No LAN Connection

Cobb was racing against time to get there. All he could think of was of Mal maligning his world. He knew of a few people whom he could gather help from. He gathered them all together. They picked up a huge warehouse for the place in which everything would happen. With due care, they placed the equipment in the center, and sat around it. After sedating themselves, they set on their journey towards Inception. That task that eluded practicality.

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Cobb woke up. The world around him was in black and white. There were no colours. It was like as though they were in a movie. Who had set this theme? He wouldn’t know, he had specifically asked not to be made aware of the dream set up. Mal would have to figure out the world for herself now. He looked about.

“Lenny!!”. Cobb looked about.

A bespectacled man was walking towards him.

“Lenny, I’ve been seearching all over! Where have you been!”

“You are mistaken. I’m Cobb!”

“Yeah yeah, you’re Cobb, and I’m Teddy. Your name doesn’t matter now. What matters is the next five minutes.”

“Five minutes?”

“Look, give me the totem that you have in your hand.”

Cobb looks at his hand, and sure as hell, he is holding a totem. He has absolutely no idea how he got it.

“I gave that to you, now give it to me Lenny, er.. Cobb!”

Cobb hands it over. He looks about, everything turns to colour. Something doesn’t seem to be right.

*Beep beep.. beep beep..*

He fishes out the camera and turns off the alarm. He looks back up, “Oh hello! I’m Lenny. You must be..”

“Hi Lenny! I’m Teddy. And I’m just walking away..”

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Lenny looks up. He’s holding on to his camera. The world seems distraught. Everything seems on the verge of collapse. A sudden movement behind him. He turns around. There’s darkness. Out of the darkness emerges Bruce Wayne.

“This is my world. It’s probably something you’ve never seen elsewhere”, he says.

Lenny walks along.

“I prefer my world dark. Keeps the League of Shadows away. I mean, what shadows in darkness!” He smiles meaningfully.

Lenny gets nothing of what is told. He sees the Joker walking towards him. The daring psychopath has a fruit cutting knife in his hands. He is now walking faster, holding the knife menacingly.

Bruce says, “He’s just a projection. Ignore him. Do not look into his eye. Remember, he’s just a dog chasing cars. Wait, are you a car?”

Lenny shakes his head hurriedly. He’s freaking out. The Joker is now so close, he picks up his knife, shoves it right up Lenny’s mouth!

Lenny is now screaming. His scream is just a whimper. Any louder, his tongue could get cut off!

The Joker disappears suddenly. The tension around Lenny’s throat eases. Batman comes out of nowhere, and pulls a chair in a small waiting room. Lenny is sitting, sweat pouring profusely down his neck. He swallows hard, and asks, “What is this? The good cop, bad cop routine?” He has absolutely no reason why he asks that!

The Batman pulls Lenny ‘s camera away, tosses a coin and says, “I’m your worst nightmare!”

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The Plot thickens

Lenny opens his eyes and looks at the coin in his palm. He looks himself in the mirror. He’s dressed in medieval clothing. He’s no more Teddy. He’s Cobb. Time feels slow, well of course, three levels of dreams down, time does feel slow. Is he an artist? He walks about, and reaches a stage. A raucous applause follows. Robert Angier is amongst the crowd, smiling at him. He recognises the scene. Wasn’t he supposed to perform the magic trick? Oh yes! This was a rather tricky level. He’d carry out the inception here. This was where it all happened.

But.. but.. he doesn’t know on whom he has to carry out the inception. The original with whom he had started off had disappeared, and he had lost his memory to a bout of short term memory loss, and almost had his tongue cut off to a two faced Batman!

Suspended in thought, he didn’t realize, he was suspended mid air. The kick was happening. The audience had started believing that the magic had begun.

Cobb finds Robert is missing in the crowd. He is ready now to disappear, and fall into the water case, while The Prestige takes mainstage.

He falls into the case, only to find Robert standing beside.

“Surprised, Cobb?”

Cobb is creeped out! He’s stuck in water!

“You never thought you’d get out of here alive did you? This, Cobb is your inception! That, dreams are reality, and you’re never escaping it!”

Cobb looks about him for a way to get out.

“Fret not! You’re never getting out of here. This, here, this case, it’s your Inter!”

Cobb stops searching, he looks at Robert, slowly.

“That caught your attention didn’t it? This is your inter. You realized now, a stellar cast had to bring you down to your coffin? Inter-Stellar?” Robert smiled ominously, as Cobb passed out, trampled by space.

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“Goddamn it! Wake up, you ass!”

“What…” He woke up, the light blinding his vision. “Where am I?”

“Where are you? You bloody were working on your code and you slept away! Also, there is no internet connection now.”

“Why!”

“No LAN connection, dude..”

“Wait, did you say, Nolan Connection?”

“Ha! It took you so long to figure out, didn’t it?”

“Damn.. Why are you so huge? And what are you.. Holy Mother of…”

The stranger pulls out his slipper and *splat*.

“There, now, the doodlebug is gone!”

P.S : Of course, this blog is a fruit of a conversation with @Donbratman, on his birthday, and dedicated to him.

Nolan, inspires in his movies, aiming to achieve the perfect storyline, and what if a line could be drawn through them? What if they all linked together somewhere?