The Emergence (1)

As I had explained to the other returners, approximately 3 hours after the conclusion of our meeting, the planet began trembling, the storm clouds above expanded, lightning zipped around the sky, and a long rolling thunderstorm began.

Only instead of normal lightning, this time, the streaks in the sky were either a bright crimson or a sickly green.

'Sometimes you freak me out with your predictions, Tay…like, seriously…' Brenden said in a solemn tone as all of us returners lined up near the base camp.

I had returned after a final round of observations before joining everyone to watch the Emergence of what could potentially be the single most important event of Earth's History…that is, until the Descent.

'It's not my fault that you suck at math; all I did was run the probability against the energy output of the Empowering Stage, and convert that into minutes, then hours.'