After the War

The aftermaths of the war looked chaotic, grim and things seemed unrepairable, worldwide everyone was suffering. Humanity lost almost everything during the war, the war was sudden and they were never prepare and everything crumbled, everyone knew that life would never be the same as it was.

Weeks turned into months and months turned in to years, but the human race was still suffering and still didn't make a comeback from the war. The human was slowly getting back on their feet's but that wasn't easy almost everyday monsters would attack earth in some places and bring them a step back from overcoming their circumstances, they were forced to live in the present experiencing suffering like cave people. Everything was shortened after the war especially food and medical supplies. Every man who possessed a robotic ability had to join the military to defend against the creatures and secure humanities future. The years kept passing as people wished for an easier life, they woke up every morning praying that everything was a long traumatizing dream. Some people who were scouts were out doing their jobs scouting areas when they saw something like a handprint on ground amongst the rumbles, one of them called for his teammates to stop and showed them his find. They then decided to investigate in hopes of something useful lied beneath, they spent a few hours pushing away the debris from the area and after cleaning they saw the number twelve in the middle of the circular door. One of the scout members who seemed to be the leader walked back to the handprint and knelt down, he then hesitantly placed his hand on it, a light then quickly flashed as if it was reading his hand. After that they heard a loud sound of metal breaking away and it slowly started creating an opening, the numbers slowly separated from one another and they saw an entrance. The door was enormously thick and they were having second thoughts of entering, they thought that maybe monsters lied beneath and they might release something was greatly dangerous since the doors were so thick. The leader of the group then pushed his fears aside and his teammates followed his footstep, the leader then told two of them to remain at the entrance. The remaining three then swallowed their fears and made their way down, after about two minutes of going down the ladder the scout leader then told one of them the stay and the remaining two continued.

They finally stood on flat grounds and within their eye view they saw another entrance that was sealed with bolts all over. The entrance was dark and slightly dim and the silence was deafening. They walked up the door and stood in front of the enormous door, after the war almost every structure was destroyed and nothing was left standing this was the first time they saw something in perfect condition that was standing, but what could be behind a door with such high security that was so deep underground the thought made them tremble. But they made up their minds to open it.

"Shaun check the left side for anything that seems like it could be used to open this up", the leader spoke.

"Yes sir"

They went separate ends of the door and searched for anything that could open the door, Shaun then called out to his leader and showed him that he found a hand print that was similar to the one above. He then walked over to him and confirmed his finding and took his last breath before placing his hand, the barrier like door then separated creating a path for then to walk through. They both mustered the courage and walked through, as they did they reached a very bright circular room and what surprised was something far different from what they expected, what they saw was children. As they entered they were greeted with the eyes of the children that was staring at them. Seeing children so deep underground was not expected, as they stood there a young boy finally spoke up.

"It's about goddam time you guys showed", the boy spoke with an irritated tone as he hoped from the sofa. "What took you morons so long, do you know how long it's been?" the boy kept talking as he walked over to them "And where's that four eyed blonde bastard"

The two men remained silent as they listened to the boy who was bickering and was clearly upset, but then one of them spoke. "Who are you children?" the leader Sam asked in a low and confused tone. The young boy stood in front of Sam and gave him an annoyed look as his eyes flickered and he furrowed his eyebrows. A child who was wearing glasses that seemed to be in his early teen stood to his feet trying to calm the other boy down.

" Just calm down a bit Nikoi", the little boy then pulled himself away and stood to the side, it was clear that Nikoi listened to the boy in the glasses and as he did as told the other children tried not to laugh. The boy then fixed his glasses and stride over to men that was only standing there.

"Hi my name is Vincent" he said as stretched his had forward and Shaun and Sam shook his hand and gave their names in return. "These are Cherry, Sean, Coral, Ivan, Luke and Peach" as he called their names he pointed at each of them and they nodded or waved politely. "And the hot tempered one over is Nikoi", Vincent said as he pointed at Nikoi who just turned his head away with his arms crossed. Sam went on asking if they knew how long have they been here, but they were unsure since there weren't any clocks in the rooms.

"So what about the blonde guy that kid was talking about"

"Oh that guy is called Felix, he's the one who brought us here. Before he left he said that someone would come and get us and that we were part of the Twelve or something like that, but I'm unsure what's the twelve though", After Shaun heard about the twelve he started fanboying explaining everything about them and told the children that their parents were heroes. The children were very surprised hearing such things but were in doubt that their parents were such heroes. Sam then went on and asked other questions such as where did they sleep and what they ate. The room the children were in was obviously comfortable but it was only one room, but then Vincent answered their questions. Vincent waved his hand over the wall and the door appeared and he explained that the doors are there and are simply camouflage like the wall.

" Enough with all the small talk I'm getting out of here" Nikoi said as he started storming off in the direction Shaun and Sam came from, they quickly followed him while calling him back, but there calls were ignored and so they chased after him. While climbing up the ladder Nikoi saw a woman sitting there, he gritted his teeth and kept moving forward.

"A kid?" she whispered to herself

She tried stopping him and called out to Sam who told her it was fine and so she released him and Nikoi moved even faster, he decided as soon as he reached he would run away and find his father on his own. Nikoi proceeded climbing up and as soon as he felt light hitting his skin his smile got wider. Nikoi held the last bar on the ladder pulling himself up and immediately started running off, but before he ran a single step he froze in place as the colors from his face was drained with his eyes that were widen in disbelief. The others then came from below and saw Nikoi standing there as they called out to him, but when they also reached the surface and their eyes laid on the surrounding they were lost for words and was only frozen in place. Nikoi always wanted to go home and with every time that passed he wished to leave, but the sight before his and the others eyes was not the place they once knew. The city was desolate and deserted as it was covered in debris and buildings that seemed like they were being balance by a pebble, outside was misty, eerie and the air was so thick it felt as if it was weighting on them.

"What happened", Vincent uttered

"A lot happened" Sam spoke as he rested his hand on his shoulder. Vincent appeared as a calm, collective and responsible person for his young age and he had a very reassuring voice. But when he was faced with the site of the outside view he lost his composure and also appeared scared even though he was trying to hide it but his fear was obvious.

"Where are we? Where's everyone and where's my family?" Vincent stuttered stumbling over each word. Nikoi was standing there in shock as he couldn't hear a single sound behind him, Shaun saw Nikoi standing alone and even though he was seeing him from the back he could read the emotions flowing off him. Shaun slowly made his way to him but as he was only inches from Nikoi grabbed him angrily as tears ran down his face.

"Where's my dad?" Nikoi shouted as his hands were trembling and fear in his voice. "You were saying something about them being heroes, now where are they" Nikoi rose his voice as he shouted louder. Shaun cast his eyes down with a dejected look, Nikoi then punched him and screamed "Answer goddamit", but he remained silent before Sam telling him to explain since there was no need to hide anything. Shaun took a final breath before meeting Nikoi's gaze and then he spoke loud enough for the others to hear.

"There was a war with some Alien creatures and we the human also got a type of ability that allowed us to transform, I'm still unsure how everything came to being but this is all I know. And about the Twelve all I know is that they saved the city a few times but no one really knew who they were and during the war they also fought and….. I also heard they died and was nowhere to be found", Shaun spoke as his voice kept getting lower and Nikoi's grip loosen. This was the reality they now had to live but the children couldn't process anything, but before any more questions were asked they heard gunshots in a distance and decided it was time to get moving. Sam gave Shaun the order of taking the children back to the safe zone with the other members and that he would stay back with one of them to guard the area and after they completed the task they should return to this area. They nodded in response and immediately started moving, after a few minutes of detouring they reached a jeep with a man leaning on it, he had a tick and muscular body and was wearing pants that looked like it was from the military and a marina, he had blonde hair and hand things hanging from his belt with gun strapped to his back. As they got closer the man straighten his pose and gave them a confused look.

"Kids? I thought you guys went to loot. Wait are we going to start eating children, does this mean we'll resort to cannibalism" the man spoke as he placed a hand on his head. The others on his team only sighed as they were used to his unusual comments and behavior and the children gulped after hearing what he said as they looked at one another and took a step back "No XL we're not resorting to cannibalism" but even though Shaun was talking the man called XL obviously wasn't listen.

"Well I guess it's one way to survive, by the way Shaun where's leader Sam and that other woman".

"They're guarding the loot area we found, we'll pick them up tomorrow since it'll get dark soon, hopefully they'll be ok". They then heard a screeching sound that drew their attention.

"What was that?" one of the children asked but their question was left unanswered.

"We better get a move on it" Shaun spoke with a slightly ordering tone and everyone immediately started getting on the jeep. They then started driving out from under a collapse building and as they did a creature eyed flickered open revealing his dark eye and he made a low crackling sound as it looked at the moving object.