DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW?

BY: PUNISHER


The shambling creature stopped and surveyed the bleak landscape.  It strained to remember what its purpose was.  “Who am I?”  It could not remember.  All it knew is that it craved revenge.  Someone had done this to it.  Changed it into some unspeakable monstrous beast-thing and had eradicated his people.  And yet it could not remember who had done this thing. 

The answer might come in dreams, as it had in the past.  Dreams of the lizard men in the Lost Land…dreams of a marvelous white ship…and dreams of unnamable evil. 

It slept. 

And dreamt. 

The dreams came, as they always did.  And this one agitated the Shambler in his slumber.  He could almost remember a terrible battle.  Had he been there?  It was almost as if he was witnessing the fighting through a haze.  Hairy beasts attacked a lone man with a sword on a hill, and in the background cannon blasts from flying machines lit up the tar black noon sky. 

  The creature now knew.  It had been there!!  Why couldn’t it remember?

  The Shambler awoke and raged against the foe that had done this!  It screamed, “I will have my revenge!!!”

 

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The parking garage was dimly lit, but then that is precisely why it had been chosen for the meeting.  A man standing in the shadows lit his cigarette signifying that the meeting was to commence.  The second man walked towards him.   

“That’s far enough.” A voice like ice stopped the second man.   

“Enough with the mystery crap.  We both know who we are.  What do you want?”  

“It’s not what I want Agent Mulder, it’s what I can give you.”  

“About what?”  

“I know you’ve been looking into the Roswell Incident…”  

“And you have answers?”  

“What are your questions Mr. Mulder?”

  “Why was a prominent archeologist brought to Roswell in 1947?  How is Miskatonic University involved and why are they still researching it in the 90’s? What is the Necronomicon? Or the Book of Eibon? Or the Pnakotic Manuscripts? What does the code-name REELIEUH stand for?  If you can answer those questions then you’d really help me out.  Because nobody else is talking.”

  “I know you trust no one Mr. Mulder, least of all me.”

  “You haven’t given me a reason to trust you.”

  “I’ll give you one now.  If you never listen to anything else I say, hear what I have to say now.  Do not pursue this investigation.  You’ll find its pursuit may drive you insane.  This is bigger than MAJESTIC.  Walk away.”

  “It’s another cover-up then?”

  The Smoking Man stamped out his cigarette.  “You’ve been warned Mr. Mulder.  This meeting is over.”

  The man melted into the shadows leaving Fox Mulder with more questions than answers, and more determined than ever to discover the truth.   

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