Natures Fury

by Michael Lodico

  The president of the United States was hearing many reports from around the world. “ Were not doing so well,” he sadly expressed to the rest of his staff in the bunker. He asked another statistician if she could calculate the world population now. Considering recent events, he was curious to know. Julie McFerty the statistician in the bunker got the results for the president in an hour. It was amazing that the computers were still working worldwide and the electricity was working also. Julie spoke up. “According to recent events Mr. President our population census says that we are two billion members today.” The presidents mouth dropped.” More than 1.5 billion people dead in the last few days, because we humans gave the order to attack our enemy now.” “ This is nuts something has to give,” the president yelled.” We have to try harder.” ‘This calls for desperate measures.”” Call out all bombing planes to be included in the attack,” the president commanded.” We’ll have to take our chances with civilians,” he said. There were many frowns around the bunker. People were confused and desperate now. The order was given. There were too many people dying to not take the chance with this order, the president thought to himself. Other world leaders agreed with this new order.

  January 3,2013 Crystal Lake Illinois 5:00 P.M.

  Mike was listening to the radio for any updates on the situation. His Dad was in the kitchen. Denny and Stephen were in the living room reading. Mike went into the living room and patched the radio transmission through the computer. They were also amazed that everything was still working in these dark hours. The order came through. They all looked concerned. “ Great, now we will either die by getting bombed or by getting eaten by animals,” Mike raved. “ Only time will tell what will happen to us,” he continued. “ There is no use worrying about it too much,” Denny added. “It will just make things worse if we think about it too much,” Stephen interjected.” We just have to keep living with all our distractions here so we can survive,”Jim added. “I know it’s hard, but we have to do it that way,” Denny commented. Mike knew he was in the best company during this crisis. They stayed in the condo for the most part. They went out to take the garbage out often. They took turns going outside. They also covered each other with their weapons that they had.Mike noticed the last time he went outside that there were many fires across the horizon .It was looking more like something from an apocalyptic scene in a movie the more he went outside. It was terrifying and he told the others. The foursome noticed more bright streaks in the sky also. They all came to the conclusion that it was more than just the animals in this crisis. They still wondered....

  January 6,2013 Beijing Nanyuan Air Force Base 9:00 A.M.

  Captain Buldinga was watching out her window of the second floor of the military base. Lynn was a woman in her mid thirties serving in the U.S. military for fifteen years. She was a tall lanky woman with brown hair and a skinny figure. This was a commercial as well as a military base. It usually was crowded but not today.The only crowd had to do with large groups of animals spread sporadically throughout the base and on the airfield. This base had a number of fighter planes as well as tanks. They also had a few bombers in larger hangars. Captain Buldinga received the orders to kill all animals a while ago. The problem she was facing was limited personnel. They had on the base 15 fighter planes and a dozen tanks. There were 20 people on the base spread throughout the base. Theses were the staff members that checked in anyway. She tried her best to get people together. They had one nuclear weapon the was lying dormant in Hangar 6 with a few bombers that were there. It was on Bomber 2 the “Widowmaker,” was it’s nickname. Captain Buldinga was aware of the nuke, but was not worried about it. They had strict orders to not use nukes and she would make sure it was not used in this crisis. There were many groups of animals on the airfield outside the base. Considering other reports in the country there were no reports of infestations in their area yet! She radioed all the other buildings across the complex and found a few volunteers for them to take flight.They also had the opportunity to board tanks in the complex.

  Private Timi Wosi was working in Hangar 6 when he heard the radio request. He figured he was the only person in Hangar 6. He never heard anyone else in the Hangar for hours while he was camped out there.He didn’t answer any radio request. He had his own agenda. He had worked on the base for six years now so he was aware of the capabilities of the base. Timi was a short man five feet tall, with black hair and a stout physique. He was a mysterious man with anger issue problems. He was getting counseling at the time when his marriage started to end. That was the reason he had a tough time with his last wife and the divorce. He was only married for four years before all the shit started happening. He didn’t have any kids and he was very individualistic. He hadn’t had counseling since three weeks ago when the crisis started forming up.His nerves were pretty frayed at this point, but he was thankful to still be alive in all this! He was aware of the animals outside. He had a few incidents with small numbers of cockroaches in the building, but he killed them all. He used flamethrowers and insecticide. He was swearing at them and the animals outside since the world started having incidents. He was in the office area of Hangar 6 looking for a screwdriver.He ended up finding one.”Bugs,they’ll have payback as soon as I get done here,”he madly exclaimed. “Stinking animals no good use for them,”he continued on his tirade. He continued working on odd things and being busy in the Hangar.

  Captain Buldinga ordered her executive officer Francis Edu to case the other buildings for any other people. While Francis was on her way other pilots and personnel were firing up the planes and tanks. They were starting to get them moving. There were five tanks and four planes total that were occupied with qualified personnel. Francis entered hangar 6 and it seemed empty.She heard some metallic clanging in the distant room. She decided to investigate. She entered one of the back rooms that held the planes.She was familiar with the “Widowmaker”plane.She decided to go to where that plane was located. She saw some bustling and sparks flying around the bottom of the plane. She got closer and saw Timi working on the plane. She thought the worst! Timi was oblivious to Francis being in the area of Hangar 6 where he was.He kept working. Francis pieced it together he was arming the nuke! He wasn’t a pilot she thought to herself.What was he trying to accomplish? She was terrified and decided to radio the captain in the transmission radio room.She got to the radio room.Timi could hear her rustling in the transmission room and he stopped working on the nuke. He grabbed a wrench and went towards the radio room. Francis started broadcasting to the captain.”Captain,this is Francis,over,”she said quietly. “Francis,” the captain replied,”Where are you?” “I’m in Hangar 6,”she added. She kept looking around her nothing to be seen. Timi was closing in on her. He started hiding around the machinery as he approached Francis. She kept broadcasting.” I think there is a madman arming the..”She didn’t finish. Timi whacked her on the head with the wrench several times.She couldn’t struggle she was out cold.”Nobody is going to stop this nuke from going off,” he yelled. “It’s my time to be a hero””I’m going to nail these animals and I don’t care about anybody else.”People suck ever since my last wife!””I’m done too and I’m going out fighting!” Francis was dead. Timi went back to the nuke and kept working.

  Captain Bulding was worried now. She didn’t hear anything at the other end of the transmission that Francis was on. She ordered one of the tanks to go to Hangar 6 for safety reasons. They were supposed to be fighting the animals not each other! She was thinking the worst. The other tanks and planes were out of the hangars and on the airfield. The animals started to approach the vehicles.The animals started to infiltrate the buildings also. The tank going towards Hangar 6 was run by Private Brab. Hangar 6 was starting to get in his sights.

  Timi was almost done.”Just a couple more wires and it’s armed. “I’m going to blow this place and the animals sky high.””They won’t know what hit them.””Stinking animals,”he kept cussing at the animals.Private Brab was just outsi
de Hangar 6 now and there were animals just outside the hangar. Captain Bulding wanted Brabs progress. He sent it with confidence that he was going to take care of it.”It’s done,” exclaimed Timi.””Now the 30 second countdown to oblivion!” Just at that second Private Brabs tank busted through the hangar and towards the plane. He was 100 feet from the plane and the nuke. Timi started moving towards the plane and in between the tank.Captain Buldinga wanted a progress report from the private but he was busy trying to save the base. Th other planes were taxied to a nearby runway. The tanks started shooting any animals on the perimeter of the base. They were very successful killing any animals around the airfield. There was fifteen-seconds on the timer now. Timi moved right by the plane and started throwing tools at the tanks. The tank kept coming closer to the plane. It was now 15 feet from the plane.”NO,”Timi yelled.He was crushed under the tank.Then the tank hit the plane.The nuke went off at the same time the tank hit it.Everybody else on the base felt a bright light and then they were incinerated.It happened in half a second and the everything in the vicinity was fried.Everything within a 50 mile radius was gone.The ground all over the country of China and the surrounding countries shook.

  January 6,2012 Russian Space Station Tvar orbiting above Asia 11:00 A.M.

  Yurky Splotivich who was a middle aged man could not believe his eyes.He thought he would never see a nuke go off from the space station. The space station was in good shape with maintenance at it’s best. The Tvar was a one man space station. Yurky transmitted the information to his government officials right away. They notified him that they heard rumors and they were now confirmed. Yurky could see all kinds of fires from his position in space above Asia. He also noticed bright flashes of lights around the space above China.The flashes were hitting the ground and going all over the atmosphere above China. It was the most amazing light show Yurky had ever seen. He was in a complete trance from the lights he saw. He just watched and wondered what they were. The lights started coming nearer. He didn’t even flinch he was still in a trance. Then the lights hit him and the space station and he was gone.

  January 6,2012 Washington D.C. Pentagon bunker 100 feet deep 1;00P.M.

  The president was in tears now from the order to beef up the attack. He opened a can of destructive worms to any living things on the planet. All the space stations were now destroyed by some odd force in the sky and they were almost helpless on the ground. There were still many people following the last orders to add bombing to the attack order.”It’s time to work on different orders,”he dreadfully exclaimed to the remaining staff in the bunker. They were completely updated on what happened in China and the president just sat down quietly in a chair and sobbed.After an hour he started moving a little and started to think to himself. What to do...

  January6,2012 Crystal Lake Illinois Mike’s Condo 3:00P.M.

  “Well, it was bound to happen some psycho asshole went nuts and fired off a nuke,”Mike yelled. “It doesn’t really surprise me how stupid people are out there,”Mike continued.”Keep concentrating on distractions group,”Jim demanded.”We will make it through,”Stephen said.”Have faith,”he kept saying throughout the time they were all together.”We shall see,”Mike exclaimed skeptically. Then he looked out the sliding glass door from the living room.He saw more flashing lights. This time there were more than they all had ever seen before. He thought something is going to happen soon.He kept staring at the lights and the chaos outside...

  January 10,2012 Lakenheath Royal Air Force Base Suffolk England 10:00 A.M.

  Captain Christy Brittany was watching as circus elephants stormed through building six in the South quadrant of the base.Christy was a middle aged woman with blonde hair. She was tall and lanky. There were many animals of all kinds outside the base trying to break into the buildings.They were all over the airfield too. Her staff, which was very small maybe twenty people in the building they were in, was scrambling. They were in building one. There were six buildings in this complex plus the airfield. The captain had heard about the nuke in China. They were thankful they didn’t have a nuke on this complex. John and Angie Catron were a married couple that were serving in the English army together.They had been married for ten years with no kids. They were career minded.Angie was a short woman but feisty. John was a big guy with brown hair. He was about six feet five inches tall with a big build. They both had tank training.They were along with Captain Brittany in building one. They were ready for battle.

  They could hear gunfire and chaos from building six. There were other animals storming building six, but the elephants were causing the most damage. The animals were leaving building six and starting towards building five. Building six was a fiery mess. There wasn’t any more gunfire or people screaming in fear. It was dead silent. They heard just the sound of the fire and any leftover explosions.The elephants,rhinos,zebras, and horses started crashing through building five. Most of the planes were in building five and four. They had two tanks in building one. Angie and John got in each tank. They started them up. They planes were getting destroyed by the animals in building five. The animals started running into them and crashed them into other machinery causing them to catch fire. People were running for their lives and a few were fighting with gunfire. The animals just ran into them also killing them in an instant. A few horses were shot and killed, but the others were just massive and fast at what they were doing.

  “We’d better do something or we are going to suffer the same fate as building six,” exclaimed the captain. “Agreed,”Angie said. Both John and Angie started the tanks towards the hangar door. The captain got on the radio and cleared to see if they could hear her on the radio. They replied,”Yes we can hear you captain.” The hangar door started to open, Angie started firing at any animal in front of her outdoors. John followed Angie out the door. They converged to building five. It took them five minutes to get to building five and six. They met many animals on the way. They were successful in killing the animals, but they couldn’t save the planes. The planes in both hangars were destroyed. There were still a few people that were firing at the animals in building five. Angie and John concentrated their firing at the animals the other people were firing at in building five. It seemed that they were accomplishing a lot compared to what they had heard from other bases around the world. They were confident and angry. They kept going. The captain could see explosions from building five. She ordered,” When you get done in building five go to building four.””There’s some activity in that building also.” I suspect the same thing is going on in there” “Roger sir,” Angie replied. John just kept firing at any animal moving. The animals didn’t have a chance against the fire power of these tanks. A couple elephants tried to move Johns tank in building five, but the tank was too powerful. It just fired at them and then ran them over.

  The captain started seeing flashes of light from the sky over the airfield. They were beams of light that were in straight lines crossing over the airfield. They didn’t affect the animals. Any people that were caught in the lights were vaporized. It was strange she thought.”Now we’re fighting lights too,” she screamed. It looked like something from the movie,”War of the Worlds.”This what was going through the captains mind.That movie totally freaked her out when she saw it when she was a kid. Now the horror was coming to life for her! She was really freaking out. She ordered the rest of the staff in building one to hide. She told Angie and John they were on their own. Angie and John busted out of building five and headed towards building four. There was gunfire and a few animals storming into the building. They started shooting and blasting animals in building four.

  The lights were getting closer to building one. People were getting vaporized all over the airfield. They were trying to run from the animals but it didn’t do them any good. They either got attacked by the animals or vaporized by the lights. The lights converged on building three and destroyed everything in it. It was people and military equipment. Most of the animals were outside now. They were attac
king people that were scrambling outside now. The lights destroyed building two and everything in it. John and Angie started firing blindly into the air at the lights. They were vaporized along with everything else.There was nothing left except building one and animals around them.Captain Brittany was running to hide under a rotor machine that was covered with tarp. The last thing she saw was a blinding light and then she was vaporized by the lights. The animals went moving on. The lights disappeared. The base was barren and there was nothing left except scraps of metal and dead human bodies from the animal attacks.

  January 11,2013 Washington D.C. Pentagon bunker 10:30 A.M.

  It was recorded that most of the military battles around the world had failed. The president was in a corner thinking to himself. The satellites around the world were receiving every message from around the world that recorded this. It didn’t look good for the world population. This is what the staff in the bunker were thinking. “This is worse than I thought,”the president said soberly.”We need new orders to people around the world.” ‘As long as the satellites are broadcasting we need to send this before it’s too late.” ‘I agree,” said his staff in unison. The order was sent. “Take refuge,hide,and survive any way you can.””It is now every human for themselves.”” Try to stay in large numbers and work together the best you can.””Hopefully we can get through this and meet up somewhere together.””Best of luck and God Bless us all.”

  The statistician said that there were about fifty-million people left on the planet from warring with the animals and the so called lights.The staff started getting supplies together in the bunker and started looking for candles in case the electricity went out. The president was back in his corner sobbing...

  Chapter 7

  New Human Orders