The Last Day the Earth Stood

The Statue of Liberty lay in shreds as another blast from an orbital laser cannon rocked the once great city of New York. Under the shadow of Lady Liberty’s toe, a group of refugee’s huddled together, praying for a reprieve from the bombardment. Fires rage out of control as emergency service vehicles crashed with the loss of anti-grav plates.

“Mummy, look, look the light’s over there, aren’t they pretty!” exclaimed an excited little girl, staring at the dazzling inferno across the east river. “Yes honey, they are lovely ... but stay close to me or daddy won’t be able to find us.” lied the mother, who had been watching her husband’s office building and the rest of the Upper East side of Manhattan transform into a small sun.

“Don’t worry little one, we will all be fine. Do you see those light’s over there in the sky?” asked a small old Asian man pointing upwards.

“Yes.” replied the child wearing a ruined school uniform trying to see a dozen streaking light in the distance.

“Those are our fighter’s, my daughter is a pilot” said the small man in a proud voice.

“Really she’s a pilot, I want to be a pilot too!" demanded the little girl.

“My Bu Ji is the best, no father could ask for a better daughter, she will take care of those aliens.” he spoke with the love of a father and the belief of countless immigrant’s knowing that salvation was always around the corner.

In a nearby makeshift shelter a pepper haired lone man looks upon the ruined face of Lady Liberty and weeps. His name is Harold Rosthstein and he is..was well off and decided to spend his retiring years tending this symbol of freedom after all his family were immigrants too and he felt an obligation. To Harold an obligation like this wasn't a burden after all he would see the bright face's of children playing underneath the shadow of the great lady. He spent the last twelve years cleaning and polishing Lady Liberty and her knew evey little corner. Now it was gone and he wondered if their freedom would come next.

A nurse seeing his tears can only sympathise because there are just so many injured and she was all out of tears.

In a small tent on the fringes of the Gobi desert nesteled within the encampment, a archeologist named Fancisco Ramirez holds up the greatest find for humanity, he has found the missing link. In the background a radio blares and in his jubilation he nearly failed to hear the news. He and the other's look up towards the sky and slowly all the life from his body seems to drain out. A skull crashes to the ground, it is the only noise in the whole encampment except the radio.

Inside a hangar hidden deep within mount rushmore pilots scramble to their respective fighters. "Captain Li! I just heard that New York's been hit and bad" spoke a excited rookie. "I jusr thought you should know" he said with a true ring of sympathy in his voice. "Father..." she mutters under her breath, "Thank You, but we have a job to do so mount up!" she orders quickly trying to hide the fear in her voice. She had been a fighter pilot for seven years and loved every miniute, it was passion, her dream. PaPa Li was the best, he loved her so much that her dream became his. She alway's knew that he wanted a normal daughter but she was always far from that; getting into fights at school, learning martial arts from their cousin David who kept calling her "little grasshopper" and unforunately this became her naickname during family functions. Bu Ji looked on her helmet with assurance that her years of trainning and her confidence in her squardon the small little icon of a grasshopper brought a smile to her face.

"Jason what you doing there's ton of stuff here don't just sit around, help us get this loadedinto the van man before the cops get here!" pleaded a dark haired thin framed youth in a sweatshirt. Jason Bigg's or "Big Man" as he was called on the streets had always gotten off on jacking things because he hated the "Man" they would always look at him with comtempt because he was large and slow. In his heart Jason was a poet and loved reading but no ne card to find out they only saw his imposing six foot nine body and made assumptions.

He had dreams of going to college but they were gone and he knew the exact day it happened. June 12,2018 2:03am and he was coming home from a freinds house after craming all night but the cops didn't care or believe him they only saw the color of his skin and not the content of his charater. A daughter of a police officer was found raped and beatten but she could oly give a vague desription of the perpetrator..A big black guy with sneakers. It was those six words that got him tossed in jail and his family's life saving wiped out teying to bail him out. One minute he was thinking about the math finals and the next he was being pulled out of his father car by the hair , it was a nightmare and he was confused with the lights the sirens and the beating. The girl couldn't make a positive ID on him but she said he might be the one Jason was dragged away but not before he saw the girl from out of the corner of his eye in the hallway, she seemed almost as firghtened and confused as he was and the look of fear on her face. He hated people who abused their strength especially on women.

He had a trail...actually if you wanted to call it that, it took the jury one look at him and he was whisked off to prison tried as an adult. At the trail the small fraile girl he saw in the hallway spat at him cursing his exsistence. Jason spent everynight teying to block out the thing that happened to him and the things he had to do to stay alive. Once the seed of hatred is planted in ones heart it only takes time to grow. The day he was released the seed became a full grown tree. He had learn well in that state run school with bars and he used every bit of knowledge to cause pain and suffering. No crime was too small or dangerous in his mind as long as they knew who did it.

Jason snaps out of his day dream only to see the nightmare around him. It was over in his mind and nothing he could do or they could do would make up for his life being shattered. He slowly walked towards home it was only a few miles and the burden from his heart lifted it only seemed to be a few steps. The cops would be there waiting for him but it just didn't matter "This would be the last day the Earth would stand" and he knew it if no one elese did.

by Legend10013