NOW IT'S NIGHTTIME, and the city is totally flooded out, and I have my cat, Mr. Chillynose, with me as I wade through streets of downtown Chicago in neck-deep water, following a long procession of people trying to escape the city. It's tough trying to navigate through all that water amongst so many people while trying to keep my cat above its surface, but I manage to collect together this mass of floating animals. First there is a huge turtle, which cranes its snakelike neck back to eyeball me and opens its mouth in protest when I put Mr. Chillynose on his back, but he can't really do much about it. The turtle sinks into the water because Mr. Chillynose is such a fatass, and his white fur gets a bit wet before I have a chance to prop up the turtle with my hands on the edges of its shell underwater, and his fur clumps together and spikes out like a hedgehog. He keeps meowing and looking with his bugged out yellow eyes for some way to get out of this, but every time he turns his paw slips a bit or something splashes near him and catches his attention, and all I can do is try to figure out a way to keep this stupid turtle propped up and still move forward with the procession of people while he keeps going "meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow..." So like I said, there was a mass of floating animals, and the humungous turtle was first, and second was this whale. A very small whale, about the size of the turtle, which I manage to wedge under the turtle to help keep it afloat, and now we've got propulsion, and things are starting to look pretty good, and the next thing I know there is this big floating mass of black fur right next to me, on my right side, which I can't tell what it is- it might be a huge dog but it's the size of a bear. I'm starting to feel like I'm going to have to start saving everything I can, like all the other little escaping helpless people and animals. Then I see this really tiny green snake, about the size of a gummy worm, floating in the dark water and I rescue it and stick it into the fur of the bear, only its been bitten in half, which is wierd because it's still alive but whatever.
And then this redneck comes up to my animal boat and snarls at me, trying to intimidate me and lay claim to my sweet situation, but there is no way I'm giving it up, especially because of Mr. Chillynose. But he won't go away, he's one of those dumbasses with no imagination and no sense of humor except for they laugh when other people get hurt or humiliated, and then this other redneck comes over and actually tries to redirect the course of my animal boat and that sets me off- I go at the first redneck- we're about ten feet away from each other and we sort of charge as best as we can in the deep water. I've never attacked anyone like this so I'm thinking on my feet, I decide quickly to do the most damage in the easiest way possible to this fucker, and he goes to punch me in the face but my face is in his face, and I bite this big chunk out of the bridge of his nose. I back away and his blood is squirting out pretty severely, like shooting maybe five feet out in front of him, and boy is he PISSED now. He purposely points his nose at me and squirts his blood in my eyes, and I almost panic for a second but then I remember how smart I am and I dunk myself under the water and swim at him and somehow manage to force him under the front end of this car that this young couple is driving, underwater, like I really wedge him up between the tires and the street, and then I swim around to the drivers side window and I put the car in 'drive' and it rolls over this guy, bumping up and down twice, and the guy driving underwater and his girlfriend notice don't seem to mind much.
AND THE LAST BIT BEFORE I WOKE UP had me swim out from behind the moving car and hoist myself up onto this sort of a landing at the top of a stairway in front of a highrise office building to get a good view of the procession so I can find out where my animal raft has gone with Mr. Chillynose, but I see this young girl, in her early twenties at the most, lying on a gurney with her arms at her sides as water spashes and sloshes up onto her face, which causes her to squint and snort and spit continuously. She is very pretty, with a round face and big eyes and dark brown hair and flush cheeks, and she's wearing an outfit made with various shades of green. I ask her what the heck she thinks she's doing lying there on this gurney thing- I get the impression that she's not hurt in any way, but she's just trying to wait it out. Her rigid body seems to reflect stoic character. But all she says is "Help me," in a really small and helpless voice, but she's sort of smiling at the time so I'm confused, but tell her sure, and decide to drag her out to my little raft once I find it. Then I notice her eyes are really wierd, like she's an alien from outer space- no pupil or iris or white eyball, bit just a single shiny orb, olive-drab in color. I start to wonder if maybe it isn't a good idea to bring her along.
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