy Williams: what makes you say that?
Sade barnard: well there seems to be only a few dozen solders left in the army but already the united states is mostly with cylinder landings. there barely any more defenses. many of our army taken or killed . . . 50% of our artillery, 80% of our air force, everything are at a minumun. This may be the last broadcast of the ABC7 NEWS LIVE.D
Daisy Williams: but We'll stay here to the end.
George Wells/narrator POV:
for two days i fought my way through roads packed with traffic jams of cars, buses, taxi cabs and refugees. the homeless burden with boxes and bundles continued their valuables, all that was a value to me was in new York. by the time i reached their little house Carrie and her father were gone. as i wander this empty appartment which once had portraits of our lives when we were children and there were many more photos of us growing together, at school, at the park, at the beach and even collage and thats when i suddenly found a note on the table which said:
My Dear George
if you're able to find this letter, then you already know my father and i left the house, the reason is because my father and i heard the news that yesterday that the Martians have defeated the military at the marsh lands in new jersey and are moving towards new york, so we are heading to the white hall terminal Manhattan south ferry, where we will be evacuating by sea. but when i saw the news on television of your where-about and alive and well. it fills me with relief that your alright, but father feared that the martians would be on their way to new york so he insisted that we pack our things and going to leave new York very soon. but i know you would come to me and father to warn us but as a resort i write this letter to you and as i write this, i will be waiting at the dock for you and in time i will see you again and will remain by your side in your kind hearted and warm embrace once more. . . Be safe my dear George.
From your childhood friend and lover, Carrie Summers
George Wells/narrator POV:
As i finished the letter Carrie had left behind, I could not believe how surprised i was when i finished reading the note, Carrie and her father are still alive and well, yet i have to get to Manhattan and fast before the ferry leaves new york.
"The summer sun is fading as the year grows old,
And darker days are drawing near,
The winter winds will be much colder,
Now you're not here."
"I watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky
And one by one they disappear,
I wish that I was flying with them
Now you're not here."
"Like the sun through the trees you came to love me,
Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away..."
"Through autumn's golden gown we used to kick our way,
You always loved this time of year . . ."
"Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now"
"Cos you're not here"
"Cos you're not here"
"Cos you're not here"
(Carrie's voice: George, where are you?)
George Wells/narrator POV:
Fire suddenly leaped from building to building, people started screaming as glass starts to shatter from the windows, the police started blowing their whistles to calm the citizens of new york, but some of the population of new york just panicked and ran. Then I was swept along with them aimless and lost without Carrie. but my feelings tell me that i have to get to the docks and fast. until finally I headed south which Carrie and her father is right now, including my only chances of survival, a ferry boat out of new york. in which where Carrie mentioned in her note that she left in her apartment 'white hall terminal Manhattan south ferry'.
'"Like the sun through the trees you came to love me"
"Like a leaf on the breeze you blew away"'
"A gentle rain falls softly on my weary eyes"
"As if to hide a lonely tear"
"My life will be forever Autumn"
'"Cos you're not here"
"Cos you're not here"
"Cos you're not here"
[meanwhile on ABC7 Eyewitness news TV]
Daisy Williams: now lets get to Victor Giles, who is already with his family at the dock and he will be reaporting live. hello Victor how are things at the docks?
Victor Giles: well Daisy its really crowded in here and standing next to me is my family, this is my wife Ellen and these are our kids, bill and jenny. say hi kids?
Jenny and Bill Giles: hi!
Victor Giles: Now to answer your question Daisy, there are loads of people, moving towards the harbor. All manner of boats are gathering at the docks, overloaded with fleeing people and the boats are already pulling out pulling out from docks. but there you can see, there is another boat coming in at Manhattan south ferry, but hasn't docked with the pier yet. any way I'm already getting on our ride, but I'll be reporting more detail later, back to you daisy.
Daisy Williams: thank you Victor now as for the crowds of fleeing people we can already tell there's a load of traffic on their way right now.
Sade Barnard: yes speaking of traffic we just got word from Diana that the streets are all jammed up. honking, yelling and shouting noise in crowds like New Year's Eve in city. to be honest, this doesn't sound like a new years eve celebration, it sounds more like some kind of riot or angry mob.
George Wells/narrator POV:
as I headed through British garden at Hanover square more and more people joined the painful exodus. sad weary women, their children stumbling, street with tears, men bitter and angry, the rich rubbing shoulders with beggars and outcasts, dogs snarled and whine, the the horses food were covered with foam, then here and there were wounded soldiers as helpless as the rest.
[meanwhile on ABC7 Eyewitness news TV]
Daisy Williams: hold on Sade, i just got an urgent call from Diana saying that there are small martian machines marching and smashing their way into Manhattan, we'll be taking you live at Manhattan where Diana Wayne will be reporting live, Diana you there?
Diana Wayne: oh thank god Daisy you replied just in time and your not going believe this, there are herds of martian machines smashing cars and shoving buses and tossing motorcycles across the streets. their even snatching people with their tentacles and strangling them with horrific strength. this is just horrifying
George Wells/narrator POV:
Then we saw tripods wailing from Manhattan, cutting through bridges as it they were paper. Brooklyn bridge, Williams-burg bridge, one of the tripods appeared above pace university.
"(ULLAAA)"
George Wells/narrator POV:
in the streets of new york came dozens of the metal hermit spiders, chaseing people though sidewalks and streets, they started smashing and shoving cars in traffic roads where civillians started running and panicing, never before in the history of the world that such a mass of humans moved and suffered together this was no disciplined march, it was a stand-peed . . . without order and without a goal three million people unarmed and supervision driving headlong. It was the beginning of the route of civilization of Damascus of mankind. until i heard sounds of the whistles of a ferry boat in the distance it was moving towards white hall terminal Manhattan south, where i might find my dear carrie and her father.
(SOUND OF BOAT WHISTLES)
but as the vast crowd buffered me towards the already packed up ferry. I looked up enviously at those who were safely on board, searching each and everyone of the passengers from affar, then a familiar face caught my attention, it was her . . . Carrie, my childhood friend and soon to be wife, I started to shove my way over to the ferry in order to reach her, but it became so hard to her as the crowd start pushing and shoving. as I gazed straight into the eyes of my beloved lover Carrie, i started shouting to her until she notices me calling to her among the crowd, but then she began to fight her way along the packed deck to the gain plank, at that very moment it was raised and I caught a last glimpse of her despairing face as the crowed swept me away from her. that's when i heard her shouting to me in the distance to me "George!" she kept on shouting my name.
'"Like the sun through the trees you came to love me"
"Like a leaf on the breeze you blew away"'
"Through autumn's golden gown we used to kick our way,
You always loved this time of year . . ."
"Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now"
"Cos you're not here"
"Cos you're not here"
"Cos you're not here"