‘Amir, wake up… there’s something you should see’ Dirk thought to Amir

After Amir and Dirk heard the helicopter they went into hiding for a few hours. Eventually they decided to resume sleeping in shifts and Dirk had the first watch awake. Once sun had set Dirk was confident enough in himself that he could move around on the island without getting noticed, if anyone were there to notice him. After leaving the cave he started exploring in the direction that the compound used to be. Turns out that the helicopter had landed there. Now there were men setting up tents as a possible command outpost. These did not look like the scientists that had held them captive however. They were military.

“They look like U.S. military, i’m leaving the cave so i’ll be with you in a second” Amir thought to Dirk.

‘What do you think they’re here for?’

“Well, considering how soon it is after the compound disapeard, they may be here to investigate it.”

‘Maybe they can help us’

“Maybe. Lets watch them for a while and then one of us can make contact”

They decided that they should each take a direction and start scouting out the perimeter of the makeshift military base being set up in front of them. Sharing their vision they were able to cover each others territory as well as their own at the same time. Vision sharing is very difficult however because sometimes you get so involved in concentrating in your partners vision in your own that you begin to take wrong steps or almost walk into trees.

…or, as the case may be, tripping and falling down a small hill…

Dirk had mistepped and tripped over a tree root down a hill tumbling for about 10 yards. This got the attention of the men in the field below who immediately grabbed their M-16s and began running towards Dirk.

“Do what they tell you Dirk” Amir thought “we were going to end up meeting them anyways. Don’t tell them that I’m here, if they end up being trouble for us I can possibly get you out.”

‘Sounds like a plan’

“STAY DOWN, PUT YOUR HANDS ABOVE YOUR HEAD AND LIE DOWN ON THE GROUND” one of the military guys yelled at Dirk

Dirk complied and soon he was being dragged towards one of the tents…

…to be continued…

So this weekend was a lot of fun. It started friday with a mini-RHF officers retreat at the Kappa Delta house, which lasted til approximately 4 AM. I learned a lot about people and had a really good time.

At the retreat we all shared 3 of our favorite things… here were mine (i shared 4 cause three of them sucked)
1. Karli my classical guitar
2. Working out
3. My laptop… cause without it i would spontaneously burst into flames… bringing upon the apocolyse.
and
4 (the good one) the medal i received from attending the International Science and Engineering Fair for the science fair project I did senior year of high school. I told everyone about my project and they were a lot more interested than I thought they would be. (Saturday I showed a few of them the video journal i have from the project)

so those were fun times.

Saturday was the football game… which the last 10 seconds were the most critical.

We lost 17-16 and we kicked a 43 yard field goal and missed in those last 5 seconds (i think it was actually the last 3 seconds though)

post game a bunch of us (i.e. Kate, Jeremy, Ali, Ashwin, Ashley (ashwin’s girlfriend) and Myself) all played volleyball.

My team (me, ashwin and ashley) crushed the other team 4 games to nothing. Though the last game was the closest cause we went into volleyball overtime (you have to win by two points)

That was a lot of fun.

Later on a group of us… Ron, Me, Jer, Holly and Kate watched Mean Girls and >Van Wilder In my room til 4 AM…

“I will keep you here all night!
We can only keep them til 4.
I will keep you here until 4!

haha, it’s funny that we actually ended at 4

lots of fun, love you RHFers

went to the gym today (finally, it had been a really long time since we last went) and it was bicep day (my favorite day)

I always love working my arms/chest out cause i feel really good during/afterwards. There has been a noticable improvement in the amount of weight i can bench and curl and whatnot.

and… i dont know if you girls enjoy it… but that feeling you get in the chest when kinda bouncing down stairs, where your boobs bounce… that feels so cool (my pecs do that)

alright, class in 7.4 hours

good night all

~M

p.s. i made a new tattoo design, lemme know if you wanna see it cause i may end up getting this one… depends if i come up with anything better

Below is an ‘episode’ recap (everything i’ve written so far)
and for those of you who dont know: Dirk Stanton is an alter-ego of me that i decided to start writing stories about (at random). Not entirely sure where the story is going yet, but hopefully it’ll be an interesting one.

NOTE: I’M AN ENGINEER, AND BY DEFINITION I CAN’T WRITE

(by request, put behind an lj-cut, so click the link to read on

The Adventures of Dirk Stanton

…Day One…

Sunlight streams through the blinds as the clock reads 12:56. The room is quiet, but if you listen hard enough you can hear a single heart beat. As you listen, concentrating on the thump thump, thump thump you suddenly become aware of the sound of a helicopter nearby. 3 Armed men dressed in military fatigues slide down a fast-rope to the street outside and quickly enter the house, pulling the 19 year old man out of his bed and out into a van below. Unable to move, the young man is given a series of tests to verify he is who he says he is. Once the captors are pleased with the verification, a needle is stuck in the mans arm.

Waking suddenly as if from a dream (or a nightmare), the young man sits up… only to realize that he was not in his room… The room around him is bare… So bare in fact that he can’t even see a wall. He stands up and carefully inches forward until he bumps into his first wall. Upon further investigation he notices the room is 15 paces by 15 paces… The walls are evenly lit, white walls, and the corners are rounded. At the top of his jump he can barely touch the ceiling, which is also white with rounded edges… The bed he had just been on only minutes before… isn’t there anymore. Suddenly a male, computer-sounding, voice calls out to the him:

‘Mr. Stanton… you have undergone experimental procedure 12 alpha, you will be held in this room until further analysis has been done to determine the procedures success. You will be contacted shortly with more information.’

“What was ‘experimental procedure 12 alpha’?” Dirk asks his captors.

No response was given. Upon further inspection of himself, he didn’t see anything wrong with him… no new scars or stitches… as far as he could tell he was the same mentally and physically as he was before his abduction.

Dirk Stanton had signed up, on a whim, to be a part of an experiment while attending Virginia Tech. The experiment was vague, but details were supposed to have been mailed out to him. All he received was a series of medical and psychological tests with no indication as to what the actual experiment would be. The Freshman engineering student had always had an interest in becoming a spy like james bond or jason bourne… but what young man hadn’t? He figured doing a secret experiment like this could be fun and make him some quick cash at the same time, all while making him the super secret spy he so idolized. He figured, if it was too risky he could just pull out… no harm, no foul.

Last week, when he checked his bank account to see a deposit made, in the amount of $250, he figured that it was simply a psychological test and he was done, or that no further participation would be required, because he didn’t fit the profile of the candidate they were looking for… whatever that was… The rude awakening he had received the day before definately indicated that he was not done, and in fact something had been done to him. The rude awakening the day before… was it the day before…

How long had he been unconcious? What was done to him? Where was he being held?

The Adventures of Dirk Stanton

…Day Unknown…

A man runs through the forest, fleeing those who seek him. He is becoming tired of running, and the helicopters that chase him have been getting closer and closer. At last, the man reaches a road. “Civilization at last!” the man exclaims out loud… to no one. To the left he can see the lights of a vehi
cle, to the right… darkness…

‘Mr. Stanton… wake up.’ the same male, computer-sounding, voice calls out.

Dirk sits up suddenly, still confined to his prison that he has resigned to call home. He has been held captive for the past 4 days… well, sleep cycles. The room is still bare, no clocks are on the walls, no contact with the outside world, and whatever food he has been given has appeared while his back was turned.

” LET ME OUT OF HERE” Dirk screams to the voice.

No response.

“When can I go home? I want to go home.”

No response.

The last 4 days in captivity, Dirk has learned very little. He has tried escaping… at least in the sense he has punched the wall countless times to no effect. There are no objects in the room… nothing with which to use as a tool of escape… or a weapon should he escape. The food that has arrived has appeared on the bare floor. His only comfort is knowing that he is still on earth… at least he hopes, at this point anything is possible.

Suddenly a clicking sound can be heard and one of his walls slides away to the right. The new addition to his room is the same size. Just like his smaller room, there’s no door, no clock, or any objects at all. Upon further investigation, Dirk realizes that there’s no evidence that there had ever been a wall separating the two areas. Whoever has him captive is clearly well advanced technologically. Who would be capable of such an architectural design. When he sleeps, Dirk simply lies on the floor, yet he awakens on a bed in the same position relative to the walls that he started in. Does the government have the technology to do such things seemlessly? If they do, they’ve been doing an excellent job keeping it secret. Why would they keep it secret though? How could something like this be considered a threat to national security?

But what if it isn’t the government’s technology? Aliens? Dirk began to laugh softly at the idea… but couldn’t dismiss it as a possibility.

‘Mr. Stanton… face the wall to your left.’ ordered the voice.

That was a first… the voice had never asked him to do anything but to wake up. Having nothing better to do, Dirk complied.

The same clicking sound that had doubled his living space now resumed… but only for a few seconds. When Dirk turned around he was greeted by an unfamiliar face.

“Let’s get this over with” the man stated as he crouched into a fighting position.

“Get what over with?” inquired Dirk, as he began moving away from the man, only to bump into the wall directly behind him.

The man lunged forward attacking Dirk, and as soon as it began, it was over…

The Adventures of Dirk Stanton

…episode three…

‘Mr. Stanton… wake up”

Dirk sits up quickly and looks around the room, remembering what happened the night before. In the corner of the room is the attacker from last night.

‘Good morning’

“Who are you?” asks Dirk, “And, Why did you attack me?”

‘One thing at a time. I am Lt. Col Amir Blackwell. You fought well, were you in the military?’

“No, I’m 19″

‘19? Remarkable.’

“What’s going on here?”

For the next hour or so, Amir described part of the situation. 10 years ago a group of American scientists was kidnapped by a terrorist organization based out of an uncharted island in the south pacifc. Lt. Col Blackwell, of a U.S. Army counter-terrorism task force, commanded a unit to take the facility and free the scientists. When Amir and his men arrived at the island they were surprised to find that the scientists had already freed themselves… and that they had their own agenda. Amir and his men were taken captive by the scientists they had come to free. Amir had twenty men with him, but he was the only survivor of the experiments… probably because he was the last to be experimented on. Experimental procedure 12 alpha was also performed on Amir.

“But what is experimental procedure 12 alpha?” asks Dirk.

‘I haven’t the slightest idea kid. The only thing I kn
ow is that it kept me alive’

“Well, why did you fight me yesterday?”

‘I didn’t fight you. I merely knocked you unconcious. They instructed me to so I did it.’

“So, is it some kind of mind control they have over us?”

‘No. I’ve disobeyed orders before. The pain isn’t worth it, so I knocked you out. You’ve got too many questions kid.’

“Well, when you first got here didn’t you?”

‘The intelligence we had about the island turned out to be all wrong. I’ve got plenty of questions kid, but from the sounds of it you wouldn’t know any of the answers.’

“My name is Dirk Stanton… not kid.”

‘Sorry, you aren’t the first captive i’ve encountered since getting on the island.’

Before Dirk could ask what the man was talking about, the male computerized-voice spoke up. ‘Gentlemen… go to sleep.’

‘Good night Jim’

“I said my name was Dirk”

‘No no, that’s what I call it. Jim’

“Has it ever given you any useful information?”

‘No… now goto sleep before you make it angry.’

Lt. Col. Amir Blackwell had been captive on the island for two years. What was going on here? Why hadn’t the government sent reinforcements when the mission had obviously failed?

The Adventures of Dirk Stanton

…episode 4 (again)…

The two men run quickly away from the facility that had held them captive for so long… how long was unknown to them. No helicopters were chasing them, no one followed in pursuit of the escapees. Suddenly they were thrown forward into the trees as the compound behind them exploded in a ball of fire. Getting up, now with a sudden burst of energy with the realization of their new-found freedom, they move towards the sandy beach at the edge of their island. When they reach the edge of their new prison, they can finally relax.

“So what’s next Amir?”

‘Well, first things first. There were some thing in there that I couldn’t tell you, for a few reasons.’

Amir went on to describe experimental procedure 12a. He couldn’t describe it while in captivity because he didn’t want to let his captors know he was aware of the changes. And Dirk wasn’t likely to believe him because his abilities hadn’t activated yet. The room they stayed in had a field that prevented them from using their abilities… unless they turned them on momentarily. The male-computerized voice they heard was, in fact, not heard at all. It wasn’t emitted by speakers, but was transmitted directly into their brains. Dirk and Amir also had this telepathic connection, but they were unable to use it while contained within their jail cell.

They weren’t exactly telepaths. Their captors had managed to figure out the section of the brain, through trial and error, that when implanted with special nanobots allowed them to receive and transmit thoughts to another person of the same capability. This isn’t the only capability they picked up through the use of nanobots. Their eyes had been injected with another kind of nanobot. The room they stayed in was actually pitch black, yet they saw everything as bright as day. Combining the three types of nanobots would eventually allow them to share each others vision, in a limited sense.

Their escape from the jail cell was an unusual one. During their sleep cycles the scientists would come in occasionally to administer certain tests. Taking advantage of this, Amir entered a light, semi-concious sleep, and when the scientists entered the room, he used his military training and acted quickly. After he disabled the scientists, he grabbed Dirk and they managed to leave the facility unscathed. Why it exploded as they left the compound was a mystery to them, but they didn’t care as long as no one came after them.

The Adventures of Dirk Stanton
…second night of freedom…

Determined not to become human guinea pigs once again, Dirk and Amir slept during the day in shifts, and explored their island at night. Apparently their occular implants not only amplified light at night, but they constantly normalized it as well. They
would never need sunglasses.

Moving through the forest quickly and stealthily, the pair made their way back to the compound they escaped from. When they reached treeline, to their surprise there was nothing there but an empty field. They had climbed run from a building 30 yards to a fence, climbed the fence and ran off into the woods to make their escape. But now, there was no fence, no buildings… just an empty field. Scorch marks on the trees around them proved to them that this was, in fact, where they had run from, but there was no evidence of any facility.

“Amir, what is going on?”

‘I don’t know Dirk. We have to find a way off this island though, other people’s lives depend on it.’

“But the facility is gone, how can other people’s lives be in danger?”

‘Dirk, these implants aren’t the only thing that the scientists had been researching. The facility isn’t gone, it just isn’t here anymore.’

With that, Dirk had a sinking feeling in his stomach. Amir then told Dirk about his men and their present situation.

‘When the mission started out, we were located in an island in the South Pacific. After they took us captive they began the experiments. Experimental procedures 1-5 were the first tests of the communications implants. 2 of my men died instantly as soon as the procedure was over. A third became mentally incompetent. The fourth showed promise, but after 2 weeks he went insane and they eventually killed hiim. Experiment 5 was the experiment that finally worked. Experiments 6 and 7 created the occular implants. Experiment 6 blinded 4 of my men, who were later killed. More experiments joined the two… communications and occular implants and that leads us to Experimental procedure 12 alpha… us. But theres a bigger problem?’

“Well get to it already”

‘One of my men, Johnson, was able to escape before an experiment was performed on him. To our dismay they found him and picked him up. But we weren’t on the island anymore… He ran through a pine forest to a road. Made it halfway to a town before they picked him up in a van and took him back into captivity. We had no idea we had been moved though. Maybe they knocked us out, but apparently their facilities are mobile, and from the looks of it they’ve moved again, but without us.’

“Yeah, there’s no way the entire compound was vaporized. The explosion must’ve been some kind of distraction…”

Helicopter sounds in the distance got their attention quickly.

‘Quick… into hiding’ Amir thought.

“I found a cave over there last night while exporing, let’s go to it” Dirk thought back.

As the helicopter got closer they disappeared into the cave and went into hiding for the remainder of the night.

be looking for a new TAoDS (The Adventures of Dirk Stanton) this weekend… if i can…

~M