storyteller: jacob

Imagine A World…

“GO!GO!GO!” The officer roared. Nukes start dropping down, cars upside down. “ADAM!!!” My partner yells.  “Focus, we need to survive.” I look down and grab the gold standing right beside me and I sprint through the parking lot. Bullets start flying towards me. I bust into the shed on top of the parking lot and place the gold on the ground, tired from running. Sweat starts running down my face when I hear, “He has the gold! Get him!!!” The enemy team starts firing at me like I'm their target. One bullet strikes me in the chest. The pain rapidly spreads like a disease throughout my body. Is this the end? I hope not… l

“3…2…1…GOOO!!!!” The officers barge into the shed and start shooting. My partner drags me out of the shed onto the top floor of the parking space. He presses down my chest “We can't lose you! We need you! Keep pressure on it. Hold here.  I'll be right back.” He leaves me out in the open with the sun glaring into my eyes. Too bright for me to even move. All of a sudden, someone pulls me up and holds me against the edge of the parking space. It was one of the remaining enemies…alive. My partner and the other officers come back to me and see him. “Let him go and everything will be alright!” 
“ No! He's staying with me until I get that gold! Otherwise I'll drop him off without any hesitation!” the enemy aggressively responded “Please don't move!” I painfully groaned and could feel blood leaving my body, creating lightheadedness. Without warning, everything froze… 

I somehow have the courage to walk around without feeling any pain. Walking, yet being so confused with what's going on. Then a sound appears out of nowhere “Hello?” I start looking around worriedly. “Uhh who are you?” I replied.  A door comes out of nowhere and I walk in but start…FALLING DOWN!!! “AHHHHHHHHH!” I scream as loud as I can. Out of nowhere I start hitting my head, but I still don't feel pain.  Why is that? I wonder. I land with a thud and get to my feet quickly, without hurting or breaking anything. I see a door right in front of me, so I walk in feeling a bit more concerned. As I enter, my eyes go straight to this guy. He looked like he was waiting for someone. I made my way over. “Hi!” I say trying to act innocent. “So, you must be Adam eh?” he said to me. “Yeah, I'm Adam and you are?” “I’m Jasper. And according to Compass, you’re my new partner.” he replied “What happened to your old partner?” I asked. “He died,” he said without hesitation. He pulled out some sort of gun but without any bullets, just a metal clog. “What's that?” I asked, “It's a kind of gun but only used for the beasts.” “Beasts? What do you mean beasts?”I say in confusion.  “You have been chosen to save the city and become a Crossover Cop, but for short its RIPD, (Rest In Peace Department.) If you quit you will disappear forever”. I feel like I don’t have a choice, “I accept.” 

I grab my gun and as I walk in I see billions of people walking and blabbering. Jasper taps my shoulder and brings me inside a room.  “Hey listen,” he says “there is something you should know.” As he speaks, I see the worried look on his face. “Your identity isn't what you look like or what you think it is.” “Then what do I look like?” “Trust me you don't want to know.” I walk back into the main building and a handful of people start walking towards me. “Your next mission is tomorrow.” a random guy said. More and more people come towards me to either say hi, warnings or paper work. “Hello! You must be new here. I'm Zane, your second partner.”  I think to myself, why do I have so many partners!? “So wait, are you and Jasper my partners?” “ Yes we are and we are here to help you!” He pulls my shirt and walks me around the city. “ Can you do me a favour?” he asks. He pulls me to the car and tells me to “look at the mirror” . I walk towards the mirror that was placed on the car and I look like an old guy!?!?!? “So is this what I look like?” he looks at me and chuckles “ yea you look like that…sadly.” All of a sudden I hear a roar. It looked like some sort of beast. He got a grip on the car next to us and started throwing it at the innocent people on the street. “AARRR,” the beast yells. “IF ONE MORE BULLET COMES AT ME, I'M GOING TO DESTROY THIS WHOLE CITY!!!” the beast declares. Zane and I start hiding behind the cars. ZOOM! A bullet hits the beast, only doing miniscule damage. The beast glares at me and grabs a car. It propels the car in my direction trying to hit me. Zane pushes me away and says “ Watch out…..” 

Everything is blurry and my ears are ringing. I see Zane on the floor, covered in cuts and blood. “Zane!!” I called out “Please get up! Please get up! Please get up!” He moves for a split second, trying to get a hold of my hand. He brings me closer and whispers, “Avenge me….” he stops breathing. “Zane, wake up! We can't lose you, please!” a tear rolls down my face falling onto Zane. The beast looks me right in the eyes and says “YOU'RE NEXT!” He starts sprinting in my direction. More cops start firing at him, but he just flicks the bullets off. I grab the gun and shoot at him, thinking it would do something. From the bullet I fire, he transforms into a device. “You saved us!!” the police shout in relief. “What the-” BOOOOOOOM!!!!!!! A tree flies by, unexpectedly. Someone taps me on my shoulder. “What happened to Zane?” Before I could explain, three more beasts appeared around the corner. Jasper and I run for our lives. I yell out trying to warn the others. The monsters start throwing the police into his mouths with one gulp. “AHHHH “ the menacing sound of gulps makes my heart pound like a jackhammer. Me and Jasper hid inside the building. The beasts ran past our way so we were able to get out.”No,no,no,no,no.” Jasper says “what happened?” I asked “They are going towards the building.” We both look at each other. Worried about what's going to happen next. We both get inside of a police car and grab the keys and drive off…

We both arrive and see nothing wrong with the building. “Wait, what? They were literally going the same way to the building.” Jasper says in confusion. “Wait! I got it!” he says, “They're probably going to break inside the jail with all of the beasts-”  as he spoke, the jail alarm went off in the distance. We could hear the shooting and screaming. “I think they're here for the gold…we have to protect this building and warn everyone!'' Jasper bellows. We both go inside the building warning everyone in sight. But no one is paying attention. Everyone is busy, rushing and dashing around.  ”Can you feel that?” I asked “It's them…” Monsters appear, sprinting in our direction “IT'S THE MONSTERS! AND THEY'RE HERE FOR THE GOLD! RUN!!” Everyone starts running for their lives, while Jasper and I try to get a good shot at them. “ROARR!” the monster yelled. “WHERE ARE YOU ADAM?” “How do they know my name?” I asked “You are the reason why they're here,” he replied.  As I spoke, the monsters started looking for us. Loud footsteps like thunder,  making it clear that they are near.  “Why are they looking for me?” “The lead beast has had you in it’s sights all along!”I walk out of our hiding place trying to look for Bill. “ Adam what are you doing!? You're going to get yourself killed!!” “Don't worry, I have a plan…” “At least explain it to me!” I go through the plan detail by detail.  Here we go, “Let's do this, for Zane!” he says.  Jasper gets into position while I create a distraction. “Haha, we found you Adam!” “Aw shoot! I failed to escape. I hope someone can save me!” I say, expecting a shot from Jasper. “LET ME GO!” Jasper says. How did he get caught?  The beast threw Jasper aside like a doll, leaving him upside down. “I'll take that,” Bill says, taking the gold away from me. He walks away having beast bodyguards, protecting him. “What are we going to do now!? The plan failed!” I say “Don't worry, there’s always Plan B.” 

Jasper and I both grab the Beast Gun and head directly on where the beast is headed.” Are you sure this plan is going to work?” Jasper says “I'm 99.9% sure.” We both get a good look at the beast enemies and point our guns towards them. “Wait!” Jasper says.”I want to watch this.” Jasper takes a close look at the gold. Beasts placing it into a strange shaped portal.  “Should we follow?” I asked “Alright, let's get this party started!” We retrieve our guns and start firing. Three of the beasts go down quickly, transforming into devices. “WE CAN'T KEEP LOSING TEAMMATES, RUSH THEM!” The beasts start throwing cars, trucks and trees at Jasper and I.  ”We can't hold them off much longer, what should we do?” Jasper asks. I run. Hoping, firing and sprinting, I transform the remaining two beasts into devices.  “Looks like you forgot me.” Bill said, smirking.   “Looks like you’ve got to get through me then.” he pulls out his sword and looks at Jasper and I. He casts a magic spell with his sword “NAR” he says. Fire appears onto his sword. Jasper and I follow the plan, FIGHTING TO THE DEATH.  Jasper and I dodge, weave, and realise that the portal is still open.  With one last effort, Jasper releases the portal, closing it forever, all the beasts in the world vanishing slowly through the now small shaped opening. “Not bad for the first mission.’’ Jasper says. “Not bad!? WE did a  great job!” I responded.  Jasper and I have a laugh and realise we have a large mess to clean up…

No matter how big the battle, the size of the fight matters.

​Storyteller: Jacob