BIG REX CHAPTERS 9
Stories lists, by The Author iIntermind Weaverss,
to be continued
[ 1 ]
It was early still in the morning, theres was about, a little more than a hundred twenty people in the camp, now. The kids were already up, but lots of adult folks was still sleeping, some didn't sleep but cried all night, some were in shock, others were drowning their pain and lost in liquor and drugs, either way he came walking around where they were sleeping and waking them up, he was now with one thing on his mind, and that was laying down his new laws.
BR, knew what he had to do. The man, Neither knew. His words were going to make some people blue. And he might even have to kill a few!
He had to give these people, he saved, hope. Hope was something hard for him to give. Neither he nor they could barely cope. Hope was hard, a hard thing to believe in!
But he had to give it!
He knows his head was bad, but today, he has to straighten up and think straight, make sense, other wise. Every body, including him is going to die! All these people he saved need to eat, and food in the boat gone be sour sweet, and about to run out! He was born and raised in a democracy to be free, free to think, speak and pee! But since he's the one that knows how to survive, it can't be run like a democracy right now!
He's going to have to act like a king! And they not gone understand that!
He's always been, bad, But now. He's gone be bad, might even have to kill some people, to do good, long term!
He knows nobody gone understand him, but he's got to do what a man like him, got to do!
Big rex, walked close to the campers resting on the ground, and thought to himself : I have to tell them what to do, and when to do it. He's going to have to explain to them why he's going be a dictator!
Well, walking into the camp that day, BR checked out all the people that were laying on blankets on the ground, half awake, with a leery eye on him.
Then, he raised up his voice and spoke loud so everybody could hear him!
Listen up wake up! Pay attention! Like told y'all before, My name is Big Rex. Or BR, I can't say good morning, to you, knowing in my heart, it's not a good morning for anybody! I am a tad cranky. Year that's true! I seen better days! And so have you!
I know y'all, been crying, and didn't get no sleep last night! Ya, see, what I said is true!
The world done gone and exploded. Exploded in two! One Earth up above your head, and one where you're laying on the ground! Ain't, no more world! As we known it!
As you can tell by all the destruction, you can see, everywhere, all around, all the people are dead!
No. It can't be! Y'all say? But, you see it wit,' your own eyes! Wo, wo. No! But hell, this is it. This is our world today!
I been born, and raised in the streets, never had nothing, now I got less! And this world as it is, gives me head ache, and a major bad attitude problem!
Now life as we all knows it. Is gone! Gone, gone! Gone be bad!
It's too much for ya. It hurts so bad. And you and your baby say, why?
And things, been down, and it was too much for you, and, and that's why, oh year, you know what? I gotta talk, talk to you today.
And I know if somebody ask ya, what's wrong with ya boy? You gonna say I lost everything. It hurts so bad. It's too much for me to say good by, to the world, I know! I, like you, I been, walking the back streets of my mind, and crying! Crying over it! Oh year, but folks please listen . I gotta tell ya, we can't, I say we can't say good bye, can't give up!
Now what I going to say, you ain't gone like. So I know y'all just woke up, and all! But I am gone be responsible or all y'all. And gone keep saying that cause that's true!
I am gone tell you like it is. We got so much folks here. Kids and old folks, and all! Lotta mouths to feed!
We need laws. We need order! I am gone tell you what to do. And you gone do what I say! If you don't listen I gone put your ass back in the bottom of the boat! I can't deal with problems! I got so many already! Don't make any for me! I gotta enough! Just trust me and do what I say!
Oldsters, take forever, when we’re in a hurry. Do your part as best you can! Don't make me kill anybody!
Maybe later we'll have a democracy, but not now! This is not a democracy. So I tell ya what I want, he said.
I ain't got enough of nothing, to give you.
Shelter, if it rains! I got a cave near by that's big enough.
Food, I got scraps from the boat!
Clothes we rob suitcases out of the boat!
Schools? I am the schools, I'll teach ya, how to survive! But, if, if you get bad grades, this teacher will kill ya!
Doctors we're lucky, two of the passengers are Doctors!
We got one Obstetrician, that's good news for the ladies!
So we got two Doctors. They don't speak a lot of english. They speak Chinese, and our devices, translators watches, can translate for now, but the batteries are running low. I am saying that, just so you know!
So listen up, stop crying and listen up cause I am only going to say this once!
Y'all, not gone like what I gotta say today, but what I got to say. I got to say!
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Warriors?
Yes!
All you men! I need men to be warriors, he suddenly announced to the crowd!
I need you. I need you, BR, said again, loudly, prancing around with his hands behind his back, like lumbering bear on attack!
He was being very emotionally angry about something, so much so it looked like smoke was rising from the top of his cowboy hat! BR, was grimacing, his eyes alight, an angry, but what he was about to say to them, was going to be like a bombshell, hitting everybody like stunning, shockwave, right between the eyes!
I need fighters willing to die, defending us against them. See, before I found you! Before I came down into the boat, I realized I was not the only one to survived in this god forsaken world! Oh no!
There others, others, who turned into cannibals, ragged disgraceful, defeated in spirit, disadvantaged in the mind,
13 who were losers! I saw them, I saw them! And I hated them!
They were a tribe! Yes, others, there are others, who survived too! Who want to eat you! That, now roam the earth hunting to kill anybody they find to eat them!
We need warriors!
I saw them, you see before the upper earth, went up higher, it was closer. I don't where they came from. Upper or lower earth?
All I know, we got to be prepared! All I know, we got to be prepared, he yelled out this time, louder, this time he said in a guttorial way, emphasizing his point!
I need you to understand that the blue cannibals, I saw, might find my camp full of people, and attack. You wouldn't like that!
They have a strange Oder that I can smell. I saw them, I saw them. Some are running with spears, and are naked! Hunger is core reason for this contagion, to do this! It spreads! It's starts and we are all programmed to be afraid of certain primal fears, staving to death is one of our main fears! It can turn us from human, back to beast!
Fear is one of the most potent contagion's, that is highly contagious! This fear of going hungry, is a self fulfilling prophesy. It's, here with us, he said pointing to his temple, his head, since the beginning of time, . . he said!
It's what drives men, sane men, teachers, and professors, poor and rich alike, to this abominable shame! I saw a disproportional amount of teenager boys and girls, running with them. Hungry!
Hungry!
They turned on each other, and they are a danger!
These ragged groups of men turned cannibals, who paint their bodies with blue oils that came out of the earth. I am positive they don't know I am here. They didn't see me spying on them. They don't know I am here! But, if one of those devils, returns back, they might find out, out that I brought you up, out the boat! And there lots of people to eat here!
They'll come back!
That, they'll know we are here! If they know we are here, and come. That's why I want an army , an army to fight. If they ever come this way again we will fight them. We will be ready!
So! I know you just got out of the boat and are weak, but I will feed you, make you strong!
Hear my words, Do you know, now why I want warriors! Do I get men who, who want to be warriors? Do I get men ready to fight? Do I get you to be with me in our hour, when we are most vulnerable?
Who amongst you, who will join me to build an army? Big Rex, asked turning his head and scanning the width and breath of the people before him!
If you willing to be a warrior, tell me, let me know now! Who? Raise your hands, he demanded, raising up his hands high in the air! And soon, others raised clenched fists. They raised their hands! Well, the hands went up. The crowd didn't hesitate. Even women, and girls wanted to fight!
Now listen! Year, I am different than you! I dress like one of them old time cowboys, I like it, that's just my style, doesn't mean I am wild.
Do not dismiss this, I know I yanked you from this, death, to survive, but now to hear that you might hunted, for your flesh, it's nuts! But, I did not promise you paradise, did I? But, life and, life is what it is! This!
You can cry later, . . Now, I need you to learn to be fighters, soldiers, to guard and protect the females here with us! Without them, our specie dies. All you women, got to be pregnant soon! Yes, you heard me, time is both a friend and our enemy! I have a friend her name is Sally! What I have learned, is the position you were born into!
Is not the position where you gonna die! So If, mind you, I say, If, we all still alive, next year, we got new babies! Lots of babies next year! Lots of them! We gotta double our population quick! And if sex is the trick, we got the stick!
Before the world blew up, we had it good! Dam right said BR, in a low voice under his breath, as if he was talking to himself!
I think y'all all agree? We had cool places, like restaurants, saloons, pubs, coffee shops, that were chock-full of prime people-watching opportunities, but no more! Ladies and gents, what you see is what you get!
So, ladies don't wait for mister, Right. He ain't coming! He's most likely dead! Take what you can get! There're good men here! Our future depends on it! And we depend on you! So women, You want to talk to me? Talk to me!
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Next! Workers!
I need workers. Not bench, warmers! Workers, is what I need. Yes, indeed! Workers, willing to play an organized, central role, in trying to do farming, Yes sir! There's lots of tomato seeds, and other seeds, corn, potatoes, and vegetables we got out of the boat, so planting seeds every day, will make this camp a better place for everyone. So all you men, if you cannot become a warrior, and don't think you want to work, listen up! Don't be a jerk! No women for you, or worse, if you don't work, forget about it! You want a woman? You talk to me first, if I say so. Then it is so! I'am going to be their protector! You don't like what I am saying, you don't like my laws! You think it got flaws! Then go back, go back down, from out where I took ya! You heard me! Get yer, dam ass, back into the bottom of that boat. If that's what you prefer! I can arrange that, easy for ya! One, two, three! See me!
You got a complaint? Tell me about it! If, you're thinking of leaving the camp, the answer is no! Run-aways, will be hunted down and caught, and be en-slaved! You heard me! No rights! None! Think about it! I swear, if you are not with me, you're against me!
Like I said before, . . . I am gone be responsible for you. You gone be responsible to respect and help me anyway you can, by the same token, no way should you take me for granted or underestimate me!
I saved you, and I can un-save you!
Y'all life is gone get better, but it got to get worse first! This ain't no free lunch! We got to learn to be better than damage goods. It's gone be a marriage, between you and me to stay alive you see, trust me! My name is BIg Rex, BR, and like I said, but unless I tell you otherwise, when you address me, call me boss! Boss, wit a capital B! If anybody got a problem with that, I'll kill' em!
This here is my camp. You in it! I put ya in it! This is my Bumble Bugga land! Me? I like honey, I like Honey bees! I like bugs. And, I call my camp, Bumble Bee City. So, that's it! Now you know! Now you know where the hell you are!
Listen up, I welcome you! At the same time, I swear, if you cause me any problems. I'll put you back in the boat!
Now, open your ears! No, you are not gone sit around crying all day! Life is all you got. It's all you gonna have! Don't make me take it away from you! Listen to me! I want you to trust me. Listen to me!
I'll make you survive! You gonna look around, and get depressed. And think you cannot live like this. You can't survive! I'll make you survive!
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Big Rex spoke on a lot of topics, and then he said. Ah' year. Something I wanted to mention, in this meeting!
What I want you to know, is, . . . I can get y'all Virtual Reality stuff, like glasses, so you can remember how the old Earth was. No internet, needed just mind power stuff! So talk to me if you're interested.
I know some of y'all still got money in your wallets So, if you have lost as much as I have, but don't want to give in, and give up! Maybe, If you like to go VR, and see how things used to be. Maybe you'll do it, just bring back good time memories, or other people might need it, for Post traumatic stress disorders, therapy! Any how, if interested. See me after the meeting!
So, it was, . . . Yet, for reasons outside of our comprehension, destinies intervention,
It must have read, his mind, greedy, to exploit, the frailties of the bugs he dragged out of the bottom of the ship. BR, told the bugs he was the big Boss! And, he took out of boat something he kept secret about. But, now, he lays his secret cards on the table, at the meeting! He wants to let the people get access to see the Earth world, the cities, the stories, and places before the world was destroyed! BR, has VR, glasses that he will let them use, for cash, gold, and jewelry! But no credit cards!
BR, he found some VR, glasses aboard the ship in suitcases. And they were in good condition too! No internet needed, just your mind power!
You know the type! You know the type, invented a long long time ago. The VR, glasses with recumbent AR, that work powered by the minds signals.
BR, wanted the bugs to pay up, if they want to use his toys, that will be allowing folks to revisit the world, that they lost! How much is it worth it to you? To see it again, he asked himself Seems like he's showing he's an entrepreneur! Albeit a crazy one!
For those few minutes of VR, memories, of happiness he wants you pay him. How? With, money or what ever you got for sale? What is it about Big Rex? These people just came out of that boat! They are mentally distraught, beaten , exhausted, depressed, and bewildered, but yet, he shows no love or empathy for them. He says he does, but by his actions it's obvious, he's not concerned!
He's got access to the hardware, cause he can go down searching in the boat, whenever he wants!
You can't go in the boat unless he says so! So, BR, lets teenagers working for him, go down searching for VR glasses and other bidirectionally mind powered,
optical cross-link technology, offline
glasses, along with any interfaces, that they can retrieve! This, he said they can do, as long as it's not ruined by water, or fire, he will give them prizes!
After all, these ship's passengers, they were very affluent people, and had lots gadgets, lots of devices, and VR, contact lens, and VR glasses, and one of the compelling features of the application it works on is your natural brainwave operating system. And it's like you're dreaming, the action of dreaming, and imagining creates biological brain patterns movements, that can be tracked.
Yep, Even though you're are not really using your eyes, or ears, or arms or legs in real reality, only in Virtual reality!
And, so, it's those, signals created, that can be harvested, retrieved as data and read, and tricking your mind into thinking you are someplace real, when you are not! Y'all been using this stuff in games! So y'all know how it works!
It works easily, with today's technology, using interpretive, connectivity signals, it gets powered by, and from your brain, and turns the glasses on, and lets you passengers, see, and virtually visit popular scenes, cities, and famous tourists attractions, and iconic places, they are headed for, before they arrive.
Now, I ask you! Wouldn't you want to see the world as it was, before it got destroyed?
BR, turn smart salesmen? Is his behavior understandable? Or do you think he should bypass the opportunity to make money?
When he was a kid, he sold drugs, and a guy that used to buy from him, was a wealthy man, a rich investor, who was a scientist, that spent an afternoon chatting with him. And that was the first time, he got introduced to cognitive nuero science, in physics! The man got high, really high, and to see and to hear this old man, acting so funny, BR, secretly recorded what he was saying. He still has the audio, tape files on his phone files, some where!
Anyhow, the old man, was funny! And he was drinking too! And the old guy, was happily rapping to him about brain waves, and something he called event resolution imaging, and a lot of other technical stuff like : ways to put people under his control by using VR, glasses! He said, he was studying semi classical quantum mechanics, how brain waves could be used to encode information, and he thought he could make codes, to control brain activity, and thoughts!
And the scientist talked and talked and making funny jokes as he kept rapping, about how to do all this stuff!
BR, he didn't understand anything, but he was impressed about VR, and what it meant! And what if you could control people?
So, when he came across by accident, some VR, glasses in the boat, it was a big deal. A winner in his mind. He thought, at some point, he would turn these VR, glasses into cash!
Begs the question, do you like, . . . Like you, and like you, dare be greedy too, if given the opportunity?
Now, what he didn't tell anybody, was because of the circumstances he finds himself in, he thought, it might be a good thing to go looking to see if he can locate those old tapes files! And listen to those old recordings now, to see if he could learn how to control these peoples minds, using those instructions, he has! But that's for a later time! He had let his mind drift, but now he's back paying attention, and stopped meandering around, and stood stiffly in front of the people and said loudly, like some type of army commander!
OK?
It's time to lock and load, survival classes are mandatory, after breakfast starting today. Dinner is at 6 pm I expect volunteers to cook and hand out the food, each day sign up or don't expect to eat!
Judy and Saddie and Barni, and Beth Thomson, or Tee, had stayed on the hill hanging out BS'ing about everything under the sun and what's on their and other people minds, and basically didn't get back to the camp till late, It was something after one o'clock in the afternoon, when they got back toasted, and walking funny! It was at that time they were looking for a little hot coffee, and that's when they met up with this guy making some at the camp. The guys name was Baxter and he told them about the meeting he went to that morning, cause BR, said he wanted folks to attend survival classes, he was gone give after breakfast! So anyway Baxter went. And said it was kind of cool. The old guy, he called BR old, since he, Baxter, was a real young guy, just seventeen. Well he told them that BR, wanted the women to take on the responsibility to repopulate the world,
He said all reproductive girls and women of all ages, need to get pregnant in a month!
And that the guys needed to become fit, and do exercises to become strong, and ready to become soldiers to defend the camp, and enforce discipline. Sounds like he thinks we are a country or something? It was kind of neat, and all the stuff he said. He sounded like a preacher one minute, and a soldier the next. He was using a bunch of extension cords down linked to the boat, to the computer screen, he brought out of the ship. And with just battery power, he was able to show us some pictures, using recumbent networking gestural I/O with flawless G speak gesture recognition hardware. He's quite a cowboy, and I was listening to him, he appears to trying to hide the fact, that he knows a lot, and to me he was appearing to be humble. Fact is he seems crazy some times, but still he got a quite a head on his shoulders.
Baxter smiling and nodding his head, said he is looking forward to the next meeting. And that he thought, BR was a real hard core type man. That he knew a lot of the things about living outdoors, and he took them to a cave he knew about. He called it a cavern, and well, he took us all. All of us were able to fit in it, cause it was huge and deep with high ceilings. And guess what he said excitedly? Its got water, water in it, but, but it's boiling hot coming out of the earth! But BR, he said in time it would get cold and we could use it to bathe in it. Judy listened to him. The young mans eyes were bright, and he spoke admiringly and enthusiastically about BR. BR said, he'd a figure out a way to make sure prizes are given to people who excelled as fighters and warriors. And said, the kid excitedly, later this month after we get all organized and stuff, he would make another expedition to try to get some bikes, Harley Davidson bikes the Captain told him were down there in the ship. And that would be so cool, and he said, if they are successful in finding them. And if they are successful in getting them out, cause they are heavy, and it would need a lot of guys to try to do it, you know get them up and out. Well, he said he would let the strongest man and the first woman to get pregnant ride them.
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How cool is that, gives us something to look forward to, right, asked the kid, brite eyed, and enthusiastically?
Later that day, BR, was passing the time, obsessively, trying to get his screen up, he was having a hard time getting his eye scan password recognized, and was sitting on a rock just outside his tent, the sun was baring down on him and he turned around to get into shade, when he spotted someone approaching.
Year, year I remember you boy, said BR, checking the kid walking towards him. He, took off his old cowboy hat, using it as a fan, looked down at his shadow on the ground, and said to it in faint whisper, wassup? Wassup with this bugga, I wonder wassup?
It was the same teen, who seemed mesmerized by the weird man's personality and self assured-ness. But, for the boy, he was the opposite, maybe on the outside he looked cheerful, or tried to, but on the inside, he was hiding his sorrow and his deep pain.
He stood there, and he looked so, so weak, the breeze that was blowing, looked like it was going to make him fall over, as he pondered to himself, what do I do now?
He was Theo Baxter, a mixed Mexican American, who was barely seventeen, long black hair, thin like a match, and had something he wanted to ask BR, but was ashamed to. He thought, to himself, it's a crazy question, I want to ask! But this is the man in charge so why not? What is the worse that can happen? He gets angry? He makes fun of me? He laughs at me. I won't know unless I ask him? And who knows, maybe he's lonely too? Maybe he can be somebody I can turn to. He's a little bit like my dad; If my dad was alive, he always knew what to do! I can't change this world, but maybe this crazy-man can, and maybe I can help him do it!
The boy was looking sad, and pitiful down at the ground, but now got the courage to raise his two eyes up. And he looked at BR, and very slowly, hesitantly let the words form in his lips, and spoke them out : I know you have so much to do, sir. And I need to, I need to, I need to talk to you sir!
Call me Boss, said BR, as he sat there curiously checking out the kid!
I lost my dad. I was wondering if you, if, well, er, I was wondering if you could adopt me as your son? And I, well, do you think you could treat me as your son? I have no one, and I feel dead inside, like my heart is not there anymore! And you, your words this morning, are like sunshine to me!
BR, sat up straight backed and stoic, looking dumbfounded, like somebody just hit him!
What? What, said BR, shocked, shocked by the request, he knew his head was not the best, but this was off the wall, he had to stall, had to think!
As he suddenly looked up and did a double blink, stared at the boy, who had tears in his eyes now, and said : Boy, before I got y'all out, I rescued just two people, Jonathan, and the crazy captain, but now I got all these people it will be hard! See, people like somebody to lead them.
Sometimes they gone like me sometimes not! Problem is death come hunting me,
And I am born to float, I got enemies I gotta smoke! Find good buggars, good buggars to be with me, is hard, see charlie! The bad bastards gotta groke! And it's hard to be rock steady, back to back ready, if I had a little son like you! Hell. You know I am a killer right?
Yes, sir!
Yes, Boss, repeated BR, reminding him, again!
You still want me to be your daddy?
Yes, Boss!
There are men in this camp, I don't know who they are, who would like this daddy of yours dead, take over so they can be Boss. Find them!
You mingle with them, be friends, keep your eyes spying on them for me, and on everybody, boy! Boy, if you come across folks thinking to get me, tell me!
And you give me time, to get to know you, and trust ya, and we'll see? In the mean time, if you got some problems you need direction with, talk, come see me. But don't tell anybody that you're my son, and keep secret, what I said to you! You think you can do that?
Yes Boss,
What's your name son?
Baxter, Alejandro, Theo Baxter! Then, without saying another word, BR, smiled blinking at him, then stretched out his fist, making it like those hand puppets! And made like a ventriloquist, and made his voice change, sounding funny, and come out the character on his fist, and told him ;
Ultra shine, Ultra shine, there is no two of a kind! I am one of kind Baxter boy! Guns are my toys! I'll kill ya in a minute! Don't cross me! Ha, ha, ha, . . . Gone tell," Sally," bout you, now go, get some shut eye son, and I 'll see later!
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So, after listening carefully to the young teenager, named Baxter, talk about the meetings, and BR's survival classes. Judy's take away was intellectually, it was about stuff she had learned way back in college :
Family construction, and reproduction issues, and nascent communal institutional initiatives, and incentive group manipulation. Wow! She thought to her self : it's all obvious to me, he laid-out a matrix, for all foundational concerns and considerations, which are the precursors, to re-establishing a new world order! And a new world order, all under this madman's control. And all this positive thinking coming from a wild eyed country bumpkin with a cowboy hat, boots, guns and personality disorders! Things just didn't add up, she thought. She regretted missing the meeting. But remained conflicted more-so now, that he was publicly emphasizing what, in his opinion : It's a woman's duty to get pregnant. And being one, his words were especially poignant and insightful, and begged the question, were her assertions, that he is mad possibly somewhere in-between right and wrong, and she asked herself, if that is true, what the hell does that mean?
What the hell? What the hell does that uneducated, ill informed, pin brained, naive madman, unconversant with proper protocols mean?
He said, that all reproductive girls and women of all ages, need to what? Need to get pregnant by the end of the month?
Who does this poor excuse for a man think he is? Sex? No! Non compliancy, is all he is going to get from me!
But, she acknowledged, before he came out and declared what he did, about what we females must comply with, it was all speculatory at best. But, now despite all the good things he said, this obligatory pregnancy law, I am morally outraged! It freaks me out!
Confounding me?
Suddenly, she be came solemn, and melancholy, as her mind shifted to her family, and not just what would her future be like, but her past, her families deaths. She wished so desperately to see her brother, Charles, who was her brother but, not just a brother, but someone she could confide, and understood her. It was he, who she loved best out all her brothers and sisters. He was the one who always showered her with advice, she thought about her mother Sagas Saintclare, and her pop, teddy as she called him ; Theodore Saintclair. It was difficult to nearly impossible to fit in her mind, that they were gone. They were the corner stone, upon which her life revolved. She missed all them so very much and slowly she passed the time thinking about them, and how they met their end. Something she'll never know, but wanted to! She could not help thinking about it, and it evoked a keen sense of sadness and regret. She cried a lot about it.
But, that was nothing, nothing, in comparison to being forced to become a mother, not for love, but posterity! Preposterous! When I see him, I am going to slap his face! Madman!
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Mean while in a different time and place BR was informed that the Captain had gone totally bizarro crazy again trying jump in the fire again!
The people were wandering around in the cavern looking at the boiling water, with their flashlights flaring all around exploring the cave, when a man came in, walk up to BR, and whispered something in his ear. Boss, you told me to keep eye on him. Year, well he's out of it! Shit, really? Yep! It's happen again. He done it again, I don't know what you want to do about that! You want to check him out, Boss? Ok, BR, replied frustrated, so, BR and the man left. So, back at the camp the two men arrived and sure enough BR, saw it was the captain going crazy! Seems like your day of reckoning has arrived, said BR, to the old Captain, who looked like a looney toon! Jonathan, year Boss! You, you, you said he tried to kill himself, five times in the last hour? Year, Boss. Captain is that true? The captain wasn't looking at BR, or listening, and was ranting uncontrollably. And when BR, questioned him, he rapidly started shaking his head back and forth, and around, like he was trying to shake his head off his neck!
And said to BR : Why sopbonngut ban lacky me, goodu. me that me memory you thank you mom mommy, ye, you saved me?
And so hearing that set BR, off, getting in to the act of craziness too, which he knows how to play it, as if it is real!
And BR, got down on the ground, drop to his knees, raised his hands up to the sky, and acted like he was talking to the sun up in the sky! And replied emotionally and with plenty of vigor in his voice. And began to yell :
Oh hear me my my son, Oh hear me! My son of a gun! HOWOOOOoooo. DID you not hear the word, thou shall upon body harm not? Did you, you harm your self my boy? Son of god, did you, my fellow brother? BR, asked him, almost with tears in his eyes! Did you try to jump in the fire again Captain?
"Me, yes I got to escape! I got to escape! I got to escape! Ahhh ah cough escape! I me, I, mommy I rouf rouf!" The Captain started to howl like an old wolf Dog! AHoool hooo rouf ohow oooooOOOO!
Did you try to jump in the fire again Captain? Answer me, for God is talking through the sky above and he wants to know boy, did You?
I got to escape! I got to escape! Ahhh ag!
But, let no one criticize the good or bad I do, cause you not no what is true! And bare pain or carry my distain upon the land, and you did. Yes, you my son did you? Didn't you? Answer God Captain didn't you? Say yes lord!
No me me got stop me got to escape.
NO! Did I hear you say no! God thy lord, no! Did you try to commit suicide by jumping in the fire?
Me I me want escape.
Did thou one you do something bad, Captain? Tell the truth, lord thy god, you said to him no? Did you insult Thy God by saying no to his commandments, was it not your command to obey his word? Was it not your command to follow his word, and what did'ith thous do? Tell ME? Tell ME, go ahead admit your sins?
Speak Captain speak!
Oh no, Me, I just want it to stop, I talking in my head I can't, I cant make it stop got to escape! The people in my head!
Tell me did you break the lords commandments? Tell me, go ahead speak, Captain speak!
Me no know I got to get out!
Out, out did I hear you? God made the world and put you in it! If he didn't want you to be in it, he would put you out himself! And how ungrateful you be, insult him you to him thee, you say you want to leave, OUT! You want to get out, how many good righteous souls want to get in and you want out, shame on you! Captain shame on you. May the lord, thy god forgive you not? For disgraced his body thous has done, child of the lord. For verse 15 ": What then? Shall we sin because we are not not under the law, but under grace? God Forbid, for the hearers of the law are not just before God, but the doer's of the law, shall be justified." Their, brother, there is no getting out! None!
Me got to get out.
Get out to out my heaven, get out escape out to my heaven, to my heaven mine no! No in to hell maybe, into hell maybe, but the lord says no to you for you are a sinner, and we don't like you anymore. I to you see you have been a eater of meat, you drink, you disrespected my holidays nor moon nor god rest in peace tombs shall upon you shine, many have resurrected, many have dis affected many wrote the shortening of days and the shortening of hours and the, the of minutes cut in half like sliced bread, still only one crumb is left said the lord, but the time has come, prepare your self, Pray!
Me, me pray Mommy?
Thats right say onto me mommy, and repeat after me boy say:
Mommy I have been a bad boy!
Mommy I have been a bad boy,repeated the Captain.
Well, guess what? Guess asked BR. You must go into grave. The time is at hand to die! And BR rose up, and jumped in the air and pulled out his gun from its holster and aimed at the man's head and came walking over to him, and then stopped, put his gun away back in his holster, and said to him whispering,
You tell me? Tell me? Why did you jump in the fire, is it that you love Satin, my lord, Gods enemy? BR, face changed and flashed full of anger and hate and jump at him and grabbed him by the neck and started to choke him you said, NO! You said no to no to the lord! Then he spat in his face and released his neck, got to his feet and kicked the Captain in the chest. He looked up to the heavens and raised up his both arms to heavens. And said something to the sun up in the sky, and walked around the captain who was now looking back at him totally shocked. Then BR, walked over to Jonathan who was also looking wide eyed and was shocked. And in a low voice, as natural and calm as can be, he said to Jonathan, you know Jonathan to your point, I think you're right he is nuts.
Ye, er um er um yes, yes, Boss, said Jonathan, amazed and stutteringly. I know, See, Boss I told you, I told you he's nuts! We can't control him, he's a goner! Ok, I don't got time for this shit, snapped BR. And I know there are no hospitals doctors or mental institutions for the boy, so I got to put him down! What? What, asks Jonathan shocked! You heard me, Jonathan. The man is a dead man walking. Only thing to do is put him out of his misery. Well, I don't know I thought maybe since he thinks you're his mother, you might calm him down, Boss? No, put him down, thats whats needed here! Think about that, Hmmmnn, come to think of it, we gone need a cemetery, a cemetery is what this place needs to bury its future dead people. Remind me about it later Jonathan asked BR, off handedly. We gone take him after I shoot him, to big a chasm in a cliff, I found a while back. It's about twenty feet deep, and about mile from the camp. We can throw his body down there, or if thats to far, since we don't got no transportation, perhaps we could dig a hole and bury him close by, a ways from the camp. Either way his body is already in the ground! BR, lit a cigarette, inhaled and blew the smoke out, and said as he raised his gun and put it to the Captain head, time to go bye-bye Captain! He put his finger on the trigger to pull it to kill him, when just then the Captain looked at him in his eyes while the gun was pointed at his forehead, and smiled and said,
nice Mommy! Nice Mommy nice Mommy! Thanks,
he said again and smiled and closed his eyes to receive the bullet, and it was then BR, realized thats why, the Captain was causing such a ruckus, so I would do what he wanted to do, and that was to help him kill himself, and he said sorry, you don't get it. Not to day big feller! What, said Jonathan? He wanted me to kill him, Jonathan. But, looky looky a brand new cookie, Lucky for him I know a little trick, I learned back when I was in the special services! What, I don't get it, Boss? Few do, Jonathan, especially guys like you, dude! You're not supposed to! Now listen up. Heres what I want you to do, and since the people are away, and the camp is empty this is the perfect time to pull this off! No witnesses to interfere. We got to do this quick, see that speaker box, over there, he said pointing, crack it open and take the magnetic speakers and bring it to me quick, I am gone get the defibrillator while you do that. But, why Boss, don't ask me nothing. Just do it, said BR! So, the two men went about getting these things and then came back to where the Captain was tied up to a pole and BR, said to the Captain laying on the ground, Mommy needs you be a nice boy, as he pulled out a rag and rapt it around the Captain head and duck-taped around it, so it wouldn't fall off then he got the Captain to stand up and and walked over to the metal hull of the boat and grabbed the rope and slammed the man's skull into it again and again at full force, bam, bam, bam! Then grabbed his neck and forced his head straight into the metal bashing his forehead up against it, POW! He slammed the man's forehead into the metal wall several times un-mercifully, bam bam bam, till the Captain fell backwards unconscious! OK, quick take the speakers and you placed one on that side of his temple and I'll put the other one the other side and we'll duck tape it up with the duck tape real nice! Ok, Boss but, Shit shut the hell up, Jonathan, I don't time for your questions. Just do it. Then BR, took the Defibrillator and gave the man several electrical shocks to the head! He did it, again and again jolting it several times more and said to the Captain as the man woke up. Good morning, son! Hi, it's me. This is your mother talking to you son! Your mother, I want to welcome you home son, you gone be all right. I know your head is hurting now but the pain will stop. Son I am your mother. And as your mother you must obey me and do every thing I say Other wise Mommy will get angry! Do every thing I say, cause I am your mommy? You, do every thing I say, cause I am your Mommy. Do every thing I say, cause I am your mommy?
Yes, yes, yes mommy!
Now, son, stay quiet a little while and drink this, he said giving him a drink of water, and telling him, this is hot mineral water from the center of the world! It will make your mind feel peaceful and if you get into a fight, bullets won't hurt you, unless I say so, and you will be happy and I will take care of you! Do you understand Captain my son?
Yes, Mommy you will take care of me,
Yes, son I will. You will make sure nobody tries to hurt mommy, if anybody tries to hurt mommy you kill them got it?
Yes, Mommy, I will kill them.
Good, now you just stay here quiet resting OK?
Ok!
And the men got up and walked a few feet away from the captain who laid befuddled on the ground sleeping and Jonathan said, Boss whats happening? BR, didn't answer, but smiled. He raised his hands up and lit a cigarette and walked back to the camp and took out a bottle of Barcardi Rum, twisted off the cap, threw some on his hands to wipe off the Captains blood. And then opened a can of coke and mixed it in the bottle of rum and took a swig, and said, ahh, good, he said after tasting it. You want ? He said holding out the bottle to Jonathan meaning if he wanted a taste? Jonathan, shook his head meaning no, but then confused, took it quickly and drank some. What did you do? Don't worry, he's back! The Captain is back! He won't be back the same as he was before. But at least I didn't have to shoot the boy!
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A little later, we see the Captain being placed on the ground, next to a chair, and in the chair is BR, who is wrapping a wire around the Captains head! After removing the Duck tape, and, now he's fixing in place, these two speakers, right atop the Captains head. One speaker, covering over one of his ears, and one speaker is covering the other! Like they were headphones, and BR, strapped them on to him, tight, with wires, and tightened them up so they wouldn't come off. Then he gave a sign to the Captain, not to move and that he would be right back. BR went to his tent, and de-activated a secret string to a live grenade, he had as booby trap in case of a thief might get ideas, took a key and unlocked his shotgun from a big metal box, holding the rest of his gun collection, and chained it! And then, the rest of his secreted purported contents back, and covered them over. He re-set his hand-grenade trip cord device, to blow up anybody stupid enough, who'd try to steal his stuff!
And, then he came back over, smiling like nice mother to his child, and gave the big shot gun to the Captain, saying kill anybody, who I tell you to. Yes, Mommy! Nodded the captain smiling. Good boy, you and me, gone get along just fine! Here, son, he said, pulling out a small bottle of rum and handing it to him, relax and bit, and have some? Why don't you come with me to the cave, that's where the folks are, come on Captain, you too Jonathan and the three men left.
[ 9 ]
Earlier, Baxter a teenager attaining the meeting commented, my parents taught me the value of minding my own business. And saving some of my allowance for a raining day and woking at a job as waiter in a restaurant help me, greatly in getting to know how the world worked, now when my parents have passed away in this catastrophe. I feel lost, but when, when I am somehow listening to BR. He makes me feel incredibly different, like we have chance, A chance! A chance at starting over! You know what I mean, he said, to his friend, another little kid his age named, Bobby. Well, the boy shook his head, and pushed his hair out of face, and said Bobby, I don't think he's that cool, cool at all cause, he wants us to do what he saysI He wants to be Boss! And he is my father! And he doesn't want anybody, anybody to have a say nothing. Who the hell he thinks he is anyway. BR, is the boss, plain and simple! Bobby, think about it! If it weren't for that old dude, we wouldn't be here now! And Baxter went to make some some coffee, and sat down thinking about all he heard BR say, the more he thought about it, the more he felt optimistic about everybody's future. Later, he laid back and got some shut eye, and then heard a wind in the distance starting to blow, a faint odd sound, like a cat blowing in the wind sounding like " meowoooooduck, meowoooooduck, meowoooooooooooduck!"
[ 10 ]
Later, the afternoon came riding in ever so slowly, chipping away at the long empty hours in the day, and slowly the desperate parties in the group began finding their niches, and making their friends and little associations with each other, and slowly all of them everybody, was coming to the realization that they, and they alone are the ones left in the world. And slowly they started to feel the beginning of group identification as, survivors, albeit by the urgings of BR. The children of which, there were an assortment of boys and girls, varying in ages from : three years old to seventeen years old, who were eager, and their temperament rotated back and forth constantly, between feeling happy, sad, and inquisitive, and in disbelief that their parents weren't ever coming back! They were sad without them. And they felt a great over bearing punishing lost in their hearts without them, some kids were getting bogged down deep in depression. So it was a happy surprise to them, when BR, came out gather the kids over around him, to show them a game he called, fate! " kill the bad times." He brought out a big pot of kitchen knives and gave it the big kids and told them to trying throwing it at a tree! And that the tree was their bad times! And they should throw the knife at the tree, for punishment for bringing them sadness, and bad times on them. Well,BR started the thing off! And low and behold BR, he pulled out a big kitchen knife from the pot, and blindfolded himself, and threw a knife and stuck it into the tree to the amazement of the kids and adults alike!
The kids, now took to the idea like glue, of course they were told not to use blind folds, but they, heard from BR , that it was a way, to get rid of your bad feeling and let out your sadness and frustration, and help them forget!
And he told them it would make them feel better. Soon, practically all the kids, save for the babies had a kitchen knife in their hands throwing at the tree! He would allow three throws, then blow a whistle and the kids would run and retrieve the knives and do all over again. He put one kid named, Baxter and an adult woman name Koto, in charge so the kids had someone older guiding them and making sure they wind up killing each other, then he left. The day was long, long, lots of time on people hands, BR thought to himself he definitely would have to figure a way to change that, " Idle hands hath time to sin!"
Now later that day, BR sent The Captain to get him some hot water from the caves to make the coffee for everybody. He gave him some heavy rope and tied the empty water cooler jug with it around the handle, so he could drop it in the streaming boiling hot water, and pull it out, and cap it, and drag it to the camp, so they could start to make some hot coffee for every body as was custom. Well, the captain left around two pm in the afternoon and it should take him ten minutes to do it so he sent him to fetch it.
So, the guy was walking through the encampment, and on his way he went over to the mens section of the camp where BR
said the men had to be separated from the women. BR had told them, at first the arrangement, was going to be, that all the folks that in the beginning so everybody felt comfortable, that the folks on the left side is for men, and the right side of the camp is women and the middle is kids and the backside is for married couples and folks who wanted to live together as couples. It was simple solution and it was working. Later he order the woman be guarded by himself and then some others, to keep a eye of them, and security!
And so while the Captain was passing through, he met up with some of the men folk!
A Latino, guy by the name of Bennymoray and another one, a big black dude, named Dizzy and one more a man, named Garfield, and couple of others, who were drinking and playing cards and they started up a conversation with the old man, but making fun of him, and sounding up on how he looks! They laughed at him, with those radio speakers taped to his head with duct tape! And why was he was wearing them, and why his face was all swollen up! And the captain was in no mood to talk about anything about what happen to him, when all of sudden Bennymoray wrestled the shot gun from him, and pushed him to the ground.
And Bennymoray, laughed and said, well look it here y'all, guess what? Guess what we got? ha, ha, ha.
It seems, we got the gun now! Don't it boys, asked Bennymoray, a shiny haired, Puerto rican dude with a thin black mustache, and a cigarette dangling from his lips! He smiled shaking his head up and down gesturing proudly with the big shotgun in his hands rubbing its shiny surface, as it glistened in the sunlight.
He walked over to the Captain laying now on his back looking up to him. It was hard for the Captain to see his face in the glare of the noondays bright sun, but he could hear him well enough, and what he was saying wasn't good. He said, times funny! There is a time and place, and a place and time to die! The men were all concerned, this was happening fast, it this guy wanted to kill BR, and with BR, out of the way, and dead, would that mean, chaos would take over?
Or was the idea of this camp, a lost cause from the outset!
Does a man with a gun and no vision, better than a man who is crazy, but crazy in a good way, with a gun and a vision? There wasn't anytime to think, and sure was no time to debate it! As the three guys rose up macho style and walked stepping aside to discuss privately, what they want to do now that they had BR shotgun! Was it a good thing? Time would tell! Listen Garfield, said we got to do this right the first time! Cause this BR [ BLEEP ] plays stupid, but that's bullshit, he's ghetto slick man. You got knock him out first! Kill his ass, dig it? We go shoot him in the back, then break into tent get his other weapons and everything is cool, we home free, homey!
Solid, smiled Bennymoray, agreeing, and then Dizzy, the big black dude, came up with this plan, what about this?
I split now, you dudes, wait here, till he comes looking for Captain shithead, and you confront him here, by then, it would of given me a chance to get a weapon out of his tent! Bet? I know he got lots of shit in there, knives too! This way you cover him in the front when he comes, you bull shit him, waste some Bull shitting, small talk, and I will attack him from behind, he's dead meat You know wha I'm saying bro? Bennymoray, nodding his head, in agreement, said smiling, sweet! Sweet and neat Dizzy! I like it Dizzy! If this shit works out, you gone be my main man, Homey! And we get some booty time tonight, Ha, ha, ha. Whether the girls like it or not, we got the guns! ha, ha, ha!
Then an older grey hair Irish dude name Mikey, who had worked as engineer on the boat joined them saying, I don't like taking orders from no stupid ass Mexican crack pot, and that's all BR, is! And now that we got his [ BLEEPING ] shotgun, we should take over!
Hell year, said Bennymoray, who out of y'all is with me, cause this ain't no bullshit! I am serious as heart attack! I am down with with you baby, said Dizzy, who was a big muscular man as tall as the sky and weighing a ton too! Dizzy, who also was a musician punk rocker, covered head to toe in tattoos, and Garfield, who was a fat looking Eskimo Indian chain smoker from Alaska, with shifty black eyes like a flea at sea! Shit, lets take over this mother [ BLEEP ] said his buddy Mikey! Count me in said, Mikey!
Time for fun. Ha, ha, ha ! Then suddenly, Now you don't want to do that. The boss said he'd get angry, said the captain getting to his feet, but then Mikey hit him in the head with the water cooler jug bottle, BAMM! Making him fall backwards! Ha, ha, ha! They all laughed. Well, perhaps if we shoot your boss, your stupid beautiful person boss will get real angry and drop dead, ha, ha, ha! If you hurt the boss I will have to kill you!
Ha, ha, ha, you crazy[ BLEEPING ] Captain hasn't anybody told you yet? You are messed [ BLEEP ] up, dude! Ha, ha, ha! The men broke out laughing together! I am gone tell the boss, year you go do that old man, ha, ha, ha! But stay here a minute, Check it out Dude, stay here, or I 'll put a bullet hole in you the size of house! Dizzy, said Bennymoray, you wait, time yourself perfectly. I am gone to send Garfield, Mr. G, better yet, one of those kids? He looked around and pointed to one, and yelled, Hey you, punk, come over here, he said pointing to the youth named Baxter, who was watching, scared.
Come boy! Baxter came closer and looked up at this tall, tall big man, who told him angrily! Go tell the Boss, go find and tell BR, to come over here, that the captain has fallen ill, gotten sick, understand? Baxter, was frightened, and obeyed and ran to find BR, to tell him! And Dizzy, then said, listen, while BR's walking over here toward us. Me? I'll go and take a knife, cut into his tent, and see if I can find another gun and then come up behind him, and we got him covered, front and back and Bam! It'll be easy street, sweet! Ha, ha, ha, . . But, wait Bennymoray, said. Listen I want to be the one who kills him, not you, dude! I want it baby cause I took the gun from that dude, not you see! Year, I can dig it, OK? OK, lets do do Dizzy! Cool homey! Ha, ha, ha!
So it was that second day, what every Leader, Prime Minister, King, Dictator or President or Ship Captain fears, BR had a rebellion brewing on his hands, as his rule was coming to a final close, as the men planned in advance his bloody demise!
So, back at his camp tent, BR, was happily chewing on one of his special hamburgers, he made for himself from the freezer. He had just put some barbecue sauce on it, and was about to take another bite, when Baxter came, and said, they took your shotgun, from the captain, and wanted me to come tell you the captain had fallen down sick!
And you should come quickly! But Boss, I got to tell you, it's a trap, they got your gun! What? Year, so you better be ready! What, where? Over there, Baxter pointed to over there in the mens section near the cave! Shit, Ok, come on you take me to him boy, you show me!
BR followed the teenager, concerned, because this was the first time he had let his prized shotgun, he nicked name," tits" out of his site in a long, long time!
As he was walking he saw some body laying on the ground and there was a couple of men sitting in the chairs soaking up the sun and drinking, every thing looked normal, only thing the Captain didn't have his tits. As he and the the boy walked closer to the Captain, a voice came from the side as a man was hiding with the shotgun under a large red blanket with bags and packages on top to make it look normal, but it wasn't. It was a trap, just like Baxter warned him. The strange man sprang up from the ground, quickly tossing aside the blank ket, smiling, telling him, don't move, don't even blink or I will shoot you ass mother [ BLEEPER ]
put you hands up high or die! Now! BR, raised his hands, and said dinner is at six, I expect volunteers, to help give out the food, or don't expect to eat my meat! You get your own!
Listen screwball! You ain't in no Goddam position to tell us shit no more! Turn around. BR, turned calmly around still chewing on his on one of his meat burgers! He loves his meat burgers! And looked down at the Captain and said, son why are you on the ground? Sorry Mommy, the men hit me and took your gun you gave me and pushed me away, and I fell down. And, . . . Wait, Wait, look at what's at stake? Interrupted BR, angrily, did you say, what I think you said, you said they took my gun away, from you. Did you fight to get it back? No Mommy, cause they got it and they were pointing it at me. So, what? Did I not say, did I not say to you, that no harm shall come'ith to a child of the lord? BR, smiled and shaked his head side to side, and asked gently and calmly. Did you ask them to give you my gun back? No, Mommy! Why? Well, Mommy they were making fun of me, and they had the gun! So what, I gave you water from the power of the lord, did I not? Yes, Mommy! And I told no bullets would harm you unless I said so. Did I not? Yes, Mommy! And you have been a bad boy son! Yes, Mommy! Now come with me! You are going get back up on your feet, and be very politely nice, and ask those sinners, to please give you my give gun back, Yes Mommy! So, BR and the Captain looked at the smiling man aiming the tits at them, and the Captain walks up to the man with the bosses shotgun, and says, Could you please give me the gun? Please?
[ 11 ]
Ha, ha, ha, you are crazy Captain! Ha,ha,ha! Hasn't anybody told you that yet, ha, ha, ha! Or is that too deep an idea for you grasp? Ha, ha, ha! The men broke out laughing together! I am gone tell my mommy! Year you go do that old man, ha, ha, ha! So while the men were making jokes and drinking and disrespecting you, said BR, did you ask them to give you my gun back? Yes, Mommy?
Ha ha, ha, sure! BR, your jerky Captain, he asked for it but he ain't getting it. Ha, ha, ha,ha! What I am gone give him is a big bullet in the ass! Ha, ha, ha!
Suddenly far away in the distance, Boom, boom a loud sound of hand grenade rocks the air, signaling to BR, that someone has snuck into his booby trapped tent after his guns! Captain yells to BR, did you hear that Mommy? Mommy, Mommy, BR, interrupts the Captain, saying little dear son, my dear child, your mommy put a pistol, a small hand pistol in your right hand pocket, boy! I didn't tell before, but I am telling you now! Now, I want to ask that man with my gun, politely, once more, one more time, to give you back the shotgun gun and if says no or tries to shoot you. I want to kill him, take out the gun, and shoot him once in the head. Do you understand me my son? Yes, Mommy, So the Captain smiles at Bennymoray, and bows politely like a little child, and says, excuse me sir, may I have the gun please? Ha, ha, ha sure take this, and the man aimed the gun at the Captain and pulled the trigger, laughing but the gun went
" click,"
But it was empty. So the Captain reached into his pocket and pulled out the pistol and began shooting the man," Pow, bam, Pow bam, Pow Pow, bam, Pow Pow, Pow, bam! " God dam you! What is wrong with my poor child, yelled BR, running up to him yelling angrily at him, and as ran he picks up a frying pan laying on the table and begins hitting him up side the head with frying pan! Kung, bong! konk! Did, I say, Didn't I say didn't I say use one bullet? Why did you do that? You done emptied out the whole Goddam gun, I said shoot him in the head once. Dam bullets, we only got a limited supply boy! Bullets don't grow on trees, bullets don't grow on trees, do you hear me boy? "Bullets don't grow, on trees," interrupted the Captain looking very sad, and rubbing his head which hurting something awful! You done be using up my bullets like we got more! Oh sorry boss I can go dig them out of his head if you want? Oh dear, heavenly, Father. Please forgive us this afternoon for sinning, and forgive me for striking my dear son, my little Captain in the head with this pot, my dear son, my fellow human being! I lost my temper dear father, please forgive me, BR, said crying and dropping to his knees and kissing the ground as the big crowd gathered around them totally shocked! Jonathan, yelled the Boss, Jonathan? Yes, Boss, answered Jonathan anxiously. Boy, go fetch us some shovels about six, quick so we can start digging a grave for this misguided youth holey boy! He is so holey, who gave in to bad temptations of Satan our enemy. We must bury this lost soul on the spot, now! Now, do y'all hear!
Can I, I say can I get a witness? Can I get a witness to help me bury this poor unfortunate young nice man, who just happened to make mistake? This poor beloved misguided man. Who will take up a shovel with me, in this hour of sadness, and extreme lost! Well, said the Captain looking sad, I'll help Mommy! Anyone else? Year, you can count me in, said, baxter one of the teenagers running up into the crowd! And after the shovels got there, and the man who went to fetch BR, suddenly Garfield, the unscrupulous cohort of the late Bennymoray volunteered too! And so did his sneaky engineer dude, Mikey, looking sad, trying to brown nose BR and both pretending to have no knowledge of the death plots connivery they made against him!
[ 12 ]
We open the eulogy with a few words about what the dearly departed brother, who lived through hard times only to pass on, whether it was weakness to succumb to the temptation of the world, or was it in the lifetime of inert twisted crime we will never know? I am touched as such as father, as mother, as son, as daughter, would be because he was part of the our very own Bumble Bee City, survivors community.
He was one of us. And to his friends and ours his good buddy who is laying in a coma, His friend Dizzy, who is now practical a zombie. He can't think for him self no more, he got a bad blow to his head in an accident in my tent! But luckily he is alive! But, he must be told what to do, such is the ways of revenge of the lord! We are not who, to judge his ways, but to accept his day, and we accept that we are all sinners, and today we offer up Bennymoray, whense he came our dearly departed Bennymoray, He meant to me a chance to give him an opportunity! He served and could become better! He meant to me, a chance to see the promise, we know he will be happy where he is going, Amen! OH father forgive us our transgressions, Amen!
Now, I brought my guitar and I am just gone sing a little song to him to send him merrily on his way! So BR, picked up his guitar and the crowd watched and listened in as he serenaded the departed brother at the funeral. We don't don't knowooooo, he sang, what we don't knowooooo!
Tell me why, tell me, tell me why, this had to be, We don't don't knowooooo, what we don't knowooooo!
My mother nature, you, you can't be.
Oh tell me why, this had to be!
oh tell me why, why, why
This had to be! We don't, don't knowooooo, what we don't knowooooo! And the little boy Baxter started sing along! We don't don't knowooooo, what we don't knowooooo!
Then the two little doggies, that BR, had saved from the boat, and who were now his, pets, started to sing along too, one he named Biggy, and the other he named Smally and they joined in singing along : how oooooOOOOOOO! How oooOOOOOOOO! Rouf, rouf! Then the Captain started to bark, rouf, rouf ROOOOOooooo and so it went. It was so beautiful! As slowly the afternoon ended.
But earlier it was emergency call! Four women and two men were summoned to the shadows behind the boat to save someone!
[ 13 ]
The sun was bearing down around them, and the situation was bad, and the idea was to use the coolness of the big boats long casting shadow, as a place they could gather in the cool shade, and work out of the bright sun.
The wind was blowing dust, and there was a makeshift emergency room situation happening!
There, was for a floor, the earth to walk on, no walls,
there was for a ceiling, the sky up above,
there was for air conditioning, there was the breeze!
There were several large flatten rocks, that would serve as tables for now! One, was a large grayish blue one, that was pretty smooth and semi flat, and on it was a giant big black man, who was laying on it very badly injured and bleeding bad too! The others, around him, were there trying to care for him, to save his life, they had washed their hands and apparently had some medical knowledge but no tools, just kitchen knives and needles and thread and several white bedsheets and a water cooler jug of hot water and one large pot. They got the call to come, all they were told was someone was wounded and they all had heard the big explosion earlier, but didn't know what had happened till now! The casualty was grave, and caused by an army grenade ordinances set in a booby trap, and now those gathered, had only one thing on their minds : try to save a person.
STAY TUNE CHAPTER 10 HERE WE COME!
to be continued
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BAD PERSONALITIES
1
Chapters for BIG REX
Chapters 1 and 2 >https://badpersonalities.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2017-09-02T06:06:00-07:00&max-results=11
Chapters 3 and 4
Chapters 5 and 6
Chapters 7 and 8
Chapter 10
Chapter 9
The Tweets of Madcow Sammy
BAD PERSONALITIES
BIG REX
Chapter 9
[ 1 ]
It was early still in the morning, theres was about, a little more than a hundred twenty people in the camp, now. The kids were already up, but lots of adult folks was still sleeping, some didn't sleep but cried all night, some were in shock, others were drowning their pain and lost in liquor and drugs, either way he came walking around where they were sleeping and waking them up, he was now with one thing on his mind, and that was laying down his new laws.
BR, knew what he had to do. The man, Neither knew. His words were going to make some people blue. And he might even have to kill a few!
He had to give these people, he saved, hope. Hope was something hard for him to give. Neither he nor they could barely cope. Hope was hard, a hard thing to believe in!
But he had to give it!
He knows his head was bad, but today, he has to straighten up and think straight, make sense, other wise. Every body, including him is going to die! All these people he saved need to eat, and food in the boat gone be sour sweet, and about to run out! He was born and raised in a democracy to be free, free to think, speak and pee! But since he's the one that knows how to survive, it can't be run like a democracy right now!
He's going to have to act like a king! And they not gone understand that!
He's always been, bad, But now. He's gone be bad, might even have to kill some people, to do good, long term!
He knows nobody gone understand him, but he's got to do what a man like him, got to do!
Big rex, walked close to the campers resting on the ground, and thought to himself : I have to tell them what to do, and when to do it. He's going to have to explain to them why he's going be a dictator!
Well, walking into the camp that day, BR checked out all the people that were laying on blankets on the ground, half awake, with a leery eye on him.
Then, he raised up his voice and spoke loud so everybody could hear him!
Listen up wake up! Pay attention! Like told y'all before, My name is Big Rex. Or BR, I can't say good morning, to you, knowing in my heart, it's not a good morning for anybody! I am a tad cranky. Year that's true! I seen better days! And so have you!
I know y'all, been crying, and didn't get no sleep last night! Ya, see, what I said is true!
The world done gone and exploded. Exploded in two! One Earth up above your head, and one where you're laying on the ground! Ain't, no more world! As we known it!
As you can tell by all the destruction, you can see, everywhere, all around, all the people are dead!
No. It can't be! Y'all say? But, you see it wit,' your own eyes! Wo, wo. No! But hell, this is it. This is our world today!
I been born, and raised in the streets, never had nothing, now I got less! And this world as it is, gives me head ache, and a major bad attitude problem!
Now life as we all knows it. Is gone! Gone, gone! Gone be bad!
It's too much for ya. It hurts so bad. And you and your baby say, why?
And things, been down, and it was too much for you, and, and that's why, oh year, you know what? I gotta talk, talk to you today.
And I know if somebody ask ya, what's wrong with ya boy? You gonna say I lost everything. It hurts so bad. It's too much for me to say good by, to the world, I know! I, like you, I been, walking the back streets of my mind, and crying! Crying over it! Oh year, but folks please listen . I gotta tell ya, we can't, I say we can't say good bye, can't give up!
Now what I going to say, you ain't gone like. So I know y'all just woke up, and all! But I am gone be responsible or all y'all. And gone keep saying that cause that's true!
I am gone tell you like it is. We got so much folks here. Kids and old folks, and all! Lotta mouths to feed!
We need laws. We need order! I am gone tell you what to do. And you gone do what I say! If you don't listen I gone put your ass back in the bottom of the boat! I can't deal with problems! I got so many already! Don't make any for me! I gotta enough! Just trust me and do what I say!
Oldsters, take forever, when we’re in a hurry. Do your part as best you can! Don't make me kill anybody!
Maybe later we'll have a democracy, but not now! This is not a democracy. So I tell ya what I want, he said.
I ain't got enough of nothing, to give you.
Shelter, if it rains! I got a cave near by that's big enough.
Food, I got scraps from the boat!
Clothes we rob suitcases out of the boat!
Schools? I am the schools, I'll teach ya, how to survive! But, if, if you get bad grades, this teacher will kill ya!
Doctors we're lucky, two of the passengers are Doctors!
We got one Obstetrician, that's good news for the ladies!
So we got two Doctors. They don't speak a lot of english. They speak Chinese, and our devices, translators watches, can translate for now, but the batteries are running low. I am saying that, just so you know!
So listen up, stop crying and listen up cause I am only going to say this once!
Y'all, not gone like what I gotta say today, but what I got to say. I got to say!
[ 2 ]
Warriors?
Yes!
All you men! I need men to be warriors, he suddenly announced to the crowd!
I need you. I need you, BR, said again, loudly, prancing around with his hands behind his back, like lumbering bear on attack!
He was being very emotionally angry about something, so much so it looked like smoke was rising from the top of his cowboy hat! BR, was grimacing, his eyes alight, an angry, but what he was about to say to them, was going to be like a bombshell, hitting everybody like stunning, shockwave, right between the eyes!
I need fighters willing to die, defending us against them. See, before I found you! Before I came down into the boat, I realized I was not the only one to survived in this god forsaken world! Oh no!
There others, others, who turned into cannibals, ragged disgraceful, defeated in spirit, disadvantaged in the mind,
13 who were losers! I saw them, I saw them! And I hated them!
They were a tribe! Yes, others, there are others, who survived too! Who want to eat you! That, now roam the earth hunting to kill anybody they find to eat them!
We need warriors!
I saw them, you see before the upper earth, went up higher, it was closer. I don't where they came from. Upper or lower earth?
All I know, we got to be prepared! All I know, we got to be prepared, he yelled out this time, louder, this time he said in a guttorial way, emphasizing his point!
I need you to understand that the blue cannibals, I saw, might find my camp full of people, and attack. You wouldn't like that!
They have a strange Oder that I can smell. I saw them, I saw them. Some are running with spears, and are naked! Hunger is core reason for this contagion, to do this! It spreads! It's starts and we are all programmed to be afraid of certain primal fears, staving to death is one of our main fears! It can turn us from human, back to beast!
Fear is one of the most potent contagion's, that is highly contagious! This fear of going hungry, is a self fulfilling prophesy. It's, here with us, he said pointing to his temple, his head, since the beginning of time, . . he said!
It's what drives men, sane men, teachers, and professors, poor and rich alike, to this abominable shame! I saw a disproportional amount of teenager boys and girls, running with them. Hungry!
Hungry!
They turned on each other, and they are a danger!
These ragged groups of men turned cannibals, who paint their bodies with blue oils that came out of the earth. I am positive they don't know I am here. They didn't see me spying on them. They don't know I am here! But, if one of those devils, returns back, they might find out, out that I brought you up, out the boat! And there lots of people to eat here!
They'll come back!
That, they'll know we are here! If they know we are here, and come. That's why I want an army , an army to fight. If they ever come this way again we will fight them. We will be ready!
So! I know you just got out of the boat and are weak, but I will feed you, make you strong!
Hear my words, Do you know, now why I want warriors! Do I get men who, who want to be warriors? Do I get men ready to fight? Do I get you to be with me in our hour, when we are most vulnerable?
Who amongst you, who will join me to build an army? Big Rex, asked turning his head and scanning the width and breath of the people before him!
If you willing to be a warrior, tell me, let me know now! Who? Raise your hands, he demanded, raising up his hands high in the air! And soon, others raised clenched fists. They raised their hands! Well, the hands went up. The crowd didn't hesitate. Even women, and girls wanted to fight!
Now listen! Year, I am different than you! I dress like one of them old time cowboys, I like it, that's just my style, doesn't mean I am wild.
Do not dismiss this, I know I yanked you from this, death, to survive, but now to hear that you might hunted, for your flesh, it's nuts! But, I did not promise you paradise, did I? But, life and, life is what it is! This!
You can cry later, . . Now, I need you to learn to be fighters, soldiers, to guard and protect the females here with us! Without them, our specie dies. All you women, got to be pregnant soon! Yes, you heard me, time is both a friend and our enemy! I have a friend her name is Sally! What I have learned, is the position you were born into!
Is not the position where you gonna die! So If, mind you, I say, If, we all still alive, next year, we got new babies! Lots of babies next year! Lots of them! We gotta double our population quick! And if sex is the trick, we got the stick!
Before the world blew up, we had it good! Dam right said BR, in a low voice under his breath, as if he was talking to himself!
I think y'all all agree? We had cool places, like restaurants, saloons, pubs, coffee shops, that were chock-full of prime people-watching opportunities, but no more! Ladies and gents, what you see is what you get!
So, ladies don't wait for mister, Right. He ain't coming! He's most likely dead! Take what you can get! There're good men here! Our future depends on it! And we depend on you! So women, You want to talk to me? Talk to me!
[ 3 ]
Next! Workers!
I need workers. Not bench, warmers! Workers, is what I need. Yes, indeed! Workers, willing to play an organized, central role, in trying to do farming, Yes sir! There's lots of tomato seeds, and other seeds, corn, potatoes, and vegetables we got out of the boat, so planting seeds every day, will make this camp a better place for everyone. So all you men, if you cannot become a warrior, and don't think you want to work, listen up! Don't be a jerk! No women for you, or worse, if you don't work, forget about it! You want a woman? You talk to me first, if I say so. Then it is so! I'am going to be their protector! You don't like what I am saying, you don't like my laws! You think it got flaws! Then go back, go back down, from out where I took ya! You heard me! Get yer, dam ass, back into the bottom of that boat. If that's what you prefer! I can arrange that, easy for ya! One, two, three! See me!
You got a complaint? Tell me about it! If, you're thinking of leaving the camp, the answer is no! Run-aways, will be hunted down and caught, and be en-slaved! You heard me! No rights! None! Think about it! I swear, if you are not with me, you're against me!
Like I said before, . . . I am gone be responsible for you. You gone be responsible to respect and help me anyway you can, by the same token, no way should you take me for granted or underestimate me!
I saved you, and I can un-save you!
Y'all life is gone get better, but it got to get worse first! This ain't no free lunch! We got to learn to be better than damage goods. It's gone be a marriage, between you and me to stay alive you see, trust me! My name is BIg Rex, BR, and like I said, but unless I tell you otherwise, when you address me, call me boss! Boss, wit a capital B! If anybody got a problem with that, I'll kill' em!
This here is my camp. You in it! I put ya in it! This is my Bumble Bugga land! Me? I like honey, I like Honey bees! I like bugs. And, I call my camp, Bumble Bee City. So, that's it! Now you know! Now you know where the hell you are!
Listen up, I welcome you! At the same time, I swear, if you cause me any problems. I'll put you back in the boat!
Now, open your ears! No, you are not gone sit around crying all day! Life is all you got. It's all you gonna have! Don't make me take it away from you! Listen to me! I want you to trust me. Listen to me!
I'll make you survive! You gonna look around, and get depressed. And think you cannot live like this. You can't survive! I'll make you survive!
[ 4 ]
Big Rex spoke on a lot of topics, and then he said. Ah' year. Something I wanted to mention, in this meeting!
What I want you to know, is, . . . I can get y'all Virtual Reality stuff, like glasses, so you can remember how the old Earth was. No internet, needed just mind power stuff! So talk to me if you're interested.
I know some of y'all still got money in your wallets So, if you have lost as much as I have, but don't want to give in, and give up! Maybe, If you like to go VR, and see how things used to be. Maybe you'll do it, just bring back good time memories, or other people might need it, for Post traumatic stress disorders, therapy! Any how, if interested. See me after the meeting!
So, it was, . . . Yet, for reasons outside of our comprehension, destinies intervention,
It must have read, his mind, greedy, to exploit, the frailties of the bugs he dragged out of the bottom of the ship. BR, told the bugs he was the big Boss! And, he took out of boat something he kept secret about. But, now, he lays his secret cards on the table, at the meeting! He wants to let the people get access to see the Earth world, the cities, the stories, and places before the world was destroyed! BR, has VR, glasses that he will let them use, for cash, gold, and jewelry! But no credit cards!
BR, he found some VR, glasses aboard the ship in suitcases. And they were in good condition too! No internet needed, just your mind power!
You know the type! You know the type, invented a long long time ago. The VR, glasses with recumbent AR, that work powered by the minds signals.
BR, wanted the bugs to pay up, if they want to use his toys, that will be allowing folks to revisit the world, that they lost! How much is it worth it to you? To see it again, he asked himself Seems like he's showing he's an entrepreneur! Albeit a crazy one!
For those few minutes of VR, memories, of happiness he wants you pay him. How? With, money or what ever you got for sale? What is it about Big Rex? These people just came out of that boat! They are mentally distraught, beaten , exhausted, depressed, and bewildered, but yet, he shows no love or empathy for them. He says he does, but by his actions it's obvious, he's not concerned!
He's got access to the hardware, cause he can go down searching in the boat, whenever he wants!
You can't go in the boat unless he says so! So, BR, lets teenagers working for him, go down searching for VR glasses and other bidirectionally mind powered,
optical cross-link technology, offline
glasses, along with any interfaces, that they can retrieve! This, he said they can do, as long as it's not ruined by water, or fire, he will give them prizes!
After all, these ship's passengers, they were very affluent people, and had lots gadgets, lots of devices, and VR, contact lens, and VR glasses, and one of the compelling features of the application it works on is your natural brainwave operating system. And it's like you're dreaming, the action of dreaming, and imagining creates biological brain patterns movements, that can be tracked.
Yep, Even though you're are not really using your eyes, or ears, or arms or legs in real reality, only in Virtual reality!
And, so, it's those, signals created, that can be harvested, retrieved as data and read, and tricking your mind into thinking you are someplace real, when you are not! Y'all been using this stuff in games! So y'all know how it works!
It works easily, with today's technology, using interpretive, connectivity signals, it gets powered by, and from your brain, and turns the glasses on, and lets you passengers, see, and virtually visit popular scenes, cities, and famous tourists attractions, and iconic places, they are headed for, before they arrive.
Now, I ask you! Wouldn't you want to see the world as it was, before it got destroyed?
BR, turn smart salesmen? Is his behavior understandable? Or do you think he should bypass the opportunity to make money?
When he was a kid, he sold drugs, and a guy that used to buy from him, was a wealthy man, a rich investor, who was a scientist, that spent an afternoon chatting with him. And that was the first time, he got introduced to cognitive nuero science, in physics! The man got high, really high, and to see and to hear this old man, acting so funny, BR, secretly recorded what he was saying. He still has the audio, tape files on his phone files, some where!
Anyhow, the old man, was funny! And he was drinking too! And the old guy, was happily rapping to him about brain waves, and something he called event resolution imaging, and a lot of other technical stuff like : ways to put people under his control by using VR, glasses! He said, he was studying semi classical quantum mechanics, how brain waves could be used to encode information, and he thought he could make codes, to control brain activity, and thoughts!
And the scientist talked and talked and making funny jokes as he kept rapping, about how to do all this stuff!
BR, he didn't understand anything, but he was impressed about VR, and what it meant! And what if you could control people?
So, when he came across by accident, some VR, glasses in the boat, it was a big deal. A winner in his mind. He thought, at some point, he would turn these VR, glasses into cash!
Begs the question, do you like, . . . Like you, and like you, dare be greedy too, if given the opportunity?
Now, what he didn't tell anybody, was because of the circumstances he finds himself in, he thought, it might be a good thing to go looking to see if he can locate those old tapes files! And listen to those old recordings now, to see if he could learn how to control these peoples minds, using those instructions, he has! But that's for a later time! He had let his mind drift, but now he's back paying attention, and stopped meandering around, and stood stiffly in front of the people and said loudly, like some type of army commander!
OK?
It's time to lock and load, survival classes are mandatory, after breakfast starting today. Dinner is at 6 pm I expect volunteers to cook and hand out the food, each day sign up or don't expect to eat!
Judy and Saddie and Barni, and Beth Thomson, or Tee, had stayed on the hill hanging out BS'ing about everything under the sun and what's on their and other people minds, and basically didn't get back to the camp till late, It was something after one o'clock in the afternoon, when they got back toasted, and walking funny! It was at that time they were looking for a little hot coffee, and that's when they met up with this guy making some at the camp. The guys name was Baxter and he told them about the meeting he went to that morning, cause BR, said he wanted folks to attend survival classes, he was gone give after breakfast! So anyway Baxter went. And said it was kind of cool. The old guy, he called BR old, since he, Baxter, was a real young guy, just seventeen. Well he told them that BR, wanted the women to take on the responsibility to repopulate the world,
He said all reproductive girls and women of all ages, need to get pregnant in a month!
And that the guys needed to become fit, and do exercises to become strong, and ready to become soldiers to defend the camp, and enforce discipline. Sounds like he thinks we are a country or something? It was kind of neat, and all the stuff he said. He sounded like a preacher one minute, and a soldier the next. He was using a bunch of extension cords down linked to the boat, to the computer screen, he brought out of the ship. And with just battery power, he was able to show us some pictures, using recumbent networking gestural I/O with flawless G speak gesture recognition hardware. He's quite a cowboy, and I was listening to him, he appears to trying to hide the fact, that he knows a lot, and to me he was appearing to be humble. Fact is he seems crazy some times, but still he got a quite a head on his shoulders.
Baxter smiling and nodding his head, said he is looking forward to the next meeting. And that he thought, BR was a real hard core type man. That he knew a lot of the things about living outdoors, and he took them to a cave he knew about. He called it a cavern, and well, he took us all. All of us were able to fit in it, cause it was huge and deep with high ceilings. And guess what he said excitedly? Its got water, water in it, but, but it's boiling hot coming out of the earth! But BR, he said in time it would get cold and we could use it to bathe in it. Judy listened to him. The young mans eyes were bright, and he spoke admiringly and enthusiastically about BR. BR said, he'd a figure out a way to make sure prizes are given to people who excelled as fighters and warriors. And said, the kid excitedly, later this month after we get all organized and stuff, he would make another expedition to try to get some bikes, Harley Davidson bikes the Captain told him were down there in the ship. And that would be so cool, and he said, if they are successful in finding them. And if they are successful in getting them out, cause they are heavy, and it would need a lot of guys to try to do it, you know get them up and out. Well, he said he would let the strongest man and the first woman to get pregnant ride them.
[ 5 ]
How cool is that, gives us something to look forward to, right, asked the kid, brite eyed, and enthusiastically?
Later that day, BR, was passing the time, obsessively, trying to get his screen up, he was having a hard time getting his eye scan password recognized, and was sitting on a rock just outside his tent, the sun was baring down on him and he turned around to get into shade, when he spotted someone approaching.
Year, year I remember you boy, said BR, checking the kid walking towards him. He, took off his old cowboy hat, using it as a fan, looked down at his shadow on the ground, and said to it in faint whisper, wassup? Wassup with this bugga, I wonder wassup?
It was the same teen, who seemed mesmerized by the weird man's personality and self assured-ness. But, for the boy, he was the opposite, maybe on the outside he looked cheerful, or tried to, but on the inside, he was hiding his sorrow and his deep pain.
He stood there, and he looked so, so weak, the breeze that was blowing, looked like it was going to make him fall over, as he pondered to himself, what do I do now?
He was Theo Baxter, a mixed Mexican American, who was barely seventeen, long black hair, thin like a match, and had something he wanted to ask BR, but was ashamed to. He thought, to himself, it's a crazy question, I want to ask! But this is the man in charge so why not? What is the worse that can happen? He gets angry? He makes fun of me? He laughs at me. I won't know unless I ask him? And who knows, maybe he's lonely too? Maybe he can be somebody I can turn to. He's a little bit like my dad; If my dad was alive, he always knew what to do! I can't change this world, but maybe this crazy-man can, and maybe I can help him do it!
The boy was looking sad, and pitiful down at the ground, but now got the courage to raise his two eyes up. And he looked at BR, and very slowly, hesitantly let the words form in his lips, and spoke them out : I know you have so much to do, sir. And I need to, I need to, I need to talk to you sir!
Call me Boss, said BR, as he sat there curiously checking out the kid!
I lost my dad. I was wondering if you, if, well, er, I was wondering if you could adopt me as your son? And I, well, do you think you could treat me as your son? I have no one, and I feel dead inside, like my heart is not there anymore! And you, your words this morning, are like sunshine to me!
BR, sat up straight backed and stoic, looking dumbfounded, like somebody just hit him!
What? What, said BR, shocked, shocked by the request, he knew his head was not the best, but this was off the wall, he had to stall, had to think!
As he suddenly looked up and did a double blink, stared at the boy, who had tears in his eyes now, and said : Boy, before I got y'all out, I rescued just two people, Jonathan, and the crazy captain, but now I got all these people it will be hard! See, people like somebody to lead them.
Sometimes they gone like me sometimes not! Problem is death come hunting me,
And I am born to float, I got enemies I gotta smoke! Find good buggars, good buggars to be with me, is hard, see charlie! The bad bastards gotta groke! And it's hard to be rock steady, back to back ready, if I had a little son like you! Hell. You know I am a killer right?
Yes, sir!
Yes, Boss, repeated BR, reminding him, again!
You still want me to be your daddy?
Yes, Boss!
There are men in this camp, I don't know who they are, who would like this daddy of yours dead, take over so they can be Boss. Find them!
You mingle with them, be friends, keep your eyes spying on them for me, and on everybody, boy! Boy, if you come across folks thinking to get me, tell me!
And you give me time, to get to know you, and trust ya, and we'll see? In the mean time, if you got some problems you need direction with, talk, come see me. But don't tell anybody that you're my son, and keep secret, what I said to you! You think you can do that?
Yes Boss,
What's your name son?
Baxter, Alejandro, Theo Baxter! Then, without saying another word, BR, smiled blinking at him, then stretched out his fist, making it like those hand puppets! And made like a ventriloquist, and made his voice change, sounding funny, and come out the character on his fist, and told him ;
Ultra shine, Ultra shine, there is no two of a kind! I am one of kind Baxter boy! Guns are my toys! I'll kill ya in a minute! Don't cross me! Ha, ha, ha, . . . Gone tell," Sally," bout you, now go, get some shut eye son, and I 'll see later!
[ 6 ]
So, after listening carefully to the young teenager, named Baxter, talk about the meetings, and BR's survival classes. Judy's take away was intellectually, it was about stuff she had learned way back in college :
Family construction, and reproduction issues, and nascent communal institutional initiatives, and incentive group manipulation. Wow! She thought to her self : it's all obvious to me, he laid-out a matrix, for all foundational concerns and considerations, which are the precursors, to re-establishing a new world order! And a new world order, all under this madman's control. And all this positive thinking coming from a wild eyed country bumpkin with a cowboy hat, boots, guns and personality disorders! Things just didn't add up, she thought. She regretted missing the meeting. But remained conflicted more-so now, that he was publicly emphasizing what, in his opinion : It's a woman's duty to get pregnant. And being one, his words were especially poignant and insightful, and begged the question, were her assertions, that he is mad possibly somewhere in-between right and wrong, and she asked herself, if that is true, what the hell does that mean?
What the hell? What the hell does that uneducated, ill informed, pin brained, naive madman, unconversant with proper protocols mean?
He said, that all reproductive girls and women of all ages, need to what? Need to get pregnant by the end of the month?
Who does this poor excuse for a man think he is? Sex? No! Non compliancy, is all he is going to get from me!
But, she acknowledged, before he came out and declared what he did, about what we females must comply with, it was all speculatory at best. But, now despite all the good things he said, this obligatory pregnancy law, I am morally outraged! It freaks me out!
Confounding me?
Suddenly, she be came solemn, and melancholy, as her mind shifted to her family, and not just what would her future be like, but her past, her families deaths. She wished so desperately to see her brother, Charles, who was her brother but, not just a brother, but someone she could confide, and understood her. It was he, who she loved best out all her brothers and sisters. He was the one who always showered her with advice, she thought about her mother Sagas Saintclare, and her pop, teddy as she called him ; Theodore Saintclair. It was difficult to nearly impossible to fit in her mind, that they were gone. They were the corner stone, upon which her life revolved. She missed all them so very much and slowly she passed the time thinking about them, and how they met their end. Something she'll never know, but wanted to! She could not help thinking about it, and it evoked a keen sense of sadness and regret. She cried a lot about it.
But, that was nothing, nothing, in comparison to being forced to become a mother, not for love, but posterity! Preposterous! When I see him, I am going to slap his face! Madman!
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Mean while in a different time and place BR was informed that the Captain had gone totally bizarro crazy again trying jump in the fire again!
The people were wandering around in the cavern looking at the boiling water, with their flashlights flaring all around exploring the cave, when a man came in, walk up to BR, and whispered something in his ear. Boss, you told me to keep eye on him. Year, well he's out of it! Shit, really? Yep! It's happen again. He done it again, I don't know what you want to do about that! You want to check him out, Boss? Ok, BR, replied frustrated, so, BR and the man left. So, back at the camp the two men arrived and sure enough BR, saw it was the captain going crazy! Seems like your day of reckoning has arrived, said BR, to the old Captain, who looked like a looney toon! Jonathan, year Boss! You, you, you said he tried to kill himself, five times in the last hour? Year, Boss. Captain is that true? The captain wasn't looking at BR, or listening, and was ranting uncontrollably. And when BR, questioned him, he rapidly started shaking his head back and forth, and around, like he was trying to shake his head off his neck!
And said to BR : Why sopbonngut ban lacky me, goodu. me that me memory you thank you mom mommy, ye, you saved me?
And so hearing that set BR, off, getting in to the act of craziness too, which he knows how to play it, as if it is real!
And BR, got down on the ground, drop to his knees, raised his hands up to the sky, and acted like he was talking to the sun up in the sky! And replied emotionally and with plenty of vigor in his voice. And began to yell :
Oh hear me my my son, Oh hear me! My son of a gun! HOWOOOOoooo. DID you not hear the word, thou shall upon body harm not? Did you, you harm your self my boy? Son of god, did you, my fellow brother? BR, asked him, almost with tears in his eyes! Did you try to jump in the fire again Captain?
"Me, yes I got to escape! I got to escape! I got to escape! Ahhh ah cough escape! I me, I, mommy I rouf rouf!" The Captain started to howl like an old wolf Dog! AHoool hooo rouf ohow oooooOOOO!
Did you try to jump in the fire again Captain? Answer me, for God is talking through the sky above and he wants to know boy, did You?
I got to escape! I got to escape! Ahhh ag!
But, let no one criticize the good or bad I do, cause you not no what is true! And bare pain or carry my distain upon the land, and you did. Yes, you my son did you? Didn't you? Answer God Captain didn't you? Say yes lord!
No me me got stop me got to escape.
NO! Did I hear you say no! God thy lord, no! Did you try to commit suicide by jumping in the fire?
Me I me want escape.
Did thou one you do something bad, Captain? Tell the truth, lord thy god, you said to him no? Did you insult Thy God by saying no to his commandments, was it not your command to obey his word? Was it not your command to follow his word, and what did'ith thous do? Tell ME? Tell ME, go ahead admit your sins?
Speak Captain speak!
Oh no, Me, I just want it to stop, I talking in my head I can't, I cant make it stop got to escape! The people in my head!
Tell me did you break the lords commandments? Tell me, go ahead speak, Captain speak!
Me no know I got to get out!
Out, out did I hear you? God made the world and put you in it! If he didn't want you to be in it, he would put you out himself! And how ungrateful you be, insult him you to him thee, you say you want to leave, OUT! You want to get out, how many good righteous souls want to get in and you want out, shame on you! Captain shame on you. May the lord, thy god forgive you not? For disgraced his body thous has done, child of the lord. For verse 15 ": What then? Shall we sin because we are not not under the law, but under grace? God Forbid, for the hearers of the law are not just before God, but the doer's of the law, shall be justified." Their, brother, there is no getting out! None!
Me got to get out.
Get out to out my heaven, get out escape out to my heaven, to my heaven mine no! No in to hell maybe, into hell maybe, but the lord says no to you for you are a sinner, and we don't like you anymore. I to you see you have been a eater of meat, you drink, you disrespected my holidays nor moon nor god rest in peace tombs shall upon you shine, many have resurrected, many have dis affected many wrote the shortening of days and the shortening of hours and the, the of minutes cut in half like sliced bread, still only one crumb is left said the lord, but the time has come, prepare your self, Pray!
Me, me pray Mommy?
Thats right say onto me mommy, and repeat after me boy say:
Mommy I have been a bad boy!
Mommy I have been a bad boy,repeated the Captain.
Well, guess what? Guess asked BR. You must go into grave. The time is at hand to die! And BR rose up, and jumped in the air and pulled out his gun from its holster and aimed at the man's head and came walking over to him, and then stopped, put his gun away back in his holster, and said to him whispering,
You tell me? Tell me? Why did you jump in the fire, is it that you love Satin, my lord, Gods enemy? BR, face changed and flashed full of anger and hate and jump at him and grabbed him by the neck and started to choke him you said, NO! You said no to no to the lord! Then he spat in his face and released his neck, got to his feet and kicked the Captain in the chest. He looked up to the heavens and raised up his both arms to heavens. And said something to the sun up in the sky, and walked around the captain who was now looking back at him totally shocked. Then BR, walked over to Jonathan who was also looking wide eyed and was shocked. And in a low voice, as natural and calm as can be, he said to Jonathan, you know Jonathan to your point, I think you're right he is nuts.
Ye, er um er um yes, yes, Boss, said Jonathan, amazed and stutteringly. I know, See, Boss I told you, I told you he's nuts! We can't control him, he's a goner! Ok, I don't got time for this shit, snapped BR. And I know there are no hospitals doctors or mental institutions for the boy, so I got to put him down! What? What, asks Jonathan shocked! You heard me, Jonathan. The man is a dead man walking. Only thing to do is put him out of his misery. Well, I don't know I thought maybe since he thinks you're his mother, you might calm him down, Boss? No, put him down, thats whats needed here! Think about that, Hmmmnn, come to think of it, we gone need a cemetery, a cemetery is what this place needs to bury its future dead people. Remind me about it later Jonathan asked BR, off handedly. We gone take him after I shoot him, to big a chasm in a cliff, I found a while back. It's about twenty feet deep, and about mile from the camp. We can throw his body down there, or if thats to far, since we don't got no transportation, perhaps we could dig a hole and bury him close by, a ways from the camp. Either way his body is already in the ground! BR, lit a cigarette, inhaled and blew the smoke out, and said as he raised his gun and put it to the Captain head, time to go bye-bye Captain! He put his finger on the trigger to pull it to kill him, when just then the Captain looked at him in his eyes while the gun was pointed at his forehead, and smiled and said,
nice Mommy! Nice Mommy nice Mommy! Thanks,
he said again and smiled and closed his eyes to receive the bullet, and it was then BR, realized thats why, the Captain was causing such a ruckus, so I would do what he wanted to do, and that was to help him kill himself, and he said sorry, you don't get it. Not to day big feller! What, said Jonathan? He wanted me to kill him, Jonathan. But, looky looky a brand new cookie, Lucky for him I know a little trick, I learned back when I was in the special services! What, I don't get it, Boss? Few do, Jonathan, especially guys like you, dude! You're not supposed to! Now listen up. Heres what I want you to do, and since the people are away, and the camp is empty this is the perfect time to pull this off! No witnesses to interfere. We got to do this quick, see that speaker box, over there, he said pointing, crack it open and take the magnetic speakers and bring it to me quick, I am gone get the defibrillator while you do that. But, why Boss, don't ask me nothing. Just do it, said BR! So, the two men went about getting these things and then came back to where the Captain was tied up to a pole and BR, said to the Captain laying on the ground, Mommy needs you be a nice boy, as he pulled out a rag and rapt it around the Captain head and duck-taped around it, so it wouldn't fall off then he got the Captain to stand up and and walked over to the metal hull of the boat and grabbed the rope and slammed the man's skull into it again and again at full force, bam, bam, bam! Then grabbed his neck and forced his head straight into the metal bashing his forehead up against it, POW! He slammed the man's forehead into the metal wall several times un-mercifully, bam bam bam, till the Captain fell backwards unconscious! OK, quick take the speakers and you placed one on that side of his temple and I'll put the other one the other side and we'll duck tape it up with the duck tape real nice! Ok, Boss but, Shit shut the hell up, Jonathan, I don't time for your questions. Just do it. Then BR, took the Defibrillator and gave the man several electrical shocks to the head! He did it, again and again jolting it several times more and said to the Captain as the man woke up. Good morning, son! Hi, it's me. This is your mother talking to you son! Your mother, I want to welcome you home son, you gone be all right. I know your head is hurting now but the pain will stop. Son I am your mother. And as your mother you must obey me and do every thing I say Other wise Mommy will get angry! Do every thing I say, cause I am your mommy? You, do every thing I say, cause I am your Mommy. Do every thing I say, cause I am your mommy?
Yes, yes, yes mommy!
Now, son, stay quiet a little while and drink this, he said giving him a drink of water, and telling him, this is hot mineral water from the center of the world! It will make your mind feel peaceful and if you get into a fight, bullets won't hurt you, unless I say so, and you will be happy and I will take care of you! Do you understand Captain my son?
Yes, Mommy you will take care of me,
Yes, son I will. You will make sure nobody tries to hurt mommy, if anybody tries to hurt mommy you kill them got it?
Yes, Mommy, I will kill them.
Good, now you just stay here quiet resting OK?
Ok!
And the men got up and walked a few feet away from the captain who laid befuddled on the ground sleeping and Jonathan said, Boss whats happening? BR, didn't answer, but smiled. He raised his hands up and lit a cigarette and walked back to the camp and took out a bottle of Barcardi Rum, twisted off the cap, threw some on his hands to wipe off the Captains blood. And then opened a can of coke and mixed it in the bottle of rum and took a swig, and said, ahh, good, he said after tasting it. You want ? He said holding out the bottle to Jonathan meaning if he wanted a taste? Jonathan, shook his head meaning no, but then confused, took it quickly and drank some. What did you do? Don't worry, he's back! The Captain is back! He won't be back the same as he was before. But at least I didn't have to shoot the boy!
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A little later, we see the Captain being placed on the ground, next to a chair, and in the chair is BR, who is wrapping a wire around the Captains head! After removing the Duck tape, and, now he's fixing in place, these two speakers, right atop the Captains head. One speaker, covering over one of his ears, and one speaker is covering the other! Like they were headphones, and BR, strapped them on to him, tight, with wires, and tightened them up so they wouldn't come off. Then he gave a sign to the Captain, not to move and that he would be right back. BR went to his tent, and de-activated a secret string to a live grenade, he had as booby trap in case of a thief might get ideas, took a key and unlocked his shotgun from a big metal box, holding the rest of his gun collection, and chained it! And then, the rest of his secreted purported contents back, and covered them over. He re-set his hand-grenade trip cord device, to blow up anybody stupid enough, who'd try to steal his stuff!
And, then he came back over, smiling like nice mother to his child, and gave the big shot gun to the Captain, saying kill anybody, who I tell you to. Yes, Mommy! Nodded the captain smiling. Good boy, you and me, gone get along just fine! Here, son, he said, pulling out a small bottle of rum and handing it to him, relax and bit, and have some? Why don't you come with me to the cave, that's where the folks are, come on Captain, you too Jonathan and the three men left.
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Earlier, Baxter a teenager attaining the meeting commented, my parents taught me the value of minding my own business. And saving some of my allowance for a raining day and woking at a job as waiter in a restaurant help me, greatly in getting to know how the world worked, now when my parents have passed away in this catastrophe. I feel lost, but when, when I am somehow listening to BR. He makes me feel incredibly different, like we have chance, A chance! A chance at starting over! You know what I mean, he said, to his friend, another little kid his age named, Bobby. Well, the boy shook his head, and pushed his hair out of face, and said Bobby, I don't think he's that cool, cool at all cause, he wants us to do what he saysI He wants to be Boss! And he is my father! And he doesn't want anybody, anybody to have a say nothing. Who the hell he thinks he is anyway. BR, is the boss, plain and simple! Bobby, think about it! If it weren't for that old dude, we wouldn't be here now! And Baxter went to make some some coffee, and sat down thinking about all he heard BR say, the more he thought about it, the more he felt optimistic about everybody's future. Later, he laid back and got some shut eye, and then heard a wind in the distance starting to blow, a faint odd sound, like a cat blowing in the wind sounding like " meowoooooduck, meowoooooduck, meowoooooooooooduck!"
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Later, the afternoon came riding in ever so slowly, chipping away at the long empty hours in the day, and slowly the desperate parties in the group began finding their niches, and making their friends and little associations with each other, and slowly all of them everybody, was coming to the realization that they, and they alone are the ones left in the world. And slowly they started to feel the beginning of group identification as, survivors, albeit by the urgings of BR. The children of which, there were an assortment of boys and girls, varying in ages from : three years old to seventeen years old, who were eager, and their temperament rotated back and forth constantly, between feeling happy, sad, and inquisitive, and in disbelief that their parents weren't ever coming back! They were sad without them. And they felt a great over bearing punishing lost in their hearts without them, some kids were getting bogged down deep in depression. So it was a happy surprise to them, when BR, came out gather the kids over around him, to show them a game he called, fate! " kill the bad times." He brought out a big pot of kitchen knives and gave it the big kids and told them to trying throwing it at a tree! And that the tree was their bad times! And they should throw the knife at the tree, for punishment for bringing them sadness, and bad times on them. Well,BR started the thing off! And low and behold BR, he pulled out a big kitchen knife from the pot, and blindfolded himself, and threw a knife and stuck it into the tree to the amazement of the kids and adults alike!
The kids, now took to the idea like glue, of course they were told not to use blind folds, but they, heard from BR , that it was a way, to get rid of your bad feeling and let out your sadness and frustration, and help them forget!
And he told them it would make them feel better. Soon, practically all the kids, save for the babies had a kitchen knife in their hands throwing at the tree! He would allow three throws, then blow a whistle and the kids would run and retrieve the knives and do all over again. He put one kid named, Baxter and an adult woman name Koto, in charge so the kids had someone older guiding them and making sure they wind up killing each other, then he left. The day was long, long, lots of time on people hands, BR thought to himself he definitely would have to figure a way to change that, " Idle hands hath time to sin!"
Now later that day, BR sent The Captain to get him some hot water from the caves to make the coffee for everybody. He gave him some heavy rope and tied the empty water cooler jug with it around the handle, so he could drop it in the streaming boiling hot water, and pull it out, and cap it, and drag it to the camp, so they could start to make some hot coffee for every body as was custom. Well, the captain left around two pm in the afternoon and it should take him ten minutes to do it so he sent him to fetch it.
So, the guy was walking through the encampment, and on his way he went over to the mens section of the camp where BR
said the men had to be separated from the women. BR had told them, at first the arrangement, was going to be, that all the folks that in the beginning so everybody felt comfortable, that the folks on the left side is for men, and the right side of the camp is women and the middle is kids and the backside is for married couples and folks who wanted to live together as couples. It was simple solution and it was working. Later he order the woman be guarded by himself and then some others, to keep a eye of them, and security!
And so while the Captain was passing through, he met up with some of the men folk!
A Latino, guy by the name of Bennymoray and another one, a big black dude, named Dizzy and one more a man, named Garfield, and couple of others, who were drinking and playing cards and they started up a conversation with the old man, but making fun of him, and sounding up on how he looks! They laughed at him, with those radio speakers taped to his head with duct tape! And why was he was wearing them, and why his face was all swollen up! And the captain was in no mood to talk about anything about what happen to him, when all of sudden Bennymoray wrestled the shot gun from him, and pushed him to the ground.
And Bennymoray, laughed and said, well look it here y'all, guess what? Guess what we got? ha, ha, ha.
It seems, we got the gun now! Don't it boys, asked Bennymoray, a shiny haired, Puerto rican dude with a thin black mustache, and a cigarette dangling from his lips! He smiled shaking his head up and down gesturing proudly with the big shotgun in his hands rubbing its shiny surface, as it glistened in the sunlight.
He walked over to the Captain laying now on his back looking up to him. It was hard for the Captain to see his face in the glare of the noondays bright sun, but he could hear him well enough, and what he was saying wasn't good. He said, times funny! There is a time and place, and a place and time to die! The men were all concerned, this was happening fast, it this guy wanted to kill BR, and with BR, out of the way, and dead, would that mean, chaos would take over?
Or was the idea of this camp, a lost cause from the outset!
Does a man with a gun and no vision, better than a man who is crazy, but crazy in a good way, with a gun and a vision? There wasn't anytime to think, and sure was no time to debate it! As the three guys rose up macho style and walked stepping aside to discuss privately, what they want to do now that they had BR shotgun! Was it a good thing? Time would tell! Listen Garfield, said we got to do this right the first time! Cause this BR [ BLEEP ] plays stupid, but that's bullshit, he's ghetto slick man. You got knock him out first! Kill his ass, dig it? We go shoot him in the back, then break into tent get his other weapons and everything is cool, we home free, homey!
Solid, smiled Bennymoray, agreeing, and then Dizzy, the big black dude, came up with this plan, what about this?
I split now, you dudes, wait here, till he comes looking for Captain shithead, and you confront him here, by then, it would of given me a chance to get a weapon out of his tent! Bet? I know he got lots of shit in there, knives too! This way you cover him in the front when he comes, you bull shit him, waste some Bull shitting, small talk, and I will attack him from behind, he's dead meat You know wha I'm saying bro? Bennymoray, nodding his head, in agreement, said smiling, sweet! Sweet and neat Dizzy! I like it Dizzy! If this shit works out, you gone be my main man, Homey! And we get some booty time tonight, Ha, ha, ha. Whether the girls like it or not, we got the guns! ha, ha, ha!
Then an older grey hair Irish dude name Mikey, who had worked as engineer on the boat joined them saying, I don't like taking orders from no stupid ass Mexican crack pot, and that's all BR, is! And now that we got his [ BLEEPING ] shotgun, we should take over!
Hell year, said Bennymoray, who out of y'all is with me, cause this ain't no bullshit! I am serious as heart attack! I am down with with you baby, said Dizzy, who was a big muscular man as tall as the sky and weighing a ton too! Dizzy, who also was a musician punk rocker, covered head to toe in tattoos, and Garfield, who was a fat looking Eskimo Indian chain smoker from Alaska, with shifty black eyes like a flea at sea! Shit, lets take over this mother [ BLEEP ] said his buddy Mikey! Count me in said, Mikey!
Time for fun. Ha, ha, ha ! Then suddenly, Now you don't want to do that. The boss said he'd get angry, said the captain getting to his feet, but then Mikey hit him in the head with the water cooler jug bottle, BAMM! Making him fall backwards! Ha, ha, ha! They all laughed. Well, perhaps if we shoot your boss, your stupid beautiful person boss will get real angry and drop dead, ha, ha, ha! If you hurt the boss I will have to kill you!
Ha, ha, ha, you crazy[ BLEEPING ] Captain hasn't anybody told you yet? You are messed [ BLEEP ] up, dude! Ha, ha, ha! The men broke out laughing together! I am gone tell the boss, year you go do that old man, ha, ha, ha! But stay here a minute, Check it out Dude, stay here, or I 'll put a bullet hole in you the size of house! Dizzy, said Bennymoray, you wait, time yourself perfectly. I am gone to send Garfield, Mr. G, better yet, one of those kids? He looked around and pointed to one, and yelled, Hey you, punk, come over here, he said pointing to the youth named Baxter, who was watching, scared.
Come boy! Baxter came closer and looked up at this tall, tall big man, who told him angrily! Go tell the Boss, go find and tell BR, to come over here, that the captain has fallen ill, gotten sick, understand? Baxter, was frightened, and obeyed and ran to find BR, to tell him! And Dizzy, then said, listen, while BR's walking over here toward us. Me? I'll go and take a knife, cut into his tent, and see if I can find another gun and then come up behind him, and we got him covered, front and back and Bam! It'll be easy street, sweet! Ha, ha, ha, . . But, wait Bennymoray, said. Listen I want to be the one who kills him, not you, dude! I want it baby cause I took the gun from that dude, not you see! Year, I can dig it, OK? OK, lets do do Dizzy! Cool homey! Ha, ha, ha!
So it was that second day, what every Leader, Prime Minister, King, Dictator or President or Ship Captain fears, BR had a rebellion brewing on his hands, as his rule was coming to a final close, as the men planned in advance his bloody demise!
So, back at his camp tent, BR, was happily chewing on one of his special hamburgers, he made for himself from the freezer. He had just put some barbecue sauce on it, and was about to take another bite, when Baxter came, and said, they took your shotgun, from the captain, and wanted me to come tell you the captain had fallen down sick!
And you should come quickly! But Boss, I got to tell you, it's a trap, they got your gun! What? Year, so you better be ready! What, where? Over there, Baxter pointed to over there in the mens section near the cave! Shit, Ok, come on you take me to him boy, you show me!
BR followed the teenager, concerned, because this was the first time he had let his prized shotgun, he nicked name," tits" out of his site in a long, long time!
As he was walking he saw some body laying on the ground and there was a couple of men sitting in the chairs soaking up the sun and drinking, every thing looked normal, only thing the Captain didn't have his tits. As he and the the boy walked closer to the Captain, a voice came from the side as a man was hiding with the shotgun under a large red blanket with bags and packages on top to make it look normal, but it wasn't. It was a trap, just like Baxter warned him. The strange man sprang up from the ground, quickly tossing aside the blank ket, smiling, telling him, don't move, don't even blink or I will shoot you ass mother [ BLEEPER ]
put you hands up high or die! Now! BR, raised his hands, and said dinner is at six, I expect volunteers, to help give out the food, or don't expect to eat my meat! You get your own!
Listen screwball! You ain't in no Goddam position to tell us shit no more! Turn around. BR, turned calmly around still chewing on his on one of his meat burgers! He loves his meat burgers! And looked down at the Captain and said, son why are you on the ground? Sorry Mommy, the men hit me and took your gun you gave me and pushed me away, and I fell down. And, . . . Wait, Wait, look at what's at stake? Interrupted BR, angrily, did you say, what I think you said, you said they took my gun away, from you. Did you fight to get it back? No Mommy, cause they got it and they were pointing it at me. So, what? Did I not say, did I not say to you, that no harm shall come'ith to a child of the lord? BR, smiled and shaked his head side to side, and asked gently and calmly. Did you ask them to give you my gun back? No, Mommy! Why? Well, Mommy they were making fun of me, and they had the gun! So what, I gave you water from the power of the lord, did I not? Yes, Mommy! And I told no bullets would harm you unless I said so. Did I not? Yes, Mommy! And you have been a bad boy son! Yes, Mommy! Now come with me! You are going get back up on your feet, and be very politely nice, and ask those sinners, to please give you my give gun back, Yes Mommy! So, BR and the Captain looked at the smiling man aiming the tits at them, and the Captain walks up to the man with the bosses shotgun, and says, Could you please give me the gun? Please?
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Ha, ha, ha, you are crazy Captain! Ha,ha,ha! Hasn't anybody told you that yet, ha, ha, ha! Or is that too deep an idea for you grasp? Ha, ha, ha! The men broke out laughing together! I am gone tell my mommy! Year you go do that old man, ha, ha, ha! So while the men were making jokes and drinking and disrespecting you, said BR, did you ask them to give you my gun back? Yes, Mommy?
Ha ha, ha, sure! BR, your jerky Captain, he asked for it but he ain't getting it. Ha, ha, ha,ha! What I am gone give him is a big bullet in the ass! Ha, ha, ha!
Suddenly far away in the distance, Boom, boom a loud sound of hand grenade rocks the air, signaling to BR, that someone has snuck into his booby trapped tent after his guns! Captain yells to BR, did you hear that Mommy? Mommy, Mommy, BR, interrupts the Captain, saying little dear son, my dear child, your mommy put a pistol, a small hand pistol in your right hand pocket, boy! I didn't tell before, but I am telling you now! Now, I want to ask that man with my gun, politely, once more, one more time, to give you back the shotgun gun and if says no or tries to shoot you. I want to kill him, take out the gun, and shoot him once in the head. Do you understand me my son? Yes, Mommy, So the Captain smiles at Bennymoray, and bows politely like a little child, and says, excuse me sir, may I have the gun please? Ha, ha, ha sure take this, and the man aimed the gun at the Captain and pulled the trigger, laughing but the gun went
" click,"
But it was empty. So the Captain reached into his pocket and pulled out the pistol and began shooting the man," Pow, bam, Pow bam, Pow Pow, bam, Pow Pow, Pow, bam! " God dam you! What is wrong with my poor child, yelled BR, running up to him yelling angrily at him, and as ran he picks up a frying pan laying on the table and begins hitting him up side the head with frying pan! Kung, bong! konk! Did, I say, Didn't I say didn't I say use one bullet? Why did you do that? You done emptied out the whole Goddam gun, I said shoot him in the head once. Dam bullets, we only got a limited supply boy! Bullets don't grow on trees, bullets don't grow on trees, do you hear me boy? "Bullets don't grow, on trees," interrupted the Captain looking very sad, and rubbing his head which hurting something awful! You done be using up my bullets like we got more! Oh sorry boss I can go dig them out of his head if you want? Oh dear, heavenly, Father. Please forgive us this afternoon for sinning, and forgive me for striking my dear son, my little Captain in the head with this pot, my dear son, my fellow human being! I lost my temper dear father, please forgive me, BR, said crying and dropping to his knees and kissing the ground as the big crowd gathered around them totally shocked! Jonathan, yelled the Boss, Jonathan? Yes, Boss, answered Jonathan anxiously. Boy, go fetch us some shovels about six, quick so we can start digging a grave for this misguided youth holey boy! He is so holey, who gave in to bad temptations of Satan our enemy. We must bury this lost soul on the spot, now! Now, do y'all hear!
Can I, I say can I get a witness? Can I get a witness to help me bury this poor unfortunate young nice man, who just happened to make mistake? This poor beloved misguided man. Who will take up a shovel with me, in this hour of sadness, and extreme lost! Well, said the Captain looking sad, I'll help Mommy! Anyone else? Year, you can count me in, said, baxter one of the teenagers running up into the crowd! And after the shovels got there, and the man who went to fetch BR, suddenly Garfield, the unscrupulous cohort of the late Bennymoray volunteered too! And so did his sneaky engineer dude, Mikey, looking sad, trying to brown nose BR and both pretending to have no knowledge of the death plots connivery they made against him!
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We open the eulogy with a few words about what the dearly departed brother, who lived through hard times only to pass on, whether it was weakness to succumb to the temptation of the world, or was it in the lifetime of inert twisted crime we will never know? I am touched as such as father, as mother, as son, as daughter, would be because he was part of the our very own Bumble Bee City, survivors community.
He was one of us. And to his friends and ours his good buddy who is laying in a coma, His friend Dizzy, who is now practical a zombie. He can't think for him self no more, he got a bad blow to his head in an accident in my tent! But luckily he is alive! But, he must be told what to do, such is the ways of revenge of the lord! We are not who, to judge his ways, but to accept his day, and we accept that we are all sinners, and today we offer up Bennymoray, whense he came our dearly departed Bennymoray, He meant to me a chance to give him an opportunity! He served and could become better! He meant to me, a chance to see the promise, we know he will be happy where he is going, Amen! OH father forgive us our transgressions, Amen!
Now, I brought my guitar and I am just gone sing a little song to him to send him merrily on his way! So BR, picked up his guitar and the crowd watched and listened in as he serenaded the departed brother at the funeral. We don't don't knowooooo, he sang, what we don't knowooooo!
Tell me why, tell me, tell me why, this had to be, We don't don't knowooooo, what we don't knowooooo!
My mother nature, you, you can't be.
Oh tell me why, this had to be!
oh tell me why, why, why
This had to be! We don't, don't knowooooo, what we don't knowooooo! And the little boy Baxter started sing along! We don't don't knowooooo, what we don't knowooooo!
Then the two little doggies, that BR, had saved from the boat, and who were now his, pets, started to sing along too, one he named Biggy, and the other he named Smally and they joined in singing along : how oooooOOOOOOO! How oooOOOOOOOO! Rouf, rouf! Then the Captain started to bark, rouf, rouf ROOOOOooooo and so it went. It was so beautiful! As slowly the afternoon ended.
But earlier it was emergency call! Four women and two men were summoned to the shadows behind the boat to save someone!
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The sun was bearing down around them, and the situation was bad, and the idea was to use the coolness of the big boats long casting shadow, as a place they could gather in the cool shade, and work out of the bright sun.
The wind was blowing dust, and there was a makeshift emergency room situation happening!
There, was for a floor, the earth to walk on, no walls,
there was for a ceiling, the sky up above,
there was for air conditioning, there was the breeze!
There were several large flatten rocks, that would serve as tables for now! One, was a large grayish blue one, that was pretty smooth and semi flat, and on it was a giant big black man, who was laying on it very badly injured and bleeding bad too! The others, around him, were there trying to care for him, to save his life, they had washed their hands and apparently had some medical knowledge but no tools, just kitchen knives and needles and thread and several white bedsheets and a water cooler jug of hot water and one large pot. They got the call to come, all they were told was someone was wounded and they all had heard the big explosion earlier, but didn't know what had happened till now! The casualty was grave, and caused by an army grenade ordinances set in a booby trap, and now those gathered, had only one thing on their minds : try to save a person.
STAY TUNE CHAPTER 10 HERE WE COME!
Chapter 10
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