The military's advance into the Anomalous Zone had been slow-going already, but now that intense anomalous energy was being detected ahead, the advance had to be halted altogether. If the source of the anomaly could not be found and studied to determine its exact nature, any movement into the area was far too risky. Spacial and gravitational anomalies had already been encountered, and the results were... not pretty. Scouts had to be deployed, or the entire mission was doomed to fail.
The bulk of the readings seemed to be coming from a single facility. Blue and Jarvis steeled themselves as the approached the entrance to the facility's long-abandoned interior. The doors had already been removed, no doubt kicked off their rusting hinges by some looters coming to strip the place of anything that could be sold off. Moving carefully, detector in hand, the two wolves carefully step inside, the sound of crunching glass and flakes of rust piercing through the silence that hung heavy in the air.
Through squinted eyes, Blue peered down at the detector's screen. The anomaly was, seemingly... all around him, covering the floor like a carpet, but the signal was weak. It was odd, but at least the scout knew he was in the right place. “Hold on. I think the anomaly is below us, but I'm not getting a clear reading.” Blue lowered himself down, letting his knee settle on the ground as he flicked on the detector's scan mode, and brought it down so that its blue light shone onto the floor below.
The ground shook violently as rhythmic impacts struck the ground one after another. Massive shapes, so distant and vast the appeared more like blurs of color, towered high into the air above, and with each impact more cities vanished beneath the black mountains at their base. Ever since appearing in this alien world, the humans had seen nothing around their cities but massive, blurry forms of unknown nature around them... but this was the first time they'd seen them move. The black-colored shapes rose and fell slowly, as if time was distorted around them, and as they drifted above, the humans below could see what looked to be an upturned mountain range on their underside. Rows of vast plateaus, their surfaces worn and eroded, here hanging in the sky before lowering again and crashing down to the ground below, crushing entire cities beneath their uneven summits.
Eventually, one of the massive things began to shift, lowering itself down. As it moved, some of those below must have thought the vast being above them looked distinctly... humanoid. One black shape pulled back, the tower it was attached to lowering down until a rounded surface about half way up impacted the ground, and something else began to extend from higher up... shining its light down upon them.
The humans below felt the heat begin to rise as everywhere the light touched began to vanish... People, buildings, nearly everything in direct path of those intense beams of light was near instantly vaporized, leaving nothing but the scorched, skeletal frames where towering high-rises once stood. Screams filled the air as the humans are thrown into a panic, trying to flee from the approaching light, but its movement was constant, and there was no escape...
On the detector's screen, the anomaly was shifting, melting away from the light of the scanner and leaving a small trail of emptiness in the reading. It was as if the scanner was scrubbing the area clean as it moved along. “Strange...”
Jarvis leaned against a counter, his eyes glancing about the empty room before he lights up a cigarette. “What's strange?” The wolf took a drag of his cigarette, loose flakes of ash wafting to the ground and settling beside his boot... Unaware of the devastation below as millions are consumed in a fiery inferno.
Blue looked down at his scanner, then at the floor below, his eyes narrowing as he peers down... his ears flicking as they listen for any sound in the deafening silence of the dead facility around them. “Hm. Nothing I guess.” He muttered, “Detector must be broken...”

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Art by  Wolfie

Lil Story by  RWolf5
Brown Wuff Soldier  Jarvis Greatwolf