Thread: Darkness Is Just The Abscence of Light (Dream Writer and Sarah)

DreamingWriter said That day. It started out as any other, so it seemed. Kayla woke up to her normal boring life, getting ready for a normal boring day at her normal boring job. Everything was going exactly like she had thought it would. But everyone knows where they were on that day. Kayla just so happened to be at work, when an eerie silence came over the radio at work. Please remain calm. This is not a test. Everyone remain calm. Everyone who was near anything remembers that message, if they remember anything at all. Then came the screaming. It seemed to come from everywhere. Like the world itself was on fire. She would never know what started it, but soon enough the screaming reached the store. Don't panic. It's funny when you think back on it. did they really think the public wouldn't panic. Sheep is what they were. There was no need to panic, no need to prepare. It was only the end of the world after all. Though it doesn't really matter. Being prepared wouldn't have done the world any good. It was that day. We found out we weren't alone, and not only that we weren't alone, but we were so helplessly out gunned, out manned. Panic. When the war started, that's all anyone could do. They fought. Of course they fought. The human race isn't one to go down easily. The armies marched, the forces mobilized. But it was all for naught. The aliens swept through the army of earth like it was nothing. We were mere pests in the grand scheme of things. But we couldn't know that then. Or maybe we did. We just refused to believe it. Everything fell. We knew it would. We still call it a war, but it was a slaughter. Buildings crumbled, countries toppled. They took over, and humanity fell. Or so the aliens though, when the last of the armies fell. But humanity isn't so fickle. There were those who ran, those who hid. Those were all that was left. The future looked bleak, but in reality, when didn't the future look bleak? It had looked bleak before the aliens came. But we wouldn't give up. We would keep fighting, because that's what we do. What we've always done. DJAL It was a normal day. Well, as normal as it can be under the circumstances. Kayla was laying underneath a well disguised hide out. Strewn rubble littered around her and on top of it. The only thing that was visible, that showed that there was anything other than rubble there, was the slightest tip of a gun barrel. She wasn't alone though, not that anyone else would be able to tell. She was flanked by a couple other members of her team, two of her best snipers to be exact. They had their guns trained on the alien patrol. They had been waiting in this place for a couple of days now, the extra time let them make sure they were undetectable by the time the aliens got there. Sam gave a light sigh. Reminiscing about days past. She was a small girl, maybe 17 years old. She wish she didn't have to fight. Wished she could still be at home, being a normal teenage girl. But there was no such thing anymore. She was the best at what she did. When she shot, she hit what she was aiming at. No questions asked. Right now, she had her gun trained on a target on the far left. They had set up an order of fire, so that they didn't hit the same targets. Her partner, Natasha, would always start on the right. While Kayla would start in the middle. They could take down a patrol like this in a few seconds. Natasha was around 30, and unlike her younger partner, she didn't wish she was anywhere else. There was no point to wish and think about something that couldn't happen. She just cherished each day she was alive, and did her best to keep her and everyone else that way day after day. Her gun was trained on the alien on the far right, like she had been trained to do. Her finger was on the trigger. They had been watching for about 2 days now, and it was just about time to strike. She knew their leader better than perhaps anyone else in the camp. They were close before this whole thing started, and had only grown closer after. Out of the corner of their eyes, both Natasha and Sam saw a slight shift in the rubble. It was too subtle to be picked up by untrained eyes. But they both knew what it meant. There was a slightly larger shift in the rubble, from three different places as they got ready. Suddenly, there were a few tiny brief flashes of light, and muffled bangs, drawing the attention of the aliens, before they started dropping. It wasn't a large party. Only about 5 of them, and even though they had heavy armor on, every armor had a weak point. Whiten 7 seconds of the rubble shift, all of the aliens were on the ground, dead. Good work girls Kayla whispered, talking loud was forbidden while on a mission, even if there was nothing nearby. Lets scavenge and get home She said, before the rubble shifted, revealing the three females, who swiftly moved down the rubble towards the fallen bodies. Click to expand... Any soldier can tell you that what in spite of what is portrayed in Hollywood movies, actual battle is much less glamorous and in fact, could be considered downright dis-organized chaos to even the most experienced of those that had fought skirmishes for what seemed almost their whole life. Kara and Cat and Kat, as if tied together by some silent bond, their faces covered in dirt and sweat, would not be considered glamorous like the Hollywood starlets, all squeezed their shots off in practiced and deadly precision. Muttering to herself.. damn as she peeked over the rocks in front her, noting passively that each recoil of her rifle kicked up small poofs of dust, which could be deadly in any fire fight in that it could call attention to her position.. At the first jerk of the weapon, the small scorpion had decided that fleeing was a better part of valor and skittered out into the street to duck under a large rock, disappearing from view. Slowly, to keep movement down, Kara moved her rifle slowly as she watched her rounds tear through the tough Alien plating causing squeals and chirps of something not human. One by one, the bodies of the confused aliens exploded from the deadly efficient human ammunition. Just as suddenly as the shooting started, it ended and slowly, the three women crawled out from under the rubble they had been hiding in and began to make their way towards the Alien patrol. One of the two identical twins frowned and looked down at her boot...Ewwwwww.... a small exclaim came from her lips as the other twin picked up her sentence....Alien shit... the other twin finished it..now I am going to have clean my boots and shook the green and red off her boot. Kara's hand shot out to silence both of them quickly...sshhh...you know the drill, shoot and scoot...talk later... and knelt down to examine bits of equipment that had been carried by the patrol that had was scattered around what was left of the alien bodies.... mumbling, Kara picked up a small piece of something...I hate it when they explode like that...exoskeleton must be higher pressure inside.... before she could finish the sentence. Kara and Cat and Kat all felt the vibration shake the ground causing loose debris to fall from the damaged buildings. Almost as one, all three dove behind a pile of rubble and buried their faces in the dirt when the side of the building erupted in a flash of yellow that a cloud of dust and smoke into the air and filtered down the street like a ghostly fog before they felt the stones, boards, other assorted debris fell and pelted down on them. Damn it Kara yelled at no one in particular...a damn herder...it was a trap... and her team felt the ground vibrate again as the Herder rounded a corner and let go another blast into the interior of the building that caused a bright orange fireball to erupt out onto the street. Once again, another shower of debris this time containing various parts of tin cans with apparent bits of putrid chicken parts and decaying dog food filled the air, pelting down on them and only added to the decaying animal that Kara had attached to her ground cover camouflage. From her right....once again....Ewwwwww.. and again another voice intoned.......boss...this smells worse than you do... Kara didnt answer the two girls and raised her head slowly over the dirt mound muttering to herself.. damn. Quickly, she raised her rifle, and centered the scope on the Herder, her finger clicking off the safety of the Mark VI grenade launcher mounted in the handle just below the barrel. The outer edges of the viewing ocular on the scope in front of her eye rotated and small digital displays of information changed as the infrared cut through the billowing dust to highlight the red blob of an outline of the Herder and fed the range, wind and other needed information to the small computer mounted in head of the grenade to allow it to adjust the small rocket motor to the correct velocity and the small fins that would be deployed immediately after firing to direct its path to target accurately. Her finger squeezed on the trigger, the rocket motor engaged and the small missile shot down the street towards the silver mechanical monster the missile suddenly sputtering and dropping before it landed like a very small red bouncing ball just underneath the herder. Kara reacted out of instinct as she again buried her head in the dirt just as another ear pounding explosion occurred underneath the alien machine to cause another shower of dirt and debris to rain down her body. damn..antique equipment she muttered to herself and she wondered if she would ever be clean again. Putting her eye to the scope once again, Kara waited again while the computer readjusted to struggling herder and it was then she noticed the jerking of the cross hairs before she felt the ground shake with the feelings of heavy impacts once again. Muttering as she raised her head slightly to look around, she almost let out a verbal exclamation before she bit her dirty lips to keep quiet and still Her right making slight motions to keep still and hoped Kat and Cat were watching her, Kara watched as 2 more Herders suddenly appeared and moved into separate locations around the building and it was then that she realized that what was occurring did not happen by chance. Suddenly all three Herders let go with flashes of weapon fire and the view of the building disappeared in a sea of dirty fog and thena metallic voice stuttered out of cloud of billowing smoke .........Humanslaydownarms or.....youdestroyed