Evolution/Prologue

This is the prologue of The Survivors, a series to be written by Jamie141, and serves as a prequel to the events of the series, telling the story of the initial invasion. It was posted on 1st August 2016.

It is 10,685 words long with an estimated reading time of 38.86 minutes, excluding the time it takes to read other things such as the Synopsis or Trivia sections as well as the Opening Theme scene.

Synopsis
When the citizens of London come under attack from an unknown Alien force, they find themselves amidst horror as the buildings around them collapse and their celebration of peace is interrupted by a start of a new war that they might live to see become a reality, depending on the luck that has, or hasn't, been favored upon them as the majority of London's citizens are slaughtered and no chances of rescue from the military in sight.

Cast
Main Cast
 * Mike Colter as Wyatt Hayes
 * Hayden Panettiere as Lilly Bullard
 * Ben McKenzie as Anthony Reed
 * Devon Bostick as Brian Knight
 * Niall Matter as Ezra Daniels
 * IronE Singleton as Rolland Jewell
 * Michelle Rodriguez as Riley Ryder
 * David Tennant as Aloysius Durand
 * Peter Shinkoda as Kaden Harlan
 * Nathalie Emmanuel as Maricia Herbert
 * Stephen Lang as Henry Grey (Voice Only)

Recurring Cast
 * Chloe Bennet as Nancy Morales
 * Camren Bicondova as Alisha Bullard
 * Ben Miller as Vernon Bailey
 * Deon Stewardson as Dillan Sullivan
 * Drew Powell as Brad Perkins

Minor Cast
 * Daniel Newman as Spike Byron
 * Doug Jones as Unnamed Alien Lieutenant
 * Holly Marie Combs as Maria Fenix
 * Brian Krause as Dominic Fenix
 * Elias Edraki as Zackery Jenkins
 * Rachel Bilson as Jennifer Knight
 * Toby Levins as Berny Paxton
 * Jorge-Luis Pallo as Father 1
 * Moisses Arath Leyva as Young Boy 1

Prologue
Unknown Date - Unknown Time - Unknown Location "We had reached the time of peace...tranquility. For the first time in longer than anyone could remember, the world was not fighting in another pointless war or making threats with their newly made weapons. It wasn't paradise but, we managed to handle each other and had even began to develop ourselves into the future of technology by companies around the world working together..."

A heavily populated city street was shown, some kind of celebration going on as people shared laughs and partied like there was no tomorrow as balloons fell down from the rooftops and music played. It was a carnival, a carnival to celebrate the five years of no conflict and the party attendees were having the time of their lives dancing with each other, as one rather than separate. Similar parties were happening all over the world in the country capitols.

"But that all changed when they came..."

Suddenly the sky seemed to darken above the capitol city, the happy lighting darkened as groans of disappointment escaped from some of the party attendees, assuming that their celebration was about to be ruined by rain while others continued to dance and party, not bothered by the change in the atmosphere. However, those who looked up to the sky, would realize that what was appearing above them was not dark clouds full of rain.

They were ships, Alien ships that had seemingly just appeared out of thin air.

"They gave us no warnings, no offers of peace. They just...attacked."

It was only a short moment before the celebration turned into chaos as its former attendees began running in all directions, desperate to escape as they screamed, while the Alien ship from above fired down onto the city below it, easily destroying the buildings and setting the streets on fire.

"It was the attack that no one could've expected, no one could've been prepared for. The poor citizens of every major city around the world stood no chance as they were surrounded by flames. Even if our military had been prepared to fight an enemy from space, they wouldn't have been able to put up much of a fight in the attack."

Parts of the ship began to open up, like hatches of some kind, and from them dropped two unknown species which even the simplest of minds would immediately be able to tell that they were Aliens.

The first of the two to drop to the ground were humanoid creatures, the same body shape of a human but their skin dark red, claws instead of nails, teeth of a Saber tooth and eyes completely black as if they wasn't there at all. It didn't take them long after their feet had touched the ground before they raised their own weapons and fired on the crowd of people around them, gunning them down with lasers and no mercy.

The second of the two Aliens were in no way humanoid, they looked more of a type of Spider that deserved to be in the dinosaur age, being the size of a German Shepherd. However they weren't completely spider as they had two large eyes, across the sides of their face, with three smaller eyes in each eye and on top of that, rather than just two fangs, they had five along their mouth area as well as a arched claw for each of their eight legs. They didn't need weapons to attack the fleeing people, they just had to run, jump and climb around to kill their prey.

"We didn't know what they wanted with us, our planet...all we knew was that they wanted us dead, they wanted to destroy our homes. There was no reason behind it at the time. We just ran, hoping for someone, anything to protect us but no one did...we just got...slaughtered."

The crowd of running people slowly got smaller and smaller over time, some getting gunned down by the Alien soldiers while others were overrun by groups of the "Spiders" and ripped apart. Within minutes, only two people were left running down the alley ways in a desperate attempt to escape. A boy carrying a vase and his father.

Soon they reached a dead end as the Aliens closed in behind them, their only escape being a fire escape on the side of their nearby building, however the ladder that led to the first flight of stairs had been broken. The boy began to cry as he turned to face his fate, clutching the vase protectively while the father quickly picked up his son and lifted him up onto the steps just as a "Spider" jumped and latched onto his back, sending him tumbling to the ground as multiple other "Spiders" gathered around the father and began eating at him as if they had been starving for years.

"G...go" was the last words of the father as he was torn apart right in front of his son who continued to cry, pausing for a moment before he began to climb the steps, following his father's last commands. However he didn't get far as a Alien soldier fired right into his back and through his heart, killing him and throwing the vase off the side of the fire escape.

"A new war was started that day, not against each other but against an Alien species we had never seen nor heard of before. Our peace was gone, now replaced with chaos and death. A long and hard war which would decide whether our race had a future or were destined for extinction had begun."

The vase smashed to the ground, breaking into multiple shattered pieces across the cold pavement as the ash of a deceased relative rose into the air. Nothing but the sounds of explosions, screams and gunfire being heard... --- *Cue Dramatic Theme Music* *Like a mix of Halo and Game Of Thrones* *Enter scenes of the Series in the background while pictures of the main characters pop up on screen with the cast names* The first scene appearing was a completely destroyed city, all of its buildings laying in rubble as a large spaceship hovered above the city, looking menacingly, as down on the streets below, a battle was being fought between the Humans and Aliens, both sides of the fight being led by a Colonel in front, both Colonel's pointing towards their enemy as they prepared to meet for their fight.

*Starring...Mike Colter, Hayden Panettiere, Ben McKenzie...*

The next scene appearing was a group of survivors, carrying camping equipment and wielding rifles as they forced themselves to walk through a barren desert, one of them holding a holographic map and pointing in a direction while the others kept an eye out in case any enemies came for them.

*...Devon Bostick, Niall Matter...*

The third scene appearing was a group of Human survivors desperately trying to keep a bunker door closed as, from the other side, rabid humanoid looking monsters, looking very similar to Zombies, were trying to push their way in, snarling for meat.

*...IronE Singleton, Michelle Rodriguez...*

The fourth scene appearing was a group of Humvees driving through a country side, one of them with its tires off the ground due to a hill it just came off of while in front of them there was a line of Alien soldiers, a shooting squad, trying to shoot them down.

*...David Tennant, Peter Shinkoda...*

The final scene appearing was a group of Human survivors, all back to back, as they stand their ground atop a large pile of rubble while multiple "Spiders" gathered around them like a pack, slowing moving in for the kill despite the survivors firing down at them.

*...Nathalie Emmanuel and Stephen Lang...* ---  29th July 2022 - 07:00 - Royston, England Jennifer let out a soft sigh as she folded up the last shirt and placed it into the pile of clothing next to her, taking a moment to gain her breath back as she stared to the clock in her kitchen, seeing it read 07:00 exactly. It was nearly time for her to go into the city for the doctor's appointment.

"You alright Jenny? Is Brian okay?" her friend over the phone asked, taking Jennifer out of her small daydream as she grabbed the phone she had balanced on her shoulder and moved it back up to her ear.

"Yeah we're fine, he's upstairs playing...whatever game it is he's got."

"Mass Effect?"

"That's the one...i'm just...dreading the hospital visit" Jennifer admitted, beginning to place the pile of clothes into her basket as she heard her friend begin to go on a bit how the hospital visit would go fine but Jennifer didn't listen as much as her friend probably figured. She appreciated the gesture but she had already been told the same things already.

"I know, I know. It's just...not a simple going down to the doctors for a common cold" Jennifer told her friend, placing the last few clothing into the basket and pausing for a moment before she shook her head "I'm sorry Maria but I'm going to have to go, get myself ready. Tell Dom I said hello yeah?"

Jennifer heard the sound of her friend confirming just as she put the phone down, reminding herself not to dwell on it as she grabbed the basket and began to walk upstairs, the faint sounds of her son playing his game getting slightly louder as she reached the top of her stairs and gave his door a knock while she was there.

"Hey Brian, i'll be going down to the station soon otherwise i'll be late. You going to be okay?"

There was a brief pause before her son answered, Jennifer being able to hear a short speech being muttered from his game as she waited..."The hardest part of fighting a war is knowing no matter how hard you try, you can't save them all"...

"Yeah, i'll be fine. My friends will be online later to play, remember?" her son finally called back to her, Jennifer pausing a moment to figure out whom he meant before she answered back.

"The ones you write stories with?...on that website thing?"

"Yep."

Jennifer nodded, remembering that she met one of them on facebook the other day. They seemed nice and they at least made him happier. She was about to walk off but paused a moment, remembering something, and then turning around to look at his door again "...are we still watching that movie later...Independence day is it?"

"Yes and yes."

"Okay" Jennifer replied, offering a smile to her son even though the door between was closed before she walked off to her own room, placing the basket on her bed before she closed her bedroom door behind her to begin getting ready to go out.

It didn't take her long to get ready and open her door again, she wasn't ever one of those people who spent ages getting ready. All the clothes, except for her son's, placed away as she carried the basket back out of her room and headed towards the stairs again, looking down to her watch to make sure she had time to get to the station, reading it to be 07:10.

"Okay Brian, i'll be going now and i'm leaving your clothes outside your door" Jennifer called out to him again, hearing gunfire coming from his game as she placed the basket outside his door, waiting for him to open the door to her but all she got was a simple reply.

"Thanks mom. I love you"

"I love you too"

Jennifer waited for a moment outside his door as if expecting something but nothing came. Instead she just let out a soft sigh and went back down the stairs, grabbing her jacket and car keys as she walked outside and closed the front door behind her.

She hoped the news she was soon to receive would be good, she didn't expect it to be perfect but she hoped it was better than what she worried it would be. ---  29th July 2022 - 09:00 - London, England It was still early in the morning but already the city was full of decorations, nearly the entire city's inhabitants had come out to begin the party as music was booming from large speakers that had been placed on every major street.

Wyatt hadn't originally been planning to leave his bed this morning but between the noises and the rest of his squad determined to get him to attend the celebration of five years without war, Wyatt knew he had no chance of catching any more sleep than he had already.

"Damn man, look at these fucking decorations. I knew this was going to be a big celebration but damn" Rolland excitedly exclaimed, looking around as if he was a kid that had got five birthdays at once before he turned to Ezra and gave him a pat on the chest "Yo, this party is going all day right?"

"Yeah..." was Ezra's reply as he sat on the pavement, his head in his hands as he rubbed at his eyes. Wyatt figured that Ezra had gotten the same wake up treatment from Rolland and Anthony as he did. Good, he didn't want to be the only one.

"They got drinks, great fucking music..." Rolland trailed off for a bit as two beautifully eye catching woman walked past the four men, giving them waves, while Rolland caught a look at their backsides as they walked past them "and fine fucking woman, makes me wish I grew up in England when I was a kid. Damn."

"Heh, you would soon regret that wish when you learned the price you pay of living in England. Nearly always raining" Anthony mentioned in reply, giving Rolland a pat on the back as he let out a chuckle before he turned to Wyatt "Alright boss, where we going first? Drinks or something to eat?"

Wyatt was opening his mouth to give a reply but Ezra's groan interrupted his speaking.

"Please can we at least get something to drink first. Goddamn if you're gonna wake me up early, at least feed me"

With that, Wyatt turned back to look at Anthony and gave a nod which caused Anthony himself to chuckle as he turned away from his three friends and gestured.

"Alright, follow me" Anthony said before heading into the ground, Rolland following after him as he kept his eye on all the ladies around them, Wyatt pausing to help Ezra to his feet before he followed his two friends while Ezra let out a groan and followed them from the rear.

Of course with the huge amount of people that was attending the celebration, it didn't take long before Wyatt was seperated from his friends after they started pointing out all different things they should do like they were kids at a carnival. It didn't matter to Wyatt though, he simply politely excused himself through the crowd until he found himself one of food table, able to see his friends nearby.

"Alright sweety, we are finally at the fo-" a woman who had previously been speaking was interrupted just as Wyatt felt someone bump into him from behind, Wyatt himself turning around to see a blonde woman catching her balance as a younger girl, around in her teens, stood beside her looking at Wyatt before looking around at the crowd.

"Sorry I got in your way, you alright?" Wyatt asked nearly immediately, turning to face the woman completely as she got her balance back properly, dusting herself off a bit before shaking her head and looking up to Wyatt apologetically.

"No, no its my fault. I should be looking where i'm going but between so many people around and making sure my daughter here doesn't disappear with one one of her latest "boyfriends"..." the blonde woman trailed off, patting her daughter on the head who let out a huff in reply and adjusted her hair again to put in place as if it was the most annoying thing in the world.

Wyatt was about to give her a reply but as he was opening his mouth he was interrupted, again.

"And I mean I should have noticed you anyway, look at you" the blonde woman pointed out as she gently poked his arms "Big strong arms, very manly...and.." she paused as she looked back up to Wyatt and nervously smiled, removing her finger away from him "I'm Lilly."

"And i'm Wyatt. Nice to meet you and...?" Wyatt replied with a smile, offering his hand to Lilly whom shook it in return as Wyatt turned to look at Lilly's daughter, the girl rolling her eyes and looking away from the two as she responded.

"Alisha."

"Nice to meet you too Alisha" Wyatt said, offering her a smile which wasn't returned but he just shrugged it off as he turned his attention back to Lilly who was currently looking over his muscles until she noticed he was facing her again, letting out a nervous chuckle as she wrapped an arm around her annoyed daughter.

"Well, it was nice meeting you Wyatt but I'll have to rush off...they've got some old fashioned but working arcade machines, i'd like too tr-" Lilly didn't get to finish her sentence as a loud screeching noise drowned out the loud music, causing everyone to cover their ears for protection until the sound stopped, everyone looking around in confusion.

"That was weird, what the hell was..." Wyatt said, trailing off as the area around the crowd began to darken, everyone around them groaning out as they expected it was going to start raining, a common celebration ruin in England.

However as they all looked up to the sky to confirm it was rain clouds appearing, they all discovered that it wasn't what they thought it was. What it really was that was causing the sky to darken was a huge metal hovering ship of some kind appearing out of thin air above the city, some people gasping in shock and others getting out their phones to record what was going on.

"What is that?..." Lilly asked curiously as she, along with Wyatt and everyone else simply stared up to the ship that had appeared above them. Wyatt gave no notice to it as he studied it, his instincts kicking in as he noticed something that the majority of people didn't. Along the sides of the ship, objects that looked exactly like large guns were starting to appear from hatches.

"EVERYONE RUN" Wyatt screamed to the surrounding crowd, on instinct grabbing Lilly's and Alisha's hands and trying to get through the crowd towards a nearby building...just as the ship's guns began to fire down on the city, blasting the now screaming crowd apart with explosions.

Then it all went dark for Wyatt. ---  29th July 2022 - 09:05 - London, England "I can't believe we've already lost Wyatt" Anthony commented as he, Ezra and Rolland made it through the crowd and towards one of the set up food tables, Ezra quickly getting to work on eating at some of the food there.

"Don't worry man, its not like we lost him in a battlefield"

"Rolland is right. Anyway, he's right over there" Ezra commented, agreeing with Rolland as he began to bite into a cookie, casually gesturing over to where they could see Wyatt over on the other side of the food table.

"See? Everything is fine" Rolland commented as he came up behind his two friends and gave them both a patting on the shoulders "and anyway, I hear there is going to be this big dance thing going on later. We gotta find ourselves some dance partners, don't want to be left out. Huh?"

Ezra just groaned, rolling his eyes, and turned his attention back to the food before him, making sure he had a full stomach this morning while Anthony chuckled at his friends. Even this early in the morning, Rolland was still focused on getting himself a lady friend.

"Oh Rolland, I swear if we ever get a day where you don't at least go on about woman once, i'm going to be in denial that I actually woke up that morning."

Hearing a voice addressing to them, the three men turned around to see Maricia, a friend of theirs from another squad, smirking from behind Rolland, the man himself grinning as he opened his arms, quickly delivering a hug to her which she returned.

"Oh baby beautiful, where you been? We told you to stay in touch!"

Maricia let out a chuckle as she gave him a pat on the back, nodding to Anthony and Ezra before she pointed her thumb to behind her, three people gently pushing themselves through the crowd to join the foursome "I've been busy getting trained into my new squad" she said before beginning to gesture to every one of them as she said their names "Riley, Aloysius, Kaden meet Rolland, Anthony and Ezra."

The six of them all shook hands as they greeted each other and when they were done, Maricia gave a curious look over to Anthony "Where is Wyatt?"

Anthony paused for a moment to look over his shoulder, making sure Wyatt was still in the same place and looking confused as he was now talking to a stranger before he shrugged it off and pointed him out, Maricia coming to stand beside him to look, also gaining a curious look on her face when she saw the blonde woman.

"Who is he talking too?"

"No idea."

"Woah, woah, hold a minute" Rolland said as he came to stand beside the two, looking over to the other side of the table to indeed see that Wyatt was talking to a woman, a rather cute looking one at that "why has he got himself a girl already? Rolland's the one with all the good looks!"

"Now that's just assuming. She could've just accidentally walked into him" Maricia with a playful roll of her eyes as she reached to the food table to grab some food for herself while Rolland just shook his head.

"Big guy like he is? Nah. You'd have to be blind to walk into him."

"Well then I guess we'll just have to wait and see who she is if Wyatt brings her over here" Anthony said, finally speaking him up as he patted both Maricia and Rolland on the back.

Meanwhile Aloysius grinned from behind them all as he decided to stir the pot up a bit "Who knows, maybe your man over there has had a secret lady friend for a while. This is just their first time in public together"

It was at this moment Aloysius discovered it didn't get much to get Rolland excited.

"You think so? Damn. He's good at keeping secrets if that is the case."

"You're man Wyatt got a kid?" Riley said, finally speaking up herself, as her observant eyes noticed a teenager behind the two adults, looking incredibly bored.

"Unless if he's REALLY good at keeping secrets. Nah." Ezra told her, finally finishing up on his eating as he took a sip from one of the bottles left for attendees at the table.

"Then I guess the kid must be related to whoever the woman is."

"Hold up! My man Wyatt got himself a baby momma?" Rolland asked, trying to move himself around a bit to see the teenager himself while he excitedly gave Anthony a pat on the chest "Dude my man got himself a baby momma. He's learning the skills of Rolland here."

"Uh-huh. Skills" Maricia replied with a smirk, keeping her attention on Wyatt and his new friend as he heard Aloysius and Rolland beginning to talk further about who she might be, Maricia unable to stop herself from rolling her eyes at Aloysius winding Rolland up with "theories".

However just as Maricia was turning her head to playfully tell her superior off, a extremely loud screeching noise filled the surrounding area, everyone including the group covering their ears to drown out at least a small part of the sound that was threatening to shatter their ears.

"What the fuck is that?!" Ezra yelled at the top of his lungs, nearly falling down to the ground and being sick as he could barely even hear himself over the deafening sound. Thankfully the sound didn't last too long as the group of them first looked to each other before looking around them. They were all having the same process of thinking right now.

What was happening?

"Uhhh, why the fuck is the sky becoming black and metal?" Rolland asked out, causing them all to look up to the sky above them while Riley tilted her head in confusion.

"I doubt that's the sky"

"Yeah, no shit Sherlock" Ezra replied, sounding more snappy than he meant to as he squinted to try and look at the details of the metal object that was appearing above them. It didn't take a rocket scientist to guess it was a ship of some kind and it also didn't take long for Ezra to be guessing what type of ship it was...and he didn't like the guess he was making.

"What should we d-" Anthony began to ask before they all heard someone, sounding like Wyatt, yelling from the crowd and telling them all to run and when both squads looked back up to the ship, they saw exactly why they should run. Guns.

Of course the seven of them didn't get a chance to react before the ship above fired its first shot, the missile going straight down into a large crowd of people, killing them instantly in a large explosion as the rest of the surrounding crowd went into complete chaos, screaming and pushing at each other in an effort to escape the streets as more missiles were fired down at them all.

Thankfully the seven of them weren't anywhere near the first few missiles fired and had their chance to run, the group doing their best to guide as many people to safety as they can while also making sure they didn't get themselves killed as Anthony ran through the crowd towards his friend Wyatt.

Nearly reaching his friend as Wyatt himself tried to lead the blonde woman and her teenager to safety. However just as Anthony was about to reach him, another missile struck the ground, this time near them and the nearby building causing a large explosion which sent all four of them flying, each of them getting knocked out from the hard hit to the ground they received. ---  29th July 2022 - 09:07 - Royston, England It had been about two hours since his mother had left to go to the hospital and Brian couldn't even lie to himself. He was getting worried, very worried. Brian wasn't usually the type of person to let things worry him, rather just take it with a happy attitude. However this was different, this could change his entire life depending on what the news he got today was.

He just wished something would happen to him that would take it off his mind, even if it only took it off his mind for a little while.

Sighing as his thinking process kept rocking his brain, Brian paused his game, leaving his female Shepard staring at her pet hamster in her cabin, as he placed the controller down and got up from his sofa before he exited from his room in order to head downstairs, nearly tripping up on the basket of his clothes that he had forgotten earlier.

"Its nothing to worry about Brian, even if the news is bad, doesn't mean its not going to be okay" Brian told himself, beginning to speak out loud in an effort to convince his mind to get off the subject as he walked down the stairs "there is always a light at the end of even the darkest of tunnels."

Sighing to himself, Brian walked into the kitchen and opened one of the cupboards, getting out his Star Wars BB8 mug and turning on the kettle to begin doing himself some tea, looking up to the clock as he waited for the kettle to ready itself.

09:10

Suddenly the phone rang and Brian quickly went to pick it up, placing it to his ear as he continued to the process of making himself some tea, thankful for being able to remember how to make one off the top of his head unlike his mother who he needed to remind every time so she could make herself one.

"Hello?"

"Hey, is that you Brian? When I was on the phone with your mother earlier, I completely forgot to mention that me and my husband are planning to come over tomorrow. Do you think that would be okay with the pair of you?"

"Yes Maria, that would be perfectly fine. We'd both be extremely happy to see you" Brian said with a smile, his smile soon disappearing when he accidentally burnt himself from the hot tea, resting the urge to curse, before he turned off the kettle and wiped up some of the split tea.

"That's great. I've been missing the four of us getting together, have a movie night or something?" Maria suggested from the other side of the phone as Brian put the kitchen roll into the bin before grabbing his mug and taking a sip, smiling at the idea of the four friends spending the entire night watching movies.

"That would be ama-"

"Hey, are you watching the news?" Maria asked suddenly, interrupting him, as a worried expression seemed to be in her voice which made Brian confused as he narrowed his eyebrows in confusion. He decided not to answer her at first, instead carrying his mug into the living room and placing it down on the table before he grabbed the controller and turned the TV on, flicking through the channels until it landed on the news, currently live.

"We have no idea what is going on but above us right now there seems to be an unknown ship. It has yet to do anything.." the woman news reporter was frantically saying as she pushed herself through the crowd, followed by her cameraman whom was moving the camera's view between the reporter and the ship that had appeared above the city.

"What the fuck?" Brian asked out loud, forgetting for a moment that he was on the phone with Maria but she didn't give any sign of offense on her end as she was completely silent, presumably staring at her TV screen shocked just like Brian was to his own.

"Oh hold on, it seems to be doing something" the news reporter, Brian getting a brief look at her name tag and seeing it read Nancy Morales, but he didn't get to read it for long before the camera suddenly shook, a loud explosion being heard through the TV along with a gasp from Maria over the phone just before everyone around the camera began to scream, followed by multiple explosions as Nancy and her cameraman began to desperately run away.

"Isn't this in London?"

The only answer Brian received from Maria was silence as they both watched the TV, watched as Nancy and the cameraman ran as fast as they could along with everyone else before a explosion suddenly struck near them, sending them both flying and causing the news feed to be cut when the camera must've smacked to the ground.

After a moment of silence, it was Brian who spoke up first.

"Can you drive me to London?"

"Are you crazy?!"

"I need to find my mother." Brian persisted, gritting his teeth together as he carried the phone with him throughout the house as he quickly put on his running shoes before walking up the stairs to grab some clothes from the basket, spending a few moments doing this as he waited for Maria's reply until she finally gave it.

"We're heading over to pick you up now."

"Thank you." ---  29th July 2022 - 10:00 - London, England There was no more explosions. No more missiles being sent down. Instead the city of London was dead silent as if the chaos that had begun nearly an hour ago never happened.

However, if they were to open your eyes, anyone could clearly see the remains of what had happened. All celebration decorations had been left scattered and broken all over the street, rubble from the buildings as well as some collapsed buildings taking up the majority of the street.

It looked as if a huge bomb had exploded and destroyed the entire city, turning it all into rubble.

And if all the rubble and celebration decorations being scatted across the streets wasn't a give away to the chaos that had happened, the large ship still hovered above the city while on the streets there were two different Alien species moving around in packs, looking like they were hunting any of their prey that may or may not still be alive.

The first of the two species were humanoid creatures, the same body shape of a human but their skin dark red, claws instead of nails, teeth of a Saber tooth and eyes completely black as if they wasn't there at all.

The second of the two Aliens were in no way humanoid, they looked more of a type of Spider that deserved to be in the dinosaur age, being the size of a German Shepherd. However they weren't completely Spider as they had two large eyes, across the sides of their face, with three smaller eyes in each eye and on top of that, rather than only two fangs, they had five along their mouth area as well as a arched claw for each of their eight legs.

"And you say they are just looking around? Nothing else?" Vernon Bailey asked his soldier whom was currently look through a sniper rifle while the rest of his squad remained on the other side of the rooftop of the partly collapsed building they had situated themselves in.

"Yes Colonel" Brad Perkins replied from beside his superior officer, moving his eye from the scope for a moment to look over to his Colonel, seeing the man focused down on the Aliens beneath them. Brad figured all of them were probably thinking the same thing. Aliens exist and they just fucked us.

"They're likely searching for survivors. Fuckers. Any news from the military base, Sullivan?" Bailey asked, turning away from the squad for a moment to look back at Dillan Sullivan whom shook his head which caused Bailey to sigh as he turned his attention back to the squad.

The last they had heard from the base, it was under attack by the same Alien forces that London was.

"Hold up, someone new is joining them down there." Brad suddenly said as he had resumed looking through the scope of his sniper, Bailey watching both the streets below and Brad interested as he awaited to hear the news, quickly figuring it wasn't good when Brad let out a sigh.

"They're dragging a poor woman out onto the streets" Brad admitted, a sad look on his face as he turned to face away from the sight. It wasn't what was about to happen that was getting to Brad, it was the fact they all had clear orders to not run in blind, even if it meant the death of a civilian.

"Let me see."

Brad followed his command and handed the sniper over to his Colonel who quickly got it into position before he adjusted his positioning to look down the scope. After a moment of moving the sniper around to look, Bailey finally came to be looking down at the position of the Alien squad as they watched a poor woman being dragged out into the street by two soldiers as she screamed, a group of "Spiders" gathering around her as well.

Bailey was about to remind his squad that they had to follow their orders but as he opened his mouth to speak, something caught his attention, movement out of the corner of the scope, and when he turned the rifle to properly look, he saw something interesting. Another Alien but one who was dressed up slightly differently to the others while the other Aliens themselves seemed to back away from it slightly as it approached the woman as she continued to scream.

"There seems to be some kind of Alien officer..."

"Please...PLEASE, I don't know who or what you are and want but please, I have a son and he really needs me right now..I BEG YOU, please let me live" the woman said, crying as she looked up in horror to the Alien officer as it came to stand in front of her, giving her no time to say anything else as he grabbed a futuristic looking revolver at his side and pointed it towards the woman, shooting her through the head with a laser and without mercy.

Bailey didn't flinch as he saw the woman's now lifeless body collapse from a kneeling position to the ground, he didn't even flinch when he watched the "Spiders" move in and quickly begin devouring the body, ripping the body to shreds. He was trained not to flinch away from death. However even he couldn't deny, it made him angry.

"Sir?" Bailey heard from his side, turning to see Dillan who gave him a look to tell him that there was news on the military base which caused a bit of relief to go through Bailey as he answered the radio that was handed to him.

"Hello?"

"This is General Henry Grey, currently the highest ranking military officer confirmed alive, is this Colonel Vernon Bailey?"

"Yes Sir."

"Well congratulations Colonel, you are now my second in command and until a higher chain of command is confirmed, second in command of England's defense."

Impressing the rest of his squad, Bailey didn't even hesitate to process this information before he replied to the General.

"Our first orders Sir? We're in London."

"London? How's it looking?"

"Bad" was all Bailey could really tell his superior as he looked back and forth between the street and the ship above them.

"Alright, well sit tight. The attack on our base has stopped for now so i'm going to send some reinforcements over. I can only spare a few but it should be enough to give a counterattack. If you can, send out a scouting party to check the surrounding area. General, out."

There was a moment of silence between the squad again as Bailey handed the radio back to Dillan, looking down at the street for a moment before he turned around to point at one of his soldiers "Paxton, take another person and go scout the surrounding streets. Avoid all contact with hostiles forces and try and find out how many forces these fuckers have."

"Yes Sir!" Berny Paxton replied as he patted the shoulder of his friend beside him, Spike Byron, picking him to be his friend in the scouting, before the two of them gave their Colonel a salute and left the rooftop by going down the stairs, leaving the rest of the squad in silence as they returned to doing what they had been previously doing while Bailey took a moment to look up to the ship and sigh.

Today was going to be a long day. ---  29th July 2022 - 10:00 - London, England "We can just leave them out there" Ezra whispered as he, along with Riley and Aloysius were peeking through the barely intact windows of a collapsed building, looking out into the streets where their friends Wyatt and Anthony laid unconscious, along with the unknown woman and her child.

"We can't? Do you see how many of those motherfuckers are out there?" Riley retorted, turning to glare at Ezra "We don't even know if they're properly alive. Sure they are breathing but they could be badly damaged" she continued, Ezra turning around to glare at her but as he opened his mouth to retort, Aloysius interrupted.

"Quiet the both of you" he told them, refraining himself from snapping too loudly as he glared at the pair before turning around further to look at the rest of their group as they hid out of sight on the other side of the collapsed room "We can see they are breathing but we don't know their condition and we also have to consider that they could be waking up soon."

"Just another reason to leave them"

"We are NOT leaving them" Ezra said, barely containing himself from shouting as he glared right at Riley whom took a defensive stance and looked between Ezra and the rest of their squad as she sighed.

"Look, I know they are your friends but there could be God knows how many of those fucking "Spiders" just waiting to pounce out in a trap. None of you ever been in an ambush before? This is EXACTLY the best tactic."

"Enough!" Aloysius ordered, raising his voice louder than he meant to which caused them all to look around, making sure none of the Aliens were coming out of wherever they are to get them before they returned to their group meeting, Aloysius letting out a sigh before he continued.

"We ARE getting them, whether they are in bad condition or not" Aloysius stated, earning another sigh out of Riley but the woman didn't say anything and allowed Aloysius to continue as he looked to each and every one of them "What we need is volunteers to go out into the street and distract any Aliens that MAY been hiding away in the buildings."

"I volunteer" Ezra, Rolland and Maricia said at once but Aloysius shook his head and pointed to Ezra and Rolland.

"Not you too. I need the pair of you to help drag our friends into safety."

"I'll go. Alone" Kaden said, finally speaking up to the rest of the group as he looked to each of them "I'm a quick runner and if I go alone, I don't need to worry about making sure the person behind me is doing okay."

The rest of them considered it for a moment before nodding in agreement, Kaden offering them all a smile before he moved himself towards the exit of the building, getting himself ready while the rest of them gathered together close, Aloysius considering the plan over for a moment before he addressed it to them.

"Alright, if we're to get all four of them, we NEED to work together. Understand?" Aloysius said, each of them all nodding before he gave a smile, glad there were no more arguments on them doing this "Good, we can't be too long so we can't just drag them over. Maricia and Riley, you get the kid. I'll get the woman and then Ezra and Rolland, you will go out there and begin dragging the guys over so when we've got the two girls over to safety, we don't have to cross as big distance to get them...everyone okay with this?"

Just as they were all nodding to each other, Kaden let out a curse as he retreated further back into their collapsed building again, silently telling the rest of the squad to get back into their hiding places just as one of the Alien squads were passing by them, being made out of a group of "Spiders" and some Alien soldiers.

The Alien squad then came to a stop, right in front of the collapsed building which made the group think they had been found out but as they got ready to run, they saw Aloysius raise his hand, signalling them to stop as he could see another Alien approaching the squad, one that looked different from the rest, like some kind of officer.

"Have you found any other survivors?" the Alien officer suddenly said, shocking the group as they all looked at each other and then back at the Aliens.

They spoke English?

"No Lieutenant sir" another one of the Aliens replied, all of the squad and even the "Spiders" slightly bowing before the Lieutenant whom simply waved his hand at the squad as he gave them their new orders.

"Then report back to the ship and report that we are ready to depart from this city" the Alien Lieutenant told the soldier before he walked away, heading to another street as the rest of the Aliens nodded to each other and walked in the opposite direction, heading closer to the Alien ship that was hovering above them as the group watched them.

"These motherfuckers speak English?" Rolland asked as he along with the rest of the squad lined up at the edge of the building, watching as the Alien squad approached the very edges of the ship above them, the group becoming shocked when they all suddenly disappeared, the group guessing they had been teleported up into the ship above.

"Who the fuck are these people?" Maricia asked, looking to her friends for any answers despite knowing none of them had any. They were all in the same boat on knowledge of these Aliens.

"Forget that for now, look" Kaden said, gaining all of their attention as he pointed to out on the street where their two friends, the unknown woman and the kid were laying. At first the rest of them didn't realize what was so urgent, until they saw that the unknown woman was starting to wake up.

"Ah shit" Rolland said, looking to the rest of them at what they were going to do but before Aloysius could give the orders, Kaden was already running out of the building and towards the woman as she woke up, looking around shocked before nearly shouting as she saw her daughter laying on the ground, unconscious, only being stopped by Kaden sliding to her side and covering her mouth with his hand.

"Shhh, she's okay, she's breathing but you cannot shout" Kaden told her, turning the alarmed the woman's face to look at his as he talked to her "Don't ask questions, just know that it will be VERY bad for you to shout right now, okay?" Kaden asked her, earning a silent nod from the woman while the rest of the group were starting to come over, Kaden signalling for them to grab Wyatt and Anthony as he let go of the woman's mouth.

"What's your name?" Kaden asked her, in order to calm her, as he helped her up before he crouched down, wrapping his arms around the teenager and lifting her up, thankful she had a strong pulse, while the rest of his group were working together to grab Wyatt and Anthony, the group beginning to carry their friends back over to the collapsed building.

"I'm Lilly and that's my daughter, Alisha."

"Okay, both good names. Now follow me" Kaden told her, giving her a look over for a moment to make sure she would be okay to at least walk before he began jogging back towards the building, making sure Alisha's head was supported while Lilly managed to just barely keep up with him.

"Can I ask what happened?"

"Aliens."

Lilly had to stop herself from tripping up in shock, falling back behind Kaden for a moment which made him turn his head to make sure she was okay but once he realized it was just the shock, he kept jogging to the collapsed building, thankfully making it inside with the rest without any trouble while Lilly herself walked in and nearly collapsed against the wall, looking up to Kaden in shock "Aliens?"

Kaden gave her a nod, pausing for a moment before he reached to pat her on the shoulder before crouching down beside the unconscious Alisha, beginning to check her more thoroughly for wounds now while Lilly could see the rest of the group doing the same for Wyatt and Anthony, fortunately it didn't seem like any of the four of them had too bad injuries.

After a few moments of silence in the group, Lilly finally looked back up from her unconscious daughter to look at Kaden as she asked a question that she knew he probably didn't have an answer to, like the rest of them probably didn't.

"What do we do now?"

As she thought, he had no answer and instead he just remained silent. ---  29th July 2022 - 10:00 - London, England Finally, Brian let out the breath he had been holding for a little while, feeling Maria and Dominic behind them letting out similar breaths as the Alien squad finally passed by, fortunately having not found them.

"We shouldn't be here, its too dangerous and Jennifer wouldn't want us getting ourselves killed" Dominic spoke out, whispering just in case any more of the Aliens were around their surrounding area, Brian letting out a little sigh as he reached up to move some of his hair from his face, looking around the streets to see if he could see anymore Aliens.

"I didn't ask you to come into the city with me. I just asked for you to give me a ride" Brian told them, knowing he should've been much nicer to them at this current moment, knowing they were just scared, but right know he just wanted to find his mother and know she was safe.

"We can't just let you do this alone Brian, you're just a teenager" Maria protested, looking between Brian and her husband, a bit taken back by Brian's attitude at the pair of them before she shrugged it off and reached to rub his shoulder, about to convince him to leave the city and wait until the military come for them.

That was before he interrupted her.

"I'm twenty" he told them bluntly before he finally decided that it was safe enough to move forward and left the alley way corner, crouching down as he moved across the street in an attempt to get to the other side, leaving them to watch him go with shocked expressions on their faces.

"Shit Nancy, we gotta go!" Brian heard someone yell from the collapsed building he was currently heading to, stopping dead in his tracks as he watched the news reporter he saw on TV earlier, as well as her cameraman, running from the building and in his direction "Kid, KID, we gotta go!" yelled the camerman as he tried to keep up behind Nancy who was easily running ahead of him.

"Is it the Aliens?" Brian asked them both, holding his arms out to stop the pair of them from running past him, however as Nancy was opening her mouth to reply to him, Brian caught a brief look at a few of the "Spiders" starting to come for them so he quickly grabbed them and pulled them behind some debris from a collapsed building, just as the "Spiders" that had been chasing the pair came out of the building.

"They just came out of nowhere and started attacking" Nancy whispered to Brian who nodded, having seen her news report, but remained silent as the three of them remained in hiding as the pack of "Spiders" seemed to stop and start searching the area, Brian turning his head slightly to see Maria and Dominic looking scared from the alley way he had come out of.

"This is great...this is great man" the camerman started saying to himself, Brian turning his head to look at the man, seeing a name tag on his shirt that read "Zackery Jenkins" while Nancy looked confused at Zackery as he continued to panic, reaching to touch his shoulder, about to tell him to be silent before he spoke again "What we gonna do now? WHAT WE GONNA DO?."

"Jenkins, you need to be qu-" Nancy started to say but it was too late.

"ITS FUCKING GAME OVER MAN, ITS GAME OVER!" Zackery screamed, alerting the "Spiders" to his presence as he abandoned the hiding spot and tried to run, Brian having to restrain Nancy from following him and getting herself killed as well.

Unfortunately Brian didn't realize until it was too late that Zackery was running straight for a startled, and now panicking, Maria and Dominic which caused the couple to scream as Brian and Nancy were forced to watch as the pair and Zackery tried to run down the alley to escape the "Spiders", only to get surrounded by a second group of the "Spiders" and quickly get torn apart, their screams echoing throughout the street while both Brian and Nancy didn't know how to react.

A few moments passed as the two of them watched the "Spiders" easily tear away at their three victims as if they were made out of paper until finally Brian got himself up into a crouching position and tapped Nancy's shoulder, causing her to look at him as he pointed to the collapsed building she and Zackery had come from "We need to go" he told her before beginning to move himself, Nancy pausing for a moment, still registering what had happened in her head, before she got up to quietly follow him.

"Holy shit dude...those..those eight legged freaks just tore them apart" Nancy muttered, more to herself rather than Brian who just remained silent as he went room by room through the collapsed building, making sure that it was clear for them to move forward every time "like...what the fuck are we even supposed to do?" Nancy asked, tilting her head at Brian who sighed and paused to turn around and look at her.

"First we find somewhere you can hide."

"Only me? But what about you?"

"I have someone I need to find" Brian told her and that was the end of the discussion as he continued moving, exiting from the building now and spotting a, mostly intact, gas station nearby, causing him to go quicker as he moved over to it, followed closely behind by Nancy.

"Who you looking for?" Nancy asked curiously, watching Brian as he gave her no answer and instead looked through the see through garage door, seeing nothing but just a vehicle that she could hide in. However, when Brian tried to open it, he discovered it to be locked shut which nearly caused him to curse if it wasn't an unknown voice calling out to them.

"Hey, in here" the male voice said to them, Brian and Nancy nearly jumping out of their skin as they turned to see a soldier poking his head out the door, gesturing for them to come over to him "The name is Spike Byron, you can trust me" he told them as they approached, Spike opening the door for the pair so they could come in before he closed it behind them.

"Thank God I found you two. I was beginning to think there was no other Humans left after the rest of my squad haven't been answering the radio and well.." he paused to gesture down to a corpse on the ground, a fallen friend. Spike didn't need to finish for Nancy to give him a pat on the back while Brian moved further into the garage until he stopped dead in his tracks when he saw a door on the opposite side of the room open.

"I'm sorry that I have to do this, I truly am." a voice that barely sounded Human entered the room, causing Brian to turn and see a large figure in the shadows, the figure soon stepping forward to reveal himself as an Alien, looking differently dressed to the other Aliens that Brian had seen.

Brian didn't get his chance to respond to the Alien as it quickly grabbed a futuristic looking revolver at its side and pointed it towards Brian.

The sound of a laser being fired filling the surrounding area. ---  29th July 2022 - 10:08 - London, England Brian admittedly didn't have quick enough reflexes. Instead he just saw his life flash before his eyes as that laser went straight for him. However, he didn't feel the impact, instead he heard Nancy screaming for him to move before she pushed him out of the way, the two of them collapsing to the floor as the laser hit the wall that had been behind Brian, leaving a hole in it that could've been left in Brian's chest.

"You motherfuckers are gonna pay" Spike yelled from the other side of the room, having quickly grabbed his rifle and began shooting towards the Alien Lieutenant whom managed to dodge the bullets fired in its direction before shooting back with its futuristic revolver, Spike barely dodging the shots returned to him.

"You okay?" Nancy asked from atop of Brian as Brian himself groaned, a heavy headache on his head now but he was thankful to be alive and gave her a nod, looking over to the other side of the room shocked and watching as Spike held his own against the Alien before he moved himself from underneath Nancy in order to look around for anything he could use against the Alien.

"Do not make this difficult. Humans must perish, do not fight" the Alien said with a slight bit of anger as it fired another shot from its futuristic revolver, barely missing Spike's head who ducked his head back down just in time.

"Yeah, I'd rather just kick your ass instead" Brian replied, suddenly coming up behind the Alien, who barely had enough time to turn around and look to Brian just before it was smacked across the face with a crowbar, Brian then kicking the Alien into a shelf, sending all the objects along it scattering as the futuristic gun was dropped to the floor.

"There is NO NEED FOR THIS. Your extinction is inevitable, my species will rise from your ashes" the Alien shouted, angry now as it easily got itself back up from the shelf and moved quicker than Brian expected, grabbing Brian by the throat and lifting up from the ground, slamming him against the wall as the Alien brought its face close to his.

"I, along with the other Lieutenants, have called for our ships to leave the major cities and give you time to recover, to allow you to make up for the short amount of time you have left before my species destroys yours. Be grateful" the Alien told Brian as it tightened its grip around Brian's throat, beginning to choke the Human it had in its grip.

That was until the sound of the Alien's futuristic revolver was heard and the Alien himself went still, a hole appearing in its chest as its grip on Brian loosened, allowing him to drop to the ground and gasp for air, as the Alien's body slumped down to the ground, cold and dying.

"You okay?" Nancy asked Brian causing Brian to look up and see Nancy standing there, shaking as she slowly lowered the futuristic revolver, Brian giving her a nod as the two of them, along with Spike, came to stand around the dying Alien as it stared up to the three of them.

"You are all fools. My species may be retreating today but we will be back and we will kill...you...all.." the Alien said through gurgled speaking, blood spilling from its mouth and wound before its eyes finally closed and its head slumped down, dead as the three Humans stared down at the Alien corpse, shocked that they had actually killed it.

Suddenly the radio that Spike had attached to his leg sparked to life and the voice of his Colonel came through from the other end.

"Byron? You there?"

"Yes Sir"

"Paxton with you?"

"No Sir"

A sigh came from the Colonel from his end, a pause of silence filling the room before the Colonel continued speaking.

"The General's reinforcements have arrived, we're about to launch a first attack to take the city back."

"They can't do that, this thing just said the Aliens were retreating, if they attack, the Aliens are going to call off their retreat and go back on attack" Nancy said, interrupting Spike from responding to his superior as the three of them shared a look together before Spike sighed and answered his superior.

"Colonel, Sir. We've received information that the Aliens are retreating to bring back more forces later. If we attack now, they will call of the retreat."

"Can you confirm that Byron?"

Truth be told, Spike couldn't, were they really supposed to trust an Alien? However as he looked to the faces of Brian and Nancy, he could tell that if he said no and it turned out the Aliens were retreating, he would've screwed over Humanity.

"Yes Sir."

"Hold on for further orders." the Colonel told him and then silence came from the radio as the three of them presumed that the Colonel was trying to contact the General again to see what he said. The moments of silence between the three of them as they waited for the Colonel's response seemed to last longer than they were, the fate of Humanity rested on this choice.

Finally the Colonel replied.

"Belay that order, soldier. General is giving the order to hold back and wait to see what happens. If the Aliens do retreat, we are to regroup and recover. Colonel out."

The three of them let out a sigh of relief as Spike put the radio back to his side, about to say something to his two new friends before a loud rumbling began to be heard, the building shaking and causing the three of them to run back outside to see what was happening, just in time to watch as the ship that had been hovering above the city slowly move upwards and away from the city before it flew away into the sky. Slowly disappearing out of sight.

"Well, guess they were retreating after all" Nancy commented, leaning on Brian for support as Brian himself let out a sigh of relief, thankful for the Aliens having actually left.

However as he heard Spike and Nancy beginning to laugh and high five each other, a thought finally came back into Brian's mind. He still hadn't found his mother and now he had a bad feeling in his gut telling him he wouldn't.

While Spike walked off to answer his Colonel who had called for him through the radio, Nancy turned to look at Brian, about to try and give him a high five before she noticed the sad look on his face, pausing for a moment before she instead reached down and took a hold of his hand, squeezing it comfortably as they both looked up to the sky. ---  29th July 2022 - 10:08 - London, England He hadn't been aware of what happened. One minute he was running as he held onto both Lilly and Alisha and then the next minute he was flying through the air for a short moment before everything went dark.

Wyatt figured he had fallen unconscious.

"Well, well, look who's coming back to us" Wyatt heard Anthony saying, Wyatt himself finally opening his eyes and blinking a couple of times as he could see Anthony, Ezra and Rolland standing above him, looking down at him with soft grins "Welcome back boss" Anthony told him.

"What the fuck happened?" Wyatt groaned, sitting up as much as his body allowed him to as he moved his head around slowly, able to see his friends were alright, noticing Maricia was among them along with people he hadn't met before while at the corner he could see Lilly and Alisha holding each other, Lilly sending a awkward smile towards him which he returned.

"Aliens" Ezra told Wyatt bluntly as he and Anthony went to Wyatt's side and helped him move to be leaning up in a sitting position against a nearby collapsed wall, Wyatt blinking a few more times before he looked around to properly take in all the damage that was around them as Ezra continued the story "in short, they attacked the city and killed fuck knows how many people."

"Yeah man, we've been watching them for the past few now and they seem to all be going back into that ship" Rolland said, interrupting his friend, as he pointed up to the big ship above them "its like they're retre-"

Rolland didn't get to finish his sentence as what was left of the building they were in began to shake along with all the collapsed buildings around them, the group looking around with confused expressions on their faces until finally Alisha spoke up and brought everyone's attention to the ship above them.

"Holy shit, its moving!"

Lilly would have reminded her daughter not to swear but decided now was not the time for it due to the moving ship above them, Lilly noticing Wyatt getting himself up out of the corner of her eye as the whole group of them came to stand in the middle of the collapsed room, looking up to the sky to watch as the ship slowly moved upwards and away from the city before it flew off, disappearing into the sky.

There was a short pause of silence in the group as they just stared up to the sky, completely confused until Ezra finally broke their silence with his normal attitude.

"Okay I must be dreaming. Someone pinch me."

Riley decided to punch him on the arm instead causing him to yelp out as he grabbed his arm and gave her a glare which she returned with a nice smile.

"You think they're gonna be back?" Maricia asked out loud, the rest of them considering it over for a moment before Wyatt gave a nod and let out a sigh, dropping his head to look back down at the ground.

"Whoever these Aliens are. They started something today. They started a war and they'll be back...and we'll need to be ready."

With those words of wisdom from Wyatt, the rest of the group looked to each other before they returned to look up at the sky. He was right. It wasn't a matter of if they returned.

It was a matter of WHEN they returned...

*Cue Dramatic Theme Music* *Like a mix of Halo and Game Of Thrones* *Cue Credits*

Trivia

 * The prologue is dedicated to Fitz because he was such a excited fan over it. <3
 * The prologue was intended to be released on Fitz's birthday but the author failed to finish it in time.
 * The "main image" to represent the prologue would be Wyatt and his friends, after Wyatt had finally woken up, standing and watching as the Alien ship departed from London.
 * The tactics of how the Aliens initially invaded Earth is inspired by the film, Independence Day, which was mentioned in one of the scenes due to the inspiration took from it.
 * In an "extended cut", it is confirmed that the ashes that escaped from the broken vase in the opening scene were the young boy's deceased mother.
 * It is confirmed by the author that the unnamed woman who was killed by the unnamed Alien Lieutenant was Brian's mother, Jennifer.
 * In the scene where Brian, Nancy and Spike team up to fight the Alien Lieutenant, it is supposed to serve as symbolization of how, despite the odds, Humanity can overcome anything by working together, a symbolization for the series as a whole.
 * In the scenes where the Human survivors were watching the Alien ship leave, the author was admittedly tempted for the ship to just shoot a nuke down and destroy the city for a LOL plot twist... don't judge him.