The Ant and The Fly

Luke is a worker ant that has a job of getting food outside the ant nest everyday. Every ant has to come back with at least a bite of food for the colony and for them. Luke is single and he wants and need a companion for his soul. It seems that no ant in the colony would ever recognize him at all. He is very quite and unpopular with the other fellow workers. The only friend he has is Boris, tall, handsome, hard working and worker of the month. He is everything Luke would want. He is popular among the girls. But every time Luke wants to get to know them, it seems that the girls’ only interest is Boris. Luke would get his company only during lunch time or between breaks. The topic that they would talk about is only about Boris and girls.


Some day Luke is out side looking for food. He climbs up this tall looking pole that looks like a wood-looking kind. He could smells the great aroma of different kind of food in the atmosphere and stream would come around him as if a cloud has passes by his face. He sprints as fast as he could to the smell source then he sees a massive object in front of him. It looks circular and the edge of the object slants outward from the bottom to top, as if it is a cliff that has a shine and very smooth surface. He climbs up the object and he sees a very huge pool of this thick and slimy liquid with various objects inside of it. After he stares at it for a while, he takes a sip of that liquid and it taste wonderful and very refreshing. But then he hears this buzzing sound from his back and something lands beside him. It was a fly, a lady fly with very delicate pair of wings and wonderful red shiny collections of eyes but she has a leg missing. Emma, the fly, stuck out her tongue and straight away slurping the soup away. She realizes that she has company besides her. They look at each other for a while and smiles. A big bang suddenly appears, as if it is a gigantic earthquake. It is the humans putting down the plates on the table. Emma falls into the pool of thick liquid and she is stuck, she couldn’t get out. Luke reaches for her and took her out of the liquid before she drowns to death. He quickly grabs her and drags her out of that tall place to the ground. He takes her to the nearest water fountain he knows and washes her off that thick and delicious liquid. They get to know each other well after. They play around in Luke’s favorite places and Emma takes him airborne. They do fun stuff together. It is as if they are interested and meant to be together.


Day by day passes, Luke goes out like his usual day to find food and see Emma. This time when he gets out of his nest he smells something. It is something terrible and suffocating him a little. He sees a little bit of shower above him. There is one drop of that liquid drops in his eye and it burns him until it hurts. The alarm for the emergency goes off. Every ant goes back to the nest; they run madly as if hell breaks loose, so does Luke. While he runs he keeps on thinking what would happen to Emma. Every ant stays inside the nest for the day. The next day Luke goes out for work again and he heard someone shouting, “BIG BUFFET!!!” Every ant runs wildly to that ant. What seems to be a big feast is a big pile of dead flies. Luke goes to the site and he is terrified, petrified and horrified. His first thought that crosses his mind looking at the site is Emma. He searches the pile for her. Someone shouted again that there is a fly without a leg. He rushes to that ant and push him out of the fly. It is she, Emma, the beautiful fly with a missing leg. His tears drop one by one. His only first and true love is beside him and died. The leader of the day says to bring the whole pile into the nest and leave nothing behind. Luke is torn. He has to serve his duty as an ant but his love is his colony’s food. He has no choice but carry his love to the nest.

The End


This was my very first synopsis I ever wrote for a script. I was inspired my Antz and A Bug's Life at that time. So the story is fairly similar to the animation features. Well I was Cleaning up my hard drives and I stumble upon this. It was a synopsis for a college assignment that is later turn to be a script. Well my script is at my old hard drive that would spin anymore so it's mostly gone I think. Unless there's someone out there that can recover it. So yea, that's it. I like the idea also on how compatible two different kinds could fit like a glove. How differences between the two and imperfections are actually meant to counter one and another and make them perfect. (Well if I ever recover that script it's more elaborate than this). Well that's the idea at that time for I can remember. Oh yea one thing I remember is that when I handed this up to the lecturer, she said that I was the only one in the whole group of 40 plus or something that is actually writing something different and her first time seeing an animation script in her class when others try to do the same topic year in and year out. I felt quite cool :-)