Blood and Money: Or How the Corporations Destroyed Earth
Chapter 3: A Burial
Author's Note: I would like to thank my fans and readers from the USA to the UAE. This story in particular goes out to a person I have never met but is a faithful reader of this experiment. That person goes by the handle donnett and I have kept both reviews this person has left me (I don't know if it is a he or a she so forgive me for being so impersonal). If it wasn't for you and my other readers such as Lancetheflamesniper or KIttyLynne who have read my works before this and are also two of my favorite fan fiction authors I wouldn't be writing anything –Steve
Frank Garret
The whole symphony concert was a cluster fuck. Earl was so pissed that some interloper as he called him would screw his plans that he basically had the road crew do whatever they wanted with the young lady. Looking back I now realize that Earl was probably one of the most evil mother fuckers on the planet. Maybe the world is better without him.
Terry West
I told Darkwood that it would be a few months till an abortion could be performed but he was adamant about it. He was something alright, a real sick bastard.
Sara Davis (Music Reporter for Entertainment Weekly)
Well I knew the three members of the Cresendolls had gone missing after the show and the San Fran PD was on an all out manhunt for them, something about a guy in a white Ford van going down the highway with them. So my boss comes and tells me that he wants me to interview Stella because she was the one attending the gold record ceremony and I called Darkwood but he was such an asshole that I said fuck it. Did you hear the rumors about Stella and the concert (Pauses) they were true? Good lord no wonder our planet was destroyed.
Beryl
I remember I was the one who had to get Stella. Now this was August 22nd the concert was a week previous and I had been withdrawing for since then. When I finally got better Shep told me to take this sort of ray gun thing and bring Stella to him. She was his favorite and he was fading in and out. His ship had some kind of medicine but his ship was in fucking Simi Valley as a goddamn tourist destination. We knew he was going to die we didn't know when, and when it did, it was decided that your planet was worthless.
Edward Elric
George was on vacation in Crawford as far as I know. Condi gave him the now famous Bin Laden memo but if you remember we never got to 9-11. They were gone with the planet. I can remember the pressure Wolfowitz was putting on the NASA Glenn people being immense, he'd call up every day and curse at them, I had the office next to him and I just remember him screaming at the top of his lungs at these poor scientists. I actually listened to the message the sent because I was friends with a NASA scientist and it sounded like bits of select tracks from Daft Punk's "Discovery" Album. Then two weeks before 9-11 the second message came in.
Steven Shroyer
I am a firm believer in rule by the intelligentsia and I knew in my heart that this nation, this planet was in for a downfall. Did I know this was all going to happen, the break in at Capitol Records, the cult suicide in LA where Darkwood was the priest, the failure of the government, I kinda had an inkling that we were going down that road. I mean I'm a Methodist and we do believe in The Book of Revelations but I, for the longest time thought god was going to kill this planet not aliens.
Stella
I was such a mess. After the concert I sat in my room and cried and had bottle after bottle of Champagne and when I wasn't rushing to the bathroom to throw up, I was contemplating suicide. I found these pills in Earl's medicine cabinet that said do not take with alcohol and I did just to die (Cries) I just wanted to die.
Terry West
I was called to the Hotel at about 3:45 AM and she was passed out on the bed, weak pulse, shallow breathing, there were valiums everywhere and Earl looks at me and says "Don't just stand there, fix her!" So I told him the only way we could fix her was to get her to a hospital and he said no, too much publicity or some shit and I looked him in the eye and told him that we get her to a hospital or else he'd lose her. So we took my car to the hospital. You know she nearly died on us while we were driving to Cedar Sinai.
Matt Edwards
This was pre so we had a contact in the hospital who told us the bassist for the Cresendolls was in there for attempted suicide. I called the hospital and they wouldn't confirm it. So I send one of my guys in there all covert to get a video for the news and wouldn't ya know it they broke the fucking camera before he could get into the room. Fucking top brass had a shit fit.
Steven Shroyer
I was watching the Gold Record ceremony the E network for the same reason everyone else was, to see if Stella had made it out alive. I mean there were rumors she had attempted suicide but we didn't know if they were true. When we did, there were not many of us that were surprised.
Stella
I was a wreck. I wore this Oscar De Lorenta gown and Earl was wearing Armani and we went and there were all these TV and Paparazzi cameras everywhere, and I was just getting sick of it all. I wanted just to die right then and there and just let them hang. Then Beryl came during the ceremony. It was like what you earthlings call a religious awakening. I just remember my mind clearing and seeing him, and I followed him, that's when I met Shep for the first and last time.
Beryl
We drove all the way there, a good three hour drive, we didn't speak just sat there in calm quiet and meditated about this whole damn thing. Why it happened, why us, what are we going to do now, how are we going to get home? It was the most depressing three hours of our lives.
Stella
We arrived at this little warehouse in the middle of nowhere and I walked in and there he was. He was hurt bad, he had no access to our kind's medicine so he was pretty close to death when I found him. He was so beautiful. He grasped my hand and I had that vision again of us running through our homeland and I heard him sing in the most beautiful haunting voice, a ballad from our planet. "Come what may, I will love you, till my dying day." those were his exact words and then he died. (Sobs) I am sorry I can't continue. Could we pick this up at a later time?
Arpegius
We felt it was best to bury him in our tradition. We picked a beautiful spot in the middle of a grove of trees and laid him to rest. We prayed to the god of the universe to watch over this man and may his spirit find peace. Stella was inconsolable as to be expected and we watched as his sprit floated home. We didn't know if or when we'd see him again. I didn't know about the technology on our planet and how it was advancing.
Beryl
I knew in my heart we'd see him again. It would take a war between two factions of your kind on our planet to bring him back.
From the Books of the prophecy of Maximus Cleric
And so it came to pass that a hero died to save the fallen. Those who feel him dead must take heart, that the arrival of the Earthlings to the New World will bring about his return. That much Earthling blood must be spilt to rectify what has come and what is to come. For those that believe in the great god, our creator would not let a man live so short without fulfilling his purpose. He will rise again in the year on our planet 16,008 the earth year 2010.