Hold Your Breath

Jammers appeared. So much smoke, so much dust, hold your breath, gone.

My dream was fuzzy, but frightening. I had awoken with sweat on my back, tears in my eye, and a sore throught, as if I was actually there.

I stretched my tenticles, and opened my eye. I was supposed to be on guard duty, but I had fallen asleep like I always do. "Why did I sign up for midnight guard duty!?" I accidently said aloud. "Shhhhhh," another guard said, "Phantoms are sleeping and our surperior officer is coming!" Just as he said this the officer came around the corner. He was just about to scold us and revoke privileges when, out of the corner of my eye, I spotted smoke on the horizon. "Smoke! Smoke on the horizon! I shouted to my fellow guards. My officer blinked in surprize and smiled. He was proud that for once I did my job correctly.

"The Sir Gilbert barrage is coming!" Alarms sounded all about the fortress. All the important phantoms evacuated the facility. It was only us left, the guards, soilders, and pounders, the group of phantoms specialized to shake the ground and crush jammers. The smoke continued to get closer and closer, it was getting hard for us to breathe. My nightmare was comming true.

As we charged into battle, I noticed that all the jammers were hidden among the tall grass, and those that weren't stayed next to the chomper plants. I chose to wait next to the tal grass for the jammers to cme out, but they stayed in there. Suddenly, thousand of boomseeds flew out of the grass! I let out a scream as I darted out of range, just before the boomseeds hit the ground. Dust flew everywhere, so I couldn't see or breathe.

I didn't even know what was happening around me, everything was blurry, like in my dream, and it felt like I was underwater, weighted down by screams, smoke, fire, dust, everything. I heard another boomseed bombing in the distance as I fell into darkness.

So much smoke, so much dust, hold your breath....

gone.