Book 3, Ch 25: Charlie Shayde

0:00Previously on the Beam Chronicles This untrained in electrical wire was already unearthed, stripped, plugged into the back of Mo's body, shocking him of all his moisture. It was a charred mass in the shape of a person with a gaping hole running through the center. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no! Yes, yes, yes! Finally, John, at one the worst, the crust of the galaxies of the multiverse. Finally, I'm one, finally, pay back his mind! These are the Beam Chronicles with your host, MJ Duney. Book 3 Cataclysm, Chapter 25 Charlie Shade. The Star Wars Who is next?

1:12Les Topo had stopped concerning himself with me, and said he was just consumed by a fit of nefarious deranged laughter. He knew I wouldn't dare risk hurting him now now that I lost my secret weapon I wouldn't hurt Jackson even with the world in the balance. I wouldn't touch him How many times had I already proven that what a quest hope will have to fear about me without low? I took the opportunity to scoop up my last hope the frick-a-seed remains of my oom ambassador And I grouped back to the ocean tossing him into it His body, if I could even call it that anymore, was porous and crispy at floated-like driftwood Ugh I growl Founding after it into the water all the way up to my waist plunged him under the surface and held him there Giving him the opportunity to absorb as much water as possible heal off the damage come back to life Of course, he didn't he couldn't Wasn't even in there anymore

2:12Don't you fucking damn do this to me! I roared as the tears streamed over my cheeks I slammed the crispy body into the ocean again holding him under Of all your tricks, Foon of all your wicked evil shitty fucking tricks He bobbed back to the surface still black still dead You can't dim asshole! I shouted openly bawling and slamming my fist into his chest. He popped right back up I punched him down again even harder You promised me you battered you promised me to get my life back That was beyond myself foaming at the mouth flailing my arms against this piece of charge That was once a person I thrashed and wailed like a maniac for as long as I could be only fight left

3:15Was he as this fried piece of flesh I Eventually I ran out of steam eventually I had to quit the pain was too much the anguish the heartbreak I couldn't even see anymore through the tears and the salt water that had splashed up into my eyes Just blurry distorted light reflecting off the ocean in my only shot at salvation Utterly destroyed The world was over I failed Questopo took Jackson and Sidney and everything away from me in a way that even profit hadn't before I hated him so much but it didn't matter A lost I folded my arms across the charred body buried my face into them and saw

4:16On the bash of the gasping wrecked him without restraint I thought that was where I'd be Until the apocalypse finally came standing in the ocean with mose corpse weeping like an infant waiting for the only adversary Who'd ever bested me that pushed the planet into the sun and burned my outsides the same way my insides were burning The only thing left Was to die and never before was I'm more ready Bring it on There was nothing left to fight for That's when I heard the board high pitch sigh cutting through my pathetic defeated collapse I was a person who infamously couldn't be startled

5:17Yet this calm soft little sigh maybe a foot in front of my face sent a jolt down my spine made me physically jump as I snatched my head up I saw her lying across her own folded arms on the other side of mose carcass Watching me with the peculiar grin stretched across your face I've never seen her in my life This adorable freckly Asian girl she was younger than me Maybe 20 just barely tall enough that she could lean against the floating body while still touching the bottom of the ocean with the tips of her toes She wore a flowing white dress now utterly soaked in a braid that ran down her back all the way to her tailbone There's nothing particularly strange about her other than the way she'd just showed up I hadn't even six to her approaching You're in my way I'm I'm what I can't help him if you don't get off of him You I stuttered still to dumbfounded about where she'd come from in the first place forget what she was saying

6:21She chanted excitedly hopping a little in place and gesturing to the sky with both thumbs that cavalry's here honey Even though I don't have a horse Was utterly baffled, but I listened to her instructions nonetheless I lifted my arms off the body and stepped back slowly She bowed her head slightly in appreciation took a deep breath and let it out with a scarcely audible exhale As the quirky smile melted off of her face Suddenly quite serious She arranged the fingers of her right hand into a pentagon formation equal distance between each of them and glared into it for a while to calibrate the spacing When she was finally satisfied she jabbed her fingertips into most chest and held them there until her hands started vibrating That vibration traveled up her arm into her body and when it started to get more drastic I stepped forward to offer her some help Nop she grunted to me shaking her head and holding out her other hand to keep me at bay. Don't almost done

7:21Fair enough soon as she said it she lifted her hand out of his chest and with it came a bright white orb of Of glimmering shiny and strangely familiar light And as she held it balancing on her fingertips focusing on it so intently her tongue peaked from the corner of her mouth All I could do was stare at the orb wondering where the hell I'd seen it before because somehow I knew I had seen it before My first instinct was the telekinetic sinks that Sydney and I dissolved earlier that day But those were more fire like swirling hectic and inconsistent howling with rage this ball With perfectly spherical smooth as glass and hummed to so tranquilly it hypnotized me into a trance The strange girl who owned it remained transfixed by it as well holding it perfectly still in one hand Is she backpedal valve of the ocean? I noticed streaming off of it a trail of light leading all the way from her hand To the center of most chest right where she placed her fingers or I guess more appropriately The stream float from mo to her orb as it seemed to be increasing in size as she held it

8:25Winding the tail around itself like a ball of yarn. It was only then following that ribbon of light from body to orb and back again that I glanced momentarily at mo And realized what was happening He was healing He'd slowly transition from singed blackness to human flesh and I watched as he proceeded to turquoise dark blue Translucents and finally his perfectly clear water like self. He was reverting back to the way he was a few minutes ago I softly gassed as I remembered the tortured baby in how he's usually at And where I'd seen that enammering white light before The whole in most stomach filled up and this mystery girl having retreated up the shore so that she was only to her ankles and water Yanked back on her ball of light severing the string still attached to mo it wound up briskly like it was spring loaded back to her orb And once she was assured of its security without looking away from it

9:25She cautiously reached into her pocket pulling some brown lumpy object from it With one last hefty breath she plunged the white light into the brown lump and it vanished with a loud snap Mo look to be recovered if a little disoriented so I set my sights back on her Clenching her eyes and mouth shut like she was waiting for a big explosion Slowly she peeled one eyelid up then the other and then that cute little relieved smile ran back over her face She laughed triumphantly pumping her fist. I grish right next to her Afraid that if I didn't stay close she'd vanish. She didn't fear me. She didn't seem to care how close I got Who are you? I asked Don't be dumb. You know who I am The girl smiled rolled her eyes slugged me gently in the shoulder You were a baby the last time I saw you Well as you say time affects me in odd ways

10:27And like she suddenly remembered something else she had to do the fill save Turned away from me started running as if her last comment had given our fateful meeting some sort of closure No, please Reach toward her. Please don't go stay with me. Help me. I need your help. I uh and I'm all alone. You can help me You need me She froze in place spun around slowly grabbing the elbow of one of her arms and scrunching up her mouth I don't know yeah You're alone I mean I Fucking hate being alone man Save So you'll stay She glanced over her shoulder at nothing behind her then nodded As long as I can

11:29There was a conviction in her that was ironclad Certain and I knew I didn't understand enough of it to lend it pure clarity But somehow it reminded me of the day I made friends with Leon Nash After two weeks of toiling in my own thoughts Out of me friends with a gecko rather than spend another instant alone the fill save was much lonelier than me For much longer that sort of harrowing eternal vacuum it probably filled up pretty quickly What's your name? I desperately asked the question that strangely burned hottest on my mind before she had a chance to try leaving again The tiniest piece of insignificant information that I'd been longing for since the last time I asked it Her deliberate broad grin returned quickly Toke me. She gave me a little curtsy, but Toke is good Tokey you got it baby girl I watched her staring at me for a while tipping her head over her shoulder waiting for me to speak So I tried before I really knew what I was going to say

12:29There was so much else I should have been focusing on anyway in that moment still I had to say something Look, maybe it's the wrong time for this but I but I gotta tell you um I need to say that that um I look down to my feet kick the pebble across the beach then glance back up I'm so sorry Tokey Huh why? We didn't save you and it was because we got so fucking preoccupied trying to Now No justifications no more excuses this could have easily been my only shot at talking to the feel safe And I needed to take advantage. I brushed my eyes with the palms of my hands before I tried again I should have saved you I should have helped you even if I knew it wouldn't have done any good I should have tried I wish that I would have but I didn't because I was afraid But you were a baby and you needed my help and I didn't help you

13:30I didn't help you I'm so so sorry Tokey me She scoffed but not in a dismissive way in a genuinely the fuddled way Cocking an eyebrow and smiling so curiously at me as if I was the unexplainable oddity in this scenario She glanced once over her shoulder again nervously like she was late for something important than shrugged and ran up to me Throwing her arms around my neck yanking me in tight. I was too startled not to hug her back It wasn't your fault idiot Don't you get that yet none of it was ever your fault. That's what makes you so goddamn good You think I'm good? I mean not always But when it counts Definitely a good one So what they're like grating on a curve now? Oh honey They always have

14:31She pulled away still beaming at me wiped the tears off of my face Now be tough kiddo the demons not licked yet. Keep gun in shade Wait How do you know my name your famous fuck wait? Oh right Forgot She giggled kiss me on the forehead There's a lot I needed to ask to come me but she was right I had to keep gunning Mo I turned back to my resurrected partner committed to business as I stepped into the ocean Yes again Chuck I Came the cockney swagger of my floating blue companion Fuck That were a might bit unpleasant this coming from a bloco's kicked it more than once Hi Tyler took me waved rising up on her pigeon toad feet I didn't ask her how she knew his name he was also kind of famous But then I was also just pretty distracted by my iron that he dared to show up in the middle of this

15:37Foon fuck off put more back on don't bloody know how to He grown shaking his head as he found his feet me and her to join us on the beach You have to be nice just do something nice figure it's a little deeper than just doing something You literally were never nice in your entire life That's why you didn't trigger the super sweet guy sharing your brain Doesn't that make you feel shitty and I precisely my fault that I spent a good majority of the time I had my capacities locked in the fucking dungeons with no one to be nice at and it is Precisely you are some fuck off just say me look pretty today Toki suggested before my snarl could subside enough for me to retaliate or give me five bucks You got your wallet wait, does your wallet like turning water when you turn into water? Oh the fuck is this then Tyler gestured at Tokimi as she stroked her chin and tapped her foot Tokimi I offered before I could add more she cut in um we've met Tyler Havley Rude I put your head back on that was a baby though. She's the failsafe I ain't got no running memory of the failsafe either way. So what the fuck does that matter? She called me rude is all

16:38You're never gonna trick your moe again if you can't even remember my name and I saved your life or remember it now Well, what was it? Kokomo That's fucking racist bro. How the bloody is that racist? Just call me a fucking slur next time you said stop both of you I command it as it dawned on me a frantic desperate sort of revelation in a pithony that sparked flame Into damp dark eternity Tyler what you're you Yeah, you're not moe Yeah, so well established pet Motor remember my name give it one more time. I swear stop I commanded refocusing the most chaotic pair of new partners. I could have hoped for Tyler Did you choose to be you? Did you like opt-in to control when Tokimi brought you back? Don't remind me my name! She wind ignored her Funded too coming online to my suggestion faster than Tokimi did or maybe just actually paying attention to the crisis still very much at hand

17:41Now Audim pick who was driving so if we kill ques topo and Tokimi brings him back Unless he did he turned away from me glancing at the beach Mao You put me in the driver seat lad who is mo anyway you guys like fucking chat He glanced up at me from the corner of his eye Spent a lot of time isolated down there in the crypt voices in your head introduce themselves you make friends Again, it was hard for me to deny the comfort of any friendly prospect when you had nobody but yourself Before I could comment be little his insanity to distance myself from the subtle familiarity of it His head shook vibrating first foot seconds and two yellow orbs appeared submerged in the otherwise pure blue head Charlie It's me. It's Mao Hi, Mao. The feels like declared cheerly as I racked my brain for something altruistic Tyler had done in the last second or so I don't think I can So this is like

18:41Okay, actually here And with another rapid head shake one of the yellow orbs vanished while the other stayed bobbing in place Let's see how this goes Bloody hell with the fuck Tyler guest speaking from the same mouth that was just Moe's an instant to go Talk to me laugh out loud clapping and dancing in place. I just stared waited for more explanation Hey, I like died right Most voice came from the blue figure in front of me who I was no longer classifying with one single moniker You did Get only mustard this much through my bewilderment Huh Do people in this dimension normally come back to life when they die? No, but Oh, it is becoming a more common occurrence. Thanks to me. Thou can be curtsied I know it before right? Tyler's voice emerged from the blue body You recall and are killed Charlie. So are both of you in there

19:42I finally asked the question even though I obviously knew the answer I can't put him down Charlie Moe explained as the yellow orb in his head Their head twinkle just slightly. He was baiting us out for it He knew whatever latent ability. I have to suppress bill rods It's not enough to get him deep enough that Jackson could ever take over again He knew so that whole round we just went through he was fainting He wasn't even fighting back not really I gritted my teeth realizing that ragdolling him across the planet a few moments ago felt like such a triumphant victory But was really just falling into his premeditated ploy Questopo spent a lot of time talking up his enormous strategic acumen and militaristic genius We both should have known better than to assume we'd so easily get the jump on him But we can't kill him. Yeah, boom shook me out of my disappointed self-legilation If we kill him and Tokumi brings him back now call me Koko mo you fuck yes Moe interrupted himself a bizarre occurrence to witness So I couldn't imagine how it felt for Tyler

20:43Tokumi changes everything. Yeah, I'm pretty great. The trouble is What we have right now this the superposition of both me and Tyler That's what Jackson will come back to it's this coin flip state There's perfect equilibrium of me and Tyler both with equal claim to bodily control See went one because Topo is in charge. He can let Jackson out whenever he wants Then inevitably sees control after some time you've seen this but right now the state Tokumi brought us back into it's not mine nor as it foons. It's both and it's neither So when you play nice you can share it I realize looking into the one gold and I the other blue But if one of you want to control ledges it say Tyler rested you to the background that were okay On cue the blue figures have lurched to the side twisting is the gold orbs sputtered a few times and blinked right out Ha Fools voice Yeah, I can do it. I can push him back, but then Again the neck of the low-foon hybrid flung itself this time forward and let Lucie grunt that was half of each of them when it lifted its head both eyes were yellow

21:49Either of us can fight for it. We have equal claim to it He appeared to wink But when the yellow orb didn't return. I recognized it was just him inviting fun to share consciousness again Battle of Will's type thing and there ain't no bloody way quest Topo is up to run co-op. Hey So will need Jackson's help I filled in the last steps of the plan We kill him you bring him back I pointed to Tokami who seemed somewhat distracted by something in the sand but snapped back to salute enthusiastically Then it's up to JT to seize control long enough to knock him out from there We at least have him grounded and time to think about what comes next. We live to fight on food Not it and Jackson's alive, but Charlie. It's not going to be easy pushing quest Topo down even for a few minutes He's gonna have to crawl for it. He will I didn't even flinch You sure Moas can treatly doubting my conviction. I didn't give him room to do it again Yeah, for me He'll crawl

22:49Took a moment to scan across my new slap dash try him for it My former arch nemesis so lunatic mass murderer in quantum superposition with his pen dimensional shoulder angel And this enigmatic girl I'd only ever known as a tortured baby and a jar distracted by rocks in the beach All the world teetered in the balance This was not the crew I'd choose to march into battle against the end of times, but I don't know man There was a time when I was staring down the half-baked power of a telekinetic phenom and constant moral quandary who couldn't keep his hands down much less shot off his own head long enough to fight And a demonic monster of titanic strength who broke out of imprisonment after I killed his little sister and assumed him too dangerous and brutish to even speak We made all that work pretty spectacularly You know what I've never thought about me wallet till tonight Twinkles. Oh, yeah. Is it water? Not still just a wallet just sitting in me pocket, see

23:50Crazy can I have five dollars actually come to think of it It just taunted me that you're always wearing pants. Yeah. I saw the drag me trousers along with me in the flow of it Let him formulate wherever I put me really in such That water. I mean yeah. Have you ever peed well blue? No, I I don't think I can Uh-huh. Can I have five dollars? What the bloody do you want five dollars for? Oh, blah blah. Hey, we're about to have a row with the end times Twinkles It ain't exactly a moment to hit up the shop. I had just seven. I had like actual money in a while, you know You're right here. Yay This could work And tell her she's pretty. Ha ha You're a fit look at Twinkles. Oh, thanks. I'm way older than you. Tell Charlie she's pretty. All right You know do not yep, yep Then again, I didn't know if Mofoon could even assemble themselves into control enough to actually fight and token me as far as I knew Couldn't fight at all So uh food interrupted my contemplation not to be rude again

24:52By should we leave princess mononoki here until we've taken the tyrant the task Before he could finish the thought token me whipped her hand into the pocket of her dress with drawing another orb of that familiar shimmering white glow Foon and I both glared into it like moths drawn to a flame So enthralled by its majesty we didn't even clock it hurtling in the direction of the sand at Tyler's feet when it impacted the beach It exploded and Foon howled like a fool as he hurtled yards away splashing into the ocean I shot token me I'm not with the gap sort of glance and she smirked back One too many microaggressions out of him Huh, that was cool. Yeah, I actually fight kind of good Thank you for listening to the beam chronicles a fiction podcast written and produced by me MJ Duney

25:58I skipped the outro last week for dramatic effect. So this one's kind of long. Sorry Instagram at the very least should have some stuff this summer tiktok I still don't understand youtube is just like the episodes themselves honestly twitter Did Elon Musk delete twitter? I can't remember, but okay follow me if you want to see some stuff I got cooking in the summer more on that in a sec actually You can rate me on Spotify and or Apple podcasts. I actually have 90 ratings on Spotify getting to 100 would be very cool Email me being chronicles at gmail.com. Let's you have been commenting on Spotify I tried to remember to respond to those but overwhelmingly all I want to say to all those comments is just thank you for giving my stupid little passion projects So much love and support. You can also send me money on buying me a coffee by clicking support the show in the episode description This season has I believe three episodes left now two chapters and an upload It's good timing because my weekends get super busy this time of year But I feel like much more so than for the previous two books I have a lot of energy and motivation for this whole thing Possibly because of how much people have been reaching out much higher clip than last few years Possibly because I can kind of sense it picking up some steam like I had

27:017,700 episode downloads for the first two years total then I did the show. I had 5,000 in March alone So I was mulling over the idea of maybe doing some extra bonus stuff this summer my lack of visual creativity makes popular social media platforms Kind of hard to engage with but I do have a halfway decent storytelling gene and once April clears I have a lot of free time. I definitely need to get down to finishing book seven. That's like top priority But like you guys won't see that fruit until 2030 assuming we're all still here in some metaphysical sense But I did have a few ideas for some prequel stuff like how are profits pre pre cognition days or Maria Caraway narrating her early days with Blaine Rector and Mike Mathis and Kale Sparks and Murphy It'd be good to write some Murphy stuff to be honest, but anyway. I have some ideas. I might put that out as like bonus content Like I still feel weird trying to make money off of this, but I like If I pay wall all of this shit on patreon It might just get keeping or does that sound like a valuable use of people who love the show's money

28:04Maybe could do some sort of behind-the-scenes stuff sneak peeks a future episode I had another wild idea where like the characters get interviewed and people could submit questions They want to ask the characters in the show and then I'd invent some random guy to do the interview and record responses in character Is that is that too meta? Is that worth money? Oh look. It's the threat. I thought I lost it All music and sound effects resource from the epidemic sound library special Thanks to Janet Shasha for creating the cover art for the show find her on Instagram at chili bean art and thank you again for listening