"God am I glad that class is over. "Cara said so Melissa, who was shoving
some books in her locker. They both noticed the others walking up to the
downball courts, so they followed. On the way, when they had caught up with
the others, Cara asked,
"Where's Andr*? "Everyone groaned.
"I don't know," Melissa started,
"Or really care. "Finished Mat. When everyone got to the courts, they all
gasped.
"What is it?" Sibyl asked,
"I don't know" Was the only answer she could get. Cara was the first to
notice someone coming. She stared, drooling uncontrollably. Kal waved his
hand in
front of her face,Ê
"Stop fantasizing!" He growled. Andrew took one look at the large ring
shapedthing, and then did the toughest thing he could think of. He threw his
shoe
at it.
"What good will that do? "Mat asked.
"Oh, I thought it was like something I saw while playing 'creatures'. Who
found it?"
"Cara." Andrew gave a disgusted groan and turned away.
"Do YOU know what it is?" Alix asked. Andrew shrugged where there should
have been shoulders.
"By the looks of it," He started, talking in a scientific voice, "It seemed
to be some kind of gate...to the stars! I call it: Gate to the Stars!"
"How about just 'Stargate'?" Mat asked.
"Oh...uh, yes, well, I guess that would do. Seems a little 'childish' to
me." He muttered, putting that self-contentious smirk on his lips.
"How do we turn it on?" Melissa asked.
"Why, do you want to go and find Silverchair through it?" Kal asked
"Shut up Kal" she groaned. Alix and Michelle found some kind of control
panel sitting a few meters out from it, with
numerous awkward looking runes on what looked like buttons.
"Maybe this works it." She said.
"One thing," Melissa asked, "how come this was never here before?"
"Oh, that's easy, this is where the guys normally play cricket, that's why
we never saw it. "Andrew said, scratching where his arse should have been.
Everyone knew that of course people would have noticed this startling hunk
of circular metal before, and they all looked skywards, and then back to the
strange edifice that they were
currently presented with.
Andrew walked over and took a look at the control panel looking thing, and
tentatively touched it.
"Well I'm not dead yet," he said without a smile (a small 'damn!' was heard
in the background), and moved his hand to one of the buttons. He applied as
much
pressure as he could, which of course wasn't all that much, and by that time
others had come closer.
"Here." Said Mat, and he lightly placed his fingertips on a nearby button,
with a rune on it that looked obscenely like
an abstract chicken, and suddenly it a jolting clang sounded and the
chickenly symbol lit up. Then the Stargate began
to groan, and everyone could feel the power in the downball court. Andrew,
recovering from his shock quicker than
anyone else, slammed his fist down on his button as hard as he could and
suddenly that lit up too. Michelle burst
through and shouted.
"What's going on!???" And she stumbled and pressed another 3 symbols.
By now the Stargate had spun its ring around to a point on the main gate
(there were visibly 7 of them) and there was a
sudden movement at the first point, when the same chicken symbol pressed by
Mat passed beneath it. Then it
continued to spin briskly in the other direction and moved Andrew's symbol,
to the second point, and then that was 'locked in'.
"It?s like one of those old Telephones, you know how they dial!" Said
Sibyl in amazement.
"So it is dialing something?" Said Kal.
"What is it dialing?" Said Cara.
Alix counted all the points on the gate. She then randomly pressed another
2 buttons.
Before long a truly fascinating, and freaky thing happened. When the same
symbols that were glowing on the controller
were locked into the rings seven points, a loud roaring sound could be heard
and, beginning at the edges, and
happening very quickly, a blue liquid like light emerged, and filled the
area in the ring. A large protuberance of the
stuff flew out at them, and everyone cowered and put their hands up to their
face, and Andrew wet himself. It quickly
leveled out again, well, leveled out on the horizontal, and all that could
be seen was a rippling wall of the
non-transparent water like substance. At first they all looked at it, not
knowing what to say, then Lisa summed it up,
"Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!"
Cara looked over to Andrew and noticed the wet patch on his pants, at first
she was quite turned off by this, but it soon passed, unfortunately. The
others looked over also, but said nothing, too polite to pay him out. Except
for Kal
"ha ha ha aha haahh hahahahahahah!" Kal started laughing, making his whole
short body rock slightly
"No time for being stupid, we've gotta find out what this thing does."
Andrew
said, back to his self-righteous self. He looked at it, wondering if he
could
somehow relate it to one of his past experiences and go on about it,
consequently pissing everyone else off in a bad way.
"When I lived in Fiji there were these people who had afros and..."He
started.
"I think we should try and touch it or something." Alistair said over
Andrew's annoying drivel. "We need to throw something at it or someone...not
me."
Everyone looked at Andrew.
"Hmm? "He said, not sure why everyone was looking at him.
"Andrew, go in there.? Sibyl said.
"W-why?"
"Because there's wine in there." Mat lied.
"Wine!!!!!!!! yipeeeeeee!!!!!!" Andrew skipped up to the stargate, took a
cautious glance back then, holding his breath, stepped through. Then there
was quiet.
"No!!!!!!!!!!" Cara cried, "He's gone!!!!!!!!!"
"Oh shut up Cara, get over it." Kal said .
"Yes," Continued Mat," there's is no proof he's dead, we didn't hear any
girlish scream, he's probably safe and well."
Everyone looked at the stargate a little longer and wondered what to do
next. What if it turned off and they never saw Andrew again? They didn't
want
THAT kind of criminal record yet. They all stood there, wondering who would
go through.
All the other geeks were very wary now. But Kal thought that this was just
too good an opportunity to
pass up. So he walked over to the gate, and touched the surface with his
fingertips, and then plunged
his arm right in, and then he was quickly sucked through.
Next Cara walked up, quickly followed by Mat, Melissa and Sibyl. They all
stood before the gate, and looking at
each other, held their breath (which of course was not necessary) and
stepped through.
A whoosh noise followed, and all four of them felt as though every molecule
in their bodies has been
separated, and were being sucked through. It was quite an unnerving
experience. Then your whole
consciousness was sucked through on a star scoped roller coaster ride.
Between two bands of energy
they were thrown, and at one time, as it seemed they were gathering even
more
speed, billions of stars
moved and gathered, and then they burst through them.
Eventually, after about 30 seconds, they emerged the other side.
On the ground was Andrew, and Kal was off to the side vomiting. Right at the
end it felt as though all the
intermingled molecules of Sibyl, Cara, Melissa and Mat sorted themselves
into people again, which is actually
what happened. It was all quite nauseating.
Mat thought that they would still be in the downball area, and stepped down
off the pedestal that the
ring was on and stood shocked to see that all that was there was a blank
wall. Actually, he noticed now,
they were in a completely different place.
There was an open door at the front of whatever building they were in. He
walked back around and
said,
"Are we dead?"
Next thing we found was that Alix came rushing through the water looking
stuff and then sat down,
shocked.
"It must be like a portal or something," Mat said. "They have them in
Fantasy books that I have read. I
have gotta get back through and tell the others!" And just as he stepped up
onto the platform and
walked to step through, suddenly the blue stuff dissipated and quickly
disappeared.
He could see the back wall of the room they were in.Ê
"Oh Shit." Said Andrew, who had gotten up, and who had read the same books.
"Maybe if they press the same buttons that we pressed the first time in the
same order, it would dial
again!" Said Kal hopefully.
"Well did any of us remember?" Said Alix." I certainly don't!"
"Oh dear" Said Andrew.
"I think we should go through the door, check this place out a bit. "Cara
said
"but there could be paedophiles, or cannibals, or paedophilic
cannibals! "Andrew shrieked.
"Paedophiles and cannibals and Andrew, oh my!
"Paedophiles and cannibals and Andrew, oh my! "Cara said sang. Andrew
looked at her with hate.
They all just stood there, not quite believing what was going on.
MEANWHILE, AT SCHOOL...
"Where are they? "Michelle asked.
"I don't know, I hope Andrew's okay." Lisa said with a worried look on her
face
The bell went and all the remaining downies went back to class, they didn't
know how they would explain it if the teachers asked where they were.
MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE OTHER WORLD...
"I wonder just where we are?" Kal asked the air.
"I'm scared," Andrew said, "hold me, Kal."
"No!" Kal spat back. He walked over to the door, partly to get away from
Andrew. He peered out.
"Hey, wow, check this out!"
Everybody walked over to the door. Outside there were people who looked
really strange, no one could tell what was wrong with them at first but then
Alix worked it out.
"They have no shoulders!Ó. She was right the people looked...well, they
looked like Andrew without his blazer.
Kal Mat and Sibyl started laughing, Alix Cara and Melissa just stared. The
people looked pretty human, there were men , women, even little shoulder
less
children. They wore robe like clothes that sort of hung off them due to
their lack of shoulders. Everyone walked outside and looked around some
more. They were in some kind of city, but the buildings looked more advanced
than on earth. A group of the people walked up to the downballers.
"Quick, check if they have shoulders or not!" One yelled to the others. They
grabbed at Andrew first and ripped his shirt.
"Oh look what you've done, it will take me just ages to sew that hole up!Ó
He
yelled at the aliens.
"look, he has no shoulders like us!Ó One yelled excitedly.
"I do too have shoulders, they just aren't...defined. And I have a 'great
chest' to make up for it!"
"Shut up Andrew, you could save us if you go along with it!" Kal whispered
loudly. Andrew looked at the rip in his shirt and tried to cover it
up. Because he had no shoulders it kept slipping down though.
"Our saviours!" They all kneeled and started worshiping him.
"hmmmmm, I like this world.Ó Andrew smiled evilly.
One of the aliens looked at the rest of the downies.
"But what is he doing with these people, they look so disgusting with their
huge broad shoulders."
Andrew looked around to the others . For a second he felt an once of
compassion but then he thought, 'nah'.
"oh, those losers, kill them."
The others all gasped in disbelief. How could he be so evil? they took
Andrew
away to a large building and the rest to a prison like area.
"I can't believe he would do this , I really can't" Alix said, sitting in
the
corner of the damp dark cell.
"I can." Cara said. She looked out through the cell and down a corridor.Ó
when
I get out I'm really gonna kill him!Ó she said.
"No you arenÕt.Ó Melissa said, then added, "I wish Daniel was here."
"God Melissa, Silverchair suck, why wont you get that through your thick
skull."
"Shut up, Kal." Everyone said simultaneously.
"I wonder if they're missing us back on Earth. "Cara said.
"How do you know we're not on earth, we could be forward in time or in a
different dimension. "Sibyl said.
"Look out that window. "Cara said. Sibyl climbed up on a bunk bed and stared
though the little grime covered window.
"I don't see anything strange, 'cept the people of course but..."
"No, look UP."
Sibyl looked into the sky. "Whoa, there's two suns!"
"Really, let me see." Said Mat. Everyone took a turn at looking out the
window.
"How can the gravity work though?" Alix asked.
"I don't know, but it must." Cara said.Ó I wonder what Andrew is doing?"
In a large building a little way off the natives were taking in their new
leaders wisdom. He was sitting up on a throne of some description, and
trying
to impress his followers. He took something small and golden out of his
pocket.
"What is that, oh mighty one?"
"Behold, my Dictaphone!"
Everyone gasped in amazement.
"oh most shoulder less, what does it do?"
He pressed a button and held the little tape recorder into the silence. A
muffled 'oh most shoulderless, what does it do' could be heard faintly.
"This is truly a miracle!!!"
He then sped it up and played it again. Some of the people gasped others
fainted.
"Quick, bring out the women!Ó One of the people yelled.
"What women?"
"You areÊa god, so we want your greatness to be bred."
Some good-looking bikini clad women walked out; they were almost normal,
except for having no shoulders. Andrew grinned. He would have preferred men,
but this would still be good.
All the while the others were still cooped up in their cell.
A skinny looking guard, trying to act gruff, ordered them come with him, to
the trial that as apparently adjourning.
They were pushed along, and then, Kal, in one of his most daring moments,
tried to do what they do in Quake and Star wars and, forgetting all reality
as usual attacked the guard with an imaginary light sabre. He screamed: 'I
don't have quad damage, but this will have to do!'
The others just stood there, dopey eyed staring at him, with arms drooping
by their sides, as they watched Kal make whooshing noises in the thin
corridor, in the general direction of the shoulderless creature. It had the
most plain faced of all, and he pulled out a stout ray gun and blasted him.
Kal de-materialized in seconds.
'Sorry', Said the Alien, 'It was just embarrassing me - the way he was
acting, I just had to put him out of his misery'.
Everyone shook their heads and continued.
Meanwhile Andrew was back with the beautiful women, wondering what to
do. They all sat around him, trying unsuccessfully to turn him on.
"Uh, I have something to tell you, "He said, rubbing his palms nervously.
"IÕm, gay."
One of the women looked at him.
"Well, we're all very happy here."
"NO, no you don't understand, I'm a homosexual."
"Ho-mo-sec-tu-al? What does this word mean?"
Andrew gulped.
"Uh, poof? Faggot? Fairy, fudge packer, arse fuckerÉ punse???? c'mon, you
have to
know!!!!"
They all shook their heads. He started screaming and ran from his seated
position through the silken doors. He figured that if homosexuals didnÕt
exist on this world there wouldnÕt be any willing shoulder less men to share
his lovinÕ with. He found himself in the outer room, but it seemed to be set
up like a court, and his ex-friends were on trial.Ê
ÒAnd straight after this trial you will be sent straight to the other side
of the palace to have your shoulders amputated.Ó Said the Judge.
ÊAnd slam went the Judges fist!Ê
After taking quick assessment of the room, he bolted for the door.
Then a great confusion erupted in the court, because the shoulders less
people were all wondering what they had done to displease their latest God.
They all chased after him out the door.Ê
In the confusion the others managed to escape, and ran for the door with the
heaving masses of people that were leaving the room.Ê
When they got outside they could see Andrew some distance ahead racing for
the Stargate.Ê
He started dialling, slamming randomly on the symbols with his fist. By the
time they got to the gate it had opened, and all the people were around it
on their knees praying that he not leave them.
ÊAndrew didnÕt look back and jumped through the wormhole.
ÊThe others followed and Mat was last to go through. He took one last look
back at the ridiculous looking, shoulder less people, the twin suns and the
structures in which the people lived.
ÊHe turned then and stepped through the gateÉ
ÊThere was the nauseating rushing roller coaster ride again, and they
emerged on a galaxy, far far away.
ÊJust as the gate was about to close, another body came crashing though, to
end up sprawled on the pavement. It was Kal. He had been reformed from the
blasterÕs memory just at the last moments of their escape. He said in the
time when he had been de-materialized, he had been living his dreams, which
were bloody and gory video games in bizarre environments. He was quite torn.
ÊThey all expected to find themselves in the safe confines of the downball
court, delivered safe and sound back to earth. But they were wrongÉ
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