The Hike (Epilog)

[Jaypat]

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I rampaged through the woods. Nothing could stand up to me. I ripped giant trees out of the ground, roots and all. I smashed boulders into pebbles with my bare hands. There wasn’t anything I couldn’t do. I felt amazing, so much freaky strength and power surging through ever bulging inch of my ten foot frame. I had to stop and flex. Huge boulders of flesh exploded out all over me, so hard, so huge; I was unstoppable.

And suddenly I was there. I thundered into the open by the shore of Lake Abenaki. Everyone was there; Eric, Johnson, Gezbecky, the Hickman twins, Becker, and even Moorcroft, his head angled slightly to the side. And they were all seated cross-legged around a giant figure, way more massive than any of the others, myself included. He had to be a least 15 feet tall, and so impossibly muscular, he looked like he could level a mountain. It was Shutz, or what used to be Shutz. I could tell by the red hair. But it wasn’t Shutz anymore. The expression on his face was nothing like the good natured, air headed kid I knew. This expression meant business, and in a hard and horrible way.

“At last, the final piece has arrived,” the giant said. For an instant I wondered what he meant, but then I understood. Somehow I carried a piece of this thing’s essence within me, just like all the other scouts. It was that piece that had compelled me to come here, so it could reunite with the rest of itself. But how had this happened?

“I see we are confused,” the redheaded colossus said. “The Transference Module did not function as predicted.”

Somehow, I understood what it was saying. I had been… He had been escaping from another dimension, his spirit, his essence encased in the small metal globe we had encountered. The globe, or transference module, was supposed to transfer his essence into the first compatible life form that found it, and then mutate the life form into an awesomely powerful being, so powerful he could conquer the Earth all on his own. But no one had anticipated that there would be more than one compatible life form around when the globe was activated. Shutz, who had been closet, received the biggest charge from the globe, and gotten the majority of the thing’s essence and most of the mutating force. But splinters of this thing had broken off and been transferred into each of us, along with some of the biological altering energy that had caused us to grow so large. He wasn’t whole now and he wasn’t as strong as he was supposed to be.

“It is an interesting sensation,” it said, “feeling myself spread out over so many large and powerful bodies. I am a part of you all. Let’s see how much. The Shutz thing was naked, like the rest of us. It reached down to its giant member and began stroking it. Slowly I watched it grow larger and thicker, longer and harder. Full and erect it was reaching gigantic proportions. And then I felt it, the charge in my own member, now so large soft, it was unrecognizable to me. It, too, was growing large and erect, and it felt awesome. The sensation of pleasure coursing through me was familiar and yet so much more intense, filling me with mind blowing sensations. It was so much, I could barely stand it. I threw my head back and let out a moan. It rumbled through the night air, load and low. Almost instantly it was joined by other moans. I looked around and the other scouts were nursing gigantic hard-ons, too. All of them were stroking, just like him, just like me. We were all connected. I realized I was not only feeling my own arousal but also that of each of the others, and it was overwhelming.

Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder; it was Eric. He pulled me to him and kissed me. His body was hard and strong, and I felt it meet mine, which was equally hard and strong, and suddenly we were fondling, stroking, rubbing each other, enjoying the feel or our massive bodies, each against the other. And then he was inside me. What the fuck was happening? The sensations were so incredible, so intense, if it went on much longer I was sure my brain would fry. And all around me the others were doing the same. They had all coupled up and were going at each other like starving animals with their first meal in a week. And in the center of us all was the Stutz-thing, alone but stroking like mad, obviously caught up in the sensation just as much as the rest of us.

Then BANG, I climaxed, and Eric climaxed and the Stutz-thing and all the rest of us. It was one simultaneous shared orgasmic experience. It was an earth shattering occurrence. I could feel each of my synapses exploding like a mini fireworks display, rocking me to my core.

When it was over, I felt empty, as if the absence of those incredible sensations left me hollow. I slumped to the ground, as did everyone else, everyone not already on the ground, that is.

The Stutz-thing looked barely affected. He looked over us all and smiled. “That was diverting,” he said. “But now, I must be whole again, or as near as I can be.” He looked over at Gezbecky and scowled as he said the last part. I guess when Gezbecky killed Sodderberg, a part of the Stutz-thing must have died with him.

Then Eric stood up and started walking toward the Stutz-thing. I knew where he was going. Part of me wanted to stop him and part of me didn’t. There, sitting on the ground in front of the Stutz-thing, was the small partially melted metal globe that had started it all. Eric walked up to it and placed his hands on the sphere. It stated to glow and he started to scream. Slowly I watched Eric begin to shrink. He got smaller and smaller until he was just plain Eric again. Then he stumbled backwards and slumped to the ground.

I ran over to him. “Are you all right?” I asked.

“No,” he said. “I feel small and weak..” Then he leaned back against a tree and stared off into the distance.

One by one all the kids went up to the globe, took hold of it and shrank back down to their normal proportions. They all looked drained by the process. Somehow I knew what was happening. The Stutz-thing was combining all the fractured pieces of itself in the globe.

And, just as I had changed last, I was the last person to touch the globe. I felt in intense pain as part of me was ripped away from my body and sucked into the small metal sphere. And then I felt my self dwindling, getting small and weak and in a couple of minutes I had been reduced to my regular size. I stood there, slightly staggering, determined not to move, to stay where I was and see what happened next.

Then the Stutz-thing leaned over and placed its hands on the sphere. It started to glow and I realized that in order for the Stutz-thing to be whole again, it would have to place all of itself inside the globe. It stopped glowing for a second and I thought I saw Stuz’s eyes clear. I took a chance. I ran up and kicked the sphere away from him. At first he kind of mindlessly grabbed for it but then he stood up, grabbed his head and started stumbling back and forth.

“What happened? What’s going on? Holy fuck, I’m huge!”

Stutz was back. We had a chance. “Stutz,” I yelled. “Kick the sphere!”

“What? What sphere?”

I head the sphere start to whine. It began to glow with a pulsing light. “Kick the sphere, Stutz! Kick it into the lake!”

“You mean this?” he said pointing at the sphere.

“Yes, I mean that. Do you see any other spheres around here, fuck head?”

“Hey, dude, did you know that you’re naked?”

The sphere began whining louder and pulsing faster and faster

“Kick the fucking sphere. Kick it now!”

“Ok. Jesus, keep your pants on.” And Stutz lifted his massive leg and kicked the sphere. Up, up it sailed right out into the middle of the lake. I heard a distant plop as it sank under the waters. “There, are you happy?”

“Yes,” I said, breathing a sigh of relief, “extremely happy.”

Stutz, apparently, didn’t remember a thing about what happened, so the rest of the guys and I had to fill him in. I actually learned a thing or two. Turns out it was the twins, acting under the orders of the Stutz-thing, who had destroyed our vehicles. I guess he didn’t want any parts of himself getting too far away. We told Stutz the whole story—except the orgy—for some reason none of us decided to bring that up. And just as we were finishing, the lake started to boil.

“What’s that?” gasped Gezbecky?

“I don’t know, but maybe we should get out of here,” said Josh/ Jacob.

But no sooner did he say that then this horrible creature burst out from the water. It looked like some kind of mutant catfish. It was about the size of an SUV, its whiskers had become tentacles and it mouth was lined with razor sharp teeth.

Guess who.

Almost before we saw it, one of its tentacles had grabbed Gezbecky, and cracking like a whip, tossed him into its gaping jaws. Gezbecky screamed something awful but two snaps and it was over. The rest of the guys ran screaming into the woods.

“Wait,” I screamed toward Stutz. The huge kid stopped and looked back at me, obviously terrified. “It’s just a fucking fish!” I screamed. “Pull it out of the water!”

“Are you kidding? Did you see those teeth?”

“Yes, I saw its teeth! Have you seen your arms?!” Stutz stopped and looked down at his massive biceps and his gigantic pecs and grinned. “One fucking cat fish filet coming right up!” he turned around and strode back toward the fish. One of its tentacles shot out and entwined itself around Stutz’s leg and yanked. Poor Stutz must not have expected that because it managed to pull his leg out from under him and down he went.

“Help!” he cried as the giant fish slowly dragged the behemoth towards its waiting jaws. I grabbed a big stick, ran forward and started beating on the tentacle that held Stutz, but I wasn’t having much effect. Suddenly another tentacle lashed forward and wrapped itself around me. I was a lot bigger than Gezbecky was so it couldn’t just pop me into its mouth, but I was being pulled there nonetheless. I dug my heels into the earth to slow the progress, but I knew ultimately it was a loosing battle. Of course, it might be a loosing battle for me, but maybe not for Stutz!

“Dig in!” I cried.

“What?” he yelled.

“Dig your heels in!”

Stutz looked over and saw what I was doing and then he started doing the same thing. Only when he did it, he stopped moving forward.

“Pull back!” I cried. “Pull it back out of the water!”

Slowly, mammoth quads bulging, Stutz began pushing himself back from the water’s edge and pulling the creature with him. Suddenly the thing let me go as all of its tentacles leap forward and lashed themselves around Stutz.

“Help!” he screamed.

“It’s ok, Stutz. You can do it. Pull it out of the water!”

Then Stutz gave a mighty heave and pulled the creature almost all the way out of the lake. It let go of him and started flapping around in a frenzy, obviously trying to get back to the water.

“Grab it, Stutz,” I yelled. “Don’t let it escape!”

Stutz grabbed the creature by one of its tentacles and proceeded to try and pull it further away from the lake. The thing thrashed around wildly and Stutz wrestled with it for a good ten minutes, before it finally lay still.

We stood there staring at the giant fish, hardly able to believe it was dead. One by one the other kids emerged from the woods and stood by us staring at our fallen enemy.

“What are we going to do now?” asked Becker.

“How about a big fish fry?” said Johnson.

“Ewwwww,” said just about everyone else.
“Well,” I said, “we’d better find a way to get home.”

“But we’re naked,” said Jacob/Josh.

“Leaves and vine, guys,” I said. “Are we boy scouts or what?”

I gave the guys a basic description of the kinds of plants they should look for and they spread out in groups of two or three to find them. Of course I warned them to stay in sight of the lake at all times. It was then I noticed that Eric was missing.

“Eric!” I called. “Hey, Eric!”

Then I heard splashing from the lake. Eric’s head popped up and he started swimming for shore.

“Eric, what are you doing? We’ve got to get out of here.”

“Yeah, ok,” he called back. “I’m coming.” He swam over and as he was wading to the shore, I could see that he was carrying something. It took me a second but then I realized it was the sphere.


“What the fuck are you doing with that thing?” I said, slowly backing away.

“Calm down, dude. I’m not possessed or anything. I was just thinking, you know, since that thing it dead,” he said nodding at the fish, “maybe we could get the rest of this thing working.”

“You want to travel between dimensions?”

“No, dude, not that part of it… The other part,” he said, subtly flexing his arm.

“Are you serious?”

“Sure,” he said. “Why not?”

“That’s an alien machine. You don’t know how to work it.”

“It’s kind of fuzzy, but I pretty sure I remember,” he said, touching the side of the sphere. “All you have to do is press, here, here and here.” And suddenly the sphere whined into life.

Just as the white light exploded and sent me into unconsciousness, I remember thinking, “Oh well, here we go again.”

[arpeejay]

:-)

<-- NOW waiting for Epilog Part 2!

xoxo

Richard

[wolfotehmoon]

Poor Gezbecky. Nice, though!

[chocomus]

great!
awesome epilogue

[philat99]

Great epilogue. Now for a sequel of many chapters!!!
Mike

[nvb2]

Thank you for sharing the LONG awaited epilogue.

[Jaypat]

I'm gald you guys enjoyed it. Frankly, I'm a little surprised anyone even remembers the story. It was my first on here and it was originally posted almost two years ago.

[redroger11]

Jaypat; I hope you take this as the compliment that it is meant as...
I read the last words of the story and started chuckling. There's still a big smile on my face. Wicked story, Man. And now I'm positive that you will...
Keep Writing.
Yeah!

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