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Earth. The invasion. So sudden. Destroyed. The horror. SO SUDDEN. No
chance. Why? Exodus. Hope? A few. Spaceships. Undetected. Deep Sleep.
Suddenly he knew it all. He had witnessed the horror of it all. Seen the death and suffering. He started shaking
and stumbled.
Dead. Everybody was dead.
Ick knew what he had to do.
Deep breaths. He needed to do this. Had to do this….
He knew he should have asked the on board computer for an atmospheric reading first, but he was just too damn scared.
New Earth? Please…
Ick Bollard paused. He was trying to remember something. Something important. He wracked his over stretched brain.
Then it came to him….. a phrase. An important one.
He cleared his throat.
For the first time in 258 years a human spoke:
"Erm…..this is one big step for man and one huge leap for mankind"
With that, Ick Bollard opened the door.
It was dark. The air was tinged with the odour of ozone. God that smelled good! Ick took a deep breath. He hadn't
smelled fresh air for, well, as long as he could remember.
He took that Big Step for mankind.
And it quacked.
Ick recoiled. That wasn't right. He tried again. And it quacked again.
No no no! Ick thought. He grabbed a flashlight and shone in through the door.
Ick almost dropped his flashlight. The only thing that kept him looking was the strange voyeur in him. There were
rows upon rows of them. Ducks. And they seemed to be dead. All lying on their backs, legs in the air.
He found the flood lights for his ship (labelled BIG BASTARD LIGHTS) and turned them on.
All he could see for miles around were ducks. Every hill, every valley was full of dead ducks. Millions upon millions
of dead ducks.
"Ah fuck!"
Ick closed the door and stumbled back to his DST.
Being the last human alive, he had kind of got used to failure.
Deep Sleep…..ah…
He knew that ducks would eat just about anything. A whole planet of dead ducks? Must be a no no.
Onward and upward.
With that Ick went back to sleep.
On a small planet in the middle of no where of importance, a duck said:
"Up and at em guys! There you go!! Works everytime!"
And a million ducks carried on about their business despite all the disruptions to their lives.
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