A Feature Presentation

A Feature Presentation 2: Permanent Vacation

Indigo had never expected that something like this happened. He had finished packing up and was now waiting on the creature to return.
Though he was concerned at what this all meant, he hoped it would return. It'd be great to get out once in a while. Live a little.

The creature soon returned through his front door. Indigo was sure he'd locked it, but with all this happening the lock on his door was the least of his problems.

It approached him. "Right. You ready?"
He weakly nodded.
The creature scoffed. "..Kids."
The two left through his front door, Indigo's last glance at his house being nothing more than a meek goodbye. He'd grown up with this house, lived in this house, didn't really like the house.. No time to get emotional.

The two stepped into what looked like a cab car, but extremely blue.. Nothing really extraordinary, but usually cabs were yellow. Indigo just stared at it for a second before the creature snapped. "Hey, you gonna take notes on this or are you just gonna get in the car?"

Indigo snapped out of it and opened the passenger door. 

"No, no no. You sit in the back." 

He wasn't sure why, but he managed to sit in that awkward middle seat between luggage of his and what appeared to be the creatures.. Was he going somewhere? Was he a cab driver? The hell was going on?!

The mysterious creature got into the front seat and begun to drive out of town. By now, Indigo was more than worried and decided to start a conversation.

"Wait, so what's happening?" He asked.

"We're driving."

"Yeah, but what's happening?"

"You're moving."

"Where?"

"Elsewhere."

Indigo sighed. "I just never expected something like this to happen.. It's just weird! Well, not really, it's just that it's happening on a Wednesday! Isn't that crazy? You get abducted and you don't know why on a Wednesday? I mean any other day it'd be normal but-"

The creature turned around to face him. "Are you gonna stop being a smartass and let me drive?" 
He got a closer look at the creature from here: It looked like the whole thing was yellow, except for its eyes which were an indescribable color. It also had large, pointy ears. What even was this?

Indigo backed up in his seat a little, nervous. "S- Sorry."

The creature turned back into its seat and kept driving. "You got a name?"
He nodded. "I- Indigo."
"Well, my name's Gibson- And don't forget it."

There was a pause.

"..Unless you do forget it and that's fine too."

Indigo was loaded with questions to ask, but didn't know how to dish them out.
"How was I accidentally put here?"

"Oh, happens all the time. Usually it's when someone's filling out the form for who's who, and what they'll be and do, they mess up and file somebody wrong. Simple."

Indigo didn't get it. Was this all a joke? Or was the world really structured like this?
"..What do you mean?"

Gibson sighed. "I really don't know. All I know is that everything's different and you see a hell of a lot when you're a cab driver that goes EVERYWHERE. Ok- Picture it like this: There's channels on TV. Then there's companies that own the channels- That sell them in bundles. Groups of channels that are together. Some channels are bad, or boring, or just pretty empty. But some? Some are special, big, feature presentations! The channel we're on right now?"

Indigo looked up. "Good?"

Gibson shook his head. "Static. At least, that's what it's gonna be."

"What do you mean?"

"You see, these companies hate each other. Some of them have channels that others envy and wish they could have. These companies are intergalactic governments and-"

Indigo sighed. "Boring...."

"Wha- Shut up! What I was about to say is that soon this world will probably be eradicated for being bad and if it wasn't for me and my 'company' you'd probably be dead. Maybe you'll learn to listen to the boring stuff then, asshole!"

Indigo just sat there in shock and fear and amazement and a whole amalgam of emotions.

Gibson drove onwards. "It's gonna be a long ride, might want to make yourself comfortable.."

--To be continued--