The bursts of blinding light swept onwards, searing into the upper atmosphere, flames and grimy steamed vapour pouring to either side of the wide high energy bolts, crackles of static sparking along the trail of debris behind as particles became highly charged in in the turbulent upper temperature.
Tearing through and into the lower atmosphere, the twin bolts began a gradual deadly descent, the shafts of searing light burning through the sky and leaving streaks of ice and scorched steam behind, the crackle of static charge surging to either side across the heavens as the upper clouds darkened ominously.
Becoming visible over western Texas and the deserts of New Mexico in the United States, the brightening lights surged westwards high above the clouds. Startled and already terrified citizens below were temporarily blinded as they instinctively looked upwards, deep shadows forming around their figures as the energy blasts continued, gathering speed and power with lightning crackling to either side, a sonic boom sound wave gradually filling the distant terrain beneath.
At high speed, the toxic energy blasts continued across the sky, gradually lowering from gravitational pull as they swept over the devastated lower western American coastline and across the Pacific Ocean. Heavy black dust and debris filled the higher air, the intense energy searing and scorching the dirt clouds above where San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco had once been. The decimated cities are now virtually completely submerged with fires burning uncontrollably along a new coastal boundary predominately marking the San Andreas fault line.
Black Morgon fighters swooped blindly eastwards through the dust clouds and swirling debris, heading inland towards Las Vegas, Phoenix and Tucson, dropships preparing to join them from above, several supply transports now jettisoning from the other Decimator warship in high orbit.
Having covered half the circumference of the earth, the twin bolts seared over Tokyo in Japan and then southern China, the intensely bright lights now dazzling and blinding North Korean and Chinese soldiers below as many bowed their heads in terror.
The energy blasts hurtled into the clouds over Mongolia and Kazakhstan, static charges lighting up the sky along dirt and flaming trails behind, the air seeming to thicken as farmers, residents and animals panicked and ran in desperation, the land darkening with deep shadows from above. Many were blinded for days; the energy bolts now descending as the blasts swept into Russia.
Wild fires erupted through the city of Saratov as burning molten embers fell to earth from the fiery trails across the sky, a news crew filtering their lens to film from the roof of their headquarters as the team desperately donned darkened goggles, the overwhelming light now permanently damaging sight and blinding some, the heat almost unbearable.
Forests beyond the city combusted and burst into flames as the intense heat seared the terrain from above, the blasts of energy scorching cars and roofs as they swept onwards, the altitude dropping as the target neared.
Two miles before the outskirts of Moscow, the high energy made contact with earth, tearing the terrain apart as the land nearly fifty acres on either side shook violently. The explosions ripped beneath the landscape, molten debris and rocks tossed high into the air as the detonations rose in intensity and swept forward, the blasts engulfing and shattering buildings as the surge rolled onwards, ripping through everything in its path, the intense heat liquefying earth and rock.
Moscow erupted in multiple fireballs as building foundations imploded, the energy blasts burying up to six hundred metres deep as they tore underneath the city. Tremors toppled other buildings, flames tearing through sewers and the underground secret KGB passageways, structures exploding as the gas mains ignited instantaneously across the city.
Earthquake after earthquake devastated the capital, some structures simply tossed upwards as raw energy surged underneath. An inferno and firestorm raged across the ruins, consuming the oxygen and all living matter, the air thick with acrid smoke as survivors were asphyxiated or torched alive...the fortunate few incinerated as ash and polluted clouds swept upwards.
Many people threw themselves into the Moskva River, the water heat rising dramatically as bridges and side buildings toppled into the frothing churning water, the evaporation escalating in even higher temperature as boiling steam billowed across the nearby streets, scorching and igniting debris and dust, embers swirling through the firestorm. The Bolshoi Theatre and Kremlin crumbled and collapsed downwards as underground tunnels imploded, the surge of energy sweeping underneath and searing the earth and rock into boiling lava beneath the city as further large earthquakes shattered the outskirts.
Coded covert messages immediately swept back and forth between the two immense Morgon vessels in high orbit, their commanders summoning their lead teams to urgent briefings. The reports from surveying engineer teams on the surface of the planet were urging extreme caution…that further immediate strikes from the potent guns above could adversely affect the planet’s atmosphere or even cause a form of geomagnetic reversal.
Within only one hour, the target city of Moscow had completely disappeared, to be replaced by a bubbling deep cauldron of lava, the polluted steam and ember clouds rising high into the heavens and lighting up the country for hundreds of miles around.
There were now two major disaster zones on either side of planet earth, pollution pouring upwards into the air and atmosphere, secondary irregular tremors and earthquakes beginning to spread across the globe as the Morgon commanders decided on their next actions, drop ships preparing to pour from the Decimator warship holds.
Character Overview: Zaxon B
Admiral Shadian
Commander of the space station Alexion One above Zaxon B, the admiral has served with his crew of approximately two
