An hour before school was supposed to start a man and two teenagers huddled at the edge of the school under a tree.

“Ok here you go 2 packs of ciggies and here is a bottle of my finest homebrew.” Wolf said as he handed the goods over.

“Peter Jacksons? Come on man you know we smoke Winnie Blues.” No 2 complained.

“Yeah well tough luck kid, Winfield Blues were all sold out. PJs were all that were left.”

“Yeah that’s coz they taste like shit.” No 2 whined.

“Well wash it down with some homebrew you ungrateful shit.” Wolf snapped.

“It’s cool bro. PJs will do, and this homebrew better be as good as your last batch. That shit was stronk.” No1 said.

“Ohh don’t you worry this is certainly strong.” Wolf said smiling.

Fufufu this is strong alright. I mixed in enough laxatives to make an elephant shit!

Wolf watched with keen eyes as he saw No1 slowly unscrewed the lid on his homebrew.

“Excuse me Gentlemen.” A voice suddenly interrupted.

Wolf’s head whipped around and saw a tall stocky man in a black suit standing to the left of him. Behind him were several other men in suits and Wolf also noticed they had earpieces. Wolf instantly changed his body language as he stood taller.

Fuck am I busted? I can’t go back to jail!

“Excuse me sir I will be with you in a moment.” Wolf said addressing the man in the suit before turning back to No1 and No2. He carefully positioned his body in front of the suits so they couldn’t quite see the kids.

“Ok boys I hope I have made myself clear. While I am only the Janitor at this school and I am not your teacher or your parents, you need to understand the dangers of smoking and underage drinking. You have your whole lives ahead of you and I believe one day you can achieve great things. That is all.” Wolf finished.

While the suits couldn’t see he mouthed the words ‘Two more packs of Winnie Blues’, but No1 just grinned and held four fingers up.

Son of a bitch.

“I’m glad we can all agree on this.” Wolf said nodding slowly. Turning around he nodded at the men in suits.

“Gentlemen, I bid you good day.” He said as he began walking off in the distance. A thin line of sweat had broken out on his forehead as he began to speedwalk.

The stocky man in the suit watched in surprise as Wolf walked off at super speed.

“Wait…sir!” he yelled.

But Wolf just kept walking faster. He looked over his shoulder and saw that at least half the men in suits were starting to run after him while the others had gathered around the kids.

“I ain’t going back!” Wolf yelled as he began to sprint.

“Stop!…..sir…STOP!”

Wolf broke out in a full blown sprint as he exploded in motion. He didn’t dare slow down by looking behind him as he stared forward in the distance at the boundary fence 100m away. As his arms and legs pumped a familiar feeling came over him and his running technique got sharper. Before he was Corporate CEO, before his fall from grace, he had been the fastest runner in high school.

The ground disappeared under his feet as he bounded forward like a cheetah and strength exploded from the deep core of his body as he got faster and faster.

Hahaha eat my dirt mother fuckers!

The boundary fence got closer and closer and was only about waist high. Wolf already had a plan firmly in mind, he would leap over it in one huge jump and before the suits could catch him, POOF, he would be gone like a fucking magician.

“MUAHHAHAA!!” Wolf screamed as he approached the fence, but something distracted him at the corner of his eye. He turned his head slightly and saw there was already a suit waiting there. He looked like a young kid dressed in his daddy’s suit, but he gave off a strange scary aura that made Wolf’s hair stand on end. The kid waved his hand slightly and something small and black appeared.

Is that?……..Wolf thought as he exploded into a full jump.

Two electrodes shot out and travelled through the air. They had been aimed at Wolf’s chest but he had leapt a microsecond after they had been fired. As his body travelled up in the air the electrodes stabbed through the thin fabric of his pants and into latched onto his left nut. Seconds later the electricity hit and he seized up into a flying ball of flesh as he hurtled through space and landed face first into the fence.

Captain Joysich stood with the taser in his hand looking at Wolf’s unconscious twitching body and bloodied face. A wet patch began to spread in Wolf’s pants as he pissed himself and the acrid smell of urine filled the air.

Joysich wrinkled his nose as he tapped his earpiece with his finger.

“Target acquired. Stand down.”

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Wolf awoke later and experienced a strange discombobulation as he didn’t realise where he was.

“Whaa that fark?” He mumbled as the words came out funny. His mouth felt sore as he rubbed it and realised he was missing a tooth and the insides of his mouth were all cut up.

“Welcome back to the world of the living Mr Wolf.” A smooth voice asked.

Wolf opened his eyes wide and realised he was sitting in a dark room in a chair. Across from Wolf sat the prick that had tasered him and in his hands was the two packs of ciggies and the bottle of homebrew.

Wolf’s spirits sank as he saw all the evidence had already been collected.

“I want a lawyer.” Wolf said.

“We don’t do lawyers here Mr Wolf.” A soft velvety voice said. That was when Wolf realised there was more people in the room. He looked left and saw No1 and No2 and deeper in the shadows was a woman.

“You can call me Ms Price and the man across from you is Captain Joysich.”

“We didn’t do nothing.” No1 complained.

“Yeah it was just like we explained, Mr Wolf he kept trying to give us alcohol and ciggies if we touched his private parts. He’s a full fucking Pedo I swear to god.” No2 said.

“Yeah sometimes he just takes it out and waves it at the kids at school. He’s a totally sick fuck.” No1 added.

No2 took in one step further and started to break down and cry as he held his face in his hands.

“One time he…..he….made me rub oil on his bald head in exchange for 50 bucks. I did it because my mum is sick and needs the money. When I rubbed the oil in he kept telling me how special I was.”

“Hohoho kids and their imaginations these days.” Wolf coughed. “I’m not sure who you people are but I was in the process of confiscating the items in front of you from these boy this morning. I am sure one of your men can attest to this fact.”

“You think I give a shit about this crap?” Joysich asked he grabbed the homebrew. He flicked the lid off with his thumb and proceeded to scull the full contents in one go. Then he pulled out a cigarette out of one of the packs and lit it up. Grimacing he turned the pack over so he could see the label.

“PJs? Why the fuck would you buy PJs?”

“That’s what I told him!” No2 said.

Wolf didn’t respond as he looked at the empty contents of his homebrew and tried to keep his face expressionless as he thought about the amount of laxatives he had blended in.

“Let’s get things straight. First off we know you’re all lying pricks. Second we don’t give a shit about this petty stuff. We injected you with a blackout compound when we acquired you at your school. Right now you have been transported to a Top Security installation owned by the Australian Department of Defence for a very specific purpose. What I am about to tell you is known by only a handful of the world’s governments, in simple terms it will change your lives forever.” Joysich began.

Wolf and No1 and No2 tensed as he began speaking. The words were simply too outlandish to be believed, and yet they couldn’t deny how they had been brought in.

“Perhaps its easier to begin with the ‘show’ rather than the ‘tell’. See that wall over there? Go touch it.”

Wolf stared at Joysich like it was a trick question, but No1 and No2 didn’t hesitate and went and touched it.

“Solid rock right?” Joysich asked as the boys nodded.

“Right now you are in an underground facility. This rock is 40 meters thick. Watch carefully.”

Joysich walked up to the spot on the wall the boys had touched. He formed his hand into a fist and lightly punched out.

BOOM!

The whole room slightly shook and a fist sized hole appeared in the wall.

“Holy fuck!” No1 screamed.

“Not possible.” Wolf said as he eyed the hole.

He walked over and felt the wall and the dimensions of hole. His eyes had seen it happen but his mind couldn’t accept what he had seen.

“How….i don’t understand.” Wolf whispered.

“Sit down and listen and I will tell you a story. It’s a story about you and me and our ancestors. It’s the story of the human race and this world, which is our prison.” Joysich began.

Wolf and the two boys sat across the table with all their attention on him as the story unfolded.

“The anomalies were first discovered in 1966. Russian scientists were the first to detect the strange radiation from a fixed point within Russia. They began experiments. Soon America, Australia the European powers and various other countries also detected fixed point anomalies within their own territorial borders. It was in 1970 that they cracked the first part of the problem. We learned that bombarding the anomalies with particular types of radiation caused a quantum fluctuation. The true breakthrough though happened by accident. An American researcher accidentally got too close with an anomaly after a radiation bombardment.”

“He disappeared only to remerge from the anomaly two years later. He returned with powers that defied imagination and a story that was hard to believe. It was then that we discovered the Beanstalk. The anomaly is actually a locked door, and on the other side of that door is the beanstalk. In the beanstalk their are engravings that were left by our ancient human ancestors that tell a story.”

“It appears that an untold time ago human beings were the most dominant species in the universe. There is a type of energy in the Universe that humans are particularly adept at manipulating. Countless other species attacked us to seal our potential by creating a pocket universe. Imagine a string of beads, each bead on the string is a world and the string is the beanstalk. At the top of the beanstalk is the entrance to the real universe and at the bottom is Earth. Each world on the string has less and less of this universal energy like water squeezed out of a sponge.”

“The Earth has virtually none. It is a prison to keep us out of the rest of the universe and unable to access the true primordial energy of the universe. Our technology allowed us to break the first seal, travel up the beanstalk and access the next world. The energy in the beanstalk and the world’s above are rich and transform our bodies. That hole I left in the wall is nothing. I could level an entire city on my own if I chose too. That is the kind of power that is our inheritance.”

“But not all of us can receive it until we break the next lock and more energy can begin to flood into Earth. Only a tiny portion of our planet has the potential to enter the beanstalk. Its a combination of DNA, mental aptitude and a host of other factors we do not understand but know how to test for.”

Wolf’s mind was reeling as he thought about the testing machine at the school.

“You mean the testing machine at the school?…….” Wolf asked hoarsely as he recalled how he attached it to his wang.

“Yes…..exactly that.” Joysich said as his face wrinkled like he was recalling a bad memory.

“We started with random blood tests before progressing to more sophisticated measures. The type of score one gets on these tests determines their potential to enter the beanstalk. In basic terms it correlates to sensitivty to the universal energy which we have begun to call mana.”

“If you can enter the beanstalk then you learn how to harness this power and return to Earth as something of a god. In fact, right now you are sitting in the location of the Australian entrance to the Beanstalk, and if your curious to see it we can go have a look. What do you say gentlemen, are you interested in a tour?”

“Who the fuck wouldn’t be!” No1 shouted as he exploded out of his seat. “Sign me up Joystick.”

“It’s Joysich” The Captain responded with a frown.

“Joybitch, Joystick same diff.” No2 chuckled.

Great the fear has worn off now these fuckers will see what these two punks are really like. Wolf stroked his non existent beard as he considered.

The story sounded like total bullshit but he couldn’t explain the way Joysich punched a hole in wall. Plus he felt like there wasn’t really a choice. There was really no way they gone to all the trouble of bringing them here just to tell them a story and show them a magic trick.

“Sure why not. Let’s take a look at this beanstalk.” Wolf said.