chapter 8: the worlds the ransom
"whats so bad that we need to come back to england in such a rush?" i was standing in janes office with jetlag. "have you ever heard of tesla beats?" i sat down on one of the chairs in front of her desk and shook my head. "its a new TV series that was made about a month ago. something happened though. the last episode was showed on air a few days ago. it was bugged with a virus that created an alternate world. the virus was also in the system prototype for missle launches. they merged together and now if we dont get the two systems appart then its going to create a rip in space. we'll be sucked into it along with everything else on earth. if we dont get those two programs apart and make that alternate world stable again then the whole world is fucked! thats where you come in. we made a machine that can transport you to this world. it only works with you though. the amount of power needed for it is phenominal but with your lightning ability then only a small amount of your power is needed to create the portal to the alternate world. you dont have a say in this and thats final! your going in weather you like it or not!" she was now leaning over the table, face to face. "and make sure you come back alive for that dinner you promised me" she smiled at me shyly and i nodded. "alright. lets do this" i stood up and jean smiled. "i knew somebody like you would do it" she walked around the desk and stood in front of me. "the machine thats taking to the new world is in the lab. come on" she pointed to a door over the room and i followed her. my ears twitched slightly as we stepped into a cold room. "whats with this place? its absolutely freezing!" i pulled my jacket around me and rubbed my hands together. "we have to keep the machine cool or it will explode" she looked at me sideways and i flinched. "explode? so you mean i could die?" i shivered, not from the cold but from the fear. "it should be ok. when it charges up then it should be stable. should be" we finally came into a large room, filled with equipment and computer's. a moulded chair was set into the middle of the room. "when you sit in that chair just realease a small amount of energy and then we can get started" i nodded and walked forwards. i sat down in the chair and a small thing clipped to my arm. "were cool to start" i said. the people manning the machine nodded and i looked inside myself. i tapped into the electrical energy inside me and let a small amount burst forth. all the machines around me lit up and i felt my vision blur. i closed my eyes and when i opened my eyes again i was in a large, dark, circular ball. i was floating around in one place. i heard a mechanical voice say "memory initialising" i felt all of my memorys filling my head and as soon as it had finished it was normal again. i shook my head to get rid of the dizzyness and then the same voice rang out again. "apparel procedure starting" two rings apperared around my waist and they started moving up my body. one of them ascended as the second descended. it was disspersing my clothes. as it reached the bottom of my feet i heard jeans voice in my head. "hey jake! can you hear me?" i smiled and said "loud and clear. you had better not have camera's hooked up in here because im naked" i laughed as i saw a floating screen of jeans face. her cheeks had gone red. the rings reversed there direction and in a few seconds i was garbed in a set of thin riot armor, a pair of jeans and a trench coat. "cool...i guess" i looked down at my hip and saw that my weapons where gone. "gah! where are my guns?!" i felt a large weight on my back and i looked over my shoulder. a weird looking rifle on my back. "what the..." i reached around and pulled it off. it was long and the barrel was rounded but it was made of coils or something. i pulled the trigger and a blue shard exploded from the barrel. "tesla" i mumbled under my breath. it wasnt the shard that was blue, it was the energy around it. i felt the top of my head and saw i still had my ears. thank god! i looked behind me and saw my tail waving around. i was still part wolf. i sighed thankfully to myself and slung the rifle back onto my back. when i had been floating around for a while i felt myself being sucked into a vortex. i was falling downwards into a void. "jake! ja...your brea...p" jeans voice cut off as i was sucked into the blackness.
i was now falling through the clouds of the new world. i would liked to have been calm and collective about it but all that i was yelling was "AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!" i fell throught the clouds until i could see a ruined looking castle. i had no way of stopping to land or anything. i would just hit the ground. "SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIIIIT!" i slammed into the roof of the ruined castle at top speed and crashed through the shingles. the floor of the castle was like an enamal chess board, only chipped , scratched and cracked. i sped down to the floor still swearing my head off and crashed into the chess board like tiles. i coughed, winded and muttered "that...hurt...like fuck" my head rested on the cool tiles as i caught my breath. i heard the sound of stone falling and i looked up. "FUCK! DONT STEP ON...ARGH!" a girl of about my age stomped on my face and jumped over me. she didnt even shout a sorry, she just kept running. i pulled myself up and rolled my shoulders to get some movement into my them. "what was up with her?" i said to myself. i found out a few seconds later. i turned to the direction that she had came from and i think i may have soiled my pants. large black golems made from what looked like the same material the floor was made out of but it was one pure colour. i sprinted in the direction the girl went and saw her running down the corridors. i eventually caught up with her and shouted "what the hell is going on!? mind filling me in?!" she looked over at me and said "shut the hell up and keep running! you dont want to get caught by those guys!" she sprinted next to me as we ran through the colapsing corridors and entry ways. we finally came to a large room with a walkway around the edge. we ran to the middle and looked for a way out. there was none other than the way we had came. "we dont have a way out! what are we going to do now!?" i turned to the corridor just as the golems flooded into the room. the girl ran forwards and i noticed she had a rectangular shaped thing on her arm. she raised it and a large black shard covering in what looked like blue fire shot from the end. it slammed into the nearest golem and it shattered to pieces. they where to much for her. the chest of one of the gigantic golems opened up and electrical tethers exploded from it. it took hold of the girl and started pulling her into the golem. i finally understand what it was doing. inside of the golem was a containment tank full of a light green fluid. i watched in dispair as the girl was pulled through the glass and into the liquid. she kicked around and tried to escape but her movement became slow and sluggish and soon her eyes where closed, unconsious. her body moved at its own accored until she was curled up into a ball. her arms where around her knees and her hair was floating around her. the weirdest thing was that her clothes where dissolving. soon all of her clothes where gone and she was curled up in the golems chest, naked. "thats...erotic" i mumbled to myself. i pulled the rifle off my back and leveled it with the golems head. i pulled the trigger and a black shard like the one that had fired from the girls weapon exploded from the barrel. it slammed directly into the stone head and it fell apart instantly. the glass tank inside it fell to the floor and slid towards me. it stopped directly in front of me and i crouched down. the glass that she had gone through was actually a living organic material. i looked up and saw the rest of the golems fleeing. i sighed and slung the rifle over my back again. "jeez. why is there always a naked girl involved in my life?" i crouched down by the pod she was in and put my hand through the sticky glass material. the slimy stuff inside was making my hand go numb. i took hold of the girls wrist and despite the deadness of my arm i yanked her from the pod. she was still unconsious when i sat down on the floor and started assesing my situation. "so basically i just found a girl and now she's naked. i have no idea what the hell i have to do. fucking perfect" i lay backwards on the floor and heard a groan beside me. "uhh...what happened? and why am i naked?!" i turned in the direction of the girl. she was now sitting on the floor with her arms around her boobs. "you bascally got sucked into a golems chest and then your clothes and that weird shooter thing of yours got dissolved in it. you where unconsious in that pod and i saved you" i turned away from her so she couldnt see my face because i was blushing. "you saved me? thank you" she said in a shy voice. i looked back at her and saw her face blushing. "hey! whats wrong? why are you blushing?" i pushed myself up and crossed my legs. "its because...im...naked" she blushed harder and flinched slightly in realisation. "oh! sorry!" i pulled of my trench coat and put it around her shoulders. "th...thank you" she said shyly. she pulled it around herself and her face went redder. "you dont seem like a fighter. how did you survive so long?" the girl looked at me and it gave me a chance to actually take a look at her. her hair was a weird colour. it was an extreamly pale pink colour that was now flowing down her back gracefully. her hair was straight and it flowed down to the nape of her back. her eyes where a golden colour that shimmered in the gloomy light of the ruin castle. "i'm nothing without my weapon. the only reason i surivived is because i had that gun thing. i dont know what its called" she looked at me and smiled shyly. "i'll protect you. your my only ally here so if we find you some clothes and then we'll see if we can get out of here without destroying the real world" i sighed and the girl smiled. "your really nice. i reckon where going to get along well" i nodded and she lay next to me with the trench coat around her. "my names chel by the way. well...its chelsea but most people just call me chel" she smiled at me again and i nodded. "jake. jake smith" i held out my hand and she put hers in mine. "lets just hope we dont get killed" i sighed and stood up. "lets see if we cant find somwhere to stay. like a village or something" i stood up and pulled the girl up. the trench coat didnt cover up her privates but it did cover up her breasts. we both walked back through the castle until we reached the main entrance. we werent stopped or attacked by anything. not a golem in sight. we walked over the rickety bridge to a loushous grassy field. "wow. this is a lot nicer than that castle" i turned back to the ruins and saw that all of the colour was gone. all that was left was black and white. i sighed and chel clung to my arm nervously. "i dont think i should just walk into a village with only your coat on" she blushed slightly as we made are way across the grassy field. "when we get closer to the town then just pull the edge's around you and we'll get straight to a clothes shop or something" i smiled at her warmly and she blushed harder. "ok. i dont want to embarass you so...i'l try my hardest" she smiled and i nodded. "lets go. i dont want you to freeze to death when it gets to night" i started walking throught the tall green grasses. after a few hours we finally made it to the edge of a village that seemed to be deserted. "hello? is anybody here?" i shouted throught the centre of town. i got no responce. "weird. oh well. lets get you some clothes" i walked forwards a step and was knocked aside by a massive force. i slammed into the side of a house and the whole thing collapsed on me. "damn. that hurt" i said as i pushed a concrete slab off me. i now saw what had knocked me into the house. a figure was standing at one end of the avenue with a sword in hand. "so. you want a fight do you" i stood up and pulled the rifle off my back. i aimed down the sight but chel jumped in front of me. "stop! dont shoot! she's a friend!" i looked at her and lowered the rifle. "then why the hell did she just go and shoot me?" i asked. i looked down at my forearm and saw a large cut across it. glowing blue blood was leaking from it. "what the...!" chel turned around and shouted down the road "tesla! dont shoot! he's a friend!" i saw the figures head move slightly and they started walking forwards. i brushed myself off and waited for the person to come into view. it was another girl. her hair was an extreamly dark blue that almost looked black. her eyes where a bright blue colour, like electricity. what she was wearing was a little...uh...revealing. she was wearing what looked like a pitch black bikini top and a pair of shorts that hardly reached down past the top of her thighs. over that she was wearing a black trench coat. her hair was tied up on either sides of her head. "jake, this is tesla" i stared and chel and then at the girl. "is that her name or some sort of code?" i pointed at her and the girl's sword vanished into glowing blue energy. "yes. thats her real name. i just call her tess though. its easier than saying it full" i brushed the concrete dust out of my hair and picked my wolf ears clean. "nice to meet you tesla" i held out a hand and smiled. she took hold of it and shook it lightly. "i dont think tesla speaks. i've never heard her speak since i met her" i looked at chel then back to tesla. "jake...right?" tesla said. chel gasped and stepped backwards. "tesla! y...you spoke!?" she nodded and said "i only speak when i come in contact with my own kind. he is also a tesla knight" the girl looked at me and i felt my heart being stabbed by those blue eyes. it was creepy. it was like being probed over and over again. "he's...a...tesla knight?" chel looked at me and i raised my hands in innocence. "hey! dont look at me! i dont even know whats going on!" i sighed and itched my head. "that weapon you carry isnt a tesla knights official weapon. its a fabrication. a fake if you must. your true weapon will come to you when you are in the most dire need" she finished and crossed her arms. "how did you know i was a knight?" i asked, confused. tesla looked at me and sighed. "its because of your blood. all tesla knights have that sort of blood. it heals any wounds about ten times faster than a regular mortal" she sat down on a slab of ruined concrete and looked at chel. "where did your clothes go?" she asked. chel blushed and pointed at me. "wait? he took your clothes? so somebody finally made a move on you?" tesla winked at chel and she blushed harder. "wait! it was a golem! it dragged her into a weird pod in its chest and all her clothes dissolved! dont blame me for this!" i looked at tesla furiously and she smiled. "im joking. chel to much of a wuss to even get started with a releationship" she laughed and i looked at chel. "is she usually this blunt with people?" i asked. chel shrugged and said "how do i know? she's never talked to me!" chel looked at me as though i was dumb and i shrugged. i walked around town with chel and black for a while until we found a clothes shop. "if your in there for more than ten minutes then im leaving without you. i know how long girls take in shops like this" i leaned against the wall and got a sword hilt on the side of my head. "not all girls!" i sighed and looked at tesla. "how do you use that sword?" i looked at her as the seperate pieces faded from there black colour to a transparent blue. "like i said. its my knight weapon. well...a variation of it" she closed her fist and a glowing trigger appeared in her hand. the trigger became solid and in seconds a long barrel had formed. "whoa. how do carry something like that? its massive!" in detail it was a handle inside a rectangular piece. a rotating cylinder was on the end of the trigger piece. a thicker and longer cylinder was on the end of the rotating piece and it made up most of the weapon. around the cylinder where three more rectangular things. they spanned the full length of the barrel until it got to the end. they then angled up and looked like claws. "its my tesla weapon. its not that heavy" she took her hand out of the trigger piece and handed it to me. this thing was taller than i was if you stood it up vertically. "it weighs a freaking ton! what do you mean i dosent weigh anything!" i passed it back to her with some difficulty and she put her hand back into it. "i guess it only works for me" the weapon dissipated into seperate glowing pieces. "yea. are you done in there chel? i actually want to get going!" i sighed and sat down by the wall of the shop. a few minutes later i saw chel walk out. "they didnt have anything else in my size" i looked up at her and my mouth fell open. she was wearing a genuine maids outfit. "wow chel...wow" i couldnt take my eyes off her. she was just...beautiful. "stop gawking at her and lets get going! i dont want to get caught by the golems!" i shook my head to stop my amazement and stood up. "can i have my coat back?" i asked. chel nodded and handed the coat back to me. this was the only time i really got a chance to take a look at it. it was made from black leather and a white star was emblazoned on the back of it. i pulled it on and sighed happily as warmth flooded through me. "thank god! i thought i was going to freeze!" i tied the small leather strip at my neck and sighed. "lets get going" i started walking across the grassy field outside the town but black stopped me. "we should stop. its going to get dark soon and you have no idea what sort of stuff come's out at night in this place" i nodded and followed chel and black to a small home. "your sleeping on the couch" black pointed at me and i nodded. "whatever. i dont really care were i sleep as long as im not going to freeze to death" i sat down on the couch next to chel and she put her head on my shoulder. "im glad that you found me. i would have died if you hadnt have gotten me out of that golem" she smiled and wrapped her arms around my chest. i closed my eyes and a few minutes later i was asleep.
