So...there was a zombie contagion outbreak on Earth, and a group of us got together and, from a fortress we had built (it looked like the Sanctuary of SyFy fame), built a ginormous spaceship to carry us away until we'd found a cure or a new place to settle. So, I was one of the guards, flamethrower in hand, defeating zombie hordes coming to attack us. I was asked to go with on the spaceship by Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping is awesome!). I readily accepted the invite, helping keep the zombies at bay with flamethrowers while we boarded the ship. I was the head security officer on board.
I feel the need to pause and mention names of people (or their characters) who were aboard: Helen Magnus, Will, Biggie, Henry, a boatload of abnormals, Clinton Kelly, Stacy London, Kirsten Vangsness, Pauley Perrette, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Claudia, Artie, Myka, Pete, Trailer, the Leverage team, Jayne and Mal, Spencer Reid (why he was there in character and Garcia was not, I know not), various food network stars (making cameos: Guy Fiera, Giada, and Bobby Flay), and various people from my real life, including some of my besties...as well as a teenager (that my mind made up) who's name was Sofie, but she called herself Sophiestia.
It was obvious from the beginning that Magnus was in charge (el capitan!). I took the security team (which consisted of Henry, Biggie, Clinton Kelly, Pauley Perrette, LeVar Burton, Claudia, Pete, Myka, and the Leverage team) all over the ship, killing any zombies that had snuck aboard and dumping their bodies out the loading bay doors. (The ship was very steampunk, btw! Think the Firefly Serenity, only bigger like the U.S.S. Enterprise!)
Anyhoo, after we'd done that, we started to get settled in, making sure family units were comfortable in their quarters, checking everything out, double checking our supplies, etc. (this was the only boring part of the dream). I headed for my quarters, which were off the security HQ. I was settling in for bed when a teenage girl (about 14-16) stuck her head down from a compartment and said, "I want your money!"
I shook my head, pulled her down from the compartment, and said, "Who are you?"
She said, "I am called Sophiestia!" And she tried to run out the door and up some stairs to the main hallway.
I caught her and asked, "Where did you come from? And you're not very smart for telling me your name."
She laughed and shook her head. "I came from Earth."
I grinned. "Where's your family?"
She looked at me sadly. "They were infected. I'm apparently immune."
I nodded and hugged her. "What are you duties aboard the ship?"
"I work in the galley. I'm on microwave and blender detail," she said.
She ran toward the galley. I followed her. Magnus was in the study area in the galley working on a plan. Clinton Kelly, Biggie, and Pete were playing pool in the rec area off the galley (still somewhat in the galley, but not in-in...I know that made no sense...but it's not coming out the way it is in my head!). Dr. Magnus looked up and scolded the teen, who frowned. I asked her to show me what her duties were. She showed me what she was supposed to do.
"That's not very much, is it?" I asked her.
She shook her head. "I don't think the cooks trust me too much."
At which point Bobby Flay entered, grabbed a water from the replicating refrigerator, shook his head at Sofie, and headed back out. I chuckled. Sophiestia shook her head at me.
"Fine," I said. "We'll just have to put you to work elsewhere."
She smiled at me. "I think you're the only cool adult here."
Magnus looked up. "I resent that," she said with a grin.
Sofie laughed.
"Where's your bunk?" Magnus asked her.
"I have to share with two women who can be annoying sometimes," she answered.
"Who?" Magnus asked.
"Anna and Grace Zumberqwatch," Sofie answered. (Yes, my brain did actually make up some names and people.)
Magnus chuckled. "They're a little odd. I'll try to place you elsewhere."
"I have an extra room in security," I said. "She's welcome to it, as long as she stays out of trouble."
Magnus looked from me to Sofie.
Sofie jumped up and down. "Please? Please? Please? I'll behave!"
Magnus chuckled and nodded.
Biggie and Henry waved to me from the pool table.
I waved back. (This was the moment I realized I was an abnormal.)
Magnus asked me, "How are your abilities adjusting to space?"
I nodded. "Quite well, actually. I thought it would be harder to transition, but it really isn't."
She nodded and went back to her work.
Sofie followed me to the pool table where Clinton Kelly was getting ready to sink the eight ball in a corner pocket for the win.
"You're angled wrong," I said.
He repositioned, took the shot, and missed.
"You needed to be on the other side of the table," I said.
Sofie giggled then yawned. "Can I move tonight?"
I nodded and moved to follow her. Biggie stopped me and grunted at me in a whisper-y sort of way. I nodded and smiled at him. He went back to playing pool while I followed Sophiestia to her old quarters.
We met up with Kirsten Vangsness and Pauley Perrette on the way, chatted for a few minutes about security and comfort on the ship before Sofie started yawning again. I motioned her onward. She gathered her things from her old room and followed me to the security office. I motioned her to a room off the side and laid down some ground rules. She nodded, got situated, and fell asleep.
I headed for my room. Biggie was standing there. We went in to my room.
(I woke up, turned over, went back to sleep. I think you can gather what happened between abnormal me and the big guy.)
Anyhoo...so...Guy Fiera and Giada were making everyone breakfast the next morning. Biggie, Sofie, and I headed into the galley and joined a table with Clinton Kelly and Stacy London. Trailer was sitting under our table. Spencer Reid, Jayne, and Mal joined us. Mal was upset with the flight plan. I told him to take it up with Magnus, if he dared. He stopped complaining. Jayne just laughed at the way I shut him up. Reid was feeding his bacon to Trailer. I was feeding mine to the Big Guy. Stacy and Clinton were eyeing me from across the table. Sofie was quietly eating. I looked at her questioningly.
"I had nightmares about the zombie outbreak last night," she said. "I couldn't sleep well."
"Your parents?" I asked.
She nodded. I hugged her gently. She leaned into me.
"You make an odd little family," Stacy told me, nodding to Biggie and Sofie.
I grinned. "I like it, though."
Fast forward through some boring conversations and stuff...We found a planet, much like Earth, only the gravitational pull was a bit less. The security team went out to check everything, since the oxygen/nitrogen levels were perfect for breathing. We found a perfect patch of land to start colonizing. (Monotony ensued with unloading and building and planting and such.)
Fast forward to the colony being set up...It looked a lot like New York City (without the lights and the Starbucks and with more farms and ranches). The ground was ideal for planting, but we wanted to stay close. So we built houses on top of each other with lift systems to get us up and down as well as a stairwell for emergencies. Biggie, Sofie, and I had a house on the ground floor of one of the five housing buildings (yes, we lived together.). We started farming, raising cattle and sheep and pigs and the like, finding out about the wildlife (what was dangerous, what we could eat, what we could keep as pets), setting up patrols in case we encountered anything hostile, etc.
(Dream Fast forwarded...) We'd been there about a year (I could only gauge this, because I suddenly had "another" daughter) when a tribe of vampire people came out of nowhere and started trying to kill us all for our blood. The security team held them off while we loaded up everyone and everything that hadn't been infected by the vampires and took off to find another planet.
Artie and Brent Spiner were helping load the women and children. Biggie was pushing me inside with our baby and our teenage adoptee, grunting at me to keep the kids safe. I was arguing back that I was head of security. Artie looked at me and yelled, "You just had a baby! Get your butt inside that ship, now!"
I did as told, only because Artie rarely yelled.
Once in the air, the security team (sans me) looked throughout the ship for infected people or stowaway vampires. They were either killed or taken to a security hold. We dropped those in the hold back onto the planet before we left the atmosphere. Brent Spiner and Biggie (among others) found Magnus, myself, and my little family on the main bridge talking. Biggie took our daughter and was cuddling her. Magnus just eyed him with a grin. Brent Spiner shook his head sadly.
"What is it?" She asked him (because, apparently, he was an abnormal who could sense things).
"There is no decent place nearby for us to go," he said. "And we're almost out of natural fuel."
I nodded. "We'll have to adapt our travelling to compensate."
"But how?" Magnus asked. "Can we fix the engines mid-flight?"
I shrugged. "I'm no engineer. That'd be Alec Hardison you need to talk to."
Magnus nodded and called him to the bridge. He arrived and saluted awkwardly. Magnus relayed the information and the question to him.
He replied, "I might be able to compensate with something else." He thought for a minute then went off into some technological mumbo-jumbo that made no sense to anyone in the bridge (except maybe Henry, who followed him out as he mumbled).
"We'll have to wait and see," I said.
Another few months went by (the dream fast forwarded, in other words), and we hadn't found a new home. We had decided to turn around and go back to Earth. But, we were running out of fuel and supplies. We were forced to land on vampire planet and get more supplies and make more fuel (the composition of which dealt with corn meal and sunflowers???). We kept everything aboard the ship and escaped without so much as a sighting. The security teams still checked every inch of the ship with a fine-toothed comb just in case. Everything was fine. We got back to earth to find that most of the zombies had died of starvation by this time. We set up a colony on the most untouched part of land we could find (somewhere in Scotland).
We built walls to keep anyone with the zombie plague out, purged the land we were living on of the plague with a vaccine-like spray thingy, and began setting up a colony much like the one we had on vampire planet. Only difference was there was enough room to have separate houses stacked only two or three high. We started our colony and lived in relative peace. People started leaving the colony, though (not any of the aforementioned celebs, but did include the Zumberqwatches), and moving out into the world to see what was left. This started a whole new outbreak of zombies. The zombies wound their way to the giant, thick metal walls surrounding our colony.
This is when I woke up. But, I have a feeling (with this awesome cast) we were able to defeat the zombie horde and reclaim the Earth for humankind. Hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed dreaming it!
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