Strangetown, Here We Come: Breaking News
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Warnings: language and minor mention of violence.
Tank was flipping through the channels on the television.
One after the other, all were discussing the same topic.
"... crash in Desiderata Valley. It has been nearly ten years since a similar crash occurred in Strangetown..."
"... reports of violence against hybrid alien sims have increased steadily along with the reports that abductions are growing in frequency..."
"... and I'm here to argue that we can't trust them..."
"... perverting the regular sim reproductive function by impregnating males..."
"... today they're invading our gene pool, but what's stopping them from launching a physical attack next?..."
He eventually stopped changing the channels and left one on to run in the background. It featured a particularly alarmist story, predicting an all out war between the two species. Many sims would have likely though it amusingly exaggerated. Tank, however, did not find it the least bit funny.
"Looks like sims are finally starting to wake up and recognize the true threat at hand," he said. "I knew no good would ever come of this. They need to be stopped. Sent out of our airspace and back where they came from."
"You're anti-alien?" Beau asked.
"Oh, by the way this is Tank Grunt," Frances said. "Haven't you met him?"
"But aren't your brothers all like shacked up with half aliens?" Beau asked. "Or am I missing something here?"
"No, you aren't missing anything," said Tank. "It's a fucked up situation all around. Our father was never a fan of us hanging out with them and I'm sure he'd be even less happy with the way things have gone with those two in recent years. They're practically like family at this point, god help us all. I know the hybrids are mostly stuck in the middle of this and that's not always their fault, but the middle of this is not somewhere I would willingly choose to be."
"So what... you think we should use force against the 'alien invaders'?" Beau's tone was not mocking, but clearly revealed his disbelief.
"You don't think they'd do it to us?" Tank asked.
"Well, I have no idea," Beau admitted. "I barely even knew anything about this at all until it was all over the news all of a sudden."
"The aliens haven't been violent yet," Frances noted.
"No, not yet," Tank repeated back for emphasis.
"All this talk of violence against the hybrids is terrible," said Frances. "It's not like they're the ones behind it all. And they've had no choice but to be thrown into the middle of this."
"Yeah, Jill and Johnny must be so worried," said Beau. "What if something were to happen here, at La Fiesta Tech.? Or in Strangetown? Aren't you worried about your brothers, Tank?"
"Yes, of course I am."
Beau nodded in silent acceptance of this answer, then turned back to his magazine. "Yeah, wow. This has really blown up as a news item, hasn't it? It's everywhere lately."
"It's all over the papers," Frances agreed. "And it looks like it's on every cover of every single trashy tabloid you have there."
"Well, it's not on the cover of every tabloid..."
"There's this one, for example." Beau picked up another magazine from the pile on the floor. "We seem to have generated a little press of our own."
"What?!" Frances yelped.
"Yeah, check it out. 'You May Kiss the Bride... 's Brother! Heir to the Worthington fortune causes a stir as he comes out at his sister's wedding.'"
Frances looked as if he might be going catatonic.
"You alright, Fran?"
Still nothing.
"Franny? Frannikins? You going to make it or what?"
"Frances?
You okay, Frances?
Speak to me, Frances.
Sim Earth to Frances. Anybody in there?
Frances!
...
Tank, we may have a bit of a situation on our hands here."
Notes:
The next chapter is very much in progress, but this little scene doesn't quite fit in with the rest of it (especially the silliness of the ending) so you get it now as a short. Tank and Co. will factor into the following chapter, as well as the one after that, but not the very next one. The next three chapters could have been included as three parts of the same chapter and I likely would have done that with the way I was formatting things previously, but I'm tired of that now and want to do one chapter at a time again without all the parts (unless I really, really have to for some reason). So the next three updates will be separate chapters, but keep in mind that all is not said and done with that general storyline until the end of chapter 38. The three chapters do very much go together.
My goal for now is to complete up to the end of chapter 38. After that, I'm just going to take it as it comes. But I'm committing myself to finishing those three chapters if it takes me the next three years to do so (and I promise to try my best to do it a lot sooner than that). :P
Sim Earth to Frances. Anybody in there?
Date: 2013-05-23 06:25 pm (UTC)lol