[Scene: Three boys are sitting at a parking lot in front of a convenience store. Each boy seems to be in their teens and wearing clothing that seems to cover up their bodies well. It seems to be reasonably late at night as it is dark and there are no other people around. It also has seemed to rain a bit so the pavement shines bright despite being so dark, as if it was black coffee. The only reasonable light source seems to be coming from the supermarket as it is resonating a dozen yards behind.]

Boy 1: “So what’s your choice?”

Boy 2: “I never said I wasn’t going to do it. I just said wait a few minutes.”

Boy 1: “Fuck you mean wait a few minutes? We can only be here so long. People’ll get suspicious.”

Boy 3 takes something out of the front pouch of his sweater. It is seems to be gun that is all black. He begins to point it in the air as if he is about to shoot something. As the gun is held up in the same angle, with closer inspection from the viewer it seems that the tip has been painted on the account that the shade of the tip doesn’t match the rest of the gun.

Boy 1: “Bitch did you just hear what I said!?”

Boy 1 immediately smacks Boy 3’s arm down resulting in him lowering his gun. Boy 2 begins laughing.Boy 1 then faces toward him.

Boy 1: “This isn’t fucking funny. Ya’ll fucking everything up. We just do as we planned, go in there, hold ’em up, get the money. Okay.”

All three boys immediately walk toward the grocery store as Boy 1 leads.

[Scene: Inside the convenience store it is very quiet. The only clerk, a girl who doesn’t seem to be much older than the boys, is standing and hunched over the counter reading something on her tablet. The entire grocery store seems to be well organized and spotless giving the indication that it has been a slow shift.]

The three boys enter the convenience store without so much as glancing at the clerk. They begin browsing the store as they take various products of shelves such as chips, soda, and alcohol. Things seem random but they really aren’t. Each boy is scouting the area inspecting the surroundings. Despite their tough persona it is clear they are inexperienced.They take too long scouting an obvious small store and act too conspicuous. While walking through the store Boy 3 opens up a small bag of potato chips and begins eating. The clerk looks up from her tablet and shakes her head in disapproval. She then goes back focusing on her tablet. Boy 1 then turns his head toward Boy 2, they seem to have a moment of understanding. Boy 1 then walks toward the counter toward the clerk with his hands in the pouch of his sweatshirt.

Boy 1: “Is that a Galaxy S?”

The clerk looks up at the boy.

Clerk: “Yes.”

The clerk goes back to focusing on her iPad.

Boy 1: “How much it cost?”

Clerk: “I’m not sure. I got it for my birthday.”

Boy 1: “Oh. Let me have it?”

The clerk looks back up at the boy.

Boy 1: “I said let me have it.”

Boy 1 takes a gun out of his front pouch. The clerk proceeds to drop her tablet in a manner that she nearly throws it on to Boy 1. She puts her hands up in the air and has a very frightened face. Boy 1 grabs the tablet and put his arm behind his back.

Boy 1: “Someone take this!”

Boy 2 walks up to Boy 1 and grabs the tablet. Boy 3 stands in the same position seemingly staring off into space as he looks out the convenience store’s window.

Boy 1: “The money. Now…bitch.”

The clerk opens up the cash register as she is clearly trying to downplay her panic. Boy 1 and Boy 3 both look at one another. Smiling and letting out a chuckle over how cool it was to say the word “bitch”. Boy 3 now feeling more comfortable than before holds his gun up to the clerk as well. Boy 2 is still staring out the window when he notices lights approaching. A few seconds pass as the clerk is tensely putting money on the counter. It is now apparent that the car is pulling into the convenience store’s parking lot. Boy 2 immediately begins banging on a shelf to his side and points to the car.

Boy 2: “Car car! We gotta go!”

Boys 2 and 3 immediately run outside. Boy 1 proceed to punch the clerk in the face knocking her out cold and taking not only all the money set out on the counter, but as much as he could grab in register in one scoop as well. He then runs outside to join the others. Not long after he runs out of frame, a man walks out of his car and toward the store bewildered at witnessing three boys storming out of the building so quickly.

[Scene: The three boys are now traveling through the suburbs as they cut through the backyards of connecting houses. It is still very dark to the point that it is difficult to make out their faces. Few lights are on in the houses as it is the middle of the night. There is little activity going on throughout the neighborhood. The only signs of life are coming from the delinquent trio as they proudly gloat about their recent accomplishment.]

Boy 1: “I can’t be ya’ll dumbass motherfuckers wanted to walk on the side of the road.”

Boy 3: “Well we wouldn’t be lost…”

Boy 1: “But we’d be in fucking cuffs right now. I don’t know what ya’ll do if I wasn’t here.”

Boy 3: “Shit I’d be fine. I would take all the money from that bitch myself. I’d put my gun in her mouth and scare the shit outta her.”

Boy 2 laughs.

Boy 1: “Man you stupid, shut up.”

Boy 2: “I don’t recall you being so confident Trevor. You didn’t bother taking your gun out until it was almost over.”

Trevor: “I was just waiting for the right time.”

Both Boys 1 and 2 begin laughing

Boy 1: “You waited ’til she was already handing me the money, how the fucks that the ‘right time’?”

Trevor: “Because it was.”

Boy 1: “You so stupid.”

Boy 2 then briefly stops as he becomes eccentric and points ahead.

Boy 2: “Hey there’s the lake!”

All three boys immediately start sprinting toward the lake.

[Scene: The boys keep charging on until they reach what seems to be a small facility. It consists of three wide brick houses and a large building. In between each house is a small road that on one side leads to the large building and on the other can be seen to stretch all the way to a main road that is located some distance away. The area seems to be very spacious as green grass surrounds it all for around two whole acres. On one side of the houses spawned a little forest-like area filled with poorly maintained trees and on the other was a lake to which the boys seemed to have been following to reach this destination. It is dark outside as there only seems to be few lights on in the buildings. The boys walked up the concrete steps to one of the houses and begin to open up a small window.]

Trevor pulls on the small window.

Trevor: “It’s locked.”

Boy 1: “Fuck. Let’s go try my room.”

Boy 2: “That already means they know we’re here.”

Boy 1 begins walking to the next window over.

Boy 1: “We’ll just tell them that we were in the closet or under the bed to screw with them when they opened our doors. Fuck they probably don’t notice. Overnights are lazy as hell. They never check our rooms, they just sit all day.”

Boy 1 presses his fingertips against the side of the edge of the inner window frame and begins pulling.

Boy 1: “They just got lucky tonight.”

Boy 1 tries to open the window. He becomes frustrated when it doesn’t open so he begins to try so more violently. While doing so I shadow figure can be seen briefly in the window by the front door. It then soon disappears.

Boy 2: “Pulling on it harder won’t change anything.”

Boy 1: “And standing around not doing shit won’t do shit neither. Open your window instead of playing with your dick.”

Boy 2: “Fuck you Terrell.”

Boy 2 begins walking on the other side of the building.

Terrell: “You lucky that I’m busy with this shit or else I’d beat your ass.”

Terrell continues to try and open up his window. Trevor stands there and stares at him hoping that he will eventually pull hard enough that it will open. Meanwhile, Boy 2 continues walking to the other side of the building toward a small window which seems to be his room. He attempts open up his window with two or three tugs. Unsurprisingly his window is locked as well.

Boy 2: “Of course.”

He stands for a moment until he notices that not only is his room’s door is open, but so is the door across the hall. He looks through the window of that room and notices a large figure coming down the road. He walks to the edge of the building and looks down the road. It turns out to be a car. It takes him a second to put the pieces together that he realizes that it is a cop car.

Boy 2: “Shit!”

Boy 2 begins to run toward the small forest. It didn’t take long for his companions to notice the car approaching them as he could hear loud curse words coming from a distance as well as the sound of grass crunching .

[Scene: Boy 2 is now inside the forest. It is very dark, practically pitch black. The forest is filled with trees, mounds of dirt, and dead leaves on the ground. There are no signs of life inside the forest.]

Boy 2 keeps running ahead not bothering to look back. He keeps running and running as the only sound that could be heard are the leaves being stomped on and his own breath. He keeps running until he comes across a crevice a few feet deep and falls in. He is down for a few moments. As he recuperates himself he notices a bright blue light coming from above. He pushes himself back to further sink himself into the ground. He begins to hear the sound of communication radio in the distance. The light gets closer and closer as does the sound of the radio. Eventually the light reaches to the horizon of the crevice. Just when he thinks he is about to be discovered, a bright ball of light drops from the top and into the middle of the crevice. Boy 2 stares at it for a moment and then begins to crawl toward it. As he looks closer to the ball of light he sees it glimmering like a diamond in the sun. He quickly determines that the object is valuable puts it in the pocket of his jeans. He pulls himself up from the crevice and begins walking briskly in an accelerating pace.

[Scene: Boy 2 finds himself emerging from the forest into park. Complete with slides, swing sets, and picnic tables. Unlike the previous two locations this place is very well lit with dated yellow street lights illuminating the area. There seems to be signs of life as squirrels and other small critters are about, however there are no people present. To the left the park extends until the subdivision is near, to the right there is the main road that connects to the parking lot in front of him.]

Boy 2 looks around to make sure the coast is clear. When he confirms this he lets out a sigh of reassure and begins jogging toward the subdivision. He jogs for a few moments completely undisturbed. Suddenly the roar of a car engine is heard. He turns around and he sees blindingly lights shining toward him. He knows what it is, it is a police car. Boy 2 begins sprinting as fast as he can. It does no good as the police car zooms past him. As the car quickly stops Boy 2 runs back into the forest. But he doesn’t make it far into the forest until he begins to collapses. He feels weak, weaker than he should be. Boy 2 then notices that light is illuminating around him. He looks down and sees his front pocket. It looked as if he had a high wattage flashlight in it. Boy 2 recalls the unique diamond-like object he picked up before. He gets ready to throw the light far into the distance but proceeds to stop. He stares at the object in his hand. Deciding to not part with its worth he decides to swallow it. As he swallows it he begins to cough and pounds his chest. A moment later it seems that the object fell through his stomach, however Boy 2 continues to cough. Unexpectedly he is then tackled to the ground by a shadowy figure and put into handcuffs.

Boy 2: “Get the fuck off me! Fuck off me! Get the fuck off me!”

The officer proceed to drag Boy 2 out of the forest while Boy 2 keeps kicking and screaming like an infant. The officer drags him all the way to the squad car where he picks the boy up and slams him against the door. The officer forces Boy 2’s hands up on the hood of the car and kicks his legs to the side. The officer begins patting Boy 2 down in an attempt to search him. The officer pulls out the, unbeknownst to him, fake gun from Boy 2’s hoodie pouch. Boy 2 lets out a sigh.

Officer: “What the fuck is this?”

The officer spins Boy 2 around so he can face him. The officer holds the gun in front of Boy 2’s face.

Officer: “What the fuck is this? Huh?… You mean to tell me that you were out there an hour after robbing that store… assaulting that girl…and you didn’t remember to discard your gun? Even after you saw us approach the House, even after having being chased by me and running back in the woods you still did not throw away the gun.”

Boy 2 continues to stare at the ground.

Officer: “You little shits get dumber and dumber by the bunch.”

Boy 2: “Fuck you!”

The officer proceeds to sweep his feet to kick up Boy 2’s legs. Boy 2 proceeds to fall on his back hard. The officer then takes his radio out.

Officer: “I have custody of the final runner. We’re currently at the park, about forty feet from the entrance.”

Officer on Radio: “Loud and clear. Take him back to the station with the rest of the animals.”

Seemingly relieved that the hunt for the suspects is over, the officer pulls out a cigarette from his pocket. He puts it in his mouth and lights it.

Officer: “Congratulations, you just pissed away twenty years of your life.”

As Boy 2 begins to accept his fate, he sees a shadow figure far off in the distance approaching.

Officer: “All our hard working tax paying dollars go straight to little shits like you. Time and time again we had to keep coming for you only so that you can get another chance.”

Boy 2 is hardly paying any attention to the Officer, he keep focusing on the shadowy figure that keeps getting closer and closer by the second.

Officer: “But the end is always the same. You always fuck it up. They always say that you can’t polish a turd.”

The officer takes notice that Boy 2’s attention is not on him, but something in the distance. The officer turns around and is greeted by the figure that is walking toward him two dozen feet away. As the officer begins to open his mouth and reach for his holster, the figure quickly throws something at him. It seemed to be some type of throwing knife. It cuts the officer’s neck as he falls to the ground. His blood runs through the ground like a river. Despite witnessing a death right in front of him, Boy 2’s focus doesn’t stray from the figure in front of him. As it draws closer it’s appearance becomes clearer. What immediately stands out is that it is wearing some type of mask. It looks like theatrical comedy and tragedy mask. The mask is white and looks as if it was carved from a smooth and fine material. It has a stern expression. The second trait that stood out was that this person has four working arms. This obviously spooked Boy 2. It was difficult to get any other information on who this mysterious person was as they were clothed head to toe, albeit in very odd clothing. The mysterious person proceeds to walk up to Boy 2 and kicks the carcass of the police officer away. They then kneel one leg down and crouch in front of Boy 2. Boy 2 doesn’t respond as he seems to be in a state of shock. The mask begins to change shape and turn into a joyous expression. The stranger then strikes Boy 2 and he becomes unconscious.

[Scene: A pure black screen.]

After eight seconds a voice is heard. It is very muffled and difficult to understand. Other voices can be heard as well. They sound muffled to and the only thing differentiating them from one another is the tone of the voices. The voices then slowly grow distant. …A few seconds later the boy wakes up with his eyes wide open.

[Scene: The boy wakes up on a peculiarly soft bed. The most striking feature of the room he is in is that it is pure white. However every few seconds or so the room begins to turn yellow. The room is filled with nothing but a bed, not even a door is present.]

The boy sits up and indulges his surroundings. He begins to stand up and walk to inspect the area when he is suddenly stopped by a tugging in his leg. He looks down and sees that he is chained to his bed.

[Scene: The room begins to turn to a shade of purple]

The boy begins to violently pull the chain around his leg. He proceeds to pull and pull but despite that the chain doesn’t budge, even the bed doesn’t budge. The boy turns around to see a very strange creatures. It seems to be a dog-like creature in a pure silky black body. However, the dog didn’t have a face, at least in a traditional sense, but more so has a face covered with dozens of long worm-like creatures.

[Scene: The room begins to turn into an even deeper shade of purple]

The boy begins rapidly pulling at the chain with all his might, leaning his body back at a near ninety degree angle. Despite all his efforts nothing seems to move. He quickly turns behind him to find that the horrifying creature is now gone. He frantically looks around the room and doesn’t see it. Suddenly he hears a door open in the distance. He spins his head and from two dozen feet away he sees a the white frame of a door. He begins to see a shadowy figure approach him. The figure looks sorta of like a human figure wearing a large veil of some kind. The boy is visibly taken aback.

Veiled Figure (female voice with Gypsy accent): “You seem to have built up a great deal of fear. Please, I assure you there is nothing to be afraid of.”

The boy stares at the figure bewildered.

Veiled Figure: “We just have some questions that need answering. I assure that no harm will come to you.”

The boy continues to stare at the figure not saying a word. His breathing intensifies signalling his discomfort. The veiled figure seems to put their hand on their chest and shake their head.

Veiled Figure: “This will not work. No no no. This will not work.”

…

“Calm yourself. Then find me.”

The veiled figure turns around and walks toward the door of light she came in from. Her silhouette gradually disappears. The boy stays frozen in thought for a moment. He then begins to come together.

Boy: “Wait!”

He proceeds to lunge forward without thought and falls flat on his face. However this wasn’t due to a pullback, but more so due to him putting too much force in his lunge. He turns around and sees that his chain has been cut. He seems surprised for a brief moment and then picks himself up and runs out of the room.

[Scene: The door seems to be at the end of a hallway. The walls and ceiling are covered in some type of plasma material. A web of stretched colored lights surround them as as specs of white light flow through them. The whole area looks like an aquarium for a light show. The hallway continues down until an ebony colored ramp appears at the end about thirty feet away. Doors are found at each end of the hallway every six feet or so. There are ten in total, not including the one the boy just exited. Observing the door the boy just came out of, the doors seems to be clear as a window from the outside, but like a mirror inside. The rooms are all filled with nothing but white.]

The boy is both enamored and frightened by this exuberant architecture. He slowly walks toward the end of the hallway as he observes the plain yet extraordinary scenery around him. As he gets to the ebony ramp he finds out that it quickly begins to spiral up very harshly. He walks around the staircase like spiral for what seems like no more than ten feet. When he reaches the top he pauses and stares in shock.

[Scene: The boy stands in what seems to be a social lobby. Couches are spread throughout the area in a casual manner. Holograms displaying a variety of images are set in front of them as if they were televisions. Rounded floating tables and chairs are also in the area for what seems to be for casual eating. The floor has some type of liquid solution that covers it about an inch high. The walls, ceiling, and floor is covered by some type of illuminating white tissue. It seems if one looks closely the tissue all connect to a silky large object in the middle of the room. It constantly expands and contracts just like a beating heart.

Three figures are present in the room. One is the masked man the boy saw before he woke up in this strange place. He seems to be eating some type of food which he is enjoying, the mouth of his mask opens and closes as he takes a bite of his cuisine. In the other corner sits another creature that is huddling over himself like a monk. With closer observation the creature is indeed undergoing some kind of ritual. It is difficult to get a good sight of his features since he his slouched over. In the center of the room, right in front of the large heart-like object, is the “veiled” woman. The “woman” is really just another strange creature like the others. While she is wearing a dress and necklace, she has long sort of tailfin coming out from the back of her head. Her skin is purple which is deeper on her “fin” than on her face. Her hands have no fingers just two end fins that act as if one were to connect the palm of their hands together. In other words they are made for clasping objects, kind of like a crab claw.]

Fin-headed Woman: “I’m surprised you can stand. Let alone walk in your ‘condition’.”

The boy is at a complete loss of words. He is shell shocked at the bizarre scenery around him.

Fin-headed Woman: “I don’t cross with formalities. Something of ours is missing and you were the last person who could have laid eyes on it.”

The boy’s expression doesn’t change. He is still so overwhelmed by his current situation. Seemingly growing impatient, the fin-headed woman stares at the boy then gently nods her head. From above the boy a figure that looks like the previous worm cluster-faced strings down the ceiling like goo. It opens a mouth and engulfs the boy. As it brings itself back up, it seems to thin out its “skin” as the boy falls through upside down . Parts of his body, mostly his legs, arms, and torso, are wrapped around strands of the creature like chains. It seems that whatever this organism is made of, it has the composition of Play-Doh.The strange creature continues to head back to the ceiling as the “chains” around the boy tighten. The boy begins frantically screaming as he sways back and forth as pendulum upside, just like an insect recently caught in a spider’s web. The fin-headed woman approaches the boy and covers his mouth with her “hand”.

Fin-headed Woman: “Shh…One more time. One more time I will ask you for your cooperation. I must warn you, if you aren’t willing to cooperate then you will soon have to deal with someone who is less cooperative than you are…Now, once again, you came across a foreign object no? Where is it?”

The boy moves his eyes toward the floor. It seems that he is beginning to understand the situation he is in. Observing him it is easy to tell he is too afraid to tell his captors the truth. Most likely due to them possibly resorting to unnatural measures to retrieve their desired object. Seeing that the boy isn’t going to respond, the fin-headed woman walks down a staircase on the other side of the room. The boy continues dangling in the air as he looks around. He notices that the other patron’s take no notice to him. The mask man is still eating food and the other is still hunched over performing a ritual. However, the creature that has the boy in the bind is an exception. While it doesn’t have any eyes, the “worms” on its “face” seem to be angled right at him.

Footsteps can now be heard as a figure enters from the staircase across the way. It seems to be walking in a brisk and constant pace toward the boy. He soon makes out the figure to be some type of canine-like creature. It had short fur and tail like a monkey. However, its face was uniquely “flat” much like a human. The figure is dressed in a flashy outfit which while may seem strange at first, still has some sort of prestige behind it..

As soon as the boy could finally make out the figure, he immediately sees a flash and feels a strong pain. The creature punched him directly in the face, and so again…multiple times.

Prestigious Creature: “Do not waste my time! Where is the piece!”

Despite speaking the punches didn’t wane. Syllable after syllable was met with a blow. At each blow the boy was pushed back, as if he was a lightly weighed punching bag.

“I know you know where it is. You saw it, you took it. Where is the piece!”

The end of the sentence was met with one large final blow. The ruthless captor gave the human boy a moment to speak. Unfortunately he was too dazed and too much in pain to gather so much as a thought. Continuing to grow even more impatient the high rank being walks up to the boy and opens his mouth.

“If you don’t begin to move this thing and start telling me what I want to hear, I be sure to have you never be able to do so again.”

The boy is silent as he still dazed and confused from the onslaught of abuse and the awe of the situation he is currently in. His captor puts one hand on his jaw, grabbing his bottom teeth, while the other grabs the top row as the palm rests on his nose.

“One…two…”

Fin-headed Woman: “Captain!”

The sadistic creature turns her head,with her hands still in place in the boy’s mouth.

“I fear to interrupt you during this process, but a situation has arise.”

The captain pauses for a bit, then takes her hands out of the boy’s mouth. She walks to toward the door toward the end of the room and exits. A dripping sound can be heard coming from the floor. It turns out that blood is running along from the boy’s face. He looks bewildered as he still finds it difficult to process the situation he is in. Suddenly, he is dropped to the ground. He looks up to find the elastic creature that was previously holding him is gone. He tries his best to stand up, his legs shake as he is disoriented from his previous blows. He then falls to the ground. After a few seconds of recuperating, he begins to crawl to the nearest point of slight elevation. It turns out there is a bench a few feet away. He pushes himself up to be on his knees and then proceeds to embrace the bench. After this brief moment of rest, he pushes his body up and twists himself around so he is able to sit down. He looks around and sees that nothing has changed, the beings around him act as if he isn’t even there, as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened at at all. Suddenly a ringing sound occurs and an intercom goes off.

Intercom: “We are now under code Blue. Please act accordingly.”

Suddenly all of the creatures around the area stand up and immediately move toward a designated area.

Intercom: “Once again, we are now under code Blue. Please act accordingly.”

Just then the entire room shakes violently. As he lifts his head up a big blast can be heard that shakes the room with such force the he is pushed off the bench. As he pushes himself up with his hands and knees the same ringing sound occurs and the intercom goes off again.

Intercom: “Warning, we are now under code Green. Please act accordingly.”

The intercom repeats the message. The boy hugs a wall as he struggles to pick himself up. This time he succeeds. The room continues to shake as he slides himself across the wall to the nearest door. The door opens and he enters the hallway. While walking down it, there is another violent shake that pushes him to the other wall across. The boy lets out a cry of pain. He quickly recuperates himself and presses onward. He soon sees a door at the end of the hallway. When he reaches it he tries to open it up, but fails. Suddenly another huge shock occurs as the room shakes violently. The boy falls to the floor. As he lays on the floor, he sees flashes of lights under the door directly to this side. He picks himself up, and opens the door. He gasps as he is greeted at the site of over a thousand stars. He hurries toward them , or at least moves as fast as he can and eventually hugs a window. He doesn’t even bother observing the room around him. All of his focus is on the stars, and his realization that he is currently in space. Unbeknownst to him, the elastic worm faced creature is gradually lowering from a ceiling like a spider descending from its web. As it gets closer, its bottom half morphs into a sword as it pulls itself back for a swing. In an instant, a giant fist covers the window and it lets out a devastating impact, the boy is once again flown through the air and lands back on the hallway wall extremely hard as he screams out in pain.

Boy: “Fucking fuck!”

The boy is sitting in the hallway floor with his back against the wall. He attempts to compose himself from the intense pain coming from his back. It is then that a figure grabs him. It turns out it is the same masked man he encountered before. As he drags him across the floor with his foot, the boy does his best to break free as he kicks and screams just like an infant.

Boy: “Let me go! Let me the fuck go!”

It is no use as the not only is the masked man not bothered by the kicks that are delivered, he doesn’t even bother to respond. This angers the boy even more. He proceeds to spit directly on the mask man as his saliva lands directly on the back of his head. Despite this, there is no response from him. The boy breaths heavily for a few seconds and then begins clawing at the ground. The mask man drags him back into the lobby and proceeds to go through the doors everyone else entered earlier. As they go through the doors they come to a quick halt. They begin moving on what feels like an elevator. As they move up they can see outside, however, few stars can be seen as a giant humanoid creature is blocking the way as it covers most of the view of space. This sight is enough to stop the boy’s tantrum. He stares at the goliath in horror as it braces to punch the ship. The first seems to be about collide with the ship, but suddenly the ship rapidly moves dodging the attack. As the giant creature attempts to do another attack, a door opens.

[Scene: A blue lit room with a unique organ-like figure hovers the ceiling. The figure pulsates and leaves fragments of light when it expands which seem to leave its tissue and flair into the air when it contracts. It is these fragments that light up the room. A piece of the organs tissue is stretched out and encompasses one of the creature’s heads. The creature’s body is dangling a few feet from the air. Looking closer at it’s neck, it seems to be the same member of the group who was kneeling over in the lobby performing a ritual. The ceiling is covered with goo and thick wiring that could be mistaken for veins. The room itself is quite large, about fifty feet long and twenty feet wide. The only pieces of furniture in the room are three chairs. Each of them elevated from the ground at different levels. The highest one, about seven feet high, located in the middle, is where the captain is seated. To its right is another seat that is a foot lower, which is where the fin-headed woman is seated. And to the left of her is a seat that is two feet lower than the captain’s. Strangely it is empty.]

Captain: “I initially planned to resolve our conflict earlier, but unfortunately complications have occurred.”

The boy now puts his focus solely on the captain. He notices that her eyes are locked on to him.

Captain: “Now, I will give you one more chance. I don’t do this often, but we are currently in a special predicament. Do you know where the cocoon is?”

The boy remains silent, and in a few seconds tears start pouring down his cheeks. He realizes that either way he is dead. If tells them the truth, they will certainly kill him in order to receive their item. If he plays dumb then they will kill him for not cooperating. Realizing that he is dead no matter what choice he chooses, he decides to withhold from giving an answer. At least that way he can keep the “cocoon” from them as a last “fuck you” to the world. A moment has passed and the captain’s eyes are no longer locked at the boy, but now look at the masked man who is standing behind him. He bends down and puts his index and middle finger together and grazes it around the boy’s torso. He searches for something, but not for long, he stops right above the boy’s heart. As he does this, the boy is far too frightened to fight back, it seems that he has accepted his fate. The two fingers move apart as the man briefly pulls his arm back. Suddenly, the room shakes like the previous ones. It appears that the giant beast outside has struck the ship again. The impact manages to move the boy a few feet away from his previous state. He looks to his side and sees a throwing knife stuck in the ground, realizing that it was meant for his heart. He breaths a sigh of relief, until he notices something. In his chest, right where his heart is, is a throwing knife. He soon feels the immense pain. He begins to cry out. After a few seconds he stops, not because he is dead, but because of the lack of pain.

Captain: “I thought you aimed at his heart?”

Masked Man: “My sincere apologies mad’am.”

The masked man bows.

“It has now come to my attention that these beings perhaps have more than one heart.”

Captain: “Well, find it.”

Masked Man: “Yes ma’dam, time is of the essence.”

The masked man grabs the boy and pull him up. He once again runs his finger through his chest, and stops at the same place as before. Confused, he continues running his fingers all over the boy’s body. However, he looks disappointed as his face makes a concerning expression. He then grabs the knife sticking out of the boy’s heart and begins carving his chest. The boy lets out an agonizing scream as his chest is cut open. The masked man looks through the newly crafted hole and is immediately taken aback. The boy manages to catch a glimpse of the wound, and is also shocked. Not only is there light illuminating from inside the wound, but the wound appears to be healing itself.

Captain: “What is going on?”

Masked Man: “ It seems mad’am that it has made the gentlemen’s body its domain.”

Captain: “It?”

The captain is confused, and her eyes move toward the boy. A few seconds later she gasps and her eyes spring wide open. She proceeds to jump out of her seat and walks toward the boy. She grabs him and pushes his back against the wall. He immediately tenses up. She puts her hand over the boy’s heart. After a moment she puts her hand down and shakes her head.

Captain: “So that’s how it is.”

Suddenly, the entire room shakes extremely violently, lunging everyone toward the wall the boy and Captain are beside. Back where the elevator was is now the immense fist of the previously seen giant. As the boy recuperates he notices that everyone around him immediately jumps up and gets in a defensive stance. An immensely loud scream is heard throughout the room as if it came from a colossus. The boy ends up covering his ears, but it doesn’t seem to surprise the crew members.

Captain: “Get ready!”

A few seconds pass, and then a wave of blurs shoot out of the Giant’s fist as if bullets were launched through Jello. Each “blur” attempts to strike a crew member. It becomes obvious that what leap out of the massive body part are enemy combatants of some sort. Miraculously the masked man, fin-headed woman, and the captain are not only able to dodge the attacks, but are able to retaliate as well. The captain,dodges the initial attack against her and immediately punches her opponent in the face and then kicks them to the wall. The masked man hops up dodging his opponent’s attacks and then quickly places knifes in between each of his fingers on both hands. Defying gravity, he lunges toward his opponent and performs a variety of slicing and dicing attacks as if his hands had claws. Strangely the fin-headed woman doesn’t seem to do anything, she allows the attacker to charge right to her. Fortunately the attacker mysteriously seems to crash into some sort of invisible wall right in front of her. The only member of the crew who seems truly vulnerable is the one who is dangling in the air, attached to the strange organism on the ceiling. One of the enemies have taken notice to this and leaps toward the dangling member, suddenly a giant black mouth appears out of nowhere and swallows the combatant. It lands on the floor and it turns out to be the strange elastic creature with a worm-like face. The boy finally realizes that this is his chance to escape. He begins hugging the wall and walking toward the stairway. Only making it a few feet, he sees an axe slam right in front of him. He look toward his side and sees the worm faced creature growling at him. It seems that it turned its “tail” into an axe. It then leaps away and back into the action. A few seconds later he hears the sound of a high impact coming from outside. He hears one loud pound after another. The giant fist is then pushed out of the hole. Through the gap is the is the image of the space behemoth being pushed toward space.

Captain: “From behind!”

Suddenly the wall directly across the previous one is penetrated. A huge tail runs right through it and into the other wall. It soon stops and more enemies hop through the “skin”. They immediately are put on the defense by the crew. Due to this, the boy gets a better look at this ship’s invaders. They are all dressed in some type of white uniform. The garb can be said to be both traditional as well as futuristic. The attire looks like nothing that has been seen from human eyes. The boy notices that the crew begins to tire, during their fighting he can also hear pounding coming from the outside and the ship shaking violently. While the crew definitely manages to get their blows in, the same could be said for their opponents. The crew begins to become bruised and bloody, and while it is difficult to tell whether or not the opponents are as well, it is clear they are slowing down. Suddenly the captain manages to get the upper hand on her opponent and defeats him.

Captain: “Do it now Dark!”

Without hesitation, the worm faced creature proceeds to extend multiple arms grabbing all of the crew, including the boy. It also begins stretching out across all four corners throughout the room. He essentially makes his elastic body a texture of the walls. His “skin” then begins to quickly expand and fill up what is remaining of the room. It’s as if black is rapidly bleeding from the walls. Everyone in the room quickly become encompassed by the creature’s “skin”. While the crew is relatively comfortable with this happening, the enemies and the boy are panicking. Soon the boy finds himself inside the creature’s “body”. Once inside, it feels rather…warm. He has his eyes open and can see perfectly. The entire area seems to have a purple tint, but he can see none the less. He looks around and sees the crew members with rather joyful expressions, with the captain in particular laughing. He notices that each of them still have the creature’s “arm” wrapped around their waist. The boy looks down and notices the same “arm” is wrapped around his waist as well. He soon notices the invaders who stormed the ship and catches them screaming in pain. Their bodies begin to disintegrate. In the distance he even sees the behemoth’s large tail begin to decompose as well. After a moment or two, all the opponents and the tail are now invisible. The purple tint begins to fade away as the “skin” subsides. The arms subside as well. The boy looks around sees all the crew in one piece. Although the worm faced creature has bubbles along its body. A loud roar can be heard from the distance. The boy runs up to the sound and stops at the edge of the floor where one of the walls used to be. He has a complete view to the surroundings in front of him. He sees the previous goliath broken in multiple pieces.

Captain: “You stupid, stupid, stupid boy.”

He looks back and sees the captain walking toward him at a quick pace. He begins to step back and then falls off the room. He begins to fall rapidly as if he jumped from a tower, but in a few seconds he starts to float as if he was in…space. Despite being in space, he is able to breathe easy. He looks around and comes face to face with the ship. Strangely, the “ship” doesn’t look like any kind of spaceship he’s seen in the movies. For starters it doesn’t have a metallic texture, but something more akin to human skin. The boy is taken back when he sees the texture radically change to become bright white and incredibly smooth. He then look around a bit more and notices that what is looking at is in fact a giant eye. He begins to scream at the top of his lungs, then suddenly something wraps around him. He is pulled right back into the ship, at the same spot he accidentally fell from. He sees the entire crew huddled around him. Thinking of it, he quickly realizes that he must have been grabbed by the worm faced creature again. It seems that the crew gives him a moment to compose himself, the captain then inches herself closer.

Captain: “You know, when I saw that your people had at least a basic concept of civilization and technology, I at least suspected that would accompany some type of intelligence. I expect the type of creatures that would inject themselves with a rock to be the same ones living in caves and flinging their own shit. Not people who had the knowledge to harness and distribute such a large amount of energy.”

The captain kneels down toward the boy.

Captain: “No, that’s not it. You must be a special kind of stupid aren’t you? Well, let me put this into terms that even you can understand. You see, I have a sister. A very obnoxious, pain in the ass, almost dumb as you sister. She is unfortunately going through a phase right now. The less that is said about her the better. Essentially she is currently very far away from here at a place that was likely a very long time ago. This is because she managed to take or convince some objects to accompany her that allowed her to go to this particular place. Me and my crew have for sometime been traveling to not only find her, but to retrieve some of the objects she stole. And one of those objects, the ones that allowed her to go very far away, very long ago, is currently inside your body.”

After hearing the last sentence, the boy feels a chill run down his spine.

Captain: “I don’t believe any of us have properly introduced ourselves. Well, let me tell you our names. The strange black stretchy creature who grabbed you, calls himself ‘Dark Prince’. The one who’s face looks like a mask calls himself Alistur. The female who greeted you when you were woken up, her name is Enya. The male who is currently become “one” with this vessel, his name is Shaska. As for me, most here simply call me ‘captain’. There is also my sister, but you will know her name soon enough.”

The boy looks around the room as he tries to pin the names to the faces.

Captain: : “Now, can you tell me your name?”

Boy: “Devonte.”

The captain smiles and extends out her hand as gesture to pull Devonte up. Davonte grabs her hand, and a second later the Captain pulls out a knife from her other hand and slashes Devonte’s arm.