The Adventures of Rajada: page 31

The evil Rajada warped back into his arctic lair. Today had been a pretty good day. He had defeated his mortal enemy and taken out his annoying sidekick. He thought about what fools they were to believe him, to allow him to utilize his powers to set up a most elaborate scheme. They never saw it coming. The evil Rajada let out a cackle. Nothing could stop him now, not even a- "Hello there." Rajada spoke from a nearby chair. Evil Rajada stopped cackling. "Oh, hello, you waiting for someone?" "Yes, you." "Oh, well thank you. You may go now." Rajada laughed. "I'm not one of your clones." "Oh," the evil Rajada replied, "it's you, well, I have something for you!" He pulled out two Wildfires and began firing them furiously at Rajada, but the shots bounced off a spherical shield around him. Rajada stood up when the darts stopped flying. "You have a nice place here, lots of money, technology, better than mine frankly. But it's lacking something, call it, heart. This place has no heart, it has no passion except for destruction. You should have done your research. Killing me would have been very bad for you. However, it would have only been your second worst decision. Your first was locking me in here for a day. You have to recall I'm genetically identical to you. Which means I had access to all you see around you. I made a few inventions to pass the time as you can see. My first was this nifty shield unit. My next invention was this." Rajada pulled a modified Whomper battery off of his belt. "This is a prototype quantum charge. I don't know how it works, and frankly, no one ever will. I reverse engineered a device of similar application that I found hidden here. I've planted 8 of them in key structural points in your lair. Do exactly as I say and they will not be activated." Rajada pulled out a remote. The evil Rajada smirked. "You're not bad, I underestimated me." Suddenly an alarm sounded and a large screen in the room flicked to life. It was G-MO, loose cannon cop making his way through one of Rajada's refineries. Rajada tapped the control panel of the wormhole device and turned to face his evil counterpart. "Whoops, looks like you have company. Wouldn't want to keep you." Rajada flipped the quantum charge in his hand. "Oh and don't worry about Balthazar, he had a little accident with the first prototype of this." Rajada shoved the quantum charge into the body of the wormhole device and jumped through the rift.

Rajada's head was pounding. His shield unit had fizzled out. A miscalculation maybe, he had not properly gauged the size of the quantum ripple the charge would make that close to the rift. Luckily evil Rajada still wouldn't have a way back into their universe.

Rajada pulled himself up and saw the purple swirls around him. RTSPlayer was a few feet away, looking dumbfounded. "Rajada? Is that you?" Rajada stumbled with his first step. "Yeah, I think I blew myself up." Rajada looked at his body, it was unscathed, and he was still carrying his pack and wrist computer. "Wait a minute," he said. "I didn't die to get here. I'll remember it this time." Rajada swung his backpack off and began digging through the various supplies he had stolen from evil Rajada. He Pulled out a thick book, a pad of paper and a pen, and set them down. "These are for you, use them, keep a record of everything that happens here. When you leave, leave them here." Rajada then picked his remote up off the floor and tossed it into the swirling rift around them. It dissolved instantly. For a moment, Rajada could swear he saw something else in the swirling purple. "I wonder..." he thought aloud. Rajada re-slung his pack and pulled a quantum charge off his belt. He turned the knob on top down to the minimum setting then tossed it into the rift. After a moment, ripples emanated from the rift, disturbing the swirls momentarily, slowing them. Rajada gazed at the rift as it slowed, turning into words, words that made up the very fabric of time. The words seemed like gibberish for the most part, but somehow they made sense. Clues were scattered all around, there were divine prayers of FIXME to the godly Wes. Rajada held his wrist up high, his computer scanning in the info. He turned to RTSPlayer, who looked stunned. "Hey, this is only the beginning okay? Things will start to make sense soon. I can come back for you, but not yet. I have to fix everything first." Rajada pressed a few buttons on his wrist and waved to RTSPlayer. "Until we meet again." Rajada's image faded out of existence.

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