Episode 10: Aye Aye captain!

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Episode 10: Aye Aye captain!

You don’t need to know, what my name is, or who am I actually! All you need to know is the story I am about to share with you all. The story that matters and the story that needs to be told! We know that sometimes, some things happen with some people that are actually unbelievable, strange and eccentric and this story is no different. These things or the series of events, change us for the better or worse, and decide who we become. So, assuming that you are ready to believe whatever I say and believe the not so obvious, I present to you the story of the unbelievable!!

The present day on the island:

‘W

hat the –’ Abhay was to say something when he had to dug Ronit’s sudden blow at him.

             He was shocked at the strange sight of Ronit standing there alive, after killing himself in front of him. Abhay knew he had seen Ronit kill himself and he for sure had seen Ronit’s nerves and tissues erupt out of his skull as his brain had exploded with the shot from that fierce gun. 

            Before he could react to Ronit’s strange behavior and appearance, Simons attacked Ronit with a strong metallic rod that he had found somewhere. And whoosh! Ronit fell on the ground, unconscious, and along with him fell down all the other soldiers that were with Ronit.

            ‘What the frigging hell was that Simons?’ Abhay exploded at Simons. ‘Why did you hit him so hard? He is my friend damn it!’

            ‘Well yeah,’ Simons retorted. ‘The same friend that had killed himself in front of all of us a month ago, right?’

            ‘What do you mean by that?’

            ‘You’ll see that soon captain,’ Simons said, as he bent down near Ronit’s body, which laid there unconscious. ‘Come here and look for yourself.’

            As, Abhay went near Ronit and looked closely below his ears as pinpointed by Simons, he saw an electric spark and then some fumes coming out of it.

            ‘What the hell is it now?’ Abhay was obviously shocked at the strange sight of electric sparks and fumes from a human body.

            ‘Wait, there is more to it,’ Simons said, as he maneuvered his hand around Ronit’s ears and back of his skull, with utter dexterity. He twisted his hand and pulled out a metallic chip that resembled a PCB and had many wires connected with it and were somehow joined with Ronit’s neck.

            ‘Holly crap!’ Abhay exclaimed, as Simons turned Ronit’s body such that he lay on his stomach. And there it was. The chip was connected to the wiring that ran through Ronit’s neck which was of metal and was covered with human skin.

        ‘I don’t believe this,’ Abhay said, as he flinched back in startling astonishment. ‘This –’

            ‘Yeah, this is a robot or you might say a humanoid or a cyborg or you know, whatever,’ Simons said, interrupting him. ‘Your friend died at that very moment that he shot himself captain. This is just his body, running on mechanical parts and supported by a million ICs and computerized chips.’

            He then searched the body to find a microphone and took it in his hands and signaled everybody to be silent.

            ‘Inmates contained. Activate code 54643,’ he said in the mic.

            ‘Activating code 54643. Code activated,’ a robotic voice answered back from the microphone and Simons then detached it from the body and destroyed the chip.

            ‘What the –’ Abhay was to again say something as his expressions deteriorated and as he looked terribly frightened and confused.

            ‘Now before you ask anything else captain,’ Simons said, interrupting him again. ‘We have a lot of prisoners to help break free from here. With a little change in your plan, we all will move out of here fast.’

            Abhay sure as hell was confused and shocked. But he at once sensed something: Simons knew about the place that they were struck in more than anybody else. So, he decided to follow his instructions. They all were moving out in a pattern, with Simons guiding them. After walking in the gallery for some time, Simons stopped.

            ‘Now, listen all you morons,’ Simons commanded. ‘Those who want to get out of this hell, will follow my orders as our captain here and I brief you with further instructions. Now step backwards all of you!’

            Everybody followed his instructions along with Abhay. He then walked a certain distance, went inside an opening in the wall nearby and maneuvered his hand behind the wall. Soon, after a lot of effort, the adjacent wall slid sideways and it opened another gateway that was a secret tunnel.

            ‘Now, all you bitches,’ Simons yelled again. ‘Get inside this gateway and step down through the stairs slowly. The stairs will lead to the sewage line, wait there until further instructions. C’mon now, hurry up your lazy bums, assholes!’

            Soon, he began directing everyone into the gateway and down the staircase and Abhay began helping him. After almost everyone was out of the gallery and into the sewage line, Simons asked Abhay to climb down the stairs as he came behind him. Abhay strapped Vodka around his back in a really awkward position, with his belt strapped around Vodka’s t-shirt. Ah, right I didn’t tell you that he was a trendy dog right? Well guess what? He was indeed a trendy dog with a set of t-shirts and knickers. Thankfully those helped him that day.

            ‘Simons,’ Abhay said. ‘You are a hell lot of genius here. But how did you know about this secret opening here?’

            ‘That’s because I designed this place captain,’ Simons replied calmly. ‘And don’t worry, nobody else knows about this gateway except me and now for you all of course.’ 

            Abhay was still confused as they reached down in the sewage alley. Simons began instructing everyone out of the alley and Abhay followed him, without registering anything. Almost a dozen things were happening simultaneously and Abhay couldn’t help but follow whatever Simons had to say. As they reached the end of the sewage line, Simons spoke again.

            ‘Here we are assholes,’ he said. ‘Now this sewage line eventually ends into the sea outside, surrounding this island. Off you go now and happy independence to all of you.’

            ‘I am grateful and sorry at the same time buddy,’ the man who was screaming at him earlier in the prison said to Simons.

            ‘Oh, sure you are,’ Simons said, with a scoff. ‘Never ever discourage anyone who is looking beyond the obvious buddy. Now jump and get out of this rut fast.’

            When, everyone had cleared out, Simons asked Abhay to go first, but he denied. ‘Thanks for being a great man that you are Simons,’ he said. ‘But I can’t leave without getting my sister and my uncle back. They are in trouble.’

            ‘Well, I guess we’ll need to infiltrate the palace then,’ Simons said.

            ‘What? I mean, this –’ Abhay was to say something, when Simons interrupted him.

            ‘I know you have a hell lot of questions captain,’ he said. ‘Trust me I’ll answer all of them, but right now we’ll have to get off this place at any cost. Trust me. Come with me.’

            ‘Trust me’, those were two words that had haunted Abhay for days then. He obviously didn’t know if he could trust this guy Simons but he had no other choice so he agreed. So, he followed Simons who reversed his steps to get back into the main sewage alley.  He kept walking to the other side of the sewage line and finally stopped near another set of stairs.

            ‘These will lead us to the basement of the palace,’ he said pointing at the stairs that went upwards. ‘And don’t worry captain, I know the place well, I designed it.’

            ‘Well, OK, if you say so,’ Abhay said, reluctantly. ‘But how do we know that my sister and uncle are kept there?’

            ‘We don’t,’ Simons said. ‘But this is the only choice we are left with at present. The only possibility of finding your sister and uncle is in the palace. And for that, we’ll have to infiltrate the palace first.’

            So, with no other options left, Abhay relented and followed Simons, and strapped Vodka on his back again.

            ‘So, you designed this place?’ Abhay asked, as they were climbing, and Vodka was sniffing at his back playfully. ‘Then why were you imprisoned?’

            ‘Ah, that’s a long story captain,’ Simons said, maintaining his grip over the stairs, as they climbed. ‘You really don’t want to know the answers. Ritika wouldn’t want that, I swear.’

            ‘Holy crap!’ Abhay yelled, shocked. ‘How do you know about her? What’s going on here?’

            ‘Keep climbing and don’t lose your grip or you’ll fall to your death,’ Simons replied. ‘I know everything captain. It’s just that this isn’t the right time for you to know anything.’

            Abhay at once grew skeptical and had second thoughts about believing anything that Simons said. But then they were already at a great height so Abhay had no option but to climb along or he would've literally fall to death. Eventually, they reached the end of the staircases and Simons punched some codes into a lid and pushed it outside and so, they came out and entered into the basement.

            They all were dead tired so they sprawled on the floor as Abhay unstrapped Vodka of his back. What a relief it was! It was dark and looked like nobody was present there.

            ‘Look I know you are skeptical about believing in anything I say captain,’ he said. ‘But here is something you need to know. This guy who controls this place: the stranger, he is building a monstrous army of humanoids or cyborgs or anything that you would like to call them, similar to the one that you saw in the gallery earlier that looked like your friend.’

            Something in his guts told Abhay to believe Simons, for he genuinely seemed a nice guy. ‘And why is he doing any of these things?’ Abhay asked. 

            ‘Ah, well,’ Simons begin to unravel a mystery that shocked Abhay. ‘He has body armor for himself too, connected to his body that controls all other humanoids out there. Basically his body and therefore he himself is the motherboard or the supercomputer that can control any humanoid that’s connected to him. All these prisoners that we just freed? They too were captured for experiments to turn them into humanoids after killing them.’

            ‘Holy crap,’ Abhay exclaimed, half believing whatever he had heard, for all of it seemed like a battered and repeated plot for a sci-fi movie and nothing else. ‘There shall be a way to stop him then, right?’

            ‘Well there actually is,’ Simons said, with a sigh. ‘But you won’t believe me if I told you the way anyhow. So leave it.’

            ‘Tell me now,’ Abhay said. ‘After all that you’ve told me, you can surely tell me that, regardless of whether I’ll believe you or not.’

            ‘Well,’ Simons sighed. ‘The material of his armor is a special one. So it needs special atmosphere and a special technique to destroy. And yes, once we destroy it, we can easily destroy all the humanoids present and stop this deadly operation for once and all.’

            So, he then told Abhay the way to destroy the mother armor that I am not telling you at present and yes, Abhay didn’t believe it. ‘Forgive me,’ he said. ‘But that’s actually bullshit.’

            ‘Ah, sure it is,’ Simons said, as he stood up. ‘But then everything that has happened with you on this island is pretty much bullshit, isn’t it?’

            Abhay was dumbfounded at Simons’ reply. Magical leaves, his incredible and strange combat skills, strange raining atmosphere that allowed it to rain for months continuously –all of it was pretty much bullshit unless he had experienced it, himself. So, maybe Simons was genuinely right about everything that he had said.

            ‘Umm,’ Abhay struggled for words. ‘What exactly did you say back there in Ronit’s, I mean that humanoid’s microphone?’

            ‘Ah that,’ Simons giggled. ‘I messaged the control room humanoids to activate the code 54643. The code is from the protocol which instructs to evacuate the concerned area from any guards or security. It is applied when a concerned area is completely secure and no longer needs monitoring. That’s the reason that we didn’t find any more humanoids amid our escape from the prison as they had already summoned all the humanoids back, as per the code 54643.’

            ‘How the frigging hell do you know all this?’ Abhay asked.

            ‘I told you captain,’ Simons said. ‘You aren’t ready to know that yet.’ 

            Before Abhay could say anything, they heard some squeaks. Abhay got up and they moved a little to find a large cage. On closer observations they found a large herd of golden rabbits like creatures: aureum lepus, similar to the one that Abhay had saved on the island from being hunted down by the pack of wolves like creature. 

            ‘These are aureum lepus,’ Abhay yelled. ‘I know about them. But why are they caged here?’

            ‘Well, if you know about them,’ Simons said. ‘Then you must be familiar with their special powers to grant any wish howsoever impossible, just like a Genie in those comices to anyone that makes them happy, don’t you? So, it’s said that once the stranger saved one of these from an accident. And as a result they granted him a wish that was obviously fulfilled. Since then, he has captured every single of these, from wherever he could so that they grant him all his bizarre and lethal wishes.’

            Actually yes, aureum lepus were the mystical creatures on the island that could grant and fulfill any impossible wish made by the person who made them happy. They were adorable and were treated with utter respect on the island, much like the gods.

            ‘That’s the height of evil lunacy,’ Abhay exploded. ‘They deserve to roam freely on this land and can’t be treated like this. How can we free them?’

            ‘I guess we better leave them as it is, as the guards would be here any minute for a regular patrol,’ Simons advised. ‘Anyhow, you can always free them by feeding them anything from bare hands. All the caretakers are strictly instructed to feed them with specially gloved hands.’

            Abhay looked around and saw a stack of herbs lying nearby. He lifted it and threw it in the cage and all of them pounced on the herbs at once, and began disappearing one by one. And an alarm started ringing hard.

            ‘What is it?’ Abhay asked, shocked.

            ‘The alarm obviously,’ Simons said, casually. ‘Now that you’ve freed this herd of the aureum lepus, how do you expect the guards to leave you?’

            ‘What?’ Abhay exclaimed, astounded.

            ‘Obviously,’ Simons said. ‘I gave you a choice to run away but you chose to help them escape. So now, we suffer captain. And don’t freak out if your migraine pain shoots up now.’

            ‘What?!’ Abhay was bewildered as actually his migraine attack had just begun. ‘How do you know about the pain?’

            ‘I told you, I know a lot of things captain,’ Simons said, calmly. ‘And don’t worry because like everything in your life, your migraine pain isn’t what you think it is either. It’s your subconscious ability to warn you against any possible future threat. So, whenever you are about to face a dangerous situation or a threat, your migraine pain shoots up, as a warning. Now surrender and get down on your knees captain, the guards are here.’

            Soon, as they got down on their knees, the guards or the humanoids as they called them, captured both of them along with Vodka. And Abhay had just received another yet biggest shock of his life. His migraine pain was a subconscious ability? And he looked back to the events so far and yes, indeed it was.

            From his pain for the first time before his car accident, to this time, he indeed had faced dangers or lethal situations after his each migraine attack. So, his migraine pain wasn’t a curse as it had seemed for so long, it indeed was a blessing, that gave him warnings about any impending threat or danger. That was a relief for him. But who was this Simons and how did him and Ritika know so much about Abhay, were still the questions hunting him.

            ‘I don’t know a fraction of things that you know,’ Abhay yelled, while being transferred by the guards, blindfolded. ‘You seem to be really wiser and powerful than me Simons. Then why do you keep calling me captain? I don’t deserve to be the captain buddy, do I?’

            ‘Of course you do,’ he heard Simons voice. ‘You just don’t remember them yet and I call you the captain because you are a captain, our captain!’

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