by Vlane Carter
Jaden and Kim sit in the Bugattee on the side of the street, waiting to see if James is going to show up. Jaden is using three Nanoscanners to locate Amy and Sabrina in lower Manhattan near the World Trade Center over a mile away. A middle aged, Indian traffic officer walks up to their car with a Bronx metal ticket writer in his hand and a black, odd looking helmet on his head.
“Miss, you can’t park here! This is a no parking zone. Please move your car,” he says.
Kim shifts the gear shifter into reverse.
“No, don’t move anything baby,” Jaden says to Kim and then looks at the traffic agent. “We are just standing. There aren’t any parking spaces anywhere else. We are waiting for a friend,“ Jaden says in a raised tone, as another traffic agent walks up on the curb.
“Jaden, I’ll move the car. You have to stay calm,” Kim says.
“Sir, you can’t park here,” the man says.
“Just write him a ticket,” the older chubby traffic lady says.
“Do you know the difference between no parking and no standing you traffic dickwad? I know your high school diploma can only educate you so far. But a little common sense will tell you, there is a difference,” Jaden snaps while getting out of the car. Kim tries to grab his hand, but misses.
The traffic agent walks to the front of the car and scans the license plate sensor.
“Jaden!” Kim yells while he walks around the car to confront the man.
“Sir, get back in your car before we have you arrested and towed,” the traffic lady says.
“You and what traffic agent army?” Jaden asks her. “You keep out of this, big mama.”
He walks up into the man’s face.
“Sir, now you are getting three tickets. One for parking in a no parking zone, one for being disrespectful to an officer and one for idling your vehicle for more than three minutes,” the agent says while typing on the LCD screen.
“Now you’re an officer? They made you part of the police department? Is that so you don’t get beat up for being an asshole?” Jaden asks.
The man ignores Jaden and continues to create the ticket. Kim gets out of the car and tries to pull Jaden back away from the agent.
“He is just doing his job Jaden.”
“He isn’t doing his job right, a 5-year-old knows the difference between no standing and no parking. Get back in the car, baby. I’m just going to talk to him,” he says while she takes a step back. AI advises Kim to step back a few feet. AI can feel the unknown energy passing towards Jaden.
“If you write me a ticket, I’m going to shove that ticket writer down your throat,” Jaden says angrily. The man tries to walk away from Jaden. The first ticket prints out and hangs from the machine. Jaden’s hands begin to turn shiny black. Jaden reaches for the small metal traffic writer, it flies from the agent’s hand and into Jaden’s. The black energy goes around the metal traffic writer and the LCD screen turns blank. The ticket that printed out of it is destroyed.
“Did you see that? It flew into my hand,” Jaden says excitedly.
“Sir, give that back to me. You are obstructing justice and you will be arrested now,” the male agent says while the other agent steps back a few feet and gets on her radio to call for backup.
“You want it?” Jaden asks while raising it into the air with his hand.
“Jaden no!” Kim yells from a distance.
“You want it?” Jaden asks again with an angry face and demanding voice.
Jaden rams the ticket writer into his mouth as Kim screams. The black energy around the traffic writer machine dissolves the inside of the traffic agent’s mouth, teeth and throat, and then comes out the back of his neck. He falls to the ground while blood pours from the huge hole in his face. Jaden feels a rush of pleasure around his body. The ticket writer machine turns back to its normal brown color, still inside the agent’s face. The traffic lady looks in shock and talks fast into the radio. Kim runs to the agent on the ground. She checks his pulse and other bystanders run away.
‘Oh my God, oh my God. He is dead, oh my God,’ Kim says to herself and Jaden.
“I need backup, officer down,” she says into the radio while Jaden looks at her smiling.
“Where’s your gun at officer? How are you going to enforce traffic laws without your big gun? Looks like you peed in your grandma’s underwear, Miss Hairy Bush!” Jaden yells while chuckling and walking towards her.
She jogs away and runs into the side of an energy shield Jaden just created around her. She smacks her face into the solid shield and falls towards the ground unconscious.
“You killed him Jaden. You killed him!” Kim yells while beginning to cry.
“Did you see that baby? I created a full shield around her from here. I didn’t even know I could do that,” Jaden says with a huge smile on his face and his hands turn red from missing skin. Jaden climbs into the driver seat.
“Look at my hands baby, I look like the guy from Hellraiser,” he chuckles while looking at his veins and meaty hands. The skin is quickly repairing itself.
“Let’s go baby. If he knew his job and wasn’t a dickhead, he wouldn’t be road kill right now. That felt good. That was for all the citizens of New York being unfairly ticketed and towed by traffic agents!” He yells into the air with his hands in the sky. “Wow, what a rush,” he says while Kim climbs into the passenger seat crying.
“You should be happy baby, you received several tickets when you were in New York City a few years ago and you were towed. Remember the sign you were towed at a few years ago? No parking from 10 pm-5 am. What kind of logical sign is that?” He says.
“I didn’t want him to die. That guy could have a family or something. What has gotten into you?” She asks. “You hurt AI even more when you lost your temper again and killed that innocent man.”
“That’s not good…poor AI.”
“You are changing Jaden, this is not like you to hurt or kill someone.”
Suddenly there is an awkward silence and cars driving by cruise uncontrollably. There is a slight wind blowing from the east. Kim and Jaden look around. The cars crash into parked cars as the drivers go unconscious. Continuous honking horns echo from all directions. Three taxi drivers are slumped over the steering wheel and begin to crash their vehicles. Some get out of their cars and begin walking in a straight line south like zombies. Their eyes are wide open and mouths drooling. Two people are hit by uncontrolled vehicles, their bodies fly over the windshields. Crashing sounds continue to take over the airwaves. The two people that were hit stand up with broken bones sticking from their arms and legs. One of the taxis lose control and drives straight towards the Bugattee. Jaden instantly creates a shield around the Bugattee and the taxi hits the outside of the shield. He quickly grabs Kim to protect her. The hood of the taxi is crumpled as the momentum from the impact pushes the Bugattee hard into the sidewalk damaging the wheels and axles.
“Are you okay baby?” He asks.
“Yes, I’m fine.”
Jaden closes his eyes and concentrates on the Nanoscanners still around the World Trade Center area.
“Everyone’s Nanomole is turning positive and their minds are being taken over,” Kim says.
Kim looks at the cell phone and sees no network service.
“I found Sabrina walking up the stairs on the 77th floor, in the World Trade Center tower with her mother. We have to go, both of them are HBH zombies along with fifty other people.”
They climb out of the Bugattee on the passenger side and start walking south.
Jaden sees the infrared beam shining on top of the World Trade Center. To the human eye, it is invisible, but to cameras and Nanoscanners, they show up as green infrared beams.
“Let’s run baby. There is an infrared green beam shining on top of the trade building,” Jaden says while grabbing her hand to run with her. She pushes his hand away.
“I’m okay to run by myself,” she says.
“Fine then, keep up.”
“AI says that is the beam up to the mother ship’s location. They are beaming people up to the Darclonian’s ship,” Kim says while breathing heavily.
“Why?” Jaden asks.
“AI, doesn’t know. They could be doing something to them, maybe experimenting.”
“We have to go.”
A police officer begins to speak into a loudspeaker, “People in the area, please stay off the street and stay in your homes. There is a police emergency taking place.”
Some people aren’t in the HBH positive stage. A man carries his unconscious wife as he cries looking into the sky. Crying kids are kneeling down near their unconscious neutral stage parents on the ground. Some children are walking around aimlessly. Jaden and Kim continue to run block to block as some men and women are lying on the concrete unresponsive. Jaden begins to lead Kim by thirty feet.
“That man is raping that woman!” Kim yells to Jaden down the block, while stopping to look. He runs back half way to yell at her.
“Some men and women aren’t under the positive stage. I guess some men are taking advantage of the situation. It is happening all around the area to men and women. You don’t want to know what is happening in the subway. Let’s go, baby, you are running too slow!”
“Men also?” Kim asks.
“Some men are raping men. This is the village, what do you expect?” Jaden asks.
Police cars and fire trucks race downtown. The officers all have on special helmets as their Nanomoles stay in a negative state. Hundreds of officers jump out of their vehicles in the area and try to restore order, while Tasering citizens. People are looting while police officers run in different directions chasing people. There is a military Humvee with a ray gun dish on the roof. They are trying to control a crowd of HBH walking in a group towards downtown. The ray gun hits their bodies and they continue walking at the same speed. Inside their minds, they are screaming in agonizing pain. Their clothes begin to smoke and their skin begins to cook. The military personnel inside the Humvee stop using the ray gun when they notice two citizens burst into flames.
“There is a military roadblock across Canal Street, closing off lower Manhattan three-quarters of a mile from here. We have to hurry, okay?” Jaden asks.
“You go ahead. Go save your daughter, you are running too fast for me. I’m going to try and help these innocent women and children,” she says.
“Are you sure you are going to be okay?” Jaden asks.
“Yeah, go ahead. I’ll be fine. I’ll meet you at the roadblock area,” Kim says while running to help a rape victim in a nearby alley.
Jaden runs at a fast 21 mph. He jumps over a major three-lane street. Some police handcuffing people stop to look at Jaden running at breakneck speeds. They are amazed how far and how fast his legs are moving.
Other conscious women and men try to help the HBH victims. Some fight off attackers. Kim hears the rape victim screaming for help in her mind. Her unconscious body lies there not moving. The victim’s eyes are glazed over. The rapist has a smile on his face.
“You feel so good on drugs, lady. You aren’t even fighting me, you must like the way I feel inside of you. You must be on some new date rape drug. I always wanted a cute blonde like you,” the crazed man says to his victim.
‘Please stop, please stop. I can’t move, I can’t do anything. Someone help me!’ The victim yells inside of her mind.
Kim runs up from behind and kicks the man off the girl. The man tries to stand up and catch his balance. She quickly kicks him between the legs and hits him in the face with her elbow.
“No means no, you piece of shit!” Kim yells at him groaning in pain.
The blow to the face activates the man’s Nanomole and he lies trembling with his eyes open.
“Are you okay?” Kim asks the victim.
‘Kick him in the balls again for me,’ the girl says to Kim.
‘She can hear me?’ Kim asks AI.
‘Yes, they can hear everything, but they can’t move their bodies or talk,’ AI tells Kim in a low voice.
Kim walks over to the stone-faced man and kicks him between the legs again.
“I did it for you, you are going to need a doctor sweetie,” Kim tells the raped victim while looking between her legs.
‘Please don’t leave me here. I can’t feel anything and I can’t move. What did he do to me? What is wrong with me?’ The victim asks.
Kim looks down again between her legs and puts her panties back on for her.
“Just get tested for everything known to man and get a rape kit at the hospital when and if you wake up,” Kim says while getting up crying.
‘Please don’t leave me here, help me. Please! Please!’ The female pleads.
Kim turns around and says, “I have to help other women and children.”
The victim continues to moan and cry while her eyes look straight ahead in a daze.
‘AI, I don’t want to leave her like this. Can the Nanodrones in me deactivate her Nanomole?’
‘You are going to have to ask them yourself, I still can’t communicate with them. Repeat after me: Team leader drones please communicate,’ AI tells Kim.
Kim repeats what AI says and she asks the Nanodrones to help deactivate the women’s Nanomole. Kim kneels near the victim and puts her head on the victim’s head.
‘What are you doing to me?’ The woman asks.
“I’m trying to deactivate what is in your mind controlling you. Just relax,” Kim says while tears run down the woman’s face.
The Armageddon Movie Soundtrack, Asteroid chase track 30 begins to play in his mind. Jaden is running down Broadway and reaches the roadblock area with many military personnel in Humvees keeping people from entering lower Manhattan. Jaden’s body goes invisible and he leaps over the entire intersection. He lands over the roadblock and continues to run towards the shiny glass building still reflecting some orange sunlight. Four other smaller buildings surround the new World Trade Center. Jaden sees there is a standoff in the building with police and HBH citizens blocking off different sections of the building. He notices Sabrina and Amy are standing on the rooftop looking towards the sky in silence. Jaden knows he doesn’t have much time to reach them. Some police see Jaden running quickly down Church Street and yell to him to freeze. Jaden disappears again and runs past World Trade Center 3. The police look around in confusion. He leaps forty-five feet in the air, over the grassy memorial area. His legs continue to run midair as if they were on the ground. The wind blows by his ears and face. A whooshing sound goes by his body as he continues to ascend upwards. Jaden glides towards World Trade Center 1 and his body reappears. He sees a reflection of himself approaching the reflective glass.
The movie soundtrack reaches three minutes. He lands on the side of the building, his body braces from the impact and he bends his knees. There is a loud thumping sound as the glass window cracks under his feet. Jaden stands up and is facing up the side of the building. The distance up looks like a long, narrow football field. A howling cold wind blows by his face and body as it continues down the side of the building. Jaden is 115 feet from the ground as his pro-gravity Nanodrones in his feet keep him on the side of the building. His anti-gravity Nanodrones quickly move around him and keep him stable as if he is on the ground. He looks up the 1776-foot tall building and begins running up the side of it. The sound of helicopter blades echo down the building. The helicopter is hovering over the roof and a man in the helicopter is warning people they will be fired upon. A group of ten people on the roof lift eight feet into the air and levitate. Their eyes look in a daze. In their minds, they are panicking and screaming for help. Their bodies quickly disappear and are whisked into space at near the speed of light. Jaden makes it to the eightieth floor and continues to run faster up the glass wall. The next group slowly walks into the same area, against their will. Sabrina and Amy are in this group holding eac
h other’s hands.
Jaden runs faster as he can hear the helicopter blades cutting the air from a distance. A minute later, he makes it to the observation deck at 1368 feet and he leaps upwards while his body changes directions. The wind changes direction in the air around his ears. He descends by a huge antenna that extends 300 feet into the air. A nanoscanner picks up an F-22 Raptor flying towards the World Trade Center arming missiles. It also picks up a drone UAV flying a few miles behind the F-22 Raptor, both quickly approaching. The nanoscanner picks up the sounds of the aircraft cutting through the wind. Jaden hears and feels the loud engines through the nanoscanner. The roaring engines almost make him jump. The helicopter pulls away from the building. Jaden looks down at the ground of the room quickly approaching.
He lands on the roof and he makes a thumping sound. Both of his hands touch the ground as he bends his knees. The tiles on the roof crack under his two feet.
‘Man, running up a building isn’t easy, it would have been so much easier to leap the building in a single bound like Superman.’
He stands up and quickly runs towards the other side of the roof where his daughter is standing with a group of people. The sounds of rocket engines are getting closer and echo in all directions. Another nanoscanner picks up Sabrina crying in her mind and Amy praying to Mary in hers. Sabrina is wearing a black mini-skirt and white blouse. Amy is wearing black, long spandex and a skintight shirt that reads, I love The New New York! on her chest. They levitate in the air. Jaden pushes other HBHs not in the beam, out of the way. They fall on the ground like domino pieces. Pro-gravity Nanodrones quickly move towards his daughter. They enter the intense energy spectrum and slowly spin around his daughter and Amy. There is no effect as he tries to pull their feet down. A nanoscanner detects the green infrared tractor beam scanning the levitating bodies’ molecules. Jaden leaps up and grabs his daughter’s right arm and leg. His feet are three feet from the ground. He tries to pull her down, but she doesn’t budge. He increases the pro-gravity Nanodrones in his feet and her body slowly comes down. Sabrina is pulling her mother’s right arm with her. Sabrina can see her father is there to rescue her. She tries to move her eyes to see him, but she can only look straight ahead. She can hear his voice through her ears and Jaden can hear her thoughts from a nanoscanner floating in her mind.
‘Pull harder dad!’ She shouts to him.
“Let go of your mother’s arm, I can’t pull both of you down,” Jaden yells.
‘I can’t,’ she says in a soft whimper. ‘I can’t control my own body.’
Jaden struggles and groans. He pulls her four feet down and out of the infrared scanning area. Amy’s arm leans out of the infrared area and her body leans downwards.
In a flash, the bodies disappear and Sabrina falls on top of Jaden. The soundtrack ends in Jaden’s mind.
‘Oh my God, oh my God,’ she says telepathically.
“You see what happens when you don’t listen to your father? Who is the psycho daddy now?” He asks her.
Jaden lifts his daughter up and he sees blood on her white blouse. He sees Amy’s severed arm still grabbing onto Sabrina’s left hand. Blood is squirting out of the arm as he grabs it and tosses it to the side. Sabrina can’t see the arm or the blood on her. Her eyes continue to look forward as if she is in a trance. Her body continues to move uncontrollably as the positive Nanomole in her brain attempts to get her body to regain balance. Some Nanodrones penetrate her brain to temporarily stop her body from moving.
‘Where’s my mother? Where’s my mother?’ Sabrina asks in a panic.
“She went to heaven, with God and Mary,” Jaden says while grabbing his daughter and placing her in his arms. He attempts to stand up while pushing himself up with one hand. The original Superman Movie Soundtrack, track 11 begins to play in his mind.
He carries her towards the side of the building he came up from.
“So now you believe me and you want to call me your father, huh? It is amazing when you are helpless and looking like you just had a drug overdose, you call for your father’s help. You teenagers think you know everything. Am I still a crazy mental patient?”
‘No, I believe you now. I’m sorry I doubted you. Can you please get me out of this paralyzed state? I feel as if I’m in a living nightmare. I can’t control my body! Help me!’
“Calm down, calm down. This will be over soon.”
‘Can you turn my head, so I can see what’s happening in front of us?’ She asks.
“No, that is not a good idea, just keep looking up at super dad.”
Sabrina’s blank stare at her father brings a slight tear to her eyes.
The next group of HBH walks and then stands in the beam up area like robots. A nanoscanner inside of the UAV is detecting the aircraft flying in autonomous mode and has a lock on Jaden’s face. Terrorist suspect threat is flashing on the internal screens. The F-22 pilot fires a missile towards the roof.
Jaden runs with his daughter in his arms towards the end of the tall building. Her soft body and mesmerizing perfume reminds him of Amy when he carried her in his arms not too long ago. Her hair whips in the wind and softly glides across his face.
“I think I like you in this paralyzed state, you are quiet just like a newborn baby. So, you never did anything together with your father before huh? How about the first thing we do together as father and daughter is jump off a building without a parachute or rope,” he says while breathing heavily and running faster.
‘You are joking right?’ She asks.
Jaden leaps into the air over the thirteen-foot high gate.
‘No, no, no!’ Sabrina yells.
There is a huge and loud explosion as they just clear the gate. The shield goes around their bodies as it absorbs the huge blast, and propels them forward. Fire and debris explodes off the top of the building in all directions. Body parts fly in different directions. The F-22 quickly flies by the top of the building. The entire building shakes and the huge antenna stays intact. The explosion can be seen for miles around. The UAV slows down, levitates, changes direction and targets Jaden. Sabrina screams to herself as they quickly free fall towards the ground. She experiences weightlessness and struggles to close her eyes, and she does. Light particles begin to form around them as the Nanodrones get to work. Jaden is watching the UAV’s movements about 300 feet above him and through the nanoscanner. Jaden and Sabrina free fall to about 1208 feet from the ground by the side of the huge building. Suddenly the UAV aims a laser-guided beam towards Jaden’s face. It fires a small missile directly towards them. Jaden thinks very quickly and tosses his daughter up into the air. Half his anti-gravity Nanodrones go around Sabrina, enabling her lifeless body to continue being propelled upwards.
The missile comes directly at Jaden as his shield quickly forms flat in front of him, in a four foot square around his left arm. Jaden realizes a fraction of his shield uses much less energy. The missile passes Sabrina’s still slowly ascending body. She opens her eyes as she feels something moving by her at high speed. She screams to herself when she doesn’t see her father over her. He braces for impact as the high-speed missile quickly approaches him. He curls his legs and body behind the shield. The missile hits the outside of the shield and his body quickly propels towards the V-shaped World Trade Center building. The shield Nanodrones dissolve from the impact and fire is all around Jaden. Other Nanodrones quickly go towards his back to reinforce his back and spinal cord. He stretches his arms and legs out. His body hits the 91st floor at 25 mph and the air is knocked out of his lungs. The thirteen-foot glass column breaks into thousands of pieces. Jaden’s internal body parts shift from the strong impact. His brain shifts in his skull and his left arms grabs onto a steel column to keep him from going into the building. Glass and debris hits his body, causing him to bleed in numerous places. His shoulder is dislocated along with many other joints around his body. The glass falls down the building. There are office tables and de
sks behind him. Jaden blacks out as his lifeless body falls towards the ground. Tears float from Sabrina’s face and turn into small floating bubbles.
The gravity of Earth overpowers the anti-gravity Nanodrones around Sabrina and slowly pulls down on her body. Jaden’s lifeless body accelerates down the side of the building. The UAV arms its machine gun and moves in closer towards its target. The Nanodrones quickly awaken Jaden and he opens his eyes towards glass windows quickly moving by him. He is falling face first and slowly rotating. He hears and feels the glass from the building passing by his face. Jaden takes a deep breath and magnetically charges Nanodrones around his back and legs. His back pulls towards a steel beam inside a glass window. His upside down body quickly jerks towards the building like a strong magnet. The back of his shirt begins to deteriorate from the powerful friction trying to slow him down. The skin on Jaden’s back quickly heats up and smells like burning flesh. The UAV begins to fire bullets at Jaden.
He stands up and tries to catch his balance. The machine gun bullets break the glass around him. The pro-gravity Nanodrones pull his feet back towards the side of the building. The glass cracks from the force of his feet. He takes bigger steps as the glass is shot up behind him. Glass is spinning in all directions and falling behind him. He runs towards another side of the building. The UAV continues to follow him while continuing to fire. Jaden passes the forty-ninth floor and bullets hit his skin, but don’t penetrate it. Jaden can feel the pain of the bullets and he tries to control his pain level. Sabrina’s body begins to quickly descend towards the ground. Bullets ricochet and glass breaks in all directions. Suddenly a circle of smoke can be seen from the third floor up to the ninety-eighth floor around the entire building. The entire building vibrates as sounds of glass can be heard in all directions breaking around the building. Jaden is running back towards the side of the building his daughter is falling from. The wave of breaking glass quickly accelerates towards Jaden from two directions like a wave in the ocean. The broken glass sits levitating outside the building in the same spot it broke from.
The vibrations from the building begin to increase. The UAV is lining up directly across Jaden to fire upon him again. The shock wave of broken glass around the entire building is moving towards Jaden. Jaden sees his daughter free falling towards the ground and is about to pass him. The building shakes like an earthquake is hitting it. The gravity shock wave absorbs the gravity forces of the entire building. It goes quite around him. Jaden leaps forward towards the UAV that begins to fire machine gun bullets at him again. The rectangular shield reforms over his left hand and deflects the high-speed bullets.
