Facing Desolation
It came. We knew it was coming. We had prepared for this.
We gathered everything we needed: food, water, guns…toilet paper. Lots of toilet paper.
The last battle has begun. Over the last few years, we had been bombarded with attacks from otherworldly creatures, but we all knew those were just leading up to something bigger. This is that bigger moment.
The creature that is coming has the power to decimate not just our forces, but our world.
He’s not as big as you would expect but he is immensely powerful. His jaw opens, emitting a reddish purplish glow that sends out an EMP pulse. We have to fight using basic technology because of it. We don’t know much about him aside from that; there aren’t many accounts of creatures escaping him and even less about what his other powers are.
We have one picture of this happening. A brave photographer captured it while it was attacking his home world. He got away, but barely. But not unscathed. While opening a portal to get away, something sharp stabbed his leg, which tore open his leg from his thigh to his foot. He passed out from the pain, and shock and blood. He’s still unconscious in our healer’s wing. The only reason we know anything about what happened is that a teenager from our world happened to see the portal being opened here. The poor kid stood there, shocked at the sight of this man falling through the the greenish blue and yellow light- the portal also cutting off the tip of whatever pierced the man’s leg as it closed. The kid called for help and we managed to - just barely- keep the man alive. He’s still touch and go despite being in a coma. For right now, we looked through the pictures he had and only one cam out clearly: the last one he took of the monster that we recognized as the creature that wanted to destroy our entire world.