Arctic-Station: Unit Dragon

A Story by Abishai100

A gov't ice-station composed of valiant members including captain 'Storm-Shadow' (Amlan Satan) vies with an invading 'alien-predator' man-dragon for endurance-IQ.

An ice-station 'misadventure' with alien proportion inspired by The Thing (John Carpenter), which may be the perfect midsummer note with which to retire from writing. Enjoy,

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Amlan Satan ('Storm-Shadow') was the manager of an Arctic ice-station for mining and monitoring of any dangerous activity on behalf of Western governments during the worldwide curious migration of militant soldiers from North Korea and China. He considered himself a 'Facebook-friendly' diplomat of ice-station defenses in modern time.

AMLAN SATAN (Diary): Everything was a-ok, until we faced a deadly masked 'alien-predator' with an IQ for bloody-murder.

Now, this bizarro 'alien-predator' with a helmet-mask and electric spear was unlike anything human beings encountered on Earth before, and Storm-Shadow (Amlan Satan) suddenly felt like a 'GI Joe' paramilitary specialist or perhaps even 'super'-hero from another dimension when he realized his unit in the Arctic would have to choreograph its own special/magical defenses against this horrid 'being' in the ice, and he trained all the members of his station to use special liquid-nitrogen 'ice-guns' to shoot the alien 'man-dragon' while defending their special 'colony' on behalf of the West.

AMLAN SATAN (Diary): The special 'ice-gun' training will enhance our bare-chances of facing the Predator with cooler IQ.

EMERGENCY TRANSMISSION: We request immediate backup armed/trained support to come in through our portal/airport in Bucharest for assistance in dealing with this mysterious/dangerous (armed!) 'Predator' alien being in the Arctic ice-station which may be choreographing either a sport-hunting 'exercise' on Earth or simply orchestrating Phase-1 of its bloody-murder marked Invasion; Bucharest airport has therefore become our 'special' assistance-portal for requisitions of immediate gov't aid.

Fortunately, PR-specialist for the West, Mr. Elliot, had picked-up on the emergency-communique from the gov't-force ice-station and decided to send a 'gift' to the enduring/surviving 'soldier' unit marshaled by Storm-Shadow (Amlan Satan) and promised that 'real' assistance would arrive quite soon...but Storm-Shadow ominously feared this 'polite-delay' was some kind of apologetics-rationale for the procession of anarchy for the journalism-reporting of the alien's 'evidential' hostile intent (making the station simply expendable!).

AMLAN SATAN (Diary): I thought I'd come here to be a human-warrior and fell in love with Shelbye (one of our members), but now I know this endurance-test, perhaps paralleling some 'serious' exercise choreographed by the dangerous alien-predator 'being' himself (who's already bloody murdered 3 of our 20 members/soldiers) puts this 'daydream' of vigilance and love in the background as simply a daydream.

Storm-Shadow survived the ordeal, as did his darling Shelbye, but 10 of the 20 members of the ice-station perished in the cold at the hands/spear of the deadly invading Predator alien 'being' out there, and when the survivors successfully froze the creature 'man-dragon' with their ice-guns in an encircling line of shooting, they breathed in relief at what was (ultimately!) a diary-entry about the resilience of humanity on Earth.