Square dancing WILL occur somewhere in this story.

[twincityhacker]

Here's the prologue and first chapter of the MST3K/War of the Worlds crossover. I think the dialouge in this is pretty bad, and it does't look like the dialouge gets any better anywhere in the story so far.

Continuity Notes:

The War of the Worlds version this is pulled from is the 2005 movie directed by Steven Speilberg, but there's a bunch of refrences to the musical version, the 1953 version, the radio version, "War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches," and the original book. There will be no refrences made to the 2005 movie directed by Timothy Hines, or the Sherlock Holmes/War of the Worlds crossover, because both of those versions are 'bot fodder.

This story greatly divates from the MST3K cannon sometime after the nineth season. Small errors in cannon most likely occur here and there, but if Best Brains didn't worry about cannon too much, I'm not going to worry about it too much.

Partial Disclaimer:

I do not own copyrights to MST3K, which belongs to Best Brains, INC and other assorted people. Nor do I claim 2005 film version directed by Steven Speilberg which was based off of the book War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.





Prologue:

No one would have believed that in the later years of the the twentieth century, Earth was being watched by intelligences greater than mankinds. That as men busied themselves about their various concerns, they observed - and studied. Men went to and fro about the globe, confident that there was no intelligent life in their insignificant solar system, and especially on their neighboring planet Mars.

Which is exactly why those who knew about the coming invasion sat back and waited in the wings as the Martians, confident of their superiority, slowly drew their plans against the humans.

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Part One: The First Sign

The night of the first lighting storm, or at least what pass for night on the Satellite of Love, was a fairly ordinary one. Pearl had called for a chat and a spot of torture a few hours earlier, so the crew thought they could have a nice regeneration cycle uninterrupted by movie sign.

But since almost nothing in the experiment went as expected, and the things that did go as expected only did that so the beings involved in the experiment could continue to hope that things would go as expected in the future. The alarm that roused everyone from their beds was indeed not a movie sign or MAD sign, but an entirely different alarm.

Mike, the last one to stumble to the bridge, looked across the room trying to figure out what was going on. The red and yellow lights were still flashing, but one of the 'bots had already shut off the buzzer. Gypsy looked like she was staring off into space, but Mike knew that she must be working on something because her eye was dimmer than normal. Crow and Tom stood over by the Hexfield View screen, looking at some data sets. Figuring that he might as well try to help, he asked Crow "What are you guys doing?"

"Looking at the gravitational flux output." Crow replied.

Mike stared at the screen again, trying again to understand the data. "Which says what, exactly?"

This time, Tom answered, "Mostly that something really big, which was going really fast until it started braking for planet fall, passed us a few minutes ago."

"And the other thing?"

"That Una Therman is three degrees away from Kevin Bacon."

"I though she had a Bacon number of two."

"Some bugs must have creeped into the system. But Bacon numbers aside, Gypsy, we looked at the data, but we still don't see what's all that important."

Gypsy said "The data's ready Cambot."

Cambot, who had been staying so still in his uplink base Mike had overlooked him, panned over to the three standing by the Hexfield, brought up the footage from Rocket #9, around the same time of the gravitational flux data.

There was nothing there.

As to prove their point, he pulled up all the other camera angles to the exterior of the satellite. There was nothing out there but space and the Earth in the distant background.

"So what you guys are saying is that a cloaked ship made Earthfall not too long ago?"

"No, you should look at this too." Cambot switched back to the gravitational flux data sets and showed the data sets from the past hour, and within that past hour at least six ships had gone by.

"I think," Mike said as to sum up the feelings of the group, "we have a problem."

Comments

[myrthrilmercury.livejournal.com]

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I'll post the one I'm doing on the group soon, I promise! :D

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

Unfortunatly, I'm not promising the next chapter anytime soon. I had the chapter all written out, and then I realized that it was physicaly impossible to do somthing that's necessary to move the plot along.

Or at least impossible to do without a plot contrivence.

[solidfoamsoul.livejournal.com]

*gives you sammichs and soup from Panera Bread.*

*And a side order of plot bunnies*

All better?

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

*munches on the sammichs and soup*

Yeah. Much better. I was thinking about where it was set, and was looking up some information and it just clicked. Or at least the setting is. I had to cut out some charecters, but they'll show up somewhere else.

[solidfoamsoul.livejournal.com]

Oh, Huzzah! Huzzah and Bravo!