Second Encounter
Chapter 4
At the top of the hill, a small cabin was visible and that was where the yells for help were coming from. A group of about a dozen men in black were terrorizing a family of three.
DG hid behind a tree and watched with wide eyes. "Those guys are everywhere" They are dressed just like the ones who attacked my home. Glitch caught up to her and together they watched the horror taking place below them.
The man of the family was being held tightly in place by his arms. His face had cuts that were bleeding and his blood was stained into his previously fresh clothes. One of the attackers, the blond one, wrapped a cloth around his knuckles and punched the man across the face with a force that snapped his face to the side.
DG and Glitch both jumped.
"That's life in the O.Z these days. Tough and tougher." Glitch sadly whispered, not able to look away from the horrible scene.
Below, a young boy ran in to help his parents and was knocked to the ground.
That was it. DG seized the closest branch and ran down the hill. Her companion yelled something after her, but she didn't care.
"Leave them alone!" She yelled and swung as hard as she could at the blond man……. who faded into thin air with everyone else.
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Oh, cripes. She is going to get herself killed!
"DG!" He shouted trying to stop her, but to no avail, "This isn't your fight!"
She crashed into the battle and everything vanished, leaving an abandoned, grown up little house. Glitch slowed to a stop as she looked at him, puzzled.
"What just happened?" DG asked.
There was a low whining, if he could just locate it.. There! On that pole! He strided over and instantly recognized the gadget embedded in the wood. His long fingers slowly turned a knob on the side and the whining stopped. DG came over and he glanced at her.
"What is it?"
"A T.D.E.S.P.H.T.L." Wow he could remember this clearly. "It's a Tri-Dimition Energy Stored Projected Holographic Time Loop. Nifty little thing." yeah, like when recording a meeting or a lesson. That was why he- "Hey, I think I invented it."
"So it was all fake?"
"No," he answered confidently, "I-it happened, sometime or another." He looked back down at the contraption, how did it get out here?
"Why would they have it playing over and over again if there was no one here to watch it?" DG slowly started to check out her surroundings.
"Well, I think it-" Wait. What did he think? Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.
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Hey, that tin container over there was odd, and man shaped. The twenty-annual-old tapped on it four times. Five taps responded.
"There's someone in there." She said and went off to search for something to help open it.
"Or something." she heard Glitch add.
Ah-ha, that hammer would work nicely. Returning, she tapped open the holding pins and removed them. The door opened with a puff of stale air, and inside was a man in filthy clothes with his skin and long hair coated in silver. He fell out.
"Are you ok?" DG asked, worried.
"Where are they?" came his hoarse reply.
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They sat outside in silence and waited. The man, he said his name was Cain, had gone inside to see if he could find anything of use left in the wreck of a house.