Maniacs in The Fourth Dimension (23 page)

''I know you
don't understand this Cleit, but just try thinking about it. God is
only a title that powerfull men were seizing from each other
through time. Why not us then? Huh? Why can't we be gods,
Cleit?''

''You're
making my stomach turn... I can't listen to you anymore. I can't
believe that you were my friend once... that I thought that we were
alike... I wish that you are dead, and Jove is alive, I would trade
every memory of you for Jove's return.''

''Don't say that, Cleit.''

''I would
erase every moment of yours, and your whore's existence just to get
Jove back!!''

''You would see things
differently, if you had walked the same path we did...''

''Your path
ends here! I'm going back to Morse, and I will tell him
everything!! And then I'm taking Jove's body, and I'm going
home!''

He turned his back on us, and
walked toward the portal.

''We can't let him leave'',
whispered Emily: ''If he alarms Scaramouche, everything will fail!
You have to stop him, Lempo!''

''Cleit, stop!''

''You can't reason with him, he
doesn't want to listen'', she whispered: ''You have to end him,
Lempo, and end him now!''

''But how can
I do this, he was my friend!''

''Now, Lempo,
do it before he enters the portal, do it, and you will become God!
Now, do it, now!''

''CLEIT!!''

C
hapter sixty seven

When we reach
the portal we'll go through it, and surrender to the Hyperboreans.
This place freaks me out. Sound doesn't rezonate right in here.
Everything is red. This is hell. I can't stand being in here. We'll
tell the truth to Hyperboreans, that we were Engelherz's hostages,
and they will hopefully understand our situation and let us
go.

''Engelherz didn't turn out to
be quite the hero you needed for your book, did he, Edwin?''

''No. Twist
ending. I guess you'll have to be the hero.''

''Hahah! I ain't that guy. No
heroes in this book, my friend. Let's just try to save our
asses.''

''Hubert.
Those three figures that we saw, from up higher, I think I
recognized one of them. I think I saw that cave man lookin' guy
from the convention.''

''Highly
unlikely. Maybe the realm got to your head.''

We reached the carcass, and went
around it to the portal. Two figures are still there. They saw us
now. They don't seem to be armed. Strange clothing. They seem
human, a male and a female.

''Hello! Do
you understand English?!''

''Hubert!'',
said Edwin: ''They're from the convention too, I remember their
faces!''

''How did you
get here?'', he spoke.

''By accident. We want to use
the portal and go back.''

''We saw
three of you from the slope'', Edwin said: ''Where is that other
guy that was with you?''

''He's
not
here anymore'', he said.

''We don't
want to get mixed up in whatever is it that your doing here, we
just want to leave. Edwin, let's go.''

''You can't leave'', he
said.

''Why?''

''I can't let you use the
portal. Not now.''

You can't?! Fuck you!

''How will
you stop me, bucky?''

I went for
the portal, but some force bent my knees, and pinned me to the
ground. That motherfucker. He did this to me.

''You don't frighten me, wild
boy...''

Maybe they can hear us on the
other side.

''HORSE! HORSE, ARE YOU THERE?!
ENGELHERZ! WE'RE IN HERE! HELP!''

''Stop shouting and look at your
friend.''

Blood gushed
from Edwin's nose, and bloodied his face, his shirt, his poor
hands.

''Stop! I'm
giving up! I'm giving up, don't hurt Edwin anymore! I'll do
whatever you want, just don't hurt my friend, please! He's the only
thing I got left, don't hurt him, I'll do whatever you want from
me!''

''I'm okay Hubert, it stopped'',
said poor Edwin.

She
approached him.

''Throw your head back'', she
said: ''It's gonna be okay.''

She wiped his
face with a napkin. He's not bleeding anymore. Thank you God...
Thank you...

Chapter sixty eight

This Enoch, whose flesh
was turned to flame, his veins to fire,

his eye-lashes to
flashes of lightning, his eye-balls to flaming
torches,

and whom God placed on a
throne next to the throne of glory,

received after this
heavenly transformation the name Metatron.

-
Third book of Enoch

Tiny
flicker of fire appeared on the ground in front of us. It’s Him!
He’s coming! He knows we’re here. I’m not afraid. The oracle
predicted this, she said that I will battle Him, and defeat Him. I
will become God. I’m ready. The flame grew big and took a shape of
a man.

''I AM
METATRON!'', He thundered: ''HAVE YOU COME TO KILL
ME?!''

''I... I...''

''Hey! Hey, I know you two from
Convention-con!''

''What?''

''Them two!''

Our prisoners?

''I took a picture of you with
Sacha!''

''Yeah... yeah, I remember you,
you weren't all on fire then'', said one of them.

''I came to
convention in my human form. Wow, it was a blast! Sacha was flying
around with his dick dangling, I laughed so much that I almost
pissed my pants! I had to restrain myself from doing that because I
piss kerosene, I didn't want my pants to catch on
fire.''

''What the fuck are you talking
about?!''

''Seriously, man, I was on
Convention-con, I made this cool selfie with Jesse Eisenberg, I'll
show you.''

''No!''

He's reaching somewhere with his
fiery hand!

''I'm only
going to take the cell phone out of my pocket to show you my selfie
with Jessie Eisenberg.''

''No! It's
some trick! Emily! Engage!''

ATTACK! COWABUNGA! BANZAI!

''I'm holding
Him! Strike now Emily! We got Him!''

''But you didn't see my
selfie...''

''Now Emily, what are you
waiting f-''

_

Chapter sixty nine

Rodeo Drive?
Rodeo
fuckin' Drive!

''I never thought I'll be so
happy to see Rodeo Drive! Hubert, we're home!''

''How in the saint's name did we
get here?''

I don't know,
they attacked the man of fire, and all went black, somebody turned
off the lights, and when he turned them back on, we're on Rodeo
Drive. Hubert, me, and the girl.

''Metatron
did this to us'', she stuttered, visibly shocked: ''He stripped me
of all my powers... and pushed us back to level one.''

Yes! Home!

I stopped one
guy in the street, and asked him for time and date. It's early
afternoon, on the first day of Convention-con, day when all of this
started. She started crying, saying how she lost everything, how
she was so close to enter the end-realm.

''What if...'', mused Hubert:
''... we did enter the final dimension? Maybe, our world is the
last dimension actually?''

''That doesn't make any sense'',
she said.

''Or...'', he
continued: ''...dimensions overlap in such manner that forms a
circular system? Get it?! The beginning is the end, and end
beginning. But, where does that put God then? Because, Gnostics
believed that the last heaven, dimension, is the dimension of God.
So, where does circular system place him?''

''The oracle
said that Metatron is God'', she said, but Hubert showed no signs
of acknowledging her presence, he stared at the store window, and
contemplated.

''Bubble
universe!'', he clapped his hands: ''God is outside of our bubble
universe! And other bubble universes probably also contain three
hundred and sixty-five levels, and maybe, they're piled over each
other, or they touch in such a way that they form a circle again! I
know this sounds bushwack, but story of bubble universes is
preached by those same Einsteinheads that preach Big Bangs, and
spreadings and shrinkings. Result of rational thinking is complete
madness.''

He turned to her.

''What can
your oracle do against all this physics? Story is over. We learned
nothing.''

''I can get us back!'', she
said: ''I know where we can get the energy, and cross over
again!''

''Why?'', I asked.

''Because, we
have to protect our world from all the threats that are out there,
that we didn't even know exist! Okay, so the invisible EM pulse was
a lie, but I've seen such things out there that could end our
oblivious little world any minute! I can get us back, but you have
to help me.''

She doesn't
get it. The only way you can win in this game is by refusing to
participate.

''There's no
point trying. Let's go, Hubert.''

''Maybe we should hear her out,
man.''

''What?!
Don't tell me you're actually thinking about going back?! Didn't
you just said that it's all complete madness?''

''Yeah, but... What if they let
Engelherz go, and he pushes the button?''

''There will
always be some button to fear! The more you know, the more afraid
you'll be! That comets will smack into us! That the Sun will run
out! That neutrinos will turn against us, and hundred other things,
and I'm pretty sure scientists are working on discovering another
hundred. You were right from the very start when you said that the
whole thing is bullshit, don't let her honeypot you now, we're
home, and we're free to live our lives the way we find
right.''

He
has that same lost look in his eyes, I saw in
Marco's. I'm not reaching him.

''Maybe
there's nothing more to this life than smoking salvia, but it can
be lot more. It's up to us, not the structure of the
universe.''

''I guess you're right, my
friend. I'm giving up. Let's take a bow.''

Chapter seventy

I dug. I dug
and I dug inside my head until it all came back to me, until I
remembered everything. Everything. Yes, I've found Basajaun. He
didn't do this to me. Eric Deeds did. Because I asked him
to.

Because I asked him to.

Truth
liberates, they say, well here it is. Yes, I crossed the border,
went to Tijuana, because that's where Basajaun used to live before
he got here and started pushing dope. I had to find him, and this
was a place to start. I didn't see any other way to get dad out of
the pen. So I got to Tijuana, unarmed, plain obvious gringo, with
some cash in my pocket, and a couple of sentences of latino I could
mutter. I thought, I'll hang around schools, and look for kumbaya
boys, if he stares back at you when you stare at him, you've found
him. I've found him. I thought, I'll offer him cash for info on
Basajaun, but boy pulled a shank on me, and snarled in latino, I
didn't understand him a word. And then this girl appeared out of
somewhere, argued with him, and he left. Alma. She's his sister,
she told me latter. I told her everything. I begged her for help. I
made her feel so uncomfortable that she couldn't say 'no'. She took
me from one dark pit to another, until in one such pit I found
Jorge. An old house where he lives with his mom and dad. I told him
who I am. He pulled a gun on me. And he told me everything. How dad
hustled him into the robbery, and when shit went down, he invented
the hypnosis story, to save his ass.

''If I had thirty million
dollars would I be living here, vato?'', he said.

I left, and
went to Victorville to talk to dad. I told him I found Jorge. He
raged at me. He told me to speak to no one about my
trip.

''Don't ruin
this for me, boy, not now when I have a new trial and public on my
side, when I've fooled everyone from lie detectors, shrinks, DJs,
U2, Vivienne Westwood, Oprah, and whole fucking
public!''