Realization

Loud Residence

01 07 2018

0636 Hours

Royal Woods, Michigan

The living room remained quiet, only one of the other nine sisters, still at the house, had come down from their bedrooms while the others remained asleep. That was none other than Lisa. Having slept very little due to her mind always thinking, the main thing she was thinking about was the documents she had gotten from the Russians. Pulling out one of the copied files she began to read over it again. "Top speed is two hundred and thirty one knots, has a one hundred thirty five millimeter cannon, along with reactive armor, but what would this be for?"

Before she could flip the page, she had to hide away the document as her slightly older sister, Lola came striding down the stairs in her normal everyday pageant gown. She continued her stride down each step when suddenly she saw Lisa in front of the couch.

"... Uhh Lisa?" Lola asked, "What are you doing?"

"Oh, nothing…" A guilty grin then forms on Lisa's face.

"Right, anyway, move aside, it's my turn with the TV."

"All yours."

Lola quickly raced for the remote, just in case if anyone was hiding and was getting ready to steal it from her. As she flipped on the TV, it immediately began showing that something was wrong. Most of the stations had been replaced by static. This caught Lisa's attention as well. "Come on." Lola said in frustration. She wanted to watch her beauty shows, yet not even the news channels were on.

Lisa, began to get a very bad feeling, she had studied the way the town worked for months and this never happens. What she concluded was that the news was always on at three, TV shows at four, and movies at six. From twelve was then the paid programs, but right now, nothing was active.

The sound of Lola's anger was then interrupted by the sound of engines, but not normal car engines or even semis, these were much much louder, much more powerful engines. This was then followed by the sound of metal creaking and squeaking, the ground shook more as the sound drew closer.

The sound suddenly stopped. It all became quiet again. Both Lola and Lisa had fallen silent as well.. As they sat there, the two looked at each other. Both their faces had fear in them. Then the sound on a man yelling was heard. Lisa very slowly stood up and quietly snuck over to the window. Upon peeking out the curtain, a massive vehicle was seen. It was large, had a body covered in steel and titanium, with a circular turret and a large gun pointing down the street.

Lisa's heart skipped a beat when she saw the red star on the side of the tank along with a triband flag with the colors of white, blue, and red. Without any warning, a bright flash and large bang emitted as the tank fired a shell down the road. The explosion caused Lisa to cover her ears in pain as they rang uncontrollably. All she could hear was the high pitch tone ring.

The explosion had caused the front window of the home to implode and shatter from the immense pressure change. Lola also had taken a beating from the explosion.

As the dust and glass of the shattered window cleared and as they regained their hearing, the others, some still in pajamas, began running down the stairs.

Lisa proceeded to uncover her ears after the ringing had died down.

Due to the window no longer existing, the sound of distant sirens, gunfire, and jets could be heard. Lynn had already went into defense mode after the explosion, she already had her favorite baseball bat in hand, ready to swing at a moment's notice.

Lynn slowly approached the shattered window, peeking out the still closed curtain. The tank remained still for a couple seconds before moving forward. The rumble of the diesel engine inside forced the ground to vibrate.

The rest of the soldiers with the tank followed, leaving behind their parachute equipment on the street. Everyone had quickly began to panic, everyone except Lisa.

Lisa was instead working on getting her small radio working, the small device she constructed herself to tune into civilian radio if she was ever wondering what other people were up to. While working on the radio, the TV static was interrupted by a black screen with white text. 'Emergency Alert System, EAN Network, Issued an Emergency Action Notification.'

The TV began to have three beeps before speaking, "We interrupt our programming, this is a national emergency, important details will follow." Then a higher tone long beep followed. "The following message is being transmitted at the request of the United States Government. At 6:30AM Eastern Daylight Time, a large group of Russian bombers, fighters, and paratroopers had attacked the cities, but not limited to; Lancing, Detroit, Albany, Manhattan, Boston, and Columbia. The United States Air Force is currently dealing with the group, however, a much larger group of Russian planes are inbound. These planes are expected to at-"

Before the voice could finish what it was saying, the power to the entire town was cut. What nobody knew was that the Russians had bombed the power plant to the local area, in an effort to cut communications. Now phase two of Red Bear could commence.