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"

14. Chapter 14: Aftermath & Epilogue

Chapter 14: Aftermath/ Epilogue

George Wells/narrator POV:

as i stood there in the central drive, i notice someone in the distance of central park, trembling i ran down the road over to him and as i got a closer look at the person standing, i was amazed . . . it was richard pierson. then there was a moment of silence between us as we awaited of who speaks first, luckily i was the first one to speak "mr pierson your alive? i thought you were killed at grovers mill?" i said to him as he smirked with humor "i was able to survive the attack young mr. wells . . . how did you get out there?" he asked me as i stared at him, but i took a moment to think of a way to bring him back to wall street inn so i tried it "i was looking for you since i heard you were alive and well, but i was uncertian of your survival so i had to search almost every part of new york. now that i found you, i can bring you to wall street inn where everyone else are at." i asked him, he then became silent but then he nodded and we made our way back to wall steet inn. when we arrived i opened the door and entered with pierson, but there seems to be something going on with the group of people around me and then i turned to see laying on the couch, was the body of the parson. i then stared at him seeing that he was in a bad state. but he was partly alive and i saw next to him was jeffery the artilleryman "hows the parson doing jeff?" i asked jeffery with worry "its hard to say, he's alive but it seems we're..." he said to me as he went silent, i notice the sad look on his face. i then heard sounds of the parson growning in pain, as his eyes widened he started looking at his surroundings and the sun just shined into the window as he moved, then he caught sight of me and spoke "you . . . you hit my head . . ." he said to me as everyone in the room went quiet for a moment untill i started to speak "i know . . . im sorry i did that to you . . . but . . . i had to make sure the martians didn't hear us. cause if they heard us, the martians could've caught us or worse killed us both. unfortunetly the martians only took one of us, they only have abducted you parson. there was barely anything i could do to save you from the martians and i asumed that you were killed afterwards. but im glad your still alive, but after seeing you like this, it seems you got lucky." i explained to the parson, but i felt sad as looked upon his sevear injuries on whats left of him, even though his legs are missing, he was still loosing a lot of blood. i was worried about his survival yet i have to inform everyone the news about the martians dying. "also i have some importaint news for you . . . for all." i said as the room went silent "the martians . . . are dead." i anounced to everyone in the room. there was a moment of silence in the room and then pierson spoke "he's telling the truth . . . the martian are all dead!" pierson said as the group of people smiled and went outside to see the coast is clear of martians. as they left the only people that stayed was me, pierson, jeffery, the woman, the two siblings and the parson. but i notice the parson seems to be uncertain if i was telling the truth but as he just laid there on the couch he started looking at the sun lit window and spoke "a . . . sign . . . is this ... a sign?" parson asked as he continue speaking "has he given us a sign . . . what . . . does this mean . . . has he answered our prayers? . . . have we've been delivered?!" he asked me as i smiled and nodded my head while looking out the window "we were all praying for our miracle . . . as you can see, god hasn't left us at all. he's always watching us from above, this is the light of hope. . . we're free!" a said to the parson as his face was filled with confusion, i continued to explain to him "remember? your wife said to you that there would be hope for all... she was right. there is indeed still hope. . . maybe even after death she still believed there's still hope. that being said god moves in mysterious ways. even though you have partly been consumed with madness, she still maybe by your side... always have and will always will be with you by your side. . . do you think she wanted you to be a peace?" i said to him as he looked at the sunlit sky in the window, then i notice a smile on his face "beth . . . she became the only person . . . who kept faith in us all, but when i kept warning people about . . . the destruction of our world, they all ignored me . . . but i was right, right that the world would be taken from us all, but beth still believed there's hope. . . but when she was taken from me by those monsters, but then . . . you came and yet you always believed that there would be another chance for us all . . ." parson spoke as he continued speaking "but at the time after i was taken by them. . . i thought that we're doomed to destruction, however deep down i felt maybe i can still save the people, the women and children from their suffering in that deadly cage (coughing) not without a price to be paid and now look at me . . . my legs are taken from my body." he said as i looked at him and i notice a tear in his eye as he continued to speak "yet it seems . . . that god has answered our prayers . . . (coughing)" parson said as he and calmly and chearfully laughed with joy. then we heard the parson started mumbleing to himself "beth . . . my wife . . . where ever you may be now. . . if your there watching and listening my prayers. we've been answered by our lord and . . . have been deliverd from suffering . . . it seems that you were right . . . there is still hope for us all. . . thank you" he said as he turned his head towards me "...and you, its thanks to you all that you helped me regain my faith... to believe once more . . . that there is still hope for us all . . . but now . . . (coughing) . . . now i . . . can be . . . at peace . . . it seems that (coughing) . . . i'll be joining beth now." he said as he offered me a cristian necklace as gift from a restored believer of god "take it . . . as a symbole of my thanks . . . to you all . . ." he said to us with his final words and then he passed away peacefully with his eyes closed. i then put on the cristian necklace the parson gave me, then i spoke "i would like to bury him at the garden shop . . . decently." i asked them as they nodded in agreement. as we all carried the parson outside and over to the area of where we were trapped but are now freed from, we as a group made a well made grave next to his wife's grave side by side. as said our respects and thanks to him and his wife for their prayers for our sakes. as we headed for the docks waiting for the boats and ferrys to return there was a silence, over the hudson river was a martian machine tripod moving towards the shore, but it was behaving strange like the other machines in new york, due to being infected by the bacteria, so it might fall soon until an human aircraft arrives with two more aircraft fighters made their way to it, the two came in behind em... then he leads them straight down into the martian machine fired at it, at that very moment the machine falls onto the shore. we all started chearing and the jets flew past us. we all started runing over to the site where the tripod had fallen, dozens of people started runing over to the remains of the bridge and there was fire around the sides of it. however some people were too busy tearing at the cockpit and even jeffery wanted in on this commotion too, like he wanted to be the one that finds the martian pilot and rips him out of the reckage. then there was horrific surprise, the martian tripod hatch opened up as gallons of orange and red liquds came out the hatch that was hidden on the tripod cockpit. inside the entrance a martian tentacle slithers its way out of the reackage, but it was a surprise for us all to witness as the martian pilot breathing heavily while in its sickened state, it became a pale brownish color on its skin and most of its tentacles were hanging on themselves. its inner mouth beak came and started vomiting blood from its mouth and started trying to breath, but at that very moment it's slimy smooth skin started to rinkle, its eyes began to dry and swell, its tentacles dropped on themselves and the body colapsed to the ground from the cockpit entrance as blood started leaking from it. there was a silence in the group of people and they understood the dying martians, we at last found a weakness of the martians which was a microscopic virus harmless to man and now proved fatal to the invaders. jeffery started making a signal to the army and all millitary forces around the globe who are still alive and are still fighting against the martians, jeffery started to comunicate in morse-code. his message is as follows:

{we disovered a weakness in the martian invaders and have only just begun to fall as their machines came to a stand still.}

it was a big surprise for us all yet as we arrived at ABC7 news station it seems that it is still in bad state due to the attack. but when i reached the top of the building, i found two bodies on the roof and i started to recignise them, they were just identified as sade barnard and daisy williams. after pierson examinated their bodies by x-ray at the hospital in new york, pierson explained that they seemed to have sufficated of breathing loss, due to the black dust that surrounded the air when the martians attacked new york. it was tragic of ABC7 news and as the afternoon begins we start to repair the room and it took us some time for us to fix the building up but it would take us about full day until morning. the martians reign ended swiftly, all around the world the martians began to stop and fall.

August 24, 2018

the next morning i felt my heart lighten brightly and gloriously as the sunrise had struck the whole world to fire. the shadow made by the martians had been rolled back and i felt a wave of emotions close to tears, yes the torment has finally ended. ferry ships returned to new york as the people scattered over the country, desprate, leaderless, starved, the thousand who had fled by sea... including the one most dear to me, all had returned, the pulse of life growing stronger and stronger. unfortunatly the world suffered heavy losses, friends, families,solders even few leaders.

for it was soon discovered that the white house was partly destroyed and donald trump's body was found in the rubble and soon afterwards it was announced that the a funeral will be attended tomorrow at the new york cematary, where he would be laid to rest. many funeral sceduales were made, citizens and civilians alike. it was the largest funeral agenda ever in history since the titanic incident. however my fiance carrie and i attended a funeral for parson nathanel, for him to rest in peace with his dear wife beth. after the funeral, carrie and i met with everyone else at the inn and began having a group conversation about what will happen now since the invasion of the martians ended? jeffery flint began to tell everyone that he would like to retire from the millitary and continue on working on the tunnel in newark and after finishing explaining his plan, the young woman stood up and began to speak about being a jourtnalist, so she began asking jeffery if he wanted to share the results of his progress... so he answered yes. then pierson begin talking about writting his journal about the events that happened, yet i was intrintrigued of this, so i began to share everyone in the inn about my future. settle down with my soon to be wife carrie, but decided to wait on the marrage part and continue dating carrie. as the room went silent everyone around me began to slowly smile with joy and carrie too agreed to wait on the marrage.

August 29, 2018

while construction workers began rebuilding, progress was being made, mr. pierson placed a matrian machine in a museum of natural history on display for tourists. jeffery began to retire from the military and began starting a new life as he settled down with the woman currently raising the sibblings she adopted, together they began construction work, building an underground suburban. as for the goverment system... the millitary and scientists were examining the martian technology, how it works and what its made of. soon biologists began disecting the martian bodies and examined them to confirm if the bacteria had indeed killed the invasion... the results were correct. yet the goverment has continued on funding research on these creatures and their technology. me and carrie continued to date eachother, until recenty we were watching the news on tv which explained that; while examined the bodies of the invaders, the goverment reported that they had discovered one of the martians, barley alive. but it left a message in a strange alien text, however it stopped wirtting untill it shortly died afterwards. this was a major shock to me and my fiance carrie! we imedtiatley rused to mr. pierson's house to inform him of this news, he too was shocked of this report, but was intriged that one of the last martians left a dying message.

September 5, 2018

as me and carrie settled down for a bit while began working on invitations to me and carries wedding. yet even as i worked on the invitations, i continued to look at the martian invasion incident and began to continued on watching the news for future update on the martian invation aftermath. so as i began writting my book on the events of the martian invasion, i began to look in the sky and wonder if there were other races of extraterrestrial life even farther beyond our galaxy, so kept on writting in my journal about my theories and all my scetches of martians and their plantlife, yet i have yet to learn much of their culture. many of earths translators and language diciphers continued on decodeing the writing the dying martian made. nasa scientists continued their search for life on mars, but evidence was yet to be found and if the theory i thought of was correct, if they did come from mars and leave it, what happend to their architecture and fossil remains? whatever the case, only time will tell.

september 14, 2018 after carrie and i got married, we settled down at my house in rabbit hill rd and i continued on writing my journal about the events and was nearly finished. once the book was compleated, it would be a momentoe and family heirlom of my past. but thats when i heard ringing in the living room and understood that i was getting a phone call and discovered that the call was from mr. pierson, i put him on hold and immediatly brought my wife carrie downstairs and put pierson on speakers, he informed us that the martian machines were at last fully examined, but also explained to us a shocking discovery that not only the martians where using humans as nutrients for their plants, but also useing the metal and weapons as resource for the machines they built for the war. in other words the cars and vehicles were used as spare parts for the tripods which were built after arriving to earth. so the explanaition for all the tanks and weapons being taken was at last understood. yet it seems there was still work to be done in my journal and things to write in it, hopefully i would might add more info of the upcoming martian updates. however after fully examining the technology of the martians, the goverment believe it could perfect spacetravel and go further into deep space. while the military are having other plans for the tech.

September 20, 2018

as life returns to normal and humanity is once more supreme, questioning of another attack from mars brought and causes universal concernes. is there life on mars hidden under the planet? is our planet safe or is this time of peace was mearly a reprive? it maybe that across the eminsity of space, they had learn their lessions and even now await their oppertunity. perhaps the future not only belongs to us, but to the martians.

27 years later...

Date: august 14th, 2045 9:00 am

Fox 23 news

Daniel caps: good evening everyone im daniel caps and on my right is jammie corey!

jammie corey: good evening and tonight we have reports about nasa making a great succes on the mars colony project since 2025 and so far we checking in with their progress, here's nasa control live on the air.

daniel caps: hello mission control, hows everything going?

Nasa control: well miss caps i must say its looking good so far and it's going really good, as you can see we're getting great live footage in nasa control pasadena, its been 20 years since we began a manned mission to mars and now we finally got a human colony forming on the surface of the planet. so far we're looking at a remarkable landscape, like in the viking lander photos we had over the years... wait im getting a call from one of our astronauts bud.

Daniel caps: thanks nasa control, we'll be right back after these's messages.

meanwhile in NASA control center Pasadena

Astronaut bud: nasa control this is colony homebase do you read me?

Nasa control: we read you bud, hows it looking out there?

astronaut: looking great mission control, but to answer your question you should see this, you see we recently discovered remains of some ancient civilization buried under the planet and look at all this structure and markings we're seeing? its like some chamber... ya getting this footage?

Nasa control: yep we can see it from here, what do you make of it?

astronaut bud: this might be what was left of that martian culture that was dying out 27 years ago?

Nasa control: hey hey lets not drop into any conclusions yet, lets take this slow and start looking? bermuda do you get this?

Bermuda: we see it pasadena, but its not like any martian culture i seen.

Nasa control: wait im getting a no go signal... i lost one of the camera's, bermuda you getting this?

Bermuda: no i lost contact, a lot of dust blowing out there!

Nasa control: now i lost the second camera... we got problems, bud we lost cameras 1 and 2 do you copy?

Astronaut bud: say again mission control, repeat aga... (static)

Nasa control: bud come in ... bud

bermuda: all contact lost pasadena!... maybe the intena is...

Nasa control: wha wait a minute, whats that light, you see it... a green light coming from some blueish gas forming close to mars, with a trail of green mist behind it. its getting closer to the probe orbiting. ya see it bermuda?

Bermuda:(static)

Nasa control: come in bermuda?... houston come in...

Houston: (static)

Nasa control: what's going on here... tracking station 43 cambera, come in cambera?

Station 43: (static)

Nasa control: Tracking station 63 can you hear me from here?

station 63: (static)

Nasa control: can anybody hear me? come in... come in?

(static clears as an image of a martian appears on screen)

Alien Elders: THE PROBLEM IS OF COURSE THE HUMANS!

(power goes down)

The end...?