Archive for February, 2010

The Sixth Dimension II

Posted in Fiction on February 26, 2010 by GuNNhead

A place that’s inexplicably connected to our own; contains things we see everyday, and things we’re never shown. This place is what I like to call, the long lost sixth dimension, it exists beyond our space and time, beyond what we can interpret, and takes this form only because that is how I dreamed it. Suppose it’d gone a different way, it could be one giant ocean, but I don’t suppose it’d feel the same, and we’d all flow with the motion. Although, you see, these tunnels before, they allow the hidden to arise, from the depths, from side to side, there is no symmetry. It does contain, I must admit, a divine empyrean form, but only those who have spent much time can even begin to navigate. These paths that wind to and fro are all interconnected, and one must only think to feel, and bridge this path through wall and thought, and open your own gate.

This may sound cryptic, this may sound dumb, but if you allow yourself to feel, you just find, through your misgivings, you prefer it to the real. Within its realms, you can find, a mysterious appeal, so let it affect you, one and all, and accept those else who do, because you’ll find, to be yourself, is the only truth of its kind. They seek to be happy to seek expression; to rely on yourself; you can find we all have a connection, through this mystic realm. So dress yourself, and discover, friends, it exists in the now, and, of, course you’ll see, this thing, this place, this nothing land is the end of reality. This tool we call imagination is really something grand, but at times we’re told that it’s a crutch and is something bad, perhaps we should re-examine why you’ve escaped into this place. A social outcast for being weird is simply something of the norm, but to dress in furs and diapers, too, you need help, serious help, from a psychiatric ward. But please be nice and please be kind, treat others as yourself, it’s the only way to get along, in reality. You can be normal, be yourself, within humanity.

The story must continue now, enough of this reflection, we were left eating a sorbet, a frozen treat it’s now, as things do change as they can, it’s quite a common action. The beings that ran along curved boards, some of them I did know, others, though, it’s easy to say, were really just a blur. I could hear the wood creaking, the patter of their feet, and saw each spot of dust as they did rush towards their win, or defeat. They did not care, nor were they real, so it was not my concern, so deeper onward I must press, and take that leap of faith. I have my friends, real or imagined, to aid me in my descent, they’ve done it now so many times, or so my mind has said. I’ve taken these leaps so many times, to different pits of sand, all along this winding path, I don’t know why this one’s changed. I fear it’s ’cause I’m waking now, and too close to reality, pulling me back and reminding me of all my frailty.

I take control in my hands and exist beyond the dream, I take this control, it is my right, this place is in my mind, to leave it lay and be only in dreams would surely be a crime, a crime to me, a crime to you, a crime to life itself. I leap, I do, into this pit, and see its fear made no sense; the vertigo I suffered was of no consequence. I took a chance, though there was none, and now I must sally forth, to find a way, a way to think of the recommencing course.

I take this leap only to find that it’s a leap I cannot take, all the paths are sealed now; I know it’s only fate. This place I found within my dreams is where it must remain. And yes, I know, it is a shame, but perhaps it’ll come again.

The Sixth Dimension I

Posted in Fiction on February 24, 2010 by GuNNhead

There exists a place beyond it all, a place you’ve never been. If you take a drill up to my skull, you’ll see all that is within. Delineating, deflatlining, you’ll see there is no sin. This place you see, it continues on down through this tunnel, it goes on and on forevermore there is no central core. Through winding roads and paths recrossed only dreams can find their way. With ladders spent, and twisting boards, you must run the other way. But to go deeper in is how you’ll win to survive another day.

The battle fought beyond the spill is one that does not concern. This war that’s raged ‘tween mice and men is because they’ll not admit, that everyone is different, with hidden thoughts within.

To continue on with my grand scheme is to make sure I invade the deepest recess of your mind, it’s connected to mine you’ll see, through giant sand pits with one way down, and infinite ways back up, with giant sand pits to assuage your fall, you only need to jump. Let go your fears and misgivings, this place, it is not real, so take a load off and relax, we’ll take a break and catch our breath in a hidden winding path. You, in here, deep in this fridge, we can have some ice cream. This frozen treat is free right now, a gift from me to you, so grab a spoon and dig right in; your life, it starts so soon.

There is another, I must say, she has waited from long ago, to grow so old to find the time, the time that I would rise, she exists only within my mind, this thing that I did not know, and in her age she hatched a plot, a plot to overthrow. There lay a crystal of the dead, it was buried long ago, at the end one of these many paths, to keep it safe, you see, but no longer is anyone, safe, that is, currently. Now that that’s told, I can reveal, the purpose of this jewel. It’s taken so many now, and her heart it is so cruel. The crystal is ambivalent, possessing only power, but the way in which that it is used, can rejuvenate any flower. However now, the big reveal, the thing that I most dread, this now young women has taken it, she is Dawn, of the dead. I could tell you here more of her, such as her large breasts and their perfect place, but they are unimportant as; what I found most intriguing, was her beautiful, maleficent face.

With this great power she doth posses, a Wayne would seek to stop her flight, but in this land, this great unknown, he is no longer the Dark Knight, having become too old, as is a life, the mantle has been passed on, it falls unto a young man, in a time Beyond. This story, though, is not theirs, it is merely an aside, as I do not own these characters, but, still, in the great mind, they reside.

Back to the main idea now, where explanations are in order, “why oh why,” you all could shudder, “does this realm have to border?” You see my dears, you one and all, within this place contains horrors, it contains everything, our hopes and dreams, our wishes and our nightmares, so, in that, too, it must contain phallic headed creatures.

Link 7

Posted in Fiction, Gravity Surge, Sci-Fi on February 19, 2010 by GuNNhead

My craft comes crashing down onto a small far-circling moon. As I tumble out of the hatch in my common attire, I hear a voice calling out a note of warning.
“You will pay for trying to steal from me! The case is mine, and nobody else’s, same with this moon! I know you want them, everyone wants them!”
“What are you talking about? I was just passing by, I have more important things to do than—“
“No! You’re trying to confuse me, lie to me, like all the others, the case is mine, and I’ll kill you, kill anyone else who tries to take it from me!”

His luminous body emits a bright flash, and all light escapes me. He lashes out at me. He’s fast; his speed is astounding. He slams me away from the entrance to my ship, and leaps into the air. I prepare to block a straight-forward attack, but he alters his position, and stabs his talons into the sides of my head. A row takes place inside my head; I can hear only this boisterous great noise, nothing else. I hold my ears in pain. He takes this opportunity to slash into my abdomen, and my innards begin to ooze out.

I refuse to give in. The blood is pouring fourth from my open wound even as I hold it tight. I’ve been playing it too easy, he’s weak.
I’ve had enough of this idiot. A bolt of energy courses through my spine. A flash, an outline of light covers my body; it outlines my suit of armor. The Gravity Surge. Everything is vibrating in my blind eyes. I’m armored once more. Electricity bristles around me. I stand. I still cannot hear, but my vision has returned, enhanced by full spectral viewing lenses. Perfect, I will not hear him plead his case when I’m breaking every bone in his body. I am disappointed that I’ll not be able hear his screams of pain, but take solace in the fact that I’ll be able to see the pain on his porcine face. To my luck, my new form does not deter him, and he attacks once more. I grab his arm, and he brings the other. Grabbing that as well, I hold them together, crushing them into one.
“Let’s find that case now, shall we?”
“No! You’ll never take it, it’s everything to me!”
“Oh, I’m not going to take it.” Soon, inside his house, I see it; it’s gleaming, platinum. I break it open. Its contents: unimportant. I begin to shove him into it mercilessly. I can feel each of his bones breaking as I force him into this small box. Most of his orange blood pours forth from his body and box so that he can fit. Once fully inside, I close it, and seal it.

I return to my craft to find it has repaired itself, and lift off once more to continue my quest.

Power Metal

Posted in Fiction, Gravity Surge, Sci-Fi on February 15, 2010 by GuNNhead

Noise. Noise, noise mindless, meaningless noise! I’m berated from hypersleep by this impossible noise. Hammering, pounding, grinding, drilling. Nothing is worth this noise, it is it pointless, meaningless. I must end it, and all possibilities of it, at all costs. It breaks laws, not only of my own peace, but of physics, of plausibility. This noise is so intrusive, so bad, that it transverses the impossibility that is its own sonic travel, through the vacuum of space, of my craft, of my tranquility. I triangulate on its source, dead set on its end.

I arrive at the cacophonous planet, and scan for the hub of life, only to find none. At all. At this proximity, my craft is shaking, coming apart due to the force of this intense noise. I exit, and enter the atmosphere fully armored, but find I can go not lower than that, the sound waves pushing me away. I hover for a moment in thought.

[Override::]
[Divert Power from Weapons]
[Reroute::]
[Generate Counter Feedback Loop]

Immediately, as sound pours forth from my weapon systems and luminescent details, I begin to fall. Landing, I see nothing but mechanical parts moving. Turning, grinding; gears, sprockets; hammers, pounding; pistons, pumping; drilling. Machines simply being. Machines. There is no artificial intelligence, no grand schema, they simply are. Like clockwork in time with the metallic clanging, I see an army driving towards my location. The army of drones marches towards me, unthinking. All I can hear is their emotionless machinations at work; all I can see is their collars as a luminescent white light, pouring forth into the black air. They approach at an alarming rate, there’s nowhere for me to go; I cannot fly on this planet while being protected from the sound, but I leap backwards, and repeatedly fire weakened gravity spheres into the crowd. I am forced to continue leaping back and into the air, firing again and again. Soon, however, I cannot keep up, and am merely firing to create a place for me to leap into again without being run over. They are not attacking, not concerned with my presence at all, they simply move, are simply moving forward, endlessly.

Tired, I cannot move fast enough, and one eventually catches my leg, and sends me slamming into the ones behind it. Through quick thinking and acting, I am able to steady myself, and roll, clinging onto one of these automatons. They take me along their set path, deep into the recesses of this artificial planet; down to the near-core.

There is not one scrap of organic material, only machine created by machine. Detaching from the cavalcade, I begin to make my way towards the absolute centre, where the pressure and heat is greatest. I traverse through enormous gears grinding; ropes binding; coils winding; pistons panging; clamps clanging; springs spranging. I avoid being crushed into a pulp with every step. Never stop, every leap and bound counts.

Eventually, I arrive. There is only a core of liquid metal, pumping, beating into every pore and vessel of the planet. It’s quiet down here.

[Activate: Quantum Destroyer]

I blast directly through the core, and, utilizing its own heat, through that very core and through the entire planet itself. The alteration in pressure launches the molten steel out over the surface and into space. I hear one loud crunch; the planet is about to implode in on itself. I make my way out of the hole as fast as I can. Huge amounts of steel crashing down around behind me. As I reach the lip of the opening, I leap, and soar towards my summoned craft. I make it to a safe distance in the surrounding space.

I watch the planetoid collapse into a miniature mangled mass of metal. Silence.

I enter back into hypersleep, and continue my path.

2286 – The Birthing Pool III

Posted in Fiction, Sci-Fi on February 12, 2010 by GuNNhead

In the mornings, she talks over Paul’s ideas with Maddie. After supper, the three talk of them together. Maddie seems to be the most enthusiastic, her reasons unclear, but her excitement is unmistakable. Together, Paul and Maddie convince Laura that maybe living a life dedicated to a corporation is not the best way to live a life. Perhaps, it is the nature of humanity to live for one’s self. Perhaps.

Laura’s face, sleeping peacefully in a dimly lit room. She wakes, with a start. This isn’t how it’s supposed to be. She looks to her side, and raises a baby, covered in liquid. Lifeless. Did she drown it to escape being farmed for the colony? To be another of their property, like she was? Like everyone here was? No, it’s coated in embryonic fluid, freshly born. A medic droid slowly takes it from her grasp, as she remains in the pool of fluid. The bio-genetic birthing tentacles still wrap her stomach and legs. She falls back to sleep.

She calmly walks alone down a huge corridor, dressed in white, segments of her soft skin showing through the fashion. There are thousands of hexagonal windows revealing babies, children of all ages floating in a green pool. They are attached to wires and tubes of all sorts. She looks at them, feeling nothing, knowing this is how they must be raised until they are of useful age, heads filled with facts of life, hormones and brain chemistry controlled and regulated. The doors she is walking towards slides vertically open. Maddie walks in.
“How are you doing, Laura?” She jogs up to her position, before walking alongside her.
“I’m fine, the birthing process is so easy, almost feels like a day at the spa.”
“Oh, that’s simply lovely, I can’t wait until I can do my part.”
“Soon you will… Maddie, I had a very odd dream while.”
“Ooh, you must tell me of it.” They walk out the door together into the brightly lit hallway.

A flash. A child, five years old, happy, playing soccer in the red dirt inside a cave with friends. Lights strung up, adults looking on, smiling.

Laura’s face, sleeping peacefully in a dimly lit room. She wakes, with a start. This isn’t how it’s supposed to be. She looks to her side, and raises a baby, covered in liquid. Lifeless. Did she drown it to escape being farmed for the colony? To be another of their property, like she was? Like everyone here was? No, it’s coated in embryonic fluid, freshly born. She’s in the birthing pool. She feels to her side, a pistol, Paul had given it to her. She lifts the newborn with the weapon under its chin, and fires. Brains splatter the medic droid’s faceplate as the blast carries on through it. It falls. The technorganic tentacles, startled, grasp her legs firmly. She fires at those as well, and they loosen, falling dead and limp. She hops off the table, and slides, attempting to stand weakly. She steadies herself on the rim of the birthing pool, with gun in hand. She runs out the door, into the hallway. The white light is blinding, filling the view.