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

 
Nothing Can Stop Us Now
4-18-1997

Starts out I fall into the territory of some small town in the woods...like a little village. There's snow on the ground, and some people below, throwing snowballs at me. They can't hit me, and I move closer, throwing back. I nail them all, eventually, three times, and win, gloating about how good I am.

Ok, now the fun begins.

I meet the people of the village, and they've heard of me, glad to meet me, etc...heard of my exploits...but many are skeptical. Just then a helicopter appears above, the "bad guys" looking for me. I hide in a huge-ass barn which had row upon row of helicopters parked in it. The one above starts shooting through the barn at me, and the leader of the village (which I've figured out by now isn't a village but a top secret assault team similar to "Mask" or the "A-Team), shouts at me how "that's just no way to go..." I don't get hit, but the chopper flies down more level with the barn to seek me out. As it's flying down, I see a gas hose hanging and get a bright idea. When the chopper makes it down, I'm no longer inside the barn...but there's a hose hanging out of the door (the barn at this point decides it's on stilts, so it's a long way to the ground). I climb up the hose and onto the chopper. It starts to take off again. Now (the most unrealistic part in the dream), I open up the gas tank, jump through the mechanism, and somehow end up inside the helicopter...just as the mechanism closes. I realize how small I must be to have achieved this, and so rearrange the helicopter back to normal size. Inside there's several guys, all big-shot leaders of some enemy of mine. I grab a big pole or something and run to the front, talk to them for a while. I threaten them, they threaten me, etc. Finally I get sick of them and run them all through with my pole...but then they laugh at me and vanish! Holograms! Suddenly the helicopter starts to plummet towards the ground. I grab the controls and steady it a bit, but it's still gonna crash. All the while I have the music to my latest music piece in my head.

I forget how I got out of this, so I'll come back to it if I remember...I think the female member of the village below helped me somehow.

So the helicopter crashes, I'm safe, and everyone cheers. The downside is that it has crashed on one of the paths that leads out of the village (it's in a forest, remember). They take me into another building where they have a bunch of their secret vehicles and stuff. We all stand in a circle, and someone says, "Ok, who gets to drive the car?" I'm thinking, "It's gonna be me, it's gonna be me..." "Ok, , it's your job this time." I'm thinking, "Shit..." Everyone cheers...what a good choice.

Then the leader says, candidly, "Now..." and everyone else starts chanting, "Vroom vroom. Vroom vroom. Vroom vroom..." A slick yellow sports car pulls up, and they look at me expectantly. After some light humor from the others about how they'll never be good enough to pilot it, I break down and accept their offer to be its pilot.

Damn, I'm losing the dream so much as I go on...I think we're attacked here, but we fight them off...

Ok, I have to go on a recon mission of sorts with the female member of the team, who has a plane. We climb inside, but there's tons of baby birds in it. We kinda shove them outta the way and sit on them...we don't care...and continue to fly around. We learn, somehow, that there's a major strike coming this way and we have the evacuate the village or we'll all be destroyed. Also, if we can evacuate, we'll have all our forces ready to strike right back at them while they're attacking the empty village.

But...there's only two planes, and the road out has been blocked. I formulate some plan (duh...) and I fly out of there by plane. The other plane takes off and flies into the distance. Then a HUGE van crashes out of the woods, containing all the other villagers, and we're like, "Oh yes...nothing can stop us now..."

After a short while the other plane comes back, with tons of other planes behind it. They all land in a nearby stream/pond...some of them are actually speedboats that can fly. I recognize some kid in one of the planes and tell him to watch his ass during this operation.

posted by Phlegm at 11/23/2003