Angry Jasper: Forty-seven

FINAL CHAPTER
The Worst Day Ever


If the world sucked before it was about to stop sucking, in the worst possible way! Three hundred miles up a powerful nuclear device detonated behind Maury’s weapon. The bright white flash of the explosion seemed at first to swallow the entire weapon. It was an illusion, as powerful magnetic fields contained the blast. Instantly a tightly focused beam of white hot energy drove deep into the beleaguered planet a hundred miles south of Chicago.

Accuracy wasn’t necessarily a concern with Maury. As the beam liquefied hundreds of feet of earth and rock terrible cracks ripped across the land in every direction. The earth shuddered and trembled as though resisting the onslaught. Fantastic and unprecedented, bolts of white hot plasma energy stabbed at the earth, incinerating anything they touched. They whipped across the land like tornadoes, ten times hotter than the surface of the sun.

Jazz, Maury’s spy and the others reached the surface as the beam slammed into the crust. Jasper stood at the door, stunned into silence at the awesome power of the weapon. He could see those tendrils of energy tearing at the world, and new it was near suicide to try and reach the ship. That is if it was still there. For the moment the others were safe inside the passageway. He would have to try and make it to the ship alone. If he didn’t make it, or it wasn’t there then it really didn’t matter. They’d all be dead anyway.

“Okay, this is the plan,” Jazz told the others. “It’s too dangerous for all of us to go out there. I’ll make a break for the ship. If it’s there I’ll come back for everyone.”

“What if it isn’t still there?” asked Skull boy

“Grow some wings and jam a rocket up your ass, cuz that’ll the only way off this planet, kid!”

“I’m going too,” said Maury’s spy.

“The hell you are,” Jazz shoved him back from the door. Maury’s guy was stronger though and pinned Jazz hard against the wall.

“Think I’m about to see you go out that door and take off without the rest of us?”

“Would I, am I the sort of guy who would do something that low?”

Everyone nodded in agreement. Jazz watched with horror. Even Kate was in on it against him.

“He’s got a point,” she said.

“Et tu, Katy?” said Jazz. “Et tu?”

“To hell with you all,” the spy shoved jazz to the ground. And started through the door. “I’ll find that ship myself!”