The Sentinel

They have arrived, and it was no sooner than predicted. The Bureau of Research and Intelligence had given us two weeks at the most to prepare for our most likely impending doom. We tried are best to think of ways to mend our destructive relationship with the creatures from deep space, but our efforts were futile.

The next phase that we took was to analyze all the data that we had gathered over the years about aliens and foreign beings. All our research came up as dead ends, except for one case. It was in the early 21st century, a case involving a sighting over the O’hare Airport in Chicago, it described a ship similar to the object we had found on the moon several years later. We figured if by any chance the farm that it crashed by might have some debris that we could have examined it for weaknesses. We talked to the owner of the farm, who was the grandson of the owner at the time of the crash. He explained to us that his grandpa didn’t find anything in the field, but he had noticed a severe increase in the number of his cattle. We were fools the answer was right in front of us. The object on the moon wasn’t a sentinel; it was a monitoring device to watch over the group of aliens that were already on the planet.

“How had we not known that they were already here?” I pondered to myself.

“What were you saying chief? You look a little uneasy?” said Lieutenant Duggan.

“Oh, nothing, I’m fine. Don’t you worry about me. I need you to focus on calibrating those detectors.” I responded calmly.

My Lieutenant was uneasy, I could tell. I had not much longer to respond to the oncoming aliens. We now had a start and could maybe hold a counter defensive, or so we thought.

They came fast and hard. Their ships came out of warp faster than anyone could have imagined. It was so fast I think even Einstein had rolled over in his grave. Their ships were huge and spear shaped. They had a back that reminded me of a turtle with two large shafts for the front. It was a fierce entrance; they looked like they hadn’t been affected by traveling at the speed of light. They had started a spacial bombardment with gamma bombs which covered the Earth in a mutating radiation. The crops started to die and so did the animals along with the rivers as well. Life as we knew it was coming to a screeching halt. The alien overlord came up on a telescreen on top of one of the alien space crafts. He spoke perfect English and his crown signified that he was the leader. He announced the end of our world and continued their onslaught. All hope was a lost, we needed a miracle.

Ask and you shall receive, as they say. It ends up that the radiation wasn’t a complete destructive wave it had brought hope and courage to a group of young teens that had been mutated by the gamma radiation. They were then recruited by a government organization called S.W.O.R.D., Sentient World Observation and Response Department. Their goal is to respond to the alien threat and take it down.

The leader of the rag tag group of teens was one Nicholas Fury. He is a large man full of muscle, no hair, with a scar over his right eye. He was a force to be wrecken with. His powers give him an undefeatable healing factor that allows him to heal his wounds before he reaches death. He led his team into the heat of the enemy space crafts, not knowing if he would win. The space crafts had a strong force field that obliterated everything that touched it. Fury’s friend, Angel, flew Fury through the force field. Fury’s healing factor prevented him from being obliterated. The S.W.O.R.D. forces charged through the mothership destroying the craft from the inside out. Once they took down the mothership all the other crafts just stopped and crashed and destroying the entire fleet. But when they went to search for the Overlord all that was to be found was a chicken and a vile containing the cure for the radiation.