[caught on tape during the helicopter fly-by afternoon traffic report for channel 8]
[Good afternoon, heroes.]
[Before I begin, a question: Have any of you ever seen the fourth Star Trek movie?]
[You know the one; it's the environmentalist flick with the whales. If you'll all recall--or if you don't recall, happen to find clips of it on YouTube or somewhere like that--there's a scene in which people are on a tour of the public aquarium, talking about whale-song, when Spock appears, swimming around in the water of the humpback tank. A little old lady pipes up, and says, confused, "...Maybe he's singing to that man?"]
[It's kind of funny how life parallels art, sometimes.]
[Oh, sure, Spock just wanted to listen to George's mind. And there aren't any humpback whales in this specific aquarium--too large. But there's still plenty of room needed for enormous displays of sharks, fish, octopi, kelp, the occasional dolphin, some beluga... d'you understand, yet?]
[Anyone nearest the City's access to the ocean--you might have heard a dull explosion of sorts at the time, if you were close enough.]
[Well. That would be the thick walls of the three biggest outdoor tanks exploding outwards in a flash of red light.]
[The roaring of water, crashing of traffic, and screaming of humans that came next, if you were close enough?]
[Yeah. That's from about three and a half million gallons of water bursting out of the tanks afterwards in a miniature tidal wave, pouring baked piscine life and boiled kelp all over the City streets and houses along with it. The reporter himself babbled senselessly at the sight.]
[Have fun with that. I know he is--it's sure nice to be tough enough to handle flyin' through the water as it gushes forward.]
[Just like home, really. Sure, the last time he destroyed an aquarium it was by just walking through it, but really, right now--who's even counting?]
[Before I begin, a question: Have any of you ever seen the fourth Star Trek movie?]
[You know the one; it's the environmentalist flick with the whales. If you'll all recall--or if you don't recall, happen to find clips of it on YouTube or somewhere like that--there's a scene in which people are on a tour of the public aquarium, talking about whale-song, when Spock appears, swimming around in the water of the humpback tank. A little old lady pipes up, and says, confused, "...Maybe he's singing to that man?"]
[It's kind of funny how life parallels art, sometimes.]
[Oh, sure, Spock just wanted to listen to George's mind. And there aren't any humpback whales in this specific aquarium--too large. But there's still plenty of room needed for enormous displays of sharks, fish, octopi, kelp, the occasional dolphin, some beluga... d'you understand, yet?]
[Anyone nearest the City's access to the ocean--you might have heard a dull explosion of sorts at the time, if you were close enough.]
[Well. That would be the thick walls of the three biggest outdoor tanks exploding outwards in a flash of red light.]
[The roaring of water, crashing of traffic, and screaming of humans that came next, if you were close enough?]
[Yeah. That's from about three and a half million gallons of water bursting out of the tanks afterwards in a miniature tidal wave, pouring baked piscine life and boiled kelp all over the City streets and houses along with it. The reporter himself babbled senselessly at the sight.]
[Have fun with that. I know he is--it's sure nice to be tough enough to handle flyin' through the water as it gushes forward.]
[Just like home, really. Sure, the last time he destroyed an aquarium it was by just walking through it, but really, right now--who's even counting?]