New World Order

Chapter 3 - The Beginning (Edited)

Katherine's POV

At this moment I was so thanking God we did not live in the city, but the suburbs. From the looks of it, the ship is heading over the city area. My dad and I just stood there in a state of shock for what seemed like forever. Eventually, the ship stops and it looks like something was opening at the bottom of the ship. I jumped when I felt a hand touch on my arm. I turn to see my brother.

"Come, Kat! Dad! We have to go now!" My brother said pulling me and my dad following a pursuit. The city warning siren went off again. My heart was racing a mile per minute as we ran down the stairs. We ran as fast as we could into the basement my brother locked the door behind us.

Once we were inside we heard someone talking on the radio. I took a seat on the old worn down couch beside my sister and mother. You see the basement looked like a living room set up but with boxes and our old stuff down here. Also, the furniture was given by the family from when my parents got married as a wedding gift.

Then my attention was turned to the radio on the coffee table. The radio announcer said, " It seems now that the ship has stopped in the middle of downtown Atlanta. Some of the military vehicles have moved downtown to see what it is going to do. Since the unknown person on the border have suddenly stopped firing." * Pause.*"Now the Colonel is telling us to move back." Pause. "Now that we have made it in the center of town we can get a good view of the ship and a light coming from the open area. The aliens on the ship are not doing anything at the moment. It seems as if they are waiting for something."

The radio announcer goes silent again for at least 20 to 30 minutes. "We were able to eavesdrop on some of the Colonel and General conversation. They seem to be trying to decide if they can evacuate the city before something does-" Suddenly we boom noises, people screaming to run and the sound of someone running. A few moments later we heard someone talking and what sounds like they're running at the same time.

"Small...space pods just...came out of the ship and are now... shooting at us..."

"Oh my Gosh. This can't be happening." I said under me breathe. All we heard on the radio was someone breathing really loud and the sound of gunshots. Then we heard someone shout something, Then the gunshots seemed to be muffled as if they are far away. The person on the radio was breathing like they were trying to catch their breath before speaking.

When the person caught they breathe he spoke saying, "We have found a place to hide in some apartment building with some of the soldiers. I think we are saf-" The announcer's sentence was cut off by some men yelling 'put your hands up' and others asking 'what are you doing?'.

'What the world is going on over there?' I think to myself. Then we hear someone talking in the background it someone is shouting at them 'to stand down' and 'to drop your weapons'. They must have refused because the person repeated it again.

"We do not take orders from you anymore! We take our orders from Alpha Primes and Supreme Alphas! Put your guns down or we will shot!" Then we heard people shouting in protest then we heard shooting and it was only static.

Mr. Jones reached over to the radio trying to fix it. "I believe we have lost signal with the station." Mr. Jones said while putting the radio back down on the table.

"What do we do now dad?" I asked my dad. I mean this just seemed so unreal. It's like we're inside of some Syfy movie. Things like this seem impossible. Seriously, who would have thought aliens would be attacking us. If you told me this would happen about three days ago I would have laughed in your face and thought you were crazy.

I heard my dad sigh and said, "I don't know. I'm just glad that they are not attacking this area." It was strange since there are people here too. Maybe they are just doing it as a way to gain control starting with more populated areas or to take down the military in our city. It's crazy how some of our soldiers were one of them this whole time. My mind raced with thoughts throughout the rest of the night.

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Later that night some commotion was heard in the distance outside we only assumed that it was the attacks in the city. Now we are all trying to get some sleep. Mr. Jones sleeps on the couch since my mom insisted that he did since he is an older man and needed more than we did. Mom and dad sleep on the old air mattress while the rest of us tried to sleep comfortably on the floor. Occasionally, I felt my sister bump into me a few times trying to get comfortable.

I sighed getting annoyed. "Rebecca. Can you stop moving? And why do you have to sleep so close to me?" I whispered turning towards Rebecca and she turned to look at me.

"Sorry, I just can't sleep with everything that has happened. How do we know if we will be killed next?" Rebecca said in a hushed tone. She's right we could easily be killed. I tried not to think about it. If I think about it I will start to panic along with my sister.

"Rebecca lets not worry about this. Let's just have some faith like Jacob said and get some sleep." I said and turn my back to her and closed my eyes. I heard her whisper okay.

Ever since Rebecca woke me up an hour ago I have done nothing, but toss and turn due to the fear of what could happen to us. I tried to think of good memories and funny moments in my life. Like the time I had miss read the E-mail for spirit week at school, for the football team, that costume day was on Monday. When I got to school it turns out that it was on Friday. It was very embarrassing. Eventually, sometime after thinking about that embarrassing moment fell asleep.

"Kat. Katherine" I woke up to someone shaking me and calling my name. It was my sister Rebecca trying to wake me up. I sat up and asked her what's wrong. She put her finger over her mouth and shushed me.

"I think someone is upstairs." She whispered. My eyes widen in shock. Who in the world will be in our house? Could it be letters or those aliens? I got up slowly and headed over to my parents to wake them up.

"Mom. Dad. Wake Up. Rebecca thinks she heard someone upstairs." I said while shaking my dad's arm. My father instantly opened his eyes and looked at me then turned to my mom shaking her awake. My father got up and went towards his shotgun he kept down in the basement.

My sister woke up my brother and my mom woke up Mr. Jones. They both had a confused look on their face and then realized what was going when they heard footsteps coming from upstairs. Everyone froze as my dad got his shotgun ready. Then we all held our breath when the doorknob jiggled.