We get to the camp and nobody is there.
"Hello!" Dariush yells.
"Hello" Alex repeats.
"Where is everybody?" Dariush asks. "Yo, do you see anybody?" I see this board and call everyone over. "What's that?" Dariush asks.
The board said: GONE DOWN MOUNTAIN-STRANGLERS CALL 911
"Oh, they left us!"
"Not all of them!" Gabriel called out.
"It's Heavy Metal Conrad." We all go to him but he looks dead on the table. "He's breathing, he must've slept through the evacuation." Gabriel says.
"Okay, what kind of asshole sleeps through an evacuation?" Dariush asks. "This one I guess" I point to Conrad.
ZhenZhen notices a flask, opens it and drinks it.
"I- I don't think that... that was milk."
She hands it to me and I cringe at the smell and throw it to the side.
We all head inside and ZhenZhen starts packing her back with the essentials. While Gabriel is trying the phone and Alex is trying the light switch.
"Line's dead" says Gabriel. "It's 'cause the powers out." Alex says.
"You know what an EMP is?" Alex asks. "Yeah, yeah, that's that music white people dance to." Dariush answers. "No that EDM. EMP stands for electromagnetic pulse. A nuclear explosion in the upper atmosphere can cause one and it knocks out most electronics, over a really big area." I clarify.
Gabriel looks to me impressed. "But what does that mean?" Dariush asks. "It means nothing works." Alex says. "Not even cars?" Dariush asks but we all ignore him.
"Well, you guys have food and a roof over your head. You could do a lot worse than staying and waiting this out." Gabriel says.
"Wait, waiting what out?" Dariush asks. Then there was a loud explosion and we all run outside.
We run to the edge of the lake and see jets flying around.
"Those are F-22 Raptor air superiority fighters."Alex says. "What the hell are those ships they're fighting?" Gabriel asks.
"I've never seen anything like them." Alex says.
The jets start shooting at us and I trip on a branch but Gabriel picked me up and we get flown through the air by all the explosions. This one explosion hit right in front of us and we were all flown back and I land on my side.
It hurt like hell and it took me a moment to get my strength back. Then we look around the jets still flying all around us then ZhenZhen turns me around and we see an aircraft coming right to us.
It was coming to fast for us to react so we all get blown and I land on Gabriel and he looks at me and smirks. "Are you okay" he asks.
"Yea, yea I'm fine uh lemme help you up" I say.
"What is that?" Dariush asks. "It's a—a dragon capsule" me and alex say at the same time. "How do y'all know all this stuff?"
"There's a reason my mom sent me to an outdoor camp" Alex says. "I just do my research on weird things that interest me." I chuckle a bit.
I see Gabriel go to grab the handle and I quickly yell at him. "No no no don't touch it! It's still hot from re-entry." I go over to him and grab his hand. He keeps looking at me with aw. "Does anyone have any water?" Asks dariush.
"Good idea" Alex says. ZhenZhen hands dariush the water bottle and he drinks it. I get mad and snatch it out of his hand and pour it over the handles.
"Wait you're not seriously gonna open that thing, are you?" Dariush asks.
"There could be someone inside." I respond
"No no leave it be all right? We don't know what this shit is."
"Don't touch it" Alex's says softly.
"This is animal kingdom out here, bitches. All right, survival of the fit—." Dariush starts to say but get blown by the door opening.
We all gather around and a women pops out saying to take a key to a Dr.Fielding in Pasadena. She tells us to go and hurry and we see the black blob start to form into some weird creature thing.
"You're gonna die if we leave you." Exclaims Gabriel. "We'll all die if you don't!" The women says back. We all run back inside and Gabriel grabs my hand and runs with me.
Gabriel let's go of my hand to go get Alex that is just standing there. "IT HAS A DOOOGGG!" Alex says.
"Wait wait wait. How big was it? Was it like puppy size? Cause maybe it just wanted to cuddle." Dariush says. We hear it come inside growling and we head into the kitchen.
I was headed to where dariush was but then I felt someone pull me and I land in between Gabriel's legs. I blush a lot but quickly move and I hear dariush scream.
ZhenZhen points to the oven and we all get ready. We trapped it in the oven and hear the first alien coming our way so we head to the window.
I see ZhenZhen go with Alex into a bathroom and Gabriel tell us to go under the stairs so I just do what I say and get under. He lets me go first and it gets quiet like scary quiet.
We then hear the alien above us and dariush couldn't stop talking so Gabriel put his hand over his mouth and he had his other over my chest.
He looks at me and I smile nervously.