War of the worlds
I am Titanium.

Beca hummed the tune to Titanium while she washed up at Chloe and Aubrey's apartment, thinking about the amazing redhead in the other room. Beca had now moved into their apartment seeing as it was so close to the university, Barden had allowed it even though she was living with two college graduates and Beca was now a senior. Beca was to lost in her own thoughts to see what was going on outside, that was until she could see cars stopping in the middle of the road to look at what was happening. Beca looked up also and could see a huge storm cloud that looked like a giant twister.

"Hey guys... You might want to come and look at this." Beca called from the kitchen.

She felt Chloe and Aubrey by her side in a matter of seconds, looking at what Beca was staring intently at. None of them said anything, just looked, not even trying to question the existence of what that thing was. They all glanced at each other in curiosity, wondering if any of them had the answers. Beca was the first one to talk.

"How about we get a closer look?" Beca took Chloe by the hand and led her outside, Aubrey following close behind.

They had a better view of it now, but all of a sudden the wind started picking up at full speed and Chloe felt really cold. Sensing the older girls discomfort Beca wrapped her arms around her in an attempt to keep her warm. Aubrey stepped forwards slowly with a puzzled look etched into her face.

"If this is a storm... Then why is the wind blowing towards it, and not from it?" Aubrey questioned and turned towards her friends

"That's a really good question. I don't have a good feeling about this." Chloe spoke up looking back up to the strange storm.

"Don't worry, I'm sure it will be fi-"Beca was cut off by a strike of lightning making Chloe shriek and cower into the brunettes shoulder.

Then there was another one and another one, they were getting close.

"Aubrey. Take Chloe inside and hide under a table or something." Beca told the blonde, who nodded and took Chloe, trying to lead Chloe into the house.

"Wait! Beca, where are you going?" Chloe asked questioningly.

Beca looked up at the storm, then back at Chloe.

"I'm going to find out what the hell is going on. Just go inside, I'll be alright." Beca took Chloe's face gently in her hands and kissed her; after they pulled away, they pulled each other into a tight embrace.

Beca was the first to pull away and run towards where everyone else was running. She kept bumping into a lot of manic people as she started making her towards the crowd that was forming around where the lightning had stricken more than once. Beca pushed her way past people with some struggle because everyone wanted a look at it. She finally got to the middle of where everything was happening and saw a massive hole that went all the way into the ground; everyone looked just as confused as she was. Many people around her saying 'lightning never strikes more than once in the same place'. Others were saying 'this is just the calm before the storm'. But that made Beca look at the man who said that.

"This isn't just a storm." She says, still looking at the gaping hole in the ground.

Everyone was silent at this remark and turned their attention towards Beca for answers, to what had just happened. This made Beca look up to see everyone staring at her in a confused manner, Beca just shrugged at them.

"What? Oh come on you don't really think this is just a storm do you?" Beca said loudly so everyone could hear her. Again everyone was just silent and still looked for at least a ray of hope that the small, brunette girl would know what it was.

Beca just rolled her eyes and explained further.

"How about the wind, huh? Why is it blowing towards the storm, and not from it? And all of you are right, it's impossible for lightning to strike more than once in the same place. And this..." Beca gestured towards the ground and picked up a fragment of rock, tossing it between her hands.

"This is freezing, not hot." She dropped the rock, now people wanted answers.

"So what is it?" A small girl, who could have only been ten asked.

"I don't know..." Was all Beca could say. "All I know is that this is strange." Beca added.

All of a sudden the ground started to shake violently. No one moved though apart from one woman who screamed "EARTHQUAKE!" And ran for her life. This was no earthquake, Beca thought to herself. That's when the ground started splitting around them and then everybody ran, even Beca. But she heard a child's scream, Beca turned around to see the small ten year old girl who spoke earlier, had fallen between the cracks and was holding onto the ledge for dear life. Beca couldn't just leave her there, so she ran, no sprinted, towards the girl and lifted her to safety.

"Are you okay?" Beca asked the small girl.

"Yeah... Thanks for saving me." The girl said and smiled up at Beca, which Beca couldn't help but mirroring.

The ground shuddered again, this time knocking them over as the ground began to lift and buildings began to split. Beca was quick to move and grab the small girls hand and hide behind an open car door as they watched the ground rise from behind the door window. As it raised Beca's eyes widened in horror when she saw what was lifting itself from the ground. But Beca and the small girl were firmly fixed in a crouched position, watching. It had finally risen and everyone now could see fully what it was. It was some sort of machine; Beca estimated over three hundred feet, with three legs... Like a tripod. It just stood there, observing the surroundings, looking at all the cowering people. Then it made this tremendously loud noise that sounded like a horn blowing, but then changed pitch. Two mechanical arms slowly spouted from its sides, each had a blue light at the end of them. Still no one moved though, whatever that thing was, it must have been there for a long time. Then, just like that, it began shooting, shooting people; they disintegrated, leaving their clothes behind. The young girl by Beca's side screamed and wrapped her small arms tightly around her. There was no time to ask the girl questions, so Beca scooped her up and ran, not looking back, but still dodging the waves of lasers cascading down onto the ground, hitting people in front of them. The dust from their disintegrated bodies covering Beca and the small girls back, seeing as Beca was holding onto her tightly and pressing her face into her neck so she couldn't see anything. Finally Beca's apartment came into view and she ran up to the door, quickly knocking it open with her foot and slamming it again with her back. She put down the little girl and slid down the door with her face in her hands. The slam of the door didn't go unnoticed by Chloe and Aubrey who quickly got up and sprinted to the door. But stopped dead in their tracks before they could get to Beca, when they saw the small child standing next to Beca, trying to comfort her with a hug. The girls didn't know who this child was but they were covered in some sort of dust and debris, Chloe shrugged it off though, just happy that her girlfriend was back.

"Beca!" Chloe called and quickly knelt in front of her, Beca looked up with tears running down her face. Chloe pulled her into a tight hug.

A couple of minutes late Chloe pulled back to look at the small child next to Beca, who was now sitting down on the floor.

"And who might you be?" Chloe asked in a pleasant calming voice as the fear was evident on the child's face.

"Alissia..." The girl replied timidly, hugging her knees to her chest.

"You'll be okay, we'll help you." She told Alissia calmly, who just nodded. Chloe looked up at Aubrey. "Could you take her into the front room?"

Aubrey nodded and took the small girls hand and led her into the front room.

"What's going on? What's happening out there? And what the hell is all this stuff covering you?" Chloe asked as she wiped away some of it from Beca's cheek.

Beca looked Chloe in the eyes, such innocent eyes that were filled with confusion and a little fear. Beca had to answer her; she couldn't stand to see her this way.

"Th- this machine, it was huge, it came from the ground... It- it started killing people." Beca stuttered out before she broke down into tears.

"Shhh. It will be okay, we have to get out of here now." Chloe demanded as she pulled Beca up as well.