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Zombies from the Sky: Thirty-Four

Was Zero 4a

Zero 7.1[7]{35}

 

Some members of Extraordinary League of Champions were busy in the great museum, library, gallery, study like chamber. Railed off rampways led up to large mezzanine decks while walls were full of shelves of books, most being old tomes or reproduced ones, the originals being carefully preserved in archives.

 

Along with the small number of ELC immortals, in that chamber, were mortals such as librarians, library clerks, general clerks, specialists, armoured armed security guards, servitors, techies and others. While not a huge number, they easily outnumbered the immortals.

 

There were carefully display cased artefacts from a wide range of bizarre incidents, mysteries and more standard sources. An experimental electric gattling-gun was next to a skull of a dinosaur humanoid that was next to a fragment of zombie bone and there were wooden models some of Leonardo DaVinci 's inventions as lost from history including the time machine that got him trapped in the wrong century, or at least for three decades. Leonardo DaVinci had been the assumed Italian name of Lance Brown, the time traveller from late 19th Century Britain who had travelled into the far future, after leaving Italy of the past, to become involved in a war between three future human species.

 

Immortal Sherlock Holmes was very carefully reading a newly discovered ancient scroll. With him was another immortal being the woman Susanna Tyrone, a genius who gained much through the ELC that she could not through normal society. Immortal Doctor Watson, another woman, was examining another new find, a scroll showing some unusual biological diagrams of what could easily be a dissected zombie. Mortals were assisting them.

 

Others were going over reports from the expeditionary taskforce seeking to track down the mysterious Islands of Mist, also known as the Utopian Isles and many other names. Yes, the ELC could send, and receive, messages from the Oracle at the islands, along with other trusted ones, but somehow the islands still had to be physically discovered 'again'. Why this was so was a complicated, often strange, history that was largely unknown to the ELC.

 

That the immortals, from the Wild West, had gotten to the Isles of Mist was unknown by other immortals.

 

The distinguished Professor Quartermass was there along with the elegantly beautiful Lady Jekyll, the female counter part to the monstrous male Mr Hyde. The table before them was an almost neat pattern of charts, photographs, notes, some odd artefacts of small size and other items. There were even two stereoscopic viewers along with stereoscopic double pictures. Mortals were also assisting those two immortals.

 

There was much discussion taking place but new information was badly needed.

Edited August 3, 2015 by Maharg67

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Zombies from the Sky: Thirty-Five

Was One 12.1[13]{16}

One 28.1[29]{36}

 

Unlifen animans moved around them, some as damphirs and nombies, as they lived their underground life in a great glowcrystal lit, and warmed, cavern that stretched out into the distance. There were animans who had become transformed into bigger, more powerful, creatures but they were outnumbered by those who had become unlifen. Amongst them lived some unchanged animans, immunes who would not be effected by the infestation.

 

The First Mate studied the stone block, timber, structures and was obviously impressed with how well designed, and made, they were. There were what looked to be houses but also bigger, communal, buildings. There were walled off areas but the whole settlement was surrounded by a high, thick, defence security wall; the wall had good, broad, well protected battlements dotted with big tripod-crossbows, tipping cauldrons that would be full of burning oil, and other nasty devices. There were also some tripods for telescopes. There was a fair sized underground river running through the cavern and there was a stone, and wooden, bridge crossing the narrowest part of it in the glowcavern. There was the odd feature of walls going along both shorelines of the river, with gates opening to allow access to it and to fair sized jetties. The river cut through about a third of the settlement and both shoreline walls had battlements, patrols and sentries, as did the outer walls; what were the river walls guarding against?

 

There seemed to be busy construction activity taking place on five buildings on the other side of the river, close to wallyards with mixed plant crops and groves of mixed short trees plus bushes.

 

He spoke. "It is a well established settlement but why are the extra houses being built, if they are houses?"

 

Jataka responded. "It is our plan that we would show the other animans, in the settlement above, that the folks down here are far from a threat but have made secure space for them to live; those are communal houses for all of our houses are of the communal kind; it is the animan way. There are plants growing near the river, at its shorelines and fish in its waters. Sometimes useful things float down the river but also awful things; thankfully the awful things come less often than do the useful things."

 

The damphir triplets examined the settlement, the river area and where guards were stationed at various points; this included the place where the river flowed down into the cavern from a tunnel mouth that was above the general cavern floor.

 

The professor spoke. "It would be efficient for our group to live down here. The special caves are close enough for my brilliant daughter, and I, to examine them easily. The environment here is quite amazing, quite amazing! We have experienced such places before. All of them are well hidden. Jataka, what do you mean by 'good things' and 'terrible things'?"

 

The wood, used in buildings and the bridge, had come floating down the river as logs. Sometimes there were damaged wooden barrels. Once there had been a wooden crate full of bits of iron and another time a smaller crate partly full of bushpods; luckily bushpods preserved well as long as their shells were intact.

 

Drowned, crumbling, bodies came down the river; most were either corpses or destroyed zombies that had notable differences from each other. While most of them were dead animans, or oddities such as deceased tigerchimps, some were dead humans. Evidence showed that most of them had been killed brutally.

 

Then there were the grotesque bodies that were malformed, each in its own way, and that 'jittered' though not alive. They were, in some ways, like zombies but different in others. The locals had totally destroyed the bodies.

 

The two immortals had nothing to examine but what they heard from the locals was enough to concern them deeply. Then there were sketches, written notes and other evidence that they examined. The two became even more concerned.

 

It was decided that the group would move underground to the glowcavern settlement and that it was time that all surface living animans were told the truth. Perhaps this was because the newcomers, adding to the glowcavern population, bolstered its courage. The immortals also wished to take the opportunity to learn more about the exotic islands.

Edited August 4, 2015 by Maharg67

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Zombies from the Sky: Thirty-Six

Was One 12a

One 29.1[30]{37}

 

The damphir triplets hauled to the shore, of the glowcavern river, a jittering corpse and soon the two immortals, father and daughter, were carefully examining it. The older pair of damphirs joined in for both were retired medical doctors; he had been involved in criminal forensics and she had been involved in medical research; both had carried out many autopsies and not just on human bodies.

 

For quarantine, and security, reasons the examination was done on a jetty and with as while wearing 'safe' gear that could be scrounged up. As it was gloves were to be destroyed, that were used, and metal devices were sterilised by basic but effective means. Locals watched but from the safety of the walls while guards stood on the alert.

 

The examination soon became a careful dissection; it was a bizarre procedure given that the body had to be tied down to a wooden table because of its constant jittering. What they found was to be very surprising and disturbing.

 

The local animans were only happy when the body was totally destroyed; this process was also done most carefully thanks to what was found inside the body; that was thousands of tiny undead creatures of a most unnatural kind. Great efforts were made to make sure nothing had escaped, from the body, but nothing was found and there was no trouble.

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Zombies from the Sky: Thirty-Seven

Was One 13.1[14]{17}

One 30.1[31]{38}

 

Captain ManMonster had expected reavers to attack his new home but instead there came a glimmering green mist dotted with shambling zombies; the glimmering mist came at night, from the direction of the ocean that was not too far distant from the settlement.

 

The local animans set alight large bowls full of special oiled wooden f@&#!ts and the smoke held back the mist; the smoke stank of a strange sourness.

 

As zombies came shambling, quickly, out of the mist it appeared that most were naked except for ugly leathery skin but that small a minority still had some manufactured items on their bodies such as odd zip fronted jumpsuits and strange plastic bracelets.

 

Guided by the glimmering mist, and supported by it, the zombies often used crude weapons though awkwardly so. The zombies had softly glimmering translucent fangs and retractable claws of the same bizarre nature.

 

The animans sent a shower of arrows up into the air, that fell down upon the first wave of zombies and killed many of them. Other arrows were shot straight at the zombies, striking into heads and solar plexuses to kill them instantly.

 

Captain ManMonster began fighting zombies at closer quarter, smashing heads and bashing torsos. He used a big club weapon that animan artisans had made for him, it being well designed and made to fit his needs.

 

Animans began to fight zombies closer up, often using powerful crossbows but more often hand weapons. Blow-pipes were used cleverly to pierce zombie eyes with blow-darts.

 

An animan warrior fell, screaming, and was dragged away; seconds later an animan archer mercy killed him before the warrior could suffer a more terrible fate than just death.

 

A tiger animan dropped a zombie and was clubbed down by another but she managed to get up to kill that second undead thing.

 

The fighting became fiercer, more desperate, as the undead humanoids pushed closer to the settlements defensive walls. These had been upgraded, thanks to the influence of the former tramp-steamer captain, and all of the settlement defenders were soon grateful for that. Zombies fell into stake filled ditches and died there as their head and-or solar plexuses were pierced through.

 

Abruptly the mist was going, was withdrawing, taking surviving zombies with it. It was as if some kind of alien intelligence had calculated the losses and had decided that further attacking was too costly to carry on.

 

An important battle had been won with far heavier losses to the enemy than to the defenders and though it was only the first of many such fights, it was a great moral booster. It also proved the value of Captain ManMonster's experience and his advise.

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Zombies from the Sky: Thirty-Eight

Was One 13a

One 31.1[32]{39}

 

Captain ManMonster had strange items gathered up from destroyed zombies. There were the glossy plastic bracelets with black squares. There were the odd feeling jumpsuits with what were some kind of odd zippers running down their fronts and also unusual pocket-pouches. There was a silvery gun with a crystal lens instead of an opening at the end of a barrel. Underneath the jumpsuits were cotton underclothes indicating zombies had been both men and women.

 

Other devices were found and were a mixture of known and unknown, some being totally mysterious to him. They were also new to the local animans who had fought zombies before but never with such items linked with them.

 

When zombie bodies were destroyed, by the animans, things were discovered that had been inside those bodies. It was becoming clear that they were of technologies far more advanced than anything Captain ManMonster had ever experienced; they did sound some what like those exotic ones used to end the Great War but only to some extent.

 

Captain ManMonster was intrigued by it all and had it all brought to him, not needing to reward locals for doing so for they were most eager to help, and please, their great new champion and leader.

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Here Ends Chapter One of Zombies from the Sky.

Chapter Zero will continue later, along with Chapter Two.

 

Now for something completely different, at least for a while.

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And I thought I got anxious!

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Got to admit it, he has a real good point!

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How reassuring!

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Twisting on a vine

twisting on fate

a toy robot chases a cat

a lady pirate robs a submarine

a cat chases a toy robot

a sexy woman flirts with a tree

a sexy tree flirts with a rhino

a key to happiness or just to a door

there is a ballerina who may dance

there is a ninja who may play a set of drums

twisting ever downwards

ever seeking inspiration

jets, guns, and cars

a few guns to shoot with

some instruments to play with

drums, an electric guitar, a horn and a sailing ship

except that the last is not a musical instrument

actually there is only one car

the other is a four wheel drive vehicle

there is only one jet but there is a space fighter

so many inspiring mistakes and rectifications

a biplane, some TV show characters (actors),

a phonograph, a doodlebuglum

(except there is no such thing as a doodlebuglum, at least not on this world)

a butterfly, an angel, a sexy woman with a gun, and more

where will it end

actually it will end soon for there are only limited images above!

Twisting to end

Art by H.B. Boogles

Elvis impressions by Able Seaman Able

No, art by N.B. Boogles, his sister

French language translations by Franco O'Henry

Translations of the works of Franco O'Henry by an anonymous French Woman

Inspired by the Poems of Dalek #12134543 of Scaro or is that Skaro?

Elephant training done by nobody

Sponsored by the Universal Silly Things to Write Foundation

and crowd sponsored by people with nothing better to do with their lives

is strange silly bit of writing.

Edited August 6, 2015 by Maharg67