Here's the current story:
Chapter 1: sitting ducks.
I sat on the cold steel bench in bleacher park as I awaited the city buses arrival to pull up around the slightly-bent street lamp on the corner of Racket ave. and Duenta pkwy.The sound of air ships overhead rang in my eardrums. As the military patrol walked by, my friend Tom Green, who had joined the Earth's Air Force, flung me a quarter and walked off around a building off to the far right with his unit. He said the day before that he'd leave the patrol and join the Earth's Air Defense division.
A bus quickly pulled around the corner and stopped at the bus stop, which was a couple of benches to the right. As i entered the bus, the bearded, grayish bus driver looked my directly in the eyes and said "Twenty five cents, or you ain't gettin' on.". In a raucous voice. I quickly took the quarter Tom had gave me and slid it in the little coin slot near the cheap-looking radio. I walked to the right side, third seat down and sat. As the bus started off, I decided to put it away and look out the window, a patrol unit equipped with a bunch of C.R.A.G.s and M.T.R.C.R.s, an old woman walking her dog, and a small droid cleaning the front steps of an office building, "This city is boring." I thought.
I stepped off the bus and walked to the beginning of the huge fleet of stairs at the entrance of my apartment building. I took my gold key out of my pocket and placed it in a lock on my door, and opened the door slowly. As i walked in, i smelled the smell of pizza and cigarette smoke. My roommate, Jerry Sliton, was sleeping on the couch. I switched on the T.V. and flipped through the channels, i stopped on the news channel and watched an interview with the famous fleet commander Tom Gunn. after a few minutes, I changed the channel to a movie channel and watched a movie on Eric Speshnald, our 89th president.
After a good hour of brain cell killing, i heard a sonic BOOM, coming from out the left most window."I don't want to get up yet, mom!", Jerry said startled as he rolled off his bed and fell to the floor. I immeadietly raced to the window to be confronted by a blackening sky.
Upon sticking my head out the gray silled window, I was confronted on 3 huge black figures. The two nearest, shaped as a squid, the second, a salamander, but the third one was too far away identify exactly. A series of AA gun fire shrouded the squid as it retracted it's tentacle, and quickly pierced a giant armory-looking stadium. Just a a couple months ago, the military changed Jasonia stadium into a weapon stronghold for the U.S. military's expense. The salamander pounced and landed on the local mall, then attacked the police station.
I quickly got away from the window, and ran to Jerry. "Jerry! Wake up!", I shook Jerry, and picked him off the floor. "No Mom, not yet!", Jerry said in a raucous tone. Suddenly, There was another sonic BOOM coming from the squid, it started spewing out escape pod looking ships. Gun fire came from machine guns mounted on the sides of the crafts, as they touched down, I had recognized of the soldiers who were emerging.
To be continued
I need some ideas for the rest of the first chapter. Any character ideas? Story ideas?
Known characters
Bob Meschlin (Protagonist of story)
Tom Green (Bob's best friend.)
Jerry Sliton (Friend and roommate of Bob's)
