It didn’t seem to matter where Reggie searched on the Internet, each report was as incredible as the previous one. Chaos was certainly reigning over the world and he felt like he was stuck right in the middle of it. After fifteen minutes of this, he began to grow suspicious of everything.
‘Was this some kind of hoax?” he thought, “Or maybe there really were some isolated strange events, but they just brought out all the idiots and attention seekers?”
The part of everything that seemed to trouble Reggie the most was the fact that as he dug deeper and followed more individual stories, they seemed to be confirmed more and more by others to the point that he began to accept them, even the absurd, such as the video clip he found from a Chinese news broadcast just hours ago.
London Attacked, Cut Off From the World
October 30, 2007
By James Macharia, The New Zealand Herald
Stunning pictures from the British destroyer HMS Exeter show the city of London burning and under siege from large flying objects that look to be enormous birds or lizards. The entire city is covered in a thick black fog that has so far blocked all visual observation of the events taking place in the city.
Commander PAE Paul Brown, the commanding officer of the Exeter, sent a report to the French News Service J'abandonne requesting any and all information its news helicopters may have gotten. The French government and media are cooperating with Commander Brown and are maintaining a silence on the whole issue until both governments have a better understanding of events.
Japanese satellite images only show the London area becoming increasingly foggy starting around 7 am GT with very little out of the ordinary. Rumors persist that some enhanced images show scenes of destruction, violence, and chaos of a biblical proportion.
The HMS Exeter was returning from duty in Norway when the attack began and was unable to get close enough to land to assist. The New Zealand Herald has learned that the Exeter captured some members of the attacking forces, but aren’t releasing information and have repeated denied this report.
All attempts to make contact with anyone inside London have been unsuccessful via telephone or electronic means. Radio transmissions have met with equal failure and for the present it appears as though the entire city is cut off from the rest of the world.
International research groups stationed in Antarctica have taken aerial footage from various different satellites that show exotic and horrific creatures massed and charging through the streets of the largest cities. The death toll at this hour is already estimated to be close to twenty million, but there is of course no solid way to confirm this at the current time.
Reggie began to wonder if everything that was now wrong with the world hadn't started in Ireland or Great Britain somewhere. He thought for sure that if the world were going to end is some type of demonic apocalypse it would be located in the Middle East or a former Soviet state, yet signs were pointing to that area as the source.
Everything he thought he knew about the world had changed dramatically in the last few hours. As he tried to wrap his head around that information he wondered why there were attacks in the US as well. That led him to question why the tiny little town of Romeoville would be under attack also. He was curious as to what secrets or importance this place held or if what he saw tonight was a common experience throughout the entire country. He soon found out with the help of a South African website:
US Under Attack! Who Is Responsible?
Mail & Guardian Online
31 October, 2007
If the numerous Internet reports are correct, it appears that the US may have joined other countries such as Ireland, Norway, Great Britain, and Germany to a surprise ground attack that is still fighting to gain control over the entire nation.
International research groups stationed in Antarctica have taken aerial footage from several different weather and science satellites that show images of exotic and horrific creatures massed and charging through the streets of the largest cities. The death toll at this hour is estimated to be close to twenty million in the US alone, but there is of course no solid way of confirming any of these totals at the current time.
As Reggie finished reading that last report, he began to hear shouts, screams, and the pounding of feet from the floors above him. Unsure of exactly what was happening, but fearing for the worst, Reggie went to investigate. The sounds were much louder in his common room than they were in his room, but they still seemed to be concentrated from the floors above. As he was creeping towards his suite's front door, he became very aware of how alone and defenseless he truly was at this stage. He had nothing but his hands and the furniture in the room to protect himself.
Wondering what he should do, he decided that privacy was a hindrance to his potential to survive and he immediately went into his roommates units. He didn't want to make a lot of noise, so his search wasn't as thorough as he would have liked it to be. There seemed to be screams coming from the other end of his floor now too.
He was only in his second room when he found something that he thought would work, his roommate's aluminum baseball bat. It wasn't much, but he felt confident swinging it and it was light enough that he could swing it fast, hard, and for a longer time if he needed to. He grabbed the bat and went to the main door of the suite, filled with more ambition and resolve than he would have thought possible.
As he moved to the door, he could hear shouts and fighting coming from close by. Looking out the peephole, he saw one of his neighbors, on his back and dragged by his feet past his door. He recognized what was dragging his neighbor. There were more creatures like the ones he had hid from by the fence, but now they were in his building and Reggie new what their agenda was.
Through the peephole he could clearly see their leathery skin was warted and covered in slime or puss. They had coarse and greasy long hair that hung about their face and shoulders. That's were the resemblances ended though. Some of the creatures had protrusions on their arms or legs or back, some had tails or horns or stubby wings, still others had multiple arms, legs, or eyes and mouths. It looked as though the pit of hell had begun expelling its legion onto his floor.
His resolve quickly gone, Reggie retreated into his room, shutting the door and locking it. He was wondering what he should do next when he remembered that his closet had an access panel in the back that allowed for workers to get at some of the pipes and infrastructure that ran throughout the building. Gathering his bat and his backpack, Reggie went into his closet, shutting the door behind him, and opened the panel door to the access area and sealed it shut behind him to the sounds of his neighbor’s pain and last breaths.
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