Invasion
Chapter 3

It’smorning. They both wake up, and are surprised that they were cuddling eachother while sleeping. “Uhhh, did we sleep like this all night?” asks Olivia. “Ithink so,” he replies. She holds him closer, “Hmmph. I like that,” she tellshim. “Uhhm, ok.”

“What? Youdon’t like it.”

“No,it’s just... I don’t know you and you don’t know me.”

“So,what?”

“Nothing,”he gently pushes her aside, “it’s just...” She sits up and looks at him, “Huh.Fine, be that way.” “No, wait. I didn’t mean... huh?” He stops as he hearssomething coming from outside. “What is it?” “I don’t know. Come on.” They getup and exit the store. They walk slowly to the window and look outside. “Oh,crap.” he says. “What?” “It’s them,” he answers with worry. Olivia leans tolook out. “Oh, man. There are hundreds of them.” “Yeah. They’re scouring thecity, looking for us.” He manages to catch a glimpse of a crest on one of thesoldiers, an upright arm reaching for a glowing bluish-white orb above, nearlygrasping it. “Who are these people?” heasks, befuddled. “What are you talking about? They’re the military,” shereplies. “Maybe not. Look at the symbol on the soldiers. Have you ever seen asymbol like that?” “No, not really. But then again, we did lose our memories.”“Yeah, but even so, I know that the military doesn’t use a symbol like that.”“Maybe they’re like a secret branch of the military,” she makes an assumption, “youknow they have dozens of those.” “Or maybe they’re not military at all. Wait.What’s that rumbling?” “Uh, Takashi,” she says pointing at something, lookingdeathly worried. “What? Oh, crap.” hesays as a tank slowly drives by. “Holy crap. They brought a freaking tank?!”she asks, bemused. “Wow. Whoever they are, we must’ve done something to reallypiss them off,” Takashi concludes. “Or maybe we have something they want,” shethrows in another theory. “Get down!” Takashi says, suddenly pulling her downas a soldier looks at the window. “Whoa. That was close,” he says, “yeah, sorryabout that.” “It’s alright,” she tells him, “look, they’re gone. Let’s get outof here before they come back.” “Right. Let’s go.” They both head for thebackdoor exit as there seems to be less activity there. “Ok. Let’s fly out ofhere,” she suggests. “Wait! I don’t think we should fly.”

“Why not??”

“It’stoo bright and there are soldiers everywhere. They’ll see us.”

“So? Wecan just blast them away.”

“Maybeso, but we don’t understand everything about our powers yet. And besides,there’s an army out there and I don’t really want to fight all of them, youknow. Our chances of not being spotted are better if we go on foot.” She sighs,“Yeah. I guess you’re right.” “Ok, let’s go.”

They runas fast as they can while trying to stay hidden. Though it seems they haveescaped from them for the while. They eventually reach a park in front of theriver. The sights of the city are beautiful from here with the buildings in thebackground, the shining sun, the flowing river glimmering with a pearlescentglow, and the trees flailing about in the wind. They both try to take a momentto appreciate the scenery as they run. It would all be even more beautiful ifnot for the bodies everywhere. “Takashi, wait. Can we stop for a minute??” sheasks him. “No, we’ve gotta keep moving. What if they catch us?” “We haven’tseen or heard from them for over an hour now. Can’t we just rest for a minute?”

“Well, Iguess, but...”

“Lookaround, Takashi. There’s no one around except you, all these sleeping people,and me. So, if you don’t mind, I’d like to take a moment to relax and enjoy thescenery.” “Well...alright, I guess.” “Where are we even going? Do we even havea plan?” she asks him. He smiles and chuckles, “Yeah, ok, you’re right. A restwould be nice.” They both then sit down at one of the benches available. “Youknow, it’s actually kind of nice here,” she comments. “Yeah, it is,” heconcurs. “I mean, we lost our memories and ever since we woke up, our livesseem to be going downhill. Waking up alone while everybody’s asleep, not knowingwho you are or rather what you are anda bunch of secret military guys are trying to capture and/or kill you,” shecontinues. “I know. I was there,” he tells her jokingly. She laughs, “What I’mtrying to say is: it’s nice to relax and enjoy a beautiful scenery while wecan, so I can have at least some good memories. You know, in case I don’t getmy old ones back. Do you understand what I mean?” “Yeah, I think I do,” hesays, looking at her with a smile as the light from the sun shines upon herbeautiful face and the wind blowing on her hair slightly. “Uh, yeah,” hesuddenly speaks. She chuckles. “What?” he asks. “Nothing. It’s just... This is thekind of stuff that you see in movies. It just feels weird that it’s actuallyhappening,” she explains. “Haha. Yeah, I guess it is,” he replies, “it’s kindof cool though. I mean, our powers. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not enjoying thepeople trying to kill us. But, what we can do is pretty amazing.” “Yeah, Idon’t disagree with you on that. Wow, everything looks beautiful.” Looking ather, “Yeah, they are. Ummm, yes...they sure are.”

As theysit under the shining sun, enjoying the moment, wind on their faces, a snipersets his eyes on them. He looks through the scope of his Ballista sniper,nervously with sweat rolling down his cheek. He aims for Olivia’s head, butthen switches to Takashi’s. “There you are,” he says. He readies himself,tightening his muscles and swallowing his spit, and prepares to fire. “Thegeneral’s going to promote me for this,” he says to himself. Fortunately, Takashisees a pebble lying on the ground below. “Hey, look,” he says. “What?” He reachesdown to grab it. Bang! The sniper shoots. “What the--?? Get down!” he yells. “Shit!”the sniper exclaims as he misses and prepares to fire again. “What was that???”she asks, shocked. “I don’t know.” Bang! “Shit! Go! Go!” he shouts to her andthey start running. “Fuck!” the sniper says trying to get a bead on them. “Thisis Bravo 2-11. I have located the subjects and am in pursuit. Request immediatebackup at my coordinates now!” “Don’t look back, Liv!” “I told you not to callme that!” “Really??! Now?!” The sniper takes aim again. But before he could dosome real damage, Takashi turns around and telekinetically lifts and throws abench at the sniper. Bang! The sniper misses his shot again having been thrownoff by the bench. “Screw this! Let’s fly!” Olivia screams. “Good idea!” Shestops running, looks to the sky, and takes off. Takashi, following behind, wasabout to join her when a helicopter appears and shoots one missile towardsOlivia. “Nooooo!!!! Olivia, look out!!!” he screams to her. She’s able to dodgeit, barely escaping its path, but falls back down to the ground hard. “Argh!”she exclaims in pain. Quickly, she turns around and points her hand towards thehelicopter. She focuses her mind to stop the helicopter’s wings and it does so,crashing and hurtling towards the river, exploding in a fiery wave. She lookswhile catching her breath and lets out a nervous and tired chuckle.

Butit is short-lived, however, as dozens of soldiers quickly arrive in their jeepsand APCs. They approach a tired Olivia on the ground, but Takashi hurriedly runsto her and swings his hands inwards releasing a pulse wave towards thesoldiers, sending them and their vehicles helplessly flying back. “Leave usalone!!!!” he screams as he telekinetically repels a group of soldiers comingfrom his left. He then falls to the ground, exhausted. He lies there next toOlivia as the sun shines on his eyes and the wind rushes about. He takes a goodlook at the soldiers getting back up and turns to Olivia. With the energy hehas left, he gets up, fighting all the tiredness, and rushes towards Olivia. Hepicks her up and flies away with enough force that it cracks the ground. Thesoldiers rush and start shooting at them, but it is hopeless as they arealready too high and too far away.