Sym-bionic Titan: Pain is universal
Author's Note: This won't be a long story, probably seven chapters or less. Just something I came up with, don't know if it'll be any good.
Chapter.1
Unexpected
On Galalunia, General Modula had trouble finding a Mutraddi to successfully defeat the Titan and killing Princess Ilana. Also, killing off his scientists and engineers when they failed didn't help either. However, he had an idea, and that was to unleash a dangerous 'experimental' Mutraddi.
"Send the prototype to fight the Titan," Modula ordered the assistant to the scientist he recently killed.
The assistant was frightened by the request, "But sir, with all due respect, sending this Mutraddi to fight the Titan without prior knowledge about the planet's inhabitants is dangerous! We don't know what will happen when it comes in contact with the Titan."
Modula was unconcerned with the risks, "That is precisely why. Send it now!"
"But sir…"
"Continue to push your 'concerns,' you'll meet the same fate as those who've failed me in the past," he threatened with his cool, indifferent voice.
The assistant had no choice; he had to monitor the Mutraddi's progress on the alien world and treading his footsteps around Modula. This wasn't the typical assignment and he knew it, "Yes sir."
(Meanwhile)
"Lance and Amelia report to your starting positions," exclaimed their gym teacher. Both went and prepared themselves. They swam to their positions and adjusted their swimming goggles and caps. The girls fawned over Lance's chisled body while the boys whistled over Amelia's nice curves. But the two didn't notice each other, they focused on the task at hand. The coach sounded the whistle and both set off…
"Go Lance! Go Lance! Go Lance," the girls' cheering annoyed Lance, who was seriously concentrating on the race.
"Beat that son-of-a-bitch," one of Amelia's friends shouted. But she drowned them out.
Both the swimmers were free styling. Lance was stronger overall, but Amelia had better glide. As they got to the other side, both pushed off the wall and swam to the finish. Amelia had better glide and that decided the race.
"Yeah! Way to go girl," her friends shouted. Both Lance and Amelia panted and gave each other a respectful nod. She won just by a hair. Both got out and headed for their groups.
The coach blew his whistle, "All right that's enough for today! Head for the showers and have a nice weekend."
After the showers they got ready to leave and waited anxiously for the bell. When the bell rang, everyone rushed off and into the streets.
"See you guys," Amelia shouted as she left for a commuter bus.
"See ya," they shouted as they boarded a school bus.
As Amelia waited at the bus stop, her best friend Michael walked toward her and waited with her for his older brother to pick him up. You can say that Michael was one of the all-American types, at least physically. With blond hair, blue eyes, and a fair complexion, but he was an eccentric at heart with unique tastes in music, books, and obscure subjects.
"Did you see the race I had today? Man I was awesome," Amelia was still on an adrenaline rush.
"I know! I recorded it on my cell," he showed the footage to her, "Oh yeah, I'm badass," Amelia remarked.
"Yeah yeah, whatever you say," Michael rolled his eyes at her and she playfully punched his right arm.
All of a sudden a car honked, "Oops, my brother's here. We'll talk later okay?"
"Sure see ya!"
As Michael rode away, Amelia's bus showed up three minutes later. She got on and headed for her home near the downtown district. The ride itself was eventful…today. No hints of a giant robot fighting a huge monster; like something straight out of a Power Rangers episode.
She got home in 25 minutes; she lived near where all the recent action took place, about seven miles away. Her apartment was a typical brown-stone; she lived on the top floor where she saw most of the action.
She entered her apartment and no one was home, "Mom? Where are you" she yelled as she dumped her stuff on the sofa. She walked toward the kitchen where a note was taped on the counter, 'Mija, took your brother to the doctor today. We'll be home later.' Amelia rolled her eyes, her brother would always hurt himself when he played rough...but then again, she was like that when she was a child.
She changed her clothes and began watching TV. Half way through her program, her cell rang, "Hello?"
"It's me, Michael."
"Hey what's up?"
"Nothing much, just thought I ask you something."
"Okay, what is it?"
"Um, I was wondering if…you wanna…um…"
"Spit it out damn it! Hehehe, what is it?"
"You wanna go out tomorrow?"
She sighed, "Michael…," before she said anything, he continued, "I know you don't date anyone right now. But it's me you're talking too, so why not."
She thought for a bit and gave her answer, "Okay Michael, you're on."
"R-Really? You're serious?"
"Yes," she said in an exhausted tone.
"Okay, see you tomorrow!"
She hung up, closed her eyes, took in a deep breath, and she let it out, 'Well, can't back out of it now. But I don't wanna date anyone, even if it's my best friend. But I know him long enough that he won't try anything stupid. I'll see how tomorrow turns out,' she turned her attention back to her program.
(Meanwhile)
The Mutraddi Modula sent approached Earth's atmosphere. The friction as it entered caused it to glow a bright reddish yellow. Within minutes, it fast approached Chicago's city district of Sherman. This caught the attention of Octus/Newton as he drove the 'family car.'
"Mutraddi approaching," he said while looking up.
"What," both Lance and Ilana said.
"39,000 feet and closing," he calculated its distance.
Lance unbuckled his seatbelt, "We must form Titan before it lands."
"No need, it seems to be breaking up due to its acceleration."
Ilana was perplexed, "That's strange, why would Modula send something and have it destroyed by this planet's atmosphere," she asked Octus.
"He probably made a mistake," Lance suggested.
"Highly unlikely. We'll see in the next 9.869 seconds."
Sure enough, the outer coating burned off completely. The Mutraddi stopped about 3,000 feet above the city, it revealed itself to be a pitch black sphere. It suddenly moved at a velocity to fast for radar to detect, even Octus almost lost it as it flew down to their level. It attached itself to a car, it goes out of control and crashed into the right side of an approaching car. People gathered around the carnage of twisted metal and shattered glass. Octus stopped the car and the Galalunians got out to observe. The only sound the people heard was the car horn from the wrecked cars.
"Oh my...we have to help them," Ilana cried out and rushed toward the wreckage.
"Wait Ilana! The Mu...ugh," Lance rushed after her toward the wreck, as did other people who tried to phone for the paramedics. Lance helped another man to open one of the car door (also keeping an eye out for the Mutraddi) while the other men helped out with the other car. The victims were covered in blood, one of the drivers suffered a broken leg and was bleeding excessively, as did the other driver. One of the passengers suffered from moderate head injuries, but he was concious. The other passenger however, who was in the direct path of the car that struck it died on impact. The paramedics came within three minutes and rushed the victims to the hospital.
While this was happening, Octus/Newton scanned the site of the accident for the elusive Mutraddi, but couldn't. Instead he opted for rewinding the entire accident in his head, slowing down the moment of impact and saw the path of the Mutraddi as it left the car. It did flew away, but the path and destination of the creature eluded Octus. He signaled the princess and corporal to come back, and drove away while he explained his findings to them.
(A minute befor the crash)
"Okay I'll see you tomorrow," he hung up his phone and shook his arms in a victorious gesture.
"I take it that she said yes," Michael's older brother asked him on their way back from the supermarket.
Michael mumbled, "Yeah."
"My man! I told you she would say yes," the older brother rubbed Michael's left shoulder.
"Yeah well...I do like her...a lot! But...what if it doesn't go well," Michael asked his older brother, clearly nervous about tomorrow.
However, instead of busting his ass, he gave some brotherly advice, "Look, you two have been friends since Christ. If the first date doesn't go well, you're still friends at the end of the day. So just...sit back, relax, and let things happen."
Michael thought for a moment, "Well...I suppose you're right," still unsure about the advice.
"Off course I'm right," the older brother said.
"Sure," Michael sarcastically said.
The older brother playfully hit Michael's left arm and Michael punched his brother's right arm. Just as they were about to pass a green light, a car crashed into their's...
(10:05pm)
Amelia was finishing the last of her homework for the weekend, in this case reading The Stranger by Albert Camus. Before she started her neglected homework (math), her mom called out from her room, "Amelia, don't go to bed late!"
"I won't! Give me thirty minutes to finish up!"
"Okay, but don't take until midnight to finish like last time!"
"Jesus...okay fine!"
She got back to do her math homework, and even though she was an honor student, the work load gets to her sometimes. But tonight, she wanted to finish much of it as possible. That way, she can enjoy her 'date' tomorrow. She then hummed to an old tune her grandpa loved. She hummed to Adios muchachos by Carlos Gardel. But for some reason, tonight, it had more meaning to her than usual.
(At the Galalunian's home)
Around the same time, while Lance and Ilana were getting ready for bed, Octus was reviewing the micro-events that led up to the car accident. He knew he saw the Mutraddi, he saw it as it sped toward the surface of the car. What he couldn't figure out was how it disappeared in the midst of the wreckage. He decided to review it over night while he 'slept,' and over the weekend as well.
Well this is my first chapter. Since watching the first eleven episodes, I wanted to do a story, but wanted to do something different. I recently watched the entire death trilogy by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and was inspired. I don't know how this story will end, but I do know this, I'm gonna try real hard to not put any cliches in this story.