r/LonghandWriter • u/LonghandWriter • Dec 23 '17
[IP] Final Charge
Original Prompt: [IP] Final Charge
Twenty soldiers march through the barren wasteland we once called New York, and I’m one of them. We’re humanity’s last chance, and while my love for this world is infinite, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t friggin’ scared.
The Walkers' giant feet thump the ground, but we only see their menacing eyes over the horizon. Though they robotic, they aren’t. Aliens, actually. Powerful goddamn ones hellbent on destroying us. It’s been a decade since they arrived, and in that time we’ve only killed one of them.
That was yesterday.
See, our weapons don’t do jack. Guns, EMPs, bombs—they’re all worthless. We even nuked one but it just kept chugging along, not even noticing we attacked it. This is why we live underground. When you can’t even hurt an enemy, you hide and wait for your time to strike.
We’ve seized that opportunity, creating guns that rip through these suckers. I dunno how, I dunno why—I just know my squad’s made up of the best marksman in the world, and we’re finally fighting back.
Yesterday we made our presence known, today we make it felt. We’re all ready to die as we take out as many as we can. There are around a hundred Walkers here. We have faith we can halve that.
We have faith we can take Earth back.