Earth Distance: Alien Media {Dragnet}

A Story by Abishai100

Will three cyber-graduates harness wits/resources to 'match' an alien-IQ for Earth-defense?

An alien fable featuring a 'cool' reference to the iconic 1990 NBA Finals. Enjoy,

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The Pistons-Blazers matchup in the 1990 NBA Finals was a special media-broadcast era treat in Western civilization, since many-a Chicago basketball fan tuned in to see what team would emerge to challenge Michael Jordan's dominating Bulls. The Pistons-Blazers both boasted a choreographed bad-boy team which featured the famed Isiah Thomas and Clyde Drexler, making for tight-scoreline games reflecting the shared skill/passion of both pro-teams on Earth. This was sports/human excellence in the modern era!

An astounding 4 of the multiple-game Finals series featured a scoreline that was within merely 6 points between the two teams, revealing why both squads boasted excellence in teamwork/coaching. This was why humans in Chicago loved media-broadcast era sports, as they saw firsthand appetizers to future Bulls contenders. The youngsters of Chicago even today like to recount this pre-Bulls matchup fantasy-fanfare for basketball on platforms like YouTube.

Three such fans are royals from a foreign international school who've moved to Chicago (United States) together to create a shared home-space working cyber-blogging homeschooling mission involving ideations of democracy and competition studies which may be highlighted by sports diagrams/events! These three royals/graduates are Amlan, Raki, and Isa. They'd moved into a very nice Chicago suburban area and started blogging about the iconic Pistons-Blazers showdown in 1990.

RAKI: The great tight scorelines in 4 of the games veils the otherwise 4-1 final Pistons victory-line; the Blazers under-rated.

AMLAN: I'm secretly an Isiah Thomas fan, for his stylish captaincy, but the Blazers' Drexler/Robinson/Williams were great.

ISA: Sports is great, since it symbolizes capitalism-IQ; the Pistons-Blazers were nearly a chess-stalemate; for Chicago pupils!

It was this 'human-hubbub' regarding media/civilization that drew the ire/attention of invader-Martians with a special 'dark' agenda for terror. The Martians flew into the Chicago residential area where Amlan/Raki/Isa were working as cyber-educators and did an impressive (if haunting!) fly-by which the three youngsters/graduates witnessed and posted on the Internet.

AMLAN: I've used a special private-jet commission to take a sky-view miracle-photo of one of these Martian spaceships.

AMLAN: We've set-up a special temporary cyber-presentation 'shelter' base at the Wingate (hotel) for the Martian platform.

RAKI: Yeah...the Wingate (hotel) would accent our security/hiding-place while offering cyber-portals into alien-IQ.

ISA: We've the 'Western' amenity (Wingate) of post-9/11 era civilization ideations of human-species media-distance(s).

ALIEN: We're here to announce to Amlan/Raki/Isa that the Earth-society post-9/11 era media-IQ must be one of traffic-arts.

AMLAN: The insect-dragon like Martian(s) were simply horrific in visage and countered our patriotics for cyber-capitalism IQ.

The young graduates/soldiers used water-guns filled with homemade acid to meet the landed dragon-Martians who tried to lunge at them with spears, and the acid spray melted the spears and shooed them away, requiring the alien to send a secret signals-communique to Amlan/Raki/Isa --- "We'll resign to the deep-ocean abyss as (permanent!) isolationist-exiles because of the dashing view of this engagement media valor, satisfied in this micro-encounter illuminating special design (for media folklore); congrats."

AMLAN: We believe this Martian experience typifies the human capacity for homemade intuition.
RAKI: We think that's what the dragon-alien had in mind all along --- an 'excellence' in media-lore!
ISA: The acid-gun practice combining with 'chess-media' IQ beckons ideations of the symbolism of the Pistons-Blazers dream!