Motion detectors are picking up something
breaching the hull!
The DOORS melt. BRAINIAC enters: humanoid in appearance, green-
skinned, black-eyed, red-lipped. Metallic, and bald. A series of
metal relays criss-cross his forehead -- three solid circles,
intersected by straight lines.
The aliens reach for LASER-GATLINGS and FIRE, but they cause no
damage. Brainiac instead grabs the weapons, jamming them into his
body -- consuming the lasers into his form, energizing. He drops
the guns, and his hands morph into tendrils, which plunge into the
chests of the terrified Aliens. He absorbs their life forces,
making them husks -- at which point they explode, covering the
cabin in goo. Brainiac inhales deeply, charged.
EXT. SPACE
The tentacles of the Skull Ship unravel from the wrecked craft.
The Skull Ship powers up and thrusts into the void.
INT. SKULL SHIP BRIDGE
Brainiac watches space part before him on the View Screen. L-Ron
joins him, holding a containment unit.
BRAINIAC
The cosmic irony, L-Ron -- I who have
destroyed a world am now forced to
subsist like a parasite. Once, infinite
power was my manifest. Now look at the
pride of Colu -- feeble attempts to
maintain even this meager anthropomorphic
form!
L-RON
At least you have what passes for legs.
Brainiac gives L-Ron a withering look.
BRAINIAC
What did your search of the craft yield?
L-Ron holds up the containment jar, inside which scurries a multi-
legged fist-sized creature.
BRAINIAC
(glances at it)
Thanagarian Snare Beast. Infancy stage.
Illegal in sixteen systems due to the
