I’m part of a big cities cop service. One night we have a big meeting where we’re all told that there’s an invasion of giants the next day. Its super secret and on the day we all head out in our cop cars to survey everything.
A woman in front of me does an offence, its minor like going through a red light; I follow her out of habit. She incidentally drives closer to the center of the city where an allegedly ‘safe’ block is. She parks and I park behind her, she walks down the street but I turn off earlier and head for the safe place.
It’s an old ruin. There are a few other people there. We try and figure out how to activate this safety feature but the ruins are really old and only a few of the pillars stand upright. We try for a really long time. One of the people in the group is really worried that we are destroying these amazing historic artifacts for no apparent reason and keeps interfering when we want to move/push/pull something. In the end we decide to bunk down in an underground theatre nearby.
At the start it’s a small group of us, but some of us sneak out to look for survivors so with all the people we bring back our little group begins to grow.
One night a giant comes knocking, chaos breaks out, but somehow we figure that this one is good so we let him stay.
After a long time of being holed up in the theatre we venture out only to discover the giants have left. We go back into the theatre to decide what to do next.
The next morning there’s a small commotion when a father and his young son have an argument, what it's about is irrelevant. It gets so heated that the son grabs one of the little girls and starts blowing up her head to prove a point. She wriggles and is annoyed, she’s telling them to stop arguing, but it only makes the father speak louder. The girl’s head grows and grows until with a big ‘pop’ it explodes.
It’s not messy, just like if a balloon had popped, pieces of the shell land on the bystanders. The body of the girl deflates in the boy’s hands. He looks down in horror and struggles with his actions. He just killed someone. Someone innocent.
There’s complete silence, everyone is super shocked and upset but we all just stand there not looking at anyone, the giant quietly cries behind us.