The Blob (Steve McQueen)

A tale of American endurance, as young adults deal with an alien slime-thing called the Blob which consumes humans and makes a path towards the cold.

An homage to a horror-imagination classic, The Blob. Enjoy! 

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Steve and Amlan were parked in Steve's Mustang on Lover-Hill, which is what it's called by the locals in Colorado, and kissing their lovely dates (Shirley and Amanda) when suddenly they spotted in the night-distance what seemed to be a falling meteor of rather small size, with a fire-trail right behind it. The quartet decided to drive to the area where the meteor seemed to land and walked up to the fiery ditch the crash created and noticed a small black egg cracked open with what seemed to be a pink oozy slime pouring out of it, of about 3 meters in diameter. They called a local sheriff who brought a scientist and the pink slime was still oozing out. The scientist decided to grab a stick from the ground and poke at the slime, which is when the slime suddenly and quickly moved up the stick the scientist had in his hand and began to consume the hand, absorbing it acidically with an intentional form of intelligence! The sheriff tried to rip the 'blob' creature slime thing on the scientist's aching hand off him, but the slime then jumped onto the sheriff's face and repeated the process.

STEVE: Dear goodness, you have to believe us!

COP: You're saying a 'pink alien slime' has consumed the sheriff and a scientist?

STEVE: Look, we don't have photos but believe this 'blob' is crawling towards town!

COP: This 'blob' is some king of 'intelligent' consuming alien slime-ooze?

STEVE: You have to believe us!

Sadly, the cop who'd been approached by the quartet (Steve, Amlan, Shirley, Amanda) who'd fled the ravenous/consuming alien 'blob' slime-ooze thing from the Colorado crash-site after the slime-creature 'ate' the sheriff/scientist with an odd relentlessness didn't believe the young Americans, the quartet who'd been the only 'surviving' witnesses. Steve and his friends now celled themselves Survivors and decided to track this 'Blob' and hoped it had somehow just made it to some nearby area where they'd be able to corner/understand it. The Survivors decided to see if it was somewhere near the crash-site and found the Blob crawling towards the town diner, now much much larger in size (having consumed 2 human victims and incremented in magnitude from energy consumption!). Indeed, the Blob had crawled/snaked into the Colorado town-diner and was now consuming the patrons/customers/staff inside!

SURVIVORS: We've taken photos of this alien 'Blob' thing crawling out of the diner it's destroyed, officers!

POLICE: This looks like a prank!

The Survivors, still unable to persuade the town officials that the Blob was real, decided to continue to track the alien intelligent slime-thing as it crawled into the Colorado town movie-theater that night. The theater was full of people, and the Blob (alien slime thing) decided to start consuming all the members of the cinema-audience, simply covering them in its slime-composition and corroding/digesting them acidically and absorbing them into its genetic/phenotypic structure while maintaining its odd and pink appearance, shapeless...and evil. The Survivors (Steve, Amlan, Shirley, Amanda) decided to throw a fire-extinguisher at the Blob and when it tried to consume the fire-extinguisher and it exploded, the Blob shirked in pain and began to dissolve in one area of its slime 'body' because of the CO2 in the fire-extinguisher. The Survivors immediately concluded the Blob was sensitive to cold and CO2 and decided to gather all the fire-extinguishers they could.

SURVIVORS: So, we then used numerous fire-extinguishers to corner/trap the Blob.

REPORTER: Then, scientists knew this 'Blob' was diminished by cold/CO2?

SURVIVORS: Yes; that's why they then caged the alien slime-thing in a nitrogen-case.

REPORTER: Then, they flew the 'Blob' to the Arctic for permanent frozen-storage/incarceration?
SURVIVORS: Yes; we're invited to go along for the helicopter-ride and witnessed it being buried in ice!

REPORTER: So, you 'Survivors' believe this Blob alien slime-thing is now forever separated from humanity?
SURVIVORS: There's no way now it can get out of its crystal-dome...unless the Arctic itself melts somehow!

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