The story starts at a mining operation with workers noticing a problem in c-shaft. Monsters erupt to the surface killing all they can find. The same is happening all over the world, wherever a deep hole has been made. News reports say that the military cannot stop the creatures that are described as subterranean and demonic. The attacks last for 24 hours, the creatures retreat and the event is called the day of reckoning.
The world governments work on containment and set up stations at all deep-core fissures to seal and monitor them. The story jumps to 15 years later. In between the intro and the current action there have been subsequent attacks that show they are always preceded by masses of dead fish washing up on shorelines and the migrations of birds. Finally there is the lunar eclipse just before the attacks start.
There have been other eclipses in the past without attacks but another one is approaching on Saturday and there is tension. We meet our focal characters. David Sheppard is the chief of maintenance somewhere unnamed. His ex wife works as a high school professor and she is being pursued by a coworker, Milton with whom she agrees to have dinner.
The Sheppard’s son Tyler is a high school student and has a girlfriend named Maddie. Her parents are off to Palm Springs while Tyler is spending the weekend with his father. It is implied that the Sheppard’s broke up shortly after the last day of reckoning or possibly as early as the first one. Garret Jensen is a corporal in homeland security and works at one of the monitored fissures. Having survived the first event, he senses that another day of reckoning is about to begin.
At about 1 am David’s uncle Ted calls and warns him that it is happening again and they have until noon to meet him at his underground bunker in Barstow. The fish had already begun washing ashore. At Garret’s gate, one creature had already arrived. By morning Laura calls and wants Tyler to join her in a shelter where Milton has made a reservation, but Tyler has already run off to meet Maddie. He promises to stay with her as they notice birds migrating overhead. At the gate, the first monster (a dog-like creature) kills a soldier while Garret flees. David gets caught in traffic but runs to meet Tyler on foot. They meet and are picked up by Laura and Milton.
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