6-3-01
-From June 3 to 7th the first 2 chapters were reworked and updated
University Saga (c) 2000-2001
DarkCloud
NOTES: This story begins strange and gets stranger with every chapter's addition
I hope that you enjoy it.
P.S: All titles are names of Popular Songs, Movies or Computer Games
Chapter I "Tomorrow Never Dies"
(Otherwise known as the Comedy section of this story)
Year 2045 P.Y. 45
Decurn 16 Day 10
--------------------------------
Academician Prokhor Zakharov asked his chief advisor, (The man formerly known as The Man
Formerly Known as The Symbol Known As "Prince") Zwiziaona, to bring in the prisoner, which, with nodding head, Zwiziaona did promptly.
The prisoner thrashed around for a few moments until addressed by the Great Zakharov himself. "So Mr. Bondt," he began "You thought it would be good luck for yourself to name yourself after a B-Movie hero of the 1960's to the 2020's did you?" Zakharov smiled "Well, you thought wrong."
Bondt spat, "You'll never get anything from me, however, tell me your plans and then, perhaps I'll tell you something."
Zakharov looked a bit more than mildly annoyed as he responded to Bondt, "What do you take me for- an idiot."
"No," Bondt scornfully replied, "I take you for a prize idiot."
Zakharov looking shocked, ordered Zwiziaona, who was leaning on the wall for lack of a walker (well he was over 100), to take the man known as Bondt to his cell, as Zakharov had no further use for him.
Zwiziaona replied, with loss of breath, "Sorry, I can't do that Prokhor." Then promptly collapsed in a heap.
Bondt stared at the man and then leapt to his feet and began to strangle Zakharov with the chains tied around his wrists.
"Gworurikaksa" Zakharov mumbled, causing Bondt to quit applying pressure and ask "What did you say?" Zakharov responded by way of picking up a 'Smartest Person in the Galaxy' award that was given to him by the Association of People who are Stupendously Smart (AoPwaSS), and bashing Bondt several times over the head with it.
When he had bludgeoned Bondt to the ground, he pressed a button and called, "Room
Service, you may want to pick up a possibly dead Peacekeeper Probe Team leader from the floor
of my office." Zakharov soon left, stepping over Bondt's and then Zwiziaona's bodies to go to a meeting to make a speech about his new book-
"Why I am Smarter than You"
They responded to the order quickly and promptly, however, they picked up the wrong person; and took a nearly-dead Zwiziaona (The man formerly known as The Man Formerly Known as The Symbol Known As "Prince") to the underground torture chambers.
Thus, six hours later Tim Bondt awoke from the **** carpeted floor of Prokhor Zakharov's office with a splitting headache. However, he still managed to make a passing joke "Bloody red blood." he said cynically. Then he headed over to Zakharov's desk and rifled through his drawers until he found what he had come for. "This will fetch a pretty penny." He thought and headed out of Zakharov's office into the hall where he was confronted by an armored security guard who grunted out "Hey-You-Where-You-Go-Give Password-To-Go." Bondt thought, 'Well, it would make sense for the University to make the stupider people security guards, since they have no concern for safety, only research.'
He answered the guard quickly "Where I am going does not concern you and why should
I give the password to you, YOU may be a member of a probe team which only wants to know
the password so they can further infiltrate this base, so tell me WHY I shouldn't report YOU?"
"Uhhhhh...." The security guard began while pondering this response. "You can pass." He
said and then wandered away scratching his head. "Stupid idiot." Bondt thought as he
watched the guard walk away, then he was struck down flat by the opening of an office door.
"Yes Ida, I will have the data on Planetary Mindworms in a few weeks, if you would
be so kind to leave me alone for the next few days, it may even be done sooner..." The man's
voice trailed off as he saw the sprawled body of Tim Bondt lying on the marble flooring.
He immediately ran off screaming for the nearest doctor to show himself, while the
woman, Ida calmly walked down the hallway and pushed the "Call Doctor" button.
Within a few hours Tim Bondt was inside a hospital, where, once he was conscious
the doctors pounced upon him asking if he had insurance of any kind and if so would he
be so kind to show it. He told them no and that he needed no hospital assistance. However,
the second part of his sentence was not needed as within seconds the doctors had forcibly
pushed him out the first-story window of the hospital.
He stood at the bottom of the hospital, stunned, while doctors began to string
arrows in the operating room where he had been laying, and, rather than stick around
and find out just what was going to be the target, he began to run. (Yes, he was completely
healed, strange to believe, but, hey, he's a Probe Team Leader.)
It took him a few minutes to reach a safe hiding place, behind a bar, however, he
soon found that it was not so safe, as seconds upon reaching the place, a bakers dozen of
burly looking thugs descended upon him with baseball bats uttering words not printable in this
publication and asking for his "dough" or money as those of you not acquainted with slang
should interpret this as.
So, Bondt sprang in to action, acting upon his training in the martial arts. Well, to
spare you all the bloody details, hours later, Bondt was once again lying in a hospital bed,
until one doctor recognized him as the 'idiot with no insurance' So, after a rude awakening,
he was once again dropped out of the hospital window.
When he hit the ground he checked his pockets and found the documents were missing,
the secret unit movement orders from Prokhor Zakharov were MISSING!! He knew that he was done
for unless he could get those papers back, but he didn't know where to start looking, and,
he wasn't feeling all that well anyway.
Chapter II "What Dreams May Come"
(Otherwise known as the Prison Chapter)
(Otherwise known as the Strange Dream of the Bakers Dozen)
Decurn 17 Day 1
--------------------------------
That night, lying outside of the "Prokhor Zakharov's Sister’s Memorial Hospital"
Bondt had a very interesting dream about a Grinch and how he aspired to steal Christmas, but that is not the dream which we are about to discuss, it is the dream which the bakers dozen of thugs who beat up Bondt had the night of their crime.
Their dream began with a pixie figure of Prokhor Zakharov (Authors Note: This is just plain Disgusting and Wrong!) speaking to them about the papers which they had stolen from the weakling of a person 'Tim Bondt'. He told them that they were to deliver the papers, which none of them had read, (makes sense, they were all illiterate, otherwise they would be in a lab right now instead of turning to crime) Well, back to the start, he, Zakharov Pixie 1, told them that the papers which they had stolen, should be returned immediately to Prokhor Zakharov.
Soon after completing the dream they woke up and discussed amongst themselves what to do with the papers.
Chapter (II 2/5) "Unforgiven"
(Zwiziaona's Harsh Tale)
"I tell you," Chief Advisor in Musical and other Interesting Affairs Zwiziaona began,
"I am NOT Tim Bondt, you only have to call Prokhor Zakharov to find that out!"
"Sure, sure," a darkly dressed jailer told him- "And I'm Commissioner Lal from Pansy Land"
"Well," Zwiziaona began, "You surely have his character quite right."
The man then whipped him with an electronic whip and screamed, "Quiet!"
"I have been told to torture you, but since you just had a heart-attack, I have to wait ten days. Thus, I require you not to bother me, thus you shall not be allowed to speak."
"Ahhh, yes, the ten day waiting period." Zwiziaona began, "Ingenious of me to initiate it when I was Zakharov's chief advisor, no?"
"Shut up!" His captor rudely screamed at him, then retreated to a corner and brooded.
-To be continued in "Forgiven"
Chapter (II 3/5) "Blazing Saddles"
(Zakharov is Raging Mad)
"He did WHAT! " Zakharov screamed at the security guard.
"Well," the nervous guard began, staring at his newly shined shoes, "he passed by me-I-Think." The guard stepped back, awed at the anger of his Superior.
Zakharov then screamed at the jailer "Well then who the H@(% Is in the jail!"
The jailer then replied "Well, sir, I- really do not know." He paused, "Would you like me
to find out?" "Yes I would like you to #*#&$(% FIND OUT!" Zakharov screamed at him,
"Now BEGONE!" While exiting, the guard ran into a hurried youngster who carried a message.
The youngster pushed past him and ran up to Prokhor Zakharov, rudely interrupting
him in the midst of a conversation with the guard. "SIR ZAKHAROV SIR. I HAVE NEWS SIR.
SIR NEWS SIR IS DEIDRE IS INTENT UPON MARRYING LAL SIR!" Zakharov dismissed him with a
wave of his hand then went back to speaking with the guard. Seconds passed.
"SHE IS WHAT!" He roared, realizing the complications that would arise soon as a result of the marriage.
Chapter (II 4/5) "Forgiven"
(Zwiziaona is 'saved' from life in prison)
"Imhoteb! Free that prisoner so we can bring him up to Zakharov!" The head jailer yelled at Imhoteb, the jailer who was watching over Zwiziaona. "Yes sir."
He replied and undid Zwiziaona's manacles only to find- a lifeless body. The head jailer gaped open-mouthed and uttered the words. "That man is the Academian's personal advisor."
(Narration: And so Zwiziaona sat FORGIVEN for a crime which he did not commit, however
the fate of the jailer is shrouded in mystery as he disappeared shortly after the fiasco,
supposedly to join a suicide-squad readying to infiltrate the Hive. Little else is known.)
Chapter (II 5/5) "What You Want"
(The Return of the Battle Plans)
And thus, because of the prophetic dream, the thugs returned the battle plans to Zakharov who cuddled them in his arms protectively while interrogating the thugs about whom they had stolen the plans from.
They then answered carefully that they had stolen them from 'some guy who said his name was 'Bondt, Tim Bondt'.
That was all Zakharov needed to know.
Chapter III "A Connecticut Peacekeeper In Queen Deidre's Court"
(Otherwise Known as The Romantic Chapter)
Decurn 18 Day 5
--------------------------------
And so on the day of the marriage Deidre looked happily upon her subjects and
friends from the other factions on planet. Everyone was there, well, everyone except for
the strange Aliens and Shen-Ji Yang, but that was to be expected.
Zakharov looked surly, dressed in his suit and tie, obviously disgusted at the
concept of a political marriage between two of the most powerful factions. Miriam looked
a bit annoyed at having to attend a secular wedding, but appeared to be enduring it well.
Aki-Zeta-Five looked a bit confused, but that was to be expected, she being a cyborg. Ulrik
seemed distracted, looking about, nervous at the concentration of people. Domani seemed
almost regal, standing in his orange, purple, and red robes. Roze, was, well, being Roze,
she was gathering gossip from the others, at least those who would tolerate her. Cha Dawn
was being reclusive, hiding in a corner of the audience, surrounded by his Sentinel Guards.
Morgan sat talking to Santiago about a possible trade agreement, and Lal, Lal stood in all
his beauty at his tent on the other side of the glen where the marriage was to be performed.
Deidre waved to him and he waved back.
However, all this harmony was about to change.
Chapter (III 2/4) "The Jackal"
(An Attempted Assassination)
The assassin lurked in the shadows of the oak trees readying his Plasma-Sniper Gun.
'This will be a clean shot," he thought, and smiled 'Yang has done well hiring me. He will
get results here and now.' He held his Plasma-Sniper Gun to his shoulders and readied the
eyesight peace. Lal stood completely in the dot, the assassin looked through the viewpiece
and watched Lal wave at his bride-to-be, 'This will be easy' he thought as he squeezed the
trigger.
The bullet traveled at lightning speed across the glen towards Lal's neck until
it hit its mark, a UN Escort Guard who just happened to be the Best Man, and was readying
to escort Lal towards the dais where Lal would be wed. The man crumpled, dead, before Lal,
who ran across the field towards Deidre.
Chaos erupted in the glen, as all of the faction leaders who had been calmly sitting and
standing in their assigned seats panicked to find a place safe from assassins bullets. The
Gaians who had been invited also were going wild, looking for a safe place to hide. The few
security guards at the event then showed themselves and sprayed bullets into the place where
the first shot had come off.
'*@$*!' "Jackal", as the assassin called himself screamed in his mind as his bullet hit
the wrong target. He knew that he would only have a certain amount of time to escape so
he took advantage of that little time, thus, by the time the bullets went searching after him,
he had already climbed into a rover, sans Sniper Gun, and sped off down the highways of
Gaia's Landing.
Within minutes he had several Gaian Police Rovers on his tail, he turned to the right
and attempted to lose them. He then drove up a building wall, not a small task indeed, and
turned around his rover in midair, so that he flipped over the pursuing Police Rovers and
escaped from their dragnet into the sunset.
He headed out into the wild countryside of Gaia's Landing and thought to himself,
"@*#*, Yang will have my head for this unless I do something to make it up to him."
Within a couple of hours The Jackal had his plan
-Continued in The Fugitive
Chapter (III 3/4) "Riot Act"
(A Postponement)
In the hours following the attempted assassination several decisions were made.
1. The wedding was postponed until further notice.
2. All of the faction leaders except for Deidre's good friends, Lal, Miriam, and Roze
left hastily for their own territory.
3. Gaian and Peacekeeper Intelligence had determined the assassin to be "The Jackal", a
freelancer assassin, kidnapper, etc. known to be in the employ of Chancellor Shen-Ji Yang.
Lal, not in a good mood at all, immediately declared war on Yang, as did Deidre, angered
at the attempted assassination of her future husband. Roze joined them, however, Miriam
declined until something more positive than the knowledge that "The Jackal" was in employ
of Yang before attacking, because, as she put it, she would not want to declare war on
someone wrongfully accused. However, the real reason for her non-declaration was she did
not have the resources to take on Yang without being obliterated.
4. Messages were sent out to the other faction leaders to join the Peacekeepers, Gaians,
and Data Angels in the obliteration of the Human Hive.
5. Some returned messages
Prophet Cha-Dawn
"I am sorry that I cannot commit my precious people to your meaningless
war. For Life is Dust and Dust is Life. The life of one does not matter
the life of the whole and of Planet is all that does, for the whole
preserves as Planet will, if proper precautions are taken."
Academian Prokhor Zakharov
"I am sorry that I cannot commit my resources at this time, for I have
... other pressing concerns."
CEO Nwandbwe Morgan
"It is not in the best interests of our economy at this time to cease
trade with Chancellor Shen-Ji Yang. Of course, at such time it does,
we will gladly join you in your war."
Captain Ulrik Svensgaard
"We cannot help at this time. In other words- You're on your own!"
Prime Function Aki Zeta-Five
"If the rewards are reciprocal for our services then we will join you in
conquest."
Colonel Corazon Santiago
-NO RESPONSE
Foreman Domani
-NO RESPONSE
Chapter (III 4/4) "The Fugitive"
(An Explosion of Epic Proportions)
'I WILL succeed' Thought "The Jackal" as he readied the explosives around the
Gaian Hospital- "One With Planet" 'Yang may not be pleased with me, but,' he chuckled
'killing off the sick and wounded of the Gaians will give him many laughs.'
When the explosives were readied he stepped back into his rover and drove off
a couple of blocks and then pushed a button in the rover.
---
Bent steel and flaming wood flew down on the passers-by of "One With Planet"
Hospital, and "The Jackal" smiled in approval of his handiwork, however when exiting
the city and spying a checkpoint manned with at least 10 heavily armed Gaians, his
smile quickly turned to a frown. He revved up his engine and headed toward the blockade...
-To be continued in "Rollercoaster Tycoon"
-From June 3 to 7th the first 2 chapters were reworked and updated
University Saga (c) 2000-2001
DarkCloud
NOTES: This story begins strange and gets stranger with every chapter's addition
I hope that you enjoy it.
P.S: All titles are names of Popular Songs, Movies or Computer Games
Chapter I "Tomorrow Never Dies"
(Otherwise known as the Comedy section of this story)
Year 2045 P.Y. 45
Decurn 16 Day 10
--------------------------------
Academician Prokhor Zakharov asked his chief advisor, (The man formerly known as The Man
Formerly Known as The Symbol Known As "Prince") Zwiziaona, to bring in the prisoner, which, with nodding head, Zwiziaona did promptly.
The prisoner thrashed around for a few moments until addressed by the Great Zakharov himself. "So Mr. Bondt," he began "You thought it would be good luck for yourself to name yourself after a B-Movie hero of the 1960's to the 2020's did you?" Zakharov smiled "Well, you thought wrong."
Bondt spat, "You'll never get anything from me, however, tell me your plans and then, perhaps I'll tell you something."
Zakharov looked a bit more than mildly annoyed as he responded to Bondt, "What do you take me for- an idiot."
"No," Bondt scornfully replied, "I take you for a prize idiot."
Zakharov looking shocked, ordered Zwiziaona, who was leaning on the wall for lack of a walker (well he was over 100), to take the man known as Bondt to his cell, as Zakharov had no further use for him.
Zwiziaona replied, with loss of breath, "Sorry, I can't do that Prokhor." Then promptly collapsed in a heap.
Bondt stared at the man and then leapt to his feet and began to strangle Zakharov with the chains tied around his wrists.
"Gworurikaksa" Zakharov mumbled, causing Bondt to quit applying pressure and ask "What did you say?" Zakharov responded by way of picking up a 'Smartest Person in the Galaxy' award that was given to him by the Association of People who are Stupendously Smart (AoPwaSS), and bashing Bondt several times over the head with it.
When he had bludgeoned Bondt to the ground, he pressed a button and called, "Room
Service, you may want to pick up a possibly dead Peacekeeper Probe Team leader from the floor
of my office." Zakharov soon left, stepping over Bondt's and then Zwiziaona's bodies to go to a meeting to make a speech about his new book-
"Why I am Smarter than You"
They responded to the order quickly and promptly, however, they picked up the wrong person; and took a nearly-dead Zwiziaona (The man formerly known as The Man Formerly Known as The Symbol Known As "Prince") to the underground torture chambers.
Thus, six hours later Tim Bondt awoke from the **** carpeted floor of Prokhor Zakharov's office with a splitting headache. However, he still managed to make a passing joke "Bloody red blood." he said cynically. Then he headed over to Zakharov's desk and rifled through his drawers until he found what he had come for. "This will fetch a pretty penny." He thought and headed out of Zakharov's office into the hall where he was confronted by an armored security guard who grunted out "Hey-You-Where-You-Go-Give Password-To-Go." Bondt thought, 'Well, it would make sense for the University to make the stupider people security guards, since they have no concern for safety, only research.'
He answered the guard quickly "Where I am going does not concern you and why should
I give the password to you, YOU may be a member of a probe team which only wants to know
the password so they can further infiltrate this base, so tell me WHY I shouldn't report YOU?"
"Uhhhhh...." The security guard began while pondering this response. "You can pass." He
said and then wandered away scratching his head. "Stupid idiot." Bondt thought as he
watched the guard walk away, then he was struck down flat by the opening of an office door.
"Yes Ida, I will have the data on Planetary Mindworms in a few weeks, if you would
be so kind to leave me alone for the next few days, it may even be done sooner..." The man's
voice trailed off as he saw the sprawled body of Tim Bondt lying on the marble flooring.
He immediately ran off screaming for the nearest doctor to show himself, while the
woman, Ida calmly walked down the hallway and pushed the "Call Doctor" button.
Within a few hours Tim Bondt was inside a hospital, where, once he was conscious
the doctors pounced upon him asking if he had insurance of any kind and if so would he
be so kind to show it. He told them no and that he needed no hospital assistance. However,
the second part of his sentence was not needed as within seconds the doctors had forcibly
pushed him out the first-story window of the hospital.
He stood at the bottom of the hospital, stunned, while doctors began to string
arrows in the operating room where he had been laying, and, rather than stick around
and find out just what was going to be the target, he began to run. (Yes, he was completely
healed, strange to believe, but, hey, he's a Probe Team Leader.)
It took him a few minutes to reach a safe hiding place, behind a bar, however, he
soon found that it was not so safe, as seconds upon reaching the place, a bakers dozen of
burly looking thugs descended upon him with baseball bats uttering words not printable in this
publication and asking for his "dough" or money as those of you not acquainted with slang
should interpret this as.
So, Bondt sprang in to action, acting upon his training in the martial arts. Well, to
spare you all the bloody details, hours later, Bondt was once again lying in a hospital bed,
until one doctor recognized him as the 'idiot with no insurance' So, after a rude awakening,
he was once again dropped out of the hospital window.
When he hit the ground he checked his pockets and found the documents were missing,
the secret unit movement orders from Prokhor Zakharov were MISSING!! He knew that he was done
for unless he could get those papers back, but he didn't know where to start looking, and,
he wasn't feeling all that well anyway.
Chapter II "What Dreams May Come"
(Otherwise known as the Prison Chapter)
(Otherwise known as the Strange Dream of the Bakers Dozen)
Decurn 17 Day 1
--------------------------------
That night, lying outside of the "Prokhor Zakharov's Sister’s Memorial Hospital"
Bondt had a very interesting dream about a Grinch and how he aspired to steal Christmas, but that is not the dream which we are about to discuss, it is the dream which the bakers dozen of thugs who beat up Bondt had the night of their crime.
Their dream began with a pixie figure of Prokhor Zakharov (Authors Note: This is just plain Disgusting and Wrong!) speaking to them about the papers which they had stolen from the weakling of a person 'Tim Bondt'. He told them that they were to deliver the papers, which none of them had read, (makes sense, they were all illiterate, otherwise they would be in a lab right now instead of turning to crime) Well, back to the start, he, Zakharov Pixie 1, told them that the papers which they had stolen, should be returned immediately to Prokhor Zakharov.
Soon after completing the dream they woke up and discussed amongst themselves what to do with the papers.
Chapter (II 2/5) "Unforgiven"
(Zwiziaona's Harsh Tale)
"I tell you," Chief Advisor in Musical and other Interesting Affairs Zwiziaona began,
"I am NOT Tim Bondt, you only have to call Prokhor Zakharov to find that out!"
"Sure, sure," a darkly dressed jailer told him- "And I'm Commissioner Lal from Pansy Land"
"Well," Zwiziaona began, "You surely have his character quite right."
The man then whipped him with an electronic whip and screamed, "Quiet!"
"I have been told to torture you, but since you just had a heart-attack, I have to wait ten days. Thus, I require you not to bother me, thus you shall not be allowed to speak."
"Ahhh, yes, the ten day waiting period." Zwiziaona began, "Ingenious of me to initiate it when I was Zakharov's chief advisor, no?"
"Shut up!" His captor rudely screamed at him, then retreated to a corner and brooded.
-To be continued in "Forgiven"
Chapter (II 3/5) "Blazing Saddles"
(Zakharov is Raging Mad)
"He did WHAT! " Zakharov screamed at the security guard.
"Well," the nervous guard began, staring at his newly shined shoes, "he passed by me-I-Think." The guard stepped back, awed at the anger of his Superior.
Zakharov then screamed at the jailer "Well then who the H@(% Is in the jail!"
The jailer then replied "Well, sir, I- really do not know." He paused, "Would you like me
to find out?" "Yes I would like you to #*#&$(% FIND OUT!" Zakharov screamed at him,
"Now BEGONE!" While exiting, the guard ran into a hurried youngster who carried a message.
The youngster pushed past him and ran up to Prokhor Zakharov, rudely interrupting
him in the midst of a conversation with the guard. "SIR ZAKHAROV SIR. I HAVE NEWS SIR.
SIR NEWS SIR IS DEIDRE IS INTENT UPON MARRYING LAL SIR!" Zakharov dismissed him with a
wave of his hand then went back to speaking with the guard. Seconds passed.
"SHE IS WHAT!" He roared, realizing the complications that would arise soon as a result of the marriage.
Chapter (II 4/5) "Forgiven"
(Zwiziaona is 'saved' from life in prison)
"Imhoteb! Free that prisoner so we can bring him up to Zakharov!" The head jailer yelled at Imhoteb, the jailer who was watching over Zwiziaona. "Yes sir."
He replied and undid Zwiziaona's manacles only to find- a lifeless body. The head jailer gaped open-mouthed and uttered the words. "That man is the Academian's personal advisor."
(Narration: And so Zwiziaona sat FORGIVEN for a crime which he did not commit, however
the fate of the jailer is shrouded in mystery as he disappeared shortly after the fiasco,
supposedly to join a suicide-squad readying to infiltrate the Hive. Little else is known.)
Chapter (II 5/5) "What You Want"
(The Return of the Battle Plans)
And thus, because of the prophetic dream, the thugs returned the battle plans to Zakharov who cuddled them in his arms protectively while interrogating the thugs about whom they had stolen the plans from.
They then answered carefully that they had stolen them from 'some guy who said his name was 'Bondt, Tim Bondt'.
That was all Zakharov needed to know.
Chapter III "A Connecticut Peacekeeper In Queen Deidre's Court"
(Otherwise Known as The Romantic Chapter)
Decurn 18 Day 5
--------------------------------
And so on the day of the marriage Deidre looked happily upon her subjects and
friends from the other factions on planet. Everyone was there, well, everyone except for
the strange Aliens and Shen-Ji Yang, but that was to be expected.
Zakharov looked surly, dressed in his suit and tie, obviously disgusted at the
concept of a political marriage between two of the most powerful factions. Miriam looked
a bit annoyed at having to attend a secular wedding, but appeared to be enduring it well.
Aki-Zeta-Five looked a bit confused, but that was to be expected, she being a cyborg. Ulrik
seemed distracted, looking about, nervous at the concentration of people. Domani seemed
almost regal, standing in his orange, purple, and red robes. Roze, was, well, being Roze,
she was gathering gossip from the others, at least those who would tolerate her. Cha Dawn
was being reclusive, hiding in a corner of the audience, surrounded by his Sentinel Guards.
Morgan sat talking to Santiago about a possible trade agreement, and Lal, Lal stood in all
his beauty at his tent on the other side of the glen where the marriage was to be performed.
Deidre waved to him and he waved back.
However, all this harmony was about to change.
Chapter (III 2/4) "The Jackal"
(An Attempted Assassination)
The assassin lurked in the shadows of the oak trees readying his Plasma-Sniper Gun.
'This will be a clean shot," he thought, and smiled 'Yang has done well hiring me. He will
get results here and now.' He held his Plasma-Sniper Gun to his shoulders and readied the
eyesight peace. Lal stood completely in the dot, the assassin looked through the viewpiece
and watched Lal wave at his bride-to-be, 'This will be easy' he thought as he squeezed the
trigger.
The bullet traveled at lightning speed across the glen towards Lal's neck until
it hit its mark, a UN Escort Guard who just happened to be the Best Man, and was readying
to escort Lal towards the dais where Lal would be wed. The man crumpled, dead, before Lal,
who ran across the field towards Deidre.
Chaos erupted in the glen, as all of the faction leaders who had been calmly sitting and
standing in their assigned seats panicked to find a place safe from assassins bullets. The
Gaians who had been invited also were going wild, looking for a safe place to hide. The few
security guards at the event then showed themselves and sprayed bullets into the place where
the first shot had come off.
'*@$*!' "Jackal", as the assassin called himself screamed in his mind as his bullet hit
the wrong target. He knew that he would only have a certain amount of time to escape so
he took advantage of that little time, thus, by the time the bullets went searching after him,
he had already climbed into a rover, sans Sniper Gun, and sped off down the highways of
Gaia's Landing.
Within minutes he had several Gaian Police Rovers on his tail, he turned to the right
and attempted to lose them. He then drove up a building wall, not a small task indeed, and
turned around his rover in midair, so that he flipped over the pursuing Police Rovers and
escaped from their dragnet into the sunset.
He headed out into the wild countryside of Gaia's Landing and thought to himself,
"@*#*, Yang will have my head for this unless I do something to make it up to him."
Within a couple of hours The Jackal had his plan
-Continued in The Fugitive
Chapter (III 3/4) "Riot Act"
(A Postponement)
In the hours following the attempted assassination several decisions were made.
1. The wedding was postponed until further notice.
2. All of the faction leaders except for Deidre's good friends, Lal, Miriam, and Roze
left hastily for their own territory.
3. Gaian and Peacekeeper Intelligence had determined the assassin to be "The Jackal", a
freelancer assassin, kidnapper, etc. known to be in the employ of Chancellor Shen-Ji Yang.
Lal, not in a good mood at all, immediately declared war on Yang, as did Deidre, angered
at the attempted assassination of her future husband. Roze joined them, however, Miriam
declined until something more positive than the knowledge that "The Jackal" was in employ
of Yang before attacking, because, as she put it, she would not want to declare war on
someone wrongfully accused. However, the real reason for her non-declaration was she did
not have the resources to take on Yang without being obliterated.
4. Messages were sent out to the other faction leaders to join the Peacekeepers, Gaians,
and Data Angels in the obliteration of the Human Hive.
5. Some returned messages
Prophet Cha-Dawn
"I am sorry that I cannot commit my precious people to your meaningless
war. For Life is Dust and Dust is Life. The life of one does not matter
the life of the whole and of Planet is all that does, for the whole
preserves as Planet will, if proper precautions are taken."
Academian Prokhor Zakharov
"I am sorry that I cannot commit my resources at this time, for I have
... other pressing concerns."
CEO Nwandbwe Morgan
"It is not in the best interests of our economy at this time to cease
trade with Chancellor Shen-Ji Yang. Of course, at such time it does,
we will gladly join you in your war."
Captain Ulrik Svensgaard
"We cannot help at this time. In other words- You're on your own!"
Prime Function Aki Zeta-Five
"If the rewards are reciprocal for our services then we will join you in
conquest."
Colonel Corazon Santiago
-NO RESPONSE
Foreman Domani
-NO RESPONSE
Chapter (III 4/4) "The Fugitive"
(An Explosion of Epic Proportions)
'I WILL succeed' Thought "The Jackal" as he readied the explosives around the
Gaian Hospital- "One With Planet" 'Yang may not be pleased with me, but,' he chuckled
'killing off the sick and wounded of the Gaians will give him many laughs.'
When the explosives were readied he stepped back into his rover and drove off
a couple of blocks and then pushed a button in the rover.
---
Bent steel and flaming wood flew down on the passers-by of "One With Planet"
Hospital, and "The Jackal" smiled in approval of his handiwork, however when exiting
the city and spying a checkpoint manned with at least 10 heavily armed Gaians, his
smile quickly turned to a frown. He revved up his engine and headed toward the blockade...
-To be continued in "Rollercoaster Tycoon"
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