Hello everyone and welcome to scenario 3 of writer's block. In this scenario, we will explore the apocalypse of mankind. You can choose to have a group of survivors or for a more challenging scene, have a single survivor in the apocalypse trying to rid it off his world. Remember to ask yourselves these main questions:
1. What started the apocalypse?
2. How is/are your character(s) surviving?
3. Will they survive this apocalypse or not?
4. What are their reason(s) for fighting?
5. Is their lost hope?
There's it is. Always remember yo have fun, be creative, and open up your mind to the wonders of imagination.
Manifest Destiny
ReplyDelete“So, I bet you guys wanna know what’s goin on?”
A strange figure steps forward, reaches towards the president and begins to unmask her. As she regains her focus, she looks around to see if she can recognize the figure; surrounded by fellow alien-like warriors that were equipped with battle-ready armor and hi-tech weaponry. Then she looks around to see fellow cabinet members tied up alongside of her. As she recognizing the terror in each persons’ eyes, she shifts her focus back to the figure in front of her.
The warrior unmasks itself, revealing its human face, as it lowers itself to the president’s eye level.
“I’ll take your silence as agreement”
The man stands himself up, and starts pacing around the oval office.
“It might be a big shocker for your first contact with outside life also being human. Kinda disappointing if you think about it, nevertheless (by the way, loovee that word), that’s not the point of this and we don’t have time. We’re not here to welcome you to the galaxies either, we’re here for Earth” he asserts.
The cabinet members let out a synchronized muffled scream, causing the man-warrior to chuckle. But as one of his squad mates interrupts him, pointing at its wrist, the man turns back to the president and continues on.
“Ok, ok maybe that’s not why we’re here, but wouldn’t that be crazy? It’s like Manifest Destiny all over again haha. Coming in and tak-… I did a project on America awhile back, so I may be a little rev’d up right now. But back to the topic. We’re here because Earth is on the verge of destruction... by an Earth-sized asteroid. It won’t come for a matter of years, 4 if you are lucky.”
The muffled screaming intensifies greatly as the news is received.
“Alright now, I know big shocker. But we don’t have too much time before we have to go. So if you have any questions, I’ll answer 3 of them” the man says as him and his squad mates begin to remove the towels from the captives’ mouths.
“Oh yeah, and for the sake of your own lives, one at a time. Please” the man states menacingly as he stares in the eyes of each cabinet member.
The captives sit perplexed as they try to gather their thoughts, but one yelps in fear.
“Where are you from?!”
ReplyDeleteThe leader shakes his head in disappointment, but answers, “Well, we’re from a planet identical to Earth, and it is the same size as Earth. Our only differences are our history I guess, but this is all not important. I won’t tell you our planets name… So waste of a question really. Next question.”
The president eyes her contemporaries and blurts out, “Can it be stopped?”
The leader stops pacing back and forth, and turns to the president. He steps forward towards her, and lowers himself back to eye level and tells her softly, “No”.
“THEN WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU HERE?!” one of the cabinet members screams in panic.
“Finally! What I’ve been waiting for! A GOOD QUESTION!! A question that matters! Thank... You!” the leader exclaims in an eerie sense of joy, as he jumps into the man’s face.
Then the man regains his composure, stands back up, and starts his spiel.
“Ok, yeah like I said we are from an identical planet and we go… Fuck we don’t have time for this. We are gonna take Earths resources for our planet. Right now this is sort of a scouting trip, but we’re still human right. Thought I’d let you know before it’s too late.”
The cabinet member’s movement ceases, as they sit dumbfounded after hearing of their impending doom. But the president looks up to the man and asks one more thing.
“What is your name?”
The leader, caught by surprise by the question, looks to her and says,
“Mike. Let’s go with Mike. Always liked the sound of it”
“Well... Mike... Can’t you... I don’t know... maybe sav-“the president gets interrupted by the leader.
“Oh that reminds me!” the leader exclaims, and he walks over to his squad mates as they huddle up.
They exchange words out of earshot of the president. Then the leader walks back over to the cabinet members and the leader turns to the president.
“What I’m assuming you were going to ask is if you could be saved, or something cowardly. Anyways that reminded me that one of us, I’ll call him Paul, had an empty spot on the plane. See we all found someone, or something, to save. Well Paul just told me he found a puppy back in Spain…” the leader tells the president and cabinet as he begins to play with his watch and all of his squad mates start to circle around him.
As the intergalactic warriors head out, one more question cuts through the silence.
“So you’re just gonna leave us tied up like this?” The president exclaims in fear as she looks over to her concerned cabinet members, but the intergalactic warriors evaporate into thin air.
“Ha, now they ask the good questions”