My Hero and Me: My Greatest Adventure Ever 15: Life in Prison
#15 of My Hero and Me: My Greatest Adventure Ever
Chapter 15: Life in Prison
I felt myself waking up to some sort of clinging noise, which caused me to open my eyes only to find them blinded a bit by the bright sunlight. I got up slowly and saw a cop opening our cell telling the two of us something.
"Okay you two, time for breakfast." I saw Joe Honda jump off of his on top of me and I got up slowly but surely as we started walking down the hall in the direction where the other prisoners we're going. I was guessing that was the way to where the cafeteria is so I figured that we should follow them. However, the cop told me. "Hey kid." I looked at him.
"Yes?"
"You're mom just called, she's on her way to bail you out."
"Great." I said sarcastically. "Here's some good news." I already knew that it wasn't the good news I wanted to hear, since it concerned my mom instead of Kimahri. I couldn't help but feel angry at the thoughts. The thoughts of my mom bitching at me for a lot of things and even nagging me to the point where I have my gun pointed to my brain. And there was also the thoughts about Kimahri, and his imprisonment with the United States Government. I kept hoping and praying to myself that he would be alright, but I still felt that the worst might be happening. I had a vision that shuddered me as we were waiting in line for our food. That vision showed the Ronso unconscious, naked, floating there in some kind of fluid container with something on his muzzle keeping him breathing. Just floating there having his days of life wasted unknowingly for some scientist's selfish reason they call "study". This thought pissed me off royally and made me feel even more hopeless now.
I left that thought completely when it was my turn to grab the meal, and as they were putting it on the plate, it didn't seem very appetizing, kind of like the school lunch I used to eat before high school. Honda and I just sat down at a table which was near the little TV up in the corner and just sat down to eat as we we're watching some random show which I have no clue what it is.
"Well, at least we get some nice TV in here." Honda nodded in agreement. We just ate as we watched, and breakfast didn't seem so bad. The TV though was interrupted by a news cast which the words "Breaking News" was said on screen. Then it showed the anchorman who's name was shown to be Donald Rufflman on the screen as he makes the cast.
"This is a six news report. There has been major protest gathering near the white house concerning the capture of Eric Lewis." Then a picture shown on his right side shows the white house with the word protest on it as he made this cast. How did they know I was captured? I thought, do they know about Kimahri too?! "The missing 17 year old boy is also the twin brother of popular Utah chess player, Ryan Lewis, who went missing a few weeks earlier and is still missing now. Notes of the blue lion man who kidnapped him are as of now unknown. We do not yet know if the police have found the other twin yet, but this has lead them to new hopes." Unknown, I thought, my ass! He was kidnapped too, so it's obvious that the government wants to cover this all up. But what is the protest for? From then on, Don finally said. "We now go live to the scene with Kelly Crocker on the protest. Kelly?" Then the TV shifted to the blond woman wearing a black fur coat in front of the protesters near the white house, who I guessed was Kelly.
"Thanks Don, it appears that a huge group of Americans are protesting on the governments capture of Eric Lewis and the possible capture of this blue lion man that was with him. The crowd is in the thousands, hundreds of them wearing fur suits as if they knew this person and supported him, and others appearing to be teenagers." Then the camera scrolled through all of the protesters, which are chanting "LET THEM GO! LET THEM GO!" I could have also sworn that there we're a few others saying some thing else.
"Free them!" One girl shouted.
"Set Kimahri free!" One guy shouted.
"Let him go dude, woooo!" Then the last guy shouted.
"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO PLAY GOD!" I definitely agreed with that last guy there. Though I was surprised that some of them knew Kimahri. I was kind of guessing that they we're Final Fantasy fans too. Again they went on with their chanting and I could tell that guards could not let them through and Kelly went to interview one of the guys from the crowd. And he responded to the question that he asked her.
"What they're not realizing is that they're imprisoning them without a fair trial and it needs to change now! They cannot do this for everything that is happening is just completely against the constitution of the united states, and we will not stand for it." Then it went back to Kelly.
"It also appears that the twin's mother, Mrs. Verlene Lewis is on her way to the prison which Eric is sent to in hopes of seeing her sons again. Back to you Don."
"Thank you Kelly, well this is a shocking story which brought police back into searching for Ryan Lewis with revived hopes of hopefully finding him. In other news..." Then after my section was over, we all went back into our prison cells as my mind prattled on. Mom's involved too? I thought. This has all gone too far, we got to get Kimahri back and find Ryan so we can end this mess. Good thing he's not pronounced dead yet or I won't know what to do. Best thing to do is wait for Honda's pardon to free us. Honda's mind was racing too. Damn that Bush! He thought, Damn the man, it seems this boy here next to me is more important than I thought. They say his brotha is missin' and they're refusing to let his friend go too. I've got to find a way to get us out of this...
Meanwhile, back in the underground labs of Washington DC, the commander that raped Kimahri was getting his ass yelled at by the general.
"Damn it soldier! What the hell was that all about? That is not how you should treat our experiments." The commander just simply smirked.
"It was necessary for the science experiments. We needed to determine his species and whether or not that thing is part of the monsters that keep coming here too." The general just snapped his head again, as he was in an extremely fowl mood.
"This is the army soldier, not an organization of animal molesters! The last thing we need is to have somebody jeopardize our name and make us feel bad! Do you understand?!!"
"Yes sir." The commander nodded.
"Good! Dismissed Soldier!" The commander just simply smiled and left the room, not feeling hurt of guilty at all like a cold hearted bastard. The general looked up at Kimahri in the room still tied up with the restraints and felt his own guilt in his heart as he saw him sleeping innocently. "I'm sorry about that poor creature. It'll never happen again." The general then stood there and just simply just walked away with his hands behind his back, sulking from what he had done. "I'm sorry kid, but it was necessary" He then thought to himself, disgusted. We're gonna have to keep him in here for years.
Meanwhile in the oval office. President Bush is once again faced with another dilemma of his own. One woman asked him.
"Are you going to pardon him?" But the president felt silent. He didn't want to risk getting any more publicity from his decisions, but he wasn't so sure about anything anymore.
"I'm afraid that we're going to have to... Execute him."
"Understood. Give him a call at about few hours prior to his execution, to give him the news."
"Understood." He said as after, she left, then Bush just sat there pondering.
Eventually, Honda and I waited for that call and I prayed with all my heart that we could get out. Right now, rescuing Kimahri means more to me than anything else, even my own brother. For now, anyway, since we'll be looking for him after we get Kimahri out. During this time, Honda just sat there with his eyes closed. Thinking away on his supposed last day of his life, while I was writing a letter to mom just in case Honda gets me out before she arrives. It took me about a half an hour, but when I finished, I noticed at the way Honda was looking, and asked.
"Hey, you okay?"
"Meh, I'm okay I guess. Just realizing that it may be the last day of my life, but I'm hoping that Bush'll get me out."
"He'd better, because if he doesn't, then I'll never get to see Kimahri again." Honda nodded.
"I can see why you like him." I was shocked to hear him say that.
"Wait, you know?"
"Yeah, usually I could tell if someone has a relationship or not, gay or straight. But I don't care if you're gay or not. I'm no homophobe."
"But, still, I'm sorry if you found out about that."
"Hey, don't worry about it. You're a good kid Eric, and you're a good friend to me. I promise you that I won't let myself die just to get you two back together." I was just completely shocked
"Wow, thanks Honda, that was really nice of you."
"No problem bud." We just looked at each other with smiles on each other's faces and I knew for sure that these accusations against Honda we're completely untrue and that he truly had a heart. The phone on the jail cell's wall rang later that night as we looked at it from hearing the sound. "Oh, that must be him now." He picked up the phone and answered.
"Yo! Is this Bush?...... Alright, are we getting that pardon or what?......... OH, okay, well, I'll see ya later then." He hung up the phone and I couldn't help but guess that it was bad news.
"So what's the word? Are we getting out of here?"
"NO! I did not get that damned pardon!"
"Just what I was afraid of, Bush is a retard! Almost everyone except for my family back in Utah voted for him, twice! Great, now I'm really a bird in a cage and I'll never get to see Kimahri again."
"Oh yes we will!" Honda corrected. "'Cause we're gonna bust out of here."
"But how?" I asked doubt ably "We don't even have a key." Wait a minute, that was when I blinked to realize something I forgot and smacked myself in the face for it. Idiot, why didn't I think of that, I'm a Keyblade bearer, I can retrieve it no matter how much I'm imprisoned. "I should have thought of that in the first place. Damn it!"
"What now?" Honda asked. I didn't answer and just held my hand out concentrating for it until a light flashed and the Keyblade was back in my hand. I pointed the blade at the cell lock and a blue beam of light was shot into the keyhole as it disappears, unlocking the door as it opened slightly. I looked back at Honda and noticed him giving me that puzzled look as he stood as still as a statue, until he broke the silence.
"Well I'll be damned." I just smiled and asked.
"What do you think of that?" Again, he just stood there shocked, practically speechless.
"Well............. Never seen anything like it." We started to walk out but not before watching for incoming guards. I set my letter for mom down on my bunk and left it there in case if anyone came down here. Honda made it clear that no guards are present as me made a run for it. But I noticed something as we ran and stopped.
"Wait!" Honda noticed and stopped. I went into the room and noticed that my stuff was there including my items, & money. "Here they are. My money, and my pendant." I grabbed everything and put them back on while Honda changed as well. When I put the pendant around my neck, a light shun and my real clothes we're back on. The red shirt, blue shorts, everything, & my keyblade in it's new light blue sheath. I looked and saw Honda wearing somewhat of a military outfit with ammo strapped to his chest and various weaponry loaded, along with a red headband to boot, as if he was a secret third character in a Contra game.
"Got everything!" I nodded in confirmation. "Right, now let's bust outta here."
"Right." Honda busted a door down the front of the hall and we saw a manhole, which we figured lead to the sewage level. He opened it and he let me climb down first while he watched and shut the door, making sure a trail wasn't left behind them. Then he went in and shut the manhole behind him.
Meanwhile, back in the hidden part of the base, where the light of day made it brighter. The Postality Knights Biggs & Wedge we're just conversing.
"You seem very intrigued concerning that beast who actually entered this world on his own." Biggs said.
"Hey, it makes this boring planet a little more interesting." Wedge replied. "Just be glad no one suspected us yet."
"True, the superiors have also stated that there is a new bearer of the Keyblade who lives in this world, and our mission is to eliminate him." He stopped and looked out the window pondering. "It's amazing how one lucky person can be singled out of billions of other simpletons because of a special gift they possess." Wedge laughed and replied.
"Yeah, and we've sent those monsters all over the place just to track him down. Hmph. Those damned Keyblades and their masters! They're always getting in the damned way of our missions."
"Which is why we need to destroy him." The two looked at where it was coming from and they looked to see that commander who raped Kimahri with a smirk on his face while the door closed behind him. Wedge's mood changed as he greeted.
"Well, if it isn't Xanirb!" A dim light appeared around the commander as he transformed. When the light faded, he revealed his own true identity. A red scale dragon with white long hair wearing the same Postality Knights armor as the other two, as he ran a hand through his hair as he walked up to them.
"The same usual greeting coming from my comrades. Is that anyway to greet a superior?"
"How are you Xanirb?" Asked Biggs.
"Meh, that old human general just snapped at me after the way I treated that beast."
"Heh, typical humans." Barked Wedge. "Even the humans that work with us are like that. They're quite a race to try to destroy I'll admit, especially the Keybladers that get in the way of our access to other worlds."
"That would be considered quite the task," Xanirb confirmed. "But I think we could use the fact of the captured beast to our advantage."
"Impossible."
"Fact, Wedge." Biggs replied and looks at Xanirb fascinated. "Go on!" He nodded and went on.
"The one who wields the Keyblade in this world is that kid who was with him. You know, the one who's hair makes him look like Keyblade master Sora." Biggs remembered now.
"Now that you mention it. Where is the kid?"
"He's in prison, but I'd imagine that with the Keyblade he'd break free from the cage and come looking for that beast first thing. That's when we lure him into our trap."
"Interesting." Wedge said scratching his chin.
"No surprise there." Biggs said. "The Keyblade is said to lock and unlock any lock like a key and can fight and cut like a sword. So, Where do you plan on trapping him?"
"Heh." The dragon left a smirk on his face.
The two of us trekked across the dark sewer tunnels going through the many passage ways. The only things that we're lit up we're the lamps posted on the sewage walls and one that Honda was carrying. Even when we we're watching for the dangers ahead, I had to fight off the rats around here, being in the thief's class with the twin daggers in my hand. I look at our left to see a passage way.
"This way!" I jumped in and he followed suit. I couldn't help but look back at him to see that Honda is just shocked and bewildered at everything he was seeing right now. Obviously, he wasn't believing at all what he was seeing.
"This has all gotta be a dream ya know! This whole thing can't possibly be real." I hunched my shoulders up.
"I'm pretty sure that's what a lot of people here would say." Or at least those in this world anyway, I thought. As soon as we get Kimahri back, I'm leaving this world. I'm pretty sure Ryan wasn't even here in the first place and is out there somewhere too.
"You know, I gotta say. You ain't that bad kid, you're smart, talented, & even unique. That's somethin' to be proud of. If there's anything I learned from the Marines is to excel on your individual talents and leave the non-talents behind."
"Oo-rah!" I said.
"Oo-rah!"
"You know, I'm not gonna promise, but I think once this is all over, I've got a place for you in my quest to save my Ryan after we rescue Kimahri."
"You're okay for a little white dude."
"And you're okay for a big black Marine." The two of us shook hands and we just knew that we we're friends. "Lets go!" And we continued going down the passage, preparing for what lies ahead.
The prison warden just sat there on his desk writing some documents after sending someone to bring Joe Honda to the execution room when he saw a guard come in from the door in front of him.
"The Lewis Kid's mother is here sir." He looked up at him.
"Send her in." He saw my mom come in sitting down in one of the two chairs in front of him. "Mrs. Lewis, the charges against him are big, I mean really big. It's either you have to pay $40,000 or he'll have to stay for three years."
"Please!" My mother begged. "He wasn't even charged or put in court, & neither was Kimahri, they both have to be set free." The warden ignored her begging and just simply said.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Lewis, but we did what we have to do."
"And what about Kimahri's imprisonment? Hasn't the government surely have gotten too far?"
"That information is extremely classified mam!" Their conversation was interrupted with a man in a red suit and a black SWAT team helmet rushed in the office.
"Warden, this is Red Leader!" He shouted. They all noticed and stood up to look at him.
"Joe Honda has escaped sir! And Eric Lewis is with him." Everyone just stood in the room shocked.
"What?!" Was the warden's response. Thank god for that, my mom thought to herself, but now I'm even more worried!
"All that was left behind was this letter to his mother." Then the red leader grabbed my letter from his pocket and my mom gasped and grabbed the letter, quickly opening it to read it.
Dear Mom,
Do not come looking for me, I'm going to get Kimahri back from the Bush Administration. Then after that, we're going to look for Ryan. Please understand & don't worry. I'll be fine with the Ronso on my side. I can feel that Ryan is still alive out there somewhere. Go home & tell everyone in the family about this & live your lives as usual until the day we all return home. Also, please don't sell or get rid of our stuff. I'd want all my things when we get home & I can guarantee Ryan would too, it's just too upsetting to think about it. Be sure to tell all of our friends too so you all know that we're still out there & waiting for us to come home, even if you don't show it.
Don't think we're just dead just because the media says it and move on. Just move on with your lives and smile knowing we're still alive so you can all praise and cheer when we get home.
Love,
Eric
PS: When I move out on my own, I want to live with Kimahri in Spira. I hope you can understand that. Thanks mom.
Then my mom shed a tear, which dripped on the letter.
"Eric............. Why?............"
A manhole bursted out from miles away from the prison, and Honda screamed.
"FREEDOM! Revenge is mine." He ran ahead and I followed suit after climbing out and shutting the manhole. Hang on Kimahri, here we come.
End of Chapter results
Eric Lewis
Human
Class: Freelancer
Lv. 9
Exp: 2625
Next Lv: 406
HP: 398/398
SP: 39/39
G: 0 ($2319.04)