1 Anomaly

In the year 2020, the United States were the first to notice the spatial anomaly that randomly appeared as a crack in the sky over Massachusetts, Boston more specifically.

During the 2 months that the spatial anomaly remained, thousands of scientists from around the globe came to the U.S. in order to make sense out of it. It was covered on the news all day. For once, powerful countries with rich resources work together to study the anomaly

It was finally the first day of the third month when the anomaly began to spread slowly. It cracks further through the sky, an inch per minute. While it didn't seem to make any big changes at first, it quickly became noticeable after an hour.

With all the scientists going into a frenzy trying to get a grip on why the anomaly was expanding, one man was standing in front of a small pond. He wore a more formal military uniform of the American forces and his numerous badges signified his many accomplishments.

With the sun shining on his bright red hair, he threw down the cigarette he was smoking and stomped it out as a soldier behind him, holding an automatic rifle, stepped forward.

Sir! Command is calling us back! They want us to protect the scientists in the event something happens. Bravo and Charlie team are already there."

"I see. Let's get going then." The white man appearing to be in his late 30's said in a raspy voice as he felt on the pistol by his side before taking out his phone in his pocket as he turned around.

Looking at his commanding officer, a man with a scar on the left side of his face going in a zig-zag from the top of his eye to his cheek, the soldier looked at his fellow squad mates before stepping into formation with him and another soldier in the front and 2 soldiers in the back with their leader in the middle.

With the two soldiers leading, the group began walking back down the path they had taken to get there, on the way, the leader called his wife.

"Honey, how are you doing? It's been 2 years already. Do you know when you will be able to come home?" A woman's voice came from the phone in to the man's ear.

"I'm doing fine Kate, how is Keith doing?" He asked with a small smile on his face as he and his unit walked up and into a gated area with massive white tents and buildings inside. Hundreds of soldiers from different countries were also moving around like an inside of an ant colony.

"He still misses his dad, he also just turned 5 last week so you need to bring a present when you get here."

"I'll bring one, don't worry. I should be able to come home soon, after these orders are over in a few months I'll be back in LA in no time at all. Wait for me ok?" He said softly into the phone as he walked up to a giant white building that was guarded with a few American soldiers on the outside that saluted as he approached.

"You know that I will always be waiting for you Cole, we both will. I love you." The woman on the phone said with a slightly sad tone.

"I love you too, tell Keith I love him too, for me, ok? I'll call when I have more free time." The red hair man, Cole, said as he hung up the phone and walked through the entrance of the building followed by his 4 unit members.

After entering the building he was met with a scene of utter chaos. Running around the building were dozens of scientists talking loudly while looking at computer monitors and papers on tables before writing down theories about what they are looking at.

"Lieutenant, there was a recent development you should be informed about, curtesy of the research center's scientists." A young man said as he handed him a folder containing freshly printed papers.

Taking the folder, Cole began reading through the few papers within it before closing it and walking to the nearest monitor.

"So this thing is expanding? Why now? It's been here for 2 months now and has stayed the same that whole time." He asked and one of the scientists looked at him before speaking.

"That is what everyone is asking, they are theorizing many things but our limited knowledge of space makes it hard for us to test our theories." The scientist said before looking at the documents he had created over the past few months.

High above the Boston Common, where the world's best scientists were researching the anomaly, a black hole began at the center of the spatial crack.

Quickly it began to spread into a diameter of 20 meters.

With the monitors beginning to shut down one by one as on the screen the graphs and charts they had to monitor the anomaly going crazy, Cole quickly walked outside and looked straight at the anomaly.

As the wind began to pick up the clouds began to darken slightly as lightning of different colors streaked out of the black hole and spread across the already apparent cracks.

Holding onto one of the lamp posts in the area, Cole watched as something slowly came into view from the black hole before shattering the space above the area like glass. At first he thought it was a spaceship but as it streaked through the sky like a meteorite Cole was barely able to make out the shape of the object.

It was a black cube.

Seeing that it was about to impact the ground quickly issued orders for everyone to find cover. Sadly there isn't much they could do in the seconds it took for the object to slam into the ground sending a massive shockwave through the camp toppling the buildings and making the camp look like a war zone.

Cole in particular was sent flying into a tree where he impacted it with his back. Feeling like he had been hit by a cannon, Cole gasped for air as he slumped down against tree as shouting of different languages filled the surrounding that looked like a hurricane has rolled through.

Slowly moving his shaking hand, Cole tried to take hold of his radio that had fallen off of his waist band and fallen a few feet away. As he was doing so he heard a few questions over the radio from his unit soldiers asking about his location and condition.

"Damn this hurts..." he said as he coughed up a bit of blood into his stretched out hand. As his hand finally reached the radio, he felt his vision fading while in his mind he remarked.

"Isn't this some bull-"

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