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It was a horrifying struggle with lots of sacrifices. For Arrow, the battle began on the moon, a dark place where the beams of nuclear lasers were the only thing that lit up the dark atmosphere.
All the Aliens VS. Humans games Arrow had played over the course of his life could never in a hundred years prepare him for what these heart-pounding, swimming-in-your-own- sweat reality that was the A.S. VS. Humans war.
In the real world, there was no sudden friendship that could end the war in a second. There was no reasoning with the Artificial Supernovas. They wanted the Earth, and they planned to get it, no matter how much blood they had to paint the moon with.
Arrow had made up his mind that he was going to live through this war. For Marlene, and for their son, or daughter, or whatever their child whom he had never met turned out to be. The money he would earn after participating in this war would be enough to support them forever, and all he needed was to endure a bit more.
Throughout his break shifts all he ever thought about was Marlene. How was she? Was she happy? What was she doing now? What did their kid look like? Were they happy?
As years passed by, Arrow had even more questions. Would Marlene forget about him? Has Marlene found someone new? Before he left she said that she never would be able to get over him, but who knows? Marlene was a renaissance woman, always changing and doing something new. 5 YEARS LATER ~Around four years into the war, the United World Army was able to get a one up on the A.S. with a new weapon of some sort, and the war became easy after that. The U.W.A. beat the A.S. for one reason or another, but Arrow didn’t care. Now that he had his war contribution money, he wanted to get back to Marlene, the love of his life.
All men were sent to the Mars Intergalactic Space Station, or MISS, in order to go back home. The MISS was huge. The ceiling was so high you would think it was the sky. Landing pads littered the ground where space ships came and went, picking up passengers to get them to their home planets. Arrow was quite tired and ready to get home. He would snag the first ship he saw.
George, one of Arrow’s friends from war, took a sigh of relief. “Looks like we’ve done it. We’ve saved the Earth. Or, most of it anyway. I can finally go back home to my family. Where you goin’?”
“Right back to StarTech,” Arrow answered. “That’s where I lived with Marlene and our soon-to-be-born before I got sent to war.”
George looked at Arrow with wide eyes. “Have you been living under an asteroid? In the middle of the war, Earth took a few hits as the A.S. tried to sneak attack parts of the planet. Bombs and space missales hit a lot of places and hundreds of people were lost before the U.W.A. was able to put a stop to ‘em. StarTech was a major city back then, so no doubt the A.S. would hit that place too. Just look at the map.” George pointed to a massive TV perched on the wall on the other side of the space station.
As Arrow looked at the huge TV, he felt confused. The TV was showing a projection of Earth, but little brown craters and black splotches littered the whole planet.
“Woah! That can’t be Earth. All that happened!?” said Arrow as he looked confused at George.
“Yeah. Almost everyone fled the big cities and left out into the country or small refuge towns. In fact, my family is waiting for me in one of those towns.” George told him.
Arrow felt the life drain out of him. Could Marlene be dead!? And what about their baby!? Marlene had been pregnant when Arrow left, and they only had kept in touch at the start of the war, when internet connection from Earth to the Moon had been perfect and Arrow had had time to read Emails.
“Is all of StarTech empty!? Are there still people there!?” Arrow took a hold of George’s dusty green collar and shook it.
“Um, I don’t know. I don’t think the place isn't completely unpopulated, since I never heard news that it took a direct hit from the A.S. but-”
“Then there’s still a chance,” Arrow said to himself, letting go of a confused and worried George.
Arrow started to pace back and forth.
“Uh, you okay man? What are you doing?”
“Planning.” Arrow answered. “I’ll go to StarTech in search of Marlene. If she’s not there, then I’ll find someone there who knows where she’s went.”
“But StarTech was a big city man! Frankly, everyone from your neighborhood could be dead or long gone by now.”
“Then I’ll find my old smartphone and call her. But somehow, someway, I’m going to get to Marlene and our family. I’ve gotten this far.”
And with that, Arrow walked away, while George looked on.
“Good luck.”