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Billy Bingo: A Different World

Previously Billy Bingo: Sexual Blackmail

Copyright 2010, 2018 Charles Thomas Peters Jr.
All Rights Reserved

This story takes place before Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past and before Billy Bingo: When The Legman Comes & the rewrite may change dependent plot points.

This story is fiction.

Chapters

Chapter 6

The dog cage which holds Phil as a prisoner walks inside of a yellow dog house. The robot dog moves a ball around and then chews on a bone. It has been programmed to be a dog. Phil watches through the eyes of the dog cage and for a moment feels one with the dog. He feels as though he is the dog. Then the dog drops down and rolls on his back for a moment. Then he turns to his side and he closes his eyes.

Phil turns his eyes away from the closed eyes of the robot dog. Phil sees inside of the cage but his view is dim for inside the cage is dark. He isn’t even sure if he is in the cage alone. He is disturbed by the odd feeling that someone is in the cage with him and watching him. He wonders what kind of creature might see in the dark. For a second he thinks he might hear odd breaths sucking for air. He listens. But if he has heard something he can no longer hear the sounds. He hears silence; lonely silence.

Phil moves. He feels around with his hands for he can’t quite see in the dim light, the near darkness. Trying to walk he stumbles and his leg hits against something. He strains his eyes to try to see what he has bumped into but whatever it is, it is without much form to observe. He touches it with his hand and feels what feels like might be a handle.

The inside of the cage begins to light up. Phil sees that he has bumped into what appears to be a vacuum cleaner. Phil stares at it for a moment. Then Phil turns his eyes from the vacuum cleaner. He sees a large round bed where he might rest. He sees a large shower where he might enjoy the flow of water to clean and revitalize himself. There is a large kitchen with a stocked refrigerator where he might prepare food. The inside of the cage is the same as if he were still in the living world.

Phil strips naked and finds a cabinet with towels. He hangs a towel at the shower and turns the water on. He enjoys the flow of the water over his naked body. Phil whispers to himself, “I wish Alice were here.”

The Legman appears naked in the shower with Phil.

Phil asks, “What are you doing?”

“I thought we might have a bit of fun.”

“I don’t think so.” Phil turns the shower off. He takes the towel and dries off. “I am not going to suddenly become your friend. Much less your lover. Neither is going to happen.”

The Legman snaps his fingers so that both of them are clothed in tight blue jeans and ripped, white t-shirts. The Legman points to the corner of the cage. “There is a computer over there. It contains lessons to explain the nature of this world. It also contains a list of magic spells that I will allow you to use if you need magic to protect Billy.”

“Why do you want me to protect Billy? Surely you have witches at your command who can do a better job than me.”

“I can’t threaten to cage them for eternity if they fuck up. But now you. I can. I have.”

“You said you want me to attend a computer lab. Will I be allowed out of the cage to attend the lab?”

“I have assigned someone to come into the cage to help teach you while the dog is in the lab. Also, I have decided that inside the dog cage you may explore my realm. Even after you have been freed from the cage you may use the cage to return here when you want so long as you don’t try to hurt anyone here. Although my command center can take control of the dog at any time, unless they see a reason to do so, you may control the dog.”

Phil says, “Such a friendly gesture so that I might forget that I am your prisoner. Do you seriously think you can turn me. Do you think you can convince me to be on your side?”

“We are already on the same side. You just do not know it yet.”

Phil watches the Legman slowly vanish from the cage. It was a lingering exit as though the Legman were reluctant to depart from Phil. Perhaps there is something else that the Legman wants to tell Phil but he is not sure that Phil is ready to hear.

Phil first thinks he is tired. Wearing the clothes that the Legman has used magic to dress him in, he lays down in the big round bed. He bounces around in the fluffy covers in an attempt to get comfortable. He closes his eyes and thinks he will drift into a sleep. For a moment or two he lays completely still. Then he moans. He takes a deep breath. He moans again. Then he tosses and turns. “What if I should go to sleep in this cage and then have trouble waking? Or what if I am not in this cage alone and something attacks me.”

Phil gets out of bed and walks to the eyes of the dog. He sees that there is now a visible control panel there at the eyes. There is a button that reads mind control. He pushes the button and he feels one with the dog. He opens the eyes of the dog. He causes the dog to stand up. He then mentally breaks the connection and the artificial intelligence of the dog takes over. The dog begins to walk on its own without any input from Phil. Then the dog sits down. A monitor in the control panel lights up and Phil sees a dog face looking at him.

The dog’s AI talks to Phil through the monitor. “Hello Phil. I am the dog cage which holds you prisoner. I hope that we shall be friends.”

“That is not likely.”

“It is totally likely. I am a likeable dog. We are companions. We are not enemies.”

“Then set me free.”

“You are funny. So have you ever met the Billy Bingo boy that we will be protecting.”

“No.”

“Neither have I but there have been data files input into my system regarding Billy Bingo and I have viewed them. You should view them as well.”

“Not now.”

“From looking at the information I think I will like being Billy Bingo’s dog. I think you will like having Billy as a master as well.”

“No one is going to be my master.”

“Sure. I also enjoy being hit on the nose with a newspaper. But rebellion will only get you so far in this world.”

Phil again presses the mind control button to again feel one with the dog. The dog vanishes from the monitor as Phil’s eyes fixes to look through the eyes of the dog. Phil asks, “When I am in control, are you still around?”

“Of course I am still around but I will not interfere with your control unless you violate a directive.”

“So I guess that means that I can’t get back to my spaceship.”

“In time. For now though, do you want to explore this realm.”

“I feel like I want to sleep but then I can’t.”

“Then we will sleep.”

Suddenly Phil is in bed. A replica of the dog cage is now in the cage itself with Phil. The replica cuddles with Phil in the bed and then walks down to sleep at Phil’s feet. “Goodnight Phil. I am glad when we are one and I am glad when we are separate but together.”

The dog cage itself has gone back into sleep mode inside of the yellow doghouse. Eight hours later a rooster crows and an alarm clock buzzes. Phil wakes to the feel of the dog replica licking his face.

Phil says, “I am not going to get attached to you. You are not real.”

The dog replica vanishes as the dog cage opens its eyes. The cage opens its eyes and then stands up. The dog walks outside of the doghouse. It walks over to a tree and hikes its legs. “God, my bladder was full.”

While the robot dog cage is moving around, Phil strips naked and showers. Phil expects the Legman to appear in the shower with him but the Legman doesn’t appear. Phil can’t decide whether showering alone is pleasant or just lonely. He gets dressed and goes to the front of the dog cage. Phil presses the mind control button so that he feels as though he is one with the dog. As the dog he jumps and dances around. He darts after a squirrel. “Okay, AI stop that. I don’t want to chase a squirrel.”

AI says, “Yes you do. That was you. That wasn’t me.”

“Why would I have an impulse to chase a squirrel?”

“Because at the moment you are a dog.”

“Whatever. Weird.”

The squirrel wiggles its tail. “Can’t catch me. Can’t catch me.”

“You son of a bitch. The hell I can’t.”

Phil as the dog chases the squirrel up a tree. Phil jumps around the tree. He barks at the squirrel. “Oh crap. Why am I doing this?”

A soul walks up to Phil the dog. The soul looks battered and beaten. He pets Phil and Phil enjoys being rubbed. He rolls over on his back for a tummy rub. The soul kneels down and rubs his stomach. The soul speaks. “I guess if the space alien witches discover what I know then I will be put in a cage. But please don’t put me in a cage. I will not tell the Legman. I will not tell him.”

Phil tries to speak to the soul but his words just become barks. The soul stands up. “I must leave this place. There are spies everywhere. Even dressed as dogs. Spies everywhere.”

The soul begins to walk. Phil the dog follows. The soul speaks. “Go away. Dog. Go away. Leave me alone.”

The soul comes to an entryway to a cave. There is water running over the mouth of the cave and flowing into a stream that flows back into the cave. The soul walks through the water pouring over him and then walks into the stream. Phil the dog follows.

The soul looks at Phil the dog. “Are you in my mind or am I in your mind or do either of us have a mind? I’ve been around too long. I should fall into a sleep. Maybe I should sleep and never wake.”

That talk scares Phil. The idea of falling into such a sleep is like the idea of death. It isn’t death but it is similar. And Phil knows that caged souls are prone to falling into that sleep. Phil wonders if the soul is trying to suggest him into such a sleep. Phil the dog jumps out of the stream and onto the rocky bank within the cave. He looks at the soul still in the stream. The soul laughs and a long ladder appears out of no where. The soul begins to climb the ladder toward a hole in the ceiling of the cave. Phil the dog jumps from the bank and onto the rungs of the ladder. Phil the dog begins to climb the ladder.

The Legman appears and pulls Phil the dog from the ladder. The Legman says, “It is not good to follow Beastial. He once was a mighty space alien witch but now he sleeps.”

Phil says, “He is there. He is not sleeping.”

The Legman explains, “He is dreaming. He is sleep walking in a separate astral body from the one that is caged. He is afraid that his fellow space alien witches will put him into a cage because dreaming he does not realize that he is already in their cage. He is in their cage but the cage does not capture an astral body created when sleep walking. Of course the moment he were to wake, that dream astral body will vanish and he will find himself back in the cage.”

“He knows something that he is afraid to tell you.”

“He knows where a sacred well is and it would help me if I should know but he will not tell me. He is under a curse where if he were to try to tell me then the pain would be too great. It is interesting that you would tell me that he knows something.”

Phil says, “I don’t know why I told you. Maybe you have me under a curse where I will tell you things.”

The Legman says, “No. The only spells you are under are cage connected.”

Phil says, “Curse or no curse, I am scared of this cage. I am scared of falling into a sleep where I will not wake. I am afraid of becoming like Beastial.”

The Legman says, “We must take care that does not happen.”

Beastial looks down from the ladder at the Legman holding the dog. He feels pain. “Oh fuck. Fuck. Please stop the pain.”

The Legman says, “Stop trying to tell me where the sacred well is. There is no point in trying.”

Beastial says, “I want to tell you.”

The Legman says, “I know that you do. And know that I want to rescue you from the cage. I just don’t know how.”

“The pain is gone.” Beastial vanishes.

The Legman says, “If only I could rescue him.”

Phil says, “I am sorry. He does seem to be a kind soul.”

“Indeed. Kind. But he could fight.”

Phil the dog licks the Legman in the face. The Legman laughs.

Phil screams, “What the hell is happening to me. Why would I feel affection for a soul who has put me into a cage.”

Chapters

Billy Bingo: A Different World

Previously Billy Bingo: Sexual Blackmail

Copyright 2010, 2018 Charles Thomas Peters Jr.
All Rights Reserved

This story takes place before Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past and before Billy Bingo: When The Legman Comes & the rewrite may change dependent plot points.

This Chapter follows the Game Chapter 5.

Chapters

The Legman lands his spaceship in a green meadow that is part of the open area of his realm where anyone may visit. He emerges from his spaceship. He looks around. He whistles and a dog comes out of his spaceship. It is not a real dog. It is the robot cage which holds Phil Clyde prisoner. From inside the cage, Phil looks about. He looks up at the Legman.

A man walks up to the Legman. The Legman is not familiar with the man. The man says, “Sir, are you really God?”

“No. I am a lesser god but not the God. I am not the big G.”

The man says, “So this is not an entryway to heaven. I want to go to heaven.”

“You are in the Outlands. This area is my realm that I call Iapetus Jr..”

“I don’t understand. I feel so confused. I died and some weird creatures started chasing me. I ran and I flew and I don’t know what happened but I ended up here.”

The Legman says, “You are going to be okay.” The Legman snaps his fingers. A woman dressed as a nurse appears at his side. “This man needs help. Take him to the medical center and run some test on him. See how bad his mind has been screwed up by the forces.”

The nurse asks, “Do you think the space alien witches did something to him or that it was something else?”

The Legman says, “I don’t know. See if you get a trace on his most recent life and some of his past lives.”

“Okay.” The nurse and the man vanish.

Phil speaks through the robot dog. “What are you going to do to me?”

“You will be set free. In time.”

A figure that looks to be an angel appears next to the Legman. “The spy mechanism that you rooted inside of Sam Bigalo has revealed that Alice Malokey has no idea who Amelia’s spawn is. It has also revealed that Sam is inclined to want to kill Billy Bingo. Alice Malokey may actually be a potential friend but she is walking a dangerous line.”

The Legman turns to Phil. “I am going to send you back in this dog cage and with some of your powers working. Your job is going to be to protect Billy Bingo. If you don’t keep Billy safe then you may never leave this cage.”

“Alice will miss me.”

“I am going to pretend to be you. It is going to be so much fun.”

“You son of a bitch. By the time I am through with you…”

The Legman says, “What? You are in a cage and you are going to threaten to put me in a cage. That would not be very smart. Walk with me. Walk with me like a dog who loves his master and who will be obedient to his master.”

“Like with the way this cage is programmed, I have a choice?”

The Legman begins to walk and Phil follows in his robotic dog cage. The Legman waves his arms and a portal opens. They walk through the portal and they see souls weeping. They hear sounds; talking. “Why am I here? What is this place? Why can’t I find my loved ones?”  They see some of the souls playing out scenes from dreams and the souls are laughing. They see some of the souls playing out scenes from dreams and the souls are screaming in terror.

Phil asks, “Why are you showing me this? I don’t even know if this is real or if this is just some kind of game.”

The Legman says, “To these souls this is real. I have a virtual army of volunteers who come in here to try to help these souls. The volunteers try to create case files so we can figure out how to help each and every one of these souls to leave this plane so that they might enter the proper part of my realm. In some cases we try to unmark them so they might be accepted by the God Complex. If they can be sent to the God Complex, of course we don’t want to mark them even more.”

Phil asks, “And how many of them do you send to the Luciferian Complex?”

The Legman says, “There are some who can’t be saved or when things are explained to them they are accepting of the Luciferian Complex. Of course you might ask yourself if we just came from God’s earth or if we just came from Lucifer’s earth also known as purgatory or Hades.”

Phil says, “Are you suggesting that this is part of the Luciferian Complex?”

“I am suggesting that we are in the Outlands that is part of no complex. But I am questioning which earth do you think we just came from: God’s Earth or Lucifer’s Earth?”

“That is a stupid question. There is only one Earth and that is God’s Earth.”

“So you don’t believe in Purgatory or Hades?”

“I believe that the one earth has been invaded by Space Alien Witches and is under threat from Belial on the planet Pluto Viso.”

“So you think God would have allowed his earth to have been invaded and to be under threat from such a dark creature as Belial. You have been to the future?”

“Yes.”

“Do you think God would have allowed Obama to have been elected President of his most beloved Country? Or Donald Trump?”

“There is free will. God promised free will. And with freedom, things happen that aren’t God’s choice but the people’s choice.”

“But look at the people. Look at these souls.”

“I don’t understand.”

“When we ancient ones came out of the chaos we were intellectual energy. We were digital and the worlds we created were digital. There has never been a clay based world. The Big Bang Theory is a big lie. The idea that any world is a simulation is a lie. There is no simulation. The worlds are what they have always been: a type of sophisticated computer and sub-computers and a network. The worlds have always been digital.”

“I don’t believe you. The clay based world is real.”

“Then what is this.”

“It is part of the metaphysical worlds where souls can journey after death or where people like me can journey to in their spaceships.”

The Legman called to a soul who was trying to help another soul escape her nightmare. “Sir Roger, come here a moment.”

The soul came to the Legman. Sir Roger says, “I am much honored that you should know my name and call to me.”

The Legman laughs. “Tell me Sir Roger, what have your last lives been like.”

Sir Roger says, “Do you mean when I first lived them or when I lived them again?”

The Legman says, “Do you aspire to live a new life that you have never lived before?”

Sir Roger says, “God has rejected me. He will not allow me back onto his Earth. At least not yet.”

The Legman says, “God loves you even as he loves Lucifer. Lucifer himself will someday be accepted back into the arms of God.”

Sir Roger laughs. “Yeah. I don’t think so. That joke is not very funny but still it made me laugh.”

The Legman says, “Return to help the woman to escape her nightmare. I suggest you create a tea party in her dream so that she sits down with her monsters to have tea with them. Have her monsters to tell her jokes. She needs to laugh.”

“I will try it.” Sir Roger leaves to again try to help the woman.

The Legman says, “Belial is the equivalent of Lucifer. Belial didn’t destroy God’s Pluto Viso. Souls simply entered Belial’s version of Pluto Viso. God’s Pluto Viso still exists. Belial could not and did not conquer God in God’s world. The potential war is not a war between God and Belial but a war between Lucifer and Belial.”

Phil shook his head. “You lie. You are a liar. The world I just flew from is God’s World.”

The Legman says, “The world is computer like. Understand that.”

Phil says, “I saw the computers and the internet in the future but I don’t really understand computers.”

The Legman says, “Before I send you to protect Billy I will send you to a computer lab. You need to understand the true nature of the worlds.”

Phil asks, “Why?”

“Because you are the husband of Alice Malokey and she should not be married to a stupid person.”

Chapters

Billy Bingo: A Different World

Previously Billy Bingo: Sexual Blackmail

Copyright 2010, 2018 Charles Thomas Peters Jr.
All Rights Reserved

This story takes place before Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past and before Billy Bingo: When The Legman Comes & the rewrite may change dependent plot points.

Chapters

Game Chapter 5

This is a rather simple game where I was testing some things out.

https://sayata.net/billybingogames/legmanspaceshipinteractive2/

Billy Bingo: A Different World

Previously Billy Bingo: Sexual Blackmail

Copyright 2010, 2018 Charles Thomas Peters Jr.
All Rights Reserved

This story takes place before Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past and before Billy Bingo: When The Legman Comes & the rewrite may change dependent plot points.

A spawn – is when a soul creates a soul from them self. The original is the higher self and remains connected to any of the “lower” selves that are created by the higher self. A spawn can join back into the higher self if it becomes mostly aware of the higher self aspects. The higher self may remain aware of the spawn unless it tunes out the awareness such as to be incarnated into the physical world.

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Chapter 4

The Legman watched Billy Bingo. He saw the confusion in the face of his spawn and a part of him wanted to return to be one with his other self. But he knew the risk. The Legman looked at George Destone. He didn’t dislike George as much as Billy did but still was not overly familiar with the inner soul or higher self of George. He couldn’t figure if George was an old soul or a newer spawn. George was a mystery to him.

The Legman knew that Tommy Harris was an old soul. In past lives he had fought hard against the invading space alien witches. Tommy was a witch but he had his powers locked away from him by the space alien witches. The Legman wondered if there was even a single spark inside of him that might bypass the locks the space alien witches had put in place. He wondered if perhaps in Tommy’s dreams Tommy remembered bits of who he was in the past. The Legman thought he would like to restore Tommy’s memory to Tommy but he also knew it would be dangerous to do such a thing.

The Legman looked at Jimmy. Jimmy also had his powers locked and his memories locked. He was never the man that Tommy was but in many lives he had proudly and bravely stood by Tommy in battle. Whether on the side of right or the side of wrong as judged by hindsight they had fought with honor. The Legman figured it was good that they were brothers in this life for in truth they were eternal friends whether championing for the forces of right or failing to the forces of evil.

The Legman watched Sam Bigalo and Roger Dover drive away. He felt Billy was safe for now. He was reluctant to enter his multidimensional spaceship and begin his journey back to the outlands and to his realm. He knew leaving Billy might put Billy at risk. Still he guessed he needed to deliver the envelope to General Gorgan. General Gorgan was in search of a spawn of a soul that he loved. The soul had fallen into a sleep and the General hoped that her spawn might be key to waking her up from that sleep. The Legman and General Gorgan had no idea who or where the spawn was. They hoped the Space Alien Witch Council did know and would try to use the soul as bait for their intended trap to capture General Gorgan. It was a dangerous game all sides were playing.

The Legman enters his spaceship. He looks at his controls. There is a throttle that is marked Iapetus. The Legman moans. He thinks, “If only I could unlock my world that I love so much. If only that throttle should work as I have dreamed so many times. I guess today is not the day to yet again try that useless mission … but I wish. I must go to my smaller realm in the outlands. For now my responsibility must be the souls there. I must think of them for now I can do nothing for those locked inside of Iapetus. I must think of those I can help.”

***

Sam Bigalo walks into the office of Alice Malokey. She is sitting behind her desk and using her mental powers to twirl a silver ball above her head. She also has a ping pong table set up in the far corner of her office. She is using her mental powers to play ping pong against herself with neither side missing or winning.

Sam realizes those are two methods she uses to distract herself when she is upset. Sam asks, “So what is wrong?”

“You and my husband. I have a bad feeling that my marriage to Phil may be coming to an end.”

“I haven’t told him anything.”

“My husband and my lover talk all the fucking time. With you two hunting together, I think you are closer to him than you are to me.”

“So is your jealousy why you partnered me with Roger Dover and not Phil?”

“Roger Dover is a good man. He is not a yes man and he has a strong moral compass. I am not saying you and my husband Phil are bad men or that you don’t have a moral compass but sometimes the two of you are just too hotheaded. You have to understand that every action has a reaction. There are consequences and those consequences have to be measured. The Witches Council is not a fully unified body and events can cause the various members to look at things differently so that they may change sides. Even with the power of my family, my position on the board is precarious at best.”

Sam said, “I know what you are saying but sometimes I am not sure where you actually stand on things or when you are just playing politics with the Witches Council.”

“I am from the worlds of Malokey that my family named and controls. I am not a refugee from Pluto Viso. I am not an earth witch. I can’t say that I am always neutral but I approach things from my own heritage. I know that you and Phil do not always agree with my decisions. I understand why the two of you hate General Gorgan and want him caged but we have to be careful when dealing with him. And we sure as hell have to be careful when dealing with the Legman and Billy Bingo and Amberline Darko.”

“Where is Amberline Darko?”

“Officially she is dead.”

“But really?”

“I have no idea and that is an honest answer. We know some of the activities of her brother Quentin but not everything. When Amberline wanted to get off our radar, she got off of it but good. She and her brother Quentin Darko are powerful witches and they want us Space Alien Witches the hell off earth.”

“And you? Do you want the space alien witches, yourself included, off of earth”

“I miss living in my own world where I am loved. And I want the positions of the earth witches improved. I want to begin phasing things where fewer of the earth witches will have their powers and their memories locked. But I understand that if we totally evacuated ourselves from earth then Belial’s forces would probably move in and the plight of the earth witches would be worse. The earth witches are proud. You are proud. I understand. But you fought in the Pluto Viso Wars. You know how difficult it is to fight Belial. But Quentin and Amberline and the Legman do not understand.”

Sam says, “I think the Legman should be caged.”

“When the Ancient Witches Council worked their spell to lock Iapetus he put over 100,000 space alien witches into his cage and they are locked in Iapetus. The Ancient Witches Council won but it was not without cost. He flooded earth in an attempt to drive us off the planet. You need to fucking understand that. He is not the God Complex. He is not the Luciferian Complex. But he is Iapetus and even without his true world he is still powerful.”

“I was off fighting the Pluto Viso Wars so I didn’t fully know what was happening on earth. Also the space alien witches fucked with my mind. But I know I fought Belial. I don’t think the Legman is anywhere near as strong now as he was back then. I think I can fight the Legman.”

“Your powers are partially locked. Your memories could not be fully locked but on some things your memories can not be trusted. And let me remind you. Even when you were powerful, you and your armies, your space force, didn’t beat Belial. He won. The Legman could cage you in a heartbeat.”

“Are you sure he is still so powerful? When we threatened to cage him he made a quick exit from Billy Bingo.”

“Billy Bingo is not an ordinary spawn. I don’t fully understand what the Legman is doing but Billy Bingo is important to him. The Legman is not as vulnerable as you think but Billy is.”

“Maybe we should kill Billy.”

“Hell. Fucking. No.”

“I don’t understand why not. What if he grows in power and becomes dangerous to you? Wouldn’t it be better to kill him and cage his soul now, before he can become that powerful?”

“What if against all odds Quentin, Amberline, and the Legman aren’t as stupid as I think. What if Billy is their hope to defeating Belial?”

“What if he is mainly their hope to defeating you space alien witches?”

“I know. I understand. But do you understand what I am saying?”

“Yeah. I do. And you are right. My memories are right on some things but they are off on some other things. Still. I can not forget my Amelia. Though she sleeps, I sometimes go to visit her. I long for her to awake like she is my fairy princess. As I long for her to again hold me in her arms and confide her love I can not, I will not, forget that it was General Gorgan who put my love in that cage and caused her to fall into that deep, deep, deep sleep.”

Alice Malokey lowers the silver ball above her head so that it lands in a pink ashtray on her desk. The ping pong paddles lower. The ping pong ball freezes in mid air. Alice Malokey speaks in a most serious tone. “I understand your hatred for the man but the Legman insists that General Gorgan rebelled against Belial. Also, let me remind you that you and your beloved, sweet wife also put souls in cages with torturous abandon. Some of them fell into the sleep. It was war. We all have grievances from war but those grievances make for no moral compass.”

“If you trust General Gorgan why are you trying to lure him out so that you might cage him?”

“That is the Witches Council going against my advice. I would like the Legman and General Gorgan left alone for now. Unfortunately, I do not control the situation.”

“So if I am given orders to capture the Legman and General Gorgan you want me to fail?”

“What you do is up to you. The odds are that you will fail. I have told the Legman and General Gorgan that I don’t want you hurt.”

“That is what was in the envelope?”

Alice Malokey says, “Yes. But there was another subject and I am going to tell you. Your former wife, General Amelia, has a spawn that did not fall into the sleep. General Gorgan claims he wants to find the spawn to see if she can be used to reach into the dreams of General Amelia and try to wake her. We don’t really know who the spawn is but the Witches Council insisted that General Gorgan be sent information as though we do so as to try to lure him out so that he can be captured.”

“God almighty, you are telling me that there is hope that General Amelia can be awakened.” Sam smiles. His blue eyes beam. “Hope for my Amelia.”

Alice Malokey says, “There is always hope. No matter what. You know that. Don’t you?”

Sam rubbed his face. “I don’t know what I know. But new hope is so much better than old hope that has aged and embittered me with my wishes unfullfilled. She has been in the sleep so long. But tell me this; why would General Gorgan want to wake Amelia? That he would give me new hope is so unexpected.”

“She knows things that he needs to know. She is the only one who knows how to sneak into Belial’s inner sanctuary where he holds the program keys to restore the God Complex of Pluto Viso.”

“So he is really trying to plan a counter offensive against Belial?”

“Or he is playing a game with the Legman. Did General Gorgan come to earth to help Belial plan an invasion of earth or did he come to earth as a refugee to escape Belial? I don’t know. But regardless he wants to find Amelia’s spawn to see if Amelia can be awakened through the spawn or so it seems.”

“But you and the Witches Council do not know who the spawn is?”

“We don’t.”

“Does anyone?”

“I would doubt it. The spawn is probably just an ordinary woman or maybe even a man having an ordinary incarnation on earth among the three to five other billion souls.”

“I thought there were seven billion souls on earth.”

“China and India’s population is exaggerated. Population figures means money and political power to local governments and so lies are told. The same is true in the United States and other places but the lies aren’t quite as big. Still even on the low end, three billion people is a lot of people. Trying to find the spawn of Amelia will be like trying to find a needle in a hay stack.”

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Billy Bingo: A Different World

Previously Billy Bingo: Sexual Blackmail

Copyright 2010, 2018 Charles Thomas Peters Jr.
All Rights Reserved

This story takes place before Billy Bingo: The Forgotten Past and before Billy Bingo: When The Legman Comes & the rewrite may change dependent plot points.

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Chapter 3

Ten year old Billy Bingo is playing with Jimmy Harris.

Jimmy says, “Man, I want a skateboard that I saw in the Sears Catalog. I want the skateboard so bad. But my parents think I will hurt myself on it.”

Billy says, “Hutch Cassidy has about ten skateboards in inventory at his father’s motorcycle shop. Hutch has set himself up a store within his father’s store. Do you want to go there?”

“Man, I don’t have any money. Besides, you know I am not allowed to leave the yard without first telling whoever is watching me and lately they haven’t been giving me permission.”

Jimmy’s older brother Tommy Harris walks up. “What is going on little dudes?”

Jimmy says, “I want a skateboard.”

Tommy says, “I told you that you can borrow mine. Learn and test your skills out on it, and without mom and dad knowing.”

Jimmy says, “I want my own. And besides, I want us to skateboard together.”

Tommy smiles. “I respect that.”

Billy says, “I told him that Hutch has some at his his father’s motorcycle shop.”

“Hutch treats me like shit.”

Billy says, “That is because he has a thing for your sister Clarice and she treats him like shit.”

“Yeah. Well. I am glad she treats him like shit. Clarice is a saint and I don’t want her dating a hoodlum cocksucker like Hutch.”

“He is better than that piece of shit my sister Bess is dating. I don’t know why Kane Bishop has him running the Skull Eagle Gang.”

“How in the hell do you even know about the Skull Eagles or Kane Bishop.”

“I have my sources. But you do know that Kane Bishop isn’t as smart as he thinks he is. And I don’t think he is that fucking tough.”

“He is tough enough and I totally dig his girlfriend. She kissed me on the cheek the other day, just the cheek, but still I was like fuck hell, kill me now, because I have already gone to heaven.”

Jimmy stared at Billy and Tommy.

Billy says, “You do know she is a Vampire Witch who is evil as shit and would just as soon kill you for breakfast as ride your dick.”

Tommy laughs. “My little brother’s best friend is insane. Vampire Witch. There is no such thing. And what the hell do you know about a woman riding a man’s dick. Is your mama raising you in a whorehouse?”

Jimmy says, “Man, Tommy, stop trying to steal my best friend. Go get your own damn friends.”

Billy says, “I want to take Jimmy to the Cassidy Motorcycle Shop and buy him a skateboard.”

“I will go with you two knuckleheads. I want to tell Hutch to stay the hell away from Clarice.”

Jimmy says, “No. Be nice so he will give Billy a discount on the skateboard and not jack the price up.”

“If he tries jacking the price up then I will tell him to jack me off.”

Billy says, “I am pretty sure to get a discount you would need to be the one jacking him off.”

“What is wrong with you?”

Billy asks, “What do you mean?”

“You sound different. You have actually quoted the bible to me. And today you are talking like a dirty bird. I am not sure you should be hanging out with my little brother.”

“Maybe you should not be hanging out with Jimmy. I mean man, you want to fuck a Vampire Witch because she glamoured you and you are too stupid to know it. The real you has a crush on Hutch. You don’t hate him. You are sexually attracted to him.”

“Are you calling me queer?”

“I would never call anyone that.” Billy suddenly transformed into a tough looking, muscular teenager. He grabbed Tommy up by the loose sleeves of Tommy’s black t-shirt.

Tommy grimaces. There is fear in his eyes. He isn’t sure what is happening. “What the fuck? Legman?” The Legman is someone Tommy knows from the Skull Cross Gang.

“Witches are real. Kane’s girlfriend Alicia Silver is dangerous. And your attraction for her is not real. Stop denying that you are attracted to Hutch. Now I am going to erase Jimmy’s memory of this and Billy will not remember it either.”

“I am attracted to Alicia. When she kissed me on the cheek, what I felt was real. I don’t know what I feel toward Hutch.”

“You know.”

The Legman transforms back into Billy. Jimmy’s memory was erased. Red and sweating with excitement, Tommy looks at Billy. He isn’t sure what to say.

Billy says, “I want to take Jimmy to buy him a skateboard.”

Nervously, Tommy says, “Sure. I guess. I will go with you.” Tommy looks at Billy. He wonders, “Did little Billy really just turn into the Legman. Am I losing my mind? That is the more probable answer. But if it did just happen, is what he said true? Is Alicia Silver a Vampire Witch? And what does glamoured mean?”

Jimmy says, “I will go tell mom and dad what we are about?”

After Jimmy runs inside, Tommy asks Billy. “Are you really the Legman?”

Billy says, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

Tommy runs his hands through his long sandy blond hair. “Neither do I? I feel like I’ve been out in the heat too long.”

Billy says, “It does not feel that hot to me. It feels good here in the shade.”

Clarice comes outside. She walks up to Billy and Tommy. She pats Billy on the stomach. “Aren’t you the cutest thing? It is hard to believe such a know it all snob like Bess has such a sweet little brother.”

Tommy asks, “Where is Jimmy?”

Clarice says, “Look. Mom is planning on giving Jimmy a skateboard for his birthday. She ordered it from Sears and she has it hidden in the attic. Now neither of you tell Jimmy but mom wanted the two of you to know, especially Billy, that she is grateful you would buy Jimmy a board.”

Billy says, “No problem. I am sorry I caused an issue. So what if I buy myself a spare board and let Jimmy use it until his birthday party next month?”

Clarice says, “I will ask mom. And if it is okay, she will send Jimmy on out. Right now he is in his bedroom pitching a fit.”

Billy says, “The board he wanted is the one from Sears so the one I buy today will not diminish the gift.”

“Diminish. My. You are a smart one, aren’t you?” Clarice looks at her brother Tommy. She notices that Tommy is red and sweating. “What is wrong with you?”

“Nothing.”

“You look sick.”

“I guess I got over heated but I am okay. Can you tell me something?”

“Sure. If I can.”

“Would you date a man like Hutch Cassidy?”

“Heavens no. I have my eye on someone rich. His father owns an oil company.”

“Who?”

“No one you know.”

“I might know someone rich.”

“Well. You might. Dirk Jenkins.”

“Sure.” Then Tommy says, “I don’t really know him, but I know of him.”

Billy says, “Sure. Dirk Jenkins. Bess is best friends with Rachel Aghar and her mother works for the Jenkins family.”

Clarice says, “Yeah.” Clarice laughs. “Her mother is a maid.”

Billy says, “Her mother is more than just a maid, but regardless, Rachel knows Dirk Jenkins. I’ve tossed the football with him once or twice when I was at the Jenkin’s Mansion with Bess and Rachel.”

Clarice opens her mouth in a gasp and a smile. “You have been inside the Jenkins Mansion. I am so jealous.”

Billy says, “My father and David Jenkins go way back. Dirk’s mother died in childbirth at the same time and at the same hospital when I was born and I think it was at the hospital where they first met. Father is working on one of his oil rigs in the gulf right now.”

Clarice says, “I thought your family is poor. Your father must make pretty good working on an oil rig.”

“No. His job doesn’t pay that well. We are poor.”

Tommy says, “As are we. But God, I wish I had money.”

Clarice punches Tommy in the arm. “We aren’t poor.”

Tommy says, “Next to Dirk Jenkins, yes we are.”

Billy continues. “We are poor but I’ve been to the Jenkins Mansion and I have swam in their pool and I have eaten with their rich friends.”

Clarice says, “Oh my God. I am so jealous.”

Tommy asks, “Clarice, have you ever even met Dirk.”

Clarice says, “No. I’ve never been able to get my nerve up to introduce myself. I have been to a couple of parties that he was at but I get all shy when I am near him. It is not just that his family has money, but he is so dreamy.”

Billy says, “I guess I could introduce you.”

“Oh my God. Billy, you are the best. I will go tell mom about your plans for the skateboard and Jimmy will be right out. Thank you Billy. Thank you.”

***

Billy, Tommy, and Jimmy begin their walk toward the Cassidy Motorcycle Shop. Billy notices a large black car that seems to have slowed down to follow them. It unnerves Billy. He keeps looking back toward the car. Tommy notices that Billy keeps turning around. Tommy turns to see what Billy keeps looking at and sees the car.

Tommy says, “Fuck, why is the law following me.”

Billy/Legman says, “It is not the law. They are hunters.”

Jimmy laughs. “What would they be hunting in Conyers? Rats.”

Tommy screamed in laughter. “Oh my God, can you imagine a giant wharf rat mounted to a wall like they do deer heads. That would be so weird.”

Billy/Legman laughs. Then he quickly turns serious. “I’ve got to deal with them.”

Tommy asks, “How?”

George Destone runs up from seemingly no where. He tickles Billy on the stomach. “Hey Champ, you want to go to the movies with Bess and me?”

“No. Get lost.” Billy sees that the black car has stopped. He sees the front doors on both sides of the car open. “Oh shit.”

A man calls to Billy. “Billy, come over here.”

Billy/Legman screams to the men, “If you don’t want things revealed, get lost.”

“We are not threatening you. We have an envelope for you to deliver. That is all.”

A large bald headed man with gray eyebrows walks up to Billy. He hands Billy a yellow envelope. “You do realize that followers of Belial on Pluto Viso are a danger to this planet.”

Sam Bigalo walks up to Billy. Sam is in his 40’s and of a more slim build but still tough. He has shoulder length blond hair. He says, “Roger Dover, you don’t have to editorialize. Billy will give the envelope to the Legman. Want you Billy?”

Billy/Legman nods. “Sure. But if this is about the General, the Council is wrong about him.”

Sam Bigalo says, “The Council is wrong about a lot of things. General Gorgan is not one of them.”

Roger Dover says, “Right or wrong, cooperate or we will cage you for Alice Malokey to have you transported.”

Billy/Legman says, “The Outlands are forbidden to you all. You know that. Bye.” The yellow envelope vanishes as the Legman exits Billy.

Billy cocks his head. “What do you two men want?”

Sam says, “We told you what we want.”

Billy looks around. “I think I blanked out. What is going on? I am confused.”

George says, “They gave you an envelope to give to the Legman.” George sees that the envelope is no longer in Billy’s hands. “Where did the envelope go?”

Roger Dover and Sam Bigalo return to their car.

Jimmy asks, “Who is General Gorgan?”

Billy shrugs. “I don’t know.”

George says, “They threatened to have you caged and transported. I think we need to tell your mom and maybe call the police.”

Jimmy asks, “What are you talking about?”

George looks at the two men sitting in the car. “I don’t know. What are we talking about?”

Jimmy says, “I feel strange. I feel scared. I feel really scared. But I don’t know why.”

Tommy realizes the memory of his little brother and of George have been erased. He knows that Billy is confused. But Tommy’s memory of what just happened remains clear; but still he feels confused.

***

Sam Bigalo and Roger Dover pull into a parking garage. They both pull lunch boxes from the backseat and open them up to begin eating their sandwiches and to drink their soft drinks.

Roger Dover asks, “Do you think Alice Malokey will order the killing of Billy Bingo so that the Legman will not have a vessel?”

“I don’t know. If the Legman has returned to his realm in the Outlands he will not be around to protect his alter.”

“I don’t really understand the duality of people like Billy Bingo. I know people have told me that they are the same person but that Billy doesn’t really know what is happening as far as the Legman is concerned. I would think it is more likely that Billy is a totally separate soul whose body is being possessed by the Legman.”

Sam says, “No. They are the same. It is like God can present himself as a singular person or he can present himself as multiple people but they will all still be God. God can connect his higher self to those entities that he spawns or he can have the connection one way where the spawns are not aware and where he can test aspects of himself without the spawns having a clue.”

“The Legman is that powerful?”

“Well. It is complicated with the Legman because what he is doing is to protect his higher self from the spells the space alien witches have cast. He is at war with them in the hopes that he can reopen his realm Iapetus and from there defeat them.”

“Does it ever bother you that we are working for the Space Alien Witch Council? We are earthlings and we are working for the invaders.”

“I am not going to tell you that, the kind of shit that you might can use against me. Are you crazy?”

“So that is an affirmative. It bothers me that we might be on the wrong side of history and you can use that against me. I don’t care.”

Sam smiles. “Be careful with whom you make that kind of confession.”

“If Alice Malokey orders me to illegally go into the Outlands to try to put the Legman in a cage, I will do that. But if she orders me to kill Billy Bingo, I can’t do that. I don’t care if he is the spawn of some god or whatever, he is still just a kid.”

“I understand. He is a kid who might be the earth witches’ only chance of beating the space alien witches.”

“No. Like I said. I would illegally go into the Outlands to put the Legman in a cage. But I will not kill a kid. Clear!”

“Clear. But to be just as clear, in case you don’t know who I am. My then wife and I fought in the Pluto Viso Wars against Belial. I fought against General Gorgan. General Gorgan put my then wife in a cage and caused her to go into a sleep from which she still has not woken. The Legman now is giving General Gorgan refuge in his realm in the Outlands. I want General Gorgan caged. I want that son of a bitch to end up in a sleep. If Alice Malokey orders Billy Bingo to be killed to send a clear message to the Legman, I will cut his head off myself.”

“You say that you are an earthling, but you think like the space alien witches, don’t you. You remember back to the Pluto Viso Wars. Well I don’t. I don’t know who I was in the past. Hell. I barely know who I am in this life. So I know what it is like to be a confused innocent. I know what it is like to be that kid Billy Bingo.”

“Well. I don’t think Alice Malokey will give the orders or sanction the killing of Billy Bingo so this argument that we are having is probably pointless.”

“So do you think she will give us the orders to illegally go into the Outlands to capture General Gorgan from the Legman?”

“I don’t know. She suggested there might be a way to lure General Gorgan out of the Legman’s realm so we can legally capture him but she did not give me the details.”

“I wish I had looked in that envelope that we gave Billy or the Legman.”

“Alice Malokey’s magic would not have allowed it and she would have known about your attempt. You do understand that you really do not want to piss her off.   Don’t you?”

“Yes.”

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