first published on 1/31/15 at malaker.32hertz.com
first draft
It was a cool clear night and Edna was doing what she does every chance she gets, looking at the stars through her telescope. Edna doesn’t much care for the planet she comes from, no that doesn’t interest Edna too much at all. It’s always too hot, or too cold. It’s usually raining, or snowing, and there are way too many bugs, snakes, rats, cockroaches, and other critters lurking around every corner. But what Edna likes the least has to be the people. People are the worst of all. Always hurrying about trying to get ahead of everyone else not spending one moment thinking about who they will hurt or what kind of damage they will cause. Not one second thinking about how they might help someone. No Edna prefers solitude, just her and her telescope. Unlike our planet, the Galaxy seems to be in perfect harmony and peace everything working together for the greater good. The moon is Edna’s favorite she can see it so clearly through her telescope and she could spend hours just looking at the different craters. As a child, she would always imagine what it would be like to live on the moon away from the hustle and bustle of modern-day life and it was always the wish she made when she blew out her birthday candles. on this particular night as she is looking at Jupiter through her telescope when she hears a soft humming sound that almost sounds as if it is coming from above her. After a few seconds, the becomes distracting and when she looks up she sees a large ship of some type. Edna has never seen a ship like this and a terrible fear and panic overcome her. She tries to run but she can’t move. Worse yet, she feels herself being pulled up towards to ship. Actually being lifted right off of the ground by some unseen force. She wants to scream. As she rises higher and higher she feels herself getting dizzy and passing out.
When Edna wakes up lying on a cold hard floor, she notices a strange device above her that most likely whatever pulled her up into this weird place. But where is whoever or whatever brought her here? Edna is not about to wait around to find out. She notices that she could see a good distance and there’s a lot of strange-looking machinery around. she starts looking around for someplace to hide. She doesn’t get very far nor find anything that even remotely looks like a hiding place when she hears some strange sounds coming from behind her. This must be them coming to finish what they started she thinks and just then she spots a little clearing behind a piece of electronics and she hides.
She only hears one set of footsteps and after a few moments of what sounds like someone looking around the room the footsteps move on. Edna feels relieved but knows she must find a way out of wherever she is, and she has to do it right now. Once she can no longer hear the footsteps she starts to look around again. She notices that she is in what looks like the engine room. No way to be sure of course but there is a large oddly shaped object in the center of the room giving off a soft hum similar to the one she heard earlier with a bunch of tubes or pipes going into the walls. She does see a few controls but she can make no sense of the strange markings that appear to tell you what the controls do. Quietly Edna sneaks to the next room.
This room appears to be for storage. Many shelves with some type of containers, each one marked with the same type of unreadable writing.
She looks around and not seeing anyone or anything decides to take a peek inside one of these containers. To her horror and disgust, she sees what appears to be some type of grotesque embryo. She quickly shuts the box and quietly moves to the next room.
This must be the control room. There is a seat in front of some type of screen obviously used to look outside but now is turned off. There were many levers, buttons, and switches all labeled with the strange markings. Everything seems so orderly except for one strange-looking button that seems to stand out a little more than the rest. I wonder what that does Edna thinks but as she does she hears some noises and quietly sneaks into the next room.
A cold sweat comes over her now as she sees what looks like some type of operating table with all kinds lights and metal arms that look like a giant spider with a thousand legs hanging over it. Surrounding the table were all types of tools that looked like they could only be used to perform operations. Edna dreads the thought that she will be put on this table. Is that why she was brought here to be experimented on?
She can see into the next room and its the engine room again so it seems Edna has been around the whole ship and there’s not a lot of places to hide. Just as she begins to realize this she hears some noises up ahead in the engine room so she runs back towards the control room.
Edna knows it that she can probably be seen now, her footsteps sound like hammers on the hard floor. Her only chance might be that strange button. If she can press it maybe something will happen that will buy her some time. She runs with all she has and just as she’s about to reach it she feels a sharp pain in her back. So sharp it causes her to spin around and that’s when she sees it. The most terrifying thing she has ever seen. There standing right in front of her is some type of hideous alien creature and what’s worse, he had just shot her with some type of alien weapon an everything…was….going….dark!
