“PAKAL AHAU”
A former president was working within the States Counsel on their behalf to organize a protection order for the jungle.
They decided to move to the end of the building. To a room that was used in happier times for bonfires and singalongs when the building was a center for eco- tourism. The gear they were lugging included laser shooters, a mechanism that tempoarily blinds your opponents with a light beam that bouces off the retina. It is dropped in an umbrella formation over troops. The other armament was a hand helds splicer used to disrupt the atoms in your opponent’s nerve system rendering troops helpless for ten hours.
The blasts were five times as frequent now. Then in a second there was silence, only the shuffling of their boots across the stone floor could be heard, the AK97 Gustav was hauling fell to the floor bouncing over steps into the cellar. Gustav put down a ZP player and snapped a banned Bruce Springsteen tape into the clip. Music filtered around their ears.
Jane reset the player to Badlands and turned up the volume. She walked to the rear window and looked out. Her heart was starting to pound normally. It had been forty eight hours since she stopped taking the medication that was now given tp everyone at the age of six. It was a mixture of prozican and caffeine. She had heard this song a thousand times since Eco international City had taken it on as its signature anthem. For once in her life she could actually feel the words and melodies of the song, they didn’t just wash over her senses.
“They must be planning an offensive, ” Gustav said. Jane took off her government badge and tossed it to the center of the room then she removed the safety cover on her laser. It was quiet except for Springsteen’s voice.
“Working in the fields till you get your back burned,
working in the fields, yeah till you get your facts learned, baby I got my facts learned real god right now,
You better get it straight girl…”
The player mechanism was hit. Gold sparks filled the room. “Stand back,” Ahmed said. “they must be using one of those new carckerjack guided lasers that can turn corners once it locks on a target, even sound vibrations.” He kicked the player into the middle of the room. It continued to generate music.
“Old man want to be rich, rich man want to be king , and the king ain’t satisfied until he rules everything…”
The box exploded into a purple shower of sparks and photon waves producing a cloud of ionized debris. Everyone pressed against the walls waiting for the cloud to disperse. Pockets of heat and energy spritzed the floor.
“That’s it brother. They are inside the security perimeter that we set up.” Ju Li said.
“How the hell did they do that? The technology is original. They should not have been able to break it,” Said Sam as he kicked the remnants of the ZP Player.
“Alright, everyone has water?” Ahmed said. The group nodded as they grappled with their gear.
“We will meet at the predetermined coordinates…series number…seven.” He threw Jane a water bottle then ducked into the trap door disappearing into the basement.
