It Came From The Sky - The Apophis, part 1

April 13, 2036.

The dawn breaks into another beautiful day in sunny San Francisco. Heather Lieberman makes her way home driving her 2 year old SUV. She was still wearing her ER overalls coming out of her last operation of the night shift. "And so it ends today.", Heather murmured under her breath as she waited on a stoplight to change in an empty intersection a few blocks away from home. There was an eerie silence as she peered along the street into one of the houses that was boarded up. The street lights went out. Together with them, the stoplight lost power as well. "I guess that means 'go' for me then."

Heather was one of the last people in the city . A number of them were still in the hospital in Durham East and most of them were patients. They were those who wished to be left behind. Heather braked in front of a fallen sign post . It was lying in front of her driveway. She contemplated on moving it but tiredness struck and decided against it. Instead, Heather switched off the car engine and sat quietly for a few seconds. She slowly glanced at the time on the dashboard as the seconds on it flickered brightly. 6:43 am. A little over 4 hours before impact. There was a short beep that came out of her mobile phone after that. 'No network coverage', her mobile phone read. And now she was truly cutoff from the rest of the world.

Darkness came.

Heather got off the car and looked up. What she thought at first was that a dark cloud was covering early light. But blood immediately left her face with the realization of the truth. It was the asteroid right on schedule blocking the sun on its wake.

To be continued.