Nemesis: Book Five: (Nemesis Series 56) by David Beers

Author:David Beers [Beers, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-14T21:00:00+00:00

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Present Day

The Founding Fathers would not recognize the United States of America; even the people who celebrated the last New Year wouldn’t recognize it. Indeed, to look at it now from almost any viewpoint, one would wonder if they might have been transported to a different planet entirely—forget country.

From the air—a satellite view—the western coast still looked similar. At night, one could see that it wasn't exactly the same though, because of the raging fires. California clearly was accustomed to riots, but never like this. Businesses and homes burned all the way down the coast, and at night, the fires burned brighter than any lights left in the city—though the electricity was slowly failing across the state.

The further you moved east, whether by foot or air, the more things changed. The white strands looked like a vast snowfall, as if an ice age had descended upon America, while leaving the rest of the world to its normal climate.

The east coast had been heavily populated, from Florida to New England, huge numbers of people lived there. No longer. The strands reached out across the United States with such speed that most had no chance to escape. The hungry alien life simply gobbled them up. Houses draped with white wires, trees consumed for every bit of heat they could give. While the now dead President and everyone associated with him hid below ground, where the strands couldn't yet reach, the world above tried to survive. It tried, and for the most part, failed.

Some did make it out. As soon as they heard about the lava pouring down upon mass sections of the country, they fled. They ran north, south, and west—any direction but east. They poured across Mexican and Canadian borders, overwhelming the security in place. People died, some shot by foreign police, some trampled on by their countrymen as they all tried to escape the deathtrap of America.

The states still remaining untouched were overcome by desperate people. As the violence moved from Texas to California, people fled in massive numbers (not to mention those able to leave the East Coast). Shanty towns sprang up in every major city, and sewage overflowed into the streets. The rich escaped, of course, flying out in private planes and helicopters, not even bothering to pack. The threat of death, of complete overthrow, was much too real. They could buy new things elsewhere.

Colorful pods popped up across the country, and at night from that same aerial view, they looked truly beautiful. Each one glowed, and given that they grew over completely conquered cities, they had no other sources of light to compete with. Humanity's lights died and Bynum's were born.

Those underground, the elite of the elite, knew this of course. They saw the same things you now do, and they prepared the best they could. Ready to bring the crippling ice against the strands possessing their country.

The rest of the world prepared too, and the attack was near, but it seemed as if everyone had missed an important point.

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