A Whispering Meadow

It was a dark, damp and cold night, when I first came upon the object that would change the fate of the world. I was on one my normal night walks when I came upon the shiny pebble that looked so innocent that I did not realize it was a homing beacon for the Goldans, who have now ravaged our world, PGH200, and left us all for dead. It appear that these creatures are of a parasitic nature. I could not believe my eyes when they came crashing down on a meteor, we never suspected a thing, seeing how we are close to a meteor belt we have them crashing all the time. At first it was merely a nuisance but it quickly became an infection that was well beyond out ability to control and maintain.

The creatures have slowly infested the durillium, our supply of drinking liquid that sustains us, they had avoided all of our sensors. I was one the working employees of the durillium processing plant where we purify the precious resource, which has cause many a wars. That's when it happened, the creatures had infected one the other workers who worked with me, I had no idea that he was infected or that there was an infection that was ready to unleash a fury unimaginable. Topher approached me as I was about to activate the incinerator to kill the microscopic bacterium that reside in the durillium, and attacked me from behind creating a gash that was deep and wide. I turned around to see who had struck me, the only thing I remember was seeing a shadowy figure that no longer resembled Topher, and then only blackness remained. I awoke several hours later strapped to a chair, my head surging with pain and all I can recall was being struck from behind and nothing else.

I was groggy and nauseous, when I started to look around the room, I thought I was in my office but I could not be sure, things were not as I had left them. It was then I remember that Topher was the one who had struck me, just then I saw two people arguing through my hazy door window, I could here one them was raging with anger. Then they both entered the room where I being held captive against my will, I could hardly recognize Topher. He had been mutated or disfigured beyond reason, and I wasn't sure who the other was.

They approached me and began their inquisition.
"What do you know about us?" asked the unknown.
"Let me go, I haven't done anything to you." I screamed.
"I will ask you again, what do you know about us?"
"I...I...I don't know anything" as I finished saying that, I was struck yet again in the back of my head.

I awoke several months later, and to my horror I was still trapped in that room, but something was different about it now. There was a putrid smell in the room, I searched around for the source of this stench, to my horror I saw Topher laying there. His belly was burst open covered in the same mossy goo, it appeared as if something had exited from from it. As I struggled in my chair to free myself from this prison, my hand slipped from the bounds holding them to the chair. I took another look at the room for signs of the other P45'er but it was no where to be found. I made my way out of the plant, in which a strange mossy growth had take a hold.

As I exited the building to the outside, horror and contempt took over me, I could not have ever imagined that something like this was possible. The whole world was covered in that mossy growth, and it was pulsating with a rhythmic purpose. There were dead bodies like that of Topher lay about the streets. I searched for hours and hours to find nothing, not one person was left alive, not even plant life was left surviving. It seemed that all was at a loss, when I heard sounds so familiar that I began to weep. Finally someone is out there, and I get some answers as to what happened. I stated for the direction the sounds, and as I approached the sound became deafening, I had to cover my sounders. Just as I came over the cliff that was hiding the sound generator, I saw what we feared the most, a giant weapon aimed at the planets core, this was our best weapon, and all I could do was watch in horror as this thing fired.

BOOMMM!!!!!!
Was the last sound I heard before everything went white. I must have been blown away to a great distance, because I have yet to hit the ground. Time passed and I was unable to do anything about my current predicament, I was on a piece of the planet hurtling through space, there was a shield around me, though I have no idea of where it came from. What seems like years passed when something slightly familiar came into view. It was planet that looked similar to our planet but there was lots of different hues of colors there that I did not recognize. Soon the meteor was pulled in to its gravity field and began its descent into the planet. A few minutes later I crashed in what appeared to be a dry and unused land. The shield was no longer there to protect me, and I was struck with some kind of micro-organism, because I was starting to loose my sense of balance and could not stand up anymore. Several days pass and my body had acclimated to this new environment, when I saw the mossy growth in the cracks of the piece of planet that I was on.

"Noooooooooo, this can't be happening again, I thought I was free." was all could think before some strange sounds captured my attention.

I saw some strange looking creatures, they only had two arms and two pupi. They had some strange objects in their, what I believe were hands, and they were shaking it at me. I started to speak to them and they dropped their objects to the floor, and cupped their sounders. I was shocked that my sound would do that them. I started to make gesture with my hands, but they did not recognize them. Before I could warn them they were attacked by the mossy growth. Soon after my life drained from me and I was left to die there on this strange planet, filled with strange upright walking creatures that resembled our primates.