The GhostMan - Part 6

CHAPTER 15: COMMISSION

I did not die, I found myself awake standing in a very brightly lit white corridor. The walls, floor, roof was all pure white with not a mark on them apart from the strange lights on the side of the walls in the shape of a circle with three lights each on them, it made the circle look like a face and there was a red dimmed light where the mouth would be. I looked around and there was only forward to go, the end of the corridor behind me was a dead end. I walked two steps then another two when suddenly I heard footsteps. They were echoing. I stood still, there were no where to hide. I felt strange, like I needed to do something, I felt sad that I was here. I realized I now had a heartbeat, strong and that something inside me wanted revenge for something, it was like an ache that just needing to be mended.

The footsteps came closer and closer, this time I was scared, my heartbeat quickening. A man come into view moving purposely towards me, he was wearing a gold shirt and gold trousers and a silver tie and had silver hair to match the tie, his eyes were strange, one blue and one green. He came up to me, he held out his hand in greeting, I shook his hand like I would any other. “Mr Clone three, you wish to return to life. Now nothing is ever easy in the Otherworld” I nodded. “I have a job for you, lets call it a commission of sorts” the man said with a smile. “what kind of commission?” I said, a questioning look on my face. “As you know scientists have been messing with things they should not be, and as you know this is the reason why you even exist.” the man said still smiling. “I know I am a clone, man made” I paused, “what would you have me do sir?” I asked. “now you have a choice, you can stay in the otherworld and have a life in one of our many worlds, although its never much of a life just entertaining the dead or you can accept the commission” the man said, doesn't he ever stop smiling I though to myself. I nodded in reply. The man went on, “the commission would be to destroy the scientists that made you and any other clones on the way, it is a complex matter. You will have an office with various tools at your disposal and an assistant. You would also be required to end a little Ghostworld that has been man made by them too”. “sounds like a lot to achieve sir” I said smiling also. “You will be well rewarded if you succeed, say return to life on earth in a good job, you could even pick your name”. To actually get a life from a life that I never had would be amazing. “I accept your commission sir” I said smiling, he took me to my office and to meet my assistant.

CHAPTER 16: DNA(Do Not Attempt)

Alpha and Mega had worked really had after they had got to the laboratory. Evie had let then in as soon as Mega entered the passwords and configured Alpha into the system. The laboratory was very cool but they soon warmed up with the amount of work that was needed. The laboratory was deep underground, at the entrance a lift descended them down and there were several security measures in place should anyone gain access. They had a few hours sleep and carried on working. The place warmed up eventually with Evie taking the heating and lighting controls over and balancing the power as not to use too much which could alert the authorities. They soon had a crude but effective dreamland system and a cloning area where they would make a body for Mega's love to jump in if it would even worked and a portal into this Ghostworld.

They got some food into them and began preparation for the mission to recover the required DNA from Dr Sango's laboratory. The idea was to wear a stealth cloak generator and climb on to the roof of his lab and gain access via the exhaustion release system which disposed of steam and other waste materials to the air outside. It was a risky idea but they couldn't see any alternative if they were to make it in and out alive. They were also pushed for time as the RFE was due to began in less then a day.

They left the laboratory and left Evie looking after it and running tests on the machinery and other systems. They jumped in there car and set off. It didn't take too long, they risked the Turbo Transfer system on the car. They parked the car near an abandoned petrol station and got there stealth suits on which were black and began walking to there destination. They had roughly twenty hours to get the DNA, get out, make the clone, get to Ghostworld, grab Mega's sweetheart and get out before the RFE started. Alpha new it was a long shot but she was in love with Mega, truly in love and she would die for her to make her happy, although Mega never knew.

When they reached Dr Sango's laboratory there were at least twenty heavily armed soldiers with laser rifles and other devices and one big one facing the laboratory. “my god Mega this mission should be called Do Not Attempt” Alpha whispered. “You can go back if you want, I don't mind Alpha”. “Ill never leave you Mega, look that must be the RFE system” she said as she pointed to the big device. Mega could see her because they were linked but others shouldn't be able too. “looks bad, come on lets get on with it” Mega said “and yes Do Not Attempt is what am all about Alpha” she said laughing quietly.

CHAPTER 17: BRIDE AND GROOM/CHILDREN

We watched the videos we had put aside together. Ghostman put them on I just sat, he was happy with that. The first one was of some silly soap called Emermale Barn and another depressing soap called Carabacon peep which I made Ghostman turn off pretty quick. The next video was a film called Bar Wars which was pretty funny about this spaceman in a flashy but un-realistic space ship fighting these weird soldiers called lager louts. The next video was home-made-porn which Ghostman indulged in while I went for a bath with Radbox essential boils which was supposedly good for relaxing which I needed to do.

The next few videos were rubbish-totally-things like Top Beer(a really old drink driving car program) and Binny and Sucrap(a really old program where they took smart attractive people and turned them into hideous beasts). The rest were pants. We tried the last one, “maybe this one will have something you might like Otherme.” said Ghostman. “I doubt it there has been nothing good on any.” He inserted it and it came on. The words Helen and David's Wedding came up on screen, boring I thought to myself. Then the music came on, a modern version of that really old song here comes the bride, it had an upbeat tempo and electric drum and bass then a really cool guitar and keyboard solo. The wedding looked to be in a old style church although ye can never tell if any holographic images were used. I went into shock! It showed me with Dr Sango sat at the front of the church, then the beautiful lady I thought was my wife walked down the isle looking dazzling with a white electrified shimmer system in it, I could tell that much, but how did I know, I did not know. The image turned to two gorgeous children with big smiles on their faces and a caption come up Peter and Paula, Helen & David's children. I am David and She I was married too and I now new my children's names. My shock continued till the end, I also saw the sweet young lady I saw before in the crowd at the back, my heart longed for her not my wife.

After the wedding the video went on to show the reception and party, it was all so unreal but I knew it was me, my life. Hand in had with my bride and wife I danced, I drank, I enjoyed. It even showed our departure for our honeymoon with cases packed and a decorated car. I cried, I cried so much, memories flooding back to me. Ghostman comforted me but I kept seeing the sweet young lady, the one my heart at this moment longed for, so much, too much.

CHAPTER 18: YOUR RIDE IS HERE MISS/THE DOCTOR AINT CALLING

Helen moved away from the ghost-dead bodies on the ground and headed away to the hills in the distance. She thought about the poem that sprang from her lips without her knowing it, she thought about the dirty boy who had somehow slowed time down for her so she could kill those who were wanting to attack her and then vanished without a trace, she thought about Dr Sango, her lover. Surely that poem wasn't about him, the doctor loved her two kids Paula and Peter and played with them and often babysat while she had to go out with her husband David and when she picked the children back up he had made love to her before she had gone home with the children. She had married David for his money and his brilliance but when she met Dr Sango he had far more money and brilliance then David by a long way and when David had rented that stupid flat when they had gone through a bad patch Helen had plans to divorce him anyway. There was no way Dr Sango would do anything bad to children Helen thought to herself.

Dr Sango found himself battered and bruised and half dead on the floor in what looked like a prison. The cell was small, cold and dark, there were bars and no visible way to get out of it. There was dark blood staines all across the floor, he didnt know if they were from himself or not. He tried to move but couldnt although he could still move his right arm, he reached for the laser pistol and found it. He pointed it at the bars and fired, It bounced off the bars and rebounded and hit his leg, he screamed out in agony, pain making his face deformed. Blood seeped from his wound, real blood, he poked his finger on the wound and licked and without a doubt, he was still alive if barely.

Helen searched for a new home to reside, or stay or hang around, there was very little to do here just wondering around fending off attacks by other ghosts to avoid pain only because you couldn't die here, you were stuck. She still dreamed of the day when Dr Sango would sweep her off her feet and take her away form this place, although it was looking ever increasing unlikely. She eventually found a small cave in the hills and settled down there, nothing came to bother her. She never felt cold here but the blood raining from the sky she felt and always hated it. She made more poems up:

Every Rose shall wilt and die.

Every Dream can become a lie.

Every love can end in blood.

Every Scream shall fly above.

One is the loneliest number.

One can become a few.

One is the saddest slumber.

One can give you your dew.

Pain is the saddest experience that you will ever know.

Love is the most painful that will never go.

Pain is the most pleasure you will ever desire.

Love is what takes your heart on fire.

Helen sat in her cave of dreams, no one listened but the queen, a spider fell down and sat right beside her and the web was cast to take her home.

Helen sat in her cave of dreams, no one listened but the queen, the spider grew and the magic began as the web untangled and made her stand.

Helen stood in her cave of dreams, no one listened but the queen, the spider latched on to the unexpecting lady, and took her home to her throne.

Helen was sat down when she spotted a small spider fall down beside her, it was so small she couldn't find it. She carried on with her poems when suddenly the spider grew to be bigger then her. Helen was in shock. The web that it cast was so small but now it grew really big and untangled itself into a small carpet. The spider which was all the colours of the rainbow suddenly grabbed Helen, she screamed. The spider placed her onto the spider silk carpet. “Your Ride Is Here Miss.” a squeaky voice said excitedly. The spider attached the carpet to itself and left the ground and the cave behind and took her high into the sky. Helen hung on for dear Ghost-life.

The doctor was in pain, his thoughts trying to calculate a way out, but no way way forthcoming. Suddenly something dropped down from the ceiling of his cell it hit his shoulder hard. He looked around in even more pain and noticed the sharp spikes that were coming down all around the cell, some with blood already on them. It got worse for him as a spikes came from the floor only just missing him, then from the walls. After a while they stopped and the doctor was unable to think while coping with the pain and blood loss. A man appeared outside the cell, the doctor could just about see him, he was tall but skinny and had large pointy ears. “help me” the doctor pleaded. “the doctor ain't calling for you Mr, ever.” the man said in a deep voice, then walked away.

CHAPTER 19: DNA(DUM NO GOOD ASS)

Alpha and Mega sneaked round the back of the laboratory in there stealth suits. They saw no alarm trips or traps. They saw a ledge on the top of the laboratory and fired there stealth rope which had a clinging device attached to it and they climbed fast to the top. Locating the exhaustion release system pipes at the top was easy. Mega got the silent cutting laser drive system out-which sounds big but its nothing more than a laser knife but quiet-and she started cutting into the shaft of the pipe. The pipe would leak a bit but it shouldn't be noticeable from the ground. When she was done she looked down, she could see steam floating up from it but nothing else. “ready” whispered Mega, Alpha nodded and stepped forward, Mega shook her head left and right, Alpha ignored it and climbed into the pipe.

She fell fast and then the pipe turned at a right angle, she fired the grippershot which stopped her dead in he tracks, then she fired the gripperlight to show Mega where she had stopped. It was hot in here but the suits they wore were top class military gear and was incredibly protective. She waited for Mega to descend, the question was if Mega would see the gripperlight fast enough to fire her grippershot and not collide with her. Alpha waited and waited but there was no sign of Mega, she became worried.

Mega had a problem, her grippershot wouldn't configure and set ready, that would mean no way to stop herself anywhere in the pipe. If she hit Alpha she may knock her flying or both of them together and they could end up anywhere. She couldn't exactly shout down the pipe to warn her that would mean alerting the guards. What was she to do? Mega braced herself and flung herself down the pipe, she spotted Alpha's gripperlight and fired her own gripperlight and tried to hold on to it. Whoosh she went with the light and as it banged onto the side of the pipe she did as well and lost grip of the gripperlight but it had slowed her down. She carried on dropping but then the pipe took a right turn she grabbed onto Alpha as she fell and with some delight, and shock she stopped and Alpha and herself was holding onto each other, Mega explained what had happened.

Mega got her silent cutting laser drive system out once and cut a tiny hole into the side of the pipe. She looked through. Beyond the pipe and wall she could see an empty room, pretty much bare of anything. She cut a gap big enough for them to get through then this time she went first, been ever so careful not to let go of Alpha. They both got through easily and checked there suits, which were fine. They looked around but there were nothing of interest in the room. Alpha went to the door, it wasn't locked. They sneaked around the door and checked the corridor, no one to be seen. They slowly walked the corridor and they came to another door, Mega put a slight hole in that too and looked through, it was the laboratory, there were several men sat around not doing a lot. “don't know why we need to be stuck here like idiots.” she heard a gruff man say. “were watching for any intruders that's all, this stuff is pretty fancy stuff.” “there is an army out there anyway, like anyone could get past that lot.” he went on. “nah I suppose not.” Mega listened for a while. Alpha placed a lockgripper on the keycard slot, it weaved its magic and a click was heard, no alarm thank god. Mega pushed the door ajar slightly and sneaked through and ducked as one of the men looked her way. She new they wouldn't see her but best to make sure.

The men were away from the main console, she was within metres of it, she new all the passwords and what to do after gaining the knowledge from Dr Sango's brain. Alpha hid, Mega went, slowly.....

“Alert, Alert, intruders are in the Laboratory” said a ladies voice. “Alert, Alert.” Mega paused then continued and wondered how they new but no one was moving towards her. Alpha stayed exactly where she was. The men jumped a mile and was looking everywhere frantically with worried looks on their faces. “Alert, Alert.” She put the data card into the console and typed “David Robertson DNA analysis.” the console came to life and brought up a huge detailed animated description and had all the data on she needed, it was amazing. “Download to data card” Mega typed, it took seconds. “Look, Look someone's using the main console” A man shouted. “Sugar!” mega thought to herself and grabbed the card and hid behind one of the Bio Domes. Alpha picked up a electric bin and threw it far away from the console and the Bio Dome, it banged loudly as it landed, and all the men ran that way. Mega ran back towards the door Alpha had already gone through. They ran down the corridor they had come from. They entered the room leading back to the pipe. They came to a sudden stop, there suits stopped working and several men stood in the way. “What do we have here?” said a cocky ugly man who had a big grin on his face. The man approached Mega. “We can have some fun with this men cant we?” he said smiling now. The other men laughed and cheered. “You Dum No Good Ass” said mega coolly. Alpha watched in disbelieve.

CHAPTER 20: RECRUITMENT

My office was like the corridor, white and bright. It had a few desks with several monitors and consol's. My assistant was a bold headed chap, I remember him working for Dr Sango, his name was Gerard. My assignment was to kill Dr Sango, My original and any other clones of me as well as destroying this Ghostwold that the Dr had made. I set my assistant on looking at what I should do and his findings were: 1 – to let him locate Ghostworld and the scientists and clones. 2 – For me to recruit Other spirits to attack Ghostworld when we find it. 3 – For me too arm myself and collect any devices I might need. 4 – Plan what to do if the mission failed as my superiors didn't treat failures very good. The last one worried me and I needed to look after that end by the sounds of Gerard.

While Gerard was doing his tasks I played with what I had. I had full profiles of all my targets. Ghostworld was effectively a man-made ghost trapper which if a person died near it they would be trapped there, that would lead me to believe David, my original would be there and probably the other clone. Dr Sango would be in the laboratory. It sounded simple if I could find a way to Dr Sango's lab and a way into Ghostworld. I had details of all of them from there marital status to there sins and good deeds. I read on and was surprised with what I saw. The Dr Sango had abused children and was already married but she had disappeared long ago, I expect disposed of by the doctor himself. He never had done a good thing in his life but sins all the way through. David Robertson had done sins but not as bad such as making love in a religious place and on a gravestone. He had done many good things like giving lots to charity and saving a drowning child when he was in his teens. I needed weapons so I requested to see the resident weapons training expert here in wherever I was and it was granted. He showed me how to transform myself into something else this was very scary at first but I had only one chance to choose my form. He showed me how to wield an Axe and I learnt it rappidly. He showed me defence and attack techniques and one amazing move where I spun round and flew in the air with my axe draw high ready for the kill, at the last moment I kind of moved to the side landed sliced low then jumped and sliced high. I learnt a great deal and I got all the advice on devices I needed and how to deal with ghosts and humans alike, as well as how to kill Ghostworld once and for all.

I looked at the recruitment pages on my console, I had ten energy orbs which would allow me ten ghosts to come with me anywhere, I found this all it bit odd but I did not question. I searched for bad men and women who could kill and destroy. I found plenty but some appeared to be hard to control. Eventually after a long search I chose them. The best I took on were Brian who was strong with a good willpower, Belinda I took on for her gorgeous looks and shapely figure to be honest, Honer who was big, tall and mean and James who was fairly quiet could move like lightning. As soon as Gerard returned with location details I expected to be all set to go.