Invasion by Jay Allan

Author:Jay Allan [Allan, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

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Lucas Kiley stood on top of a pile of wreckage, looking out to the west. He was in Manhattan, pretty close to the Hudson River, looking out over the hills of New Jersey. Of course, he realized all those names, and a thousand others, were mostly things of the past. Whatever happened, even if his people somehow launched a war, and successfully drove the enemy from Earth—something that still seemed downright impossible to him—he doubted anything would be the same as it was before, and that included names.

He was staring, looking for anything, of course, but mostly for the enemy. He fully expected them to respond, to see a force approaching. He had no idea when that would happen, of course, but he had to imagine that the group his friends had assembled to face it, its size and scope, were far more than the enemy had anticipated. That was good, of course, though he realized if they actually managed to succeed, to defeat the alien force, it would just result in an even more powerful response than the one they expected now. That would either destroy their force, eliminate them entirely…or if they did manage to win again, result in another, even larger, force being sent. One after the other…until they were wiped out. He couldn’t imagine his people enduring that for long.

He liked to think of himself as one of the top people in the group, which he was of course. But he just couldn’t see any route that led to overall victory. Sometimes he managed to buy into it, to assume that Hugh knew what he was doing…which, of course, he did…he was simply too outmanned, too outgunned to prevail.

The others, the rest of the people they had assembled, more or less just plodded along, hopeless, but not really wanting to survive in the world as it was now…but not wanting to die either.

His position was the highest one around, and it offered a reasonably distant view across the river. He didn’t expect to see anything, nothing beyond maybe another group of refugees, or some surviving animals, but he looked carefully anyway, knowing that one day, probably very soon, someone would see something approaching. He just hoped that the enemy response was a ground force, and not another barrage of nuclear weapons. He agreed that the enemy had some use for surviving humans, probably something bad, but he also realized that New York, as large a city as it was, wasn’t a meaningful component of the world. Making themselves enough of a headache, worse than other areas, though of course that was just speculation on his part, carried that as a dark potential reward…a wave of nuclear devastation, one far harder and deadlier than the original.

He stayed up on the mound, looking for a bit longer, just because he found it pleasant to be outside, to be alone, even if that meant standing one hundred feet from his companions. But he knew he had to keep moving.

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