Wednesday, April 5, 2006

Episode #155 Chapter 14, part 11 Reunion part 10 --The Athena-- Justin: (sound asleep) Zzzzz... Aisha: (laying on her bed) I don’t get it. Judging by the tone of his voice, his breathing, and his heart palpitations, I could tell Capt. Adrien was telling the truth. So why do I have this weird feeling about him? (gets up) Something about this doesn’t smell right. Maybe I should have a look around. (leaves) later... Justin: Zzzzz... (feels someone nudging him) ...mmm. (opens an eye) Hmm? Gumdrop: Daddy, can I have a drink of water? Justin: Gummy! You wake me up after I’ve been asleep for only... (looks at his watch) ... 2 hours?! Gumdrop: But I’m thirsty. Justin: *groan* (sits up, looks around) Where’s Aisha? Gumdrop: I think she went to the potty. Must’ve fallen in or something, cuz that was a while ago. Justin: Hmm. (gets up, walks to the door) Gumdrop: (jumps into his back pocket) Justin: (opens the door and steps into the hall) Gumdrop: Now, I think the kitchen is to the right; down that way. Justin: (turns the other way and starts walking down the hall) Gumdrop: No. I meant my right. The other way. Hey, Magellan, turn around! Justin: (keeps walking down the hall, looking for Aisha, notices a crew member at the end) Gumdrop: I think the bathroom’s that way too. Are you even listening to me? Justin: (approaches the crew member) Excuse me. Have you seen my cat-girl around here recently? Crewman: I think she went to one of the upper levels. Justin: Thanks. (turns away) Gumdrop: (waves at the crewman) Thank you, nice man! Crewman: o.0 ??? later... Justin: (on level 6, still looking) *sigh* There’s nine levels on this ship. Where could she be? Gumdrop: Bored. Bored, bored, bored, bored, bored. (hops out of the pocket, slaps Justin’s ankle) Tag! You’re it! (runs off) Justin: Gummy, not now! (takes off after him) Justin chases Gumdrop through the corridors for several minutes. Until finally... Gumdrop: (runs to the end of a hall and turns the corner) Justin: (at the other end of the hall) Gumdrop Gregory Cat, if you don’t get back here, I am gonna... ???: (reaches out and pulls Justin into an adjacent corridor) Justin: WHAA! ???: (puts their hand over his mouth) Calm down, lover. Justin: Aisha. Thank God. Aisha: (whispering) Come with me. Stay quiet. (leads him down to the end of the corridor) Justin: (notices a small bundle under Aisha’s arm) What’s that? Aisha: Something I found while doing a little snooping. Justin: Huh? Aisha: Take a quick look. Justin: (peeks around the corner and sees two heavily armed crewmen guarding a large door) Aisha: They haven’t moved from that spot for over an hour. Justin: You’ve been spying on our friend? Aisha: I don’t think this guy’s our friend. Justin: What are you worried about? You said yourself that Adrien was clean. Aisha: I know what I said. But I guess I was wrong this time. (hands him the bundle) Justin: (unfolds it into a spacesuit with a black swan on the left shoulder) 0.0.... what the... (instantly angry) That son of a... Aisha: How much you wanna bet that all our answers are behind that door? I was just about to jump them when... “lalalalalalalalalaaaaaaaaa!!” Aisha and Justin: 0.0 ??? Gumdrop: (comes running down the hall towards the two guards) Lalalalalalalaaaaaaa!! The Guards: o.0 Huh??? Gumdrop: (sounding like a motorcycle) Brrrrring d-d-dingdingding brrrrrrrum biddi bum bum bum brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! (runs past the guards) Woo hoo!! The Guards: (looking at Gumdrop as he runs away) Guard 1: What the hell... OOF! (falls down) Guard 2: HURK! (falls down) Aisha: (standing over both of them) Justin: Finally, he did something useful. Aisha: Remind me to thank him. (begins to pry the door open) GrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRAAAR!! (busts open the door, looks inside) 0.0 *gasp* Justin: (steps inside) 0.0 ... oh my god. Aisha: I almost wish I wasn’t right. They stand in a giant room. There’s a glowing tower in the very center that stretches all the way to the ceiling. There are cage doors covering the walls. And in those cages, you guessed it, all the Zilders. They’re all laying on the floors of their cages and their antennae are all wilting. Justin: What on earth could he be doing to them? Aisha: Are they sick or something? “rattle rattle rattle, rattle rattle rattle” ???: EEEEEEEEEE!! EEEEEEEEEE!! Justin: (looks up) OZZ!! (using the barred doors, climbs up the wall to his friend) Ozz! Thank God you’re alright. What’s going on here? What has he done to you? What’s happened to our link? Ozz: ... zzzz. (weakly points at the tower) Justin: Huh? (looks at the tower, notices a computer at the base, looks back at Ozz and nods) Don’t worry, buddy. We’re gonna get you all out of here. (climbs back down) Aisha: (trying to rip the door off one of the cages) Uhn! Grrrrr! Aah! Damn! This stuff is heavy duty. Gumdrop: (pokes his head into the room) ^.^ Lucy, I’m ho... 0.0 .......... whoa. Justin: (runs over to the computer) Gumdrop: (runs towards Justin) Justin: C’mon you. Gimmie some answers. (touches the black swan on the screen) The computer displays a diagram of a Zilder: it’s skeletal structure, muscles, nervous system, etc. Then it zooms in on the brain and highlights a portion near the front, located directly under the antennae. Then, a diagram of a different brain appears next to it. The highlighted part of the Zilder’s brain is taken out and moved into the other brain. The computer zooms out to reveal that the other brain is inside a human! The animated human then proceeds to levitate heavy objects, teleport from place to place, and fly through the air. He is then joined by an army of other humans with the same powers. Then, looking like an old WW2 film, they soar over an unknown city and rain devastation. Justin: (wide-eyed) God almighty. (looks up at the tower) ...... of course. Aisha! The tower’s inhibiting their powers! We have to destroy it!........ Aisha? (looks behind him) 0.0 *gasp* Gumdrop: Uh-oh. (hides in Justin’s back pocket) There are now four guards in the room with black spacesuits. Two of them are holding an unconscious Aisha. Justin: AISHA!! (runs towards them, but the other two guards rush him and grab both his arms, he struggles to get free) Uhn! Aisha! Aah! (notices the black swan on one of his captor’s arms, looks up at him sternly) Have we met? At that moment, Dr. Adrien enters the room. Justin: Adrien. You lying son of a bitch!! Adrien: (appearing more somber and disappointed than angry) I had hoped that we could be friends, Artukei. But it appears you don’t share my vision. Justin: A vision of what? An army of super psychics.... at the cost of an entire race!?! Adrien: What? Justin: Kidnapping all the Zilders so you could cut open their brains!?! Adrien: You’re mad. I had nothing to do with that! Justin: (motions towards the cages) Then what are those, huh?! Adrien: (looks at the wall in confusion) What are you talking about? I see nothing. Justin: That’s probably all they’re worth to you, isn’t it? Adrien: I am sorry to do this, Artukei. (to the guards) Take them to the detention cells. Guards: Yes sir. (begin to take Aisha and Justin away) Justin: (still trying to free himself) Uhn! Uhh! Grrrraaa! Adrien: (walks by Aisha) .... wait. (a devilish glint flashes in his eye and he brushes back Aisha’s hair) Justin: Huh? No! Get your hands off her!! Adrien: (tilts her chin up and caresses her cheek as he grins demonically, then moves his hand down and gropes the top of her breast) Justin: DON’T YOU DARE TOUCH HER YOU BASTARD!! Adrien: *sigh* Such anger. (turns and looks at Justin, smiling sadistically and speaking more coolly and almost condescendingly) You want to fight me, don’t you? You want to take a swing at me? Justin: (gravelly, scowling) I want to do much worse than that. Adrien: Well then.... let’s see what you’ve got. (motions for the guards to release him, and they do) Justin: (looks at them all confusedly, first the guards then at Adrien as if thinking “Is he serious?”, then quickly puts back on his enraged demeanor and charges at Adrien) HAAAAAAAAAAAA!! (prepares a right hook, but...) Adrien: (with insane speed, punches Justin in the gut, knocking the wind out of him, then square in the face, and finally kicks him in the chest) Justin: (sent flying backwards, lands on his back first, then somersaults onto his chest) *cough, cough, wheeze, cough* (the guards pick him back up) Adrien: Pathetic. (to a guard) Tell the gunners to destroy the little red ship that’s been following us. Justin: (looks at Adrien with one eye open and a bloody nose) .... you’re a monster. Guard: Yes sir. What about these two? Adrien: ....Take the girl to my chambers. Justin: Hrrrrrrrr. (hair starts to grow on his arms and his teeth start to become fangs) Adrien: Jettison the boy. Guard: Yes, Capt. Polluck. Justin: 0.0 Huh? UHN! (feels something hit him in the back of the head, then...... darkness.......)

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