Aphelion [The New World]

The Beginning

While Kasper was waiting for his ears to recover from the shockwave,he remembered what his mother taught him once.To keep calm and look for solutions. He had a hard time bringing himself together,as he watched in an endless high pitched sound,all the people running in fear.That was until he remembered he had a sister...

He went pale when he tought about the dreadful fate,that his sister could have met.She was closer to the source of that horrific explosion,so the consequences had to be worse.Without a second tought Kasper ran in the direction he last saw her,pushing people in his way and becoming part of the clutter. Tears started rolling down his face,but he was
coursing so fast,that they were blown away before even reaching his nose.

"Fuck" he yelled as he passed lifeless bodies on the ground.

Kasper reached the corner,that Kacey was supposed to take and peeked it. He froze. His vision got obscured,not only because of the shock,but because of the endless tears he couldn't wipe off. Kacey's body was showing under a small red car.He was sure it was her,because of his backpack near her prostrate body.

His hearsay slowly had recovered to the point of him hearing an evacuation sirens intimidating all the people,that ran pass him.Only one hefty male spotted him and deviated from his path to help Kasper.

"Are you alright?" The stranger asked.

Kasper could hardly hear him,but he understood the question.

"Yes,but my sister is hurt" Said the worried brother.

The unknown man looked under the car and saw the fine crushed girl lying lifeless.

Although the man felt bad,he said
"There is no chance for her,man!"

Kasper still had a hard time hearing the stranger,but his face revealed it all for him.Even then he didn't give up.
"Can you help me get her out" asked the young man trying to contain his tears.The muscular guy grabbed the car by the side fenders in an attempt to lift it.The car didn't move.Kasper joined him in the second attempt,but nothing happened.The stranger turned around and walked closer to the causeway waving his hands and begging for help.The cluster of people was so massive and loud,that nobody saw or hear his calls.

In the meantime,Kasper picked the backpack and put it on his back.He felt a warm aura around him.He tought it was his blood presure playing tricks on him,but it was not.It was something bigger.He looked around and everything seemed dimmer.

"What is going on?" He asked himself.

Kasper could hear a faint woobing sound,but he didn't know if it was his ears missleading him,or something else.He looked at the stranger who was no longer waving at the croud,but rather at Kasper.He then realised there was a white light shining right at him and his sister from above. He looked up and couldn't make out what it was exactly.It's radius was big enough to catch him and his sister and it had a pattern of unknown symbols rotating in a tilted manner.The light seemed to get brighter and brighter to the point of totally blinding Kasper,but that didn't affect him.He held his sister's arm accepting his fate to be the same as her's.

This decision was quickly ruined by the stranger,when he jumped and grabbed Kasper pushing him away from the unidentified light.The two of them hit the ground. Not even a second later the light disintegrated everything in it's path and left the car cut into a perfect semicircle.His sister was nowehere to be found.The shock that hit Kasper could not be described.He fainted, falling in the stranger's arms.The man knew he had to get as far as possible from this spot,but could not leave Kasper behind,so he threw him over his shoulder and stood up.His eyes met a moving figure in the distance that was massive. It was around four or five meters and it looked like it had two pairs of hands.These hands held different objects that were pointed at the endless crouds of people.

The man kept calm and lowered his body on the car's level, hidding from that entity's line of sight.He decided to move slowly and silently between the vehicles,but shortly after he realised it is not a good idea,in case of a secondary explosion crushing them with all the debris.So he moved closer to a building and found a way in.The stranger placed Kasper carefully on the ground with his back and head flat and his feet up underlayed on a chair into a shock position.He then perambulated around the building in a search of supplies.

When he returned,Kasper had already awoken,but he remembered a small portion of the affair that happened,so as followed Kasper asked
"What happened?"

The man rotated a chair to face Kasper and sat on it.

"You passed out"
answered the stranger.

Kasper looked around slowly to scan his surroundings.

"We need to get out of here"
said the muscular man as he followed Kasper's movements.

The young man slowly started realising what was going on and that he didn't just have a bad dream.

The stranger also saw that,so he picked one of the water bottles and passed it saying
"Here,take that and stay still for a minute"

Although confused,Kasper still took the water and drank from it.He stayed calm trying to remember what happend and it finally hit him.

He jumped from his place and bombarded the stranger with questions
"Who are you?What did you do to me?What happened to my sister?Where is..."

The man stood up cutting Kasper's scattered questions.
"My name is Simon and I saved you."

At this point Kasper could hear most of the stuff and was weirded out by the noises outside,so he worryingly asked
"What is going on?"

Simon aproached a windown and crouched behind a desk for safety.
"Well, it seems like we are being attacked by something"

He peeked trough the window and added
"I hear friendly jets in the skies,they are surely doing bombing runs,which is the source of that noise.I can also tell that whatever hit us it's not wiped by those jets yet,which is worrying!"

Kasper tried to assimilate that info,but a picture of his mother went trough his head

"My mom...I need to call my mom to make sure she is alright!" He said becoming emotinally unstable again.

"It's no use" The stranger muffled
"They hit us with an EMP and every electronic in it's range was destroyed" He added while backing from the window slowly.

Kasper felt dizzy again and staggered.His new friend saw that and cought him.After that he placed him on the same chair and tucked the water bottle in his hands.

"Listen,man,I need you to stay calm.I cannot continue with a guy who passes out every second or two!" The big man said with a serious face.

Kasper oppened the water bottle and drank it in a one go.

"Alright"said the young man with a calm voice.

"Nice!We need to come up with a plan to get out of here as quick as possible.And I am warning you,it will most likely be hard,so prepare mentally" Simon instructed him.

Kasper nodded and asked
"Umm,what is that EMP?"

Simon then proceeded to explain
"Electromagnetic pulse.It's usually harmless to people,but this one was unusually strong,It's like nothing i have seen."

Kasper did not flinch at all and proceeded to ask the second question
"So what could have produced such a thing?Terrorists?North Korea?Europe invading us?Russia?"

Simon kept quiet for a bit thinking over that question and said
"Nobody"

Kasper shifted his eyebrows in a confused expression
"What do you mean?This doesn't happen on it's own...,right?

"Right,but believe me...this is impossible to be done by humanity.I've been in the military for a long time now and I've never seen or heard about such a thing and if it exist,there is no logic why would they do it!" Added Simon.

Kasper asked with a serious face
"Who do you think did that crazy act then?"

Simon stood up,walked to the window again and said
"Whoever did this,it's only the beginning..."