Sawing down the city

Date: 6/6/2016

By trenttt

I was living in the city with my parents. I remember speaking with them and hearing a loud bang. I walked out on the balcony over looking the intertwining highways and over passes and part of the city. Along the skyline I saw smoke bellowing up in cylindrical form. It was a beautiful sunny day, and the smoke quickly started filling the sky turning it a dark shade of grey with a hue of red. I started to panic thinking the entire city was being bombed. I gazed out ahead and noticed two construction workers on top of the building and they were approaching each other about to fight. Other workers were egging them screaming "fight! fight! fight!". I started to become curious and realize that we were not being bombed, but I still wasn't sure what was happening. Right in front of my apartment I noticed a big metal structure that appeared to be a full stop light system that stretched across the street, only it had collapsed and lied in ruin of itself on the highway. I then heard a loud buzzing noise and leaned out the window to see where it was coming from. A large saw peered through the overpass and moved in a strange wave like path cutting up through the roads and buildings from under. It was taking out anything in its path including cars, pedestrians, and other apartments like my own. The saws were connected to large mechanical vehicles and I'm pretty sure actual people were driving them. When I realized that the saw had missed us, I was relieved. My parents were a floor below me and my small toy fox terrier dog Ally was with me. Beside me was a set of escalators, and I remember thinking I needed to take them to get down to my parents. As I headed toward the escalator, they begin to shift upward, not allowing me to move down. I began hearing the wretched buzzing of the saw again, but this time it was all around me and echoing through my ear drums. once again I panicked and ran to the other side of the room with a different window facing the opisite direction than previously. I see about 20-30 saws, all moving along different paths, but still in the weird wave shape. more than one saw was moving toward me and I felt a sickness in my stomach. A gut wrenching feeling in your stomach that makes you think you're going to puke. The entire city was crumbling before me. I thought to myself, " This is the end of the world. All of those crazy ideas of how the world might end, and this is it".I tried desperately to reach my parents so that if I met my demise, I did it in the presence of my loved ones. I turn around in time to see the escalator back in its proper position and my dog bolting for it. As soon as she reached the bottom it began shifting back up with no way I could make it in time. I started screaming out for my parents, calling for a response and telling them I love them. I heard no response at all. I then hear a voice come over an intercom type system. it was a woman's voice, though the audio was indistinguishable. looking out over the city and down on the sidewalks, busniess men and women walked casually standing very straight and either talking on cell phones or carring briefcases. They seemed like robots completely oblivious to what was going on around them. I hear a loud pop and turn around. A large saw had now made its way through the wall and I was in its path. With no where to move, and nowhere to go, I gave into the madness and lied down on the floor, patiently awaiting my death. The buzzing getting closers and closers as I clenched my eyes tighter and tighter. The saw struck my head and I woke up.