I kept thinking that there was no way on earth that this many things could happen at once. As you’ll see there is always a first time for everything, even if everything is exactly what you get.
May 4th 2002 5:47am Bithlo, FL
Richard Hemlock aka Hem7ock5 rolled out of bed, quite on accident but not entirely without purpose. His dog, Sally wanted to go for a walk; being a great dane had its perks, namely rolling your owner out of bed. He grabbed his glasses, tossed on some some wrinkled chinos and picked himself up a dirty t-shirt.
Foggy outside his house, the front lawn dewy and the sprinklers hadn’t even come on nor would they come on today for Richard. A guy in a grey-colored suit of body armor attempted to hurted the hedges from the back 40 and stumbled onto his front lawn.
Through his helmet Richard could see there was blood coming down the mans forehead and around his eyes. The man started limping towards Richard. He almost heard him mouth the words “I’m sorry.” A second later the air aroudn the mans upper body got hazy and fuzzy. His upper torso exploded and knocked Richard back with the heat that felt as if he was right next to a bonfire.
He barely had time to put his arm up that was now singed. The lower torso and legs slumped to the ground and Sally barked with uncertainty and fear as the sound of something could be heard sniffing and the sound of something electornic powering up followed shortly as the mans legs were then covered in some sort of green goo.
A metal spear pined Richard to the wall just under his ribcage and then a terrible heat tore out his left lung from his ribcage, among other things Sally didn’t realy have time to react let alone finish releasing her bowels.
The scene went from fresh pee to fresh meat.
Hemlock’s outdoor wireless webcam security feed was indeed still on.
I saw it all live. In color and in stereo.
9:32 am Denver, CO
Steve Jacobson aka D3zs7ruc7o pulled into the handicap spot in front of his soon to be irreperably understaffed and yet highly popular local grocery store for reasons beyond his control. Just as he backed out he clipped a man running for his life who stumbled despite a new minor hip fracture being added to his already long list of injuires. Who he was I don’t know but he was definitely a gonner, green and gold joggin suit and all.
The pursuer of the jogging man slammed into the side of his car and rolled right over the back of his 76 pontiac chevelle mac 10 supercharged v8 and he kept on truckin’ as they say, his eye or eyes on the prize.
This all took Steve quite by surprise as he had only seconds ago left his warm brekfast on the table because of an issue at the as yet to be popular store of his, “A to Z Mart” you see Steve was Pakistani, despite the name.
This was of course shortly before three other non-descript figures dove into his covertible and began knawing his arms, legs and neck. A warm brekfast on the table indeed….
10:13am Santa Ana, CA
Alan Santotoe aka hyper24x7, aka me, rubbed his eyes thinking there was some kind of god that let you sleep in this late on Saturdays. Oh did I mention it was my first day at the new job: Pete’s Inter-Electronic Super Store.
I then heard a noise I’ve only ever heard at airshows, undoubtedly the sound of something moving very fast through the air. Then moments later a loud explosion, me knocked off my feet and the sound of stuff hitting the roof almost like rain but not quite the same when I looked out the window and it looked like dirt and debris.
Stumbled to the door and looked out the window. If a picture is worth a thousand words then I’d need about a million words to describe what I saw. Explosions, fire, rocks, huge columns of smoke and the sky filled with the shape of a massive red ball of fire looking to be just above the earth visible during daylight.
I’d have to say that back then I had no clue, but knowing now that it really was borderline entering the atmosphere and well it was so huge that if you looked up at the sky it had to be miles, literaly miles across. And that’s when it hit me. A rock probably and I was out cold or hot as the case may be.