the ruling gods must meet their fate to, the sun turns black, loki grins in an ocean of blood, the brother turns to brother and plunges his word into his heart, the family no more, axe sword and shield, each will have their day, a wind age will fall and wolf age will rise. mercy will be the wages of sin as odin weeps the sacred tree is felled and the light goes out once again.
the new age will have no gods.
they said, you won't need weapons in this war, but i never go anywhere without my moon powered ray gun by my side, it was fully charged and felt good in my hands, like an old friend. i came out the pod and was greeted by the ambassador, she was in full regalia, complete with a fanfare of public servants. i'd never been one for official ceremony pomp and circumstance.
the ambassador began the formal greetings and i held up my hand, 'please ambassador let's cut through this ritual and get straight down to business i will need some of your finest marijuana, some pure water and access to the mainframe system.'
she began to protest, the futility bled from her face when i showed my authority. she nodded, the gravity of the situation was clear so i added,'i will also need the woman you called lara, i believe she is your planets chief scientist.'
i sat in the transport pod, looking through the information they had provided. the atmosphere had changed overnight as vast amounts of sulphur had leaked into the air from underground, a third of the land mass had shifted and most sea, bird and insect life was dead, there were very few animal species left, only the fire dragon seemed to find the new environment adaptable. millions of people dead, this planet was in bad shape. i'd launched several probes, and their information feeds were beginning to trickle in, data lines filled my screen. i plugged in to the energy grid around the planet and created a bio feedback loop, into the mainframe. vast amounts of information processed itself through me, my auric field filtered out the excess and essential information went into my brain and downloaded itself into the mainframe where various mystical algorithms assessed relevance.
it took 23 seconds, suspicions confirmed, i would need lara to save this planet from extinction. i powered down and prepared for the process ahead, slipping into deep meditation i attuned my energetic body.
it took several hours to reach the labs, they were embedded deep into the cliff face overlooking the apricot sea. the facility was staffed by an earth scientist, lara and her assistant, a robot a variation of the geisha 4000. i had encountered these models many times across the galaxy, a very well designed piece of technology, hard to tell from an organic life form, save for the em-blazed logo across her forehead. the geisha offered me some comforts while lara analysed my research.
she scratched her head and paced while i finished my tea, 'that's fine tea, thank you.'
the geisha nodded and asked if i required a bath.
lara shuffled the papers in her hands, 'this is crazy, there must be a way to stop it happening.'
'there's a margin of 0.01% error, it will depend upon you totally trusting my skills but i can't really see any other choice.'
'but i'm a scientist.'
'and i am a bio mystic, you called me remember.'
'i didn't, the ruling council did. bio mysticism is not really the domain of scientists.'
'science works for me, call it what you will, remember clarks law, any advanced science will appear like magick to a lesser developed civilisation.'
'yes, i know, i know, but it's so abstract and unproven.'
'it's proven itself many times, that's why i do what i do, it's a different language but the same thing, science and mysticism or magick. trust me.'
'but this seems a little obscene.'
'no more than letting a whole planet rot.'
'but it's sex magick, you can't be serious.'
'well we can spend all night being pedantic or we can get down to business.'
'but this is...ridiculous.'
'no more than thinking we can alter the events with a test tube, believe me this is a form of science, it's just different from what you practise.'
'it's bloody obscene, i don't even know you.'
'lara, we don't have time, unless we preform this rite the planet will implode within 42 hours.'
'there must be something we can do.'
'there is, now take your dress off.'
'what exactly is a bio mystic anyway?'
'good question,' i started to roll a joint,'a bio mystic possesses the technology to influence the environment and alter it through mental processes and techniques akin to meditation and tantric practice.'
lara started stepping out of her dress, i passed her the joint, 'smoke this, you need to be in an altered state.'
'the data says you are a vegan right?'
'yeah i am, so.'
'that's good. it also says you detox regularly?'
'yeah i'm a health nut, what of it?'
'this is excellent, the data says you have excellent auric energy and suffer no blockage or restricted flow?'
'i don't know what that means.'
'it means we can save the planet lara.'
'how will us having tantric sex save us?'
'because the biofeedback loop will carry the information to the energy of the planet itself, it has gone into meltdown because the inhabitants are toxic, the humans who live here are like essential cells, a nervous system if you like. now imagine if all the units that make up your nervous system suddenly poisoned themselves with meat and various pharmaceuticals, toxins and things which inhibit neuro-transmission or consciousness.'
'i guess it would start to malfunction, eventually, the host could not function, hey wait a minite is this what you think happened here?'
'yeah, the population is in some sort of meltdown, hedonistic pursuits can only end badly, the shutting down of consciousness at such a pivotal point in the awakening of a planet is akin to suicide. you and i can create the connection and send an energetic impulse into the planets grid and register consciousness, it will self correct itself and sustain life again, however it may adapt somewhat so the mistake never repeats itself.'
'how will it adapt?'
'well the next generation of human children may have much higher consciousness than this one, therefore it stands a much better survival rate.'
'you mean evolution.'
'semantics baby.'
'all this talk is turning me on.'
'good.'