Inside the Book: Planet Zero by Bridget Chase- A Sci Fi Action Short Story
“The sky sparked- chewed by razor lightning. The citizens in the streets of Planet Zero looked to the sky and gasped.
The veil of reality was lifted and a nightmare slipped under the bed sheets of their consciousness.”
An enemy emerges out of unfolded quantum planes. A tech savvy programmer forges a new kind of weapon to fight back. Shana, an AI Nano bot, steps up to save Planet Zero from destruction. The alien visitor cares nothing for his conquests. ‘Chaos and annihilation’ are his job. But, his rewards are the driving force behind his actions. 4,700 words of non stop action, strange sci fi characters and delicious coiling story arcs.
Sample:
Chapter 1
The city was barely indistinguishable from the dark sky. Faint glowing phantom-strings flickered as folded planes of quantum dimensions separated.
The city’s aesthetics were the pinnacle of class and visual pleasure. The lights at night were neon-edged, long and delineating the perfectly-manufactured-angles.
Desperate black plastic, carbon, and synthetic surfaces reflected in prisms of deep mirages.
The sky sparked- chewed by razor lightning.
The citizens in the streets of Planet Zero looked to the sky and gasped.
The veil of reality was lifted; and a nightmare slipped under the bed sheets of their consciousness.
∞
He looked down on the city- a contained protected paradise. Zeit sat at his throne on the main commanding ship.
Necro Slaves, half dead, yet alive in almost no sense, sat at the controls.
“Begin the mutations,” Zeit said.
His slaves’ heads lulled, while his command seeped into their grilled cheese brains. Their bodies were part flesh and part robotics. Where the ship and controls began, and their bodies ended, were near impossible to distinguish. They were living ship parts. Cyborgs with angular carbon plates, tubes, gears, and silicon, paired with congealed pale flesh.
Zeit’s ship was massive. Capable of navigating quantum space. He laughed to himself. He could see the chaos in the streets as his ship ripped the ‘pink nipple’ from the citizens’ mouths. How Zeit loved the chaos. And chaos was his only job.
Citizens ran. Cars sped and crashed shattering into small glass-like fragments.
Buzzing filled the ears of the panicked people.
Zeit’s craft flew through the streets snatching up people with their coiling spaghetti tentacles.
∞
His mind was becoming grated cheese. Too much work, too little time.
Simon sat in front of twenty computer monitors. He moved data around; reorganized the grouping of familiar symmetries, and combined them for a new function.
His fingers fumbled anxiously like a boy unclasping his girlfriend’s bra for the first time- hurry, hurry!
Simon had seen the reports.
Planet Zero was under siege. The intruding ship had kidnapped more than twenty five percent of the population and had returned them to the streets as ‘rabid mutant bodybuilding Rhinoceroses’.
The Rhinos were living bulldozers destroying everything.
Simon looked to a city map and the growing percentage of destruction in red. He still had time.
Lying on a table next to him was a woman. A robotic woman to be exact.
Simon was lead tech advisor for the AI programming of sex bots.
The woman on his table was named, Shana. She was his own personal bot. Shana was designed to have just enough intelligence to satisfy the customer’s sexual needs.
As the monitors bathed Simon’s face in ghostly light, he worked to create an AI ‘unlike’ anything anyone had seen before.
∞
“NO! NO!” Stella cried.
Dark figures of dripping-diseased-nightmares, grabbed her.
With no warning, the Necro Slaves had smashed her door open. She was at home having dinner with her new boyfriend Tras.
Tras attacked. POW! He smashed the face of one. It fell weakly to the ground.
He hammered forward BAM! Front kicked the one holding Stella’s arm so hard that it flew against the wall.
SMASH! The wall cracked and the Necro Slave fell to the floor.
Tras stepped in front of Stella as more hissing black plated ghouls came in the apartment.
He put up his fists.
“KKSSSSSSZZZ!” They showed their claws. Behind them a huge bodybuilder Rhino pushed its way through.
“Fuck,” Tras said.
Stella clung to his back and whimpered.
Chapter 2
People screamed.
Rhinos flooded the street breaking everything. Like a living blast, the destruction radiated out, in a growing circumference, from the alien ship.
Citizens huddled together in their high-rise dwelling. Cameras all recorded the same sight.
The night sky had birthed an enormous ship and now, behind it came something larger.
The term ‘sky’ wasn’t even applicable anymore. The sky, reality, space, was now only this mechanical monstrosity creeping out of the abyss. The city was merely a small ant and the ship a huge shoe.
The people of Planet Zero squirmed as the tread of the sneaker came down on them.
∞
My fucking GOD she beautiful. Simon sat back and watched her awake. The machinery powered down and recoiled.
Shana sat up. She rubbed her neck. Rolling her head back, she opened her eyes. Slowly her head lulled to the side.
With a start, she jumped seeing Simon.
“Easy, you’re just waking up,” he said.
Shana, played by Yvonne Strahovski, looked at her hands.
She was naked except for a white sheet wrapped around her torso. Her blonde hair spilled over her gorgeous shoulders.
Simon had never designed a woman as beautiful as this.
Shana stood up. She let the sheet fall to the ground and stretched her arms overhead.
Ethereal light from the computer monitors danced over her contours. Her tits rose and Simon lost his breath.
Beyond provocative- Shana was a miracle of technology.
Endless commotion from the streets crept into the room.
She walked to the window and peeked through the blinds.
It’s hard to explain the ‘strange look’ that fire had when raging in a city of such architectural beauty. Like a smart phone on fire, there was a striking differentiation between nature and synthetic.
“Can I go?” she asked.
Simon nodded.
Planet Zero had no military. No police, and was a perfect organism of social equality. He knew now, that such a society was a perfect target. He hoped his programming was enough to save the city.
“Before you go,” Simon said. “Put this on.” He hurried to the side table and picked up a jumpsuit.
Shana came over. She starred into his eyes as if reading something there.
Simon swallowed hard as she slipped into the uniform.
Shana pulled the zipper up, which ran between her gorgeous tits and up, under her chin.
For Simon, she was a nightmare’s-breath of beauty.
CRASH! Glass rained down on the street.
Simon walked to the broken window and looked out.
Shana lept across the roof tops, toward the fires that burned in the distance.
He fought back tears. She might have only been a sex bot, but he had come to love her immensely. Be safe Shana.
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