Killer Comet, Part 2

They don't have anything like this back in Farmington Falls.
We are in a state-of-the-art war room. There is a giant map of the United States in digital blue on black--it covers the entire wall. It's bordered by graphs on the right: line graphs, sine graphs, bar charts, and lists of weapons on the left with status as either "armed," "engaged," "go," in red or "unarmed" in gray. Examples of weapons could be missile, war head, laser, scorpion, submarine, satellite, tanks, machine guns mounted on tanks, lasers mounted on tanks, iron maiden, rocks, boulders, foot soldiers, archers, mounted police...

There is a round glass table in the center of the room with monitors underneath. There are old men around the table dressed in uniforms with medals and stripes up the arms and chest--they look up when Dan comes into the room with General Tompkins. General Tompkins is an English Sheepdog. Dan is wearing jeans and a red flannel shirt. General Tompkins growls when he sees Arch Commander Fiero. The Arch Commander clears his throat and says,

"Goddammit this is the best we can do? This is a threat to national security and to humankind and we bring in this--who is this person anyway?"
"Fiero, show a little respect. This here is the only man who has faced the killer and lived to tell about it. He can give us some real intelligence," General Blaine, who is a person, glares at Cho and Greenberg sitting at a console in the background, and continues, "Sheriff Dan, of the Farmingville Falls PD. Men, shut your squeak holes and listen up. Mr. Dan, just what the hell are we up against here?"

"Sit, General!"
"What's that, sir?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, I was talking to General Tompkins."
"Bark!"
"Understood. Please have a seat, both of you. We're all ears here."

Dan tries to pull out a chair before he realizes that they're built into the table. "Well folks, er, Sirs, I'm telling you. I admit that I ain't haven't seen that much back in Farmingville Falls. I know that's true. But I'd bet about a hundred million bucks that neither me nor nobody else has ever seen anything like this sonofabitch. The state of those kids after it was through with their bodies..." General Tompkins nuzzles Dan's hand, "Thanks, General, you're a sweetheart."
"Excuse me, Sheriff?"
"Oh, I meant General Tompkins, General."
"Bark?"
"I believe he meant General Blaine, General Tompkins."
"Bark bark!"

"Goddammit, enough of this Goddamn crappin' around! We're facing inhuman behavior on a cosmic scale. This is a cold-blooded killer with no remorse that could cause sea levels to rise three feet in 24 hours. When the waters recede, we're facing nucular-fallout conditions and it will be years before any life can exist above ground except Goddamn crappin' cockroaches! We need to get inside this monster's head, find the ancient Stone Order scrolls, and get moving! It's only a matter of time before it strikes again--"
"Or breaches the atmosphere."
"Plus, the Farmington Falls senior prom is tomorrow night. And every one of those kids is a target."
"Bark."