Post by rocketmanedh on Sept 14, 2021 22:36:43 GMT -5
The black emptiness of space is only broken up by the few glimmers of stars. The quietness of the scene is only broken up by the little putter of a white spaceship passing through the expanse. The view focuses on a spaceship and as the camera gets closer and the perspective changes. It is apparent that this is a massive cruising ship, much bigger than anything that NASA has launched into space, it blots out the entirety of the black emptiness behind it as the camera moves closer to it and all of the sudden, we are inside the spaceship.
The inside of the spaceship is white and sterile. There is an engine drone but no other sound in the ship. The camera slowly goes through a stocked, white-looking kitchen and a state-of-the-art exercise room. The camera switches directions and we see a full movie theater and a game room. Lastly, we go to a living area. From the emptiness of the entire ship, it seems to reason that if there is anyone on the ship, they are currently tucked away in a sleeping area. Until Bob Black, walks by, catching the attention of the camera.
Bob: “Where in the hell are we? What the absolute fuck is going on?” He looks out one of the heavily sealed windows and can see the vast nothingness stretching out into the distance. “Oh god. I don’t think there’s any chance we'll get to England by October. “How in the world do we step on a plane heading for London and end up halfway across the galaxy. Ed is never going to let me live that down. This is going to get me fired for sure.” Bob finds the living area and tries to pull out the beds. They don’t move. They are latched in by some sort of technology and seem to be controlled from the inside. He starts to hit one with his arm. The pod opens a few moments afterward.
“Now, what’s all this?” A tall Australian man comes out of the pod.
Bob: “Hello, have you seen this spunky little guy who goes by the name Ed Houston.”
Australian: “Eh yeah. I know Ed. What are you talking about, Bob?”
Bob: “What!? You know me too?”
Australian: “Man, you must have had quite the long nap. I know we’ve been out for like five years now but you can’t be that bad on the memory.”
Bob: “Five years. Fuck, I am so fired. Where are we?”
Australian: “Somewhere in the Milky Way. I’m not entirely sure. We should not have been woken up yet. Hmmm, this is quite strange.”
The pods start to open, one after another. A short red-headed woman pops out, followed by a skinny man with glasses. A tall, fat man is the next one to pop open. How could a man be so large after not eating for five years, Bob thinks. This is a mystery too big for whatever universe Bob is currently in. Another woman, this one a brunette is the last to awaken. Bob looks around. None of these people look like Ed Houston. They start to get up and stretch their legs. Some head to the kitchen. If they really have been sleeping for five years, that makes sense. They must be hungry. Even the fat man.
Bob walks around the pods. He can’t believe that none of them were Ed’s. He is leaning in, examining one closely. His head is against the edge of it and it starts to open. Bob jumps back and screams in surprise. Ed Houston’s eyes pop open and he lets out a scream as well. The Australian looks back from the kitchen.
Australian: “Everything alright?”
Houston: “Uh, I have no idea.” Ed puts his hand in his head as he starts to wake up.
Houston: “Bob?”
Bob: “Yes.”
Houston: “Where are we?”
Bob: “I uh, I think we are in outer space.”
Houston: “And what time is it?”
Bob: “I have no idea. We have apparently been asleep for five years.”
Houston: “Oh great! Did we die? Did we make it to London?”
Bob: “I uh, I don’t think so.”
Ed slowly rolls out of bed. He stares out the heavily fortified window that shows blackness.
He looks at Bob and starts to jump up and down. “Oh my god! I finally did it! I knew I would at some point! This is the greatest day of my life.”
Bob: “You aren’t mad?”
Houston: “Mad? Why would I be mad? We’re in outer space.”
The redhead looks over at Ed. “You did this when we were on that planet too. You really should get used to it.”
Houston: “We were on a planet! What in the world is going on!? This is fantastic. Wait a minute.” Ed takes another look at space and the five members of this crew around the kitchen table.
Houston: “Bob, do you think this could be a NASA thing?”
Bob: “What do you mean?”
Houston: “I’ve heard about them trying to make life a living hell for those that try to spread the truth.”
Bob: “What are you talking about?”
Houston: “Well I tweeted out a picture about the moon landing room, remember.”
Bob: “I remember.”
Houston: “And the last thing I remember is stepping onto a plane headed to London.”
Bob: “That’s the last thing I remember.”
Houston: “And now we are in outer space with a “crew” that we have done missions with. But I don’t remember any missions.”
Bob: “I don’t either.”
Houston: “So maybe this is retaliation for tweeting out that picture.”
Bob: “I don’t know, Ed. This seems pretty elaborate for that.”
Ed reaches into his pocket and takes out his phone. He tries to turn it on but it is dead. “I guess I should have expected that if I was sleeping for five years. Forgot to charge my phone.”
Bob: “So what now?”
Houston: “I guess let’s eat some food.”
Ed takes a seat at the table and starts to eat. The crewmates start to talk and reminisce. Ed and Bob don’t remember anything that is said between the mates. They try to focus on what is said but it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Eventually, Ed manages to steer back the conversation as they start to talk about what they will do once they get back to Earth.
Houston: “I have a good one. See before all this went down I was scheduled to have a wrestling match.”
The red head: “A wrestling match?”
Houston: “Yeah. I was supposed to fight for a championship against this girl named Betsy Granger. Weird girl, nice but strange. She’s probably been on a spaceship-like this, at least on a trip or something. She talks about stuff that’s out of this world. If we had holograms at NASA I’d lose my mind. But anyway, she’s a pretty good wrestler. She beat Mack O’Connor so a good win under her belt. A little full of herself but I feel like you have to be when you are a woman wrestler. Anyway, I’m supposed to fight her for the TransAtlantic Championship. Although maybe it should be for the Transgalactic Championship. She somehow goes all throughout time and space and it looks like I have to. Man, I feel like I know her already. Did we take down an evil empire or something?”
Australian: “No, we went on a mining mission.”
Houston: “Okay, cool. I like it. We probably have enough gold on this ship to make Elon Musk blush. Maybe she’ll come for our ship or something. I’ll fight her away. I’ll show her what a desperate fighter does when he has a chance at gold. Mack might have put up a fight, but he’s old and not as scrappy as I am.”
Brown Hair: “You know there’s no chance that Betsy is waiting to fight you, right? We’ve been in space for almost twenty years now.”
Houston: “Okay, but you don’t know that. Betsy could be.”
Brown Hair: “You should beat her then, she’d be twenty years older than you. Unless she’s freezing herself or something.” A small noise leaves the brown-haired woman’s mouth.
Houston: “What was that?”
She gulps again. “I don’t know. That was strange.”
Ed looks around. The other crew members look a little concerned. All of the sudden a black creature explodes from her chest. She screams out in terror but is quickly silenced as blood starts to flow, staining the white, sterile cabin.
Bob gets out of his chair and runs down the hall. The black creature surveys the crewmates. Some are still in shock and haven’t moved. Ed grabs a bowl that he was eating out of, using it as a shield. The black creature jumps over the table and then fades from view a moment later.
Ed is in search of it but shrugs his shoulders when he can’t find it. Bob runs back over to him.
Bob: “What was that, Ed?”
Houston: “I knew I had to be right. NASA swore there was no such thing. But I just saw it! This is so cool. Aliens, Bob. That’s what that is a sign of. Finally! Oh my god!” The scurry of the creature plays over Ed as he jumps up and down excitedly and the screen fades to black.
The inside of the spaceship is white and sterile. There is an engine drone but no other sound in the ship. The camera slowly goes through a stocked, white-looking kitchen and a state-of-the-art exercise room. The camera switches directions and we see a full movie theater and a game room. Lastly, we go to a living area. From the emptiness of the entire ship, it seems to reason that if there is anyone on the ship, they are currently tucked away in a sleeping area. Until Bob Black, walks by, catching the attention of the camera.
Bob: “Where in the hell are we? What the absolute fuck is going on?” He looks out one of the heavily sealed windows and can see the vast nothingness stretching out into the distance. “Oh god. I don’t think there’s any chance we'll get to England by October. “How in the world do we step on a plane heading for London and end up halfway across the galaxy. Ed is never going to let me live that down. This is going to get me fired for sure.” Bob finds the living area and tries to pull out the beds. They don’t move. They are latched in by some sort of technology and seem to be controlled from the inside. He starts to hit one with his arm. The pod opens a few moments afterward.
“Now, what’s all this?” A tall Australian man comes out of the pod.
Bob: “Hello, have you seen this spunky little guy who goes by the name Ed Houston.”
Australian: “Eh yeah. I know Ed. What are you talking about, Bob?”
Bob: “What!? You know me too?”
Australian: “Man, you must have had quite the long nap. I know we’ve been out for like five years now but you can’t be that bad on the memory.”
Bob: “Five years. Fuck, I am so fired. Where are we?”
Australian: “Somewhere in the Milky Way. I’m not entirely sure. We should not have been woken up yet. Hmmm, this is quite strange.”
The pods start to open, one after another. A short red-headed woman pops out, followed by a skinny man with glasses. A tall, fat man is the next one to pop open. How could a man be so large after not eating for five years, Bob thinks. This is a mystery too big for whatever universe Bob is currently in. Another woman, this one a brunette is the last to awaken. Bob looks around. None of these people look like Ed Houston. They start to get up and stretch their legs. Some head to the kitchen. If they really have been sleeping for five years, that makes sense. They must be hungry. Even the fat man.
Bob walks around the pods. He can’t believe that none of them were Ed’s. He is leaning in, examining one closely. His head is against the edge of it and it starts to open. Bob jumps back and screams in surprise. Ed Houston’s eyes pop open and he lets out a scream as well. The Australian looks back from the kitchen.
Australian: “Everything alright?”
Houston: “Uh, I have no idea.” Ed puts his hand in his head as he starts to wake up.
Houston: “Bob?”
Bob: “Yes.”
Houston: “Where are we?”
Bob: “I uh, I think we are in outer space.”
Houston: “And what time is it?”
Bob: “I have no idea. We have apparently been asleep for five years.”
Houston: “Oh great! Did we die? Did we make it to London?”
Bob: “I uh, I don’t think so.”
Ed slowly rolls out of bed. He stares out the heavily fortified window that shows blackness.
He looks at Bob and starts to jump up and down. “Oh my god! I finally did it! I knew I would at some point! This is the greatest day of my life.”
Bob: “You aren’t mad?”
Houston: “Mad? Why would I be mad? We’re in outer space.”
The redhead looks over at Ed. “You did this when we were on that planet too. You really should get used to it.”
Houston: “We were on a planet! What in the world is going on!? This is fantastic. Wait a minute.” Ed takes another look at space and the five members of this crew around the kitchen table.
Houston: “Bob, do you think this could be a NASA thing?”
Bob: “What do you mean?”
Houston: “I’ve heard about them trying to make life a living hell for those that try to spread the truth.”
Bob: “What are you talking about?”
Houston: “Well I tweeted out a picture about the moon landing room, remember.”
Bob: “I remember.”
Houston: “And the last thing I remember is stepping onto a plane headed to London.”
Bob: “That’s the last thing I remember.”
Houston: “And now we are in outer space with a “crew” that we have done missions with. But I don’t remember any missions.”
Bob: “I don’t either.”
Houston: “So maybe this is retaliation for tweeting out that picture.”
Bob: “I don’t know, Ed. This seems pretty elaborate for that.”
Ed reaches into his pocket and takes out his phone. He tries to turn it on but it is dead. “I guess I should have expected that if I was sleeping for five years. Forgot to charge my phone.”
Bob: “So what now?”
Houston: “I guess let’s eat some food.”
Ed takes a seat at the table and starts to eat. The crewmates start to talk and reminisce. Ed and Bob don’t remember anything that is said between the mates. They try to focus on what is said but it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Eventually, Ed manages to steer back the conversation as they start to talk about what they will do once they get back to Earth.
Houston: “I have a good one. See before all this went down I was scheduled to have a wrestling match.”
The red head: “A wrestling match?”
Houston: “Yeah. I was supposed to fight for a championship against this girl named Betsy Granger. Weird girl, nice but strange. She’s probably been on a spaceship-like this, at least on a trip or something. She talks about stuff that’s out of this world. If we had holograms at NASA I’d lose my mind. But anyway, she’s a pretty good wrestler. She beat Mack O’Connor so a good win under her belt. A little full of herself but I feel like you have to be when you are a woman wrestler. Anyway, I’m supposed to fight her for the TransAtlantic Championship. Although maybe it should be for the Transgalactic Championship. She somehow goes all throughout time and space and it looks like I have to. Man, I feel like I know her already. Did we take down an evil empire or something?”
Australian: “No, we went on a mining mission.”
Houston: “Okay, cool. I like it. We probably have enough gold on this ship to make Elon Musk blush. Maybe she’ll come for our ship or something. I’ll fight her away. I’ll show her what a desperate fighter does when he has a chance at gold. Mack might have put up a fight, but he’s old and not as scrappy as I am.”
Brown Hair: “You know there’s no chance that Betsy is waiting to fight you, right? We’ve been in space for almost twenty years now.”
Houston: “Okay, but you don’t know that. Betsy could be.”
Brown Hair: “You should beat her then, she’d be twenty years older than you. Unless she’s freezing herself or something.” A small noise leaves the brown-haired woman’s mouth.
Houston: “What was that?”
She gulps again. “I don’t know. That was strange.”
Ed looks around. The other crew members look a little concerned. All of the sudden a black creature explodes from her chest. She screams out in terror but is quickly silenced as blood starts to flow, staining the white, sterile cabin.
Bob gets out of his chair and runs down the hall. The black creature surveys the crewmates. Some are still in shock and haven’t moved. Ed grabs a bowl that he was eating out of, using it as a shield. The black creature jumps over the table and then fades from view a moment later.
Ed is in search of it but shrugs his shoulders when he can’t find it. Bob runs back over to him.
Bob: “What was that, Ed?”
Houston: “I knew I had to be right. NASA swore there was no such thing. But I just saw it! This is so cool. Aliens, Bob. That’s what that is a sign of. Finally! Oh my god!” The scurry of the creature plays over Ed as he jumps up and down excitedly and the screen fades to black.