70 MILES ~ Rim of The World.

Selfish

  Gabriel grabs a telephone and places it to his hear, tapping his foot down on the ground repeatedly for something until he slams it back to its post.

  "Line's dead."
    Gabriel bluntly said and i pinched the bridge of my nose, why do they think the lights are not on?

  "That's 'cause the power's out..Eleanor?"
     Alex said and i hummed as a reply while grabbing a flare gun and placing it into ZhenZhen's bag, along with other things for the ride.
   "I'm 99.8 percent sure were both thinking the same thing right now.."
Alex stated and i clicked my tongue, winking at Alex and our eyes both lit up childishly.

"EMP!"
We both yelled.

"EM-what?!"

  "Besides Alex, do any of you know what an EMP is?"
    I say as i pull out my small notebook that fit into my pocket and grabbed my pencil out of my pocket, drawing small explosions that were similar to the ones we saw near the river.

  "Yeah, that's that music white people dance to!"
   Dariush said and i give him a glare, everyone huddled around me to see what i was doing.

  "That's EDM, an EMP is an electromagnetic pulse."
   I state again, in the corner of my little drawings placing EMP there and then directing a little arrow towards something else.I started to draw little phones, lamp posts, light switches, cars and anything that is electronically operated that was basic.

  "A nuclear explosion in the atmosphere can cause one.."
    I click my fingers and create the gun finger thing and point it to him because of his correct claim.

  "Knocks out most ELECTRONICS in massive areas."

  "Well-what does that mean?"

   "It means nothing works.Not even cars that have been advanced by tech."

I circled the whole drawing of the tech and placed a huge X through it all, indicating that nothing will work.

  "Well, you guys have a roof over your head and food.You could do alot worse than just staying here and waiting this out."
    Gabriel claims and i nod my head, agreeing with him and helping ZhenZhen place things into her bag, internally thanking her for thinking of doing it in the first place.

  "Wait out what.."

   No one had the opportunity to answer that question when we heard massive explosions from outside, and damn did they sound close.Rapidly, i placed the bag onto ZhenZhen and we all ran out of there, my legs started to ache and falter, my chest heaving up and down from all this escaping.My throat started to burn, we made a stop at the shore of a lake which got us the closest possible views of what was happening at a safe distance.

  "Those, those are F-22 raptor air superiority fighters!"
   Alex said in awe and fear.

   "What the hell are those ships their fighting?"
   Gabriel spotted and they all turned to me for an answer, i just stood their in shock and gulped.I licked my lower lip and bit it, having no senence to form as an answer to his question.

  "I've never seen anything like them..."
     Alex said as i examined them over, blasts came out from the mouths of those peculiar ships, any anytime a ship from our Military hit them, they would simply deflect off and go down in flames.Some sort of protective shield that had been painted over incase of emergencies.

   "Run!"
      Immediately, i grabbed Gabriel and Alex's hand and took off, turning around and launhing them infront of me to give them a boost and doing the same with ZhenZhen and Dariush.This made me the last person and behind them all.
   Explosions were all around us, all of us clinging onto eachother for support and so we don't lose eachother.Dust got everywhere, all of us desperately running around.