Snap

"Thad what happened to that vile that was on the counter?"

".....that was Lucid's spunk wasn't it?"

"Spunk?"

"....what color was it?"

"....white...."

"Oh yeah..."

"Where is the other little bottle.....???"

"That was your dad or......our dad really.....except I am still a fucking android you want to kick my ass searching for my body and I am telling you they got me frozen inside a catacomb south of Italy in a water grave between like in Sicily but not you know what I am saying?"

"....that was his....that's where the....that stuff...."

"....oops."

"What?"

"They digitized it."

"What does that mean?"

"Remember that movie we made with the computer and Zen dressed up like an astronaut and there was that huge baby in outer space?"

"....Space Odyssey?"

"Yeah!"

"Uh huh..."

"Okay well there you go...."

Sixteen leagues underneath a trench woven into Italy's bordering seam is a submarine automation chamber blowing bubbles surfacing the Mediterranean Sea. Jasmine Blossom tea steams my binoculars while several moments touch this one I find three hundred notches climbing eight box multiplications. My brother is inside a sensory deprivation chamber composed of fiber optic wires streaming delusional concoctions of scorpion poison and octopus ink; a concentric mass of computerized images breathes into a carbon dioxide feed for his brain. We search for these children; we search for reality. Ruby is recovering Muggs, also known as Rosa and Chester The Infamous Grief.

"....this is really disgusting Amethyst."

"........I broke it with a sledgehammer."

"What is that green stuff?"

"I don't know but it glows."

"I'm still wearing my Ninja Turtle Pajamas."

"....I was wondering about that."

"It's vintage!"

"Those are mine. I wore them ten thousand years ago."

"Who's counting?"

"...a calendar Ruby and I devised inside a machine that ticks little chimes."

".......how old am I?"

"....I think five thousand."

"You must be so pissed at me!"

"........I was very confused."

"Still more to come I am sure."

"Hhhhmmm...."

Moo prepares a glass of goat milk while brewing a gust of black chocolate coffee. Diesel runs about holding three screwdrivers; Haliburton is a talking construction bot.

No that's not it....it's that one over there....

"I swear to fucking hell that god damn thing knows what he's doing to me."

"Alright so I am a going to stir this stuff here...."

"The androids are quite a personality complex..."

"....and you be singing while you sleeping.....so the monkeys be recording it and making it clearer with some kind of police machine and then they add music they be making...."

"Why only when I am sleeping?"

"Cause that's when Louis is fucking with the machine....he be trying to wire Marsha to a pig they keep inside some barn....."

"Ouch."

"Yeah he pissed off and that was his only match. So you be singing poems and things....they people there be listening but all they feel is that you sleepwalking and stressed out it's really a good thing that they don't know or think too much about what you doing cause they ain't about selling you to pictures or movies screening....so that little person who be looking like you be getting really pissed off and stabbing boxes and shit but he stop when he realizes that ain't really doing nothing. So when they gone he go looking for the guns and he think he sees one that is really high up on a shelf by some kind of black player that he know is stolen.....that in some weird room nobody go into and he ain't supposed to be there.....so he go and he eat some boiled eggs that the ravens left him and think they weird and figure out they ugly babies. So you be calling him Fellini but you figure his name is Arjuna after the archer and that be one of Tusk's names too...."

".....do I ever get a motorcycle?"

"So you be like all poisoned and fighting Marsha out that gut of yours and you be staring into the mirror so critical and judgmental and Zen be doing the same thing!"

"Nothing I am not already used to..."

No that's not it either Diesel. You told me not to touch it cause I fucked up something so you can kiss my god damn metal naked ass while you screw that shit into the center!

"This god damn robot curses like a sailor! He must of learned it from some god damn tuna eater!"

"Anyways....as you were saying Moo."

"This coffee taste like god damn body jolts."

"How does that taste?"

"....like I am a going to be awake until the end of the world."

"Hhhmm..."

Amethyst! You told me that if I curse I am to do so proper! I did! Fuck him! I am tired of this shit! I had it with this fucking shit! I am god damn programmed to do this shit and this motherfucker right here god damn won't let me fucking do my fucking shit! Fuck!

".....so anyways you be like listening to yourself and wondering how everything happens.....that little guy be having to use step ladders all the time.....you be thinking about bath tubs of milk for him but he just do it cause it stuck in his brain."

"Good."

"He curse a lot."

"Oh."

"He flips the bird at child molesters."

"Oh!"

".....they ain't fucking with him but he worried about his friend at school who be getting into trouble cause she like failing some shit that be stupid...oh yeah history. She hate that thing and be like not thinking about it so they be thinking about that and he go to her house and see it like really big and nice and nobody know shit about her and she live with some youthful looking woman who never there she be working forever.....she just stay there and drink hot chocolate and eat some kind of white puffy thing....she put that on a stick and microwave it and mix it with some other sticky stuff that look like....blood....I guess it's raspberry preserves but he won't eat it cause it's dairy....he don't like dairy it make him sick like you....Lucid said you accidentally swallowed a couple ounces of whole milk when you was bathing once and it all fall out your nose and that you can't even digest it....that it be like sticking to the insides of your body and you must be all lotion inside of you....then some little bug creature that grow from the tea you be drinking be sleeping inside your body like it the best bed he ever had...you be feeling some bug in there but you can't do shit! You be like what the fuck but he like a crab looking mean motherfucker Louis think he crabby cause you crabby so he like fighting off all your mood swings to try to keep you cool and he think the crabby motherfucker going to go to the moon soon whichever one...all of them....damn there must be millions of them!"

"....they say for every sun a moon is her lover but for every bachelor is a moon without a sun."

"For real?"

"Yeah..."

"....so your stomach be talking telling you he is cool but he getting big and he like armored with metal or something....he got pincers and everything except he got green glowing eyeballs. He be like stuck in your chest."

"That is so strange."

"Nah it make sense to everybody else except you cause you been here but they never been here so lots of shit that be crazy for you be making sense to them so just go along with it."

"He must be hungry."

"You's or the crabby baby?"

"...me..."

"You be wanting to drink shit loads of soy milk but that won't help you especially chocolate soy milk cause you be like able to drink three gallons of that a day.....but you don't do it. Your snake friend like bored as all heaven sitting on a water rock. She don't bother with anybody either. She think there is a turtle with fins and an octagon shell that you know about too.....I saw you pick him up and put him in the water after you beat Marsha out of walking.....for like a second. Damn! Even you thought he was amazing and wonder where he come from he was like kicking you cause he was a baby and wanted to go in there but he just landed on the cement from the sky or something...somebody almost step on him but you saw him and pick his weird looking ass up and you ain't even scared he got fangs and little nasty sharp teeth. He remember you and he feel like you around some place but he don't talk to nobody either. There like a chocolate bear there that be kind of petite like your size he don't talk to nobody. There like a bunch of evil poisonous bugs that be cool and they don't talk to nobody and a bunch of animals like some rabbit you be naming Tumble who just roll around everywhere and some poisonous East Asian snake that be waiting for some jogger who is training himself to fight you that you be seeing and he be following you around or trying.....he was waiting for him to sting him and bite him and feed him to something......that something is cool though. You like tickle his side so he get off the concrete so nobody step on him and he be like all screwy then cause his side be all tickling him now cause of you and he remember you. You didn't even know that snake was that poisonous he so little and man he was a nasty boy! He just move away so you no tickle his side anymore! So some man be thinking you a squirrel who eat some pears but really you made Marsha get them to make exfolient; that shit be like really strong fermentation and like lethal poisonous alcohol and explosive like fucking dynamite but only you can detonate it....it got some kind of wicked alchemist gas in it. You fucking made it! You be using that on your skin too! Anyways so you thinking about tuna and how it just not enough for some reason and Cake be thinking about vegan style tuna cakes without lactose for some reason, and he be thinking about stupid cookie wrappers and getting more pissed off at his job and she be thinking about a playground to smoke weed at but she got none and he be thinking about playing Nintendo but he got none and she be thinking about tomato sauce and pizza but she surrendered all the cheese to you and you put it in the freezer box to save....cause that cheese be making her feel heavy for some reason but she eat blue cheese.....that shit is real heavy but it don't do much to her but she tired of it. Then I just be thinking all ya'll is crazy and the comic book guy be thinking you sort of look like them people in the pictures for graphics.....he be thinking you could dress like them for some convention he want to do and nobody know it you but you seriously doubt that and me too.....you wore a Hello Kitty costume and people still knew it was you. A fucking blasted big white chubby cat with pink jumps!"

".....what kind of comics does he read?"

"The real dark theme ones....he don't read them all....he like study some message that the underground people be sending him about electricity and gamma rays...."

"Those are really cool too. I read theirs more than ours..."

"Yeah but to you it's like a novel. They be making messages from those things..."

"They use droid people to draw them though."

".....yeah I know."

"You Know Who drew ours and then programmed droids to mimic it but it's not working so well.....ours are cheesy."

"Especially that hunky Vietnamese guy.....and what about that Bat motherfucker?"

"What about him?"

".....that don't make sense."

"That was Braid's idea."

"Why do he live like that?"

"...nobody excepts a rich eccentric guy to be a hero."

"Okay well he go and get a copy of one of those Bat motherfuckers and looks at it carefully and he understand now that wealth can help.....if you a bat motherfucker."

"What is his name?"

"He don't even answer to it cause it was some name some people gave him that he don't even talk to anymore.....he work at some coffee shop.....he be like making some wicked fancy shit."

"Oh."

"....he don't look like a comic book person."

"What does a comic book person look like?"

"I seen them. They got goatees and chops and they wear their hair spiky and wear black clothes....but he wear comic book shirts like vintage looking ones that be real interesting like eye catching but he don't read those. It just like for fashion trickery....and cause you like them cause they look vintage and got You Know Who's artwork on it."

"....oh."

"He like scooters a lot."

"Scooters?"

"Yeah he really like those a lot. He want some rough one with tough wheels and like a futuristic one..."

"The pizza hawks?"

"Yeah! I like those they don't use much pollutant and they be fast..."

".....yeah a lot of people here have them."

"Not there though. It be like dangerous to have one where he at but safe where you at."

"He should go to where I am then...."

"Not for a long time will he figure out how to get out of there but you be like saying at night that your town and the twin town Ruby at going to evacuate cause that going to be the first hit and that the real estate game going to be open and lots of brave people or just peeps that want to chill is going to come there and you going to be like watching shit and going to places getting rid of them in that town but no other.......and you be so sure that they coming there first it not even funny and lots of people already moving and people planning on shutting they business but it takes them long to figure out how to leave. Then like this person who be trying to find out simple shit about you find out all this shit having to do with you coming from another place and having to deal with some bitch who bother you a lot. But he say you were only there for a while before you tell him that Marsha going to be there and that you got to go and that they going bankrupt and that's when the digital motherfucker came in and started to try to argue you into telling him why and how but you don't say nothing cause you don't like his ass....so he get mad and try to hit you or something but he missed and broke his own computer and Dominique be pissed and she go after it to pull apart but you don't see her or really remember it until you sit there and actually think about what you did there.....and he say you ate thirty boxes of raisins that some company was sending them for free and that you ate like so many damn cases of those things you be like all energized and not eating anything there cause the food was bad. And that you ate like a whole bag in ten minutes and drank like all the water there cause that was free....but that lady Marsha she ate so much they food she owed them money. And you be thinking the money she make is the money you make but at that point you realize you don't really be making any money at all and then you know you kind of fucked but the bank be taking money out of her accounts and be putting them in yours and the monkeys help you cause you still dream sequencing in and out. That lady think it funny you ate like thirty cases of raisins and that man think you like some kind of Olympic dried fruit eater.....that shit help you grow though. But there nothing to eat there except that and he say you don't eat nothing but things like that and cause it was free they was going to throw it away you ate it all. So by that time you figuring you kind of fucked and you gave away all her shit except for two chair things....and he say some mean girl was bothering you a lot and she was kind of just like harassing people but you just ignore her ass.....he say you try to make her food cause she don't eat and that he ate it all and it was damn good! He say you make food a lot and give it away to see what people think about it and he don't know why but he think you really like to be around food so that it a good thing for you to be working on food stuff.....but he say that shit you make so complicated he never have it again at all. He say it was so complex he has no idea how to make it but he knows what you put into it he taste all of it but he has no idea how to make it again....no idea not a clue. And he say you got a bad fucking temper but only if somebody try to rob you or something.....and he say you would like kick they ass so bad it ain't funny. And he seen you do that before at the back door some guy came there while you was sleep walking and be having a gun or something and you broke his arm and that shit be dangling and that gun be spinning on the ground and you threw it in the dumpster and compacted it and walked away and he was like what the fuck! He was this guy who does their accounting.....he was like what the fuck! Cause he had they deposit bag with him was like ten thousand or something and you went back there to see what he was doing cause it took him so long.....and you grabbed that fucker's arm and pulled it real hard it make a horrible snapping sound and he just fell and you left him there! And that man kick him while you trying to figure out how you got there and why shit look so weird....the police come and he tell them that you broke his arm and they didn't care and cuffed his ass anyways and put him in a light box and they drove away while you went around that place looking for some guy who was an android that brought you there but you don't really remember it but he say you got a wild temper and you don't like shit like that and you going to do something about it and that you like really good with self defense and fighting and that he know you like just go off! She just kind of like accept that but he still in shock so he kind of run away for a while cause them people there after him for their bankruptcy but they deserve that shit. They steal money from people...."

"Will I remember anything?"

"Nope....but you going to be acting fucked up for a while..."