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Blue Technomancer CHAPTER 3

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CHAPTER 3

Beau felt weird. Like the earth shifted and then everything was different as he followed Rider down the street. He didn’t know why something wasn’t right. Everything felt off. He frowned as he tried to remember when he had left the hospital and why. They had been in a rush for some reason. He stopped and stared at himself in the glass window of a building and the rifle carrying case that was behind his back.

“Stop fucking around. We have to move. It’s getting late. We have to get to the store before long and be careful with the rifle.” Rider said interrupting Beau’s thoughts.

Beau ignored Rider as he stared at the image of his mired face in the city street window. He didn’t recognise the image staring back at him as his own face.

Beau’s skin was a tanned navy blue color. His hair was gone but strangely for his eye brows that were black now. His eyes were still a dark chest nut brown and his lips and rest of his face were the same but he was changed completely.

The more he stared at his image the more he wanted to hide it. He was disgusted by it and then suddenly he was faceless. His eyes, nose and lips gone as a faceless mask spread over his face. He was a monster.

Beau screamed falling to the ground holding his face. Trying to find his lips and nose again.

Rider grabbed his shirt collar pulling him to his feet. “Get it together we got trouble around us. I said get it together asshole. You want to find that girl of yours don’t you. Focus on the mission and block every else out of your mind. Stop being a bitch and get it together, soldier!” He said.

Rider’s words snapped Beau out of it as he focused on his task. “Yes. Yes.” He gentle pushed Rider away and started breathing in and out until he felt in control.

“What do we have here boys?” A male voice said.

They turned as they suddenly found themselves surrounded my a gang people spiky white hair blue men in dressed in jerseys and shorts and carrying metal bats. They all moved as one trying to crowd in one Beau and Rider.

“Nice rifle case. We’ll be taken the case and whatever else you got on you.” Another man said.

Rider put his back close to Beau’s back. They were being surrounded by a group of men. Rider blasted them with a round of lighting. That only pushed them down to the ground.

The men started laughing as they rose up to their feet and their bodies began to change and morph to blue sliver-back large ape sized all blue and with bulging muscles.

Rider’s body lite up with electricity and then went out..”Shit out of energy. We’ll have to do this the old fashioned way.” He said.

“Take out the faceless freak, first.” One of the ape men said.

Beau was the smallest of the group with no weapon in hand but his hands. He looked down at his hands as he felt his hands they felt smooth and tapped them together. They clicked like metal clicking together. Hmm.

One of Ape men charged at Beau from the right. Beau swung at him connecting with his jaw. Beau heard a crunching sound and the ape man fell back holding his bleeding jaw and crying out.

“Fucking freak!” The ape man screamed.

One of the men pulled out a Glock 17 and fired at him. Beau threw up his hands. The bullet hit his head. His head snapped back as it felt like jab punch against a mental headgear protection. It made Beau realise that it was some type of layer of protection for his face under it. He saw the glock on the ground move as he stared at it.

Beau held out his hand and the glock and it flew into his hand and he held it up aiming it at the group. “Get the fuck on or stay and die.” He said.

The ape men were already turning around and started running away fast in a panic.

Beau checked the pistol’s magazine. It had seven rounds left. “Damn. I’m going to need more ammunition.” He said and blinked as felt the mask retract back from his face and he could see and touch his face again. “Fuck. This shit is weird.” He said.

Rider fell to his knee and looked shaky. “We have to find a place to rest for the night. I’m out of energy and I’m about to crash out soon enough.” He said.

Beau nodded looking at Rider’s shaky form. Rider was breathing heavy and his eyelids were half closed as he fought to keep on his feet. “How long have you gone without eating food or drinking?” He asked.

Rider gave him a shaky smile shaking his head to clear it of the dizzy look on his face. “Twelve hours. Maggie made me breakfast in bed for my birthday before everything went to hell. My brother showed up at our apartment to surprise me. I thought it was going to be a great day. I never realise how many great days I had before…” Ridder said and then paused for a few seconds with a sad smile on his face and then he shook his head and grimaced. “Maggie was my wife.” He said.

Beau said nothing and helped Rider to his feet. He looked around and recognised the area. “Yeah. There’s a restaurant and convenient store in this area. We can hold out the night in the store and stake up on supplies.” He said.

Rider nodded putting his arm on Beau’s shoulder. Beau handled his weight easy and half carried him to the store. It was broken into but the shelves weren’t completely empty as they head into the back of the store.

Beau kicked the back door open and carried Rider inside. Rider was half asleep when Beau put him down. He looked around the store found some canned corn and beans. He opened one can up pulling back the metal easily and downing the corn down his throat.

He found a backpack in the back and started gathering supplies and headed to the back to find Rider still sleeping. He snored softly.

That strange weird feeling followed Beau into his sleep. He dreamed of a beautiful young girl staring at him with tears flowing down her cheeks. He wondered who she was and then remembered he had met her at the hospital just before Rider had come to take him away for the mission.

Beau frowned and tried to remember when he had left the hospital or when he had met the doctor. His memory was out of focus. Something was wrong. He stared at the girl’s face as she began to become afraid of something she saw.

“Wake up! Mr. Lucas. You have to get up now to see what happens. In the dream. Wake up!” The girl ordered him.

Beau woke up the next morning next to Rider who wasn’t snoring anymore. Rider was motionless. No. He wasn’t breathing.

Beau frowned and slowly turned Rider over on the floor. Rider’s face was ash grey and his eyes open and pure black. He stared at him and then felt something attach itself to the back of his neck and immediately started feeling his energy being pulled out of him as female laughter was behind him.

He gasped and fought a fruitless battle as his he felt his energy being drained out of him until it was all but gone…..…

Blue Technomancer CHAPTER 2

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Chapter 2

They had travelled for four hours in quiet whispering debate on heading to Doctor E or heading straight for the gang holding the women. Beau had won by insisting they needed help and some men at the hospital might be able to help them in the fight.

Beau walked with Rider as they scouted the city streets amongst the looters and assholes that ran around fucking with women and children that were still alive or alone.

A large blue chested man carrying a naked girl screaming ran almost past them with no care on his face. He ignored them but Rider stepped in his way and punched the man in the throat. The man gagged almost dropping the girl but Beau caught her. She yelled and smacked his chest and face fighting Beau now.

“Get your fucking hands off me. Get off me monster! GET OFF ME!” She yelled.

She screamed and stopped attacking him as her hands hurt from striking him. She then took off running.

Rider kicked the man in the crutch sending him down to the ground and glared at him as the man stared up at him in fear. Rider’s eyes sparked with blue lightning.

“What the fucks your deal? It’s the end of world asshole. Who-” He said or started to say but Rider suddenly smiled down at him making him go silent.

“Wrong asshole. This isn’t the end of the fucking world. It’s just another day in New York City. Get the fuck over yourself because if you live past tomorrow you’ll have to answer to somebody for your bullshit or you can pay right now.” Rider said with hint of something intentional in his voice.

“Fuck you. I’m going home.” The man said and took off running.

“I see you in the street again. I’ll fuck you up asshole.” Rider yelled after him.

Beau stared at him. The man was just as crazy as the freak that had taken the girl away. He didn’t say though.

Rider sighed. “I know what your thinking Beau and your right. I am crazy.” He said.

Beau looked up at the blue sky and sparks of lightning that seemed to flash at bolts of red lightning and knew that the world he had grown up was gone forever. “What kind of world is this place?” He asked.

Rider turned to Beau with normal dark eyes. “Your going to need some clothes and a wet bath. There’s a makeshift hospital down the block. Doc E will give you some clothes. She’ll need some help. I’ll meet you down there in a couple of hours. I need to have a look around the city to see if anyone needs help. Go to the hospital and find out fit and any man with hunting or military experience or hell anyone would be willing to help us. Do your best.” He said before bending down into a crutch.

Beau backed away as red and white lightning gathered around Rider’s legs. A rumbling started in the ground beneigh his feet and sound thunder was heard. Rider roared in rage and then launched himself up high like a rocket taking off from earth until he was over the city hovering for a few seconds and the he took off transforming into a beam of electrical energy and raw power.

Beau stared in shock. “Holy shit.” He said and then heard a gun going off nearby and feet running. He cursed and hurried off in the to the hospital at a run.

He ran fighting the pain that spiked up his legs with every step but he kept going putting the pain out of his mind as he concentrated on the place that was just up ahead of him. It was strange though he felt like he was moving fast until he finally arrived at the guarded entrance of the hospital. Two tall men with shot guns and knives met him.

Beau came to a dead stop and made them jump back in alarm. He held up his hands as they raised their weapons with looks of fear on their faces.

“Hello. I’m a friend of Rider. He told me the way to get here. I was wondering if I could see Doctor E please.” Beau said.

The hospital was a chaotic place with people on makeshit beds and varying people with mutated bodies. A woman with short black hair and a lab jacket on was moving around beds looking at patients talking with them and then treating who she could. Occasionally her eyes glowed. Her gaze fell on Beau. She went over to him frowning stopping once to bend down at a box picked out a green hoodie.

She got to him throwing it to him as her eyes glowed brightly and her eyes scanned his body. “Your stabilised for the most part. Tonight you’ll need a wheel chair but for now I need you to help out around the hospital until Rider gets back for something for you to do.”

“Excuse me but who the hell are you?” Beau asked.

“Eva but you can call me Doctor E. Who are you?”

“Beau Lucas. Are you a real doctor?”

Doctor E frowned at him. “Yes. I work at John Hopkins. I was on vacation when the alien dropped down on us. Please. I know your going through some issues right but there are people dying around us and they need your help. Listen your body is stable right now. There’s nothing more I can do to help you. I could use your help though with-“

“Nothing to do to help me? I can’t even feel my legs for Christ’s sake. I’m not staying like this. You have to help me.” Beau said.

E stared at him. “Yes you are. Your body has been graphed with a bone sample of the alien into your spine. You are changed forever and the legs that you have right now are a product of your brain and energy making prosthetic legs. Your legs are gone. In time you will learn how to make better legs or make due with your condition but it won’t be the same. You can spend the next couple of years drowning in fear and self-pity but Rider and many others are worse off then you are. His heart will explode and he will die before he turns fifty years or with in the next year. You. You will live several more decades then me. My condition will worsen and I will have a brain bleed before I turn forty four if I can’t change my situation. I have a sixty-six possible success rate of doing so. Is that all you need to know?”

Beau stared at her knowing she wasn’t lying spinning him a story. “How do you know all that? Can you see the future?” He asked cautiously.

E shook her head. “Of course not. It’s not magic it’s a mutation brought on by the alien’s radiation. I can scan your body and make an analysis on what will happen to you as your mutation increases over time and I’m never wrong. Go sit with that little girl over there and make sure she doesn’t open her eyes or take off her sunglasses while I treat her mother.” She said turning in the direction of the girl that lay on the makeshift bed trying to take off her sunglasses.

Blue Technomancer CHAPTER 1

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Chapter 1

Beau’s legs hurt but he was happy to have them and be able to walk in spite of the pain. Oh yeah. There was a sum bitch lot of pain.

The city looked like it had gone through a time warp several decades into a post apocalypse era.

“What the fuck happened?” Beau asked to no.

“Near as I can tell from running around as much as I have for the last few hours some fucking alien appeared over the city and then fell down on top of us. Buildings were flattened.. people died. People set on fire and building burned down in minutes. We’re cut off from the rest of the world by the government. No one in or out for twenty-four hours.” Rider said. “Might be longer but the bitch caused a change in a few of us turning us or killing us out right from the gas and energy it gave out into the atmosphere.” Rider said.

“The atmosphere. Are you saying-” Beau said in and then paused as the truth hit him.

“Yeah.” Rider said. “The city may be cut off but the energy and gas spread outward fast. It’s gone pandemic. We’re all fucked in different ways.”

Beau shook his head. “My Jackie wasn’t effected. She was still normal when I last saw her.” He said.

“Beau.” Rider said and turned to him. “There is no normal. Some of us are different outwardly everybody else breathed in the same fucking shit that dead alien put out into the fucking air. Every person in the city have the most extreme cases because we’re still breathing in the major impact.” He said

Beau shook his head. “How long until they let us out?” He said.

Rider shrugged. “They say around Monday. They’re waiting us out.” He said.

Beau stared at him. “What the fuck do you mean waiting, us out?” He said.

Rider smiled. “Starvation or for the idiots with the worst hit to kill each other off. It’s understandable from what I’ve seen so far. Let’s go.” He said.

Beau frowned at him but he followed. “Where are we heading?” He said.

“I’ve been hearing whispers of some new gang that’s taken a bunch of pretty females, resources and weapons. They are holed up down town in the main square. You’re going to help me break em out.” He said.

“For what reason?” Beau asked

“Stopping assholes from raping women to death is a good enough reason for me. If we don’t find your girl on the way there then there might be a possibility she could be there. I thought you would more inclined to talk less and get the fuck on.” Rider said.

Beau shook his head Rider but followed. “I don’t get you. Do you really think your a some type comic book hero or something?” He said.

Rider shook his head at him. “I told you why I’m doing this, Beau. I don’t have much time left so I’ll do what I want with my life and live it how I choose. It’s my bucket list.” Rider said.

“How do you know your dying?” Beau asked.

Rider was quiet a few minutes. “A doctor that was changed checked me out. She gave me a few days or year at best on her first look at me. She gave me some tips on how to use my powers and hints about my limits.. Besides that I’m in consent pain every moment with a bit of release when I run out of power and can think beyond the pain. Just like your pain right now trying to maintain your legs.” He said.

Beau was quiet for a few minutes. He thought about Rider’s words. Maybe, just maybe. He began to give himself a little hope that he had a chance for fixing whatever the hell had happened to him. If he could live long enough there could be a solution that had happened to him.

“I want to see this Doctor. I want to get checked out.” Beau said.

Rider sighed. “It’s a waste of…shit. We got trouble.” He said charging his hands with lightning and firing off power a group of humans running at them with shovels and knives.

He took down a few of them but the others kept coming and started firing guns at them. They took off running away as the group pursued them for a few blocks but then gave up as both men out raced them.

Blue Technomancer Prologue

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PROLOGUE

Beau Lucas never had been a man to give much thought about an after life or hell though he had been known to wish a couple of sum-a-bitches there from time to time in his life and profession. Now as he lay speared through the chest by a blue metal spear and covered in dirt, blood, a strange blue liquid flowing out of him he thought otherwise. This was his hell. Every time he opened his eyes regained his sanity for moment he woke up to the sorry state of his existence.

Pain.

Misery.

Loneliness.

He never felt any of that shit in his life time but now here in a cave of burning blue hell fire and rubble around him. He felt it. What the hell had he done so bad for the almighty to put him here.

Just two hours previously before his death when the meteor or whatever thing struck the building breaking through into the expansive restaurant he had brought his girl to propose to her. His mind went back to that time. When life had been normal. Things went the expected way for him which was right on the money good. Jackie knew he was going to propose the moment he reached for the box in his suit jacket. The whole setup was just for show and romance. It was the dream proposal she had wanted and Beau had always been ready to give her whatever she wanted. Things were supposed to go how they usually did with them perfect. Things changed quick in an instant.

One moment he was on his knee the next moment he was on the ground speared through the back. He begged her to go and wondered why in the hell he was still alive. He couldn’t feel anything below his chest and spear and got him clean through his spine.

She finally ran leaving him to die alone. He thought of the years he spent growing up with her back in Texas. He thought about his home town of Fort Worth. He thought of his family that would be morning his death now.

“It’s not fair. Why am I in hell?” Beau spoke the question to himself aloud.

“This ain’t hell and you’re not dead.” A man answered for him.

Beau lifted his head and gaze to look at a man bare chested glowing with electricity and a blue fire bend down on one knee and staring at him. He shook his head. “I look fucked up I know. But, I’m in the same boat as you are soldier.” He said with no humor or pity in his voice.

Beau stared at him. “What happened?” He said.

The man shrugged. “Near as I can tell some damn alien fell on the city killing over a hundred people and changing the rest of us. I lost my brother and wife. I’m helping who I can until whatever that bitch demon did to me kills me eventually.” He said.

I laughed at him. “What? You got a hero complex or something? We’re all fucked with what your saying is true. What’s the use?”

He shrugged again unmoved by my words. “I promised my brother I would help the ones living if I can and I’m not the only one helping. There’s a lot of orphans out there now. You want to stay here and die of self-pity I don’t care but we could use some help. What do you do?” He said.

“Nothing. I am nothing now and I can’t do anything. Go away. I would rather die then live through what has happened to me.” Beau said.

He reached for spear and yanked it out of Beau’s back. “Get up.”

Beau stared at him. “Fuck you asshole. I can’t even feel my legs.” He said.

“I said get up soldier. There’s a war still going on and I need men to help me. Get up.” The man said.

“Fuck you.” Beau said.

The man stared at him. “Coward.”

Beau felt rage spark him to push himself to his feet. Pain shot through his body but he used his training to block it out and push himself up and to stand. He swung his fist and punched the other man’s mouth making him bleed blue blood.

The man smiled. “I saw you making new legs as I walked in with the metal and pieces of the spear. The pain will lessen enough for you to use your powers. Your going to help me save as much of them as I can.”

“I ain’t helping you do shit.” Beau snarled.

“Yes you will. We’re soldiers. It’s what we do. Besides that. We’re on a short time table before whatever the alien did to us kills us. It’s better to do something useful then to sit around being useless while other people that can live die needlessly from the damage done or by some asshole trying to take advantage of the situation. Let’s go.” The man said in a tone and voice of authority.

Beau frowned wondering at his words then thought of Jackie and the kind of break down situation this brought out to the monsters that had to hide.. If she was alive during this then day of hell then…fuck it. He needed to find her before some asshole killed or raped her. He had to find her.

“Let’s go Soldier.” The man said.

“Hey. Who the hell are you?” Beau asked.

“You can call me Rider. What’s yours?” Rider said.

“Beau. Beau Lucas.” He said.