MY IMORTAL FAMILY

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Silgax is in the null and void when the intergalactic patrolmen pass by and drop off food parcels. The prisoners scramble and fight for their share when Silgax approaches them. They all stop fighting and move allowing Silgax to take eat his share. Once Silgax is satisfied he leaves and goes to sit under a rock. He sits and watches the other prisoners fighting over food and says to himself “ I am wasting away in this hell hole. Look at them fighting over my scraps”. As he is seated a portal immediately opens from behind him. “ what the hell” he says before he sucked into the portal. The portal opens up and he finds himself in a spaceship. He looks around and he cant he believe his eyes. Then he hears a familiar voice “ welcome back master Silgax” says the voice. “ thank you computer but I have to say you could have freed me from that wasteland sooner” replies Silgax “ apologies master, I was trying to work out how to disable the tracker they had impanted in your neck. Also finding an acquiring a teleporter gun is difficult as only enforcer agents are licensed to carry them” replies the computer. Silgax then hears the doors open and his drones come out carrying an enforcer agent. The agent is Captain Toby Toll. “ I should have known that you were behind this” says Captain Toby “ Toll we meet again” says Silgax “ can’t say it’s a pleasure” replies Captain Toby “ I share the same sentiments” replies Silgax. “ well then master what shall I do with him, we needed his gun to free so we can get rid of him. He has served his purpose” says the computer “ no not yet. Death would be too easy for him considering that he has been a thorn in our side for all these years. Take him to the dungeon. We can work intel out of him” says Silgax “ you wont get away with this” cries Captain Toby as he is electrocuted by a drone before they drag him away. Silgax laughs and says “ oh but I have already gotten away with it Toll”.he then walks and sits in his chair and says “ computer I think it’s time we plan out our next move”.

David and Damascus are on their back to Earth. David is pacing up and down in the ship and Damascus asks “ penny for your thoughts,” “ I am just thinking about what I am going to do when I get back home” says David “ what do you mean” asks Damacus “ I mean I want to have fun with my friends back in Capetown and Durban” says David “ you mean you want to steal” says Damascus “ why do you think that everytime I am out with my friends I am stealing” asks David “ because number one, I was once your age and I did the things you do. Number two how many times have the cops called me asking about you because you were an accomplice to a crime” replies Damascus “ okay fine but I just really miss my friends” says David. Damascus gets a glass of water before he says “ well I will let you know that we are still heading to earth because after the long trip I just want to be home. You know relax have a beer” says Damascus “ alright pops” replies David “ I sometimes miss my homeplanet” says Damascus “ you never talk about home. Like what happened” asks David. Damascus goes quiet, David stands up and heads into the bathroom. Damascus sits and thinks about his home planet. He remembers when he was six years old and all the other kids his age were anadites and he was better than them all. He was stronger, faster and a very good fighter. The teachers loved him and so did his parents. He then wondered how his life turned out this way. Out of all his fathers children he was the oldest yet he didn’t have anything worthwile to his name. he is unemployed, he has a son that does not listen him and he is now hoping around in a spaceship doing the dirty work of a Pagodian prince. And he is in this mess because of his son. He loved his son David but he wanted to kill him at times but that is his flesh and blood. He then started thinking of when they moved to Earth and how he found their peaceful nature of the earthlings refreshing. Sure they had civil wars in different regions acroos the planet but they were nothing compared to what he had seen acroos the multiverse. He then met a nice earthling girl and they hit it off. They had plans to get married but things went sideways. He loved her and missed her David’s mother. He sat and waited to get to Earth and just relax, maybe he could fix things with David’s mother, maybe he could try get a job like his brothers.

Its break time at Broock’s school. Brock is seated on a bench alone. He opens his bag and pulls out his lunch. He gets excited when he opens his lunchbox and he finds that Mavis made waffles and they are covered in maple syrup. Brock starts eating his food. He looks up and notices Kurt the school bully walking past a group of kids in the same grade. He watches Kurt push one kid into the ground as he walks away collecting money. Brock then continues eating his food. A few minutes later he notices that Kurt is coming towards him. He closes his lunch box and says “ not today please” as Kurt approaches him. Kurt is finnaly next to Brock and says “ give me your money” and Brock looks at Kurt and simply says “ I don’t have any money” then Kurt proceeds to take Brock’s lunchbox. Brock yells “ hey don’t do that give it back now!” and Kurt shoves Brock into ground. Brock is on the floor as he watches Kurt open his lunchbox and eat his last waffle. The sight of Kurt eating his last waffle makes Brock burn with anger and the thought that he does this to everyone else in grades two and three drives Brock over the edge. He slowly stands up and slaps Kurt right acroos the face. This slap was so loud and hard that Kurt dropped both the lunchbox and the waffle he was eating. “ oh you have a death wish huh” says Kurt whose face has is red with anger. He then proceeds to grab Brock by his school shirt and he hits Brock with a slap too. The force enough to make Brock take two steps back. Brock then steps back to Kurt and he hits with a right hand punch so hard that it made Kurt’s eyes water and Kurt responds by saying “ oh now youre going to get it” and he retaliates by attempting to hit Brock with a right hand and Brock simply evades it and punches him in the gut and this causes Kurt to recoil in pain before he responds with a punch that actually connects on Brock’s jaw but Brock barely reacts to this. At this point a small crowd has surrouneded them and they have started to cheer for Brock with a “ brock brock!” chant breaking out. Brock responds to Kurt punching him by hitting him with a huge left hook that drops Kurt flat on his back and the kids react with a “ohh” sound. Kurt at this point is feeling angry and embarresed at the fact that not only did he get challenged but he is losing a fight to a third grader whilst he is in the seventh grade. Brock then takes up what looks like a karate stance and motions Kurt to come on. Kurt lets out a roar and rushes to Brock who simply side steps him and does a little shuffle. Kurt then tries for a head kick and Brock catches Kurt’s leg and digs his elbow into his knee. The force at which Brock delivered the elbow causes Kurt to cry out in pain and Brock is upset at this point takes Kurt down in the manner a mixed martial arts fighter does by hooking both legs with his hands and hoisting Kurt up before he slammed him down. Brock is on top of Kurt now and he starts to deliver several punches to a now humbled and helpless Kurt.  As he is delivering his punches to Kurt Brock feels a hand on his shoulder. He looks up and it is the school principal pulling him off Kurt. “ why are you fighting” asks the school principal and Kurt quickly says “ this child attacked me out of nowhere” “ lier! You tried to take my lunch and when I didn’t let you, you decided to get mad” replies Brock. “ that’s enough from the both of you. My office now. And everyone else back to class” yells the principal. The other children scurry away to their classes whilst Brock and Kurt make their way to the school principals office.

Casey is in a meeting when her phone rings. She looks at it and decides to ignore the call. It rings immedialty again and again she ignores the call. After ten minutes it rings again and Casey finally stands and says “ may please take this” and she is excused. She steps out of the boardroom and answers the phone and says “ Casey Tough speaking” “good afternoon Mrs.Tough. It’s the school principal here. I am calling to let you know that you are needed in school immediately” says the principal “ why, is there anything wrong with Brock” she asks concerned “ no Mrs.Tough nothing happened to Brock. However you are needed here immediately” says the principal “ why” asks Casey “because Brock was involved in a fight” replies the principal “Brock fighting. Okay I’ll be there” replies Casey. She then heads back into the boardroom. She packs up her stuff and says “ I have an emergency to attend to. I take it you guys will update on what happened” as she leaves. She leaves the office and makes her way to Brock’s school. She then pulls out her cell phone and says “ hey Mavis I need you to do something for me. I need you to pick up Roman from day care. I will send you money for the cab right now” “ okay madam” replies Mavis. She hits a traffic light and she pulls out her phone to send Mavis money electronically. She completes the transaction and continues to Brock’s school. She drives for ten more minutes before she arrives at Brock’s school. She is filled with fear and anger. She fears that her baby boy may be hurt. 

Dana gets out of his car when he notices Casey’s car drive into the school parking. He then walks to her car. “hey” he says “ hey” she replies as she hugs him “ any idea what happened” asks Dana “ I was just told that Brock got into a fight” replies Casey. “ I was told the same over the phone” replies Dana “ me too. Something doesn’t add up though, Brock is a jolly kid” says Casey “ well I guess we just have to go and find out” says Dana as they walk towards the school principals office.  Dana and Casey arrive and enter the school pricipals office “well finally they are here” remarks Kurt’s father “ apologises traffic was hectic” says Dana as he sits down next to Casey. At that point Casey is relieved when she looks at Brock who apart from his school unifron being dirty he looks unmarked. However when she glances over at Kurt she is shocked, Kurt’s school uniform is stained with blood, his jersey is torn, his face is badly marked up and to top it all off the boy is in the seventh grade he is physically bigger than Brock. Dana also looks at Kurt and he isn’t as shocked as his wife but a bit proud. He tries to hide this. “ Mr and Mrs Tough, I called you here because we as the school management felt that it was important we discuss your son’s conduct” begins the principal “ we have sero tolerance for violence at our school and what transpired between these two boys is totally unacceptable” says the principal “ well then what happened” asks Casey “ well your son was involved in a fight with this young …….” Begins the principal again however he is interrupted by Dana saying “ my wife wasn’t speaking to you she was talking to my son” and the principal keeps quiet. “ I was sitting on a bench eating my lunch when this guy came to me and asked for money. When I told him I didn’t have money and he took my lunch” says Brock “and that’s when your animal of a child attacked my son like a wild animal” says Kurt’s mother “ maam I’m going to ask you politely to keep quiet and let my son finish” warns Casey. “ go on” encourages Dana “ after he took my lunch I tried to get it back from him and then he pushed me to the ground. After that he then proceeded to slap me. I admit that afterwards I got angry and I started to fight back” concludes Brock “ see he doesn’t even deny attacking my son” says Kurt’s father “ well he only hit him after your son slapped him” says Dana “ and that would not have happened if he didn’t take his food in the first place. I wonder who the animal is now” says Casey “ I don’t think I like your tone” replies Kurt’s mother “ please please! Let’s all calm down. We are here to discuss and solve this issue ammicalbly and to try teach these fine young men that differences can be solved without violence” says the school principal as he tries to calm tensions between  both parents. “ now in cases like this we have to suspend students that are caught fighting” begins the principal “ my son gets bullied and you want to suspend him” says Casey who is beginning to get angry “ yeah what kind of s**t is that. This could have all been avoided if this punk didn’t take my son’s food” says Dana “ who’s child are you calling a punk” says Kurt’s father as he stands up to try confront Dana. The principal rushes to get in between both men and pleads “ gentlemen let’s not do this. You are both respected members of the community as well along with your families”. Dana who is still calm at this point sits back down and says “ I will not accept any suspension. My son did nothing wrong” “but look at my son, he looks like he was mauled by a bear” cries out Kurt’s mother “ and I still repeat that if your son hadn’t taken Brock’s food none of this would have happened” says Dana “ yeah from where we are standing it seems like you guys are more focused on Brock’s reaction to getting provoked as opposed to what provoked him in the first place. Your son taking his food” adds Casey. “ okay fine. Brock wont get suspended but we also cant suspend Kurt” says the school principal “ and why is that” says Dana “ well because he is in grade seven which means he will be sitting for his primary school leaving exams and he cant afford to miss any classes this year” replies the principal.  This makes Dana chuckle a bit “ did I say anything funny Mr Tough” asks the principal “ no I just think it’s funny that a grade seven student got his ass handed to him by an eight year old boy” says Dana “ okay that’s enough Mr Tough” says the school principal “ not only did he get his ass whopped he ran to you and his parents” adds Dana. This prompts Kurt’s father to lunge at Dana who remains calm and says “ listen here old man, we can always go outside and sort this out like real men” “calm down please. This is not the time” pleads Kurt’s mother as she finally gets her husband to calm down “ that’s a wise decision you wouldn’t want both your son and husband losing on the same day” adds Dana “ that’s enough out of you” says Casey “ tell me principal I heard you talking about discplinign the boys, but you have yet to say anything abput the school. I mean where were the teachers when this happened. What steps or measures will be taken to prevent this from happening again. And you need to sensitise not only the students but parents on what constitutes to bullying” asks Casey “ well Mrs Tough I can’t answer for the teachers but I can say I intend on bringing this up at the staff meeting and also holding an assembly address for the students about bullying” replies the principal. Casey is not satisfied with this answer and she gets up and leaves. Her doing this also prompts Dana and Brock to leave. They get to the parking lot and Casey says to Dana “ you will take Mike Tyson home with you. I have to rush back to the office” “ yeah I will do that” replies Dana.  They drive home in complete silence for five minutes before they stop at a traffic light. “ im not going to lie to you kid, while I am proud of you standing up for yourself I am also very disappointed. We didn’t raise you like this” says Dana “ but he started it replies Brock “ you could have gotten hurt or hurt the poor boy” says Dana “ I’m sorry dad but I wasn’t going to let someone take my food. Also it’s not like I wanted to fight, it was a natural reaction” replies Brock “ and that’s why you should have not fought him, you could’ve killed him, humans aren’t capable of fighting of us” says Dana “ what do you mean humans can’t fight us. We are also human” replies Brock. Dana then keeps quiet and doesn’t respond to this statement made by his son. “ dad, dad answer me!” demands Brock “ no now is not the time or place” says Dana. “ you said humans cant fight us, what did you mean by that” asks Brock again with anger in his voice. Dana tries to ignore his son but he notices what seems to be a build up in clouds and suddenly what was a clear sunny day is suddenly covered in clouds as if a storm where begginign to approach. He glances over at his son and he notices his eyes are filled with tears and there are small sparks coming from his body and hands. “ okay I will tell you what I meant on two conditions” says Dana “ you calm down and also you wont breath a word to this from your mother” adds Dana. Brock simply nods his head. “ I am not a human from earth. I am an anadite, and I think you may be one too” says Dana “ what’s an anadite” asks Brock “ well were a race that looks like humans but we are superior to humans in every aspect. We are stronger, faster and smarter than humans.” Says Dana “ so if you are like an alien, what are doing here. What not go back to your planet” asks Brock “ well when I was around twelve years old my parents, that being your grandparents decided to flee our home planet. This proved to be smart on their part as our world was hit by a metour that destroyed the planet and killed all of the anadites there. We have been living normal lives eversince then. Well earth lives” replies Dana “ so even grandpa Ray and grandma Cathy are like superhuman” asks Brock “ yes even your uncle Paul” replies Dana “ so you are telling me that the reason I am the smartest kid at school is because I am an anadite” asks Brock “ yes. Also your athletic prowess is because you are an anadite” replies Dana. “ look I know it’s a lot to take in. this is why I was disappointed in you fighting because a guy like Kurt doesn’t lose fights to eight year old kids. He is a pre teen meaning he is bigger and stronger and you beat him to a pulp. See anadites have this thing where they go into fight or flight mode when confroted with certain situations and these situations may result in the activation of their powers as a way to defend themselves from any threat” says Dana “ I have powers” asks Brock “ yes all anadites have powers and abilities. We have the ability to control nature to our will, well not nature per say.