Geekisode 2

Insanity.

They had just defeated the tyranny of the Golden Monkey Mob for hopefully the last time when it appeared from nowhere. Tired from the long battle, they were no match for the creature. Freeze Pop had fallen first, knocked to the side with a minimum of effort by the thing. He had checked on Pop right away, concerned by the way he’d fallen.

Freeze Pop was dead. Despite all the arguments and the fighting amongst themselves, he hadn’t wanted that.

Chaos Fist had grown quite angry upon hearing the news. Rapidly he attacked, charging the explosive blasts from his hand and driving them directly into the creature. The blasts knocked it back for the moment and he’d added his own bioelectricity to the mix. For a few moments, he was angry, looking for revenge on the creature that had killed his friend.

Then, the tide turned again. The creature gritted its teeth and viciously backhanded Chaos Fist. He flew back sharply, snapping his head against the wall. The creature stabbed him for good measure but he knew Chaos Fist was already dead.

Under the circumstances, he did what was most logical: he ran. The events of the last few minutes made no sense to him. They couldn’t have been real, could they?

It was all madness.


- The preceding is a preview of the novelization of ‘Compound Geeks’ episode ‘CoNIS Part One’, which is scheduled to appear on the KTNE forums on 27-Nov-2006. -

One wonderful morning

As I drove to work this morning, I was briefly distracted by the rising of the sun. The partly cloudy sky was tinted red and looked amazing. I sought to describe it, for the practice if nothing else. Was it a cranberry colour? No, the red wasn’t deep enough. A cranberry spritzer colour? Sure, with a splash of ginger ale that would be about right…

That’s when it hit me. As I inhaled I smelled skunk. The choked expression on my face must have been entertaining but there was no one else around to laugh. I quickly started breathing through my mouth. One of the worst things about the scent of a skunk is that it seems to stick with you forever. Miles away I still wasn’t safe from the odor. It drove the beautiful mental picture of that sky away from me.

I’m sure there’s a metaphor about life or love in there somewhere but I’m feeling too lazy to find it right now. Maybe later.