Thrones of Blood and Dust

The forty-nine

Dinbux tugged the door powerfully, his red eyes glittering and his lips twitched. His massive head sat on his stocky body and looked as if he had no neck. His skin was chalked white, with fifteen strands of red hair serving as beards.

“Dinbux? You don’t look too happy.” A lady said. She was tall, standing above seven and a half feet tall, slim with very long legs. Like Dinbux, her skin was also chalk white.

She was sitting comfortably on a chair smoking.

“Sherryx, have you seen the news?” Dinbux asked.

“You mean Grantuculataera News?” Sherryx asked.

“No. Earth News.”

“No.”

“Watch this.” Dinbux gave her an electronic pad and played a video. She watched it.

“I don’t get it. Is the footage from the future?”

“No. That is past. I Saw it 12.78 minutes ago.”

“It is still 2017. That should be a video from 2019.”

“There is a leak.” Dimbux said. “I don’t know how this happened.”

Sherryx got on her feet and made Dimbux look like a toy before her. He was four feet tall.

“I need an explanation.” She said.

“This explains the hiatus after Bell died.”

“Bell died without giving anyone the solution.” She said. “And we could not start it without it. How come I see this video? How was he activated? This speech from this guy is programmed. He is human, right?”

“Yes. He calls himself Doctor Teks but is profiled is edited, and manipulated. It is all based on our master plan. If we did not authorize this, then who did?

“If he is human, then he must have a Compliment and handler. He can’t do this on his own. Is this all you have on the video?”

“Yes.”

“We must expand the visibility. There must be a Xanaxian there.”

Dinbux fixed the pad to a screen and pressed some keys. The screen displayed the whole conference hall.

“Wait…” Sherryx said and moved closer to the screen. “Enhance wave lines.”

Dinbux did that.

“There is a connection with point 45.77 Diclax. Materialize image.”

Dinbux did and Zuyx was sitting comfortably on a pew while he smoked.

“That is the handler and complement.” Dinbux said.

“Can you code the SNA?”

“No. It seemed to be mixed up with human DNA. Lot’s of alterations.’

“Can’t you shut him down?”

“That is the first thing I tried to do the first time I saw the video. I tried to shut it down but could not.”

“Nonsense! It is our program and man cannot alter the Superhumanity. That is why they came to us. We can shut it down.”

“We can’t do it without the help of man. There is a deviation from the master plan. I think the Spill process needs more scrutiny.”

“Who is the handler?”

“From his SNA, which is blurry, I see some “Spark Traits. And that is a trait of the Duyx Family.”

“Did we select any one from there?”

“Yes. We picked one from the family.’

“Who?”

“Zuyx.”

“Zuyx? You mean the Zuyx Zirux?”

“Yes.”

“Why? I gave the list of the fifty names to be chosen.”

“I know, Sherryx. The list was used and someone changed a name with that of Zuyx. Zuyx Zinux was replaced with Zuyx Zirus. I did not find out soon.’

“What did you do when you found out?”

“I did something.”

“What?”

“I made sure we could shut them down anytime so I let it be.”

“You should have told me.’

“I did not find it imperative. What is wrong with Zuyx Zirux?”

“He is from the Duyx family and they have a history of rebellion. Duyx was the first Wubandan Rebel in 709 BC. Zuyx was sentenced to jail in 0001 and reached his UT before sent to Dumpanica. He is a forgotten soul and now given the chance to live again, he would do anything to be rebellious and that can affect our goal.”

“You mean it is a case of rebellion?”

“How else did he activate himself? Did you do that?”

“We did not activate any of the originals. Mr. Bell did not even give out the solution for the final phase activation.”

“Zuyx did and we must find how he did it. We must find the phones. Where are they?’

“Earth.’

“I know. Where on Earth are they?”

“I don’t know.”

“Contact Mbozi.” She said. “We must find the remaining forty nine before Zuyx gets to them.”

Dimbux got his pad and made some connections.

“Mbazi.” Dimbux said after a middle aged African appeared on the screen.

“Dimbux.”

“Have you seen the video?”

“It is viral. I am shocked. I wonder how he got the speech. Did you get a new client?”

“No. You are our agent so you should have been aware of a new client. There is a problem, Mbozi. One of the original phones has rebelled. The speech you saw was inspired by the rebel. It self activated itself without the solution. We don’t how he did it but we believe it was in cahoots with the human. We must find out how he did it but most importantly, we must find the forty nine before he gets to them.”

“But the forty nine are still dormant.”

“Yes but letting him access to them means a lot of things. Things that may be beyond our control and that is bad for business.”

“I delivered the phones to Mr. Bell and made sure he hid them in a safe. He told me that he is the only one who had access to the phones.”

“We must find the phones. I will see the technical team, to help ionize the GPSS Particles for easier location. We must get the phones back.”

“Yes sir.”

Sherryx looked at Dimbux.

“We have to go to Earth. We have to get the phones back and make sure Zuyx is stopped.”

******

“We must find forty-nine now.” Zaux said.

“Now? I mean I need to go home and chill.’

“You mean go to Mary?”

“Not really but she needs me right now. I just killed her boyfriend so I need to fill in the space.”

“You don’t know what is going on, Teks. You need to establish a family. You need to be Dr. Teks too and that means having another woman in your life as Dr. Tex. You had a girl friend before. The one that loves reading novels. Go and get her.”

“She knows my history; she knows I do not have a PhD.’

“She has seen you already on TV. She will recognize you as her boyfriend at the same time see you as you are now. Remember, their memory lane has been altered. For instance, the times you spent together in the caravan would be changed to five star hotels in her head. She saw you selling drugs on the street, what she would remember is you giving free medication to people on the street. That is how it works. You need a first lady so you to get married ASAP.’

“Are you serious about me becoming the President of USA?”

“You will be more than the president. That is why we must find the forty-nine now.”

“You need to tell me why the so-called forty-nine are so important and you call them a family.” Teks lit a stick of cannabis.

“Let me have a few drags.”

“What? You can smoke?”

“Yeah.” Zuyx smiled, “and lots more. I can now eat, drink. Dreams come true, huh?”

“There are lots I need to understand.’

“Yeah and the first thing is to understand the forty nine. There is man called Dolbycato Perez. He used to work for one of the richest men in the world, travelling round the world. In one such trips, he met an African who could connect.”

“Connect?”

“Connecting between our world and yours. The relationship has been on for millions of years. Dolbycato sold the idea of starting a production of talking phones to Bell. Bell bought the idea but suspected Dolbycato of trying to double cross him. Bell fired him. Dolbycato kept watching him until he was sure the code was complete and the solution was found. The African is called Mbozi. I knew six generations of his family and they all connected…”

“Six generations? How old are you?”

“Nah! You would make me sound old. I don’t want to talk about that now. Just listen to me. Bell wanted to change the world with his new phones so the transaction was called 778-Transaction. The phones were to be made by men and our people.”

“Who are your people?”

“I am from Telepatrux but spent the last five hundred years in Dumpanica.” Zuyx looked at Teks. “Telepatrux is a country in Metaria, which is one of the largest continents in Mars. I am a Metarian and my country is Telepatrux.”

“What about Dumpanica?”

Zuyx grimaced.

“I hate that place.” He spat. “Okay, we grow old…I was two thousand years old five hundred years. I come from a great family and people are envious of us. My grandfather made a name in Mars: Duyx. So when I was two thousand years old, weak and sick, the government seized me and took me to Dumpanica. The king’s father was four thousand years old but was not taken to Dumpanica. You know why? He was afraid of us..”

“What the hell is Dumpanica?”

“We live long. We live for thousands of years. We get so old and become inactive. What you call vegetables. At that stage, we are taken to a land called Dumpanica. It is a country for the old and weak. We are thrown and lie in piles. That is the worse place to be. I mean, death is better and death could be wicked. Death escaped from me for five hundred years but I am glad it did. I am here now. No food in Dumpanica. We get injected with nourishment fluid every year to keep us breathing. I dodged the injection twice but did not die even though I was not breathing. I just felt the pains of suffocation. I understand why people took the injection. We lie down all day and night. That is the life I lived for five hundred years.

The Daroods got an idea...They felt our souls could be useful. They also knew we will give everything to leave Dumpanica, they used us.”

“Daroods?”

“Yes. What you call the Mafia here. Daroods rule the underworld in my country. They sponsored many scientists to go into research. It took over three hundred years to arrive at something. The plan is to use our souls for something better. They called it BL: Better life. Better life for the beneficiaries.

Our souls could now be transformed and stored as Potential Biotechnics Acidic Patterns PBAP.

For 778-Tranaction, PBAP were to be used for Superhumanity. We were programmed, submerging our ability to act on our own. Bellz made the first town thousand Z Series phones and fifty were selected for a start. That made them send fifty PBAP into the ND: New Dimension which hosts the Superhumanity.

I was not selected but I altered my name before I got there. They see us as rebels so I had to be under someone with a similar name but three thousand years older. I was made part of the fifty phones. I am now a phone and made to obey orders. But I altered. How I did that? My secret. I am not a dummy and I am out of Dumpanica, reincarnated as a phone but with my full abilities and sensibilities now, they can’t shut me down. The sequel has been altered, plunging into various complex diversions, encryptions, and digitalization.

I am the only one out of the fifty that activated. They are my kind and they be brought alive. We will interact with the females to produce more of our kinds. But each PBAP will need a phone to activate of live. So ordinary phones would need to be infected, and the owner becomes the host, and we live a normal life.’

“So it is about you, huh? You just want to use me to have a normal life…”

“Can’t you see what I have done for you? Can’t you see who you are now? Remember what you were…you could barely feed, now you are a global figure.

It is about us…if they come for me, it affects you too. We need to be normal to make you better”

“If they come for you? Who are they?”

“The daroods. I am supposed to be their project but I deviated. I also figured out the real motive.”

“What is the motive?”

“The speech you delivered last night was programmed. Daroods planned to use 778-Transaction as a cover to make the bridge. Bell thought he was smart. Daroods were smarter. Hidden in his superhumanity are applications he did not know about nut intended to be activated to create a bond between the user and the phone which be channeled to building the drug bridge. The daroods are going inter-planet with their drugs. That is part of the reasons the coordinate fell on you. You are a drug dealer. I followed the rules but not for them. They don’t’ even now that I exist..except now that the video went viral. They will hear the speech and recognize it. Then they will say I am activated and acting on my own. They love to call us rebels. Then they would come for me, do all they can to shut me down, and take me back to Dumpanica. If I am taken, you are stripped off everything you made and left so vulnerable, too weak to protect yourself from those that you have killed their family members, or the crimes you have committed. They law will come after you for impersonation; every cover and immunity are gone.” Zuyx smiled. “I guess you won’t like that.”

“So the drugs I promised to distribute, where will it come from?”

“From the daroods.’

“They will come for you.’

“I got that figured out. We have to go for the forty-nine.”

“Where are they?”

“I know where they are…”

******

The 787- TQR Space Ship slid aside, exposing a round lower door, with the sides beeping with colored lights.

The moon was fully reflecting lights rays down the earth but the tall trees in The Calavary Forest made the lower part dark and covered with tree shadows.

The space ship stopped above an open space in the forest.

Foop! Foop!! Foop!!!

Foop! Foop!! Foop!!!

The jumped off the ship, like sparks of lights, and dropping on the ground with the lowest of sounds and greatest of smoothness. They could land an inch from the ear of a sensitive person without alerting him.

Sherryx got on her feet. She had reduced her height to six feet, darkened her whiteness to give her a human pinkish-reddish skin and but did not reduce the length of her very long eye lashes.

Dimbux was by her side, He had also transformed, increasing his height to six feet, extended his neck and made it look conventional, adjusted his skin color and felt he looked human.

They had nine guards with them. They moved with a rare stealth, none of them uttered a word. Under the thick shades of the trees, they walked until; they arrived a dust road where six cars were parked with some men under the wheel, while some stood by the car doors.

“Welcome to Earth, Maziure Sherryx.” A young lady, with long ebony hair dressed in black outfits said as she walked towards them. “It is nice to see you even if the notice was short.”

“Thank you Anita.” Sherryx said, “we have an emergency. We need to locate the forty nine phones now.”

“I thought they were fifty.” She said.

“Have you not heard of the rebellion? There is a leak and we must cover it, pronto.”

“You mean the speech? I thought it was …”

“You pay attention more to your Ice Products distribution than work.”

‘No…you know..’

“We need to find them now.”

“Okay.”

*****

“Teks,” Zuyx said, “They are here.”

“What?”

“The Daroods are here. We must move now!”

*****