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Post by texican on Oct 13, 2019 11:25:53 GMT -6
Why did we take him? His son as a child, had been raped by another man, with the man finally being caught and flown back to town and be tried. The man was waiting for the rapist to appear and even with two policemen escorting the man (in handcuffs), this man had no trouble killing him with the pistol he had brought with him inside the airport. He was given twenty years to life. Frankly, we were sick and tired of the wicked and evil doing horrendous crimes and living for DECADES afterwards and more than once, dying of health problem or old age.
WillC,
This actually happened in Louisiana.... The rapist guy was a martial arts instructor and when he was captured and was being brought thru the airport, the dad was standing at a set of pay phones and stepped out and put a fatal round thru the POS's skull.... If I remember correctly, the dad was not found guilty of anything....
We also pretty much quit eating and started losing weight. Sitting on our couch, told Aaron that I couldn't stand it any longer. Let's just get this over and done with. He looked at me in shock and sadly said okay, unhappy with the thought it was time for us to break up with the girls. Everything had been going great for us, but now?
The boys are wussies with powers, but no maturity.... The boys need to grow up for life is not fair at times and sometimes not fair at all....
Texican....
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Post by papaof2 on Oct 13, 2019 12:44:18 GMT -6
The boys need to grow up for life is not fair at times and sometimes not fair at all....
Something you need to teach your kids early. Those "Every kid gets a trophy" sports teams are useful for that.
Typical conversation: "I made 21 goals this year but Aaron didn't make any and we got the same dinky little trophy!" "Some adults have this weird idea that every kid should be rewarded whether they work at the game or not. Aaron's Dad and I work at the same company. We were hired on the same day and started work in the same office. Do we live differently than they do?" "They live in that dumpy mobile home park and Aaron always wants to spend time here 'cause we got a theater in the basement and a pool." "Do adults get rewarded for just showing up?" "You make all the goals and Aaron's Dad just shows up?" "Correct. The real world rewards you for the work you do, not just for showing up."
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Post by willc453 on Oct 13, 2019 18:17:22 GMT -6
As far as the dad killing his sons molester, yeah, I remember watching it happen on the news many years ago. That's why I wrote it up. Since you commented on it, went looking for and found an article about it and the father who died in 1984. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_84864633-78a8-5c45-8b05-466f7d3fbe18.htmlIt's one of the reasons the boys have been helping those they call The Gang of Eight based in part on someone I know. Sometimes we make poor choices as in "here, hold my beer while I" kind of thing. And don't know how many times once someone's in prison, they end up spending more and more time in it even after getting out. My friend, who is like a nephew to me, did 12 out of a 20 year stretch. It took him a year to find a job because of this. During that time, he lived in my 2nd bedroom and I'd give him money from time to time for bus fare, otherwise he'd walk to some place to apply for a job 5+ miles away. He got food stamps with both of us eating that food. He's been out for about 12(+?) years now and has been working on buying/paying off his own place. This started about a year after he moved in with me. It's a modular, double wide place and believe me, it was TOTALLY trashed as in broken windows, holes punched in walls, etc. All this stuff he had to fix/replace out of his own pocket while also making a monthly payment to the sheriff's dept. and making payments on the house and land. He'd hit the library to borrow their how to books. Only thing he won't mess with is electrical. He got married about 5(?) years ago and they have a boy from his wife's previous marriage. His first job was at a local casino/restaurant prepping food, then becoming a cook and then all but being officially in charge of his shift. Along with this, he got some sort of certification by the state which his job paid for. This class (I think) cost around $500? More than once he caught mistakes being done when it came to food prep and storage. About 3 months ago, his boss and owner wanted him to sign a blank piece of paper for things they said he'd done on the job. No way that was going down, so he was fired. Took him a month to find another job at another casino/restaurant as a cook and maybe 2 weeks ago, tells me he's being made supervisor on one of the graveyard shifts. It's some time in November that he'll no longer have to report to the sheriff's dept. and that means no more monthly payments. As to his place, more than once I've taken him to Home Depot to get stuff for his place as I have a pickup truck. Believe me, 100 of those BIG patio blocks weigh a lot! As to the boys knowing life isn't fair, they know this. Remember, they had to deal with JT and his gang in school, then again, in college? And at the time, all they could do was suck it up even though they knew JT and his gang had totaled The Wolfmobile. And in their own way, they've seen the elephant. Remember those times The Shadow has talked about making human jerky? Or what they did to those that were going to rape that woman in Germany? Unlike Ben, they talk things over before deciding to do something so drastic. A lot easier to put people in some country far, far away. Ben, on the other hand, he flat out doesn't give a sh*t. Though he seems to be mellowing in his "old" age as he hasn't mentioned killing anyone during his time in Colorado. As to every child is special and deserves a trophy, they weren't raised that way. Remember, their passion has always been D&D and to a smaller degree, music. So they were never interested in team sports like baseball, etc. and because of their interests, they never had girlfriends until they went to college and everyone should remember how those first two turned out. Then comes along Kathleen and Tammy. Once bitten, twice shy. Anyway, will post the next chapter some time next week.
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Post by 9idrr on Oct 13, 2019 20:45:27 GMT -6
Congratulations to your friend for turnin' chicken shit into chicken salad (reference to cookin' profession, get it...yuck...yuck) and good on ya for helpin' him through that hard time.
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Post by willc453 on Oct 13, 2019 22:25:24 GMT -6
First met him when my nephews brought him over to play D&D and that's going back around 30 years ago? They were in their 1st or 2nd year of junior high school. Had 10 kids around my kitchen table ready to play ALL the time. First they'd be over Saturday around 09:00, with their folks picking them up around 17:00. Then it was okay for them to do sleepovers. Then when summer came, it started Friday afternoon just after I got off work, with the kids being picked up Sunday afternoon. No doubt there were a lot of happy parents with this arrangement as the kids knew each other and their folks knew my sister. HOWEVER, some moms apparently didn't get the memo and would have their kids bring a sack lunch. Problem was, I'd be hungry after getting off work and after playing for about an hour, it was time for me to make supper....and I wasn't eating no damn bologna & cheese sandwiches either! Kids did NOT like this at all. So I told them to each get 6 bucks from their folks and I'd go to Little Caesars for pizza and I kicked in for the liters of sodas for them to guzzle for the next few days. If wondering, I drank and still drink canned Dr. Pepper. Good luck in trying to find a babysitter willing to watch your kid for basically 3 days for $6. Somewhere in my many stashes, I used to type up everyone's adventures and frankly, what these kids did/went thru was a lot better than some of the books I've read. The nephews stepfather was a firefighter and they played a ranger (outdoorsman/hunter), the other, a expert treasure hunter. My friend played a fighter. They went hunting for game because I had kept track of what they had consumed while on their expedition. They forgot to bank their fire and yes, had set the forest on fire, with them fleeing for their lives with flames close behind them.
And he's a damn fine cook, with him having barbeques at least once a year at his place. Of course, I'm NOT about to tell him this. Instead, keep reminding him there's lots of job openings at McDonalds, etc. for someone of his cooking abilities. When I moved to Florida, gave him ALL of my D&D stuff, something I figure was worth $5,000. Yeah, I had that much stuff, with the majority of figures made of lead and no longer available as they're now made of plastic.
As for my friend, he & his stepdad butted heads more than once, including getting physical with each other. Came home one day and there he is, waiting for me on my porch. He'd run away a couple of days ago and none of his friends parents would take him in so he'd been sleeping in ditches. I said I don't have much, but can give you a pillow, a sleeping bag and the 2nd bedroom. He stayed with me for a week and still went to school. At the end of a week, his Mom showed up, telling him he had a choice: either return home with her or go to juvey hall. He went home with her. Thing is, his mom never gave me any hassle about helping him as in calling the cops on me. Once she knew where he was, she knew he was safe.
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Post by texican on Oct 14, 2019 20:16:33 GMT -6
WillC, You are one of the good guy.... It shows in your writings... Now, Anyway, will post the next chapter some time next week.
Since you posted this on Sunday does that mean some time this week?.?.?.?
or....
Will it be next week, like the week after next Sunday?.?.?.? Just wondering....
Never hurts to ask for clarification for if you do not ask you can not be rewarded....
Texican....
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Post by willc453 on Oct 15, 2019 7:45:00 GMT -6
The Affected: The Shadow Chapter 46 He didn't expect us to be in Thailand to begin with. Three days later, our business was done there and we headed for a place outside of the girls apartment where we sat for about five hours waiting for them to come home. They were NOT happy seeing us and went to walk right by us without saying a word. Like I said, they were MAD. That is until we got in front of them and went to open our little boxes. Then they got REALLY mad, saying did they expect us to buy them off with some little piece of jewelry and went to go by us again. Until Aaron showed his box right under Tammy's nose. At which point she saw what he was showing her and oh my God, is that...... Well, that stopped Kathleen dead in her tracks. We both told them that we knew they loved us, but it wasn't till we weren't together like we had been, that we knew we had to tell you that we love you too. We're sorry to have taken so long, but considering how things ended with our first girlfriends..... Girls did a lot of happy crying and of course, we put the engagement rings we'd bought in Thailand on their fingers. As to our rings, they were a little different from the norm. Aaron and I had identical rings made with one exception. Four small diamonds representing the four of us and surrounding them were two swans on Aarons ring and on mine, two dolphins. We told the girls that these animals mated for life which is why we had them made like this. And inside the rings was our name and our girls name. Well, the girls were all for calling their folks right then and there till we told them we'd (meaning Aaron and I) have to talk with them first because they knew nothing about our abilities, other than us being expert bounty hunters from New York City and guys not far from graduating from college. We suggested they call their folks, saying we wanted to talk with them about something important and we'd be out the next day, though we weren't sure when. As to our rings, remember, we'd bought them some things for Christmas and their birthdays, so we knew their finger sizes. As expert DM's we tend to remember little details like that and they didn't mind going to Scoopers to celebrate. They were unhappy that we'd lost weight and made sure we got plenty to eat, though we hadn't been hit with The Hunger. Well, we had, but it was a different kind of hunger if you know what I mean. The girls called their folks and only said we (Aaron and I) had something important to talk about and would the four of them meet us inside Tammy's barn at a certain time? Of course, their folks wanted to know why the barn, but the girls wouldn't say. Next day we're there via the nothingness about five minutes before their folks arrived. Thing is, the girls didn't expect to be left in the nothingness once we were inside the barn. They could see and hear everything, but that was it. When their parents arrived, they asked what was going on and where were the girls, with me saying they'd be here shortly. Said we'd like the girls to marry us and of course, they were REALLY happy hearing this news, especially their Moms. But then Aaron said, you know, considering our age differences, we wondered what kind of dowry the girls were bringing to the marriage. I said, yeah, they are kind of old and women their age don't find men like us every day you understand. Boy, talk about shocked faces. Aaron said, as you realize, we're just a few years out of college and still struggling to find our way in the world financially. Their Dads snorted at this one, considering how much money we'd been passing to them for the different things we'd been doing the past few years. Then of course, they started telling us how poor they were compared to us! Well, we got to haggling with Aaron and I getting twenty acres, four milk cows, two dozen chickens, a rooster, four sows and a male pig. We were on our own as far as building our future homes and anything else we'd need on our future property. When we shook hands with their Dads, they told us we should of bargained harder as they'd of quadrupled everything as they just wanted their girls hitched and be made honest women! Then of course, their Dads said they under-stood why we wanted to talk with them alone about this matter, while their wives just shook their heads at all of this. At which point I said they're here and opened the nothingness so the girls could talk, but still left in the nothingness. Man, they were REALLY mad now and let us know it. Now their parents are looking around, looking for them, but not seeing them until I opened the nothingness so they could leave. WOW, talk about the fury in their eyes! Telling us they were NOT amused and certainly NOT going to be bartered away for a few cows, etc. and the marriage was off. That's when their Dads said a deal's been made and sealed with handshakes. The girls went storming off to leave the barn. Not that they got that far because when they crossed a shadow, they found themselves back in the nothingness! That's when Aaron told them they WOULD behave themselves or else....and of course, the girls had to ask or else what? God, they were like first level D&D players falling into our simplest trap. I said we can leave you there just like we did on Christmas when we were here that first time, remember that? Them: total silence. Then it was me saying Kathleen, have you surely forgotten the last time we were in a barn together? Looked in the nothingness and found our two wide belts which I dropped from the ceiling to lay before our feet. Their folks jumped back a bit when that happened. I said, there's two ways this can go down....the easy or hard way. The easy way is just keeping you there until the wedding plans are all arranged, with your Moms picking out your wedding gowns and all the other wedding arrangements needing to be done. Boy, REALLY loud screeching from them about NOT being involved in planning their own weddings. Or there's this, with us picking up the belts. They said okay and Aaron said okay what? They said okay, we'll marry you so I brought them out of the nothingness. Now their folks were standing with their jaws a bit open because one moment the girls were there walking away, the next gone. But they could hear them, then see them when they came out of the nothingness that second time. I said now that we got that minor matter settled, you need to know the truth about us and why we don't want any publicity in us getting married. Also, we'd liked it to be just immediate family and of course, the ranch hands. Tammy started to ask why not, when Aaron said honey, think it over. You know, with us changed people being considered mutant terrorists by many governments and the media just because of a few bad apples....they understood. Their folks jaws dropped again, asking if we were mutants and we replied yes, but maybe not the way the government and the media show us to be. Looked around and saw some tarps hanging over some stall boards, so the four of us grabbed a couple of them and layed them out on the barn floor. Their folks actually jumped back a few feet when they saw the tarps rising up from the ground. I said, remember that airplane ride we had with you? Bill and Ted nodded, at which point I said pull the tarps back and when they did, they stood in shock at the cockpit I had taken when I took them out of the plane. Well, their wives also stood there in shock and they said it wasn't an act of God then, was it? I said no, but we were in a kind of hurry at the time and kind of over did it in getting us out of there. We covered up the cockpit and I put it back into the nothingness, leaving the tarps laying on the now bare barn ground once the tarps were removed and put away. This was when I said Aaron and I have a tale to tell....and by the way, any of you hungry because we are. That's when the girls started talking about where to go, with us deciding on Germany...and their parents just staring us. I said we'd like you to come with us so you can understand what we can do. Well, Bill and Ted held their wives hands, with the girls at each end and with us hold theirs, the girls explained what they could expect. They got the full nothingness, then sound, then being able to see and talk with us. Then I had us in a part of the nothingness so they were actually looking down from the inside of the ceiling part of the barn. They thought at first they were actually going to fall from there and onto the barns floor. From there, it was to Germany and our favorite sausage place with LOTS of beer being drunk by their dads as they (and their wives) were trying to comprehend what we were showing them and had done. The girls wanted to talk about us, but we said no, wait till we get back home, okay. They agreed. With their Dads liking that German beer, we each (including their Moms) brought back two twelve packs. Once back in the barn, Aaron and I started explaining what had happened to us. This was a story the girls hadn't heard before. Now we hadn't told them about Aarons ability simply because we wanted his as our ace in the hole. Considering the number of changed people we'd helped because of our and other governments, this was something we still didn't want to chance anyone finding out about. Once we got that part out of the way, the girls told their folks how they first met us at Hooters and how it was going to be robbed until we intervened. Their folks were NOT happy about this... I mean, the girls had never told them what happened that night other than that was when we first met. They asked their folks if they'd of believed them if they had told them? Then it was how they figured they'd never see us again, but then met us while they had come out to see Carol. Then what they'd seen us what we'd done earlier at that same sausage place in Germany. That's when Aaron asked me you know what? And when I replied what, he said I think it was at that time at Hooters that the girls decided not only were we good husband material, we were going to be theirs. We looked at the girls about this and they just gave us those sabre tooth lady tiger smiles. This was when Ted said, you're right...I remember now how a certain young lady gave me such a look and being young and ignorant, no idea what was planned for me.....not that I'm complaining you understand. His wife said good recovery dear. That's when we explained why we told everyone we were expert bounty hunters and where all the money came from. Then Aaron said, that's not all. Remember those black SUV's that were here a few years ago? They did, with us explaining about the little girls and her folks that was in one of the SUV's and why we'd been buying so many houses and apartment complex's. They were mad about what could of happened to that family if we hadn't stopped the government from doing what it wanted to do with them. Followed by how we had helped others at Base Zeta and how we REALLY started coming into so much money. They were now beginning to under-stand the need for secrecy, but also what they thought was our ability. One thing led to another, with the girls then telling their folks we were the Metronomes, being busy for awhile dealing with North Korea. That one shocked them once again. By this time, the girls were over being mad at us, you know, for having their folks “bartering” them away when it came to their “dowries” and were standing next to us, with their arm around us. But the girls weren't thru, telling us to tell their folks the rest....you know, where those veggies REALLY came from. So we did and I had to explain our ability once again, but also the drawback we faced when we over did it which explained why we ate so much at times. And that Aaron explained, was why we needed to keep our weddings as low key as possible, because if our government or ANY other countries government EVER found out about us might try to capture us by harming any of you..... Thing is, they saw our faces when we thought of our girls or all our families getting in harms way....well, it must of shown on our faces because their folks stepped back a bit. They wanted to know was this how we could play music so well and we explained that seemed to be a natural talent we've had from birth. Then it was how Aaron and became brothers. Their Dad's wanted to know more about how we did what we did on Mars and were still slowly realizing our capability. So more explanations with the girls getting upset with us about doing that without telling them. But their Moms said these MEN are going to do what ever THEY think is best and so far, they've done an excellent job of it. Let it lay because they all approved what we had been doing to the politicians and getting rid of the gangbangers, many of them permanently. They and their husbands had wondered who the Metronomes were since we had started it. And if you're wondering, there was NO WAY we were telling about what we'd done at the sororities, JT and the others while we were in college. Now the girls started talking about us getting married in three months as they had to plan their weddings and we said no. We just want something small and instead of three months, everything was arranged and we got married three weeks later. Our folks, along with our brothers and sisters came out, then there was their immediate families and of course, the ranch hands. Our “small” wedding? Try somewhere around three hundred people! We didn't want a lot of advertising about us getting married, but the girls and Moms overruled us on that one to a degree. A small article about it was published in the local newspaper and that was it. Funny thing about our weddings which were done together, was Aaron and I both about passed out from fear! But all four Dads were there behind us, telling us it gets better after you say I do. And it did. With so many ranch hands and their families there, there was A LOT of food to be cooked and eaten. And instead of hiring a band, we'd planned on playing music with the ranch hands, along with playing a bunch of cd's. But how about not only Hector and his band showing up, but his family, Hacker, Carol, her husband and Mrs. Hernandez too?! The girls just looked at us when they showed up. Ted and Bill insisted on footing the airline bills on our family and friends. Being Texans, everyone flew first class of course. And boy, were both ranches stuffed with families. The girls wanted us to go to a couple of wedding rehearsals, but their dads saw our faces (REALLY glum) and told them no. That we'd be there an hour before the wedding, right boys? Oh yeah! All four of our dads got together to talk about different things, while our moms did the same with each other. The girls dads and moms knew we hadn't told our folks and why. Well, went to South Korea to get measured and later, fitted for our monkey suits as we called them. And we got to Tammy's ranch TWO hours before the wedding was to start. If wondering why her place, Kathleen lost the paper, scissors, rock contest with Tammy. Frankly we were anxious to get the wedding over. You see, it had been almost TWO MONTHS since we'd been with the girls, if you know what I mean. And when we asked, they BOTH told us NO huggie, no kissiee and keep our hands to ourselves until they got their wedding rings?! We took it out on some bad people. As to our wedding night, we ended up having Reggie (the ranch hand) take us to the airport in one of the ranches SUV's, with everyone being told we were going to catch a feeder flight. The reason we did this was because we didn't want anyone wondering why we'd stay at the ranches on our wedding night, but their folks knew why. Our first night was in Paris and I found out later from Aaron that I wasn't the only one to be laughed at by our new brides that night. So there I am, waiting for Kathleen to come out of the bathroom and I know it sounds crazy, but seeing her coming out of there was ENTIRELY DIFFERENT. I mean, we'd been together many times before this, but.... So there I am all ready to snort and paw at the ground, but when she sees me, she starts laughing?! Boy, talk about a killing downer. She tells me that not only does she expect us to have a lot of kids but by God, their mothers expect a lot of grandkids. I said, oh yes, I agree with you ONE HUNDRED PERCENT...so why don't you mosey over here and.... Well, she did and after grabbing me “down there” and shaking it, says we're not going to have ANY children if you wear that thing, meaning the condom I had on! Yeah, so used to putting one on while being with her after all these years and it felt strange going in all natural if you will. As for the girls dowries, we got one hundred acres each and of course, next to each other. Plus their folks doubled the animals we asked for as their dads wanted to make sure we were satisfied with their dowries. We had our ideas on what we wanted for our homes, which were a little different than the norm. While tornadoes were always in the back of our minds, it was the government who was always first in our thoughts. Our places were maybe fifty feet away from each other,each having had four bedrooms, plus a master bedroom. While we installed a basement under each, we had another room next to it also built, but a hidden steel door between these two rooms. As to the second room, there was a tunnel which connected the two hidden rooms, along with another tunnel which lead to our barns just in case. The basements and other rooms were a combination of cinder block, with rebar and cement poured into the cinder blocks. The roofs were also concrete. Thing is, by now their dads KNEW why we wanted what we wanted. While the girls were kept busy working our businesses, we did what we could figure and modules wise. Both of us figured the girls got pregnant the first week of our marriages and believe me, they kept us busy later on when they had those weird food cravings during their pregnancies. This was something none of the dads ever warned us about, but it helped that the girls Moms were at our places on a regular basis, as in several times a week once the girls started showing if you know what I mean. Well, their Dads knew better to say anything about their breakfasts, etc. not being ready to be eaten like before. Now considering the amount of food that needed to be cooked for so many, their wives had someone helping them. But it wasn't the same with their wives gone, so we'd take them out to different countries for that once we heard about this. When their wives would be at our places,we'd call Ted and Bob and more than once, they'd call us. As to our kids, we don't know for sure, but have our suspicions it was related to us being changed. Kathleen gave birth to two boys, while Tammy gave birth to two girls. The following year, things got reversed with Tammy having two boys, Kathleen having two girls. The year after that, she had another boy while Tammy had a girl. Thing is, because of the girls age, they were told by our doctor their health could be in jeopardy as in having a miscarriage. Worse yet, there was the chance, though small, they could die while giving birth again?! We talked with all of our Dads about this, with Bill and Ted finding us a doctor who would snip us. You know what I mean by getting snipped? Now it was reversible and it wasn't that bad that is, the operation, and frankly, we weren't up to snuff for a few days which is why we told the girls we had business to take care of. Ever have weeds growing in grass lawn or your garden? It's the same way with evil and wicked people. No matter how hard you try, they keep popping up. So we put most of them that were on the FBI's and Interpol's most wanted list in jail, along with their drugs. Besides, as husbands and future fathers, we could always use the extra money. As far as the child porn rings, they were “warmly” greeted by Gangs of Eight. Yeah, we now were working with “our” convicts in nine different prisons here in the U.S. Thru the years, we've helped a little over three hundred men and NONE have ever gone back to crime. They realized they now had too much to lose. As for those with gang tattoo's, we paid to have them removed by laser. As to those who had kids and the mothers who wouldn't give them visitation rights, we hired lawyers which took care of that. When we got back taking care of those on the FBI and Interpol's lists, we told the girls what we had done....and were surprised and happy that we had done such a thing. A couple of days later, we got this cake for Aaron and I to eat. As to when the girls gave birth to the first of our kids, we were there...for about 20 seconds. When I saw the first of our sons coming out of the chute so to speak, I passed out, hitting my head on an instrument tray. Aaron lasted maybe 30 seconds, but he got caught by a nurse before hitting the ground. Thing is, we simply didn't know what to expect other than babies came out from “down there”. Our cigars came from Cuba with both of us finding out rather quickly we were NOT smokers. We ended up moving our module and figure businesses set up to Amarillo to make it easier on the girls and us. Then Carol and her family moved there, with their business next to ours which made things a lot easier for all of us. It took about six months for our places to be built, with the girls dads construction company doing this. And running a “ranch” is a lot harder than we ever thought. We had barns made for our cows and yes, we ended up with horses for the girls and eventually us and the kids, to ride. We set up a shooting range, which we rarely used, though the girls and eventually the kids did too. Remember, guns were never our thing. Ever build a chicken coop for chickens or a shed to hold your hogs? Well we hadn't, so went looking how to do this via Youtube. The first strong wind we had, both fell down! Ever try to catch chickens and hogs that have a few acres to run around in? It's NOT easy. The girls laughed at us while we were trying to catch or at least herd them back towards our places and video taping everything to boot! They call it the Great Chicken and Hog Roundup...New York City Style. Their dads were out the next day with some ranch hands and lumber. They knew better than to build these things for us, but showed us how it was suppose to be done the FIRST TIME. As for Ben, first time we saw him was at guess where? Yes, it was at Hooters where the girls were working that night, with us showing up for its all you can eat wing night. Frankly, we thought he was some REALLY old, fat geezer...I mean, he was older than our dads! Heck, he could have possibly passed for our grandfathers age. Funny thing about it was, it was like he was holding court, with SIX of the Hooter girls standing before him and talking to him. No idea what he said, but we sure wanted to know. Why? Because all six were quite happy when they walked away from him. We asked the girls who that old man was and they kind of got on us about it, saying appearances are deceiving and we should remember that. Ever hear of Toys For Tots? We hadn't and it's a toy drive put on by the Marine Corps every Christmas. I mean, we didn't have that going on in our town and we simply didn't remember anything about it while in college. People buy new toys and put them in a barrel provided by the Marine Corps. Hearing this made us feel bad inside. I mean, think about it, your family's not well off and if you're lucky, you MIGHT get some NEW clothes and not something bought from the Salvation Army thrift shop. And let's not forget about no toys. Not that there's anything wrong with used clothes, but no toys for Christmas? That got us to thinking about food banks, something we had a small one in our town. Aaron and I didn't have to say anything to each other, so the next day we rented two of the largest U-Haul trucks they had, then went to Smith's, a supermarket chain. There, we each bought ten thousand dollars of canned food and meat, specifically, turkeys and hams. Also got the veggies to make stuffing for the turkeys. And it wasn't just regular food, but stuff like canned peaches, fruit cocktail, etc. Kids can't live on “healthy” food alone. Thing is, the manager of the store thought we were up to no good. No, not stealing, but taking stuff with no intention of paying for it, then leaving it to the employees to put everything back. They backed off when we showed them our cash and actually had an employee help each of us get what we thought everyone would want. But they also made suggestions which we took and afterwards, they and two more employees helped us load the rental trucks. Suggestions from them like bread for sandwiches, along with cheese, lettuce and mayonnaise as no doubt there'd be leftovers which could be used for school lunches. We went to four different food banks, with each getting the same amount of food no matter how big or small they were. This way we didn't play favorites. Then we thought of the food bank in our town, so we left a total of five thousand dollars in an envelope which we left on a desk inside the building that night. Our local paper had an article about the “mysterious benefactor” and it did report the food bank did get five thousand dollars. As for us, money wise, it was a drop in the bucket when went looking for and finding those wanted on the FBI's and Interpol's most wanted lists. We never told the girls about us doing this on our own and of course we ended up going with them buying toys for kids in town the following years during its Toys for Tots program. Remember how I mentioned earlier we bought JT's dads place? We got it pretty cheap, with his family never to return to our town which made us not only happy, but his family had to pay for getting rid of the cow poo and removing their former house. Their insurance company called it an act of God, so they had to pay for all of this. With our brothers and sisters getting older, they wanted to move out to places of their own. Guess where they moved to? With Ted and Bills construction company, they built two bedroom homes for each of them on the property. Our brothers and sisters lived in them while they went to the local community college or found a job in town. Some wanted to go to a bigger, more well known college. By an amazing “coincidence”, they got full grants to our alma matter, along with joining the sororities there. Well, I gotta go as Kathleen's called me twice, saying supper's ready. You do NOT want her calling you about something a third time, believe me. Attachments:
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Post by willc453 on Oct 15, 2019 8:00:49 GMT -6
If you go to Kaijafon's Chatter and under her stories, you'll read where the feds and some of the super hero's did a raid on her place looking for drugs and any other kind of illegal activity. This was when she THOUGHT The Shadow was working with/for the govt. and had put her in the nothingness. Not so. That character I'm going to call The Imitator, but no idea when I'll get going on that one. Have The Imitator with the ability to imitate/tap the ability of those affected, though don't know if it'll be permanent or a temp thing. And again, no idea when another The Shadow chapter will be posted. Looking at Ben looking for The Shadow once he heard what happened to Dancing Wind and there's still Mother on the moon investigating the disturbance when the boys left all those planes and atom bomb tipped rockets there. And thinking of having The Imitator being a woman.
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Post by texican on Oct 15, 2019 11:46:26 GMT -6
Thanks WillC for the chapter....
Texican....
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Post by willc453 on Dec 16, 2019 22:40:00 GMT -6
WAS working on another Shadow chapter, but got going on another chapter with Ben and another 2nd American Revolution story, this one taking place in Chicago. The other Revolution story is coming along, just have to think of the ramifications of what 3 girls do while in the Army and in Afghanistan. And will post another Dwayne chapter some time this week.
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Post by texican on Dec 17, 2019 0:01:57 GMT -6
WAS working on another Shadow chapter, but got going on another chapter with Ben and another 2nd American Revolution story, this one taking place in Chicago. The other Revolution story is coming along, just have to think of the ramifications of what 3 girls do while in the Army and in Afghanistan. And will post another Dwayne chapter some time this week. Good to hear from you willc.... A new story to share and another Dwayne chapter also.... Texican....
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Post by 9idrr on Dec 17, 2019 22:05:31 GMT -6
I guess you know, sir, that we're always happy to see more of any of the stories.
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Post by texican on Dec 26, 2019 23:00:04 GMT -6
Hey willc, Isn't it time for another chapter on the boys? Please.... Texican....
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Post by willc453 on Dec 27, 2019 13:48:08 GMT -6
Got one going, but haven't touched it in quite awhile because I've been working on Dwayne's story which is now on page 10. As it is, Dancing Wind is NOT going to be happy with what he says about her and her husband, Coyote along with taking more swipes at Ben. How about I go thru the latest Dwayne chapter within a few days, then post it with 9 coming down the road later? Then get back to the boys, but it may take a week or so before it gets posted as I only have a couple of pages on it done.
Which is also why I haven't been working on 2 of the 2nd American Revolution stories, The Hoarders and one about 3 retired actors. And remember the kid who became a journalist and moved to Chicago to work at some newspaper? Mulling that one over as MAYBE adding another chapter or two...just depends on what I come up with. Or maybe another story, but the character will leave a black knight (rook) chess pieces as his or her calling card. Also in the back of my mind is one I'll might call The Big One...when California actually gets hit with the big one (earthquake) as in 11 (maybe more) on the Richter scale. Since I spent a lot of time driving thru there is years ago, bye bye Frisco and Oakland. Having been to the Frisco VA, may have the story start there ala The Layover or in Hayward.
Youngest brother submitted W-2 paperwork on Dads AF retirement check back in November so Dads estate can finally be closed. Brother retired last week and with one thing or another, he forgot to call the IRS in Utah to find out what was the cause of the delay. Which is why I haven't gotten my class A motorhome, though I'm still looking via Craigslist and Facebooks Marketplace for Reno and Ocala, Florida.
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Post by kaijafon on Dec 27, 2019 14:03:19 GMT -6
Dancing Wind is curious as to her part.... but he needs to remember she can zap people now. Just sayin'
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Post by willc453 on Jun 29, 2020 13:33:11 GMT -6
The Affected: The Shadow Chapter 47
Remember how we won both prizes at the county fair for two years straight? When we did it the third and fourth year, would you believe it.....the judges asked us to give others a chance of winning?! I looked at Aaron and he simply nodded, with us saying not a problem. The girls weren't happy when they found out about this, saying it wasn't fair, but we told them in a way, we understood the judges request considering what we can do music wise without thinking. They still didn't like it, but then they caught the look between Aaron and I, then saying we had some sneaky boy thing in mind, didn't we? We TRIED to look as innocent as possible, but with us having been together for awhile...... Remember, the judges asked US not to play contest wise any more, but nothing was said about us getting with the ranch hands from both ranches and teaching them how to play better. And the ranches took turns in who played what. That is either solo or a duet like Aaron and I had been doing or as a regular band. So one year, Kathleen's ranch hands would do a solo or duet, while Tammy's did the band thing. Following year, they'd switch. Both sets got won five out of the next seven years of playing. Some of the hands complained they were just as good, if not better than those who had won and we set them straight on that. Said they were really good, but playing about eighty percent of their ability and even if we taught them even more, they wouldn't get much better. While those that won, were playing close to or over ninety percent. After the music contests were over, everyone would get together and do some jamming, with us offering advice on how to do it better. With our music reputation, it was always accepted. Thing is, when we found some people that were THAT GOOD, we got their names and addresses, sending this information to the three music schools who of course, sent out scouts. More than one ranch hand ended up going to one of these schools, with us and the girls folks setting up anonymous scholarships for them at the schools so they'd have some spending money while studying.
Thing is, it was right after the fourth year of us (meaning the ranch hands) winning at the country fair, Kathleen and Tammy said there was NOTHING said about us NOT playing at the STATE fair in Austin?! Not only that, there was a five hundred dollar first prize for best band, two hundred and fifty dollar prize for best duo and one hundred twenty five dollar prize for best solo. Then they give us THAT look. We said we'd think about it. That is until some of the ranch hands heard about this and they agreed with the girls because no one from our county had even come close to winning, though some of the hands had tried. Well, we were pretty busy between dealing with pregnant wives and their weird as heck food cravings, working on our place like having our own garden, then teaching the hands to be better musicians, dealing with evil doers to face justice, “our” cons and ex-cons.....well, you get the idea. We won both categories, which got Aaron and I to thinking. It'd be kind of neat and unique to win ribbons for best solo and duet from EACH state. And since each state celebrates its statehood on different dates, we had plenty of time figuring out what we'd need to play in each state, because the taste in music is different in different states. We'd practice and play in our basements. As to us leaving for the contests, we simply told the girls we were going to work. Which was the truth as we were working to win those first prizes. With everything else we were doing, we started losing weight, with the girls getting on us. But we got 'er done as that guy would say. Now Aaron and I ended up having our own, separate rooms added to our place via the basement which not only included walls, but a door. Now we did HAVE a spare room in our place, but we were kind of slow in getting our stuff moved into it. At which time, we found the girls had already claimed it for THEIR stuff. As you might of figured, there was no discussion about if WE would of liked to have used it, OR possibly even sharing it with them. Aaron and I take turns displaying our state ribbons on the walls of our rooms. Girls never caught on about what we'd done as neither of us mentioned anything about what we'd done. One thing we had learned was NOT to offer unasked information to the girls about what we were doing or where we were going.
Now we didn't go in the girls rooms unless they said we could because after all, this was THEIR room. And if wondering, more than once they'd go to it when they got tired of the kids so then it was our turn “to deal with YOUR kids”? Like some how we brought these kids into the world all by ourselves? Now changing poopy diapers was something we yes, HAD TO eventually learn to do as our wives would be busy with something else and of course, this was part of being a father. At least that's what they told us and we believed them until we talked with their and our dads. Like I said before, those girls were sneaky. Thing is, the girls learned to take a quick break as in 15 minutes or less simply because they didn't trust us being alone with the kids for any large amounts of time. Why? The first time they did, they were up in Kathleen's room taking a break, leaving Aaron and I alone. We had LOTS of time on our hands because usually they'd be together for an hour or so, gossiping, drinking coffee and eating some pastries or cookies. And if you're wondering, we were NOT allowed to eat them as they were in a specially marked Tupperware pan. God only knows what would of happened if we had, but we didn't because we saw THE LOOK they both gave us about them. Thing is, I got to looking at them in the Tupperware pan and quickly realized Kathleen had not only stacked them in a certain way, there were crumbs strategically placed so if you took a cookie, not only would it be missing, a crumb or two would fall out of place. And no doubt the girls KNEW how many cookies or pastries they'd made. Made darn sure to call Aaron on that one as he too had been eyeing Tammy's stuff.
So there we were.....the girls upstairs and us with time on our hands. As to our kids, we painted black eyebrows and mustaches on 'em...even the girls, which we added fake beards. The older boys had cowboy outfits with badges and six shooters. As for Aaron and I, we bought some t-rex dinosaur outfits that you could wear. We designed and had built with the help of Carol, 2 “saddles” which we strapped to our backs and helped each other load and strap 2 of the oldest kids in. They then became dinosaur riding Texas Rangers looking for “bad hombres”. The kids about rode us to death with their wanting dinosaur rides. Well, the girls happened to see us running round chasing “bad hombres” and thought it was the cutest thing, even as going as far as getting their video cameras and taping us from Kathleen's room. But when they went outside where we were all playing, it kind of hit the fan when they saw the eyebrows, etc. on the kids. But you know what? They took photos of ALL of us in our costumes, but then saying they'd keep a closer eye on ALL of us when they were getting some rest time. Moms are SO suspicious. Of course, the girls made sure our Moms got a copy of this and other videos. Our Dads and brothers would laugh like crazy in remembering them when we'd come down for visits. But as far as our Moms and sisters? Face palm time and telling us they couldn't believe the things we'd done with looks of disapproval. But they did kind of smile while saying and doing this.
Once again, we had the kids to watch and while we thought of other costumes and things we figured the kids would like, we decided to lay low on that kind of thing.......at least for a little while. However.......nothing was said about box tunnels in the living room. Yeah, we planned this ahead of time because we KNEW eventually the girls would want time for themselves. But this time, their moms would be with them upstairs.......which meant they'd be doing their thing for a MUCH longer time, something we sorely needed considering what we had planned. We'd designed and built our tunnels from different size cardboard boxes and had many of them taped together which were built and stored in the nothingness or the light. Out of sight, out of mind you understand, along with the girls having NO idea how much duct tape we'd bought for our latest endeavor with us getting all we needed from Home Depot via the light or nothingness. As to the cardboard boxes, hello Craigslist listings of different cities. Moved the furniture out of the way in the livingroom which was pretty big because we wanted a lot of elbow room if you will in our place and also, when we had their folks and some ranch hands over for supper, the kitchen simply wasn't big enough. I mean, it was bigger than most kitchens were, but still...... We had different sized boxes, some of which we reinforced with more cardboard so there would be two levels to our “magic castle”, with some of the boxes being child size, which us being “big, bad wolves” couldn't fit in.
Now with all our kids there, we TRIED entertaining them to a degree, but after awhile, we went to a parents old standby: go outside and play. The kids went outside and yes, we did keep an eye on them, but then we looked at each other and said it's time for something new, ESPECIALLY since the girls and their mothers were at Aaron's place where obviously the best thing they could do was call us and NOT literally have a watchful eye on us. Or so we thought. Hello cardboard boxes and duct tape taken from the nothingness and the light and so we proceeded to build our cardboard box tunnels which took us a good 60 minutes. We'd of been done sooner, but we wanted to make sure the kids were not only being watched, but they KNEW their dads were watching them. Then we got our props to complete the scenario. Using the nothingness, it was no problem to leave my place and once we saw the kids peacefully playing, we did our best to howl like wolves. Boy, did their heads suddenly snap up to where we were, but their eyes got REAL big when they saw us with “wolf heads and clawed paws” creeping towards them, with me saying we were going to eat these fat little children. That's when Aaron said we must quickly eat them before their mothers find out the kind of danger they're in and they must NOT reach the magic castle inside that house. Kids took off like a shot, heading for the house, with us howling and growling right behind them. Nothing like hearing your kids squeal in “fear” and “terror”.
Yeah, they were quite shocked to see our cardboard tunnel/castle in the livingroom but without hesitation, they crawled into it where they THOUGHT they'd be safe. Now while we had our “big, bad wolf heads” on, we made sure the eye part was open so we could see. Now some of our tunnels were doubled stacked and nothing like hearing a kids scream when it feels a hairy, clawed paw on its ankle. Followed quickly by the child scurrying down another part of the tunnel. Of course, we added to their excitement/terror by saying this castle was owned by a couple of mean old queens who wouldn't want their subjects eaten by big, bad wolves no matter how fat the children were. We were all having a great time....that is UNTIL Kathleen said WHAT THE H*LL IS GOING ON HERE?! With Tammy saying d*mn straight and we want answers NOW!While they don't curse much (unlike us which don't), they let it rip from time to time. As to our kids....they started spilling their guts?! How they had been chased out in the front yard by a bunch of big, bad wolves who liked eating fat little kids, but they were trying to remain safe in in the old, fat mean queens castle?! Uh oh. Now I got NO idea where they got that old and fat part because neither of us had said ANYTHING like that. Uh oh again. You know BAD things are going to happen when your wives don't say ANY-THING and there's total silence from them. Yeah, me and Aaron found each other REAL quick and we thought of taking off via the nothingness and reappear in my basement and act like we had NO idea what was going on other than we'd assembled the box tunnel/castle for the kids to play with and were coming up to see how things were going with them and it. But I somehow suddenly had the taste of soap in my mouth from when I was a kid and no doubt Aaron was thinking about his Mom and the family name. Yeah, we were scared.....darned if we came out, darned if we stayed, darned if we went to the nothingness to hide. That's when Aaron, then I, found our voices and to be honest, maybe we were shaking a little bit in fear ourselves. But before that happened, Kathleen says OLD? Which was immediately followed by Tammy saying FAT? Those 2 words were said in such a manner that I'm surprised there wasn't ice in our “castle” and frankly, we were VERY happy we were in it, rather than actually facing them at this point.
Then we heard whispering and we later found out it was our mother in laws talking to our girls. So Aaron says, wait a minute....we didn't say ANYTHING about old and fat queens and I said, yeah, what he said. We might be big. bad wolves, but nothing about us being a couple of lying, big, bad wolves. Shot both of us in the foot upon uttering that statement because Kathleen said, so....we two are MEAN queens?! Silence from us as both of us figured if we didn't say anything, it couldn't be used against us. Well, the girls tell the kids to come on out and they'd help them deal with these big, bad wolves as they happened to have some magic wands to deal with this sort of situation?! NO idea what these magic wands were, but it sure as heck did NOT sound good for us. That's when Aaron got uppity AND mouthy, saying we're the biggest, baddest and meanest big, bad wolves in the entire world and lets out a wolfs howl. Now I THOUGHT this was a pretty good rebuttal, but for one thing. I was right behind him more or less and it was at this time he let one REALLY rip. I started gasping and actually used the Lords name in vain. Of course the girls, their moms and the kids not only heard this, but said they smelled it too! Then the girls said we were 2 of the nastiest, foul mouthed big, bad wolves they had EVER come across! And would be dealt with harshly. With all of them at two of the entrances/exits of our “castle”, we each shot out of the other two. Apparently there's some sort of wife rule where if one womans husband is acting up and that mans wife isn't there, it's her moral duty(!?) to keep him in line until the wife returns. In this case, Aaron got whacked by Kathleen using her broom on him and I got whacked by Tammy using another broom. Which was quickly followed by our kids using their “magic wands” which were some thick cardboard tubes that we'd glued colorful flags onto some of the “towers”. Like I said, we'd been working on this thing for awhile and we wanted to do it right. Well, upon being VIGOROUSLY whacked by our wives and then the kids wanting to do the same thing, we did what any normal, decent, big, bad wolf would do. We ran like heck, with Aaron going one way thru the house, while I went the other way. And it didn't seem to bother the kids at all they weren't chasing their dads or with their own mothers. Well, Aaron took off and once out of sight, went thru a mirror and the light, while I hid in a closet and into the nothingness. Then we'd reappear somewhere else in the house and give off a howl, with wives and kids in hot pursuit. Yeah, we got whacked a couple of times and you can imagine the looks on our kids faces when they'd check a closet for example, find it empty, then going to check another part of the house where they heard the wolves howling.....only to see us come out of the closet they'd just checked. We must of done this for a good 30-45 minutes and we were getting tired to tell the truth. So we left our wolf heads and paws in the nothingness and made a quick trip to Mexico where we got the stuff we needed.
We reappeared outside the house and boy, we could hear the kids and our wives looking for us and that's when Aaron said he was pretty sure our wives would be pretty thirsty, along with the kids, so we went to Germany for the beer the girls liked, ice, chips and sodas from a convenience store, then putting everything in one of the coolers we had stored in the barn for our picnic or camping trips. THEN we stood outside our place, calling out to where was everyone. Well, they came out and the kids quickly forgot about us being big, bad wolves when they saw the open cooler full of pop along with the bags of chips, followed quickly by the girls and their Moms being shown the beer by the kids. The kids told us how they had to deal with some big, bad wolves and I said as your fathers, we KNOW how to deal with them, at which time Aaron and I pulled out the sparklers we'd bought in Mexico. Of course, since they were “magical” sparklers, you had to sing magic words to make them work. So all of us walked around the house about 2 times singing the 3 little pigs ditty: who's afraid of the big, bad wolf, big, bad wolf, who's afraid of the big, bad wolf, big, bad wolf, tra la de da until the kids sparklers went out. While their Moms watched the kids, Aaron and I took our castle apart and put everything back into the nothingness while the girls made a bunch of sandwiches for everyone to go along with the pop and chips. As far as the girls went, they knew we hadn't said anything about them being old or fat because we told them we were fierce sabre tooth tigers and they were our fierce sabre tooth ladies. Thing is, their Moms had also been busy....not whacking us with “magic wands” but video taping everything. Yeah, whenever their grandkids were around, out came their camcorders or cameras. The girls Dads laughed their behind off when the saw the videos, but then privately told us they now knew why we were such expert bounty hunters.
One thing about women is they NEVER seem to forget ANYTHING...unless of course, it's something they don't want to remember and then it's a case of they have NO idea what you're talking about. Like the time Kathleen was about seven months pregnant and went to milking one of the cows. She went to sit on the stool when one of the legs collapsed and she fell on her back! She didn't appreciate it that later on when I told her she looked like a turtle on its back, trying to get up. Quickly followed by her being the most beautiful pregnant lady turtle I'd EVER seen. See, I was learning the finer points about being a husband. Then of course, they couldn't do any horse riding when they got so pregnant, so we bought a couple of ATV's, you know, the kind that have a small bed in the back of 'em. Those we used for our gardens and also bought small trailers to pull behind them. Made things a lot easier by keeping the kids in their playpens, picking them/it up and into the trailer. Now their folks were used to regular gardening, but when we saw on Youtube about square foot gardening, that's the way we went. So Aaron and I made a trip to Amarillo to buy everything we needed and of course, the girls were going with us. We used the Suburbans, towing a trailer behind one of them. Yes, we could of gone thru the nothingness, got what we needed on some carts, unloaded everything in our barns via the nothingness, then return the carts. But we (Aaron and I) found out that going from point A to point B via the nothingness wasn't as satisfying as watching the countryside roll by, seeing some hawk or eagle flying overhead, a coyote, some deer, etc. Yeah, we were still city slickers at heart.
Now we were also busy going to those music schools and thing is, the girls had no trouble with us going...especially since they were going too. Not that we minded at all, but more than anything else, they wanted to keep an eye on us as things seemed to sort of, kind of happen when we were left alone for too long. As for babysitters, there were our moms...theirs and ours who were quite happy to do this. We ended up buying two used class A motorhomes (Craigslist again) that needed fixing up. Naturally we had to put some “art work” if you will, on them. Showed us running like crazy in pursuit of the girls and of course, the kids behind and chasing us while calling out momma, momma, daddy, daddy. The kids (with their names under each one) were added one by one. And yes, we upgraded those figures from being babies to till the oldest hit 7 years old, with the new figures being added under the original figures. Some people actually thought we had 20 kids....each! Our family was on my drivers doors, while Aaron's was on our passenger door and vice versa on his motorhome. Yes, more than once when we'd go camping, we'd have some of theirs doing a sleepover in our motorhome and ours in theirs. Even though they'd been playing with each other all day long and we're parked maybe twenty feet away from each other?
Watched a lot of Youtube videos before and during all of this, but when we ran into something we didn't understand, we'd call their dads who either came out or sent a ranch hand who showed us how it was to be done. Basically, they were bigger versions of The Wolfmobile for us, but a lot nicer. Then it was us learning from the girls and the ranch hands how to care for our livestock like milking the cows by hand. With Aaron and I liking cold FRESH milk, a couple of times we had to run to the supermarket, meaning the girls folks for more. And pie....let's not forget there was always a slice or two of pie available.
Of course, the girls would want to go shopping from time to time and let us know when and where we were to take them. It took us a LONG time to figure out that the girls were determined to keep an eye on us unless we told them we had business to take care of. And when we said that, they knew what we were talking about. As to the 4 of us going out together, until the kids got bigger, we left them with their moms and dads who were quite happy to do this. Now we always didn't go the way of the nothingness, but we'd take our motorhomes to Dallas for example. Yeah, it was a few hours of driving for Aaron and I, but remember, we really hadn't seen much of Texas so every trip was a little different for us. We even broke down buying two small cars which we towed behind us. This way the four of us could get around town, saving money we'd spend otherwise on gas. Naturally, the girls knew where to find us. Hooters. Otherwise, we'd hit the few hobby shops in the area for miniatures, along with painting supplies and checking Craigslist for whatever was free or for sale. We ended up buying a two used Suburbans and trailers, though one was enclosed, the other open. Sometimes we'd end up with several trailer loads of stuff with the vehicles and trailers stored in one of the small airport hangers. We'd drive home and later, Aaron and I would bring our latest haul of loot back via the nothingness to be stored in warehouse we had Ted and Bob's construction company build for us. And yes, as always, we paid the regular price for it. Some of the stuff we got or bought, we gave to charity organizations across the U.S., but when we came to BIG mirrors, those we kept though the girls never understood why. As for the other furniture, we used it in the kids rooms when they got bigger, including baby cribs which didn't go over too well with our wives as they knew we had a lot of money, just never how much. Now the girls had gone to their doctor, so we knew what we were going to get which is why we kept the cribs. We got new mattresses for the cribs, refurbished them and then presented them to the girls. They wanted new ones of course, with the four of us having our first argument which really didn't last that long. We told the girls there were two reasons for using these two used cribs instead of buying new ones. First off, we found it strange that their moms had actually kept the two cribs they had grown up in for the first couple of years of their lives. Guess they were thinking LONG term wise as in regards to future grandchildren from the girls. They were plain, ordinary looking wooden cribs until we got done with them. Since we knew what we were getting baby wise, both of their former cribs had the girls names and birth dates craved into the headboard with a cherub on each side of their name. Since we knew we were getting boys and since we played D&D, along with living in Texas now, one of our cribs got cowboys, the other D&D figures, all male of course. Aaron's cribs got cowgirls and D&D figures, all women of course. The girls cribs got an angel on each side of their future names, while the boys got a sheriff looking figure and a paladin figure. Boy, were they and their Moms pleased when they saw the finished projects.
Well, it was at Hooters that we met Ben's “son”. Yeah, this was after he'd been changed a second time and no one knew anything about it at the time. We'd hit the hobby shops, along with Michael's and Hobby Lobby, with us telling the girls where we were going. Naturally, we left our stuff in the nothingness because we worried about someone maybe breaking into our cars. The girls would call and tell us to come to them and they'd join us. No idea why they couldn't just met us there, but women being women.... So the four of us walk into Hooters and hearing some of the people asking Ben's “son” to play something for them. He says the only instrument he has on him is his harmonica and was urged to play something. He says okay, but I gotta do it right and proceeds to take off his shoes and socks?! Then he starts playing and singing an old sailors ditty while also dancing. It took us awhile once we were back home to find it and it was from the EARLY 1800's. Not only that, I couldn't find fault with ANY of his playing the harmonica. Which made us wonder if he'd been born with this ability via Ben being his father. You know, maybe they'd both been changed while on some flight, somewhere?
Remember, at the time we didn't know his brother had also been changed and NOT someone we thought was his son. As to why we never helped his brother, it was simply because the FBI, etc. didn't know what we were and had started doing. Add to this, it was because of the government wanting him so bad, the FBI or Interpol never put a photo of him on their most wanted list for obvious reasons. Anyway, he got some applause, with Steve (the manager) pulling out his guitar from the back room, asking him to play something, which he agreed to. Asked if anyone had ever heard of John Chisum and of course, many had due to his starting the cattle drives from Texas to Kansas. Tells us a little bit of background on Mr. Chisum, then what it was like being on the trail, dealing with stampedes, Indians, little water, etc. While doing this, he was tuning the guitar and it was pretty much spot on according to Aaron. So after his little background story, he started playing and once again, he'd of been spot on but for the guitar being a little out of tune. Aaron told me that if Ben had taken a few more minutes of tuning it, he'd of had it spot on. Man, you could feel the fear of the cowboys as they'd tried controlling a herd of stampeding steers, the mourning of a friend who fell beneath their hooves, etc. When he got done, everyone stood up (including the four of us) gave him a standing ovation. In a way, the girls never left Hooters, that is, staying in contact with the girls that still worked there and of course, meeting new ones when we came out for the wings. What we liked about them (our girls and the Hooter girls) was they quit trying to get us to try other stuff on the menu. All we had to say we wanted the usual, which was wings. A couple of times, Aaron and I had really been working against evil doers and the girls simply couldn't make food fast enough, so we'd hit Hooters. We'd order a platter of 20 wings for EACH of us, along with Aaron and I getting 4 glasses of ice tea each. The Hooters lady looked at us kind of dubiously, till the girls said be prepared for additional wing, tea and ranch dressing orders. Man, we (Aaron and I) went on a feeding frenzy that night with the girls only getting a couple of wings from their own plates until we started on theirs. That's when they ordered 3 more platters of 20 wings each, along with more tea and ranch dressing with them opening the ranch dressing packets ahead of time. The only reason we used napkins was because the glasses of tea would be slippery from the wings and sometimes the wings would get slippery in trying to pick them up. But the girls got smart....they took a couple of wings and put them on paper towels for them to eat and more than once, they'd go to the back for more ranch or making sure our glasses of tea were filled. When we got done, there was nothing left including the gristle that's on the larger piece of wing. Afterwards, I looked at Aaron, then to the girls and said sorry, I can't hold it in and let our a REALLY large belch, quickly followed by Aaron doing the same. And yes, we made sure we weren't facing the girls or anyone else when we did this. We also got A LOT of applause from the guys in the restaurant. Our girls did a face palm. As it was, we had TWO Hooter girls also working our table, making sure we didn't run out of anything, so when we paid our bill, we tipped them $100 each which the girls approved.
Well, Aaron and I had been busy for almost two weeks not just catching evil doers, but their minions. Minions as in close to six hundred of them. Word had spread among the Interpol people that they were getting major help from an unknown group of people. Which is why we ended up helping the Italian government with the Mafia and the Japanese government with the Yakuza. And while we were paid a few million for our efforts, we were a lot cheaper than what it was costing those governments in fighting them......especially since we grabbed and dumped a lot of paperwork, computers and laptops at various places those governments wanted us to leave them at. It also got rid of a lot of corrupt government officials. We thought maybe Hacker would like to look at them, and he did, but which also took time since everything was in a foreign language. This resulted in giving us more leads of both criminal organizations in other countries. Thing is, when you're dealing with multiple BILLIONS of dollars, yens, etc., you HAVE TO use computers just to keep track of everything. And cash...we found and kept all the cash we found, while the governments got the drugs. The cash and bonds in various banks across the world, those governments kept. With our abilities, it wasn't any trouble to lay bugs (listening devices) and cameras in a lot of places AFTER the evil doers had finished making a sweep for such devices.
----- Sorry to take so long before adding another chapter, but better late than never, right? Got 3, maybe 4 more ideas for another chapter, but no idea when I'll finish that one as I've got other irons in the fire. But when I do finish that chapter, as far as I know, it'll be the last one. Working on another story about Ben in this world and in another chapter, trying to write up what he and Mothers people find on their missing colonies. There's also 3 new Affected stories which WERE coming along quite nicely, especially one of them. But when I went to bed last night, couldn't sleep and my mind kept racing like a hamster in one of those round cage things. With me saying what if? So now looking at making changes in the 5th chapter and no, it won't be posted till I got it finished. The 30 day spin off is going along well, but then found another story I'd started a year or two ago, but this time with an entirely different outtake. My 2 2nd American Revolution stories are on hold, along with some other stories until I get some stories finished/ready for posting. As for Ben's stuff, want to get a couple chapters done before posting any of them. Then there's the Conservative vs Liberals story or two I started. Anyway, that's what I've been doing lately.
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Post by 9idrr on Jun 29, 2020 22:36:37 GMT -6
Nice to know what those boys've been up to.
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Post by willc453 on Jun 30, 2020 0:28:55 GMT -6
Thanks...just sorry I forgot that the last chapter had been submitted last year. So, now the boys have met Ben 2 times. Once when he was the old Ben (Toys for Tots) and now, as the young Ben. And yes, working on Bens story being on at least one cattle drive in the 1800's, along with a few other things. The boys going around winning those state fair contests didn't go unnoticed, something I'm still working on mentally wise. The boys watched John Wayne's movie The Alamo and they're headed for San Antonio...with the girls going too. Of course the boys get involved while visiting there. And then there's the time the boys "acquired" some of Dancing Winds altered plants which they got to growing on Mars, PLUS those windmills that were put in some open ended tunnels there. Remember V's story and how Ben helped her with her veggie garden? This was something the boys hadn't thought of as far as after effects. Who knows....maybe their chickens or hogs got loose again and.....
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Post by texican on Jun 30, 2020 20:03:51 GMT -6
WillC,
Thanks for the chapters on the boys who are now men and dads. And one more chapter on the boys.
Other stories coming which is good.
Texican....
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Post by willc453 on Jul 25, 2020 19:16:21 GMT -6
The Shadow Chapter 48
How about SOME of the trials and tribulations that Aaron and I went thru as far as marriage and pregnant women went? Kathleen was worried about getting fatter than normal while pregnant and asks me to put the Oreo's where she couldn't get them. So I put the package of them on the floor. BAD mistake. Aaron was telling me how he finally got Tammy all nice and comfy when they went to bed that night. THEN she tells him she has to use the bathroom?! Walked into the livingroom one time and Kathleen's all excited. Apparently she thought she'd eaten all the chocolate I'd gotten her earlier, but then found a piece between her breasts and her pregnant belly. Then there were several times where our girls got stuck in the bathtubs, unable to get out without help from us. We felt sorry for the girls during their morning sickness time, ESPECIALLY when they'd just brushed their teeth. As for the goodies the girls told us they wanted, DON'T even think about eating ANY said goodies. BOTH girls said they'd STAB us. Not just once, but multiple times. And as far as stuff they'd drop.....it stayed there till we picked it up. Then there was the time when Aaron found Tammy crying in their bathtub. He thought it was because she couldn't get out. No. It was because she couldn't see her vagina anymore?! Now Aaron and I like those small packets of flavoring (think Kool-Aid) you add to bottles of water. Well, Tammy says she thought her water broke, with Aaron quickly hiding the packet and water bottle he'd brought to bed and had accidentally spilled. Which I thought was a pretty good idea as this way he wouldn't disturb her if he got thirsty during the night. Yeah....he, her and her folks head for the local doctor asap. When he told me this, we were both A LOT more careful with those water bottles. One of the things we both did for our girls was not only clip their toenails, but also learned how to PROPERLY apply toe nail polish on them afterwards. And man, we HATE it when our girls cried while pregnant. Now basically all the time it was mood swings, something we couldn't help them with. But they got to crying about having hairy legs when they got so pregnant and couldn't bend over that easily to do this. Talk about WEIRD....Kathleen's on a small stool while in our large tub and both of us are in our birthday suits with me shaving her legs. Oh yeah, have her stand up so you can do the back parts of her legs first, it's a lot easier. Yeah she cried, but it was happy crying and I did tell Aaron what I'd done and Tammy thought it was the sweetest thing he'd ever done for her. Bro's gotta stick together.
You guys know how women like to shop, right? We're at some mall when they say they wanted to check something out at one of the stores, saying “they'd be right back....I promise”. When they came back, they were NOT amused as I'd gotten a piece of cardboard and a marker stating that we're NOT homeless, but that I'd been waiting for our wives for 2+ hours outside this store. Please help....and had a metal cup at our feet. What surprised me and Aaron actually making $3.28. All from married guys who WEREN'T with their wives of course. Or the next time when they came out, only to see 2 skeletons with a sign saying, yeah we've been waiting THIS long for our wives. Missing socks....everyone has it happening to them. Aaron solved that by making a board with pegs on it. Above the pegs he painted the words clean, single and looking for a mate. I made one as soon as I saw it. April Fools....Kathleen went to use the bathroom late that evening that day. And boy, did she let out a screech. I'd replaced the toilet paper with a lint roller. Oh yeah...I also made sure there was NO toilet paper within reach and had unscrewed the bathrooms bulb to it wouldn't turn on. On Halloween, we both did the same thing. Printed our faces on a piece of paper, put them in a jar, then added some green Easter egg dye to make the water green. Once again, we got major screeches from them when they opened the fridge and the light came on. As far as Aaron and I are concerned, women are crazy basically all the time. Which is a good thing, otherwise they'd of never married us. Remember April Fools Day? That was a day that Aaron spent part of the day at my house. Tammy was a bit crabby for some reason and no, she was NOT pregnant either. She had boiled a bunch of eggs for a salad and walked off to do something else while they cooled. Aaron....well, he swapped them with RAW eggs! No doubt she was VIGOURSLY hunting for him, but he'd locked and barricaded himself in their bedroom. After after 5-10 minutes or so of TERRIFYING threats, she finally calmed down and called him on his phone.
And kids.....they always seem to be asking off the wall type questions, like where do marshmallows come from? All of us had gotten together that night at our place and we're roasting marshmallows over a small, rock fire pit we had made for both of our places. Now it was our oldest boy (1 of 3 kids we had at the time) who asked this and right off the bat, Aaron tells him they're grown on farms while giving me go with this DM look. That's when I said yeah, they start off with marsh seeds, with Aaron telling the kids how big they got.....as in the size of grandpa's rolled bales of hay which are about 12 feet in diameter. The girls AND their mothers almost dropped their beers upon hearing this while our father in laws just stretched out their feet, waiting to hear our tale. Then we got to talking about how the marshmallows had to be cultivated and nurtured, followed by how they were not only harvested using special equipment, but shipped to a marshmallow factory where they were cleaned and cured, followed by how using especially heated blades, these marshmallows were cut up and eventually ending up in the plastic plastic bags they see on the supermarket shelf. Of course, the 4 older kids wanted to grow some, that is until we told them would you believe they're grown in another country and the soil isn't right for growing them here in Texas. That's when Aaron told them how a Dr. Seuss, who was plantologist, discovered them by accident. This was when the girls and their mothers rolled their eyes. And I said yeah, he wouldn't of discovered them if it hadn't been for his cat who was VERY strange because it wore a hat all the time with Aaron chiming in, saying don't forget how it would walk around on it's 2 hind legs almost all the time. Then I added that this cat was suppose to be SO smart, people thought it could talk! Kids eyes got bigger. Then there was the time our girl got a grow a pony thing. Put it in water, which this thing would absorb and of course, it got larger, though not by much. Kathleen had just put the thing in a bowl of water and placed it on the kitchen floor where our daughter waited anxiously for it to “grow”, which at time Kathleen left the kitchen and I entered. Asked our daughter what was going on and she told me. That night after everyone had gone to bed, I hit Walmart for a 18” stuffed horse, emptied the bowl of water, took the “enlarged” horse and placed mine in its place. Yeah, our daughter couldn't thank Mommy enough and she thought this was very sweet of our daughter....until she got a look at what our daughter had. Boy, she didn't hesitate in turning to me saying, so, you were just going to the bathroom last night? I said why, yes I did go to the bathroom. Got a really good smooch for that bit of work. Then there was the time I got us both in trouble, though it wasn't my intention. But afterwards, BOTH girls REALLY started looking around. Why? I ordered us 2 doormats for our places which said WELCOME! BEWARE OF WIFE KIDS/PETS ALSO SHADY HUSBAND IS COOL
Then there was the time Tammy asked Aaron to get a new shower curtain and I happened to be with him at the time. Called Kathleen who said this was a good idea, so get one for our bathroom too. Of course we went via the nothingness to hit Amarillo for a wider selection. Well, we THOUGHT of getting a INTERESTING shower curtain such as Star Wars, etc., but figured they'd send us right back out. Then we saw them, looked at each other and smiled. Drop Aaron off, and after putting the shower curtain up, went to see Kathleen who wanted to know what kind of curtain I'd bought. So, started telling her the ones I'd been looking at (never mentioning Aaron getting the same one of course) and she started with you didn't, did you with each type I mentioned. I said I got a plain, ordinary, drab shower curtain okay? Now for some reason, she didn't trust me and went to check it out. When she came back, she shook her head saying she was sorry for being so suspicious, but considering the things I and my brother have been up to...... I, being ever so gracious, said I understood. Thing is, she was still like a 1st level D&D player in some ways. Once she had her shower going, I stepped into the bathroom with a 1962 strip tease sound track playing on my cd player, with me slowly taking my own clothes off! She spun around so quick, I worried she was going to fall on her behind, but what made me laugh was her realizing she could actually see what I was doing. Yeah, the shower curtains we'd bought were heat sensitive, so when the water got warm enough, the curtain would become translucent! We ended up scrubbing each others backs to conserve water you understand. You know what's NOT funny? It's when your wife is trying to weigh herself, but you're right behind her with one foot on the scale. When she discovers this, RUN LIKE HECK! We were in town one time, getting grocery odds and ends. For some reason, I had thing for bananas for awhile as in up to 30 pounds a week and if wondering, Aaron had a thing for avocados. Well, one day I reached into the cupboard to get a hand of them out so I could eat at least 3 of them and about had a heart attack. This was because I saw THE biggest spider in my life in among them. Yeah, I screamed and don't believe Kathleen if she says I sounded like a little girl. She'd found a dead tarantula and put it among the bananas for me to find. Of course, she IMMEDIATELY called Tammy about my reaction, with Aaron overhearing their conversation. Remember that saying of what goes around, comes around? So, Aaron and I talked it over before coming up with a rebuttal. Took me a couple of days of shopping on the internet, but found what I wanted. Then simply went to that store....this way there was no internet sale going to show on our Evilbay account OR more importantly, waiting for it to arrive in the mail. Found me a 3 foot long, rubber snake that kind of looked like a rattlesnake, but it had its mouth open and showing some fierce looking fangs. Shoved a large garbage bag into the toilet bowl, then the snake went in, “coiled” around the toilet bowls inside rim. Tied a piece of fishing line to its head, then super glued the other end to a toothpick which was taped to the bottom part of the toilet seat. So when Kathleen had to go during the night, she naturally turned on the bathroom light, lifted the lid with the “rattlesnake” popping its head up, showing its fangs. She fell on her behind while also trying to go backwards as fast as possible. She about beat me to death with her pillow until I was forced to defend myself. Boy, did the feathers fly that night, with me taking her out to buy 4 new ones the next day. As far as Thanksgiving or Christmas goes, I'm NOT allowed to even TOUCH the turkey whether it's cooked or not. Her folks were over for Thanksgiving and our oldest boys were 6 years old, when they were asking about the turkey which was on the dining room table. So I explained about how turkeys were raised, why we ate them mainly twice a year, etc. Then I said uh oh, followed by the boys asking what was wrong....with Kathleen and her Mom snapping their heads around to look at me. Neither had NO idea what I was going to do, but they were darn sure they wasn't going to like it. That's when I pulled out the Cornish game hen from the inside of the turkey, saying WE must of cooked a PREGNANT momma turkey! The boys turned kind of green, with both of them saying they weren't about to eat a baby turkey or momma turkey. Her Dad about busted a gut laughing, while her Mom TRIED to do the same, but also started laughing. Now the girls were kind of down on us and keeping a VERY watchful eye on us after our castle in the house thing. But then never said anything about about the barn and the outdoors.....or dinosaurs, alligators, skeletons, hovercraft or motorized port a potties.
Remember Aaron's and my first airplane flight and what happened? How about it was NOT an accident?! Shortly after we were married, Kathleen's Mom calls her to say that Bill and Ted had been in an car accident up in North Dakota. They'd gone up there for a hunting trip, something they tried doing once a year for a week or two. When Kathleen told me, told her to have both Moms ready to travel via the nothingness and get to their barns. NO wasting time trying to catch a flight or driving up there. I got ahold of Aaron so he'd be ready to travel, then I got online to see what photos there might be of the hospital they were at. With basically EVERY business now being online, this was no problem. Now remember, neither of the girls were really pregnant with our second kids at the time and it didn't take long for the girls to have a bag packed not only for them, but us too. As to our kids, they stayed with some of the married ranch hands with no trouble. Hit the nothingness and we came out of one of the janitors closets with the suitcases being left in the nothingness. First Tammy, her mom and Aaron left, then we did the same as the closet was kind of cramped for us to come out of it all at once. Check in with the receptionist, who says visiting hours were over and come back in the morning. Boy, the 4 of them REALLY going to blow a gasket until we told them to be quiet and listen to the nice receptionist lady. Well, their Moms certainly weren't going to go quietly into the night until the girls told them that they needed to listen to us and to remember they've no doubt been here, done that, then turning to look at us, at which point we both nodded our heads. Back to the janitors closet with us hitting the nothingness again, at which time I started looking for Ted and Bob.
They were in one room so after finding them, we came out of their bathroom. They'd been banged up pretty bad because they'd lost their truck brakes while going down a steep and rough dirt road. With them going down that side of the hill for about 200 feet. The ONLY reason they were still alive was because a game warden happened to be cruising by a couple of hours after their accident and happened to see the glint of metal and glass of what was left of their truck. What helped a bit was they were wearing seat belts and the air bags going off. But still, they got busted ribs, legs and basically beat all to heck like I had been on that first airplane ride of ours. We stood aside as their wives and daughters went to each side of a bed and simply gently touched them which woke them up. It was then that Ted (Kathleen's Dad) was able to croak out that it was no accident(?!) and passed out. About then, a male nurse enters the room and is completely surprised upon seeing us. Tells us that he's sorry, but visiting hours are over and we have to leave. I turned to the girls and their moms, saying we're sorry and we'll leave right now while giving them a wink. They got to understanding really quick but as I turned to leave, I noticed two things about this nurse. He had a Rolex Yacht Master II watch and what I thought were hand tooled, leather Gucci shoes. Nurses don't make that kind of money and sure as heck DON'T wear this kind of stuff as the watch goes for about $30,000. And yes, one time we were curious about these fancy and VERY expensive watches, not that we were going to buy one as our folks had gotten the old fashioned, windup Timex watches for high school graduation. If it's not broke, don't fix it. So asked if I could use the bathroom first, then looking at Aaron when I said I'm sure the ladies don't mind waiting, do you? They knew we were going to do something, but not what. Aaron suddenly also had to use the bathroom and once inside, we hit the nothingness with me telling him what I'd seen, so when we came out, we were ready. The “nurse” was not. Aaron hit him with the bear spray, then I hit him in the stomach with a baseball bat. And right after that, we had him tied up with zip ties with the 4 of them jumping back in complete surprise at what we'd done.
They started yammering about what we'd done until Aaron looked at them, telling them to shut up. Now. They did and that's when I showed them the “nurses” watch and shoes. I went thru this guys uniform and in one of the pockets, I found a syringe filled with some unknown liquid. That's when Aaron asked them if this guy had touched Ted or Bob in ANY way. With them there, he hadn't had a chance. The “nurse” had no medical I.D. at all and off to the nothingness he went to remain there until we got things settled. Now considering Ted and Bob were in intensive care, they were also not far from the nurses station. Now me and Aaron collect things simply because they're cool....like the first time we found some railroad spikes. We thought they were REALLY cool and ended up each of us having about 2 dozen of them. Yeah, they were bent from being removed so new ones could be put into place on the train tracks. Which is why we ended up buying anvils and with 5 pound sledge hammers, beat 'em more or less straight. Thing is, we were thinking of D&D props.....you know spikes that could be used to either stop a dungeon door from being opened by bad guys or intelligent monsters. Or as rock climbing pitons so the adventurers could either scale down or up a mountainside, with us weighing a couple of the spikes. Why? Remember how we'd check everyone's gear as to what they had, along with weight wise BEFORE a party went adventuring? This was why we were such good DM's as we paid attention to small details like this. Some thought we were nick pickers, but realized we brought a realism to our games they'd never encountered before. Aaron went to the rooms door, driving a spike into the floor so it couldn't be pushed open, followed by doing the same to the door which lead to the adjoining room. While he was doing that, I had the girls and their mothers removing the I.V.'s from Bill and Teds arms and writing down the stuff they'd been getting from those bags.
That's when I told them we were moving Bill and Ted from here to back home, with the girls Mothers to call their family doctors and get to Teds ranch asap. They didn't hesitate and were told they'd be out in about 30 minutes which was more than enough time for us. We figured once we removed that stuff which monitored their health, alarms would sound. With the room lights turned off, it was dark enough for me to take all of us to Teds barn via the nothingness, including taking their beds which were on wheels. We kept the sheets they were on so we could take them off the hospital beds and I simply put them back in their former hospital rooms via the nothingness. Oh yeah, even though this only took a few minutes, people were banging like heck on those doors. No problem though for me to put the beds back in that room and then dropping the spikes into the nothingness. Martha and Mildred called a couple of hands to the barns, but they were to be armed, with a dozen total showing up. And boy, were they packing gun wise. Their mothers told them NO ONE was to say anything about their men folk being back home except among the family, meaning all those who worked or lived at both ranches. As to how we got here, the girls came up with a doozy. They told the ranch hands that while we (Aaron and I) were in college, we had helped a couple of Metronomes who in turn, who helped us when we needed to get our Dads out of the hospital. This was when Martha and Mildred told them about the “nurse”. There were some angry ranch hands hearing hearing this and muttering of a lynching and they WEREN'T joking either. But the girls said the Metronomes had him in a safe place where no one but them could get to him. Of course, they weren't to mention any of this to anyone outside of the ranches. We got more looks of respect from the ranch hands upon hearing this. When the ranch hands picked up Ted and Bob and headed for Bob's place, we soon had a crowd of people following us, asking questions. Two beds were placed in one of the bedrooms for the men to lay on, then the girls and their Moms went downstairs to talk to everyone, giving them the same story about their accident not being an accident, the “nurse”, followed by the Metronomes and us. And why no one was to talk about this outside of the family. We waited till the doctor showed up, with Mildred and Martha telling him the same thing and he said he'd have 2 nurses that he'd vouch for as he wanted to make sure the guys wouldn't have any trouble. As it is, the 3 of them stayed at Tammy's folks for over just a week.
Once the doctor arrived and done checking out Ted and Bob saying they were okay, we pulled the girls and their Moms aside, we said we gotta go. The girls simply said sic 'em, while their Moms said they have no idea what's coming, do they? By them, it was Ted and Bob's “accident”. Via a bathroom, Aaron and I went to see this “nurse”, taking his wallet, then back to my place where we called Hacker. He wasn't too happy about being called at that time of morning, but once we explained what had happened, then been said and what would of happened if we hadn't been there, he said come on over, which we did via his bathroom. When Aaron gave Hacker the wallet, we thought Hacker asked a strange question: had we opened or touched anything inside the wallet? When we said no, he got a pair of surgical gloves, then started dusting the opened wallet with stuff that looked like flour. In checking this “nurses” wallet out, we realized this guy had only 1 credit card and just a little over one thousand dollars in cash. Since Hacker was working for the government at the time, he'd gotten a lot of odds and ends, one of them being some sort of scanner which scanned fingerprints. With some scotch tape, he got fingerprints from the wallet, along with a drivers license which he ran thru some sort of data base which took about 10 minutes? Once he had that information, he ran a background check and this is when he tells us our “nurse” was only 3 years old and died in 1988 according to the drivers license?! The fingerprints took about 30 minutes to process thru various computers world wide....and coming up with a guy who'd been suspected in over a dozen murders and that's not counting people who simply disappeared. That's when Hacker we were involved in some serious sh*t and to give him more time to find out what this guy has been involved in and he'd get back to us. When we showed him the syringe, he said he knew people who could analyses it, but not ask any questions, so we left that with him.
We said okay and went back to see our “nurse”, but this time we went for psychological warfare on him. With our voice alternators, we told him that we were the Metronomes and that one of the men he had attempted in terminating actually had been working for us, though neither of us said who that man was. Obviously, this was something he had NOT expected to hear. Aaron told him he as going to be freed, he was to remove ALL clothing including those things on his hands, meaning his watch and a ring he had. Then out came a pistol with a separate silencer and a long thin knife. We then had him step back from everything, at which time I had him in a separate bit of nothingness which separated him from everything with us now putting his watch, etc. stuff in a small plastic bag, while the clothing was put in a larger one while all the time wearing our rubber gloves. We left the “nurse” a bucket, roll of toilet paper and a gallon of water which would give us time to think things over, then made it so he could see these things. Now we never mentioned anything about us taking him down like we did because we didn't have an answer to that one yet. We called Hacker to say we had the “nurses” clothing, etc. and maybe he could have someone analyze it or whatever. He knew some people he said, so we dropped it off at his place. Then we went back to our girls and their Moms, telling them we were working on it with someone we know. They never asked any questions and we figured the girls had talked with their Moms while we were gone. And that's what we loved about the girls....they didn't ask questions when we gave them basic information when we did our business. But, if it wasn't business, EVERY-THING was open to their suspicious natures.
Now we did have a problem with the hospital people as they were in full blown panic mode with 2 of their patients disappearing as they did. We thought of bringing in the Metronomes again, but decide against it, because no doubt this would get the attention of the government pretty quick one way or another. Now that crashed plane had been replaced, so Martha and Mildred said they'd flown up there in their private plane, taking some ranch hands which was a good thing as they'd of been turned away because that lady said visiting hours was over. With the help of those ranch hands, they decided the hospital staff had no sympathy for emergency visiting hours like theirs and they simply flew back home. The hospital was frankly relieved of having an explanation on how Ted and Bob had disappeared, with the ladies paying what was owed to the hospital in full. Or would they answer ANY questions on how they got snuck out without anyone seeing them doing this. And NOT ONE word was mentioned by the hospital guy about the missing “nurse”. That's when Aaron pulled me over saying said we needed to talk, with the girls and their Moms not asking what it was about. Now we had bought camcorders and bugs (listening devices) while dealing with the drug dealers for example. So via the nothingness, we went back to that hospital and started planting them thru out the hospital. We left them in individual bits of the nothingness so they would never be found and recording 24/7. It took us some time to find the administrators office and several bugs got placed under all the phones in that office, including his secretary's.
For the next few days we checked not only Ted and Bob, but with the ranch hands not only guarding them, but the others working the ranches. Think it was the 4th(?) day, Aaron calls me, saying get over there NOW. I got, with just enough to call out to Kathleen I'm outta here, then met Aaron at Bobs barn which was our agreed upon meeting place as we didn't want anyone either outside of the ranch or any of the ranch hands to know we were around. Tells me the hands have seen the same 3 vehicles (all vans) going by Bobs place for the past 3 days and now, one of 'em's acting like it's got a flat tire. Now the ranch hands were rarin' to check this van out, but we told them they were NOT to approach anyone until we were there and said it was okay. We hit the nothingness so we could see/hear what those 2 in the van might be saying. Seems the guy in the van was busy taking photos and via a walkie talkie, told the one “inspecting” the tire he'd taken a lot of photos, at which time that guy kicked the tire like it was okay and the 2 took off down the road. Go back to the barn and asked for Reggie to meet us in the barn which took about 30 minutes or so as he was out working somewhere on the ranch. We asked how many hands were veterans and there was a lot. We said AR-15's are NOT going to make it and we pulled back the tarp to show him what we had. He about had a BIG cow when he saw the full auto M-16's, along with M-60 machine guns and what he called bloop guns which were like fat, squatty shotguns but fired tear gas shells along tasers and LOTS of ammo for all of them, but NONE of them were to be near the road under any circumstance, that the Metronomes were giving us complete assistance. We told him we'd like the guys to be a little bit better outfitted gun wise. He quickly called some of the ranch hands in via his phone and just as quick, everything was gone. I told Reggie they could have the barn as normal in 5 minutes as we're going after the 2 people in the van. He was shocked in finding out someone was taking photos of the place and told him to call Ted's top hand to say get to the barn and why. Reggie said you boys don't f**k around do you and we just looked at him, with Aaron saying that's why we're THE BEST bounty hunters in the world even if we're from New York City. As to our “nurse”, we made sure he got fed twice a day, along with replenishing his water bottle and emptying his toilet. He wasn't looking too well, especially when he saw his “toilet” drop into the nothingness and another rising up from a nearby spot. As far as air went, I had holes in his nothingness so he was always getting some. Once they left, we hit the nothingness and back inside that van. How about they were headed for the airport? Which was the same airport those government people tried getting to a few later on with that little girl and her parents. Those 2 ended up going to a motel a few miles past it and once they left their van, we simply followed them to one of the motel rooms via the nothingness. Shortly after that, 4 other men arrived.
They started talking about the missing “nurse” and what could of happened to him as he'd NEVER failed completing an “assignment” as they put it. They were also now wondering who they'd been checking up on because of the way Ted and Bob had simply disappeared from their hospital room. They weren't happy as they felt they hadn't been fully informed about this. Aaron and I talked it over, as far as taking them all to the nothingness right then and there, but we decided to see what was going to happen next. One of them used a cell phone to make a call which we listened to both sides of the conversation. Only bad thing was we didn't know what number was being called until later. These 6 were told to make one more reconnaissance of both places the next day, take more photos, then return directly to Houston for further instructions. We made a call to Mildred and Martha what to expect, but again, NOT to interfere in any way with these people and their vans. That night, we took all their cell phones with Hacker downloading every phone number they had called only to find out there were none?! Yeah, they wiped out all numbers they'd called. But the laptops, they were a different story. We didn't know it, but apparently you can use your cell phone via Google. But finding out who they had talked with was no problem as we had recorded everyone's conversation, so it was no problem for Hacker to simply ask Google for the last phone call made that was made and up pops that number. Hacker used one of our disposable Net 10 to make that call. Then he tracked the phone number which lead us to some construction company in Houston? What the heck was going on? Apparently, they traveled as a group because they all pulled over outside of Houston to hit a freeway rest stop to use the bathrooms....which they never got to use and suddenly finding them-selves in their own separate bits of nothingness. Along with their own bucket, etc. until we were ready to talk to them further. They got the same story as our “nurse” was given and with some “incentive” from us, they stripped down to their undies and we took everything they had. We then took off for Hackers, asking which kind of bugs (tracking devices) we should use. We installed 2 of them per the now abandoned cars.
--------- Yes, there's another chapter being written though don't know when it'll be done as I'm working on other stories. And there MIGHT be enough for a 2nd chapter, though don't know how long that'll be.
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Post by 9idrr on Jul 25, 2020 21:49:48 GMT -6
This is downright GOOD stuff. From the pranks to the seekrit skwirrel antics, I've been grinnin' the whole time I've been readin'.
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Post by willc453 on Aug 12, 2020 23:13:32 GMT -6
The Shadow, chapter 49
Ted and Bob came out of it on the 7th day, with their wives calling us and the girls when this happened. This was when we got their stories. They'd driven upstate in one of the ranches Suburbans and of course, it was in top running condition. They'd stopped at some cafe for a quick bite, then were headed for a place where they normally parked and then would walk around 5 miles or so to where they'd gotten their deer the year before. There was a steep downhill grade which they'd never had trouble with before, though this time they were pretty sure someone was behind them by a few miles. Considering the area was a popular hunting area, thought nothing of it. They both swore they heard a popping noise, followed by lose of brakes. Ted tried ramming the Suburban alongside the mountainside, but then they almost tipped over when the drivers left tire blew, then down the mountainside they went. They were shocked when we told them about the 6 men and the “nurse”. Aaron asked where was the Suburban at and with the aid of Google satellite mapping, we eventually found it. That's when we said we'd be right back. Via the nothingness, we took basically the entire Suburban from where it was at and back to Bobs barn, where we covered it with tarps. Then back to the same place looking for and picking up some of the larger pieces which had broken off. We returned via Teds bathroom and told all of them what we'd done. They all wanted to know why we'd done this and Aaron said maybe this could be a problem with the ranches other Suburbans and better to find out now, than have someone have another brake failure, with someone dying this time. They understood, but then Tammy saw how we looked.....yeah, we'd been busy in the nothingness off and on and hadn't realized we'd been losing weight the past few days. That's when the girls told their Moms and Dads why we ate like we did at times. They hadn't known this, not that we were trying to hide things from them (like Aarons ability), it was something we just hadn't thought of. Now we weren't hurting hunger wise, so there was time for the 4 of them to cook stuff for us and their men folk. Dinner was served on tv trays where Ted and Bob were at with Aaron and I eating a fried chicken each, 10 pounds of mashed potatoes, along with scratch gravy and 2 pies....I got a chocolate one, while Aaron went for the strawberry one, followed by 2 gallons of real milk. The chickens were first to go and afterwards, Ted said we devoured that chicken so well, even a dog wouldn't find a scrap of meat on it, followed Bob saying they'd never even bother with the bones either.
Neither could figure out how their Suburbans brakes could of failed, so they had a couple of their ranch hands who were mechanics more or less reassemble everything. Along with this was WHY would anyone want to kill them ala that “nurse” along with those 6 who'd checking out the ranches and just what was in that syringe. We wanted to make sure Ted and Bob were going to get well and we said that to everyone. Then we said we're going to be busy and don't know when or how long we'll be home. A quick smooch from our girls and off to the bathroom. Now remember, we always planned things like we were adventurers and one thing we ALWAYS insisted in finding out from whoever was DM'ing was knowledge or intelligence if you will for that game. This was when we were playing, not DM'ing and it drove more than one DM and many players up the wall when we wanted information that the DM hadn't thought of. Of course, we ALWAYS had background information readily available....that is, IF you prepared to ask around town for it. Remember that 2nd game Hectors sister played in, with the players getting a severe case of behind whoop? The players were all ready to kick some goblin behind because they THOUGHT they were well prepared with equipment, etc. But they failed to check with any of the people of the villages they'd traveled thru to find out if anything had changed. Like that dark elf taking over that dungeon. Of course, neither of us ever expected his sister to do what she did so yes, we get surprised from time to time ourselves by a player(s) actions. Now listening to peoples conversations is not only boring, but time consuming and this was where Hacker came to our rescue once again. What we didn't know was there being a voice recognition computer program which would translate(?) everything so it could be printed. Government program and NOT available to the public. Reading something is a lot quicker than trying to listen to one or several people talk. So we'd change the SB cards on our recorders, give 'em to Hacker who'd end up printing what was not only being said, but once again, we'd find where safes were at, with us taking all the paperwork and making copies of them with where and whom we'd gotten them from. And boy, there were a few people who had NO idea what had happened to those six men and the “nurse”. They got to thinking they'd beat feet, not that they were going to be leaving the nothingness until we found out every-thing from not only them, but their bosses.
And we questioned them, each individually once we had dirt (background information) on them thanks to Hacker. They got to HATING when we talked with them because I'd put them in the dark because of the psychical effect. Thing is, NONE of these people were clean, that is, they ALL had records of some kind which Hacker found between local law enforcement, the FBI, Interpol, etc. Oh yeah, we had the goods on ALL of them and they knew it. Nothing can scare you more than when you're being questioned by an “alien species” and you're believing they have ALL the answers. I mean, it's one thing to watch some sci-fi movie with aliens in it, but another to be captured, questioned in a totally unknown type of prison and not being able to do ANYTHING about it. All of this took about two months because we wanted to know EVERYTHING on why there was an attempt to kill our father in laws.
So, why the attempt? Money, pure and simple. Remember how I mentioned Ted and Bill were in the construction business? Thing is, we didn't know how big they really were. As in making MILLIONS per year not just in Texas, but also all over the U.S. and in more than one foreign country. Like Afghanistan specifically with one company getting a contract to help “rebuild” its infrastructure. Thing is, they found out the work WASN'T being done by said company or at substandard quality, with all this extra money going into that companies coffers. They started raising heck about this with some elected officials who said they'd “look into the matter” and shortly after that, they almost had their fatal “accident”. We got busy first with Hacker giving us some sort of program that would record and download EVERYTHING that was entered onto a computer back to him at his place. Then there were all the regular office phones which had bugs on 'em and once we had all the information, Aaron and I went to work finding and taking everything out of not only the office safe, but those that had them in their homes. Hacker had been busy making printouts and copies of everything for us and seeing how the government people DIDN'T work for the people but themselves and corporations, we left copies of everything on newspaper companies all over the world. This way we KNEW they'd run with this story and of course they did, with the tv news people trying to play catch up. Suddenly newspaper and magazine sales shot thru the roof. And yes, later on our FBI lady agents got copies of everything as we wanted to be as thorough as possible. Ted and Bill were delighted with the firestorm we had created, but they wanted to know what happened to certain people who simply disappeared shortly after charges had been brought against them. As to those six men, we let them go simply because we figured they'd go running to their bosses talking about how Bill or Ted was an agent for some alien species. Last we heard they were locked up in some mental ward. Then there were those in the government and corporations who believed they were too high on the food chain to actually be held accountable for their actions. But then there was us and we did hold them for trying to kill our father in laws, along with defrauding the tax payer. More stink was raised by the media when Melvin Kaminsky, Issul Danolvitch, Lenny Albert Kravits and Lisa Valerie Kudrow for example simply disappeared. When the six of them asked what happened to these and other people, Aaron simply said they no longer exist on this mortal coil. They didn't ask any more questions. With our girls being four or five months pregnant while we were doing all this investigating, they NEVER complained. Not only that, they raised hold heck with both of when we got to losing weight. Their moms made sure we had a lot of food (pies and cakes too!) ready to microwave because we never knew when we'd be home. Thing is, we always didn't return home, but sleeping in the nothingness because we got so tired. But when we were home and with them being pregnant, we knew they needed their sleep so more than once we were sleeping on the couch in the livingroom. As far as Ted and Bob went, since they'd lost out on that contract to begin with, they reapplied for it, but this time winning it. Thing is, while power plants are important to a country, what was even more important was digging wells for a lot of villages for example. I helped them out on that one more than once simply by locating running water via the nothingness as there were a lot of underground caves filled with water. Those that had none, the Superior Lakes here in the U.S. Has LOTS. We got some really accurate gps's and pass the co-ordinates to Ted and Bob who'd pass them onto their people, saying they'd used some newly invented satellite scanning program. With a lot more water available, people were no longer scrabbling trying to keep their farms productive.
More trials and tribulations of being married. Kathleen was trying to eat healthy, which meant canned peanuts. But when I opened the lid to get some (she was out of the room at the time of course), I found it filled with M&M's. Tammy was trying to do the same, but she hid her Snicker candy bars in an empty broccoli bag in the freezer. How about the time Aaron thought Tammy (who was pregnant) was eating a large jar of mayonnaise? Instead, he discovered it was filled with pudding? Then there was the time I opened the nightstand on Kathleen's side of the bed, finding it FILLED with miniature candy bars. Yeah, I sure as heck did NOT even take one because no doubt she knew EXACTLY how many there were. Then there was the time Tammy came over, with the girls taking off for the near by town for odds and ends. They never saw it coming. Once they were in, seat belts on and after I got my smooch from her, off they went. They couldn't understand why people were pointing and waving at them....until Kathleen discovered the coffee cup I'd glued to the roof of her Suburban. Ever hear a train horn go off? Pretty neat hunh? Which is why Aaron and I installed a set on our smaller cars. Yeah, when we set them off the first time, startled the heck out of the girls....which they did NOT appreciate at the time. Until they did the same to us and thinking it was quite funny.
Now the four of us loaded up the motorhomes and were towing our small cars behind them when we went to visit San Antonio for a couple of days. Now this was a place both of us had always wanted to go to as kids after seeing John Wayne's movie The Alamo. With our lives having been turned upside down like it had, it wasn't something neither of us had thought of doing until we saw the movie via cable tv at his place. I looked at him and we both nodded at the same time. After the movie was over, we TOLD the girls we were going to San Antonio and why. As for those two, they looked at each other, talking without moving their lips and said fine....but we're going too because they said things tended to happen when we were alone together. Think they were remembering how things kind of happened on our first trip to Germany and saving that lady from those guys. Next day, things got arranged with their folks looking after our kids and some of the ranch hands taking care of our livestock as we thought of staying in San Antonio for a couple of days at least as we'd never been there before. Besides, the city had a couple of hobby shops other than Michael's for example. Of course, the kids at first wanted to go with us and started crying which made both of us feel REAL bad. But their grand-mothers started telling them what they'd be doing while we were gone and basically just like that, we're forgotten? Now it was a case of who cares Mommy and Daddy are leaving for a few days.....we got grandma's and grandpa's! So on the third day of seeing The Alamo, we took off with our motorhomes and towed cars for San Antonio.
Now the girls had made reservations at a camp (park?) for those with motorhomes which also came with power, water and sewage disposal. By this time, the 4 of us had our routines down pat on those few times we used these kind of places. Most of the time, we'd camp along some river, creek, pond or stream mainly because it gave the kids a chance to do some fishing. Aaron and I always drove the motorhomes, though we had to modify his drivers seat a little bit due to his height. And while we had CB's installed in the motorhomes and cars, though more than once I kept us connected via the nothing-ness. We'd just finished eating at a really nice restaurant and headed for our motor-homes, when Aaron calls out to me saying pull over NOW! He was in such a hurry to pull over that he was now in the break down lane, with us doing the same. He gets out and runs over to us, saying he thinks he saw a young girl screaming for help in a van before she was yanked out of sight. I looked at Kathleen who didn't have to say any-thing, but got out and went to sit with Tammy at which time they took off for the motorhomes. I moved to the passenger seat so Aaron could drive since he knew what the van looked like.
We got lucky in that the van hadn't taken another street, but still going down the main drag. Once he had it in sight, he used the mirror so we both could look inside the van over the drivers shoulder. What we both saw made us sick. Three men holding a young girl down and....enough said. I got behind the passenger seat to better access the nothingness and then I'm inside the van where I quickly reached out to grab those 3 so they were in their own bit nothingness....with about a 20 foot fall to the floor. The girl was next and she'd been screaming the entire time. Now it was even louder screaming when I pulled her into the nothingness. Made sure she couldn't see me and told her I was one of the Metronomes and had she heard of us? Once I said Metronome, she quit screaming and started sobbing. I gave her my t-shirt to wear as her clothes were ripped to heck and in shreds. The driver seemed to have been enjoying hearing her screaming, but when it got quiet with the 4 of them suddenly missing, he turned around and had quite a look of shock on his face for quite a few seconds. Since he wasn't paying attention to the road, he failed to see the light had changed from green to red and rear ended the vehicle in front of him. His situation got worse because he had rear ended a cop car! Who says there's never a cop around when you need one?
Of course the cop had a VERY confused look on his face when he realized there was NO driver even though he was out of his patrol car within 30 seconds or so. I'd grabbed the driver who had made it easier for me because he wasn't wearing a seat belt, with him going to his own bit of a fall into the nothingness. Told Aaron come join me behind his seat, but call Tammy so Kathleen could pick up our car. I called Kathleen to tell her we were working and when I said that, she knew what I meant and they were to head back home. Of course, the girl didn't hear any of this. This took about a minute or so and right off the bat, there were 3 cop cars joining the first one. From under the van, I said we're the Metronomes and 4 of your species were attempting to violate a younger, female. Give us a blanket or the shirt off your back. The cops ALL jumped back in surprise, but one of them went to the trunk of his car to get a blanket which he tossed partially under the van. Yeah, they were shocked to see the blanket suddenly being jerked under the van by Aaron. We covered the girl in the blanket, at which point I told the girl the protectors were here and going to help you. Then Aaron was ready with him telling the cops the young female will be coming out from behind a power transformer, at which time we had her walk out of the nothingness and onto the sidewalk. Those cops were with her REALLY fast, with some asking who did this to her. I said we have decided to delve further into this matter, at which point you will find them in one of your holding facilities. Some cops didn't like this and Aaron flat told them they could do NOTHING about this matter at which point I closed the nothingness between us. Yeah, the cops had seen the girl come out of the power transformer shadow, but NONE were anxious in coming close to it as they had NO idea what would of happened to them if they'd tried. After all, they were now dealing with Metronomes and even though this was their first experience with “them” they'd heard the stories of what we'd been doing.
I “squished” all 4 of those guys so they were forced to lay on their sides, with me and Aaron talking it over. Remember those cons we'd been helping in and outside of prison? Yeah, we were still helping them along with those girls and ladies who were forced into prostitution in New York City. We ended up going to 4 different prisons to find the men we needed as we wanted those who had kids, no matter how old they were. Now they were asleep in their cells, but woke right up when we called out to them from under the lower bed. We explained what had happened to the girl and we needed information from those 4, however they were NOT to be killed. Aaron and I hit another part of the nothingness where we kept our stash of weapons, which for us is duct tape, rubber gloves, scissors, zip ties and gloves, along with camcorders and tri-pods. Took us 5-7 minutes between me manipulating the nothingness and us putting duct tape over their eyes, zip tying their hands and feet. Since they were going to prison (though they didn't know this), we didn't want our guys to be identified in any way. Those 4 were warmly greeted, with us telling our guys we'd be recording everything as far as vocally and if they knew them, they were NOT to say anything until our prisoners were back in our custody. They had 30 minutes and it actually took about 38 minutes before those 4 started spilling their guts for the next 25 minutes. Remember how pimps would looking for vulnerable girls and women? This was A LOT worse. There were people who'd kidnap young girls and force them into prostitution. Thing is, they'd take different groups of girls to different cities for a couple of days, then to another city. There was actually a computer website where some customers would order the age, color, etc. of the girl you wanted, or how many when there was going to be a “party”. After we heard their confessions, we told our guys to put a hurtin' on 'em, which could also include broke bones. They were quite happy to do this, especially since none of the guards ever heard them screaming, but then we were also keeping watch on those guards who did walk around in the area and when one would be getting close, we told our guys.
We then called Hacker who had been sleeping, but once he told him about these 4, he was ready to go. He made us 6 copies of the 4 confessions and of course, NO finger-prints on any of them as we were wearing gloves, even Hacker. From his place, we went to my place to find where the FBI had their offices in Texas. There was one in San Antonio and as normal, we went looking for a lady FBI agent. Boy, did she jump back from her desk when Aaron told her we were the Metronomes, what had happened to the little girl, along with what her future WAS going to be until we intervened. I then tossed one of the thumb drives out from the nothingness, which landed near her feet. We said these beings would be found at the local police station in several of their holding facilities. If not, all 4 would be found in just one of them. She asked why not deliver them here and Aaron said the local authorities had helped the girl to begin with and then I added, they were to be given credit in finding and arresting those four. As to the four we dropped off in one jail cell, we had removed the duct tape, etc. from them but to make sure they remained compliant we bear sprayed them again and had them do another 20 foot drop from the nothingness to the jail cell floor. We then played the Lone Rangers theme for about 30 seconds, which certainly got everyones attention. We explained who we were, who those 4 were and their confessions, with the thumb drives being dropped from the corridor of the jail. We then called the girls saying we were done for the night and asking where they were. They were back at the RV park, so Aaron went to his motorhome via the light and the mirror they had in their bedroom, while I did the same. Remember, we always had a mirror we could go thru if need be in the nothingness. As to the duct tape, etc. that had been used on those 4, all of it went to our volcano.
Took a quick shower, then went to bed with Kathleen quickly following me, not saying a word. Believe me, I hung tightly onto her unable to sleep but while she didn't say or ask anything, she just stroking my head and back until I fell asleep. When I woke up, realized we weren't at the RV park, but parked next to our place. Got dressed, then when I found Kathleen in the kitchen with the kids, she asked if I was hungry. I nodded, with me getting some coffee and then called Aaron. Yeah, woke him up and he was surprised to find himself in his motorhome outside their place. Kathleen made my favorite breakfast which was a ham, cheese and mushroom omelet, with fried potatoes covered in scratch gravy. And of course, milk....lots of FRESH milk from our few cows. Got about half way thru and then said more gruel please, which ended up me having a second serving of everything. She had been feeding our little girl, so I got busy feeding her and myself, though I think she got more on her face than in her mouth. I'd have the spoon next to her mouth and she'd suddenly turn to look at Kathleen. Didn't bother me to scrape the food off her mouth with the spoon and then make another attempt to feed her. Then Aaron came out, coming thru the mirror that's mounted on the door of the main downstairs bathroom. He got some coffee and we started talking. Now women can talk to each other without saying a word and while we couldn't do it that well, we spoke VOLUMES between using simple words and looks between us. Now Kathleen asked Aaron if he was hungry and he said he wasn't.....that is until she laid on him the same second breakfast I was working on. Seems he had pancakes and eggs and considering how we both knew we'd be losing weight, he dug right in, but didn't ask for seconds. Then I turned to Kathleen, after we're done with our chores, we're going to work. That she was to call Ted (her Dad) asking to send a ranch hand to help you with anything that needs to be done. Just tell him we're going bounty again; he'll understand. Also let Mildred (her Mom), also know. Aaron called Tammy, requesting she do the same with Bob (her Dad), along with Martha, her Mom. Took us about an hour to get the livestock fed and all of that, then another hour at Aarons place to do the same. Then we called Hacker, saying we needed help asap. He was still working for the government at the time and said to call him back after a certain time which was when he'd be back home. We said okay, not knowing what was going to happen in the very near future.
Now remember, Aaron and I really don't know snot about computers....heck, even the girls know more about them than us which was why we were so happy to pay Carol to show us how to create, then print 3D figures. But as far as Hacker went, he was in a league all by himself. So we did what we could research wise. The website was (we figured) a place which advertised childrens clothing and toys at what we KNEW to be outrageous prices. I mean, who's going to pay $3,000 for a “hand crafted doll”? Thing is, you had to be a “member” there to buy anything and we were smart enough NOT to sign up to become one. But we did print out the website, figuring Hacker might want it. The toll free number? It was for a travel agency, BUT once again you had to put in some sort of code to speak with a “representative”. Now with Hacker explaining some stuff to us, we used one of the Net 10 phones we'd bought a lot of a few years earlier and after we were done with it, into the volcano it went. So now it was surfing the web for San Antonio news, both tv stations and newspapers. Our 4 were in the hospital after their visit with our cons, but we were glad not only to see the San Antonio chief of police and that FBI lady giving their little speech, but the cops who'd been there helping that girl were there. And NONE of them said anything about the Metronomes as we'd requested. Instead, the original cop told how he'd been rear ended and had called for backup but upon hearing the girls cry for help..... One thing we hadn't thought of those 4 being in a hospital. The news people got the names of those 4 involved, along with photos of them. As to their injuries, this was due to rear ending the cop car and nothing more. Since this was going to be interstate case, the FBI had jurisdiction, but the San Antonio police (or us) never thought of putting a guard on those 4 as they were very badly beat up AND were handcuffed to their beds. The next day, the 4 had a VERY well known criminal lawyer representing him, requesting bail be set by some judge. It was denied of course. This was when we went to see Ted and Bob, asking about this lawyer. He was a real scum bag, using every trick he could to get obviously guilty people either get lesser sentences given or having a case dismissed. As in suddenly, the former witnesses no longer remembered anything and in some cases, went missing. Bail denied, especially when the girls parents were at that hearing. The day after the lawyer did his bail request, ALL four of them die of heart attacks that evening?!
We didn't know this until Bob called Aaron, who called me about it. Thing is, I was keeping our five kids occupied in the livingroom while Kathleen cleaned up the kitchen table and putting away extra food from our supper. Once she was done with that, I had dish washing duty which I figured to be fair as she INSISTED in always doing the cooking, remembering what I'd done to that turkey that one year. Women have LONG memories. Now we'd told the girls a sanitized version of what we'd seen and done, along with them kind of, sort of briefly following the news. Thing is, I got to looking at our kids and thinking what if some day an “order” had been placed with one of them suddenly disappearing with me suddenly crying because I was thinking of the kids that had been taken, never to be seen again. I started crying for a bit and that's when our kids came over telling me not to cry, that they loved me, giving me kisses and hugs like crazy. That got to me and I shortly quit crying, but then thinking of the true evilness that was in the world. We'd dealt with drug dealers and those that would force someone into prostitution, but NOTHING like this.....and a rage built up inside of me that I'd never felt before. The kid realized I'd quit crying and was just as busy giving them hugs and kisses back when Kathleen walked into the livingroom. Thankfully the kids didn't see my face for that look of rage on my face, but Kathleen did. Soon as I could, told her everything, including those four who'd died of a “heart attack” while in police custody. She said it was time for their lawful paladins to bring the full weight of the judicial system to bear and she knew when she said that, there would be NO trials in court of these people we found to be guilty.
The lawyers name was Allen Konigsberg and with access to the nothingness, we did a lot of bugging and video taping as in 24/7 surveillance. But figuring out what kind of scum bag lawyer he was, Aaron and I took turns following him via the nothingness. Thing is, none of the four could of really told Allen what had happened to them as one moment they were in the van, next thing total darkness, being beaten, then finding themselves in a jail cell. Which I'm sure which would of made NO sense to Allen at the time, but he did find out about the Metronomes from either the FBI or the police. This did NOT make him and those he would briefly speak to very happy because there was NO way where or when we'd be around. After a week of listening to and following him, he went into the nothingness. He talked. And now we had a lot more leads, leads we didn't know about and of course, Hacker helping us. Thing is, it was like a repeat of JT's dads place in that we took EVERYTHING we thought we could use in rooting out these kinds of people, along with their computers, lap tops and of course, all their paperwork whether it was in their desks, file cabinets or safes. Money, stolen works of art went too. We did some research on all the art work, finding out when and where it had disappeared, including stuff the Germans, Italians and Japanese had stolen during WW II. The cash we gave to a bunch of charities world wide, but made sure they reported it to the newspapers about the anonymous donations. And not one red cent was under reported. Believe me, Hacker was kept busy doing all that computer hacking, then getting us information which we would pass to the Houston police department and FBI. As far as the police went, we stayed with the cops we'd originally met which no doubt upset their superiors as they couldn't get any of the glory. Thing is, with our lady FBI agents moving up in the ranks, the two we dealt with had no trouble from their superiors. Thing is, with the information and confessions we had from all these people we questioned, there was NO doubt of their guilt. To us, it didn't matter who you were. Famous and rich? We didn't care because we were thinking not only of the kids that had been kidnapped, but of our own. More than once we'd undress privately in our own bits of darkness, then take a shower in our homes. Surprised Kathleen about my third trip back from us questioning someone while I was taking a shower. She was looking for my clothes as she figured she'd toss them in with a load she was getting ready to do. She asked where they were and when I told her they were in the volcano, she really looked at me, asking if I was okay. I said I was just trying to get clean and she understood I wasn't talking about getting my body cleaned. She didn't hesitate in stepping into the shower, clothes and all to hold and help me. More than once we'd return home emotionally exhausted, but she never said a word other than come to bed honey and we'd lay in bed with us holding each other. Not counting the underlings, one hundred and twelve rich and famous people became human jerky with their bodies being found in their homes, in a large, public park, etc. With recorded confessions, there as NO doubt of their guilt. As to the underage girls, they were returned to various law enforcement agencies in different countries. As to us, we got changed mentally and physically because of what we'd seen and heard. Like having wrinkles(?) around our eyes and part of our hair turned white until the girls dyed them.
When the kids would ask Kathleen what was for supper, so she'd tell them. Kids: we don't like that and we don't want any! I said what we're REALLY having is marinated monkey behinds and NO, you can't have any. Do you know how many monkey behinds it takes to make this for supper? Kids: WE WANT SOME TOO! They couldn't wait to tell Aarons kids AND their grandparents what they had for supper the previous night. I was arguing with our two three year old boys on why they needed to wear pants for about 15 minutes. Of course, right after this was when Kathleen caught the 3 of us sitting on the kitchen floor, in our underwear, eating doughnuts. What do you do when you have 2 boys and ONE M&M left? I split it and they were watching like hawks to make sure one piece wasn't bigger than the other. We were having spaghetti one night when our daughter asked me how much meat was in the meat balls, so I said about 90%. Then she says it's 10% balls, at which Kathleen spat out the food she was chewing from laughing so hard. Now I always make sure I get some really nice chocolate from Switzerland on Mothers Day. The 2 boys came up to her, asking for a piece. She told them that Daddy bought it for her because it was Mothers Day. The boys looked at each other, with the oldest saying if it wasn't for us, you wouldn't be a mom. Little difference between how a horse chews hay and our kids eating spaghetti. A couple of times Kathleen asked me what I wanted for supper. I was told I was wrong. EVERY time. After that, my reply was whatever you decide dear.
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Post by texican on Aug 13, 2020 14:58:01 GMT -6
WillC,
Great chapter. To bad it is not happening in today's world.
Texican....
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Post by willc453 on Aug 18, 2020 18:16:57 GMT -6
The Shadow: Chapter 50 Kathleen had made lunch and she had told our two boys not to play with their food. The youngest asks, then why did you give us dinosaur chicken nuggets for lunch? She looks at me. I advise you NOT to get into a dinosaur chicken nugget fight with your boys at the dinner table while your wife is there. Kathleen was in the laundry room one day, pulling clothes out from the dryer, then said someone's invented a laundry folding machine. I said yep, it's called a wi...at which point she gave me her death glare. I finished my sentence yep, it's me. She said good, every man should know his limitations, leaving me with must have been TONS and TONS of clothes to fold. Or the time Aaron told me how he saw Tammy eating some cheese and crackers while sitting on the livingroom couch. She saw him looking at her cheese and crackers, but telling him while I love you dearly, I made exactly the amount of cheese and crackers I want to eat right now. Aaron: but I only..... Tammy: EXACTLY the amount. A couple of times I caught Kathleen in one of the closets. Why? Because she was eating something she didn't want to share with the kids. Aaron told me about a dream Tammy had when she was pregnant. How about she had a flat tummy and would toss things on the floor, then simply bend over to pick it up. And then toss it back on the floor again so she could pick it up again. Hey guys....how about wives and their honey do's? I now understand why Dad would take us boys fishing a lot. Well, I ended up getting her honey do list, with one time with Aaron, Tammy and both sets of folks coming over. I was in the barn working on her list, when the guys came over to see how I was doing. Aaron and I had started working on the list, then Ted and Bob joined in to help us. That's when Aaron said three words to me: where there's whip, then kind of marching while standing in place and grinning like a fool. So I turned to Ted and Bob if they'd like to sing a song with us, but all they had to sing was just a couple of words and repeat them as we knew the entire song. They looked a little dubious, but said okay. Oh yeah, they were grinning like fools and marching with us as we sang this song with a change of a word or two. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoAfb3f04mo Instead of we don't want to go to war, we changed it to we don't want to do honey do's for example. Well, as you might of guessed, we kind of got into singing it repeatedly and not working on my honey do list. Aaron happen to turn a bit and see all four of them (the girls and their mothers) looking at us with MAJOR looks of disapproval. He gives out a really good, high pitched EEEEEEEEEE, look everyone.....it's some ANGRY and disapproving Orc wives. Now the girls knew what Orcs were, so while they hastily explained to their mothers, they began to removing their belts, with their mothers quick to do the same?! That's when I shouted follow me and run for your lives boys, with the guys following me to a shadow where we got into the nothingness. Oh boy, none of the women liked this and told us to come out. NO WAY. Not that we thought they'd use their belts on us, but with women, NEVER take unnecessary chances. So Ted and Bob asked what's next....I mean you boys DO have a plan right? I said oh yeah....you're dealing with EXPERIENCED DM's. Since it was close to lunch time, we went to Italy and bought 2 LARGE pizza's. Germany for sausages and beer, England for fish and chips, then back home with all this stuff with one more side trip to a store for some props. Thing is, all of our wives thought we were still cowering in the nothingness because I kept a bit of it open from where we were at to where they were at in the barn with the guys talking to them to keep them distracted to what we were really doing. Once home, I looked thru a window and saw them coming back, no doubt thinking of ways REALLY adding to ALL of our honey do lists. I quickly locked ALL the doors to the place and of course, while we had house keys this wasn't something Kathleen had thought of taking with her when they went to check on us in the barn. Now Amanda was one of the ranch hands daughters who was going to babysit the kids while the women HAD planned on getting together at our place and NEVER thought that the guys would show up a bit later. Told her that I'd watch the kids and she could have the rest of the afternoon off...with pay. Which she was quite happy to do, but I had her go out the backdoor instead of the front. Had just enough time to get the kids settled and eating lunch when we heard the front door being rattled and naturally, Kathleen figured out REAL quick what had happened and threatened all sorts of vile and nasty threats at me, quickly followed by the others doing the same to the other guys. That's when I appeared before our livingroom window in my tri-corner hat, long wig, a cheap mustache and goatee on my face, asking them if they would like to parlay. Oh boy, that REALLY set them ALL off....until I showed them the four COLD German beers with lots of condensation on them, which was slowly trickling down their sides. Then the guys stood up where they hadn't been seen below the window sill with plates of the food we'd gotten. The ladies suddenly decided to parlay and were left back in the house. However, they forgot one thing when parlaying....that we weren't to sing that song any more. Of course their Dads told the ranch hands, with the song quickly being sung whenever there was a woman around. Our mother in laws ignored this and no doubt passed the word to do the same with the other wives on the ranches. Remember how the four of us would go to a nearby creek or pond before we were married? Well I know Aaron and I missed those days and got to thinking it over, so we went to talk to Ted and Bob. Since they owned a construction business, they had no problem lending us a backhoe and a small bulldozer AFTER we had come up with plans on what we wanted to do. The problem was there wasn't any water where we wanted our ponds to be, but that was easily solved. We checked with the fish and game people on what was needed for a pond that we wanted to stock with fish. We were going for bass, bluegill and catfish. Their Dads tried telling us there was no water and we'd be wasting time and money hauling water in, but we said we got that part covered. Thing is, we both wanted to use and drive the backhoe and bulldozer, so they sent a guy out to show how to operate it correctly and safely. We made the pond twenty feet deep which we figured was deep enough for the fish to find haven during the hot summer months and it was about one third of an acre in size. Boy, a lot of work was involved with their Dads coming out to see how things were going and making sure everything was done right. All that extra dirt we added to the rifle and pistol ranges. Then it was planting bushes and trees all around the perimeters. I lost the paper, scissors and rock, so we finished Aarons pond first, then we started on mine. This took us about a month, maybe a little more. Well, with everything planted our families came out to admire it, though no one had any idea how we were going to get water in Aarons pond, then mine. Thing is, we ended up having Ted change the backhoe to a post hole digger, with us making the multiple holes almost eight feet deep and about two feet wide for both ponds. Now the day came when everything was ready to go except for water in the ponds and of course, the fish fingerlings we had arriving in a couple of weeks. So when we said we were ready, we got together as they wanted to know how we were going to bring water to a pond where there was no water. However, we made sure NO ranchhands around for obvious reasons. Aaron and I are standing next to each other and said let's do it bro, with both of us acting like we were concentrating because they still didn't know about Aarons ability. And if wondering, we didn't use the nothingness all the time when we delivered mail or goodies to our cons, but the steel mirrors provided in each cell and only when they made sure no one (meaning guards or other cons) were around to see anything. They finally got used to stuff suddenly dropping from those mirrors into their sinks which they now kept spotless and empty. Along with seeing a Metronome bony hand and arm from time to time. Anyway, we suddenly had water shooting up about one hundred feet into the air from EACH posthole we drilled! Not only that, we ALL got soaked from the water spewing upwards!! Aaron says TOO BIG, TOO BIG....gotta make 'em smaller. I did and it took all of of thirty minutes and that wasn't counting the couple of thousands or so of gallons of water that actually hit the ground outside of his pond area. Everyone was dumb-founded because as I said, we had been told there was no water in this area, with their Dads wanting to know how we did it....as in did we use a water dowser, which was a new word for us. So they explained and we said no, but used water from Lake Michigan. More stunned looks, so Aaron explained how the bottom of the lake was totally dark, hence NO light. We just opened some holes in the nothingness and connected it to his postholes. We just made those holes in Lake Michigan a little too big, hence the water geysers coming out like they did. Having experienced what happened with Aarons pond, mine came out okay, taking maybe an hour with no gushers. With the water pressure now equal between Lake Michigan and our ponds, the ponds basically are continually kept filled even on the hottest days. Ted and Bill thought our way of doing things like this was the neatest thing and asked if we'd mind for a few more on their places. While they wanted a few ponds here and there on each ranch, they wondered if we could do the same with water troughs, this way their cattle wouldn't have to be wandering back for water all over the place where they did have some. We said no problem, but they had to cut a small hole in the bottom of the water troughs and of course, drill a small hole below the trough. They got some ranch hands digging new ponds where needed, but as far as the troughs, Ted and Bill did the cutting of holes in them, a small hole under the troughs and placing them where needed. Then at night we'd go out to them and fill 'em with water. This took us maybe a week to meet their water requirements, but we kind of over did it nothingness wise and they noticed. Offered to take us home so their wives would feed us and we said no, because if we do, they'll call the girls and who knows what kind of unholy heck they'll raise. So we went to Seoul in S. Korea and gobbled down about one hundred dollars of food. Each. We were going to pay, but they said no way. This is a family thing. The good thing was when we were done (and stuffed), we basically looked normal and the girls never caught on. We also ended up helping them in their construction business in Afghanistan by bringing water to different villages where it was really needed. I mean, people were growing crops, but there was never enough surplus water. With photographs taken by their construction crews and Googling satellite photos, the crews would then build dams and drill more wells, which got filled from one of the five great lakes here in the U.S. We even helped with some cities in the U.S. that were being flooded, though we couldn't take that much for obvious reasons. And when that dam in China broke, we took A LOT of water to be used else where. One day, Aaron came over to visit while I was checking out some Youtube videos and said take a look at this after making sure Kathleen wasn't around or within hearing distance. His eyes got real big and said we gotta have one. I said no, how about four of 'em? He asked why and I said I'm sure the women folk won't be interested in something like this, but as far as Ted and Bill were concerned......and besides, wouldn't this be REALLY unique birthday presents for them? So we went to see Ted asking if he had anyone who knew how to weld and he asked us why because if we needed something, he'd be more than glad to have one of his hands build it for us. Well, we kind of shuffled our feet and that's when he said this is something your girls don't need to know about, right? We said yes and we found welding wasn't that hard to learn as far as what we wanted to do. We worked on our four projects, with us storing them in the light and nothingness each time were done. We limited ourselves to two hours per day, so it took us a few weeks before they were ready. We tested them in the nothingness and the light, then competed against each other in the nothingness and the light which told us the modifications we needed. Now the girls wondering why we were spending so much time every week in our barns and naturally tried sneaking up on us to find out what we were up to. No doubt in their minds we were up to “sneaky boy stuff” as they put it. While I used the nothingness to keep a look out for Katherine, Aaron had a couple of mirrors high on his barns sides, so he too was covered. The day came when we were ready, so called Ted and Bob asking if they had some time on their hands and would they like to try something different. They came over and parked directly near the barn and they were shocked to find 4 go carts with a port a potty over each one. Thing is, I was ready to close the nothingness when I saw not only their wives heading for the barn in a hurry, but our girls were right behind them and all our kids right behind them! That's when I cried out that the revenuer's and accomplices were coming, so we gotta get out of here before we get busted. Of course when I said that, they knew whom I was talking about, so Aaron got busy opening the far end door while we got busy getting our engines going. Just as the girls and their mothers started opening the other barn doors, off we went with our little go cart engines SCREAMING and us hauling donkey away from the revenuer's and accomplices. Man, I was leading everyone and we were back around the house and headed down the driveway towards the road by the time they got back behind the house and then we were out of their sight. Now we did have a square cut out on three of the walls so we could not only see what was in front of us, but our sides. Safety first you know, though we hadn't thought of seat belts. I mean, what the heck....these were our first port a potty go karts, so how can we be blamed for not thinking of everything? Ted's was the first place we went to, hauling donkey alongside the road, then down his drive-way and surprised the heck out of more than one ranch hand as we drove around in Teds dirt yard. Of course they came over and wanted to give 'em a try and we said okay because they'd helped Aaron and I out more than once. Passing it along as the saying goes. But then there was trouble.....I saw one of the ranch hands wives on her phone and you KNOW who she was calling don't you? We flagged the driving ranch hands down, telling them we've been ratted out boys and no doubt the four revenuer's and cohorts will soon be in hot pursuit of us. They knew what I was talking about, so off we went again. Now we HAD planned on hitting Bob's place and not only showing off our latest endeavors, but letting those ranch hands do some driving. Now we'd installed small cb's in our machines so we could talk to each other and that's when Ted said uh oh...here comes one of our Suburbans?! Uh oh indeed. We took off behind Ted's place with the ranchhands cheering, while other wives and girlfriends were busy either calling the girls and their mothers, taking photos or videos to post on one of their social media sites. Did a lot of bouncing and skipping as we flew over the Texan dirt until we hit the 2 lane road which goes by their places. Then we started ZOOMING down the side of the road, headed for town. We figured we may as well get something to eat before having to head home....and of course, bring back some chocolate and flowers to pacify the angry natives at home. I'm leading the four of us and all of a sudden we heard it.....a siren?! Oh bleep... naturally we pulled over to stop and let him go by. Which didn't happen. How about it being a Texan state trooper? Fortunately it was someone Ted and Bob knew. His name is Eugene Klass though everyone just called him Gene. He'd stop by Ted or Bobs place while on patrol just to see how thing were going with everyone. This was a man who KNEW the people in his county. Since we didn't really know him, I was talking to the three of them how if they wanted, we could disappear into the nothingness but they said let us handle this. I don't know about Ted or Bob, but this was the first time we'd EVER been pulled over by a policeman, especially a state trooper. They talked with him for a few minutes and then Bob told us to come out to met Gene. He was a few years older than us and we were both surprised when he told us he knew our girls back when they went to high school?! He then asked us if we were the boys who won the county music contests for a couple of years and then the state fair contest too? We said yes sir. He said you boys sure don't look like a bunch of h*ll raising firecrackers, but whatever you boys got, you got it in spades in marrying those two hellions. Can I drive one of your port a potty go carts for a few minutes? Oh yes indeedy, we replied. He drove it for about five minutes and before he left, we took four photos....one of him in front of my go cart port a potty and one with all five of us in front of it. Then he let us sit in the back of his state trooper car while we were looking as sad as could be, along with the five of us standing besides it. When he took off, they were all ready to get to town, but I said hold on and inside the go cart port a potty, took off for Switzerland where they make THE best chocolate, with me buying a pound of dark and light chocolate for a total of two pounds for EACH of our ladies. We pulled up in front of the florist shop just before it closed and of course, we naturally gathered a crowd when we got out of them. Now Sylvia was the owners wife and when we placed our orders, she said she WAS going to ask what kind of sh*t we were in with our wives, but seeing us arrive in our vehicles like we did, no further questions would be needed. Ted and Bob left us at their driveways, then it was Aarons driveway, then there I was at mine. NOBODY came out to greet me. NOT good. But when I opened the door, here comes the kids screaming DADDY'S HOME, DADDY'S HOME. Gave our daughter one of the flowers, then here comes Kathleen and she wasn't looking too happy until she saw the flowers and then the boxes of chocolate at which time the kids went wild: DADDY'S GOT US CANDY! As for me, would you believe it....I NEVER even got one piece?! And no, didn't even think of sneaking a piece out of one of boxes via the nothingness because no doubt she KNEW how many pieces were left. Thoughts about raising kids: How about when you hear a crash in the next room and one or more of the kids shout NOTHING HAPPENED! You want to know what will REALLY wake up up? It's when your oldest is shaking you, then says his fart is on the floor. And you KNOW who had to clean that up because Kathleen told me that he was MY son. Or when one wakes you up saying he thinks he's going to throw up. When our first two kids got a little older, we went out to buy them some stuff animals thinking they'd play with them, maybe even have conversations between them. NO. How about one liked carrying around and sleeping with a twelve inch length of a 2x4, while the other liked his rock? As far as our daughter went, it was a lemon. I'm sitting on the couch when our youngest boy brings me a plate of plastic food, so I pretend to take a bite and say it tastes like plastic. He says yes, that's why we don't like eating your food. Mommy's food is A LOT better. Kathleen was within hearing and about busted a gut laughing. I'm calling the kids to come to the kitchen for lunch. No answer. Call them again. No answer. Start unwrapping a piece of candy and all of sudden they're shouting: THAT BETTER NOT BE MY HALLOWEEN CANDY! Kathleen was busy with our daughter so it was my job to make lunch for our two boys. Okay, peanut butter sandwiches it is. Oh no....one had too much peanut butter, the other had too little. Switch their plates and now get opposite answers. I figure I can fix this with no problem. Got a gallon of milk and proceeded to eat all four sandwiches two at a time while drinking from the milk container. Should of seen their faces when I said okay, lunch time is over. Them: MMMMOOOOMMMMMYYY! Not only did they tell Kathleen what I'd done with THEIR sandwiches, but squealed on me for drinking straight from the milk jug instead of using a glass! Or the time I went to use the downstairs bathroom and immediately went looking for our boys. Asked them who peed on the floor and the oldest says wait....did you say the floor or the wall? I said the floor and he replies oh,,,,it wasn't me then. Remember how my Mom and Hector's had a dog? We'd play with them, but they knew which side of the bread was buttered on so to speak. We had gone to see Carol and her husband, with all of us going to a Mexican restaurant they liked and it was really good food. Had to use the bathroom and there I was, minding my own business when a couple of guys come in talking about a fight. I wasn't paying attention because neither of us are into boxing, martial arts, etc. But when they got to talking about how it was so good that when two dogs really tore into each other, with one of them being killed before they could be separated?! THAT got my attention, so made sure I got done real quick and waited for them to leave. As soon as they did, I was not quite right behind them. When I came upon everyone, said I felt like taking a short walk if you don't mind. They didn't, so I followed those 2 outside where they got in their pickup trucks, but I was able to write down their license plates down on the small pad and pen I got in the habit of carrying. I called and left a message for Hacker, asking for the names, addresses and anything else he could dig up for me some time in the next few days. Three days later, I got that needed information via email. Thing is, Hacker KNOWS I just don't ask for random information like this without a reason and he's never asked why we'd need it. But then afterwards, we'd call him to let him know what was going on. It took us a couple of weeks of following these two guys best we could, but we were also busy on some other stuff like taking care of the kids, our wives and our ranches with its livestock and gardens. But finally the day came and we found out those two were going to a dog fight out in the countryside in a couple of days. We'd thought about calling that counties animal control, state troopers, etc. but decided nah, that wasn't good enough for them. Aaron and I followed those two via the nothingness and the light until they arrived at a ranch outside of town which had a large barn. Inside of it were twelve, heavy wire cages with a dog in each one. Pretty soon there were about sixty men and a couple of women also inside, looking at the dogs, making bets, then everyone going to sit on the bleachers. Yeah, this was something that was well organized. The owner of the place was telling everyone that they had a treat in store for them and hopefully they'd see a repeat of last months fight?! Meaning one of the dogs DIED fighting?! Oookkkayyy....now it's OUR turn and let's see how YOU people like it. First thing Aaron did was hit the circuit breaker so there were NO lights in the place, at which time these dogs and their cages went into the nothingness and out of harms way. And yes, made sure they could see because it must have been kind of scary to suddenly find yourself in total darkness. Of course, there's a bunch of groaning and complaining by the “spectators”, with the owner telling everyone to calm down while he left to reset the circuit breaker. He never made it, along with all those “spectators” being dropped into the nothingness as a group. With our voice changers, they were informed they'd been under observation by the Metronomes for some time. That we were disappointed that they held lesser intelligent beings in such contempt, that they could and were being used for their personal amusement and gratification. Hence, to balance things out, THEY were going to have the same thing happen to them. This was something they had NEVER expected to happen to them. I mean, they all thought we worked the big cities like New York city and at which time, they all started promising and swearing they realized they had made a mistake in their deeds and would NEVER do such a thing again. But when we asked who owned the dogs in those cages, boy, they were QUICKLY ratted out by the others. This was when we found out the owner of the barn was also there, at which time I put everyone in separate bits of nothingness. While they could see each other, they couldn't talk or touch each other. This was when Aaron said we'd been watching ALL of you and your reprehensible actions, with him telling what we knew about one of the guys we'd followed, with me telling on the other guy. Never seen so many scared people in your life. I think it was kind of like they suddenly found themselves before God and being judged.....and judgment was NOT going to be good. Well, what we got was COMPLETE confessions from all of them except for those dog owners and the barn owner. They too were confessing until we said it was too late for them and everyone just stood there in shock, too afraid to ask what was going to happen to them. What we really wanted to do was put utter and total fear into the rest of them. The barn owner found himself being roasted alive from the heat from one of our volcanoes, an air vent at the top of their nothingness's going so they were not only feeling SOME of the heat, but the smell too. And we had opened a bit of nothingness near the top of one of the ice caves in Tibet. Not wanting to drag this mans death out, he got the full force of the heat and about two minutes later, burst into flames at which point we shut off access to that volcano. A lot of those that saw, smelled and heard the man screaming for those two minutes got REALLY sick. The first dog owner I brought water up to his neck, then froze it. The first dog owner was dropped from the shadows of two trees, which down below them, were saltwater crocodiles off the coast of Vietnam and they were close to thirty feet long. Everyone got to watch what happened to them by looking upwards so they had a kind of drone view of what was happened to him. The next dog owner suddenly found himself in a zoo, where it had a collection of snakes, including poisonous ones, such as several pit vipers. He took several bites and was dead in maybe two minutes? The third dog owner...well, I had to look for that one. Found a BUNCH cottonmouth snakes in a hollowed out and rotting tree in Louisiana. The snakes did NOT like him falling on him like that. As to the fourth dog owner, dropped him from a tree somewhere in Africa with a lion, several lionesses and their cubs. We repeated gruesome and different deaths to the other eight dog owners with the spectators hearing and seeing each one. It was so much that they couldn't even vomit anything. That's when Aaron said if everyone had finished writing their confessions down, we were ready to pronounce judgment on them. No, no sirree boy....we got LOTS of confessions to write down for you. After six hours (total) of all of this, we told them they would be remanded to those who enforce your species laws. HOWEVER, we WILL be checking up on you from time to time. Do NOT make us regret our charitable ways. We called animal control using one of our spare Net 10 phones, telling them what was going on at the barn and giving them the location. Four animal control people, twelve cops in their cars and three paddy wagons showed up within forty-five minutes. Once we saw them arriving, we released everyone from the nothingness, including 3 of the four bodies within the barn. As to the fourth, they got was left over from the salt water crocodiles was the head, a hand and a foot. That's all that was left of him. And some of these people were doing more than being involved in dog fighting, like dealing drugs, who their suppliers were, their dealers, skimming money from where they worked, etc., etc., etc. And how about one of them was a judge, two others were lawyers? As to the former spectators, they RAN to the animal control people and cops, giving them their written confessions and quite EAGER to get into the paddy wagons and cop cars. We made sure the local newspaper got copies of everything and NONE of those accused tried cutting any deal of any kind because they KNEW the Metronomes could be watching them, any time, any place. Minimum sentence was five years, which mean they could be out in two. The REALLY bad news for them was being sent to two different prisons, where by coincidence, our cons were also waiting out their time. Of course we let them know and they passed the word to those newly arrived prisoners. Which in turn, became prey by other cons. We were asked if we wanted them to stop this and we told them no and why. Bottom line, those dog fighter people were finding out what it was like to be used for benefits of others. At two of the places of the dog owners lived at, we found out they were running a puppy mill. That is breeding dogs and training them to fight. They found a little over thirty puppies buried between the two properties. They were killed because “they wouldn't fight”. Those two got fifteen years. As to the Momma dogs, we kept them and their puppies by going to animal control and after paying fees, licenses, etc, took them and their puppies home with us. Both Momma dogs were old and tired for obvious reasons. I won the paper, scissors, rock contest, so I got Momma dog and her six puppies, while Aaron got the other Momma dog and her five puppies. We ended up buying a lot of dog beds as they got bigger and kids enjoy playing with them. So much, we've said take it outside everyone. So there you have it....at least three kids running around in our yard, with six puppies chasing 'em and more than once, watch a kid or puppy go plop into the dirt while running. As to the twelve fighting dogs, we went to a shelter for dogs and were told about these four and how they were going to be killed. They couldn't help us until we each laid six thousand dollars on that ladies desk. Told her we'd like them to be retrained if possible, but if not, they were to remain here for the rest of their lives and we'd pay twelve thousand dollars per year. When asked what our names were, I said Benjamin Franklin, while Aaron said Benjamin Franklin Jr., with him pointing at the two stacks of money. So one day I'm visiting Aaron who says take a look at this and I could see he was excited about whatever it was he was looking at. Did you know you can buy A TANK and NOT have any kind of special license for it? OH YEAH! Well, our enthusiasm for getting one was shut down REAL QUICK when Tammy tells US (and NOT just Aaron) that we were NOT going to be buying ANY tanks. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?! Then without hesitation she calls Kathleen, telling her what their two b*tt nuggets had been looking at and thinking of buying! Oh boy....Kathleen also let me know in no uncertain terms of NO tank buying over Tammy's phone. And us sniffling and trying to look pathetic didn't work either as in, but girls, NO ONE around here has a tank. Just think of the status symbol we'd have being the only ones having one. Forget it. Then tells us to go outside and check on Aarons kids, which we did while taking a watermelon, plates, etc with us. So there we are munching away on cold watermelon, drinking our ice tea, but Aaron's shaking his head, with a woe is me look until he sees me smiling at the look on his face. He said what are you looking at Double Ugly and I just smiled even bigger. I then said good thing I'm your older brother because...... He says he's NOT going to ask me because why, so I kept eating my watermelon until he did ask. I said remember, the girls said NO tanks, right? He was looking really glum and I could tell he REALLY wanted one. Which when I thought about it, got me to wanting one too. I mean if my brother had one, by golly I wanted one too. You know, keeping the status quo equal between us. I said, remember that page we were looking at and when he said yeah, did you see what was in the lower right hand corner of it? He didn't, so I said let's go to my place. Well, the kids had been stuffing themselves with watermelon and we knew they were ready for a nap even though they protested. Get them inside and after getting them some pillows, they crashed out on the livingroom floor. Aaron told Tammy what was happening and that we were going to my place for a bit. She said okay, but remember NO tank buying as you've been told about this now and WE don't want to hear about how you forgot either. Aaron gave out a sad, mournful okay and was going to give her a few sniffles till I poked him in his ribs saying don't queer it by over reacting because I think they're beginning to catch on to us, so let's not give them ANY kind of hints, okay?
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Post by texican on Aug 18, 2020 21:47:38 GMT -6
A couple of times I caught Kathleen in one of the closets. Why? Because she was eating something she didn't want to share with the kids.
Yep, a mommy trick.
Now as to tanks. Do you think the dad-in-laws will be buying several tanks?
Thanks WillC for the entertaining chapter.
Texican....
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