Copyright 1998 -- Robert Baer Jr. D.J. Entry - The Abduction W A R N I N G ------ D I S C L A I M E R The story that follows is PURE FICTION, it DIDN'T REALLY HAPPAN only in my mind. This "entry" is for ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY and NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN TOO SERIOUSLY. It represents the struggle of the mind. Please enjoy and thank you for all the positive e-mail for the previous "entries." Your comments are appreciated! The Dinosaur Chronicles: Prologue: Once upon a time in the vastness of cyberspace roamed a dinosaur, but not an ordinary dinosaur, a Computer Dinosaur! A dinosaur who believes a TRS80 is a current model computer and that "fax machines" are used by Sgt Joe Friday on Dragnet. How does a ten-ton dinosaur survive in this modern world? See how in another entry from his "personal journal." Entry # 148 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today started out as an ordinary day, but had I known the perils that were ahead, I probably would've stayed in bed! It was noon and I was just finishing watching the lastest Jurrasic Park movie on video when I heard a loud commotion outside my cave entrance. When I ran outside to see what was wrong, I suddenly found myself surrounded by over a dozen men in strange looking uniforms. "There he is!" their leader shouted,"Fire the tranquilizer cannon!" I heard a loud KABOOM behind me and felt a sharp pain in my left thigh. They had shot a large tranquilizer dart into my leg! Before I realized what was happaning one of the men tossed a rope over my neck and down to the other side. As I felt myself starting to pass out, my head slowly dropping to the ground, all I could mutter was "why is this happaning, why!" When I awoke, I was in a very oddly furnished room. One side looked like glass and I could see clearly out the other side of it. The other three "walls" were standard jail cell type steel "iron bars." As I stood to my feet, still a little grogy, I heard one of the "guards" whisper "he's awake but still sedated, if he starts moving too much, we'll use another dart on him." Hearing this, I stood still, looking toward the "glass wall" directly ahead of me. There was also two other objects in my chamber, a speaker and a closed circuit camera, both perched high in a corner of the ceiling. I could see on the other side of the "window" a large room, almost circular in design with an open area in the center. On one side of that room was a podium resembling a pulpit with many seats on either side of it. The room, which has few windows, looked kinda like the inside of a small stadium. I saw two men standing near the center of the room, talking to each other. I wouldn't have been able to hear them, except the "speaker" in my cell was on. "He's not coming," one of the men said. "Oh, he'll be here alright," the better dressed man beside him said, "I planted the message where he'd be sure to find it, he'll be here alright." As soon as he said that, a loud BOOM shook the entire complex, there standing before the two men with a piece of paper in his hand was the Computer Renegade, who appeared to be very upset! "What is this all about, why have you invited me here, and what's the important message you have for me?" snarled the Renegade. "Well, if it isn't our old dear friend, the Renegade, you do remember us, don't you?" the well dressed man said sarcasticly. "Of course you do, for over thirteen years you were one of us, serving the cause very valiantly. We've missed you, you with your high tech gadgetry and razor sharp mind. You were part of our inner circle at one time, until you left us. And now here you are, standing before us once again." "I'm only here because you sent me this note!" the Renegade yelled,"now either tell me what's this is all about or I'm leaving, NOW!" "By the way, how's your wife?" the well dressed man said snidely,"I hear she's no longer with you, is she? We told you what she was, now do you believe us?" "Your false accusations destroyed her!," the Renegade screamed as he grabbed the well dressed man by the collar,"you and your people did this to her!" "You better let go, friend" the man said,"look at that monitor, one of your associates is now our guest." The Renegade glanced up at the screen, the camera came on in my cell, and the image on the monitor was me! The Renegade grew angry and screamed,"Where is he! What have you done to him! Tell me!" "Address me with respect, I'm the Leader, and you'll serve me again, or we'll take your big friend and make dinosaur chowder out of him!" the Leader said,"surrender your cape, your mask and all your gadgets to me now, or the dinosaur gets it!" "I'll just pop him out of there," the Renegade said. "No you won't," the Leader replied,"you have to know where he is in order to use your black box on him. He may be in this building, he may be miles and miles away. We really outsmarted you this time, didn't we? Now, your Renegade days are over! You will serve me and the cause again, or else your dinosaur buddy will become extinct!" How come he couldn't see me through this "window?" I reasoned that it must be a two way mirror, and the Renegade didn't know I was really close by. I wanted to yell outloud, but those two men behind me had another tranquillizer dart ready if I made any sudden moves. I could only watch as this situation unfolded. As the Computer Renegade was ready to surrender, a loud BOOM! shook the entire building and appearing right beside him was a group of people, a motley crew of "warriors", led by the Computer Counsellor, dressed in a white karate robe. With her came Xeren Zzoom and Wanna Talk (both dressed in khaki), the Computer Gila Monster (dressed in his usual black leather jacket, boots and with two-by-four in hand) as well as the attorneys Ben Maddog and Prairie Mason. They didn't wear suits, they were acting more "canine" than usual, down on all fours and growling! "Good thing you gave me this extra black box, Renegade," the Computer Counsellor said. "GET THEM!" the Leader shouted as about two dozen "guards" ran into the room to face the mob. Pure chaos followed. The "attorneys" started growling and chasing a group of the guards, barking and trying to bite them. "I haven't had this much fun since I was a pup!" Ben Maddog shouted as he bit one guard on the leg. "It's times like this that I wish I was rabib!" joked Prairie Mason as he bit a guard in the seat of his pants! The Gila Monster brought his two-by-four and started using it on the guards. "Come back here you crumbs, I want to give you a morse code message on your skulls!" he snarled. The Computer Counsellor demonstrated her Tao Kwan Do skills while Wanna Talk simply kicked some the guards in the "groin." "Now you can sing the high notes, chump!" she said as she watched another guard roll over in pain! While all this was going on in the center of the room, Xeren Zzoom snuck up to the "podium" looking for the control panel that might free the Dinosaur from his cell. The Renegade produced another gadget, an image projector that had the guards chasing "shadows of himself" all over the room. "ENOUGH!!!" the Leader roared,"All of you stop fighting and stand here before me or we'll feast on FILET OF DINOSAUR tonight!" With that pronouncement, the Renegade and his motley crew, one by one, gave up the "chase" and stood together in the center of the room. "YOU'LL ALL BECOME MY FOLLOWERS!" the Leader bellowed,"BECAUSE I STILL HAVE THE DINOSAUR!" The Leader walked slowly toward the group. "You two will make fine watch dogs," he sneared at Ben and Prairie. "I'll bet you could create even better devices than the Renegade, couldn't you, boy?" he said as he pointed at Xeren. "You'll make a good guard recruit!" the Leader said, trying to patronize the Gila Monster, who spit on his shoes in return for the "compliment." Then the Leader approached the two women. "You're not my type," he said to the Counsellor,"but you could really serve me well, darling!" he said while reaching to touch Wanna. Before the Leader could blink, Wanna slapped him so hard it sounded like thunder in that strange room. "THAT BETTER NOT HAPPAN AGAIN, WOMAN!" the Leader screamed,"YOU WILL ALL SERVE THE CAUSE OR ELSE!" "I have to do something," I thought to myself, so I turned my head around, my "guards" were gone, they must've went into the room to help their buddies! Now's my chance, but I had to act fast! "That window may be soundproof, but it's not dinosaur-proof" I thought outloud. I backed up and ran straight for it, hurling my whole body into the glass. There was a loud crash that echoed throughout that large room as I smashed the glass wall and fell to the floor, quickly rolling over unto my feet. I was so angry! I didn't even notice the cuts I got from all that shattered glass! I screamed "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE OR I'LL EAT EVERYONE OF Y'ALL!" The Leader, who looked absolutely petrified, said rather timidly,"But you're a herbavore, you don't eat people!" "WELL THEN I'M GONNA SWALLOW YOU UP AND LET YOU TAKE A SWIM IN MY STOMACH UNTIL I FEEL LIKE SPITTING YOU OUT!" I shouted,"NOW WHICH ONE OF YOU MORONS GETS THE FIRST TOUR OF MY GIZZARD!" I let out a mighty "R O A R , Y'ALL!!!!!" That was enough for most of the guards, they ran away in pure fear! I don't really remember all that happaned next, I was so furious, I swatted at the remaining guards with my tail, I lounged at some with my head and I almost had the Leader, who ran out of the way just in time as I took a huge bite out of the podium! I continued my rampage until the Counsellor ran to me waving both arms and shouted,"STOP DINOSAUR! THEY'RE ALL GONE!! STOP!!" Then I took a good look at all the damage I'd done, the room was a mess, the floor had huge cracks in it, the walls had huge holes where I punched them or pushed my head through. Everyone was staring at me, looking almost stunned! Xeren said,"That was like totally awesome, big guy." I was full of emotion, half proud and half scared. "Did I shallow anyone?" I whispered to the Renegade. "No," the Gila Monster jumped in,"but you sure scared the crap out of all of them." I added,"so that explains the strange stinch in here!" Everyone laughed. "You're hurt, C.D.!" said the Counsellor. Now the pain of all those glass cuts in my skin was starting to get intense. "Let's get outta here," the Renegade calmly said,"Counsellor, would you do the honors?" "OK, but the dinosaur needs first aid, we'll go to his cave," she said as she pushed the button on her black box. At my cave, as I "stretched out" on my stone couch, nearly everyone was busy placing bandages and disinfectant on all my cuts. Believe me, I had a lot of them! The Renegade sat alone on the other side of the room with a worried look on his face. The Counsellor noticed, and walked over to him and said,"you must not blame yourself for all this...." "Then who should I blame?" the Renegade questioned,"they kidnapped the dinosaur because he was my friend. Those people nearly had all of us because you are all my friends. I have put everyone in danger just by being here..." "Stop that!" the Counsellor snapped at him."we came to help you because we ARE your friends! We couldn't stand by and watch you give yourself up to that bunch. You always taught us to fight for justice, what's the justice in serving someone you know is wrong? Besides, look at how things turned out! I'll bet those 'people' will never tangle with C.D. again!" "But what if they try that again?" the Renegade reasoned,"what if they kidnap Xeren, or Wanna, or .... you?" "We can defend ourselves!" the Counsellor said sternly,"besides, we're all in this thing together, if something happans to one of us, the rest of us will come to the rescue." "That's right!" shouted Xeren. "I'll be there!" shouted the Gila Monster as he waved his two-by-four over his head. "I like this better than circuit court!" added Prairie Mason as he reached for another bundle of gauge. "Funner than burying bones!" Ben Maddog said. "Count me in, you guys are the greatest!" Wanna Talk added. "That's what friends are for, y'all!" I stated. "How does it feel to be a hero, dinosaur?" the Counsellor inquired. "Hero? Me?" I started,"All I did was get really mad and almost destroyed an entire building and scared a bunch of uniformed men out of their wits! Nothing heroic about that." "You asserted yourself, big guy," the Counsellor replied,"you saw that we were in danger and you did something about it. Sometimes that all it takes to be a hero, someone willing to get involved." "Really?" I asked,"WOW! does this mean I get a comic book named after me?" "We'll work on it, big guy," the Renegade said with a smile. End of entry -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------