October 11th 2019… Earth
All over the globe over two-billion spherical drones fitted with a single eye camera entered the atmosphere and began their descent, most countries had their radars blowing up with unidentified signatures streaming downwards everywhere!
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October 11th 2019 The House of Commons, Canada
Multiple ministers were all crowding the Premiers office as new data was brought in at real time, all were babbling between each other about what this could herald both for the world and for Canada by itself. Throughout it all the Premier was being attended to by a whole squad of beauticians fussing with his hair and makeup, even with such distractions he was attentive to the situation and was growing uneasy with the potential threat.
Looking to his intelligence and defense ministers he spoke and his young voice silenced the room, "How much danger are we in and how soon could it hit us?"
The ministers looked between themselves before trying to report, "We don't know, all we know is that our air space has just been flooded with hundreds of millions of contact icons, but they're all small enough to be space debris that should just burn up. The main problem is they aren't burning up and are moving independently before going off radar, which implies a driving force that is most likely hostile towards us." The report was grim with too many uncertainties.
The premier took it all in as his beauticians finished up and he flicked his hair back before responding. "Do we have any idea what, if they are an unknown life form, do they want?"
The response was immediate, "No Sir we do-" they were cut off mid response by a scream from one of the assistants that had just walked into the room.
All eyes turned to the woman who was now pointing right behind the premier and out the window!
The premier acted first and spun around to strike a pose as he tried to find what had caused the commotion, and there it was right in the middle of the window looking directly at him with that glowing red eye. He realized that this must have been what they had just been discussing and now it was here probably to kill him and his cabinet to through the Canadian government into disarray.
"Well if I'm going to die now I might as well give it my good side." And so say the premier ran his hands through his hair and stared the orb down…except instead of killing all of them it phased right through the window and just began circling the premier taking in as much detail as possible before beginning to look everyone else up and down, but to a much lesser degree.
The premier looked to his intelligence and defense ministers and asked, "Can either of you explain this?"
It was the intelligence minister who responded, "No sir its baffling, it might be presumptuous but it seems to just be studying us?" and just as he finished his sentence the little orb blinked out of existence leaving all those in the room baffled.
The premier looked to the defense minister while taking up his over coat, "Put a high ranking general on this as a priority assignment and get me results," he turned to walk away to his photo shoot before stopping and turning to his defense minister once more, "Make sure this one doesn't have any embarrassing baggage like all the others, I'd like this to go as smoothly as possible with maximum results and NOTHING! That can be used against us in the next election."
The Premier stopped at the door and seemed to ruminate on something weighing heavy on his mind before turning back and asking, "Also look into if this will cause enough distraction I could go as a refuge this year for Halloween, everyone made a big stink about the whole black face thing the last couple times."
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October 11th 2019 White house, United states of America…
The chief of staff was rushing down the hallways, he hadn't actually been in contact with the president in about a week and honestly he would have liked it to stay that way but now was a crisis that needed an official seal to act on a scale that he really wished he could have pushed this idiot toward Iran in the past. Pushing celebrities and those leeches the president's son in law seemed to cultivate out of the way he managed to finally get to the oval office and barge in.
Being interrupted from his eight hours of fox news and tweeting the president of the U.S. was obviously pretty upset, "What's the meaning of this? I told you and the generals I didn't want to be disturbed during my presidential working time!" the president weezed as he accidentally spelled the word he was about to miss spell right in his tweet, "I got my opponent breathing down my neck and now you ruin my time I use to make plans! What's so important!" the president stood up but had to catch himself on the edge of the desk as he was a little light headed from standing too quickly.
"sir drones have appeared all over our air space and we need an executive decision on what to d-" the chief of staff was in the middle of explaining when he was interrupted with a quick excited weeze followed by what could be generously called words.
"Is it China?" the president let out in a puff only articulating that last word perfectly, almost like it was rehearsed hundreds of thousands of times.
"No sir it's someth-" but no matter how he tried to emphasize the importance of his coming here he kept getting cut off.
"Are you sure it isn't China? It sounds like China?" the president sounded child like in his refusal.
"No sir these are U.F.O.s converging all over th-" but again even with one of the most crucial pieces of information in human history being conferred he was again…cut off.
"Can we make it look like China? This could help me in the polls, I'm going to tweet it's China doing it right now!" and with that the president of the united states was done listening.
The official wanted to scream that this was one of the most important events in human history and that he needed clear and decisive orders, but instead as he had for his entire time in the white house he gave up and instead said, "sir I'll go and try to see if we can accuse China of this incident." turning on his heels crumpling the papers in his hand the chief of staff didn't notice the drone watching him from the window.
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October 11th 2019 Across the earth…
At the moment billions of small basketball sized globes fanned out to observe and record everything the dominant species on this verdant globe did be it language, culture, region, race, religion, what they did recreationally, the food they liked, the colours they liked, the unrealistic body types they tried to emulate, and much more! Everything was being soaked up, interpreted and condensed into an easy to download one earth standard second file for consumption.
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October 11th 2019 Space…
At the same time all of the satellites in earth's orbit started to get unwanted parasites, not normal parasites but finger nail sized balls that blanketed the outer atmosphere of earth searching for a mechanical host to infest, trillions had been scattered into the Earth's orbit so they could search out and open when they detected something nearby that they might be able to infect.
And with this single move every system directly linked to the internet, or any secret military network was now compromised and immediately downloaded for review at a later date. Unfortunately for the international space station they were doing a space walk at the time, they might have been able to survive for another week if not for this fact.
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October 11th 2019 International space station orbiting over the pacific…
Captain Henderson was in the middle of repairing a component on the outer hull of the space station and he was hoping this would all go easy and quick, he was getting hungry and after a few hours stuck in one of these suites anyone would want out, "Alright I have the module extracted and the retaining bolts captured, Jeff can you give me the replacement?" Henderson calmly stated while looking into the guts of the "remote manipulator system", he waited eight seconds before turning his body over to reprimand his overly experienced friend and college, but when he turned his body he saw that his friend was looking out into the void of deep space like a kid who had never seen nothingness before. Turning his body a bit more to ask if something has happened and call for a coms check, he himself spotted a glimmer out near the side of his helmet.
Fully turning towards the void instead of seeing the constant black punctuated by stars he had grown used to, he witnesses a sea of shimmering and glinting light cascading across his vision as far as he could see, like light reflecting off of maybe millions of tiny mirrors.
"Holy shit…." he could now understand why his friend didn't respond to him.
Sensing the presence of both sentient life and something mechanical to infect, the little globes made the decision to enact a silencing countermeasure and each globe opened like a deadly flower with their eight legs unfurling and being brought into a ready position behind them waiting to strike, their single eye glowed a sinister red as some of those closing in prepared a charge and chose a target. Seeing as this was the first time this species was encountered no single spot was targeted but a multitude of random areas radiating out from the center mass were picked radiating along the limbs that could be seen at present.
As hundreds of thin red beams lanced out and pierced the two astronauts, their suits, the station they were working on, and right through the other side, the international space station just exploded in an instant taking all of those aboard and a few tens of parasites into oblivion, that is until the recyce drones found the debris.
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October 11th 2019 Earth's orbit
Blanketing the Earth's atmosphere in a net of little eight legged saboteurs, the only thing of note to find and report back were a few primitive space stations they immediately decommissioned or invaded, and an odd amount of satellites carrying fusile nuclear material, some of which was just pointing into space for some reason unknown reason., half were not even powered, but caution is the best in THE SHOW so even these were invaded and marked for decommission.
The Producer looked over all of the incoming information and made sure he was a part of every decision being made, precision and diligence were a must in producing THE SHOW and he made sure he performed his new duty as perfectly as possible, for who knew? There was probably a few people who tried hiding in the fleet in prescribed cryo tanks hoping to eventually try and take his position, he just hoped he could out last them till they died from cryo poisoning if there were any left.
Information was key, and he wanted it all…