Thing of Detention

A Story by Abishai100

Ivy-pals meet for a sci-fi 'cafe-event' at a bookstore (South-Jersey) but may envision an 'alien' descent.

A micro-environment 'alien-encounter' fantasy inspired by various media.

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Amlan and Marcus had been best buds since their days at Dartmouth and decided to visit a Barnes & Noble cafe-event in South Jersey involving the sci-fi presentation of the various media-presentations of The Thing, the iconic fantasy-horror science-abomination story of an 'alien' mutation of symbiotic/predatory intelligence creating a horrid form of Earth-world invasion 'chess' and drawing many modern social-media fans of very unusual evolution-IQ storyboards.

AMLAN: The Eagles-49ers conference-champ game looms and Philly-Jersey fans in sports-bars cheer; we think human!

MARCUS: Right; this Thing bookshop-cafe 'gathering' should entice our human interests in activity-media for physique-books.

Of course, this iconic Eagles-49ers match would indeed be a cool precursor to a grand Super Bowl signaling fans of the two border-cities of great populism spirits in the United States, Philadelphia and San Francisco (respectively), to cheer on what would be an 'ultimate' showcase of physique-chess in the conference. The Eagles and 49ers were surprisingly well-matched and boasted a comparable high-soaring season-winning record, and if injuries didn't eclipse, the championship game in January 2023 would be excellence sideshow 'action' for Amlan/Marcus studying/reading and enjoying Thing sci-fi evolution storyboards for social 'physique' imagination echelons (wow).

AMLAN: If not for those San Francisco 'post-hippie culture' cheerleaders of dazzle, I'd simply rush the Eagles as a thing-trophy.

MARCUS: Right; the 49ers are a great spirits this season and in the modern age, friend; it's good media for evolution-arts.

Amlan had made a splash in the cyber-comics world with his post-modern excellence/flair with inventive heroine-avatars signifying a modern 'street' ethos regarding the colors/tones of inventive vigilantism, including the unbeatable Squirrel-Girl and the Fantastic Four, and Marcus was intrigued to discover if their joint-trip since Dartmouth would create an awesome Thing-linked sports-physique 'consciousness' for the South Jersey street-culture of media-driven social entertainment beauty.

MARCUS: The thing to enjoy during this sci-fi bookshop event during the sports-event 'experience' season in Jersey is cake!

Yes, friends, coffee-cake had become the 'thing' for hip post-grads like Ivy-gents (Amlan/Marcus) who simply wished to make 'toast' of the sports-physique media-cheer fanfare season in South Jersey (Eagles-49ers) while cheering on this Thing bookshop cafe-gathering 'exercise' in human evolution storytelling and fitness/species brain-waves. This was the time of media-driven human examinations in physique-diaries.

AMLAN: I got this awesome cyber-media download of a celeb-artist rendering for the Thing cafe-bookshop event for chess!

MARCUS: Yo, check out this rare copy of Pan (Peter) this Barnes & Noble had in their shelves.

AMLAN: Goodness, me, bud; this is something Dartmouth should've kept in their shelves; I know they didn't have this copy.

MARCUS: Let's see if some beautiful young (single) women appear for this Thing design; we might discover 'odd' coincidence!

AMLAN: Indeed; there's simple human evolution magic to hot coffee and cake-honey and lady-chats about Pan/abominations.

MARCUS: Do you ever get that funny-feeling, Amlan, that our universe is 'filled' with the presences of 'stranger' magic?

The Barnes & Noble bookshop Thing cafe-event director surprised the hell out of everyone, including Amlan/Marcus and the beautiful young lady who was present and joined the Ivy-pals in a lovely chat in the cafe-area, when he announced he brought two US-army men and a Boring flamethrower gun (with them!) to suddenly announce that there were local reports of a crash-landed UFO with a claimed 'abominable thing mutated alien-intelligence' creeping/writhing towards their very book-store branch, requiring everyone to remain calm!

AMLAN: Is this all real, Marcus...there's an alien who wants to terrorize this bookshop/cafe event while we'd been safe?
MARCUS: Jesus, maybe this alien was sarcastic about our human fascination with 'physique' media and read our signals, man.

AMLAN: If this 'alien' enters and they start using that Boring-fire, I might pick it up if they drop it (to survive!).

MARCUS: You said it, Amlan (let's keep cool).

The alien abomination did in fact appear and make its presence known, resembling some kind of male-female 'snake-humanoid writhing serpent of the Inferno with a strange menacing facial grin and drool and required Amlan/Marcus to act as smart men and save their new lady-friend (Shelbye). The US-soldiers inside the bookshop shot the 'Thing' (alien!) with their flame-guns but one dropped his and required Marcus to pick up the gun to shoot it in recompense, which he did...much more effectively!

AMLAN: [Thinking to himself]...If I/we get-out alive, I'm turning this dastardly adventure into a Pulitzer-caliber cyber-comic.