But it seems that I am forced into being a god, whether I like it or not and I do not like it…

Damn the Zombies! Damn the gods! Damn the Earth! Damn the Universe! Damn the stupid people who do not listen! Damn to anything and everything and everywhere…

Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! and Damn IT!

But I am okay and after today I got most of it out of my system. As I write this post, I realize that while the world is dead and gone, I still have one dog and a girl who needs me to carry on and be strong. Loosing my mind would not save them and if I want to save the world for the future, I need to get my act together…

I gathered my act, so to speak, today: I went back up town to the square where I slaughtered Zombies like a crazed animal. The Zombies were silent and hidden as little rabbits in their dens. They seemed petrified that I was there and you could cut the tension with a knife as I stood in the town square. Then I felt the tension explode inside of me and I thought I would literally go bananas…

I walked to a large huge dump truck full of gravel, sitting on a side road of the square! I expanded my armor and when I got to the truck, I punched it…

The truck cab side caved in and the truck shifted 2 meters. Then I punched it again and again and again and again and again…

The last punch ripped the dump truck in half and gravel flew all over the place. Then I kicked the truck and 50 meters later it came back to the ground. I ripped the doors off and twisted the steel beams that made up the frame. I demolished that truck…

Then I looked a bulldozer that was nearby. A big bulldozer…

I walked up to it and by the time I got to the blade on the front, I released all the hate and energy that I had as I punched the blade. It caved inward and tore into the main body of the bulldozer. I then went completely uncorked and destroyed that bulldozer with my bare hands. I remember picking it up off the ground and smashing it into a building of stone and concrete. Then…

Then I collapsed and started to cry. I guess I might have cried for an hour and after I was done crying, I really felt better. I undid my armor and walked to a store on the square, I found a root-beer to drink and stepped outside to have a think session on the front steps of the store. As I took a long drink of root-beer, I saw a flash of movement to my left. I looked and then I saw standing there a Zombie god! He had a look like he had seen what I did and wasn’t sure what to do next…

He was caught and tried to freeze as if he was not there. I am sure that he was invisible to normal people, but I am far from normal. I took another swig of my root-beer and acted like I did not see him. I finished the root-beer and as I drained the last drops, I threw it as hard as I could and hit him between the eyes with it. He hit the ground like a sack of potatoes and I ran and grabbed him by the throat. I picked him up and slammed him against a tree. He shook his head and when he realized what was going on, he froze…

I asked him does he understand English? He responded yes! I told him to go home and tell everyone that he comes in contact with, that I am on my way. I am going to come and finish the Zombie war of the gods! I told him that when I see him next, that I would kill him and this was his only chance to live. The best thing that he could do was to tell everyone what I say and leave. Leave the universe, because the universe is too small for Zombies and I to live in harmony…

Then as I was telling this Zombie god what I wanted him to tell the rest, I felt that another Zombie had appeared behind me. I spun and threw the Zombie in my hands at the Zombie behind me. They both went to the ground. They got up scrambling and the look of terror was in their eyes. Then they disappeared just as they came…

I hurried on back to Girl and Dogg. I knew that the Zombies gods knew where we were now and that we needed to get moving. A purpose and reason have now appeared to me and I realize what I have to do. After that last explosion and outburst of emotions, I was able to put all the souls of gods in their place inside of me. I put an order to the madness that rages in me. The key was to place one soul as the boss and any soul that crosses the line dies instantly…

As I said in another post. My sword is part of my soul and I have it to fight within myself also. I had a little demonstration of who is the boss to put the pecking order in line real quick. My sword just does not absorb the power of a god at his demise, it also will extinguish his life force forever if I use it again on them. They never had such a happening in their existence and the gods fell in line real quick. You see gods never die they just transferred energies from one to another. Well I have proven that gods will die and by my hand it will happen, if I so desire…

Oh yes I said that I put one soul in charge! Well guess what? I found a quiet little soul hidden in the back. It was very familiar and as I approached it. It became known to me. I found my Zombie Ben from my past life. He was hidden inside with all these other Zombie god souls. Ben said hi and my spirits lifted. After I hugged him and asked him where he came from. (He did not know!) I put him in charge of the Zombie god soul department! I had my buddy back and even though he was not physically next to me, he was still available to communicate with and to ask help when I needed it…

Ben had his samurai sword and I knew he would keep all in line and if he needed help all he had to do was ask…

Now if I can just figure out how to bring Ben back as my sidekick again. He saved my life enough and I owe him that much…

I had gone back to home, as we call it the last few days and hugged Dogg and Girl. Dogg said “Bow Wow!” and Girl smiled a huge smile and said, “Welcome back to the living! I was worried if I would have to whoop you with my Kung Fu!” I just smiled and said, “Tomorrow we leave to find the government shelter and tonight lets have a party!”

Girl said, “Yippy!” and Dogg said “Bow Wow!” as he played with his Zombie head…

I looked around and the world was brighter in my eyes. It felt better and I knew that we had a chance…

Dogg ran up to me and laid his head against me and then you would have thought he won the “JackPot!” He started to “Bow Wow” like crazy, then run in circles chasing his tail and I realized that he felt Ben the Zombie inside of me…

I then made Doggs day and kicked the head across the yard for him to chase. Most dogs love to chase Frisbee, but not my dog! He loves to chase Zombie heads…

That just seems correct for this day and age in earths history!

Now I will get back to you tomorrow after we search Denver. We have to find the government offices and see if there is any information on the underground facilities available…

Talk to you tomorrow…

Stryker
The Zombie Source Code…

I was told to bring the sword, dagger and shield as they all are an intricate part of any armor. We appeared on the planet after Woewebegone did one of his usual magical tricks of exportation. Xcices was a dry, arid planet and the population seemed to be only gods and a few troll armor makers. I was taken to a cave that housed the head of the armorer planet and was told to stand on a special gold disc on the floor in a room of the cave. I was told not to move. In the room came a troll that was just plain huge and uglier than a pug dog…

The troll looked me over and looked at the back of my neck about a dozen times. Smaller trolls came and took measurements. Then another huge troll came in and looked me over. He grunted and groaned a hundred times and then with what sound like a okay grunt he left. I stood on that circle of gold for another two hours. Then a few ugly little trolls came in and led me into a room with a table. I was then told by Woewebegone who appeared from nowhere to take all my clothes off and lay face first down on the table…

I heard a bunch of trolls try to cart my sword off and other stuff. Woewebegone said to let them do what they must do and that I would experience tremendous pain before long. I should live, but be ready for the worst…

I thought, gee thanks…

I later heard that 5 trolls had died and one demigod had died messing with my sword. Woewebegone said that is what they get for fooling around…

Then in came a beautiful goddess. Actually the very first goddess that I had seen. She was really stunning, but the device she had in her hands made me not appreciate her as much as I would like to have. I was told to stay still and that I would feel some pain. She pressed the device against the back of my head and kabamn, I was hit by something that felt like they exploded my brain. Two days later I woke up in a soft bed and comfy sheets. Lots of pretty girls taking care of me and that was pretty cool!

I then found out from Woewebegone that I had a special armor insert installed in my brain. A part of the human brain that is not used, is the place that it is installed. Every set of armor is different for every user and I was the first human that ever had this armor installed. It is an armor that is genetically bonded to the person. It is designed for gods and since us humans are modeled after the gods then it should work. The better my genetics are the better the armor is…

I found out that I would know how good the armor was in one week after it adjusted to my body and healed it self. I waited and was treated like a king while I waited…

After a week went by I was taken to an arena. I was told everything was automatic and my armor if it was working it would save me from the test that I was going to take. I was told that 10% of the armor does not work at all and 30% does not work the first one or two times it is activated…

Well my armor did not activate at all with the first test! I had to bare handed kill a strange creature from the wilds of the planet. It almost took me out instead and was a fair match to the end. I finally broke its neck. When I was done I was yelling something like.” F**** you and the horse you rode up on!” Their answer was to release a bigger badder creature that looked even meaner. The damn suit still did not activate. I killed this creature and as I was getting real mad by now, this creature was killed by sheer meanness on my part. They did not wait for me to even cuss this time and unleashed a huge ugly creature that stood at least 12 feet tall and had fangs a foot long. My armor still did not activate and I was so mad at this point that I killed the creature by grabbing its fangs and ripping them out and stabbing it too death with its own fangs…

Then the final test and they told me that they never ever had to go this far before, You see the suit only activates automatically if the need is there and it seemed to think I did not need any help…

Well this third test, out came twelve creatures and they were in a real bad mood, for you see I just killed all there buddies and I guess that never happens at all. I guess the suit decided that 12 uglies was enough to warrant helping me, because all of a sudden I was coated in the most incredible layer of indestructible material and it all came out of the back of my head. Since I was naked it did not destroy my clothes then , but as I found out later it messes up my clothes I have on. It was deep purple in color and I could hear the murmurers of everyone all over the place at the color. I was told that it was a never seen color before. Black, gray and white are the almost only colors. Red has appeared once and so has tan. I was a huge grape…

I was attacked by the 12 creatures and in less than 2 minutes they were cleaning up the mess I made as I slaughtered all twelve in a record time…

Now I have to tell you this suit is one bad ass piece of armor and in it, I really seem to be indestructible…

Now I spent a good part of a month and trained on how to use my suit. I can activate my suit myself and I have special holder for sword shield and dagger. They alter and work with the expansion of my suit. The bad thing is that when I am done using the suit. I am butt naked..

Before I left the planet I met the god that ran the planet. He was named Marcisis and he looked me over before I left. Then he took my hand and held on as tight as he could and said, “Use the sword, as I give myself to thee to use my powers for good instead of evil.” He then said, “I have been turned by the Zombies and will change! I have not much longer and want to die with a good heart!” I understood that he just came back from a battle against the Zombie gods and it looks like we won but many are lost in the end…

I pulled the sword and it sang as if it knew that it would feed on god blood…

I looked into his eyes and he thanked me as I could see the Zombie virus fighting to overcome him as he knelt there. I cut him plain in half, from the top of his head straight down the middle of his body. By the time the blade exited the body he was drained and I got to absorb the power of a full true upper god. It tore me apart and it was a energy burst like I have not felt since. The sword glowed pure deep purple and pulsated as it sang its death song…

I felt the whole planet shudder as I sheathed the sword and it sighed as it realized that death was put away safe at last. Things have stepped up to a whole new level and I was just beginning to realize that this was no dream and I was standing toe to toe with gods that we only read about in fair tales…

I remember as Woewebegone and I got back to training on our own planet, that he had a new respect for me, but never let up on pushing me to the max…

The best that I can tell you is that the suit is made up of nano technology and it uses nano robots. Tiny tiny little devils that do more than just armor me. They also heal me, cure me and power me up to levels unheard of in human history. I understand that my suit was a perfect match for my genetics and is flawless in every way that they can test…

I was told I have been given a gift that only one human has ever had and it was a gift that exceeded what the gods get as armor. They created my suit from the finest materials dug from the core of the planet and refined to the highest level possible. The nano robots were of a new variety that was designed only for a human and not a god. The true power of the suit is unknown and that I should respect and use it wisely…

I guess I stepped into legend category! When I am outfitted in full weapons and armor, I am considered by human standards as being indestructible. But remember that I said human standards. I am going against gods not humans and besides I feel the effect of the suit and swords power as I struggle to keep my sanity at the same time…

As I have said before, “I am getting to old for this!” I need a vacation…

Stryker
The Zombie Source Code…

I popped a CD in and started to listen to Queen’s greatest hits. For a little while I was able to allow myself to remember the past and what life use to be like. It is starring to think that everyone is dead or a Zombie that created all the music in the world. Just the same for everything done at anytime in the world. We are all dead. Well except for a Dogg, Girl and I… (Cross your fingers and hope we find someone else!)

The yard was fenced at this home we found and so Girl was suntanning in the yard and Dogg was playing with his Zombie head. It was as close to real life that life was going to get and would most likely be as close as it would ever get again. For in a few days we will hunt for the underground shelter and crack it open to discover the secretes…

The Zombies are kinda shell shocked around here and they will stay away from me. I kinda went on a killing spree and hunted Zombies like animals. After we stopped and set up base at the brick house, I took shield and sword and walked to the center of the little town we are at near Denver. I told Dogg and Girl to stay. I was in a weird mood and I was not sure myself what I was up to. After I got to the town square and tossed a flash bang grenade. The Zombies that did not know I was there then knew I was there. Hundreds and hundreds of Zombies shuffled up to see what this strange human was doing. For some reason I was mad and getting madder as every second went by. Something inside of me was still seething at the death of Woewebegone…

I did not wait for them to attack, I attacked them. After about 20 minutes of slaughtering Zombies. Something in the Zombies self survival instincts system finally kicked in. All of a sudden they realized that I was a predator and not a prey. I was fully armored and weapons of death. I was not at all an appetizing delicacy and they the Zombies, started to run. I hunted them down. My suit is able to find Zombies like a infrared scope can find a heated human body. I could see them behind walls and bushes. I stabbed my sword through concrete walls and delighted in the screams of the dead dying again. My sword sand and sucked the life force out of hundreds of Zombies. I killed Zombies as a joy and for the first time I heard Zombie screams of terror instead of moans of hunger. I was insane and only stopped after I scared myself to the point of terror…

I stopped killing and stood in the center of the square of the town again and I could feel Zombie eyes glaring at me. The fear was very evident and I think that now the Zombie network understands death is on earth. I realized that what I just did will get back through the Zombie neural network all over the universe and I really think that was my intention…

You could of heard a pin drop and I remember in a red hazy state of mind that I was in. That a leader Zombie that I had not see tried to sneak behind a building. Now in my suit I can move like lightning and I caught him by the back of his neck. I took him back to the center of the square and held him up above my head. I yelled in an amplified voice by my suit and said, “This is what I think of a Zombie!” Then I snapped his back over my knew and then proceeded to snap every bone in his body. Of course he did not die and just screamed like I have never heard a Zombie scream. I even snapped his fingers and toes one at a time. I was worse than the most brutal creature that ever lived. I then screamed at the top of my lungs, “I am coming for you! I am coming for you!” Then I crushed the Leaders Zombies head like a fat pimple and watched as blood and brains spread out on the streets of the square…

Nothing moved and nothing stirred and I walked back to the house and went to sleep, as a Girl and Dogg wondered what was going on…

Maybe I should talk about where my armor came from. The next article after this one is about Armor…

Stryker
The Zombie Source Code…

I blinked and looked around as I realized that the icon that Woewebegone gave me worked and here I was back in the car. Except the shield and sword kinda almost made me wreck as they were really too big in the front seat with me at the same time. That is when Girl screamed and I stopped the car…

She said, “What happened to you!”

I just looked at her like, “What?”

Then I looked in the rear view mirror and realized what she meant. For me I have been gone a year, for her it was instant transformation. My hair was sun bleached blond from never ending sun and I was actually very very very muscular now. My skin was suntanned to a dark bronze and of course I had deep dark purple bruises all over my body that had not healed yet, even though I heal quickly now. For the last year I have been training non stop and it seems that even more to the fact that I absorbed the power and strength of a hundred gods. I did not think about that plus I also have virtually no clothes on as the others had been turned to rags. Dogg just sat in the back seat and said, “Bow Wow!” For I believe that he understood all that happened…

So in Girls eyes I transformed instantly into a muscle bound Zombie killing machine with weaponry to top it all off. I got out of the car and Dogg jumped out with me, as Girl just sat there with a stunned look on her face. I looked around and saw some houses along the road we were traveling. I decided to try to find some clothes, so I walked to the first house and kicked the door in. Before I left Girl I said, “Do not touch my sword if you value your life, for the sword cares not who it kills!”

I found that a big man had lived here and I gathered some jeans, shirts and underclothes to fit me. I also took several replacements, because when my armor is activated, my cloths get shredded…

Girl still sat in the car and got out after she saw me come out of the house. I had also found a large duffel bag in the house and put the shield and sword in it the best that I could. Then I proceeded to tell Girl a story, the same story that I have been telling you the last few posts…

Girl sat there silent and looked at me in disbelief and I told her that she will see things that she has never dreamed of before all this is over. I explained to her that we will be traveling to the stars and that she needs to get ready mentally. We have been chosen to save the Universe and that is that…

Dogg came up to me and put his head on my leg as I set. He seemed to be lost in a trance and I could feel him searching my mind with his uncanny powers that he has, then he opened his eyes after he was satisfied and said, “Bow Wow!” and ran off. I heard a moan, growl and a gurgle and saw Dogg run by us with a Zombie head. Girl had this look of, “Really what am I doing with these two! No – Really!” Then she mellowed out and started to laugh and I started to laugh as I watched Dogg toss the Zombie head up in the air and push it on the ground with his nose…

It was good to be home again and Girl had a laugh that brought cheer to my heart. I am glad she can handle all that is happening. She is tough, but I am waiting to see if her Kung Fu is good enough against mine…

I decided that we would find a good brick house with bars on the windows and make ourselves a home for the night. I needed a good night sleep and I wanted to finish telling Girl and Dogg all that I had done over the last year. Girl still has problems with trying to understand that I have been gone a year and yet only seconds happened on earth…

Okay so tomorrow I will talk about my armor from the planet Xcices. It is really cool…

Stryker
The Zombie Source Code…

That is the beauty of futuristic technology. Technology that may never bee seen on earth as we know it. For right now as you read this the spread of the Zombie virus is accelerating and soon you will wake to a world of death and destruction. I have tried to warn you and if everyone would just get off their ass and do something about it, then maybe the world would be saved…?

An hour ago I held Woewebegone’s head in my lap as he died. We were celebrating today earlier. The celebration was that I almost could be called a student of Kung Fu. I had actually learned something and Woewebegone admitted it. It was an incredible day for me and as he died in my arms, he called me Stryker…

How did he die?

Let me tell you as I look around at a hundred dead Zombie Gods. Let me tell you how the Zombie gods tried to stop me today. They have succeeded in one thing today, they have woke me up and now I will bring the war to them. God with me I hope…

Hours ago earlier today. Woewebegone and I finished what he said was the last lesson, or at least the last lesson that I would get and even though I was a miserable student of Kung Fu and he had seen a 5 year old with more promise than me. He had to admit that I was as helpless and proficient at the same time in Kung Fu, as I would ever be and nothing anyone, even a god could do anything to change that…

Other words, I plain sucked at Kung Fu but I knew enough to be dangerous and Woewebegone hoped that was enough, because he could not change a sows ear into something pretty…

So we had a party to celebrate that I only sucked half as bad at Kung Fu as I did a year ago. Yes a whole year has gone by and Karate made no sense to me, Kung Fu was more dangerous to me than my enemies and Woewebegone grew to love me anyway…

As Woewebegone and I sat and enjoyed life under a cherry tree that he transplanted for me, from earth. I had my eyes closed and was dreaming of getting back to earth, Dogg and Girl. Woewebegone was half way through a paragraph of telling me about how to get back to earth now and Dogg and Girl would never know that I was gone. Time travel is a interesting concept and you have to have a special god that can do it or otherwise time travel just does not happen. Woewebegone was one of those gods. He gave me a icon of a cross and with this icon I could transverse the heavens alone as I needed, to get to one place or another. Forward or backward in time. But it only worked in very rare occasions and would not work if I was trying to alter history. Other words it worked the best going forward in time, but going back in time it was not so reliable. History was the issue…

As my eyes were closed I heard an abrupt stopping of words from Woewebegone and then he started to gurgle and blood came out of his mouth. Then I noticed a huge spear sticking out of his chest from is backside. The spear was from a god as I recognized the etchings on it from my teachings. I looked around and dodged a spear that was thrown at me. It grazed my cheek and left a faint line of blood. That was close…

Woewebegone slumped against the cherry tree and I thought he was dead. I also knew that thinking would mean I would be killed also. I fueled that rage in me at seeing my friend die and then I fueled it some more and bellowed it into a roaring firer as I thought that everyone dies around me, sooner or later…

I saw no one around me as I stood and walked calmly into the cave that we were staying in. We had moved many times over the years to keep Zombie gods from finding us and we thought that this cave would be a very safe spot. Arrows hit the ground around me and spears flew past me. I could feel the shafts and knew that they would not hit me. As I did not plan on staying still at this point and Zombies gods or not are terrible at aiming and I was skilled in perception now. I was sue that they would not get me with simple arrows and spears at this point…

As I stepped into the cave entrance my sword and shield leaped to my hands. Shield in the left hand and sword in the right. The sword was literally screaming a high pitched hiss and I felt the blood lust it so desired. The sword has waited patiently since its inception and has waited for the first battle. The shield took o a gold fleck metallic maroon color and my armor surrounded me in full. I have not had time to tell you about my armor from the planet called Xcices. It was a field trip that we took a few months ago after the sword field trip and I was fitted in a special armor for the gods. I will have to tell you about that next time…

I stepped out of the cave entrance and what stood before me should have scared me to death. The had to have been a hundred Zombie gods and they were ready to rumble. There was no regular Zombies, these were Zombie gods and were fully armored and weaponized. I was too mad to care and I glanced at Woewebegone and knew he was gone…

They charged at me and I heard my heart sing in tune with the sword and as I screamed that I would kill every last one of the bastards. My sword took a life of its own and I felt as well as saw the blade cut clean through armor that up until this day had never know its defeat. Ever blow upon a Zombie and the blade grew stronger and stronger and stronger. It consumed Zombie blood like a dry sponge in hot water…

My shield returned the same force of the blow back to the attacker and repealed then meters away as they attacked. My armor never once gave away, but I could feel the blows and I am covered in many many bruises…

The Zombie gods kept coming and I just kept killing. I was so mad that I was an inferno of hate and destruction. When there was about 20 Zombie gods left. They broke and ran. They gathered away from me. It looked as though they were in communication and right then I wished that I had Ben the Zombie to tell me what they were thinking. (Ben from the last book!)

Then they broke up and all transported back to were they came from. I am not sure how they did it and it looked as if it was a mechanical transportation. just like on Star Trek, except real transportation…

I put the sword up and shield away. The armor went back to its hidden state. I then ran to Woewebegone and saw that he was verily alive. I held him in my arms and he whispered some last words to me.

He said, “When I die hold me tight and do not let go until you know when it is right! For I will send a jolt to you, that will grow as a child grows inside your soul! My death is not in vain and is only the beginning, For you my son is the new King of the realm! Take me now and hold me tight for I die a strong death!” Then he said, “I name you “Stryker the Conqueror!”"

Then he died and as I was realizing that he called me Stryker, I was hit with a bolt of lightning that tore my soul out and then slammed it back inside of me. I felt his power go into me and all that he had became mine. Then as I thought that was bad enough and the pain was overpowering at that. I felt all the power of the gods I had just killed slam me into the ground and around a hundred Zombie gods power of their souls entered me. It was a huge struggle for possession of my soul and my sword which is attached to my soul also was there to fight with me. I won and tamed all other energies and felt a power rush like no other in the universe…

I guess this is going to become the norm for me. Kill a god and gain their power. Ouch, I am getting to old for this…

Next stop home to earth, hug Dogg and Girl, then find the underground bomb shelter and then kick some Zombie ass. Oh yea and next time I will talk about my armor and I will try to write down some of what Woewebegone wanted to tell everyone…

“Stryker the Conqueror!” I like it but I will stick with Stryker. Dogg/Bear might kick my butt if I get too big of a head!

Stryker
The Zombie Source Code…

Woewebegone wants to write the next article so maybe tomorrow he will write. I have finally gotten somewhat into the grove with this Kung Fu stuff and Woewebegone calls me Stinker all the time. I have given up trying to correct him as he does not listen at all and he tells me I am the one not listening…

I am trying but this Kung Fu stuff is like for the birds and other animals. Then toss a little mother nature on top of it all and you have Kung Fu.

Woewebegone keeps smacking me on the head and saying use your brain and soul! Well my brain is bruised and my soul is taking a vacation right now. But I can see that I am getting tougher. Ever since the god of war left me I have felt lost sorta. He was a driving force in me that helped me in times of need. Woewebegone says that it is time to become Stinker (Stryker please!) again and stand on my own two feet. He says that Stinker is stronger than the war god any day and that to survive I need to learn this…

My day starts at 6am and ends at 10pm everyday, 7 days a week. I am doing everything from dishes, washing clothes and clean Woewebegone’s house to practicing Kung Fu, Karate and swordsmanship…

Speaking of swords: Woewebegone took me to a swordsmith on a planet. (Don’t ask what planet and where it was. I don’t know and he will not tell me!) I took my Katana and handed it over to a very ugly, ugly, ugly little nasty dirty man. He had these huge arms as big as tree trunks, but his legs were skinny as a new sapling. Or better yet he had chicken legs. He looked over my Katana, all the while moaning and groaning. Then he ignored me as spoke to Woewebegone, “It is of the gods! Would you like me to create a weapon for Stinker?” Woewebegone nodded affirmative and walked off. As he walked off he told me to stand right there and do as I am told. Period…

So I stood there and the ugly little guy with arms as big as tree trunks came up to me. He looked at my hands and looked in my ears? He looked in my eyes and looked at my chest and back. He poked me and prodded me and even kicked me. Then he grunted and walked away! It was a grunt of satisfied with what he saw…

I stood there for hours and hours. To be honest I was afraid to move. As I stood there I saw creatures of various types and these creatures made Sword Maker look cute and cuddly. So I stayed near the sword maker to feel safer. I was glad I did when I heard a scream and one of the creatures walked by with what looked like a human and was crunching him up for dinner in its teeth. It came to me right then, that Zombies are a piece of cake compared to somethings in the Universe…

As I stood there I could see some of what the sword maker was doing. What I saw was a total transformation of the weapon that I had. I saw him melt the sword I had down in a huge furnace pot. Into that pot of melted sword, he put other pieces of broken swords and daggers. One dagger he tossed at me and motioned for the one I had on my belt. I tossed him the one I had and replaced it with the one he gave me. He stared at the dagger I tossed him and grunted a satisfied grunt and tossed it into the melting pot. Then he stirred the pot and I could see him thinking…

The sword maker went over to the wall in his shop area and he pulled a huge sword down from the wall. The sword was a two handed sword that made the Chinese Broad Swords look small that I used in the past. The hilt of the sword was incredibly beautiful and even in the light of the dim shop it shone out like a sun in the sky. He fitted it into a special mold like apparatus and after some adjustments, he was satisfied. Then he took a stick, that is what it looked like and cut the blade off the sword about three inches from the hilt. Then he tossed the blade into the melting pot. After what seemed like hours more. He tested the melting pot of steel. He kept muttering, ice, water, fire and wind. Over and over he said that…

Then in a process that I will never be able to explain and with the fact that he had a huge bin of ice also nearby. The best way to explain this is that he fitted a top on to the mold that held the sword hilt that he laid in it. He had this huge stone strapped together and set it blade up. Through a hole in the top he poured the steel from the melting pot. This steel was as runny as water but hot as hell…

He smacked on the huge stone mold with a wooden mallet and kept doing that until he had poured all the steel into the mold. Yes all the molten steel went into this mold…

Then he lifted the huge stone mold by a chain and set it into a huge furnace. After the stone was red hot he lifted the stone and dropped it instantly into a huge pool of water. The stream rolled up from the pool of water for a half hour. Then he reheated the stone mold to red hot again and this time dropped it into a huge ice pond. The mold exploded and with that explosion, the sword maker laughed with joy…

After a few minutes he climber into the almost boiling pool of melted ice and came out with a huge sword. It was in a rough form and had to be worked into a weapon yet, but it was beautiful. I noticed that it was heavy and he could hardly lift it. Then I watched in amazement as he transformed the beautiful piece of steel into a work of art that any god would have been happy to have. I was transfixed and as I later found out. It was two days that I stood there watching and it seemed like two hours at times. I could not believe what I was seeing. The sword went from fire to water to ice to bellows as what I understood as the wind. The bellows would incite the flames to higher and higher degrees of heat and when the bellows had made the steel to the correct glow and heat then the ice and water toughened and hardened the steel. When the steel had gotten to the point that nothing could sharpen it because it was so tough and hardened. The sword maker stopped and sharpened the steel for hours more. He used what looked like two huge diamonds and cut an edge on the steel. There was many edges and many different angles to this blade. It is beyond explanation. But he sharpened every edge and ever edge was resharpened in preparation for its final ice bath…

The sword was huge and was one piece now as the process had merged the hilt into the sword as one piece. The sword maker entered the whole sword into the heat and pumped the bellows for all he was worth. I could sense that he was getting very tired at this point as he had worked nonstop. I stepped over and put my hand next to his on the bellows and started to help him pump the bellows. He glared at me then his eyes mellowed as he realized that he needed help and let me pump the bellows. He kept waving at me to continue and I pumped and pumped and pumped. Just when I thought that the blade was going to go liquid and melt away, he motioned for me to stop. With my heart pounding and head throbbing, I looked as he brought the blade out of the coals and fire. It was pure white in the core and had a blue tinge to the edges. He dropped in into a huge barrel of some liquid in the corner. He had not done this before. The liquid boiled away for a half an hour and when it was all gone he pulled the sword out and wiped it with a cloth. What appeared as he wiped the sword was a almost livid blue and white glowing sword. It was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen…

He struggled with the sword and got it over to the table. The table groaned under its weight as it settled on the surface. Then he went to some leather that he had hanging on the wall and cut strips of it off. He then soaked them in oil and then he wrapped the handle. He was an artist of the highest degree and everything he did was to perfection. I stood near him and watched. It was such an honor to see this kind of work being done. He looked at my hands several times and kept working on the hilt. Then he polished the sword with what looked like a diamond covered cloth. He spent several more hours and when he was done, the sword with all her etchings that he had done during the process stood out as a work of art. The etchings looked as clear as photos down the blade of the sword. Then he struggled and carried the sword into a huge anti-chamber. He laid it on a boulder in the middle of the room. Then he motioned for me to get into the room. I walked over to the sword and looked at it. I heard the door close that I came into the room through and then I heard a roar, like the devil himself was pissed off. A huge door opened behind me and as I turned I saw one ugly creature come roaring out from behind the door. I then realized that there was a whole bunch of human type creatures watching from above and I saw Woewebegone amongst them…

Then it hit me! I either was worthy of the sword or not and if not worthy, I would die…

I looked at the door I had came through and saw the little head of the sword maker and he had a look like he wished he was somewhere else right now. I then was brought back to reality as I heard the creature charge and with out thinking. I grabbed the sword with my right hand and swung 180 degrees as hard as I could. The sword weighed a ton and I could feel the tendons cracking in my arm and shoulder, but I was not going to let the sword maker down, not today…

The sword caught the creature half way up his body right through the chest. It cleanly cut the creature in half. But that was not the surprise. As it cut the creature in half it sucked the blood out of the creature and grew stronger. It passed that power on to me and the sword was easily able to be a one handed sword for me with in its realm…

I set the sword down as it actually scared me for a second. The sword laid on the boulder and several guards came out to see about me and clean up the mess. For some reason one of the guards tried to pick up my sword and as he touched it he became a dried up husk and fell into dust. I grabbed the sword and all the guards ran as to them it was a sword of the devil and I have to wonder if that is just possibly true…

The more I held the sword, the stronger I became. After a few minutes the sword was like a dagger in my hands and the blade cut the boulder in half in the anti-room, like a hot knife through butter, much to the dismay of the people who worked in the sword makers shop. I bet they cuss me as they try to replace that boulder…

The sword maker opened the door that I entered the room at and he handed me a sheath for the sword. It was made of a strange looking material and pure black. No decoration and after the sword was in it, The sheath molded itself to hold the sword firmly and unmoving. When I put my hand on the hilt, the sheath disappeared instantly and all there was on my belt was a black square about two inches by two inches. Put the sword near it and it would grab the sword and cover it…

The sword maker bowed at my feet and stayed that way as Woewebegone came to get me. Woewebegone had a strange look in his eyes as he looked at me and the sword maker on his knees. Woewebegone just said, “Watch that sword, don’t cut yourself and you get two days off to rest! Then we are going to work even harder…” Then he said something as he was mumbling, “Damn he might just be the one?”

I followed him smiling…

I am writing this from our little Kung Fu home and tomorrow Woewebegone wants to write in the blog. He seems excited about doing it and has been asking lots of questions about what is the Internet and what does everyone expect him to say? Are they critical of what he would say?

Two days off and I am going to sleep…

Stryker
The Zombie Source Code…

PS: I miss Dogg and Girl also…

We had piled into the car and were on our way to find the underground shelter that the old Eskimo had talked to me about in my dreams and letter. Everything was good until out of nowhere, a super blinding bright flash of light and then a twisting and tearing of metal as the car we were in exploded into tiny pieces. I remember pain, pain and more pain and then blessed darkness. I awoke in a field of brier plants and was alone. My gun, sword, laptop, hand charger, dagger and food were next to me. Very carefully laid so that I would see them as I woke up…

Something has been nagging at me, telling me that this is no longer earth. It is hard for my senses to get a grasp around what is wrong but the gravity seems weaker and I have seen several animals that I have never seen before in my escapades around earth. The first thing that I thought of was a line from The Wizard of Oz, “Toto we are not in Kansas any more!” Or something similar to that…

There is plenty of fresh water and I have enough food to last a few weeks. So I have made ever increasing circles away from my original point of waking up and have been looking for Dogg and Girl. To no avail until today…

As I rounded a hillside today, I came upon a big man! He looked classic Indian from the old days in history and he was towering over me. I felt no malice from him and so I waited until he spoke first. He looked me over and grunted a few times. He had weapons, but did not have them drawn. He looked like he could have crushed me with ease anyway, he had these huge hands that a basketball would have been small in. After a few minutes he grunted again and said, “My name is Woewebegone.” He then said, “The old Eskimo asked me to train you in the ways of animals and elements.” I then blinked and he was behind me. I spun around and he said, “You are about as graceful as a fish out of water!” Then he said,”Why do I get the ones with all thumbs?”

He motioned for me to sit in the dirt and as he himself sat also, I obliged. He cleared his throat and told me a story…

He said that he Woewebegone is the last 100% godhuman in the universe. He was approached years ago by the old Eskimo and a deal was struck between him and the old Eskimo that if anything was to happen to the old Eskimo then Woewebegone would find me (Stryker) and train me in the way of Kungfubegone! So here we are on a planet that is earth but not earth. It is a different plane and is slightly different than my earth. According to Woewebegone there are endless earths, just as there is endless Universes. But not very many life forms believe this story and even the gods do not believe it. He is an original human of the first earth and original earth. He is a god by the power of the original gods that made earth. The Thundergod breathed life into him at birth and his mother was a most beautiful Indian maiden while his father was the Thundergod. The most powerful god in Earths history.

He went silent with that last statement as if to allow it all to sink in…

He then removed the war god from my soul and sent the war god to the stars to fight the war against the Zombies. I remember the war god stood looking at me and out of thin air materialized a blood red shield with elaborate markings on it. He handed it to me and then disappeared. Woewebegone said that shield can stop anything, it is made of the strongest metal in the Universe and there is only one shield like it in all the Universes. He gives it to you because he goes to his death, as the war with the Zombies is not going well…

He said that I will be as myself and have no help or I ain’t worth a pile of beans anyway then. He then said I guess we will see what the old Eskimo saw in me as we train…

He then looked at me with eyes that seemed to be able to search my soul. He said, “Maybe just maybe, you are the best window of opportunity!”

He then continued. Woewebegone told me that him and I are on a time free planet. Other words time has no meaning. A year here is but a second on my normal earth. Here I will be taught the powers of the gods. I will be taught the powers of the elements. I will be taught the powers of the animals. He told me that when we are done that I will appear back in the car as if nothing has happened and all is cool. He has allowed me to communicate by my laptop but only if I allow him to write one article and show him the world wide web…

So it look as though we will have a guest writer, the last godhuman – Woewebegone…

I have been told that we have lots to do and that I will only have time for a couple of articles over the next year. But don’t worry! You will not hardly know that a year has passed, as I will post everything in your time anyway. Pretty cool huh?

Oh one bad thing though! Woewebegone seems to not know what my name is…

He calls me Stinker instead of Stryker…

Stinker? Is he trying to tell me something?

Stryker
The Zombie Source Code…

No one was going to take my two sidekicks away from me…

As I screamed my war cry, I realized that is what I really think of them and that is most likely why I was getting jealous and grouchy. But hey a sidekick can be tough also, but when the going gets really tough, then the boss takes over and right now the boss took over…

I met the demigod Zombie with a full swing of the Katana and he materialized a shield out of nowhere. But even a gods shield has limitations and I split the shield down the middle. You should have seen the look on his face when I did that…

I spun very quickly and I took the dagger that was attached to my belt and sank it between the eyes of the Zombie standing over Dogg. Then I swung back at the demigod Zombie with all my speed and might with my sword. He just got out of the way in time. My shotgun was laying next to the remains of the silo 1 cap and it was about 10 feet from me. I threw my Katana as hard as I could and embedded it through the neck of the Zombie standing over Girl. Then I threw myself toward the shotgun. I rolled over as the demigod Zombie was just about to pounce on me with my dagger and my Katana sword. He was so fast, that it was scary…

But I was just a touch faster at this point and a whole lot luckier. I put 5 quick rounds of 00 buckshot in his chest. That set his motion from forward to reverse and I was able to stand up before he resumed his attack, 45 rounds later a demigod Zombie fell to the ground dead as a door nail. Damn he was tough as all get out!

Dogg woke up and started to run around and then he finished the Zombie with the sword in its neck, and Girl was silent as she sat there in a crumpled up form. She was not as bad as it first looked and nothing was broken, but she was knocked silly and Dogg? Well I have my doubts that Dogg was really knocked out. I think that he wanted his daddy to show someone, who the boss is…

I picked Girl up and put her in a bed. She hugged me and said, “Thank you!” She also said, “Now I know how you survived all these years!” Then she fell asleep…

So I am writing this article and trying to get my bearings as to what the game plan will be. Dogg came in and let me know that the Zombies are gone. I could see the imprint from where they laid in the grass. I was thinking about the bounty on my head. A trillion credits! I do not know what a credit is worth, but a trillion of them means that I might have a lot of guests looking to take my head off and go home with it, to collect some money…

I guess the next post will be the game plan post! We definably have to get to the Underground Bunker that the old Eskimo told me about! I hope Girl is okay!

I asked Dogg about, was he knocked out? He answered, “Bow Wow!” Then I know he smiled…

Stryker
The Zombie Source Code…

So Kung Fu – Smung Doo is what I think about it all… Ouch!

Oh I did inquire as to how all the Zombie bodies disappeared after the huge fight we had. Girl just said that when she woke up from being passed out by the fence post outside, where I had last seen her! That all the Zombies were gone. Dogg refuses to tell me and acts like he does not know what I am talking about. It looks to me that we had a visit from the gods and they cleaned up their mess. That is the only reason that I could figure that Dogg really does not know or he was told not to tell…

I will have another lesson in Kung Fu this afternoon and Girl just looks at me as if I am helpless. In fact she keeps asking how I made it this far against the killer Zombies. Dogg just says, “Bow Wow every time!”

I am starting to get a little bit grouchy and the god of war in me is getting testy! I hope that we can create a ambiance of a solution to this situation that seems to be developing. I have a fat headed Dogg who thinks he is gods gift to Zombie killing and a Girl who thinks her hands of steel is the answer to life…

Maybe I need to retire, just too old for all this crap…

Stryker
The Zombie Source Code…

I sat up way too fast and my head spun internally in circles. I was trying to focus and remember where Girl was when I last saw her. I have to say she is impressive and can kick some serious Zombie butt with her bare hands. I know that she and Dogg saved my life last night…

I am just getting to old for this Zombie stuff…

I struggled to stand and my first attempt was not successful. I hit the ground hard, but the pain actually helped to wake me up. Not that I recommend wakening up that way. I finally stood and made my way to the surface by a maintenance tunnel. I saw that most of the concrete and steel roof on the hatches and doors were ripped open like someone had a huge can-opener and was trying to find tasty morsels inside to eat…

That is exactly what it was and we were suppose to be the tasty morsels…

As I stepped into the sunshine this morning, I gave thanks to God! (Any god that makes you happy!) I gave thanks to who I call the real God – God with a capital G. I realized how close we came to death and the plans of the gods succeeding…

After last night I have come to the understanding that earth is still in the plans for a future and I had better step up the pace and try to save earth and the universe. It seems that earth is the only planet in the whole universe that was allowed to have Atomic Weapons! Yes that is correct…

I am getting ahead of myself right now and I need to start over at when the concrete and steel cap was ripped off the silo number 1. That is where I ended the last article…

Lets begin: I grabbed my sword, dagger and the 50 round full auto shotgun. Girl does not carry a weapon, she says it hinders her style! Dogg changed into a huge bear. Then we went out the same maintenance tunnel that I had left just recently this morning. As we stepped out into the darkness, I realized that hundreds of Zombies and one huge giant of a Zombie were tearing the silos covers off and trying to get the missiles that were housed within…

We happen to have two LGM-30 Minuteman with multiple warheads located at this bunker. The big giant Zombie was concentrating on getting those missiles. He was big enough to actually pull them out of the silo by hands and he was being rather absorbed by the task. In fact after what we though was an attack on us was actually just a missile gathering party by the giant Zombie and he brought friends along to keep him company…

Now maybe you would have said, “Aw just let the giant over grown Zombie with flaming blood red eyes have his toys! What could it hurt?” Sorry but a nuke in the hands of what I realized was a Zombie god could cause a huge issue in the universe…

Then with all the stupidity of only something that a Stryker would and could do! I threw my Katana blade as hard as I could at the back of the Giant Zombie. It embedded itself rather nicely all the way to the hilt in his back and that my friend set off a time bomb of moaning Zombies that decided that we were game for breakfast…

The blade had entered the Zombies back in a spot that he could not get to and so it caused considerable pain. I raised the auto shotgun and started to take Zombie heads off at the shoulder as fast as I could. Dogg/Bear roared and I saw him swell up almost as big as the Giant Zombie and he charged through the Zombie crowd and all you could see was Zombies flying in the air. I saw Bear/Dogg slam head first into the Giant Zombie as I then saw Girl leap frog over three Zombies and landed in the middle of the pack. Zombies were flying everywhere, that little girl could punch… (I was thinking of Bruce Lee!)

As I ran out of shells in the shotgun, I used the gun as a battering ram until it was taken out of my hands and then I pulled the dagger and started to slice and dice some more. After about 10 minutes I lost the dagger as it was embedded in a Zombie skull and they jerked away and I lost my dagger. I then had to resort to hand to hand combat with Zombies. I fought for what was only a few minutes, but it seems like hours and I realized that even though I was strong enough to snap Zombie necks, I was getting weak and worn out after such a furious battle. I was overwhelmed by 10 Zombies and then I saw a flash of Girl power as she came to my rescue and whooped them back from me. She handed me my dagger and said, “Here old man, before before they kill you!” Then she smiled and leaped over twenty Zombies and left me to die by my own accords…

As fast as it started, the Zombies were all dead except the Giant Zombie and Dogg/Bear and the Giant Zombie were an even match. The Giant Zombie had a regular Zombie in each hand and was using them to smash at Bear/Dogg. That just made Bear/Dogg madder and madder. I saw Girl finally show the toll of the battle and she slumped against a fence post and looked as bad as I felt…

I turned my attention to Dogg/Bear and the Giant Zombie. The Giant Zombie had his back to me and I realized that my Katana was still sticking out of his back. Without thinking I ran and leaped up on his back and grabbed the hilt of the sword. Remember I said it was like a living extension of my arm and I drew it sideways through his backbone. I severed his spinal column and he went down. I knew he would heal if I was not fast enough and I proceeded to sever his spinal column with several more swipes, This sword was sharp and nothing stopped the blade. I reminded myself to throw the dagger next time instead of my sword…

Then a flash of light flowed from the Giant Zombies body and Bear/Dogg grabbed the light and pinned it to the ground. The Giant Zombie shrank until it was a normal guy and he lay there on the ground gasping his last breaths. He started to tell me something and I leaned in close to him to hear him, He said, “I am from Illillis, the planet of the Rictern Galaxy, You must destroy that Zombie Entity that controlled me! For only you on earth have the forbidden nukes and they will be back to try again. Keep him from leaving this planet. Thank god you were here as we did not know and you saved the Universe for now!”

Then his life force died and I saw a faint light float to the night sky…

I tuned to Bear/Dogg and with Katana in hand. I told Bear/Dogg hold that thing! I drove the sword into what would be its head and Bear/Dogg let go at my motion. I then sliced the thing down the middle and even though you would not think that you can kill an energy entity, this Katana was not an ordinary sword and it seemed to absorb and destroy the energy Zombie entity like it was a solid being. Then though the power flowed through the sword and went into me. I was thrown 30 feet and hit the ground like a sack of potatoes. That is the last I remember. Well until I woke up and saw Dogg playing with a Zombie head…

Now as I stood outside and look at this beautiful day. I realize that all the Zombies are gone and Girl walked up and handed me my sword. I looked at the sword and realized that thee was something very very special about this sword. Girl looked at me and said, “Not bad for an old grouch!” I just smiled at her and thought if you only knew, as I was thinking at all the Zombies that we have killed over the years…

As I held the sword, I realized that all of a sudden I felt a hundred times better and every cut, bite and tear on me body, healed instantly. I was better than new, I was fantastically great, I was perfect…

That was until Girl tossed me over her shoulder and said it is time to learn Kung Fu and Karate both…

Karate and Kung Fu? What! Do I look like I have written the word “crazy” all over my face?

Oh I guess I better tell you a little bit about Girl. I see that this is part two and I promised to tell some more about her…

It seems that Girl was born in Dengfeng, China where the Shaolin temple is located. No I never said she was an American. I never said she was anything but a girl. She is not from America, she is from China and she is smart, sharp and deadly! She saved my life last night and that allowed me to save the Universe, temporarily…

She does not remember who she is or what she is. She just knows certain things and she gave me a letter that she woke up with after she was left inside the gates of this base. She was left here about a year ago and has not left the compound as it had everything that she needed including food and as as the letter said, after I read it. It told her to stay put, someone will come for her, its words were “He who comes!”…

The letter also said something strange: It said, “He who comes, has been the body guard, but now he who comes, must be guarded by your life, for he who comes, once again is the key to eternity. You must guard, “He who comes!”

“He Who Comes!” It sounds like something from a horror movie!

Dogg just looked at me and said “Bow Wow” and I swear he smiled…

Stryker
The Zombie Source Code!

PS: Time for Kung Fu lessons…