I fell asleep with my light/sound machine on and the goal of going to the moon. There was going to be a party on the moon and I wanted to attend it for a while. I fell asleep and slipped into a WILD…
I found myself somewhere between Earth and the moon. I felt a bit disoriented. I wondered where I was. I knew I was in a dream state. There must be some reason I hadn't made it to the moon. I looked around to see if I could figure that out. Nomad came to mind. I wanted to find him. I focused on Through the Never and on opening a portal to find Nomad. A portal opened…
I looked through the portal. I could see Nomad on the other side. He was with some people. They were talking to him. He seemed pissed at them. I wondered what was going on. I had the idea those people were uninvited guests. If I wanted to know what was going on I might just have to find out through them… I waved at Nomad. He vaguely acknowledged my presence. I telepathically asked about his friends. He said they weren't his friends. I said then he wouldn't mind if I borrowed a couple of them then. I turned my portal into a vortex portal and pulled the two closest individuals through. Nomad telepathically asked what I was going to do with them. I responded I was going to get some answers.
Two people were looking at me now. A man and a woman. I asked them why they were watching Nomad. The man said it was none of my business. I told him that if someone is harassing my friend then it has become my business. I asked him if he was going to cooperate and tell me what I wanted to know. He said no. I said I had expected that answer, so there was a backup plan. I focused on the song Seasons in the Abyss to assimilate both of them into the collective. The song played through and they had blank looks on their faces. I knew it hadn't worked as well as usual since this was just their astral or dream bodies… but I was receiving some information from the collective…
The two people I had just assimilated were government agents… but not really government… working for… who? Some top secret organization... Illuminati? The modern day Templars from Assassin's Creed? It didn't really matter… the goal of their employers is world domination… by whatever means necessary. Working on mind control through dream and astral states… subliminal messages in various media… television, magazines, radio… People who get a clue as to what is going on tend to disappear. It sounded a bit too much like the modern day Templars form the Assassin's Creed game… I wanted to get more information… the collective probed deeper. They have been watching Nomad because of the moon bases that have appeared. They have tried to watch me, but many times when they get close enough there is a really mean looking guy that glares at them… and his glare is CREEPY! The man glaring at them is Vegeta. They have also been tracking a few of the other people who have frequently been coming to the moon bases. They have been unable to approach either of the bases… some kind of security system that operates on both the astral and dream planes. The agents are restricted to the astral plane… they are not permitted into the dream state. They have even enlisted the use of nightstalkers to make sure they don't go into the dream state… and if they do go into the dream state the dream will immediately become a nightmare. Not all of the agents are working for this agency of their own free will… some of them are being threatened… or their families are being threatened…
Nomad was talking to me telepathically again. He said the others wanted their agents back. I looked at the assimilated people. I didn't think they would stay fully assimilated after they awakened, but maybe they would remain partially assimilated so the collective could access more information as it becomes available. If they didn't stay partially assimilated, well, that is nothing lost. I opened a portal back to where I got them and sent them through. Nomad was on the other side.
"They didn't want to answer my questions," I told him, "But it didn't do them any good. I'll tell you about it later. Just suffice it to say they're another form of fucking Templar in my book."
"Templars?" one of the other agents questioned.
Vortex portals opened an pulled a total of four of the agents through them. There was still one of them there. I landed next to Nomad. I opened a portal to go to the moon. I looked at the remaining agent who seemed to be speechless.
"Do you think he's going to cause trouble?" I asked.
"If he is he won't be able to follow us," Nomad said. We went through the portal. On the other side we were just outside the gate to the biodome. All three of us were approaching.
"Warning: hostile entity detected," the mechanical voice announced, "Step away from the biodome."
I knew the voice couldn't mean Nomad or me so I assumed it must mean the agent. "I guess you don't have clearance to enter this area, Templar," I told him, "Too bad."
"Why do you keep calling me a Templar?" the man asked.
"Play 'Assassin's Creed' and you will know," I said, "You act just like them, so it will do since your organization doesn't have an official name since you don't exist officially." I made a point to be sure I was dressed as an Assassin. I altered his outfit so he was dressed as a Templar. "You are a Templar. I am an Assassin. So you'd better go away or this could get ugly."
"You can't tell me what to do!" the man said as he stepped forward towards Nomad and me.
"Hostile entity detected," the mechanical voice said, "Defense systems online." Lasers fired and hit the agent. He was teleported a short distance away from the biodomer.
"Fuck you!" he yelled from where he was. I flipped him the bird as Nomad and I went into the biodome…
Inside the biodome I saw Nomad head over to the pond. She was talking to a woman over there. The woman looked familiar. Wasn't she that female agent who had seemed to want out? Yes. She was. It looked like they were having a private talk so I headed in the other direction. Wasn't there supposed to be a party going on here? I found it. There were people everywhere. Tables of food. I spotted many familiar faces. Q, Sephiroth, Link, Bakura, Basara, Spike, Mary, Marty, Serena, Vegeta, their twin girls, Sydney was there with Vegeta standing protectively over her, a woman in a red dress… Scarlett was there near Vegeta as well, Angelina, Xena, Gabrielle had a pie that looked like it had about a dozen forms of chocolate in it, Callisto, Hercules, Joxer, Iolas, Altaïr… And there were numerous people I didn't recognize. I wondered if they were DC's, visiting people from other worlds, or other dreamers. It didn't really matter. I went over to Gabrielle. I asked her what kind of pie she was eating. She said chocolate, of course. She focused briefly and a pie appeared floating in front of me. I grabbed it.
"There's one for you," Gabrielle said as she ate more pie. I summoned a fork and took a bite. It was delicious. At least four kinds of chocolate… Chocolate crust, chocolate filling made of four kinds of chocolate (white, milk, dark, and a rare red chocolate), chocolate meringue, and chocolate sprinkles on it. Chocolate overload! Gabrielle was loving every bite of her pie. And so was I. I turned to walk away from Gabrielle to look around a bit more.
"Raven?" Gabrielle said as I left. She sounded concerned about something. I stopped and turned back.
"What is it?" I asked her.
"Uh…" she started, "I don't think it's good for Malkus to stay shut up in that house all alone. Why did you say he wasn't allowed to be here?"
"I never said he wasn't allowed to be here," I said, "I specifically said anyone who isn't hostile is allowed to be here, from inside or outside our hidden world. He's inside it. So sure, he's allowed to be here. Why did you think he wasn't?"
Gabrielle got a strange look on her face. "He said he wasn't… hmmm… Ok. I'll be back in a bit…" She opened a portal and went through. I looked through and saw the interior of a house on the other side. Gabrielle forcefully pushed a man through the portal.
"What are you doing?" the man asked. I recognized Malkus.
"I don't like being lied to," Gabrielle, "Raven never said you weren't allowed to be here."
"I didn't say she had!" Malkus said.
"Well," Gabrielle said, "Since she put on the party, she's the only one who would have the right to ban anyone."
"The people here are definitely not going to want me…" he looked over at Altaïr, "here when they're trying to celebrate. Especially him."
"Altaïr?" Gabrielle asked, "He's what? One of about a hundred? Just ignore him. Besides, I'm sure he doesn't care if you're here." She called out to Altaïr now, "Hey! Altaïr! Malkus is here!"
"Shut up!" Malkus said.
"So?" Altaïr called back, "Why would I care?"
"See?" Gabrielle said to Malkus, "He doesn't care. Here," she summoned another pie, "Have some chocolate. Chocolate makes everything better! Actually, Serena Royale could use some chocolate, too. And Nomad looks like he needs chocolate… Chocolate for everyone! Come on, Malkus, help me pass out chocolate. Everyone likes someone who comes bearing chocolate!"
I ate some more of my chocolate pie as Gabrielle dragged Malkus away towards Serena Royale and Nomad. I was still eating pie when everything faded to black and I woke.
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