Indian Hill 1 by Mark Tufo

Author:Mark Tufo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: alienscience fictionapocalypsealien invasiongalactic empirealternate historymilitaryhorrorthrillerabduction
Publisher: Permuted

CHAPTER 24

Journal Entry 19

My next opponent, Number 74, Shawn Timmins, Albert Timmins’ older brother, was one of those rare individuals that prove that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Especially when the cover weighed in excess of three hundred and sixty pounds. He was about 5’10” or 5’11” and fat, not big and bulky, just plain fat like his brother.

If I ever got off of this ship, would I be able to go to the Timmins’ household and look their mother in the face? And tell her what? That her boys had died valiantly at a stupid alien contrived event? Shawn was huge like his brother, but all similarities stopped there. He moved effortlessly and with a precision that a figure skater would have been proud of. I had no clue how this incredible bulk of a man had made it this far. I watched all of his previous clashes and discovered that I was going to be truly saddened by killing him. He was one of the few contestants left that was worthy of living.

By all accounts, he never let one of his competitors suffer needlessly, and it appeared that the women were relieved when he won. They obviously knew their fate with him would not end up with torture and death. However I might feel about him, I still had to look out for number one, or in this case Number 2. I deserved to live just as much as the next guy, and I was not going to let those feelings disrupt my ultimate goal, which was to get off of this ship and give these aliens some payback.

This man was blessed with a grace that belied his enormous size; he must have lulled all of his competition into a false sense of security. He had to have a lot of muscle mass to move that much weight around that fast. He, unlike me, did not make it to this level on luck alone. He was skilled, but I found a chink in his enormous mass. And I planned to exploit it for all it was worth, and in this case that meant his life.

My competition was in two days and I did aerobic exercises almost that whole time. I had to regain some of my former strength. I said nothing more than the precursory niceties to the girls. Deb had withdrawn from our makeshift family, she did little more than eat and sleep. I felt concern, but it was buried deep, it was more like a back burner type of concern; if I wasn’t actually looking at her I didn’t think about it at all.

By the time my front door dematerialized I was able to, as promised, take a piss on my own. Also, due to the expert care of our hosts, I felt almost seventy to seventy-five percent back to my normal self. Not as high as I would have liked it to be, but a lot better than dead, I reckoned.

For once

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