Just outside the city, the Arraign Asylum holds hundreds of mentally unstable beings, one of them being Trey Waters. Trey sits on a couch in the communal lounge area, staring blindly at a pot plant in the corner of the room. The scrawny twenty two year old is run down and stressed as he has not had a good night sleep in months. An android and a man come up to him.
“You have a visitor,” the android says. The man has a seat next to Trey as the Android leave them alone.
“How are you coping brother?” asks the man. Reiken Waters had been visiting his younger brother as often as he could manage since Trey had been admitted, he was Trey’s only visitor. “They keep trying to restrain me,” Trey replies in a soft monotone voice. “But that’s when it happens, that’s when I see it again.”
“Still having the dreams?”
“They are more vivid than ever.” Trey looks at his brother. His pitch changes from soft to sounding desperate. “You know I don’t belong here Reiken, I’m not crazy.”
“I know what happened wasn’t you, but there’s nothing I can do,” Reiken explains.
“You can get me out of here. You have no idea what it’s like in here… Please.”
“I’ve already tried. You’re just going to have to get better.”
“There is nothing wrong with me!” Trey exclaims. As he yells he begins to shake in pain as electric shocks serges through his body. As he shakes the other patients in the asylum stare at him. Trey stops shaking and looks around. One alien in particular is glaring at him, a Tusk alien. It is a large grey creature with skin as solid as rock, with spikes running down its back.
Trey breathes heavily as he puts his hand on the collar on his neck to show his brother.
“It’s so I remain calm,” he states. The two brothers look at each other in silence for a moment as Reiken looks concerned. “Can you just try?”
“I’ll talk to Alia, maybe she can help pull some strings,” Reiken says.
“Thank you… I can’t stay here like this…”
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Ties (2)
The next morning, the broken window at the Tempest has already been fixed. In front of the building a press conference is being held. There are a group of people on a stage and a man speaking behind a podium. Hundreds of people and aliens gather around to hear his speech.
“We will all work together, so that humans and all alien species can live together in harmony,” says the man.
At the back of the crowd, Eve Starling holds the hand of her six year old son. Eve is in her mid twenties and is considered to be a little person, standing just over five foot with a very thin figure. She has long blonde wavy hair and bright blue eyes. Her son looks up towards her.
“Mummy, what’s he saying?”
“He’s going to change the world honey,” she replies.
As the man on the stage finishes his speech, the crowd applauds.
“He’s finished, I want to see Daddy now,” the boy says excited, with one hand pulling his mother’s arm and the other pointing at the stage.
“Daddy’s busy Maddy, we’ll see him later.”
The man on the stage smiles at the crowd then turns around to consult the people standing behind him, two men and a woman. One of the men is large and muscular while the other is blonde and lanky. The woman is slender and tanned with long straight brown hair.
“Nicely said Mayor Jones,” the lanky blonde man states.
“Thank you Liam,” replies the Mayor. The Mayor walks off the stage with the other man and the woman while Liam stares into the crowd. He sees Eve and her son Maddy and acknowledges them by nodding his head. He then follows the other three off the stage to and onto a helicopter.
“We will all work together, so that humans and all alien species can live together in harmony,” says the man.
At the back of the crowd, Eve Starling holds the hand of her six year old son. Eve is in her mid twenties and is considered to be a little person, standing just over five foot with a very thin figure. She has long blonde wavy hair and bright blue eyes. Her son looks up towards her.
“Mummy, what’s he saying?”
“He’s going to change the world honey,” she replies.
As the man on the stage finishes his speech, the crowd applauds.
“He’s finished, I want to see Daddy now,” the boy says excited, with one hand pulling his mother’s arm and the other pointing at the stage.
“Daddy’s busy Maddy, we’ll see him later.”
The man on the stage smiles at the crowd then turns around to consult the people standing behind him, two men and a woman. One of the men is large and muscular while the other is blonde and lanky. The woman is slender and tanned with long straight brown hair.
“Nicely said Mayor Jones,” the lanky blonde man states.
“Thank you Liam,” replies the Mayor. The Mayor walks off the stage with the other man and the woman while Liam stares into the crowd. He sees Eve and her son Maddy and acknowledges them by nodding his head. He then follows the other three off the stage to and onto a helicopter.
Episode I - Ties (1)
The year is 2112 in the city of Century. With a population of two million people and 300,000 aliens, Century is one of Earth’s most diverse cities. As the population increased, there was limited land so buildings were made taller to fit more bodies. The city is clustered with large sky scrapers. Hover cars fill the streets of the industrialised city during the day but at night the streets are almost deserted but brightly lit from many neon street lights.
In the heart of the city at 2am, the Tempest, a government owned building has closed for the night. No unauthorised personnel can get access in or out of the building… all except one.
On the 5th floor a window smashes as a slim figure, completely covered in black from head to toe, leaps out of the building with a glowing blue cylinder in its hand. It lands on the ground from the five story jump without losing balance and continues to run. The figure moves swiftly and majestically jumping from the ground to the top of a lamppost to a balcony of a building.
Leaping out of the shattered window behind the figure, Alia follows in pursuit. Alia Jerrod is a General in the government’s army. She is an attractive slim, yet athletic woman with black hair and brown eyes. She is one of the Earth’s most powerful soldiers. She stomps on the ground as she lands. Her eyes turn from brown to yellow as she looks up at to see where the figure has gone. She kneels down and pounces up like a frog. She jumps four storeys off the ground and directly onto the balcony of the building the figure had leapt to.
The figure is just ahead of Alia, it quickly jumps off the balcony and leaps on the top of parked cars towards a bridge. Beneath the bridge runs a freeway with several hover cars going more than 130km per hour.
Alia jumps off the balcony following the figure. She pushes a small communication device in her ear that lights up.
“I’m in pursuit, he has the Core” she says as she keeps her finger on the device. “Whatever he is, he’s fast and nimble.”
The figure jumps off the bridge and falls onto the middle of the freeway. Without stopping, it lands and lowers itself to the ground sliding forward beneath two passing hover cars. Once it passes the cars it uses its hand and pushes itself up in one constant motion, it throws itself to the other side of the freeway landing perfectly on two feet.
Alia reaches the bridge and jumps off landing on the bonnet of a hover car. She causes it to swerve, almost hitting another car. She jumps off and lands on the other side of the freeway after the figure.
The figure quickly jumps on top of a sewer lid. It grabs the lid and pulls it up above its head as it slides into the sewer closing the hole behind it. Alia lands at the sewer entrance. Grabs the closed lid and throws it to the side. She then jumps in.
The sewer is dark, barely lit by the light coming from the hole above. Alia drops down as water runs beneath her feet. She looks around; the sewer is like the middle of a long dark hallway with many cracks in the wall and no doors. There are only two directions the figure could have run. Alia sniffs; the stench of sewerage is strong. She looks down one path of the sewer, turns around and peers down the other end. She grumbles then pounces out of the sewer through the hole she came in from.
Moments pass then out from a crack in the wall, no bigger than metre wide, a hand appears. The hand pushes against the wall as an arm and torso slide out after it. The black figure slowly squeezes its entire body out of the small crack pulling out the glowing blue cylinder, the Core, with it. It stands upright brushing itself off.
Suddenly, Alia leaps back into the sewer from above and instantly grabs the figure by the neck. Alia’s eyes are glowing yellow in anger. The figures feet are not touching the ground as Alia is lifting it. The figure has the Core in one hand, with the other it pulls out a small round device from a pocket. It pulls a pin from the top of it and throws it at Alia’s feet. Alia looks down at the grenade. Within a second the device explodes throwing Alia to the wall and losing her grip of the figures neck. Alia is on the ground against the wall, she shakes her head looking up. The figure is no longer in sight. Alia sniffs and scans around. She gets up and presses the device in her ear.
“He got away.” Alia walks towards the hole and leaps out of the sewer. In the sewer, amongst the waste, a single strand of long blonde hair floats on the water.
In the heart of the city at 2am, the Tempest, a government owned building has closed for the night. No unauthorised personnel can get access in or out of the building… all except one.
On the 5th floor a window smashes as a slim figure, completely covered in black from head to toe, leaps out of the building with a glowing blue cylinder in its hand. It lands on the ground from the five story jump without losing balance and continues to run. The figure moves swiftly and majestically jumping from the ground to the top of a lamppost to a balcony of a building.
Leaping out of the shattered window behind the figure, Alia follows in pursuit. Alia Jerrod is a General in the government’s army. She is an attractive slim, yet athletic woman with black hair and brown eyes. She is one of the Earth’s most powerful soldiers. She stomps on the ground as she lands. Her eyes turn from brown to yellow as she looks up at to see where the figure has gone. She kneels down and pounces up like a frog. She jumps four storeys off the ground and directly onto the balcony of the building the figure had leapt to.
The figure is just ahead of Alia, it quickly jumps off the balcony and leaps on the top of parked cars towards a bridge. Beneath the bridge runs a freeway with several hover cars going more than 130km per hour.
Alia jumps off the balcony following the figure. She pushes a small communication device in her ear that lights up.
“I’m in pursuit, he has the Core” she says as she keeps her finger on the device. “Whatever he is, he’s fast and nimble.”
The figure jumps off the bridge and falls onto the middle of the freeway. Without stopping, it lands and lowers itself to the ground sliding forward beneath two passing hover cars. Once it passes the cars it uses its hand and pushes itself up in one constant motion, it throws itself to the other side of the freeway landing perfectly on two feet.
Alia reaches the bridge and jumps off landing on the bonnet of a hover car. She causes it to swerve, almost hitting another car. She jumps off and lands on the other side of the freeway after the figure.
The figure quickly jumps on top of a sewer lid. It grabs the lid and pulls it up above its head as it slides into the sewer closing the hole behind it. Alia lands at the sewer entrance. Grabs the closed lid and throws it to the side. She then jumps in.
The sewer is dark, barely lit by the light coming from the hole above. Alia drops down as water runs beneath her feet. She looks around; the sewer is like the middle of a long dark hallway with many cracks in the wall and no doors. There are only two directions the figure could have run. Alia sniffs; the stench of sewerage is strong. She looks down one path of the sewer, turns around and peers down the other end. She grumbles then pounces out of the sewer through the hole she came in from.
Moments pass then out from a crack in the wall, no bigger than metre wide, a hand appears. The hand pushes against the wall as an arm and torso slide out after it. The black figure slowly squeezes its entire body out of the small crack pulling out the glowing blue cylinder, the Core, with it. It stands upright brushing itself off.
Suddenly, Alia leaps back into the sewer from above and instantly grabs the figure by the neck. Alia’s eyes are glowing yellow in anger. The figures feet are not touching the ground as Alia is lifting it. The figure has the Core in one hand, with the other it pulls out a small round device from a pocket. It pulls a pin from the top of it and throws it at Alia’s feet. Alia looks down at the grenade. Within a second the device explodes throwing Alia to the wall and losing her grip of the figures neck. Alia is on the ground against the wall, she shakes her head looking up. The figure is no longer in sight. Alia sniffs and scans around. She gets up and presses the device in her ear.
“He got away.” Alia walks towards the hole and leaps out of the sewer. In the sewer, amongst the waste, a single strand of long blonde hair floats on the water.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Epilogue
5,000km underground it digs. The E18, a drill shaped like a rocket and the size of an eighteen storey skyscraper tunnels through the layers of earth getting deeper and deeper until it stops. It hits the centre of the earth, the core. The heavy explosives embedded in the E18 ignite and the drill explodes.
Above the drill on the earth’s surface, it’s day time in the city of Century. Children are playing in the streets, people walking their dogs, eating lunch, all unaware of what has just occurred below them. The ground beneath them begins to tremble. Within seconds the tremor turns into an earth shake. Glasses shatter, trees fall and trains derail. The ground begins to heat up as the floor erodes. Then it happens… In one sudden blast the earth explodes. What was once the chaos that is life is replaced by darkness and silence.
That is when he wakes up…
He screams as he wakes from his dream in a hot sweat. He sits up from his bed trying to move but can only manage to shake as his arms are restrained; the straight jacket is on tight. He falls off the bed and to the floor onto his stomach.
“We’re all going to die,” he screams, “we’re all going to die.” His yell echoes in the enclosed, white, sterile room. Trey Waters had had the same dream every night for the past five months, each time it seemed more real. It was all he could think about, it consumed him.
The one door in the room opens as two human shaped androids walk in. They speak to one another.
“He needs to be sedated.” One android kneels down and from its wrist a needle is extended. The needle is stabbed into Trey’s neck as he screams in pain. The android rolls Trey onto his back as he whispers.
“We’re all going to die… we’re all going to die.” His whispers slowly fade as he closes his eyes and falls back to sleep.
Above the drill on the earth’s surface, it’s day time in the city of Century. Children are playing in the streets, people walking their dogs, eating lunch, all unaware of what has just occurred below them. The ground beneath them begins to tremble. Within seconds the tremor turns into an earth shake. Glasses shatter, trees fall and trains derail. The ground begins to heat up as the floor erodes. Then it happens… In one sudden blast the earth explodes. What was once the chaos that is life is replaced by darkness and silence.
That is when he wakes up…
***
He screams as he wakes from his dream in a hot sweat. He sits up from his bed trying to move but can only manage to shake as his arms are restrained; the straight jacket is on tight. He falls off the bed and to the floor onto his stomach.
“We’re all going to die,” he screams, “we’re all going to die.” His yell echoes in the enclosed, white, sterile room. Trey Waters had had the same dream every night for the past five months, each time it seemed more real. It was all he could think about, it consumed him.
The one door in the room opens as two human shaped androids walk in. They speak to one another.
“He needs to be sedated.” One android kneels down and from its wrist a needle is extended. The needle is stabbed into Trey’s neck as he screams in pain. The android rolls Trey onto his back as he whispers.
“We’re all going to die… we’re all going to die.” His whispers slowly fade as he closes his eyes and falls back to sleep.
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