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Scarecrows from Jupiter : Explaining the World - by: Zane Hunter
(Or I'm not half the man my code-shadow is)
When I started to write Scarecrows from Jupiter, I had the idea that I might start a comic strip with the same name as the story. I had the idea that I would write a Sci-fi story about a man who finds out that he has a parallel life going on as a superhero, only he isn't the superhero; his clone or Code shadow is...
Code-shadows are a term for altered clones. I do not think that clones can ever exactly duplicate a human, so DNA strands from the host get altered which is especially useful in creating humans that can withstand and tolerate space travel. In the ancient world people would burn their hair and fingernail clippings, least they are cursed. Maybe they sensed that someday an entire being could be built on these fragments.
My main character, Edmund was used as a host for DNA when he was born. One of the great scientists of the time, Com became his adoptive parent. His Codeshadow or cell-line shadow was already designed to be a mature-human, and he was designed to work with the animation-entertainment business on Jupiter, although due too how inhospitable Jupiter is, most likely Ganymede or Io, or one of the other moons would be used as a natural broadcasting satellite. Edmund is a code- twin to Thane, thus many kids' thinks that he is the actor who is used with the animation Scarecrows. I feel that the animations will be on the realistic side, with the ability to project 3-diamentionally.
The boys in the story Nikki, and Andy are space children which means that they are the offspring of two humans who are spending their life to reach as far into the universe as they can get to within their life frame. The boys parents were granted the wish to leave behind a biological memory in the terms of children. These children are created in an Earth lab by two frozen specimens, the egg and sperm of parents who most likely will never meet each other, or see their offspring. The children are raised in Institutes on Earth hence all of the boys in this story are test-tube babies, Nikki is actually a half-breed as his father is a Code-shadow. Andy was selected to be a host for a new generation of codeshadows.
Edmund gets mixed in this as the company that designs codeshadows, and is involved in illegal activity as well, is doing a corporate take-over with the company that designs cartoons. In this world they actually go to war with one another. The war is taking place where the rockets are launched, as that is where both companies have their Earthside warehouses. Somewhere in the new, New Jersey.
Back to the story...
Com sat in the passenger seat as Edmund continued to drive towards, the warehouse district. The traffic was heavy and he had to wait for an airbridge to go down which kept the smaller cars away from the commercial and rocket transport.
Edwin was growing impatient. "It's funny how much I miss Nikki. Just to hear his voice right now and know he's alright would make me feel better."
"Don't worry Ed, we'll find him.".
Finally the airbridge came down; it was a cloudy structure created with holographs and steam to look like an actual trestle bridge. Traffic was light due to the commercial war which had been going on since early in the morning
Soaring across the bridge brought the two men to the Industrial buildings. Edwin could see a mile or so ahead noticing immediately that that several had flares, which indicated the no-trespass, war zone.
"Shit, I hope it's not near the location where my boys are! I haven't plugged a GPS, as I don't want to be traced, but it seems like it might be close to the site."
"Com was already turning pale. "Ed it doesn't take a GPS to figure out where your boys are, they're smack in the middle of all this."
"Shit, I have to figure out how to get to them, and get them out of this mess."
The sky was as mucky as his thoughts. Why would they bring two precious boys into a war zone? Not that anyone often got hurt unless they were foolish enough to be outside an armed building. The war would be decided by which company was better prepared for the battle. Who ever still had fire power won, it was a waste, but years ago stockholders decided they wanted quick decisions, not one had time anymore for defused games in a corporate takeover.
Edmund knew that he could sit it out, but the price of that is the boys could be shipped quickly elsewhere, and the fact that they were by the rocket launches, and Nikki as good as told him that he was placed in a space-suit, made the prospect of losing the boys a large risk. In fact maybe the war had delayed things. The problem was how could he take advantage of that?
Com turned to Edmund. "I knew that this would happen!"
"And that's supposed to make me feel better?" Edmund muttered.
"No, it's supposed to make you grateful to me until my dying day." Said Com with the voice of an excited kid.
"You're crazy old man, you're a lunatic!" spewed Edmund.
"Good if you feel that way you won't miss me", and then he said softly, "too much."
"What do you mean?" Said Edmund was getting alarmed.
"Well I am going to drive the aircar in, and they'll shoot it down thinking it's you. Then under cover you can go in, you have your airsuit, right?" Com suggested calmly.
"Com, I'm not a superhero, I can't become invisible! first they kill you, then they kill me. Where do you see the heroics in it?" Edmund said impatiently.
"It won't work, will it?" Agreed Com
"No." Stated Edmund. The gut wrenching noises making him sick to his stomach.
"Then we have to get creative, we have to send in the troops." Yelled Com.
"What troops?" Asked Edmund almost panicking from his lack of ideas, as they now were so close to the war zone that the explosives drowned out his voice.
"You're the whiz with computer imagery. I have it set that in exactly an hour we'll have a visit from the Scarecrows from Jupiter."
"What do you mean Com?"
"Their holographic images will beam directly here. We can use it to confuse the enemy."
"So our army will be a vids?" Said Edmund disgusted with his lack of a way to get to his boys.
"It won't be the first time that Vids were used to affect a battle." Said Com
Edmund bit his lip and thought for a minute. A lot can happen in an hour, but I'll try to come up with a way to use the blasted cartoon, if I can't get my boys before that!
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The lights from the explosives hitting the transparent tempered steel windows gleaned off of Nikki's hair like a thousand fireflies. Andy was concerned as he looked at his beautiful friend that their freedoms would be short lived. No one could miss Nikki's shoulder length blond hair, and his diminutive size as he walked with Andy down the hallway. Andy was wearing the guard's outfit. Nikki walked like he was Andy's prisoner.
The company guard was bound and naked in the caged space where the boys had been a few moments ago. The boys had made him very happy for a short time as they worked like a team, Nikki had pulled down the Velcro fly, taken the man's warm dick in his mouth as Andy took the button from it's hiding place in Nikki's posterior, and unlocked the force field.
When the guard had asked what Andy was doing sticking his hand up Nikki's arse, he had said that Andy was loosing him up for the guard. The guard hard as a rock now from the boys hungry lips and tongue, couldn't believe the treasure before him as Nikki hunched over to offer his pink bud to the man's stalk. As the man and Nikki, an ever-enthusiastic lover started to organism, Andy bound the man's hands tightly, and then Nikki found a pressure point as Andy used the man's underwear to gag him.
The boys knew they hadn't much time to make their escape. Nikki motioned Andy over to a supply room where they quickly slipped inside. As Nikki searched around they started to whisper. Andy asked, "Do you think it is right, what we just did I mean, you know having sex with the guard?."
Nikki paused to answer him. "What do you think they planned for us Andy, we are just pretty toys to these people. I think they plan for us to pleasure men until we're too old. At least with Edmund we'll be trained, and educated to be free men. You lived in an boy's kennel right?"
"What's that?"
"You know an Institute, where they work you like a slave, at least mine did. I had to clean floors, and the toilets more than I got to do anything else."
"We had robots for that."
"You were lucky! Anyway when I found out that Edmund was going to squire me, for the first time I had hope that I could be someone. This place is a dead end. At the best when we're too old, they will make us into more goons, so we can go out and find new boys for them. Do you know what you want to be?"
Andy blushed, " I can't be a pilot because I'm afraid of heights, I think that I want to be a Doctor."
"Well, you'll never be one if we stay here!"
"I thought they were just going to take my code and let me go."
" But after that they would ship you off to a boys brothel, or something."
"I would hate that! But at least I would be with you, Nikki"
"Yeah, for how long, a day, a week, they don't keep boys together unless they want to like a set of twins, which we're not, or a boy and a code-shadow."
"I didn't even know about all this." Said Andy sadly.
"I figured it out from Ked, and I had heard rumors, and saw something's in the Vids. These people are the one's who deal with whores and sexboys. I figured that out right away."
"But that stuff is illegal!"
"It is on Earth, but why do you think they put me in a spacesuit. We aren't staying on Earth, and the fact we both had star parents means we have just a little more rights than the code-shadows."
"So what do we do."
"We are going to climb out of the vents, I used to do that at the kennel so I could go outside by myself at night.."
"Aren't there fans that will chop us up."
"Child's play!"
"What do you mean?"
Nikki held up a long sharp tool that he just found. "This is a screwdriver."
"I thought it was a weapon."
"It's better than a weapon! I can use it against machines, and this is something they don't teach you about at the kennels, all they have there are stupid kits where the pieces snap together to make lame projects like picture frames, and earpilot holders."
"Andy thought about the frame he made for Edmund and kept quiet".
"Follow me, but we have to stop talking. We have to try the room across the hall, this one doesn't have a crawlspace"
Once again they were lucky. No one was about, they entered the dark room and shut the door. Without a window the room was black. Nikki didn't want to chance on turning on a light.
"We're going to have to crack the door, Andy you keep look out and if you see any movement in the hallway shut the door."
"Okay"
Nikki looked around, and could find no large vent, then up above he spotted it. There was no way he could reach it without a ladder or an airsuit.
"Andy, we have to get 2 airsuits!"
"How?"
"I don't know, but they have some here somewhere." explained Nikki.
" Maybe it will be as easy to get them as just walking out." Suggested Andy
"I wish we could fly without them." said Nikki.
"The scarecrows can. They can fly I mean, right?." questioned Andy.
"Sure anime can do anything, let's see what would they do?" replied Nikki.
"Can we push a table over?" asked Andy
"It would still be too short."
"Well I still have the guard's outfit. You wait here for me Nikki. I'm going to find the airsuits. Where do you think they would be?"
"Somewhere near the outer doors, why don't you just go Andy. You escape! At least one of us can maybe get away,"
"No Nikki, I am not going to leave here without you. I'll be back with the airsuits, I promise, anything else you want?"
"Sure, two hamburgers, medium rare."
"I'll be back." repeated Andy
"Andy, I mean it, if you can go get the hell out of here, go find Edmund. I love you, and I really mean it."
Andy turned to him before he shut the door leaving Nikki in darkness. "I'll be back."
Nikki paused for a moment, and then he whispered to Andy. "Come here Andy."
Andy took a step back, and Nikki reached up to him. Their lips brushed, and then met, hungry, both drank in the sweetness of each other, in a prolonged kiss. As they reluctantly broke the seal Nikki ran his hand down Andy's arm and when he let his last finger go he said, "Goodbye brother."
"Andy touched his hair, "Nikki, I will be back." And with that he went down the hallway trying to act as confident as a guard. Nikki retreated into the dim room to continue and look for another way out, and not to give himself up to the darkness...
To be continued...