Lucad

## Exposition…

Before the earth exploded, Lucas (Lucad) lived in a small apartment in New York. Lucas was no different from you and I, just a normal person living alone with some interests like art, dinosaurs, and video games. He’s awfully quiet at times and is someone who goes with the flow of things. He’s not that self conscious of what he looks like or what he wears, so he wears sweatpants with a dark blue coat.

He’s lived in New York for about all his life but recently he has lived a life on his own. Exploring around his neighborhood once he first moved into his apartment, he finds an old abandoned bridge that appeared to be deep in the woods. Under the bridge there was this hatch that was a bit hard to open up, but when it did, dust just absolutely spread everywhere. Showing how long this has been here. Being curious, Lucas enters this hatch that has ladders fading to black due to the darkness. The whole interior of this place looked odd, metal was covered by dust and dirt, while cobwebs covered each bar of the ladder. The only thing that was a light source was Lucas’s phone torch only giving him a limited length of light. Lucas would soon realize that this would be a long gone beached submarine dating several years ago. After finding the cockpit of the submarine, all the buttons and handles were just covered in vacant spider webs and dust. He was very surprised that this wasn’t found yet, but due to the whole submarine being covered by layers of earth, the only thing poking out was the hatch of the submarine. Seeing how late it was, Lucas decided to keep this place in mind and return home to explore more of it on a later date. Due to having work and school to worry about.

Lucas has plans for his future, to be either an illustrator, working for himself and for his creative freedom to draw whatever, or a Zoologist, exploring everything about different species of animals, and getting close to them due to his love for creatures of many kinds. Especially parrots! Another reason why Lucas returned home was because he has a pet parrot named Archie! Archie is a Green Indian ring neck that stays with Lucas majority of his day. Lucas would have his cage right next to his own bed. To Lucas, Archie was everything to him. They would spend hours upon hours of spending time together since working at home and doing school at home was available.

life seems great, until…

## Incident

A few days later, on a peaceful day, the tv was on and it was showing the a news report. The news anchor stated that the earth was going to explode and everyone had 2 minutes before the earth splits apart from its core. Absolutely dazed and confused from what Lucas just heard, he didn’t even believe that this would be on television. After looking though his window seeing absolute chaos in the streets, people fleeing and cars crashing into other cars, this wasn’t a joke. The news stated that everyone should take cover and pray for the best, Lucas had only one thought that would soon continue the survival of himself and Archie. Lucas grabbed as many things as he could in a matter of 30 seconds, grabbed Archie, and made a mad dash for the woods where the abandoned bridge would be there. Lucas popped open the lid, slid down the hatch and shut it as tight as he could. He couldn’t think straight and was about to lose it all, holding Archie close to him. As soon as the whole earth shook, and the absolute force of the earth splitting apart, Lucas closed his eyes. Feeling his body quickly rush to a side of the submarine and bash his head on the metal wall, everything faded to black…

dazed from the blow after waking up, his head aches. Realizing what happened, Lucas calls out for Archie. Luckily for him, Archie was fine, the sound of his wings flapping through the long hallways of the submarine gave Lucas a sigh of relief. The ground is still rumbling while the earth shakes and splits apart. There was only a limited amount of food and water for the both of them. All Lucas can think about is what is going on outside this surprisingly durable submarine. He thought his life was set, he was happy with what he had before. But now, the only thing Lucas can care about, is Archie...

   After a week of no sunlight, Lucas had no hope of survival after spending days of laying inside of a submarine. Food was running low and so was water. For Archie, he wouldn’t have to worry about food due to the millets and seeds Lucas packed the most, not thinking about himself first. All Lucas really packed for himself was two packs of goldfish, a family sized bag of Doritos, an already brown banana, and a packaged loaf of bread. Already, he went through half of all of this and the bottled water he also packed. In another week, all of this would be gone, and he would starve to death. He eventually lays down and accepts his fate. Archie is resting on his arm while he lays down and tries to sleep. As he closes his eyes, he reflects on his life, and what a good run he’s had in life……

all of the sudden, the submarine starts to shake again. Lucas thinking to himself that this is just another earthquake, so he braced himself for it to get worse. To his surprise, this was a small earthquake, but, he felt the large sub sway back and fourth, noticing the water inside the water bottles shifting left to right. The submarine was moving…… but what was making it move?……

## The Rescue

Suddenly he heard the squeak of a rusty hatch opening and a light shined through the top of the sub. A voice called out "is anyone in there?". Lucas could barely call out but he responded "Yes". Suddenly An enormously muscular arm swollen with muscles and veins reaches down and motions to come closer. "grab a hold and I'll pull you up!" said the voice, "don't worry I used to fight fires and save people, I'm not some scary monster!". Lucas reluctantly grab his things and Archie, then got a hold of the large arm. He was pulled up and found himself in a massive space station with white interiors that had been docked to the sub in a crude fashion. Around him was a the massive muscly dude who pulled him out, his arms were so large that his legs where hanging down as he used the arms to stand. There was sweaty guy of Asian decent with large man boobs and a Nasa suit. There was a short hairy monkey looking thing with long slender arms and legs wearing a dirty cloth robe holding a stick covered in mud. He had a modest looking face surrounded by a mane of crazy hair. There was also a tiny feathered raptor on the beefy guys shoulder. "The names Dom", exclaimed the muscle man. "And this little guy's Alex, space mans Prae and the hairy one is Ali...He rescued us somehow and Prae was on this station. We are The PaleoNerds, or rather the remnants of the group...". Ali spoke up in a heavy Australian accent "We are actually looking for the rest of em! I can sense they survived and we are currently tracking them down now that I have godly powers bestowed upon me in an alternate reality." he continued, "You must be a PaleoNerd as well then as I sniffed you out!". Lucas couldent believe what he was seeing and hearing, he must have run out of oxygen and was hallucinating. What was even going on?! "I used to be human, we all did." explained Dom. "radiation." Prae stated. "You all where exposed to a lot of it in the blast.". Ali spoke up "I was yeeted through space and time and met beings that helped me get back here and save you with my modified body, I'm not like this from radiation!". "yeah whatever you Monkey" Prae huffed and crossed his arms. "Guess this guy is a PaleoNerd now then, one of us." Dom said. " What's your name?" Dom continued. "Lucas or my friends would call me Lucad because of typos..." Lucas exclaimed. "Nice to have you a part of the crew!" the odd bunch replied. Lucas was in for a long ride.

## To The Stars

The odd bunch continued to grow as the found more of these lost "PaleoNerds" throughout the galaxy. Some from Earth and others on other planets. Blue, an alien Troodon, Scout, the living remains of a human thumb, Dath, a cybernetically enhanced raptor, an Allosauroid, Big Al from the planet Allurus, and Brennan, a human who seems to lead all of the groups actions moving forward. Eventually Lucas got used to the bazar situation he found himself in and accepted the PaleoNerds as his new family. Lucas's role changed as the group gained more and more power in the universe, creating massive armies, gaining alleys, taking over planets and sections of space, fighting wars and going on missions. Lucas went from mopping space station hall ways to creating propaganda and posters to giving orders to squadrons of Ali Clones during small planetary wars and joining his pals on impossible missions to all sorts of new planets! Lucas felt free and had a new sense of purpose, he never even stopped to realize how much time was really passing by. This new lifestyle had become so normal and routine. Flying space ships and forming plans as a part of high counselled PaleoNerds that all started out as planetless castaways like him. Now he helped rule all planets. Was this for good? Of course! He had seen the horror that lie within a Galaxy without rule and peace. When they all started out they found humans where an endangered species being traded and sold as slaves or worse. Crime groups and bandit's ran wild and massive legions of warriors led villainous tyrants ruled large sections of space. The PaleoNerds had to grow and adapt fast, and they sure did. Lucas had really been through it all.

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