“What is this?”
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Voice log activated
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Log Date: December 21, 2102
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This is….
Voice log activated
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Log Date: December 21, 2102
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This is….
This is Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Hunnigan, C.O. of the 107th Platoon, Cavalry Division, United Federation Marines.
To whomever it may concern,
Before I continue, let me tell you that I am sorry.
You may ask why…
Because you have picked up this device you will probably perish soon.
If you are one of them, then all I have to say is one day, if not soon then one day, what you have done to us will be done to you. The havoc you wrecked on this planet will be brought to your home and unleashed ten fold.
If you are human then you know the situation. I will recap what I know just in case any of the information I have can be of use to you.
Seven months ago today, at approximately 13:37 G.M.T. the boys at U.F.S.A. received a transmission from an unknown location somewhere around Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
The transmission was spoken in fluent English.
It said, ” Humans of Earth. We reach out to you now so when the time comes your race may have a chance at survival. Your planet, the one you call Earth, is the single most plentiful heavenly body in the galaxy you call the Milky Way. We are beings, like you, that require resources to survive. We will come to Earth. We will take your resources. And we will not………”
Months went by and nothing happened. The entire planet was on edge, each country fully militarized, every single goddamn nuke in existence was armed and ready to destroy anything that came within twenty thousand miles of earth.
We thought the planet would finally be at peace after centuries of war.
We believed that the War of Ends would be the last war humanity ever saw.
After losing the entire country of China and half of Japan during the War of Ends, to Phosmolic radiation, we thought Earth would live through eons of peace and prosperity.
Humanity had finally learned that peace was the key to prosperity… turns out we were wrong…
I’m sorry I keep rambling…I have little time.
After months of waiting for an alien invasion things started to calm down.
That’s when they came…
Not in large numbers or countless warships.
One ship.
One single ship, about the length of the New Empire State building and the width of a classic American football field.
It landed in a large open area somewhere in southern South Africa.
The world was puzzled, scared, and most of all…curious.
No satellite had detected it, no telescope had seen it, no person had heard it…until it landed.
Large robots with guns didn’t march out of it. Huge numbers of grotesque aliens didn’t come swarming out of it with levitation devices.
One thing.
It looked human…
It was human…at least it appeared to be. Until we noticed the holes on the side of its neck and the odd rings around its wrists.
It wore white robes and had a light brown complexion. Everything else about it looked human.
It wasn’t human.
By the time it walked out of the ship the United Federation had already surrounded the ship with marines. Thank god I was stationed in New York and not Africa.
It said nothing. All it did was walk over to a lake right next to the ramp it walked off of and stuck its hand in it. The circles around its wrist opened around the submerged hand and sucked up a substantial amount of water. Enough water so that the lake, which wasn’t all that big, lost two inches of height. No one knew how that was possible.
What happened next was unbelievable.
The being appeared to take an extremely deep breath and exhaled a gas that could be compared to your breath after you breath out in cold weather. Except the cloud of gas was about the size of an elephant and he breath lasted two entire minutes.
No one spoke. No one moved. No one knew what to do.
After the creature was done exhaling the gas it started to choke. It coughed violently the spit out purple pebbles. Thousands of purple pebbles about the size of a penny.
After this the creature reentered its ship and the ramp was retracted back to the ship, closing the only opening in the enormous dark craft.
Immediately a Quarantine was put on the area and observation showed that the pebbles were composed of hydrogen. Only hydrogen. The pebbles were solid hydrogen.
This may not seem scary but let me explain. I was a chemistry major in college and know that solid hydrogen is formed when liquid hydrogen is contained in an area and the temperature around it is decreased to -260 degrees Celsius. That’s equal to -436 degrees Fahrenheit. Only the pebbles never melted when exposed to temperatures over -260 degrees Celsius. Even temperatures over 1500 degrees Fahrenheit didn’t melt the pebbles.
The area that was quarantined was later found to contain an abnormally large amount of oxygen.
The first hypothesis was that whatever that thing was took the water and converted it into its base elements. Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Many said that was impossible because the hydrogen created was unlike any other hydrogen found on Earth. It had the same atomic and molecular build, but was like nothing anyone had ever seen. The solid hydrogen was also harder than diamond and lighter than titanium.
No one had any clue what we were dealing with.
The ship stayed unmoved for exactly thirty-five days. The next time the ship opened and the large ramp descended, three of the beings walked out of it. By this time all of humanity considered the previous “show” of sorts a display of power. Once the beings reached the ground they raised their hands and…poof.
A black field encircled an area of about one square mile. The field was a black so deep no light could penetrate it. No solid, liquid, or gas could cross into the field. The large black field sat there for three days. No one who was consumed by the black field came out of it. Then all of the sudden, three days later at 07:30 G.M.T., the field disappeared. In less than a second the entire field was gone…along with all of its inhabitants. Seventy-three people gone.
Everyone who was trapped in the field was gone. No trace of their existence was evident. The only thing that was left was the ship and the three beings. All three were identical…and all three…had smiles on their faces…
At that point we should’ve known. We should’ve acted then. God why didn’t we kill those sons a bitches then!
If we had just sacrificed South Africa…and hit them with every Phosmolic and Nuclear weapon we had…we may have survived.
What happened next marked the end.
The next day at approximately 07:40 G.M.T. a flash of light emitted from the ship.
After the light faded what lined the the ship’s side shocked the entire world.
Seventy-three bodies were laying on the ground. Every single body was naked and unharmed. After each individual body was examined it was said that the bodies of the people were unaltered in every way…the only thing was that every single person was still alive.
Every body was unresponsive to stimuli. No scientist in the world could provoke any of the bodies to respond to anything. No signs of comas, no signs of activity of the brain or nerves, no signs of consciousness, no signs of what we humans consider life. But the Bodies were still breathing and their hearts still pumped blood through their veins….
That incident, which was named, “The Black Hole,” was the beginning of the end and no one saw it coming.
Over the next couple of weeks similar situations to, “The Black Hole,” occurred. Large areas of land, now dozens of square miles large, started appearing over areas on earth’s surface. The, “Black Holes,” would appear for three days and leave all of the people trapped in them in a lifeless but still alive state.
At this time various religions were created, marking the beings as deities. The followers of the religions believed that the souls of the people captured by the holes were being taken to heaven, or rapture, or a land of eternal bliss.
Typical Halebop Comet shit…
Over the next four months the, “Black Holes,” consumed nearly every single person on this damn planet…
I don’t think I have long left. I have no family to say goodbye to. Every friend I have…or rather had…is gone now.
I’m sitting here in the United Federation’s building in central New York. It’s so lonely. I haven’t seen a living person in weeks.
Bodies litter this city like grains of sand in a goddamn sandbox…
I don’t even know why I survived and no one else did. I’ve come inches from being consumed by a hole three times now…why am i still alive?
The bodies of the ones who were affected by the holes aren’t even the worst. Countless people killed themselves in fear of what they may face in the, “Black Holes.” Blood from people who jumped from buildings is scattered everywhere outside. Almost every house is filled with lifeless bodies or suicide notes.
I don’t think I can bear to live any longer.
To whomever is reading this…goodbye and good luck. And remember…if you think you are safe from whatever lies out there in that infinite universe…you’re dead wrong.
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Voice log ended.
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Voice log ended.
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“Foolish beings they were.”
“Yes. Although they met a sad fate, their, “deaths,” will not have been for nothing. Send the transmission to the next planet.”
“Very well…”
As the human looking being turned and pulled a remote looking device from his robe he sighed.
“Must we do this to every living species we find.”
The being then pressed the single button on the device and words started to echo throughout planet Earth and out into space.
The transmission was spoken in fluent English.
It said, ” Beings of Monotath. We reach out to you now so when the time comes your race may have a chance at survival. Your planet, the one you call Monotath, is the single most plentiful heavenly body in the galaxy you call the Sarcil. We are beings, like you, that require resources to survive. We will come to Monotath. We will take your resources. And we will not leave a single soul behind”
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