We had expected first contact to be a signal from the stars or a shimmering disk over a capital city. Instead, it was a kinetic nightmare.
By the one-month anniversary of the event, the digital landscape was a graveyard of "Last Moments" videos.
The footage was hauntingly consistent: a serene afternoon, a sudden, inexplicable darkening of the sky—as if a hand had briefly cupped the sun—and then the world tearing itself apart.
There were no shots of a silver hull or glowing portals. Whatever hit the Pacific moved at a velocity that defied the laws of optics. It was a ghost that hit with the force of ten thousand Hiroshimas.
The casualty count was a numb, staggering statistic: seven million dead in the first six hours from the tsunamis and the seismic shattering of coastal cities. Tens of millions more were missing or maimed. The internet, once a place of memes and vanity, had become a global ledger of grief and vitriol.
Many people on the internet now have a negative outlook on the aliens because of it, and there are a lot of negative posts aimed at them.
Even though a lot of people were watching the sky that day, no one caught the spaceship or object on camera. The most they caught was the sky flickering a tint darker for a very brief moment before feeling the Earth shake.
The government and other world powers had been working together since then, searching for traces of the spaceship, but they had zero success. It was as if nothing had hit the ocean, but the disaster that happened that day made it obvious that something hit the water.
There have been videos on the internet speculating that it didn't crash-land. They claimed it would be impossible for an object to travel as fast as it did and to only cause as much damage as it did when it hit Earth.
It was too big of an object, and it didn't show any signs of slowing down. It was so fast that the cameras from satellites couldn't catch it, nor could people with their cameras looking at the sky. All that was seen was the aftermath of something that was ridiculously large hitting the water.
From the speed and size of the object, the damage on the Earth should have been much, much greater.
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June 24, 2024
Two months had passed since the incident, now known as Extraterrestrial Kamikaze Day, by people all over the internet.
The E.K.D. for short.
The government announced their failure in discovering what exactly dropped that day. They were not able to find any traces of it and assumed the spaceship is deep inside the ocean floor somewhere, somehow.
The Lowell family already went back home and found out their house hadn't received too much damage. They got it repaired and slowly went back to their normal lives.
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July 28, 2024
Another month passed since the E.K.D, and people on the internet are barely talking about it. The government hasn't made any new announcements, and people are slowly starting to forget about the whole alien thing.
They might not have actually forgotten about it, but the average person that wasn't really affected by the crash could go through the whole day without thinking about it. Even though millions had died that day, there are billions of people on Earth. Only a small percentage was really affected.
In the fourth month that passed, new bizarre videos started popping up. The videos themselves weren't too bizarre, but the most bizarre thing was how each day that passed, more similar videos kept popping up.
It started with a squirrel that was twice as fast as an average squirrel running around in a park. It was so noticeably fast it had gained millions of views in a couple of days.
There was another viral video of a stray cat fighting and killing a dog much bigger than it. Its claws seemed to be much sharper than they were supposed to be.
There was even a video of a raccoon caught on a security camera at night opening up a window to enter the house. Then the video shows it bringing food out of the house that should be in a refrigerator. There were multiple clips of it doing it on different days, and it even closed the window back when it was done.
Many people at first thought these videos were AI, so they didn't really take it seriously. But with the sheer amount of different bizarre videos, it still caught a lot of attention.
In the fifth month since the E.K.D, people actually started taking these videos more seriously. The reason was the increase of more extraordinary animals and new bizarre videos of humans.
A guy posted a video of breaking the world record for the 100-meter sprint, which was 9.58 seconds, and finished it in 7.23 seconds.
Not even 24 hours passed until another guy broke the bench press world record, which was 1,401 lb, and bench pressed 1,700 lb.
It wasn't too crazy at first, but when multiple videos of different people breaking records or doing things that seemed impossible emerged, it became clear.
Even if you weren't a genius, you would guess something about this wasn't right at this point.
More and more videos kept coming out of people breaking records that stirred up the internet. People felt like the animal videos and human videos were connected somehow.
Eventually, people started to speculate that the aliens have some way to shapeshift and their bodies are naturally better. They thought the animals and people in the videos were aliens.
Many people started buying into that theory, and people started to aim all their hate from the E.K.D towards the people in the videos.
It might be that they really believe it, or it could be as simple as jealousy from someone being better. The internet is filled with people that go out of their way to find reasons to hate on something.It had gotten to a point where some people who posted videos of themselves doing something extraordinary would receive a surplus of negative comments on the video.
The silence from the world powers finally broke, but not with an explanation. Instead, they issued the "Biological Integrity Act."
All citizens were required to report to local "Health Screening Centers" for mandatory blood testing. They weren't sure what they were looking for, but things don't start changing for no reason.
The spaceship hadn't just hit the water. It had probably vaporized upon impact, not because it failed, but because it was designed to.
It wasn't a kamikaze; it was a delivery system. The "object" was a pressurized canister of aerosolized mutagenic catalysts. When it "crashed," it seeded the Earth's atmosphere and oceans with a microscopic, alien blueprint of some sort.
The world wasn't being invaded by soldiers. It was being rewritten from the inside out.