The Death Angels > A Quiet Place fanfic

Shit. That's one way 2021 went drunk.

Mexico didn’t have one of those initial governments made aware about the meteor – later seven meteors – heading towards Earth ahead of impact. Almost exclusively, those nations which did have them were rich, first-world countries. The United States was first among the pack with its closest allies in NATO, the Five Eyes and the Pacific nations in the know: Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan etc. The Russians knew also ahead of time and so did the Chinese. Cooperation between those two countries happened when the danger was first realised, when the then-one meteor changed course, where they discussed the matter extensively just like the West did. Indian found out late in the game while Israel discovered the big secret far earlier when, while spying on an ally in the West, they realised they had been left out.

When the one meteor broke into seven identical pieces, Russia’s foreign minister contacted his opposite number in the United States. Contact might have been expected in such circumstances to go the other way, for the Americans to have to tease something out of the Russians with those in Moscow full of paranoia about Western imperialist plots, but that wasn’t the case. The danger that the West saw, the East did just the same. More so because Russian scientists and military planners had extensively studied the threat and came to an even more dramatic conclusion than what those far away had. One of the seven meteors slammed into Russia itself while another hit Arctic waters Russia regarded as its own. That latter impact was thought to be something more than it was, a second landing against Russia: it wasn’t understood then that, like all water landings for the Death Angels, that was fatal for them. As to the Siberian impact, immense damage was done and a lot of death was inflicted upon Russia by it. Yet, unlike the Mexicans who sent in unarmed civilian rescue teams to the Oaxaca site, the Russians sent in military forces to the Tomsk area. Washington was informed of that alongside their Chinese allies: the Americans passed on that information to their own partners.

No one went to the UN, no one made anything public. Those in power told neither their people nor other governments what was going on. They thought they knew best of how to handle the situation and didn’t want to incite mass panic as well as believing that they were protecting those whom they served.


In bio-warfare suits, heavily-armed Russian military soldiers entered the Tomsk Oblast (Oblast: a federal entity within the Russian Federation) from transport helicopters and also armoured vehicles too. The Russians didn’t bring many tanks, it was mainly wheeled armoured personnel carriers, but they had a good few to hand. For the Russian Army to go to war – that it was – without tanks was unthinkable! The unknown threat was treated as if it required such a counter. Jet fighters and attack helicopters went in ahead of the troops. They too went looking for trouble but focused their attention where the meteor impact site was instead of where the real danger lay. It wasn’t appreciated that what had fallen from the meteor was the greatest threat to humanity ever known. However, from that lump of space rock, formed around a metal core unknown to mankind, a ‘pulse’ was emitted several times. It was an electromagnetic one and what the Russians regarded as a weapon. Several helicopters crashed and a few fighters nearly did. EMP shielding against nuclear weapons effects saved the majority of those airborne from destruction. That attack against Russian forces in the skies came just before those on the ground first made contact with the enemy invaders.

Moving up from Yurga past Tomsk in the direction of the meteor impact site was part of a brigade of Russian soldiers. The whole brigade hadn’t assembled in the rush to get moving though those missing were supposed to play catch up. The mission orders were to reach the impact site and engage ‘hostile forces’. Information which had come out of Mexico was joined by what little the Russians themselves knew about what was going on in their own country. It was believed that the threat was at that impact site, radiating from there, but it was a threat that they could handle using heavily-armed troops with air support. Further to that initial wave of soldiers, a battalion of airmobile troops from far away Ulyanovsk (on the other side of the Urals) was also dispatched to Western Siberia. The airmobile troops were delayed though and first into contact, heading into the unknown to fight foreign invaders, were those serving with that motorised rifle brigade.

They were massacred. The units involved were wiped out, pretty much to a man.

There was no fair fight. Those soldiers went up against an enemy while absolutely destroyed them. A retreat, a temporary withdrawal wasn’t made. There was no opportunity to do that. They blundered their way into a couple of dozen Death Angels who ripped into them. Armoured vehicles and tanks were attacked on the move. They were noisy and attracted attention. The idea that a creature, even one from outer space, could take on a T-90 tank and win was laughable… until it wasn’t. BTR-80s were ripped open and their crews & passengers inside massacred. Brigade-wide communications went down early before all command-&-control lower down, at battalion- & company-level were knocked out. Soldiers who did try to deploy and fight were ripped to shreds: literally. Bullets bounced off the armour that the Death Angels had. They raced around at lightning speed, jumping and leaping in their quest to kill. Not once did they show any fear on the attack. It was just kill, kill, kill. Soldiers ran for their lives when all order broke down, with many dropping their weapons. Most were hunted down when noise, even the smallest, gave themselves away. Many of those T-90 tanks were turned over on their sides or backs when those attacking them couldn’t wrench the turrets off as they did to others: a couple of the tanks were thrown into the Tom River. Rapid-firing multiple-barrelled guns with anti-aircraft platforms, tracked Tunguska vehicles, poured fire forwards. They couldn’t get a fix on the attackers at all, not at the speeds but more so how the Death Angels moved. Artillery support was with the Russian Army brigade. It never got the chance to come into play when the crews were slain and those big guns tossed aside.

In a foolish, stupid decision, when contact was lost with the troops on the ground, the deployment of those air assault soldiers still went ahead. Transport aircraft landed at Tomsk Airport, southeast of the city and in the opposite direction from where the enemy was, to disgorge soldiers and light armoured vehicles. Those difficulties contacting the motor rifle brigade were put down to electromagnetic interference and there wasn’t even any concept that a heavy force like that might have been defeated let alone destroyed. The passage of time was quick and the idea of that was just impossible. Such naivety didn’t last very long. Death Angels attacked the airport, long before the troops sent there could form-up. Monsters from hell, the stuff of nightmares, stormed the airport. Transport aircraft, lightweight BMD armoured vehicles and anything else in their way were tossed about. As to the soldiers, they fought. In the face of everything, riflemen fired their weapons. That did them no good. Using their own bodies, but also anything they could throw or kick, the Death Angels massacred those at the airport just like they had did out in the countryside. Nothing stood in their way and not one bullet nor one shell did them any harm.

What happened out there in Siberia took some time to be understood back in Moscow but when it finally did, there was action taken. The president and his top people were aghast at the seemingly easy destruction of Russian Army and Russian Airborne Troops units yet weren’t about to go into a cationic shock when faced with that. Russia would be defended regardless of one battlefield defeat. A decision was made to at once mobilise the entire Russian Armed Forces. The president got on the phone to his ally in Beijing: military aid was requested from China. Information was shared on what happened, an honesty shared with those in the United States too regardless of geopolitical difference, and Russia asked for help. That aid would include Chinese soldiers even! The thinking at that time there in Moscow, in other global capitals too, was that military might would work. The whole picture of the enemy faced still wasn’t fully grasped. China said yes after a short consideration. By the time China’s leader was back in contact though, more news reached the Kremlin. The city of Tomsk had been bypassed at first by the Death Angels yet after what they did at the airport, several of them went in there. The reports which came out, confirmed by aerial surveillance footage, were horrific. It was almost disbelieved… but the evidence was right there. Those in Moscow didn’t known that such horror of an almost unimaginable scale were being inflicted across towns & small cities in Mexico’s Oaxaca state, also in Jayapura in New Guinea too, yet they saw what happened to Tomsk. The far bigger city of Novosibirsk (third largest in Russia) wasn’t that far away and the president spoke of not sitting on his hands while the threat of that loomed over him. He wouldn’t stomach doing nothing. Orders remained for a conventional response yet another form of warfare was also given the go-ahead as well. The Chinese were told ahead of time and the Americans afterwards.

What they were informed about was the use of nuclear weapons on Russian soil by the Russian Government itself. Several midnight suns soon lit up the dark skies over Western Siberia as the Death Angels were given a bucket of sunshine atop their deformed-looking heads.

They'll be undertaking a world tour, yes.

I can confirm that is the case.
Not a good idea to invade a planet of 70% water when you cannot swim!

This is not the first movie that happens, Mel Gibson movie The Sign the aliens are allergic to water.

It says in the movie, this movie not the other one they cannot swim, not that they allergic to water.

Best would be using flashbangs and this vechile among others, a truck with a long-range acoustic device (LRAD) mounted above it.