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Broken Bride, *The Missing Link* |
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Broken Bride is the story of a man known as the Traveler, whose wife died in a car crash in the year 1989. Devastated, he spends the next fifteen years of his life building a time machine that will allow him to return to the morning in May when she died, hopefully to save her from her fate. At long last, the machine is complete, and the Traveler successfully goes back in time. Unfortunately, the time machine's circuits fail, and the Traveler is sent hurtling far past 1989 - all the way back to when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Attacked by pterodactyls, he seeks refuge in a cave, and despairs that all his effort has been in vain. (Part I: Broken Bride)
Meanwhile, in the far future, the world is in chaos. The dead have risen from their graves to attack the living, and people watch in horror as their city is beset by zombies. A little boy pleads with the city's mayor (the False Prophet) to defend their town. Instead, the mayor panics, and with a salute to the king Simius, puts a gun to his mouth and commits suicide. Soldiers fall before the undead, only to rise as zombies themselves and march on the city in service of an evil creature called the Dragon. Even as the end looks near, the boy goes to the window of city hall and cries out to the people to take up arms and defend themselves against the zombies and the Dragon. (Save Our City) Note: the traveler is not in this entire song
Back in prehistoric times, the Traveler has been hiding in the cave for some time. Unable to think of anything but his beloved and the times they shared, he resolves to make a run for the time machine that very night. (Part II: Tonight's The Night)
After narrowly escaping a pack of pterodactyls, the Traveler reclaims his machine. This time, however, he shoots too far forward and finds himself at Armageddon. King Simius (possibly the Antichrist) survives his throat being slit, and now leads the Dragon's forces from Babylon. Eventually, the Dragon himself comes to destroy the world. Faced with the decision of saving the world or saving his wife, the Traveler chooses the former. He uses the time machine to open a portal, through which comes a swarm of pterodactyls ("I've got dragons of my own." wink He destroys the Dragon, but in the process, the machine is destroyed. Having stranded himself in the future, the Traveler is approached by angels, who wonder why he is still heartbroken despite having saved the souls of the world. In return for his selfless act, they bring him back to that morning in May when his wife was still alive. (Part III: The Lamb And The Dragon)
The Traveler enters his home in the year of 1989 (again), and finds his wife alive in their bed. Moved beyond words, he can scarcely believe it. His happiness is short-lived, however, when he realizes she is just about to leave on the very car trip that will kill her. Catching her just in time, he makes a fateful decision, he goes with her and they both die. (Part IV: Morning In May)
 gottcha_sucker · Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 09:47pm · 0 Comments |
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