The Future is Here...

1. Mushroom Clouds

The waterfalls are thunderous; the birds are chirping wildly, flying back and forth from tree to tree. A small group of people from the tribe are sitting on top of the nearby rocks near the beach. The trees start to shake; the grounds shift violently, there is a loud boom heard in the distant. The waterfalls stop, the birds go silent. The people blankly staring where the waterfalls were, the birds quiet down, the waterfalls completely stop there are minutes of silence. Kombaat mutters, “It has begun!” He yells at everyone to “Run.” Kombaat runs behind everyone up the trail. They get to the village; the tribe people are running out from their homes. Kombaat yelling, “Run, Run, get to the Cave.” Everyone from the tribe run towards the cave. Another Boom echoes through the canyon, looking down the canyon they can see a wall of water coming down towards the village. Kombaat yells from the mouth of the cave at the last of tribe people running towards the cave, “Run, Run!” The water crashes wildly past the mouth of the cave. The Cave door closes. The cave starts to shake, 1000ft of the cave rises as boulders, dirt, start falling off it. As the cave rises, the canyon fills with water. Fireballs are falling from the sky. There are plumes of mushroom clouds in the distance.

The cave which is a Spaceship was built for this day, the ship breaks through the atmosphere, and in front of it are 100s of other spaceships exploding in front of them. Kombaat gets to the hanger bay. There are 100's of people, young, old, men, women, all in their spacesuits with Jet Packs on, fully armed with all sorts of weapons. People start chanting "Kombaat, Kombaat, Kombaat." The people go silent and wait. The hanger doors are going to open in 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1. The Bay doors open and the people scramble to get to the outside, as they do they are met by the V-birds and Razor-spiders. A group of 20 fly with Kombaat, who takes the lead, they manages to break away from the fighting outside the ship, they're being chased by the V-birds, razor-spiders. As they get free from the Space Fight, you hear on the Comms; It's MC he squawks "I'll get those Nasties off your tail." MC launches a ZAP Bomb into the Nasties, blowing them all up. They lost 2 people to the V-Birds and Razor-Spider chasing them, 18 left, their heading towards the B.E. Monstrosity where the V-Birds and Razor-Spiders are coming from.

They have 20 minutes of air left, to land on it, plant the D-bombs and space cowboy back to the ship. # 1, 2,3,4,5, fighters go down their ducking and weaving it's a brutal battle-zone up there. There are parts of ships zooming past them, body parts floating everywhere. # 6,7,8,9 fighters are wiped out the Razor Spiders caught up to them. You can hear the ripping of their suits on the Comms. # 10,11,12,13 fighters all get hit and shredded by the critters. Only 7 left, closer and closer they get to the B.E. Monstrosity. More and more critters come at them. They are 1 click away, this thing is huge, # 14, 15 fighters go down. The last 6, including Kombaat land and plant the D-bombs, it's on a short-timer, so the Razor-spiders don't have time to get it off. BOOM the blast lunges everything for miles. 3 get hit by the blast, gone!. 3 are left to make it back to the ship; their air clocks start buzzing loudly, 2 minutes to get back. They see the lifelines a 50-mile line with air tanks attached to it being pulled by the ship. If they don't attach themselves to it by the time their air clocks time out, they will be left behind. The fight trying to get to those lines is furious. 20seconds chime the air clocks; they are almost there. The time counts down of 10, 9,8,7,6,5,4,3; the remaining 3 attach themselves to the lifelines as they feel the line being pulled in all 3 blackouts.

Zoom through a window, there is a Video Camera setup, sparse furniture, and there is a chair in front of the camera. There sits AHBLEZA, Mid 40's, Long Uncombed Black hair with a hint of gray, Long Beard, Eyes of Steel, Dark Tan, face Chiseled. Ex-Navy Seal, Great-Great-Great Grandson of Kombaat. Ahbleza wearing his poncho his grandmother made for him on his mothers side gave him, and the Hat his Father gave him to keep the sun out of his eyes on the long trail rides, he puts the cigarallio on the ash tray and the looks steel-eyed into the camera and starts recording.

The tape Ahbleza recorded ends up with Michael, early 40'S, stocky, short military-style haircut, with a goatee and long mustache, square face, bull rider. Great-great-great-grandson of MC. Michael is at his home with two boy's 12 yr old twins who are sitting on a plush leather sofa looking at Ahbleza on the 56" high definition flat panel screen. Sitting next to the oldest by 6 minutes is Michael, their Uncle; they are looking at the boy's father, Ahbleza. Ahbleza stands up and gives them a Kombaat salute and continues talking, "Boys before you were born I was a Navy Seal, one mission, my last mission where I failed, has left a deep emptiness in me this is what happened on that mission. I was inside the helicopter with my navy seal team. We get to our destination, rope down the side of the Helo. We work our way to the villa. There is a firefight; everyone scrambles, some of us get to the villa, I break through the front door and run left up the stairs. I break thru the 1st room nobody, then the 2nd room, nobody, the 3rd room nobody, I break thru 4th room door on the left side lies a body, a 9year old boy on the bed, on the right side is a man with a knife at the throat of an 8year girl. The man slices the girl; I grab my Kaybar and swoosh. I hit the man on the neck. Down goes the man. I was too late. Both children are dead. Then loud music starts playing outside, beep, beep, beep, is the sound like a garbage truck backing up." Ahbleza stops, stands up, shakes it off and starts again, “That was before you were born, after I married your mother you were 7 when I lost both of you. It was early morning I had woke up with the shakes, outside was the garbage truck backing up with the beep beep beep noise it makes, it triggered something in me. I got out of bed and suddenly I crashed through the window and fell 2 stories, I looked back up at your mother, she was looking thru the broken window, and she turned around and ran to your room. You were asleep. I started running, faster, faster, and I crashed through the front door of the Rusty Nail cowboy bar not far from our home. I went up to the 1st man I saw and started hitting him, and then the next man. People in the bar ran toward me. The bartender jumped over the counter and zapped me with a teaser; it didn't faze me, I'm still fighting the people. A man pulled a gun. I take it away from him. The bartender zaps me again; this time, she had cranked up the juice. I stop cold and look at her, she jumps over the pool tables, and comes around and zaps me again. It slows me down a bit. She zaps me again; I stop. I hear her yell to everyone, ‘Don't hurt him, He's having a PTSD flashback!’ She zaps me one more time I go down. The police show up and take me away." Michael stops the tape and looks at the twins; they now know why their Dad hasn't been around. The Twins look at Michael and say, "Uncle let it play." Michael starts the tape. Ahbleza continues, "All I can remember is waking up in a Daze at the Arizona mental ward where a BIG BLACK woman name Alice coming up to me saying, ‘It's time for your bath, Sugar.’ Me getting up from in front of the TV and following her through the hallway to where the bath was, and I guess I couldn't take a shower with the other patients I would hurt them. Alice was the only one who could get me to bathe. She gets me to the tub and closes the door behind her. The next day I was sent to the Director of the facility. The Director says, ‘We are releasing you, you came here in 1995, and now it's the year 2000 it's been 5 years. Your doing better; make sure you take your meds.’ My sons, I apologize for being gone so long and having to leave again, I Love You”.

Michael turns the camera off. Michael says, "That was your dad, telling you about him and you're Great-Great-Great Grandpa Kombaat. Let me tell you about more of your past." John Joe and Enrique Blaze sit on the sofa with Michael. They both say, "OK, Uncle."

Michael starts, “It was Rodeo day in the City of Kbander in the Bulky Bull Stadium. That Day, the crowd was yelling and stomping their feet; they are getting mad that not one bull rider has been able to hold on to the bucking bulls. The riders are getting busted, bad. Not one has been able to hold on past the double 4's. It was MC's turn, MC was in his Mid-40s, Tan, Stout, Short Black Hair, and my Great-Great-Great Grandfather. He mounts onto Asteroid a blueish color, weighed in over 2500 lbs, and he knew how to use his horns he had killed 3 riders already. This bull was mean and not forgiving. He will stomp and gore you if he gets a chance. MC is the final rider for that double moon night. Asteroid starts kicking the cage. He wants MC to know who's back, he's on. The crowd erupts as they show this on the Giant Jumbotron. The bet's start flying. The announcer starts the countdown. The crowd joins along. ‘10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1.’ The steel gates are buckling holding this lighting fast 2500lb plus meanest bull ever since they have been keeping records of the bulls registered. Only 1 rider has been to the double 4's on this beast's back. This is MC's 1st ride ever on Asteroid. He is holding on tight as Asteroid trashes him back and forth in the cage. The doors fly open, and Asteroid jumps must have been 10ft in Air and lands almost knocking MC off, Up / Down Jumps Asteroid MC has a big grin on his face yelling, ‘Yippee Kayee.’ The crowd yells ‘2, 3, 4, 5, 6 7 8.’ The arena goes crazy. The Asteroid is mad. MC hits the Double 4's. MC Let's go, landing on his feet as Asteroid stomps turn around and start chasing MC. The arena suddenly starts shaking; parts of it start to break off. The crowd goes quiet, and then there is a mad rush to the exits. MC knows what is happening; he starts a mad dash through the horde of people all scrambling to get out of the way of the tumbling arena. The bulls have broken loose from the holding pens, they are goring people. Asteroid sees MC and starts running towards him. MC sees his Zzz-Mobile. Here comes Asteroid full steam, mowing people down trying to get to MC. MC is 100yds away from his Zzz-mobile. MC goes down. A big hand reaches down to him and MC grabs it, MC Is back up looks at the stranger, tilts his head and starts running. Asteroid is 10 yards away, MC sees him and stops. MC starts running towards Asteroid. Asteroid starts running towards MC Asteroid puts his head down with those mighty horns aiming right at MC. Swoosh Asteroid misses by an inch. MC starts running, right behind Asteroid. MC sees his Zzz-Mobile, it's 50 ft ahead. The parking lot is packed with people all trying to get away. The Asteroid is going full steam, head butting everything that gets in his way, no one or nothing is getting in his way to be free. MC jumps in his Zzz-mobile and starts following Asteroid. That's the only way he's going to get out of the parking lot. MC gets to the main road, and he sees the V-birds and Razor-spiders attacking everything that is moving. A couple of Razor-spiders land on MC's Zzz-mobile he pulls out a sonic gun and gives them a shot, the gun won't destroy them but will get them off his Zzz-mobile. MC has to make it to the hanger he was told had a Space Ship in it. He sees the hanger, it's a bloody firefight, V-birds and Razor-spiders are everywhere. The countdown clock starts ticking. He has 2 minutes to make it to the ship in the hanger. MC Is blasting everything in sight, and MC won't make it. Out of the hanger come 20 people blasting the Critters. MC jumps out of the Zzz-mobile and starts running; he is blasting, bobbing, and weaving. 20, 19, 18, his clock starts the countdown. MC gets to the group of 20, and all of them start a mad dash back into the hanger where the space ship is they drop a D-Bomb. The clock is ticking 4, 3 MC and the other 20 get onboard the doors close and the engine roars. The D-bomb goes off, it lunges the Ship 1000ft into the air.”

The twins look at Uncle Michael and Grin. Michael turns the video camera back on. Ahbleza on the TV says, "Michael get Uncle BcLee down here and start the twins training and get them started with egg on their face. They are the chosen two who will fulfill the prophecies." The Twins look at Michael and Michael just smiles. -- To Be Continued...