Prometheus

An alien/Egyptology yarn featuring stories and a 'misadventure' depicting the human 'paranoia' behind contacting dawn.

Just a fun aliens/Egyptology adventure-yarn drawing from multiple genres. 

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Two brothers from Algeria were recruited to do some dusty archaeological work in Egypt regarding the discovery of some strange hieroglyphs indicating some presence of an ancient evil (alien?) on Earth that kept imprints of its visit as a premonition of a future invasion of our more peaceful dimension. The brothers, Amlan and Ajay were like James Bond figures in the world of alien lore.

The brothers, twins, geared/masked to do dig/dust work in the sand-storm season of the excavation site in Egypt, found evidence that the ancient evil presence (alien?) wished to leave an ominous signpost that human Earthlings were going to be visited (again!) someday by their return in the form of a violent 'dragon' mist. Amlan/Ajay Satan realized this discovery would cast them as 'geniuses' in the world of alienology/Egyptology work and theory.

AMLAN: This is pseudo-mysticism, but its roots stand on the platforms of the 'arts' behind consciousness-casting.

AJAY: If this ancient evil 'alien' presence announces its eventual return as a 'dragon' of Earth, it must be a being of no fancy.

Maybe this 'dragon' alien/evil presence leaving some imprint as a 'lure' or 'signpost' traversed a special space-dimension portal to get into Earth-realm and bring some kind of message about the frailty of life on our fair Blue Planet, making the portal a sign of a 'Gate' to darkness!

AMLAN: We think this kind of 'dragonography' hints at the morphology theories of evolution itself.

AJAY: Yeah, why would a dragon or insect or a serpent or lion or 'creature' have more 'malice' than an upright humanoid/ape?

AMLAN: Maybe the insect structure is conducive to a 'dragon' dark mobility/approach to 'prowl' through terrain with high-IQ.

AJAY: The insect robot avatars we've invented in modern times reflects an understanding of mobility-deformity.

Well, this ancient evil presence (dragon/alien?) had a strange alien-appearance as well as a standing A.I. robot-figure with man-like features but warlike stance. The alien, a 'Red Xenomorph', exhibits acidic/explosive saliva and resembles an insect in its prowling ability.

The second figure, a standing A.I. robot-figure of great warlike features/stance, was compared to Anubis (Egyptian wolf-avatar) by Amlan/Ajay Satan, and they insisted this standing war-knight of darkness, an A.I. 'being' (Cyclonus) would return alongside its 'opposite twin' (Red Xenomorph) with only a dark message about the danger(s) of speculation...or planet explorations.

HIEROGLYPH (Decoded by the Satan brothers): The crop-markings of fields/grass, indicate orientation for departure/return.

Well, it turned out our two archaeology twins (Satan-brothers) were rather handy with a machine-gun, and when they'd been attacked the presence of the dragons who returned to offer their post-Egyptian 'challenge' at the excavation site, they used their machine-guns, which were furnished by the Egyptian military in case of terrorists trying to attack the now-fabled excavation-site, to shoot into the very eyes of the Red Xenomorph and the Cyclonus robot. They managed to blind the 'dragons' from another dimension (Mars?), and the 'misadventure' inspired a 'cool' Alien franchise video-game featuring colonial marines tackling a horde of insect-like dragons.

AMLAN: This triumph marks a return to innocence, and humanity's bright intuition to use magic to fight death.

AJAY: We'll be writing a new book now on the 'cool peace' and thoughts of divinity inspired by 'faeries' and ghosts.

AMLAN: What do you think the 'real' message of the now 'mummified' dragons/aliens (Xenomorph/Cyclonus) were, brother?
AJAY: You can guess, Amlan...they simply wanted to 'announce' their 'presence' as 'dragons' of eternal danger.

AMLAN: Ever feel like Prometheus?
AJAY: I hope not!

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