SCARIEN NATION NOW BE ONE
THE FINAL CHAPTER
2001 A SPACE ODDITY
The outcome of the final election was predicted by most
psychics. The charismatic leader known as Jinngrinch
was elected as the final president and his assistant, known as Mara,
was elected as the final vice-president. Their promises to create
order and peace captivated the voters. Jinngrinch had proposed
final solutions to all world problems and he enjoyed the full
support of all Republicrats.
Shortly after the election, Jinngrinch merged the Republicrats
with like-minded groups that ruled other continents and created
the final political party, The Brave New World Order.
The first item on their agenda was to launch an enormous
space-station from which they would rule the Earth. Equipped with
the latest computer and communication systems and outfitted with
secret alien technology, the space-station set off for the Cosmic
Beltway, next to the Milky Way.
The Brave New World Order attempted to control the Earth's economy,
energy resources, food supplies, and political systems through a
network of enforcers, informers, and world policemen. Within
months of their departure into outer space, the world was in
turmoil. Natural disasters seemed to become
daily occurences all over the world. As the health care systems
crumbled, disease was rampant. Food allocations, based on
politics, created famine in many areas of the world.
Riots escalated into wars and social systems
fell apart as disillusioned people began to believe the
persistent rumors that the world and the Brave New World Order were
controlled by evil mutant aliens.
The people of Earth were engulfed with despair. There was no
relief as the daily grind to obtain food and safety consumed the
energy of most people. Currency was worthless
and all communications systems had been outlawed. Even the right
to peaceably assemble had been revoked under the new martial law
program. Suicide became the number one killer of people as the
dark cloud of depression overwhelmed the Earth.
Information had spread slowly around the world that evil
mutant aliens from the Arien Planet had taken over the universe
using dark sorcery. The stories seemed almost unbelievable, but
historic research amoung the scholars of the tabloid archives
verified the stories. Only the tabloid archives had survived the
great information purge conducted by the enforcers of the Brave New
World Order. Scholars estimated that the evil Ariens had been on
Earth for over ten thousand years. Their evil had slowly grown as
they had fed on the souls of the good people of Earth.
Enlightenment and wisdom began to replace
ignorance among certain people and these people started to group
together and meet in secret. Obscure stories circulated about how
spaceships belonging to good aliens from the Scarien Planet had
descended on Earth shortly after the final elections. The stories
told of how good people were transported to the Scarien Planet to
escape the evil that infected the Earth.
Some people remembered the once popular band, The
Scariens, which had long ago been banned from
performing. They speculated that this band was in fact somehow
connected to the good aliens from the Scarien Planet. Long
forgotten recordings made years earlier by the obscure band began
to surface. Crude devices known as walkmans were used to hear
these recordings. People who had grown weary of the troubles of
the world listened intently to the strange melodies to gain
insight into the meaning of truth and justice.
An underground group of people, calling themselves the Listeners,
emerged and as their numbers grew, a man known as Nick
became their leader. Nick was a very old man with long white hair
and a long white beard. He claimed to have known the Scariens and
he once spoke of running a command post that connected the
Scarien Planet with the Earth. He told of how he had to remain at
the command post, located in the northern wilderness, when
Scarien spaceships came to Earth. His spaceship was destroyed
when Arien invaders attacked the command post. Nick told the
Listeners that there was the possibility that he could contact
the Scarien Planet if certain equipment at the command post
survived the attack.
Many of the Listeners became disenchanted with their leader
and his far-fetched stories. Despite his sincerity, they doubted
the stories he told and they dropped out of the secret group.
However, several of the Listeners faithfully believed Nick and
began to make plans to travel to the area of the North Pole to
locate the old command post. A young, energetic man named Rudy
moved into Nick's secret trailer and became his best friend. Nick
was Rudy's mentor, telling him great tales of the battles between
good and evil aliens that had transpired on Earth over the
centuries.
Rudy and several Listeners plotted a way to capture an
airplane and go to the North Pole. But only those with close ties
to the Brave New World Order were allowed to fly airplanes. There were
no pilots or weapons amoung the Listeners and they were unable to
formulate a method of getting to the North Pole.
"Nick, I had wanted to surprise you with a plan to get us
to the old command post, but we cannot figure out a way,"
Rudy confessed out of frustration.
"There may be a way, my boy, one way," Nick
whispered.
Nick motioned for Rudy to follow him. They left the
trailer and went outside. Beside the trailer there was an old red
wooden box that Nick used as a planter, filled with strange
little bonzai trees that Nick called mezzmezzro.
"Help me move this box," Nick asked Rudy.
The two
managed to slide the red box aside several feet and Nick began to
dig in the ground below where it stood. Using his hands, he dug
down about a foot and then pulled out an ornately decorated
wooden box.
Looking over his shoulder, Nick carried the little box inside
the trailer as Rudy followed. Once inside, Nick opened the box
and pulled out a cylindrical shaped device with a spiral disk
attached to the end. He pushed a small button on the side of the
device and the disk began to rotate. The spiral design created an
interesting and mezmerizing effect.
"What is it, Nick?"
"This is an MK-Ultra wheel, Rudy. This
is our ticket to the North Pole. But we must be careful, the
penalty for possessing the wheel is death."
Nick, Rudy, and several others stood outside the Brave New World
Order spaceport. It was very early in the morning and there was
only one sentry clone, known as a Dobalina, preventing them from
entering the spaceport. Nick walked away from the others and
approached the Dobalina. Aiming the MK-Ultra wheel at the sentry,
Nick spoke softly.
"Hear and obey.
Take us to one of the old Scarien
spaceships stored here."
The Dobalina responded as Nick had
asked. Shortly the expressionless clone was leading the group to
a small hanger at the edge of the spaceport. Inside was a shiny
red flying saucer. Nick opened a hatch and the
Listeners entered. He instructed the clone to open the hanger
door and as the Dobalina followed his instruction, Nick entered
the flying saucer.
"Can you fly this thing?" Rudy asked.
"I think I remember how," Nick replied.
"You're from the Scarien Planet, aren't you, Nick?"
Rudy pressed.
"I came here a long time ago, my boy, a long long time
ago."
"I always knew you were different."
"Rudy, I believe you are a Scarien, too. You were just
born on Earth. Scariens have lived on Earth for thousands of
years."
"Are we going to the North Pole?"
"Yes, Rudy. It would be too dangerous to leave the
atmosphere. The Ariens would vaporize us immediately if we
attempted to travel to the Scarien Planet. We
can hide out briefly at the North Pole. I can contact the Scarien
Planet from the ship now. They can send ships to transport the
Listeners back. They have newer spaceships that will be
undetectable."
Nick typed on a keyboard and the ship slowly moved, exited the
hanger, and then accelerated quickly into the air. In moments the
ship arrived at the North Pole, landing next to what appeared to
be the ruins of a pyramid.
"I spent many many years of my life here trying to bring
happiness to Earth," Nick said as a tear dropped from his
cheek.
The group entered the cold structure in silence. Nick told the
Listeners that Scarien ships would soon arrive.
Unknown to Nick and his friends, the band that they so admired
had arrived on Earth just days after their departure to the North
Pole. Homesick for the center of the universe, the Scariens had
returned to Richmond, Virginia to play another gig. They
immediately went to Dusty Deedbook's old trailer
where they suspected they might find Nick. The band's old mentor,
Mr. Scary had made several trips back to Earth
to observe and he had informed them of the existence of the
Listeners.
At the trailer, the combo found several people, all of whom
denied being Listeners. It was not until the Scariens unpacked
their instruments that the trailer people realized who they were.
"We're your biggest fans!," one young man shouted.
"Have you come to take us to the Scarien Planet like Nick
said?"
"We just came down to see if we could get a gig," Huk
Bury replied.
"Where is Nick?" asked Jabbah.
"He went to the North Pole. He said he was going to make
contact with the Scarien Planet. He told us to wait here and
notify other Listeners that spaceships may come and deliver us
from this evil planet," a man named Dixon told the band.
"We've abandoned the ancient method of magnetic impulse
propulsion to travel through space," Dusty told the
Listeners.
"We traveled here in a tube of white light," Kareem
told the people.
"We were to have a secret meeting tonight
and tell the other listeners about Nick's plan," Dixon said.
"We'll be there," Huk promised.
"We'll take you there. We will go to the ruins of the old
water house, The Bigger Sweep, and meet up. Then we'll go to our
meeting place, the Hole in the Ground."
"Should I bring my guitar?" Dusty asked.
"Too dangerous," Huk replied.
"That never stopped us before," Kareem interjected.
"Looks like we've got a gig tonight, cats."
"Do any of you know J. Edgar Junior? He
got left behind here on Earth like Nick," Huk inquired.
"Never heard of him."
At the Hole in the Ground, many Listeners arrived. The
Scariens set up their equipment, wishing that their legendary
soundman and security specialist, J. Edgar Junior, was there.
Just as the band opened up with the Scarien theme song, bright
flashes of crimson light filled the area. Bathed in specks of
painful red light for what seemed like hours, the Scariens and
the Listeners found themselves transported to a large cell.
A clone entered the cell and took Huk away. Nobody knew where
they were or what was going on. The Dobalina clone walked Huk
down a long corridor to a small room.
"Hello Huk, I'm so glad you're here. I've always loved
your singing," a beautiful woman said seductively.
"Where am I?"
"You're in the Brave New World Order headquarters."
"The space station?"
"That's right, Huk. Aren't you glad to be here with me
alone. Most men would die to be with me."
"Who are you?"
"Mara, the Final Vice-President of the Brave New World Order."
"What do you want?"
"I want you to make love to me. I want you to sing to me.
I want your band to stay here with us."
Meanwhile, down the corridor from Huk, Nick was strapped down
on a steel pallet. President Jinngrinch stood over Nick holding a
device similar to a cattle prod, laughing.
"You old fool, we've been watching you. We have all of
your Listeners aboard and we also have your little combo, The
Scariens."
"You may have our bodies but not our spirits,
Jinngrinch,
Nick groaned.
"Ahh, but I do have the spirits of
some of your listeners. Who do you think informed me of your
plans?"
"They are not true Listeners."
As Jinngrinch tormented Nick, a Dobalina brought Jabbah into
the room.
"Let the old man go," Jabbah demanded.
"Why don't you save him with your magic powers,"
laughed Jinngrinch as he left the room.
The clone strapped Jabbah
down next to Nick and also left.
"What have they done to you?," Jabbah asked Nick.
"They've only tried to break my spirit."
"Hang in there old man, have faith."
"Jabbah, I have an MK-Ultra wheel in my boot. If we can
get it out, it could save us."
Jabbah struggled and squirmed, managing to free his arm from
the straps.
He reached over to Nick, who laid next to him, and removed the
MK-Ultra wheel. Moments later, as several Dobalina clones entered
the room with Kareem Ahweet and Dusty Deedbooks, Jabbah rotated
the spiral disk, aiming it carefully at the clones.
"Hear and obey! Drop your vaporizers and
let your prisoners go," Jabbah instructed.
The four clones did as they were told. Kareem picked up their
vaporizers and passed them out. Dusty and Jabbah strapped the
Dobalinas down to the steel pallets. Kareem then vaporized the
clones.
"They're only clones."
"Where's Huk?"
"I don't know, but we've got to get out of here."
"My ship is here in a landing area. These monsters came
to the North Pole and captured me, my friends, and the ship.
Arien ships are coming to take us to the Arien planet," Nick
told the cats.
"There's about thirty Listeners in a cell. We can't leave
them," Jabbah told the others.
Mara, now naked, attempted to seduce Huk in her room. He sat
with arms folded, refusing to even make eye contact with the evil
temptress. A clone sentry stood at the door grinning, preventing
Huk from leaving. Jinngrinch entered the room.
"Well, Mara, you've failed to convince this idiot to join
us. I must insist that he come with me. He will be sent to the
Arien Planet with the others," Jinngrinch chided.
A blinding white light filled the room and Huk's mentor, Mr.
Scary, appeared out of the blinding flash.
"So Jinngrinch, you've won many battles, but you will now
lose the war. The law of the universe has caught up with you and
you will not prevail," Mr. Scary told the President.
You fool, I have always prevailed over you. For thousands of
years I have prevailed over you."
"Huk, Jinngrinch is not a human, he is an evil mutant
alien, an Arien, I have tried many times to destroy him and
failed, but today I will win," Mr. Scary told Huk.
"Mara, it is your destiny to rule the Earth alone. Here,
take this vaporizer and destroy your President," Mr. Scary
instructed.
"I can't. He is my master," she replied.
"Certainly you can, he has used you and plans to destroy
you,
Mr. Scary told her as he removed an MK-Ultra wheel
from his pocket.
Looking at the wheel, Mara took the vaporizer and aimed it at
Jinngrinch.
"Stop her, Dobalina!," Jinngrinch shouted.
The clone merely looked at the wheel and continued to grin as
Jinngrinch was vaporized by the temptress.
Mr. Scary grabbed Mara by the arm and led her out of the room.
Huk followed. They walked down the corridor to the holding cells
where they found the rest of the combo and many Listeners.
Mr. Scary then left with Mara, convincing her to return to
Earth immediately and take her place as the leader of the Brave New
World Order. Bathed in flashes of red light, Mara vanished from
the transport room.
When Mr. Scary returned to the holding cell, anxiety filled
the room. Fear of the Ariens gripped them all, despite Mr.
Scary's attempts to keep them calm.
"Don't fear the Ariens, their leader, Jinngrinch, is
finally gone, the Earth will consume Mara, and we are about to
embark for the Scarien Planet," Mr. Scary told them.
Mr. Scary looked straight up. In and instant the room was
filled with a blinding white light. All of the good people there
found themselves engulfed in a tube of white light, and several
seconds later surrounded by the beautiful landscape of the
Scarien Planet.
Nick was back home after eons, the band was safe and the
Listeners were filled with joy.
"No more gigs on Earth, huh?," Dusty
asked.
"That's right," said Mr. Scary.
