-Bang!-
"Mind, prepare to cast a defense on the Mindscape. The more it gets damaged the dumber we get."
-"I will limit the damage to this quarter. This is the best we can do."-
"Thanks"
-"Stop with the mushy business with me. I don't want you to butter me up!"-
"Just think about that time we watch the animes with the clones and A.I. You are me and I will treat you with dignity, for my and your sake."
-Bang!-
-"I'm not an' A.I.!!. but you got a point"-
-Crack-
-Ouch! - x2
They get a splitting headache.
The door burst out with the threshold.
A gigantic eyeball made out of stars and a black hole as the pupil looks in my mind.
-HAAAAARRRG!!!! - X2
No defense can be set up against this shit. Just being stared at cause both my selves to bloat. Tentacles Invade my Mindscape. They suck everything they come in contact with.
A ball of energy comes from the outside and go straight for me. It enters my body and at last, I can move.
For the first time, I instinctively use the fire chain's. They wrap around the tentacles and prevent them from going further. The effect is surprising!
(Is it because of the ball of light or because the ability comes from real life?)
I look at Mind. We nod to each other.
Mind start writing stuff in the air. My mental power get's drained, but I feel the chain's use a different power inside me. There is other's too.
My Mindscape seem to expand. The walls seem, to fix themselves.
(Someone is helping me.)
Mind's hand's becomes faster and faster until I see a blur. Good thing I learn the mechanic's of computer. This all reminds me of the first processor. They looked like a bunch of cheese cutter's crisscrossed on top of each other, with iron ring's here and there in between. The ferrites (iron ring's) are the ancestor's of the digital logic gate. (Check it out, if you love thech and computer's)
There is a big cube of information being set up in mid air. Mind's Hand gesture move the cube here and there, zoom in and out, write stuff...
Meanwhile, I look at that thing as it tries to break free. Lucky enough, the tentacles cover the entire hole. I don't see the eye anymore.
(This thing, I never saw anything like that. Does it really come from my mind?)
"How much power can you put in that?"
-"As much as we can"-
"Do you think I should use both power's?"
-"Ok, but, I suspect we got it wrong, well partially wrong. Our power is divided in multiples energies. Like vital, mental and soul. These are the ones we can use now. But don't use any vital energy and not more than 1/3 of soul power. We could die for all I know."-
"What is the *spell* you chosen?"
He looks at me with a wicked smile. I frown, worried.
-"Cough. Let me work here. Less talking more holding chop chop. hehehe."
(Fuck.)
I just stop caring and loosen my thoughts just enough so I won't lose my grip on the monster.
Mind' speed increase again. He conjures square glasses to look more nerdy.
The ball of energy is almost depleted.
Once he's done.
-"Body, come here, we need to focus on our power right now. You supply I regulate. Let the chain's go. once the spell gets loose protect us."-
Once I let the chain's go, the tentacles resume their feast. We power up the spell one by one all the writings and numbers light up and position themselves in a form.
I try not to be distracted, but Mind just amazed me. He built a laser. An' extremely complex laser.
The material is replaced by mind power.
The thing charge up and.
-Boom-
A white beam blast at the monster.
The tentacles get shredded as the beam passes trough unimpeded.
Then we see the eye again. The pressure prevents me from putting a barrier. Lucky Mind set up one already. Hehe.
The beam seems to slow down the closer it gets to the eye as space is compressed. (This is an optical illusion caused by the perspective. If space is compressed at such levels, the thing that travels in the compressed space, travel at the same speed as time passes. So, the person outside this perspective see it slow down.)
"Will it work?"
-" Just watch, this is our Mindscape. With enough power we can do whatever we want."-
Once the beam gets close enough to the eye, it starts to rotate and enter the black hole. The light starts to orbit around the giant pupil. Slowly get to the center and accelerate.
-"Anytime now"-
The beam go so fast, it look like a bright white circle around the pupil. Then:
-Bamzooom-
A not so big bang, the laser changes color, split like a frag grenade and blast a bunch of small holes trough the massive head and everything around.
The thing didn't even scream. It probably never expected that. Me neither.
-"Hehehe"-
The holes in my wall close up fast. Just before they close completely, a waterfall of blood falls trough. I quickly make a basin and a barrier for it and the wiggling remains, it seems corrosive.
-"The laser we shot sent packs of particles arranged in a special fashion. Enabled to go at the peed of light without losing integrity. Normally, it's useless. Even the light we see don't go at the theoretical speed of light. But once it reached his black hole eye, the law's and speed limit break due to ultra high gravity. The particle packs reached the speed of light, the information gets released. Since time don't exist relative to the rest of the universe, at that speed, only that giant eyeball could affect it. I arranged the particle so that once they meet their counterpart (Antimatter, because time "stop"), they act like a program or machine. Creating an other blast with the antimatter in tow. Thus the change in color and blast that passed right through the giant head..."-
"I bet It never thought those laws exist. Only a weak civilization, like earth, need that much information..."
-" Let's call it a Quantum beam spell. Of course it's useless without a black hole."-
"You are something Else Mind..."
-"Nhaa. I'm just the "smarter" you. Well our time ratio is not the same, so I have your intelligence with more time and less restriction to use it. This is the potential we wasted on Earth."-
"If I understand correctly my brain is processing so fast, that time bend in our perspective?"
-"Not exactly. You, Body, are bound to well... the body. So, your time perspective doesn't change. Since I'm in your mind, I'm unbound to the rules outside. But we have the same soul."-
-"There should be a third personality somewhere. This is speculation, but we are mind body there should be soul or subconscious. Maybe it's not complete yet."-
"Ok. ok enough blabber. Now how do we get out of here?"
-"Go to sleep."-
I look at him with a raised eyebrow.
-"What a pain, having to explain thing's to myself."-
"Get used to it. It will be your job among many other's"
-"Yes, yes... What I mean is, we depend on the outside now. Just like the ball of energy earlier, that should have come from Barabas. So focus on your connection to our body, until someone uses a defibrillator XD"-
"You're kidding!"
-"Not one bit"-
"Wait Garry!!!"
-Tenka's P.O.V.-
Tonight I creep out of the tent and go check on Sam. The Egg is now unprotected and it scare me. Barabas opens an eyelid and close it back.
At the site, I pass my hand on the surface. It feel's like harden snake skin. I feel a vibration inside the egg.
"Sam!"
(I'm exited. Is he coming out!?)
-Bam!-
A tiny fragment break off and fall on the ground. I pick it up. Then I see black stuff that reeks come out of the opening.
"Not again! Nooo!"
I touch the egg again. This time I ear a low sound roar in my head. It's so loud I can't help but stumble in retreat.
In my panic, I don't realize the shell fragment melt and enter my palm like it belong there.
"Barabas!"
The whole drowsy gang quickly gathers around.
"Look!"
Barabas notice the stuff.
-(You can use energy perception right?)-
"Just for a second, the last time and my brain ached."
-(A second should be fine by now with your growth. check it out.)-
I do what he said and the tear that threat to fall since the beginning fell. There is a crack in space with tentacles coming out of it. They constrict the egg and try to absorb it.
"WATH IS THIS!"
My wrath explodes, but I don't know what to do. This thing is out of my reach. I touched the egg earlier.
Barabas sends a small ball of energy, but this time it gets consumed before it reaches.
Suddenly a silver light emerges from the egg unimpeded and enter Barabas skull. He just stays there in a stupor with a blank look in his eye's.
-Barabas P.O.V-
That light hit me in the forehead, then I get transported along with it inside my Mindscape.
I'm back in my seat, the tea is hot, Gary sings. Wait..
"Gary!"
He gets down from the umbrella and peck a cookie.
"Hahaha good to see you in one piece, if this is what we can call a piece. What happened?"
-"chippers"-
He spends some time telling me bout what happened inside Sam's Mindscape. From Gary's encounter with death, how he lost his body, reappearing in Sam mind, the changes in there and the final invasion.
We spend at least an hour talking. In real time, it's only been a few second's. He then tell me how to save Sam. Of course He has no idea he's in an' egg. The beast is something I know nothing about.
I blink, and I'm outside again.
I transmit my thoughts to Tenka.
("That thing is attracted by something in his Mindscape. He's safe for now, but I don't know for how long. There is a hole there too.")
She looks at her hand and realize she lost something. Now, there is a tattoo just like the egg surface on her palm. She tells me about the egg shell.
Gary shoots out of my third eye and enter her palm.
The tattoo shrinks and move up until it settle between her eyebrows.
She as a beautiful mark there now. It looks like an' eye made by two curved bird wing's with a Fibonacci spiral as the center.
The tentacles sense food nearby. All of them let the egg go and aim for Tenka Barabas grab her by the cloth and run. This seems almost useless. He just throws her forward.
He looks a Salaba and...
-Roar!-
-Slap-
He gets smashed on the floor and raised in the air by an invisible force. You can see the constricting shape on him. The tentacles drag him away.
Barabas lets them drag him in. Just before the tear close he shoots his soul, just like Gary does, toward Tenka and enter between her eyebrows too.
-Salaba P.O.V.-
My mind turned blank for a week now, I didn't say much. I don't understand what is all this. What is he?
I can't even care for Tenka, because of the way I treated her before. I never treated her badly, but we have no attachment except for our common love for Sam. But not he's not here. It was so pleasant until all this happens. Sigh.
I wake up from my thought because of Barabas. He violently starts to pull Tenka and fling her like a broken doll. Then he stop and look at me and roar. I feel no threat from it. And I don't care, crazy bear... I'm already running to her still flying in an arc that is gonna crash on the floor. Lucky Sam personally trained me. He said I'm the tallest so I need to be fast, nimble, stable and it's tougher to get there for me. But only Tenka should be faster then me with our power.
I catch her and wince a bit because of my shoulder, then look at the bear.
He is mid air and can't even move an inch.
(What the hell is this again)
I don't need to understand as my leg's are already running. Taki and Eldo ran and fly before me and lead me away.