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The year of 2012, and a man named David Gunner wished he were back at the year of 2006 where there was no that much technology compared to the entire variety of useless things they have today. Anyways, Earth has had its ups and downs, like the fall of the Roman Empire, and when the stock markets fell and caused the Great Depression, then came WW1, then WW2, but now you will know how the whole planet was watched and became the main target of a species you’ve never heard, or dreamed about. New York was the first of many targets around the planet Earth
It was a quiet Monday, and this is when Armageddon began, David was in a market on vacation in Chicago buying some lunch. He is the only family member left because when his whole family was coming back from vacation the airplane they were in was shot down over a coast close to New York by unidentified falling objects from space 5 years ago. When David got home at 6 o’clock, there was an earthquake, it felt like a 6.0, it was hard enough to drop his family picture, shattering the glass frame of his family photo 3 weeks before his families death, after 1 minute the shaking ceased, he ran outside to check what happened. When he was outside he saw about ten fire trucks passing by and a battalion of marines running towards a huge fire about 10 miles away. He rushed inside his 1 room apartment with butterflies in his stomach and turned on the TV. The news reporter said that there were meteorites that crashed near Towns Square in New York. But there was one in particular that caught his attention, a much bigger one.
He put the volume up, and it said that the meteorite was identified to be 120 ft. long. Military officials were working hard to observe it and its source.
At the site, scientists were observing it, the meteorite. A scientist named Will Preacher, was studying it, and saw that there were more meteorites that came down a while ago in 2007, and they were located in the depths of a coast near New York. Then suddenly the rock started cracking and so did the other meteorites. For 30 seconds the so called “Meteorite” exploded into oblivion revealing an 80 foot tall winged monster with a long tail equipped with a point at the end that very much looked like a spear. Its headed was crossed shaped and the head had sharp points that could’ve cut a building in half. Then the eggs hatched and out came about 9-25 feet long miniature ones, they all flew around devouring everyone and everything on their site. They tried defending themselves but they were not ready enough for something like this.
David’s jaw was dropped open at the moment as he watched what was happening, on the abandoned set camera that was supposed to manned by a 5 men crew; the monster swung its mighty tale and sent tanks flying into the air. Marines were dying everywhere, some were smart enough to escape. The camera was still on but all the reporters and producers were long gone. The alien flew onto the air and with a massive swing with its tail it launched objects flying in the air: tanks, jeeps, buses, landed…..well now flying helicopters in the air, guns, news vans……..people, and the camera. Now at that point all that was on the screen was blurs of objects the camera was flying by, and then……static. David ran out the apartment breathing heavily almost tripping every 5 seconds to see what was happening, and to look for his friends. After 10 minutes he was looking for them but they were nowhere to be found. Then, he saw one of his friends Colin and asked what happened, he said that he had no idea and to look around, when they were looking around they saw people on the ground screaming in pain, soldiers started to help people up and put them in humvees. But David saw more meteorites falling from the air. One big meteorite the size of a two story house ran through two buildings and slammed into a semi-trailer behind him. David started screaming, his mind just heard ringing. Meteorites fell about 5 meters away from him, which made him fall on the ground, not really knowing what was going on, everything was slow motion people running, buildings falling, cars exploding, it was all chaos. There were so many explosions around him. Then he saw Colin calling him to go in is car with him, but a second later, the car was slammed by a meteorite. Then he heard a roar that sounded familiar.
The alien was in the air right above a coast next to New York roaring as loud as thunder, ignoring the falling objects like rain. Then, something caught its eye, the Statue of Liberty. The alien landed on the Statue surprisingly not bringing it down. It perched there for a while, and then hovered up into the air a wrapped its tail around the statue, then ripped half of it up from the ground the hurled it into the city. Its red thin eyes looked like a machine a rampage.
When David was running he saw some blurry reflection of an object from a piece of broken glass from the ground. Then he heard people screaming and saw them running around like maniacs. But when he turned around he saw why, he saw a humungous statue of a lady with a torch in her hand flying towards him, but besides that, he saw something unusual, there were claw marks at the statue’s shoulders. He ran but he was too slow so he just dropped flat down on the floor. The statue slammed the ground shaking the ground, David hoping that it was just an earthquake that hit. His heart was beating as loud and hard as the statue was banging on the floor. It spun around and almost hit David but he was flat on the ground and smacked the apartment clean off the ground. He looked back to see that his apartment wasn’t at its place anymore, it was demolished, there was nothing left. He ran as fast as he can and saw the monstrous alien fly past him. As it flew by it went so fast the impact of wind sent him and a few other things fly 10 feet above the ground. His whole body was bruised from falling to much, he was injured so badly but he didn’t notice because of all the things that were going on in his mind. When he looked around military cars and fire trucks were passing by, buildings were on fire and stoplights were fallen on the ground. There were also transformers snapped in half on the ground, the whole city would’ve been pitch black if it weren’t for the fires all around.
At central park the alien landed and was ambushed by the military. Tanks, gunners and soldiers with heavy firepower tried as best they could, but there was no stopping this monster on rampage. The monster slammed its tail towards a battalion of tanks and sent them flying into the air; one tank landed hard on an oil rig and made a big explosion. The alien flew up and flapped its huge wings and made a strong gust of wind so hard it lifted up tanks and armored cars, David tried running but he was sent flying into the air – again, he slammed through front windows of a bakery. An alien scout that was 9 feet long swung its pointed at David and almost impaled him on the face him. He ducked as it was going to snatch him but then suddenly, when David grabbed for a blowtorch, he accidentally dropped pans all over the place. The alien, scared, started screeching, and just flew away. Weird, he thought.
Then all of a sudden hundreds of guards about maybe 10-20 feet long appeared on the sky, they started defending their leader, and were diminishing the soldiers in many sickening ways. Blood was spilt, they tried to run away but half were too slow.
David was watching in horror then ran away. Soldiers told him to follow them, and so he did. They ran for cover behind the tanks that were firing shells at the invading aliens. While this was happening more tanks came and were firing at the alien, but it flew up and swung its tail and took down a nearby building. David watched and saw the building collapse on about 20 soldiers.
“We’re under attack, these things are unstoppable!” yelled David.
“I wouldn’t be too sure about that, these are aliens from another world.” A man said, it looked like he used to have been in the army with that big scar across his face. “I’ve seen these before.”
“What are you talking about?”
“This isn’t the first time they’ve tried to exterminate Earth. This was highly classified. In Asia these things attacked Beijing. I was in a special ops team that had to take them down. We had to kill the big one, then all of the others just fell flat dead on the ground. But it took us five times to take down the first one, it would always come back to life, but we knew why. We had to dispose the body of the…..”
CRASH!! The tank was slammed by another tank that went airborne, so David, the soldiers, and the man ran as an alien was flying towards them. But then it just unexpectedly ran into a light post. Then the man turned around, grabbed a soldier’s gun and shot the alien down. They continued running. “So the plan is kill the leader!” the man said. “Oh and by the way the name is Jack!” he said as he was running.
They regrouped with the rest of the surviving soldiers and made a plan to take it down, but they had to wait for the right time. They all hid at night, because the alien leader only attacks at morning and night. At noon the scouts do all the work, but only little are left. When they were looking for survivors David saw that some people were looking around constantly, as if they thought everyone was out to get them.
A month has past and they only found about 20 survivors at the New York City area. As they walked around fires were still alive and every single building was destroyed. They found a lot of weapons from the fallen soldiers. So now the time was right because they watched and observed the aliens’ patterns, they are like humans, but smarter, but they learned something they can use to their advantage, they are almost blind. That is why that one alien ran into the light post. At midnight, they all headed out armed and ready for anything. With Jack leading them they had a chance to finish them off.
The leader was resting a central park; even when unconscious the alien leader scares them. Surrounding them were the aliens, even though they are blind, they know something is there, so David and the others made no sudden movements. Right when they were, creeping up on it one man accidentally stepped on a piece of glass and the alien suddenly woke up, and saw a blur of people so it got up and roared louder than ever, shaking the ground. All the aliens got up and flew into the air, they all were flying around screeching, piercing David’s ears. They were all running away as fast as they can, but the alien leader slammed its tail on the ground and made all of them fall. It started throwing cars and tanks into the air, towards them, almost leaving David to a squishy death.
Right when it was about to squish them with its tail, missiles out of nowhere ran into it and exploded. The others ran and shot down aliens flying over them. 2 to 5 people already were killed in 10 seconds, they were in trouble. Then saving them from death was a blinding flash of light and soldiers and helicopters, appeared. So much people were there, so many explosions. Then a sudden explosion from planes that fell from the sky sounded off a booming noise which sent many alien scouts flying away. Guessing that the scouts have really good hearing since their blind, this is why that alien scout flew away a while ago when one tried to kill David. Soldiers escorted them away from the danger and missiles were still exploding on the monster’s head. The other aliens were getting extinguished by the other soldiers, then finally, the alien’s leader fell down on the ground, and was breathing slowly, it’s thin eyes were blinking, very slowly, then it’s heart stopped, and it’s eyes closed ……. It was dead. It’s done, all done. But Jack, he was injured.
David ran up to him and was breathing hard on him, he was about to faint. Soldiers said to give him space and meet him in the hospital the next day. The very next day David went to the hospital that he was sent to in California and was happy to see Jack. But Jack said, “David, please, tell me you disposed the body of the alien, did you?”
“No”
“It can only remain dead if the sunrise didn’t touch its dead body, that is how it’s died 5 times and always come back. But not only that, the other aliens that were killed will come back to life to.”
“But it must have gone far by now! Plus we wouldn’t have been able to have done anything; the government evacuated and closed down New York.”
3 days after, a plane was soaring in the air. They were flying above New York City, and saw every single building was collapsed. Tourists were speechless at what they saw, most started to take pictures, but there was a problem in the cockpit.
“Sir, there, is a problem with the satellite, I can’t see well, but there is something headed fast towards us.” At the very moment, they looked out the window, there was a monstrous flying creature with a crossed head, and with a tail that had what looked like a curved and sharp point at the end, it had a lot of scars on it. It wrapped its massive tail around the airplane and brought it down. With an overview of the city from satellites, the whole city became infested with the creatures within a month. After that it started to spread, the world had little time to react, its not over, it’s barely the beginning………
- by The Sentinel of Purgatory |
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- Title: Target Earth
- Artist: The Sentinel of Purgatory
- Description: I wrote this story in 7th grade for a Report, my teacher said that I did a pretty good job - But What do you think?
- Date: 10/08/2008
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Comments (6 Comments)
- Ate Monay - 10/10/2008
- you should write a sequel
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- Ate Monay - 10/09/2008
- jerome...do you even know who ernest hemingway is??? by the way...i like that story...was this for ms.prior's class??? because i recall that the story you wrote was that christmas story about manny...or *cough* you *cough*
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- blawasxfgvh - 10/08/2008
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itz AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Report As Spam
- The Sentinel of Purgatory - 10/08/2008
- thnks guys appreciate it!
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- pgsailormoon - 10/08/2008
- I like it. The grammar, spelling, and punctuation are very good. I like the description as well. Keep writing stuff this good and you may become an author worthy of Ernest Hemingway.
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- Remnantcutie - 10/08/2008
- I really like it! For a seventh grader, that is pretty amazing.(no offense) I love it. Keep on doing what you do, kay?
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