User blog:Bzero/The Evil That Lies Within

A news report starts with a helicopter establishing shot of Big Sur. A voiceover begins, “Deep within the Big Sur natural forest, scientists today are transporting what many believe to be the skeleton of a long-extinct dinosaur miraculously preserved in an amber monolith.”

The camera cuts to a pretty brunette in a blue coat. She continues, “With me is Dr. Herman Armstrong.” The man she is interviewing interrupts her by interjecting, “Herc.”

“Excuse me, ‘Herc’ Armstrong, leader of the Earth Corps, a government-funded research team dedicated to investigating mysterious events under the Earth’s surface. Would you comment on rumors that the monolith was emitting a strange sound and glowing when it was discovered by a pair of campers, and that the trees seemed to be *ahem* speaking?”

“I’m sure there’s a rational explanation for it,” the man replies, before suddenly a loud cracking sound is heard on camera.

“What’s that?” the woman screams, looking up. “Oh, no!”

“Look out! Get back!” the man yells, as a tree falls into camera range from overhead. For a moment, the two are obscured, but then the man emerges from the fallen tree branches, and pulls the woman out with him.

The woman thanks him, and then looks at the camera and says, “This is Barbara Walker, signing off from Big Sur, where mysterious events are definitely taking place!” The news segment ends, and moves onto a fluff piece about holiday shopping.