The Dimension Travel Trilogy: A Three Part Science Fiction And Fantasy Novel (20 page)

battle. I dealt with much more battles." Tom said, "But, before we fight, I must open the door." Wilma said, "What do you mean, you just want to open the door?" Tom said, "I want to let the bird out."

Wilma shouted, "NO!" She froze and was stunned at the action Tom had committed. The bird said, "Squawk! I am free!" The bird flew off of his perch and said, "See you sucker. Wak! Shut up old hag!" Tom said, " Now what will you do?" Wilma's eyebrows crinkled in anger. Her red hair increased the red color, and her eyes started turning red; she was breathing heavy. Tom asked, "Are you angry?"

Wilma answered, "Am I angry?! Of course, I am angry! I am livid, mortified, and disgusted!" Wilma screamed! As she screamed, she ran all the way to the door. She asked at the top of her voice, "How dare you release that animal!" Tom replied, "Oh, I just wanted him to go free." Wilma said, "Well, you took away a treasure of our restaurant. I am so getting a frying pan to hit you." Wilma really retrieved the frying pan from the kitchen and went after Tom.

She said, "You're going to be cooked." Tom sarcastically asked, "How can I be cooked when I am too big for the grill?" Wilma said, "I don't mean cooked in that sense!. I mean cooked in the sense where you'll be in a lot of trouble!" Tom laughed and asked, "What kind of trouble?" Wilma said, "Trouble with yourself! Now, you are gonna get it!” She attacked Tom with the frying pan. She came at him, she started to hit him. She missed and slammed her hand on the frying pan and said, "Aw! Drat! You and your friend are nothing but bilge rats that belong in the dumpster."

Tom replied, "Oh really? For hitting me, I should throw you in the dumpster!" Tom lifted her to put her in the dumpster. Wilma pleaded for mercy and she was saying, "No, no, no. Don't do it! I know I was a little mean." Tom replied, "Let me think. Uh. No to the no to the no to the no! And Oh yeah - I
will
throw you into the dumpster." Wilma had enough audacity to comment on his phrase.

She said, "What a stupid, stupid phrase." Tom said, "Time to go you wretch." Wilma was screaming, "You're not gonna do this! Are you?"

Tom said, "Yup." Wilma replied, "I thought we would be friends."

Tom asked, "Why would I be friends with you?" Wilma said, "I was just saying that for mercy."

Tom said, "You are not going to get any mercy because you didn't give me any mercy." Wilma said, "I am going to use my weapon." Tom stopped and asked, "What kind of a weapon is that?"

Wilma answered, "You will see it now!" Immediately after she'd said that, she bit him. Tom screamed. The scream woke up Iron and he started to gradually open his eyes. Approximately five seconds later his eyes widened. Wilma asked Tom, "Well who's the strong one now?" Iron walked over to the back of the kitchen. He said to himself, "You know something, Iron, Should you defend him?" All of a sudden, an angel popped on his shoulder and said, "Iron defend him."

Then a devil popped on his other shoulder and said, "You don't want to get arrested. Do you? Your old friend turned on you remember." The angel said, "Forgiveness is the ultimate key to a good life. Do it!" Devil told Angel, "Shut up!" Then, the angel replied, "No, you shut up." All of a sudden the angel and the devil left the scene.

Iron said to himself, "I'll listen to the angel." Iron retrieved the frying pan and came over to Wilma and Tom's altercation. He came over to Wilma.

Iron told Wilma, "Say, lady, turn yourself around!" She turned herself around and Iron hit her with the frying pan. He said, "Good riddance." Tom said, "Why did you rescue me?" Iron answered, "Because I felt I had to. But I am still not your friend." Tom said, "Let's go to the Corporate Building. We both need jobs in order to get some money." Iron and Tom started to walk up Goodluck Street through the woodlands. Iron asked Tom, "What happened?" Tom said, "Long story. Let me not tell you."

Iron replied, "I insist. Tell me." Tom said, "Okay. I released that crazy macaw which increased her anger. She came over to me and got the pan that you had taken to knock her out. I told her that she'd go to the dumpster, and I was going to throw her into the dumpster in the back. I was doing just that when she bit my finger.

Than you woke up and knocked her out."

Iron said, "What a short story! I guess some cashiers can be witches." Tom replied, "She looked like a witch!" Iron said, "No. She is a wicked witch." All of a sudden a siren noise was heard in the distance. Iron Steel said, "Are they looking for me?" Tom said, "I don't know. But we better run up the hill this instant. They might."

The two "friends" started to run up the hill. As they were running up the hill, they were becoming weaker and the siren noise started becoming strong.

Iron asked Tom, "What do we do?" Tom said, "Slick your hair back and pretend to be another man." They slowed down on their jogging. The cop car arrived and one of the officers asked, "What are you two doing?" Tom answered, "We're going to work. What is wrong officer?" The officer asked, "Have you seen this man? His name is Iron Steel." Iron answered, "No." The officer asked, "What's your name?" Iron nonchalantly answered, "Bob Jackson." The officer was fooled by that alias name, and said, "Okay, if you find him, and you get any more tips, come let me know." Iron replied, "Okay." The officer said, "See you later."

The officer driving the car turned the car around and went all the way down Goodluck Street and returned to Westward Street. Tom said, "That was a close call." Iron said, "You bet your sweet life. That was definitely a close call. Hopefully we'll never get into close calls like that ever again." Tom said, "You're right. Thanks for working with me. However, we are still not friends yet." In the distance partially obscured by the trees was the massive Cascade Resort Company Corporate Building.

Tom said, "We are here." The two of them ran over to the Corporate Building. Iron asked, "Should I knock on the door?" Tom answered, "Yeah!" Iron knocked on the door. I came over to open the door. I asked, "Who are you two?" Iron said, "I was here a few days ago. Do you remember me?" I answered, "You are Iron Steel and Tom Jackson. I remember you two. You were the ones that made me travel through different dimensions with that crazy aPhone of yours." Tom replied, "Well, if we affected you in any way, shape, or form, we are very sorry.”

I said, "Don't let it happen again! What do you two need?"

Iron said, "We need job applications and a tour." I opened the door and said, "How about I give you a tour." Tom said, "That sounds like a great idea!" I started to give the tour, "Gentlemen, I welcome you to the Cascade Resort Company Northeast Regional Corporate Building.

Now-right now-we are in the executive building. This building houses all the executive offices. The executive offices are upstairs.

Down here is where we will start off. The first door to your right is the mail room. Folks, this is Cardon, he is our mailroom man. He sorts all of the mail out and distributes them to the proper work stations. In this office, there are multiple boxes. The boxes were stacked up like shelves on a book case. But the boxes were cluttered with mail and cramped in a corner of the office. The top box showed words that said Executive Offices (Level 2.) Below that was the box that showed the words Phone Operation Hall (Level 1, Suite A.) The last box showed the words that said A and C Buildings. The A and C

Buildings were the animation and Creative Engineering Buildings.

From there, I described the stacked boxes of mail to the duo. Then I exited the room with them.

I told them, "Straight down the hallway is the reception room or the phone operations room. Or as some like to call it, Suite A. This room is where all of the telecommunications takes place for the Northeast Regional division of Cascade Resort Company. I opened the door and told them "This is the most interesting office in the world."

Iron said, "That place is amazing." I said, "We're going to leave this building and return here later. Now, off to the animation building!" We went off to the animation building which was adjacent to the Executive Building. The animation building was a square building that had three different facades. The front facade was a brown brick. The right side facade was stucco and the left was a stainless metallic tile. In the front of the building were sprawling gardens.

As we approached the building I said, "This is the most artistic looking building that one could ever see. This building is a huge building. Now, guys, if you are wondering about the three different facades of the building, the reason we put three different facades on the front and sides of the building is that it shows the creativity within Cascade Resort Company. We shall go inside and see what it's like." I ran inside the building and the two caught up. There was one narrow Technicolor hallway. I came in and asked the two people, “Do you want to know the reason why there is a Technicolor area?" Tom answered, "Why, sure I do." I replied, "This area is a place to represent how color changed the animation industry. Let's go into the animation room." I opened the door.

I said to Tom and Iron, "Welcome to the animation room.

There are thirty five desks as you can see. These animators make one scene from every animated feature or an animated short. Followed by that, the scenes the animators create get taken to the Edit Bay, then to the screening room for all of the supervisors to critique the movie.

From there, the scenes are returned to the Edit Bay for further improvement. After the supervisors give the A-Okay, it is off to the movies, and the feedback from the film comes back from the box office." We continued on over to the Computer Animation area. We exited the door of the two-dimensional animation room and went across the hallway to the three-dimensional animation room.

When we arrived in the doorway in the three-dimensional animation room, I said, "This is where they make three-dimensional animation features. Because, 2D animation is so obsolete, 3D

animation is now the norm of the twenty first century. 3D animations are the second most popular movies of the twenty first century. The first will always be the live action films. So now we shall go to the live action area." The live action room was a black room with a green screen. There is abundance in the computer systems in the movie room. I said to the two, "Wait. We can't go in. " I explained to them "when there is a red light on, that means that there is a film in progress and you can’t enter. Unfortunately, since it is on, we can't go in. Let's leave the building now." All three of us traveled down the hallway and exited the building. We continued to the Creative Engineering Building.

I said, "Now, it is time to go to the true creativity of Cascade Resort Company. This is called Cascade Resort Company Creative Engineering." This statement was said as soon as we arrived at the Creative Engineering Building. The Creative Engineering Building had a metallic facade which symbolized that everything is made of metal in our company. There were words that were colored on the building. The words that were shown were Imagine, Design, and Innovate. “Imagine” had a red color; “Design” had a white color; and “Innovate” had a blue color. These colors were to represent the patriotism of our company, to indicate we are a national company, and show we bring jobs to America. I described the facade of the building to the duo and I told them, "This is my favorite building at the Corporate Headquarters. Let's go in."

We ran into the building. The building was very modest looking in its interior. The first room we entered was the robotics room. I said, "Rich will give you a tour of this room." Rich asked, "What are your names?" Iron answered, "I am Iron Steel and he's Tom Jackson. We are both here to seek employment." Rich replied, "If you have a degree in engineering and robotics you can work in this area of the shop." Iron said, "I would like to see the contraption you're building." Rich said, "I am building the pneumatic 654SJEJSP." Iron asked like a smart aleck, "What kind of a language is this?”

Rich answered "This is how we identify our robots. These are not your typical robots. These bionic machines will be audio animatronics or AA's in short hand. These robots will be coated with a rubber skin layer and will be able to talk." Tom replied, "That's creepy." Iron asked, "Where are the robots?" Rich answered, "They are shipped off to the site for construction." He continued, "These robotic life-like machines are featured in our attractions. However, they don't look like this though." Iron said, "Thanks for the tour."

Rich replied, "No problem.”

I was waiting for them in the large hallway. I said, "That was a quick tour. Were there any robots in there? Iron answered, "No, they were already shipped off to the site." I said, "Very well then. Let’s go into the next room. The next room is the ride vehicle room. Because nobody is there, I guess I will give the tour of this room. Just give me a second to get out my key and we shall get started." I had taken out the key out of my pocket and said, "The ride vehicle room is the room where we make all of our ride vehicles for our attractions." We walked over to the first ride vehicle.

I said, "The first ride vehicle is the Omni mover vehicle. The Omni mover vehicle is featured in many “dark” rides. This is a very slow moving vehicle and it is used in many of our attractions at our parks as well as attractions at other parks that are non CRC or Cascade Resort Company." I asked them, "Shall we continue?" Tom answered, "Yes." I said, "Okay then, the next vehicle we will be heading over to is the JII ride vehicle. The JII ride Vehicle is a ride vehicle that moves a little faster than the Omni mover. This vehicle is featured in many of our scientific themed attractions at our parks." We continued on the tour of the ride vehicle shop and walked over to the third ride vehicle. I asked, "Does this look like a hovercraft?"

Iron answered, "Why, yes, it does." I said, "This is far from a hovercraft. However, it looks exactly like one. This ride vehicle is what we call the trackless ride vehicle. This ride vehicle depends on computerized signals in the floor. The computerized signals dictate where the ride shall go. This kind of a ride vehicle is mainly used in our interactive laser attractions." I continued on the tour over to the spaceship ride vehicle. "In our company, we call these vehicles spaceship vehicles because these vehicles obviously look like spaceships. However, they are what you call the motion simulation vehicles. This vehicle was invented in the 1980's at Sci-Fi Land in Anaheim and the attraction for this vehicle is called
Orbitrono.