Adventures in Space/Time

[csyphrett]

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London was a large city, filled with lovely goers of Victorian culture, it was foggy the night on the River Thames as always. On the docks their were many a sailors roaming about but we will pay close attention to one particular sailor in this fine Victorian city. His name was Frank White and this is the story of how a man went from simple beginnings to great things.

 

The docks were abroad with many ships and a few taverns and pubs but there was one pub full of sailors where Frank White was a regular.

 

Frank asked around for any ships needing hands down to the coast. He thought once he reached the Channel, he could set sail to other ports

 

Not many were looking for help but a few hands knew of a ship coming in tomorrow that was carrying shipments of fish to distribute to the fish and chips stores. One sailor went on about how sailors have been going missing over the last few weeks.

 

"Missing sailors?" Frank laughed over his pint. "There's always someone jumping ship and moving on."

 

The Sailor who had this long graying beard, sailor hat, striped shirt, blue pants, and brown shoes looking to him as he sat in the corner at a table with a pint in his hand "Yea but this was blokes have been here for years and suddenly they went missing!"

 

"Has anyone talked to the peelers about this?" Frank sipped some more of his drink.

 

"They don't care worth a lick because they look around and just think they went off ship or snuck onto someone's ship and its not thier problem!" The sailor frowned as he took a chug of his pint.

 

"Do any of these sailors belong to the same ship?" Frank felt that a bad captain would drive good seaman away.

 

"That's what I thought too. I just asked around and found that most belonged to other ships and most of them were not from the same ship, most belonged to any ship, it just appeared random but always near the docks when the mist were foggiest." The sailor said and the other sailors just listened.

 

"And no one has seen hide or hair of them since?" Frank put his empty cup down. "That's an incredible story."

 

"Yep, nothing but mist and sometimes at night you could hear screams." He chugged his pint and the sailors all nodded and then went back to their own lives in the pub.

 

Frank paid his bill and left. He couldn't believe no one had done anything.

 

He started toward the docks.

 

There was a scream of a man hidden deep in the mists of the fog, but Frank could not see what was happening.

 

Frank pulled out his pocket watch from under his shirt and pressed the buttons to initiate his change.

 

The button he pressed began a transformation into a different beast for he got this watch from a special place few knew.

 

Frank felt his flesh disappear as his clothes became misty to match the air around him. He jumped in the air, trying to find the source of the screams. Luckily in this ghost form, he would pass through anything in his way.

 

There was a sailor who was being taken by a group of individuals in black robes, trying to muffle his screams as they injected him with something to knock him out.

 

Frank didn't know how much time he had in his transformation. He needed to save the sailor as fast as possible.

 

He flew into the group, trying to knock as many of them aside in his invisible form as he could.

 

They were knocked back and looked to the new ghost like they could see him and they had drooped the sailor going after him as threw punches at him but how could they know where he is? Strangely they did as they punched where he was. (It will become clear soon)

 

Frank wasn't worried. His ghost form passed objects through him without any problem. He picked up the sailor and flew away.

 

The individuals shot beams from the sleeves at the sailor hitting him and teleporting him away.

 

Frank needed answers. He drove one of the robed men off the dock and into the water.

 

The robed individuals shot beams again at Frank the moment he pushed one of them off into the water surmising that he needed to become tangible enough to push someone as one of the robbed men was pushed into the water making sparks fly from the robbed individual as the robe caught on fire.

 

Frank tried to reach into one of them and give him a heart attack.

 

The shooting of the individuals were lousy as their shots missed the ghost and his move to give on a heart attack was in vain.

 

Frank felt around for organs to squeeze.

 

The individuals continued to fire at him to stun him with the beams from their sleeves.

 

There were no organs but there was only metal and electronics and all that generated heat.

 

Frank tried to push the mechanical men into the water.

 

The beams from the mechanical men hit Frank knocking him to the ground as Frank had pushed a few mechanical men into the water shorting them out.

 

Frank looked around to see how many were left, needed some way to find out what they were doing, and he doubted they were going to talk to him.

 

Just then there was a sound making the mechanical men stop and then a man with a receding hairline of brown short hair, a little middle aged, but had nice blue eyes and a fit figure, in a brown stylish winter coat over a long sleeve button up white dress shirt. Also he has on crimson checkered pants that stretch down to right above his ankles. He has brown slip on men's shoes and black dress long socks that stretch up over his ankles up to his calf. He is wearing a dark brown cravat with a yellow sand colored vest. He had a metal looking flashlight but well instead of a head light it was a little metal satellite dish and he looked at Frank. "Come with me if you want to live! Hurry! I can't hold them for long!"

 

Frank pushed the last of the mechanical men off the docks while they were frozen.

 

Now he had a source of information.

 

"You fool! We could have used one of them to track them to the source of them!" he yelled as he walked up to him "Who are you anyway? By the way I'm the Dominie." he smiled extending his hand to him.

 

"If you can track them, we should fish one out of the water." Frank didn't know how much time he had left for his transformation. "They shot the sailor with a beam of light and he vanished. Maybe you can use that."

 

"Hmmmmm." He thought for a few moments and opened his coat looking for a device to see if he can find something "So what is you name, sir?"

 

"Does it matter?" Frank flew down and grabbed one of the mechanical men and tried to lift it on the dock.

 

"What do you want me call you? The Ghost man?" he asked.

 

"Frank is fine." Frank pulled the robe off to get a better look at his dead enemy.

 

The mechanical man had glowing red eyes and a glowing red dome and mechanical hands with little tubes where the lasers would come out.

 

Frank held up a hand to check if the thing was really active.

[bubba smith]

Re: Adventures in Space/Time

 

very good

[csyphrett]

Re: Adventures in Space/Time

 

The Dominie looked at the robot, took out a remote monitor and pulled out a cord to plug it into the robot to get a fix on where the source of the robots were.

 

"What are you doing?" Frank hovered slightly to the side. He felt like this person had caused things and needed to be dealt with in a final fashion.

 

Then suddenly Frank transformed back into his normal self. The Dominie saying "I'm trying to find the source of the robot, quiet."

 

"This has been going on for quite some time from the local gossip." Frank put his hands in his pockets. "You're a little for tea and scones."

 

"I found them, come with me." He hurried off running to get to an abandoned building that looked lit up in the foggy night.

 

Frank waited until this Domine was out of sight and triggered his pocketwatch for a new transformation.

 

The watch transformed him into a mummy.

 

Frank shook his head. Of all the times to be the Mummy. He walked towards the building.

 

The Dominie looked into the warehouse, seeing a bunch of machinery like an assembly line constructing the robots.

 

Frank wondered up, moved to another door down from where the Dominie stood.

 

The Dominie snuck inside looking around at all the robed hooded guards. Some had their hoods down. They were definitely human but he wondered where Frank was.

 

Frank opened the door he had found and went in, looking around for security.

 

A robed individual walked up to Frank "Who are you?"

 

"New guy." Frank waited for a challenge. "I'm supposed to be fixing machine men."

 

"You're no new guy. You're some guy in bandages!" He yelled as he chased after Frank.

 

Frank smashed the guy down with his invulnerable fist and super strength.

 

The guy went out like a light. Meanwhile the Dominie got a look at the machine, thinking that its technology was way more advanced than any gifted scientist on Earth could produce.

 

Frank hid the body. Then he walked around the lab, pulling things apart here and there where he thought it would do the most good.

 

Then two guards came and looked at Frank sabotaging the place. They called for other guards to come. The Dominie was doing the same but he was also found by guards. He made a run for it.

 

Frank picked up the biggest thing he could with the mummy's strength and threw it through anything in its way.

 

The guards were all knocked to the ground. The head of the robed men was at the control room watching all this. He had the robots come to life and attack the two intruders. Meanwhile the Dominie had taken down the guards chasing him and saw the robots come after him and Frank.

 

Frank picked up the next biggest thing he could pick up and used that as a hammer, smashing anything that got in his way.

 

So far he hadn't seen any sailors.

 

The warehouse was huge with an assembly line full of boxes of spare parts and so forth. The robots dodged his metal pipe, firing their beams at him.

 

The mummy started knocking away roof supports.

 

The Dominie yelled for him to stop but he didn't, the beams not hitting him and the support beams giving way after he knocked them down. The place came crashing down. The boss escaped. The Dominie tried to take cover to not get buried under the place.

 

Frank pushed through the debris, looking for anyone trying to get in his way.

 

All the robots and guards were dead or destroyed. Luckily the Dominie survived and dug himself out. No bodies of the sailors were found. And that's when Frank transformed back.

 

Frank looked the debris over for any clue to who owned the warehouse.

 

The Dominie yelled, quite infuriated, "Do you have any idea what you were doing? Do you? We could have gotten to the boss and taken him down, now he has fled somewhere else!"

 

"How far do you think he got?" Frank checked for tracks in the wreckage. "If he used the sea, we would have seen a boat, if he used the sewer, then there will be a drain, if he is on the street, he couldn't have run far, and if he used the transporter, we have his minions' teleporters."

 

"You have the brains, use them."

 

Frank checked the routes he could, listening and watching with his two eyes and ears.

 

"Oh yes, use brains. What about you and your brains back there breaking everything in sight?" He looked around, pulling out his little metal flashlight-like device. "Mmmmm. Apparently he is using a hover bike, though how he built it is wrong. It's like someone else did it for him."

 

"Imagine that." Frank stepped out on the dock. "Shall we look for it?"

 

"I know it must be some sort of being that could have done this all." he said following the trail.