Six months later
The boy was playing on the top of his brother's apartment, unlike his parents place his brother's apartment had a bit of green land on the top of the building. The boy was in his own head playing with a toy alliance fighter but to the boy the toy was a real life fighter as he was killing all the bad guys in space just like his big brother. The boy was six or seven years old and people were worried about a war with the Batarians, but the boy did not know this.
He was running around on the top of his brother's apartment unaware that his cousin was in the building next to his. But as the boy looked up at the building next to him, his older brother came up panting and carrying a bag with his clothes in it and had a fake grin on his face as he picked up his younger brother and ran back to their parents place.
The boy's brother was about six foot 2 or 3 with tanned skin matching his brown eyes, surprisingly for being in the alliance military he had hair a little bit longer and thicker than him and in the usual fashion he had bleached his hair blonde.
The boy did not know what was wrong or what was happening but five minutes running working back to his home was fine by him.
As he got into the apartment his older brother put him down
"Hi little bro I need you to go on the balcony for me now, I need to call Mommy and Daddy OK."
The boy now knew that something was wrong by what his brother said and the look on his face but the boy went to the balcony like his older brother said, he went through the sliding door with a puzzled look on his face as he got to the glass edge of the balcony.
The boy was puzzled about the look on his brother's face. It was not worried, sad or confused, it was more like desperation like his brother wanted to get them off world now and he didn't have a lot of time to do it. This scared the boy because he looked up to his older brother in awe. It was like his brother was his own superhero.
Five minutes past and the boy was still thinking about the puzzled look on his brother's face. He was leaning on the glass balcony edge when he began seeing what looked like falling stars, loads of them like hundreds maybe thousands of them.
Unexpectedly a loud noise came from above like it was going to split the little boy's head open. The boy was holding his head like he was trying to keep it together. When he looked up he saw a two kilometres tall mechanical ship that looked like a giant squid with four legs. Just before the humongous space craft landed it fired a red beam that burnt everything in its path and brutally hit the building next to it and a loud explosion boomed. The first blast broke the glass balcony. The second blast that came five - ten seconds later and he was knocked off his feet.
The boy got up, it was like someone had dropped a flash hand grenade. His vision was impaired and all he could see were odd shapes and weird lights. He got to the balcony and leaned on the metal pole to look down. He saw shapes that looked like people running in terror. He looked up to the sky and saw odd shapes that resembled the fallen stars he saw earlier.
He didn't hear his older brother trying to call him to get into the apartment. The boy was still in disarray about what was happening. An alliance fighter passed him and he felt the wind rushing back and he heard another thing come past and hit the alliance fighter. He looked at the building that was hit next to him. He saw two shapes that looked like people. One was dark skinned and wearing the alliance dress of blue. The other he couldn't tell if it was male or female, but the shape reminded him of someone.
The boy was still in disarray when he finally heard his brother calling him, the boy ran back into the apartment through the sliding doors. The first thing that the boy noticed was that his brother opened the cover of the air vent on the wall, but the boy didn't have any time to take anything in before his brother pulled him over to him and put him in the air vent.
His older brother looked him in the eyes and for the first time the boy saw in his brother eyes worry, confusion, desperation and all of the above, seeing all that in his brother eyes the boy just hugged him
"I need you to go in the air vent ok" his older brother said in sadness with tears brimming up his eyes.
Suddenly a loud bang and noises from outside on the balcony brought the boy's brother back to his senses he picked up the boy and put him in the air vent and the last thing he ever said to him was "go".
The boy got in and did a running crawl he turned the corner of the air vent when another explosion happened, with the explosion the air vent began to shake about one or two minutes passed and the boy backtracked to see where his brother was.
