The well known blotting of the stars with the passing of the black ship Revenge, another drop pod launched.
~ Caldera ~
Wide
eyes peer over the viewport at the upcoming Earth perhaps a bit
frightened, while across the cities the people walk too fast,
occasionally reversing then back to the rhythm like time itself making
its dance.
The pod enters atmosphere with the violent shaking and flame, the eyes duck back low from the view port. The Earth spins too fast, fate placing the pod's landing, it burns through the opening credits and song until the crash's crater.
(song over)
The
door falls off, the passenger face first with it. She jumps up and
looks around suspiciously ... looking around, she may have destroyed a
town ... eyes up in thought with a squinshed up faced pondering if
that's what it was ... Hmmm ...
A crooked stop sign stares back ...
Oh well with a shrug and the very space gun up, she marches glad no one saw her fall on her face, if not for Timepiece scoping her from the motorcycle with a twist of her eye-piece.
Zooming in close with confusion splashed on her face as if to ask ~ 'what is this thing ?' Back out to normal view, the motorcycle predicts her with legs raising the front to kick off to speed before they ride.
From
the pods opening the spidery legs extend until looming behind Caldera
to follow here march, gun up back and forth, spider kicking its side
legs to the turns.
View out past the edge of the supposed town,
past the many fake homes and mannequin faces to the test sight bunker,
finger over an unpushed red button with confusion on the face.
While the over shoulder general looks down at him as though whatever the hell happened here, it is definitely his fault.
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Inside
the Decibel, the gunner's still mad. Arms strapped to the side to
protect the crew, he is moved from place to place by the ship's inner
arms and devices. Half responding to his mind and the ship itself, he
is conducting a basic repair.
He's not really such a bad guy but the fact is if he were released he would kill them all, and he does not struggle because he doesn't actually want to.
A peace in his insanity, a place to be and a way to be in a place.
He's no fool and well aware the things he'd do if set free would put him down to death in any world, except inside his now home this beautiful ship, his wonderful friends.
Carson (the gunner) - "Infernal bitch-sauce. Repairs complete. Test fire it auto piloting drone who thinks like a man much wiser than me. I now hunger for the chemistry, of digestion."
Auto - "Fully functional, strange blathering psychopath. Steaks on the grill."
Carson - "Yessss ... "
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At
the dinner table, the psychopath stares while the robotic arms feed him
his steak, cutting the pieces and forking it to mouth.
Zelda - "So. We've decided,
to let you patrol outside the ship, so long as you're still connected
to it. It would also be cool so you can fix the hull. And all the
soldiers have been instructed to stay away."
Carson - Grinning,
"Yessss ... stay away ... but what does a poor man such as I with no
will of my own, so mercifully taken from me do when one ventures ...
closer ... ?"
Zelda - "Then their screams will serve as a warning to the rest."
Carson - "I do like the screaming."
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The
view out over the ship still in the boneyard, this takes place after
Encompass, and not so far away, the space girl still marches with her
giant ass spider, kicking its legs to the side as it turns.
The
military trucks pull up, the soldiers surround the crater, binoculars
up. Either she doesn't know or doesn't care, back and forth she marches
gun up, but the spider drops to its back forming up its legs to look like a hand flying the bird.
Binoculars down ... he motions the soldiers to close in.
Great
plan til they all start sliding down the unstable crater's edge another
thing she seems not to notice before the clean up and converge, spider
marching with again.
Sergeant - When close enough surrounding her with all guns drawn. "Drop your weapon !"
Her
eyes go wide, the spider drops over her, pulling the pod door closes
with her inside, rolling a bit side to side as it settles. The soldiers
move in slowly until one taps the bulkhead with his rifle tip.
A curtain closes over the small viewport.
A sigh from a Sergeant ...
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A small crane moves the pod to the back of a military truck and it's off to Area 51.
A knock on the metal, she opens her eyes inside.
Sergeant - "Hey. Um. Alien thing. Lady. Girl. So ... could you come out now ?"
She looks annoyed.
The door kicks open, the legs extend until the spider rises over her.
Caldera - "Can I help you ?"
Sergeant - "Well. I mean yeah !"
Strauss - "Sergeant. If I may." To her, "Hello, My name is Dr Strauss. An Exo-biologist. That means I study life forms not from this planet. Like you."
Caldera - "You study me ?"
Strauss - "I would like to."
Caldera - A look like it's absurd. "Yeah I'm here to destroy you all."
Sergeant - "Called it." Soldiers nodding to in agreement.
Caldera - Looks around at the soldiers, "Is this the best you've got ?"
She
pulls a wand and they all draw for a weapon, but with a wave the guns
are gone and apparently they're all in love now. She looks annoyed at
the absolute squareness of the walls and corners before the building
crumbles as the spider lowers over to protect her.
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Sergeant - Getting pulled out of the debris, "That hurt. Where is she ?"
Soldier - "Back ... in the crater sir."
Sergeant - "And the men ?"
Strauss - "Everyone's fine. Impossibly."
Sergeant - "Recommendation ?"
Strauss - "Continue with the testing."
A
finger pushes the red button and the nuke goes off to a mushroom cloud,
before pulling itself back in and exploding into a wind that shatters
the bunker glass.
Caldera - Standing next to the general frightening him, "That was cool."
The
base goes to high alert, sirens flashing and soldiers running for guns
while on the Decibel they eat dinner laughing. Timepiece rides through
the Boneyard's dated plane wrecks to join them, apparently Carson's
doing monster impressions.
The spider tears off the bunker wall
before picking her up into itself and then turning away. A leap with
its rockets until the crash and bouncing, back in the crater's core.
Carson - "Look ! Is Franken, stein." Looks up stupid and twitches, robotic arms stretching forward. "Unnnn ... car ... races." He looks at their confusion, "You never saw that one ? Your faces are for eating."
