Zeb_Carter
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I called it Bugs, but you could name it whatever you want.
Bugs
For thousands of years meteors have rained down upon the Earth. Some have been collected and studied. Others, science thought, disintegrated on impact, as nothing was ever found of them. More often than not, there was no meteor debris to be found at an impact site. For thousands of years.
Why today? It was December 16, 2142. Not a very significant date. The year though was the title of a popular game back in the '90s. But why today? Why did they pick today to breakout. It's all over the news. Millions on millions of human size bugs pouring out of the ground. The attacks started not minutes after the first one emerged.
The militaries around the world were caught flatfooted. Most outbreaks occurred in rural areas, close to impact sites that yielded no meteor debris. It took too long to respond to the attacks. The police were no match for the six foot tall bugs armed with weapons we had never seen before. Weapons that cut through anything. Buildings were leveled with a single burst from their weapons. People were incinerated from just a touch of the beam fired.
The bugs could be killed with the kinetic energy weapons the police carried. But it took a lot of bullets to do the job. For everyone of them we killed they killed twenty of us. That was what happened for the first hour. Then the military showed up and the tide turned...slightly. The military was more organized, able to use what cover was left, able to bring multiple guns on target. And there guns were more powerful than the police or civilian guns.
The military started to issue weapons to every able bodied civilian they could find. Those civilians were used to guard hospitals and shelters for the women and children. That is where we found ourselves. Guarding, standing guard, at the international airport, that had been designated an FOB for the local National Guard units, along with three active duty units of the Marines. The Marines were in the field fighting the bugs. The National Guard units were in extended perimeter defensive positions around the airport buildings.
Bugs
For thousands of years meteors have rained down upon the Earth. Some have been collected and studied. Others, science thought, disintegrated on impact, as nothing was ever found of them. More often than not, there was no meteor debris to be found at an impact site. For thousands of years.
Why today? It was December 16, 2142. Not a very significant date. The year though was the title of a popular game back in the '90s. But why today? Why did they pick today to breakout. It's all over the news. Millions on millions of human size bugs pouring out of the ground. The attacks started not minutes after the first one emerged.
The militaries around the world were caught flatfooted. Most outbreaks occurred in rural areas, close to impact sites that yielded no meteor debris. It took too long to respond to the attacks. The police were no match for the six foot tall bugs armed with weapons we had never seen before. Weapons that cut through anything. Buildings were leveled with a single burst from their weapons. People were incinerated from just a touch of the beam fired.
The bugs could be killed with the kinetic energy weapons the police carried. But it took a lot of bullets to do the job. For everyone of them we killed they killed twenty of us. That was what happened for the first hour. Then the military showed up and the tide turned...slightly. The military was more organized, able to use what cover was left, able to bring multiple guns on target. And there guns were more powerful than the police or civilian guns.
The military started to issue weapons to every able bodied civilian they could find. Those civilians were used to guard hospitals and shelters for the women and children. That is where we found ourselves. Guarding, standing guard, at the international airport, that had been designated an FOB for the local National Guard units, along with three active duty units of the Marines. The Marines were in the field fighting the bugs. The National Guard units were in extended perimeter defensive positions around the airport buildings.
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