[ WP ] A man in a small town in rural America wakes up to find that a massive `` Pillar '' has appeared in the middle of his field . He finds out these Pillars have appeared across the planet .

Charlie Mack awoke and knew he was up earlier than usual. He looked at the clock. 4:46 a.m. *I lost an hour of sleep* he thought to himself. Normally Charlie awoke at 5:45 a.m. to start feeding the animals and check his land, mostly for coyotes. Fucking coyotes. He never had any need for an alarm clock, he always woke up almost right at 5:45, everyday. He listened outside to see if the coyotes had awoke him, but instead heard car's pulling up and parking in the front of his house, a small farm outside of a small Illinois town. 
 
 Charlie looked out of his window to see three black SUV's pull into his drive, with a total of fifteen individuals exit onto his yard. Mack, as his friends from the lab used to called him, grabbed his rifle and ran out of his room to lock his front door until he knew what was happening. After locking the door he looked out of a window adjacent to the door, most of the people ran around his house and only one coming to his front door. 
 
 He noticed two things about the mysterious people running by. The first being the absolute terror on their faces, the type of terror he knew all too well. Secondly, he noticed they carried no visible weapons. They carried briefcases and equipment that he had been trained to use in his previous life. He saw a Spectophotometer, what the thought was a Gas Chromatograph, and then something that terrified him; Geiger counters. 
 
 The knocks on his door were panicked. He checked his rifle. Loaded. 
 
 `` Hello!'' they yelled. `` Is anybody home?'' The voice cracked, and Mack heard the footsteps leaving his front porch. He decided he had to see what was happening. `` Who are you?'' Mack yelled. The young man, probably in his lower thirties, turned and was shocked to see anybody answer his yells. `` Sir you need to come with me now!'' the young man, dressed in jeans and a tucked in flannel shirt said. `` Who are you and why are you here?'' Mack yelled back. `` Sir have you not heard what is happening on your land?'' *What the hell was he talking about? * `` The only thing I have heard is all of you speeding into my drive.'' 
 
 `` That could be a side effect of the the Pillar, sir.'' said the man. His voice was frail and Mack thought he could break down and cry at any moment. That was when mack could see his face. It his eyes were bloodshot and his black shadow of his beard, stained red from blood. `` Side effect of what?'' Mack yelled, not even noticing at first that he was now yelling. `` A side effect of the Pillar, sir. Please I do n't have time to explain, look behind your house and then we need to go!'' Mack dropped his rifle, he could see it in the eyes of the man on his porch that he would n't need it. He went into his drive towards the SUV's and turned. What he saw, he did n't understand. It looked like a missle. What did the man mean by *Pillar* thought Mack. The two men quickly glanced at the people working around the base of the missle, only to see one go into a seizure and a young woman stop breathing, as if she was drowning. The man with Mack started yelling to the others `` Stop working! it is gaining Frequency!'' The others carried the injured and they all, including Mack, entered the SUV's. Mack stayed with the young man who retrieved him from his house. `` What is happening?'' Mack yelled to him, beginning to feel constriction in his breathing. `` That is a highly encased, extremely strong sonic warhead... We think.'' `` Why do n't we just destroy it?'' Mack knew there had to be a reason, or else there would have been people with weapons running down his driveway. `` They can only be destroyed with extremely powerful explosives, but we have n't had much success in getting people close enough or drones to function around the Pillars long enough to detonate them yours was the first we were able to get to before it had completely gained sonic frequency. They are also incased in a material that, well, we do n't know what it is. These Pillars have landed in cities all around the world. Yours is the only one to land outside of a city.'' The man looked at Mack and could tell the symptoms were having an effect on him. `` Sir your body is being inundated by some type of Sonic weapon. We need to know why one landed on your farm, not in a city. What do you do? Do you have a family? do the words `` When we arrive, you will be saved'' have any meaning to you?'' 
 
 *How the fuck did he know those words? * 
 
 `` Yes, those were the words told to me and my team when were were tortured. We were working on nanotechnology research, specifically in materials development for the government. Four of us were kidnapped and tortured. They asked us about our research, who we wanted to *be*, and the possiblities of our reasearch. On the fifth day of our captivity the injected us with something and we woke up back in our lab. Nobody in the government believed us. If they did believe us, they went on to their superiors came back to us, telling us if we needed psychological care it was included in our insurace, but there was no evidence to proceed with an investigation. Our bodies were covered in evidence. Bruises, cuts... and brandings.'' Mack lifted his sleeve to show a brand which said *When we arrive, you will be saved* 
 
 The man's face was blank. He did n't know how to react, how could he. He turned away from Mack without saying a word, just in time to see two humvees with loaded.50 caliber guns mounted on top ram straight into their vehicle. It was at that moment he understood. 
 
 *They have arrived* 
 

