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Part 1: The Awakening
:Antarctica:
A sound. A slight, slight rise in the temperature, nothing more then two degrees. It was enough though. Her mind told her awake. Awake; arise, away from the cold, towards the heat. Towards the heat. There would be food there, always food...
She was so hungry...
Aaron Keller hugged himself, stepping in place, struggling to stay warm despite the arctic clothing he wore. The wind at least had died down a bit from yesterday. Yesterday had been hell, the skin piercing, razor-sharp cold wind had made everything zero visibility, lifting up loose snow to blind them and freeze them, rendering operations impossible for the day. Half an hour into the drilling they had to stop due to the conditions.
Oh yeah, it had been a great idea back at the university. Such a great idea in fact, he had done nearly everything besides kill people to be on this project. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Loving it now, Aaron? He chuckled to himself with a shiver. Yeah, just great.
"We've hit our target level." Jessica Langston yelled out to him from the sensors shelter.
"Great." Aaron shouted back, giving her the thumbs up with one gloved hand.
Nodding once, she motioned for Aaron to join her inside one of the science and research teams heated snow terrain vehicles. Without hesitation, he jogged clumsily acrossed the distance though the snow. God, I feel like a kid again. For a second he thought about reaching down and making a snowball to throw at Jess. Nah, too cold.
Slamming the door shut behind him, Aaron began to tear the cold thermotech gloves and headgear he wore off, placing his hands on the vehicles heating vents. Jess giggled, her shoulder length brown hair bouncing with the motion.
"Enjoying the vacation?'
"The middle of freakin' Antarctica. Remind me to sue my travel agent."
Jess smiled, pouring him a thermos cupful of coffee. Aaron gratefully took it. "Blake says he's already getting resonance sensor readings from the hole." She began, pouring herself some of the black brew.
"Positive ID on anything?" He asked over his own cup.
"He says it's something large, but not to get our hopes up yet. Could be false readings. We won't know anything for sure until we get the hole big enough to send a team down."
Aaron shuddered. Part of the team's job was to dig down to the rocky Antarctic surface with the large drill equipment financed by some big cooperation whose name he couldn't remember, some Japanese-American joint company that he didn't even know what they did! Once the hole was large enough to fit a few men and equipment inside the shaft, they'd descend and take some initial rock core samples to send back to their labs for testing. Then, if things looked good, they could continue their paleontological diggings. Good plan, he just didn't like the idea of being stuck down a tiny shaft in the middle of a glacier. Who knew when the damned glacier might shift and collapse the shaft!
Gazing out acrossed the landscape, Aaron tried picturing the land the way it had been nearly 400 million years ago. Plants, maybe some animals, some insects, living on a land not covered in frozen snow and glaciers, but muggy heat. Maybe there had been a tree here, a grass like plant here, a swarm of insects on carrion there.
"Things sure have changed in a few million years." Aaron sipped from the already cooling coffee.
"Don't worry, Aaron. This project'll be a big success, you'll see. So much of history will finally come to light." Smiling, she laid a small hand on the arm of his coat.
Aaron smiled back. Began to say something.
Then the tremors hit.
Godzilla vs Tsunagara
Project Genesis
Story by Shannon Miller
Chapter I: From frozen Dreams
Aaron's face fell as he suddenly turned to look out the window, as if there would be something there he could see that was responsible for rocking the vehicle. "What the hell...?"
Without thinking, Jessica grabbed the trucks walkie-talkie. "Base one, this is truck zero-three. What the hell was that?"
Another tremor, stronger, rattled the insides of the truck.
"I didn't think there were supposed to be earthquakes here." Aaron muttered nervously.
"I dunno, Jess." Mike Galers voice said through the static of the walkie-talkie. "The epicenter though seems to be coming from Blakes position."
Aaron's heart paused. "The drill..."
Jessica nodded, starting the vehicle up. "Here, get a hold of Blake, see what the hell's going on over there."
The snow made muffled crunching noises under the enormous treads of the snow terrain vehicle as it began plowing its way towards the snow dune before them. Yet another tremor, even stronger then the last one, shook them as Aaron tried to get Blakes channel set on the walkie-talkie. "Shit, I thought aftershocks were supposed to be weaker than the initial earthquake."
"This isn't an earthquake." Jess muttered between clenched teeth. "Something's gone wrong. Really wrong."
"Blake, Blake, man, this is Aaron. Do you copy?"
"Dude, what the hell's going on? Everything's jumping like mad over here!" Blakes' rattled voice came over the speakers.
"The drill..."
"No, man, it's not the drill. The drill's just fine."
"Shut it down anyway. Shut it down now!"
"Hey man, the drill's fine I said!" Blake shot back.
"Blake..."
"Wait a second... Something is wrong with the drill. I've hit something hard. It's...it's...
"Blake! Shut it down NOW!"
There was a horrible tremor worse then any of the others as the sound of metal tearing away came crackling over the speakers.
"Oh, shit man, what the fuck is that?"
"Blake, Blake! What is it?"
"Oh god." Jessica muttered.
"Jesus Christ, no way! Help me man! Help!"
Aaron hollered out to Blake. Blake had begun screaming, shouting something and then....
"Blake?"
"Oh god. Aaron, look!"
Setting the walkie-talkie in his lap, shaking and actually sweating, sweating in the middle of Antarctica, he looked up to where Jess was pointing.
And screamed.
"No no, the creature left us alone. We only have one casualty to report. Yes, one, Blake Galers, Mike Galers brother. Yes, yes, I said creature, how many times do you want me to say it. It was a big freakin' monster!" Aaron sighed, his face red from yelling into the stations radio, the only contact the science and research team had with the rest of civilization.
Jessica sat acrossed from him, crying into Mike's arms. He had a few tears for his brother too, but mostly he was too scared to do anything else. Hell, they were all scared, the whole team.
"No, I'm not drunk! We want off this snowball, now! I don't care if you HAVE to drag the pilots out of bed, we want out, you hear!?" With that, he angrily flipped the comm off, yanking the earpiece free from his ear.
"Jesus, Aaron, what was it? What was that thing?" Mike whispered, still trying to soothe Jessica.
Aaron shook his head as the rest of the twenty-member science team looked to him. Looked to him as if he had all the answers. "I don't know, Mike. I honestly don't know."
"We've dug into hell." Jessica sobbed.
Aaron looked at the print he'd made as soon as he returned to the base. It was fuzzy; the vehicle had been jumping around badly, and he really hadn't taken the time to focus the camera. But it was there. The monster that killed Blake, ruined their project...
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have thought it to be a hoax.
It walked on four enormous legs, legs bigger then the trunk of a Redwood. Sitting on those legs was a torso supporting two, long arms covered in layer after layer of muscle so thick it would have made steel cables look like thin thread. The neck was long and thin, whip-like actually, and it could have been mistaken for a tail if it weren't for the small, narrow head attached to the other end. The creature did have a tail though, a thick, scorpion-like tail that was actually longer then the rest of its body and seemed to curl in on itself a bit like a fern in spring before unfurling. It was covered in scales for the most part, strange turquoise and blue scales dotted here and there a bit with silver. But there were places where feathers hung in disgusting clumps from its body, nasty rotting brown and green colored feathers.
He wanted to calm his mind. It was a frozen dinosaur come to life, that's all. But there was never such a dinosaur as this. No creature ever alive on earth that was like this. It had killed Blake when it rose from the ground, and then slowly began to thunder off to the north towards the Americas, dragging its impossibly long arms behind it. Impossible, the creature itself was impossible. Not a dinosaur, but where, where had it come from?
"I'm scared." Jess whispered in the silence.
"Me too." Aaron said.
Scared for me, and scared for the rest of the world who's never seen this type of beast before...
Part 1: The Awakening
:Antarctica:
A sound. A slight, slight rise in the temperature, nothing more then two degrees. It was enough though. Her mind told her awake. Awake; arise, away from the cold, towards the heat. Towards the heat. There would be food there, always food...
She was so hungry...
Aaron Keller hugged himself, stepping in place, struggling to stay warm despite the arctic clothing he wore. The wind at least had died down a bit from yesterday. Yesterday had been hell, the skin piercing, razor-sharp cold wind had made everything zero visibility, lifting up loose snow to blind them and freeze them, rendering operations impossible for the day. Half an hour into the drilling they had to stop due to the conditions.
Oh yeah, it had been a great idea back at the university. Such a great idea in fact, he had done nearly everything besides kill people to be on this project. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Loving it now, Aaron? He chuckled to himself with a shiver. Yeah, just great.
"We've hit our target level." Jessica Langston yelled out to him from the sensors shelter.
"Great." Aaron shouted back, giving her the thumbs up with one gloved hand.
Nodding once, she motioned for Aaron to join her inside one of the science and research teams heated snow terrain vehicles. Without hesitation, he jogged clumsily acrossed the distance though the snow. God, I feel like a kid again. For a second he thought about reaching down and making a snowball to throw at Jess. Nah, too cold.
Slamming the door shut behind him, Aaron began to tear the cold thermotech gloves and headgear he wore off, placing his hands on the vehicles heating vents. Jess giggled, her shoulder length brown hair bouncing with the motion.
"Enjoying the vacation?'
"The middle of freakin' Antarctica. Remind me to sue my travel agent."
Jess smiled, pouring him a thermos cupful of coffee. Aaron gratefully took it. "Blake says he's already getting resonance sensor readings from the hole." She began, pouring herself some of the black brew.
"Positive ID on anything?" He asked over his own cup.
"He says it's something large, but not to get our hopes up yet. Could be false readings. We won't know anything for sure until we get the hole big enough to send a team down."
Aaron shuddered. Part of the team's job was to dig down to the rocky Antarctic surface with the large drill equipment financed by some big cooperation whose name he couldn't remember, some Japanese-American joint company that he didn't even know what they did! Once the hole was large enough to fit a few men and equipment inside the shaft, they'd descend and take some initial rock core samples to send back to their labs for testing. Then, if things looked good, they could continue their paleontological diggings. Good plan, he just didn't like the idea of being stuck down a tiny shaft in the middle of a glacier. Who knew when the damned glacier might shift and collapse the shaft!
Gazing out acrossed the landscape, Aaron tried picturing the land the way it had been nearly 400 million years ago. Plants, maybe some animals, some insects, living on a land not covered in frozen snow and glaciers, but muggy heat. Maybe there had been a tree here, a grass like plant here, a swarm of insects on carrion there.
"Things sure have changed in a few million years." Aaron sipped from the already cooling coffee.
"Don't worry, Aaron. This project'll be a big success, you'll see. So much of history will finally come to light." Smiling, she laid a small hand on the arm of his coat.
Aaron smiled back. Began to say something.
Then the tremors hit.
Godzilla vs Tsunagara
Project Genesis
Story by Shannon Miller
Chapter I: From frozen Dreams
Aaron's face fell as he suddenly turned to look out the window, as if there would be something there he could see that was responsible for rocking the vehicle. "What the hell...?"
Without thinking, Jessica grabbed the trucks walkie-talkie. "Base one, this is truck zero-three. What the hell was that?"
Another tremor, stronger, rattled the insides of the truck.
"I didn't think there were supposed to be earthquakes here." Aaron muttered nervously.
"I dunno, Jess." Mike Galers voice said through the static of the walkie-talkie. "The epicenter though seems to be coming from Blakes position."
Aaron's heart paused. "The drill..."
Jessica nodded, starting the vehicle up. "Here, get a hold of Blake, see what the hell's going on over there."
The snow made muffled crunching noises under the enormous treads of the snow terrain vehicle as it began plowing its way towards the snow dune before them. Yet another tremor, even stronger then the last one, shook them as Aaron tried to get Blakes channel set on the walkie-talkie. "Shit, I thought aftershocks were supposed to be weaker than the initial earthquake."
"This isn't an earthquake." Jess muttered between clenched teeth. "Something's gone wrong. Really wrong."
"Blake, Blake, man, this is Aaron. Do you copy?"
"Dude, what the hell's going on? Everything's jumping like mad over here!" Blakes' rattled voice came over the speakers.
"The drill..."
"No, man, it's not the drill. The drill's just fine."
"Shut it down anyway. Shut it down now!"
"Hey man, the drill's fine I said!" Blake shot back.
"Blake..."
"Wait a second... Something is wrong with the drill. I've hit something hard. It's...it's...
"Blake! Shut it down NOW!"
There was a horrible tremor worse then any of the others as the sound of metal tearing away came crackling over the speakers.
"Oh, shit man, what the fuck is that?"
"Blake, Blake! What is it?"
"Oh god." Jessica muttered.
"Jesus Christ, no way! Help me man! Help!"
Aaron hollered out to Blake. Blake had begun screaming, shouting something and then....
"Blake?"
"Oh god. Aaron, look!"
Setting the walkie-talkie in his lap, shaking and actually sweating, sweating in the middle of Antarctica, he looked up to where Jess was pointing.
And screamed.
"No no, the creature left us alone. We only have one casualty to report. Yes, one, Blake Galers, Mike Galers brother. Yes, yes, I said creature, how many times do you want me to say it. It was a big freakin' monster!" Aaron sighed, his face red from yelling into the stations radio, the only contact the science and research team had with the rest of civilization.
Jessica sat acrossed from him, crying into Mike's arms. He had a few tears for his brother too, but mostly he was too scared to do anything else. Hell, they were all scared, the whole team.
"No, I'm not drunk! We want off this snowball, now! I don't care if you HAVE to drag the pilots out of bed, we want out, you hear!?" With that, he angrily flipped the comm off, yanking the earpiece free from his ear.
"Jesus, Aaron, what was it? What was that thing?" Mike whispered, still trying to soothe Jessica.
Aaron shook his head as the rest of the twenty-member science team looked to him. Looked to him as if he had all the answers. "I don't know, Mike. I honestly don't know."
"We've dug into hell." Jessica sobbed.
Aaron looked at the print he'd made as soon as he returned to the base. It was fuzzy; the vehicle had been jumping around badly, and he really hadn't taken the time to focus the camera. But it was there. The monster that killed Blake, ruined their project...
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have thought it to be a hoax.
It walked on four enormous legs, legs bigger then the trunk of a Redwood. Sitting on those legs was a torso supporting two, long arms covered in layer after layer of muscle so thick it would have made steel cables look like thin thread. The neck was long and thin, whip-like actually, and it could have been mistaken for a tail if it weren't for the small, narrow head attached to the other end. The creature did have a tail though, a thick, scorpion-like tail that was actually longer then the rest of its body and seemed to curl in on itself a bit like a fern in spring before unfurling. It was covered in scales for the most part, strange turquoise and blue scales dotted here and there a bit with silver. But there were places where feathers hung in disgusting clumps from its body, nasty rotting brown and green colored feathers.
He wanted to calm his mind. It was a frozen dinosaur come to life, that's all. But there was never such a dinosaur as this. No creature ever alive on earth that was like this. It had killed Blake when it rose from the ground, and then slowly began to thunder off to the north towards the Americas, dragging its impossibly long arms behind it. Impossible, the creature itself was impossible. Not a dinosaur, but where, where had it come from?
"I'm scared." Jess whispered in the silence.
"Me too." Aaron said.
Scared for me, and scared for the rest of the world who's never seen this type of beast before...