“Look. I live on Earth, or that’s what we call it. I don’t understand why you don’t believe me.”
Captain Hearns looked at the doctor, a pronounced eyebrow already raised. “Have you ever seen a humanoid of this type?”
The doctor was already shaking his head. “Not quite.” With a pop of the wrist, a translucent notebook emerged from the doctor’s arm, but on second thought, he closed it, and looked at the man sitting before him.
“Dave, is your name? Dave, I realize that you believe that your species rapidly evolved on your planet into the hominoid form that you are sporting now, but did you ever consider the possibility that maybe your species was somehow abandoned on the planet that you call Earth? I mean, you have to admit, you don’t quite fit.”
Crossing the examination area to look at Dave from a different angle, the doctor continued. “You described to us the principles of evolution and adaptation, and how animals on Earth might gradually improve their physiology and their chance for survival through the influence of their environment, as I recall.”
Dave nodded with a tired face, but the nod began to quit as the doctor went on; “But look at yourself Dave. Your form should have adapted to survive the planet, according to those same principles that you described, and yet here you sit, in a hairless body-- just like us-- and wouldn’t survive a single night on the very surface your own planet without your thick blankets and warm boots.”
Dave looked down at his boots. With a hiss, Captain Hearns let out a puff of heat, crossing his arms against his chest quickly. “Where are you really from, ‘Dave’?”
The doctor let out a laugh; “No Captain-- he believes what he’s saying about his origins, it’s just that I’ve suddenly presented him with conflicting elements within those beliefs, so take it easy on old Dave here!”
Plopping down playfully on the examination table next to Dave, the doctor smiled broadly. “Dave, listen.”
Dave listened.
“We know you’re an Earthling, we’ve known all along-- Captain Hearns and I, we were just messing with you. Here’s what’s gonna happen Dave. We’re gonna take you home, back to your blankets, and you’re going to forget you ever saw us.”
With a defiant smirk, Dave raised his head up.
The doctor gave out a good laugh and leaned towards the Captain. “He didn’t like that last part did he Cap?”
With a shrug as an answer from the captain, the doctor suddenly stood up and frowned. “No Dave, yeah. We are-- this is a science vessel, archeology and ancient civilizations is our gig. We’ve been trying to figure out Earthlings for a while now, where they came from, how they got here, and just who in the hell they think they are, and all that.”
Blinking into the overhead light briefly, Dave cleared his throat; “Where are you guys from?”
“Ha! I dunno... can I tell him, Captain, where we have traveled from on this fine evening?”
Captain Hearns, brushing a new screen onto the wall, seemed to have lost interest in Dave. “Doesn’t matter, he won’t remember anyway.”
Dave scowled, running a hand across his head.
As he blinked, the doctor inhaled and held his breath, to add suspense to his words when they finally emerged. Dave and Captain Hearns looked at him, waiting.
“We live right down there.”
Pointing to the floor of the ship, the doctor waited for Dave’s comprehension, but Dave’s face suggested no such thing. Captain Hearns glanced over at the doctor’s pointing hand, and with a nod, looked at Dave with a small shrug.
“Dave, we live inside of your planet. We were here first. One day we come out to check on the surface, and here you all are, like squirrels, digging around on the roof.”
With a snicker, captain Hearns shook his head, moving a smaller screen back into the wall.
Finally laughing along, Dave stood up. “Don’t worry about wiping my memory, captain... I’ll have no trouble forgetting you two, and even if I remembered, I don’t believe your twisted stories.”
A doorway appeared in wall next to the captain, and with a gesture, he showed Dave the way. Wasting no time, Dave stomped towards the door. The doctor’s voice followed him out.
“Who said anything about a memory wipe, Dave? And besides, those aren’t my twisted stories, they’re your twisted stories now! See you later!”
Brilliant. I swear just this morning I thought, what if there are people down there! And here this is! Unbelievable. I guess this really is my twisted story after all. Ha.
There's room for plenty of twisted stories from in there, it's huge, they say! I have a lot of fun imagining the possibilities of it.
wow it is a fiction of a fiction..anyway it is great.learnt lot of new terminology all thanks to you :)
It is a fiction within a fiction, one of my favorite things to write seriously about!
Great fiction.How do you find facts for this? Are you a lover of astronomy and the evolutionary history?
-cheers-
The premise that I use for stories like this one is the fact that our human bodies don't seem to be well adapted to Earth. Then, I added the fiction of a hollow earth to write the story, but I'm not really an expert on either one, I like to speculate in the form of fiction. Thanks for commenting!
Now that was strange haha very cool fiction :D
No, my stuff is never strange! :D
Hi friend I had already read your one fictional story like that, which you had written with conspiracy theories. Thanks, friend for the great thought, that sun burn us,... We think that like that way. You are fantastic thinker .Good luck for your mission of opening up of new thoughts. Have a great day my dear friend.
I do have fun with the idea that the Earth is hollow, so I return to that theme occasionally. Combined with the idea that our bodies don't fit the planet so well, and it can make some interesting stories!
you twisted it very well :)
Thanks! The unusual twists are fun!
Fiction??!! What part of it was fiction?
No, really. We do not fit at all on this planet.
The number of differences between us and our nearest genus, apes, is astounding.
So, indeed, where did we come from?
Yes!!! Everything you just said. I think Captain Hearns was spot on :)
@therealpaul please make this one into a sequel?
There was something ominous to that 'see you later' the doc called out, eh!
I'm working with the idea that we came from inside, got kicked out for some reason, or we were sent out here to mine as punishments for something we did in there. The sun burns us, the temps are brutal, even with boots, and yet every other life form out here seems to get along fine.
So cool noce voew/////////^
Nice story you wrote about fiction. I like this. Thanks for sharing such a exclusive post
love to read it...