Sorry Al, I've been wrapped up in a lot recently but my promise remains true. I shall now continue the fic...

Obviously, It seemed impossible for me to escape. It was impossible to put one foot out of line without Flax seeing and thinking whatever I planned to do.
All I could do was mindlessly type away at the file, at least if it was finished I would have some kind of bargaining chip for the others' lives.
It took two days for the file to be finished. When I was ready I had to upload it to the chip. I was very curious at this point as to why they wanted my info on Abe to be included in the chip.
Even though I was finished with my work Flax persisted that I stay. He let me read magog monthly magazines to pass the time. I had little choice but to read them. It turned out that there wasn't many there. This was because Sligs and other workers were pouring over them for info to upload to the chip.
The rest of the time I slept. I think the chip had something to do with that. Anyway One night I just woke up for no reason. I wasn't having a dream or nightmare, nobody had shook me or roused me. This left one answer, Flax had purposely woken me up.
I imediately heard Robs voice.

Jim, hurry the chip is almost ready get in the lab and see what's going on!

I walked into the room with the computers, it was empty except for one lone Slig typing away vigourously. The noise he was making covered my presence. Flax was nowhere to be seen.
A nearby screen said 99% upload for the chip. I suddenly understood that this was my only escape chance. If I could possess the Slig I could find the file for unlocking the doors and rescue the others.

I began to chant...

Prepare for massive flow of info!

I had never possessed anything before. It was kind of strange controlling some mindless creature from my own mind. I wasn't so good at it, the slig immediately ended up on his back. I got him up on his feet again. Unfortunately, looking at the screen it wasn't going to be easy to open the doors. The upload had to made before the program could be closed. I had to be quick. I began the upload. Suddenly the slig just exploded. I was back controlling myself again. The intercom buzzed and then Flax's voice came through.

"All employee's make your way out of the main Brewery, repeat, All employee's evacuate the building. The doors will all lock down in ten minutes from now"

I ran to the door which led to the room Nat and Dac had been in.
Dac was pacing up and down, there was no sign of Nat.
"Dac!, where is Nat!" I yelled as Dac looked at me.
"Jim, you're alive!" He cried running to me "we have to leave now, they took Nat"

He ran towards the door and I followed him. He suddenly stopped and fell to the floor. He had been shot with a snuzi and now was fast asleep.

"Jim" said Flax's voice in my head.
"It's time I told you why you lived so long, I'm guessing you'll soon be dead so this is your last chance. The truth is we have been using you as a carrier and finder of information we needed for our project"

"Project...?" I wondered what he was talking about.

"All you can know is that we were trying to create the ultimate living weapon. It has the same chip technology as you and I. That supercomputer the chip was linked to transferred uploaded information into the creatures chip. Even though you only typed about Abe we were able to get your life story through the chip. We know everything about you. Your friends were useful too, but lets begin with you. We now know through you how Mudkons act in situations. All of them were especially staged for you and adapted for what had already occured. In fact this entire Brewery is nothing more than a decoy for the magog's weapon creation. We planned everything carefully. We knew that the mining of Mudokon bones would attract unwanted saviour wannabe's so we predicted that Abe would turn up. Ice had been hiding in our facility for sometime praticing his magic. We knew that your team could destroy him and gain knowledge of black magic, also added to our file. We staged situation upon situation including Ian and Leo to lure you into showing us Mudokon thinking and emotion. Your friends were also good sources for basics that were hard to cover. For instance, being Blinded and still keeping your guard, excellent agility, coping with depression. All were added to our data base"

"You... used us?" I stuttered

"Yes, sadly it is almost over for you. Dac is in a state of deep sleep. He can't be woken until the effect of the shot wares off. He is also fitted with a sensor that will trigger a senquence of exolsions in the main building. It looks like he kept his promise, he is the unluckiest thing alive for you"...

great story, i cant wait for the big finale. keep on writing!! you're good at it!

I'm a little bit off the finale for now, but doesn't that make more suspense for you?

I had act quickly. Almost mindlessly. I had about five minutes to get Dac and myself out of the tower and down to the underground area. On inspection the device attached to Dac had five second timer. The amount of time that I touched him would be deducted each time.
I ran to the lift which I had seen Sligs go up and down in a few times. I pounded the button and waited for the lift to rise.
I kind of threw Dac into the lift when it came as it would deduct less time than carrying him. I set the panel for the first floor basement and climbed into the lift. The descent seemed to last forever. Dac was the same as ever and I was careful to avoid his writhing in case of destroying the building. It was now that I thought I had made a mistake. I had no idea what was in store for us at the bottom.
I had an idea, I would hurl Dac out first as whatever was at the bottom wouldn't touch him hopefully.
The floor was rapidly approaching. Suddenly we were there and the door burst open. Sligs rushed at us in rows as I threw Dac into the centre of the small room. They avoided him and surrounded both of us.
The familiar figure of Flax stood behind them.
"Very good you'd make a great infiltration expert If I couldn't see what you were doing at all times"
He walked to the side, behind his tall figure was Nat asleep on a chair.
"He too is asleep, he was shot at exactly the same time as Dac. I think it will be an interesting reunion when they wake up, which should be any minute now in fact"

Nat stirred as did Dac. Nat opened his eyes and yawned.
The snuzi drug created atificial sleep and the effect wore off instantly after waking up. Nat, now fully awake set eyes on Dac, now also fully awake.

"Dac!" He cried rushing to him.
"No!" I yelled as they touched

Every Slig and Flax suddenly dived for cover as the sensor beeped. I was left standing with my eyes closed expecting to be swept of my feet by a large explosion. It didn't happen I opened both eyes suspiciously. Some of the sligs were getting up again now.

"Boss, you said it was a threat!" said a slig to Flax
"It is!" Said Flax now standing nearby.

All was quiet, Dac noticed the sensor and pulled it off throwing it in a corner.

Then it came. An almost silent rumbling noise echoing continuously everytime getting slightly louder. We all cowered together as the noise got as loud as someone speaking. It passed slowly over and rubble gathered in the lift shaft.
It started pouring in.

The sligs now stood up and pointed their guns at us three muds.

"You have surved your purpose here it is time you stop..."

The door on the left hand wall fell in and Scar-eye burst in followed by a bunch of other muds.
They moved swiftly all the muds apart from Scar-eye went straight for a Slig wrenching his gun from his hands and pointing it at his head. All the sligs were now not harmful. Turning around I saw Scar-eye slide behind Flax and push him over. He swung his sword down and placed it neatly on the back of Flax's neck.

The odd's were now much in our favour...

your good at this. Keep it up, its supspenseful!

Ah the long awaited updates on Jim's Oddysee. Suspense is killing me bud, its good though that you are finishing up, that way your story will be eligble for the upcoming changes, and contests that will be intergrated into Fan Corner, in the coming weeks.


Keep it up,

-Al the Vykker

Thanks guys, here's more.

"Nobody move!" said Scar-eye to the Sligs.

The intercom muffled through a damaged microphone.
"Doors prepared for lock down. Locking will be carried out in one minute please evacuate"

Sacar-eye nodded to me gesturing towards the open door. I nodded and led Dac and Nat through.

"Kill the Sligs" Scar-eye told the other muds as he led Flax through the door.
The Sligs were executed with their own guns and the other muds entered the room as well. As the last one closed the door it locked.
The room was square in shape with the lift room we had been in a central separate room. It overlooked, through a large window, a vast cavern. The other walls were equipped with computers and other technological devices. On a nearby office chair sat Ash, our group was reunited.

"Jim," said Scar-eye, "These Mudokons helped me and Ash to escape. They were testing and info gatherers just like us"

One lone mud walked up to me. "Hi I'm Ben and these are Tom, Bob, Jak, Edd and Joe. Sadly I'm the only one of our group who can still speak, thanks to him" He pointed at Flax.

"Hang on now" Said Scar-eye looking at Flax.
"We want some anwsers, what is this place?"

Flax raised his head to look at us.
"This is the control room, the most important part of Soulstorm brewery or, The Soulstorm Weapon Project! It was from this room that we Tracked you and your friends throughout your journey. As you can see, this room overlooks an underground cavern. Somewhere in that cave is the product of all that reasearch I had all you guys do. We discovered this cave and its resident years ago. Then when the Glock Stars decided upon this weapon project we came across an egg. We had already encountered the mother an..."

I stopped him.
"Wait a minute, what is it your talking about here?" I asked

"Dragons, or something like that. It's an old Mudokon tale that made no sense until we discovered this lair. We think it's the last one left which makes it a perfect weapon as only another Dragon can stand up to it"

A muffled roaring noise came from within the cave.
Flax sighed then spoke.

"Ah, the beast awakes"...

keep it up, i want to read more.

Thank's it really should finish soon...

We rushed to the window staring into the cavern. We could see an empty area and then darkness. Suddenly, but slowly came the glow of it's red eyes in the gloom. The light became clearer until it's head appeared. It had two large horns pointing forward and it's mouth spurted flames. Smoke came through it's nostrils when it breathed out. It's legs were huge and thick, it shook the cave when it moved. It's body was massive, connecting to it's long neck and tail and sporting lots of spines on it's back that stuck up into the air. It let out a mighty roar and flames shot high from its mouth. It was definitely a dangerous beast and combined with the Knowledge it had been given it was a weapon to be frightened of.

"Well," smiled Flax "There you have it, the result of our project. Of course it isn't all brute force and Knowledge, it is equipped with all manner of gadgetry. Such as it's weapon defense system. It is with a magnetic force that makes all weapons useless even atomicboommissiles wont stop it!"

"But you still have us to deal with!" said Ash

"That's right, I'll dispose of you then I'll be ready to attack Oddworld with my weapon!" Said Flax in a sly voice.

"Hang on," said Ben "Didn't you say the weapon was for countering the magogs enemies?"

"I changed my mind!" He laughed

"You're telling me you've completely lost sight of your bosses ideas!" I said

"I have here the ability to let loose an attack anwhere on Oddworld with an unstopable weapon, I don't need bosses pushing me around!"

"What if we kill you?" asked Nat

"You won't!"

"We will!" shouted Scar-eye leaping suddenly at Flax surprising him.

"Jim don't!" Said Rob

"Don't do it!" I cried

"Why not!" Said Scar-eye "It's got to end here, think of Oddworld, this freak could desroy the lives of generations for years to come!" He raised the sword for the strike.

"Jim, Flax is equipped with a sensor if he dies..."

The sword hit and Flax was dead. It should have ended then but sadly it didn't, I felt myself falling with the others...

oooooh, that was good.

oddworld
 

one q is jim a new creature or is he a mud/gabbit?

Jim is a mud. So are the others except Flax who is now dead.

continue with the story if all questions have been answered.

The story continues
 

I awoke several minutes later in the shadowy corner of some damp place. I was not alone, Ash, Nat, Ben, Tom, Bob, Edd, Jak and Joe sat around me. Dac stood over me.
"Jim..."
"What is it Dac?" I asked him
"Well, I just wanted to say... thanks, my friend. You saved my ass back there and I want you to know.. I'm eternally grateful"

Nat spoke up then,
"I'm glad I met you as well Jim. I may be useless and I would only way you down but I would have followed you anywhere Jim..."

Ash nodded his head.
"Me too, it's not everyday an old man gets so much excitement. I'm happy you could give me that"

I was about to thank them but Ben butted in.

"Listen, how long are you guys gonna babble on and on like you ain't seen each other for fifty years, eh? I hate to be rude but we need some action before that fat ass dragon toasts us all!"

The silent muds clearly agreed. But I had forgotten about the dragon.

"Are we like, in the dragons cave?" I asked.
"I don't want to be negative Jim," said Ben "but were in deep and we need to get out"
"I see..." I said

Scar-eye walked into the group.
"Find anything?" asked Ash
"One exit to the west, we'd never all make it past the dragon at once and it'd easily intercept one Mudokon"

We sat in thought for a while. I played with a small rock hiting the other rocks with it.

My head began to hurt. "Jim, you fool! The answer is all around you!" said Ice

I looked around me there was nothing except rocks. Across the cavern was a large metal support structure. It appeared to be holding large sections of the cavern roof in place.

It suddenly clicked, If we were to destroy the pillar to roof would collapse on the dragon!

I looked at the others to find them all staring at me.
"What's wrong?" I asked bewilderedly.
"You just said that out loud" said Nat.
"And what did you think?" I asked
"It sounds like a good idea" said Scar-eye.

I was pleased that they agreed with me but I was feeling strange, almost tired and I felt like I was losing control of my body.

"Jim! you're in trouble!" Came Robs distant voice in my head."Flax had one last trick up his sleave! A failsafe. Before he died he infected the chip system with a computer virus, Jim it's corrupting your mind!"

I stumbled into the open I had to move quicly this was my last chance...

Please read this, ..., Anyone?
 

We quickly discussed our ideas, my head was spinning.
We decided that we would have to melt the pillar using the dragons own firey breath.
We began to talk about who would get the Dragons attention to breath fire on the pillar.
Ash believed that he should do it as if he died it wouldn't matter as much as we had our whole lives ahead of us. My vision was starting to become blurred, I hoped the same thing was happening to the dragon as we shared the same chip technology.
I recall Scar-eye dissagreeing with Ash saying that he should do it as he had more chance of survival.
An argument insued, Ben said that he should do it so Nat and Scar-eye could lead his friends out of there.
I was worried that the dragon would hear our rowdyness and come to investigate.

"Shut up!" I called out
"What's wrong?" said Nat

I sat down and told them of Robs message and how I was feeling.
I persuaded them to let me do it.

"After all", I said
"Nat, you must travel and see the Wonders of Monsaic Lines, And you Ash," I laughed
"must go into retirement in marvelous wilderness or the temples with other Mudokons"
I turned to Scar-eye "And You must go for your freedom while you have the chance friend, Ben, you and your friends deserve at shot at real life, life in the real world may be cruel but it is life".

Lastly I turned to Dac
"And you would kill us all Mr Unlucky, if you were to do what I must" I joked.

We continued speaking like this for some time until we were ready to begin our escape.

I looked into the open with my weak vision.
"You never know guys, I might make it through this too we could all be out together"

They wished me luck and I ran into the open cavern. I couldn't feel my feet as I looked through tunnel vision for the monstrous beast. I could see my companions back in our corner egging me on.

I waited for a short time, I was going to go back to the others but then it came...

It moved slowly, staggering around thanks to the virus I think. I threw rocks at it to get it's attention and slowly it crawled towards me.
As it approached I could feel the heat from it's breath. I closed my eyes but I could still hear it's clumbering feet. It made a kind of growling sound as it breathed out. The tension was high as I opened my sore eyes and came face to face with the Beast....

I've only read the last chapter upto now but i must say i am intrigued. Nice story.

First time I saw you not making a sarcastic comment! (Unless you were ;) )

Anyway, here we go...

The Creature looked at me and smoke poured from it's mouth and nostrils. It began to open it's mouth.

"Jim step back!" came Robs echoing voice as the dragon opened it's mouth.

I stepped back as flames came out, I took a few steps as I felt my body heat up. On the fifth step I tripped over a rock and landed on my back.
The flames shot over my head and met the pillar. It looked red hot and I heard rumblings above.
I looked at my friends as they began to run from the darkness.
The Creature shielded me from a lot of falling small chunks of rock.
It's hard scales resisted the small bits.

"Jim!" Called Nat, "Run quickly!"

I glanced quickly at the pillar, it was glowing white hot at the base!
I heard it buckle and more rocks fell.

"Jim, now!" came their voices.

I rolled from under the Dragon and scrambled to my senseless feet. I began to limp towards my companions. I turned round and saw why they had called me, a large piece of rock was becoming dislodged.
It fell onto the back of the Dragon. I saw no more as Scar-eye grabbed my hand and pulled me away from the scene. As we turned the corner to the west I heard rocks and walls begin to collapse. We ran through the western checkpoint door and fell to the floor.

"This is a different structure we will be safe here!" said a breathless Ben.

Noone else said anthing except Scar-eye who offered to watch out for us while we rested up.

I sat in my new surroundings, feeling amazed that I was alive.
The door we had entered through was built on a makeshift steel wall the other two walls were the same. The roof was exceptionally high, a few meters lower than the cavern roof. The corridor, for that's what it was, was quite wide. You could get about three Glukkons lying on their sides across it's width.

I listened for the Dragon but couldn't hear it. It was no longer a threat. We were safe, for now at least...

I awoke on the hard, cold steel floor. Scar-eye sat near the doorway to the cave, his sword lay by his side. I crawled to where he was sitting.

"Seen anything?" I asked
"Nothing, It must be dead"

Everyone else was asleep, I looked up the passage. There were lights on the walls and ceiling but I could see no end in front. I still felt strange, like something was taking over my mind.
I threw the thought aside as paranoia and leaned back against the steel wall.

A sudden chill ran down my spine, but not because the wall was cold. It was warm, and getting warmer.

Scar-eye noticed the look on my face.

"Something wrong?"
"It's the wall..."

He put his paw on the wall.
He took in the situation then looked back at me.

"This is bad, real bad!" he said
"Wake them, everyone!"

I crawled to Ash then Ben and his friends while Scar-eye woke Nat and Dac.
As they yawned and groaned I listened for noises. I could hear none yet but the heat was increasing.

"We must move!" spoke Scar-eye
"Jim and myself have sensed a strange prescence coming from the cave"

"You're saying the Dragon's not dead!" said Ben

He needed no answer for right then as we peered into the gloom of the collapsed cavern two red glints appeared in the blackness and footsteps approached us.

"Quickly!" yelled Scar-eye and Nat began to run with Ash.

The steps indicated that the beast was now dashing towards us, the dash became running. I could see a huge bulky figure running for us about a hundred meters back from the doorway. I began to run.
The feeble steel wall was punctured by two horns on the Dragons head before it's entire body ripped through it and it was reduced to tatters.

"Shit! Run!" cried Dac as the Monster charged after us. The corridor was only just big enough for the Dragon to move in and the floor shook as it ran.

I felt myself beginning to slow down and wear out. Scar-eye pulled me over his shoulder as he sprinted further up the tunnel I thanked him but I wondered how much longer we would survive....

We were getting much further away from the Dragon as it was in the same state of mind as me. I had no idea how long we had been running or how far we had gone. No-one spoke, we just ran and ran. I was half asleep as Scar-eye carried me until we suddenly stopped.
As everyone was too out of breath to speak I looked in front to see why we had stopped. We had reached a Slig checkpoint. On each side of the tunnel was a small room with a space in the middle. The barrier was down in the centre and beyond, several feet in front was a large build up of debir and rocks where the roof had given way. I glanced into the small cabin type rooms, the Sligs inside were dead. One had shot himself with his gun and the other was slumped over a bowl of pills and other drugs. The television in the left hand room was still on, The Magog on the March news bulletin was running. The Newscaster was saying something about the Brewery being screwed. The Sligs must have realised what was coming for them.

"It's a dead end" yelled Dac
"Odd save us..." Prayed Ash

"Jim! Chant, all of you, now!" Said Rob

The Dragon was rushing at us now a few hundred meters away.

"Woah!" Said Nat

I turned to see that a group of birds were sqeezing through a small crack in the rocks.

"Everyone Chant!" I wispered weakly to Scar-eye as my voice was going.

We began to chant the scriptures as loud as we could, I prayed once more and looked down the corridor to see that the Dragon was almost upon us.
It opened it's mouth and flames shot at us. I turned I shrank in fear to see that the portal was forming. Just as we were engulfed in flames I felt myself being sucked into a blinding whiteness. We were all there, suspended in motion. Then we fell, into darkness until we dropped and landed on hard ground. My ears could hear a muffled applause but that was all. I opened my eyes to the most amazing of sights.
We were on the podium in Monsaic lines surrounded by our Mudokon Brothers. I felt barely alive.
The Bigface stood nearby with a Blurry Blue figure.
I guessed it was Abe.
We had made it, we were safe, though I was in no state to enjoy it.

"May we introduce Jim!" cheered Abe and Bigface.
That is all I remember as then I blacked out.
I was seriously infected by Flax's Virus at this point but,
as you will soon find out,
My story was only Half Done......

Stay tuned for the Final Part of Jim's Oddysee!!! :fuzcool: :fuzcool:

In the end...
 

Dear Friends

Things are going well here now. We've been living in the Caves for a few weeks now since I escaped with my new companions.
Firstly there's Nat, he was a little worse for ware after the escape from the brewery, Ash is fine even after all that work he's still tickin'.
I suppose you remember Ben. He helped me escape with some new friends of his. Dac is amazed by the aspect of being free, he wanders the Caves all day. I guess that leaves the guy who helped me, saved us all. It's a shame really considering all the trouble we went through that he is getting worse everyday.
Yes, Jim is not very good at all. It's all that microchip buisness and Flax's Virus affecting his brain.
All the work he did for us was brilliant, but he cannot escape his destiny, he is trapped within his own mind.
Someday we hope to find a sollution that will save him, until then I shall protect him with my life.
I hope you are all well with this entire Brewery incident, I hope you got out of the brig. I hope someday you will joins us here in Monsaic lines.

Yours Sicerely,
Fin (Scar-eye)






THE END

I hope you enjoyed that, please tell me wether you liked it and would like to see Jim's Exoddus up soon!

Bravo. A great story that was begging to be finished. Anyways I cant wait to read Jim's Exoddus. Since I didnt really get the chance to say it earlier welcome back again, glad to have one of our writers that did very well back among us once again. Nice work again Rich.:)


-Sincerely, Al the Vykker