BATTLEFIELD: EARTH 2065
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Chapter II - "On The Run"
Part IV
Belt Line Rd.
Remains of Supercity 05 "New Dallas"
Saturday February 12, 2065
13:02 ZULU
LtCol. Bear Gibbs of GDI was returning to what was left of his home. He found the city in ruins. He went home to find his family, only to find a scorched neighborhood. He arrived at his home. The place was burned, almost to the ground. He found a diary of his 17 year old son.
It read:
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I stand there wondering why I look up at the sky that way. This.... Thing.. above me was so huge. I had never seen anything like it. It was so marvelous, so beautiful. It couldn't have been from here. It had been sent from the heavens. Then it happened. I was flying so fast it hurt. It hurt like never before. Like a million knives stabbing my every inch. I was looking down on the world... or what was left of it. I shot back down to the ground with the same backbreaking speed. I landed in a town. Everything was in flames... There were children screaming for their parents. A young mother was desperately calling for her child. She was in tears.. I walked down a deserted street. The building next to me groaned and rumbled to the ground. I didn't even flinch. There it was again, only it was farther away. The huge thing. I dont know what it is.. It's just hovering there.. God that thing must be several miles long.. It's so huge! Dark grey with a hint of green... and these areas of glowing skyblue... Then it happened.. Some kind of beam of light was emitted below it. It shot from the thing to the city in the distance... For a minute it seemed like nothing had happened. I saw a fireball rise above where the beam had struck. Then I felt this HUGE shockwave of wind and sound that knocked me to the ground. The object began to release smaller objects.. They kind of reminded me of darts.. they just moved around so fast. They shot out these little blue lights at people.. When they struck something, it burned it... Someone nearby me was hit. She screamed and fell to the ground, clearly dead. I began to look around, trying to find out where I was or why. I felt tears of fear in my eyes. I ran into a building and asked an older man where I was.. He told me I was in east dallas. I ran back outside and climbed up a tree, and onto the roof of a 2 floored building.. In the distance, I could see several of those giant things in the air above dallas.. I looked north, trying to see my home town... There were more of those things up there.
I got down, panicking. I found a 4 wheel drive jeep witht he keys still in it. I got in and slammed the gas pedal. I found myself on Belt Line. I drove east, knowing where I was. I found I-635. There were people out running around, cars crashed everywhere. The air had the smell of smoke and ash.. everthing was a pale orange colour. I drove faster, weaving in and out of crashed cars and people. I was doing up past 110 mph. I got to I35 and went north, slamming on the gas pedal. I had to keep going.. I had to get home. I continued north. I went around the turn past Mayhill road on I35. I could see the mall in fiery ruins, people running.. Two of those things were closing in on me. I felt scared, more scared than I ever had in my entire life. I looked behind me.. That thing was coming up so fast.. It was moving at an incredible speed for something so large. I got off at Bonnie Brea. Just as I got off, the Mean Green stadium exploded with violent force. that thing shot at it again. I pressed the pedal all the way to the floor. I refused to die. I was not going to die. I drove up on the grass while appraoching University Drive. There were cars everywhere, people running, screaming. I felt like screaming. Why was this happeneing? I drove through the parking lot of a store. I got on university. Somebody was following me, blowing thier horn.. I looked around in the car for something to defend myself with. I found a handgun in the console. I slowed and let them pull beside me. A young woman asked if I knew where the Denton High School was. Her daughter was there on a field trip. Then I looked at my watch.. It said 1:39pm Teusday. I told the woman to follow me. I drove as fast as I could without flipping the car. I rounded the turn near the first babtist church of Denton, which looked reletively unharmed, spare a few broken windows... Then I saw it... My school.. my second home.. in flames... I slammed the brakes.. The woman got out of her car and asked if that was it. I nodded my head yes.. I stood there for a minute soaking it in... Then I ran.. I ran as fast as I could towards the school.... what I found was a sight I never want to see again.
There, lying on the ground, was Tiffany... I fell to my knees, sobbing. I stroked her face, and cried like never before. I had lost my best friend... I picked her up and carried her to the car.. I thought about home.. I drove the jeep back to my house, swerving to avoid cars that were just.. there.. Nobody inside them.. or cars that were on fire or crashed. I got to my street and drove up it... The whole neighborhood was in flames. I drove up more... There was my house... but, it wasn't my home.. not anymore. The entire structure was in flames.. The jeep I was in sputtered to a halt, engine smoking. I got out and carried tiffany to My Car. The Corvette was gone, and so was Grandmother's car.. The Jeep was the only car in the driveway.. I put Tiffany in the back seat.... I checked one time, without real hope, to see if anything had changed with her vitals... Then I felt it.. a pulse! Not much of one, but it was there. Her abdomen was burnt... My speculation was she was hit by one of the smaller dartlike objects' weapon. She was alive.. That gave me hope. I wrapped her side with a towel to staunch the bleeding. I started up the car... It had a full tank of gas. I had nowhere to go.. nowhere except to her house. I looked in the console and found some money.. about 280 dollars. I backed out of the driveway, and drove back towards the interstate. I got on. That thing had moved. It was over the main part of the city of Denton. the other one was west of me, near the airport. The interstate was reletively clear, aside from a few crashed cars... it seemed I was the only one with a mission.. a goal.. a will to live. I drove as fast as I could. I hit speeds of over 150 mph! I abrubtly exited at Teasley and as I was going through the transition from 4 lanes to 2, I hit the brakes.. The neighborhood behind me was in flames too, but I had to see anyways. I drove down Sundown street... or at least I think it was the name, if memory serves me correctly. I had only been there once before.. I stopped in front of Melanie's house.. There was nothing left.. the entire area was scorched... completely destroyed. I shook my head, wondering why everything had to be this way..
I turned around, and went back. I turned down teasley, and continued on to my original destination... I drove to Kyries house... the street was completely unrecognizable.. so much destruction. Kyries house was pretty messed up.. the roof was caved in ove the south end.. I broke out a window with a piece of a flagpole and cleared away the broken class from the windowsill. I climbed through. I looked around. Kyries mother and father were buried under a crossbeam frm the roof. I found a blanket nearby and covered them. Bonnie came from the living room and barked at me, and then, noticing it was me, wagged her tail. I asked her where kyrie was at... and she ran to her door and scrached at it.. I pushed on it, but there was something there.. I banged on the door and yelled her name... I heard something... Something fell, and the door came open. Kyrie was there cyring. She fell into my arms. I hugged her and asked her if she was alright. She nodded her head, but sobbed.. She asked how I had gotten here. I told her I drove. She wanted to leave, to get as far away from this place as possible. I guided her outside into the orange hell. It was nearing three oclock. I let her in my car. She looked back and asked who was the girl. I told her it was my best friend. I asked her where the nearest clinic was. She said on the corner of Teasley and Mayhill.. I drove down there, and found nobody around. I broke in, guilty about breaking laws in a lawless world. I got some antibacterial, some gause, tape, and morphine shots. I ran to the window and asked kyrie to help me get some of the stuff to the car. I found a blanket and some pillows. We went back to the car... a shady man was walking towards it.... I told him to get away from my car.. he just moved faster... I had to act quick.. I pulled the gun I had found from my waist. I took it off safety and aimed.. I told him to get away.. he just kept going.. I pulled the trigger.. Kyrie screamed. The man stopped and fell without movement.
I had killed.... but in this new world of no laws, it was for survival and survival only. I re-assured kyrie it was him or her... and I wasn't going to let anthing happen to either her or Tiffany. We got the supplies back to the jeep, and drove accross the street to a gas station.. There was nobody there.. the streets were deserted.. I told Kyrie to pump the gas... I went inside. There was nobody there. I went behind the counter and quickly figured out how to allow the gas pump to work. I told her to fill it all the way up... When she was done, we grabbed as much drinks and food as we needed. She asked where we were going... I told her west.. we were going to Arizona. I had to find someone.. I felt my pocket vibrate.... It was my phone! It worked in this hellhole? I asked myself. I answered it. It was my Steven. He asked me if I could come get him. His car was destroyed. He was at his house, and nobody was tehre.. he searched everywhere.. all the cars were there, all damaged beyond repair.. Nobody was there. I drove as fast as I could to his house. I found him there waiting, eyes bloodshot from crying. I had never seen him cry. He wiped his tears from his eyes and got in. I told him that everything was okay.. we had food and medical supplies.. Tiffany woke up and looked around, disoriented.. I got out and opened the back door and held her.. I told her that things were terribly wrong. We were going away from here. This place was a hell. I asked her if she wanted to call her house. She said yes, but in a weak voice... I told her to type the number, and I'd call... She did, and I waited for it to connect... it seemed like forever.. then I heard a mechanical voice. "The number you are attempting to call is disconnected or does not exist". Tiffany looked at me... and I shook my head... she lied back and began to cry softly. I gave her a hug and told her that I wouldn't let anything happen to her. Steven told her we'd both take care of her.. together.. we'd all stick together in this. I drove back to my house before leaving.. I wanted to see if maybe my dogs had made it back home. I found them there, in the back yard. As we pulled up, there was a flash of light behind us. The car suddenly became very hard to control. All the electrical systems were out. I turned off the engine. I've been here for nearly an hour now. The car should be able to start in about an hour.. the effects of an EM Pulse dont last too long. Wiat.... Oh god, there's one of those things again! It's coming closer... what the? There's something co-</i>
And it ended abrubtly... the rest of the pages were blank. _________________ "Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there." -Adam Young QUICK_EDIT
OH TIFFANY MY GIRLFRIEND DO NOT LEAVE ME TO DIE ON THIS PLANET! IT'S INVADING THE SCHOOL! IT'S INVADING THE BUNKER! IT'S INVADING THE MOON! IT'S INVADING MY TOWN! AHHH! Oh look, it's Gdi!
Teenage drama taken to a whole new level!
Dats/Anthony, dude, we want to hear good stories not teenage high school drama packed into the TS world. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh but the truth must come out someway or another, because all the stories you write are about your girlfriend and you fighting Nod or some super intergalactic alien menace, and it just makes me barf.. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Location: Star Kingdom of Manticore
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:02 pm Post subject:
Okay two things:
One, I cant control who or what was in my dream.
Two, I love my friends, what can I say? They're interesting characters. _________________ "Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there." -Adam Young QUICK_EDIT
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