V - the Visitors
I’m posting a picture story on my tumblr, but hit a wall where I have finished the script, but little motivation to take any more screenshots. Maybe if I post here, too, I’ll find that motivation agai...
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Chapter 1: Friends of the Visitors (& fish)
There were two things every government had trouble keeping indoors when aliens came knocking at the door: The army and the children.
After “The Visitors” - so far they hadn’t revealed the name they called themselves by collectively, if any - had arrived at Earth, they tended to leave the armies to the local rulers, but reached out to the children. In the fifty cities that had Motherships hovering in geostationary orbit, the aliens founded “Friends of the Visitors” groups that worked not unlike scouts groups.
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The Detroit/Windsor chapter met at Belle Isle Aquarium. At first it was only a tiny group consisting of no more than six regular attendees. One of those was Police Lt. Anderson’s son, Cole.
The group’s supervisor was the spitting image of Lt. Simon and was in fact that one’s sibling, although not twin, a fact that was baffling every human who saw Daniel and Simon together. How could two men who were neither twins nor clones look near identical?! However, once you talked the duo for some time, Daniel’s age advantage over Simon’s became apparent. They could both be adorably goofy at times when confronted with human customs, but Daniel was drawing on a richer life experience than Simon.
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Daniel: “There the human children come. Alice? Promise you won’t hide in the alligator tank again!”
Alice: “P… p… promise…”
Daniel: “Hello, my name is Daniel, I’m the Detroit Mothership’s Youth Corps Leader. What is a fancy name for a nanny. And these here are Alice and Eustace.”
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Cole: “There are baby visitors?!”
Eustace: “Call me a baby again and I’ll toss you into the alligator tank!”
Daniel: “Threaten another kid again and I’ll show them photos of you as a baby!”
Eustace: “You’re bluffing, Daniel! You mustn’t do that, Amanda wouldn’t allow it! - But just for your information, little human, I was an adorable infant! Were you, too?”
Cole: “I don’t know. But on my baby photo I’m on a polar bear pelt!”
Eustace: “…you win.”
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Daniel: “Alice and Eustace were born during our journey. They’ve never been on a planet before.”
Emma: “Wow! So what are we gonna do today? Is there a program of sorts or do we just hang out? What kind of music do you listen to? Did you bring any records, Daniel?”
Alice: “Can we go look for a library?”
Much as the human children wanted to visit the mothership, for the “Friends of the Visitors”’s first meeting they went to the aquarium’s basement. In the artificial light down here Daniel removed his sun glasses and cap, what made the Visitor look both more approachable and less cool.
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Daniel: “Which of you owns an LCD game?”
Emma: “I have a Microvision. It’s lame. But we’ve got a home computer!”
Daniel: “And we have these. Go on, try them out!”
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Cole: “Oh, neat!”
Emma: “I’m so glad you brought the videogames! I was afraid we’d have to learn stuff here. You know, like in the girlscouts.”
Daniel: “Oh, you’ll learn stuff alright. Soon as the new captain has signed my lesson and excursion plan.”
Emma: “The new captain? What’s wrong with Amanda? Is it because she’s a girl?”
Daniel: “No, I meant that Amanda is the new captain. Because… we… uh… got shuffled around before entering orbit, so that everyone got assigned to the geographical region they liked to be in the most. That’s why.”
Cole: “And you wanted to come to Detroit of all places?”
Daniel: “Not specifically. Just the Great Lakes in general. Supreme Commander John sent us to your city literally the last minute.”
Cole: “Oh, he did? He must really hate you guys!”
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Elsa: “This isn’t even a REAL tele-game. Videogames are played with your fingers only, you don’t have to hop around!”
Pierce: “But it’s fun!”
Elsa: “Yes!”
There were two things every government had trouble keeping indoors when aliens came knocking at the door: The army and the children.
After “The Visitors” - so far they hadn’t revealed the name they called themselves by collectively, if any - had arrived at Earth, they tended to leave the armies to the local rulers, but reached out to the children. In the fifty cities that had Motherships hovering in geostationary orbit, the aliens founded “Friends of the Visitors” groups that worked not unlike scouts groups.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/e2ac2e49cc19a7d27856cc789b925542/bf9cb7255ee0de0b-01/s1280x1920/fd658577d23d0ebfeebf4f5eed6f5520772b8c84.png
The Detroit/Windsor chapter met at Belle Isle Aquarium. At first it was only a tiny group consisting of no more than six regular attendees. One of those was Police Lt. Anderson’s son, Cole.
The group’s supervisor was the spitting image of Lt. Simon and was in fact that one’s sibling, although not twin, a fact that was baffling every human who saw Daniel and Simon together. How could two men who were neither twins nor clones look near identical?! However, once you talked the duo for some time, Daniel’s age advantage over Simon’s became apparent. They could both be adorably goofy at times when confronted with human customs, but Daniel was drawing on a richer life experience than Simon.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/ee9e04e2312d1a025718500e8a6c4111/bf9cb7255ee0de0b-7f/s500x750/85df982c2093dc6b88b4bafb177f106bfcf1b469.png
Daniel: “There the human children come. Alice? Promise you won’t hide in the alligator tank again!”
Alice: “P… p… promise…”
Daniel: “Hello, my name is Daniel, I’m the Detroit Mothership’s Youth Corps Leader. What is a fancy name for a nanny. And these here are Alice and Eustace.”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/46bd2de1d19690cfd0bd0d06797b40f3/bf9cb7255ee0de0b-85/s500x750/7be6b1d3c70941af1f30687044309cf8dd941698.png
Cole: “There are baby visitors?!”
Eustace: “Call me a baby again and I’ll toss you into the alligator tank!”
Daniel: “Threaten another kid again and I’ll show them photos of you as a baby!”
Eustace: “You’re bluffing, Daniel! You mustn’t do that, Amanda wouldn’t allow it! - But just for your information, little human, I was an adorable infant! Were you, too?”
Cole: “I don’t know. But on my baby photo I’m on a polar bear pelt!”
Eustace: “…you win.”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/5d91e59ca8334f429262302fb931f577/bf9cb7255ee0de0b-29/s500x750/39ecfdd34b9d093a7234bf895e4f212f316d469f.png
Daniel: “Alice and Eustace were born during our journey. They’ve never been on a planet before.”
Emma: “Wow! So what are we gonna do today? Is there a program of sorts or do we just hang out? What kind of music do you listen to? Did you bring any records, Daniel?”
Alice: “Can we go look for a library?”
Much as the human children wanted to visit the mothership, for the “Friends of the Visitors”’s first meeting they went to the aquarium’s basement. In the artificial light down here Daniel removed his sun glasses and cap, what made the Visitor look both more approachable and less cool.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/c110cfdee6371bb58679129b597ef34b/9b688ea54d1910d7-59/s1280x1920/6aee6e75061d601a84e40d3b2748f27cc4597e01.png
Daniel: “Which of you owns an LCD game?”
Emma: “I have a Microvision. It’s lame. But we’ve got a home computer!”
Daniel: “And we have these. Go on, try them out!”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/4bacc674cf106a986a21a9515e55aecc/9b688ea54d1910d7-d0/s500x750/85dbdba3f34d99bcaf35e914d6a3c59adb538cef.png
Cole: “Oh, neat!”
Emma: “I’m so glad you brought the videogames! I was afraid we’d have to learn stuff here. You know, like in the girlscouts.”
Daniel: “Oh, you’ll learn stuff alright. Soon as the new captain has signed my lesson and excursion plan.”
Emma: “The new captain? What’s wrong with Amanda? Is it because she’s a girl?”
Daniel: “No, I meant that Amanda is the new captain. Because… we… uh… got shuffled around before entering orbit, so that everyone got assigned to the geographical region they liked to be in the most. That’s why.”
Cole: “And you wanted to come to Detroit of all places?”
Daniel: “Not specifically. Just the Great Lakes in general. Supreme Commander John sent us to your city literally the last minute.”
Cole: “Oh, he did? He must really hate you guys!”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/4558c6acb73333e03fb59979f8b71806/9b688ea54d1910d7-17/s500x750/f31af04ecc7d8434e25ae9dca5bbb39a6f31fe35.png
Elsa: “This isn’t even a REAL tele-game. Videogames are played with your fingers only, you don’t have to hop around!”
Pierce: “But it’s fun!”
Elsa: “Yes!”
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