Concussions and Laser

Setting: Hillside and Human Village outskirts Music: Danger, Battle

My best bet is with the town up ahead. They’ll help me. They’ll have answers.

(screen jerks a bit. More bullets) (slight zoom in of view of Village)

...

I’m not going to make it. Their shots were random and unfocused, but have been becoming more and more accurate. Are they just toying with me? How in the heck did I go from being at a major scientific breakthrough to being bullied by tiny girls in just 5 minutes? This isn’t right at all.

Desperately I begin to zigzag back and forth in a random pattern to avoid being hit. The ground hisses with each missed shot. It’s all up to chance now.

(next page)

“Huh……huh…..huh….huh.” My breath has gone ragged whiles lungs burn for air and legs burn for relief. This isn’t good. A scientist isn’t supposed to have to run like this. My head throbs with every heartbeat as if it’s being beaten like a drum. No good. I won’t make it.

(flash of red)

Suddenly my right calf screams out in a new pain. That horrible tingling sensation shoots through the whole leg, numbing it in mid stride. Everything feels like slow motion as the seemingly dead leg buckles under my weight and I fall. As I spin around in mid air; a blue sky with a panorama of colorful dots comes into view.

(screen shake)

The hard ground slams into the back of my head and my vision swims. Fatigue and pain fill my mind. I give up, it’s impossible to get to safety. It doesn’t matter anymore.

(half fade screen) (red and blue lasers)

My eyesight dims as blue and red bolts of light shoot across the sky from the direction of the village. It must be from my occipital lobe crashing into the back of my skull. The world shines with brilliant colors for a few seconds.

And then darkness.

(full fade to black)

Bedside Nurse ~ Fleeting Answers