The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)

Chapter 15: The River Fades Away

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D.T. Guy remained reclusive in his office, his legs propped up on the desk and a stern frown on his face. He was watching a hologram of the Island, and many dots littered the island. Slowly but surely some of them faded away. Soon only around ninety dots remained.

“Great. Now only the best of the best have survived,” D.T. Guy murmured with a smile. He rolled his office chair around and picked up a book that had the symbol of a dodo on it.

“Oh my beautiful story. You’ll reach completion any day now,” D.T. Guy cooed with a sigh, “These specimens will give me the story I need to finally give you an ending it deserves.”

Just then, there was a knock on his door, and D.T. Guy looked up with a scowl.

“Come in.”

The door opened and in walked a man with a white suit and red tie, and black pants and a black dress shirt. He had a buzz cut and thick eyebrows, and he had many many scars across his face. He had wrinkles, even though he was so young.

“Vice President Bob. What brings you here now?” the President hissed. Bob looked at the President, and then at the hologram of the Island on his desk, and finally at the book in his hands. Bob let out a sigh, and rubbed his forehead.

“Come on, Dan. Are you seriously still trying to go through with this? Why can’t you just… Leave it behind? It’s been YEARS since Season 4 finished!” Bob exclaimed, “Everyone has forgotten about Dodo Tales. Even IF you were to finish Season 5, what makes you think anyone would come back to read it?”

“People WILL come back, especially when they hear about the replica that’s in the sky!” the President yelled back while pointing at the roof, “People will love Dodo Tales again. People will come flocking back as they always have and Dodo Tales will return to the Dex in its glory. The Dex needs new content, so this is what it will get. We both know that the content the Dex has been posting has been bland and mediocre. The readers want something new, and once they hear about Season 5’s new innovative ideas? Oh we’ll come back to stardom as we always have.”

Bob began to pace back and forth, his hands trembling, as if he couldn’t even fathom the idea.

“So that’s why you didn’t try covering up the disappearances at Terran High?” Bob realized, “You WANT people to know about this.”

“No one would ever realize who’s the one pulling the strings. We will be able to reestablish the Dex’s grip on the world, and we will make the Dex rise back to its former glory. The community that we’ve built will prosper further and further. We will come back to our thrones on the Dex,” the President continued with a burning fire in his eyes.

The silence was unbearable. And Bob just stood there, like a mannequin, looking at D.T. Guy. Unrecognizable. No longer the man he once knew, Bob reached for his belt.

“You really leave me no choice,” Bob blurted with tears in his eyes, “You forced me to do this.”