#g'fon

[thequantumlyunstableman]

Semantics with Fanatics 1-7 Apr

G'Fon and I shared a look. It was a look that said 'this was going to be trouble, but what choice did we have'. "Thank you," I told them. "Let's focus on the first place and leave that second bit until afterwards." 

The green men all laughed. "You're funny, brother. As if any of us could make a single action that was not in the name of the reunification of the Single Egg. To do so would be in service of the Many Eggs and to allow many eggs to form would be disastrous. It would bring about the division of our people and of all existence. "We must remain together and we will. We will be together until the Single Egg is reunited, brother. So if we must go find your friend, your friend we shall go find. Together." 

I looked at G'Fon. I could see that sounded as ominous to him as it had to me. "Well, we'd gladly appreciate you helping us finding our other friend, but after that we have some work to do that's not really around here, so we may not be able to help you with that other thing," I said carefully as I didn't want to agitate them. We were a little outnumbered.

"Brother?" the green men asked. "Do you not want to protect the Single Egg? Do you not care for your people and our world?" 

"I care," I told them. "I care about everyone, but there are people in danger and I must help them. There are tyrants and I must stop them."

"Yes. The universe is cracked. Until it is reunited, it will be broken. We must repair the Egg to save the people." 

"Or maybe by saving the people we can repair the egg," I tried. The green men were stunned by this. They needed a minute to digest it.

"Your friends can repair the Egg? They can reunite the Single Egg and bring about the rebirth of the universe? Are your friends the prophesied ones?" 

"Prophesy?" I echoed. "I didn't say anything about prophesy." 

"You said they could repair the egg." 

Oops, I thought.

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The Green Man Group 18-24 Mar

What happened? Where were we? I glanced behind me. There was a large screen showing the outside. I could see our turtle flying alone. "You shrunk us," I said turning back to the people around us. "Why'd you do that?"

"Brother!" one of them said, stepping forward. "We have saved you!" 

"Saved me?"

"Frank," G'fon said, "they look just like you." 

"What?" 

"Brother, we have found you and have brought you home!" the greenish man said coming toward me. "Rejoice!"

"Um..." I started, but then the man hugged me and began to lick my face. "Uh, I might not be...exactly...who you think, I am." 

"Do not worry, Brother," another of the green men said coming up behind me. "We know enough about you to know that you are safe now. We would never allow injury to one of our brothers. It is the way of our people, but you already know this.”

I was about to explain that I wasn't one of his people when G'fon jumped in, "Of course, we know this. You're his brothers. You came to save us and to help us," G'Fon continued, though I wish he would stop. I could see this was going to go well. "And we thank you for it. With your help, with the help of our brothers, we can reach our destination. We can complete our mission."

I wanted to stop him, but it was the green man who spoke first, "You are not our brother," so I had no choice but to save him. I laid my hand on his shoulder and said, "He's my brother." 

"Your brother?" the green men all looked at each other confused.

"That's right," G'Fon. "We're brothers. And if I'm his brother and your his brother, then that makes us brothers. And since we're all brothers here, it means we're all family. And you'd totally take a small detour to help out family, wouldn't you?"

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Circling My Elbow 11-17 Mar

"Like a bug?" G'fon echoed, unhappily. He glanced over at my arm. "How is that going to help us, Frank?" 

"I don't know," I replied. "but I think we'll see soon enough." 

"Because it's already here?" 

"Yes. It's circling my elbow."

"Circling your elbow? That's not very encouraging." 

I shrugged as a I watched the tiny ship move up my bicep. "It's a vehicle with its own propulsion system. If It's strong enough it can get us out of here." 

"Why would it be strong enough to move two regular sized heroes like us?”

"I don't know, G'fon," I said truthfully. "Why does this tiny ship exist at all? Why does this turtle fly? Why are there pirates but no one to stop them? Why were you sent to this world? Why does this stupid place have no bottom? I don't know any of these answers. But the ship is here. This turtle can fly. And you were sent to this world whether there was a reason for it or not. So for all I know that ship, whether its the size of a fly or gnat or a microbe, can get us out of here.”

"Ok," he said. "Tell them to take us home."

"You're joking?" I asked, surprised by his tone. 

"You're telling me there's a tiny ship flying around your arm..." 

"It's now orbiting around my head." 

"That's supposedly so small that I can't see it. And you're trying to tell me that this thing I can't see is going to save us? Yeah, Frank. I'm joking. This whole thing is a joke. Even if there is something there, and I'm not sure there, there's no way it can do anything to us. It sure as grabthar's hammer not going to save us and carry us all the way up to the top."

I start to say something but the tiny ship began to light up. "Wait, something..." and then we both began to glow.

"Frank..." G'Fon said before we were enveloped by a bright light. I blinked as it began to fade and we were suddenly no longer outside or alone.

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New Perspective 4-10 Mar

"About what?" he asked, looking up in the sky. 

"That," I said pointing again with emphasis. "Up there." 

"Frank, there's nothing up there." 

"Of course, there is." I looked right at him. "You mean, you don't see it?"

"See what, Frank? It's just an open sky. There's nothing out there." 

"Huh.” I guess this new body has at least one new advantage, I have much better eyesight because I can see a ship flying by as clear as day and G'fon can't see it at all. "Up there. There's some kind of vessel." 

"I don't see anything, Frank," he said. 

"I know, but it's up there trust me." 

"Fine, Frank. I'll believe you, but what good does it do. If it's too far away for me to see. It's too far away for them to see us."

"No. I think it sees us." 

"And why do you think that?”

"Because it's turning. It's coming right down toward us!" 

"It is?" G'Fon took another look. "I still don't see it." 

"Well, you'll see it soon enough because it's coming our way!" 

"It is? They see us?" G'Fon asked, perking up. "Where are they?" 

"Right there," I extended my arm to point. "Uh-oh." 

"Uh-oh, what? Did they turn? Are they leaving?" 

"No." I glanced at my finger then at the ship. "I think I might've been wrong about the size of the ship."

"It's big? It's very big? So there are a lot of them? Oh, no, is it a giant ship? Are they giants? Are we about to be attacked by giants? Are they going to attack and eat us?" 

I shook my head as I watched the ship fly around my finger. "No, they're not giants. I think..." I glanced at the ship flying around my forearm because I've seen a lot of strange things in my life, time travel, other dimensions, magic, but this was new even to me. "I think they might be really, really small. Like the size of a really small bug."

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Out of the Snake and Onto the Turtle 4-10 Feb

I held tight to his legs as we fell away from the snake, who seemed happy to be rid of us, hoping I hadn't just messed everything up. "Hold tight!" I tried to yell, but we are already about to hit our target. With a thud, we smacked right onto it and then began to bounce off. It was a flying sea turtle and the thing was barely bigger than either of us which is why I had had to hurry. If we were going to hit it, we were going to have to do it at that moment. Who knew when we'd have another shot? Unfortunately, that didn't make it's any easy to grab it.

We smacked hard into the turtle, but he didn't seem to notice. We bounced off her shell and almost went falling down the well again, but fortunately G'fon was showcasing an amazing ability to grab things with his six hands. If one missed, another would hit its mark.

"Get up!" he yelled. 

I began to climb up his legs, pulled myself onto his back, then used his shoulders to step onto the back of the turtle. I then immediately began to pull him up after me. "Good job," I told him when we both safely on top of the turtle.

"Yeah, well, it would've been a lot easier if you had told before hand," he grumbled. "Or I hadn't just been preoccupied with trying not to be eaten." 

"Trust me," I told him. "I've been there. Trying not to be eaten by some giant monstrous thing is just part of the job. The amount of times I've been threatened with being eaten alive is too numerous to count including just a few hours ago when you and your friends did it to me." 

"What I said was to save both of us. Plus, it's not like I was holding you over my mouth ready to bite down. And then I saved you from that prison." 

"Where you put me on a raft where we were then almost eaten by a giant flying whale," I added. "And then you jumped at me and we both fell, but unlike what I did, you didn't have a place for us to land on." 

G'fon sighed.

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Like a Slippery Tree 28 Jan-3 Feb

It was like climbing a slippery tree during an earthquake, but at least the scales proved to be big enough to provide handholds. Now, as long as G'Fon could keep from being swallowed long enough for me to get my way up there, we might be ok. I continued to shimmy myself up there as the giant snake flew away from the island and up into the sky. We were once again in danger of falling down the well. But I had to remind myself to worry about one problem at a time and for right now it was to keep G'fon from being eaten.

I was nearing the snake's head. "Here I come, G'fon!" I called. 

"Hurry!" he shrieked. "I can't...hold on...for much...longer!" 

I didn't know what to do. Should I  try to pull him out of its mouth? Should I try to push open its mouth wider? Should I try to steer it down? I didn't know what to do. I couldn't decided which option was better, except most of them seemed quite difficult, if not impossible. I didn't have much time. G'fon was weakening. Soon that snake was going to swallow him whole. I had to do something. So I elbowed it in the eye.

The giant snake flinched away and made as if to let out a yelp. The snake's upper jaw pulled away from G'fon's hands and his grip gave way. Five of his slipped free and he began to fall, but fortunately he had six hands so G'fon was left hanging from the snake's lower lip. "Hold on, G;fon!" I yelled. 

"What do you think I'm trying to do!" he yelled back. 

I started to try to climb toward him but then the giant snake began to shake. It was almost as if the big creature didn't like getting elbowed in the eye. Whoops. But then I saw something and I knew that this was our shot. I leapt from the giant's snakes head toward G'Fon. I wrapped my arms around his legs and his hands slipped from the snake's mouth. "What are you...!?!" he shouted as we began to fall again.

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G’Find G’Fon 21-27 Jan

"G'Fon! G'Fon!" I yelled. I doubled back to the last place I saw him, but, of course, he was not there. I could see he wasn't here from practically anywhere on the island. I could see from here that he wasn't anywhere else on the island. Them where was he? What happened to him?

I continued searching and calling his name, but I found nothing. I had expected to find some kind of hole that led into the center of the island, but there was nothing. No holes, no pits, no wells. Where could he be? And then I heard something. It was muffled. It sounded far away. There it was again! It was a...scream. For help? I couldn't be sure. But someone was calling. Was it G'fon? Who else could it be? But where was he? I spun around looking for him. I heard the voice again. It was coming from beyond the edge!

I ran toward the edge, fearing I'd see G'fon hanging off it, seconds away from falling, but when I got there, he wasn't there. "G'fon!" I called, cupping my hands around my mouth. "Where are you!?" 

"Frank! Help!" I heard him yell from faraway, but not anywhere in front of me. "Frank!" 

I spun around and saw an object coming toward me. A very long object flying at me. It took me perhaps longer than it should for me to realize it a giant flying snake. I prepared to dive out of its way when I noticed there was something in its mouth. It was G'fon!

All six of his arms were fighting against the giant snakes  mouth, trying to keep it from closing on him. It's fangs were nearly as big as he was. "Hold on!" I yelled. "I'm coming!" 

As the giant snake flew by, I leapt onto its back, but as I tried to grab a grip, I began to slide. I almost slid halfway down the snake's incredibly long back before I managed to grab ahold of its great wings. I held tight as it continued to flap about, zooming through the sky. I had no choice but wrap my legs around its thick torso as well as I could and started climbing.

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No Way Up 17-23 Dec

"You're supposed to think, 'oh, goody, there's my friend, G'fon. He's going to save me from these evil pirates and maybe, just maybe, I can help G'fon find his way out of this crazy dimension because he clearly has no idea how to leave this hell with no bottom."

"Ok," I said, hearing the pain in the man's voice, hearing the vulnerability. "I'm sorry, G'fon. I'm sorry you've been trapped here." I glanced back. The pirate ship was swallowed without a trace and even the whale was leaving us behind. "But now we're both stuck out here. So what are we supposed to do?" 

"You're asking me?" he replied. "I thought you were supposed to be the one making the big rescue. What are you doing here if not getting me out of here?" 

"I'm trying to get us out of here, but I don't know how we're going to do it. I know the portal is up, but I don't know how far up or how far away from it I've been thrown. I don't know how we're going to be able to figure out exactly where it is or how we're going to be able to get there. And I don't know how we're going to be able to find Tam."

"Tam?" G'fon asked, as he held onto me with his four hands. 

"Yes," I replied. "They came with me. I found them on an ocean world, but we were separated as soon as we got here when we were hit by a tornado."

 "Oh, yes, you do have to watch out for those freeforming whirlstorms."

"Well, at least we've finally got some good news. Tam being here means I can track them."

 "You can?"

"Oh, yes. I've spent more than enough time with them to know where they are. Now, we just have to figure out a way to get up there or a way to more at all."

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