Alien Above E-Book

A J Divine

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

This is John's journey through this terrifying time and his search for answers and eventually attempts to save another dimension.
Suffering agonising loneliness and terrified with things that have unfolded so far he also has to fight raging storms and hostile beings.

Leseprobe

A J Divine

Alien Above

BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Strange Days

Strange days, these last few before the ‘event’ birds fall from the skies dead, so many that the daylight is blocked out and a carpet of feathers blanket the streets. Reindeer in snow covered Siberia gather in hundreds to form circles, dozens of circles and just walk round and round as if they no longer have any sense of direction.The continent of Africa spits in two along the rift Valley, and the Panama carnal ruptures with huge tidal forces rushing from one end to the other.Then there was the sounds! Deep rumbling and bangs from deep underground, streets crack and houses crumble.Add to this the strange eerie noises in the air, some say it’s Gabriel’s trumpet, most scoff at the idea.The final act for me that confirmed that something momentous was about to happen, were the silver globes in the sky, line after line of them like lane markers in swimming pools only these were huge and high up. I see jets going up but I don’t see any less of the ominous globes.Strange thing was after a brief stare at them, everyone went about their business as if nothing was happening, I too report for work as usual, what else can we do, nothing is being said on the news, or by the government. 

My name is John Harvey. My whole life revolves around, my girlfriend Jane, my family and my work at the Kirk Air Force base. I am a loader there, mmm that sounds lame! I am actually responsible for loading supplies and ammunition on to C130 and Galaxy transport aircraft. I have many good friends there, two in particular (Chase and Jerry) they are fighter pilots, Speaking of them, all the fighter squadron had been busy over the last few days, I asked Jerry a out it and he joked “we have been chasing ghosts John, we scramble to a target when we arrive there is nothing, faulty radar I think” he mused. This was before the balls appeared in the sky now they say nothing, just a pale look on their faces as they dismount their planes. God knows why they like me, unless it is Jane's steak and ale pies, as they usually find their way to our house on a Sunday. Working late that day overseeing ammunition being loaded and secured onto a C130 heading to,, well let's just say the front line. 

It was a little after six when I got home tired and stiff, I called Jane, nothing, called Bruno my German shepherd again nothing, funny I think to myself. Walking to the decking outside the back porch, I bend to turn on the hot tub and I seem as if I am pulled or pushed, anyway I fall head first into the tub, hitting my head on the side as I go. I am dazed now at the bottom of a three foot tub of cool soapy water. Suddenly there is a massive flash in the sky then another and another my eyes shut with the brightness but even through my eyelids the flashes continue, six in all. then the noise. Like a thousand thunderclaps at once, screaming howling thunderous bangs six to correspond to the light flashes. After the third bang the ground shook even in my semi head spinning state I knew this was something gargantuan happening, it shook like no earth quake I had ever heard of, and the water around me turned into a million air bubbles then blackness.

Six in the morning, I awoke floating on the thick porridge like soapy water. I sat on the side my clothes saturated but it was so quiet, there was no wind, no birds singing,there was always dogs barking but nothing. I called my girlfriend. "Jane, JANE" I shouted no reply, where was she?. I went into the lounge and see her phone on the floor. "BRUNO" I shouted for my German shepherd dog, nothing. I go out onto the street no cars, no people, complete silence, not one sound apart from my own panicky fast breath. "Hello, anyone, HELLO, HELP, anyone please answer me please." I notice clothes scattered on the pavement, shoes shirts watches every kind of garment. I picked up a wallet stuffed with money and credit cards, then found another each pile had a watch, phone and wallet, like someone had stolen the occupant, “WHAT THE HELL is going on” I scream.

I get in my old battered Jeep and drove down main street into the city. Nobody!!!! no activity at all. A lot of buildings were damaged, most had broken windows, some completely collapsed. But no pedestrians hurrying to work no cars or buses no angry Taxi's honking their horns. Here also there were piles of clothes on the pavement and vehicles crashed all over some some in flames, others with their engines still running but empty. I parked in the centre of the city on the pavement outside the government building. Normally you would be arrested for such a transgression but today I wanted to see a cop I wanted to be arrested.

I got out and screamed "WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING" I banged my head on the hood of my car. I have to wake up I think this can not be real. I drive up windmill hill the highest point in the City and look down, not one person anywhere. Cars were strewn everywhere smashed into walls and into each other, in each there was all the owner's possessions just as on the pavement outside my house. But the silence is deafening, I listen hard and way way of in the distance a strange sound very very faint 'frump frump frump' getting fainter and fainter into the distance then nothing. I strain my eyes to see what the noise was but could see nothing but a strange disturbance in the clouds as though they were being pushed out of the way. Probably the wind I thought.

I drive round and round up and down the city streets my hands trembling, I drive the wrong way down a one way street, nobody stops me. I started to do crazy things I threw bricks through the police station windows. Stopping at the biggest poshest jewelers I go in and after opening the till take out bundles of money and wave at the CCTV but no reaction. I drove over the pristine lawns at government house. I stopped and turned off the car and listened, total silence, tears roll down my face. Shaking now in total terror. “This can’t be real where did everyone go” I sob, am I the only one left. I am driving back to my house as I pass a huge Ford showroom a crazy thought struck me. I turned the Jeep and launched it straight at the huge glass frontage, CRASH as I smashed my way through. There, that should get a reaction but nothing, nothing apart from a brand new 2016 Range Rover Vogue, it’s white paint glistening, the car of my dreams. I sit in it, the keyless key fob sitting there on the dash. I held it in my hand, stroking the button the power plant purred into life.

Ok if there is no one else then this is my town, my country. My God if there is no one else I own the planet. But there has to be others. So I sit there in this dream machine and look at my battered old Jeep. Fine I thought and manoeuvring out of the huge hole I had made, I promoted myself to RR owner. Looking down I see very little fuel so I drove for about a mile to a gas station. As I pulled in I thought how the hell do I do this. Trying the door it was open and a pungent smell hit me !! and a realization that everywhere I had been so far had that smell, that sickly sweet burnt smell. There was still power so I leaned over and turned on the pump as I had so often watched the gum chewing young girl do before. Filling her up to the throat I set off for home, I had an idea, I had to find out what those flashes and bangs were when I was partly unconscious.

When I get in I turn on the TV no channels broadcasting apart from CNN that showed an empty news desk. I always record CNN news at six and the other news channel at the same time. Pressing the button the news starts, The newscaster explaining about China's outrage at the US for sinking a Chinese destroyer in the west Philippines sea. Also the US accusation that the Chinese vessel had fired on a US aircraft carrier damaging it severely. He was saying that this could lead to the start of Serious tension in the area, as he put it. He was about to say something else but from the screen there was a terrific noise followed by another and NO it can’t be, it’s not possible He disappeared, he just vanished like dust being blown away in the wind he was gone. I scream NOOOO it can’t be. I rewind it ten times, but it’s real. As he disappeared his clothes fell like rags to the floor.

I turn over to the other News channel, I was not prepared at all for what I see. The outside broadcast is at a football stadium the announcer speaking about the coming game then FLASH, FLASH, FLASH, and she just dissolved, starting from her head then all the way down to her feet the camera picked up the sight of the whole crowd dissolving appearing to get lower and lower until they were are GONE, everyone thousands of them just vaporized. A huge cloud of pinkish red dust swirled around the stadium then headed skyward, they had been vapourised on the third Flash, the remaining three flashes continued but unnecessary.