Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters, except for those I invent.
D.C. and Dean characters I invented. For details on DC, see "D.C. and the CN Tower." chapters one through five. For info on Dean, see "Mutant Roundup: Chapter Nine."
"The alien spaceship is now almost exactly over the Hawaiian island of Kahoolawe. That island was thought to be deserted and being used as target practice by the military, until what looked like a prison was seen by several small boats following the UFO. Our reporter Bob Nitro is there now, Bob?"
"Shirley, it is a circus out here! Hundreds of small motorboats, houseboats, rowboats, and even a few cruise liners. The Navy is trying to set up a blockade around Kahoolawe but that effort is useless. There are too many small boats around that could get sucked under any bigger ship. In addition, the people here and around the world are demanding why there is a prison here. Also, a fishing boat's sonar has found something laying on the ocean bottom, something that looks like a large cruise liner."
"You said there were other cruise liners there. Which ones?"
"Well, the sister ship of the Virgo, the Gemini is here. If you'll recall, Virgo sank off the northern coast of Maui a few years ago. The Gemini was sold to Walt Disney Corporations and became part of their cruise line. Other liners include the Potomac, the Asterisk, and the Hiroshima all the way from Japan."
"Bob, what is the UFO doing at this time?"
"It is hovering over the prison, slowly rotating clockwise. If I didn't know any better, I'd say it was preparing to do something, though I can't imagine what. The so-called stinger is about thirty feet above the roof of the tallest watchtower."
"Thanks Bob. Now here we have animation of what the prison looks like.
"The island of Kahoolawe is shaped roughly like a coffin. It had an extinct volcano 1477 feet high which is now gone. The prison itself is surrounded by a wall that follows the outline of the island that is about fifty feet high. After that, a wall sixty feet high follows the contours of the outer wall and so on, with each wall ten feet higher then the last and each is spaced thirty yards or so. All the walls have watchtowers spaced every fifty yards. The final wall is a really just a giant watchtower in the exact center of the island. It is about 550 feet tall, just a little shorter then the Washington Monument. This tower is what the UFO is hovering above. Just a moment, I've just been handed this…A new and shocking factor has just developed in this story. The liner seen by the fishing boat's sonar has been identified. Bob Nitro has more."
"People are yelling and talking to each other in confusion. A private salvage crew was called out to identify the sunken ship. When the result came in one of the crew members blurted it out on the radio. It is the Virgo, which was supposed to have sunk hundreds of miles from here. The people are demanding answers, and the military is rumored to have played a part in the sinking. Military official say that-wait a minute! The UFO is showing activity, I repeat, the UFO is showing activity!"
The camera swings around toward the island. White lights have appeared at the edges of the rays leading away from the stinger. They close in on the stinger. As they disappear into it, a ray of light shoots from the tip and makes contact with the radio antenna on top of the main watchtower. There are screams coming from the boats now, as the people in the boat realize what it's doing. Boats are turning around, trying to get away from the inevitable explosion. The din of shattering glass coming from the prison rises over the screaming, no easy thing to do. As the shaft of light goes through its colors, ships are knocking together, people are falling out, some are jumping to try to swim to Maui, the nearest island. But as a booming noise reaches their ears, everyone knows they are much too late.
The watchtower explodes with a deafening roar. The walls surrounding the tower are either knocked flat or are lifting up into the air. But it isn't just the structure on land that blows up. The island itself, a former volcano, cracks and shudders. As flames try to come out of the rocks, they hit seawater, which turns into superheated steam which races for the surface in bubbles the size of cars. Then suddenly, the island, surface and base, blasts itself into oblivion, taking a few billion gallons of seawater with it.
It's like watching a shock wave. You see the water flash boil and disappear in an ever widening circle. Boats and sea salt are suspended in air for the briefest moment, then fall to the exposed seabed. The nearer the boats to the island, the less distance to fall, but some boats are very far away from the island.
Circle of evaporated water engulfs Maui, Lanai, Molokai, and touches the shores of the Big Island and Oahu. Imagine, you're playing on the beach, and suddenly the water's gone. People who were supported by the water lose their balance and fall. People are screaming, they don't what's happening. And suddenly the water comes.
The Pacific Ocean reacts to the sudden absence of water with a tidal wave. A wall of water fifty feet high rushes in to replace the water that is lost. When the wave reaches the former site of Kahoolawe there are no people there, just the UFO. As the waters close in on the crater that was an island, a jet of lava suddenly bursts out, almost touching the UFO. As the water closes the whole in the ocean, the pale glow of lava can be seen even from the surface, as the spacecraft turns north towards Maui.