3In this chapter I might start calling the machines mcm's. That stands for magchip machines.
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Ivan: Transmit a message to Pod 1. Warn them about the machines.
Natasha: .I-I can't, the signal is being blocked.
Jake: Umm, guys, look at this. (points out of the cockpit) Those things are bearing down on us from all sides.
Aaron(panicked): Natasha! Try to increase the hover, speed, anything to get us out of here!
Natasha: I'm afraid that's not necessary. They've formed into pillars beneath us and are holding us. (As she speaks, small metal 'plates' made of the magchips flip up, row by row, and cover the cockpit.)
Saroc(taking Aaron's position): All sensors are out. We're blind and lame. However, I managed to scan a couple of the chips that Ivan crushed. They're not very responsive to energy pulses.
Ivan: We don't have any projectile weapons. They were discontinued with the advent of the Op7's.(read AlphaOp7 if this doesn't make sense.)
A sound of grating metal is heard. All turn (except Aaron, he's been drugged for safety reasons.) toward the door in time to see a hole eaten in it. The mcm's scrap the door. Echoing off the colony walls is a final sound of energy discharges as Ivan and his crew are overwhelmed. As predicted, they had no effect.
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(Crewmembers of Pod 1 are Tara, Scott, Kate, Chad, Kristine, John, and Josh. Acting commander is Tara.)
At the plaza with Pod 1. 01:00 hours. Kristine and John are on watch.
Kristine: John, did you hear that.
John(groggy, looking stoned): What, hear what? *yawns*
Kristine: Nothing, it just sounded like an energy discharge. I must have been thinking about the Zebesian war. After that, everything sounds like an energy discharge.
Tara: It's time to switch. Go to bed. Wait, has Pod 2 contacted us yet.
John: I don't think so.
Tara: It doesn't look like you're thinking all that much to me, at least, not now.
Kristine: No the other Pod hasn't contacted us. I wonder what caused their neglect. Anyway, I sent a probe to the coordinates that Pod 2 gave us in the last transmission. It will be there soon.
Kate(Who had came up with Tara): We'll keep watch, get some sleep.
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Chapter three-
Hope you all like it. This COULD be a good screenplay. (with a professional's help, of course.) The story is forming for me with each chapter.
Let's see where it takes us next!