SOAR - More Like Us

CHAPTER 14

                                                      AARON
WE BURST FROM THE building and instantly began falling for hundreds of feet, plummeting down a towering cliff. Patrick and I, both whipped out our wings and pushed off west. But he wasn't following me.
"Aaron, please!" He pleaded, "We can't just leave them there!" He said with his back at me, as he pointed at the facility. I knew we couldn't stay. "I'm gonna go for them, if you won't let me." That caught me.
"No, no, no, no, Patrick," I flew over to him, "we have to go get rest, make a plan, and then we'll come back." He shook his head.
"If we wait, they're gonna do a bunch of things to them." I shook my head, even though I knew he had a point.
"OK. So we'll cut off the resting, but we need a plan. They're ready for us." He shook me off and dove downwards to the vent.
"They need us now." And he was now hanging off the vent opening.
"Patrick, wait!" But he was already inside. I groaned aloud and shouted into the vents, "Pat, they're gonna kill you!" No response but the cold wind, that flowed with the icy metal. "PAT!" Nothing. "PAT, PLEASE!" Nothing. I gave up and screamed, as I flew away. I hated myself for proving Snow right. I couldn't even protect my own family.

I flew for about seven hours before I took a rest at a small town city in Idaho. I landed on the shore, water rushing up to my feet. I ran up the beach and saw no one there. Absolutely empty. When I reached the actual city part, there was still no one. The streets were filled. Filled with the reek of death. The stone streets were open, no sidewalks or anything. Just stores on the side and the road. A newspaper flew by my feet. I picked it up and read,
"THE DOOMSDAY GROUP RECRUITS WHOLE CITY FOR THE ONE TRUE LIGHT. THE DAY WHEN WE WILL ALL PERISH FOR RUINING OUR WORLD. SOON COME CHAOS."
The doomsday group. I know that name. Then I remembered. Jacob. Jacob was an old friend of ours- mine, until one day, he ran off without saying anything. We met him again about a year later and he explained to us the whole concept of the Doomsday group and their 99% Plan, to eliminate all humans from existence. But I guess they're still at it. I never believed one word of it and I still don't. There's no way they're gonna find a way to destroy all of humanity.
Whoosh!
A disturbingly loud sound came from up high. We're able to see incredibly far. So when I looked up, I had to look really hard to understand what I was seeing. I looked closer and saw something of a meteor. A giant one. I saw it from earth, and that looked like it was the distance of Neptune. But it wasn't slow. It was fast, and it was speeding its way here a lot faster than anyone would ever comprehend. I looked back down to the newspaper,
"PREPARE FOR THE SKY TO FALL." So this was how they were going to do it. Well, shit.