Asleep on an airplane im a floating miracle or so it seems. I can't hardly get onto an airplane with all of my anxiety as it is. So the sheer fact that i am able to let it all go and float through the sky at 30,000 feet for hours and hours in a deep slumber is nothing short of a miracle.
Something jolted me awake somewhere over Europe, i was a bit woozy and not fully aware when i noticed him standing over me. He was an older man wearing physician's scrubs and a mask, and he peered out at me through his protective eye glasses.
My initial thoughts were a combination of what the hell and how many drinks did i have at the airport lounge? Probably too many...but still. I noticed the cabin of the airplane was mostly dark save for the light over my seat and the roar of the engines was still audible. I felt very numb and mostly lethargic, i tried to move around but for the most part i could not. I tried to speak to the Doctor but couldn't find the words.
The man with the physicians mask was doing something to my abdomen but i was unable to see or feel anything. Some odd pressure here and there was all. I could see the blood splattering on his glasses had not affected the determination in his eyes. More pressure felt, this time on my chest cavity, i was able to look away and see a child's toy doll laying in the floor in the middle aisle of the cabin. It was covered in blood. Also in the aisle a flight attendant was packing my small intestines into dry ice, after stretching them out so see how far they would measure. They appeared to go up towards the cockpit from where i sat at the end of the first class section.
I still felt mostly nothing, other than some muted regret, as the physician sat down in the chair next to mine and began to examine my heart, still beating, on the tray table of the chair in front of his. I looked longingly at my heart on the table, it flopped around like a fish out of water, such a prize and yet a bit on the messy side. The physician carefully took his finest surgical ware out of an expensive case and began to cut my heart into small pieces. As he did so, the flight attendant refilled his wine glass and brought him a side of horseradish sauce and a moist towel.
He dined on my heart slowly, careful to savor the juices, textures, and aroma. When he was finished he carefully got up and excused himself to go to another part of the plane.
I thought this might be a good time to pinch myself and see if maybe this was all just a bad dream. Unfortunately at this point the flight attendants came and whisked me away and out of my chair into a small wheelchair type device. This is when i looked back at the seat i had been sitting in and noticed all of the blood, along with my very own brain sitting on the tray table in the window seat on my other side.
Before i knew it, they had rolled me towards the exit of the plane, unlocked and opened the door, and threw me off of the plane. I did not have the sensation that i was falling, instead i felt as though maybe i was floating. The plane disappeared in the distance and i remained fixed in place. All of the stars were below me and light clouds had formed a wall above me. I tried to reach the clouds but could only watch them move amongst themselves, ever so slowly.
As the plane disappeared from view i began to feel something hitting me, several somethings in fact were hitting me. I would turn around and through the pitch black sky i could at first not see anything. It felt like a flock of bats swarming around me. Eventually the moon would illuminate them to reveal they were much bigger than anticipated. The creatures were human sized beasts with dark wings and rodent looking faces, they were all around me and carrying me and communicating with each other in a very high pitched frequency almost undetectable to the human ear. Before i knew it they had carried me off to the massive wall of clouds, which they might have called their home, and left me to rest on one elevation in particular.
I watched these dark creatures as they swarmed around the black sky. They seemed to operate through different currents and pockets of atmosphere which let them go undetected to man. I don't know how long this went on. Eventually off in the distance a light appeared, and then it was two or three lights. As they got closer, it was clear the lights belonged to another aircraft. It was approaching us at a good rate of speed.
The strange creatures came up to me and pushed and pulled on me until i was positioned as they wanted me. Then they all held me into place and the chatter amongst themselves seemed to cease, as if they were bracing for impact. The plane kept getting closer when i realized it was going to hit us, we would take a direct hit.
I actually saw the look in one of the pilots horrified faces just before impact. And a split second later i was sucked up into one of the planes mighty engines, which shredded me into a thousand pieces or more. I could hear the cries for help inside the cabin as a desperate crew called out to a tower somewhere in the depths below. The other engine on the opposite wing failed as well when one of the dark creatures was sucked into it.
Without any power to propel itself, the giant plane immediately began to descend to the ground below, where it would make landfall with a giant fireball. Part of me went with it, part of me stayed up in the air, floating around the atmosphere, part of me was on the previous airplane, and part of me was basically everywhere.
As bits and pieces of me began to form back together i would slowly take shape of the dark and mysterious winged creatures that ruled the night skies. I could hear so many noises and feel electricity in my skin, all of the voices of everyone in the world was in my ear. I couldn't make it stop if i wanted to, and i really had no interest in doing so.
Over the burning fires i would remove any chances of rain. Into the volcano i would light the fuse. I would spin every funnel cloud and break a hole into the heavens above it just to give it proper suction.
All in the name of science, as the physician had told me, back on that airplane just as i had drifted off to sleep. All in the name of science.