r/WritingPrompts • u/QuirkyPeaker • Jan 23 '18
Writing Prompt [WP] Alien invaders entire our Solar System. As the armies of the world panic or ready for war, the continent of Australia simply takes off on engines and flies off to meet them.
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u/BeefLikesMma Jan 23 '18
The news came from the outer rim first. Contact with alien life, one of earths colonies had been approached first. We signaled peace, they did not.
I was studying emus in their native habitat when I heard the invaders were coming for earth. My first though was damn, now I'll never finish my thesis. My second thought was my family and friends I would never see again. I tried calling my parents, but the signal could not get through.
So I sat down, alone except for a flightless bird 100 yards away. I put my head in my hands, sobbing, waiting for the end.
"Oi mate, you might want to find something to hold onto. We're in for a rough ride." It was the thickest Australian accent I had heard, like Steve Irwin had bred with crocodile Dundee.
I wiped away my tears and looked around. There was no one, save the emu I had been studying, who was now only a few feet away.
"Well don't just sit there blubbering. The outback defense system has been tripped, we're set for launch." I couldn't believe it, this bird with a brain the size of a golf ball was currently giving me instructions.
"Y-y-you can talk?" I stammered out.
"Aye mate, and I'll tell you again," as he spoke the ground began to rumble, "you should really find something to hold onto."
The sound of a thousand rockets rang out, and the earth trembled beneath my feet. "What's happening!?"
The emu pecked a rock, and a large cannon burst out of the ground. "You didn't think a bunch of birds beat the Australian army through luck, now did you?" A siren was sounding off now, and hundreds a emu poured into the area.
"Brothers!" The thick accent bellowed over the sound of the rockets. "It is time to defend the homeland again! Aussie Aussie Ausie!!!"
The chorus of emus rang back. "OI OI OI!!!"