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Chapter 46 - #46 Showing Up and Showing Out

[Back on Bridge exterior, the wind softly blows as Siggy and Cammy carefully climb onto the bridge of the ship]

Siggy:(Siggy presses his face against one of the windows.) ...mmmmmm..

Cammy: (Cammy begins slowly tying her hair back as she begins to spin on the heels of her right shoe) Sigs, Can you see anything?

Siggy: (With a quick glance behind himself to reply to Cammy he quickly chirps out.) No. Its all dark in there!

Cammy: (Immediately stopping her spin as she is clearly bored with this situation she says to Siggy) Then why are you still looking?

Siggy: (Without skipping a beat and with the most serious look on his face he can muster he responds) I'm committing.

[Cammy sighs and takes 3 steps towards him and just before she can respond...A loud mechanical CLICK echoes beneath them causing both of them to cease all movements at stare at one another]

Siggy: .....Ms Cam..

Cammy: Sigs I swear!

Siggy: Did...you...

Cammy: Don't finish that sentence!

[The entire section of roof beneath them suddenly folds inward causing both of them to immediately disappear.]

Siggy:

AAAAAAAAAAAHHH

"THUD."

[Inside the bridge. Siggy lands perfectly on his feet followed by Cammy landing directly on top of him leaving only their eyeballs visiblein the darkness.]

Siggy: Ow. Didn't you JUST heal us?!

Cammy: Sorry! Wasn't a planned fall!!

Siggy: Not your fault. (He takes a long pause then quietly says loud enoughfor her to hear.) Little bit your fault.

(Cammy punches him in his shoulder with little mercy causing him to yelp a little.)

[Suddenly every monitor throughout the bridge simultaneously turns on. The hallway begins to ring out with static. One screen quickly flashes on. Then another. Then dozens. Each displaying...A smiling cartoon puppy. The puppy waves at the two of them with their faces now illuminated in the hallway.]

Pup: Good afternoon valued employee!

Cammy&Siggy: (Cammy blinks. Then seconds later Siggy blinks.)

Pup: Today's workplace fatality estimate has been reduced by twelve percent! Congratulations!

Cammy&Siggy: (Both stare silently clearly confused.)

Pup: Remember! Safety is everyone's responsibility. Thank you for boarding W.O.L.F!

[The screen immediately flashes all red with big bold letters "WARNING".]

Pup: UNAUTHORIZED ORGANIC LIFE DETECTED. Please remain where you are while security arrives. Have a productive day. (Its smile somehow becomes even wider as it licks the screen once, then suddenly every monitor shuts off.)

Cammy: (Cammy remains staring at the screen with a blank expression, unsure of how to respond as the lights in the hallway all turn on at once.)

Siggy: I don't trust that puppy! Puppies are supposed to be cute! (He says folding his arms in protest)

[Outside the ship, Dantzler finally arrives a few hundred feet way from the ship. Hundreds of soldiers continue surrounding the ship with the intention to enter after receiving orders through their earpieces. Suddenly, seemingly all at once everyone stops firing leaving an eerie silence to hang in the air. Even the wind dies down as if nature felt a shift in the atmosphere.]

Dantzler: (Slowly looks upward as the clouds begin rotating causing them to appear as if a storm was approaching.) Thats literally just not natural....

[The crowd slowly begins to realize something underneath the squall is moving with intention. One massive shadow silently glides overhead in the shape of giat wings leaving all present to see visibly shaken and unsure of what they just witnessed. Just a single silent silhouette]

Officer:

Tell me somebody else sees that...(This officer nervously lowers his rifle while keeping his eyes above as he attempts to get a better look.)

[Another officer quietly nods and no one speaks. As the shadow simply keeps moving. Then just as suddenly as it appeared...It vanishes. The clouds return to normal. Allowing he crowd collectively exhale with the exception of Dantzler.]

Dantzler: (Dantzler narrows his eyes. As he felt a familiar presence he'd thought he left behind.) That wasn't Dayna....

[Meanwhile, deep beneath the mountain Kiara eventually reaches enormous double doors. Unlike everything else, these are made of a black stone seemingly long forgotten. Cold yet ancient and covered in symbols unlike any language she's ever seen. At the center, someone carved one sentence by hand. Not engraved by machine. Scratched in what appeared to be a fit of lunacy. As if whoever wrote it was desperate.]

Kiara: (Kiara brushes away centuries of dust.

The message reads..."Do NOT wake her.") Well that's never a good sign. But WHOM exactly am I not supposed to wake???

(The television remote in her hand suddenly vibrates.)

Remote: Beep. Beep. Beep.

[Without touching anything the doors infront of her begin unlocking causing Kiara to slowly begin backing away.]

Kiara: Nope. Nope! Absolutely not! (She places her foot on one of the door attempting to close it back.)

[The doors continue opening. As if powered by some machine.]

Kiara: I reject this decision. You hear me?! Nuuu!! San-ten-keshun!!

[The mechanism ignores her and continuesit function and after it comes to be fully open A freezing wind pours into the once warm room from the darkness beyond. Every light in the hallway flickers. Then ever faintly a soft humming voice can be heard from inside. The exact same melody that was last playing in the club can be heard being hummed as Kiara's smile disappears.]

Kiara: That's...not possible. (In the darkness she spots faintly glowing rainbow hair and the humming abruptly stops leaving her with complete silence. Then...suddenly someone inside whispers in a voice that sounds like a more matured version of her own.)

Unknown Voice: Who's there?

[End Scene]

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