Adams Ave and 36th Street, 4am...
Beacon City is still in the morning air. Two garbae men drive a sanitation truck down the Street, making their rounds as they listen to the radio in the truck cab...
"And back to you, Bill... Thanks, Perry... Up next: It's been a month since Caligula Matrix, the self-proclaimied "Mad Emperor of All Robots" used his Microlegion to attack Beacon City, and citizens are fed up with Mayor Palverdes' clean up efforts of the thousands of small "legionaries" being found inactive all over the city, often disrupting infrastructure...
Man 1 Soundbyte
"It aint right.. I gotta work like everyone else, I pay taxes. 9x should clean it up! He beat 'em, and now I got my kid sneaking th robots back in my house... they aint toys..."
(Newscaster Bill)
"The mayor urges all citizens to continue putting collected microbots in the yellow collection bins on all sidewalks, to be disposed of at A.R.C. labs... the robots are inactive, but can still be dangerous, as the weaponry, especially the sword or spears is an integral feature of them, causing injuries by circumstance..."
Fat Garbage Man
"Hah, ya here that, Frankie? "Still dangerous". I hadda have Luann in City Hospital, she got a frickin spear through her toe last week! I come in, and blood all over my carpet, she's screamin'.. kids are screamin'... its a bunch of crap. 9x busted Cal's ass, but still ya got the damn things all over the place..."
Skinny garbage man (frankie)/
"yup yup, I had them things butt deep in my air shaft in my building.. least they aint crawlin all over and singin' no more... that.. hey... "
The two workers look around in confusion as a bassy, low hum is heard, seemingly coming from everywhere. Up the street, about 50 feet away from the garbage truck, a large definitely well defined and square area of something, some force, causes the air and view to ripple and shimmer like a hot road in summer... the effect hangs like a wall or a picture on a wall in the middle of the street...
Suddenly two GIGANTIC deer/some kind of moose run OUT of the "area" stampeding in a blind panic, and smashing into cars:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media...pg/_46737143_elk.jpg
the two men look down the street after the rampaging creatures, slack jawed.. not seeing behind them that figures, human figures start to shimmer into view ten men, though looking more like Neanderthals, was bigger than a normal human's stature, filthy and wearing animal skins burst through the portal area, some screaming in fear, unintelligibly, but one clubs Frankie right across the face with a stone axe, with a sickening thud... The fat garbage man scrambles into the truck cab to the radio...
"Mary! Central!! we got I dunno what over on Adams and 36th... frickin CAvemen or.... aghhhhhkk!!!"
four powerfully built Neanderthals drag the panicked man from the truck's cab, circle around him, and start to beat and stab him with stone weapons... mauling him up good as the rest run up Adams Ave, after the giant deer... yelling and shouting in an unknown language, all at once... they kill the man quick, and then run after the others, chasing the deer... as sirens are heard coming from blocks away, to the east...