Flabbergasted, he says, “No.”
As he leaves the station, Victor decides he needs a stiff drink. His search in the aisles of his local liquor store frustrates him. He’s hunting for Sexton scotch. He notices the girl at the checkout is attractive, and always the flirt, decides to kill two birds with one stone. As he saunters to the counter, he reckons he’ll womanize and find out where the special whiskey is.
“Excuse me, Ma’am. You seem to know this store like the back of your hand. I’m looking for Sex…”
The girl reaches across and slaps him upside the head.
Chapter Five
On November 04, 2019, an asteroid streaked past planet earth. Named 2020 BX11, and discovered by Luisa F. Zambrano-Mari, it does not warrant attention or concern. It is harmless, and in scattered news reports, pointed out thousands fly by every year. Yet, in actuality, it is a spacecraft from the planet Centaur, equipped like hundreds before to disperse Centaur Offense Viral Infectious Disease-19 into the earth’s atmosphere.
The Centaurs did not invent the virus. It was discovered by the first of their visitors to earth. The disease propagates from HEFTY seeds comprising hate, envy, fear, turmoil, and yearning. It is the epitome of man and has existed all along. It just needed refinement to become more effective.
In August 2020, Victor Dark receives the Nobel Peace Prize. On February 04, 2021, he becomes the first person in history to have a “Hero of United Earth” medal awarded. Rather plain and unassuming, it is cast in a hurry. The medallion is pure gold and platinum.
By unanimous vote in the United Nations, the next to last one ever cast, bronze statues spring up in his likeness in the capital of every nation, and a sum of one-million dollars is given to him. This may seem a paltry amount when you consider he saved the planet, but the coffers are low the world over. In a historic moment, peace throughout the world becomes reality, and conflict outlawed throughout the new United Earth. The U.N. ceases to exist. In his honor, they confer the title “First Citizen.” At the ceremony, every leader of the world’s nations is present, including Dr. Benjamin Carson, the current President of the United States.
Trump and Vice-President Pence lose the 2020 election because of perceived incompetence over COVID-19. They were not the only ones voted out of office, as most senators, representatives, and state governors lost re-election. Dr. Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Trump, wins the presidency by a historic landslide.
His running mate is Stephanie Murphy, of Vietnamese descent, and a state representative from Florida. Both she and Dr. Carson changed their political party affiliations prior to the election, she a democrat, he a republican, and joined the new-formed United People’s Party. They became the party’s first nominees. The UPP led to the dismantling of the democratic and republican parties.
It is after this momentous election victory Dr. Carson determines how Victor eliminated COVID-19 by playing a game. Victor seldom uses his conscious intellect — it is his sub-conscious which unlocked the genetic code. As a virus causes a cognizant mind, the absence of thought creates an infiltration. Meditation in its highest form enabled Victor to achieve complete relaxation and awareness—eradicating all hate, envy, fear, turmoil, and yearning (all things negative), which makes all viruses and feeds them. Remove these and you’ve removed the cell’s capacity to exist. In the case of the COVID strain and the game, the key to attaining a perfect score (this is how Victor chooses the name of his future daughter) is solving the ultimate hidden code. If done, it puts in motion a process that releases Apple Luteovirus 1. This disease only affects apple trees and their seeds. It is harmless to all other life-forms. There is no cure or defense against it. With the elimination of the Malus Domestica species, COVID is forever exterminated. Victor cracked the final key after 36 hours of playing, and the competing, all-powerful Luteovirus is unleashed.
Researchers investigating the relationship between the coronavirus and its hosts have pointed out that it sets off a ghoulish transformation when COVID-19 infects a human cell. The infected cell develops multi-divided tentacles covered with viral particles, obeying orders from the virus.
In order to enter neighboring cells, these mutilated zombie cells use certain streaming filaments or podia filo. The protuberances enter the bodies of the cells and inject their viral poison right into the centers that command the genetics of those cells-thereby producing another zombie.
Until this moment, scientists were lacking special aspects for a virus through the mechanism through which the coronavirus infects cells: it discovered cellular mediators on the surface region of the cells along a person’s mouth, respiratory tract, nose, lungs, and blood vessels.
The tiny virus docks on the surface of a larger cell, as space invaders do in a science fiction story. A viral landing party comes on board and hijacks the normal functionality of the cell, rendering it a replication factory.
Many of those immune from contracting the virus have the following characteristics: they relax, are free of stress, uncertainty, worry, and maintain the ability to overcome fear. Special operations personnel, ninjas, samurais, and many others overcome and control these traits held by countless humans throughout history, which prevent them from suffering viral infections.
After the conferring of the title upon Victor, President Carson, elected in the largest landslide in U.S. history, resigns from office and becomes the first President of United Earth.
For scores of years, the Deep State conspired to create a new world order. Mysterious men and women, often dressed in black, lurked ominous amongst the population throughout all levels of government, corporate, and media entities.
The members of the Deep State are conspirators with the Centaurs. Their desire to control the population through a new world order is encouraged by the eradication plan. Promised imperviousness to the virus for not divulging the Centaur’s existence, they hoped for success, just to see failed attempts. They exist among the people of earth and infiltrate every position and entity going about their nefarious work. Politicians, statesmen, military leaders, philosophers, bankers, doctors, scientists, and influencers of the world make up their ranks. Some well-known persons who were members include J. Edgar Hoover, Malcolm X, Al Capone, Lyndon Johnson, Vladimir Putin, and George Soros. They are pitiful pawns.
With the regret of many, peace, harmony, and well-being are short-lived on United Earth. Like the League of Nations and the United Nations before, human temperament and turn of events discredit and nullify attempts at nirvana on the planet. Everything and person should be equal, but in-fighting erupts between representatives of former countries as they jockey for their homeland’s standing. They accomplish nothing in the way of advances.
The 2004 Subaru is unappealing to look at. Prominent dents, dings, and scratches abound; the car is a testament to the manufacturer’s ability to build vehicles mechanically reliable. With over 275,000 miles, the engine purrs like a kitten. Well, a loud kitten. The first owner has nothing on Victor in the mishap department. Victor’s first vehicle, it ain’t seen nothing yet. The only thing to separate him from the car in 2016 is the accident that damages the drivetrain. Victor cannot afford the cost of repair, so he foregoes transportation. It is not a necessity and walks are beneficial.
Chapter Six
Years pass and so do the ways Victor identifies. Heterosexual, but with a twist. It’s this label. No, wait, it’s a different one. Pansexual. Demisexual, Multisexual, Cupiosexual, and so on. Damn, for a generation of people who hate labels put on them,