"Humans are no strangers to war. After all, we’ve been fighting for as long as we can remember. War is all we know. In the past, we fought for resources. We fought for country. We fought for freedom. But all that changed after E-Day. For 10 years, we’ve been fighting for our very survival against inhuman, genocidal monsters. But it is a fight we cannot continue. Humanity faces extinction, unless we end this war now. We had hoped the Atomic bombing would decimate the Locust Horde, but they survived…and have returned stronger than ever. They’ve brought with them a force that can sink entire cities. Even London, Europe and Britain's last beacon of hope through all these dark days, is now at risk. Soon we’ll have nothing left to defend, and that means we have only one option…attack. Men, what I ask of you now is not an easy thing, but it is necessary. If we are to survive…if we are to live long enough to see the seasons pass, our children grow, and experience a time of peace that we have never known…we must now take this fight to the Locust. We will go to where they live and where they breed…and we will destroy them! This is the day we take the battle to the heart of the enemy! This is the day that we correct the course of human history! This is the day we ensure our survival as a species! Soldiers of Humanity, my fellow countrymen, go forth and bring back the hope of humanity!"
-Prime Minister Winston Churchill, radio address to the United Kingdom as the invasion of Locust-invested Europe began, July 21st, 1946January 1st, 1936 Berlin, Germany
Ernest Schmidt, father of two sat on the park bench reading the daily paper with his six year old daughter Elsa and 7 year old son Alexander played amongst the children of the park. He took particular interest in the arrest of Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler and many of his subordinates after their second failed coup attempt when they were caught red handed at a warehouse in the midst of planning,
"Fools..." Ernest whispered aloud, and as any sane German would tell you, he was correct. What was the point of their party? "To reclaim the glory of the German empire"? What glory was their to reclaim, Germany, under the wise leadership of Theodor Heuss and the German Democratic Party, Germany had risen to be one of the largest economies of Europe and soon the world, demonstrating that one could gain just as much glory through money and numbers rather than the rifle and tank.
Ernest continued to read the article, it mentioned some more rabble of the Nazi party's "promise" of returning territory lost.
"What did we really lose in the Great War?" Ernest said once again aloud, this time even scolding himself for seeming like a madman by muttering to himself. But what had Germany really lost in territory? He wondered.
What, Alsace-Lorraine? The colonies? What use were the colonies, so far away, only eating up resources and funds to do what, keep a sense of pride, worthless. And negotiations were taking place on Alsace-Lorraine next year in exchange for aid due to the so called "Great" Depression, which had barley touched Central Europe. It was only a two year war, sure it cost many brave lives on all sides who were fighting for their nation, their pride, but that was over twenty years ago.
"Hitler's ambition of 'taking revenge amongst the arrogant powers of the West and eliminating the communists to the East' were amongst his party's irrational fervor of hatred and lust for power."
What arrogance? thought Ernest, Britain and France were very much generous in their peace offer, allowing the Fatherland to keep its army and navy reduced, yet intact. Where was they're so called arrogance when the French, in a show of friendship invited Germany to join the European Economic Union, which despite declined by Germany, meant the feeling of hatred had ceased between both nations, all we want is peace, wonder why its so hard for those national socialists and communists to understand that.
Suddenly Alexander and Elsa ran up to Ernest and threw they're arms around his neck and waist,
"Da, Da, the ground is shaking" said Alexander nervously, his blue eyes glistening much like his mother's.
Ernest paused for a moment, he did think he felt a slight movement in the ground, but brushed it off,
"Don't be silly you two, I don't feel anything," replied Ernest to his two young children while standing.
"But daddy....."began Elsa
"No buts, come on, its time to go home, I'm sure you're mother is done with supper" cut in Ernest before picking her up and placing Elsa on his shoulders.
He began to walk towards the apartments that were just across the street from the park where he lived.
Ernest reached the intersection and out of the third story window of the apartment, he could see his beautiful wife, Anne, finishing dinner.
She smiled at him and waved at the children, who at this moment were looking very disturbed, as they were the few of Berliners who could feel the tremors amongst the ground.
Ernest felt nothing better than to end the day with his two children and wife along with eating a bowl of her famous beef soup. Unfortunately for not just Ernest, or Berlin, or the nation for that fact, but the whole of civilization, he was never going to reach the door.
As Ernest crossed the busy intersection, with his kids in tow, a violent shake threw him to the floor,
"What the hell?" was all Ernest could muster as another three violent tremors shook Berlin, they were more violent than any normal earthquake,
"Cross the street kids, go!" yelled Ernest to Elsa and Alexander as they began to scream, "Did they know the earthquake was coming?" pondered Ernest, rather his second thought was on why there was an earthquake in Berlin, Germany of all places, but that would be for a later time, he thought, he really did believe it, he thought he would see sunrise tomorrow.
Ernest and his children are almost half way to the sidewalk when the fourth and final shake begins, except this time, the very earth begins to crack open revealing a rather large hole,
"A hole large enough for several men to climb out of..." thought Ernest,
and that's when They came.
Huge spider like monstrosities with six eyes, accompanied by several bulking 7' foot tall beast of "men" with scaly, rough skin and an instinct to kill unmatched by even the cruelest of humans, came from under the ground shooting and crushing any in their path,
Ernest throws his children into the apartment lobby before he is sent to the floor once more, the final time. One of the "Brutes" approach him, it gives him a horrifying, toothless grin, and stomps on Ernest's head, crushing it into a pool of blood and remains of skin, before continuing its gruesome massacre of the innocent bystanders.
Many describe them as the "Angels of Death", "Satan's Scythe", "The Angry Night" but after only one month, they aptly named them the Locusts, for their irrational need to kill, to destroy making the Barbarians and Vikings seem like school children. On the first day, on Emergence-Day over 1/5 of humanities population perished, giving way to the pessimistic motto of.....
"The Lucky Died on E-Day"
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