The Artilleryman and the Fighting Machine

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(Smg4's Pov)

SMG4 (Narrator): Me and My Friends awoke to the sounds of the aliens hammering in the common. My fear rose at sounds of someone creeping in. Then I saw it was a young artilleryman, weary, streaked with blood and dirt.

Artilleryman: anyone here?

SMG4: Come In Here, Drink This (gave artilleryman a glass of water)

Artilleryman: Thank You. (Drinking a glass of water and finished)

SMG4: What's Happened?

Artilleryman: They wiped us out. Hundreds dead, maybe thousands

SMG4: The Heat Ray?

Artilleryman: The Martians! They were inside the hoods of machines they'd made. Massive metal things on legs! Giant machines that walked. They Attacked us! They wiped us out!

SMG4: Machines?

Artilleryman: Fighting machines! Picking up men and bashing 'em against trees. Just hunks of metal but they knew exactly what they were doing.

SMG4: Mmm. There was another cylinder came last night.

Artilleryman: Yes It looked Bound For Mushroom Kingdom

SMG4: Mushroom Kingdom! Peach! I hadn't dreamed there could be danger to Peach And Toadsworth, so many miles away. I must go to Mushroom Kingdom at Once!

Artilleryman:  And me. Got to report to headquarters, if there's anything left of it

(Normal Pov)

(Smg4 and his friends left Meggy's House and ran to the train station. they saw an inn, but it was deserted. The Artilleryman found a kitchen we filled our stomachs with everything we could. )

Artilleryman: Look! A bottle of Whiskey. That's a lucky find!

(and They Made it to the field which was in between Mushroom City and The Station but not a single soul anywhere)

Artilleryman:  Is everybody dead?

Meggy: Not everybody. Look! Six cannons with gunners standing by

Artilleryman: Bows and arrows against the lightning. They haven't seen the heat ray yet!

(They hurried along the road to Weybridge. Suddenly, there was a heavy explosion. The ground heaved, windows shattered and gusts of smoke erupted in the air) 

Artilleryman:  Look! There they are! What did I tell you? 

SMG4 (Narrator): Quickly, one after the other, four of the fighting machines appeared. Monstrous tripods, higher than the tallest steeple, striding over pine trees and smashing them. Walking engines of glistening metal. Each carried a huge funnel and I realized with horror that I'd seen this awful thing before...A fifth machine appeared on the far bank. It raised itself to full height, flourished the funnel high in the air - and the ghostly, terrible Heat Ray struck the town. As it struck, all five fighting machines exulted, emitting deafening howls which roared like thunder

Fighting Machine: ULLA! ULLA!

SMG4 (Narrator):  The six guns we had seen now fired simultaneously, decapitating a fighting machine. The Martian inside the hood was slain, splashed to the four winds, and the body, nothing now but an intricate device of metal, went whirling to destruction. As the other monsters advanced, people ran away blindly, the artilleryman among them, but I jumped into the water and hid until forced up to breathe. Now the guns spoke again, but this time the heat ray sent them to oblivion.

Fighting Machine: ULLA!

(SMG4 looked around for a safe place and noticed The River.)

SMG4: Guys! jump in the river! They won't be able to us! 

(they jumped in the river and held their breaths. The Foot of a fighting machine came close to the heads of SMG4 Crew and rose up only on land a few meters away from them. The Crew jolted up and saw the four tripods advancing away from them carrying away debris of their fallen comrade, but they saw the smoking remains of Mushroom City. but what mattered most was that by a miracle, they had escaped.)

Fighting Machine: ULLA! ULLA! ULLA!

Next Chapter:

Metro Kingdom Under Siege & Tripod Shields

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