It’s a quake!! Earthquake!! I
shouted as I felt the earth shook beneath my feet and immediately ran through
the series of stairs leading to the compound of my building. I witnessed the
ceilings giving up, crashing onto the ground with a loud thud and eventually
leading to the collapsing of the building. Those who had enough time to escape
survived, rest just vanished into the thick cloud of dust. Pool of blood got
mixed with the cement, iron rods, broken and crushed limbs and every other
remnant of the building.
I removed a paper television from
my left pocket of trouser, enlarged it and tuned it to a news channel. It said,
“Major earthquake near Mumbai, epicentre still not known.” I flipped through various
news channels and it said the same thing. “Epicentre of the quake not known yet
and the Richter Scale for some reason do not show the measurement of the
quake.” “That’s weird, extremely weird”, I thought. “If it’s a quake, it has to be recorded on
the Richter scale”, I screamed. A few of the towers surrounding my building
also collapsed within minutes of this massive shake of the earth’s crust. This
made me sure that the news channel have got it all wrong as those towers were
built with the quake proof technology which can withstand the quake up to 10 on
the Richter scale.
As I was still collecting myself, coming to
the terms of what had just happened and digesting this news, the screen of the
paper television blanked out. Before I could check the other channels, a
recorded voice message popped up on the screen and said,
“Congratulations!! You ignored our repeated warnings and alas you have
to pay the price.
REST IN PEACE – EARTH.
Yours Lovingly,
The Martians.”
And it kept voicing it in a
loop. For a moment my heart was in my
mouth and my ears still couldn’t believe what it had just heard. I heard it
again and again till it got absorbed into my systems. I remembered about
reading in some science fiction about Earth getting attacked by aliens but
always believed that it was just impossible and ridiculed the writers. “We are
the super force and nothing such thing would happen”, I would say to myself.
But this was simply unbelievable to me. If this is true, all my belief about us
cannot be attacked by aliens seems to be false and just a belief.
The screen again went silent for
few seconds and again came up with some cranky voice.
“You fools! It is not a quake. It’s an invisible nuclear bomb hurled at
the city of Beijing in China, reducing China to a mere dot on the map. (Sounds
of laughter in the background) In spite of our repeated warnings you didn’t
mend your ways, kept polluting the planet and in turn causing a grave danger to
the intergalactic ecosystem. You are doomed Earth, you are doomed!!.” (Loud
sounds of uncontrolled laughter were heard in the background before it again
went silent.)
My mouth was in a momentary
O-shape, eyes just seemed that it would pop out into my hands and practically
each and every part of the body had gone numb. I sensed that panic would soon
grip the entire world.
Mysteriously the radio frequency
had not been disturbed by them and the radio jockeys were screaming on top of
their voices reading out what the audio clip of The Martians said. “Very generous
of them”, I quipped before letting out barrage of muted expletives.
Till the year of 2779 AD,
technology had evolved and advanced beyond imagination. From paper TVs which
can play the role of radio, play stations, mobile phones, and remote control
for cars to ships that can be used as airplanes to vehicles that can fly to
altering the human’s own molecule structure and so on. But invisible nuclear
bomb made me feel as if we are the inhabitants living in the 19th
century.
“Is this the apocalypse?” I wondered
with fear in my eyes.
The paper TV again came to life
with just the voice of the PM addressing the nation, urging and inspiring each
and every citizen to come out, form your own army and fight the Martians in any
manner to protect our mother Earth.
Before she could say anything
further, the voice muted permanently with the sound of the Martians laughing at
our fate with an ever increasing tone, was the only thing left to be heard.
As I turned around, I spotted a
huge aircraft descending at a speed of light without any noise, splitting into
many tiny aircrafts and spreading evenly before the main aircraft landed on the
ground. “There is no time to express the astonishment on viewing that
marvellous feat”, I said to myself and sprinted at a lighting speed crossing
miles and miles within split of a second by altering my molecule structure. Yes,
this scientific marvel made us “superhuman.”
As I was sprinting, sharp laser
rays emitting heat equivalent to the sun passed by me. Thankfully it did not harm
me but left me gasping for breath. I soon found a group of people forming a
human chain, joined them, holding hands and generated enough body heat to
create a layer of thick sheet around ourselves protecting us from those rays as
well as the surroundings.
More and more people joined but
it just didn’t seem to be enough. The speed, power and the precision of the
attack from the Martians was making it extremely difficult for us. For a moment
we were almost about to give up when an IAF plane whizzed past us with a barrage
of hypersonic laser missiles with a speed of more than 10 mach aimed at those
tiny splitted aircrafts. But even a series of missiles could not knock one tiny
aircraft. Eventually it did after taking almost five long minutes.
“This doesn’t seem to work. We
need something better”, I thought. And immediately an idea sprung to my mind. I
asked all those having flying cars to rev up the engine, generate enough
temperature and replicate it to a fire ball. Meanwhile along with the help of
others, I tried generating electromagnetic pulse causing whirlwind of sorts
gulping everything in its way. Once we had generated enough electromagnetic
pulse, we directed it wherever those tiny aircrafts were. And much to our
relief they could not offer much resistance and were sucked into the whirlwind.
At the same time, the fire balls kept circling the whirlwind causing those
aircrafts to melt just as the ice kept under the sun melts. We continued till all the aircrafts were
demolished whereas, the bigger one was taken care by the IAF.
Blood had started oozing out from
our bodies but that did not deter us. We fought till the very last aircraft was
down. Microscopic cameras attached to us recorded everything. And within
minutes everyone around the world was able to view it due to seamless Bluetooth
connectivity.
A sense of uprising was felt in
everyone of us. Though it was just a small victory against the Martians and
their mighty army we ourselves felt surprised on what the ‘unity’ can do within
us.
With our heads held high and with
a renewed spirit within us we marched forward to take on the battle against the
Martians.
The idea for this post is derived from the topics shared as a part of Indian Bloggers League organised by Writeup Cafe
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