Maniacs in The Fourth Dimension (12 page)

I don't know what to think. I'll
inform you if I google out something more.

Chapter thirty one

Cleit wrestled Lempo to the
ground, overpowered him and pressed his face in the dirt.

''
How
dared you?! HOW DARED YOU?!
''

I had to get
Cleit off him.

''Control yourself man, you're
starting to sparkle!''

Electric charges are walking all
over Cleit. He roared at all of them.

''We agreed! WE HAD A FUCKIN'
DEAL!''

What happened
is that after Cleit and I walked out of Poplar-Ararat's, with
Cleit's vision restored, we found none of them in the park. We
found bunch of dead gwangis. Those peaceful gwangis that were
browsing the fern, iguanodons. Killed. Which ever predator did
that, I was afraid, probably encountered Lempo and the others. I
was afraid that we're going to find them all dead.

''You're not
going to find their dead bodies. They're not dead'', said Cleit:
''They're the ones that did this.''

They took
their energy to go further. Cleit wasn't here to protect the
innocent animals. He sanked into some dark mood, that held him in
the hospital, cuased by Alice's demise, he mumbled about death and
karma. I asked him what do we do now.

''Do whatever
you want, Jove.''

He lyed down
on the ground and closed his eyes. He wasn't lying there for long,
and suddenly some darkness came to the fern forest. Nightfall or
something else, I couldn't
tell, time got fucked. Midnight
passed long time ago, claimed my cellphone. They came with the
darkness. They. I don
'
t know what they
are. I heard them behind gwangi
'
s corpse.
Cleit heard them too. He got up. We walked around the carcass. Good
god. Human bodies. Canine heads. They were eating the corpse. One
jumped at Cleit so fast that Cleit didn
'
t
even know what hit him, but as they fell to the ground bursts of
electricity covered them. The other one yelped and ran at me, I’ve
put out my arms in front of me, last I saw was the creature’s one
eye.

The creatures, the carcasses,
the fern, the city, it all disappeared. Just bare rocks and dead
plants. Lempo and others are here. Cleit exploded, as I said
already. He
'
s still screaming.

''YOU HAD NO FUCKIN'
RIGHT!''

He's having a stare off with
Emily again.

''There's someone there!''

Down the slope, a small human
figure runs. Fast. He's shouting something. Jesus, is that
Laszlo?!

''Cleit, it's Laszlo.''

''I think he's screaming
'Run!'.''

Behind him,
on the hill, outlines of a huge silhouette appeared, black against
the sun. It stepped down the slope and I saw, a figure formed of…
of … scrap metal? Shit, there's football stadium LED display board
on its shoulders.

Chapter thirty two

Shit! Shit!

''Run, motherfuckers, RUN!''

''Holy mother
of…''

''RUN! RUN!
IT CAN'T BE KILLED!''

''What the fuck is that?!''

''Take cover! Take cover!''

''OH, FUUUUUUUUCK!''

Oh, god…
Jesus…

''It's turning around!''

''Duck! DUUUUCK!''

''Stay down, stay down…''

The fuck is
he doing?!

''Cleit! Cleit!
NOOOOOOOOO!''

''Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!''

''What…''

…
just
happened?

Chapter thirty three

That thing
almost got Cleit. Cleit hit it three times, with no effect. Then,
it hit Cleit, literally, with its arm, or whatever that was, and
Cleit went down. The thing would have certainly killed Cleit, if
Emily didn't somehow destroyed it with the power stream she shot at
it. It somehow worked for her. Laszlo said that he also couldn't do
nothing against the creature. After Emily hit it, it just fell
apart to parts of trashed cars and metal scraps. I found a broken
kid bicycle in the pile. Ding-Ding! Funny. The bell is still
working. I don't understand how something like that could even
exist. There's gotta be some logical explanation. Maybe… a sentient
magnetic force that formed a body out of scrap metal. Sounds
stupid? A ghost of an angry dinosaur possessing trash? Even
stupider. Laszlo said that the thing attacked him at the
junkyard.

Apparently,
Laszlo was all over the city hunting for energy. That thing chased
him to this realm. And this realm is one big nothing. Just stones
and rocky mountains. Not a single trace of any civilisation. Laszlo
said he encountered 'dogheads', creatures Abraxas described pretty
extensively in the comic. They live in the dimension of complete
darkness, they eat the dead, and they move through dimensions
looking for food. Jove and Cleit saw them too. Laszlo says they're
hard to kill. He doesn't hold back when it comes to killing for
energy. And Cleit flipped at me for those iguanodons. It's not like
we would of do it if we had some other choice. That we didn't off
'em, something else would.

Cleit has
lost it. I never saw him like this back home. Back home, he's
always tight. Dimension shifting is not for everyone. Like that
girl that incinerated herself. She couldn't digest it, and neither
can Cleit. He should go home.
a
nd Jove with him. I don't know
did Jove inhale some shit again, or what the hell is wrong with
him, but in such serious life threatening situation in which we
are, he, completely uncalled for, found the time to talk about
swollen prostate and blow jobs with a complete stranger. Just like
he made friends with Laszlo - guy that has all the traits of a
sociopath. Just listen, just listen what he's saying.

''…I never
had prostate problems, but I know guys that did, I've heard quite
some stories about that. Blow jobs simply stimulate the prostate
overly for its capacity. These aren't my conclusions, it's simply
biology. Nature didn't meant for our dicks to get sucked. Too much
Clinton is bound to fuck up your prostate. Prostate is such a
fragile organ, people abuse it. I'm not saying anything about you
and your… your prostate, but I saw you back there, you were
squeezing the lizard for like five minutes. Vibrating things are
also not good for the prostate…''

God, I can't
listen to him anymore, I have to get away. I known him for years,
he wasn't always like that, he used to be a cool guy, it's hash and
those fuckin' shroo-

''Emily! Wait!''

She stopped.

''Where are you going? Are you
okay?''

''I have to
go back, Lempo, I have to find Abraxas and get answers from him.
After I destroyed that creature, I've started to feel different. I
can see more now, more than I used too.''

''You shouldn't go alone.''

''Don't worry about me. I am
much stronger now than any of you. If we are going forward, we have
to know what we are up against. I will be back soon.''

''Em-''

She's gone.

Chapter thirty four

''What was that fuss all
about?''

''I'll tell
you one thing, Jove, never, NEVER help if you're not asked to. If
you see a woman with a baby stroller struggling to open the door,
just walk away, or your bound to get those doors in your
face!''

Bwahah. I bet
that really happened to him. I don't get involved in acts of
chivalry.

''Tell me what happened,
man.''

''That
motherfucker, Alden, he groped the elf girl and she
screamed.''

Oh, yeah, elf girl's got some
major boobs packed in leather.

''Boobs.''

''No, not
tits, it seems that he was touching her ears. Then her man
appeared, punched him to the ground and threatened to kill him with
an arrow.''

''That guy's got serious
prostate problems.''

''Do you want to hear what
happened, or you're going to keep interrupting me?''

''Sorry.''

''When I got
there, she was screaming how he was touching her against her will,
and he said how he was touching only her ears.
Imagine.''

''Crazy.''

''Yeah.''

Ears.

''How did
they get their ears to look like that?''

''I don't know. Surgically,
probably.''

''And her eyes… She's an
arouser.''

''I don't
like her. Even her breasts are probably implants. She looks like
one of those cut up whores from your porn movies. Cruel plastic
face.''

Note to the reader: She looks
better.

''Kristen is
the best looking one here. At least she looks like a human
being.''

''I think her name is
Kirsten.''

''That's what I said,
Kirsten.''

''You said, Kristen.''

''Kirsten or
Kristen?''

''Kristen.
Krirsten.''

''Krirsten?''

''Kirsten.''

''Go fuck yourself, Jove!''

Chapter thirty five

''
Ezequiel
Holodnik
(born May 25, 1977 in Fresno), is an ex officer of Los
Angeles Police Department. In 2011 he was convicted and sentenced
to life imprisonment for armed robbery of Los Angeles Central
Federal Bank.
''

I didn't even
know that there's such thing as central federal bank. This is from
Ezequiel Holodnik Wikipedia page. I know this case from the media,
they were buzzing so much about it, but I'll check it in more
details now. There's even a mugshot of Holodnik. By the way,
Holodnik jr. is here, in the summer garden.

''
Holodnik's indictment and
conviction have been the subject of much controversy, and stired
protests in the public.
''

This is from Los Angeles Central
Federal Bank robbery section:

''
On April 10, 2011, two heavily
armed men wearing clown masks, entered the premises of Central
Federal Bank in Los Angeles. After disarming the guards, they
blasted open the vault's doors using Semtex explosive. They fled
the crime scene in a stolen black mini van, taking with them over
thirty million dollars. Half hour after the robbery the mini van
was found burning in one underground garage.

During the
next few days of investigation, it was informations from
underground informants that brought success to the efforts of LAPD.
Upon discovering the person that black marketed Semtex, the police
connected him with a local drug dealer, Jorge Basajaun. On April
14, police raided the apartment in East Los Angeles, the supposed
residence of Basajaun. Neither Basajaun, or the stolen money were
found, but the police discovered further evidence connecting
Basajaun with the robbery, such as map of the city with marked
escape route to the garage where the mini van was found.

To this day
Basajaun was not found, it is presumed he fled over the state
border for his native Mexico.

On April 16,
Ezequiel Holodnik was arrested. Connection of Holodnik and Basajaun
was revealed, Holodnik later confessed he extorted Basajaun for
allowing him to work on the street. Another piece of evidence that
linked Holodnik to the robbery was the fact that Holodnik was a
part time employed at 'Kaiser', private security company that
secured Central Federal Bank.
''

This
is from section Trial:

''
Holodnik confessed his
involvement with the robbery, but pleaded innocent. He claimed he
has no memory of the event. He claimed that during the entire time
of the robbery and some time afterward, he was under hypnotic
suggestion, induced on him by Basajaun.

Holodnik was twice subjected to
polygraph examinations, with inconclusive results.

During the
trial, a number of experts in the field of hypnosis was called on
to testify, by both prosecution and defense. Only one of them
staunchly claimed that the act of robbery under the state of
hypnosis is unachievable.

Despite the
strong support Holodnik received during the trial, on September 10,
2011, jury found him guilty on the account of bank robbery. He was
sentenced to life imprisonment.
''