My Mecha System

”Ill be over in a little while mom ” says Alex, as he hangs up the phone.

It was pouring outside and the thunder could be heard in the background between the cars and trucks passing by. Alex hurriedly grabbed his poncho and looked it over before he put it on over his head.

”I need to get me a new one of these ” thought Alex as he ran his fingers over the small tears and rips in the worn material. Alex flipped the worn hood up and prepared to step outside after seeing his cab was almost here according to the app on his phone.

”Finally, it took long enough ” said Alex, under his breath, as he stepped out into the pouring rain.

Alex quickly hopped into the cab and closed the door as the driver confirmed his destination.

”Corner of S Denver and 21st, right? ” asked the driver.

”Yes ” replied Alex as he put his head against the window in preparation for the 20 minute drive through traffic to get to the corner by his moms house.

Alex thought about everything that had happened in the last 2 weeks as he rested his head against the window. His father had passed from an unfortunate accident. The drunk driver had walked away without a scratch, but his father had been barely recognizable when they found him in the wreckage. Alex had been depressed but he knew how much harder this was for his mother so he tried to put on a brave face for her and visit every couple of days.

Through the pouring rain Alex started to hear a siren. It was faint at first but it continued to get louder. He looked around trying to see what the need for the siren was. There usually wasn any sort of life threatening weather in this part of the country and the storm was only supposed to last for a few more hours.

Suddenly an emergency broadcast came over the radio.

”This is not a test. Please seek shelter immediately and await further instruction ”

The broadcast repeated in several languages and then came back around to English.

”I wonder whats going on ” said the cab driver over his shoulder. He didn seem the least bit concerned and continued to drive like nothing was going on. In fact, most of the cars around him were driving relatively normal as Alex thought about the question the cab driver asked him.

”I think you can let me out and Ill make it from here ” replied Alex

”Are you sure? ” asked the cab driver.

Without a reply, Alex confirmed payment and took off running down the side of the street towards his mothers house.

As Alex got closer to his destination, he started hearing screams in the distance behind him. He looked back to try and catch a glance of what was happening but all he could see was the headlights of the cars passing him by. Horns started blaring as traffic came to a standstill in the road. People were starting to exit their cars and run ahead as fast as they could but Alex still couldn see what was actually going on.

”Whats happening!? ” yelled Alex at a random guy running by.

”RUN! ” screamed the man, ”Things fell from the sky! They are killing everyone! ”

Alex picked up his pace and started sprinting to his moms house. As he got closer the screams became louder and louder. The crowd of people had devolved into chaos as people tried to get away, but more and more people were being trampled under the feet of the mob.

Up ahead, Alex could see people had stopped. He quickly caught up and saw what had caused the crowd to halt. There were several human like figures holding strange guns and weapons in their hands. They had a black sort of armor on and were standing in front of a massive mechanized humanoid machine. The machine looked damaged and was currently kneeling with a hand like ap