Space, adventure, and intrigue. My first SciFi dream
Author: Orient
I myself switched between charecters frequently in this dream. I will indicate who I am in brackets <> when I change. I will also give a brief physical description.This dream happened over four hours.
there are four of us, we didn't have names, but I had given us each a private nickname. there was Bull, a serious nice guy who wasn't all that bright. he was smart enough, just didn't have too much common sense. he looked a lot like Bull from the old show Night Court. he laughed when I told him, and the name stuck.
then there was adrian, brown hair that fluxuated between light brown to almost black. it was curly and went well with her face. she was always angry. I don't know why I named her adrian, but she didn't object. what we call her is none of her concern, she was here because this is where they sent us.
Glyph didn't like the name ratchet, so we called him glyph. which he liked even less. he always carried around his 'tools'. it was this that inspired the name ratchet. we don't know what his tools were for, or even what they were. we didn't get to know glyph too well. he was jamacian, with hair curlyier than adrian's. black as all hell too. he was nice, just not all that outgoing.
and now me, I'm the alpha of our squad. I'm not sure where we are, or how we got here. none of us do. we know the enemy is here with us, and we know thier intent. but we don't know who or what they are. remember guile from street fighter? yeah, I look nothing like him. I don't wear commandos, I'm not particularly stong, and I do not have a commanding presance. I don't know why I got booted up to commander on my first mission. I have short brown hair, bowl cut. I'm almost 6' tall, with brown eyes. I'm not buff, but what muscle I do have is toned. but that's only because of the training they made us go through.
anyway, that's us. and we're lost. and it's probably my fault. it looks as though we're in an abandoned building, but the giegeresque pipes and wiring contrast with the square hallways and rooms. there are ducts everywhere, and I think we're moving. If we're on a ship, I hope it's one of ours.
well, wonderboy over there isn't going to do anything. look at him, looks like he wants to find a nice safe place and hide until someone finds us. screw that, I'm gonna find out where the hell we are. "You can all stand around if you want. I'm going to go scout ahead." I walk away after they're approving murmurs. they are like sheep without a sheapard. totally lost. well, I will find my own way out of here. now what's that in there?
I look around the room I've entered. it looks like a water filtration system. that would support the ship thery. above me I see sewage being spewed into a glass box of some sort before shooting down some pipe to the more complex machinery. I see a big chunk splat against the side, and something crawls around, like it's getting a sense of where it is.
"Guys! get in here quick! what the hewll is that?!" I shout. they come running. wonderboy immediately looks up and sees it. "It looks like some kind of machine," he says. and now that I look I see he's right. it's hard to tell through all the gunk, but the legs are somewhat mechanical looking, robotic even. and the head is very triangular. I start to count legs and see that there's four, there could be more but I think that's gunk. It finds it's way out and continues down the pipe. I look over at the others, they are crowded together back to back. like things are gonna pop out of the corners and eat them. Now, I'm not gonna pretend that I wasn't scared. I'm pretty shook up. But I learend a long time ago how to deal with fear. I rush out of the room following the pipe. If that was the enemy I'm gonna blast the fucker into oblivion. If it wasn't..well, not much chance of that. at the very least it's a droid trying to spy on us.I come to the room where the pipe empties out, it's big. and the pool is swarming with the bots. they have six legs. not four. and they aren't happy I'm in here. Shit! I run as fast as I can out of the room. they stop chasing as soon as I reach the threshold. Fuck this, I'm gonna go back to the others. I guess they did have the right idea after all.
