Chapter 1: The Beginning of the End... of the World

(Update: This is a rewrite of the original story and will be based more on the Japanese version of the anime, mostly because I prefer that one more. So, I hope no one minds.)

The next morning, In the Sea of Japan was the Aegis Escort Vessel codenamed "Kongo" in the midst of the missles' launch.

"Target information acquired!" The man in the PDA informed the crew, "We can confirm that that four DF-21s were launched from the Tonghua Base in the Jilin province right before the Trident warheads hit! We have targets A, B, C, and D."

This was also explained back at the CIC (Combat Information Center).

"Even though monsters are all over the world..." The ship's admiral said before ordering his crew, "System to BMD Mode! Begin firing at the target designated by the CIC!"

"Commence fire!" One of the crew members announced before ordering, "FIRE!"

The first few missles launched toward their destination. Back in the ship, the missles were shown on the radar.

"Ten seconds until we intercept!" A crew member informed the admiral, "Nine... Eight... Seven... Six... Five... Four... Standby!"

On the motion-heat radar was one of the renogade missles, which was then shot down, to everyone's surprise.

"Our SM-3 was shot down by something from above, along with target A!" The same crew member informed the admiral of what happened,"Kirishima and USS Shiloh, as well as B and C were all also shot down by the same unknown entity!"

The admiral then went and looked at the monitor.

"But there's one left!" The admiral pointed out what he saw on the monitor.

"That's Curtis Wilbur's target! But we can't see what took out the others!" A crew member informed the admiral.

"Dammit! What's going on over there?!" The admiral asked confused about why the last missle wasn't hit yet.

What they didn't realize was that the US Aegis Destroyer codenamed "Curtis Wilbur" was dramatically split in two as it showed what appeared to be angels and demons battling on each half. Inside were also the ravaged corpses of the crew, but only a few of them were now "Them."

"Curtis Wilbur, this is Kongo." Kongo radioed to Curtis from within the ship through a dangling walkie talkie, which got the attention of a nearby Phantom Guard as it was feeding on one of "Them" next to the corpse of a Soldier of Light on the floor, "Why haven't you fired yet?" The Phantom Guard then walked up to the radio, "Do you read me? Do you read me?!" The Phantom Guard soon sliced it with it's axe as it roared of fury.

Meanwhile, later that same day at the Takagi manor where Shizuka was shown jumping up and down in joy of remembering something very important.

"What is it, Ms. Shizuka?" Arisu asked.

Shizuka rushed to Arisu and squeezed her with Joy.

"I remembered my friend's phone number!" Shizuka said to Arisu.

"Your friend? The one who had the guns and the Humvee?" Rei asked.

"Yeah!" Shizuka confirmed as she clutched Arisu to her with the girl's head underneath her large breasts, much to Arisu's chagrin groaning in embarrassment, "She's gotta be alive! She's part of SAT, the Special Assault Team."

She then let go of Arisu.

"Anyway, gimme your phone!" Shizuka demanded.

"Uh... Okay?" Takashi replied a bit confused as he held out his phone to her, who snatched it off his hands.

"Let's see..." Shizuka said, "Here's one... *presses button* Here's two... *presses button* Here's three-"

"Want one of us to do it?" Hirano suggested.

"Don't bug me or I'll mess up!" Shizuka rejected his offer.

She soon dialed the number and it started ringing until it picked up.

"'Hello?'" Rika answered the phone from the other line.

"Rika!" Shizuka reacted in relieve and joy of her friend's survival, "Awesome! You're alive! I was so worried!"

"Isn't that nice, Shizuka?" Arisu told Shizuka.

"Takashi." Rei said to Takashi.

"Yeah, now-"Takashi was about to say before the scene cut to where Shizuka's friend, Rika was at.

It showed the Tokonosu Airport lit up while it was about to get dark.

"'I had a lot of trouble, but-'" Shizuka told Rika, this time from the latter's phone.

Inside, Rika was sitting on a bench in a room of sorts still talking on the phone.

"Save that for later." Rika told Shizuka, "Where are you right now? My place?"

"'Oh, no, it's not safe there anymore.'" Shizuka informed Rika of the events that happened there, "'Uhm, we borrowed your guns and some other stuff.'"

"That's fine, but where are-." Rika assured Shizuka, but before she could finish, the call was cut off as the phone suddenly short-circuited while she still held it in her ear. As she wondered what happened, a strange radiance soon shined from behind her. She turned to see what it was and gasped. It was the last missle from earlier.

At the International Space Station at orbit, two astronauts were watching the events from a monitor.

"There's one left." Said a male astronaut watching.

"Where is it headed?" The astronaut's partner asked him, "Don't tell me it's the US."

"No, It's..." The male astronaut said.

The woman turned to the window and gasped in horror to find not only a large, nuclear explosion, but soon also a meteor shower from all directions heading straight for Earth. The station was soon pierced through by one of the meteors, which zoomed in to show it was actually an angel and a demon fighting inside the fire.

Back on the Earth, the sun was set near Tokonosu Airport and everything seemed still as it lost power. Inside was Rika holding a now-fried cellphone in her right as smoke came out of it.

"Hey, what just happened?!" Said a man inside the building, who came up to Rika, "What was that light just now?! Aren't you an officer?! Explain this!"

Rika tossed her phone to the floor for it to break.

"It's simple." She answered the man having taken out and started smoking a cigar, "After today, the nights will truly be dark." She inhaled the cigar again as she just sat there realizing what it was. Behind her, a bright light was slowly shining, which caused her to turn around to find one of the meteors from before was shown heading straight in her direction. She saw this and acted fast.

"Look out!" Rika shouted as she quickly bolted out of her seat and pushed the man out of the way as the meteor crashed into the airport, leaving a large gap from where Rika was. Rika managed to sit up and see what had crashed into the airport. She gasped after seeing what she saw in horror. "Oh, my God..." She quietly gasped. While the smoke was still rising, an armored leg came out from the left and what appeared to be a leg from that of a monster's came out at the right.

Back at the Takagi residence, the explosion was still radiating as Shizuka was still on the phone.

"Hello?" Shizuka said, "Rika?"

Everyone else, however, was too busy staring at the explosion.

"What's going on?!" Takashi asked in surprise.

"This light." Takagi acknowledged recognizing the blast, "Impossible... Miyamoto, try aiming your dot sight."

"Huh? Why?" Rei replied confused.

"Just do it." Takagi demanded, "Your gun uses an IC."

Rei then took out her rifle and pointed it in Takagi's direction, who got out of the way as soon as Rei got into the gun's scope.

"Well? Do you see the dot?" Takagi asked Rei.

"Uh... I don't." Rei responded.

"So, it was..." Takagi said in worry.

"Hey, Takagi. What's up?" Takashi asked her.

Before we could hear her solution, we then go to the other areas close by that are now without power.

"Hey, what're you doing?" A maintanence worker told his co-worker outside the estate, "Hurry it up!"

"But the engine..." The co-worker operating a forklift said.

Back at the manor's operating room, the same thing was going on.

"What is it?" Yoshioka asked.

"We lost power and now all of the computers are dead!" The man who was monitoring the computer informed him.

Then it cut to outside to the other surviving group's camp, where a woman was with her husband, who was on the ground.

"Somebody! Please help!" The woman cried out for help, "My husband's pacemaker seems to have broken!" This got the attention of some of the camp's survivors.

Then again outside the estate, Shido's bus was charging down a hill at excelerating speed. Shido was trying to stop the bus with the brakes, but had no luck as they were not responding.

"Why is the engine stalling right now?!" Shido said in irritation, not even paying attention to where the bus was going, "Don't screw with me!"

"Mr. Shido! Up front!" One of the students inside said to Shido.

Shido looked up and saw that he was heading towards the maintanence workers from before. They then crash, killing one of the workers. Back inside the bus, Shido survived the crash as he soon regained consciousness.

"W-What the..." Shido said wondering what just happened and he soon saw several of 'Them' wandering past the bus in front of him.

(A/N: Unlike the original episode, the students survived the crashed, but were knocked out.)

"Hey..." A worker said to his partner in fear at 'Them' approaching them, "This is bad..."

"My phone's dead." The man's partner pointed out as he drawed out a shotgun at 'Them', "We need to stand guard!"

"Hell, no!" The first worker said running away in fear.

"Hey, don't run! What kind of man are you?!" The second worker called to his partner, "Shit!" He then started firing his rifle at "Them" as the camera then panned back to the Takagi manor.

"Electromagnetic pulse?" Takashi exclaimed in confusion.

"An EMP attack." Takagi explained, "Also known as HANE. High Altitude Nuclear Explosion. When a nuclear warhead explodes in the upper atmosphere, the gamma rays make electrons get repelled from atmospheric particles, which causes the Compton Effect. The flying electrons get caught in Earth's electromagnetic field and emit an electromagnetic pulse over a wide range. That effect is lethal to electronics. The electromagnetic pulse gets transmitted through antennas and fries integrated circuits."

"So, basically right now..." Saeko was about to ask before being cut off.

"We can't use electronics!" Takagi answered Saeko.

"So we can't use cell phones?" Rei asked.

Hearing this caused Shizuka to gasp in horror as she then feared that she would never see her friend, Rika again. Arisu patted her head and tried to make her feel better.

"Not just phones, but computers, too." Takagi pointed out, "Cars won't work, either. The power plants are probably dead, too. EMP counter-measures have been taken, but only for the SDF and a small part of the government."

As she was stating this, a couple of workers were aligning a fews candles on each side of the pavement. Then, Souichiro was walking down the steps to the group with Takagi's mother.

"Is there a way to fix this?" Souichiro asked his daughter.

"Dad?" Takagi exclaimed after turning to see her father, "The cars might be able to work if you change the fried parts. There might be some cars that still work because electronmagnetic waves have little effect on them... Of course, ones that don't use chips should work."

"Go check immediately." Souichiro ordered one of his workers.

"Yes, sir!" The worker responded and left.

"Saiya!" Souichiro said to Takagi.

"Huh?" Takagi asked surprised a bit.

"You have done well to keep your head on during this chaos." Souichiro praised his daughter, "That is admirable."

Takagi was touched by this. "Da-"

A gun was shot in the distance and everyone else turned to look where it came from.

"The barricade!" Someone shouted. It was the worker who fled earlier. "Don't follow! Don't follow me!" The man said trying to fend off 'Them' chasing him with a gun, but was soon captured and eaten as he got to the gate. Everyone stared in horror at the man's demise.

"Hurry! Close the gate!" Souichiro ordered his men, "Defense group assemble! Do not let those corpses inside!"

"Commander! Aren't we abandoning the people still outside?!" Yohsioka said to his master.

"We shall lose everything if we do not close it now!" Souichiro reasoned, "DO IT!"

Yoshioka hesitated at first, but then rushed to help close off the gates.

As the gates quickly slammed into each other, one zombie got in the way and managed to get in.

"One got through!" One of the men holding the gates shut shouted.

"I got one..." Hirano said loading his rifle.

Hirano was about to fire at the corpse, but it was soon crushed by a fireball as it soon showed the sky filled with blazing meteors heading for the ground. Some of the survivors screamed in terror at what they saw above.

"Oh, my God!" Shizuka exclaimed.

"What the hell?!" Takashi reacted.

"This can't be happening..." Saeko also reacted, but in horror.

"No. No, please!" Arisu said in horror remembering the exact same thing in her dream, "No, this can't be happening!"

"Arisu, what's the matter?" Shizuka asked Arisu concerned about her as everyone else was still paying attention to the meteor-filled sky.

"This was all part of my dream." Arisu confessed, "This was what happened."

Shizuka reacted horrified to Arisu's explanation. "So, that means..."

"No! Please!" Arisu rejected, "I don't want everyone to die!" Arisu then did what happened in the previous chapter as she could only lament weepingly that her nightmare had come true.

The scene was almost exactly that of the original opening of Darksiders, only it was viewed from the front of the Takagi estate. Everyone tried to get to cover for safety as debris from outside the gates began to fall on the property. The group and most of the survivors managed to avoid it.

The site where the first meteor hit was actually where Shido crashed his bus. Everything was desomated from the meteor's impact and there was now a large crater a couple of yards from where the bus was. Shido's students decided to check it out, but when they were about to get closer, the rubble began to shake and rising from it were a Champion of Light and a Trauma, which the Champion was shown to have already been defeated. The Trauma tosses the angel aside and began attacking the students, but another meteor hit and it flinged one of the students far back and was then mauled by a nearby Minion. The others tried to get back onto the bus for shelter, but only a few managed to make it back alive. Shido and the students then trembled in fear as they could do nothing but stay in the bus. However, that quickly ended when the Trauma started picking up the bus and roared. But before it could do anything else, another meteor landed nearby right behind it, but something was different about this one as it instead had a warrior who was neither angel nor demon. The creatures could only look in wonder as the warrior then got to his feet. The demons, however, then started to charge at the warrior as they recognized who it was. It was War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, who pulled his blade, Chaoseater out of the ground and then walked toward their direction and into battle.