The Demons of Butte Crack County: A Dave vs the Monsters Anthology by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gigantic Weapons Corporation
Published: 2017-01-04T07:00:00+00:00

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Monster Trucks

Joe Thompson

So you want to know what happened on – what they calling it now? – Emergence Day? You've probably heard a thousand stories but I bet you haven't heard one like mine. I got the whole thing on video – from the air!

It all started when I was messing about with a new toy. A huge quad-copter that I can control remotely. I'm a bit of a gadget freak and this was my new baby. It could go as high as 10 000 feet, had auto-hover, auto-recover and auto-homing. That meant if I lost control of it, it would return to where it last took off. It had GPS, a high-resolution camera with zoom capability and ultra long-life batteries that meant it could stay up for almost an hour. If it could cook I would have married the thing.

That day, I was going to try something new. It was Muscle Motor week at the Grand Prix track on Phillip Island where I had my weekend place. Muscle Motor week was where they had souped-up cars, those monster trucks with the big wheels and even outsized motor bikes. They were running these things around the Grand Prix track at a million miles an hour and having a whale of a time. What I was going to do that day was to try and stream the take from the drone's camera onto my laptop and, from there, stream it to my live YouTube channel via my phones LTE. I was shooting at dusk, with a special low light rig. I was really looking forward to the seeing the results.

I'd got this working a few days before – I won't bore you with the technical details – and now I wanted to do it with the muscle motors. So I parked up on farm track about 2 miles from the race track and fired the beast up. It rose to around 3000 feet and I put it into auto-hover and then started to steer the camera so it was pointed at the track. I got that working and then zoomed in and started streaming my take. It was awesome.

The first ten minutes was me just videoing the monster trucks going through their paces. Then I watched the pits for a while. A bunch of mechanics messing around with tools and air compressors and then I zoomed in on the bikers who were prepping their custom hogs. They were a wild looking bunch. About 30 hairy-arsed blokes with big arms and even bigger guts. I wouldn't have liked to mess with them.

Then something happened. There was a cracking noise that I could hear from where I was controlling the drone from and then the earth started shaking. A fucking earthquake I thought. I've been through a few small quakes before but this was.......different. I'd taken my eyes off the drone feed by now and was holding onto the side of my car to keep my balance. I was facing towards the racetrack

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