ZOIDS
Tale of Two Worlds
Chapter 5: Swirl
Three years after the Death Saurer fell again, Doctor Dee was working on a top secret project. He had been shut up in his lab for weeks. Van was starting to get worried about him.
"Hey! Mister! Are you going to come out or what?"
"NOT NOW!!!"
"Okay, okay..." he had been like that for weeks, Van thought to himself. Then he began thinking about the dullness and dreariness that had settled in. Not that peace was bad, but at least something could happen.
"NOW!!!" What?!!
"What do you mean NOW?"
"Come in! I need your help!"
Van pushed the door. It opened without protest. Dr. Dee was nowhere to be seen.
"Where are you?"
"Step on the tile in the center of the room."
What? Van thought. Oh well. Might as well humor the old man. When he got on, the floor started to descend.
"Whoa!"
Suddenly it stopped and Van found himself in a huge underground cavern.
"What is this place?" He began wandering around. It seemed like some scrap medalist had been here taking old tires and gears and reversing them into a weird sculpture. But it was all around him. Gears and pulleys working in unison. Suddenly he saw Dr. Dee.
"Just one last screw... there! Done!"
"What is this?" Van said in wonderment.
Suddenly a huge axle swished past him and a bunch of gears started working.
"I don't know!" Van fell over.
It took a while for everything to get sorted out. This wasn't what Dr. Dee had invented. The underground cavern, discovered by him, had contained plans for a huge machine. Dee, just as bored as Van, started working on it.
"And I presume this was something the ancient Zoidians were working on but never finished."
"So what do you think it does?"
"I told you! I don't know!"
"According to these plans, the master switch for this machine is right around this corner." Finally they walked up to a pile of gears.
"Just looks like a bunch of old rubbish to me." Van stepped foward and examined on of the cogs. Suddenly, they all started spinning.
"What happened?"
"If my calculations are correct, you just turned it on."
All the gears started spinning and spinning and suddenly the ground began to rumble. Then everything stopped.
______________________________
A prick in the sky, between the two moons the disabled spaceship and the Judge Capsule rocketed towards the earth, headed straight for the secret laboratory.
SMASH!!! The judge capsule wedged itself neatly into the collection of cogs. Suddenly, everything started spinning again.
The other ship crash landed on a field outside the building and set the field on fire.
______________________________
"Marvelous isn't it!"
"I still don't know what it does." Suddenly, a comlink flashed on.
"Hello, may I speak to Dr. Tauros?" It was the president of the Zoid battle commission.
______________________________
"Everyone out!" the captain yelled as the crew scrambled to evacuate the ship. Suits were attired and everyone scrambled out right before the ship exploded.
"Phew! I'm glad that's over with."
"Where are we?"
"Hmm, substantial life, buildings, WHAT?!! Buildings? Do you think we crash-landed on earth?!!!"
"Well, if you call two moons an earthly setting you are wrong."
"Where are we?"
"Very good question."
______________________________
"Hello? Who am I speaking to?" the president said.
"YOU ARE SPEAKING TO THE GREATEST SCIENTIST WHO EVER LIVED:", ahem, "DR. DEE."
"Aw now, quit playing jokes. Everyone knows that scientist died a century ago!"
"WHAT?! your meaning to say that I am a DEAD GUY?!!"
"Sorry. Hi I am the presidednt of the Zoid Battle Commission. How may I serve you umm, Dr. Dee?" His voice had a sarcastic tone to it.
"STOP THAT!" Suddenly the screen blinked off. Then Van got a transmission from Moonbay.
"What are you two doing here? The place is on fire! You better get out quick!"
"But..." Dee started to protest.
"No time for that! Now go!"
Van dragged Dr. Dee out of the secret lab and barely made it out of the facility before it went up in a ball of flame.
"Look! Humans!"
"Maybe they're aliens and have captured us in a virtual reality dome and imprisoned us and will make us their slaves -- AAAAAAAH!!!" the person fainted.
"Watch out! Everything is going up in flames!"
"RUN! we'll sort this out later."
"But what about David?"
"Carry him or something!"
"Huh?" Van thought. "Other people? But this was supposed to be a top secret base."
"Hey!" He called, "There is a transport Gustav over there!"
"Be careful! He might be an alien sent to destroy us all. What's a Gustav?"
Suddenly a Gustav drove up to them. Inside Moonbay jumped out and instantly started yelling at them.
"What do you think you're doing!" then she paused, and continued, "Boy. that's alot of people. They'll have to sit in the back. Well, just don't stand there, get on! This place is rigged to explode in 2 minutes!"
"But they might aliens!"
"Never mind that! Just get on that Bustav, or whatever that thingy is so we can figure out where we are."
_______________________________
Back at the secret base the heat had become unbearable. A survaillence camera was taping what entirely happened. After the affair finished, many would trouble over the meaning of it. But one thing was gear. Instead of stopping, the gears accelerated faster and faster and faster...
_______________________________
"I am a transporter, in the wasteland. I drive my buddy, the gustav..." Moonbay sang as the the seemingly tranquil scene was shattered by the massive explosion behind them.
Yagonativa was utterly convinced that these were humans and that it was not planet earth. He put two and two together and it didn't make any sense.
"What planet are we on?" he asked.
"Don't be ridiculous! Of course we are on Planet Zi. Boy, you sure are stupid. "Planet Zi?" Yagonativa thought. Now this didn't make even more sense. Then he realized they were speaking english.
"Even Weirder!" he thought aloud.
"What?" Moonbay replied.
"Nothing." He reexamined the situation. Here we were on a hostile-- hostile? they seemed friendly enough-- planet and there was a rather pretty woman singing a song on a planet in english which didn't make more sense. He had to know.
"Do you know anything about planet Earth?"
"Of course! That is taught in 2nd grade! All schoolchildren are taught that they came from earth onto planet Zi! Basic history! Though nobody has proven that yet."
WHAT?! That didn't even make more sense. Suddenly his thought was interrupted as they pulled into a military base.
_______________________________
"Who are you?" the cheif in command asked for the third time.
"I am Professor Yagonativa of planet Earth. I come in peace."
"Ha, ha ha!" he laughed.
_______________________________
"Hey! You can't just lock us up like that!"
"Hey, government orders."
"Yeah, it'll teach you a lesson not to play hoaxes like that anymore!"
"Hmm?" Van stopped and looked out the window. His mouth gaped open in horror.
"Captain, you better take a look at this.
_______________________________
"Thousands of the inhabitants all over planet Zi have been amazed by the unusual phenomenon that has caused the sky to turn red. Now, over to Dr. Dee, leading expert on sciences."
"Hello. As you all know, the sky has turned red. Don't worry now, it is not the end of the world, but we still are in quite a bit of trouble."
The picture changed as a visual from his computer flashed on.
"Recently, all communications from our satellites have ceased. I have reason to believe that we are under attack of aliens. Now, to Captain Cunningham, who is the director of the base in a top secret location who has detained a squad of thirteen men who say they are from another planet."
"These thirteen men had crash landed on Zi at about 7:32 AM. We still do not yet know of their motives. All attempts to fix their previous location have failed."
"Thankyou for that insightful report. And now--" Gasp!
"What is that!?" someone shouted.
______________________________
With that, the sky's temper faded as the it resumed its normal color, but not before a huge figure loomed in space.
______________________________
"It's the alien super-carrier!!! AAAAAAAAAH!!!" someone instantly fainted.
"Oh my!" Yagonativa cried.
"This is the end!" Cunningham yelled.
Admist all the din and confusion, someone accidentaly hit the alarm.
WHHHIIIIIIRRRRRR!!! WARNING! EMERGENCY ALERT! EMERGENCY ALERT! PLEASE EVACUATE THE FACILITY IMMEDIATELY!
______________________________
"The president has issued a state of alarm for the entire continent. All families are advised to stay home and take cover."
______________________________
Over to planet Zi in the future.
"The sky has turned red!"
"There is something in the sky!"
"THis is the end of the world!"
______________________________
Back to the past:
"It's mass chaos as the police force tries to calm the pandemonium and hysteria that has resulted on--- HOW COULD THAT BE?!!!" the reporter yelped when he read the newsflash.
______________________________
"WHAT IS THIS! This isn't an alien spaceship! IT IS A PLANET!!!"
______________________________
"Not just that, but the geographical contents are exactly the same!"
______________________________
"Now we will get killed when our planet disintegrates!"
"It is the end!"
"THe end!"
______________________________
CRUNCH!
______________________________
"Spectrometer analysis, 342
Spectrometer analysis, 340
Spectrometer analysis, 340
Spectrometer analysis, 340..."
"It's stopped advancing!"
"But that is against the laws of inertia!"
"Never mind inertia! WE'RE SAVED!!!"
______________________________
"Hallelughia!!!"
______________________________
"WE won't DIE now!"
______________________________
"What happened/" Van said after all the chaos had calmed down. Suddenly Dr. Dee's face turned white.
"Oh no!"
______________________________
"What's this! My clock stopped!"
"Hey! Mine stopped too!"
"According to my sunometer, the sun has stopped moving!"
______________________________
According to and as stated from the Science Weekly magazine:
The unusual phenomenons that have been
shaking Zi the past month, none have
been as mysterious as the planet that
has appeared suddenly.
According to Dr. Dee, this planet is
Planet Zi and that is impossible.
However, he has reason to believe
that this is the end product of a
mysterious experiment he had been
conducting the last year.
The plans have been released, although
the original prototype had been lost
during the suprise attack from the
alien human beings which set the
field ablaze.
It is still unknown why the Ancient
Zoidians had put together plans for
a TIME MACHINE. The government will be
sending three storm-sworders to investi-
gate the planet. Should they prove to
be hostile we will be forced to go
into a state of alert.
Meanwhile, it does seem that time has
stopped. Even Dr. Dee is baffled why
this mystery has occured. In addition,
Zi's magnetic fields have
REVERSED. It is safe to say that these
happenings may be traced to this experi-
ment.
Finally, since the last 23452 hours the
sun has not moved. We still do not know
why this is happening either.
Tale of Two Worlds
Chapter 5: Swirl
Three years after the Death Saurer fell again, Doctor Dee was working on a top secret project. He had been shut up in his lab for weeks. Van was starting to get worried about him.
"Hey! Mister! Are you going to come out or what?"
"NOT NOW!!!"
"Okay, okay..." he had been like that for weeks, Van thought to himself. Then he began thinking about the dullness and dreariness that had settled in. Not that peace was bad, but at least something could happen.
"NOW!!!" What?!!
"What do you mean NOW?"
"Come in! I need your help!"
Van pushed the door. It opened without protest. Dr. Dee was nowhere to be seen.
"Where are you?"
"Step on the tile in the center of the room."
What? Van thought. Oh well. Might as well humor the old man. When he got on, the floor started to descend.
"Whoa!"
Suddenly it stopped and Van found himself in a huge underground cavern.
"What is this place?" He began wandering around. It seemed like some scrap medalist had been here taking old tires and gears and reversing them into a weird sculpture. But it was all around him. Gears and pulleys working in unison. Suddenly he saw Dr. Dee.
"Just one last screw... there! Done!"
"What is this?" Van said in wonderment.
Suddenly a huge axle swished past him and a bunch of gears started working.
"I don't know!" Van fell over.
It took a while for everything to get sorted out. This wasn't what Dr. Dee had invented. The underground cavern, discovered by him, had contained plans for a huge machine. Dee, just as bored as Van, started working on it.
"And I presume this was something the ancient Zoidians were working on but never finished."
"So what do you think it does?"
"I told you! I don't know!"
"According to these plans, the master switch for this machine is right around this corner." Finally they walked up to a pile of gears.
"Just looks like a bunch of old rubbish to me." Van stepped foward and examined on of the cogs. Suddenly, they all started spinning.
"What happened?"
"If my calculations are correct, you just turned it on."
All the gears started spinning and spinning and suddenly the ground began to rumble. Then everything stopped.
______________________________
A prick in the sky, between the two moons the disabled spaceship and the Judge Capsule rocketed towards the earth, headed straight for the secret laboratory.
SMASH!!! The judge capsule wedged itself neatly into the collection of cogs. Suddenly, everything started spinning again.
The other ship crash landed on a field outside the building and set the field on fire.
______________________________
"Marvelous isn't it!"
"I still don't know what it does." Suddenly, a comlink flashed on.
"Hello, may I speak to Dr. Tauros?" It was the president of the Zoid battle commission.
______________________________
"Everyone out!" the captain yelled as the crew scrambled to evacuate the ship. Suits were attired and everyone scrambled out right before the ship exploded.
"Phew! I'm glad that's over with."
"Where are we?"
"Hmm, substantial life, buildings, WHAT?!! Buildings? Do you think we crash-landed on earth?!!!"
"Well, if you call two moons an earthly setting you are wrong."
"Where are we?"
"Very good question."
______________________________
"Hello? Who am I speaking to?" the president said.
"YOU ARE SPEAKING TO THE GREATEST SCIENTIST WHO EVER LIVED:", ahem, "DR. DEE."
"Aw now, quit playing jokes. Everyone knows that scientist died a century ago!"
"WHAT?! your meaning to say that I am a DEAD GUY?!!"
"Sorry. Hi I am the presidednt of the Zoid Battle Commission. How may I serve you umm, Dr. Dee?" His voice had a sarcastic tone to it.
"STOP THAT!" Suddenly the screen blinked off. Then Van got a transmission from Moonbay.
"What are you two doing here? The place is on fire! You better get out quick!"
"But..." Dee started to protest.
"No time for that! Now go!"
Van dragged Dr. Dee out of the secret lab and barely made it out of the facility before it went up in a ball of flame.
"Look! Humans!"
"Maybe they're aliens and have captured us in a virtual reality dome and imprisoned us and will make us their slaves -- AAAAAAAH!!!" the person fainted.
"Watch out! Everything is going up in flames!"
"RUN! we'll sort this out later."
"But what about David?"
"Carry him or something!"
"Huh?" Van thought. "Other people? But this was supposed to be a top secret base."
"Hey!" He called, "There is a transport Gustav over there!"
"Be careful! He might be an alien sent to destroy us all. What's a Gustav?"
Suddenly a Gustav drove up to them. Inside Moonbay jumped out and instantly started yelling at them.
"What do you think you're doing!" then she paused, and continued, "Boy. that's alot of people. They'll have to sit in the back. Well, just don't stand there, get on! This place is rigged to explode in 2 minutes!"
"But they might aliens!"
"Never mind that! Just get on that Bustav, or whatever that thingy is so we can figure out where we are."
_______________________________
Back at the secret base the heat had become unbearable. A survaillence camera was taping what entirely happened. After the affair finished, many would trouble over the meaning of it. But one thing was gear. Instead of stopping, the gears accelerated faster and faster and faster...
_______________________________
"I am a transporter, in the wasteland. I drive my buddy, the gustav..." Moonbay sang as the the seemingly tranquil scene was shattered by the massive explosion behind them.
Yagonativa was utterly convinced that these were humans and that it was not planet earth. He put two and two together and it didn't make any sense.
"What planet are we on?" he asked.
"Don't be ridiculous! Of course we are on Planet Zi. Boy, you sure are stupid. "Planet Zi?" Yagonativa thought. Now this didn't make even more sense. Then he realized they were speaking english.
"Even Weirder!" he thought aloud.
"What?" Moonbay replied.
"Nothing." He reexamined the situation. Here we were on a hostile-- hostile? they seemed friendly enough-- planet and there was a rather pretty woman singing a song on a planet in english which didn't make more sense. He had to know.
"Do you know anything about planet Earth?"
"Of course! That is taught in 2nd grade! All schoolchildren are taught that they came from earth onto planet Zi! Basic history! Though nobody has proven that yet."
WHAT?! That didn't even make more sense. Suddenly his thought was interrupted as they pulled into a military base.
_______________________________
"Who are you?" the cheif in command asked for the third time.
"I am Professor Yagonativa of planet Earth. I come in peace."
"Ha, ha ha!" he laughed.
_______________________________
"Hey! You can't just lock us up like that!"
"Hey, government orders."
"Yeah, it'll teach you a lesson not to play hoaxes like that anymore!"
"Hmm?" Van stopped and looked out the window. His mouth gaped open in horror.
"Captain, you better take a look at this.
_______________________________
"Thousands of the inhabitants all over planet Zi have been amazed by the unusual phenomenon that has caused the sky to turn red. Now, over to Dr. Dee, leading expert on sciences."
"Hello. As you all know, the sky has turned red. Don't worry now, it is not the end of the world, but we still are in quite a bit of trouble."
The picture changed as a visual from his computer flashed on.
"Recently, all communications from our satellites have ceased. I have reason to believe that we are under attack of aliens. Now, to Captain Cunningham, who is the director of the base in a top secret location who has detained a squad of thirteen men who say they are from another planet."
"These thirteen men had crash landed on Zi at about 7:32 AM. We still do not yet know of their motives. All attempts to fix their previous location have failed."
"Thankyou for that insightful report. And now--" Gasp!
"What is that!?" someone shouted.
______________________________
With that, the sky's temper faded as the it resumed its normal color, but not before a huge figure loomed in space.
______________________________
"It's the alien super-carrier!!! AAAAAAAAAH!!!" someone instantly fainted.
"Oh my!" Yagonativa cried.
"This is the end!" Cunningham yelled.
Admist all the din and confusion, someone accidentaly hit the alarm.
WHHHIIIIIIRRRRRR!!! WARNING! EMERGENCY ALERT! EMERGENCY ALERT! PLEASE EVACUATE THE FACILITY IMMEDIATELY!
______________________________
"The president has issued a state of alarm for the entire continent. All families are advised to stay home and take cover."
______________________________
Over to planet Zi in the future.
"The sky has turned red!"
"There is something in the sky!"
"THis is the end of the world!"
______________________________
Back to the past:
"It's mass chaos as the police force tries to calm the pandemonium and hysteria that has resulted on--- HOW COULD THAT BE?!!!" the reporter yelped when he read the newsflash.
______________________________
"WHAT IS THIS! This isn't an alien spaceship! IT IS A PLANET!!!"
______________________________
"Not just that, but the geographical contents are exactly the same!"
______________________________
"Now we will get killed when our planet disintegrates!"
"It is the end!"
"THe end!"
______________________________
CRUNCH!
______________________________
"Spectrometer analysis, 342
Spectrometer analysis, 340
Spectrometer analysis, 340
Spectrometer analysis, 340..."
"It's stopped advancing!"
"But that is against the laws of inertia!"
"Never mind inertia! WE'RE SAVED!!!"
______________________________
"Hallelughia!!!"
______________________________
"WE won't DIE now!"
______________________________
"What happened/" Van said after all the chaos had calmed down. Suddenly Dr. Dee's face turned white.
"Oh no!"
______________________________
"What's this! My clock stopped!"
"Hey! Mine stopped too!"
"According to my sunometer, the sun has stopped moving!"
______________________________
According to and as stated from the Science Weekly magazine:
The unusual phenomenons that have been
shaking Zi the past month, none have
been as mysterious as the planet that
has appeared suddenly.
According to Dr. Dee, this planet is
Planet Zi and that is impossible.
However, he has reason to believe
that this is the end product of a
mysterious experiment he had been
conducting the last year.
The plans have been released, although
the original prototype had been lost
during the suprise attack from the
alien human beings which set the
field ablaze.
It is still unknown why the Ancient
Zoidians had put together plans for
a TIME MACHINE. The government will be
sending three storm-sworders to investi-
gate the planet. Should they prove to
be hostile we will be forced to go
into a state of alert.
Meanwhile, it does seem that time has
stopped. Even Dr. Dee is baffled why
this mystery has occured. In addition,
Zi's magnetic fields have
REVERSED. It is safe to say that these
happenings may be traced to this experi-
ment.
Finally, since the last 23452 hours the
sun has not moved. We still do not know
why this is happening either.
