The half-forgotten
Other half of my short life
In short story form

 
Block G6
1-15-1996

Part 1

First I remember, I was at my OLD house...I think...at least my old yard, but possibly the new house. It was night, as usual in my outside dreams. I entered, perhaps with my mom and sister. It was very very late, as a matter of fact, and everyone was fixing to go to bed, then the upstairs phone rang. My dad said how he hated me getting a call this late, and my mom said it was probably someone on the modem. I assured them it wasn't, ran upstairs, and answered the phone.

Voice: Ok, here's whatcher gonna do. First yer gonna go to this place and shoot so-and-so. Then we'll shoot you (in the leg?). Later, you'll be shipped to this-other-place and you'll kill this-person, do this-thing, and something-else (I can't for the life of me remember, but I think it involved a lot of killing). We'll mess you up some more after that....

Me: (Something to this effect) Fuck you! I'm not listening! I'm hanging up the phone!

In the dream, I knew that this person on the other end of the line had wanted to hire me for something.

Part 2

I walked outside to get something. No idea what it was. My old back yard, when I turned around to face the house again, had turned into a jungle. I took a few steps, almost stepping on a crocodile, and relieved I saw it in time to get a few more steps distance. I looked around...all was clear...and decided to make my way back home (with whatever it was in my hand, that I had come to get), but I noticed at the last second that more crocodiles were blocking my path! I took a step to the side, where it looked clear...but then another one came into view. I turned around to go another way, but a whole group of lions blocked that passage, too.

I looked another way...looked like a good escape route, but the second my feet moved in that direction, I saw a bunch of other vicious animals (snakes? tigers? angry elephants?) closing in. This happened about 6 times, and I finally thought I had considered all escape routes, when I saw a group of monkeys. With relief, for monkeys were my friends (heh, from the pervious dream I guess), I rushed over to them. The other animals were closing in on us, and when I started pushing to get past, or at least in the middle, of the monkeys, they picked me up and "crowd surfed" me there. They were all pushing around, and I was getting squished...got the feeling that some of them didn't like me (they were big monkeys...like light-colored gorillas).

Part 3

Somehow an athletic female had gotten onto the scene (my partner in hire, I guess, or a friend. I can never see faces in dreams, just human shapes and attitudes). She gave me a laser gun (she had equipment, too), and we entered some big building complex. Some people closed in from another room, so we went to run another way, but then some more closed in from that direction, too. I suddenly got the thought that the guy on the phone had, in malice, hired everyone in the world to kill me (and my partner here knew to find me, cuz he called her, too, if he'd contacted the whole world). Even some droids (like R2D2 and C3P0) came out of one corner, and a fight commenced...me & her against everyone else. We were a team...one particular part I remember is some sorcerer guy was shooting lightning from his hands at her, and I ran, dove (in slow motion...everything was in slow motion when I dove, not just me...for dramatic effect like in a movie), and shot at him as I flew through the air. Lightning streaked over my head as gravity came into effect, and my shots hit square with a few of the droid units who got in the way of my shots.

Time came back to normal, the girl made a comment, and we ran up some stairs, leaving the mob below. But each way we went, more people kept coming, until we were trapped. Then she asked me if I knew about "Block G6" or something. I denied it, and she led the way through a secret passage (I kept getting flashes of what was like a blueprint of the entire complex...like it was in my head...so I actually knew where we were going). We ended very high up in the building, looking down (huge vaulted ceilings) upon everything and everyone, and for the moment, safe. We spotted the leader (or a group of leaders) a floor below us, in the middle. We snook up to that place, and were spying on them, when 3 guys in armour and guns caught us from behind (I even had a vision of them coming before they came, but didn't do anything about it until they got there). They had us, when my RL friend Matt T pushed them out of the way and commented how he didn't really feel like being against me. A few more guys came around a corner. We rushed them. I grabbed the one guy's gun, and it went off, blowing his own head off. I picked him up and threw him across the universe for all I cared...he was outta sight. More brawls and shootouts occurred, and I don't remember anything after that.

Throughout that whole building scene, though, almost everything was black, and everyone had black leather gloves on...possibly even jackets. There were no lights in the building...but we somehow saw our way.

posted by Phlegm at 11/23/2003