The Leviathan War

The day the sky screamed, humanity learned it was not alone.

The Arrival

Like a fire alarm, the alert echoed throughout NASA's control room. Dr. Ethan Carter, his coffee forgotten, stared at the flickering screens.

"Talk to me, people! What are we looking at?" His voice was tight with tension as he demanded. A young technician mumbled, "It's changing course, sir." "The object just adjusted trajectory. An asteroid could never do that." Ethan's temperature dropped. He'd spent twenty years searching for extraterrestrial life. Now, it seemed, it had found them first.

First Contact

The impact sent shockwaves across the Pacific. The water was boiling as something huge emerged, as satellite feeds showed. "My God..." whispered Lieutenant Maya Rodriguez, her fingers frozen over her keyboard. On screen, a nightmare unfolded - a creature of impossible scale, its armored hide glistening under the sun.

General Harris's voice crackled through the comms: "All units, we have hostile contact! I repeat, our interactions are hostile!" The Fall of Tokyo

The monster moved faster than anything that size should. Buildings crumbled like sandcastles beneath its limbs.

"Evacuate the city!" on live television, the Prime Minister screamed, his face pale. "For God's sake, get everyone out!"

But it was too late. The creature's tail swept across downtown, and Tokyo Tower came crashing down in a cloud of dust and screams.

The War Room

Ethan hit the table with his fist. "We're fighting this all wrong! This isn't some animal - it's a precision weapon!"

Maya flipped through alien blueprints. "Look here," she said, her voice steady despite the fear in her eyes. "There's a neural core. If we can accomplish that..." General Harris interrupted. "What exactly? Our weapons could as well be fireworks!" The Discovery

In a hidden lab beneath Area 51, Maya examined the ancient device. "The Neutron Pulse... it's designed to disrupt organic circuitry."

Ethan studied the alien markings. "This didn't come from the Roswell accident, did it?" Maya nodded grimly. "And it's our only hope," he added. The Last Stand

The stealth jet shook violently as Leviathan's tendril grazed them.

"We're going down!" The pilot cried out. Maya clutched the Pulse to her chest. "Just make sure we get close enough!" Ethan's lungs were taken out of the wind by the impact. He saw the monster turning toward them through the smoke. "Ethan!" Maya coughed, her lip dripping with blood. "The Pulse must be charged for thirty seconds!" Ethan grabbed a rifle from the wreckage. "Then I'll purchase thirty seconds for you." The Last Moment Bullets pinged harmlessly off Leviathan's hide as Ethan ran, dodging falling debris.

"Hey! "Over here, you ugly little boy!" He screamed and shot wildly. The creature roared, its attention fully on him now.

"Twenty seconds!" Maya called.

Ethan's leg gave out as a chunk of concrete hit him. He looked up to see Leviathan's gaping maw descending...

"Now!"

The Pulse activated with a sound like tearing metal. Leviathan froze, its body convulsing violently.

Ethan saw an opportunity. With his last strength, he threw the grenade straight into the glowing weak point.

The Silence

The explosion lit up the sky.

For the first time in weeks, there was quiet.

Maya limped to Ethan's side. "We... we performed?" Ethan watched as the monster's remains dissolved into black ooze. "This one," he said softly. Then, looking at the stars: "But they'll send more."

Maya assisted him to stand. "Then we'll be ready."

Humanity dared to believe once more as the smoke gave way to the first rays of dawn.

The End.