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I waited for AllStar and his friends to return with the needed supplies, I kept looking at my window cell just to make sure the sun hadn't went down yet. After just 30 minutes, AllStar returned with his folks. Mr. Seaworthy had been patched up and was able to walk, Mrs. Seaworthy held SmallStar in her arms as they approached. "I heard its urgent," said Mr. Seaworthy, "What's up Radio?"

"What the Dark Presence had done to the Steam Plant will do to all of Snorkland," I said, "I need to get all the resources I could get my hands on."

"What about the Governor?" he asked, "Will he help?"

"If he were," I said, "I wouldn't be in jail."

"You were depicted on the news as a criminal," said Mr. Seaworthy, "Or that's what the Governor says you were, you didn't seem to do anything wrong."

"I dumped garbage on him just a few minutes after our little family reunion," I replied as I cracked a smile, "He has the right and reason to do so, but I have enough supporters to calm the masses."

Suddenly Billy Bob stirred and woke up, "Radio?" he asked, "Are we in jail?"

"Yes Billy Bob." I grunt.

"I knew this would come," he said, "You have a plan on getting out?"

"Most of my family is here," I said, "Well, not Strangesnork."

He sat up and saw AllStar and his parents, "I can't believe my cousin left me to rot," he said, "What I ever do to him?"

"Nothing," I said, "But we'll soon get out."

Corky came by with the keys and unlocked the cell door, when he opened it AllStar rushed in and we both hugged. "Chief Robinson might be a frenemy," I noted, "Once Wetworth is pulled out of the equation, he'll join us."

That's when Casey swam right into the room, "Everybody's here," she said, "I even got Dimmy's parents to come, including Jo-Jo."

"Great," I said, "Let's meet up with them."

"Is everybody forgetting something?" asked Dr. Gallio.

"Oh," said Corky, "Sorry, follow me."

We followed Corky out of the prison quarters and into what appears to be a large conference room filled with chairs, Tooter, Daffney, Jo-Jo, and most of everyone's parents were seated in the chairs, Occy and Rex were sitting on the floor near the TV. I saw Dimmy's parents sitting in the front rows. "I can't get my parent's to come Radio," said Daffney, "But they let me come though."

"Okay Daffney." I said.

I reached into my pants and pulled out a few DVD disks, "Luckily I managed to save some disks from the Governor," I said, "These are the most important disks, that would hopefully give you an understanding on what is happening."

"What are they?" asked AllStar.

"DVDs that seemed to tell the future," I said, "But these are the disks of events that already happened, observe."

As everyone took a seat, I approached the TV and opened the DVD player, "I have to warn you snorks," I told them, "What are you about to see is true, and can get quite disturbing. There is also some music appropriate for each scenes, just to let you know."

Turns out the DVD player can hold 4 DVDs at once and play them one by one, and I do have 4 DVDs I managed to save from Governor Wetworth. I placed all 4 DVDs into the DVD player and closed the loading bay, some of the lights were dimmed to make it easier to see. I took my seat in the front row, right next to AllStar.

The first disk to play was the "Dimmy Taken" one, when it played we saw Dimmy at his house doing chores. "We weren't home at the time," said Mr. Finster," He said he'll be alright but..."

Just as Dimmy puts the last dish back into the cupboard the lights suddenly went out, he turned around and his face was instantly filled with fright. His brain was trying to process the horror he was seeing, he was stammering in fear like a deer in the headlights. The scene soon cuts outside the home and we heard him scream, followed by the roar of the Dark Presence. I sense the anxiety in the room, then the next disk plays.

It was back at the rest stop, there I was stumbling in, trying to look for help. Then there was Dimmy rambling in partial demonic tones as I approach him from behind, I was trying to call for help but saw the snork he had killed with the ax. "Dimmy Finster," he muttered, "Please to meet you."

He ran out of the area, all in awhile making jokes. I explained to everyone it was due to dead nerve twitches, and that Dimmy's conscience and self-awareness was long gone. I watch myself ran though the maze, and its when I made it to the door of the rest area where the camera moved back to Dimmy, showing him jumping off of the truck he was standing on and try to chop me with his ax, that part of the scene was shown in slow motion which make it look cool.

When I ran to the rest area, I slammed the door shut and the ax head came through the door. It was in an angle where the ax head took up most of the screen, I think everyone was frightened about it. After the parts where I found the flashlight and gun and the entire rest area tried to collapse, I fought the Taken for the first time. After showing some trial and error, I shined my flashlight at the Taken, removed their darkness, and killed them.

The scene soon fades into a new one, the part where I finally get to fight Dimmy. First I fired a round at a flare gun, the moment was also in slow motion as everyone watch the flare shoot across the area and explode in the Taken's faces. Dimmy survives and did the supersonic moves across the area as I tried to get the flashlight's beam focused on him, soon his protective darkness flashed off and I gunned him down. The moment he dies happened in brief slow motion, before his body vanishes completely.

Dimmy's parents began to cry, with the knowledge of their son's fate. They soon stopped when it got to the next disk, the part where Dr. Strangesnork was attacked and possessed by the Dark Presence. Just seeing Dr. Strangesnork lay there in a pool of blood made Dr. Gallio tear up a bit. Just after I went to go check on the breaker box, only to find it destroyed, Dr. Strangesnork was attacked by the Dark Presence again.

After fighting my way past a few Taken, I investigated what happened to Dr. Strangesnork and stumbled outside the massive maw in the wall. There Dr. Strangesnork was, a Taken. And after a short fight, his dark protective shroud was removed and he was gunned down. His moment of death also in slow-mo. The scene soon changed to the part where there were schools of fish swimming overhead of AllStar's house, it was spectacular seeing the flares go off in the school, killing them in small burst of static.

That scene was quick though, and it ends with everyone inside of AllStar's house wide awake.

The final disk was Bigweed's castle, where I have to fight my way past poltergeist objects. They even saw me fight a Taken Bigweed, and more schools of fish. It was quick though, and it ended with Bigweed's death in slow-mo.

It actually took a long time to watch all 4 disks, I just explain parts of it, I wasn't in the mood to explain all those scenes again. It took a couple of hours watching the movies, many parts were surprisingly long and frightening. When the disks finished playing, Corky returned the lights to full brightness. "You have to deal with all this awhile keeping it hidden from us?" asked Dr. Gallio.

"If I told you right away," I explained, "You'll assume that I'm insane, this is the kind of stuff people were put in padded cells for."

"This is how I found myself in an insane asylum," said Billy Bob, "Radio did the right thing by not telling you until the time is right, you saw my reaction when I wasn't ready to learn what's really happening."

"All those snorks who have gone missing in the past few months will be sent against us as Taken," I said, "The Dark Presence went through all this just to raise an army to take on Snorkland, and it needs me to do it. The witch took my sister and simply touched me, it needed my mind, so the Dark Presence tricked me into building a machine that manipulates the future. The Dark Presence said it would bring Berry back, but I was nowhere close. A malfunction of the machine freed me from the entity's grasp, I tried to escape by car but I crashed it. And that is how my nightmare began."

"The Dark Presence made you do all this." said AllStar.

"Yes," I said, "And it went through the trouble to try to re-capture me, now its done trying to reclaim me. It knows that only I can operate that machine, and so by killing me it paves the way for Snorkland to be conquered. I die, Snorkland and all of its inhabitants follows, this means all of you."

"What is going on here?" I heard a voice.

Everyone turned near the door and saw Chief Robinson standing there near the door leading to outside, everyone stood up as I got up and swam to some clear space between Chief Robinson and the party behind me. Governor Wetworth soon came into the room, looking quite satisfied, "Well, well Praisely Shellfish," taunted the Governor as he held up some of the orange DVDs, "Here it is, all the evidence, including a conspiracy to murder a government official."

Junior showed up and started to rub it in, "Yes," he taunt, "We got you now, Radioactive!"

My temper has been sparked, and just when Junior gets near me, I clenched my hand into a fist and punched him hard in the face. He slammed hard against the wall, just as his rear hits the floor I grabbed him by the neck and raised him to a point where his feet couldn't touch the floor. "I have enough of your b#tching!" I cursed at Junior, "I should have had Rex killed you when he had the chance!"

"Whoa," said Chief Robinson as he pulls out a gun, "Hold it right there."

That's when Corky got up and also pulled out a gun, "Not so fast Chief," he said, "We need Radio alive."

Rex and Occy swam in front of me, getting into a position where they would pounce on the Governor and Chief of Police. "Radio," said Governor Wetworth, "Put my son down, we can talk this over."

"You had all that time to talk to me," I noted, "But all you did was taking potshots at me and my family members, I would take my chances and surrender but judging the way on how you lost your sanity, that's just not going to happen."

Junior was running out of oxygen, we was struggling to breathe. "Put him down Radio!" ordered Chief Robinson.

"And let the Governor use you as his puppet?" I asked, "What good did he ever do to you despite assigning you to your job? You were the one who gave me your gun right before you left Dr. Gallio's lab."

"You did what?" asked the Governor.

"Sure, shoot me." I said, "Just what Junior did when Wetworth was chasing me, got me right in the arm with an SIR."

"You shot him!" asked AllStar in surprise.

"No," Junior croaked, but I tightened my grip and he pleaded guilty, "Okay, I did, I did!"

I let go of Junior and dropped him to the floor, Rex and Occy stepped aside as Junior rushed up to Governor Wetworth in a hurry. After a short pause, something happened. A massive headache hit me with the force of a train, I grabbed my head as I collapsed onto the ground. "Aw snork." cursed Chief Robinson as he puts away his gun.

"Radio!" cried AllStar as he and Chief Robinson came to my aid.

"He's faking it!" rant Governor Wetworth.

"I had enough of you and your son's attitude!" barked Chief Robinson, "Radio, I'll trust you on this!"

Just as they helped me back up to my feet, Governor Wetworth pulled out his gun and aimed it straight at me. "Get back to your cell Seaworthy!" he demanded.

"Go ahead," I dared him, "Shoot me, and be accused of murdering a juvenile. It doesn't matter if it's self-defense, all of Snorkland will force you resign as Governor regardless."

"Over my dead body I will-"

Suddenly he stopped, he looked like he had remembered something. "Wait a sec," he said as he held down his gun and pulled out DVD number 72 and stared at it, "I know this."

Caught in the midst of déjà vu, the Dark Presence made its move. It opened the door leading to the outside and stuck out a cloud and grabbed the Governor, he screamed as he was dragged out into the night. "Dad!" cried Junior as he went after him. The door slams as we both heard both Wellington Wetworths scream as the roar of the Dark Presence drown them out, then all went silent.

TO BE CONTINUED...