As the boy was backtracking he was breathing heavily in the air vent the boy reached the end of the air vent and he saw his home. His home was a wreck with everything turned upside down and parts of it were on fire… fire… The boy began to realise that his brother was dead as two people came in.

A portion of a shape of a person come in through the balcony with someone else, one of them went and was opening the apartment doors to get out and shouting out to the other one "this way"

One of them walked through with the newly supplied open door. The boy was still breathing heavily as the person who opened the door walked back to the middle of the room the boy tried to crawl backwards in to the air vent so the person could not see him, but the person saw him and walked over as they shouted out "hey!"

The boy did not know if the person was male or female but he now realised who it was. The person bent down by the air vent and the boy backtracked even more into the air vent as the person said "It's ok!"

With a heavy heart and remembering what his mum said about this person while backtracking the air vent still he replied

"Everyone's dying." In a voice that make you feel so, so sad

The person looked around as a giant mechanical leg came past the now broken window. The person looked around at the boy "Come here I need to get you someplace safe… Here take my hand!"

The boy wanted him to help but kept remembering what his mum said so he replied

"You can't help." In a voice that made the person think that he was sorry

"Shepard…"

A man's voice shouted out, the second person come back to look for his companion. The man did not see the boy because the boy turned a corner in the air vent and then disappeared as the man spoke again "In here."

As the boy turned in the air vent to get away, a large rush of wind hit the air vent that made a weird sound. The boy crawled through the air vent turning corners every second or minute until he finally reached light, what he saw when he finally saw light scared him half to death he couldn't believe his awe struck eye.

For him only being six or seven years old the young boy was… was… just confused, scared, angry, worried, thing that make him completely terrified and wondering if he was ever going to see his mother and father again.

A few seconds passed and the boy saw another one of those humungous mechanical ships that looked like a giant squid with four legs, from seeing this again the boy was completely terrified and just ran. He didn't know where he was going until he bumped into someone… or something else

The boy fell over and looked up at… something that looked totally grotesque. One of its arms was smaller than the other and the other arm was bigger and had a piece of metal as a hand and a human head as a shoulder. Its chest came out like a fat drunken old man with a piece of metal on it and wires going into its back. Its head was shrunken in with grotesque giant bubbles on its back reaching towards his head. Its four eyes were glowing blue and its legs were smaller than its body. Blood was dripping out of its mouth and when you looked into its mouth it was the same colour blue as its eyes.