Houston

The Ship

    As soon as Madison brought her up spear, I found a large jagged branch I could use to whack & stab the alien. I realized that the branch was somewhat flimsy and that the alien had no eyes whatsoever. I stabbed at its armor & it quickly swiveled it's head at me, snarling. The stick broke & there weren't anymore left.
The leg of a chair! I hurried inside the store while the alien was chasing me. I grabbed the chair & smacked it on the alien; put the chair on its side to break one of the legs. I shoved the leg into its mouth & left it there, but the alien had spotted it out and was bleeding a greenish-blue colored blood. I gotta finish this.
     I saw an Axe bottle laying next to a lighter. I grabbed it & ran towards the front door & turned around to get in position. I looked up & saw that the alien was charging at me.
     "One down!"
     "What?!" I replied.
     The alien jumped up on me & I still had the Axe in my right hand. I dropped the lighter & couldn't reach it. I was frantically trying to find it with my hand until I saw the real alien peak out of its armor. I grabbed the lighter & the Axe in hand.
     I sprayed the fire into its mouth & it backed off, running into some shelves & knocking things down. It ran up to me & I got out it's way, bursting & crashing out of the glass double doors & started to give up. It was laying there, screeching & people started to walk up to it with guns and shooting it.

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     "Did ya kill it?" A boy said. "Yeah, we sure did." Madison declared. While everyone was cheering, exhausted, & relaxed that they killed more of them, only 2 actually. Madison waved me down to go see her in the office.
     When I walked in & closed the door, she was pouring two small shots of Jack Daniels & handed one to me as I sat down.
"That ya first?"
     "Yeah. I brought down a ship-"
     Madison was gleaming with hope & a new future.
     "You brought down a ship? But- But how?"
     "It was risky. I got stuck in the truck, and these tentacles grabbed the truck and pulled me towards the mouth of the ship."
     "How'd you get it in there?"
     "I rolled down the window and threw it when it's mouth was open."
     "This is enlightening."
     "Yep. I guess so."
     "Cheers."
As we clinked & drank our shots, I was thinking of how I could've gone with Ben, would I have been here if I was still with him?
     "So what's your story."
     "Hmm?"
     "Everybody has a story of why they're still alive. What's yours?"
     "Well. It was my boyfriend. We argued and I got upset and drove away from the city. He called at night, when I was driving, then he was telling me to get back to him, then I hung up."
     "Then that's when Howard crashed you off the road, huh?"
     "Yeah."
"Well, I gotta go to the overwatch. Your welcome to make yourself at home. Even though it's a supermarket."
     "Okay. It's better then nothing right?" She nodded.
I got up, & walked out of the office & pondered about. I was looking atop the store & there was a section of a glass ceiling.
     There was a sorta low rumbling noise & some of the things from the shelves were knocked off. There was an alarm that was quite, but then everybody knew what that meant, a ship inclosing on us.