This Story is a near perfect mirror of the dialogue from "John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)". I wrote this while watching the movie and while I've tried to keep most of the dialogue intact some of it may or may not be 100% correct due to being unable to hear certain parts. If you haven't watched this movie, go do that RIGHT NOW. It is one of my favorites and I thought it would make a cool story with Pokemon in it. I do not own this movie and the dialogue found within. I repeat, I DO NOT OWN THIS MOVIE OR THE DIALOGUE FOUND WITHIN. Should also mention this contains some of my OC's from the Pokemon Primordial Fury Unleashed Story saga and some characters that I made up on the fly as I do want some differences from the main movie. This story has no place in the PPFU universe. one last disclaimer, I have made a few changes to some of the characters and certain items from the film (Ie: some characters won't be using flamethrowers and one character will wear a hoodie instead of a jacket) this is to make it ever so slightly different from the actual film just in case copyright stuff can get to the story and rip it down. ENJOY!
The Thing: Pokemon Edition
Unwelcome Visitors
From the starry black darkness in the vast expanse of space, a small speck drives slowly towards a familiar destination. It looks to be spiraling out of control and might lose all control at any second as it approaches the Earth. As it gets closer, its shape becomes more visible: a vessel of some kind. It flip flops out of control instantaneously and careens towards Earth, the stern roaring with flames as it enters the atmosphere. It goes out of view.
ANTARCTICA, WINTER 1982
The loud and strident sound of a helicopter is heard among the vast chain of mountains and snow. The helicopter flies over a mountain and comes down to a dangerously low altitude, its chassis battered and knocked around by the wind. Inside the helicopter, the glow of dials beam onto the faces of two Pokemon. One carries a high powered rifle, the other piloting the chopper. The rifle holding Pokemon, An Abomasnow, looks through a pair of binoculars and sights something. He yells to his pilot, a Beartic, in some strange language. His voice is wild and mad like a desperate child.
A Snowy white furred Ninetails runs for a few feet, then stops to view the craft 1400 yards away. It snarls and bears its teeth, then gallops away. A gunshot blasts into the snow and kicks up a small cloud at the heels of the Ninetails.
The Beartic barks at the Abomasnow and calls for better aim. He grabs the lever and kicks the engine to full throttle, lowing the craft simultaneously for a better shot at the fleeing Pokemon.
Unknown Compound
The exterior compound of the outpost reveals a massive, almost snow covered building. A fair distance but not far away, is a tall, meteorological balloon tower. Several scattered shacks at varying distances dot the way from the main compound. A planned wooden walkway and guide rope leads towards these shacks. There are pendants sticking out of the snow, providing a guide and marking the pathways and directions to certain areas. Near the main compound, a helipad housing two helicopters and a snowmobile sit idle. Snow continuously mounds on top of deep mounds packed down onto the vehicles. A Pokemon is working on something inside the snowmobile, their face is not visible.
Inside the compound
A whole bunch of Pokemon are visible doing a whole multitude of things: Playing ping-pong, reading, listening to music, playing musical instruments. They are unaware of the approaching hostiles.
Inside one of the shacks
A blue paw sinks itself into the frozen abode of a freezer filled with ice cubes. The paw grabs a few and shakes any loose cubes back into the freezer and closes it. The Pokemon proceeds to place the cubes into a glass and pours a mixed berry drink from an unlabeled bottle. The face of this Pokemon is a shiny Mew's face and as he takes a drink from the glass, he is sitting in a chair and looks onward at a computer game. The game is Chess and looks to be winnable in only a few moves. The Mew presses a few keys on the keyboard and makes his move. The computer speaks.
"Your move: Bishop to Knight 4. My move: Knight to Rook 3"
A beep follows. The Mew smirks and chuckles faintly. "Poor baby you're startin' to lose it, aren't cha?"
He presses a few keys again and makes his move. The computer speaks again.
"Your move: King to Rook 1. My Move: Rook to Knight 6. Checkmate. Checkmate."
In disgust at this near impossible move, the Mew opens up the game's install directory and deletes the game as it is running, causing it to glitch and blue screen the computer.
"Cheating bitch."
He stands up and finishes the rest of the drink.
Outside the complex
The sounds of far off gunshots are heard as the helicopter continues its pursuit of the Ninetails. It runs up over a hill of snow and ice, revealing a wooden sign on the other side, beaten by the harsh weather. It reads: Unova National Science and Research Foundation - Outpost #31
A rifle shot kicks up more snow and ice. The helicopter flies past the Ninetails and begins to circle the compound. The side of the helicopter near the tail rotor reads "Sinn" and as it circles the compound in search of the Ninetails, the Mew from earlier exits his shack, confused as to the random helicopter appearance. He holds the unlabeled bottle in his left paw and takes a swig of it while curiously watching the helicopter.
Exterior Compound
3 Pokemon appear outside from the unwelcomed commotion and approaches the Pokemon who was working on the Snowmobile. He is an Eevee. One of the Pokemon addresses the Eevee, who is watching the helicopter.
"Plush, what's he doing?"
"Circling the Camp"
The Pokemon asks another question "Who is he?"
Plush points at the helicopter, "Said 'Sinn' on the side."
One of the other 2 Pokemon responds, "That's Sinnohian."
The 4 Pokemon watch as the Helicopter rounds back towards the camp.
Inside the helicopter
The Abomasnow opens up a case of grenades and grabs one. He pulls the pin out and keeps the trigger held down, readying it.
Outside
The Ninetails runs along a pre-made path to the camp, the helicopter chasing it close by. An explosion comes from the snow nearby, the grenade from earlier was thrown but missed its target. A gunshot as the Abomasnow leans dangerously from the helicopter. The helicopter slows down and comes in for a landing on the hard snowpack and barely misses hitting the side of a gentle hill. The helicopter swerves up and levels out before landing on the snowpack a fair distance away from the camp.
Inside the compound
All the Pokemon rush to gear up in heavy clothing and head outside following the sound of the helicopter. Among the mad rush is a Bisharp, Pliskin, the station manager, who watches the action from a slightly fogged up window.
Outside
The 4 Pokemon rush to a clearing where they can see the helicopter. The Mew from before has joined them and wears a heavily insulated Pink hoodie. He still holds the mixed berry bottle from his shack. The Ninetails blitzes through the dug out snow path as the Abomasnow and Beartic exit the helicopter. The group of Pokemon from the compound come closer to the chopper landing site and the Ninetails runs at them, jumps onto one of the Pokemon, Chuck the Goodra, and starts whimpering and licking him, seeking shelter and safety from the hostiles. The Beartic grabs another grenade from the case and pulls the pin. He then prepares to lob it but as he winds up for the throw, the grenade slips out of his hand and falls into the snow. He turns his head around to see the hole in the snow and his partner yells something out in a foreign tongue with a panicked tone.
"Dritt! Dritt!" (Shit! Shit!)
He starts running away from the helicopter, wading through the deep snow as quickly as possible to get away from the impending blast. His Beartic partner begins to dig through the snow to try and find the grenade, but it's too late. The grenade blows up, killing the Beartic and destroying the helicopter in a blazing inferno. The Abomasnow jumps into the snow for cover in response. All the Pokemon outside the compound near the helicopter explosion flinch. The Abomasnow stands up from the snow and holds his rifle with a savage expression. He yells at the Pokemon in the same foreign tongue as before.
"Se til helvete og kom dere vekk. Det er ikke en bikkje, det er en slags ting! Det imiterer en bikkje, det er ikke virkelig! Kom dere vekk, idioter!" ("Get the hell away! That isn't a Ninetails, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a Ninetails, It isn't real! Get away from it you idiots!")
The Ninetails continues to lick Chuck as the Abomasnow attempts to warn the Pokemon of the outpost about the Ninetails. His message not getting across to them, the Abomasnow holds up his rifle and shoots two times at the Ninetails. Chuck is hit by a stray bullet and falls into the snow, holding his leg at the sight of the bullet impact. The rest of the Pokemon run away from the Abomasnow to avoid being shot. Some of them take cover in the snow. The Abomasnow shoots 5 more times and misses the now running Ninetails.
Interior Compound
Pliskin, who is now holding a Colt Tooper MK 3 Magnum, smashes out the small window with his gun in response to the hostile actions of the Abomasnow.
Exterior Compound
Chuck grunts slightly in pain as the Abomasnow walks after the Ninetails who runs from his gunshots. The Abomasnow shoots 4 more times and misses, still chasing after the escaping Ninetails. He takes aim through his scope. From the outside of the small window that Pliskin was looking through, he takes aim and shoots his revolver. The recoil makes him flinch but the Abomasnow's arms fly up, dropping the rifle. He falls to the ground, dead. The Pokemon outside are confused and speechless as to what happened. The Mew runs over to Chuck to check on him.
"Chuck are you okay!?"
Chuck sits up in the snow, holding his wound with his right hand.
"Yeah yeah, I'm okay."
The Mew wants to make sure.
"Are you?"
He looks at the Mew.
"Yeah. What was going on there?"
The Mew doesn't answer him and instead leaves him the berry bottle from which he takes a drink from and runs towards the burning helicopter. From inside the compound come 3 more Pokemon carrying fire extinguishers. Pliskin follows out shortly after, putting on a heavy dark olive green jacket. He looks rather confused as to why the Abomasnow started opening fire on everyone. He looks on at the dead body of the Abomasnow, face down in the snow. After a few seconds, he begins walking towards the other Pokemon.
The Mew and Plush, run up to the burning remains of the helicopter. Plush attempts to put out a small fragment of the helicopter by kicking snow onto it while the Mew inspects the blaze to see if the other Pokemon who piloted the craft managed to escape. Nothing. 2 more Pokemon run up to help kick snow onto small pieces of the burning craft. The 3 Pokemon with fire extinguishers run up to the helicopter and start spraying it down with the extinguishing agent. The blaze goes out after a few seconds. The Ninetails from before watches the Pokemon as they search the remains of the wreck. The Stray Pokemon handler, Andy the Lucario, comes out of the compound and approaches the Ninetails. He inspects it to make sure it isn't hurt.
"Easy, easy. Easy, yes."
He pets and rubs the Ninetails on its neck and head. He looks on in the distance at the helicopter wreckage
The majority of all the Pokemon in the compound look at the smoldering and smoking remains of the Sinnohian helicopter. Everyone is perplexed except for the Mew. With sarcasm, he speaks out loud.
"First goddamn week of winter."
They continue to look at the remains.
Interior Compound, Infirmary
Chuck is being stitched up by Dr. Charlie, the station physicist and biologist. As he threads the stitches, Chuck grunts in discomfort and pain. He lets out an 'ouch', Charlie doesn't approve of Chuck's reaction to the weak wound.
"Aww c'mon. 4 stitches, barely grazed you."
Chuck is still confused about what happened earlier.
"What were they doing flying that low? Shooting at a Ninetails… At us?"
The doc continues stitching and tries to throw out answers.
"Mmm, Stir Crazy… Cabin fever, who knows."
Interior Compound, Radio Room
Windows, The Porygon-Z, is using the radio system to try and contact the main base to report the incident. He is wearing sunglasses and headphones.
"Unova Number 31, calling McMurdle. Come in, over."
He lets go of the call button and the only thing he hears is static. He writes it down on a piece of paper and George, The Primeape and senior biologist, walks in carrying a cup of coffee. He takes a drink and Windows tries the radio again.
"Unova Number 31, calling McMurdle. Urgent. Come in, over."
More static. He nods his head in acceptance and annoyance.
"Great…"
George taps him twice on the shoulder.
"C'mon, C'mon."
Windows takes the headphones off.
"Nobody!"
George Scoffs at him
"Nobody. Get ahold of somebody. Get ahold of anybody, we gotta report this mess."
Windows takes his sunglasses off.
"Look, I haven't been able to reach shit in 2 weeks! I doubt if anybody has talked to anybody on this entire continent, and you want me to reach somebody."
George looks at him with a slightly disappointed expression.
Interior Hallway
Mark, the Mr. Mime and station cook, glides through the narrow hallways on his roller skates. He flies past one of the rooms and holds onto the door molding to enter the Rec Room. Inside, a couple Pokemon are situated with the dead Abomasnow. Mark suggests something.
"Maybe we at war with Sinnoh."
The Abomasnow from earlier has a gaping bullet wound through his left eye. Killed upon impact. Pliskin, Carl the Sceptile, Randy the Rampardos, and Plush all throw a cover over the dead Abomasnow's body. Mark fully enters the rec room and sitting in a chair next to a shelf full of board games is Kevin the Aggron. He has headphones on and is lighting a joint.
"I was wondering when "El Cap-i-tan" was gonna get a chance to use his pop gun."
His blunt is lit and he takes a hit. Pliskin looks back at him with a stern look. Mike roller skates around the covered body. Pliskin looks back at Carl, Randy, and Plush.
"How long they been stationed there?"
Carl looks at a paper with dates on it.
"Says here about 8 weeks"
Pliskin shakes his head.
"That's not enough time for guys to go bonkers."
Mark intervenes.
"Bullshit, Bwana. Five minutes is enough to put a Pokemon over down here."
Kevin adds.
"Damn straight."
Mark turns to face Kevin.
"I mean, look at Kevin. He been the way he is since the first day."
With a lighter in his right hand, Kevin throws him a makeshift middle finger.
Pliskin is now reading the paper that Carl is reading. His arms are crossed now.
"How many in their party?"
Carl reads the paper.
"They started with 10, there'd be 8 others left."
Dr. Charlie walks in wiping his hands off with a towel. Chuck walks into the bar behind the doc and looks at something on the bar stand. The doc intervenes.
"How do we know?"
Everyone's attention turns to the doc, who takes a stand by Plush.
"Pokemon as crazy as that could've done a lot of damage to their own before they got to us."
Pliskin answers quickly.
"Nothing we can do about that."
The doc finishes wiping his hands and throws the towel over his left shoulder.
"Oh yes there is, I wanna go up."
Pliskin looks at him as if he's crazy.
"In this weather?"
The doc turns to Chuck
"Chuck?"
Everyone turns to Chuck.
"Winds are gonna let up a tad, next couple of hours."
Pliskin doesn't like this
"A Tad?"
Chuck walks to the group carrying a glass of berry juice mixed with alcohol.
"Can't condone it myself. But it is a short haul. Hour there, hour back."
Kevin, who is about to take another hit, stands up.
"Shit, doc, I'll give you the lift."
He heads for the doorway
"No problem."
As he is in the entrance to the rec room, Pliskin stops him.
"Forget it, Kevin."
He turns back and re-enters the room.
"Hey thanks for thinking about it though."