Alimon Assault

Cyberlizard · **Reply #20 on:** June 27, 2006, 06:42:51 PM

"Really? What is it?" Tanner asks Kacie.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #21 on:** June 28, 2006, 12:36:29 AM

Kacie narrowed her eyes seriously, and she locked her hands behind her back as she turned around and walked up to the tube, and placed her hand on it. "We are dealing with intelligent creatures, Tanner."

She turned her head and looked behind her, towards Tanner. "The brain scans indicated that these creatures are capable of intelligence that rivals, maybe even surpass, our own."

Cyberlizard · **Reply #22 on:** July 03, 2006, 09:27:46 PM

"Oh, my god," says Tanner as he looks at the male alimon in the tube, "This is amazing, where do you think they came from? They appear to be almost dinosaur-like."

DarkHououmon · **Reply #23 on:** July 07, 2006, 12:23:20 AM

"I ran some scans to receive stats on their skeletal structure." The 20 year old explained. "They appear to have a skeleton that looks very similar to that of the prosauropods, from the Triassic Period. The main difference is that these are clearly carnivores." She recalled seeing large sharp fangs and the sharp claws were visible on the alimons in the tubes. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say these really are dinosaurs."

Cyberlizard · **Reply #24 on:** July 07, 2006, 12:27:41 AM

"Unbelieveable." replys the 15 year old, "And at the archeological dig we discovered that over millions of years, rock and dust burried the colony, for some unknown reason the rock made a face formation over the dome."

DarkHououmon · **Reply #25 on:** July 07, 2006, 12:44:54 AM

Kacie looked up in surprise. "You mean the one in Cydonia, Mars?"

Cyberlizard · **Reply #26 on:** July 07, 2006, 12:49:42 AM

"Uuuhh, yeah. The building we're in is right next to it." says Tanner.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #27 on:** July 07, 2006, 01:53:11 AM

Kacie nodded. "I see." She had realized her mistake, and felt foolish right now. But she shook it off. She knew she couldn't abandoned her work. She pulled out her notepad once again. But before she wrote down anything, she looked at Tanner thoughtfully. "Have you found out anything else?"

Cyberlizard · **Reply #28 on:** July 07, 2006, 02:00:40 AM

"well, I discovered that since they are predators, their instincts will take over their intelligence. Because after millions of years of hibernating, they will be pretty hungry and need to fill their bellies before they regain control of themselves. So we need to be careful when they wake up." says Tanner as he leaves the lab.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #29 on:** July 07, 2006, 02:18:06 AM

Kacie nodded seriously as she watched Tanner leave. She turned to her work, studying the alimon specimens, and got ready to write down some notes. Then she happened to look over at the computer nearby. Something seemed to have changed.

She strode over to the table, and looked at the computer screen as it popped up with the window showing the male and female animal's brain waves. At first, nothing seemed to have changed. But then she noticed one small change. The waves were becoming slightly more active. It wasn't a big change, but it was enough to bring Kacie's attention to the monitor as she overlooked the brain waves.

"This change..." She said to herself as she noted the few areas that indicated some very mild activity. "It means the animals have entered the delta stage. They're no longer in a deep sleep..." She looked over at them, and remembering what Tanner said, began to grow a bit nervous. "It means they are just dreaming now."

She looked towards the door where Tanner had gone. If it had not been for her duty she would have told him about the change. She decided to go back to work on the project, despite the risk she probably as in if the brain waves show any more activity.

Cyberlizard · **Reply #30 on:** July 07, 2006, 02:38:18 AM

Tanner strolls down the hall towards marine command. He passes a meeting room with Comissioner Sol, Dr. Kruger talking and Sarge next to the door. Tanner stop, hearing the conversation, "I'm here, because I've heard rumors that you are hiding something from me." says the Comissioner.

"Oh, really? Don't you even know of the ground breaking work we are doing here?" replies Kruger.

"Yes, but I have been advised by the board to look at everything."

"Hmm, the board does know one special thing about science. All they want is something to make them more money. Some... product. Don't worry, they'll get their product."

"Then tell me, Dr. Kruger, why are so many civiliance spooked, complaining, requesting transferrs off Mars?"

"They simply can't handle it here. Life on another planet has always been hard on people."

"Well, I think this meeting has had enough discussion." says Comissioner Sol as he starts for the door.

"Sol, just stay out of my way." says Dr. Kruger.

Tanner starts for Marine command to be briefed on a new mission.

Cyberlizard · **Reply #31 on:** August 04, 2006, 11:24:45 AM

Tanner walks over to Marine Command to be breifed on his new assignment, he sees Sarge standing at a computer terminal looking out into the Martian Landscape. "take your sweet time, kid?" says Sarge, "Now, here's the situation, a member of the science team has gone missing, since you're the ranking FNG, you get to find him. He was last seen heading to the archeological dig." Tanner nods, turns around and walks away. "I wonder why the Counsleor and Kruger were arguing. Why are people leaving Mars? Maybe it has to do with the hibernating, dinosaurian life forms in the archeological dig? Oh well, I guess living on another planet is different for some people." Thinks Tanner as he heads for an elevator which takes him down to the underground part of the Mars Station, from there anybody who wants to visit the archeological dig must get through the matinance tunnels. He reaches the underground floor, Ethan Cole is sitting at a computer terminal in another room, the one side of the room the computer terminal is one has a glass window in which Tanner peers through to get his attention, he points to a locker full of armor and weapons. He needs to get clearance from Ethan to get to the Archeological dig.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #32 on:** August 04, 2006, 06:05:07 PM

(Not much is going on as of now. The alimons have not awakened yet.)

Cyberlizard · **Reply #33 on:** August 05, 2006, 12:21:36 AM

(Arboldlin, it's your que. And I forgot to mention in the rules that there's no current weapons and gear allowed in this story, this is the year 2130, weapons and equipment from 2006 is too primitive for a technologically advanced era as the 22nd century. To show you what weapons there are, here's a rather poor sketch of them. The drawing sucks, I know, I've done better. But at least it'll give people an idea of what they look like. )

Cyberlizard · **Reply #34 on:** August 05, 2006, 01:29:49 AM

Tanner grabs his armor and secures his pistol and walks through the door. "I'll be fine alone." He says as he starts for a winding maze of matinance tunnels.

Cyberlizard · **Reply #35 on:** August 05, 2006, 02:50:00 AM

"I'm in Martian Archeology, I go back and fourth between these tunnels all the time to get to and from the dig, I know them like the back of my hand. Nothing hardly ever goes wrong down here." says Tanner as he enters the tunnel. He walks down several tunnels, past a window showing a guy in a orange jump suit trying to fix something with a guy in a lab coat watching, "Can't you matinance guys get this done any faster?"

"Yes but the science team demands a lot from these things."

"Then quit talking and get the science team what they need!"

Tanner continues down several tunnels until he comes to a 20 foot drop with an extending bridge, at the bottom of the drop off there's a bunch of generators with a lot of moving parts. He activates the bridge and continues on to the archeological dig. He comes to a huge blast door, he takes out his Personal Data Assistant (PDA) and runs it through the scanner. The blast door opens, revealing a long, wide tunnel drilled into "The Face". He continues to the end of the tunne and enters what appears to be a glass dome with decaying ruins of a huge city with giant, futureistic skyscrapers, what once was a thriving city alimons has millions of years ago is now in ruins. One part of the City was sealed tight, leaving the hibernating alimons undesterbed. He enters a small human installation, a com facility along the edge of the city. He enters the building, goes through a couple corridors and finds himself in the com room where an asian man is sitting at a computer terminal, recording something and getting ready to send it out. The man notices Tanner, "No! No! Please! You must let me get this communication out! They have to be warned while there is still time! I... I... You don't know what I've seen! You can't possibly comprehend!" Just then, a cocophony of loud snarls and roars are hears just outside the building. The man glances at the door with a look of horror on his face. "Oh no, they're awake! NO!" Just then, an alimon bursts through the door, it lunges at the scientist, missing Tanner withing inches. The man screams as he is being torn to shreds by the savage alimon. "SON OF A BITCH!" Tanner yells as he cocks his pistol and starts shooting the dinosaur. Three bullets to the head put the beast down. Just then, more alimons start flooding into the room. "SHIT! SHIIIT!"

(DarkHououmon, it's your cue)

DarkHououmon · **Reply #36 on:** August 05, 2006, 03:08:14 AM

Kacie continued to scribble notes onto her notepad. She was interrupted when she heard a slight scratching noise. She immediately looked up at the tubes in front of her, but she could not see anything unusual. She soon shrugged it off, and continued to work. But as she did so, the scratching sound came back.

"What is making that noise?" She put down her notes, frustrated, and walked towards the tubes, the source of the noise. As she did, she thought she saw movement. She turned her head towards the female creature. She thought she saw slight twitching in the eyes.

"What the...?" She peered in closer. Suddenly, the creature's eyes snapped open, and eyed her hungrily. At first Kacie didn't react. The alimon seemed to pose no threat, encased in glass. She heard another scratch, and whipped her head towards the male. The male alimon's eyes were wide open as well, and he too was eyeing her with a starved look in his face.

She knew she must heed Tanner's warnings about the intelligence being overrided by hunger. But fascination and horror kept her locked in place, staring at the two alimons as they stared back at her. She slowly placed her hand on the tube that the female was contained in.

Big mistake.

CRAAAAACK!!! The female suddenly burst from the strong tube, glass shattering all over the ground. Kacie let out a scream and stumbled onto her back as the female stumbled to her feet and began prowling towards her.

Suddenly another loud crack made Kacie realize that the male is out now. The male snarled at the female, as though communicating with her. The frightened woman scrambled to her feet and made a mad dash out of the room. The female and male alimons took a few tentative steps, unsure of their surroundings, before running off through the door.

Cyberlizard · **Reply #37 on:** August 05, 2006, 03:25:57 AM

(Um, I was in the progress of posting something when you wrote this. And both Tanner and Kacie don't carry walkie talkies. I was including your character in the post I was just working on.)

DarkHououmon · **Reply #38 on:** August 05, 2006, 03:28:21 AM

(Just to clarify, the scientists don't know, at this moment, what the alimons are called. They don't know the name 'alimon'. A minor mistake. Could've happened easily, since I don't recall Cyber and I clarifying earlier that the scientists don't know the names of the creatures they are dealing with.)

Cyberlizard · **Reply #39 on:** August 05, 2006, 03:29:35 AM

Yes, I have a scene saved. And I'm working on it right now.