The bombing started without warming. Scarlet was having lunch with her family when the first wave of planetary bombardment started, followed by an even more sadistic and methodical hit by bombers to exterminate. For the space of a few seconds, she and her husband did not even understand what was happening. Sure they were warning of an oncoming invasion, but to face death in the face gives one a sense of reality. When the ground started to groan under the impact of bombs, when the cry of dying rent the air, and when the air itself began to get heavy from dust and debris, that is when Scarlet and her husband knew their time had come.
Quickly they grabbed their two children and emergency bags, and started running out on the main street towards the nearest designated bomb shelter.
“Is it this way?” cried Scarlet while carrying her younger kid, a bright-eyed and sweet girl of 4 years. Her air was already disheveled from dust and debris. But that’s not the worst part. Her kids were scared now. It was in their eyes.
Taking the other child, a boy of 8 along with the bags, her husband said “From the looks of the map those government guys gave, yes!” There were people around, hundreds of them. From the looks of it, all of them were running towards the emergency bomb shelter. His only fear was that it would fill up before his family could get there. To that end, he did not want help others by giving them directions to the shelter. He already lied to a few.
And that’s when it came. At first, it was only a loud shrill noise. Before they knew it, an incendiary bomb hit the street, burning away everything before it, flesh and metal.