Science Fiction Double Feature

I went to the bank the other day; There were so many large windows that it was almost like a two story tall greenhouse. The area behind the counter didn't have any windows; It was drab and post-office looking, with florescent lights, old bulletin boards, and doors leading off into the small back rooms. (Sort of like the baggage check-in area at the airport.) This area was recessed back, that is the ceiling only overhangs the first floor, to the front edge of the teller's counters. The wall above the counter, on the second floor, was full of windows too. Opposite the tellers, behind the stairs up to the mezzanine, was a small food court with a coffee shop (I don't remember the chain, there were small tables in the middle, and some couches (with the backs towards the bank tellers, so that it faced the narrow middle area), and some newspapers laying around and stuff. (Espresso machine, trashcans, napkin dispensers, etc.)). There was a low wall with some fake plants on it to separate it from the bank lobby. Upstairs, on the second floor, were the loan officer's desks and stuff. You could look down at the lobby area, where people stand in line in for tellers.

The bank was closing, so everyone had to leave because the building was going to be undergoing maintenance. It was snowing outside, and was just starting to get dark. I saw, through the window, two or three small fiber optic Christmas trees in the patch of woods outside. I thought that they looked cool, so I wanted to take a picture. But I got distracted talking to someone, and by the time I got around to it, the windows had fogged up.

There was a backdoor in the corner of the building, where the coffee shop was, that went to the wooden porch outside. (It went alongside the building for about maybe four meters, about 1.5m wide.) So I went out there to try to take the picture. This porch overlooked a small creek, down at the bottom of a small gully[?] [What exactly are those 10-15ft deep canyons called? There's some geographical term for it I'm sure. Gulch? Flume?] There was one or two rows of trees on the other side, and then a large sports field for a school in the distance. (The school buildings were those small, generic, 1960's-70's 1-story buildings, spread out so that you have to walk outside to go to a different room.) The back edge of the parking lot for the bank was to the left, this porch was on the right corner of the bank.

Down, on the side of the gully, there was some creature moving. It was hard to tell what it was at first, and it was sparking or glowing. At first I thought that it looked like a flattened squirrel, but only it's left forepaw was flattened. The paw was huge, like how cartoon characters get when run over by steam rollers, and it was on fire. The other person there, a Jedi master, said that it had been hit by lightning. (He was the one that I was distracted by earlier in the coffee shop/bank. I was supposed to be training to be a Jedi or something.)

I wanted to get a picture of the squirrel, but it was running away. I climbed over the railing onto the ground, which was mud, and I started sliding away like I was standing on a slow conveyor belt. (Sliding to the left, alongside the bank.) I got one good picture after fumbling with my camera, then one more shot, and I lost track of it cause it went under the building, kinda. The porch was blocking my view. (I was standing on the left side, and the squirrel was moving right.) I wrapped my arm around the railing, and was hanging way out over, trying to get a view of the squirrel again. I was thinking that this was like hanging out of a helicopter, and that if I was, then I could tell the pilot to move so that I could follow the shot.

Everyone had to leave the bank earlier, because it was closing for engine maintenance. The building started taking off from the ground, while I was hanging onto it. There was a group of about a dozen small blue robots that floated over from the parking lot. They were about 3-5 ft tall, cylindrical, the main part was widest, then two narrower parts under that, and ontop it narrowed down quickly, like a Devo hat (three short lengths of cylinder). Oh and they had telescoping tube arms, I think. There was a face pained on the top, 'head', cylinder part, under the 'Devo hat', that was narrower than the 'chest' cylinder, and was as tall as it was wide (in diameter), so the face was mostly proportional to a square. There might have been 'sideburns' (or hat-flaps) with the face recessed an inch or two. The face was smooth and flat, as you would expect the side of a metal cylinder to be, but there was a pair of eyes, and a maniacal smile painted on the surface. Like a smiley face, with large pointy teeth!

They were grinning evilly at me, because they wern't really robots, they were aliens, who did spaceship maintenance for people(humans). (Independent contractors or something.) And they liked to eat humans, so that's why everyone needs to leave when they're around. (They consider it a bonus or something.) They were inviting me to dinner, or something. There was a floating table in the middle of the group, with a white table cloth on it, and a silver tray, with a dome cover over it (very stereotypical looking stuff, etc.) and the ones in front row floated aside giving me a clear view of the table. One of them lifted up the tray cover, and the Jedi master's head was on the plate. (The Jedi opened his eyes and said something later, but I can't remember what.)

I was still hanging off the side of the porch, so I just jumped down onto the ground, about a foot or two below me. And then I was safe. They can't get you if you're standing on the ground.

( These aren't the droids you're looking for )

Later on there was an advertisement, where a spaceship was flying to the blue-robot planet, which was completely surrounded by these little blue robots. (Not arranged in any pattern, and with everyone oriented "Up".) There was some sort of communication with the ship, and the robots flew apart, making a perfectly square hole, with the bots along the perimeter evenly spaced, so that the spaceship could enter the planet's atmosphere.

( Bonus Footage )