(4)-Chaos In L.A.
As Clare drove through the chaotic city of L.A., she was listening to the news on the radio, which she had turned back on.
"Millions vanish world-wide without a trace, and thousands die in resulting accidents and suicides. A UFO? Spontanious Combustion? The end of the world? Or the long predicted Rapture of the church? No one knows, but stay tuned to L.A. News as the world searches for answers together." Said a woman on the radio.
Clare changed the station.
"Good afternoon, everyone. We have breaking news from down town L.A. We have several unconfirmed reports that several hundred people have vanished. Yes, that's right, have vanished throughout the city. Very little is known at this moment-"
Clare changed the station, cutting the man on the radio off.
"Again, we interupt this program with this breaking news story. The city is in something of a panic right now. We're getting news right now that massive traffic jams are everywhere. The un-imagenable has happened. Hundreds, perhaps millions of people have disappeared from the face of the Earth, including all children from newborns to 12-year olds." Said another man on the radio.
Clare turned the radio back off, not wanting to hear anymore about the disappearances. Seeing the after-affects of the event was horrible enough. She soon came across an even worser scene at a gas station where countless people were, along with an ambulance. She then stopped her car to see what was going on.
She saw two firemen were tending to a damaged vehicle, with an unconscious man inside...a woman with a baby bundle around her left arm, screaming and looking around the area...two ambulance people, a man and a woman, rush over to a man who was lying on the ground unconscious, wearing a motorcycle helment. Apparently, he had fell off his motorcycle during the disappearances.
"Has anybody seen my gas station attendant." Said a man, holding a blue plaid long sleeve shirt.
Clare saw a pair of blue pants, yellow hiking boots, a blue and white cap, and a window washer lying on the ground. She then noticed a female news reporter walk up to a camera man, holding a wireless microphone in her hand.
"Are you Sonny?" The female news reporter asked.
"Yeah." Said the camera man known as Sonny.
"I'm Jennifer Kross from L.A. News. They sent me out here to help you cover all of this. What all have you gotten so far?" Said the female news reporter known as Jennifer.
"Well, we got the plane crash over there, and, uh, the rescue team firemen are over here working about to get this guy out." Said Sonny.
"Have you interviewed anybody at all?" Jennifer asked.
"No, the gas station attendant over there, uh, said that he saw everything." Said Sonny.
"Okay, let's start with him. Let's get out of the wagon." Said Jennifer as she and Sonny started heading toward the gas station.
Clare turned her attention away from the reporter and the camera man and saw the two ambulance people attending to two women, with one of them being the woman with the baby bundle around her arm. She turned her attention back to the reporter and camera man.
"Excuse me, sir?" Said Jennifer as she and Sonny walked over to the gas station attendant.
"Yes, ma'am?" Said the gas station attendant.
"Can you tell us what's happening out here tonight?" Jennifer asked.
"Am i gonna be on TV?" The gas station attendant asked.
"Probably." Said Jeniffer.
"Well...see, i was coming out of my office, and this truck was headed right towards me. If i hadn't jumped out of the way of the truck..."
Clare turned her attention back to the two ambulance people standing over by the dead body of the man they had been attending to earlier, with the female ambulance woman placing a white sheet over him.
"Ma'am, ma'am!" Said the woman with the bundle around her left arm as she ran up to Jennifer and Sonny.
"Yes?" Said Jennifer.
"My-my baby, she's gone! I heard her crying and-"
"Slow down. What do you mean your baby is gone?" Jennifer asked., cutting the woman off.
"I heard her crying and i turned around and she wasn't there anymore!" Said the woman.
"Somebody stole your baby?" Jennifer asked.
"No, it's like she just disappeared! I don't know what happened! Her clothes are there, but she's not!" Said the woman.
"Babies don't just disappear, ma'am. She's got to be in your car." Said Jennifer.
"I know, but she's not there! I gotta go find her!" Said the woman before running off.
"What is going on?" Jennifer asked.
The rescue firemen and the ambumlance man placed the man the firemen had cut out of the car onto a gerney, who was now on a strecher.
"Okay, okay. Here we go, here we go. Come on, let's him out of here." Said the ambulance man before the two firemen began wheeling the man off to the ambulance.
"Can anyone tell me what happened here tonight?" Jeniffer asked.
"Excuse me." Said a teeange boy as he ran up to Jennifer and the camera man, carrying a white short sleeve t-shirt, blue shorts, and white sneakers with white socks in them.
"Yes, sir." Said Jennifer.
"Okay, see, what happened was my 8-year old brother and i, we were about to walk across the street, and, uh, i looked back to tell him something, and he wasn't there. I don't understand. I can't explain it. His clothes are here, but he's not here." The teeangeboy explained.
"Where'd he go?" Jennifer asked.
"I don't know, ma'am, i can't explain it. I looked back over here, then all these crashes were happening, this plane crashed into the building, and-It's just chaotic everywhere, i can't even explain it. I gotta go find my brother, ma'am." Said the teenageboy before running off.
"This is too strange, i'm getting reports like this from all over the city. There's reports like this everywhere." Said Jennifer, listening to the information she was getting from her ear-piece. "We gotta go live now."
"When do you want me to start?" Sonny asked.
"Count it down." Said Jennifer.
"3...2...1." Said Sonny before he started filming Jennifer.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have just recieved compremation from the white house. The president of the United States has just been killed. I repeat, the president of the United States has just been killed. It seems that in a high level cabnent meeting-and i'm getting this as we speak-in a high level cabnent meeting, one of the canidates went on a rampage, shooting everyone in the room, mortally wounding our president. The vice-president has also been shot and has been rushed to the hospital where his condition has been listed as gravely citcicle." Said Jennifer.
The gas station man from earlier, who was still holding the blue and white plaid shirt, was being interviewed by two firemen.
A car then exploded and many of the people screamed and panicked.
The rescue team was pushed people back to safety while two firemen were putting out the burning car with a water-hose.
"What is that? What is going on?" Jennifer asked a male ambulance attendant.
"Please step back!" Said the male ambulance attendant.
The two firemen continued putting out the car with the hose.
"Get that back!" Said the male ambulance attendant to Jennifer and the camera man.
"We just wanna know what is going on! What is happening out here?" Jennifer said.
Unable to witness anymore chaos, Clare drove off, resuming her destination toward the police station.
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