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The reason he’d been hiding was because, for some reason, because of something, the entire planet had been devastated by all kinds of natural disasters for months on end. Storms, tsunamis, volcanoes and firestorms and earthquakes had all simultaneously begun occurring worldwide. In what time they’d had, the most intelligent of men had tried and tried, tirelessly, to figure out the source of the trouble, and how to stop it, but they’d failed. For the first visible time since it was formed, scientific study had failed humanity. The world’s best had still been searching for clues, any kind of information, when a firestorm had seemingly combusted from nothing, in the air above Cairo, spreading and spreading until nothing could be seen above but a ceiling of flame and smoke. Ali had thrown himself into the shelter as soon as he saw the flaming skyline, the crowds milling about, smaller fires starting all over the rooftops of Cairo… he had slammed shut the thick metal hatch, ignoring the many fists that thumped on the door in his fear.
