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Chapter 4/5 of my Dream Story. (Chpt. prologue-3 already posted)
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Dream Story, Mecha, science fiction on April 19, 2008 by ssthoughts4
Alex took back control of Procolus. He went into the light and he was blinded for a small time until the light faded and he found himself lying on the ground, surrounded by his three friends. “Yo, Alex. You okay bud?” Xavier said helping Alex to his feet. Alex just stood there confused. Just a little while ago he saw all his friends die but here they were, huddling over him. Alex nodded that he was okay.
Was it all just a dream? Alex thought. But to him it couldn’t be. All he had to do was call Procolus and he would come. But he couldn’t do it here, not now. “So anyways Alex, we are going to kidnap the Zarnian princess. You in?” John asked Alex. Alex couldn’t say no so once again he nodded in agreement. “Great it’s settled. Let’s go.”
It took them an hour to get to the castle from their current spot. Even though military and medicines have advanced, castles were still used to protect the royals of an empire. It gave the soldiers much needed strategic positions to stop any enemy that tried to get in. But Alex and the two of his friends – Xavier was once again having second thoughts – were determined to accomplish their goal.
The four stood against the main wall in order to avoid being seen and captured. “All right guys let’s do this and get the hell out,” Rory said pulling out his gun and a silencer from his pocket and then attached them together. Alex, John and Xavier followed in his example.
The boys carefully took their plan into action. Armed only with pistols, they had to be very careful not to get into a firefight. They moved along the walls and kept in the dark, hitting the ground whenever a spotlight came near. After what seemed like an hour, they got to the second large gate with two guards standing by.
“Alex,” John whispered. Alex looked at him sending him the signal ‘what?’ “Take this and kill both the guards. Alex took the gun and pointed both towards the guards. He steadied his aim and without missing a beat, took the shot, killing both guards instantly. “Where do you think he shot them?” John asked Rory.
“Temple,” Alex replied, throwing John back his gun. The four friends continued on, stopping by the dead guards to take their guns. Their goal was to enter through a side pathway that would lead them straight to the princess’ room. Now getting to the side was difficult. Since the castle itself is surrounded by a moat, it would be very difficult to get in and out fast so time was of the essence.
They made their way to the side to find two sleeping guards. Rory and John, the two who had the assault rifles from the dead guards, knocked out the two soldiers by hitting them in the back of the neck. John picked up the guns and handed one to Alex and the other to Xavier. Xavier was hesitant to take it but he did so without complaining. Now it was time for them to get into the castle and to their prize.
Their entrance was blocked by a stone that had been there since the last siege that was held against the castle a hundred years ago. Rory had found this out when he was in school and they took a field trip there. It took all of them to move the giant rock out of the way.
“So we are all going in right? I mean this is a four person job am I correct?” Rory asked John.
“Yeah, but who would keep guard?” John said to Rory in reply. Rory took deep thought into what John had said. “You and Xavier keep guard, me and Alex will go in and nab the princess and get the hell out. Quick and simple.” Xavier and Rory nodded in agreement. John led the way through the small hole in the wall. Alex was a little surprised that John could actually fit inside. It looked as if he was going to get stuck and they would have to call the whole thing off and try to pull him out.
John made it through with Alex following him. When they were through they came to be in a deserted part of the castle. Exactly how they wanted it. John pulled out a map of the layout of the castle. Alex had wondered where he had gotten the map or if he just always carried one around. According to the map, they needed to go up one set of staircases and they would be on the same story as the princess’ room.
They began their small journey to their prize. They turned through the hallways, attempting to find the unused staircase. When they found what they were looking for, it turned out that this part of the castle had indeed not been deserted. The two guards were heavily armed with machine guns. “Wow, two heavily armed guards down here?” John whispered. He was confused along with Alex.
Alex just shrugged in reply. Alex took off the silencer on his pistol and attached it to his stolen gun. Alex aimed and right when he was about to take the shot, both men moved to another corridor. The bullet only sank into the cement. Now the soldiers were alert and ran off, probably for backup.
“Oh shit, let’s move fast!” John yelled, running up the stairs with Alex right behind him. They ran through the corridors of the second floor until the reached the room where the princess slept. Overhead, an alarm began to sound, alerting John and Alex that they were in danger. “Crap, we’re screwed.” The princess’ room was guarded by two more guards, who were playing cards at the time. Alex shot off a couple rounds and killed both of them. Blood spilled over the cards. Alex was the first to move, knocking in the door. When he entered the room he saw all of the room’s brilliance. Fit for a princess all right. The princess appeared from the bed and stood in her buttoned up nightgown, confused. Alex was stunned that even thought she was obviously having a bad hair day, he was stunned at her overall beauty.
The girl was probably the same age as Alex; with long blonde hair and blue eyes. Alex was to stunned to move from his spot so John pushed him out of the way and headed to the princess. “What’s going on?” She demanded as John grabbed her hand and let her outside the room into the corridor. She stepped in the blood that was spilled causing her to make a slight shout in disgust.
Alex snapped out of it and followed John. All he could do was watch his friend and a girl who he had just kidnapped. They went through the corridors until they reached the large staircase that they had taken before. No guards, Alex thought. Something was wrong. The alarm was still active as they ran down the staircase. The princess was struggling to get away but John’s grip was to strong for her to break. When they reached the bottom of the steps, around twenty soldiers surrounded them, guns drawn and pointed at them. One soldier stepped forward. He was obviously the captain of all the men standing before Alex.
“Freeze and let her go,” he said, taking another step forward holding his hand out for the girl. She tried once more to move from John but he wouldn’t have it.
“You better come put with a damn good idea or we’re dead Alex,” John whispered. Alex was always looked upon as the one to come up with the best get away plan but at this point he only could think of one other way. And he couldn’t let John follow him or it would cause huge problems for himself and his friend Procolus.
Alex took a step back and yelled. “Procolus!” Everyone looked around for something to happen. Nothing. John looked ashamed and took a step forward, almost turning himself in. That was the thing with John; he knew when he was beaten. “Take a step back John,” Alex said. He confused John, but he obeyed, making the princess step back too. Suddenly the earth began to shake. Now everyone but Alex was panicking. Next thing that happened blew everyone away. Procolus, the great mecha, came crashing into the castle. The rubble killed all of the soldiers, and knocked the captain out.
“Uh, Alex, what is that?” John demanded, a little shaky. Procolus put his hand out and Alex jumped on. He issued for the princess and John picked her up and put her on the giant hand. Then he proceeded to attempt getting on, but Alex motioned him off.
“I can only carry the two of us. I’ll meet you back in Baker’s square all right?” Alex said to John. He nodded and went through the path that they had used to get in. The giant hand moved all the way up to the chest plate, where it opened up and Alex jumped in with the royal girl. “All right Procolus, let’s get out of here.”
“All right, hold on to something, it’s going to get a little bumpy!” The two grabbed onto something, Alex using one hand to hold her in one spot. Alex assumed she was either really confused or completely pissed off. But she really didn’t say a word during the lifting. Procolus shot up into the air and towards their destination.
So,” Alex began, in hopes to cheer her up. “What’s your name?” No response from her. Now Alex was almost certain that she was mad. But in her spot he didn’t blamer her. “You do have a name, don’t you?”
“Don’t even try to be nice,” she said in a snobby voice “My dad warned me about people like you!” She crossed her arms.
“Oh really, then why did I kidnap you then?” Alex said, his patience being pushed over its limit.
“It’s obvious. All you’re going to do is have your way with me and then hold me for ransom. Might as well get this over with,” She began to undo her nightgown, looking away from Alex in the process. She had known her fate, or so she thought so she already gave in. As she moved down to reveal herself, tears dropped from her face onto the ground.
She began to open up her nightgown slowly but Alex grabbed the shirt right below her breast. She stared at him, her eyes teary still. “What are you doing?” Alex asked completely confused.
“A-aren’t you going to have your way with me?” She asked, balling at this point.
“No, no. I wouldn’t harm you like that. I mean don’t get me wrong, your absolutely beautiful but I’m not like my other friends,” Alex reassured her. After his words, he began to rebutton her nightgown. She was now balling more than ever. But she got her wish not to be raped. Alex couldn’t figure out why she was still crying. Alex now began to comfort her by giving her a hug, which she gave in return a few moments after. After a half-hour of crying, she finally came to a stop.
“So I guess your going to make a ransom out of me aren’t you?
“No, I’m not. Would you like to go home? That’s the most I can offer you,” Alex asked, sounding as sincere as possible.
“I would like that very much. Oh and my name is Alice by the way.” She said drying her face off with her nightgown that was now fully buttoned.”
“That’s a beautiful name. My name is Alex,” he said. He gave her a smile which he got once more in return.
“Oh and don’t worry, I’ll tell them that you rescued me so you won’t get into any trouble.” She got up and looked around. “I’m going to look around if that’s okay with you.” Alex nodded and she smiled. Alice took off, not missing a single ounce of space. It wasn’t until she stepped near the platform that he panicked a little. The girl was now eyeballing the red and black suit.
“Just don’t touch the suit,” Alex said as Alice put her hand near it. She turned to him and back to the suit. She then bypassed it and continued her search for something unusual. As if the mecha wasn’t unusual as it is.
“Ha ha, Procolus was laughing. “Someone’s in love. Not hard to see.” Procolus laughed again.
“Shhh, she’ll hear you Procolus.” Alex said hoping Alice had not heard what Procolus was saying.
“Oh about that. I forgot to tell you that I can only be heard by you; and you talk through your thoughts to me even though you might think your talking aloud.” Alex sighed in relief but he was curious as to why that was true. To him he couldn’t believe that he was in love. He didn’t ever believe in the bullshit love at first sight. But he knew he liked her. After all, what teenager could resist a beautiful princess? Obviously Alex could not.
“Hey Procolus, head back to castle, we’re not going to Baker’s square, we are going to take her back. And is it possible to speed it up?”
“Yeah. But you really trust her word?” Procolus asked Alex.
“Yeah I do. I think you two will be the only ones I trust. And let’s leave it at that.” Procolus agreed, turned around and headed back to the Zarnian castle.
5
Alex and Alice sat in front of the screen, awaiting their arrival to the castle. It took them about fifteen minutes to get back due to the increased speed. The castle finally came into view and Procolus slowed down. “Sorry for kidnapping you in the first place,” Alex said. Alice just looked at him. Another tear fell from her eyes. “What’s wrong?
“Your nice. No one really has time to be nice to me; they’re always too busy. But you’re not busy right?” She sounded desperate now.
“I’ve got nothing better to do.” Alex said, smiling and getting the same reply. She jumped towards him and hugged him. Alex hugged her back after a moment pause.
“Stay with me please.” Alex could feel his shirt getting wet from her man fallen tears. At this point Alex couldn’t say no.
“Alright then, I’ll stay,” Alex replied, now hugging Alice harder but not hard enough to hurt her. They finally reached the castle, which had more military than any other place in the country. There was everything from guard dogs to tanks. But what they didn’t have was a single mecha unit and this confused Alex. “Procolus why aren’t there any mechas anywhere I’ve been?” Procolus didn’t answer. Maybe he’s the only one, Alex thought, knowing Procolus could hear what he was thinking. Still no answer. Alex thought it was a topic for another time.
The troops noticed they flying object and began to panic, firing uncontrollably at them. Alex as well began to panic as he heard the bullets bounce off the mecha. But something reassured him that regular bullets couldn’t damage the mecha. Alex calmed down except for the fact he was hearing voices again. Luckily they weren’t commanding him to do anything horrible to himself or anyone else.
Procolus landed in the middle courtyard. The soldiers instantly surrounded them an readied to fire. “Here, talk to them through this,” Procolus said, lowering a mike down to Alex. Alex began to speak.
“Please do not fire, we come in peace.” Alex looked at the screen. They didn’t lower their guns. He thought of a new approach almost instantly. “Throw your weapons down; the princess Alice is onboard.” The soldiers looked at each other trying to figure out if it was faked or not. One soldier came forth and threw down his gun and the re-formed with the line. Another soldier did the same and then another, until all the weapons were on the ground. “Alright Alice let’s go.”
The mecha’s hand moved towards the center chest plate where Alex and Alice were. It opened up and revealed the two to the world. News helicopters and vans, along with all the military units. Alice held Alex’s hand as they stepped out onto the hand and was lowered down. Right when they hit the ground, four soldiers came up and seized Alice and Alex. They were separated and Alex was put in cuffs.
Alice tried to get back to Alex but the soldiers pulled her away. “Alex!” She yelled, trying to get to him. She kicked and screamed and Alex, for once, grew a tear. Alice managed to get away by kicking one man in his family jewels and ripping away from the other one. She ran straight to Alex and whispered in his ear. “Don’t worry, I’ll set this all straight.” Alex was confident she would. The soldiers regained control of Alice as she kept looking back for Alex.
Alex was torn to one side. Procolus stood up and closed off his entrances and shut down so that they couldn’t tear him apart. The captain that was knocked out came up to Alex, giving him a dirty look as he read a piece of paper. “You are herby under arrest,” He read. “By kidnapping the princess of Zarnia, you are convicted of high treason and are sentenced to death. Do you understand?” Alex nodded and was taken into the castle dungeons where he would be kept for a week until his death sentence. Alice on the other hand was reunited with her parents, where she explained Alex’s situation to them.
Here’s the first three chapters(and prologue) of Dream Story *Name still in process*
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Dream Story, Mecha, story, work in progress on April 15, 2008 by ssthoughtsPROLOGUE
I looked around at all the destruction I had caused with my mecha. Usually I would be filled with joy at this but for some reason today I did not. It wasn’t the same anymore. It would have been if princess Haley were still with me. But sadly she is not and my life is as meaningless as someone’s life can get. Its been what now, a whole ten years? Back when I was fifteen and I had everything going for me. My friends were there and I didn’t cause so much destruction. In fact I was the goodie goodie of the group.
I don’t know how it started but I fell in love with a princess. Sounds like a regular old fantasy story right? Wrong. It was actually quite the opposite. There is no true love for me right now. I’m depressed and I’m on the edge of a suicide mission. If only there was something in my story that would make it so that I can remember what great I’ve done and come to my senses before killing myself.
Before I tell you my story know that I wasn’t always destructive, or angry, or depressed in any way. You know, actually, I had everything going for me. And the reason for that would have to be my good friend John. Yeah, he was always there for me. Well not in the sense of helping me, but he was there to teach me to suck it up and keep driving. So I grew up well.
However, I would have to say there still is a girl in my life Her name is Diana. Now Diana belongs to John and they have been together for these ten years. Ha, funny thing about Diana is that even though she’s going out with John she comes to me with all her problems. Well that is, until I managed to gain control of the only mecha in the world.
Nothing could stop me now. I am in my prime at the age of twenty-five and I am known as the Global Terror of Death. Or GTOD for short. Basically I’m on a destructive path and I can no longer control it. My destination is the capital of the United Nations. New York is my target and all it’s inhabitants. But to tell you the truth I never understood why I killed more than was needed to die. Oh well, guess it’s in my blood to be a natural born killer. Just like my father before me, I am a killer.
Now you might be wondering how my mother decided to go out with a killer and have his child, right? Well listen carefully. You know what on second thought, I’ll tell you the story later.
Anyways back to my destruction. You might have heard of the city of San Francisco, right? Well let’s just say half of it is in the ground and everyone able has fled the city only leaving a few survivors at the moment’s time.
Now my mecha is one-of-a-kind. It’s black with dark red armor plating. I had it customed to match my favorite colors. That was of course when my grandpa was still alive. Oh you wouldn’t believe how good he was at what he did. It was absolutely amazing.
He was a mechanic that could fix the most broken of things, and a could paint any thing you could ever ask for. And he could do it to anyone’s satisfaction. In fact he had the chance to tune the President’s hummer one time. Haha, he didn’t miss that opportunity. And it was great to see someone in my family being recognized. Maybe that’s why I do what I do. But now he’s dead and I’m the reason for his passing.
For you see, my first act of destruction was my own hometown. The birth of all my problems. But really, I was really only seventeen at the time and I was completely furious at the world and what it had supposedly done.
Now the reason why all this started was because the government killed the princess, those bastards…. I can’t wait until I get my hands on them. I will completely obliterate their existence. After I’m done with them no one will question my authority and I will become king of the world. Just as my princess would have been.
Okay so maybe I exaggerated a bit. They put her in a coma that the doctors say she will never recover. But I don’t believe that. She’ll pull through! I just know it!
The boy began to cry. Seconds later the giant man of metal came to a stop. Everyone within viewing distance stopped to see what was happening. Thos poor fools had no idea what was in store for them.
The mecha flew off only leaving a small sphere on the ground. Everyone close by came up to it to see what it was. A noise could be heard from the object. It sounding like something inside was moving about, or operating on some level.
A man, who was either really brave or a complete idiot, walked all the way up to the sphere and put his ear up to it. At first the man was puzzled. Then his eyes widened and the man began to scream.
Now everyone was either scared, curious, or angered that the man was doing this. A woman from the crowd of people pushed her way towards the front and slowly walked up to the deranged man. It was made obvious that the two people new each other.
“George, what’s wrong?” The woman said and then she faced the sphere, whilst the man was running about still screaming. He didn’t seem to let up. “George!” She yelled, causing the man to stop dead in his tracks. “What the hell is that thing?”
George looked at the sphere once more and then back at the woman. “It’s a-“ He got cut off by one of the other men in the crowd.
“Well tell us godammit!” The man was one of the angered people.
“Let him finish his sentence!” The woman that knew the man yelled back. “Now George what is it?”
“It’s a fricken bomb!” George yelled. The man began to run around once again without having a care of getting his ass out while he still had the chance.
The bomb detonated, destroying everything and killing everyone that was near the explosion. San Francisco was nothing but meaningless rubble now. The year was 2027 and the boy known only as project A had destroyed almost every major city in the North-Western States of the United States.
1
The boy paced himself back and forth in his darkly lit cell thinking about what was to happen tonight. The year is 2007 and the young boy (at the age of fifteen) was in a jail cell. Not one of those real hardcore jails, but the county jail.
He was being held due to him attempting a robbery. He had held up a gas station for some alcohol for his friends. One of the night shift officers walked up to the boy’s cell but at the time he was the only officer in the station.
“So boy,” the man began to say, the smell of whisky – that would be what the boy had tried to steal and they took it as evidence – was on his breath. “Thanks for the alcohol. We’re not aloud to drink this stuff on duty but tonight is an exception.” The fat and balding officer stumbled off into the darkness of the station laughing.
“Yeah that’s right. Drink up,” the boy said with a smirk on his face. He quickly moved to the window. “Hey guys you still there?” Three other males poked their heads up in sight of the boy. “What’s up Alex?” The biggest one said.
The biggest one turned out to be John, the head of Alex’s group. Accompanying John was his friends Rory and Xavier. Xavier was the smallest, probably standing at 5’9”. But he was thin and fast enough to outrun a veteran police officer.
Rory was thin too but he stood at six feet and was pure muscle. He had dark brown hair and was always wearing black or red. “So is he drunk yet?” Rory asked. Alex nodded and an evil grin passed through John’s and Rory’s faces. Xavier, however, did not smile. He was actually almost in tears. He didn’t ever like to do what John and Rory wanted and it made him feel like on of those damned goody-goodies.
“Guys can we just hurry up and do this with out causing trouble?” Poor Xavier asked.
“Oh quit getting over worked about something as little as this,” John said. Xavier just put his head down in response.
What was sad to Alex was that John and Rory were always mean to him. The poor fellow was smart but it was wasted on his friends. Alex had once over-heard Xavier’s parents saying that he had an IQ of 135 and yet he couldn’t manage to maintain C’s in school. Well that was, when he was in school. In fact, they were all high school dropouts.
In truth, none of Alex’s friends actually got over a C in any subject of school. Be he knew they were all smart because they always pulled off illegal acts all the time and got a way with it.
Makes you wonder why Alex had gotten caught, robbing a simple gas station. Well anyways, John shot the man and they ran off, but something told him to go back and call the caps to save the life of a man he didn’t even know. Alex had no idea what could possibly make him want to stay back. But a little voice had told him to stay.
But even thought he wasn’t the one that shot the man he was still help responsible for what happened. Now he awaited the judge and jury. But there would be no judge tonight in any case.
Alex’s friends went around the front of the very small building making haste. They entered through the two entrance doors, making the one officer in the building collapse over his chair in fright.
The officer quickly stumbled to his knees and then to his feet, falling over in the process. Alex couldn’t help but laugh a little along with his other three friends.
“All right you fat excuse for a cop, hand over the cell keys and we’ll be on our way,” John said, causing the cop to attempt getting off the ground again. This time he was successful. The fat man began to pull his gun from his belt but John didn’t wait. John, instead, pulled a gun from out from his pants – he had hidden it on his side – and pointed the gun at the officer.
The cop, knowing he had been beaten, spoke. “So,” he began. “Are you going to shoot me or what?” His words were slurred. He chuckled. He had believed his intimidation had worked.
“Precisely,” John replied, and pulled the trigger. And he did so without hesitation.
John walked over to the dead man to examine what he had just done. An evil smirk formed on his face. He saw where the bullet laid, deep in the man’s forehead, a clean deadly shot. John began for the keys when Xavier began to panic. He had been the watch for any cops coming.
“John!” He yelled, coming into the building.
“What is it Xavier? I’m a little busy here,” John replied, frustrated at Xavier’s disturbance.
“More cops are coming. Two cars to be exact!” That meant that there would be at least two cops present. However, there were four of them all coming back from a trip to the donut shop.
“Oh shit,” John said, pulling the keys from the dead body. John quickly opened up the jail ell and pulled a second gun from his pants, handing it to Alex.
Alex took the gun, no hesitating either, and ran dot the front of the building with his friends, only to find that the cops were just getting out of their cars. The cops, however were not ready for the four armed kids. John was the first to fire at the cops but the distance, allowed the bullet to only whiz across their heads. Now the cops were alert and ducked behind their two parked pursuit vehicles. All four of the police prepared to combat the kids if it came down to it.
“Put your guns down and come out peacefully.” One cop had said. John just laughed; Alex was quiet and Rory was buys trying to get Xavier from throwing his gun down and turning himself in. It actually hadn’t occurred to Alex as to why he carried a gun in the first place when he knew he would never use it. Maybe he would use it tonight? He thought.
“Put our guns down?” John said, a smirk still on his face. “Good luck with that!” John fired again this time shattering a window on one of the vehicles. The officers began to panic in turn because they were going to have to engage in crossfire in order to stop the conflict. The police began to fire back. The four kids moved back behind the door so that they wouldn’t be injured.
Alex stayed quiet through this whole scenario. John and Rory began to fire back at the cops, only damaging the two police speeders. Alex took one step into view and fired. The bullet flew through the air and lodged deep inside one of the cop’s head, killing him almost instantly. John was surprised at his shot, giving him a nod approvement.
The cops were not trying to escape with their almost dead partner. It was only the right thing to do so. “Take ‘em out boys.” John yelled. Three of the boys came our firing, with Xavier in the building balling his eyes out.
John and Rory’s shots missed but to the officers’ unfortunate luck, it only took Alex three shots to take out the remainder of the officers. No one ever knew why but Alex had the best shot in the world, or so his group thought. Now five police officers were left to bleed and die that night.
The four boys – one sobbing and one speechless – walked over to the four dead officers. John was in tears with laughter. It was the most evil thing Alex had ever heard in his life. Rory was once again trying to calm Xavier, but to no avail.
Poor Xavier, Alex thought. He always felt so bad for Xavier but didn’t know why. Maybe deep down he was compassionate? Alex didn’t know. He began to allow his mind to wonder. He covered everything from death to love within seconds.
He wasn’t sure why but his thoughts raced fast but he enjoyed it. John spoke and broke Alex’s concentration. “Alright guys, let’s head out. We don’t want more cops to show up.” At this point in time Rory had finally calmed Xavier down and they were ready to move on. John led the way back to the four friends’ home. Alex was the last to move. He felt a cold chill in the air. Something was coming for them, but he didn’t know what.
Alex started to walk with the group, keeping a lookout for what might be lurking in the shadows. Something was coming, that was for sure.
2
Xavier huddled around Rory and John and began to speak softly. “Have you noticed that every time we pass by a place where there is no light, he always looks around as if something is going to come out?” Alex seemed to be out of range from hearing so the three were safe talking about Alex.
“Yeah we noticed,” Rory said in reply. John nodded in agreement.
“Ha ha, maybe he’s afraid of the dark,” John said, laughing. The other two laughed in reply. Alex just walked, not talking as usual. During the whole night, he had said nothing much except for when they were in the station. He was to busy in his thoughts of what was in the shadows.
John, Rory and Xavier continued to talk, not knowing Alex could hear every word they said. He stopped right next to an alleyway, completely blackened due to the lack of street or stray lights from the houses that surrounded the alley. But the other three friends kept on walking, not knowing the danger that lied ahead.
Alex started to walk into the darkness, only in hopes that he could stop whatever it is that was coming. He finally caught up to his friends. But he was still keeping quiet – that was normal for him – and allowing his mid to race. But not so much that he didn’t realize what was going on. “Hey I got an idea!” Rory said happily
“What is it Rory? I’m all ears unless you come up with a dipshit answer,” John replied.
“Oh it’s good alright. How about we steal the Zarnian princess! I mean with Alex we could do about anything.” Alex wasn’t listening; he was to busy thinking.
“Hey that’s not half bad. Are we going after the other three princesses when we are done?” John asked, taking in what Rory said.
“Yeah. That’s right! And then we can have our way with them and then make them pay a very high ransom for their precious girls back!”
“Yeah that’s right. SO I like your idea but how do we pull it off?” John and Rory had begun to come up with a plan after a good half-hour. Alex began to worry. He was going to speak for one of the first times tonight but Xavier beat him to it.
“Hey have you guys noticed we’ve been in this alley for awhile now?” The group stopped and looked around. The moon, being the only light, disappeared behind the clouds. Now the alley was completely dark with shadows covering everywhere they could possible be.
“Something is really wrong here,” John said, taking a step back from his spot. Alex was now alert, knowing they had walked right into a trap. All the friends, except for Xavier, pulled out their guns.
The wind blew fast and the shadows began to form.
3
The shadows began to form into five figures. Slowly the figures began to rise and the four friends were surrounded. The figures began to take shape.
They took the form of demons. They were extremely big – maybe the size of a house. At this point, Alex realized they were no longer in the alley. Horns grew from their heads and rounded down to their lower backs.
Xavier, once again balling his eyes out, probably for the third time that night. But he had his gun drawn ready to defend his life. “Okay, we’re screwed,” John pointed out as he began to unload his clip on one of the shadow demons. Rory followed and then Alex, followed by Xavier. The bullets hit their intended targets but they caused no effect. One demon, closest to Xavier, swung its giant hand against Xavier, breaking every bone in his body and killing him on impact.
Alex could only imagine how crushed Xavier’s body must be. Rory yelled out and attempted to run after his friend’s fallen body, only to be stopped by another demon. Rory began to fire his handgun but it didn’t harm the demon. The demon raised its fist and swung it straight down, destroying Rory’s body.
Blood sprayed everywhere and the sound of bone crushing could be heard. Alex could only sit by and watch as his friends were being killed one by one. The third demon grabbed John, picked him up, and to Alex’s disgust, ate him. Alex wanted to vomit but something kept him from getting sick.
Now there was only Alex and five demons left. Alex wasted his last bullets on the nearest demon. No effect still. Alex knew his defeat and fell to his knees while the five demons surrounded him, covering him and soon Alex was in a black abyss. Alex was confused as to why they didn’t kill him. Or maybe they did. But he wasn’t sure. He stood up to find it wasn’t an infinite fall but ground. He looked around to find there was a light but it seemed to be very far away. Alex was determined to get to tit even though he had just lost his friends.
He ran and ran, barely getting closer. The light must have been years away. But Alex just kept running. Soon his legs were close to giving in. He couldn’t run anymore. Right when he was about to stop he fell. There seemed to be a hole in the ground. He hit hard on the ground below, knocking him unconscious. When he awoke he was still in the dark but there was a small light close by.
He got up and began to walk towards the light. His head hurt due to the fall. He made it to the light with haste. Alex was a little scared of going in, due to the fact that he could not see in. But he went anyways. It was better than being in the dark.
He closed his eyes and stepped in. Alex took a couple steps forward and then preceded to open his eyes. Something large stood in front of him. Alex looked up to see that it was a giant robotic man. Or a mecha if you would. It was, what seemed to be, dead and unresponsive. Alex wanted to yell to see if anyone would answer but he couldn’t open his mouth.
Now he was curious about what he was standing in front of. Alex looked around the white room. It seemed as long as the darkness except for the mecha. Alex decided to climb it for maybe it had an opening somewhere. But as he approached the foot of the mecha, the foot rose up and revealed an entrance into the robotic humanoid.
Alex walked in and the foot closed behind him. It looked like one of those mechas from the TV shows. He continued inwards towards the heel of the mecha. When he reached it, something began working and Alex turned to be on an elevator. It lurched upwards, almost causing him to fall. It didn’t take long before he got up to what seemed like the cockpit; it was like a room with a platform in the middle. The platform was connected to the bottom and the top of the room and was blue in color.
Alex walked onto the platform and looked around. Awkward, he thought. Alex was completely confused. How do you work this thing? He tried a series of words such as ‘activate’ and ‘turn on.’ After awhile he just sat down, tired on the platform. His head began to throb making Alex put his hands on his head in hopes that the pain would stop. But it didn’t and he was just going to have to deal with it.
“Damn headache, Alex said aloud to himself. He could finally talk now but realized there was no point in shouting anymore. Some more mechanics began to work again and a visual came on a screen. The screen was at the front most part of the mecha. Alex got up and walked over to it. He could see the room he had entered and the darkness straight ahead. As he turned around he saw that the platform was lit and a black and red suit was floating between the bottom and top platforms. At this point Alex was to curious to worry about his small headache.
Alex walked onto the platform, which was just big enough for him to stand on without touching the suit. He examined the suit and held out his hand, barely away from the suit. “I wonder,” Alex said, curiously. He touched the suit and instantly it wrapped around his hand and then up to his arm until it spread through his entire body. Alex tried to scream but it was no use. The suit consumed him until he was completely covered from head to toe. What is this? He wondered.
At first the body suit took over his motor functions but as Alex got used to the suit, he began to control it. At this point, the suit had knocked him off the platform. Alex got a thought that said for him to step on the platform once again. He did so and soon found himself floating in mid-air. When he closed his eyes, he could hear someone or something else’s thoughts. When he opened his eyes he wasn’t in the cockpit anymore. Or that’s what it seemed to be like. Instead he saw through the mecha’s eyes. He tried moving his arms and the mecha copied him.
When Alex turned his hand around, so did the giant mecha. Alex tried a few other things and every move was copied in the exact moment.
“Whoa, this is bloody awesome!” Alex yelled in enjoyment. He had forgotten about the fates of his companions almost instantly.
“Calm down Alex. I am not a game or a toy. You have to slow down or you will lose all your energy.” A voice said inside Alex’s mind.
“Who’s there?” Alex demanded.
“Calm down damn it!” The voice said once more. “I am your mecha. You have just awoken me. I thank you for that.
“Well then. If you’re my mecha then get me the hell out of here!”
“If you want me to do that then give me control. Here, just focus on giving up control and allow me to take over.”
“Alright then. Make it quick.” Alex soon relaxed and they began to move. They entered the darkness slowly.
“Hold on Alex, we’re going up!” The mecha shot straight upwards when it got into the darkness and soon they were in the air. Or what seemed to be the air. Alex could once again see the light that shone so far away. They stopped in mid-air and then bolted towards the light at high speeds. Soon the light got bigger until eventually they were right there. But the mecha stopped and did not go through.
“Mecha, what’s going on?” Alex asked.
“It’s nothing, but you should take control. Just concentrate and you will be able to do anything you want. Now I’m giving control back to you.
“Wait, I need you to answer one question for me,” Alex asked.
“Yes? The mecha replied.
“What is your name? I mean you do have a name don’t you?” It took the mecha a minute to answer.
“My name? I am model 001. The first one ever to exist. But there are others like me as well so don’t think this is a one of a kind gift.” The mecha said proudly. “But I am still the first model to ever exist, that is your one of a kind gift.”
“001? How about if I just call you Procolus?” Alex asked. The mecha made a noise that sounded like a laugh.
“Sure if you want, you can call me anything. But I like Procolous. Remember though, if you ever need me, call my name.” And with that Alex was happy that he knew he had a true friend.
My poor house.
Posted in Uncategorized on November 16, 2007 by ssthoughtsWell here is how things ended up…something happened with the toilet that made it overflow and cause water damage to our house. First off, I’d like to point out that even though I used the bathroom last, I swear it wasn’t me. Anyways, it’s drying off now and we got one more day in the hotel. This is like a story gone wrong. I cannot wait for this all to be over so I can finally sleep in my bed once more.
Just a Little Notice
Posted in Uncategorized on November 9, 2007 by ssthoughtsI know I have recently started on three books but the one that I am currently working on right now is Titan Xi and that’s what I’m going to be working on for now. Every chapter is another story of a different story until they all come together in the end. I hope you all enjoy my writings.
A random thought
Posted in Uncategorized with tags stuff on life on October 22, 2007 by ssthoughts“Our lives are that of a fantasy. Do not let it slip away from your hands.”
-Stephen Sharp