The Galactic Invasion

[Marvelous Miscreant]

In the days folowing the Darmanite invasion, many strange things began to happen. Many became affected by the radiation from the Darmanite's machines. A few of these people gained superpowers.

This is thier story....


(Remember, You start by gaining your powers)

[Zaleramancer]

I'm sure that people will talk about what they were doing when it happened.

Some were home with their families when it happened. Others were drudging along with their jobs or rushing away from the same.

I, personally, was camping.

Which most would say was odd for me. I'm not exactly the outdoorsy type. But, a few days before it happened, I had decided I needed a break from everything. Jobs, traffic and above all, People. So I went out into a nice spot near a lake, in the middle of nowhere. Spent a few days just wandering around out there, drinking in the sites and enjoying the solitude. It was only later that I found out that it had happened. That the Darmanites had invaded earth. That some of their machines had warped and twisted people, given them powers beyond our comprehension. But on that day, the only thing that I knew was that I woke up..

And all I saw was fire.

Everything around me was flaming like some hellfire inferno. In a blind panic, I ran for the only thing that came to mind.. The lake. As I hit the cool waters of it, I realized that I was fine. Even as the water around me steamed and boiled, I felt fine.

Three days, several burnt trees and two sudden swims later, I gained enough of a proficiency with my newly found power to try and reach civilization.

 

[Mr. Awesome]

In my house, I wake up in a daze, almost like a wooden baseball bat hit me square in the face. My vision was blurred a bit but one thing I saw was a broken window.
"Why is this broken." I said with my speech slurred a bit,
I push on my temple in agony and find that there is blood dripping from the top of my head. There is a roll of paper towels next to me so I wrap them around my head to absorb the bloody mess. My vision returns to normal and I find myself in the kitchen, kneeling in a puddle of what seems to be my own blood. Voices can be heard upstairs, one is raspy and one is deep, and it sounds like they are rummaging through coins. I get up slowly and limp over to the staircase. Trying to be as quiet as I can be, I quickly tip toe up the stairs even with the painful head trauma. I peek into my room and see two guys with black clothes and a garbage bag, filling it with my savings. I see something else as well, a bloody baseball bat which was probably the one use to knock me out. The one guy glances over and sees me peeking through at them.
"Jonny, he ain't dead." said the deep voiced thief,
"He will be in a second." said the raspy voiced thief that held the bat,
He was running to the door when I trembled over to the stairs and starting going down. The thief called Jonny raced after him while Deep Voice handled the money.

I went to the kitchen and slipped on the puddle of my own blood.
"D***" I muttered to myself,
The theif was slowly walking towards me with his blood-stained bat over his head about to strike. I squeezed my eyes shut, held out my hand weakly and hoped that someone would come to my aid. After waiting a couple seconds I opened one eye and saw that Jonny was on the floor bleeding. I got up, looked over him and saw a couple sharps of glass were jabbed into his jugular vein and a puddle of blood surrounding his neck. I was baffled by what had happened as the deep voiced thief ran in and said,
"Jonny, I got the goods let's..."
Deep Voice saw his now dead companion and gawked at him. Soon his astonishment would turn to anger as he took out a pistol and pointed it at me.
"I am going to kill you right here, right now!" yelled the thief,
I put my hand out again waiting for the attack when suddenly a few shards of the broken window flew up and hit the thief in the right temple, before he shot the gun. I was amazed at the event that just occured.
"Did I just do that?" I asked myself in disbelief,

I put my hand out again and focused on the shards of glass below. They floated up and once I flexed my hand, the glass shot at the roll of paper towels which was now shredded a bit.
"How is this possible?" I asked myself staring at the bodies,

[neogenetica]

Most people don't end up running away from a pack of knives that seem to really like them, thats right, most people.

When the Darmanites had established some of their machines people started to act strangely. Some flew, other shorted out whatever electronic they touched. Me, I  didn't even know I could until I almost got cut to ribbons.

I was in the kitchen when things started to rattle, suddenly the drawers shot open and a few very pointy utensils came out. The next five minutes were spent by me trying to escape and the result was that the majority of the furniture had turned to pincushions.

After this I started to notice more occurences, things flying away, even people feeling a pain in their heads around me. As time went on I gained some semblance of control over my abilities, though I could never "Hold in" whatever energy I emitted for long. When it was pent up and released at once things would fly quickly or explode, when I tried to stop it is painstakingly screeched out, driving anyone in the vicinity away.

Ah well, at least it's interesting.

[Philote]

I was in school when the Darmanites invaded my town. They came in without a warning, and the first sign I saw of them was the sound of my school entrance exploding.

Everything after that was just blind panic. Many ran, and didn't make it, while others tried to fight. I was finally herded out of the city by the police and was cut off from my family as they were on the other side of the Darmanite invasion.

That is how I wound up in the Refugee camp hidden in the woods, and where my real trouble started.

I began having strange dreams, like out of body experiences. I would feel the animals around me, starting with insects and slowly expanding into larger creatures. Every time I would find an animal in my dream, the light of a stronger predator would pull at my attention. Eventually, my focus came onto humans and I was able to sense those around me, until my power was attracted to the planet's dominate predator, the Darmanite.

Once my power had settled on the most dominate creature, it activated. I woke up, but remained in a half awake state, as my body began to burn. My bones began to reshape and my muscles tore and reformed. Until finally, I had completely shape shifted into a Darmanite. When the process was complete, I sat up in bed and realized that I had somehow transformed, in a camp full of refugees, into their worst enemy.

[GreenDay]

I was at home, doing a project for school, when they came. I was doing a project for chemistry, and had just finished with it. I heard rumbling, and the entire building started to shake. I looked outside, and saw something I'll never forget.

A giant spaceship.

The Darmatites poured out, all holding various weapons. I ran to the door, but it got blasted open. Some wood from the destroyed door hit the beakers, and the concoction got all over me. One of the strange creatures raised a gun, and fired. I expected to be dead, but it had passed through me. I felt it go through my head, but I was still alive. I looked down and realized I was made of some sort of semi-solid material. They looked confused, and, as more came in, they kept shooting. They passed through me, but I realized that one in the back was carrying a giant gun, and I knew I couldn't just stand here while they shot that at me. I slid towards a window quickly, feeling many shots pass through me. By now, the window was pretty much a few melting strands of gooey glass, so I flowed through it. Outside, there were at least a hundred of them, each holding a weapon. I thought that this was the end, they would vaporize me, and I stuck my arms out, waiting for the feeling of evaporating. When no shots came, I looked up, and realized I had gone through the floorboards in the deck. I knew they would find me if I stayed there, so I slid away as a puddle, hiding in the tall grass. I made it into the woods in the back, and tried to change back to normal. As i changed back, one of the scouts must have seen me, as a beam grazed my arm. I ran deeper into the woods, until I knew I had lost them. My arm was burned badly, and was bleeding. I kept going, using a sleeve of my shirt as a bandage. It was getting late, and, in the distance, I saw a few lights. I thought it was more of the aliens, but as I got closer, I realized it was a refugee camp. I ran towards it.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

                                    ----Information----

The EDF has now mobilized and engaged the Darmanites on several fronts.

[GreenDay]

I made it to the camp within an hour. By then it was early morning. There was a medical station, which was really just some First-Aid supplies and a sleepy-looking nurse in a tent, and I got an actual bandage for my arm. They directed me to an empty tent, and as I walked by another tent, I saw shadows moving around inside by the light of my flashlight. I think it's nothing but then, as I pass the tent, I realize something.

The shadows looked like a Darmanite.

I walked back towards the nurse, the only person who was awake. I urgently told her that there might be a Darmanite in the camp. She went off to alert the few EDF personnel who were in the camp just in case. I picked up the only weapon I had seen, a flare gun from a trailer. I walked back towards the tent, and saw someone get out. No, something. It was a Darmanite. Panicking, I pulled the trigger on the flare gun.

[Philote]

I panicked. I didn't know what to do, only that I had to get out and find a place to collect my thoughts. I moved stealthily through the camp. At the late hour that it was, nobody was out to notice me.

Except for one. I was moving towards the nearest edge of the camp, near the medical facilities, when somebody jumped out. We stared at each other for a moment, and then he pulled the trigger. Pain went up my right arm.

I moved faster than I ever had before. I grabbed him by the neck of his shirt and threw him inside an unused medical tent. I placed my now stronger hand over his mouth.

"Look, I know you won't believe me. But it is me, Phi. GD, we went to the same school, you have to trust me."

As I tried to explain my case, I hear some soldiers lazily walk around outside, It seemed that they weren't truly searching yet.

[Mr. Awesome]

I clean up the kitchen and bury the bodies in my backyard. My head feels a little better now but I get some actual bandages anyway to patch it up better. After all of that, I use my newly found abilities to raise all of the glass shards from the ground and start to toy around with them and what not. I accidently hit myself in the arm with a sharp peice of glass but their is no cut or blood to be found. I was amazed even more than before about the strange ability and tested out a few more tricks that I wanted to try out. I used all of the shards of glass that were still in midair to fix the window pane and put it in place. Some of the glass shards that killed the thiefs made it incomplete and looked like glass cutters cut a few peices out of it but that would be alright for now. Suddenly, a noise came from the backyard and I saw hundreds of Darmanite soldiers running towards my house. I ran out the front door in a rush to get away from the ruthless extraterrestrials but their were even more in the front of the house.

They shot their weapons at me with rapid-fire. I levitated shards of glass from one of my windows to mirror the beams away from me into the air and shot them at the small Darmanite horde. I ran while they were distracted but they weren't for long because they were still chasing after me. A juice bar was near by so I ran inside and took many glasses from the counter.
Once the Darmanites came inside i broke up the glasses with my power, which made many shards of glass, and I used them to create a barrage of glass shards. The Darmanites were sliced up pretty good and then I reformed the glass to trap the lot of them for a short period of time. I ran over the temporarily petrified horde of Darmanites and kept running until I started to see a smokey campsite. Possibly a forest fire or something else...

[GreenDay]

"Philote?" I say, afraid that Darmanites might be able to mimic voices, among other things.

"Is that really you? Why do you look like a Darmanite?" I ask, trying to ignore the dull pain in my arm.

"If that's really you, what's the name of our chemistry teacher?' After he answers correctly, I turn into goo and get out of his hold. He looks slightly shocked, but quickly gets over it.

"We have to get you out of here." I bite my lower lip nervously." I have a plan, but you need to get out as quickly as you can." I run out of the tent as goo,  startling the soldiers outside. I slide under them, and drag them along with their feet stuck. I cover their mouths, arms, and legs with sticky goo a little into the forest. As I sprint away in normal form, a bullet whizzes by my head as I reach the clearing. I get back to the tent.

"OK, let's go."

[Philote]

I follow GD out of the refugee camp, but there is pursuit behind us. I pick him up, and he is surprisingly light, even with my new strength, and I use my new body to outrun the humans on foot behind us.

[GreenDay]

I was blushing as Philote set me down in the woods.

"That was.......awkward. Anyway, I thought I had taken out all the EDF, maybe they were actually worried and called in reinforcements. I know a place we can hide out at, but we need to figure out a way to disguise you.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

                          ---------Information---------

The EDF have deployed several large combat vehicles to take down the
Darmanite ships.

The EDF have begun to notice several individuals around the world that
exhibit inhuman abilities.

[Zaleramancer]

Today had been a bad day for me.

I find out I that my planet has been invaded and that I have superpowers. I have been shot at by twitchy soldiers, nearly stabbed by a paranoid refugee and pepper sprayed by an old lady. Not to mention I'm stuck in a part of the city where a ship touched down, so it's half deserted and full of crazy people with guns!

And then, to top it all off, I run into a few of the aliens. They see me and decide to do the obvious, so I duck behind I car to avoid the hail of bullets.

They get closer and I decide to give in to my temper.

Heat ripples away from me like a furnace. Bits of metal on the car begin to glow and the pavement starts to steam. I leap out at one of them and he screams as the heat rips through him. One of them fires a gun in panic which narrowly avoids my face. My anger doubles and then the air ignites.

All the Darmanites disappear in the expanding ball of fire. After a flash, the fire fades.

My fury fades with it and I slip to the still hot ground. After a moment, I limp towards one of the alleyways. I don't want to repeat that.

[GreenDay]

After finding an abandoned store and getting a huge trench coat, some gloves, and a hat for Phi, we tried training. We were hiding in an office building. I had learned to harden the goo, too make it slippery, sticky, or like water, and to change only parts of my body. Phi had learned to control his new strength, speed, and other newfound abilities. I saw a flash out of the corner of my eye. I looked outside, and saw a few Darmanites shooting at a car. Suddenly, someone jumped out from behind the car. He seemed to be radiating heat, as everything around him was blurry. He grabbed one of them, then there was a huge flash and a ball of fire, and they were gone. I jumped out the window, turning my legs into goo to absorb the shock. I ran over to them and greeted them.

"Hello. I saw what you did. I'm GreenDay, you can call me GD. I'm hiding out over there," I said, pointing to the building," with someone else I know. We both have experienced odd effects from the machines too."

[Marvelous Miscreant]

A ripple spread across the minds of those affected by the Darmanites radiation. That ripple held a message. It pierced their minds with such clarity, it seemed the speaker was right next to them.

"Do not be alarmed. I am a friend contacting you through mass telepathy. I send this message to those of you who have been chosen...to save the world. I am Prime. I will guide you and together we can stop the Darmanite invasion. However, you must first gather together. Find the others and I will contact you again. Hurry, time is short....and....I cannot................"

[jester_of_god]

Odd things always seemed to happen around this place, but honestly Alien invasion is pretty high up there ,but what do I care, I barely even live here half the time.Unfortunatley the guy I"ll be talking about Does. See the kid over there late teens, caucasian, staring into the sky the one with the scraggly dark brown hair.... eh waht am I talking about he's the only one left out there. Normal high school student, okay grades, never really tha popular in school and stayed in the shadows...until about four hours ago. you can say what you want but ars a @#%, most of the twon was wiped out in the first few minutes and this lucky @)%*%&(& was able to get away only because he was at school at the time, and that he just happenend to devolope the right powers at the right moment. He's been staring at that skyline for a while now, wonder if it's part of peak human potential to have a higher patience, go figure. Wait, I hear rustling, looks like Jake hears it to, yep there he goes running, darn he's gotten fast, and there come the aliens from the treeline. Maybe this chase'll start to get interesting.

[Mr. Awesome]

Once I heard the message, I sprinted torward the nearest building, used the elevator and hid on the roof. The Darmanites were getting free from the glass I trapped them in but they couldn't see me so they ran off somewhere else to find more humans. I took some scrap metal that I found and used some of the glass from the windows of the building to make a mirror. I reflected sunlight off of it to make a flashing signal, so that maybe more people would find him easily, maybe even that telepath.

[Zaleramancer]

"Well, hel-"

Then a voice echoed in my mind.

"Did you hear that?" I said, shifting uncertainly. I glance back from the guy way off in a trench coat to the oozy person.

"Oh and call me Zale."