Tick, tick, tick. The oil vibrated every two seconds, like a clock clicking down. Wolf walked in closer to take a look. As he drew nearer, he saw from his perspective the AI reverse-engineering Supreme's suit. The closer he got, the more of Supreme's exterior the AI stripped away, allowing Wolf to see what that sound was. The internals showed more and more, until he was right up to the massive frame. Then the AI took off the last obstructive part.
It was a bomb, with the words "WE DIE TOGETHER" written on it.
Then everything went white. The power station lit up with white light, and then everything within 1,000 kilometers that was connected to power—all the lights—went on and became super bright. It was so bright it lit up the whole city to a point it blinded everyone. All that could be seen was white. Then BOOM! All the lights overloaded and burst. Everything went black.
Then BOOM!!! All the ground within 1,000 kilometers lifted up like a huge mountain was forming under their feet, but it was more like a volcano in appearance. Its highest peak turned into a huge mushroom cloud. From space, it looked like a huge volcano forming on Earth, with the peak of the mountain over 10,000 kilometers into the sky.
Then BOOM! The second explosion hit as everything now fell back down. The buildings and ground all came crashing from 10,000 kilometers. The mushroom cloud from above now moved around Earth, covering all of Earth, making it look like a huge black ball from space. On Earth, the second explosion, with all the land now falling back, was so strong it created an earthquake on the other side of Earth. The shockwave was so loud and moved so far it blew almost 60% of Earth's surface, leveling lands. The other 40% now saw huge waves heading their way.
Wolf floated in space, burned black. The red in his eyes faded, and then slowly turned back on.
"Where am I and how am I not dead?"
"I used a sun blaze to push us off the Earth and shoot us up faster than the explosion could get us," his AI replied. "It didn't fully work. You're still damaged, but you're alive, so it's not all problems."
"Earth? What happened?"
"It looks like because it exploded in the 'Bone Oil,' a chain event happened," the AI said. "Since most of the city was powered by it, it took the whole city with it and created a hyper-nuke."
"I'm unable to connect to Earth systems or see through the cloud," the AI added. "It's too dark."
The cloud had plunged Earth into darkness, only being lit up from time to time by the red lightning—a defect due to the clouds forming from the "Bone Oil." Cities lay leveled; buildings had turned into skeletons; everything was burned black; everything was blown into different places where they weren't supposed to be. All the animals and humans within the explosion area were destroyed, turned into dust, now disappeared with the wind.
As the wind moved, shadows burned into walls became visible, humans turned into statues, and bones floated in the ocean as the water reappeared. Black-boned fish appeared. The fallout worsened with the appearance of the survivors getting up, reawakening. All that could be heard was screams and drums—but those were no sticks. Those were the bones of men turning to run, walk, and move as the lightning roared from above and lit up the leveled cities.
Humans were everywhere, most blackened, most cut in half, but all were disintegrated with every flash of light. Those who could see ripped their eyes out. It was as if they were in an apocalypse, and death was moving. Humans had turned into burned, dehumanized monsters. Everything was dry to them. Half of them couldn't breathe, and the bony drums grew louder as the humans ran to the seas for water like mad zombies.
Wolf floated in space, looking down on Earth. Earth was a coal-black ball with the light of the sun giving it an orange hue. Then, on Earth, on top of the clouds lit up by the sun, a small "2 11" appeared. Then the two lines got bigger and bigger. At first, Wolf thought it was like two flat jets heading toward them. Then he realized it was actually two big shadows, which meant it was coming from behind him, from space.
He turned to look back, but they were all around him. They were so big he couldn't even see what he was looking at. It was like he had been surrounded by two super ships. They looked like no other ships he had seen. Both ships were completely covered. They looked like two huge cylinders. They moved by him down to Earth, and he saw them fully: two huge ships. They looked like long sticks of corn. But then the ships stopped and now moved sideways toward each other. When they connected, they started spinning.
A man stood on a half-destroyed building. The lightning lit up a man, half of his body destroyed. As he looked down on the ground, fully in shadow, one huge ball of sunlight appeared on the ground, then 2, then 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. He looked up and it was the black clouds opening. Then BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! The whole, full-covered sky was now full of round holes. Then BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! The Earth shuddered with shockwaves after shockwaves.
Back to Wolf: The AI looked at the ships and, by looking, realized the ships were spinning to disconnect those balls that were all over the outside of the ships' walls, which had been making it look like corn. It was shooting those pods down to Earth, and that was what was making those holes in the clouds.
A human walked down a hallway in a fallen building. One of the pods had crashed there. He stopped as it opened. The human looked at it as it was in light, looking like an egg just cracked open as it landed there in its hole. He kept his distance and looked in, but it was just black. Then Shhhh-whoosh! He looked down at his chest and now there was a hole with only the bone left. It looked like his chest had gotten hit with a high-speed plasma beam that burned flesh, muscle, and heart, but not the bone, making his chest look like a cage. He fell forward into the hole.
Then the egg started moving. Two hands appeared, then 4, then 6. Then BOOM! It jumped out of the egg at the falling human. It was a huge, living monster with six arms, two legs, a long body, no eyes, and a huge long mouth built like a lizard, but its head was like a xenomorph. The back of its head connected to the big liquid-filled skin sac on its back, glowing yellow with its glassy skin and jaw that moved as far as its shoulders. It got a full bite of the human, taking it whole in one bite. It landed on all eights, and you could see the human body now in the liquid-filled skin sac like an animal in a jar of jam. But this worked like acid, turning the human into bones. Then those bones started glowing and then the monster synthesized the light. You could see this glow move through its body like it had just turned the bones into fuel.
Then it started glowing and pulsing like a heartbeat. It stood still with the light moving through the dark, built like it was scanning for things. The light went over a person on the ground crawling. Then, as the human crawled, behind him from a distance, you could see all the glowing light, even on the back of the alien monster, go out. Everything was dark. Then Shhhh-whoosh!! The crawling human got lit up by something, then dark again. You heard something rolling, then hit a wall. Then the lightning went BOOM and lit up the building. You saw the human again, and now he was just burned bones.
On the alien ship, the commander screamed: "I knew I should have never trusted those apes! We killed for them! We shared our technology with them, and how do they thank us? With a dead Earth! We come for wood, but they give us burned rock! It doesn't matter, though; if we can't get the wood, then we'll get the bones! I'll make sure our Oil-Glower army takes out every single one of them! All of them will be our pay for taking out the Martians and giving them the designs for the 'Bone Oil' power plants!"
The clouds now reclosed, and the world fell back into darkness. Then all over, lights started to appear, coming up like beams of light, scanning the lands. Not just hundreds of those lights, but tens of thousands scanning in a rhythm like heartbeats. As the lights scanned, they moved over countless burned humans and other survivors. Then it all stopped.
Then Shhhh-whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Thunder overhead lit up the lands, showing bodies of humans getting disintegrated into skeletons that were being eaten with unreal speed. The Oil-Glowers moved with the speed of ten cheetahs. The humans were just trying to run. The drums of bones were not just running, but the bones were falling after getting hit by the Oil-Glowers' mouth sonic-blast. It was so fast there was no time to react, just Shhhh-whoosh!
Then, a voice cut through the empty and collapsed buildings: "We can't just let ourselves get killed like this! Let's take control!" A scientist, injured and burned but wrapped up, stood in a half-destroyed lab. "This is our world, so fight for it!"
Shhhh-whoosh! He got hit from the back by an Oil-Glower, but as he fell, overhead from behind, thousands of empty jets flew over the land. They started dropping things from them, making it look like it was raining over the madness of the Oil-Glowers' attack. One of those things dropped in front of a hiding human, and it got lit up by the thunder. "It's a gun!" he screamed. "It's raining guns!" But he took his and shot himself, and so did many others. "I'm sorry, I'm not fighting for anything—not now, not ever will I fight to stay in this hell with those demons!" BANG!
But then the SHHH-WHOOSHES got equaled with the noises BANG! BANG! because it was not just humans shooting themselves, but some were fighting back, shooting at the Oil-Glowers. But there was no hope, since the Oil-Glowers could go dark. So many of them just tried to shoot whatever, but even then it did nothing as they got overpowered and killed. More and more humans fell and got turned into fuel.
And as the humans thought it was over for them, all the Oil-Glowers went dark. The humans started shooting, but they didn't get attacked. Then one shot landed on an Oil-Glower. It exploded, and the light for a couple of seconds showed the other Oil-Glowers not focused on them, but looking up at something. So the humans looked too.
In the back stood a single building, still half-way standing, and a human looked closer. There he stood. No noise but thunder roaring in the back. No arms. Suit damaged. Face burned to the bone. But yet, all the Oil-Glowers and humans didn't see a scrapped piece of metal. They saw a man with eyes glowing with the heat, the fury-red glowing eyes of a man ready for his last stand.