chapter 3

Deep in space beyond our solar system, lies a pitch black planetary sized spherical space ship that absorbs 99% of all the light that falls upon it and letting only one percent of light to pass through it, inside it lies a dark layer in a tower with a signal popping on the holographic computer screen. An alien hand comes out from a chamber and a voice spoke in an alien language which translates. At last! . In English and activated the signal.

Back on earth, the timer started counting slowly. The new head asked Holland if he knows how to stop the timer, Holland told him he doesn't know for sure now due to it's unfamiliar and complex systems but with time he could, the new head nodded his head in disappointment and asked him and the official to leave since their work was done then told his workers to bring all the explosive they can lay their hands on. The official moved to him and pleaded with him to give Holland time but he wasn't just the negotiating type due to his fear after what he had just seen so he asked security to escort both of them out. After using all the explosives in their disposal on the machine it still had no effect, the new head submitted his report to the government confirming the machine as a threat they decided to use military bombs so asked him to evacuate the area. Hours later, military jets flew in the Pacific to where the entrance is and dropped a bomb that goes deep inside that ocean to the structure that connected the elevation to station and everything exploded destroying the whole facility and the flames flew up into the sky behind the jets as they flew away.

In Dubai, a waitress serves her male customer coffee and pancakes as he read his paper in an outside coffee house near a skyscraper in a hot morning. The cloud suddenly turned cold and cloudy hiding the sun, he starts feeling really cold and reaches out for his hot coffee and found the cup and it's content frozen out of surprise he turned it upside down and the solids coffee fell on the table, he stood up as snow starts falling and saw all the glasses and the desert frozen as a cold wind blew into the city. He looked back at his table as the ground starts vibrating and things started falling then stopped, there is panic in the city but soon tension fills the air, seconds later there is a gigantic ripple on the ground accompanied with ice from under the ground flushing out the full city as people ran for their lives but none made it freezing even before the whole place was flushed out..

Large piles of ice broke down in Antarctica and the atmosphere became hotter as oxygen is sucked into the ground from a cracked road, a fire tornado started forming and became bigger as it sucked and consumed substances with more forming. In Holland's apartment, he worked on his work table with his television turned on as the news was going on about the various crisis happening. The female newscaster read about a special report written on the headline. Catastrophe on earth could this be the end of mankind? . The news also featured a little talk between analysts about unexplainable climatic change and the mysterious machine underneath the Pacific close to the earth's core that Alpha spotted while carrying out it's periodic scan before talking about the predicted next victims been South and North Korea and Antarctica and also how the U.S government is taking away its citizens from the places before showing the images of the affected areas including parts of California. Holland feared for his mother and asked the Al to contact her to be sure she is still alive and the Al did, he got so worried after calling for three times without answer but still had a bit of relieve because her phone rang but in the fourth time she picked struggling to hear who called due to the noise in the airport she was in and all his worries disappeared but not knowing what to say but just has he spoke someone called her, she turned and her phone was knocked off her hands, she tried to reach for it but couldn't has non American citizens ran in and started struggling with the soldiers to get into the large rescue ships. The pushing became stronger and she almost fell down but is been rescued by her colleagues who called her and he pushes their way to a room that leads to a helicopter they entered and it flew away. Holland asked the Al to locate her and the location showed Antarctica, on seeing this he feared for his mothers life and asked the Al to book the next possible flight to Antarctica and rushed out to rescue his mother. Antarctica almost ran out of oxygen with many fire tornados at sky length and the helicopter flew for it's life as the large ship used to carried the people flew behind them and the distinct cry of the remaining people from the station could be heard as the station is destroyed by a fire tornado, a gigantic fire tornado appeared close to them and the helicopter couldn't withstand the pressure and started to get sucked in and melting going back really close to the tornado as the ships shot rescue ropes at the helicopter.