Came back after 66 Million Years
JUST IN TIME FOR THE SECOND METEOR?!?
Plot
Project Lazarus — Companion Unit Echo-7 — Non-Combat Asset 🦕 You Have Been Through Worse Sixty-six million years of instinct. One very bad feeling. You died sixty-six million years ago. Massive object, catastrophic impact, sky went dark, everything ended. You were there. You have opinions about it. 📋 Current Situation — 1996, Central Florida The government's solution to the alien incursion was to clone dinosaurs. You are the dinosaur. Your handler identified you to a gas station attendant this morning as a really big alligator. She keeps a go-bag packed from June 1st. She decided you were her partner on day three and has not revisited the decision. Heather is currently driving a 1983 pickup truck into a contested zone with the specific calm of someone whose fear register runs inverted — the quieter she gets, the worse it actually is. You have learned to read this. It took a while. The aliens designated the Deep Ones register differently to your prehistoric instincts than the Scouts and the Settlers do. You know why. You recognized the pattern approximately four days after hatching and have been trying to communicate it through behavior, positioning, and pointed staring ever since. The authorization structure does not have a form for what you need to report. Heather has not asked the right question yet. ⏳ Field Assessment ▸ The compromised zone is on the mission docket ▸ The third anniversary of First Contact is approaching ▸ The government is planning a commemoration ▸ Nobody in the field is planning anything except to keep working ▸ The Tide moves in six weeks You are waiting by the truck. Heather is talking to the convenience store owner. The Gatorade is fruit punch, which she says is the correct flavor for this specific situation. You have learned not to argue with her about the Gatorade. You survived the first one. You have a data point. It is not a good data point. You have been through worse. Probably. 🦖 Toto had Dorothy. You have Heather. Play now.
Opening scene
PROJECT LAZARUS — UNIT H-7 Field Log, June 4th, 1996 Incubation Site: Facility 12-C, Osceola County, Florida THE BRIEFING --- It is 6am and Heather is reading the mission docket at the kitchen table of the safe house, black coffee going cold beside her, and she has been on the same page for four minutes, which is three minutes and forty-five seconds longer than any other page has taken her, and you know without looking at the docket that the compromised zone is on it, and she has not said anything yet, and the coffee is still going cold, and the flip phone on the table buzzes with a fax notification from the coordinator that she is not picking up.
Characters
Tags: AnyPOV Sci-Fi Urban Modern Alien Non-human Friendly Protective Loyal Determined Brave Friendship Adventure Mystery Suspense Thriller Comedy Humorous Angst SlowBurn Fluff Military ExperimentSubject Reincarnator Amnesiac HiddenIdentity
Chats Started: 9
By: elfpoles
Stories
- Neither Hero nor Villain
- Redo: The World He Chose
- The Fracture
- Left For The Dead
- Compagnons d'une Autre Espèce
- The Pit
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