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CHAPTER 5: Nobody Can Stop Them

 

 

Candela then saw with other eyes that land on which was. How many people would have she and her friends crushed without even knowing it?

She raised her arms from the ground so that the lower part of her legs support the rest of her body, she looked at her hands, could distinguish the rubble in her palm, which for her were like tiny specks of dust. She looked at the mark that her hand had left in the middle of Indianapolis. And that it had of her legs, under which an area of over 65 square miles of city was crushed, leaving everything unrecognizable?

 

“What happens Candela?” Asked Skyler, who withdrew her foot from a new area full of small gray patches that was about to crush.

 

Candela got up, resting her feet carefully in areas of low population.

 

“Look at it by your own eyes, but don't crush the gray zones ... - said Alice, looking from above, from 70 miles with respect to the ground level, to the now, for her, tiny town of Indianapolis.

 

Candela's mind began to think theories of why that was happening, was it a dream?.

 

Her friends approached to gray spot, and occupied each of the four sides of it. Candela was in the north, Sallie in the east, Blanca in the south and Skyler in the west. Being careful, as said Candela, that not set her feets on that gray area.

 

The spot was so small, that for example, if Skyler lengthen the arm, she could even touch the shoulder of Sallie, they were so close to each other but nevertheless were each in a corner of the city.

 

“I continue to seeing a gray patch, that seem that is eating the ground ... “ says Skyler.

 

“Get down, and watch the "patch" closer, but don't crush any of the grey, you will be surprised when you discover what it was. “ said Candela.

 

Skyler crouched, keeping all her weight in the fingertips of her feet. Her face was over 25 miles from the ground. She focused her eyes on the gray spot, and began to see strange things, there was very thin lines that crossed the gray spot that formed perfect squares, that couldn't have created naturally, that should be artificial. And focusing even more, when his eye was adapted, she found that within those grids were more thinner lines which had an irregular shape. looked like miniscule worms.

 

“What ... is this? I need to see it more closely” Said to herself Skyler, changing the position. Now leaning with the lower part of his legs, her back bent down so that her face was even closer to the ground, her legs crushed unintentionally several gray patches.

 

“Skyler! “ Shouted Candela when she realized what happened.

 

“I'm sorry, is that they are so small that I'm not aware ... “ Skyler apologized.

 

Sallie and Blanca imitated Skyler, and placed into the same position as her, but also inevitably crushed several gray patches.

 

“Be more careful! When you know what is this, you'll regret of what you have just smash!” said Candela. The other girls looked at her with the face of circumstances.

 

Skyler saw as if a small trickle of water crossing the gray spot, and tiny gray lines crossing the width of that trickle from one side to the Other

There are bridges? She wondered to herself.She looked at something that would be recognizable, almost in the suburbs, something that looked peculiar, a few lines that were completely white, several parallel and some perpendicular, which were in one of those green squares, bigger than the others, had the same longer than her index finger. Passed through her mind the idea of airfields, an airport, but she refused that because an airport of this size would be impossible, then what did her discover where she was, was the same as Candela saw in the center of the spot. Skyler saw the stadium, the tiny Lucas Oil Stadium.

 

“Indianapolis!” screamed Skyler. She covered her face with her hands, She couldn't believe what had just discovered.

 

Blanca and Sallie reacted with astonishment, gazing wide-eyed to Skyler, they looked back at the gray spot ... and looked at it with new eyes, yes, it was Indianapolis.

 

“Now you already know, and we can now make an estimate of how many people have we killed without even knowing it, I'd say about one million” Estimated Candela.

 

They were totally amazed, looking at the city of Indianapolis.

 

“It was that damned asteroid, that dusty glitter that we have put in the body... i think that the glitter did that ... “ said Sallie.

 

“i think there are no way to reverse it, we are like this forever ... “ Blanca said, still staring intently at the center of Indianapolis.

 

“Anyway, people will never forgive us and if we went back to our original size, we would expect a crowd of angry people, because we killed their family and friends. Although we have done it without realizing it, we made a slaughter, the largest in U.S. history, even bigger than the war of independence.” Said Skyler.

 

“That's true, so if we return to our original state, it would be our ruin ... but now, I would find a way to interact with them.” Candela said, dedicating a glance at Indianapolis.

 

“How will you contact the people, if they are microscopic for us?” Pointed Blanca.

 

-Hmm, the only way that they could try is to use a strong PA system, and the best they have is in the stadium, so” Candela said, now turning to the people of Indianapolis. “ I ask you to use the PA system of the stadium for contact us. - Requested, or rather ordered Candela.

 

Blanca had her hair pulled,so, she crouched with care, placing her face as close as she could to the ground, without endangering the lives of those beneath her.

 

She waited a few minutes, a crowd was gathered on the lawn of the stadium. Blanca saw as tiny specks beige colored appeared in the stadium and its surroundings, there were crowds of thousands of people. Blanca aproached the ear as close as she could, trying to hear something. Surely someone would be trying to contact her through the PA system, but Blanca did not hear anything. We must take in mind that her ear had a size of more than 2 and a half miles, a monstrosity compared to the tiny stadium.

 

But she came up with another idea with which interact with them. Blanca spoke to the people of Indianapolis.

 

“The PA system is not even enough for us to hear , but let's try now instead of the sound, with the sight. Me and my friends can not see a single person, because for us it is microscopic, but i think that we can see large crowds, my idea is that large amounts of people to coordinate and form the figure of several letters large enough for us to see. This will require the participation of tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, but it is the only way that remains to be tested to try to interact with us.” said Blanca. High enough so that the people of the surrounding villages could hear her, but also, low enough for don't let his listeners deaf. Her voice was so strong that even the best stadium PA system was inaudible.

 

“But you need a site very large and empty so we can see you, so I thought that you can go here.” Blanca pointed to a large open space of about one million square meters, which there was right next to one of airstrips from the airport “When you are ready and have an adequate number of people so we can see, you will form a word, so we can see that my theory that we can contact you in this way is true. “ finished by saying Blanca.

 

They would have to wait a while until the mass of people focused on the point that had said Blanca. The girls didn't move from where they were, but each one thought that soon they would have to move and see the world from that amazing perspective.

 

Skyler, who was closer to the point indicated by Blanca, set her sights on that open field, tiny dots began to appear, had already arrived several thousand people. More and more spots were filling it. Until it seemed that began to organize to do what Blanca said. It was almost imperceptible, but it was enough to see it, these dots were gathering, forming three figures, after a couple of minutes, Skyler could see that in that clearing, as large as the thickness of a finger of her hand, those dots formed three letters, "Y", "E" and "S". She could see it, people had just communicate with them and had said "yes."

 

“Yes!” shouted Skyler.

 

The other girls, without moving from their site, approached her sight as they could to the airport, with more difficulty they could see it, but yes, there put this short but effective word, each letter was made up of thousands, tens of thousands, that coordinated, and possibly guided by an organizer, they had been able to communicate with girls tens of thousands of times larger than them.

 

Skyler kept looking at those dots. they seemed to move again, minutes later, they were forming a new word, but with even smaller letters, Skyler had to approach a little more to distinguish the letters.

 

"Eart ... qua ... ke, that's what it says." said Skyler.

 

 

“True, they try to say that they're afraid because even the slightest of our footsteps, causes a great earthquake, it is obvious that we don't notice, but they suffer it, surely there have been indirect victims of our footsteps, and buildings destroyed due to earthquakes, those earthquakes, I think, could be the largest ever been in the history of mankind ... we're sorry, we can't help with it. - said Candela, looking at that tiny clearing where the dots were gathered.

 

Sallie, who was sitting Indian style, by noticed one thing. She looked for a moment to her legs, and she thought she saw tiny flashes of light, almost imperceptible to the eye, that disappeared moments after appearing, they were so small those points of light that could fit a couple of them aligned in a groove of the fingerprint of her finger. Something ridiculously small. Sallie saw as in different parts of her leg appeared and disappeared those little flashes.

 

“What is that?” She said, focusing on her leg.

 

The other girls set aside her gaze from the clearing and looked what was Sallie looking at, they only saw her watching carefully her legs, they couldn't see the nearly microscopic bright spots.

 

Sallie couldn't see clearly, but she guessed the safest, she was under attack, perhaps with tank shells, or what was more options, missiles of military aircraft.

 

“I think... that they are attacking me.” said Sallie.

 

“What?“ Asked her friends at a time.

 

“Yes, I see almost microscopic dots of light going off instantly, for different parts of my leg, I'm totally sure those are explosions ... missile explosions” said Sallie.

 

“Girls, watch this ...” Skyler interrupted.

 

They ceased to observe the tiny and at the same time impressive attack that was "suffering" Sallie, to watch the clearing again, and, with difficulty, saw the word composed of those tens of thousands of people.

 

“MURDERERS”

 

“They attack us and insult us, calling something we are not ... Why they are so despicable?” Sallie said, without noticing it was still being "bombed" by anything.

 

“Keep in mind that we are seen as a real threat for them. We have killed over a million innocent. I think they have the right to defend themselves.” Said Blanca.

 

“But not to defend themselves in this way. Are they trying attack us and that we stay with our arms folded? This will not be so.” Said Sallie.

 

“Come on Sallie, if you not even feel like they are attacking you, they can't do anything to us. Let them, they are scared and don't know what they do. - Said Skyler.

 

“Well, I'm with Sallie, they just need a little lesson of that we can not be despise as they are doing, seeing the power difference that exists between us and them. We don't want to hurt, but we don't want that they even try it. That is disrespectful. “ Candela finished, pointing with one of its index finger to Sallie's leg, where was following the bombing.

 

Skyler saw at that moment, as people from the open field was leaving it very quickly, the dots were dispersed and ceased to be seen in minutes.

“Hey! What are you doing! Go back to where you guys were!” shouted Skyler.

 

Nothing happened, they disappeared after a while, and she couldn't see where people had gone, simply because they were microscopic.

 

Sallie noticed that in her legs, bright spots began to appear larger than the first ones, and certainly she didn't feel it. She thought then that the previously bright spots were launched missiles by fighters of the army, and now the dots were bombs dropped from above by bombers.

 

“As thou shalt not lack, you are going to regret that” Said Sallie to their imperceptible assailants.

 

Despite her incredible voice stream, the military seemed to have not heard, and continued their attack, without ceasing for a second. Sallie was not even feel the constant bombing.

 

'You are pathetic, you deserve a lesson" Said Sallie.

 

Her friends don't stopped her, indeed, that incredible feeling of power had corrupted them, and liked to be infinitely superior to anything. Those who were doubtful to use force against humans gave up, now they were excited to use it.

 

Sallie raised her right arm. And with strength, launched her fist against the city of Indianapolis.