Henry saw Jack sitting on the couch. Rather then his usual settled in-slacker pose, he was on the edge of his
seat with his jaw open, staring intently at was going on the TV.
He finally takes notice of Henry and motions him over, as if Henry's life depended on it. Finally sitting on
the couch, Henry finds out what's going on the TV.
The was an middle-aged female asian reporter with a bunch of chaos going on behind here. The focus made it
hard to see the details, but there looked to be floating, round, metallic objects shooting laser beams at
people indiscriminately. The people were then covered in a puff of smoke but their shapes didn't seem to match
up with pre-lasered. Seemed like something of the newer War of The Worlds movie.
"Aerie Tomokono here! The city of Nowhere is under attack by what seems to be flying or floating Robots! We're
currently near the Mayor's office and Capitol park and it seems to be no reason behind what the Robots are
doing."
The camera finally panned out to a lightly treed, grassy area, where the details of what are actually
happening are apparent. One 40-something, out of shape, and business-casual dressed lady was running and
screaming across the area being chased by a robot. She tripped over her heels in what looked to be a gopher
hole, and mid fall the robot managed to line up a shot and she was covered in a puff of smoke.
Thanks to the detail of the focus and the motion of her fall, out did not fall a lady to the ground, but a
clown, and male one at that! It seemed to be of the white-face type, with red afro other then the massive
baldspot, bright-red recirculous nose, polkadot jumpsuit, clown shoes, and other such things. It appeared to
be lanking which assisted in its fall, which turned into an acrobatic-if-exaggerated tumble. Up popped the new
clown from its tumble, continuing its run across the area, its movements greatly exaggerated and humorous, it
pulling off a poor attempt at being terrified of the situation around it, sometimes looking like it was doing
more tumbles and falls on puporse! Even its "cries" of terror sounded like it was performing for a children's
show.
"As you can see, they're changing people into something else! There seems to be no pattern to what they're
being changed into other then two things: People always change into the opposite gender, and they seem to be
turned into stereotypes or carictures of races, professions, or lifestyles! We haven't found anything else
solid so farm, but these changes may also effect the mind or mannerisms of the changees. Fortunately the
robots seem to be avoiding very young adults and children but..."
As the camera panned back to the reporter, it showed a robot behind her and the usual red flash of light. The
poof game, and out of it came a very large african man. He had a great belly, but his shape was more of one
tribal royalty rather then obesity. Even his dress was primitive, a loincloth that did little to conceal his
large penis as he walked out of the clowd, some weird headdress made out of leaves, and bone piercings here
and there, including a comical one going through his nose. After coughing out smoke, he assumed a regal
demeanor different from the Asian reporter's neutral one, and lifted one end of a bone club that replaced the
microphone to his mouth.
When he spoke, an incomprehensible series of clicks and whistles came out. A few seconds of this and a look of
realization appeared across his face. He tried speaking again, looking conflicted with what came out and
constantly pausing, like he was trying to sound things out. Eventually the effort managed to yield something:
"Ck-k...kh..khalp...kmk...me."
Suddenly a large booming sound was heard. The camera changed views, like it was a looking for the source of
it. Out behind one of the government building came an old man riding in the equivalent of a Segway, replacing
the wheels with whatever floating devices it had. He was wearing a stereotypical labcoat that covered his feet
with big black gloves over his forearms. He even had black goggles and eccentric white hair to complete the
look.
"Ahahahahhahahahahhah! You all made fun of me for being different! You never look at my accomplishments, my
masterpieces! Now... Now my work shall come to you and the whole world will see the fruits of my labor!
Ahahahahahhaha!"
Well he had the evil scientist laugh down. One of the robots then appeared right in front of the camera man
and the zap happened and the broadcast was cut.
"Henry! What do we do?! I don't think we can run from those things! We're screwed man, we're screwed!"
Jack proceeded to be incomprehensible and cry into his hands.