How it all started.

Amidst a vast and seemingly unending grey landscape, there stood a man. He was huge, with fearsome height and extravagant muscles. On closer look, you might even notice the massive scar running from the top of his head down to his torso, and the fact that his right hand, has no pinky finger.

This is Jean, one of the only people left on Earth. In order to get back his home, his planet, he had to fight with his life on the line. He had gone through so much hell, so much pain, yet it was not enough, there was still even more pain that he needed to go through, in order to revive this planet.

He, was tired. After 5 gruesome hours of battling against creatures of unknown origin, he can no longer move. However, he wasn't alone in this dark grey world, there were a dozen more people with him, like him and among the last ones left. As he was pondering about the past, a voice suddenly called out to him, it was high-pitched and carried a tone of concern.

"Jean!"

"hm?"

"Where the heck were you?, why didn't you come back to the base? You got me so worried."

The voice was indeed from a woman, not just any woman but one called Erika. She, like him had white hair, she was a scientist and had made huge contributions to the world before 'that' happened, and currently she was basically risking her life to go out here. Jean did not know how to respond, considering that he knew how much Erika was worried for him.

"I...was tired?"

"God, come back with me before some crabs maul you to death."

"All right."

This lonely and desolate world wasn't always like this. Jean could still vividly remember the peaceful days before Earth had become hell itself.

Taking out a diary, Jean's face saddened. It was red, ripped and torn but the contents were still there. This diary essentially recorded all the years that Jean went through, all 400000 years of fighting for liberation. He couldn't read it right now though, as a girl was urging him to go faster.

"You got such big legs but why are you so slow? Walk faster dammit."

Maybe, another time.

***

2024

The world was at its lowest, after the prolonged war between Russia and Ukraine, Russia concluded that it couldn't win and began to advance its forces towards Asia and the Middle East.

Russia then succeeded in invading the Middle East, Mongolia and parts of China. In doing so, it lost parts of its capital and angered multiple unions and alliances.

March 7th 2024 [7:00 A.M]

The USA, UK, Netherland, Norway with all of Europe and along with countries of South East Asia, Asia and the Americas united to form the GLF, which was short for the Global Liberation Front.

The GLF began the war against Russia. Thus, beginning the Third World War. They mobilized 3 million soilders. With artilleries, aerial support and many other things, they managed to push Russia back to Mongolia. They had taken back parts of Turkey, Iran, UAE, Japan and Sweden. Fully freeing Yemen, Oman and China

May 21st 2024 [3:00 P.M]

Seeing its disadvantage in the war, Russia authorized the use of nuclear weapons. Unleashing the dormant Tsar Bomba on a collision course with the US.

[3:10 P.M]

Notified of a nuclear threat, the US sent out its own nukes. Beginning a nuclear war.

[6:00 P.M]

Recorded sightings of strange, alien-like kinds of jellyfish and crabs appeared all over Africa, dead. The world was indeed curious, shocked and scared, but it had to ignore these creatures as of the rising tension between two giant nations.

May 23rd 2024

Sightings became more frequent, now appearing all over the world. The world couldn't turn a blind eye anymore and a team of scientists began researching these creatures. During this time however, Russia invaded all the way to Indonesia, taking hold of the ASEAN headquarters.

July 3rd 2024 [12:00 A.M]

The world was ecstatic, news of Russia giving up its quest of world domination made waves all across the world. The GLF had agreed to a peace treaty with Russia.

But, just as the world thought that their lives would be peaceful again, they were wrong, dead wrong.

"We give humanity one chance to submit."

Strange jellyfish and crabs appeared at the world's peace conference, calling themselves 'Zirtues'. They looked grotesque, straight out of a horror movie, and not only that, they were fluent in the human tongue. They demanded that we give them Earth, live on television.

Not even a minute after their proposal, we refused. By 'we', I meant the world's leaders.

[12:02 A.M]

All 53 leaders presenting the 53 countries left on Earth, disappeared without a trace. Although it was streamed live, we couldn't make out what happened to them, they just...disappeared. What replaced them, was a horde of the ugly creatures.

"From this moment on, your Earth belongs to us."

***

And well, from then on, we just did everything we could to take Earth back, but I guess that was just wishful thinking. For the first thousand years, it did seem all hope was lost but eventually we prevailed.

"So, what do you think?"

A voice suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

"About what exactly?"

"The 'Rogue', did my words from 6 hours ago go in one ear and straight out the other?"

"Ahah..."

Ah yes, how could I have forgotten, maybe being stuck in the past is not so good after all. Right, the 'Rogue', we must take care of this issue as soon as possible.