Disclaimer: If I owned Cloverfield, I wouldn’t be writing this.

Humanity knows little about the unknown and once what is destined to not be understood rears its head, all hell breaks loose.

Hell, out of all people I should know.

My name is Clyde Jefferson…one of the few and not so proud survivors of the enclosed incident cited as “Cloverfield” in United States History.

Don’t believe me? You don’t have to; I know the truth all ready. That’s for damn sure and without a doubt.

The year is 2013…goddamn has it really been that long?

Six years since that that day…

Six years since Cloverfield.

Damn.

All of Manhattan has become known as “Ground Zero” since that whole Cloverfield incident.

I actually still wonder how the hell I made it out alive, an old coot like me should’ve been pushing up daises by then or getting my ass munched by those little spider dogs or whatever the hell they were.

Does anyone else find a slight bit ironic of all the time’s “monsters” have been addressed?

In 1933 a man named Carl Denham brought a giant gorilla he called King Kong to New York City and the damn thing escaped and all hell broke loose. Poor monkey ended up climbing up to the top of the Empire State Building with some broad called Ann Darrow and got shot down by biplanes.

In 1954 a giant reptile known as “Gojira” by the Japanese attacked the heart of Tokyo. Thousands died, hundreds were brutally injured and even more were mentally scarred or physically handicapped for life. The dinosaur ended up getting suffocated underwater by the “Oxygen Destroyer” or something like that.

In 1998, something called a “Godzilla” attacked New York City itself. I wasn’t here at the time; I was visiting my grandmother in Pontiac, Michigan. The big lizard made quite a mess before getting blown away by missile bombardment via jets when it got trapped on the Brooklyn Bridge.

In 2006 a giant, supposedly parasitic and disease carrying mutant surfaced from the Korean River and started wrecking the place. Turns out that whole thing about a “virus” or something like that was just a bunch of a shit though. I heard some Korean civilian killed the thing, it takes balls to look at something that ugly in the face and even more to actually kill it.

And then we have the Cloverfield incident in 2008. I was unlucky to actually see the monster with my own eyes, I still have nightmares sometimes. It was ugly as sin and with one incredibly disturbed mind to boot.

When I look back at the things we call monsters, it’s kind of ironic really. Do we have not only ourselves to blame?

Hell, if Denham just left that big ape on his island than he wouldn’t have gotten killed and neither would have innocent people.

The whole reason for Gojira’s existence was because of atomic warfare, and that big lizard Gojira was irradiated by nuclear tests conducted in French Polynesia.

The exact same goes for that thing from Korea, as it was cited many weeks after the incident involving that tadpole thing in 2006 that Korean scientists had knowingly dumped toxic chemicals down the drain that led to the Korean River; so they only have themselves to blame.

And it came to no one’s surprise when Tagruato was sued responsible for the whole Cloverfield incident. Apparently of some sort of satellite into the ocean had crashed into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean several months before the Cloverfield incident.

The satellite was owned by the Tagruato Corporation, which has been harvesting one of the ingredients of its patented "Slusho" beverage from the ocean floor, which possibly drew the attention of that monster. It came to no one’s surprise that within a few months that the Tagruato corporation was completely financially devastated and out of business completely.

Doesn’t all this seem just a bit ironic? That all the time that “monsters” appeared it was usually humanity’s fault they were there in the first place? Hell, sometimes humanity actually CREATED these monsters that caused worldwide disasters; guess we only have ourselves to blame?

I’ve always had reporters at my door, usually barging in for an interview or something of the sort since there are very few survivors of the Cloverfield Incident that haven’t gone mental. The most common question I hear all the damn time is whether I personally despise the creature that destroyed Manhattan and for all I know, could’ve taken my life.

My answer is no and many are always suspicious why. After all, more than half of the Cloverfield survivors always express hate for the monster that could’ve been their end, and others just spew how it destroyed their homes, lives or was responsible for the deaths of family members or something of the sort.

I know what it’s like to lose family, that’s for sure. My brother, sister and aunt all died on the day Cloverfield happened.

All those damn spider dog things killed my brother, or whatever the hell the United States Military addressed them as. I know that for sure, as I was there and I saw as my brother was torn apart and devoured by those things. There were three of those spider dog things, I grabbed a fire axe and a pistol from a dead militiaman and killed them all. As far as I’m concerned those damn spiders and I are even.

Then came my aunt, who could’ve survived if she hadn’t panicked. She tried driving off in her Mercedes but before she got around the turn the Big One came round the corner and stepped on her car. Hopefully she died painlessly; she was always my favorite aunt.

Finally, there was my sister. She and I got on separate helicopters to escape from the city, mine made it and hers did not. That THING struck it straight of the sky, it flew out of control and crashed into a nearby building; from what I saw it went up in flames. The military never addressed my sister’s death, just stating her as MIA; though a few soldiers did classify her as KIA. Even if sis did survive that crash, which I highly doubt; there is no way she could’ve gotten out in Manhattan in time before the Atom Bomb was dropped.

Many interviewers always wonder why I really don’t emotionally react that much when I tell em what happened to my family members, and the answer is simple. I don’t have any more tears left to cry, I wept for weeks over their deaths and I felt like I was never gonna get over it. It was hard and it took a long time, but I’ve moved on. All my tears are dried up, I have none more left to shed. I just hope my folks are all in a better place now, that’s all I can do.

Thing aren’t necessarily looking up though from what I hear, I don’t think Manhattan will ever recover from Cloverfield.

And even stranger things are happening in other places in the world.

A meteor of some sort landed in Kansas a few days ago, a damn big one too. It’s under military supervision consistently nowadays, and a few soldiers have gone missing near that area no matter how much the government denies it. Do I suspect aliens or some kind of life form from space in the works? Hell, I’ll believe anything nowadays.

A colony of giant spiders, each one fifteen feet long and fifteen feet tall has been officially confirmed to be taking residence somewhere in the Rockies. Damn things have been picking off hikers, tourists, animals, police, militia and about anything else they can get a chance to lunge at.

And from what I hear Japan has the worst end of the deal. Seismic earthquakes have been shaking Tokyo, Osaka and Hokkaido to bits and hundreds have all ready died. The news report said the source of the earthquakes is apparently coming off the coast of the Tokyo Harbor. Something about seismic activity in the deep trenches in the Sea of Japan, who knows what’s going on down there. Maybe something is waking up.

What do I think of all this? I’ll tell ya what I think, and it ain’t pretty.

Humanity better brace itself, I think Cloverfield was just the tip of the iceberg. The giant spiders were bad enough and that supposedly extraterrestrial meteor was bad enough, but now that something is happening off the coast of the Sea of Japan; which is where the Cloverfield monster’s origins were traced to, that really gives me the creeps.

Is it another Cloverfield monster? Is it something else?

Something…worse?

FIN.

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