271: Meteor Impact ☄️🔥
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☄️ Impact Zone
The first tremor hit at 14:37. Not a quake, quakes roll. This was a punch. A single, concussive jolt that knocked out power across five districts and shattered every window facing west.
The object struck with no warning. A flash, silence, then the boom from hell ravaged everything. By 14:39, the sky had turned a dark, bruised, metallic hue, like the atmosphere itself was holding its breath.
The crater spanned nearly a kilometer. The meteor itself didn’t survive, at least not in any recognizable form. What remained was a fused mass of molten rock and vaporized earth, still glowing hours later.
The surrounding blocks were gone, pulverized into a slurry of ash, steel, and concrete. Emergency crews tried to approach from the north, but the heat was still too intense. Drones sent in to survey melted mid-flight.
Radiation levels spiked. Not nuclear, but something else, something unclassified. By 18:00, the smoke had reached the upper troposphere. Satellites showed a plume stretching over 400 kilometers. The sun was a dull smear behind it.
Survivors outside the blast radius described a pressure wave that knocked them flat, followed by a sound like tearing metal and thunder combined. Some claimed they saw the object before impact. A large dark body wrapped in a spiral of fire and smoke streaked down from the sky. Its fall was relentless and silent, like it wanted to be unseen.
The crater itself was unstable. Fissures opened and closed like breathing. Lava seeped from the cracks, but it wasn’t just lava and molten rock. There were fragments of something else embedded in the melt. Not rock. Not metal. Something else.
By midnight, the city was declared a no-go zone. Why had no one noticed the object before its atmospheric entry? No warning, no preemptive action, no evacuation. It was like it just appeared out of nowhere. No one could explain what had happened.
In the meantime, somewhere beneath the fused earth, something pulsed.
