Sorry for the long wait for this chapter with my grandmother passing away, college being a pain before I had to drop out, working at my new job, Hurricane Florence and Michael, the supposed flood that we were expected to get but didn't, my mother got into an accident then my grandfather passed away and finally going back to school after a year to get a game designer degree. So, here is the next chapter for Total Recall.
Disclaimer: I do not own Total Recall and Bioincle sadly.
One Week Later
Outside nothing but vacant expanse of crimson and pollution around Ta-Metru's surface. As a rocket begins to descendent down to port the passengers saw a large structure that look like an old furnace that is taller than any other furnace.
Inside the port a large woman in a loose-fitting dress places a familiar looking bag inside the scanner which came through with an all clear from the computer. She got her bag and gave her ID to the immigration officer has she did a squad of soldiers lead by Sidorak passed by thankfully they didn't even notice her.
"Makuta wants to see you right away." The squad leader said to Sidorak. "Any news on Vakama?" Sidorak asked the Captain. "Nothing since you lost him?" Sidorak got pissed off "Watch your mouth Captain!"
"How long will you be staying on Ta-Metru?" The immigration officer asked the large red headed woman, all she did was smile and said, "Two weeks."
The woman was interrupted by the Captain "Look at this shit." When he saw rebel propaganda that was sprayed on the wall that says "DUME Lives." "What the hell is this?" Sidorak asked.
"The citizens of Ta-Metru all love Dume. They think he is Mata Nui." The Captain said.
Sidorak's SIC then commented "Kill the bastard." "We don't know who or where he is?" The Captain said.
As the squad left the immigration officer was finishing all the paper work for the woman but, he had to ask a quick question before he could finish. "To you bring any fruits or vegetables onto the planet?" The woman just smiled and told him "Two Weeks." The officer stops himself when he heard the answer. At the same time Sidorak looked at the Lady but doesn't pay any attention to it.
"Things are getting heated here. The rebels have taken over one of the refinery's last night." The Captain was saying as Sidorak was still looking at the 'Lady', who he was starting to suspect.
"Excuse me….?" The 'Lady' covered her mouth, embarrassed. "Two Weeks."
"Two Weeks." The 'Lady' continued to say out loud and her head began to shack, she brought her hands to her mouth and started to stretch her mouth open.
The woman continued to say the phrase over and over while at the same time trying to keep her mouth shut. Sidorak final stops and stares at the woman, at that moment the woman saw Sidorak staring at her and their eyes meet. Sidorak immediately knew who the woman really was.
Sidorak pointed at the woman and Said "Vakama, that is Vakama!" The Captain looked confused and asked "Where?" "There the Woman."
The woman moves backwards until she hits the wall behind her with Sidorak saying "Get him." Sidorak's men looked confused, Sidorak sighed. "Arrest the woman." Sidorak said pointing at the over weight woman while she continued say "Twooooooo Weeeeks."
When Sidorak and his men ran over and pointed their guns at the woman, she reaches for her left ear and twist it, which splited her face in half to reveal Vakama. After he took the advance mask all Vakama did was smile. "Catch." Vakama said. He threw the advance mask to a guard that was closet to the window. The soldier on instinct caught the mask and addresses in its normal voice.
"Get ready for a surprise." Just as the soldiers react, BOOM! The head exploded with the soldiers knocked out and Sidorak, his SIC, and The Captain fell on their backs, but when they got back up they started shoot at Vakama, while he was running for the door but the a burst of gun fire hit the window with the large amounts of pollution outside the station and the lack of an atmosphere it created an instant typhoon in the station.
Anything that was not nailed down in the station was sucked outside the station. Everyone tried to hang on for dear life, but sadly a few of the soldiers were sucked out of the station. Vakama was trying to pull himself along a stair railing to get to the door.
Alarms were going off signaling that the metal shutters that closes off the windows and doors incase of a vacuum. When the metal shutter for the windows closed off Vakama saw that the metal shudder for the door was not down yet so he decided to take his chance to escape by rolling under the door just as it was about to close.
Sidorak yelled at a young soldier "Open it open the damn door!" "I can't they are all connected." The Captain told him.
Vakama was thankful that there was a tram at the station just as he escaped from the station port. Vakama looked around the train while hearing how Makuta raised the price of air, but what draw his attention was the large furnace. "Excuse me what is that structure?" Vakama asked the passenger that was next to him.
"You mean the Great furnace, I used to work till they found all alien shit."
"Well that is the rumor isn't it." Vakama then turned his attention to the Great Furnace and stared at it for the rest of the trip to the port.
While Vakama escaped on the tram Sidorak was taken to his boss Makuta at his office.
As soon as Sidorak entered Makuta's office he saw his boss sitting at his desk looking at the surface of Ta-Metru and the massive great furnace through the window.
"Mr. Makuta sir, you wanted to see me?" Sidorak asked in a worried tone. "Yes, do you know why I'm happy?" Makuta asked when he turned to see Sidorak with a smile on his face.
"No sir?" "Because I got the greatest job in this solar system." He turned his attention to the Great Furnace. "As long as the Great Furnace keeps making energy, I can do anything I want, Anything." Makuta stood up to face Sidorak "There is one thing that I worry about, is that one day the rebels will win." Then Makuta banged both of his fists of his desk while looking at Sidorak with a look that could kill on the spot. "YOU made it happen you incompetent buffoon. First you tried to kill Vakama then let him get away."
"Boss he had help from our own side sir." Sidorak tried to reason with his boss. "I already knew that." Sidorak was surprised "But I thought….". "Who told you to think?! I don't give you enough information to think!" Makuta then points at Sidorak and continued to berate him. "You do what I tell you! That is what you do!" Sidorak sagged his shoulders in defeat. "Yes sir."
Makuta turns to his large Ruki fishbowl to feed them before turning back around.
"Now let us get back to business. Dume want is something in Vakama's head and he might get because they say the rebels have someone that can extract that information from him. I have a plan to stop that from happening." Makuta stared at Sidorak. "Think you can handle that?" "Yes, sir." Sidorak said with confidence. "Good, if you don't, I will erase your ass."
Vakama finally managed to escape from the military force and now trying to act inconspicuous around the plaza that managed to escape to which looked to be near a mining operation to mine Protodermis.
While walking Vakama heard "Taxi Sir! Taxi Sir, Magazines!" from one taxi driver but, another Taxi driver named Ahkmou came to Vakama "Man!"
Vakama continued to walk into the plaza where he saw the Great Furnace through the window of the glass dome building that he was in because the environment outside is too hazardous for people to live on the surface.
Vakama came to a high-end hotel where crosses the lobby to talk to the clerk at the registration desk.
"Good Afternoon how can I help you?"
"I like a room please" Vakama said as he gives him one of the multiple cards from the case he was given.
The clerk took the card to search his information into system until he found it which showed the last name of Blaise.
"Nice to have you back Mr. Blaise would you like your usual suite?" The clerk asked. "Yes, sir thank you."
When setting up Vakama's suite key the clerk noticed something unusual. "Hmm it seems you left something in our safe." The clerk put his thumb on an identification scanner Vakama froze up in confusion and alarm. The clerk then asked "Identification?" "Oh right, sorry it's been a long day." Vakama answered before putting his thumb on the scanner.
A small safety deposit box slid out of the wall and the clerk went to retrieve it and bring it to Vakama.
"I will go encode your room key." The clerk politely said before leaving. "Thank You."
Vakama opened the box which appeared to be empty until tip the box towards him and a balled-up piece of paper slid towards him he opens the ball of paper and it looked like a filer for a brothel called The Great Temple. Confused why he left this in his deposit box he turned the paper around and saw a woman's name with a message For A Good Time ask for 'Nokama'.
The clerk returned with his room key. "Here you go Mr. Blaise, Suite 610 east wing." "Thank you, may I use your pen please?" "Of course."
Vakama wrote Nokama on the back and saw that the signature was the same, he returned the pen to the clerk and left to find the brothel called The Great Temple.
When Vakama was heading toward where the cabs were at, he was stop by Ahkmou.
"Hey man need a cab?" Ahkmou asked Vakama. Vakama looked confused and nod to the first one. "What's wrong with that one?" "He doesn't have five kids to feed." Vakama looked over at the first cab and saw that he was a punk and nods towards Ahkmou. "Where is yours?" Ahkmou smiled "Over there man." "Your hired." As Ahkmou was leading Vakama to his cab the punk runs after them. "Hey, that's my fare you asshole!"
Suddenly there was a boom sound with people running around glass being shattered. The blast throws both Ahkmou and Vakama to the ground. With the Alarms going off.
Both Ahkmou and Vakama staggered to their feet.
"Welcome to Ta-Metru my friend." Vakama still shaken from the explosion asked, "What was that an accident?" The Vahki stormed out of all directions and engaged in a shootout with the rebels. "No, man that was the rebels. Their trying to shut down the mines." They both got in Ahkmou's cab. "Let's get out of here before they arrest us."
Ahkmou managed to get out of the area of the shoot out and into traffic. With Vakama asking "What do the Rebels want?"
"Oh, you know more money, more freedom, more air." Ahkmou answered.
Ahkmou continued driving down the tube to the next dome.
"So where are you headed to?"
"The Great Temple" Vakama answered.
"You're getting off an early start." Ahkmou answered suggestively.
While driving they were nearly hit by mining equipment, but thankfully Ahkmou swerved out of the way in time.
"So, first time on Ta-Metru?"
"Yeah…...well no, sort of" Vakama answered.
'Man, does not know if he's been on Ta-Metru or not.' Ahkmou said to himself.
The cab finally arrived at Dome G, where the lower-class citizens live.
Ahkmou's cab entered the adult entertainment district of the Dome filled with bars, brothels, cafes, strip-joints, t-shirt shops, cheap hotels, and psychic parlors.
"Voila, Dome G's adult entertainment district."
Vakama looked out the window and was engrossed at what he saw porters push handcarts and carry goods on their backs. Vahki patrolling the streets in pairs, and huge fans blow air for the Dome. Then Ahkmou found somewhere to park down an alleyway.
"Crazy Ta-Matorian drivers we have to walk from here."
Ahkmou leads Vakama down the alley where 'The Great Temple' is located.
While walking down the alley Vakama noticed that there were a lot of people that looked poor and sick from the bad air because of the all the smog from the mines and the great furnace.
One woman came up to Vakama "Would you like to know your future?" Before Vakama could answer Ahkmou interrupted "Come on let's go it's around the corner." The alley started to get narrower with Barkers and hookers trying to draw both Ahkmou and Vakama inside.
Another woman named MADAME KAICE stands in front of a psychic parlor with her daughter. At first, she looks beautiful with an hourglass figure, modest bust wearing a slightly dirty dress with hair covering half her face.
Ahkmou budges Vakama to keep moving "Not bad, eh?"
Madame Kaice asked Vakama when he got near her "Read your palm? Read your aura? Probe the secrets in your heart?" Then Kaice step forward a blow of air hit her and showed that under the hair that covered her face revealed a horrible disfigurement. Her little girl came up to Vakama and he saw that she had the same condition.
The little girl asked, "I bet I can guess your birthday?" Vakama bends down "What is it?" The little girl smiled and answered, "You're a Taurus, right." Vakama was impressed and he hands the little girl some credits with a smile "How'd you guess." The little girl's simile got bigger before she had thanked Vakama before returning to her mother.
As he and Ahkmou continued to 'The Great Temple' Vakama asked "Tell me something, do all psychics uh…...?" Ahkmou answered "Freaks. Afraid so, man. Goes with the territory." "What happened to them?" "Cheap domes. And no clean air to screen out the rays."
Turning the corner, they finally arrived at 'The Great Temple.' The place looked like a night club with flashing lights outside with working girls trying to get customers for a fun night.
"Well here it is 'The Great Temple', are you sure you want to go in here."
Vakama looked confused. "What is wrong with this place?" "Because I know a lot better place down the block where the girls are cleaner, and the drinks are not watered down." Ahkmou answered. "And you get a cut of the profit." Vakama exclaimed.
"Come on man I have five kids to feed!" Ahkmou exclaimed. Vakama gave Ahkmou a few large bills. "Take them to the dentist." Vakama said after seeing Ahkmou' s ugly teeth. Ahkmou shocked counted the money that he was given.
"Hey thanks! I'll be waiting for you, take your time and have some fun! Ahkmou's the name. Ahkmou!" Ahkmou yelled as Vakama enters 'The Great Temple'.
Once Vakama went inside he was slightly taken back by the look of the inside with large flat screens on the wall, warm lights flashing, and lots of attractive women on either stripper poles, giving people lap dances or taking them upstairs for a good time. 'This is where I need to find Nokama' Vakama thought.
Vakama saw a Bartender and went to him to see if he knew where Nokama was.
Vakama tap the bartender's shoulder to get his attention, the bartender turned to Vakama with an aggressive tone. "What do you want?" Vakama was slightly taken back by his tone. "I'm looking for Nokama." "She's busy, but Macku here, she's free." The bartender pointed to the young woman with dark blue hair, a beautiful face and smile with large blue eyes, hourglass body with wide hips, noticeable large breasts, beside Vakama. Macku smiled and looked Vakama up and down.
"Well not free!" Macku said confidently while opening her blouse to show Vakama her large D cup breasts. Vakama could not help but take a quick and then looked back to her face. "I'll wait for Nokama."
Macku looked insulted and walked away to deal with other customers.
"I'll tell you friend that Noka's real picky. She kind of sticks to her regular's."
Vakama pulled out a large sum of credits and gave it to the bartender. "I'm sure she will like me." The Bartender took the credits. "Hey Noka,"
Vakama turned his head where the bartender shouted and saw a beautiful woman with four men. Nokama was wearing a white blouse with a black mini skirt and high heels giving a sexy teacher look was sitting on the lap of one man named Matau wearing a dirty racing track suit (cringe). Though from what Vakama saw she did not seem to enjoy being close to him. Another man named Owena wearing a t-shirt with blacksmith like apron, dirty cutup jeans, and sneakers was making a joke with them while the other two named Nuju wearing glasses, a white shirt, black jeans, and business shoes and Whenua wearing a black undershirt, black jacket, jeans, with black sneakers. When they heard the bartender Owena told Nokama and pointed towards the bartender.
Nokama laughing turned and saw a familiar man with the bartender and had a mix of a surprised and shock look on her face as she got up and walked seductively towards Vakama. She got to Vakama she eyed him up and down.
"Hello Hordika, still bulging, I see." Nokama said while rubbing Vakama's arm.
She then planted her lips on his in a wet and sloppy kiss and he immediately kissed back while this was happening Vakama felt something more with Nokama than he did with Roodaka.
She then broke off the kiss, Vakama was a little disappointed that the kiss ended but was shocked when Nokama started to rub his crotch. "What have you been feeding this thing." Vakama was shocked even more but when he saw her eyes, she seemed embarrassed to say it. Vakama went along "Black-heads" Vakama said.
"I think it's still hunger." Nokama said seductively. She gave another but quick kiss before grabbing his hand to lead him upstairs.
Matau got out of his sit and grab Vakama by the collar "You got a lot of nerve showing yourself here Hordika." Vakama noticed that he had an angry look in his eyes. "Whoa easy man do I know you?" Matau just got angrier and was about to punch Vakama in the face when Owena grabbed his wrist "Hey give him break alright."
Vakama nod his head to the man while Nokama gave an angry scowl to Matau while continuing to bring Vakama to her room. On the way there they bumped into another beautiful young woman with blue hair that had a light pink ribbon to keep her hair in a ponytail, wearing a loose pink spaghetti strap top, short black skirt, and three inch high heels. "Hahli please take care of Matau." Hahli let out an irritated huff. "Seriously that guy is so annoying and full of himself." Then she looked at Vakama up and down, "If you need help with him though give a call." Hahli said with her licking her lips. She then went down to take care of Matau.
They finally arrived to Nokama's room and once entered Vakama turned to face Nokama to only be greeted with a slap to the face leaving him shocked. "YOU SON OF A BITCH, I thought Makuta captured and tortured you to death." Vakama had is hand cover his cheek as he gave Nokama a shocked looked. "I …. guess he didn't." Vakama said. "You didn't send me a message or anything, did you ever wonder what happened to me?" Nokama noticed the shocked and surprised look on his face.
Nokama's wrath immediately left her and wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled in close for a hug, "I'm so happy you are alive." She than began to cover Vakama's face with kisses from his cheeks and to his own lips.
Vakama wanted to enjoy this but he had to forced it to stop to understand how important this woman is to him.
"Nokama, NOKAMA!" "What?" Nokama asked still covering his face with kisses. Vakama had to gently separated them to talk. "There's something I need to ask you?" Nokama looked confused and sad about what he had to ask. "I don't remember you?" Nokama got even for confused why is Hordika asking this question. "What are you talking about?" "I don't remember you. I do not remember us. I don't remember me?" Nokama laughed thinking he was joking. "What, did you get amnesia, or something? How did you get here?" "Hordika left me a note?" "What are you talking about you are Hordika." Vakama sighed. "Not anymore my name is Vakama, Vakama Phoenix." Nokama grinned. "Hordika you lost your mind." "No, I didn't lose it. Makuta stole it because he found out that Hordika switched sides so, he manipulated his memories to turn him into me."
"This is too weird." Nokama said while putting her hand on face to think what was being said. Vakama continued "Then he dumped me at Metru Nui with a wife and a job…." Vakama was interrupted by Nokama when he mentioned the wife part. "Wait did you say you have a WIFE, are you MARRIED!" Nokama was now angry giving Vakama a scowl look. Vakama realized that he had said the wrong thing. "She wasn't really my wife." "Oh, now she isn't your wife! Oh, wait she was Hordika's wife!" "Forget I said wife." "NO, lets forget everything! I've had enough of your lies, why do you have to continue to hurt me." Nokama felt she was about to cry she wanted everything he said to be a joke.
Vakama was confused "Why would I lie to you?" Vakama watched as Nokama went to the window to looked out to the brothel, he heard her whimper when she was at the window and he wanted to embrace her in a hug to make her feel better.
"Because you are still working for Makuta!" Vakama was shocked. "Don't be ridiculous." Nokama got only angrier "You never loved me, Hordika. You only used me to get inside." Vakama felt he was getting some answers but needed more. "Inside what?" With all these questions it answered what Nokama was suspicious of. "I think you better leave." Nokama demanded. "Nokama please Hodika sent me to do something." Vakama pleaded. Nokama was tired of the excuses. "No, I'm done, I'm not falling for it." Vakama pointed his head. "Nokama please Hordika said there is enough information in here to put Makuta down for good." "Get Out!" Vakama steps closer to her. (bad move). "You've got to help me remember." Nokama turns and went straight to her bed. "I said Get Out!" Again, Vakama tries to get closer to her. "Nokama, please there are people trying to kill me." Nokama bent down to her pillows and pulled out a handgun points it to Vakama's face. "Really?" Vakama got over the shock and sighed. "All right I'm leaving." Vakama turns and leaves her room with Nokama holding her tears.