Chapter 3
Dan stopped at the house. He saw the mother ship on his laptop's screen come out of hyperspace, and to a devastated high Kharak orbit.
Dan couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the game playing itself. Oh yeah, and Bob's house was on fire, blah, blah, blah. Wait, Bob's house was being consumed by an orange, raging inferno!
Dan reflexively rushed out of the car, and was staring at the house. Almost everyone who went to the party had ran away.
"Nothing's left," Sean said, "everything's gone. Bob's house is burning!"
Dan stood there, at the surreal sight of Bob's house being eaten away by flames, and the party being ruined. Dan had a tear fall from his eye, while he stood, filled with boiling rage.
"Dan!" screamed a distressed voice of the lovely blond he was in love with. Riesstiu, and several members of the football team were following Riesstiu. Jessica stared deep into Dan's eyes, her eyes and face showing a deep distress, and begged at him to help her with one look.
Jake dragged her on to the car, with a raged and insane expression on his face.
Everyone on the football team, including Riesstiu was wearing a dress shirt, tie, and their team's jacket, so they were distinguished as football players.
Jessica was struggling in vain to get away from her insane boyfriend, but to no use. Riesstiu forced her into the shotgun of his fancy car, and yelled at her.
"Stay back, and kill Dan!" Riesstiu yelled at three members of the football team.
Dan seeing Jessica's lovely, catlike body being thrown around filled him with rage. He rushed towards Jessica, who was calling out to him in vain, but the three football players assigned to kill Dan tackled him, and piled on top of him. The rest of the football team got in their cars and drove off. Jessica was still screaming for help as Riesstiu's car sped off.
Dan's friends came to his aid, and began to attack the football players, to help out Dan.
Dan than stood up, and took a swing at one of the football players, who was caught off guard. The guy Dan took a swing at fell to the ground, and clenched at his chest, his face could be seen turning purple in the light of the roaring flames. Everyone around the house began to get a little high off of the burning marijuana in Bob's basement.
"The cop's are going to be here soon!" Brandon, one of Dan's friends, yelled.
Sean managed to deal a great blow to the lightest of the three football players, and began to drag him to the trunk of Edward's car.
Dan began to mercilessly beat on the football player he dealt a blow to. The rage of the fire began to grow with Dan's rage. He hated the football player, but whom he really hated was the captain of the team: Riesstiu.
Dan began to hit the football player some more, but saw the lights of emergency vehicles, and the screaming of sirens from far down the street.
"Dan!" David, another friend of his, yelled, "the cops are coming! Get out of here!"
Dan dropped his bat, and made a mad rush into his car.
Sean had successfully locked the football player in the trunk of Edward's car, before rushing into it.
Dan got into his car, when he heard a knock on his window. A nerd from the Audio Video club was knocking on his window, screaming at Dan to let him in.
Dan decided to risk it in his rushed state, and opened the door for him, and began to speed off, before the cops could get close enough.
Dan, full of adrenalin, rushed his car off. The sounds of screaming sirens from ambulances and fire trucks made Dan go into a furious state of rushing, as Dan though they were Police, instead of Emergency Vehicles. He had to get the hell out of there, fast.
The Cooksdale Fire Department arrived at Bob's house in record time. Fire Engines parked, and Fire Fighters began to make an effort to put out the blazing inferno. Luckily the brave firefighters were wearing breathing apparatuses, which prevented them from getting high from the godless amount of burning marijuana in Bob's house.
He began to evasively rush around the roads, but began to go down to the speed limit once he was away from the raging fire that once was Bob's house.
"Who the hell are you," Dan asked to the nerd who he let in his car, as he dodged his way around the neighbourhood.
"I'm Derek, from the Audio Video club. I'm in your science class."
"So what the hell are you doing in my car?" Dan asked, while trying to tactically get home without being spotted by the cops.
"Well," he began, "I was doing a little filming of the party at Bob's house", Derek said, while patting a camera he was holding.
"I'm saving your ass by doing this, Dan," Derek claimed, "we've got dirt on Riesstiu if the cops find you."
"I'd like to see what you've got on the party," Dan said, "and see if any of it will keep me out of juvie if I go to court."
"Alright," Derek said, "take me to your house, and I'll get this camera hooked up and ready for a show in no time."
Dan looked in his mirror, and saw that he was being followed. He panicked for a second, because he thought is was the police. Dan realised that it was Edward's car, and it was following him home.
Dan's friends and Derek were in the den of Dan's house, where Dan's two favourite appliances were located: his computer and TV.
Derek was hooking his Camera up to Dan's TV, but on his knees and bent over to work behind the TV. Dan and the rest of his friends looked away from Derek, because the very top of his ass crack was showing.
"Dude," Edward said with a disgusted tone in his voice, "are you planning on being a plumber when you grow up?"
Derek answered with a simple "what do you mean by that?"
"There's a crack forming in the pavement," Brandon said cynically, with a twist of disgust on his face.
Dan set up his laptop on his desk, and decided to play a little Homeworld while waiting.
The Kushan, enraged by the destruction of their planet, and the death of all their brothers and sisters destroyed by the firestorm set out against the Taiidani Frigates. Kushan scouts set out to destroy two of the three Assault Frigates that were approaching the Mother ship. With the scouts distracting them, Kushan Salvage Corvettes slipped into the battle, and began to drag the frigate into the Mother ship. The two other Frigates were destroyed, and the Frigate was loaded into the mother ship, and the Taiidani officers were being brought to an interrogation room.
"Guys" Derek said, "I've got it working."
Derek than gave a sigh, and than said, "playing the video now…"
He pressed the play button.
The screen showed the party, as it should have been. The music was pounding, the mosh pit was forming and swarming around, the kitchen was turning into a complete mess with all of the spilled chips, popcorn, soft drinks, and not-so-soft drinks. A few of the football players walked around, not looking as if having fun was their greatest priority.
A few intoxicated chicks were table dancing, and they heard Derek moan in pleasure at their sight of their table dance in the recording.
As the guys heard the moan, they glared at Derek. Derek began to humble himself, being embarrassed by his own stupid actions that came back to bite him in the ass.
The recording continued to show Jessica Flirtly having a session of "girl talk" with her sexy cheerleader friends.
The microphone picked up a few sentences of Jessica bragging on about how she had recently fallen head over heals with Dan. Head over heals? What the hell, you are normally head over heals. Dan would kill the dumbass who made up that phrase.
The guys looked a Derek again when the video shown a close up of Jessica's round breasts and Derek saying "oh yeah."
Derek was even more embarrassed at that time, when the guys looked at him again.
Than it shown Riesstiu barking at Jessica to shut up about Dan, as he was growing mad.
The video managed to get most of the conversation in over the noise. People gathered around Riesstiu and Flirtly as they began to argue.
"Shut up, Jessica", Riesstiu said, "You know you hate that loner looser, Dan."
"Jake," the lovely Jessica Flirtly said, "he's a nice guy, I happen to like him."
"I am four times the man that Dan will ever be! You will be my girlfriend, and you will never be Dan's! I hate Dan, and you hate Dan! I love you Jessica, and I have the world and more to offer you! Dan has nothing, so shut up about him, and stay along my side."
"Jake," Jessica said, "I used to like you because you were hot and you had talent, but you've changed. You've become too manipulative, and see me as some sort of sex object, and I hate it!"
"SHUT UP!" the enraged Riesstiu yelled, now putting the party to a complete halt, "Dan is not coming, because I've got the Homeboyz to stall him! You won't meet him, and you will be with me forever!"
"Jake" Jessica said, growing fearful of the football team captain, "you're nuts! Get away from me!"
"No!" Riesstiu shouted, as he grabbed her wrist, "you're coming with me! This party is over!"
Riesstiu than took out a lighter, than began to light local items of furniture on fire, and many other football players joined him.
The house soon began to blaze, and the people rushed out of the house, with Jessica screaming for Riesstiu to let go of her.
Than, the screen turned to static.
"Well," Derek said, "if the cops get us, we will at least have evidence pointing to the football team, so…"
"So what?" Dan asked, "What do you suggest we do?"
"Well, go down to the local police station and have the cops intervene!" Derek said with confidence.
"Well," Sean said, cynically, "If the cops intervene, they are going to have to interrogate everyone involved."
"So?" Derek said, missing what Sean was trying to say.
"I've got a football player in the trunk of Edward's car. If the cops find out about him, we're screwed. If we leave him there, he'll die, and we'll all be locked up for a long time, for murder! Personally, I don't want to spend the rest of my life in prison, so if that tape gets to the cops, we've got our balls in a vice grip."
All of them sat down in chairs, sighing, and thinking about how to deal with the situation, but the all looked gloomy.
"The cops are probably all over the town by now, and detectives ready to take notes" David stated.
"We don't know where they've taken Flirtly, and we can't go to the police" Edward stated.
Dan jumped up with an idea in his head.
"If we can't go to the police," Dan said with enthusiasm, "than maybe we should take the law into our own hands."
After that, Dan smiled devilishly, and the rest of the guys began to catch onto his idea.
"Where's Flirtly?" Dan asked harshly to the captured football player who was now duct-taped to a chair in the den, with the only light in the room a desk lamp shining in the player's face.
All of the guys were pacing around the frightened football player in the dimly lit room.
The football player's eyes darted around the room, as he panted, showing that he was weakened, and submitting to being a prisoner.
"You know," the Football player said in a scared tone, "you could go to jail for doing this!"
"And you could go to jail for attacking us!" Brandon yelled at him.
"Now, my friend," Dan asked in a menacing tone, "where is Flirtly?"
"She's … She's…" stuttered the football player, unwilling to talk.
"Quit bullshitting me" Dan said, "and tell me where the hell you apes took Flirtly! Do you have half a clue that Jessica doesn't like your stupid Captain friend, and is happy with me?! We saw how he treated her at the party, and they don't look like a happy couple! Now, if you have any sense in you, tell me where the hell you took Flirtly!"
Sobbing a tiny bit, the football player said, "I heard Riesstiu was taking her to the football field in the school. He once took the keys from his coach, and had them copied at a hardware store. He knows the school up and down."
The football player began to sob a bit more.
Suddenly, Dan's mom walked into the den, with a tray full of food.
"I made some rice crispy squares and orange tang," Dan's mom said, peering into the room.
She looked at the six of the males in the room, and the one that was duct taped to chair.
"Um" Dan's mom said, after observing the scene, "maybe it's not the best time for snacks right now. I'll come back when …"
Dan's mom than closed the door without completing her sentence.
"So," Dan said, "what are we going to do with him now we know where they've taken Flirtly. If we let him go, we all know that he's going to go to the cops, and get all of our asses arrested."
"I know," Derek said, "I read a book on hypnotism. I've gotten pretty good at it. Maybe I'll make him forget about this whole evening."
The football player began to laugh.
"Hypnotism!" he said, while laughing, "You couldn't make me forget everything. Whatever you do, you're going to jail!"
He burst into insane laughter after saying that.
Dan simply looked at the football player coldly in the eye. After staring him down for a few seconds, Dan looked at Derek, than Derek nodded back.
"Sleep!" Derek said, while pressing a pressure point in the football player's shoulder.
The football player instantly fell into deep sleep.
"Dude!" all of the guys exclaimed in unison.
Derek smiled with pride, and than cracked his knuckles.
"Alright," Derek said, with a new found sense of leadership, "here's the plan. I'm going to make him forget about this evening, then he'll wake up on the side of a road."
"I found this in his pocket," David said, holding a map that had lots of writing and arrows on it.
"Alright," Derek said, "I'll work on decoding that. For now, let's focus on the football player."