Adventures of John: New World Order

Chapter 9: The Master Plan

When I returned to the main area, which was apparently the headquarters for the resistance against the alien invaders, I told my group that I had a plan, but that it would require us all to be well rested, so we all needed to get some sleep. Before I went to sleep myself, I had a talk with the general, who like the head scientist refused to give me his name. He told me about the resistance, which I suggested be renamed to something more interesting such as the Defenders of Earth or the Alien Fighters or the Global Freedom Army. The general didn't seem interested in any of these names. As I turned out, Area 51 was in limited contact with six separate aircraft carriers across the world, one of which was a super carrier, while two of the others were British. The general, though he didn't like admitting it, did not know the identity of the mystery hacker, which meant that he had to hack into the Area's mainframe to know about the coming strike. Props to him for staying secret from and hacking into the systems of not only the aliens, but Area 51 as well. If anyone reading this is secretly the world's greatest hacker, props to you for doing something that you have no memory of.

I also inquired about another thing that had been troubling me. "A friend of mine," I began, "one of my teachers, actually. He left to his cabin in the mountains to escape the aliens. Do you know if he made it?"

"Doesn't sound familiar," he replied. "But the aliens took control rather quickly. If he didn't arrive before nightfall, then he didn't arrive at all."

"Thank you," I told him. "Hopefully, if my plan works, it won't matter.

After getting as much information as I could from the general and the head scientist, I finally decided to sleep. My dreams were tumultuous, filled with pain, death, and destruction. They didn't have the feeling of visions, but they were still troubling. For a while now I haven't had much time for ordinary dreams, as I usually travel to Arendelle when my body is asleep. But that night, with the doors to Arendelle shut, my mind was wide open to be preyed on by all of my fears and worries.

. . . . .

When I finally woke up, I immediately began the preparations for my plan. "You've got to be mad!" the general told me. "This is madness!"

"I'm an inter-dimensional traveler with magical powers," I informed him. "I've saved the universe three times now, and that is not counting the time I saved the entirety of the multiverse, or all the times I have simply saved this world or some other world. I have traveled through time with an eleven hundred year old alien who thinks bowties are cool and I am also an honorary member of the Justice League and the Avengers. I passed 'mad' a long time ago. Now, this is what you are going to do.

"The logistics of what you are insinuating are insurmountable," the head scientist told me later on. "All of the materials that would have to be moved, all of the changes to be made… The calculations alone would take years!"

"The Unlidary have already done most of the work for us," I replied. "Most of what is left will be accomplished by the magic itself. All you guys have to do is get it ready for me."

"Is this even possible?" one of the lesser scientists piped up. "Turning back time? Sending them back to another universe?"

I clapped him on the shoulder jauntily, using a bit of magic to give my grip extra firmness. "Mister Scientist, I once watched as an immortal Faerie Queen as old as the universe who lives inside the core of the sun turned back time, making it so that a devastating war against all the dark forces of magic and an eternal evil known only as the Darkness couldn't completely devastate the entirety of the known universe. I was also for a while in possession of a powerful spell that could be used to tear down the barriers between universes and allow free travel between them. So Mister Scientist, is it possible? No. No it is not. But we are going to do it anyway."

"That's Doctor Wakouski," he tried to correct me.

"Back to work, Mister Scientist!" I shouted as I walked off to another area of the room.

. . . . .

"The first thing we have to do is free the creatures the Unlidary have trapped," I told Jack as my little magical army prepared for battle. "We take away their power source, we take away their ability to fight back. Hopefully once we free them the magical creatures will be able to join the fight, but we have no idea what the draining of their power does to them, so be prepared for the worst. Now, there is only one location that they would keep such a valuable resource, and that is not anywhere on this planet. The only place they would keep them is up there in their giant metal tennis ball."

"How do we get there?" Jack asked. "It's in space! Even I can't go there. And with how limited your powers are, I don't think you can either."

"I am well aware of that," I assented. "But they made a big mistake when they decided to use magic for a power source. For one thing, they armed their biggest threat, me. For the second thing, they've given us our way in. They aren't just getting magic from the magical creatures. They have also begun draining Earth's ley lines. They've been stealing our world's very life essence. They have placed extraction machines over the greatest convergence points across the globe, creating a network of magic-stealing devices. We can use the smaller convergence at my home to create a portal to the largest of the convergences, and alter the device there to not only transport us onto the ship, but bring down the rest of the network as well."

"What about the whole 'turning back time' thing?" Jack questioned.

"That's a special surprise," I answered. "Hopefully, if the sciency types do their job right, that won't be a problem."

. . . . .

We were just about ready to leave when an explosion suddenly rocked the compound. "What was that?" I shouted.

"Give me visual!" the general commanded. "What's going on up there?"

"We're being attacked!" one of the men at the coms station replied. "The aliens! They're here!"

Another explosion caused a tremor to run through the complex, a crack opening in one of the walls. "You need to get out of here!" the general told me. "Get your team and the scientists to the transportation point. This plan has to work." He grabbed me then, pulling me close. "Save us," he whispered. "Turn back the clock. Make it so this never happened. Save our world." With that he let go, shouting orders to send soldiers to face the alien attackers.

I ran to the room where everyone was gathered, opening the portal to my house. Looking behind me I saw the silhouettes of alien soldiers storming into the far area of our floor. Once I portal was open I jumped through it, not expecting what I would find on the other side.

. . . . .

As soon as I passed through the portal, which had opened onto the street in front of my house, I saw a dozen different Unlidary soldiers pointing large, dangerous looking guns at me. I summoned up a burst of energy while I was still in the air, slamming my staff into the ground as I landed. A massive shockwave rippled out, sending them all flying off their feet. I sent a blast of energy at one of them, smashing him against the wall, and then fried another one with a stream of flame. I heard the sound of one of their weapons powering up and I turned, ready to attack, only to find the weapon pointed at my mother's head.

"I would suggest putting that weapon away," the one holding the gun told me. "Unless you want to see this female turn into a pile of ash, you will do everything I tell you." The door opened, revealing the rest of my family, even the littlest one, my sobbing five year old sister, tied up with weapons pointed at their heads. I immediately dropped my staff and raised my hands in the air.

"Don't hurt them," I pleaded. "Just don't hurt them."