by Vlane Carter
The hot, charred sidewalk is smoking. The D.E.K. walks back inside the shield area and Jaden tosses his sword towards its chest. Jaden forgets he was supposed to be holding it first and it disappears into the D.E.K.’s chest.
“Shit!”
“I have to get out of here, the rats are all around my feet!” She yells while jumping up and kicking them away from her. Each rat squeaks loudly when she kicks them.
Jaden has a flash back and thinks back to the girl in Indiana Jones screaming around all the snakes.
‘Ha ha ha,’ the D.E.K. laughs while dropping its flaming red sword onto the ground and walking towards Jaden.
“Get me outta here!” She yells with a hoarse voice while coughing.
“Calm down, they are just rats! You want to go outside this shield and cremate yourself?”
“I’m burning up in here, it’s like over a hundred degrees in here! I’m being cremated now! My skin is burning and I can’t breathe!” Sabrina yells in the corner while covering her mouth.
“Ask the rats if they have some suntan lotion!” He yells while walking backwards away from the D.E.K..
“That’s not funny. I’m claustrophobic and I’m going to have a panic attack.”
“At least you have a lot to write on your Myfacebook page later!”
“Daddy!”
“Sabrina listen, the outside shield is destroying the iron steel on the outside of this building to your right as we speak. When I tell you to go, run into the building and up the stairs as fast as you can! My energy shield is almost depleted! Okay?” Jaden yells.
“Are you going to be okay?”
“Don’t worry about me.”
Jaden shoots with both of his hands a gravity ripper into the concrete below the D.E.K.. It falls into the newly created hole.
“Go now! Run!” Jaden yells.
Sabrina runs into an oval hole in the black metal wall of a building. She runs while screaming and the grey rats, the size of a Chihuahua, quickly follow behind her down a hallway. They squeak while smoke floats off their fur. The shield weakens and begins to get very small. The dark energy around Jaden’s arms fade away. Jaden walks backwards towards the new opening in the building. There is a powerful shaking vibration in the ground. The D.E.K. floats out of the hole and captures Jaden’s body in a line of matter through the fire. His energy shield runs out. Jaden’s body lifts fifteen feet into the burning hot fire. He doesn’t have any energy left to counter it. He quickly burns all around his body. He yells in tremendous pain and Sabrina turns around and hears his screaming echoing down the hallway. She sees fire coming towards her.
“Arrgggghhhhh!”
‘Roast like the animals you humans cook everyday!’ The D.E.K. says.
An alien created tsunami of ocean water comes from the south at high speeds. The thirty-foot rogue wave rushes down all the streets extinguishing the flames. The salt water hits the D.E.K. and it loses its grip on Jaden. His body lands in the fast moving ocean water. The pro-gravity Nanodrones in his back pull him towards the ground. The ocean water is filling with trillions of Darclonian microbots. There is a forty-foot steel barrier at Canal Street that leads across to the rivers. The water hits the steel wall while water flies straight into the air and then back down. Jaden is laying flat on the ground and is unconscious. He feels tremendous pain as ninety percent of his body was burned. The D.E.K. begins to suck all the water into its body. The water circles the D.E.K. body like a whirlpool.
Sabrina is taking an express elevator up towards the penthouse in the dark. The microbots enter the burned zombie soldiers laying a quarter mile north from Jaden. The microbots begin to repair their body and skin. The microbots filter oxygen into their lungs like gills. They try to enter Jaden’s body, but the Nanodrones fight them off.
The water begins to recede, some back into the rivers, but most of it goes into the D.E.K.. The water goes down to nine feet and then two feet. Sabrina hears a squealing sound in the dark elevator and begins to scream again. She jumps up and down and accidently hits the emergency stop button. The D.E.K. walks towards Jaden still lying on the ground in a puddle of water, badly burned around his body.
‘I’m going to destroy you now. You weak excuse for….’ it says, while its voice is interrupted by thunder.
Lightning is striking in the background across the sky. A lightning bolt hits the D.E.K. and the lightning is jumps around its body before disappearing.
Someone yells from a fourth floor window above Jaden and the D.E.K..
“Hey! You darth vader dickhead! Look up here!”
The D.E.K. looks up and sees Jaden’s friend James pissing out the window on him.
“Here is some more liquid for you to digest! Hey! Jaden wake up!” James yells.
Halo 2 Soundtrack, Impend track 8 begins to play in his mind. Salty ocean water runs by Jaden’s face and towards the D.E.K. behind him. He tastes the polluted, algae water on his tongue. The water swooshes by the area where his ears used to be. Jaden recognizes the voice and tries to push himself off the ground. His muscles strain and the pain around his body is overpowering his nervous system with chemical messages. The voice of James telling Jaden to wake up echoes in Jaden’s mind over and over again. James pulls up his pants and runs from the window. The D.E.K. catches James in a line of matter beam and his molecules slowly pull back towards the window. Jaden’s eyes quickly open and they are completely black. The D.E.K. stops going after James and focuses its attention on Sabrina stuck in the elevator on the top floor of the commercial building. Jaden’s vision changes and he sees inverted colors as if he is looking at a film negative. His vision is through very small particles of dark matter that are floating around in every direction. The angles instantly change as if he is changing viewing angles in a video game. He sees inside of the building and through all materials in 3D. He sees that Sabrina is stuck in the elevator and the D.E.K. is pulling the entire elevator towards the roof of the building. Debris is flying everywhere as the elevator explodes through the top of the elevator shaft. She is yelling and screaming inside of it, along with the petrified rats squealing around her feet. She tries to pull the elevator door open, but she can’t.
Jaden groans and pushes himself from the ground. He looks like a deformed monster burned around his body. He stands up screaming into the air as his mind floods with anger and pain.
“Arrrgggghhhh!” He yells with his arms in the air.
His mind is full of rage and a clear seal is around his skin. His right cheekbone and jaw shows. Suddenly quintillions of dark energy particles attack his body from all directions. He kneels back to the ground as the weight of the planet feels as if it is on his shoulders. Very cold air attacks Jaden’s body. The Nanodrones in Jaden’s body try to communicate with his brain, but there isn’t a response. Nanodrones automatically attempt to heat his body from the inside as his temperature drops. His vision leaves where he is and quickly propels him into space in an invisible energy pathway. He sees past Mars, Neptune, Jupiter, Pluto and past the heliosphere. Jaden sees what looks like two huge eyes as stars watch him. His vision continues out into space.
‘She will make a nice pet, she is already in a nice cage,’ the D.E.K. says to Jaden in a low voice, ‘Join us.’
Sabrina is in the elevator outside the building being held in the air by the D.E.K.. She is unconscious from hitting her head from the D.E.K. turning the elevator sideways.
Jaden’s vision quickly returns to Earth and looks at the ground from red eyes. He lifts his head to look around and notices he is still kneeling down. His vision is still inverted like negative film with a slight red glow in the background. He sees a teenage girl inside the elevator, but Jaden doesn’t recognize her, but he knows deep down she means something to him. He continues to forget and lose more of his memory. The dark energy continues affecting different parts of his brain. The strong gravity forces and weight lifts from his shoulders and head. Jaden stands up as a full dark energ
y knight. Small dark flames an inch in height move up around his upper body like dominoes. The dark flames feel like little spiders crawling over his skin. There is a sucking vacuum feeling above him as he continues to hold his breath. He is levitating an inch above the ground. Trillions of Nanodrones begin repairing the inner layer skin around his body. The temperature around his body is -50°F. He looks around in confusion and sees the other D.E.K. holding a line of dark matter from its hand towards the elevator, which is floating 125 feet in the air over them. Broken images of memories flash around in his mind. From Jaden’s eyes, the other D.E.K. looks bright white, with a faint green glow and white flames on its back. The half dozen DHWs that were resurrected by the microbots have a slight green glow. His daughter has a red glow as she struggles to open the elevator door with her hands. She screams and cries through the elevator door for someone to help her.
“Help! Help! Someone get me down from here! I’m stuck in the elevator!” Sabrina yells.
Jaden sees visions of aircraft, UAVs and helicopters flying by in a red glow. Jaden sees a man on the roof of the building looking down with binoculars. The DHW soldiers are walking towards Jaden and the D.E.K. through puddles of water. Jaden can read the minds from the now unlocked Nanomoles in the DHWs’ brains. The DHWs kneel down on their knees with their heads down towards Jaden and the D.E.K..
Washington, D.C. Pentagon 8:18 pm
Robinson sees everything happening with a UAV hovering high above them. He has been watching the events for the past twenty minutes. The special UAV is analyzing the D.E.K. and Jaden with special sensors. A soldier runs in the room with a report in his hand.
“These are unbelievable weapons. We have to find a way to contain this weapon,” Robinson says.
“Weapons sir?” The young officer walks into the room asking.
“Yes, there are two anomalies now. That Jaden fellow turned into one of them. I knew he was evil and against humanity, but no one wanted to believe me. What does your report say, soldier?”
“Sir, it is confirmed. These dark aliens beings are walking black holes. Its body barely touches the ground and has no body weight. Its event horizon varies from an inch to a few feet. The satellite Hadron molecule scanner detects concentrated dark energy, dark matter, anti-dark matter, protons and unknown particles. It is also emitting small amounts of x-ray energy. This technology is beyond anything imaginable, but is a big threat. None of our weapons phased this alien being,” the soldier says.
“I want more units ready and on standby. Make sure everything is recorded.”
“Yes sir, we will continue to monitor the situation closely.”
Lower Manhattan
‘Join us,’ the D.E.K. alien says to Jaden.
‘Put the elevator down,’ Jaden says in a low and muffled voice.
Jaden reaches his left hand out and an invisible line of dark matter comes from it towards the floating elevator. There is a slight struggle as the forces push and pull each other. Sabrina is moving in different directions. She screams while holding onto the metal railing in the middle of the elevator.
‘You don’t know who she is, why should you care?’ The D.E.K. asks Jaden.
‘I know she means something to me, now put the elevator down,’ Jaden demands.
‘Where is your sense of humor? No comments or jokes?’ It asks.
Jaden thinks to himself that he has nothing funny to say. The thunder and lightning continues to echo harder. The Nanodrones in his body are sending messages to his eye screen, but he can’t see them. Something else is controlling and taking over his vision. He can see very small particles of dark matter and energy quickly passing through the Earth all around him. Some of the energy redirects towards his and the D.E.K.’s bodies. The elevator moves back and forth in the air as the lines of matter intertwine. The back and forth motion makes Sabrina unconscious as she bumps her head several times.
‘You aren’t stronger than me,’ Jaden says in a struggling and groaning voice.
‘We weren’t…created… to…to… fight each other,’ it says in a struggling voice.
‘So don’t fight me then.’
The elevator slowly lands on top of the commercial building over them. The D.E.K. continues to try to gain control of the elevator. The elevator comes back off the roof slightly as debris rains down to the street. Drops of rain slowly fall towards the ground. The drips make small splashing sounds on everything in the area. A car not too far behind Jaden has drops covering the entire windshield. They look like little white eyes to Jaden that collide together into a small stream of water. The black metal walls around the buildings slowly come down from the government’s control.
Jaden continues to struggle with the D.E.K.. The struggle is making both of them weaker. Jaden gets angry and runs straight towards the D.E.K.. His feet aren’t even touching the ground as he runs.
“Arrggghhh!” He yells.
‘No!’
The D.E.K. takes a step back and releases its grip on the elevator. Jaden runs into the D.E.K. as if he is tackling him. The dark energies repel each other and there is a huge explosion. They fall on top of each other and the dark energies explode into trillions of directions like a swarm of dark bees. Jaden’s deformed human body is shown and the D.E.K.’s deformed human body is shown also. Their skin is completely gone from their bodies. Red muscle shows on their bodies. They roll over on the ground while the D.E.K. man screams in pain. Jaden stands up and ignores his pain. A moving glowing yellow slime covers the D.E.K.’s face and body. The slime is trying to keep the blood from leaving its body. The Nanodrones create a clear seal around Jaden’s muscles. Jaden’s muscles, veins and blood show around his body. His lungs show along with some bones. Jaden’s eye screen comes back online and most of the things he sees he doesn’t understand. His memory becomes worst. The Nanodrones report in: body turned into a walking singularity black hole. Concentrated dark energy around skin of body, slowly destroying skin tissue around skin of body. Untraceable anomaly in brain controlling dark energy agents.
Jaden can feel the dark energies quickly moving in space untangling themselves. There is a helicopter beaming a bright white light on the ground where he is. Jaden’s friend James opens the elevator on the roof and attempts to rescue Sabrina, who is unconscious up against the wall. As the door opens, light shines on her from the helicopter. Two unconscious rats are laying on her lap and hair.
“It looks like Remy the rat from Ratatouille was controlling you with your hair it seems. The rat looks very tired from cooking all day,” he says while chuckling. She opens her eyes and moans. She opens her eyes and sees a grey tail hanging from her head like a rope.
“Ahhhh!” She yells while jumping up and pushing the rats off her.
She leaps up and James grabs her hands. She squeezes through the door that only opens less than a foot.
“Are you okay?” He asks.
“I’ll be okay. My head still hurts. I can’t remember much after going into the elevator. Hey, I recognize you from when I was younger,” she says.
On the ground, Jaden punches the hurt deformed D.E.K. in the face as it can barely move. He rams his fist into the knight’s stomach and releases some Nanodrones through his skin. They enter its bloodstream while fighting off trillions of microbots in its body. Jaden roundhouse kicks the knight on the ground. It starts shaking and screaming. The Nanodrones make it to the heart area and begin to destroy the arteries. Its heart begins to have a heart attack. The covered in yellow slime Darclonian human walkers approach Jaden. It screams in pain as it lies in a puddle of water, shaking. The Nanodrones finish off the energy knight and return into Jaden’s body. He feels the dark energies returning to Earth.
On the roof, Sabrina and James have a conversation. “You lost a lot of weight. How did you get up here?” Sabrina asks.
“There’s no such thing as an overweight rich person. I have a personal rocket belt. It has just enough po
wer to get us down from the roof and out of this area,” he says while putting it on and holding onto her.
“Is this safe?” She asks.
“Do Donald Trump’s kids own half of Manhattan?”
The dark energies quickly return to Earth and return around Jaden’s body from all directions. The swarm of dark energy reunites with his body. Jaden bends down on his knees again from the powerful gravity suddenly over him. The other dark energy goes back around the dead D.E.K. on the ground, but dissolves into thin air. The thunder in the background becomes louder and louder. Rain begins to pour down. Jaden’s vision leaves Earth again, but this time slowly passes by the Darclonian’s mother ship sitting semi-visible behind the moon. His vision circles the mother ship and then comes back towards Earth. Jaden hears far away laughing in his mind. The low laughing voice fades away and music replaces it. Transformers Soundtrack 2 Decepticons begins playing very low and broken up in the background of his mind.
The DHWs stand and look at Jaden as their leader. Jaden’s eyes turn red again and glow, his vision is looking at the ground. He stands up and looks at the completely burnt standing DHWs with no faces. Jaden notices their skin is slowly regenerating around them.
‘Why are you here?’ Jaden asks the DHWs.
The half dozen respond together, ‘We are here to infect humans with the bioparasites in our bodies. We need you as a leader to protect us, all powerful knight, until our powers are developed to work on Earth.’
Jaden doesn’t respond and watches the helicopter drop ropes down to the street 500 feet in front of him. Military personnel with full exoskeleton suits slide down the rope and onto the street. They slowly approach from a distance with huge assault rifles. There is a UAV Predator drone hovering behind the helicopter video recording Jaden from a distance.
‘Lead us,’ the DHWs say to Jaden.
They take some steps back and charge at the military officers.
Jaden stands up and looks around trying to figure out who he is and what is going on. He loses his identity and has pure evil thoughts on his mind. The evil melody music playing in his brain is making him think of killing and destroying. The rain around him changes direction and falls towards his body horizontally. It completely evaporates and not even the steam escapes the gravity forces around his body. His memory becomes worst as he takes a few steps forward and stands on the sidewalk.
“Freeze!” The military men yell towards the DHWs running towards them.
The military opens fire on the DHWs and their bodies take on powerful bullets.
‘Protect us. You are our leader!’ They yell to Jaden. ‘Help us. Help your friends. Use your dark gravity disc weapons,’ the DHWs plead simultaneously.
Jaden does nothing, but stands there in a confused state of mind and watches what takes place before him. The DHWs try to take cover, but the military hits their bodies with nanorockets and they explode like suicide bombers. Their screams echo as their bodies explode. Smoke and blood comes from the body pieces scattering the ground.
The dozen military men slowly approach Jaden while walking on the street and sidewalk. Their black exo-boots swoosh water away from their feet. Around Jaden, the slightly reflective dark energy around the edges of his body slowly moves into different directions. His body looks as if it is alive with energy. Lightning can be seen in the background in the sky near the World Trade Center. Inside his tomb body, he hears his heart beating. The rain continues to beat down.
‘What am I? Who am I?’ Jaden asks himself.
‘Choose your path, kill those weaker than you. Destroy those who wish to betray you,’ random voices tell him telepathically.
Sabrina and James land near Canal Street.
The lead soldier notifies the others by text messages to their helmet screens to use their strongest weapons.
“Fire!” The leader of the military personnel yells at the dozen soldiers around him.
Gunshots are shot towards Jaden along with other projectiles. The thermobaric bullets and other bullets slow down six feet in front of Jaden. Jaden feels a squeeze of pressure and force from in front of him as the gravity greatly increases. There are waves of invisible forces moving around him. The ground lightly trembles around him. The military sees a distorted image of Jaden. A tint of red light becomes increasingly visible around him. The dozens of thermobaric bullets explode only a few inches in diameter. The dark flames on Jaden’s shoulders and head increases. Jaden looks down at his glowing shiny dark energy hands to see what he has become. The orange fire from the explosions funnel towards Jaden’s body into the six-foot event horizon surrounding his body. The metal in the bullets turn to a silver liquid and quickly suck around Jaden’s body. Hundreds of funneling strings, orange and silver, an inch to three inches in diameter, quickly circle around the middle of his body. The funnel strings combine and get smaller and go into him.
‘They are all against you. They are all weaker than you. Destroy those who are against you. Make an example of those before you,’ the unknown voice says.
The 300 Soundtrack, track 1 To victory begins to play in the background of Jaden’s mind. Nanorockets are shot from the Predator drone and stop outside the event horizon. The huge explosion quickly pulls towards the spinning orange and silver disc around his body. Jaden’s new vision translates the sparks from the soldier’s assault rifles to dark sparks. He can actually hear the bullets slowing down into a low growl. The shells from the bullets fall into the water and sound like quarters being dropped into a wishing well. Thousands of bat bullets, nanorockets and thermobaric bullets turn into liquid funnels. The inside of the dark energy squeezes against Jaden’s body destroying more of his skin tissue. The Nanodrones in his body work harder. All the matter is spinning around him in a flat disc and is being pulled into his dark abyss body. He stands there in a puzzled state of mind and becomes increasingly angry at the soldiers shooting at him. His inverted vision shows dark rain coming from the sky and changing direction towards him. He looks up and sees an invisible energy pathway with particles heading straight into space. A tank drone fires from the street directly in front of him. The huge cannon shell also slows down and stops before him. The helicopter and UAV continue firing rockets and cannons at him. An F-35 aircraft joins the battle and fires its mini guns and a hellfire missile.