Mutainia

When a mutated superhuman became the captain of a ship named "Mutainia", little did he and his peaceful crew realize that it contained a robot with a mind-control ray, and that Mutainia was actually an incredibly powerful weapon designed by a robot race to lower the defenses of the earth's galaxy for invasion. All looked lost for earth's forces until this captain became free from the robot's mind-control ray, beat holy hell out of the powerful robot and, turned Mutainia's power on it's makers. It's been no easy job, though. For the now liberated captain and crew have ZERO credibility, have to deal with bounty hunters spawned from galactic vengeance AND, have to contend with the robot race that KNOWS the great power they created that is now turned on THEM. Realizing what's coming at them, the robot race of Endustro is trying to use ALL the power of their computer god, "Bog", to try to stop Mutainia and it's now liberated, WRATHful captain, Newtin. Newtin Vs The Ramadars The mighty ship of Newtin, called Mutainia, wandered on through the galaxy. It was another ordinary day as most of its crew, including Newtin, jammed away on musical instruments to see if they could make "Mutainia", (also the name of their band), into another big hit music group. Although LPs, CDs and DVDs were a thing of the distant past, there was ONE planet that still sold albums on records made of VYNAL, and, Newtin and his crew thought that IF they could produce a great music album, maybe their creativity would get around and possibly lesson the vengeance directed at them. If that day never came, though, they still enjoyed making music to pass the time away as they traveled through the universe while the ship's computer scanned for interesting planets they might want to investigate. When the crew finished their jam session, Newtin smiled, but, then said, "Aaugh. Still needs work." Suddenly, the computer began to tell them that they were getting in close ranch to planet Pawtamnar, which definitely rang a bell for the ship's captain and crew. "Take us into orbit around Pawtamnar." Newtin commanded the computer. As Mutainia passed by one of the planet's moons, ten ships flew around from behind a moon and began attacking Mutainia, shaking it's crew about violently. One of the ships was a USS Starship from earth. "Surrender to the Federation or thou shalt be destroyed, Newtin." said the captain from the starship, leading the attack. And Mutainia was hit by the best the ten ships could strike it with. "There weapons seem to have become stronger since last time," said one of the crew on Mutainia. "I wonder if that goes ditto for their shields." said Newtin, bounsing around in his throne from the latest barrage. Newtin then ordered a counter attack. Within a minute, the blitz Mutainia sent out at the attackers had ALL the attacking ships badly damaged. "We haven't killed anyone, have we?" Newtin asked one of his sensors officers, there WAS concern in his voice. "I can't tell, Newtin, one of their weapons knocked out the sensors." Mutainia was hardly being budged by the attackers now. Newtin ordered a volley of more missiles until none were shooting back. The captain of the crippled starship hailed Mutainia, a lot of cussing in a King James dialect filled Mutainia's bridge followed by a scolding and an accusation IN King Jame's English that IF Newtin was no longer evil, he would surrendereth his ship and go peacefully into custody for crimes against the cosmos. "And then who gets in control of Mutainia?" Newtin responded. "Power corrupts, and, absolute power...you know? Besides. How do you NOT know that if I gave you Mutainia, that, who was ever in control of Mutainia wouldn't end up secretly being replaced with a robot replicant from Endustro? The damn robots I managed to TAKE this ship from?" "Thou sayest," mocked the starship captain, "Robots NONE hast seen! SURE thou art under control by them. SURE thy destroying of worlds was NOT thine doing!" There was a pause. Newtin then looked at his crew and said, "What's all this thee and thou crap? Am I dreaming?" "Not unless we're dreaming with you," said Callisto, the most alien looking of all on the bridge of Mutainia. Newtin smiled and said, "What's with the thee and thou crap?" The Captain of the ship looked even angrier and said, "Scientists recently didst discover that a dialect of such helpeth rulers rule better when one didst speak in such mannor, so that now, I hast been programmed to speaketh as such." "PROGRAMMED!?!?" Newtin nearly shouted. The captain of the earth ship then revealed in his own way, that he was artificial. The captain then went on and said, "Scientists didst become suspicious of the power of the power of heard dialect when so many holy books of the 19th Century annon into the 20th were translated into such sounding phrasing." Newtin looked at his crew and said, "Gad. Maybe Endustro DID take over earth? A ROBOT is commanding one of our SHIPS!" The robot captain then said, "Those of the Federation trusteth mine logical reasons of command, I BEAT all the humans in the accademy." Newtin and his crew noticed a bit of pride in the robot captain. Newtin then said, "Well, robot, or man, you aren't getting my ship. let's see you try to use your programmed logic of command to get me to surrender. I mean USE your logic and powers of deduction! How did I acquire this ship?" Am I THAT briliant to be able to create a ship as this?" "Thou probably didst pirated it, using thy mighty mutant powers. IF what thou sayest is true, WHY didst thou attack earth TWICE...AFTER thou sayest thou didst wrestle free from Endustro power!" shouted the robot with programmed captain fury. Newtin, knowing the story of what REALLY happened, sounding incredibly untrue, paused, and smiled, "I KNOW it sounds like I am lying, but, it's true. When we entered the earth's solar-system, and the sensors detected earth in view, there was a computer virus that, unbeknownst to us, had been planted inside the ship's computer just incase we DID return to earth IF I was able to get free from Endustro's mind control. It was, apparently, one of Endustro's fail- safe devices. I mean, EVERY little bit of data we were receiving from earth was NOT what the computers on the ship were telling us!" shouted Newtin with growing fury. "And, EVERYthing we were telling you on earth was NOT our words. I mean, really, we thought we were helping earth fight off run away nano- technology. The cities that were incinerated looked, to those on Mutainia, to be a blob of nano-bots in the desert. We though for SURE we we're firing in one area, not in a BUNCH of areas!" "WHY DIDN'ST THOU BEAMEST DOWN TO EARTH FIRST!" screamed the starship robot captain with fury. "The man on our viewing screen, who looked just like the President of Earth, sounded very convincing that earth was in danger and needed help. I mean, WE SHOWED YOU THE PLAY BACK OF WHAT WE WERE VIEWING!!!" roared Newtin back. The robot captain on the smoke filled bridge of the earth starship looked like he was about to blow a fuse, litterally, he now seemed so angry. "Let't us play BACK some of what WE dids't receive from thy horrid Mutainia and reVEAL the carnage thou didst render unto the inhabitors of the EARTH!" shouted the captain. On earth, tv stations showed a crazy faced Newtin filling viewing screens. He was speaking with "thees and thous", demanded worship or death from the "inhabitors of the earth". The next clips showed Mutainia striking and destroying cities with powerful beams and bolts of energy. Ripping up the earth with powerfully generated lightning bolts. Newtin countered that ALL that was broadcast from his ship NEVER happened. It was the computer blocking REAL transmissions, and, creating phoney ones just to MAKE Newtin and crew look evil. "Endustro is the king of quick computer animation and graphics!" shouted Newtin, desperately. "Yea, and, most foul when thou showest what THOU sayest thine crew's eyes saw!" shouted the robot captain back. "It DID! It DID!" shouted Newtin. "It played back EVERYthing we thought we were experiencing with the nanobots from earth in CG style that looked incredibly pre-21st CENTURY! Just to make it look like we were crappy at covering UP a lie!" "Newtin is telling the truth!" shouted a desperate Sheena, the only hot cutie on Mutainia's bridge. The robot Federation captain just stood there then said, "The honesty of Newtin canst not be trusted, which is why I hast been programmed to counter him on all his desires--" Newtin thought a bit on the last sentence, then furiously shouted back with, "And you will continue to NOT believe me even IF I turn myself in! Endustro screwed me ROYAL, robot! And I will NEVER surrender this ship until I HAVE my revenge! Besides. As clones and replicants, we are expendable in your eyes." "Thou art no longer a clone." said the Captain. "The Higher ups said the same thing and proved otherwise. I was created ONLY to find out what was in that one dimension... no one ever returned." "But thou didst." said the Captain. "And reported back... nothing." "I have no memory of anything." said Newtin. A few hours later, Mutainia entered the orbit of the planet it hadn't visited in nearly eight years. Before heading further toward the planet, Newtin told his attackers that they were going to be doing a short visit of the planet to see how an old friend was doing, but, they'd be keeping an eye open for any further moves of aggression. Newtin had Mutainia send out a distress signal FOR them, to show the Federation he could have finished them off, but showed them mercy. The last words Newtin heard from the robot captain before embarking on an orbit of the planet, was, "Thou shalt not see the last of us, Newtin." Minutes later, Mutainia was scanning for the man Newtin had "marrooned" on the planet, a fellow crewman, who actually decided to live on this particular planet rather than brave it on Mutainia. The guy KNEW Mutainia had become a lightning rod from Newtin wrestling control of it away from the the evil robot race of Endustro that had created it for invasion, and he KNEW that Endustro wouldn't be the ONLY thing to worry about, being that Endustro did such a great job of making Newtin and the crew of Mutainia look evil. He wanted NO part of the crew, but, wanted to live in peace on this fantastic planet with human looking people who were so electrical that they were able to create their own anti-gravity barriors by thought and fly by the powers of their mind. Inspite of flying, though, many drove around in electric cars in cities that looked like something out of the mid-20th Century. And, when the last time the crew of Mutainia visited, they were pretty much on the verge of spaceflight. Newtin paced the bridge of his ship a bit, then smiled, before finally saying, "How much you want to bet Mr. Fuyu down there sold out and introduced some of our technology for a huge load of their cash? How ELSE could he survive down there if he didn't bother to sell even a LITTLE of it? Sure he talked religiously about non-interference, but, if he got hungry, I'm thinking he changed his mind." "What could he sell them that they'd be interested in, when they can fly?" asked Callisto, a non-human looking being on Mutainia. "Oh, I can think of some." said Newtin, being a flying being himself. It wasn't long until Mutainia's sensors picked up Mr. Fuyu's tracking device, and, with that, Newtin and crew next tried calling Fuyu's old communi- cator. When Mr. Fuyu noticed that his old communicator was sounding in an old dressor of his, he excitedly and desperately grabbed for it, knowing that the ONLY one who'd be calling him was probably his old mutated captain Newtin. "Mr. Fuyu," said Newtin from his throne he sat in, "Nice to know you're still alive and kicking. STILL think this planet is Paradise?" "GET ME OUT OF HERE! PLEASE! GET ME OUT OF HERE!" Mr. Fuyu loudly begged and pleaded. A few minutes later, Mr. Fuyu stepped off the transporter from being beamed up. "MR. FUYU!?!?" shouted Newtin on seeing him. The crew gasped. For, although Mr. Fuyu was in his 20s when they last left him, eight years seemed to have treated him like 30. Not only was he old and grey, but, his eyes had cateracts. "What the hell HAPPENED to YOU, FuYU!" shouted crewman Sheena with horror in her pretty eyes. Mr. Fuyu said that during the time they left him, things were great on the planet. The electrical people, who were the natives of the planet, were very happy and peaceful, especially with their ability to levitate and fly around in the sky by the powers of their mind. It looked like they were interested in checking out some of the technology Fuyu had in his head that he had brought to them from Mutainia. But, after three years into his stay on the planet, a radiant, glowing being landed on the planet in a ring of light, telling all the planet's people that a powerful being from another dimension had created them for IT'S desire that they live with It when they died. That, contrary to what they believed, they had souls, souls that would one day live on it's planet called Ramada IF they now worshipped it. If they DIDN'T worship it, they wouldn't live on after their deaths and, worse still, but, the god from planet Ramada that now demanded worship, would destroy one of their cities each time it was reported back to it that ONE person was found NOT worshipping it. The glowing being told the people that it was this god of Ramada that not only created them all including their planet. IT was the one that was always bringing them rain and good whether when needed, IT was the one that was putting fruit on the trees and making their women pretty, IT was the one who gave them the power of mind to fly and dance in the sky...but...it needed something from them. According to the glowing, angelic, looking being, the god of Ramada was sick and now dying and needed THEM to help sustain it until IT could find away to sustain itself withOUT them. That, it needed the life energy it had given them since the beginning of their world's creation. It told them that they'd have to conserve their energy and never fly again, until It could be healed. And, if even just ONE was found to be flying, there would be hell unleashed upon them. "IT... sounds suspicious," said Newtin. "Hi," said Fuyu in his native Japanese after squinting his cloudy eyes. Fuyu went on and said that the being that was claiming to be the creator of them all said that not only was the flying by thought going to have to end, no longer would living as age-less children have to end, but, that they'd have to stop what they were doing every 12 hours, and face the the absorber of their life energy. No matter WHERE or WHAT they were doing on the planet, they'd have to STOP, turn, and FACE the absorber for one whole hour each time. "Or lose a city, huh?" responded Newtin. "Hi!" shouted Fuyu. "Some people have to work in the night and sleep in the day here. I bow at twilight and dawn in summer, so, in away, I'm lucky." "Man." said Newtin. "Sounds like the god of your planet, this thing from Ramada, has become some kind of satan." Callisto, the second in command of Mutainia, asked, "IF it could know who was facing the absorber, and, who was not, sounds like the glowing being just might be telling the truth of 'It' being the planet's god. Certainly there is a better explanation, though. Were there cameras set up all over the place? IF it's a god, it doesn't sound very omnicient." "Eventually," said Fuyu. "But, we later learned that 'It' had 'holy helpers', people FROM planet Ramada who we take as 'Highest of Holy' people who apparently invaded our planet beFORE the glowing messenger showed up. 'Holy Helpers' that look, dress, and act just like us, except for the pious ones that dress differently. The glowing being told us there were thousands of Holy Helpers NOT dressed as the pious few, but, were designed to LOOK like us, to spy and see that we let our life energy be absorbed. It is THEY who report back to 'It' through some means we have yet to see. But, they must report, since a few of our of our cities have been incinerated by it already." "Incinerated!?! HOW!?" shouted a shocked and bothered Mutainia crew. Fuyu said, "Whenever we face in the direction of the absorber, a humming sound is heard within our heads. About thirty minutes in our facing, SOME- where out in the desert around the absorber, IT begins to form, coming up from the ground, leaving a large crator from where it gets up. I don't know about you, Newtin, but, I think 'It' is the the life-force of the planet. It just stands with a peaceful look on it's grey, bearded face, and, when the hour is up, it actually BOWS to the absorber and a bluish beam of light enters it's head. It's grey beard then turns black, and, when it takes on the look of a younger, more powerful man, it then goes back to where ever the crater was it got up out of, and, fills in the crator with dirt until there is no more crator. But, a few times, it didn't go back to the crator it go up out of. A FEW times, when it DIDn't come up out of the ground near the absorber, but, say, came up out of the ground in another part of the planet, it, apparently, ONLY does that to destroy a city where someone was reported as being defiant. It walks into a city of the one who was reported being defiant, shouts out something in a language we don't know, it's cap glowes a bunch of different--" "--It wears a cap?" asked Newtin. "I've never seen it without one." said Fuyu. "Anyway, it's cap will glow right before it will open it's mouth. When it does, a stream of glowing smoke will shoot out and start catching buildings and people on fire. It will then walk about, making that awful roar in it's language, crushing people and property under it's huge, sandaled feet--" "SANDALED FEET!?!" Callisto responded. "HI!" said Fuyu. "Pushing over building like some kind of MOANstah!" "You mean... 'monster'?" asked Newtin. "No, MOANSTAH! Means GIANT in Pawtawmnar! I mean, I was in one of the cities it destroyed. I ran and ran with everyone else! I thought for SURE I'd feel it's wrath, but, as you see, I escaped. Thank God I had my communicator with me, or, you wouldn't be here now for my rescue." Newtin responded with, "And it attacked because...?" "One of the Holy Helpers must have found someone NOT facing the absorber during the call for absorption, or, maybe one of the Holy Helpers caught someone flying, an incredible addiction, as you know. The Holy Helper was able to communicate the defiance back to planet Ramada." Newtin just stood there and shook his head from side to side. He smiled, then turned to his crew, and said, "Can you believe this, my crew? Something, from another planet, claiming to be the god of THIS planet, Pawtamnar, is blackmailing these people, promising them an afterlife if they worship it, and, threatening to kill them if they don't. By incinerating a city if someone is found to be defiant." Newtin turned to Fuyu and asked, "Certainly the people down there HAVE to know that this is some powerful life-form living like a parasite on you, don't you think? They must KNOW that there is no after-life on Ramada, KNOW that this thing is really evil and a liar, don't you think?" Mr. Fuyu squinted his eyes, thought for a while, then said, "EVERYone I talk to down there says they love Bob." "BOB!?!? THAT'S the name of the god of Ramada!?!" shouted Newtin. "HI!" knodded Fuyu quickly, "Bob. The Ramadders call it 'Bob'. They believe it IS their god! Why should they think otherwise when they've never seen anything like it to compare it with? What are the qualities for it NOT to be a god, and, what are the qualities for it TO be their god?" "They really think they will live on after death if they aren't defiant in absorption?" asked Callisto. "It is their hope. Hope is very strong." said Fuyu. "But it's evil!" said another crewmember, this one named Jeff Long, an Earth African American Federationalist. Newtin turned to his crew and said, "FOR such a sacrifice, I'd want some proof. Can you imagine stopping what you're doing, and taking two hours of your life, EVERY day, for the rest of your life, and face something that absorbs your LIFE energy, and, if you don't, it threatens to kill people?" "It promices you an afterlife, Newtin." said Fuyu, "That is a strong motivation for a LOT of people." "Right. Well, I'd want to build a ship as fast as possible and go TO Ramada to see if Pawtamnarians weren't being screwed by some bully with stronger powers. I take it that this life-force draining thing is why YOU look old, right?" Fuyu looked a little shifty-eyed, then said, "Ah, it really hasn't aged me much. I just got hooked on something like that old crystal meth. And oh how'd I'd love some NOW!" he shouted. "Don't worry," said Newtin, "We'll get you into the transporter. It still has a memory of the way you were before you made your home on Pawtawmnar, and in the rejuvenation process it SHOULD re-arrange your brain chemistry back to the way it was also, freeing you from your addiction. But, IF we do that, you will forget MOST of what you experienced in your stay ON Pawtamnar. The memories you now have of Pawtamnar will be as strong as those in an average dream. Such is the price one pays, it seems, when it comes to extending one's life. However, we can down-load your present memories into the computer banks of Mutainia, and keep THAT as a record. You will be able to read about much of your life you spent down there, albeit it in diary form. I hope you didn't do anything you are embarrassed about. THey will become known, if we want." Fuyu thought for a while, then said, "Nothing that a good rejuvenation can cover." An hour later, Newtin, Fuyu and others were headed down the main hallway of Mutainia to the transporter room, getting ready to see the oppression that was taking place on the planet. Fuyu said that the life absorber WAS aging the people down there, but, most actually seemed happy because they believ- ed Bob was telling the truth. And, if they had there faith in their worship of it, they were granted an after-life of peace on Ramada. "Right," said Newtin, sarcastically. He then looked at his crew, and said, "When we go down there, I'm going to speak with one of these so called 'Holy Helpers', and discuss reLIGion with them. IF they don't like my questions, and, the big bastard with the weird beard shows up to wreek holy hell on some innocent city for us NOT facing it's absorber for an hour, well, guess what? We're going to do what we ALWAYS do to something that is evilly oppressive toward those weaker than it. We're going to...?" The crew all shouted at the same time, "KICK--IT'S--ASS!" "Well, if it's GOT one." responded Newtin. Mr. Fuyu then looked concerned, and said, "What about the Federation's Prime Directive of non-interference and only observing?" "Yeah, well, as you know, that went out the window went I sent the Statue of Liberty bubbling down into the bay with Mutainia's FIRST earth encounter. We just got another confirmation today that I and the Federation aren't on the best of terms still," said Newtin. "Besides, WHO is the one interfering here? Me, or Bob from the planet Ramadamadingdong?" Newtin, Fuyu and others stepped up onto the transporter plates. Newtin turned to Fuyu and said, "I hope you learned a LOT of the language while down there, Fuyu, or I'm not having the computer to match our brain's to yours when it comes to your language skills. Besides, it's risky as it is." "I speak like the natives." said Fuyu. A few hours later, Newtin, Fuyu, and others, were walking through the streets of the city Fuyu frequented a lot. It was only minutes before the next absorption. "How close are we to their 'church' now?" asked Newtin. "Very close." said Fuyu. "I can smell the food around here that is ONLY located here with them." Newtin and crew turned a corner, and, there, on the corner of a street, like a gas station, was the place where a couple of "Holy Helpers" were working out of. A sign read on the roof, "House of Ramada". Under it was a cheaper looking sign, saying, "Happy Bobellona Day!" "Bobellona Day? What's Bobellona Day?" Newtin asked Fuyu. "Bobellona Day is celebrated every eleven months on Pawtawmnar now that Bob rules us. We have been celebrating it since the first year the glowing being showed up." "Why eleven months, not 12?" asked Newtin. Fuyu then said, "You mean 13. It takes 13 months for Pawtawnmar to orbit it's sun. It takes 11 months for planet Ramada to orbit IT'S sun. THAT's why we have to celebrate it every eleven months. On that day, we face the absorber FIVE times a day! But, not to worry. That sign should have been taken down by now, because Bobellona Day was YESTERDAY!!" Newtin knocked on the door and was greated by a very pious looking man who seemed about 25 and was very good-looking. The other was sitting in a corner and reading a book. As Newtin began to ask questions about Bob and Ramada, it was clear to the two "Holy Helpers" that Newtin and his crew WEREN'T "of the body" and WEREN'T going to be facing the absorber when the time came. "Who ARE you?" asked the one who was reading the book that was now placed on a table. "I am Newtin, from the planet earth." "NEWTIN!?!" they both looked frightened. "You have heard of me?" The one who had greeted them at the door, then got a hold of himself, and said, "We know of you. But your powers are NOTHING to the power of Bob. His powers are infinite. He created this entire planet and all there is within it ALL... within a SEconds!" "I see. Well, what's it like on Ramada? WHERE is Ramada located, or, are you afraid someone with a very powerful ship will check it out?" The man they met at the door looked angry, and said, "We, the Ramaddars, have nothing to fear from Mutainia. You are NOTHING compared to Bob. And, you have NOTHING to say when it comes to OUR ways, o desTROYer of worlds!" "He's got you there, Newtin." said Fuyu with a smile on his face. Newtin looked the man in the eyes, and said, "When the time comes to have one's life-force absorbed. Guess what? Everyone you see here who has just showed up, WON'T take part in your god's oppression. THIS, no doubt, will get it pissed and it will show up to destroy a city, true? Because you will not only see ONE not facing in the direction of the absorber, but ALL of us here, right?" Fuyu looked scared, and said to the Holy Helper they met at the door, "Newtin, ah, he doesn't really mean it. He's just testing you, is all. He doesn't want any problem. Newtin is actually, ah, peaceful." Newtin looked at Fuyu and smiled, saying, "Mr. Non-interference." "Well, MOST of the time," said Fuyu. "Like... when I sleep. Which is never." said Newtin, "You've been gone from the ship to long, sir." Suddenly, right when Newtin was turning to face the Holy Helper again, the Holy Helper struck Newtin across the face with a powerful punch, sending Newtin staggering back. Before Newtin made a recovery from the punch, the Holy Helper gave him another, and another, then, jumped up and kicked Newtin into the chest, knocking him flying up against one of the pillars of the "House of Ramada". So strong was the kick, that it actually knocked OUT the pillar of the building, hanging the roof in an awkward position. Newtin's crew gasped at the attacker's power. The Holy Helper who attacked him, then said, "If you refuse, a city will not be destroyed, for you will be dead." Suddenly, two swords grew out of the Holy Helper's hand and he started to look at Newtin's crew like they were weeds to wack. The crew started backing up and reaching for their weapons. Right when the Holy Helper looked like he was going to wack Sheena, Newtin flew at him, tackling the Holy Helper to the ground. The two wrestled about in the alley while the crew and the other Holy Helper just watched. When the two got up off the ground, the Holy Helper Newtin was fighting with went after him, trying to slice Newtin into pieces. Newtin quickly ducked and dodged the swords and countered with strong kicks and punches to the side of the HOly Helper's face, jaw and back. When Newtin noticed that his punches and kicks didn't seem to be having much effect, he then flew about fifty feet from the blades, tore a metal pole out of the street, then tested the man's sword's metal. The notion that this was a regular guy Newtin was fighting had now long since vanished. Newtin was able to shatter the swords, but, they were only replaced by new ones. The ones that were shattered, and lying on the ground, began to be re-absorbed INto the ground, giving the Mutainia crew who saw it, a frightened feeling. Although Newtin's artificial limbs hadn't been charged to their strongest, they were still incredibly powerful as they were, allowing Newtin to duck, dodge and strike hard on the side of the Holy Helper's head, back, neck and shoulders, HITTING him with strikes that should have crumpled a normal person. Suddenly, after sending the Holy Helper a kick to the side of the head that sent him nearly crashing through a wall, the Holy Helper that was reading a book, pulled out a gun and started shooting at Newtin. Newtin took two bullets in the back before one of his crew produced a ray gun sent the Holy Helper with the gun up into a cloud of red. He, apparently, was normal. After killing that one, the crewman pointed his gun at the one that was the more aggressive one. Right when he was about to pull the trigger, the sword producing Holy Helper FLEW at Newtin. Newtin dodged to the side, spun around with lightning speed, and, with the pole, actually struck the Holy Helper so hard, it went flying at the the pillar that was already straining under a lot of weight. The pillar shattered. "LOOK OUT!" shouted one of the crew as the "House of Ramada" lost a good part of it's roof. A big air-conditioner went tumbling into the street. The Holy Helper managed to survive both the strike of the pole AND the pillar contact. The Holy Helper started to get up with debris hanging off of him, and, suddenly, his head went tumbling and rolling down some of that debris while his body fell forward into it. Newtin had swong his hand down upon the Holy Helper's neck in a karate chop way, and, that did it. The loud crash of the "House of Ramada" peeked up curiosity from others, and now, Newtin and crew had an audience with those who heard the fighting and came to investigate. Instead of blood, there was dust in the air. DUST was actually pouring from the neck of the Holy Helper. But, before Newtin could react to such a sight, he became distracted by the sound of a car that was approaching but stopped. It had two more Holy Helpers within it. They got out of the car and looked shocked. Newtin raised the pole like he was going to attack them. Instead of challenging Newtin, they ran off. "Strange. Why do you think they chickened out?" Newtin and crew heard a humming sound that seemed to be coming out of the ground. They noticed that the man Newtin sent off into two pieces was actually now melting into the ground like the swords did. "Newtin...LOOK!" shouted a crewman. Two indentations were forming in the ground, and, TWO Holy Helpers, exactly like the one Newtin thought he destroyed, were now coming up out of the ground. "Aw, isn't that cute," said Newtin. "You kill one and it just makes MORE of them. well, I wonder how many I can make?" Newtin looked at his crew and said, "Weapons...FIRE!" The crew struck them with the beams of their ray-guns, disintegrating them both. Suddenly, a siren was heard, and, with it, EVERYone stopped what they were doing and began to look in the direction of the absorber of their life-force. Those who had been watching the Newtin fight seemed terribly torn. They wanted to see what else the stranger and his friends would do next, but, then again, they didn't want to risk hell or have their city destroyed. Newtin yelled out at them, "You are all free now. If the big bastard shows up, he's going to have to deal with something that will greatly give him a bad beard day." The people in the area looked horrified. They couldn't respond, yet, they wanted to. They HAD to face the absorber, but, why, if just a few rebels were going to blow it for ALL of them. Then again, there was the threat of hell. "Please, please...face the absorber!" One begged with her voice and eyes as her face and body faced the direction of the absorber. Newtin and his crew experimented by LOOKING in the same direction as those around them, and, immediately felt kind of tired as a humming sound occured again. Four more indentations that were, no doubt, making four MORE of the guy Newtin had been fighting, suddenly quit forming when the new humming sound began. Although Newtin was a mutant and quite different from the time when he was a normal man, he was noticing a bit of a draining sensation. Newtin made a move with his head and his crew followed him toward what was left of the "House of Ramada", leaving the natives around them shaking in their shoes. One guy came at Newtin like a crab. Newtin smacked the absorber looking man a good one, knocking him out. Newtin and crew then entered the place that had a lot more sunshine, and Newtin went for the book that was being looked at by the guy he didn't fight. Newtin then said to Mr. Fuyu, "Have you seen this book before?" "Hi!" said Fuyu. "It's the holy book the glowing being gave to us right before it went back out into space." "Have you read it?" asked one of the crew. "Yes, of course. It's required reading." Newtin read the title of it and laughed, "Hmm, it's called 'Worship Me, Or Else'. Funny name for a 'holy book'. Sounds more like some kind of tract." Newtin got a serious look in his eyes, then said, "'Would that my enemy had written a book', I heard it said. THIS could be the key to bring down the Temple of Ramada comPLETEly." And, with that, Newtin and his crew beamed back aboard Mutainia, shocking those who witnessed it, and, in away, relieving some of their fear by making them think if they had the power to disappear like that, maybe they had other powers, that could set them free from Bob. Back up on Mutainia, Newtin crew stepped off the transporter plates and headed toward the bridge. Newtin reached into this spacesuit that was designed to shield his crew from the atomic energy within him, and, took the two bullets that had actually penetrated it. He was healed up already from the attacks, and now held the two bullets in his hand. "We have less than an hour to stop the gigantic weird beard if we have disrupted the statis quo," said Newtin, "Any sign that it's coming up out of the ground yet?" The crew got to their stations. Newtin caught Callisto's attention and tossed the holy book of Ramada at him. "Read it, Callisto, and see if you can find anything in it that might give us a fighting chance if what I have planned, fails." "What do you have planned?" asked Callisto, already beginning to scan the book. Newtin sat in his throne, thought for a while, then pulled out a strange object from his pocket that was shaped like a large fountain pen. One of Newtin's crew's eyes widened on seeing the object. He asked, "The Alpha Capsule!? You're going to fight it, physically, as a giant, mano y mano?!?" Newtin looked about then said, "My crew. As crazy as it sounds, hey, no matter HOW stupid or repressive the religion, IF it promices a better life for the follower, you won't believe the incredible crap that believer will go through to continue IN it! It doesn't sound logical, but, it seems that the more oppressive the religion, the more the follower will defend it to the death. IF the Pawtawmnars see their religion destroyed in the next hour, they will need something to replace it with, and fast beCAUSE it's so repressive. IF I can attack that thing, 'mano y mano', they might realize that there IS something more to life than just getting old and dying. MAYBE they don't have to TURN to drinking fire-water." Oba Coba, another of Newtin's crew, also a mutant, said, "I don't know about that becoming a giant to fight a giant, know'm say'n? It seems that the bigger you get with that thing, the goofier and more uncoordinated you become." Another crewman broke in and said, "Yeah, at a hundred feet tall, you fight very well and fast. At FIVE hundred feet, you seem to fight like a drunkard. Who knows HOW you'd fight at a thousand feet tall, like Bob becomes." "How I hate the name Bob." said Newtin. "It begins the same way as 'Bog'." A few minutes later, the crew of Mutainia watched "Bob" come up out of the ground. Surprisingly, THIS time, his beard was black and NOT grey, shocking Fuyu. Fuyu said he had NEVER seen it with a black beard at the beginning. Not only was Bob young looking here, but, instead of the peaceful look it usually had on it's face, THIS time, it was rumbling the ground with a scowl. It wasn't long until the giant was facing the direction of the absorber. As it bowed in the direction of the absorber, Newtin commanded his crew to scan in the area of WHERE the absorber was. When the camera of Mutainia captured it, Newtin and crew were kind of stunned. Newtin got up out of his throne and said, "So THAT'S it! It's a giant, golden dome! Strange, you'd think something as oppressive and creepy as a life-absorber WOULDN'T be so pretty, but, instead, be dark and creepy, looking like the head of the Kronos robot. Well, inter- esting that Bob looks so rejuvenated. Maybe he knows whats coming? Or, is trying to scare those who attacked his helpers?" Newtin looked at his crew and said, "Well, my crew. No doubt this change in his beard color is PROOF that we disturbed the prime-directive and 'inter- fered'. No doubt that, after the blue beam begins beaming the planet's energy into his head as he bows toward the absorber, it's going to attack the city FUYU has been living in. And, what that will make us? I've GOT to stop it before that happens." Minutes later, Newtin beamed down into a desert. Out in the distance was a small town, but, not the city Fuyu lived in. In the east of the city was Bob, bowed to the point where it's head was touching the ground with a blue light going into the cap on it's head. There was now just a minute until the beam shut off and the giant vanished into the ground to come up in or around Fuyu's city to incinerate it. Newtin reached into his pocket, lifted the "Alpha Capule" into the air and pressed a button on it. Immediately, a ray shot down from Mutainia, making Newtin grow rappidly larger. When a minute was up, he, like Bob, stood a thousand feet tall. "SWOSH!" Newtin made a sound, shooting up into the sky. He was definitely Ultraman. Or, in this case...Ultramutant. Newtin came down out of the air and attacked Bob from behind. Bob, who's booty was still up in the air in bow, got a strong, powerful kick inTO that up-raised ass by the now giant Newtin. But, instead of going flying, like a football Newtin was planning, instead, Newtin's foot got stuck IN the giant, up-raised ass OF Bob. Newtin looked shocked, even though he was now wearing goggles over his eyes that naturally grew over his eyes as he grew. Newtin struggled to get himself free. Bob looked absolutely furious, He got up, swong around, and struck Newtin, knocking Newtin flying to the side and tumbling onto the ground, creating a very powerful Pawtawmnar-quake. When Newtin stood up, he felt the ground give out from under his feet, and he fell into the giant hole that was created when Bob got out of it. Newtin crossed his wrist, made a "YA!" sound, and a ray shot out, striking Bob in the chest, blowing a big hole into it. Instead of blood, though, there was now a LOT of dust in the sky. Bob just smiled as the hole healed up as the dust in the air quickly refilled it, putting another shocked and stunned look on Newtin's face. Suddenly, Bob dissolved into a mountain of dust. Newtin looked about nervously in a karate stance. "Newtin, look out!" Sheena vainly shouted on Mutainia when a mountain quickly grew up behind the giant Newtin. Right when Newtin turned about, Bob grabbed Newtin and started bear-hugging him. "SWOSH!" Newtin made, and, the two went tumbling about on the planet's terrain. Newtin used all his might and went flipped to the side, sending Bob flying into the sky. But, between Newtin and the mountain Bob was headed at, Bob suddenly turned into a mountain of dirt and just added MORE mass to the mountain, kicking up tons of dust into the sky. Newtin, again, in karate stance, looked about nervously. After a few minutes of getting ready for another bear hug, Newtin now knew that attack was probably NEVER going to happen, so, he shot up into the air and headed toward Fuyu's city, just incase Bob was going to attack it for Newtin's attack on the "House of Ramada". Sure enough, there, before his eyes, was a tall, jagged mountain forming right on the outskirts of the city. The people began to scatter in horror, KNOWING what THAT meant. Suddenly, right as Bob formed into the angry, scowling thousand foot giant that was expected, it got a swift kick in the side of the head as "Ultramutant" Newtin, knocked it flying to the side. When Bob got up, a look of shok was in IT'S eyes as it got a lot of fast karate like attacks from "Ultraman Newtin". The people in Fuyu's city stopped running and started watching the fight that was taking place out on the outskirts, shaking the city each time one of the giants hit the ground. When Bob got up, Newtin jumped up, spun around and kicked it in the face, knocking it flying and tumbling again. Newtin was trying to keep it from the city. When Bob got up, two swords had formed it it's hands. It charged at Newtin. Newtin crossed his wrists and shot Bob with the ray again, blowing a big chunk of dusty matter out of Bob. Bob stopped as the wound healed up. But, right when it was healed. Newtin staggered it to the face with a punch that was so loud and strong that it seemed to almost knock Bob out. Newtin then grabbed it by the beard, pulled it to the side and around, spinning Bob around and around and around by the beard, created a huge, hurricane wind. Newtin then let it go and suddenly CRINGED with horror to realize he acci- dentlly sent Bob into the completely opposite direction he was hoping. Instead of sending the giant "god" aWAY from the city, it was now tumbling, rolling, and crashing through sky-scraper INside the city. When Bob staggered up, Newtin leaped onto it's back and tried to pull off it's head. Bob tried to slice Newtin with the swords, but the sharp part just missed where Newtin was. Suddenly, a loud siren sound began to go off. Newtin was tossed off of Bob, send- ing Newtin taking out a neighborhood. When Newtin got up, his warning beacon on his helmet head was making a loud beeping humming sound. On Mutainia, the crew talked about how "Ulramutant" was now losing energy and, if Newtin didn't kill Bob soon, he'd be power-less and start falling apart. Bob charged at Newtin with the swords. Newtin crossed his wrists again, but, nothing came out. Instead, he got a slash across the chest, making Sheena cry out. Yellow mutated blood began to poor from Newtin's chest. Newtin tried to duck and dodge the blades, but, his power was now rappidly fading and he was getting cut and slashed more and more. Realizing that no more rays would be shooting out of his crossed Ultramutantman arms, Newtin, instead, consintrated on trying to avoid the swords, kicking and punching the giant as he dodged to the side. A minute more into the fight and MOST of the city was destroyed. Newtin's warning blinker was sounding full speed, he was incredibly goofy and awkward looking now, and, Bob seemed stronger...albeit it, with a lot of grey in his beard. Doug Davis, a crewman on Mutainia, pointed out that energy readings from the golden domed absorber, seemed to be diminishing in power. When he reported it to the Mutainia crew, Callisto said, "Yes, it seems logical that would happen, since IT is the one that is creating this giant. But, Newtin seems to be losing energy a LOT faster than it is." The crew, although couldn't be heard, begged Newtin to quit fighting Bob, and, instead, try to escape before it was too late. The swords Bob had became re-absorbed into it's body. It was now using strong punches to blast and stagger the giant weakening Newtin in the face before grabbing him by the arm and tossing him onto buildings. Newtin was now so weak, he could hardly get up. Suddenly, Bob got Newtin in a head-lock in one arm while his right hand turned into a knife. Bob started carving on Newtin's throat, producing a LOT of yellow glowing blood. The crew of Mutainia couldn't STAND to see what was going on. "GET OUT OF THERE, NEWTIN!" They shouted. Sure enough, a minute into the carving, and, Newtin's head went tumbling and rolling down a street, crushing rows of cars. Bob lifted Newtin's life-less body over his head and tossed it at a row of sky-scrapers that somehow, were still standing, knocking them over like a row of dominos. Bob made a loud roar of the sentence in it's native tongue, it's cap glowed a multitude of different colors, it opened it's mouth, and, the Godzilla spray it had for destroying cities for PASSED rebeliousness, shot of of it's mouth, catching city block after city block on fire. The giant Bob then walked about, kicking, crushing and smashing what was left from the fight it had with Newtin, fanning the flames in the city with it's flowing robe. Within minutes, it was hard to see anything, due to all the smoke and fire. On Mutainia, the crew just stood stunned. They couldn't believe that Newtin was finished like that. He had failed horribly AND lost his life in his effort to protect a city from such a hideously oppressive monster...or, so they thought. Down in the city, Bob noticed something moving through the clouds of smoke and fire. It looked like a round UFO. But, it disappeared in the smoke that was so thick NO one could tell it was still daylight out. A few minutes later, when Bob was done destroying the city. There was a rumbling sound. Bob turned about and, there was Newtin, staggering about in the smoke, LOOKING at him in a very un-coordinated way. Bob made a roar, lifted up his sword and charged at Newtin. Newtin made one last "swosh" sound, and shot up into the sky, flying back toward Mutainia, getting smaller and smaller, not so much from distance, but, from shrinkage. An hour later, Newtin was back in his throne with his head on right. He looked exactly the way he did before the fight. Jeff Long walked up to Newtin and said, "Newtin, why don't we leave Bob and Ramada alone? Ain' no way we can beat them. They be TOO strong FOR us, know'm say'n? Well, it was a cool fight. Not as cool as the one you had with Quetzalcoatl, but, cool, all the same, know'm say'n?" Newtin looked depressed, and said, "Maybe you're right, Jeff. It might not be possible to free those people down there after all." Callisto came onto the bridge and said, "I think we've been going all about it wrong, Newtin." "What do you mean?" "From what we witnessed, and, from what you described from your meeting with the Holy Helpers, IF you kill them, you just breed more of them. And, let's face, YOU, apparently, aren't strong enough physically, to take Bob on, even in 'Ultramutant' form. But, in the fight, we noticed something hopeful." "What's that?" Newtin asked his alien friend. "We definitely detected a decrease in energy coming from the invisible force-field that surrounds the golden dome everyone faces, including Bob." "A force-field?" Newtin asked. "Yes. A shield," said Callisto. "It took a LOT of our energy to transform you into Ultramutant, but, when we shrank you back, we, or course, got a LOT of energy back. But, to keep you alive in the fight with Bob took a LOT of our energy. We now lack the energy to destroy the Absorber. SINCe it feeds off of those who look at it, maybe we could KEEP them from looking AT it?" "And how are we going to do THAT!?" asked Newtin, thinking he was dealing with the impossible. "By putting out a broad-cast from Mutainia that is so strong on ALL channels, that, no matter WHERE they turn the dial, they will get our message for them to refuse to obey Bob." Newtin nearly shouted out, "That's easier said than done, my friend! SINCE facing that thing means NOT having a city incinerated, or, keeping one from going to hell, they will ONLY view such a message as satanic, and will face the absorber ANYway! And, let's face it. They already witnessed me not only failing, but, DYING infront of their eyes, followed by the destruction of their city that 'I' caused. I don't have a good track record when it comes to winning their hearts and minds. I think our ONLY hope of freeing them is if we destroy the absorber. Destroy that, and Bob goes 'POOF' into a cloud of logic! I mean, it was supposedly BOB who created this planet 'in mere seconds', WASN'T it not? IF Bob can't stop the absorber from being destroyed, what will that tell the faithful? Oh, by the way, Callisto, have you learned anything from that 'holy book' that might be of use?" Callisto thought, then said, "Bob really seems to hate the wax of this planet's Kumbo tree. It considers the sticky wax of the tree 'unclean' and 'unholy'." "Bizarre." said Newtin. Fuyu broke in and said, "Before the glowing being showed up, Kumbo wax was seen as a miracle wax. It had properties in it the scientists were thinking of using to make fuel for our rockets. And, a lOT of our things were made with it. Since it was seen as 'unholy', MANY things in our lives came to a stand- still." Newtin then said, "The 'god of Ramada' probably just deCLARED Kumbo tree wax as unholy to keep Pawtawmnars from joining the Federation, a way to keep them stuck on this planet so it could keep on feeding off of them. 'Unholy', yeah...RIGHT!" "Ten hours until the people face the absorber, Newtin." said Oba Coba. Newtin told his crew that in ten hours, he wanted it broadcast all over Pawtawmnar that "Operation: Pawtawmnar Freedom" would commence beginning not ONLY with the destruction of the absorber but, that it would be desecrated as well--PROVING that Bob might be able to take a good punch from a giant of his size, but, he is NOTHING when it came to the weapons of Mutainia. "And, when they SEE the destruction and desecration of the golden dome, they will KNOW that there is NO Bog! And if there is, he's powerless." said Newtin with excitement. "Bog?" asked Sheena. "Oops, wrong devil. Bog is MY Bob to deal with--" "OUR Bob." said a crewman. "How do you think we go about desecrating the absorber, Newtin?" asked Fuyu. "We will beam up Kumbo trees, extract their sap, turn it into waxy, 'unclean' kumbo grease, matterialize vats of the stuff in the remains of the golden dome, and, MIX it all up with a conventional explosive. The Pawtawmnars will then know they are free!" Nine hours later, it was dawn over the golden dome that was the absorber of life-forces. On Mutainia, Newtin and crew were preparing for their attack. All over the planet, the repeating message was seen and heard on every radio and TV that those in the area OF the Absorber had better flee out of danger because although Mutainia was going to destroy it to set them free, they didn't know WHAT would happen WHEN it was destroyed. Discouragement was seen in Newtin's eyes when he saw floods of Pawtamnars coming TO the absorber, believing that IF they died at the absorber, they'd go straight to Ramada. With that Newtin tried to tell them to atleast wait a few days and ask themselves WHY Bob, if he really was so powerful, would allow his feeding source to not only be destroyed but, desecrated. Still, though, they continued to flood in and circle the absorber. In his throne, Newtin looked at Fuyu and said, "No doubt the Holy Helpers are also telling Bob 'His House', is about to be blasted." Newtin then said, "How much you want to bet that there really aren't that many TRUE 'Holy Helpers' down there? You said there were THOUSANDS of those things down there like the one I fought? I doubt it. Probably more like a handful. The one who DIDN'T melt into the ground, and the ones who ran off, AND the ones that supposedly look like regular Pawtawmnars to spy and inform, were, no doubt, just sell-outs from Pawtawmnar who fell for the afterlife lies of Ramada. But, it doesn't matter if there are MILLIONS of those things down there like the one I fought. I'm certain that they ONLY exist because the golden dome exists. We take THAT out, they cease to exist. WE bury the remains OF the golden dome in a bunch of 'unholy' Kumbo wax, and, then the faith IN the religion of Ramada... crumbles. How can it not? But, gad, look at the poor fools coming. Well, HOPEFULLy, there is no explosion. HOPEFULLY, the phazor just taxes the life out of Bob and he dies in trying to keep the shielding on...HOPEFULLY..." Newtin looked at his crew and said, "You know something? Although incredibly oppressive this thing is, they will STILL face the Absorber. Probably ALL of them. I say we begin our attack beFORE it starts absorbing their energy. SURE it taxes it's energy to feed off of theirs, but, I bet that if we attack now, maybe it will be weak enough to GET it...now." Newtin looked over at Oba Coba, and said, "Oba Coba. Phazors ready?" "Phazors ready." replied Oba coba who would be doing the attacking. "FIRE!" shouted Newtin. And one, strong red beam of energy shot down from the sky and landed on the absorber's force-field, shaking and thundering the area all around, causing the people in the area to scream and dart about. Only the most faithful continued to circle as close as the forcefield would permit. The structure was the ONLY thing located out in the desert with them. Although the forcefield was transparent, it started clouding up a little near the top. Suddenly, a big area of land began to indent, while another area began to rise. Within a minute, Bob, standing a thousand feet high, roared with fury. Giant, jagged boulders dotted the desert the one hundred foot tall golden dome was out among. Bob yanked up one of the jagged boulders and threw it in the direction of where the beam was shooting down from. Newtin laughed when he saw Bob on the viewing screen DO that. Newtin laughed again when Bob picked up and hurrled another at the sky. "HOW close to the absorber does Bob think we are?!" wondered Callisto. "We are as far above him as one stands above an ant, snapping it's jaws in vain." smiled Newtin. Bob tore up another mountain sized boulder and threw it at the sky, making Newtin laugh again, saying, "How Nimrodic! Does it think the sky is just a canopy only feet above a mountain top!?" Suddenly, when they saw Bob tare up and throw another moutain sized boulder and throw it at the sky, Mutainia shook violently. "WHAT the HELL!?" Shouted Newtin. "Did he actually REACH US?!" Mutainia shook violently again. One of Newtin's crew shouted out, "Newtin, WE'RE BEING ATTACKED!!!" "PUT on shields!" shouted Newtin. It turned out that the Federation starship with the robot captain was attacking Mutainia again. "Divert power to the shields!" shouted Newtin. And, with that, the attack on the Absorber of life ended. On the planet, the people were facing it again. What damage to it's forcefield Mutainia had brought, was quickly fading back to normal. "We're getting a call from the robot captain." said Sheena. "Put it on visual." demanded Newtin. When the face of the robot captain came on, he was begging Newtin to stop any further attacks on the Golden Dome of Ramada and turn himself in. It turned out that the Federation was quite familiar with the reality of the oppressive life absorber, but, that the planet Ramada, as far as they knew, was ONLY oppressive to the Pawtawmnars and NOT any other inhabitants. "But it's EVIL!" Newtin countered with. The robot captain laughed Newtin with scorn and shouted back that there were no moral absolutes, and, that NEWTIN was the one infringing on the rights of Ramada to feed on the Pawtawmnars. The robot captain asked Newtin if he hadn't tried to talk and negociate with Bob first, to see if he could get Bob and the Pawtawmnars to work out a deal first where the two could live more comfortably together. Where, instead of absorbing the Pawtawmnar's energy TWICE a day, that, maybe they could get it down to one. Besides, argued the robot captain, Newtin was STILL property of the Federation, and, because of that, he needed clearances and authorization before using ANY kind of weapon, which he, Newtin, was so wrong in. As the robot captain went on and on, sounding like an escapee from the UN debate team, the Mutainia crew noticed it was now surrounded by MOst of the ships it fought with before entering the planet's orbit. Newtin then looked at the robot captain on his viewing screen and said, "BLAST your Federation red-tape crap! Mutainia will FREE those people down there from that satanic 'god'!" "YOU WILL NOT!" shouted the robot captain. Newtin, remembering that the robot said it was programmed to counter all his desires, responded with, "JUST don't attack Mutainia with your phazors, ok?" As the robot captain commanded all TOO use phazors, Newtin quickly pressed some buttons dealing with Mutainia's shield system. Newtin got the news from his crew that in order to be more successful in their attack, they'd have to be far closer TOO the Absorber. With that, Newtin had Mutainia taken down out of the planet's orbit and INTO the atmosphere. On the planet, Bob, who had his butt up in the air in prostration to the energy absorption that was doing the opposite with him, heard a roar in the sky. The bluish beam from the absorber shut off. Bob looked up and saw Mutainia approaching down through some scattered clouds. With that, fury entered Bob's eyes again. Bob beat his chest and looked about for another mountain to send at Mutainia. "FIRE!" shouted Newtin. The powerful, red colored energy beam lanced out and struck the force-field of the golden domed absorber aGAIN. With it, a cry from the robot captain filled the bridge of Mutainia. He yelled out, "No! Please! Stop! STOP I say!! I comMAND thee!" And a powerful phazor beam shot out of ALL the ships and struck Mutainia, shaking the crew about violently. But, the red energy beam of Mutainia continued to bare down on the golden dome. "NEWTIN! LOOK OUT!" screamed Sheena with terror. Another mountain sized boulder was flying right at Mutainia after being launched off by Bob. Avassive action! QUICKLY!" Newtin shouted, and Mutainia quickly flew to the side having the huge boulder miss it by mere feet. And, aGAIN the energy beam fixed itself on the force-field of the absorber. "STOP!" shouted the robot captain. "I COMMAND THEE!" And Mutainia was struck with phazor fire from those ships safely out in orbit, shaking the Mutainia crew about again, and aGAIN the mighty ship dodged another flying mountain of a boulder thrown from Bob. "STOP!" The Mutainia crew was thrown again. "STOP!" Mutainia was HIT again. "STOP!!!" ALL the phazors were left on Mutainia. But, the shields of Mutainia held while, on the planet, there was now hardly ANY forcefield about the giant golden dome of the Absorber. Newtin looked at the robot captain on the Mutainia viewing screen, and shouted, "You can send your BEST down at Mutainia like thunderbolts from Zeus, but, I'll NOT let up on that MONSTER down there! CONTINUE, my crew! FIRE!" And Mutainia now had TWO energy beams focussed on the structure. They were now FAR more powerful than the one that was in at the beginning of the attack on the dome, for Newtin had Mutainia's shields changed to absorb the energy OF phazor fire, startling everyone, including the robot that ordered the attack. Down in the desert, the dome was no longer golden, but red. It then became orange, then yellow, then white, then it starting caving in. It suddenly exploded like an H-bomb. When the dust cleared, Mutainia was still there, floating in the sky, shaken badly. But, where was Bob? Newtin and crew wondered if the destruction of "It's House" had taken him WITH it. They all CRINGED for the faithful. On the bridge of the Federation starship, the captain looked sad for some reason. Apparently, when the robot failed at something, it was supposed to look very depressed. On Mutainia, Jeff Long pointed out, excitedly, "NEWTIN, LOOK! There he IS!" On the viewing screen, there was Bob. No longer with a black beard. Not even one that was GREY. It was now WHITE and looked incredibly old. He also seemed only eight hundred feet tall. There was now NO light in his cap at all. The giant, defeated old Bob moved about like a shaky old man. A look of confussion seemed to be in Bob's eyes. The giant, without the golden dome

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CactusAnnie3 weeks, 6 days ago

Mutainia, Ranchie is right, TrustServe.net is a very nice "hang out". Hopefully they will get this fixed here. Do not go away, I so enjoy you!! I would miss you very much...
smithichie4 weeks ago

Hey Mutainia-I think the bottom of the main Group screen shows all activity of ALL members of that group, but it's the old prop 1 comments screen which is what I personally used., the closest equivilant I have found is the "just in" box at the top of the screen. I haven't given up completely on this site, but I admit it's not easy and I have cut my time way back, I hope they can manage to fix some of the bugs and make this site a little more user friendly like it once was, but I'm not holding my breath. Hope you check in from time to time but if not I understand, I enjoyed butting heads with you and if our paths don't cross again, I wish you well.
blainegarrett1 month ago

Hi Mutainia. We're working on page for comments members have posted. It should be up shortly.
icono11 month ago

Mutainia I've migrated to trustserve for the time being. Hope to see you there.
ranchhand1 month ago

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