30: The Awakening

Tony's Journal #2

From ashes we were born and to ashes we will return.

  I can see blurry flashes all around me.
  My eyes try to adjust to the darkness but can't, my body is vibrating and my fingers numb.
  The lights come on and the impact makes me temporarily blind. Someone calls my name and I realize it's Jackson.

  "Use your gun, kill these bastards."

  I reach for my pistol as my vision returns and remove it from safe mode. Blam! Blam!! The invader attacking Jackson falls dead. My action seems to annoy the other invaders as they get more aggressive.

  "Fall back towards the door, let's get the hell out of here!" Kenny our team leader shouts.

  "They're six and we're four, we can take on them!!" Jackson shouts.

  I take a look at the invaders, they have no weapons only electricity which they shoot from their chests, with heavily armoured bodies which makes them look like something from a comic book. I spot a space between two of the invaders in front of Kenny.

  "Follow my lead and get ready to shoot!" I shout as I slide in between the two invaders. They focus on me leaving the other four to focus on my teammates.

  "Blam! Blam!! Blam!!!" They both fall dead and almost immediately the intruders fire at my mates. Kenny falls down shaking vigorously while Jackson and the other guy dodge the blasts. "Click, Click." My gun's out of bullets. Jackson and the other guy fire at two of the intruders killing them. The last two intruders head for the door that leads to another part of the ship.

  I remember that some intruders are outside waiting to join in the action.

  "Don't let them open the door." I say to them.

  We chase after them and as we pass through the door to what looks like the cockpit the door leading out opens as over 15 intruders try to get in.

  "I'll hold them off." Jackson says as he shoots the last two intruders with us. "Get to the past, warn my grandfather and create a better future, see you soon!" He runs towards the intruders whilst shooting like a cowboy. The other guy hits some buttons on the control board and the cockpit door closes and the ship begins to rise.

  "How did you know how to do that?" I ask.

  He looks at me and his eyes go black.
  He is an intruder.