Shattered Worlds: Several Journeys of Heroes and Men

This book consists of ten short stories with my own original plots, characters and twists in each short story. The Exiles Orb is about an indifferent and bullied boy named, KB. Who soon gets abducted by an evil barbaric alien race from his middle school to be interrogated about a powerful Orb that the boy once had, but KB doesnt know what or where the Orb is. The leader of the alien race Master Odin keeps KB as one of his prisoners, but he escapes from the prison to meet up with a girl named Kristy who introduces him to a man that can help him find the Orb. Does KB find the Exiles Orb in time or does Master Odin conquer the universe? If you like a horror I have one uniquely scary story for you entitled Curse High. Is a tale about a high school African American boy named Greg who is first being haunted by a demonic spirit that is taking its vengeances out on Gregs friends, family and his high school crush Nina. But first he needs to find out who the demonic spirit is and why this ultra-violent spirit is taking its revenge out on him. Greg soon finds out he must save Nina from the demon. Does Greg save her or does he fail miserably?

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Shattered WorldsSeveral Journeys of Heroes and MenBy K. R. BernardAuthorHouseCopyright © 2013 K. R. BernardAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-1-4817-7485-7Contents"The Last Experiment"......................................................1"The Zombie Chronicle".....................................................13"Exile's Orb"..............................................................24"Possessed Days"...........................................................36"Six"......................................................................45"The Negatives and the Positives"..........................................54"The Psyche Void"..........................................................63"Curse High"...............................................................82Switch.....................................................................118Hell's Getaway.............................................................134 CHAPTER 1"The Last Experiment"It was the last month of the year 2010 and the world's best scientistswere secretly getting funded by a government agency to experimenton high-profile criminals, rookie agents, officers, and soldiers to turnthem into super-heroes, when actually they were being turned intomind-controlled super soldiers to take over the world by their evilmasters. Dwayne was the last person of the day to go through withthe experiment, and of his Black Ops squadron.Dwayne was explaining to the scientists how he got involved withthe Black Ops and why he felt as though he needed to become better,while one of the scientists was strapping him down in a huge metalchair. Suddenly, a giant, glass tube came down on top of him to sealhim and the toxic gases in. As Dwayne was sitting there, he watchedthe scientists press buttons on a machine to start the experiment.While the experiment were going on the back doors of the lab swungopen and he saw a huge ugly monstrous soldier that was supposedto be the result of the experiment. Dwayne was shocked at what wasgoing on in the lab Struggle to break free from the latches he stoppedfor a moment, closed his eyes, and said. "I can do this." Then he liftedup his arms and broke free with super strength as one of the brokensteel latches swung in the air and right through the glass tube.The scientists tried fighting him but Dwayne was too strong.Running through the lab's front door to escape, Dwayne realizedthat he was trapped in a maze with no real way out. "Every turnthat I make is a dead end, but I also have some abilities that I neverhad before." Dwayne said to himself. As Dwayne was running hefinally saw a way out, a giant window protected by two heavilyarmed security guards. He waited until the guards moved away fromthe window, but then he heard a loud noise; and turned to see thatthe window was being sealed with a large steel plate. "This is myonly chance to escape." Dwayne said to himself. He then turned thecorner.The guards yells "Stop right there!" He ran toward the windowand through the guards while they were shooting at him. By the timehe passed the guards, the window was almost closed, but somehow,he went right through the window, falling to his death. About asecond before he hit the ground, he opened his eyes and he saw thathe was hovering above the ground. Then, in the distance Dwayneheard some engines rumbling, military trucks filled with securityguards; and those monstrous soldiers. Dwayne tried to escape, buthe realized that he was still trapped in the maze-like building in asecure bio-dome where they kept different species of trees, plants,and endangered animals. He saw a door that might lead to the way outof the building and he started running to the door. As he was runningtoward he heard more engines rumbling, followed by the loud crashof a tank with a gun turret on top.Crashing through the door he was trying to get to, Dwayne wassurrounded by more and more military trucks. He looked up to thesky and heard a loud voice speaking to him "Dwayne just give up.You can't escape me."He went down to his knees and yelled. "Never!" The bio-domestructure exploded into dust and Dwayne saw his opening. He startedflying out of the bio-dome, out of the building, out of the secure area,and into the hot and humid blue sky like a jet. As he was flying,Dwayne was getting close to the Mexico Mountains. He decidedto go to the mountains to hide out and figure out what other newabilities that he had. While he was hiding in the caves, he realizedthat he wasn't alone. An army of killer possums started to attack himDwayne fought and ran for his life, ripping the heads off and rippingthe crazed possums in two while flying out of the caves.While he was flying, Dwayne heard a voice tell him. "You won'tget away. Ha-ha!" Suddenly he fell to the ground hard. As he woke upand got back in the air, he fled. Ahead of him in the distance he sawa road-block of men, women, and even children being slaughteredin a monstrous shredding machine like they were pieces of meat.One lady was screaming for her life, as she was the next to be killed.Dwayne looked on, shouting. "Stop this madness please! I don't wantany more innocent people to die because of me."The soldiers stopped just as they were about to put the lady inthe machine, saving her life. "Thank you very much" said the lady,running back to the car she got pulled out of. The soldiers grabbedDwayne, and hit his head with a metal pipe; just for fun. They puthim in the truck and drove back to the lab to do some nasty tests, tosee why Dwayne didn't change into a monster and how he could hefight the mind control. Dwayne woke up to see that he was locked ina very dark cell, sitting there with regret "Why didn't I fight them offto save those people?" he thought.As Dwayne got up to see if he could get out of his cell, a veryloud noise that made the cell shake like an earth-quake. Then a muchlouder voice spoke. "This is your master. Dr. Spellbound I told youthat you can't escape me. I have implanted your brain with a trackingchip. That's how I could find you." Dr. Spellbound kept talking toDwayne about becoming his slave and how Dwayne was forever hiscreation.Dwayne dropped to his knees. "Get out of my head, now." he saidto himself, putting his hand inside his head to take out the trackingchip. As Dwayne saw the tracking chip with so little blood on it, heblacked out in amazement that he was able to do that without makinghim bleed out instantly.A few hours later, Dwayne finally woke up with one securityguard looking straight at him As Dwayne got up from the floor, theguard slid a plateful of nasty—looking food to him, but Dwayne wasstarving and didn't care what the food looked like as long as it filledhim up. The guard sat down and took off his helmet revealing that hewas actually a young beautiful woman, with long black hair that wentstraight down the back of her security suit light brown complexion,green eyes and soft, pink lips. "I'm Victoria; I'll be the one breakingyou out of this hell hole today.""Why are you helping me and why should I trust you. Aren't youone of them?" asked Dwayne."Can you please just trust me? I'm doing it for me. Please let's gobefore the real guards' come."Dwayne stared at the cell's bars and by doing so to turned theminto dust Victoria and Dwayne walked out the of cell's block to rundown a long hallway, ending at a cross section. "Just follow me. Iknow the way out of here." said Victoria.Just then twenty guards appeared out of nowhere to chase Dwayneand Victoria through the corridors. As they ran away from the guards,Victoria almost fell to the metal floor, but Dwayne grabbed her handand started to run even faster staying well ahead of the guards. "Stopright here Dwayne. This is our escape door." said Victoria."You can go in first." he said but she pushed Dwayne throughthe small circular door and slid down a long slide, following rightbehind him. Dwayne could see a large black armored jeep with. "Theresistance has arrived!" on the side of the truck as he crash landedon the hot desert ground. The driver yelled. "Hurry up and get intothe truck. It's getting very hot out here and I'm not talking about thesun."Dwayne and Victoria made their way into the truck, but notwithout seeing a large band of armored trucks and tanks blocking theway out. As the driver was closing the armored jeep door, Dwaynesaid "Leave the jeep door open.""Hell no, I'm not keeping the jeep door open." responded thedriver."Please, just trust him Papa" said Victoria."Okay, he's got one chance, but I'm still going to drive the hellout of here." responded Papa.Papa started to drive at full speed in reverse, Dwayne lifted up hishands and suddenly some of the tanks and armored trucks were beingflung on top of each other like tiny toys. Then he opened his mouthand made a large, vibrating shield around the jeep to protect all ofthem from the large explosion they were about to drive through. Aftera few seconds of driving through the smothering smoke and flames,they got out of there safely. Papa drove through the empty desert."Victoria, thanks for helping me escape." said Dwayne."You have the abilities to get rid of Dr. Spellbound's evil plans forworld domination. You just needed someone to bring out your truepotential." said Victoria."I have to ask you something how are you involved in all this?"asked Dwayne."My father, Everhart, used to work for Dr. Spellbound. He wasa scientist researching Dr. Spellbound's injections of liquid form ofthe super-soldier toxins, but when my father found out that the toxinswere going to be used for evil, he stopped his research and hid someof his documents somewhere around the world. Dr. Spellbound usedhis greatest weakness against Everhart." answered Victoria."What was Dr. Everhart's greatest weakness?" asked Dwayne."Me! My father sacrificed his life to save me and to keep theworld safe for a little while."Papa pulled up to the entrance of a ghost town, turned off the jeepand exited. He, Dwayne, and Victoria walked down a long, dustyroad to get to a large barn, where a horse was still inside. Victoriapulled on one of the tools to open up a gigantic underground doorbeneath them. When the door finally finished opening Victoria andDwayne started to walk down into the hole. "Are you coming Papa?"asked Dwayne."Yeah I'll be right there. I wanted to smoke my cigar."As Dwayne followed Victoria, he watched Papa reach into hispocket to take out what looked like a cigar; Dwayne guessed that thecigar was a transmitter that was tracking the location of the resistancehideout. Victoria pulled on Dwayne's arm for him to follow her deeperunderground. As they finally reached the bottom of the deep hole andstarted walking down a long, rocky hallway. Dwayne warned "I thinkwe need to get out of here, because your friend Papa just sold us outto Dr. Spellbound."Victoria laughed. "That is the plan of the resistance, to lure Dr.Spellbound here with, Papa being his fake mole for Dr. Spellboundthen boom, we kill him."Dwayne and Victoria continued through the long hallway andfinally came to a monstrous cave filled with tons of explosives anescape door and a long table with an advanced computer on it. Victoriawalked up to the computer to armed all the explosives and the cavestarted to shake like it was going to fall. Dwayne saw Papa walkingvery slowly into the cave having been beaten up by Dr. Spellbound'ssuper-soldiers. "We need to get out of here fast. They are going totried to bury us down here!" said Papa.As Dwayne helped Papa walk faster to the escape exit, Victoriaran to the computer to put in the passwords to detonate all the bombsin the cave. The cave started to shake even harder, as large rocks fellfrom the top of the cave. "Watch out, Victoria." warned Papa.As she tried to run to the escape door, Victoria fell. A huge rockwas about to crush her, when Dwayne raised up his right hand andstopped the rock from falling on her. Dwayne moved his hand tothrow the rock against the cave wall. Victoria stood and ran to theescape door Victoria, Dwayne, and Papa ran through another long,rocky hallway to get to a gigantic tank to drive up and out of the cave.Everyone got into the tank, Papa once again getting into the driver'sseat. He drove off through the hallways to get back to the entranceof their hideout.Within seconds, the detonators reached zero, and all the bombsexploded. Dwayne, Papa, and Victoria made it out of the ghost townsafely, while most of Dr. Spellbound's guards, soldiers, and the ghosttown were burned to pieces. As Papa drove back into the dusty, hotdesert. Dwayne said. "There's no resistance huh.""No shit." answered Victoria "It was a trap to kill off as much ofSpellbound's security as possible, and maybe even kill Dr. Spellboundin the process as well.""Like that is really going to happen." said Papa "The man isunstoppable. We were lucky enough that his command tank gothit very badly with the explosions. He might be out for a while."A few hours later the bright red and orange desert wasteland grewdark. Victoria had fallen into a deep sleep and Dwayne went to thepassenger's seat of the tank, sitting right by Papa to talk to him for awhile. "How do you fit in all this?" asked Dwayne."Remember that road-block that you came to, where you savedthat woman's life? I was one of those people who saw his kids getslaughtered by those things back there, but they set me free onceDr. Spellbound got what he wanted. I pledged to my sons that I willaverage their deaths/" answered Papa."How did you two meet up?""I found her stranded outside of old Mexico City/" said Papa."lying across the ground, dying of thirst. At first I didn't bother tolook at her, since I already lost my two sons, but Victoria lifted upher head, staring at me to come help her; I grabbed her and carriedher to the nearest bar to get some water. That's when she told me herstory. After an hour of talking, we decided to get our revenge on Dr.Spellbound. Victoria and I came up with a brilliant plan for Victoriato sneak inside of Dr. Spellbound's facility to help you escape andlure out Dr. Spellbound in enough time to kill him. The second partof our plan was to get back inside his facility, for Victoria to searchfor Dr. Everhart's last entry in his video journal. She thinks that herfather left her a clue to finding his last research documents on thetoxins that are hidden somewhere in the world."As Dwayne started to doze off, Papa continued driving throughthe desert to get back to Dr. Spellbound's main research facility tosneak into Dr. Everhart's laboratory. As morning came, Dwayne wasawakened by the bright red sun. "Hey, kid, I forgot to ask you a veryimportant question. Why did you want to be involved in that crazyexperiment?" asked Papa."I don't understand what you mean" responded Dwayne."I'm asking you what made you do it.""I did it because when I first was accepted to the National Guard,I believed that I could save everyone from any disaster that couldhappen. When I went on my first mission to save a family from ahuge flood that had them trapped inside of their home, as I got to thesunken house, it was halfway underwater. I broke inside the houseand saved almost everyone, but I didn't save this little girl namedTammy, because she was trapped under the kitchen table. I tried mybest to get her out of there, but with the weight of the table and theamount of water rushing into the house, we both would have died. Iswam fast out of the house, grabbed onto the helicopter ladder, andas I climbed in the helicopter, the whole family stared at me withdisappointment, despair, and even hatred that I couldn't get theirdaughter out from under that table. After the mission, I quiet theNational Guard and went back home to Texas, feeling bad aboutwhat had happened. I was obsessed with the fact that I needed to getstronger.""You can't save everybody all the time.""True, but this was my very first mission.""Where does the experiment comes into the picture?""As I was checking my e-mail one day, I came across an e-mailthat was sent to me by Dr. Spellbound, advertising about how he canmake me the strongest person with this so-called safe experiment.With all the lies about how there's no negatives effects. At first Itold myself that I don't need some experiment to make me a betterperson, but the advertisement haunted me for a day, and I decidedto go for it."As Victoria woke up, Papa was driving right to the front door ofDr. Spellbound's facility. Two snipers were standing at their posts,shooting at the tank, thinking that their bullets were going to piercethrough the armor. Papa stopped the tank and opened the door;Dwayne sat in the tank for a minute. When he finally got out, thesnipers' heads started to swell up and then exploded. Dwayne ranthrough the gigantic metal door, making it easy for Victoria andPapa to get into the facility. As a small army of security guards andsoldiers surrounded Dwayne, Victoria and Papa aimed their guns,ready to shoot. In seconds all the guards and soldiers started to fight,shoot, and turned on each other. Dwayne was controlling their mindssimultaneously. (Continues...)Excerpted from Shattered Worlds by K. R. Bernard. Copyright © 2013 K. R. Bernard. Excerpted by permission of AuthorHouse. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.

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