First Wave
September 21st, 2016, 7:00 AM, (Zach Esh a tall, blond hair, Blue eyed, clean-shaven, 28-year-old, a commercial pilot) Woke up early that morning due to having a 9:00 flight with United airline, from New York to Ohio. He was captain, though very new to the high position. He lived in New York in a penthouse only twenty minutes from JFK airport. He had a shower, a bowl of frosted flakes, did his thirty-minute exercise and left in his pilot uniform. Little did he know that this would be is his last normal morning of possibly the rest of his life. Traffic was lighter that morning which wasn’t saying a lot considering that he was in New York. Once at the airport he went through security with no difficulty, got on the 747, and met his new co-pilot.
“Hi My name’s Zach Esh, you are?” asked Zach politely.
“Jeremy, Jeremy Burkholder,” answered Jeremy.
(Jeremy Burkholder, a shorter, black haired, 25-year-old, man, who was first in his class in flight school)
“So you have experience with 747s?” asked Zach.
“Yes sir, plenty,” replied Jeremy.
“Good,” said Zach.
They then checked all the instruments.
“Well ladies and gentlemen, I'm your pilot, and hope I give you a smooth and enjoyable flight. The expected landing time is 10:30 AM in Ohio. Thank you for choosing United Airlines,” said Zach, over the speaker.
They then took off. Everything was normal, nothing was out of place. But little did they know that they were only fifteen minutes from disaster!
On the ground
(Trent King, an average height, blue-eyed, brown-haired, 33-year-old, successful millionaire, that lives in an estate in Florida) How he made his millions, was oil. Trent was in the dining room, inside his three-story, seventy room estate. He was looking through a magazine for yachts. He loved fishing and though he already had a very large yacht he wanted a newer version. Trent slowly flipped through the pages, as he sipped his latte.
“Sir would you like me to refill your latte?” asked Trent’s butler, a stubby, little, bold, man.
“No thank you......” said Trent, before being interrupted by the building shaking!
Trent grabbed onto the dining room table, while the butler tried to do the same, but do to his height, and the strength of his arms, he failed miserably, and fell to the ground! Furniture started to tumble, one of which was the dining room cabinet, which fell on the butler, pinning him under! Trent could hear windows shattering and violent screams coming from outside. The roof above started to crack! He tried to get up and exit but couldn’t! Parts of the ceiling collapsed. This went on for a terrifying two minutes, once it finally stopped. Trent stood to his feet and saw his butler’s lower half of his body under the cabinet. Trent immediately went to his aid and lifted the cabinet.
“Can you get out from under?” asked Trent, while holding the cabinet up.
“Yes I think so,” answered the butler in pain.
The butler slowly pulled himself out from under the cabinet, which would've been a challenge for someone that was fit, sadly for the butler, he wasn't fit, so it made it especially hard. Though to Trent's surprise, he managed to do it.
“We need to get out, the building might be unstable,” said Trent.
“Okay, could you help me?” asked the butler, who's legs were covered in blood.
Trent carried the butler out the back door onto his back pouch which had a pool. All the water in the pool was splashing out and part of the porch had collapsed. Trent lived on the beach, in Naples, a very wealthy aria. Trent’s neighbors were all out of their houses, dusty and bruised. he could see that his house looked good compared to a lot of his neighbor’s homes, some of their houses had part of it, if not all of it, collapsed.
“We need to get away from the water, with an earthquake like that there’s a good chance of a tsunami,” said Trent.
Back in the plane ninety minutes later
They were approaching Acron-Canton Airport
“Alright let’s take her down,” said Zach. “Pan pan this is flight number 354, are we clear for landing?” asked Zach over the intercom, it was static, “Pan pan this is flight number 354 do you copy?” asked Zach again. They were both puzzled, everything looked fine. “The tower must have problems, let’s lower the plane to seventeen thousand feet,” commanded Zach.
They lowered the plane slowly so that they could see the ground, and what they saw made it clear why they weren't getting any response! There were great amounts of smoke coming from the city of Acron. The airport looked awful, it seemed that a plane, crashed into it, blowing part of it up! The runway had all kinds of debris on it and was packed with planes, making it impossible to land.
“Sir how will we land?” asked Jeremy.
“Pan pan, this is flight number 354, we have over four hundred passengers, where can we land?” asked Zach, over the intercom, still no answer. Zach kept trying for another twenty minutes, though all in vain.
“We need to find a place to land, get the lead attendant up here,” said Zach.
Jeremy pushed a button and an attendant was in shortly after.
“Yes, captain?” asked the flight attendant, an tall and skinny, women.
“Prepare the cabin for an emergency landing,” said Zach.
“What do you mean?” asked The attendant.
“Have you seen the ground?” asked Zach.
“No, I...” said the attendant before being interrupted.
“The runway is blocked, we need to find a landing spot, other than the airport,” said Zach.
Zach looked at the attendant and could see fear in her eyes.
“Listen, don’t be scared we’re going to be fine, alright. The last thing I want is the passengers getting scared, just follow the emergency procedures and we should be fine” said Zach.
“Okay,” said the attendant as she exited, though didn't find Zach's words comforting.
“There Sir, there's a field,” said Jeremy.
“Let’s take her down,” said Zach.
They circled the field couple times so that they could get low enough. Till finally, after a nerve-racking fifteen minutes, they decided they could land.
“Alright lets land,” said Zach.
They descended towered the field.
In the cabin
Passengers sat nervously as they saw the ground get closer. The flight attendant gave the passengers some drilling on how to brace. The flight attendants tried to keep the people calm but it was tough especially since they were having trouble keeping calm themselves. They were now only seconds from touchdown.
“Brace, brace, brace, head down, stay down, Brace, brace, brace, head down, stay down.” Repeated the flight attendants, just before landing.
Screams started to echo through the cabin. “This is it,” was many of the passenger’s thoughts. Then sooner than anybody expected, they hit the ground hard!
With Zach and Jeremy, two minutes later
Zach opened his eyes to see that he was being dragged out of the plane by Jeremy. blood was on his face and his ears rung. The plane’s cockpit was broken off, of the rest of the plane, and Jeremy simply pulled Zach out of the whole in the back of the cockpit. The cabin was thirty feet behind the cockpit now, and people were trying to exit the burning wreckage. Zach laid in the field dazed as he saw Jeremy run into the cabin to help the other passengers. No fire trucks came, no ambulances, no help arrived.
“How, can this be?” asked Zach to himself.
Zach finally switched from a daze to alert. He stood and ran to the cabin. It was hard to see, due to the smoke filling the air. He saw a man covered in blood lying on the floor, he helped him up, walked him out of the plane, and laid him in the field, a safe distance away from the burning wreckage. Zach tried to return to help more, but couldn't before the entire plane burst into flames!
Three days later with CNN
“Hello to all those who have working TVs. We finally got things under control here at the studio and will be airing daily. First of all, there have been rumors that it was a worldwide earthquake, I am here to put those rumors to rest. Yes, there has been a worldwide earthquake. Which I will know refer to as WWE. Millions have been reported dead from this horrible event. President Barak Obama talked earlier this morning, here is a recording,” said the Newsman.
Obama came on the screen, he was standing in front of a large crowd of grieving people. “Thank you all for coming, so early this morning, it grieves me to say that the world has just experienced a worldwide earthquake. Millions of people are dead. What happened has shocked the world, never before in all of history have we experienced anything even close to this destructive. Why this has happened, I can not answere, but let me assure you that the world’s best investigators are trying to figure out why and how something so devastating could happen. It’s not only an earthquake that devastated the world but also Tsunamis, thousands, tens of thousands of Tsunamis hit the world’s coasts! Among some of the many cities is New York! The tsunami was so severe that survivors say that they could hear the statue of liberty bend from the impact of the water! What happened three days ago was devastating, and some have been asking me what do I have to say to America and the world. My statement is that we will not fall from this, we will rebuild and live once again.....” said Obama, interrupted by the CNN reporter.
“Obama along with nearly every nation are going to have a meeting in China, on what to do about the huge mess that the world is in. That meeting will be held on October 7th of this year.
Other news, billionaire Donald Trump has been reported dead! Secretary of state, Hilary Clinton had this to say.
Hilary Clinton came on the Screen, “I just found out about Donald’s death, and contrary to popular belief, I will miss the man....” said Hilary, just before she was cut off by CNN.
“Well, there you go, Trump is dead, and Hilary says she will miss him. Well I just got word, that we have some videos of some of the damage the earthquake did," said the news reporter.
A screen came of that was showing different images of destroyed city’s, it showed people digging through collapsed buildings and pulling people out, groups of people sitting in tents getting operated on, body bags lining the streets of once beautiful cities.....
With Zach inside a help center
Zach turned off the TV, “We don’t need to look at the TV to see the damage,” said Zach, as he knelt over to tend to an old woman’s leg.
“Young man, what do you think will happen to the world?” asked the women.
There was a minor pause.
“I think that if we try, and if we help those in need, we will recover,” answered Zach.
“That’s not how I see it,” said the women.
“Mam?” said Zach puzzled to what she said.
“I knew the earthquake was coming.” answered the women.
“Maybe you should rest,” said Zach.
“No, you don’t understand, we’ll all die! More disasters will come, I saw it,” said the women.
“What do you.....” said Zach, interrupted by the women.
“In my first dream I saw a rock with spots of blue, the blue reminded me of water. The rock floated in mid-air, with nothing but blackness around it, it looked a lot like earth. The rock then shook, screams came from the rock, then it stopped. Then voices came from the rock saying that it’s over, we’ll be fine, but it was a lie. The blue on the rock turned green and a horrible smell came from it, it smelled like dead animals! But the smell of dead animals was overtaken! By a much, much worse smell, it was the smell of dead humans!Then something very odd happened, that I don't really understand, it was happy, really happy, like the world had just been saved, though shortly after that, mass murder hit, some people went crazy, they went on a mass killing spree, though it was different, it wasn't one of the plagues," said the women, before getting interrupted.
"Plagues, what are you talking about?" asked Zach.
"Then the rock went black!" Continued the women, like she never heard Zach. "no light came from it, till finally white covered the rock, and I got cold. It didn’t last long till extreme heat overtook the cold, it turned red and it felt like fire was coming from the rock. then once again the rock shook, but this time so hard that it cracked then I heard a wailing noise that didn’t sound like it was of this world! Then I woke up. I said that it was just a dream, till thy kept coming, and then this happened, and now I know that my dreams are telling me of what is to come! We all will all die, the world will come to a brutal, and gruesome ending!” said the women.
Zach stared into her eyes not sure of what to say.
“I, I need to go, you should rest,” said Zach just before he left.
Zach went outside and thought of what she said. The sun started to set, and Zach for the first time in three days, fell asleep.
With Trent at his estate
Trent walked through his nearly wiped out estate. All the windows were broken, furniture smashed up against walls, everything was soaked, and some of the walls collapsed. Twenty minutes after the earthquake a tsunami hit shore, destroying and pulling homes into the ocean. Trent was luckier than most and actually had most of his home still intact. Trent thankfully got to high ground fast enough to get away from the large tsunami, sadly that wasn’t the case for most! Many of Trent’s friends were sucked out into the ocean, and drowned! Trent looked off his balcony at the sun setting on the ocean. The ocean was usually clear and sparkled in the moonlight. But not this night, instead it was filled with junk, pieces of homes, and even bodies! Trent fell to his knees and cried himself to sleep.
Back with Zach the next morning
Zach woke up from his deep sleep hardly realizing he slept at all. He saw the old women that he tended to the past evening, being put in a body bag. Her face was a cold white, and she was clearly dead.
“What why is she dead, her leg was bad but.....” said Zach, just before being interrupted.
“During the night her leg got badly infected and we didn’t have the proper tools to help. We were going to chop off the leg but she wouldn’t let us, she said that she would rather die now instead of seeing the world's end. The infection spread fast and she died,” said the doctor.
“But, we’re going to be fine, the world will recover,” said Zach.
“That’s what I told her but she said that her dreams were telling her something else, she said that she told you,” said the doctor.
Zach was shocked.
“Thank you, doctor,” said Zach.
Back with Trent
Trent woke up and stood, he didn’t know what to do.
“Sir, would it be alright if I left to try and find some of my relatives in Kentucky?” asked one of his servants.
“Yes, but how?” asked Trent.
“Didn’t you hear, some of the roads are running again. there’s lots of traffic but at least they’re running,” answered the servant.
“Okay,” answered Trent.
“Thank you, sir,” said the servant.
Trent thought for a moment, as the servant was walking out of the room.
“Wait, please could you tell all the servants that they can leave if they want, or stay and use the house as needed, I think I’m going to go on a trip of my own,” said Trent.
“Yes sir, for how long?” asked the servant.
“As long as they want,” answered Trent
Trent then went to his garage to see how his boat was, it surprisingly enough looked pretty good. A bit wet but it’s a boat. Trent then pulled one of his trucks around and loaded the boat on. He then backed the boat into the ocean, loaded it up with all the necessary provisions, jumped in, and left. Without knowing when he would return.
