The Giant Invasion

It was a usual night for eleven year old Allan. Allan’s mother tucked him to his bed, they sang a lullaby, his mother said “son, you are a little shining star!” and kissed his forehead. Allan replied “Mom, you are my moon”. She smiled, switched off the lights, closed the door and went to her room. It was 9:30 pm, chili winter night. Allan didn’t have any work to do next morning since it was his winter break. But he was too tired of playing/gardening whole day, he had to sleep early. In just half an hour he went to his child like sleep. He was deep in his sleep when his sleep was disturbed by continuous shaking and trembling of ground. He was wide awake due to such trembles. He thought that it might be an earthquake, as his teacher told him in his disaster management class. He was terrified. He looked at the clock; it was 12:30 AM. He opened the windows and saw a bright light coming. Something was descending down, although it wasn’t near to him but it could be clearly seen.

It looked like a huge sized balloon. Only the bottom part of that balloon was visible, the upper portion was above the clouds, impossible for anyone to imagine that how big this thing can be. There was chaos everywhere. Allan’s mother came running to his room and got a tight hold of her son. The thing that looked like a big balloon finally descended some miles away, clearly visible though. Everyone in the city went closer to take a look at it. It just stood still. It was way to huge, white in color; no one could see the starting portion of this thing. It’s been a while nothing happened there. Everyone started thinking that it might be some miracle of god. But suddenly, the balloon opened, in a door like form and a huge foot came out of it, a big huge foot which was orange in color from bottom and white from above. It was very big and again no one could see above that foot. Everyone started shouting and ran for their life.

Wherever this foot landed, there was destruction. Allan could see clearly from his room window. He thought that this huge foot came to destroy his planet, it was destroying everything. But wait, there isn’t just one foot, there is another one also. He could see clearly that when one foot descended completely on ground the other lifted from behind and when this other foot descended the previous started lifting. It looked like this thing had familiar structure as there; two legs and nothing else could be said above that. But whatever it was it came for destruction and it was bad. These feet were looking nowhere, counted nothing; it destroyed whatever came in between cars, houses, people etc. Allan was horrified, he even never dreamt of such thing.

Frank was looking here and there, he couldn’t see anything around, this planet was small, smaller than all other planets he had been. I looked like he was standing on a volleyball (ten times bigger than normal), except the fact that it was brown in color rather than white. Behind Frank was standing his spaceship, white in color, balloon in shape, with the label “Franky Package Delivery Services”. He was alone. He could only see the planet when he looks down when faced up he could see the huge black universe. He had to complete his mission as fast as possible as it was the final delivery and then he could return back to his home planet and could enjoy soccer game that he had planned with his friends. His task was tuff, as he has never seen such a small package before. He was able to see the package by increasing the power of his magnifying glass to 1500% which was attached to his space helmet. Holding the package to deliver in his right hand and sipping the orange soda from his left hand he moved forward like a man on mission, looking here and there. He was completely unaware that he was the giant alien that invaded this planet.

Allan with his mother ran to their main hall where his father was watching the breaking news “Big foot or is the almighty playing football? “. His father looked at Allan with his eye wide open also his mouth. He had a bar mustache above his lips. His eye was bigger than everyone else in his family which terrified Allan more. The three stood still, terrified as the destruction was going on. The army of the country came forward as the news flashed with all their weapons, tanks and everything that they had in order to protect their people. They were firing continuously, but these feet were not ready to stop. Meanwhile, Frank was irritated. He was walking and walking but he couldn’t find the person to deliver this package, he was in hurry, c’mon where are you hiding he thought. On the other hand as Allan’s family watching the news on TV, suddenly everything went black on TV, the TV station was destroyed by the giant feet. They looked each other with terror on their faces, mouth half and their eye wide open. As they were in the process of consuming such terror their house was half destructed by the giant foot, it almost touch Allan, only one half of their house was left in which they were standing.  They started shouting ran out.

Frank was losing his temper, he was continuously having this itchy feeling in his feet, he threw his orange soda can and started moving forward with even heavier steps. On the contrary as Allan’s family was running with the crowd to save their lives, Allan was suddenly separated from his family. His mother and father swept forward shouting his name with the crowd and he was left behind. But he was not a week heart who would start crying, he was a brave man, he ran as fast he can in order to catch his family but he was not able to. He stopped for a moment to catch his breath. While he was breathing heavily by looking down on the road with his hands resting on his knees he suddenly heard breaking noise of the walls with a big shadow on the road in front of him. He turned around and found a huge cylinder moving forward in his direction crushing everything that came in front of it. He was horrified; he started running forward to save his life. While running he could see a lot of television screen on his right in a TV shop which were playing his favorite cartoon and he couldn’t help it but he was wooing along with shouting and running, a mixed feeling that emerged from inside. That cylinder, which was basically the orange soda can that Frank threw away, was crushing those TV screens as it moved forward behind Allan. Allan saw a cycle as he ran forward, he hopped on it started paddling but it wouldn’t start as it was locked to a street lamp, he had to leave it and run forward as the cylinder was just right behind him. Then he saw a car whose doors were open, he ran and sat inside, but it wasn’t moving, wait there is no one else except me in this car, who will drive? He thought. He came out of the car but till then the giant cylinder was on his head, it crushed the car and came closer to crush Allan.

 Frank was already irritated by the fact that he was unable to find the person to deliver this package, he wanted to let his frustration out by kicking something really hard. He couldn’t find anything on this planet, he cannot see anything here, damn this planet he thought. Then he saw his orange can rolling slowly. He went near to the can and stopped it from rolling further by putting his feet over it. Allan’s heart was beating furiously, the cylinder has touched his cheeks, and he closed his eye, waiting to be rolled over by the cylinder. But wait it’s been a while why isn’t this cylinder rolling further? He thought. He opened his eye and found his left cheek completely stick to this cylinder. He couldn’t see much of the cylinder as it was all over his left body from cheek to tow. Frank was holding this can with his left leg, gaining strength in his right leg to kick it as hard as he can. He lifted his leg from the can and kicked tightly with his right leg like a soccer goal. It went flying away in the black universe. Frank felt a lil relaxed as he felt like he made the winning goal. And with the can, went Allan, shouting, as he was on the can. Frank went back to his spaceship, since it had been a long time finding this guy to deliver package, he tried calling but he could only hear the screaming noises. Inside the spaceship, Frank went to his computer to file the report for the package. He saw his left hand in which he was holding the package but couldn’t see the package. A horror ran through his spine. Where Is the package? He thought. He searched around the ship but he couldn’t find it, I must have lost it on the planet while I was searching. Who in the name of good lord would send such a tiny package to such a small planet with no life? He muttered to himself. It was time for him to file his report “success” or “failure”. He selected “success” thinking who would come and search on this place. On pressing “success” the computer said “Congratulations, your orders are all complete and delivered”. He took a breath of relax and programmed the computer to drive back to earth. As soon as he gave the instructions, the spaceship lifted a little bit from where it was parked. The people of that planet started clapping and congratulating each other as finally the balloon that bought the giant alien foot to destroy their planet was leaving and with it those foot. But their happiness was not for long, the spaceship lifted and showered fire on the whole planet in order to take off, burning down the entire planet.

Allan who was floating in the universe on the orange soda can was shouting, he suddenly stopped shouting as a floating package came to his hands. It was addressed to him as his next school project. He looked down on the package and then in front, then again to package and then in front. He was confused. He again saw a bright light in front of him and this time he was getting pulled towards it, he started shouting again and shaking his head as he woke up. He opened his eyes in terror. He was in his bed, it was morning 8:00 AM by the clock. He looked around his room, everything was fine. He went to the window and took a peek outside; everything was fine there was no destruction. He ran to main hall, finding his father watching the news “Breaking new: Stephen Amell is the Arrow in the Arrow series”. He ran to the kitchen finding his mother making the breakfast. He ran to his to him mother and hugged her tightly, his breathing was heavy. “What happened son?” asked his mother. “There was an alien invasion and our planet was destroyed by the two giant feet” said Allan, with his eyes wide open. “You must have seen a bad dream, there was no invasion!” said his mother. “No, no I am telling the truth, the entire planet was burnt down and I was the only one alive, floating in the universe on a giant cylinder. And then something strange happened, I received a package with my name on it saying my next winter project.” Said Allen. His mother looked at him with a angry face “You had a project to do in these winter holidays you didn’t old me about”. Allan was shocked as he had accidently told his undone homework and also how his dream was actually related to his project. His teacher will destroy his universe if he didn’t do his work.