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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Back at Kasbah Gallery, Daniel was still talking to the human who shared his first name with the Visitors fleet’s Supreme Commander: John Phillips, car dealership owner and driving teacher.
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John: “So how’s my best driving student doing? Your reflexes are astonishing, Daniel! I take it you have a military background?”
Daniel: “Me? Haha, no! I’m a teacher.”
Caroline: “A teacher… just like you, John! Haha, that’s so surreal! Aliens drop out of the sky and they are cops and teachers and accountants! Not to mention human.”
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John: “True, but come to think of it, what else should they be? Only primates have the capability to advance to sapience and invent space flight. Birds lack hands. And reptiles would laze around on heated rocks all day.”
Daniel: “Advanced reptiles would build houses with heat lamps. If you installed those at your workplace, that would function like a coffee shower for humans.”
John: “They’d still spend much of their time resting.”
Daniel: “They’d use the time to think! A lot!”
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Caroline: “But there wouldn’t come anything out of it. You know how the innermost part of our brain is called the Reptile? Because they passed it down to the proto-mammals. And to this day the reptile is still the best actual reptiles can bring to the table in the brain department.”
Daniel: “That’s where you err, Caroline! Reptiles are actually pretty clever!”
Caroline: “It’s cute how you defend them, Daniel. Got a pet lizard?”
Daniel: “I used to, back home, but that’s beside the point!”
Caroline: “Let’s face it, reptiles are outdated creatures that evolution has discarded long ago in favor of primates.”
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Later the bartender wouldn’t be able to explain just how Daniel had crossed the distance between himself and the Phillips couple. Everything had happened so fast, like an alligator attack. For half a minute the man watched the brawl in stunned silence, then he hit the panic button that would alert the DPD. Fortunately a police car was parked right outside the art gallery.
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The first responder’s name was Antony Deckart and he went ahead full of confidence. Alien or not, Daniel wasn’t Antony’s first arrest in a bar and would hardly be the last.
“Come on, lad, drunk tank’s waiting! Consider it a rite of passage, then it’ll sting less!”
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When Marlon Wilson arrived just a couple of moments later, he almost dripped over Antony. K.O.ing an officer that quickly attested the Visitor a respectable strength, so Marlon switched to a Martial Arts style that he hoped Daniel would not be able to match.
Daniel: “What’s that going to be? A dance competition?”
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THUD!
Marlon’s boot connected with something solid. There wasn’t just skin under the Visitor’s jacket. A security vest, maybe.
On second thought… Visitors in general were moving slowly and Daniel was no exception. Only after he had entered combat mode had Daniel sped up and was now acting with astonishing reflexes. Adding that to superhuman strength and the mysterious dermal plating, Marlon came to a conclusion about what he was facing off with here:
“A robot! Holy plum, I’m fighting a robot!”
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John: “So how’s my best driving student doing? Your reflexes are astonishing, Daniel! I take it you have a military background?”
Daniel: “Me? Haha, no! I’m a teacher.”
Caroline: “A teacher… just like you, John! Haha, that’s so surreal! Aliens drop out of the sky and they are cops and teachers and accountants! Not to mention human.”
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John: “True, but come to think of it, what else should they be? Only primates have the capability to advance to sapience and invent space flight. Birds lack hands. And reptiles would laze around on heated rocks all day.”
Daniel: “Advanced reptiles would build houses with heat lamps. If you installed those at your workplace, that would function like a coffee shower for humans.”
John: “They’d still spend much of their time resting.”
Daniel: “They’d use the time to think! A lot!”
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Caroline: “But there wouldn’t come anything out of it. You know how the innermost part of our brain is called the Reptile? Because they passed it down to the proto-mammals. And to this day the reptile is still the best actual reptiles can bring to the table in the brain department.”
Daniel: “That’s where you err, Caroline! Reptiles are actually pretty clever!”
Caroline: “It’s cute how you defend them, Daniel. Got a pet lizard?”
Daniel: “I used to, back home, but that’s beside the point!”
Caroline: “Let’s face it, reptiles are outdated creatures that evolution has discarded long ago in favor of primates.”
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Later the bartender wouldn’t be able to explain just how Daniel had crossed the distance between himself and the Phillips couple. Everything had happened so fast, like an alligator attack. For half a minute the man watched the brawl in stunned silence, then he hit the panic button that would alert the DPD. Fortunately a police car was parked right outside the art gallery.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/103ceeeb40a4b6b50da972207b1b2320/8da33e2edea07811-45/s1280x1920/3b97b9facf1172aea8a51979ef606733fadab641.png
The first responder’s name was Antony Deckart and he went ahead full of confidence. Alien or not, Daniel wasn’t Antony’s first arrest in a bar and would hardly be the last.
“Come on, lad, drunk tank’s waiting! Consider it a rite of passage, then it’ll sting less!”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/306ac9d592a2a0412efa013180d4e919/8da33e2edea07811-ad/s500x750/95b0a56aac003306c96879c9271e7a17df2003fa.png
When Marlon Wilson arrived just a couple of moments later, he almost dripped over Antony. K.O.ing an officer that quickly attested the Visitor a respectable strength, so Marlon switched to a Martial Arts style that he hoped Daniel would not be able to match.
Daniel: “What’s that going to be? A dance competition?”
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THUD!
Marlon’s boot connected with something solid. There wasn’t just skin under the Visitor’s jacket. A security vest, maybe.
On second thought… Visitors in general were moving slowly and Daniel was no exception. Only after he had entered combat mode had Daniel sped up and was now acting with astonishing reflexes. Adding that to superhuman strength and the mysterious dermal plating, Marlon came to a conclusion about what he was facing off with here:
“A robot! Holy plum, I’m fighting a robot!”
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