Before heading to London, I decided to go to my friend Penny's house in Oxford. As I walked towards Longcot, I found an abandoned Fish And Chips shop and decided to gather food and supplies and whatever else I can find.
Inside the shop
"Hello? Anyone here?" I said, trying my bad Scottish, then my regular voice but no one answered
I gathered some frozen cod, tilapia and some pre cut fries and 31 bottles of water
Not the best, but it was still food so I knew I had to stick with it. I also gathered some cheese that smelled bad but I knew it was the Roquefort and Gorgonzola cheeses.
I also "bought" a camp stove from the nearby hardware store
A few hours of waking later, I was resting under the shade of a destroyed store. When suddenly I heard huge footsteps. I took cover behind a dumpster when I saw a Martian Fighting-Machine lowering a pod carrying its pilots.
!@!@!^!^#%!^%#%!? said one of the Martians
@&@&#!&#&#!&#!&#!duuqdusxuogfjeil@#!#!* !!! ? replied the other
I wondered why the one in Swindon can talk, and before long I saw the Martians putting a device on their body which translated everything they said.
The one in Swindon must have wore it!
Before long, another Martian machine appeared. I had never seen this one before, it had 4 legs, 4 orange eyes with rebar around them, and some sort of huge cannon
I tried to get a better view, but I accidentally stepped on a branch thus, revealing my location to the Martians. They instantly went back to the Fighting Machine and ordered the spider to shoot me, or so I thought. Instead, it shot me with some sort of sticky foam that hardens rapidly around me(so I nicknamed it the Constrictor). I tried to move but it's no use, I'm stuck. The Fighting Machine instantly charged it's heat ray, preparing to shoot me.
Just then, gunfire erupted beside us(yes I'm saying us now) a tank was firing its guns straight at the Invaders, I took this opportunity to break free and climb above the tank and fire from one of it's guns.
The Fighting Machine dropped down, destroyed. The Constrictor deactivated with the cannon pointed upwards possibly as a sign of surrender.
I climbed down the tank, when the hatch suddenly opened.
A soldier then came out "Thanks for your help lad. Quite brave for a Journalist." he said
"No big deal." I replied jokingly
As I waved goodbye, I saw the Martians from the Fighting Machine climbing out, tentacles in the air. The other Martian was obviously dead, due to the fact it tumbled out with blood soaking everywhere, red blood, like the ones in humans. The Constrictor opened it's hatch allowing the Martians onboard. I saw an abandoned car with the key conveniently placed beside it, so I continued on to Oxford.
By the time I got to Oxford, it was deserted with some cats playing around and a bottle of stinky liquid that's surrounded with flies. I got out of "my" car and suddenly, there were huge footsteps behind me as I turned, yet 2 other machines appeared, on 2 legs with green eyes, and a cannon on its back.
I ran towards the street, and ripped a pipe off an apartment wall, preparing myself. The machines fired a salvo of grenades which almost exploded near me, I decided to get a close one at it.
I struck the machine's leg, but it does nothing to it.
With nothing else I could do, I made a run for it.
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The War Of The Worlds: A New Beginning
Mystery / ThrillerWhen strange explosions started to come from Mars, the humans have to prepare for what was to come. This is inspired by Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds, 2005 War of the worlds and others