Joshuajacobson95's war of the worlds

by joshuajacobson95

in the year 2018 our planet is about to be targeted by an alien invasion "presumed to be from the planet mars" with their deadly heatrays and their giant walking tripods. read as our story tells the tale of the war of the worlds, with "jeff wayne's musical version" lines, and the present age version of the "1932's orson welles the war of the worlds broadcast"

11. Chapter 11: The Ruins Of New Jersey

Chapter 11: Travels to the ruins of new jersey

George Wells/narrator POV:

several hours passed and i came across the remain of a half destroyed handing machine which seemed to have exploded partly from inside, yet it seemed so familiar to me, but i then pushed on until i reached the George Washington bridge, it seemed to have less martian plant-life, but there's barley any cars around and i kept on going. after i crossed the bridge, I've wandered to the south which seemed to be sprouting with martian red weeds in the trees and covered the stores and buildings. but as i walked right before i could reach 28th street that was a few miles close John F. Kennedy Blvd i spotted a martian fighting machine hovering over some kind of building. so i felt that the martian tripod would see me if i go down the road of John F. Kennedy Blvd, so as what any person would do in a situation like this, i would have to sneak past it and new just how do it. i decided to hide behind the buildings across 27th street but i had to keep myself from being seen by the martians that are close by. then i sneaked by 26th st and it guarding over the side of union city high school or what was left of it? but the tripod is still moving as it used some kind of tentacle to explore the inside of the building by enter though the window from outside. its as if it were probing the school and i was curious of why it was doing just that. since it was distracted cause of the probing of the building, so i hid behind the schools front building, then i looked into the glass door and looked with caution and saw the martian robot tentacle moving around the building, as if it was searching for people inside it, but then i saw there was some kind of eye on the tip of the tentacle, which seemed to be as big as a baseball and then i understood that this was a searching scope tentacle. of what purpose it had, i learned it was made like a television camera, a robot arm and an ROV mixed, to search for anything that moves and examine the area. but to be safe i had to keep out of the sight of the probe inside the building and the tripod outside the building. i knew i had to keep quiet and to stay still without any sudden movement, but then i heard sounds of martian machine walking right by my left side of the building, then appeared a foot of a martian fighting machine and it moved past me and thank heavens i wasn't seen, then i went inside the school building and then i notice there was school was empty of its metal and most of its pipes and many of the metal objects that were taken by the martian harvester machines, and after wards i went outside and past the Roosevelt stadium and saw there was remains of a passenger plane from an airport somewhere, but it seemed that most of it was covered by the martian red weed but as i was walking i notice that there were some places that the red weed hasn't covered yet and thank heavens i was able to remember the way now. as i wandering though John F. Kennedy blvd, there were houses and neighborhoods that were in smoking ruins but was slowly developing martian plant-life and that's when i caught sight of something i haven't seen before. it was some kind of scout of but it had a martian on top of the head of the machine, yet as for the martian scout of walker, it stood 20 feet tall but it was something different from the metal hermit spiders. it too walked on three legs and then it started moving into the streets, quickly i hid behind a house close by me. yet i fear the scout tripod would find me, but thankfully it hasn't and now it just disappeared. knowing that the coast was clear i ran down the route that i had taken and half an 30 minutes later i came across Leonard Gordon park, once a leafy urban space and now a scorched grass and red weed covered land of alien flowers blooming in the sunlight, but then i notice up ahead was a pizza restaurant called 'pizza express' but then i a group of three metal hermit spiders scouting the area and its streets. before the deadly machines could see me, i made a mad dash into 'cliff st' and into 'liberty ave' and i rushed into 'sunny farm berries and veggies' store and was able to get inside and fill myself of my tiring travel back to rabbit rd, but reaching it was going to take a very long time. after i finished eating, i looked outside and saw that the metal hermit spiders were gone and i immediately went outside looked around me and no metal hermit spiders so continued into John F. Kennedy blvd again and headed south. afterwards i reached st Paul ave and made a right turn into it, but then i make a left turn onto James ave and when i reached Newark ave and headed forward, up ahead was hackensack river which seems to be free of red weed, but then i notice there was a building planet on the other side of the road over the river but on the right side of it was a field of red weed and it was slowly transforming the land into a strange martian jungle. i kept on going across the road on the river and when i reached the other side of the road i was surprised that there were dozens of burned corpses close to the building walls but then i saw there was red weed trees behind the towering corn plant. finally at last i reached Newark-jersey city turnpike so then i kept on walking, toward a restaurant called taco bell and it seemed to be covered in dark red vegetation, then i pushed on towards Harrison ave and there stood a building or what was left of it and i kept on going. an hour later i reached another neighborhood, yet it was in ruins and now being consumed by the fields of the red weed. but as i kept on going I've notice that the way into Newark was blocked by the thick trees of red weed which has continued to spread across new jersey and new york so i made a right turn into the north of new jersey onto kingsland ave and passed by Harrison high school which is still intact but deserted and i hurried onward. after that i came to west Hudson park which is completely covered by the red weed that has been able to take form of alien ferns of sorts, then i made a left to central ave and kept on going. as i continued onto the road i reached clay st over passaic river which was smothered in blood that was feeding the red weeds growth. i felt a shiver up my spine with nervousness and looked at my surroundings but there seems to be no martians around the area so i cross over the clay st and went north to passaic street. then i made a left turn to Clark st, until i went onto Broadway and made a left to park ave, after that i went into lake st where i came across of the remains of Branch Brook Park and on the ground was a black powder which i assumed to be the dust from the black smoke and in the distance i saw that there were few dozen martian machines moving in the distance over miles of martian red weed and alien vegetation already covered every scrap of ground. then i went back to park ave and went into Clifton ave and made a left turn onto 8th ave and then turned right to nesbitt ave and continued onto sussex ave and into central ave and next to me was a museum with seem to be covered with red weed and black dust piles then i turn south and onto Washington street. and after that i came into a city of which appeared to be newark.