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The Last of the Relters Part 1 1

Holding his loot, Zach Frond, age 16 stalked down a dark ally looking for Robot Legards. Good. There were none. Speeding up a little bit, he headed towards home. ‘Home’ was really a fixed up old dumpster that had started out smelling bad, but after a few sulf seekers were deployed, the ‘house’ didn’t seem so bad. In fact, it was probably way better than any other shelters, like that rain barrel he got stuck and had to roll around for quite some time because no one wanted to help him because he was running from the law. That was all he knew. He had heard from other sources, that, the reason he was wanted, was when he was little, he tried to dig a hole to China because he wanted to see what would happen. It turns out that you need to have a license to dig holes, and so then came the day when Zach Perri Frond became a convict. Zach’s only friend was a slightly older fellow named Talf. Talf had jet black hair and was always tinkering with something. Rumor had it that Talf was a ex-scientist that the Prime Custodian had fired because he had made a particle collision telescope that worked, but the Prime Custodian thought it was to un-un-scientific. Talf still had it and turned it into a kean radiation resonator that, when activated emitted kean radiation that will interfere with all electrical devices within a 40 foot radius of the device. 2 Examining what he ‘borrowed’ he just barely heard a whisper. “Pssst Zach!” It sounded like Talf but the recording quality of tape recorders is basically identical to the persons’ voice. “Psssssst” No. It wasn’t Talf. A long time ago Talf and Zach made an agreement. In times of emergency, they would add an accent of a long “e” at the end of each sentence. Climbing on to the nearest roof, Zach whistled. Down came his pet homing pigeon, Sam. Zach attached a message to Sam’s leg and told him “Talf”. Following Sam, Zach ended up going through several alleys he had never known about. “Well, at least if I can’t find Talf quickly, this journey would have been a little productive…” Zach found Talf hiding in a Garbage can. It smelled of rotten bananas. “Not a really good choice of hiding spot,” Zach giggled. “Well, there wasn’t much choice, seeing as at least thirty legards were after me and my resonator busted. I didn’t want to, but pretty much had to,” Talf replied. “One of these days, you should be useful and build a particle generator so you can spontaneously summon up a wall to protect you.” “Right. I’m sure. Well, enough jibber-jabber. There’s important stuff happening. I think it has something to do with Sam,” Talf answered. “Speaking of which, where is he?” “Fiddlewidget. You’re right! We need to find him.” 3 Zach caught a glimpse of something moving to his left. “There!” Zach helped Talf out of the rain barrel. “AFTER HIM!” The chase went on for a very very very short time. They almost slammed into the person who was in front of them. “Whoa. Watch it, bucko,” the person said. “Sorry.” “Hi. My name is Phil,” the person said. “We are looking for a homing pigeon with black streaks on his head,” said Zach. “I have no idea what you are talking ’bout,” Phil said. At that moment, legard helicopters landed on either side of the trio. They were caught.

4 “Frond: Zach Perri enemy 31321. Sorge: Talf Eros enemy 31337 “Do not resist. You will be taken to Ally 0001 to be Respectofied.” The Legards were taking them to the Castle Via helicopter. Zach was panicking. He tried to think of an escape plan, but all that he could think was the upcoming meeting with the custodian. What did respectofied mean? All had was questions. But, he didn’t dare ask them. In fact, he couldn’t even think of why he even //Thought// of asking! Also. Where was Phil? How did he get away? Apparently Talf was fiddling around with something that said ‘Do not open’. Naturally, it was open. It looked a little like a 21 centaury…. Something. It was a cylinder, and it said Powercell on it. “What is that?” Zach whispered. “It’s a battery. Ancient device used to hold energy. I can use it to get us out of here. My Kean radiator uses acid of power. It leaked. This can fix it.”  “I sure hope so.” “Are you attempting to resist?” A legard walked over “Uh Yes as a matter of fact….” “Do not resist or you will be Respectofied.” “Um yeah what is-” “Item 12308: Battery. can be used for resistance Respectofing now” A thin blue line flew from an item in the Legard’s hand. He spoke into the machine in his hand. “Out door 3 second delay selfdestruct.” The battery did exactly what it was told. To late. ZZZZZZZZZZ. The buzzing sound of the Kean radiator activating. Zzzzzzb. All the electronics in the helicopter broke. The legards were disabled. But the duo forgot one thing…. “AHHHHHHHHHH” the helicopter was electronic. They were falling. 5 “Talf… I hope you have a gizmo for this!!!” “As a matter of fact… I do. this is a atomic Transposer. This little gadget can move molecules, so- “JUST USE IT!” “O.K. O.K.” “Zing!! !!!” Zing Zing Zing Zing Zing!!! Talf made a parachute out of the molecules in the air. Floating gently to the ground, they almost landed on Phil! “Phil!” “Talf!” “Where did you go when the Legards came?” “ Behind the alley. I ran fast enough that they didn’t even see me!” “I guess that is possible….” “Um guys?” “Um Zach? “Usually, when you crash land a Legard helicopter, it usually doesn’t go unnoticed.” “good idea! Lets get going” They walked through a couple of alleys that Zach had never seen before. They ended at the pet shop. “Why here?” Zach asked “Because this is the place that the legards were taking us.” “Why?” “There is a place that when you stand there and if you are a Relter, a teleporter teleports you into the castle of the supreme custodian.” “Why here?” “This is the place where the relters and created. The custodian likes to recruit them.” “What is a Relter? “A human that, when put through certain circumstances turn into animals. Don’t ask me how.” “Gosh Talf! This is where we got Sam! Maybe that is why the Custodain wan’ts to get him. YES THAT MUST BE IT!!” “Say phil… how come when we were running after Sam, we ran into you?” “Uh no reason. Uhhhh. Lets go.” They ran into the pet shop. There were 30 legards there waiting for them. “PHIL!!!! you are A Relter. And you work for the custodian! You are looking for sam!” “BANG!” they were caught… again. 5 They were in a cell. Not for very long, mind you, but it was log enough for Zach to Hate Prisen. He hated it so much that he almost thought of being good from then on. Almost. “We have the meeting with the custodian today.” Talf told Zach as he got up off his scratchy bed of straw. “Ugh” 2 hours later “---So that is why you are here and will only be set free if you tell me the whereabouts of Sam. “NEVA!!” “Oh you will… you will…” 2 years later It had nearly been 24 months since the encounter with the custodian and there still was no sign of Sam Phil came with. His Relting form was a Pidgeon with Black streaks on his head. Zach and Talf had been away looking for so long, he’d forgotten what Sam looked like. But Reader, as you probably remember sam is a pidgeon with black streaks on his head. one day, Phil Morphed into a Bird again and Zach noticed a note attached to the bird’s leg. It was from him. //His// writing //His// Paper. It was the note he attached to sam’s leg a long time ago. 3 months later It was the day of happieness. The Custodian was Overrun by his subject with Talf in the lead.

The End