[meanwhile on ABC7 Eyewitness news TV]
Daisy Williams: thank you Diana, any way we just received an urgent call from Victor and is in need of being put on live!
Sade Barnard: okay then, coming in live with be Victor Giles, your on?
Victor Giles: thanks guys and as you can see, the ferry has just been filled with passengers and are already leaving shore, but Wait a minute . . . Enemy now in sight above the Palisades. as you see there are Three Fighting machines and there seems to be two more Smoke machines. in total of Five - five machines and they are moving right towards the shores, they seem to be followed by smaller machines, yet they seem to be swarming on the shoreline. First fighting machine is crossing river. I can see it from here, then another is coming in and entering the Hudson, wait a second there's something their carrying, it seems to be some kind of large pod and their placing it into the river like some kind of boat. oh my its moving over to us like a man wading through a brook, while the other fighting machines are marching over to the ferry that is already leaving Manhattan South ferry docks. wait a minute there seems to be something coming in between them, its the HMS thunder-child from the united kingdom! along with two American Military submersibles moving towards us. they seem to be attacking the martian boats that are heading over to us, maybe trying to stall them but due to the energy sheild that protects them its proven very difficult, but it seems that its distracting them and drawing the martian boats away from us and are . . . oh my . . . its not just a boat, its a submerging boat! yet its hard to tell if their fighting, but i can see the impact glow from the energy shield from underneath us.
George Wells/narrator POV:
the ferry began to move slowly away, but on the land of horizon appeared the unmistakable silhouette of a fighting machine, another came and another, striding through hills and trees plunging far out to sea and blocking the exit of the ferry, but then came in between them came silent gray iron clad HMS thunder-child slowly it moved towards shore then with a deafening roar, and warships spread. It swung about and drove at full speed towards the wailing Martians. Then I heard Carrie calling to me as the ferry pulled away from shore. The warship was moving swiftly and through the seas and the canons fired as the ship came. Then the tripod suddenly burst into heaps of flame, as the crowd and the people on the ferry started cheered on.
"There were ships of shapes and sizes"
"Scatter out along the bay"
"And I thought I heard her calling"
"As the steamer pulled away"
"The Invaders must have seen them"
"As across the coast they filed"
"Standing firm between them"'
"There lay Thunder Child"
"Moving swiftly through the waters"
"Cannons blazing as she came"
"Brought a might metal war-lord"
"Crashing down in sheets of flame"
"Sensing victory was nearing"
"Thinking fortune must have smiled"
"People started cheering"
"Come on Thunder Child"
"Come on Thunder Child"
[meanwhile on ABC7 Eyewitness news TV]
Victor Giles: it seems that the thunder child has just taken down one of the tripod fighting machines, oh thank heavens, now there seem to be more entering the river and already marching to the thunder-child. as for the submarine battle im not sure if theres anything down there in the river, but all i can say is that their trying to draw the enemy away from the escaping cizillians. the fighting machines seem to be emitting smoke into the air to hid themselfs.
George Wells/narrator POV:
Then the tripods release their black smoke but the warship sped on cutting down one of the tripod figures, instantly the others raised their heat-rays and melted the thunder-child's valiant heart. the heat ray burned the deck of the thunder-child all hope was dashed away as we watched the sinking wreak, the smoke started to clearing the thunder-child was slowly disappearing.
(SOUNDS OF THE HEAT RAY)
"Lashing ropes and smashing timbers"
"Flashing Heat Rays pierced the deck"
"Dashing hopes for our deliverance"
"As we watched the sinking wreck"
"With the smoke of battle clearing"
"Over graves in waves defiled"
"Slowly disappearing"
"Farewell Thunder Child!"
"Slowly disappearing"
"Farewell Thunder Child!"
"Farewell Thunder Child!"
"Farewell Thunder Child!"
George Wells/narrator POV:
But when the smoke finally cleared the ferry had reached the mystic horizon and Carrie is now safe. But the thunder-child had vanished forever, taking with her mans last hope of victory. Then the Lit-en sky was lead by green flashes cylinder following cylinder and no one and nothing is left now to fight them. The earth belonged to the Martians.
[meanwhile on ABC7 Eyewitness news TV]
Victor Giles: oh . . . oh man . . . I'm very surprised to say this but it appears that the thunder-child has fallen. yet it seems that many of the ferries including the one from Manhattan south ferry has already left the area and beyond the area. thankfully we are moving far from new york and it seems that this is going to be a very long journey . . . hold on there seems to be something in the clouds above us, it seems to be a green flash in the storm, they could be the martian cylinders that are just now entering our atmosphere and there seems to be one following the other. anyway I'm going now guys, back to you Sade!
Sade Barnard: thanks victor and have a long safe voyage across the great seas.
Daisy Williams: and be careful of the Bermuda triangle! as for the martian cylinders there indeed seems to be Martian cylinders falling all over the country and some landing in the other nations like five in Europe and two in Asia and five in Korea. there's seems to be two landings in Oklahoma country, one outside Buffalo, one in Chicago, St. Louis, there also two in the united kingdom and Germany. Martians are seem to be spreading around-
Sade Williams: as for the martian machines it seems we got a call from our traffic reporter again, and we'll bring you to her as she will be broadcasting live. Diana whats the situation right now?
Daisy Williams: Diana you there?
Diana Wayne: oh god! Daisy it is heck out here, my cameraman just got killed so I'm showing you what I'm seeing, right now there are massive tripods Striding across streets and smashing cars as it is looking over the city. but it seems to be just standing there, probably waiting for the others to enter the city. . . and they seem to be lifting their metal hands and using their heat-ray. yet the fighting machines seem to be howling some sort of victory, yet its drizzling out here, there are few solders attacking the fighting machines, but it seems the shields around them are too hard to penetrate. already the people are scrabbling the city streets to avoid the small machines, but it seems like they kill anything that moves.
Sade Barnard: it seems like this is the end now.
Daisy Williams: yes it kinda does, but Diana what else is happening? can you see any thing else?
Diana Wayne: well there's a smoke machine moving by me right now and its like firing some kind of weapon? must be the smoke grenades i think and its firing them in multiple areas of Manhattan. theres like smoke spreading on the streets and people are running from it but its like some kind of (COUGHS) pyr-(COUGHS) I (COUGHS) its ge- (COUGHS)
(body falls as she drops the camera on to the ground)
Daisy Williams: diana? Diana can you hear me? DIANA! (breaths heavily)
(sade Barnard grabs Daisy by the arm to calm her)
Sade Barnard: daisy she's gone! anyway we'll be on the roof looking at the scene from the station.
(broadcasting holds)
(few moments later)
Daisy Williams: (breathing heavily) Sade am i on?
Sade Barnard: yes your on!
Daisy Williams: hello im standing on the roof here on our broadcasting station and its getting more raining as it is. down there below us you can see there are flows of black smoke spreading though the streets and there seems to be, yeah they appear to be people running in the streets and there are some wearing gas masks to protect themselfs of the smoke, thank heavens for them. but as for the others, im really scared right now, there you can see there are giant smokeing machines marching their way into the streets with there smoke sprayers and fireing their black cloud grenades on the city streets, people are trying to escape the smoke but its too fast, but it flows like a volcanic pyroclastic flow. um . . . carl if your hearing this im very sorry for arguing with you and for everything, take good care of our children for us and mother, father im very sorry for being rude to you and hurting you both. jasmine my friend if your up there in heaven hearing me . . . im sorry that i became a jerk and made things harder for you, but im sorry! (starts crying while talking)
Sade Barnard: daisy its alright everything is going to be alright. any way we'll get back to her later but since this is our final broadcast, daisy your the greatest anchorman i ever worked with and i would like to call you my best friend.
Daisy Williams: (sniffles) yeah and your the greatest assitant i ever worked with (hugs Sade Barnard) your my best friend, if only Jasmine were here, we would've made a great trio right now.
Sade Barnard: i know Daisy, i know for certain she's in a good place and im sure we'll be together as a trio on the other side.
Daisy Williams: (sniffles) okay, im alright now . . . and theres Smoke comes out of the smoke machine . . . it seems to be black smoke, its already drifting over the city. and below there seems to be people in the streets running from it, they see it now. now they're running towards the East River . . . thousands of them, their dropping in like rats. Now the smoke's spreading faster. It's reached Times Square. many People are trying to run away from it, but it's no use. They're falling like flies. Now the smoke's crossing Sixth Avenue . . . Fifth Avenue . . .
(black smoke grenade lands on the building where Daisy and Sade are standing)
Daisy Williams: (turns and sees the smoke grenade) um one hundred yards away . . .
Sade Barnard: um daisy?
(smoke Grenade activates)
Daisy Williams: it's fifty feet . . .
(smoke moves over to them)
Sade Barnard: um daisy i guess this is it?
Daisy Williams: i guess it is? see you on the other side sade?
(smoke reaches them)
Daisy Williams and Sade Barnard: (coughing) i can't - breath
(BOTH BODIES FALL AS CAMERA DROPS CLOSE TO THEM)
"(ULLAAA)"
OPERATOR: 2X2L calling CQ . . . 2X2L calling CQ . . . 2X2L calling CQ . . . New York. Isn't there anyone on the air? Isn't there anyone on the air? Isn't there anyone . . . 2X2L -
(Television Goes Static with snow fuzzes on screen)