Excerpt:
“All these thousands of years and it was that simple.”
Victor says, “Hey, I am good at computer games. What can I say.”
Hearthville Serial
Book 6
Any Truth, Proper Grammar, or Correct Spelling is totally coincidental if not accidental.
All characters are fiction. This story is fiction. This story makes no claims about any real person.
By Charles Peters
Copyright 2020
All Rights Reserved
Chapters
Chapter 1
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Victor steps into the spaceship that belongs to General Gorgan. Victor wonders why he is having such a weird dream but then not so weird for he knows that he has dreamed about General Gorgan before. “You are the reason Amelia can’t wake. You are the reason that General Roxy has been caged. And yet here I am and getting into your spaceship as though I trust you. Unfucking believable.”
General Gorgan smiles. “Who are you that you should know about Amelia and General Roxy or even me?”
George whispers, “Do not tell him who you are in this dream?”
“I am Victor.”
“Yes. But who were you when you walked with Amelia and General Roxy and I was your enemy?”
“In the dream, I am a Amelo, but it is just a dream. This is just a dream. It can not be real.”
George whispers, “Fuck.”
General Gorgran says, “Amelo. Oh yes. Of course. I never understood your relationship with Amelia and General Roxy and that other girl. Belial joked that you were their gay best friend.”
Victor did not say anything.
Dorian says, “It is strange that your name is similar to Amelia’s name.”
Victor smiles. “People can have the exact same name. It does not mean anything.”
“Of course.”
Constance looks at the monitors. “Are you sure they can not see us? They seem to be surrounding us.”
Leroy agrees with his mom. “We need to get out of here.”
Victor says, “No. We must stay put. The spell is holding but if we bump into one of their spaceships then the spell might be broken.”
Leroy considers Victor’s suggestion. “But what if they bump into us.”
“The spell will probably hold but we need to be ready to fight.”
Victor sat down at the controller to the spaceship.
General Gorgan asks, “What are you doing?”
Victor eased the spaceship up. He began to fly to dodge the other spaceship in the area.
Leroy says, “I thought you said that we need to stay put.”
“Yes. I am just avoiding contact. You were right with your suggestion to avoid them bumping into us.”
General Gorgan nodded.
Dorian sat down at another control station. “We can not stay put forever.”
Victor says, “We should give them an hour to clear out of the area. As we wait we may ease out of the center position to an outer position if possible. Some of them are moving into a very tight position as if trying to block us even though they can not see us.”
Dorian says, “I am getting our weapons in place in case we have to fight. I want all of you to sit down at a control station and begin reading the weapon instruction guide.”
Constance says, “I am a lover. Not a fighter.”
Leroy sat down at a control station. He began reading. “This is fucking cool”
Dioson sat down at a control. “This is totally different from earth’s fighter spaceships.”
The ghost of Hannibal watches his brother. “Yes but the concepts are the same. Just different controls and buttons.”
General Gorgan says, “And different weapons. When you cage an enemy spaceship it will remain caged but just for a moment or two. If you destroy an enemy spaceship it will regenerate itself fairly quickly with all occupants still alive. We do not want to start a war with Belial. We just want to get the fuck out of here.”
Deven says, “Not just out of here. If this were a computer game, the object of the game would be to get back to earth and for us to not end up caged.”
Victor says, “Exactly. This dream is like a game. It might be fun.”
General Gorgan and Dorian look at one another with dismay and confusion at what Victor has said.
Suddenly Victor does the unexpected. He makes the spaceship visible to the enemy and goes into hyper speed mode. Mentally he takes control of all of the fighter control panels.
He has fifty of the enemy spaceships caged before they know what has happened. He puts the spaceship into triple hyper mode. He sets the course for BQ8.
Dorian stammers. “He flies as good as I have ever seen.”
General Gorgan agrees. “Amelia taught him well.” And more shocking. “He remembers.”
Victor slides the spaceship through an entry bay of an abandoned space station in BQ8. Victor screams, “We launch through the other side of this space station we will be in the territory of planet earth and away from Pluto Viso.” Suddenly a spaceship containing Belial himself appears in front of them. Victor screams, “Son of bitch.” Victor just barely dodges a cage. Victor puts Belial’s spaceship in a cage and suddenly Belial appears in the spaceship with Victor.
Belial yanks Victor from his seat. “You can’t cage me. You can’t beat me. You know you can’t win.”
Victor laughs. He puts Belial in a cage. “I have already beaten you, you son of bitch. When you transported yourself through the cage that holds your spaceship, that temporarily scrambled your powers and gave them to me.”
“Cage my spaceship. Scramble and take control of my powers. I don’t think so. You are insane.”
Belial attempted to put Victor in a cage. There was loud pinging sound. His magic did not work.
Victor says, “All the cages on Pluto Viso have now been opened. That includes those in Iapetus. You are screwed.”
Victor uses Belial’s own powers to cast him, inside the cage, into Hell. He then flies General Gorgan’s spaceship through the exit bay and back to the territory of planet earth.
General Gorgan puzzles. “What did you just do?”
“Belial is now in Hell. The cages have been opened. Pluto Viso is now a free planet.”
“All these thousands of years and it was that simple.”
Victor says, “Hey, I am good at computer games. What can I say.”
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Belial walked down a long corridor that was lined with monitors that showed scenes from Belial’s past escapades. Then he came before the thrown on Satan who sat eating popcorn and watching Oprah talking up a demon that Satan was trying to make governor of Georgia. Satan says, “It breaks my heart that Oprah doesn’t have the influence she once did.”
Belial says, “I have no idea who the fuck Oprah is.”
Satan says, “Of course you don’t. I bet you don’t know who Obama is either.”
“No.”
“Well, shut my mouth.”
“I would if I could.”
“You asshole. So anyway, let me look at your file.” Satan tosses his popcorn aside and thumbs through what looks like an ancient book. “How in the hell did allow Amelo to send you to hell?”
“I don’t know. I was least expecting it. It is like you think everything is going great and then the next thing you know you are in hell and listening to Satan talking about Oprah.”
Satan says, “You know what. I think I need to get my demon trending on twitter again. That might help her if she decides to run for governor of Georgia again.”
“Oh my fucking god. You do twitter. Twitter is so stupid.”
“What? You couldn’t get any followers. I have over a million.”
“Well touch you. I had 12,000 but the last I looked I am down to 8,000. Not that care about such things.”
“I thought it was illegal, in violation of the treaty, for you to have anything to do with earth.”
“I am pretty sure using earth’s social media doesn’t count. Regardless. I want to get back to Pluto Viso and get back in control of things there.”
“That is not going to happen.”
“You are not going to free me?”
“You caged a lot of souls. Some were my friends.”
“Some were your enemies.”
“You should never have caged General Roxy. Your bedroom in Hell has been prepared for you. Now go to your room and think about what you did to Pluto Viso.”
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