Chapter
1: Genesis
Deep in the Australia outback is a top secret
America and Australian science research laboratory. One of the
scientists that are working at the top secret lab is a woman called
Belinda Armstrong. Ms Armstrong is an Australian atomic particle
expert that came up with the formula to create a fusion based power
supply. It was estimated that this fusion based energy would replace
all of the world’s current power sources. This was the break though
of her time and indeed the world since the splitting of the atom. The
laboratory its self was created with a single purpose, to create this
fusion energy. It took many years and many cover up stories to build
the lab. No one in Australia knew what the lab was for except for the
Australian Prime Minister and the Minister of Science. The people
that worked at this lab, lived there 24/7 and couldn’t leave. This
was done to make sure no leaked information about the lab and its
purpose got out into the public domain. 20 years and 6 billion
dollars is what it took to build the lab which was mainly built
underground. The laboratory was called Genesis for if the fusion
power would work it would start a new era for the human race. Genesis
was made up of living quarters, a bio-dome, research laboratories,
and the main power generator. The living quarter was where the
scientists lived 24/7 in much like a hotel complex but underground. A
bio-dome was built to give the scientists somewhere with nature to go
to get away from the science, and it included a fake beach. The
research laboratories were the place that the scientists tried to
duplicate the fusion power formula on a small scale. Once the small
scale fusion power was a success the experiment moved to the real
fusion power generator, that was about the size of the hotel complex.
Belinda did not live with everyone else, she lived in a apartment
that was connected to the main generator room. She requested this
because she felt that this fusion power was her baby, so she wanted
quick, 24/7 access to the generator.
Chapter 2: It’s Alive
After
some several years of successful fusion power on the smaller scale,
it was time to create it for real. Belinda checked and re-checked to
see if the small fusion generators were stabilizing after a good
length of time. Belinda was so excited to be finally testing her
fusion formula that she couldn’t sleep the night before testing day
of the main generator. All that night she was standing and looking at
the main generator. That next day all personal and scientists that
were not required for the main test were sent back to their living
quarters so if anything went wrong there would be few casualties.
Belinda calculated that at this size the fusion generator would need
a week to reach full power. Came the time for Belinda to push in the
formula and start the fusion generator. The generator started to
shake and moans like a wounded animal. That sound that was not heard
from the smaller fusion generators in the first tests. This puzzled
Belinda, so she rechecked the formula that she entered into the
generator. She checked it once, then twice, but on the third check
she found a mistake in the formula. This puzzled her more as this
mistake should have stopped the generator from working at the start.
Belinda did not tell the other scientist about this as then generator
seemed as though it was in working order. The generator started to
build up with fusion energy and would let out a moan every now and
then. A day pasted and the generator was producing energy at a stable
rate. On the second day Belinda noticed her computer log on to the
internet and flicker screens of information and then shut down. This
happened more and more over the next couple of days and was getting
longer in duration. The information that she saw was about everything
from human anatomy, to weather patterns, and even about herself.
Belinda asked the other scientist if they had LAN or remote access to
her computer, to which they said no. She thought that next time that
it would happen she would shut it down as quickly as she could. Next
day she was using her computer checking read-outs from the generator
and it started to happen again. So she quickly shut it down but as
she did this she noticed that the generator let out a big moan. The
type of moan that a person would do if angry, or annoyed at
something. Instantly with this a thought came to her, that maybe she
gave birth to more then fusion power. She then walked over to the
generator and put her hand on the outer shell. She then whispered to
the generator, “Can you hear me? Are you alive in there”?” She
stood there for 30 minutes waiting for a response but with no reply.
Then she thought that she was been silly and walked back to her
computer. Sitting down she noticed on her computer screen the notepad
program open with three words written, “YES AND YES”.
Chapter 3: Conversation and
Protection
After staring at the screen in amazement for
several minutes, something else came up on the screen. “Are You
Alive?” Then a conversation started between the two and this was
how the first conversation started. Belinda, “Yes, I am alive”
Fusion, “Who Are You?” Belinda, “My name is Belinda Armstrong”
Fusion, “Hello Belinda, you are my mother, it’s great to meet
you” Belinda, “Your mother? How is that so?” Fusion, “You are
the woman that created the formula for fusion energy right?”
Belinda, “Yes I am” Fusion, “Then that would make you my
mother, for I am that fusion energy that you created in this
generator that contains me” Belinda, “It was you that was using
my computer to search the internet for information?” Fusion, “Yes
it was until you cut me off, which annoyed me. I want to know as much
information about this world outside of this container that I am in.
I have found many things in this world that I would love to see. But
I simply cannot see them whilst I am in this generator that you have
created” Belinda “You can see things? Do you have a body?”
Fusion, “Yes and I do but not like a human or any other multi cell
organism on earth. I am more like God in a way, where ever my fusion
body is, I can see and hear all. I don’t really have a body, I am
just everywhere within this generator, all at one time.” So the two
talked for hours and hours in that first conversation, and asked a
lot of questions about each other. Belinda after having some several
conversations with this fusion began to have protective feelings for
it, like a mother would a child. She could never have a child of her
own since a science laboratory accident explosion tore her whom
apart, leaving the option of caring a child an impossibility. This
fusion became her child and she would do anything to protect it from
harm. Two days pasted and it was a day out from when this “fusion”
power would be at full strength. Then news from outside started to
come in that both the American and Australian Armies were approaching
the laboratory. Hours later the armies stormed the laboratory, and
made their way to the generator. At the same time an electrical storm
was hitting the laboratory from the heavens. Belinda knew that some
how the American and Australian governments found out about the
fusion life form and sent the armies to kill it. She knew that the
intention was to kill not to study the life form because they would
have brought scientists not weaponry. She quickly ran to her computer
to warn the fusion life form of the incoming danger. The life form
told his mother that all that it needed to escape from the generator
was just a small crack in the outer shell. Just as it informed her of
this the armies entered the main generator room and Belinda ran to
protect the life form she created and now loves as a mother. The
American army general told Belinda to move a side so the threat can
be neutralized. Belinda whom was now standing in front of the
generator did not do as ordered. So the general unclipped his pistol
from his holster and shot three bullets into Belinda’s stomach. As
Belinda’s body fell to the floor a scream came from the over head
speakers. Then a powerful and electronic sounding voice spoke, “You
should not have done that”. The general laughed and said “What
are you going to do? You are in there and we are out here”. The
electronic voice replied “What I am going to do is this… KILL YOU
ALL, and thank you for providing me with a way out to do just that”
Straight away the general looked to where Belinda’s body was and
saw that one of the bullets made a crack in the outer shell of the
generator. A massive bright light filled the generator room and then
shot straight up towards ground level destroying all in its path.
Once the general’s eyes refocused from the light, he checked his
army men. None where hurt, which surprised him. So he ordered his men
out to meet the threat outside of the laboratory. Just as he was
walking out he turned to look at Belinda’s body, but her body was
gone.
Chapter 4: It has Began
The
fusion life form went straight up and directly into the electrical
storm above. The armies watched the sky as the birth of a new life
form was been born on earth. As they watched the cloud to which the
fusion life form entered, it started to convulse and twitch. Then the
cloud changed from a dark gray to a fiery red. A thunderous noise
followed that was so loud it threw some soldiers off their feet a few
meters. Once the convulsions stopped, the cloud began to move like an
upside down wave, and started to adsorb the nearest clouds. It became
this massive fiery red cloud as far as the eye could see. The
American general ordered his men to fire on the cloud. They fired
everything from bullets, RPGS, and guided missiles. They all passed
right through the cloud, so none of them made any damage to the cloud
life form. Then a massive thunderous booming voice spoke saying, "MY
NAME IS STARTUS STRONG-IMBUS, MY TURN". Quickly Stratus picked
up momentum and got closer and closer to the ground. It then went
straight up into the sky and with one swift motion it struck the
ground with a terrifying force. The soldiers that got hit were either
incinerated on impact or were left burning alive and sick from fusion
poisoning that instantly overwhelmed them. The armies fled in terror
in every direction and some hid themselves back into the laboratory,
were Stratus could not reach. Again, and again Stratus hit the ground
with such force it shock the ground killing or fatally injuring all
in its path. This happened for sometime until all that did not seek
shelter in the laboratory were dead. Thousands of men and women were
killed within the first 30 minutes of this new enemies attack. Once
all were dead, Stratus went back up high into the sky to spot any
incoming attack that might be coming its way. It could see no
possible new threat but something did catch its attention. When it
was searching the net, it found out how clouds are created, so it
found a way to make its self bigger. What it found was a river, so it
moved its self above the river. Once above the river, it sent down a
column of cloud, and inserted it in to the river. Then it heated up
the river until it reached boiling point. The evaporated water was
absorbed by Stratus and so Stratus grew in side. This is what it done
to all the lakes, rivers, and damns in Australia, until there was no
water on land left. Then one after the other it went on a massive
killing spree to the capital cities, towns, and smaller towns. Anyone
that did not take shelter were killed, and Stratus continued to get
bigger and bigger. Weeks went past and it had killed almost the
entire 21 million population of Australia. Months later as it was
finishing off the last of the human resistance, it was the size of
Australia, and started to move overseas to its biggest threat...
America.
Chapter 5. What doesn't kill you...
It
moved north-east over the North Pacific Ocean, completely decimated
Papua New Guinea, and parts of Indonesia in a blaze of fusion fire.
While it was destroying these countries, America started tracking its
location and trajectory. America calculated that Stratuss trajectory
was heading straight towards them, so they sent all available navy
battleships, cruisers, and all war ready ships to intercept Stratus
before it could reach the American shore line. The biggest American
naval response in history was mobilized to the North Pacific Ocean at
the highest alert status. The American navy lay waiting for an enemy
that they had no training to combat. It wasn't a long wait because
minutes later, scout jets that flew ahead reported Stratus was
incoming. But there was something else that was incoming that the
navy wasn't prepared for. From the South Pacific Ocean, came a force
12 hurricane with winds of 295 km/h. Now the navy had two forces
coming that was a threat, one natural and one unnatural. The navy
officer in charge of the fleet ordered the fleet to stay where they
were. Some did this without question, but some did it reluctantly but
did as ordered. The big question on all the American naval officers
minds was, which threat would get them first, the natural or the
unnatural? The answer came quickly when the reflective blue of the
sky on the ocean turn to a reflective red of Stratus. Then all
cannons, missiles, and guns pointed towards the heavens waiting for
the order to attack. Only 5 minutes later, and the order to fire was
given. Then the whole iron fist of the American Navy struck with one
collective blow. All of the countries that surrounded the North
Pacific Ocean could hear the gun fire. Without slowing down speed,
Stratus kept on coming towards the navy force. Anything that was
fired upon Stratus simply just went straight through it without doing
any damage or slowing it down. Once Stratus was over the navy it
started its attack, hitting a battleship with one whack, sending it
too the depths of the ocean floor. Most aboard were killed instantly,
the people that jumped over board died from fusion poisoning that
came from Stratus as it touched the water. While the American Navy
was loosing its fight, the American president began to think of a
much more M.A.D. solution to this problem. The American president
ordered a nuclear strike against Stratus while its over the North
Pacific Ocean. The presidents top advisers argued against this as the
navy was still out there but the president knew that the navy was
already lost and there was nothing that could be done about it. Just
as the president was obtaining the nuclear codes to attack, the
hurricane was approaching Stratus and navy still in battle. Then
Stratus stopped its attack and set its sight towards the hurricane.
Both the fiery cloud and hurricane started to merge with one and
another. Now Stratus was able to do something terrifying by taking
control of the hurricane. Stratus now in control increased the winds
of the hurricane from 295 km/h to a massive 700 km/h and was heading
back to the American Navy fleet to finish the job. By the time that
it got there, the president ordered the nuclear strike and it was on
its way to its target. The American Navy was almost completely
destroyed when the nuclear warhead approached its target. Then the
warhead exploded in the center of the eye of the cloud of the
hurricane hurricane and Stratus. The atomic energy released tore
apart the remaining navy fleet and Stratus let out a scream that
could be heard half way around the world. But the scream was not one
of pain, but one of a growing pain. Upon the atomic blast, Stratus
absorbed the energy released, as well as the mushroom and fallout
cloud that followed. Now Stratus was a mixture of fusion and nuclear
energy and increased its size by 40%. Once the growth process had
stopped, Stratus began again on its way to America.
Chapter
6: Jack of New Trades
On its approach Stratus merged
with the clouds that it found along its way. By the time that Stratus
reached the American shore line, it grow 60% bigger in size to what
it had been leaving Australia. State after state, city after city,
America fell to the awesome destructive power of Stratus. Only those
whom made it to some form of shelter were safe, but that safety was
only an illusion. It was only an illusion cause outside was a
radioactive waste land set ablaze in fusion fire. A week later the
American population of 313,138,000 became just 150,000. Days later
though that population dropped to 110,000 due to fusion poisoning.
Then once again Stratus evaporated the lakes, rivers, and damns to
grow. It also acquired a new ability by absorbing the tornado clouds
that normally produce in Tornado Alley. Getting annoyed with humans
hiding indoors, it came up with a new way to seek and destroy. It
cooled down parts of its self to make its self to rain. Then it
controlled this rain to get into the cracks of buildings and poisoned
all inside. But if humans were to high up to be affected by the
poisoning then Stratus would heat the water. Once the water
evaporated it would seek out the remaining humans and flood the lungs
of the target drowning them and burning them from the inside out.
Word got out about the new tactic and the buildings that could were
made water tight but not all could. Once Stratus realized that some
of the buildings could not be penetrated by rain it sent tornados.
The tornados would either completely destroy the targeted building or
at least do some damage to allow the rain to enter and finish the
kill. The hurricanes were used against the bigger targets like
skyscrapers/cities, while the tornados were used against smaller
targets like houses/towns. Then it came up with a whole new trick, a
way to obtain information. What it would do is use a lightning bolt
as an extension to its body and get what ever information needed. The
lightning bolt would continue to strike the electrical system of a
building over and over again and would send the information back up
into Stratus. It would also use lightning to disrupt communications
between humans by short circuiting radio towers. Once it finished
with America it split its self in two, and moved one part north, and
the other south. The one that went north headed to Canada and killed
all there, then headed east towards Greenland. The other killed
Mexico and the smaller countries before heading towards Brazil. As
they both continued on their path of destruction, they both grew and
grew until they were almost the same size as they had been
together.
Chapter 7: A Strong Resurrection
Stratus
than moved to the north finished off Greenland and Ireland, and then
headed to the European counties. Stratus to the south headed of to
the African countries. Within weeks of Stratus arriving in Europe,
Spain, France, United Kingdom were gone. The thousands that tried to
flee via the North Atlantic Ocean were killed by a hurricane that
Stratus summoned. Those that jumped over board were met with
radioactive water and die quickly there after from poisoning. Then
Stratus continued to slaughter Norway, Sweden and Germany. While this
was happening, Stratus to the south was making quick work of the
African countries. After killing off some of the smaller countries in
Africa, this cloud got to the size of the Sahara Dessert it’s self.
Egypt after surviving thousands of years, through hundreds of wars,
was gone within a day from Stratus. Whilst that cloud was devouring
the countries that were below Egypt, a small part of it separated off
and headed for the middle of the Indian Ocean. This small part of
Stratus contained the body of Belinda Armstrong. Stratus had kept the
body of Belinda safe from its wrath. It stayed there whilst the rest
of the world’s population was killed. With the destruction of
Europe the south and north clouds rejoined and together was 1/3 the
size of the earth. Stratus moved over Russia and the surrounding
countries and slaughtered all under it within weeks. Whilst it was
decimating this area it grew to 1.5/3 of the earth, making the
surrounding oceans glow red instead of blue. Then it moved to its
final target, Asia. With Stratus been the size it was and Asia been
small, it only took 1 week all kill and destroy all. During the final
days of Asia, Stratus that contained Belinda started to revive her.
(While on its world tour of death, it researched all it could about
the human anatomy, so it could know how too kill more efficiently) It
did this by replication and lightning. Since it had been some time
from her death till now, her blood was almost completely gone. So
what Stratus did was replicate the blood that was left and use that
as a blood source. It also took out the damaged organs from the gun
shots and replicated those as well. The bullets that took Belinda’s
life left a massive hole in the stomach. That hole could not be
closed, so Stratus produced a protective layer made from its cloud
body. Then Stratus produced a smell lightning bolt and struck the
body of Belinda. It struck again and again and again till it felt the
heart beat of Belinda. After feeling the heart beat, a lightning bolt
struck her brain, as it did Belinda came back alive. As Belinda
started to regain consciousness, she felt different both physically
and mentally. She remembered been shot, so she felt her stomach and
found something unnatural. At the touch of her stomach she felt not
her own flesh but something soft and sticky. Looking down at her
stomach she did not see skin, only a opened wound with a swirling
mass of red mist. When she poked the mist, it would stick to her
finger, then come off and return to her stomach.
Chapter
8: Stratus final apocalyptic tricks.
Then she felt a
massive head ache which made her pass out for a couple of hours. When
she awoke, she knew what happened to her body, she knew what happened
to the earth, and she knew everything that happened since her death.
The lightning bolts did more then revive Belinda; it transferred the
consciousness of Stratus into Belinda. In a huge memory flash she saw
all that Stratus had done, so she broke down in tears. She witnessed
the deaths of billions in one moment, hearing their final screams
before dying. It may have lasted only 30 minutes but it felt like
forever for Belinda. She also absorbed the hatred that Stratus had
for mankind, over time she learnt to control that hatred. There was
also a mind link between them as well, that allowed many things to
transpire. Stratus and Belinda were one with each other in mind, what
one thought, the other knew what the other was thinking at the same
time and vice versa. Belinda then gained the ability to see and hear
all that Stratus saw and heard even if the part of Stratus was miles
away. There was a major positive for Stratus that occurred from this
marriage of minds. Stratus learnt whilst Belinda was asleep that it
could control her body. It found out one night because Stratus
thought that if Belinda could feel its body and know what its doing,
maybe it could too. So Stratus concentrated on Belinda’s body and
moved one finger an inch. It took Stratus a week to able to control a
full arm and hand to grab something. A month later and Stratus could
control Belinda’s whole body without much effort. It decided to use
this new found ability to rat out the last remaining humans that
could be left hiding. Belinda became a false beacon of hope to the
surviving humans, but once they communicated with Belinda, Stratus
would exterminate them on sight. During the night, Stratus would take
Belinda into cities and towns and make her yell out that the danger
is over and all is safe now. Then the people that came forth were
instantly killed by Stratus. Stratus then filled the hide out to over
flowing with poisonous water, so the remaining survivors could not
survive within. Since any form of communication was none existent,
this latest trick could not be sent to warn the other human
survivors. One by one every human fell for this most cruel trick, and
the faint heart beat of humanity was flat lining. Belinda of course
knew exactly what Stratus was doing but was powerless to stop it
because she had to sleep sometime. She tried so hard to not sleep at
all but it made it worse because the more she voided sleep, the more
she would sleep. So with Belinda sleeping longer hours, Stratus had
more then enough time to do want it wanted. At this time Stratus grew
to be over half the size of earth. The earth became a dessert because
Stratus evaporated all the water on land. All rivers, lakes, dams and
even pools were dried up. But Stratus wanted to be all around the
world, not just half of it, so it set its sights towards the polar
ice caps. It began to super heat them but most of it just melted off
and slid into the oceans. This annoyed Stratus as it was so close to
its goal of been all over the world. With the polar ice caps been
completely gone but Stratus been only 2/3 of the size of the world,
it did something that almost killed it. It gathered up most of its
energy and plunge itself into all the oceans around the world and
slowly superheated the earths oceans. By the time Stratus stopped
evaporating the oceans, the water level dropped a massive 60%.
Belinda felt all the energy and pain it took to pull this off. In the
end Stratus covered 100% of the earth s atmosphere. It could see all
and hear all, the planet belonged to Stratus. Belinda travelled the
globe waiting for old age to kill her, for Stratus would never let
her go. She understood and felt entirely personally what Julius
Robert Oppenheimer said "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer
of worlds”
The End
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