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As the Cloud approached the western seaboard, Americans all over began to breathe again. The worst appeared to be over for them, but as it was departing the west coast, several objects shot back and crashed down in the Pacific, miles offshore.

Tsunamis hammered the west coast in the same fashion as they did the east. Lives that took decades to build, dreams and families, entire coastal cities cleared in seconds.

The world kept turning, slowly plowing through the Cloud and enveloping the planet. The Cloud rolled across the globe, blanketing the land and oceans alike with its gorgeous multi-color plumes and intense electrical storms.

The Cloud itself seemed to be causing no damage, outside frying electronics as it swept through. But there were hundreds of objects raining down as it advanced, peppering the land and oceans.

The world watched in horror as the same scene unfolded again and again with each new place that it touched. Japan and Australia were both heavily assaulted from all angles by massive tsunamis.

Japan was nearly washed away by the sheer volume of water and received an inland object, crashing down between Tokyo and Nagana. Australia received like treatment, along with several objects.

The Cloud continued its barrage of objects and electrical storms. Moving through the middle east, it raised dust clouds that engulfed the land in a brown haze, swirling with the colors of the Cloud.

The spectacle was filled with clashing purple lightning, creating a surreal experience that anybody in Hollywood would be proud to have produced. As the lightning pounded the earth, it lit oil fields on fire, building the spectacle, and adding billowing black smoke to the atmospheric mix.

A similar situation was seen throughout Africa and Europe, tsunamis pelting coastlines and objects battering the inland like a cosmic shotgun. The people of Africa, poor and many without shelter, incurred the wrath of the event straight on, costing millions of lives.

By the time the event had reached the west coast of Africa, the people of Brazil were hunkering down for round two.