(Part 5 - Finale)
"Tommy! Can you hear me? Come toward my voice!"
This Johnny shouts to his mentor, Shure-Lock Ohms.
But there is no answer back. Tommy has vanished. Aye.
On the other side of the 'Veil', it is like another world.
A strange type of world... Dark, and lit only by a sky
of tiny stars... And a huge nebula of a glowing green.
Ohms is there... So surely is his new nemesis: Bantham.
Not there: Her... the Lady owner of Murgatroyd's Bar.
"Where is She... You devil? If she is dead... You die!"
This from the heart of Tommy Ohms. Spoken truly.
"You are correct, in that She is not here. She is safe.
For the Time being, at least. But after you are dead,
She will come back to me! Yes-Yes-Yes... She will!"
Bantham's voice is still a bit crazy. Crazier still is the
odd look in his eyes. A brilliant man, but a mad one!
#
Meanwhile, Junior decides to go back to the Manor House.
He recalls seeing a telephone in the study downstairs. Yes.
Perhaps he can phone the local constabulary for assistance.
Maybe even Chief Inspector Lester knows someone up here?
Just as he passes the secondary, slightly smaller building...
Johnny hears a sound. A 'shright'. A shriek or shrieking, sobbing
type of sound... Like a woman might make. A woman scared out
of her wits by terror. Or of the unknown, also frightening. Oh yes.
Junior follows the low moans to what is now seen to be a working
Lab... Yes, this makes sense. The Manor House had no laboratory.
Just some rooms of books and papers, and a storeroom of the same,
along with several bedrooms. Only one bed looked slept in, for sure.
#
There in another dimension or reality, Ohms and Bantham trade oral
barbs and accusations of all sorts. Bantham had kept a distance from
Ohms, knowing his 'Enemy' was a very clever fellow in his own right.
"What makes you think She will take you back... Bantham? Even if
I am dead and gone. She'll know you were the one responsible. Aye.
Man, what happened to you? You are a brilliant inventor. Your metallic
man 'robot' proves that... Why not work together, to invent a new World?"
Bantham spat at the dark rocks that lay about the place, wherever it was.
Maybe in another Time, on Earth... In the distant Past, or the Far Future?
"No, man... I'll never join with the likes of one such as you, Ohms. Never.
Now get ready... Your own Time is near an end, at last... Time... To Die!"
#
Once he broke down the entry door, Johnny listens for the occasional sobs.
It is not lit too well, but he then sees the inner Lab on the main floor is
empty of anyone... Was he hearing something... Maybe even a spirit?
This place was said to have unusual happenings. The voice a... Ghost?
"Hello! Anybody in here? Shout back if you can hear my voice. Please!"
Just when he thinks he imagined it all... A low answer, or an echo back.
"Mmmmmmm... Hellllllllllp... Mmmmmmeeee!" Then silence followed.
Seems the sounds came from the second story. Junior runs up the stairs.
#
"A knife? That is not very creative, Bantham. I expected more from you!"
spoke Ohms, not afraid as much as curious. The blade shined a cold blue.
"To Die... is To Die! The method matters little... But surely you shall now
taste Death... The Specter in the Dark who waits for us all... And You!"
Ohms was laying on his back... After earlier being struck by Bantham.
As the mad doctor lunges forward with the bright blade, Ohms finally
pulls out his electrical stun-gun... Quickly. He fires a bolt at Bantham!
The crazed inventor shouts "Oh noooooo!" as he now falls backward.
Suddenly the air around them is charged... The bolt from Ohms' gun
has caused a feed-back loop in the local Time-Space Field it seems!
#
On the second floor of this Lab Building, Johnny opens a door. Aye!
There, tied to a chair, is the Lady owner of Murgatroyd's. Ohms 'Love'.
Her gag earlier started to slip off her mouth, barely letting her blurt out.
The chair is by a large window. She saw when Ohms had vanished outside.
"I am here to rescue you, my Lady. Tommy is not that far away as well."
Just as Junior lets out the words, he soon lets out a gasp! For the metal
man 'robot' comes out of the shadows. So, menacing it is... A Terrible Foe!
And the mechanical monstrosity holds a sword. A Scottish Claymore in fact.
Johnny has no recourse, but to pull out his electro-stun type gun. The 'robot'
recognizes it, as it recalls in its memory bank cells, from Ohms' own Lab.
The robot waves the sword, sprints, and jumps through the large glass window.
"I am coming, my Master." The damn thing can speak! It heads now for the Moors,
and for its creator Bantham... Who can now be heard screaming, as the Time-Field
is starting to collapse around him and Ohms. Ohms now punches Bantham, who falls
back and accidentally hits his head on a rock, passing out... Ohms tries to rescue him,
but the robot enters and pushes Ohms out of the way, out of the Lightning Rod Field. Back
to the 'Local Here & Now' out by the Moors and Lakeside. Back to the normal Reality? Aye!
Ohms now hears a building up of the Energy-Flux inside the Space-Time Portal that Bantham
had built. Overhead, a sudden gathering of clouds... A fast storm builds up above, along
with the build-up of high energy in the field of Bantham's Electric Rods... Then a crack
from the sky... Ohms barely has time to run away as a huge bolt from the clouds strikes
the field of rods... A bright bluish and purple flashing lights all the area for miles around.
A minute later, the clouds evaporate and vanish... And so has Bantham's Lightning Field.
Not a single rod is left standing, or even seems to be lying about. Coming from the Lab
doorway, Johnny and a freed Lady see Ohms. They run out to him. She shouts "Tommy!"
and they embrace. A few moments later, they all notice something up in the sky. A ship.
What one day would be called a UFO is hovering, silently above. A few small lights on
the exterior of the craft flash in an almost musical type of sequence. Then the sky ship
vanishes before the astonished eyes of Junior, Ohms and His Lady. A new mystery. Aye!
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A few days later Ohms is back in his own Lab, making many notes on what happened.
Soon he will have a long discussion, with members of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Young 'Junior' (Johnny) is finally back to his school duties. And the lovely Lady of Mighty
Murgatroyd's Bar is back to her establishment again. Each is Thankful! it ended as well as it did.
But somewhere there, in another far Space or Time, in another strange reality... Bantham weeps.
Yes, one often reaps what one sows. And one more foe of Tommy 'Shure-Lock' Ohms pays the price!
(The End)