Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:00:46 -0700
From: Steelo64@msn.com
Subject: Angels Wings 31

Yeaaaaah I got responses and I was so psyched so I just going to into it
and we will see what I get from u guys and gals again.  I am sorri for
those of u who wish Lance and Shane would have stayed together but things
happens and things change.  What is one way now can easily change and then
back to normal so watch out...

Lata and love
Shawn ..Steelo64@msn.com

(Playing Craig David Walking away in the background)

(Shane)

I smiled to my self knowing they probably just found out I was gone.

I didn't mean to scare them, it was jus that I needed some time to myself
and just had to walk away. I had to laugh at my train of thought cause
Craig David `Walking Away" was coming on and I just had to sing along with
it.

I was on my way driving my rental to a showing of a house the was up for
sale by a bank because the previous owner couldn't complete it when his
wife divorced him. The neighbor hood was said to be very wealthy with it
property values. It was even protected by one of those little electric
fences.

Driving up to the gate I saw my Trish's brother and my families retail
house advisor. He was very young for his profession but was good at his job
and was close enough to us as a friend to see past the money. He was also
one hella computer whiz and I knew he would help out with my final plans.

I beep at him and he waved back and punch in the codes and rode his car
in. We drove all the way to the back to where it circled and sent you back
to the entrance.

We drove in the drive way that went up a bit of a hill and drove past the
front door to the side of the house where there was a five car garage. Damn
this guy must have gotten robbed in court if he was going to build
something like this.

"What the hell do I need this many garages for?" I muttered to my self.

We parked on the side of the house and got out. "Hey Shane!! Still looking
good as ever." Did I mention I had the biggest crush on him when I first
saw him and him being bi I thought we would live happily ever after.

"You too, look at you." That was such a understatement. He was a major jock
with a killer body, a computer tech that also works restate. Could you ask
for anything more. Standing at 6'2" with brown hair and green eyes with a
healthy surfer tan.

I talk to him as we went to my trunk and pulled out my palm pilot. "Do you
have the schematics." "Yup." He pulled out a palm pilot and hooked directly
to mine and loaded the plans and diagrams for the house. We walked through
and as I did I place where things would go with the house design program I
had on my palm pilot.

So far I didn't see anything wrong with the house until we reached the
back.

"Where the hell is the wall?" I stopped dead in my tracks. "Yeah well that
is one of the little problems I told you about." I walked into the next
room and saw that it wasn't just wall to that room but the whole back of
the house.

"Ok small problem would be a couple of short in the wiring or messed up
plumbing but a wall?"

"Oh come on, I know how much you like customizing things that's why I
picked this one...."

Crap I was trapped. I knew how I worked and I did love the location and the
house basic structure with a few modifications I truly love this place. It
was just me and one other house on the end of the street even thought it
seemed a little close the land that expanded from the house made it look
really nice. In the back was a huge whole dug for a pool and a little bit
of land that seemed to be set aside for a garden, but when I say little I
mean half a football field so bear with me. And even after the pool the was
a bit of land that then over looked a valley.

"You know you want it." Kyle smiled breaking me out of my trance. "Oh I
guess I'm sold but, is their anything else wrong with the house." "Well
some of the wiring is missing but that should be it."

He reassured me.

I decide to get the house but I was going to get some more special help to
finally make this my own.

Going through and making up some final details on my laptop I closed the
deal and put up a temp wall and bought the house with cash. No need to let
Remy find me early.

I called our Texas firm and talk to my chief of engineering. The Texas firm
of Valdez Inc was our robotic division and thought that giving them a field
run was a good way to kill 2 birds with one stone.

"Hello V-Tech Jim speaking how may I help you sir or ma?"

I totally had to laugh at his all business persona.

"I don't understand how you make from robot dogs to flight suits but don't
find a need to use caller ID."

"Shane man.........whaz up I haven't heard from
you in lords knows how long."

Jim was another cool tech that had a great imagination and was extremely
smart. Jelani hired him and I totally trusted his judgment with
electronics.

"I know and I sorry it's just I've been trying to find myself and now I'm
extremely busy."

"I'll say you have a killer cd out...and right now I hear your on
break."

"Wow someone seems to have been doing their homework."

"Yup yup you know me." So what do I owe this call?"

"Well I was thinking of taking some of the new toys out for a test
run..."

"Ohh this sounds like fun can I play too?"

"I wouldn't have it any other way."

Jim arrived two days after the call making it a weds day. While I had
waited for him I took time to get a hotel and bought some stuff for the
house for later delivery with Kyle.

He pulled up with a huge truck loaded with crates.

"Ok from what you told me you want some major excavation and steal work,
but that sounds like a demolition project."

"I know it seems strange but trust me."

"Oh by the way this is my friend Kyle he will be helping here to."

We got to work cleaning up a bit I just wanted to make my adjustments and
then I would have someone else do stuff like painting and tiling.

While we did that Jim programmed a spider looking bot with cord coming out
of its end to run around in the walls repairing and hooking up the rest of
the wiring. Also with all the toys unloaded I asked him to go to the
computer store and get three large computer shells and fill them with the
best shit he and Kyle could find. I knew that would keep them busy for a
while.

When he had finally left I started to play. I took a invention called the
duster to the unfinished basement. After making some adjustment to two of
the spiders I set up there objective it my laptops where I was controlling
them from.

They were to basically dig a parameter right under the pool and then from
each corner dig 50 ft down and do the same there connecting it all like a
wire frame. It took them like a hr and a half for them to do that. Then
bring the duster down which was heavy as a bitch.

I had the spiders plant eight transceivers in the eight corners of the
box. I hit the power button and let it do it's work.

I'm going to explain the working of the duster to hopefully help the
picture. The idea of the duster is to use sound as a demolition tool but
also so that it isn't harmful to surrounding environments. So using a
transceiver that emitted a magnetic barrier that bound the transceivers
together with the magnetic barrier so all the sides with now like a closed
box surround by a magnetic field.

The magnetic field uses it charge to carry sound along all they way around
the box but also vibrating a certain tune so that other harmonics were
canceled when they tried to pass making it sound proof.

Turning up the power I could see the dirt and rock start to shift and shake
a bit. It started with the smaller grain and worked it's way up as rocks
started to crack and shatter at the shear power of focused sound. I left it
on for about a hr and surmised that everything was crushed as much as it
could be that left it all about just fine silt.

Using a huge chuckie cheese wide air hose I started pumping it outside into
the back of a sand removal company that was happy to take it off my hands.

I smiled triumphantly at my self for doing what I had to do, proving that
my product was ready for the market, and finding a new revenue.

So when I was done I basically had a cavern under my pool and was getting
rid of the last of the dirt when Jim and Kyle had come back.

"What'd you do...?" They both asked reminding me of `Dumb and
Dumber' when Jim Carey said it.

"He he nothing ." I smiled knowing I was going to crack. "That bad?!" Jim
asked in a exasperated voice.

"Please in not that bad." "No your worst." He countered. I showed him to
the basement and what I had done. All he and Kyle could do was let gravity
totally take their jaws and shake their jaws. After 10 mins of doing that
Jim finally snapped out of it.

"Ok how about you tell me what your trying to do?"

I inhaled deep because of all my excitement and started explaining.

"Ok since I was little I loved X-men. I had the toys, shirts, comics, games
I mean I had it all." I inhaled again. "Well one of the things they had in
their basement was called the `danger room'.

"WHAT ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!" Kyle shouted. So basically from that
point on as he rambled all I heard was all snoopy style.

Until about. "Wha-wha-wha-wha-whaaa-whhaaaaa so do you understand what I'm
saying?"

"Yes totally I don't know what I was thinking. So your gonna help me
right." "Urgh why do I even try." He asked looking up.

"I started talking to Jim more and Kyle finally spoke up. "Ok I'll help."
Ha ha he cracked. I ran upstairs pulling them with me and grabbed my box of
comics and ordered up three pizzas. We had spent the whole night reading
X-men and Uncanny X-men.

(Sometime like three in the morning)

"Geese doesn't Wolverine know magneto can tear him apart with his power?"
Jim asked taking a big bite out of a slice of the third XL pizza.

"I know right." Was all I and Kyle could say as we were lost in our own
books.

We finished about 7 the next morning and decided to go to the hotel and
rest up and take sometime to think about this. So we slept until 4 and got
dressed and went to the mall and diner to clear our heads for the drawing
board.

About Friday night we had some good details that we pulled for the comics,
cartoons and websites.

Jim had called in some more stuff from the Texas plant and I had to find a
lot of steal and cable. We had to put a car sized hole in the pool base it
fit in some of the support beams and stuff. Kyle had some college buddies
along with Jim that I flew out to help out with everything. This was
costing a pretty penny but the product was unreliable. Three weeks later I
had a fully functioning Danger room with viewing booth the hung in the
center.

(If you don't know what it is like and want more visual try watching X-men
on Kids WB on Sat)

This place was bad ass. It had a holographic morph shell which was
basically a plate on the wall that was a big TV screen that display any
environment programmed. But with a series of piping, heaters, fans, and
speakers I could make it the freezing tundra with -90 degree temps, the
Desert with 190 heat blast or a tropical paradise.

Also a invention from V-tech a holo emitter that could make very real
looking characters. So when we made a beach scenario we could make it seem
it was a party or just ours. So if you think about it we Star Trek
Holo-Decked my basement.

We even had fun scanning ourselves into the computer and having them
walking around. The only thing was they couldn't leave the basement. `Yet'

So with that done I left it in hibernation mode with turned it into my
regular sized basement that could only be activated by voice command.

Closing off that part of the house I stared working on the upstairs the
temp wall was replaced by a real one with a nook added to the kitchen.

The computers the Kyle and Jim had bought were massive and ran the houses
security, verification, entertainment systems. Along with touch screen room
to room communications. I had the door install a hand print scanner that I
thought was bad ass.

I had set up my room the way I liked it. I had rooms for my brothers if
they wanted, and decide to leave them as they were for them to fix up.

I had a couple of shops to still up like the dojo downtown, and some more
computer stores. It was time that our training had begun, and with my war
room we would be ready for anything.

It had been a month since I moved in and my neighbor still wasn't home
. Kyle and Jim had to head back to their respectable jobs so basically I
was bored and alone. SO one night I stole away home and picked up Amari
from the house. And left the guys a note

"I'm still ok and I got Amari now, I'll be back for the rest of my pets
later. P.S. I mean you guys...."

She was so happy to see me jumping and licking all over me, She also was
getting big a hell. I had to buy a new cage to get her through the airport.

We had gotten home and she was all over the place. She even saw through the
fake basement and was barking at that door for a while.

Finally I was all settled in and still even with Amari bored out of my
mind. Most of the people in my neighbor hood were all old and even thought
I talked to them I couldn't hang out with them. So finally after hours of
begging I convinced Jim to come and visit for a weekend. He always brought
out the kid in me so I went to Toys R Us and loaded up on like 7 guns and a
massive amount of water balloons.



1 Luv & I'm Out

S.Collins a.k.a Steelo