Future World Part 2

It had been at least two days since I had arrived on this world, with an actual living augmented reality as I had come to know it, and I still couldn't believe some of the things that I had seen here. My mind was still back in the chamber looking at a very real human Alice.

"This is Alice, her mind is plugged into the system and this is something that she actually wanted at the start." He told me.

The girl plugged in couldn't look older than that of 16 years old, and yet here she was half in the machine with a helmet over her head plugged in and spread out to the entire world. "I know what you must be thinking." A female voice called out. "That how can I survive being placed into a computer system like this, I was born right after the entity above us started to fully take over, and considering how my mind worked and being able to understand computers far better than everyone else, I was the only option that those that wanted to be free had. Plus my body also didn't work either, so placing my body and mind into the computer here was the best option, and I can help fight the computer system above us as well. And I also believe that the system above us is the same way as ours down here, that there is someone in truth inside their computer system up there. However I cannot defeat him in the computer world alone, he must be completely unplugged from the system in order to defeat those above." Alice told me.

I couldn't help but walk all around the system looking at it in different places, the entire thing looked like it had been pieced together from different components and somehow was able to work the way that they wanted to in the first place. However I could see things there that they couldn't, but at that moment I wasn't going to be saying anything right then.

A half hour later I was brought to where I was right then a room of my own while I stayed there, it was one of the traveling guest rooms that they had created for those that were on their side trying to free themselves from what was going on above them. I knew that I had to do something to help them out, this was the one world though that I found hard to actually understand in truth was what going on considering all of the technology that was being used here for making sure that the people were subjugated and didn't know it. Part of the problem that I had was that the people had no idea in the world about it, and more than likely were so used to it that they didn't know or understand any other life other than this one. The thing that really got me was that I had been told that they had been getting their message out there, which means that either their message was getting lost in the wind, or that the people were so confused that everything was completely mixed up for them.

Though the night, I worked on a program that would allow me to see the world from their eyes, but in a way that I wouldn't actually be tapping into their system, after all the last thing that I wanted was to get trapped with a program going with me from world to world. Once that was done I stepped outside the room that I had been given and walked towards the glider when someone approached me.

"I know that you might be thinking of leaving right now, but that might not be the best of ideas right now. Anyone that tries to leave during this time is usually shot down, some kind of reaction to something that we don't know about yet." He told me.

I got on the glider and started it up. "I can deal with that, however there something that I need to find out and there's no better time than now to find out what in the world's going on than to see the entire world." I told him.

I lifted up and flew up towards the high over head ceiling. I could see that there was next to no actual windows in what I had see before and picked one that had nothing in it, and flew dead on towards it picking up speed. I couldn't engage the Earth Warp engines like I wanted to till I had cleared the place, and then I knew I could be able to kick them in.

The moment that I cleared I kicked them in and the world stretched around me, just like each time before, only this time, I had an entire city passing by me as I headed for the sky. This time however it took me about five second from start to arrival to leave the Earth warp, one that had been done I hovered there before turning back to look at the world. I activated the program that I had created for this, and saw the world in a way that they had tried to explain before, but just really couldn't till I saw it this way. What I saw were the nodes and fields that had been created between the nodes, fields that carrier two different levels of information. I looked to the area that I have arrived in and noticed that those fields right there were constantly changing. The one thing that I did notice was that those that were in those fields were constantly being given the option of what they wanted to do in the first place; no one was being forced at all.

I used the Earth Warp to get back down and to make sure that I avoided anyone that might try and see me, believe me not as easy as one might think if someone knew what to look for, for me no one knew so I wasn't as worried about it. I pulled back just in time before I went through the window and flew through and then headed back to the level that my room had been on and landed the glider. There were people there waiting for me when I arrived.

"So did you see what you wanted to see when you were up there?" I was asked by their leader.

I stepped off and looked the man right in the eye. I lowered my helmet down so that he could look right at me as well. "Yeah I saw what I needed to see, and I also now know where their central point is as well." I told him as I walked over to the railing that was on edge of the level that I was on. "And that point is where I'm going to go to end all of this. You people need to live together, not under fields being controlled or influenced or anything like that." I told them as I looked out over the people that were living their lives there. A struggle that they had been going through for years. "I'm sorry but this is no way for anyone to live, and personally I'd be doing everything I could to be able to end it. Yes they have information and everything that they could possibly need up there, but do they have the truth about what's going on around them?" I asked.

He has stepped up beside me looking out over everything. "For the most part yes, but in everything that we're doing here the one thing that we believe in big time is the option to give them the choice in everything. Even the ones that are controlling the world above us haven't changed from that. After all look at what happened with you, not one signal person came after you when you came down here. Do we want to end all of this, of course this is no way for anyone to live, but is it going to take time, of course. However since we've been at this for more years than I care to remember, but there's right now nothing that we can actually do about this. Both sides right now have been in this battle for too many years, and we're all ready for this to end and now that you're here that time has come."

I turned to face him and then without saying anything, I headed for the one person that I could talk to about this, Alice. When I arrived at her chamber I walked around her and looked at everything including the cameras that actually moved and kept their eyes on me. "You know why I'm here?" I asked her.

"Yes I do." She said.

"And do you know why I'm about to ask what I'm going to ask?"

"You want my take on what you want to know since I'm plugged into the system, and only I can give you a side that no one here can ever be able to give you." She stated.

I stopped dead in front of her and knelt down. "Do you want to be free; do you want to be outside of this computer system that you're plugged into right now; do you want your life back?" I asked.

I didn't know how long it was going to take for her to answer, for me it felt like it was taking ages just for her to decide one answer, something that I never thought that I would ever get the answer to. However I did get that answer.

"Yes." The answer was so soft I almost didn't hear it, but I knew what she had said, and it was that response right there that had been the goal the entire time.

 

Over the next few days and several hours, I made ready for the biggest challenge that I could think of at the time, I know that it too was also going to be the hardest that I'd ever done too. Getting into the main complex that held the male side of the entire world network, the side that Alice was constantly fighting against. Thing was, this also had to be a solo mission too, I couldn't risk taking anyone with me and something going wrong, there was just way too much at stake for something like this.

"Are you sure you wouldn't be willing to take someone with you." Their leader that I'd come to know as John asked me.

"I'm sure. There's just too many things that might go wrong, so I can't take the chance that someone will get hurt, so no I can't take anyone with me at all, sorry." I told him. Believe me, I honestly didn't like the thought of going it alone, but at this point I already knew that I had no choice in that.

That was considered the end of that, and he never said anything beyond that, I figured that he had said everything that he wanted to say, however he took me off guard when he came back with two armed men. "You'll be taking these two men with you, that way even I know that everything's been done, one or both of them might be equipped with video gear that will allow me to see everything that's there and happening live." He stated.

The two men were armed to the teeth and that was the one thing that I didn't need considering that I need to be as nimble as I could be in getting through this. I had a plan worked out in my head and this guy was determined to screw everything up and over. "Is it me, or are you trying to screw everything up and over with all this?" I asked him.

His look didn't tell me anything, but I already knew that this was going to be something that was going to delay everything. "You will take them with…"

I didn't let him finish before I made my move and completely disarmed the men standing there, and I had done it so fast that they didn't even know that I had moved. I had picked up a few extra moves from the Minute World that actually came in handy, considering that people with guns tend not to move that fast. "Now, unless you want me to prove my point again, I'm going alone." I told him, as I finished what I had started and was now loading up the glider to leave.

"How in the world did you do that?" He asked me as I finished and got on.

I looked him right in the eyes. "One of the worlds that I had visited before coming here, I learned that those that wish to fight with guns only, they tend to be the ones that are not only the slowest, but also become the biggest targets as well." I told him as I lifted the glider up and flew off to the top of the building and flew out.

Now to be honest, at first I didn't know how far the location that I needed to go would be at, at least not till I scanned a nearby nod and I traced it back to the source for the place. That's when I had discovered that it was in truth really close by. These people had their base right under the enemy nose, and the ones that wanted to be in control, they had no idea.

Upon arriving at the location, I could tell that it was the main base because of the huge green glowing node at the top of the structure. I say that because with this entire city, all of the building seemed to be interconnected together, and all to the point that you didn't know where one ended and one started. However with this building right here, it seemed to be completely on its own as I continued to check it out, I flew around it a few times getting an understanding of the entire thing.

Once I got a better feel for the place, I brought the glider in over to one of the vent ports and knew that it was time. "Time to go into the belly of this beast." I stated more to myself than to anyone else around me as I crawled into the vent and bid the outside world good bye.

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Felix Sanchez

Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA

Alhambra High School

Class of '97

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Future World Part 1

One of the things that I’ve come to expect when it comes to the different worlds that I travel to, is the unexpected, now that’s not to say that things for this get boring, believe me they don’t. However every once in a while you’ll come across one that is so different that you’ll wonder what path they took in order to get where they were then. Like take for example one world were clothing was completely forbidden, everyone walked around without a stitch on. The only thing that people wore was just accessories like watches or jewelry, things like that, but anything else, forget it. Upon that world I spent five hours after I got there in a single room because they wouldn’t let me out. It was the first time that I actually folded down the suit and put it into standby mode for the very first time.

Believe me that was one world that I was actually thrilled to get off when I could. However it was only going to be after I served a penalty time for what I had done when it came to the suit that I would be able to leave since they wouldn’t let me do it before. I know that I could’ve just triggered it and left, but I figured that I’d check out the world more, and part of the penalty time was getting to do exactly that.

The next world that I traveled to was one that was extremely techno, all to the point that I had to wonder if I actually returned to another world that I had visited prior, and I know that I hadn’t. The one main difference between them was that this one didn’t have someone ruling over them like a nut case.

The place was a complete technological marvel, everywhere and everything that I looked and looked at was just tech, and this was literally in a 360 degree arc that I looked in to. It was almost like I had leaped into a huge computer core, complete with flying vehicles, and even a few times I had to move out of the way to make sure that I didn’t get hit at all.

After flying around for a bit, I noticed a rooftop park and decided to land there, even though I didn’t know what in the world the rules of law were for this world, I figured that the landing pad there was a dead giveaway for please land here (plus there was a bunch of other vehicles there as well all parked.

As I walked around the place, I noticed that everyone that was there, men, women, and the kids were all wearing a kind of head set with a holo projector on them. I scanned the device and noticed that it was an information feed of sorts, projected as a holo screen in front of the wearers eyes, however when I scanned the feed that was going into each of them, that’s when something different took place.

It seemed that when I scanned the head sets, the system noticed that I wasn’t hooked into the fed and had decided to change that, only problem was, my system was separate and independent of the rest of the world. This was done both for security reasons, and the fact that I never stayed on one world long enough. I mean I could learn the information and history about that world, but that was as far as it went.

“Excuse me sir, but you’re going to have to let the data feed enter into your system.” A voice said from behind.

I turned around to see a law enforcement type person standing next to me, like he had just teleported right to the spot that he was currently standing at, and he too was wearing one of the headsets. “Ah excuse me, but two things here, one who the hell are you, and two considering that I’m not from this world, that right there is actually out of the question.” I told him.

The guy chuckled. “I know and understand that sir; we’ve been tracking you since you arrived on our world about twenty minutes ago. We’ve been trying to connect you up to our data stream, but for some reason we’re encountering firewalls that we’ve never seen before ever. We thought that we could overcome them by now, but clearly that hasn’t happened. We even tried brute force, and even that failed. So they sent me instead to travel by primitive means in order to be able to ask you in person.” He stated.

I looked at him, and then around the place. “Yeah I was wondering about that, how in the world did you get here that fast any way, I don’t see a transport, did you teleport in or what?” I asked him.

He looked at me for a second and didn’t say anything, that’s when something hit me. If he had teleported in, then I would’ve heard something, and I didn’t heard anything at all, which only meant one thing. I stepped up to him and waved a hand at him. It passed right through him. “As you can see, I’m actually not here, I’m a hologram. Normally we would just be making contact with you through the data stream; however we had to use the old holo-projectors here in order to make that contact and request for access of the data stream to you. So please the access.” He asked again.

I looked him dead in the eye. “The answer to that is going to be no.” I told him.

“Trust me on this, you’re going to want to access the data stream, and before you ask, no there is no guest stream, just the main one. Believe me, you’ll understand everything one you get access.” He told me.

I sighed and walked through him. “Believe me, it’s not that I don’t want to, actually no I don’t. But the reason for that in first place is because of what I’ve been through in the past, and that is the number one reason why I don’t want this in the first place.” I told him as I looked out on the city.

“You’re thinking that we might try and take over the suit, and that there’s someone bent on trying to control everyone and everything here. Actually that’s not the case. No the reason is because there’s a separate world here, one that you actually cannot see, not unless you’re hooked into the data stream can you see it. Besides we happen to have a guest stream, which is where you’re going to be entered onto, plus it allows you to be able to leave and not have a single trace left in your system at all. You can even scan the stream if you wish to know that there is nothing there at all.” The guy told me

I decided to at least scan it to find out everything that was there, but to leave the hook up alone; after all I wasn’t going to be too easy in getting to when it came to this suit. I switched over to scan mode, and noticed that there were several data nodes all over the place, and that this was where the information was coming from, the data stream if you will. I did an extremely deep scan of the node, and discovered something that I couldn’t honestly believe, that unless I got hooked up, there was an entire level to this world that I would never be able to see. A level that on my home world they were only just discovering with virtual reality, but this here went well beyond virtual, however the only way that I was going to be able to see it was by hooking into the stream, something that I wasn’t ready yet for. I dove below what I was seeing there to check out the code that the stream was made of and started checking things out, and at first there was things there that I almost didn’t understand at first, but the more that I looked at it, the more that I began to realize what was going on here. Even though there was a guest level, the problem with it was that it didn’t include all of the code that was needed in order to be able to fully get around, no for that you needed to get hooked up into the main stream, and for that, I wasn’t about to after the coding that I saw for it. Not only would the stream fully connect with you, but there was an underlying code that took over everything including your mind, to the point that you because almost literally one with the system. However I understood in a way the need for it, but it was the implementation that I didn’t like, the code was hidden so that the people couldn’t see what the truth of their world really was.

Then I noticed something else, something that was meant to stay hidden from the main stream, and something that wasn’t even supposed to be noticed by the stream at all. It seemed that there was another group of people that were using the stream against its self, one that seemed to be a part of the population, but at the same time, hidden. That was when I noticed that the coding changed, like it had noticed me and decided to see what I was all about, but it gave me a burst of something that left and came into my system, one that I knew I needed to read after I left the stream.

Once out, I looked around and noticed things differently than I had before, people interacting in a different way than I first saw, like there was something there that I couldn’t see, something that unless I did hook up with the main stream I was never going to be able to see. “I understand why you want me to hook up into the system for. However it seems that there’s more here then what you’re willing to tell me, beyond your being a hologram.” I said as I walked through him and towards the edge over looking the entire city.

The guy looked at me like I just suddenly had a second head appear. “I don’t understand what you’re talking about sir.” He said to me.

I had read the message that seemed to have escaped the ones in control, it told me to go down and that I would get more information after. I turned around to look the guy dead in the eyes. “Honestly, I do believe that you do.” I told him as I did a back flip off the edge and took a dive right for the bottom of the planet.

In a split instant, the entire world around me slowed down to nothing, nothing in the entire world was moving at all, and I was the only one that was. I had experienced this before, but never at this level. It was like something was trying to prevent me from leaving the platform, but it just couldn’t grab a hold of me in time. Then time caught up and I was within near terminal velocity before my glider that I had called caught up to me and got to me in time for me to get on board and prevent me from going into terminal.

I turned on the thrusters and started moving faster and faster down into the city’s lower level areas, areas that I think the system didn’t want me to see at all. Something that I honestly don’t think that the system wanted anyone above to know ever, and as I looked around I noticed that the nodes were missing here, they couldn’t track me here and even I started to wonder what might be awaiting me here. Once I got to the lowest level, I just floated slowly along the ground and kept looking around the place.

“Welcome, you’re near your destination, we’ve been waiting for you.” A female voice spoke up in my ear.

That right there was not only unexpected, damned near took me off guard for it. “Who is this, what do you want, I got you message and I’m here, now who is this?” I asked the voice.

“Everything shall be revealed in time, you are twenty meters to your destination.” The female voice spoke.

Everything in here was dark, and there was nothing giving off any kind of light at all and even thermal couldn’t shed any light on the subject at all. I was in the dark on all levels and it drove me a bit nuts on that too.

Suddenly light came on in every direction that nearly had me if the suits HUD hadn’t compensated at literally the last second. The system detected the power serge and adjusted the vision just in time. “Stay where you are or you will be shot.” A male voice called out.

“Yeah, like that’s going to work.” I stated. “Look I was sent for here, and if you and this female voice I’m hearing aren’t going to give me answers then I’ll just leave.” I stated.

The lights started to dim down, and enough that I could get better look at not only who was there, but at the same time who I was talking to in the first place. First thing that I noticed was the way that the people were dressed, nothing like it was above, everyone here was in a different state of dress as if something had been preventing them from dressing better. I slowly stepped off the glider and continued to look around the place, and the chamber that I was standing in, which mind you wasn’t that big really, and that surprised me a bit right there. There were no windows aside from the two doors in the place, everyone it seemed was either gathered right there in that chamber, or they were outside trying to either see in or listen in on what was going on. “So now that you’ve brought me down here, who was the voice and what’s going on here, aside from the mind control that’s happening above our heads right now?” I asked.

The man that stood directly in front of me and the glider stepped forward. “That voice is our computer A.I. She currently goes by the name Alice, but she had a prior name that’s been lost to time. The city above is currently under the control of an A.I. that goes by a different name, one that we’ve stricken from ourselves in order to not ever be caught by the forces above.” The guy explained. “I’m surprised that they didn’t try and bring you into their system that they have up there.”

I smiled under the helmet mask, and looked towards the ground before folding my helmet back into my suit. “They did try, but the mistake that they made was letting me look into the coding of their system, that was when I caught Alice’s message to come down here, however she didn’t give me her name at the time, I figured that was only to make sure that she didn’t get caught so that way it could be left as background noise that came into my computer system. It seems that since the moment that I arrived on your world that they had tried bringing me into their system, but since they had never dealt with something like what I’ve got, they got blocked on every attempt that they made. They even sent someone in holographic form to try and sway me. Nothing worked, though I must say that I almost went onto their so called guest network before I caught the message. I had already seen that the guest network wasn’t one that I was going to be getting out of any time soon, that it was just a connection to the full system.” I said to them as I looked around the place still.

The guy smiled. “Good, then you’re one of us, you were able to resist their system and set up completely, and there was nothing that they could do about it. We’re trying to fight a war that’s been waging for several years now, but it’s not a war that actually involves guns or bombs, more like a secondary world were the people of this world in truth are caught in the middle of this world and have no idea what in the world is going on. An augmented reality if you will, but with very real world dealings, as you could see from the world above our own.” He said as he pointed and looked up. “Come we’ll show you the rest of this place, and then you can decide if you would like to help us, or leave this world for another.” He said.

This guy whomever he was, had actually given me the choice on if I wanted to help or to leave, sometimes when something like this happened, I pretty much was never given the choice. However since I had already seen the world above, and had seen things that I realized I didn’t much like, it was leaving a world as a bunch of yes people doing what they have been told, and having no choice. For me, I already hadn’t been given much of choice the moment that I had hacked into their system and checked out the coding that was there. This was something that I had to deal with and yesterday.

We went from the chamber to another room, one that was far bigger than even I had realized was possible, and then I realized what I was looking at here. “This is a city, a city below the main city.” I stated.

“Yes it is, this city is for those that know the truth and wish to live free, and sometimes you do have those that want to leave and travel to the city above. When that happens, then they asked to have parts of their memory wiped clean, so that way, they don’t let the others know about what’s going on right below them.” He stated. “For those above, once they start to come to some sort of clue about what’s really going on, that’s when Alice finds them and directs them here. Once they arrive here, that’s when we personally interact with them. Till then, we pretty much have to stay out of the above.”

The apartments as I came to think of them, were like dwelling chambers with raggedy curtains covering the entrances, it was like something out of a post apocalyptic world, and I had only partly been on one of those worlds before, and I had only buzzed through that world. This was a post world of its own type, and they hadn’t blown each other up yet, but then with the weapons that they had been using, that was something that wasn’t going to be happening any time soon. At least I hoped it wouldn’t, but as far as I could see, beyond the people, it was two computer programs that were fighting it out between them. “You do realize that you’re going to have to fight back harder than what you’ve been doing right.”

He didn’t turn back to look at me, he just kept walking, through different areas and corridors of the place, “I know that we’re going to have to fight back harder, but what you don’t understand, it’s the nodes that are above us that are giving the people the problem in the first place. We’re trying to defeat those nodes. We have people actually living above us right now that are fighting for us, taking over nodes and spreading out the truth when they can, believe me it’s not something that happens to be easy, but it is a way that we can fight back on their level and in their world.”

We walked into a room just outside the main living area, and the place looked like it was full of computers, at least in different set ups. Beyond that there were monitors all over the place. “What is this place?” I asked.

“It’s one of several computer stations that hack into the nodes to be able to help get the message out about the truth of the above world, however we can’t always use the same computers all the time since there are viruses that are always being sent out by the computer nodes systems.” He told me.

We walked to a door on the other side of the room and I could see from the look on his face that this wasn’t something that was normally seen by anyone. “I take it that you have something on the other side here that isn’t seen by anyone normally?” I asked.

He looked me directly in the eye lenses. “Yes you’re right.” He whispered as if he was going to do something to me. “This is the one place here that with the exception of a few, no one enters EVER.” He said as he turned to the door and opened it up. “This is Alice.”

We stepped through the door and entered another chamber, but this one was different from all the rest of them. Not only was this the only door to the chamber, but there was something in the center of the chamber. I walked around and looked, and what I saw not only took my breath away, but floored me.

The object in the center of the room was a computer system, and that computer system was hooked up to a single human being, a female human being. Alice.

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Felix Sanchez

Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA

Alhambra High School

Class of '97

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Worldly Magic Pt. 3

I’d spent a grand total of a week on that world, after the first day, I’d been allowed to walk around the place and the town. Everyone had been told about me, also considering that there was a guard around me at all times kinda spoke volumes. The one thing that did surprise me was that anything that I wanted to get was paid for through Alexander and the castle; I really didn’t know what in the world to make of that.

I actually spent a bit of time in different libraries seeing what I could of the history of this world, the one thing that I’ve actually discovered was that Alexander actually spent a bit of time after he took over getting rid of the history that this world had. However it seemed that there were people on this world that had kept a bit of that history back to make sure that when the time was right, that one person would be able to not only learn the truth, but make things right again. It seems that these people of this world actually trusted me to do that, of which at this point considered that I did meet a few of the doubles that came to this world, I was more than willing to take on.

I had been down in the basement of a shop reading over some of the history that I realized was more telling then what Alexander had shown me, an entire world that had been free and on the verge of complete and total change, going into a future of their own. However when Alexander arrived and had over powered our double that had been leading everything and killed him and took over, that’s when everything here had taken not only a change for the worse, but also at the same time, that’s when the magical field that was supposed to cancel out anything of science came into being and it surrounded the entire planet in one fell swoop, and there was nothing that anyone could even be able to do here to stop it. It changed the armor from anyone coming from off world into a tech free armor. What the field didn’t account for, and I seemed to be the only one that actually got through on this, was a modular design for the suit, that allowed it to adapt to any situation that was needed, and on this world it meant keeping the technology instead the suit with the outer shell changing only. That for me was the one thing that even I hadn’t expected. I knew that Alexander was consulting different sources as to how I could still have everything considering that on this world I wasn’t supposed to have anything, and should’ve been an easy kill, that however has no completely changed.

It had now been at least half a month since I had arrived here and I figured that at some point the last fight would, and that was when Alexander walked into the room that he kept me. “So it seems that you will get to keep your suit, however I must insist that when we battle tomorrow, that you keep to just what we’re going to be using tomorrow only.” He told me. He didn’t bother to give me a chance to say anything before he had left.

What Alexander didn’t know was that I had learned to summon the sword and then put it back again, however I still didn’t know where in the world the actual temple was located that had the sword resting in it, and there was nothing written down that would let me know where it might be. However after that little visit, that didn’t matter much, just making sure that I called the sword in order to be able to take Alexander on and defeat him. The thing that I didn’t like though was that I was going to have to kill him, and that was something that I seriously wasn’t looking forward to.

The next day I was waiting out in the court yard, but something told me that this entire battle was going to be going further than just here, I personally had a feeling that it was going to be spanning the majority of the castle. I knew that he wanted to keep me out of the throne room for some reason, and I had a feeling that was because if he didn’t die there, then something might end up happening, and I knew that I needed to get control over this world in order to be able to fix things.

I saw Alexander walking down, and I also noticed that he was the only one that had a sword on him. Not only did none of the guards have one, but at the same time, I didn’t have one either or at least he didn’t think that I had one. I knew right off what he wanted to do; he was going to kill me to make sure that he continued to do everything that he wanted to this world.

“Your life is mine, you have no weapons, and there’s nothing that you can do about it at all.” Alexander stated as he drew up his sword and came at me and tried going for my head.

Suddenly something in my head tripped and my hand shot out up into the air above my head, I could tell that he thought that I was going for the blade of his sword and he thought that he was going to slice right through my hand. However that didn’t happen, instead, a blinding light went out of the air above my hand and I could see as time slowed down to a crawl around me. The sword appeared in the air with the handle right in my hand that I wrapped my hand around taking a firm grip. Once the sword was fully there, I brought it down and to an angle and blocked Alexander’s sword from hitting me at all. I almost expected the crystal blade to shatter, but nothing happened. I looked up as saw that both swords had made impact, but the crystal didn’t shatter, and it didn’t do anything either, not even so much as get scratched.

“This isn’t possible.” Alexander said as he looked at the blades.

“Get used to it.” I grunted as I pushed him back.

“You shouldn’t be able to do that. No one can summon that sword, no one.”

I looked at the blade and the handle and then hefted it up. “Well looks like I’m no one. This world knows and understands that change was coming and is now here.” I told him as I came in for the attack this time.

Alexander back up, not wanting anything to happen to him now that more than just him had a weapon this time. As I came at him, I noticed that the sword was lighter than I first realized and was able to move it around far better, as if I had trained with that sword all of my life, this was something that I just couldn’t understand at first.

We fought as I had thought, going all over the castle, blows getting traded back and forth, and everyone keeping out of our way. All work in the castle from the guards to the servants stopped what they were doing, even those that had been visiting stopped what they were doing to watch us battle. I do believe that everyone knew what was taking place, considering that everyone had been waiting for this day for ages, the day that everyone on this world would be freed.

On we battled, and eventually we came to the one place that I don’t think Alexander realized where we really were. Once he realized where he was, he started looking around in a panic. “No this can’t be, I was directing us someplace else, each time that I knew we were coming here, I moved us away, how is this possible?” Alexander asked as he brought his sword around to face me. “You did this; you’ve used some kind of trickery in order to make me think that I was going someplace else, yet still coming here.” He said in a frantic voice.

He had no idea that the world and everything that he had worked so hard to keep was all fighting against him at this point. “You just don’t get it do you. Everything that you’ve tried so hard to keep, our doubles that you’ve either imprisoned on this world or killed, everything was working towards this day. The day that everything would not only change for you, but at the same time would be the end for you completely.” I told as I first knocked the now weakly held sword out of his hand and then gave him a side kick that slammed into the throne.

He fell back onto the floor in a heap, he realized at this point that the end was not just coming; it was here in full force. “Everything that you are, everything that you’ve done, everything that you’ve been on this world, it’s all come back down to this. For everyone that you’ve ever defeated, for everyone that you’ve ever hurt, for everyone on this planet that you’ve done anything to EVER. This here is the end, there is no coming back from this for you, no begging that you can ever do, nothing that you could ever say that would ever change what’s going to happen here. You actually never thought that you would ever encounter someone that was like me, someone that would actually ever be able to defeat you, one that could take this blade and be able to do the one thing that you’ve never been able to figure out about this world, and that’s save it.” I finished.

I kicked him in the gut again to get him to bend over and present his neck to me; I brought the sword up and then in one fell swoop brought it down and took his head from his body, the only time that I would ever take a life.

During that next point, what surprised me was that even though his head was now rolling on the floor, there was no blood, there was nothing. It was like he had been something else entirely. Then something that I will never forget happened, first Alexander’s body turned to pure white energy, and that energy started floating up into the air and came to start spinning around me, electrical energy arching out at me from all directions, and there wasn’t anything that I could do to stop it, and I realized exactly what was happening. This was the transfer point of the world’s control from one person to another, the energy lifted me up off the ground as everything that was around me started getting brighter and brighter, the arching energy increasing in speed to the point that it was just a flashing blindness. All at once that energy came right at me and enveloped me completely, and my world went completely white.

That’s all that I could see was a white world around, no people, no buildings, nothing but white. I looked around me and saw that I could still see my own body, beyond that there was nothing.

“You’re alright, there’s nothing wrong.” A voice called out.

I looked around and at first I couldn’t see anything. “Who’s there, please show yourself.” I called out.

“I knew that you would be the one that would be able to not only free this world, but at the same time do what you needed to do in order to end his terror that he held on this world.” The voice belonged to that of a man that I knew right off was the one that lived on this world and had been born here in the first place.

“Where am I?” I asked him.

“You are in the between, still the same world, but right now we’re both in your mind as well as the world that is all around but can never be seen. It was here that I told our double that there is only one man out there that will ever be able to defeat him. He killed and imprisoned so many on this world, so many whose families think that they’re never coming back. However now that you’ve not only defeated him, but gained the power that he had taken away from me, that power to be able to change this world back to the way that it not only was before, but also to allow our doubles to leave and go home.” He told me.

“I can’t bring back the ones that he killed can I?” I asked him after I got the chance to fully see him, dressed as he had been at the time of his death before.

“Sadly no you can’t, but for those that were supposed to be killed but he never got around to that, you have the chance now of sending them back home. I leave you now, but if you ever need my help again, just look back to the memories of mine that you now have. No matter what world you happen to be on.” He told me as he faded away and the world that I was looking as started to once again take form.

Once everything was back to normal in my vision, I was back in the throne room again, and once everyone saw what was going on, they kneeled down before me surrounding me. This was something that I knew no matter how much I said, they not only weren’t going to stop, and I had to get used to it.

Over the course of the next couple of weeks, things had started to change and I had to make sure of it all before leaving, after all even I knew that I couldn’t stay, I had to get going to make sure that I could continue to see what in the world was out there.

After my last advisor tried to kill me thinking that the control would revert over to him if I died, I had him exiled and let me know right before hand that the power that I had could only go from one double to another of mine. My next advisor ended up becoming a dear trusted friend that wouldn’t lead me wrong and actually kept things straight with me constantly. “I’m going to miss this world.” I stated as we stood out on the balcony overlooking the city. I still can’t believe everything that happened here. And I still can’t believe that I was the one that freed everyone up here. All of the doubles have been returned to their home dimensions, and me, I’m about to go off on my adventure again.” I said as I leaned over the railing.

“It can’t be that bad.” My advisor said.

I smiled at him. “Trust me on this Chris, traveling from world to world can be great at times, but more often than not, I really don’t like the traveling alone part, but I’ve got no choice, most of the time I’m leaping onto a world that I have no idea what I’m going to be facing at all. That right there isn’t something that I’m willing to put any one through.” I told him.

I walked back to the throne and put my hand on it. “Just please make sure that everything here actually stays in one piece. I will come back at times, but more often than not, I’ll be traveling to different worlds here so people are going to be asking about me.” I told me.

Chris smiled. He walked over to the wall mounted swords and pulled one down; walking back over to the throne he placed the sword standing up on it. “As long as that sword is there and isn’t removed by you, everyone will know that you’re away. The only one that can remove it will be you, and there will be a guard stationed at the entrance to this throne room at all times to let people see, but no one shall enter.” He told me. He pointed behind me, and I knew that something was up.

I turned around to see the staff behind me, they had gathered during his speech, once he was finished, has all gone down to their knees bowing before me. They stayed that way for a minute before standing back up. “My lord, we shall keep not only your legacy going here, but let the people of this world that every once in a while as you’re off saving other worlds, you will every once in a while return to this world to see how everyone here is doing.”

I smiled at that. “Thank you so much. Now I must leave you, never forgot me, and I will return.” I told them.

I put my helmet back on and triggered the leap, and noticed that as I was leaping, that my suit returned back to the way that it had been before I had arrived on this world. “Alright now, let’s see what else is out there.”

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Felix Sanchez

Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA

Alhambra High School

Class of '97

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Worldly Magic Pt. 2

There comes a point in every person’s life, and more than likely it’s going to be in mine several times long before I stop traveling between worlds, that they have to make a choice that they’re wondering why in the world they made it in the first place. For me that choice came when I was standing out in a field right back behind the castle that I had been staying in for the past couple of days, I was going to be in a one on one tournament for my very life, mind you I would still get to live considering that I wasn’t going to die, at least not by this doubles hands, otherwise I wouldn’t be here now telling you all this now. But just the thought of everything that happens, and what I have to do in order to be able to get it all done, that right there was driving me nuts.

I looked over the set of weapons that they had there, and what he didn’t know yet, was that I had everything that I was going to need already on me. “So choose your bow already, considering that the first challenge is archery, choose your bow already.” Alexander stated.

I looked a few of them over and even hefted a few of them to get the feel of them, but instead pulled out of my belt something that looked like a rod of sorts and held it in my hands as I walked back over to the firing line.

“Do you honestly think that you’re going to be able to fire those arrows with a rod?” He said as he hefted his own and then fired a shot at the target since he was the one that was supposed to go first.

What Alexander hadn’t noticed was that I had shaken the rod a bit and the shape of the rod had changed, and what it had changed into was that of a handle. There was a button on the inside that I pressed, a moment later a full bow had completely unfolded from the handle rod, a bow with a built in string to it. I quickly strung the bow and reach back to where a quiver had completely unfolded once I had triggered the bow to unfold. Took one of the arrows and strung it up and took arm and fired it, all within a minute. I took the shot and fired yet again, I fired a total of three times, and all at the same target. Now considering I didn’t know when the next chance I would get to make them, I just made sure that they were all next to each other on the target. Once I was finished, I lowered the bow and looked at Alexander. “I saw that you owned one and figured that I could use my own.” I said.

I noticed that he wasn’t too happy about what I had done in the first place. “How in the world is that working, when no tech can work on this world?” He asked.

I walked over to him while hefting the bow and looking at it. “First off, this isn’t tech, mind you it’s made from tech, but it isn’t. This right here is made of micro-fold technology which allows it to fold up completely and extremely compact, it’s micro spring loaded, but can be opened and ready for use in less than a minute.” With that I turned to face the targets and fired off a shot for each of the targets there hitting each one dead in the center. “Your argument is invalid anyway, I’m not like the other versions of us that came to this world, not only is my suit modular, but at the same time, everything I have still works.” I told him.

I could see that he was getting extremely pissed off, but instead of attacking me, he handed his bow off to a servant and walked over to another table and picked up a sword. “It seems that I should be going back to basics with you.” He stated as he picked up the sword that I had held before and tossed it to me. “And since this only seems to want to work for you, maybe you should fully check it over and see what you can see from it.” He said to me.

Personally I couldn’t understand anything else that there might be to see from the sword, again once I took it out the of the sheath, it started to glow a pure light of the type I’ve never seen before. However as I looked it over, I noticed that there was minor things that someone like Alexander might’ve glossed over thinking that there was nothing different about it. What I saw was a trigger, one that actually worked by way of something that shouldn’t even be possible in this world, a bio-lock trigger. I held the sword with the blade tip pointing towards the ground, and then pressed the button. Considering that I didn’t expect anything to work on it at all, I was actually a bit surprised when the blade and cross guard dropped and lodged right into the ground, the glow had left once the handle and the upper half parted ways. I turned the handle over and looked at it and then realized what I was looking at and then pointed it away from me before pressing the button yet again. This time a blade of a different sort came out of the handle, one that shouldn’t even be possible in this world at all. A laser blade.

“That’s not possible; no technology should be possible on this world at all. What is allowing this to be possible?” Alexander asked that I couldn’t begin to answer.

Suddenly things came into my mind that I have never thought would ever happen. Images of not only how to work both swords, but at the same time, an entire history that was hard to believe, but was entirely true. I flipped the energy blade over and brought it down on the upper half at the same time that I deactivated the blade. The way the entire thing worked out, it was like I was sheathing the energy into the crystal blade, and it honestly could’ve been like that considering that the blade glowed again. However this time instead of resheathing the blade, I held the sword over my head and the energy in the blade glowed even brighter, it continued to get brighter and then all at once then energy flew back to the blade, or where the blade had been and vanished. I knew exactly what happened to the sword, I had sent it back to where it had been taken from ages ago, back when the first person to take it didn’t know what he had taken in the first place. I knew that I would be the only one to call forth the sword or to operate it, and I could be able to call it forth literally from any dimensional world that I traveled to, no matter where in the world I traveled.

As my mind cleared, yet held everything that had been placed into my mind remained, it was all like nothing that I had ever experienced before. At the same time, I knew that I had to keep everything hidden from Alexander here, whom at this point once my mind returned to the world that I was currently on, and he was yelling right into my face. Instinct kicked in at that point and I punched him in the gut and then started in on a series of punches that just about laid him out on the ground. Once he was on the ground several feet away from me and groaning, I knew that something bad was going to happen.

“Take him away, he stays confined to his room, and take his armor, strip him bare. Everything that he has take it from him, I want him left only with his shorts and nothing else.” Alexander stated as he was helped up off the ground by one of the servants. “You will see the folly of trying to oppose me, trust me on this, they all do, and in the end they all either ended up dead or just staying out in the outer lands. Take him away.”

I was taken away back to the room that I had been given, however when they tried to remove the suit, they discovered that unlike past times where they knew the armor that they were pulling off of someone, this was one time that they didn’t have a clue. “Ah guys, I arrived on this world with this suit on and even though it changed to this look, it’s still the same suit which means that it’s not coming off any time soon.” I told them.

They both back up and then after they were through the door and it was closed, they locked it and walked over. Right off I knew these guys weren’t the smartest bunch in the least. I walked over to the window that looked out over the lands and scanned out, I could only see to the south over the area of the castle that I had been around earlier today, but this was something else. I could see whole villages out there, and I could see that things weren’t as great as he was leaving me to believe. Somehow, I needed to get out there and get a better look around, but at the same time I needed to take this guy down and hard.

Considering that I didn’t know how long I was going to be there for, I figured that I might as well get something started here, and for the rest of the world looked like I was staring right out the window that I realized I could actually slip right out of. Right as I started working on checking everything fully out and getting the details that I needed, there was a knocking at the door, and then the lock clicked and it opened up to reveal a servant coming in. “Your meal master, with special drink.” He stated. As he looked down at the floor the entire time and backed out of the place.

After the door was closed and locked, I walked over to the food and checked it over and noticed that there was something in the drink, just as the servant has said. It was a message, ‘I know who you are, and I know what’s going to happen, when the time comes you will have no choice but to kill him and take the power that you’re going to use to free this world from what he’s done.’ Great something else that was placed into my hands that I was going to have to take care of, but it was the whole killing thing that I didn’t like too much.

I walked over to the window and held up the note to the light to see if there was anything else that I needed to know, and sadly, there was nothing. “Great, how in the world do I find myself in these places?” I asked myself. Again sadly no one answered. “Looks like I’m going to have no choice in the matter. Alexander is going to have to die.” I whispered to myself.

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Felix Sanchez

Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA

Alhambra High School

Class of '97

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Worldly Magic Pt. 1

Out of all of the worlds that I’d traveled to, during the entire time that I’d been traveling to different worlds, none of them were like this one. I honestly don’t know if it was a natural part of the world in terms of the genetics of the place, or if it was something that was laced into literally everything around me, but the one thing that I did know, there was love all over this world.

From what I had found out, because of all of the love that I saw on this world, I quickly found out that not once in all of the history of this world had there been any wars at all, not one of them. That right there was surprising considering that on my world, one of the main reasons that wars had taken place was because of the love that someone had for a woman, didn’t matter if it had been a vow to take over an entire country or an entire world, more often than not it was done for love.

However on this world, that wasn’t the case at all. Nope, on this world if someone wanted to do something because of love, then everyone else would get behind them and help them in any way that they needed.

The extent of my stay on that world lasted for about as long as it took to help someone when it came to a girl he knew that he wanted to pop the question to, and believe me, he wanted this to be larger than life, something I greatly excelled at now. Plus since I came from a different world, the guy wanted to know what would be something on my world that would get a woman’s attention and fast. I suggested to him something that it seemed had never been done before, and that was a flash mob with a wedding marriage included.

Since the guy and his girl had been dating for the past couple of years he was all for it, I got everything worked out, and got people working out the dancing and he picked out the songs and everything and got it all worked out. The entire production took at least a week for a grand total of an hour and a half to fully and completely pull off, and surprisingly everything on this went off without a hitch.

Once that had been done and the two were off on their honeymoon, I decided to check out and head to a different world.

The world that leapt too was one that took me completely off guard since it also affected my suit in a way that I didn’t think that it would at all. I landed on a world were myths, legends and magic were real, as a result the whole of the world changed to make sure that everything here fit completely. However, even though I could still fully see mu HUD, people could also see my face as well. The first chance that I got I checked out the armor that I had on, and it was nothing like I had seen before, the very being of the armor had changed to something else for this world. “I don’t seriously believe this; I’ve gone into dungeons and dragons here.” I stated as I looked around me.

I was sitting at a clear classy like lake where I had gotten a chance to see my reflection in the water. I tested everything out to make sure that it all still worked, and low and behold it all still did work and that was the most surprising of all. The computer systems were still there and working, but the look of the outer shell had completely changed to fit the world that I was now in.

My glider however didn’t change, it had stayed the same as it always had, but then considering the look that I realized it was now sporting, something told me that it actually had changed. It looked more bat like than it had before, considering that I had it more stream lined and sleeker, but this here now wasn’t stream lined or sleek, nope it looked like a big metal bat.

I had decided to travel around after sending the glider off to the high skies out of sight to make sure that no one here had a panic attack because seeing it. After all, I had no idea about the level of the people’s minds on this world, and that was something that I did want to find out.

I had been traveling for a while just walking, and since it was only the outer look that had changed it meant that I still had all of the protections that I had before here within the suit, not just the tech. Before long I came to a village that was surrounding a castle of sorts, one that on my world looked like it came right out of a video game, it was that big and that elaborate. As I walked through the village, I kept getting a lot of looks, and that was another thing that I knew I was going to have to find out about.

I walked into an inn and tavern and after first looking the place over, I sat down at the bar and continued to look the place over, and saw what there was to see there for the people of this place.

The bar tender came over to me, and I noticed that instead of being that of a typical one that I had known that were usually large and round thanks to all of the eating that they had done over time, that this one was actually rather thin. “So my Lord Sir, what shall I do you for?” He asked.

I looked him right in the eyes. “Just what do you mean by that?” I asked him.

He looked me equally back in the eyes. “Well you are dressed as a lord, considering the armor and the cape and all; I figured that you are one.”

It was at that point that I decided that I would go with this, at least it might actually open doors for me that I had a feeling might not otherwise open up for me. After all there were those out there that would do literally anything for a Lord, besides no one could actually see my face here anyway, and that really did actually help things out. “Fine I am, now tell me since I’m not exactly from around these parts here, who exactly is living up in that big castle?” I asked him.

He looked me right in the eye again, and I could tell that he was looking for something that could tell him if I was to be trusted or not. Whoever was living in that castle must have inspired the deepest of loyalty, and that was something that I almost respected, however the one thing that I didn’t respect was loyalty from the end of a blade pointing at someone. “The Lord Alexander the Mightiest lives there, ruler of this entire realm. The only way that you might not know about him is if you’re not from this realm, and from what I can tell you are not at all from this realm.

Now that I knew who was up in the castle, something from the back of my mine mind was telling me that I needed to go see this Lord, and I needed to do it now. I left the place and traveled up to the front gate, after all if one wants to make the greatest of impacts, they travel through the front and makes sure that the one in charge takes full notice.

Walking up to the front gate, the guards took notice of me and moved to intercept, and that was when I did the one thing that I had a feeling might work, I pulled my helmet clean off my head, and showed them my face.

Suddenly they were down on their knees with their faces planted towards the ground, along with everyone around me as well, that right there alone confirmed what I had been thinking. The Lord of this town and on this world was a double, that hadn’t been something that I thought would happen considering that it would now be two worlds in a row that I had met my double, this world and the last one that I had been on, when I help him propose to the love of his life.

Once everyone had recovered from sucking the ground, the guards led me in and brought me directly to what they called the Great Hall, which was here, I met my double. “Well I never thought that I would ever meet another one of you, or should I say us.” Alexander said as he got up and came over to me.

I looked at him. “So you’ve met other doubles before I take it?”

He smiled as he walked over to a nearby balcony and waving for me to join him. “Yes I have met others before you, some of them good some of them not so good, but then when you’re living in this world, you’re going to want to make sure that you happen to have an advantage over others.” He said as he looked out over the town. “This entire world is of my own making, everything that you see here is because of what I’ve done. Not one single thing here has not been affected by me in the tiniest way. Even when you arrived here, your suit changed to become part of the world around you. Believe me; even I doubt that your suit looked like that before you came here. Understand that if you leave, your suit will revert back to the way it was before you had arrived.”

That right there caught me off guard. “What do you mean if I leave? I will be leaving here.” I told him.

“Many have said that before, and if they don’t die by my hand, then they just as often end up staying here instead. Plus the only reason why they would die by my hand in the first place is if they’re meant to. Understand this, even though you think that you came here as a random choice, you actually did not, for you were actually brought to this work to take the challenge that all of our other doubles end up taking. A fight to the death with me, and the winner takes this world for their own and everyone inside of it. The magic of this world is transferred to the winner, just as it was transferred to me, and has stayed with me for the past several years.” He finished telling me.

This right here wasn’t something that I liked in the least, however the one thing that I did know was that the suit still retained everything even though he said in his own words that it didn’t any more, it meant that I could leave any time that I wanted, at least as long as I wasn’t in the castle at all. There was some kind of field surrounding the whole of the castle and it wouldn’t allow my leap tech to send me to another world, and unlike the last time, this was something that was far different from before.

I stood right beside him and looked him right in the eyes. “OK so what do I have to do here in order to get to be on my way here?” I asked him.

He looked at me for a second before gesturing over to a servant that was standing nearby. “First off, there’s something that you’re going to be getting here, and understand that it’s a special something. Mind you I’ve tried this with others that have come and so far none of them have been able to do anything with it.” He told me as the servant brought over what I could clearly see was a sheathed sword.

I took the sword and held it covered before me. I could already tell that there was something about the sword that as going to make it extremely special, something that would changed up literally everything on this world, however what that something was I had no idea. I took the sheath and pulled it clean off, the sword started out as just plain metal, but then it started to glow in a way that I had never seen before, suddenly the blade turned crystalline on me and continued to glow brightly.

Alexander looked at both me and the blade, and I could tell that he couldn’t believe what he was seeing here. “I heard the legends, but never got to see till now, yes you are the one. The magic that’s in the sword only will respond to one, and that one is you.” He told me.

I held the sword for a minute more before putting it back in the sheath. “Great, so I get a magic sword, not like I haven’t gotten something before that might not help me on the next world.” I stated.

He smiled as he walked away from me. “Ah no, the sword cannot leave this world, at least not that I know of, but all things considered, everything that I’ve heard about is now up for debate. Ah no, a room shall be provided for you, and tomorrow our little contest shall begin. Get yourself ready.” He told me before leaving completely.

Great, here I was on a world that I had never been on before, and I was about to be fighting for my life, and oh yeah I got a brand new magic sword that I couldn’t even take with me, or at least I was told that I couldn’t take it with me. How true that was, even I didn’t know. “Perfect, just perfect.”

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Felix Sanchez

Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA

Alhambra High School

Class of '97

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