I can almost forgive squishies since it ' s one letter , but that spelling of assassins is too much . <| sep |> Jase gasps and looks back up at her , his eyes wide and teary . <| sep |> Yeah it ' s got a ton of practical use . Follow up shots are faster , it ' s easier to call in a buddy ' s impact , ranging is easier , just all around awesome . <| sep |> Check your NAT , maybe you have connection issues . A closed NAT can prevent joining games . If you have any COD game , they always write if your NAT is open in the multiplayer menu for an easy check , aside google . <| sep |> After work I always liked to take a stroll in the park and laze about . Truth be told , there ' s a great place to relax , if you know what I mean , down the hill into the woods by the basketball courts . Every now and then a basketball would tumble down the hill and catch me off guard , but they ' re not the kind of people to care about pot smoking as long as you toss the ball back . Anyways , I made the awkward , stumbling climb up the hill and decided to park myself at a bench near the pond and some ducks . I sprawled my arms and legs out about the bench and watched a young adult couple with a toddler feed the ducks on the other side of the pond . I was following the ducks around with my heavy eyes , considering if I wanted to toss them some of the munchies I brought with me when I saw a wooden sign with block letters PLEASE DO NOT FEED DUCKS . It looked like something out of a nature reserve . Once the mundane sign relinquished my attention , I looked back across the pond to see the toddler leaning against her mother with tears welling in her eyes . As the ducks got closer , I could see the fear well up from the core of the toddler out of their lungs into a bloodcurdling scream . You know that scream toddlers do . Like the thing ' s actually gonna die from a few ducks . I pondered getting up to avoid having to hear the toddler ' s banshee wail , but as I pushed off the bench to forcefully lift my behind , I simply fell back onto the bench with a thud . My body just wasn ' t feeling it . So I leaned far back over the back of the bench and looked at the sky , only to be received by a single drop of rain in my left eye . It was a bright blue day a second ago ? I thought , examining the sky which had become overcast . Rain fell harder . Didn ' t stop the toddler ' s screams either , and the parents weren ' t doing anything . The toddler kept screaming while the naive parents used every trick in their book to no avail to shut up their child . I found myself spitefully looking at the failing parents across the pond , but I got distracted once again when I saw a the pond get cracked in half by the reflection of a sheer lightning bolt . It took a second to register , but then the thunder came # FEAR NOT CHILDI wasn ' t crazy , everyone looked at the sky . It sounded like thunder , but everyone knew the sky said something . As we all peered at the sky , we forgot the child stopped screaming . The sky was a great dark spiral of macabre cloud bursting at the seems with electricity . Lightning cracked the sky like shattered glass , followed by the deafening booms of thunder . I looked down from the sky to find myself on my feet , overcoming my sloth . I didn ' t even notice the ducks were gone when I joined the crowd running for cover from the storm . We were all heading to the pavilion . People were running on quickly flooding paths covering their heads with newspapers , insideout umbrellas , and barely avoiding lawn chairs that were wildly whipping with the wind . Once I got to the pavilion , I gave myself the luxury of looking around at the insanity happening . It was raining sideways . Fire engines screamed and honked in the distance , rushing towards a pillar of smoke billowing from deeper in the city . There was something in the pond . Oh I sighed , as I realized it was that dumbass toddler who fell into the pond once the storm started . The parents were trying desperately to recover their child , but couldn ' t bear getting wet by heading in the pond . The whole situation made me irrationally angry . Then in an instant , I was filled with an overwhelming feeling of peace and serenity as the storm immediately ended . All at once , the clouds dissipated and faded to white , revealing a baby blue sky . You could almost already see the floodwater evaporating under the welcoming warmth of the sun . I took a deep breath in and closed my eyes to take in the peace . Once again , the toddler began screaming , but I missed the prompt . I furiously opened my eyes , but became distracted for the umpteenth time by the sound of some weighty thing hitting wood above my head . Something landed on the pavilion . Then . thunk thunk thunk . People began to scream as smooth gray objects fell from space , splattering onto the ground into a sickening pile of something that was once living . Thunk thunk thunk Ducks were falling from the sky . Ducks were falling from the sky .