The Weekend Freewrite - 7/6/2019 - Part 3 - The Dramatic Twist

The #weekendfreewrite from @mariannewest

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It was a bright sunny morning. The air was filled with the aroma of freshly brewed coffee. Ex-captain Kirk took a sip from a large mug with the picture of his vessel Enterprise. He fell back in the rocking chair and made a loud "aaaaaaaaaah” – the sign of pleasure.

He didn’t feel any kidney pain for his new kidneys worked perfectly! A week ago he had his annual visit to a doctor, who told him that some of his organs needed a replacement if he wanted to live another ten years.

“How much will it cost, doc?”

“Don’t worry. It’s covered by your medical.”

“Oh… Then, give it a warp speed!” Kirk loved including some cosmic terminology in his everyday speech…
This time, along with kidneys, they replace another of his important organs and now he could fully enjoy the company of his ninety-years-young girlfriend, Karen. Kirk couldn’t do anything with himself. He always preferred women who were much younger. His lips stretched in self-congratulatory smug. She was still sleeping from the exercise he has given her last night.

Suddenly (always that suddenly) but really this time it was suddenly indeed, Kirk heard some commotion in the yard.
“On the screen!” Kirk commended to the house computer. Kirk didn’t feel alarmed for nothing.

In the yard, it was iguanoid. He was small in stature, but the old “space wolf” Kirk wasn’t fooled. He encountered igumanoids before. They had a strange intellect that even the best Federation experts often misinterpret their actions taking them as mere sarcastic jokes, when they left their excrements in the exhaust pipes of Federation vessels. However, Kirk knew that that was the expression of their contempt to the Federation technology.

He immediately clicked on his chest transmitter.

“Kirk to security”

“Security officer Milbert, here, captain”

“There is an iguanoid in my back yard. I repeat, there is an iguanoid in my back yard.”

“How many?”

“So far I see only one, but as you know, where there is even one iguanoid you can expect some mischief.”

“Acknowledged, captain. Help is on its way.”

Kirk took another full gulp of coffee this time. His face was serious and full of contemplation. He spotted the invasion of Earth by iguanoids in its very bud. Still, who knows how many other hostile invasions he was yet to discover.