by Lee Sonogan
Joven drinks a glass of water next to him. “What’s next for humanity and yourself?” Asked Keith. “Empower the Earth to the point where I become irrelevant. Explore and fill the universe with people. And find more life in our ever-growing cosmos. Personally, one day, I'll go exploring and create new worlds far away,” said Joven. “When is the next season of your hit show 'The chronicles of the blade' coming out?” Asked Keith. “In about three months,” said Joven. “It's crazy how you write it and with a click of your fingers, you got yourself a hit show,” said Keith. “I know right,” agreed Joven. “Thanks for being on the show,” said Keith as he reaches his hand over for a shake. Joven shakes his hand. The people applaud him as the host begins to talk about what’s on next. “Stay tuned for the most famous band in the world right now, Snakes and ladders. Music plays as Joven leaves the studio while people are cheering. Close ups of signs in the audience. Joven can no longer be seen on the screen.
Chapter 13: Attack from within
Loud music is playing. People in a house are having a party. A guy enters a back room to see a group of people talking. The guy looked lost and out of place in the room. He looks freshly shaved and wearing his best-looking clothes. “Come over here Will,” said the woman, drinking out of a straight bottle of whisky. The woman is in her early thirties, and he found her a little attractive. Will sits down with the group. He is handed a can of bourbon. “Drink this,” said a man. The man was encouraging people that night to get messed up with him. Will takes the can and grabs the can in his hand. Then, takes a sip of it. “I’m happy you came to my party. You have been working too hard,” said the woman next to him. “You see that footage of the cop, shooting that dog for no reason,” said a man across from Will. “Yeah I have. Makes all of us in law enforcement look bad,” said Will. “Doing paperwork all the time has to be boring all the time. Do you ever plan to return to the field?” Asked another man across from Will. “I can't bring myself back to the field since the incident. Maybe I'll do some checking on traffic soon,” replied Will. The woman hands Will a pipe and a lighter and says, “this will relax you”. Will without thinking takes it and puts it in his mouth and lights it. He in-hails to there’s only ash left. Will coughs and the others giggle. “It tastes like weed but, different. Did you guys put something in it?” Asked Will. “Don't be mad, but we put a potent psychedelic in it. Dan did it before,” said the woman next to him. Will is shocked and says, “I have only done weed before, how dare you trick me into doing this,” said Will. He feels scratchiness in his lungs. “This drug will help you Will. We will leave in a sec and you will be alone to enjoy it. It only lasts for 15 minutes and you will have a one in a life time experience you need. You will be fine, just accept what is gonna happen to you. You will thank us when we come back,” said Dan. Will's sight is seeing hallucinations. Everybody except Will leaves the room and they lock the door behind them.
The room starts to spin. “I am not ready.. I am not ready..” thought Will. Will suddenly enters DMT hyperspace. Will is dragged through tunnels of blinding colours. The world became Will's reality. His head hurt when he bumped into edges of the tunnel. Will began to breathe heavily. His thoughts appear to him. Memories come floating in. A man is falling from a shot of a bullet wound. The wound spills blood of complex patterns. This seems very familiar and painful to Will. All of it was very blinding and confusing to him. Will becomes very dizzy. “I can't do this. This place is not where I should be. Here I am alone,” thought Will. Will vomits in reality. He smells it, and sees the smell in his new reality in three dimensions fade away from him. The intense hallucinations affect his psyche. Control and ego become nothing. His concept of reality is gone. He could only feel a negative overwhelming power that was out of his control.
An unknown voice echoes in. The tone of the voice wakes Will up from his numbing trance. “I will make you safe. I will make you powerful. Your choice,” said a cold voice. The psychedelic patterns slow down and turn cold darkness. “What is that, what are you?” Asked Will. “I shall bring you a man. Show him that you are truly insane. You must defeat him. Or you shall never leave,” said the cold voice. Before Will could think, thoughts of the incident where he shot a criminal in cold blood, shot into his mind. He enjoyed killing the man who surprised him. Will remembers liking the attention he got when he lied and said the man randomly attacked him. The desire for power draws to him. He feels a power through his veins. It focused his mind, increasing his ego and self. He shoots electricity through his fingertips as he laughs. “Oh yeah, this power feels incredible,” laughed Will. The power flowing through Will's body makes him feel powerful and in control. He remains in the darkness feeling truly insane.
Joven is at his apartment on his computer. Using his keyboard, a plan is being typed out. He is designing his own video game system. No other video game system would be compared to it. “Ok, it will be powered by my energy and creates a hologram screen. It can be used anywhere because it works without cords and is powered forever. The power can create materialised customisable controllers at will. Realistic virtual reality and augmented reality features incorporating real life places. The AI will be sophisticated enough to make all games challenging and fun. And you can play online with my very own internet signal. Now to redefine what people call a good video game,” thought Joven thinking about what he is typing very quickly. The console is designed and with a click of his fingers, a prototype appears in front of him. He starts pitching ideas for games and features for the console on the document. Joven feels a powerful sense of insanity and evil intentions from within himself. He knows these are not thoughts from his own consciousness. It changes Joven's physical form into black energy. The energy creates some sort of black hole. The black hole creates a strong gravitational pull in time and space. Mass in the particles of his body strip away. This incident that is out of Joven's control causes him to contain the black hole from destroying the whole apartment, but leaving him powerless to be at the black hole’s mercy. Joven's consciousness within the energy is consumed by the black hole.
Joven appears in a familiar world. He has flashbacks from before he got his powers. Feeling wet and dazed, he regains some sense. He is concerned about what was drawing him in deeper. Joven had next to none control over it. Then the dream world slows his momentum. Slower and slower, Joven comes to a stop and lands on his feet on solid ground. A dome world with swirling dark patterns creates a humanoid form in front of him. “What are you and how did you bring me here?” Asked Joven. Will appears with some sort of dark energy surrounding him. His body language has changed from before. He looked like he was getting more angry the longer the two stood there. Finally, Will began to speak. “You must ... die!” screamed Will. Complex forms of water and fire fly in Joven's direction. Joven just dodges the attacks. “Why are you doing this?” Asked Joven. Will charges at Joven and yells “because I'll be free to be what I truly am deep inside,”. Will hits Joven's defensive barrier of energy, sending Joven backwards. Joven lands on his feet. “Deep inside means nothing. You are what you are influenced to be, or you personally choose to be!” yelled Joven. “Liar!” screamed Will as he splits himself into four. He seems more powerful in the dome world of dark energy.
“You are in pain, I sense it. Let’s discuss what’s going on,” said Joven. “There’s nothing left but, pain. It's all I have,” said all the Wills. Will's clones draw closer to Joven. “My names Joven. I can do things others cannot. I can help you,” said Joven. “Will does not exist anymore, there’s nothing human left to be helped,” said Will. Joven examines Will and sees his body is full of powerful energy fuelled by the opposite of his. Will's clones strike at Joven. But Joven's body disappear. The real Joven comes from behind and puts Will in a rear handed choke hold. He absorbs energy from Will. Will screams and elbows Joven in the face, sending him flying backwards. Will breaths heavily and his clones evaporate. “Will, I know you're in there ...” Said Joven as Will morphs his hand into a sharp blade.
Will draws Joven with his power towards himself. Joven uses his power to repel. Will teleports to the direction he is repelling in and Joven’s body goes through Will's sword hand. Joven goes numbs. He feels death. Falling to the ground, the swirling dark patterns get more complex.
“I did what you told me to do. Make me new!” yelled Will to the voice he was talking to before. Joven coughs up blood. Things looked dire for Joven. The effect of this dimension obscures Joven's vision. With the last of his power, Joven forms a powerful barrier of photons around the both of them. To trap them together between time and space. Joven sends all the love and influencing vibes at him. Both frozen, Will starts to change. “I gave into it, the thought of satisfaction from others. In their death and life. I could not resist the urge of this power offered to me. My life has always been taking and not giving any back. I deserve to be put in this situation. To realise my regret and selfishness. With my last amount of control of this power, I give it to you. Please don’t use your power in selfish ways. Give all you got to humanities. I beg you. Live,” said Will. Will's body begins to vanish. Joven's body goes transparent, the sword drops out and the wound heals up. Joven feels Will healing the damage he caused. The world they were in becomes brighter and colour comes back to the swirling patterns around them. “Wherever I go. I hope I can be at peace with what I have been and change,” thought Will. Joven awakes on the floor of his apartment. He feels where he had got a wound. When he checks it, nothing Is there.
Chapter 14: The party
Out in the woods, a party like no other is happening. Loud music is playing in all directions for miles. DJ's, live music, music from amps, metal, rap, pop, dub-step and all genres of music. Materialised stages, buildings, and bars are everywhere. The largest social gathering of people ever in history. There are also thousands of hologram screens with videos and video games. The controllers for the video games were made of energy. A platoon of AI peace-keeper robots secures the safety of everyone. Sending the trouble makers away with their teleportation weapons. While the average person there dances and socialise, The VIP areas and buildings are full of the biggest and brightest of what the current world has to offer. Joven and his friends mingle with everyone. Bree and her band are playing requested covers for the crowd. “Hi Kale, as Joven's public spokesperson, do you have a quote about tonight’s events?” Asked a man in a suit, putting his phone to Kale’s face. “We have shown the world that we can live together, tonight we show we can party together,” says Kale. “Thank you that will be on Current World News tomorrow night,” said the man in the suit. Bailey and the first lady of America are talking on a couch. “So what power did you get from Joven. You can trust me to keep it secret?” Asked the first lady. “What makes you think I wanted a power from him. Joven in my life is more important to me. He has already given me everything I wanted,” replied Bailey. “You two are so cute together. Let’s drink these shots!” yelled the first lady. They both drink there 'Buttery nipple' shots. The president of Russia and the president of Ireland are playing beer pong, while a crowd cheers them on.
Joven, Ike, Logan and John are in a back room with some normal people. Ike is very drunk and dancing with another man. “You ok with this?” asked John. “We have a promiscuous relationship. Both of us are still committed to each other. We love everyone, but love each other the most,” said Logan. “I don’t get it,” said John. “Makes sense to me,” said Joven. “So, you fool around behind Bailey’s back?” Asked John. “We are promiscuous at times, but I would define it in a different way,” laughed Joven. Dexter walks into the room with a woman. “I met someone in the party out there. Hope you don’t mind me bringing her here,” said Dexter. The woman looks nervous. “More the merrier. It even gives me an idea,” said Joven. The PM of Australia sits with the group. “What you fella's doing?” Asked the PM of Australia. “Well I was going to put a challenge to people on social media and the winner can come have a drink with us. But since your here all alone tonight Mr. PM, I'll get you a date for tonight,” said Joven. The PM skulls the rest of his drink. “You are the best mate,” said the Australian PM. Joven posts on social media.' Meet the dashing Australian PM challenge: Film something I have not seen before or ever considered of thinking of '. Within minutes, hundreds of videos of crazy things respond to the post online. “Oh man,” said the Australian PM. Out of the videos, only one winner is found. A woman smashes down a shot of an alcoholic drink, lights her burp and creates fire breath as other people cook types of foods from it. “She will do,” said Joven as he shows everyone the video. Joven teleports the women into the room and she immediately sits next to the Australia PM. “Hi,” smiled the women. “Thanks, Joven,” said the Australian PM as he leaves with his date for the night.
Everybody at the party is yelling and screaming outside the VIP area. Joven signals Bree to stop playing. He goes transparent and flies through the roof. He notices lights coming from the sky. As he looks up he sees seven alien spacecrafts with unique metal materials and one being kilometres long. People spread out far as these space ships land and the longest one floats above them. “They seem to be friendly and I sense no hostile thoughts amongst them to my understanding. It's safe and they must want to meet humanity,” communicated to everyone minds at the party by Joven. A light comes from the bottom of a ship and three amphibious humanoid aliens float to the ground. They are hard to describe. The crowd surrounded the ships and cannot believe what they are seeing. Joven flying and lands at the bottom of the ship. “Greetings the one called Joven. We the Seluberathi wish to meet you humans. The last two years in this star system you have made excellent progress. We have been observing you for years and we believe your race are civilised enough, so we can be friends of worlds. I am Stoon and these two are Drozub and Nufass. We are from the plant Taula in the Psi rohini system,” Spoke Stoon. “It's an honour to meet intelligent life forms as yourself. Why have you only observed us until now?” Asked Joven. “The Seluberathi tend to stay on our home planet and explore other planets with robotic probes. In our law, we only contact another species if they are free from pointless ends of life and have a uniformity of respect with each other. We mainly observed through your internet and television stations. Humans become a great interest to our species by your competition in sports and games. We solve all our problems and give out the greatest honour with competitive sports and intellectual games. It would be an amazing to compete with a species like yours in any way,” said Stoon.
This gets Joven’s interest. “Makes sense how you know how to communicate English. Personally, I welcome you to Earth, but as for humanities leaders, I need to know if everyone here is comfortable with you,” said Joven as he turns to the crowd. Most of them are still in shock. “I will materialise a hologram in front of you. Do we give these intelligent beings a chance? Please click yes or no!” yelled Joven also communicating telepathically. Holograms pop up everywhere for everyone to personally look at. They all have a touchable button ladled yes or no. The holograms of the resulting encounter appears live, showing Joven next to the Seluberathi close up. After three minutes the voting is done with 91 % saying yes. The crowd cheers. “You Seluberathi can join the party!” yelled Joven. Seluberathi floated down from their ships and joined the party. The people of the party used to the aliens now were more acceptable and comfortable towards the alien beings now. Seluberathi introduce themselves and start chatting with the average people. The music started playing again. Seluberathi Played video games and even started learning what dancing is. Joven leads Stoon, Drozub and Nufass into the VIP area through all the people. Everyone looks at the aliens and smiles. The party vibe helped everyone get along. They go into a back room and Joven yells “Everyone out, except Bailey, Kale, Logan and John,”. Everybody seems to understand and joins the VIP area. They all sit down around the couches and tables. The party continued as the group of friends has many questions to ask the outer space visitors.
“Let us discuss what we can do to become an alliance,
” said Joven. “It has been publicly said on Earth that you give powers to the worthy,” said Stoon, changing the subject. “Yeah that is true, it's open for the Seluberathi too, if that is what you are saying,” said Joven. “No … there is a force out there that is a threat to both of our worlds. I was getting at with a platoon of super-powered humans and platoons of the Seluberathi, we can unite and defend our star systems together,” said Stoon. Joven pauses to think about it. “I'm sure my AI robots would want to help and yeah we can make lookout towers and tours throughout our galaxy systems. I'll talk with the others,” said Joven. “In return we shall share rare healing diamonds that only form in our planet,” said Stoon. “Let’s celebrate this union between worlds with a… one-year holiday,” said Joven. Stoon looks at him confused. “What do you mean a one-year holiday Joven?” asked Kale. Joven makes all the hologram screens go live on him. “Hello everyone. We have made so much progress, I an idea to give everybody here a holiday,” said Joven proudly. The crowd around the party cheers. “Not an ordinary holiday. I have created a dimension where if you stay in it for a year, it will only be a second in this reality. I have created planets in this dimension with so many things to do. And you cannot die too. Everybody is welcome there. I urge you to try this once in a lifetime experience. Your choice, don’t miss out,” said Joven. The live feed shuts off. Portals open up around the party. Some party goers instantly go into the portals without a second thought. The people at the party wanted it to go all night long. “You coming Stoon?” Asked Joven. “Hell yeah,” yelled Stoon, with what can only be described as an alien being smiling.
