jueves, 14 de agosto de 2014

I’m not full of spite! (Al reviews a movie for you!)



(Ha ha, monthly updates?? Who knows!)

            I’ve figured that making Wednesday nights ‘Hump Day Movie Time’ is a fun idea after all so I fired up Netflix and like always, watched the first thing that caught my attention faster. This time around I went on a nostalgic trip finding Mad Max, apparently they recommended it to my nephew because he had been watching Young Justice. Good for him! Pretty sure I was his age when independent Puertorrican TV station Super Siete, today known as TeleIsla, would show it constantly, probably once every month! A small bit of mockery from all this back in the day, this being a local network they would show a dub in Spanish of this movie. And at my age at the time I would have fairly good bilingual skills, I knew what ‘Mad’ meant, and that Max was a name obviously, but for some, admittedly fitting reason, this dub would blare out in that thick Centralamerican accent the title: “¡Motociclistas Salvajes!” (Savage Bikers)

Without fail my reaction and anyone sitting with me on the family hall when that happened would be: “LOL what?!” He’s Max, and he’s mad! Why couldn’t these people ever go with that? ‘¡Max El Furioso!’ or ‘¡La Furia de Max!’, that would’ve made more sense for conventional translating! Of course when you revisit a classic like this as an adult you figure a couple of things out, Max is the protagonist but the movie is Toecutter’s biker gang, and the idea of being trapped in a Dystopia with these sinister savages. It’s something of a speculative horror from decades ago, movies like this, Escape From NY, Terminator, Predator, they all get this reputation of being testosterone-driven manly and brainless. Mad Max in specific for all the cool bikes and his revved up raging muscle car, and the sequels to these movies gladly run with that, but watching again you get this idea that at the start it was meant to disturb. For instance in Escape From NY, once Snake makes his landing and the movie starts proper, you get reminded this is a John Carpenter movie with the killer thriller synthesizer playing as he’s being stalked without noticing by the first wandering psychos in the island that spot him. I read some time ago that this was meant to be satire and critical for how violent New York and every other big city in the US had become during the 80’s, so that should make it doubly meaningful. So, returning to Max, the bikers most definitely become the movie in this sense not when they wrecked that flashy hot rod earlier or even when they set Goose on fire, but at the climax stalking his wife on her way back from the beach, and how from there it all progressively goes to Hell.

This was fun to revisit figuring that out, and another thing I’d like to mention is how I’m more into this state of the dystopia in the series than how it gradually got worse in Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome.


For the last time: GET, OFF, THE STAGE‼



I know these sequels were the true codifiers of the post-apocalypse and inspired some of the best anime and videogames of all time like Fist of the North Star and even to this day Borderlands. But this one being closer to the near future, it just seems not only more believable for the time but also more creative. You get the sense that there’s a lot more to look at with a society trying to keep it together after the big unnamed near future collapse, instead of the barren soulless wastelands of the sequels that all look the same. It’s a bigger effort to sell you the balls to the wall bizarre idea of the future they had when they made this movie, with the settings like the remote police station and how the chief is trying to run it, and all the other characters like Toecutter himself or his right hand man Zanetti, a random punk that looks like he stepped right out of a Depeche Mode video, feeling more intimidating than some generic burly 10 foot grunt wearing football armor just to get poked to death by Kenshiro. Revisiting this he became my favorite character, probably because of how I couldn’t even remember him when I was younger with the strong osmosis of those burly bikers, making anyone think they’d all just plain look the same at every turn.






And that’s just it, this became a hit because it was also full of personality. And today it’s still great to watch, so consider this blog highly recommending it. Unfortunately the series had to evolve into something different, it was still successful like that, and it doesn’t mean I don’t like it either. Color me now even more hyped for Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy on Fury Road next year.



 But mostly Charlize Theron.

- AA




lunes, 14 de julio de 2014

America's Funniest Hooligan Videos!

If you've been living under a rock, stay there! The world can be horrible place to live in!





I've been wanting to write about futbol hooligans and ultras for a while, especially today just fresh of the World Cup in Brazil coming to end with Deutschland as Weltmeister. But man I do not know where or how to start. For one thing some of my favorite videos when researching the subject seem to only show general hooliganism:

Brazil

Chile

France

As you can see they have this thing for flares, like a calling card that SWAT teams in those countries are learning to hate. Ultras can be a scarier and more broad subject, much like biker gangs in the US they would give the impression of just being an ordinary futbol fan club with a taste for nationalism, and that the police imposing themselves is heavyhanded. But the suspicions are all warranted as it's drunken jingoism for sports and nation colliding, seeing the modernized Neo Fascist or Neo Nazi organizations, invigorated by today's European socioeconomic conditions and globalization, recruiting the hooligan youths into their cause. With that, lines are blurred between fandom and rallies:


Similar to how most of the talk for Brazil 2014 before the games started was more about all the fears of riots happening and all the damage being caused on the country and its people just to get this event done, the ultras have sparked the discussion on how Moscow 2018 will go. Russia and most of Eastern Europe have been increasingly fertile grounds for this phenomenon, and even without the sport there's the organizations at the scenes being surrounded by nationalities from all over the world coming in and surrounding them, nobody knowing how they're gonna react to that.

Maybe it's a good thing The Islanders were terrible and they disbanded! To the tune of an empty Sony Store nobody wanting to get their autographs. I was there when that happened, it was funny!

- AA

jueves, 3 de julio de 2014

German Nobile - God Is Dead

If you're like me, then stop. I'm a horrible human being. However I've revealed before that like many people I enjoy reading some comics, and besides Crossed I've also followed Avatar Press's other big title God Is Dead. The original story done by Jonathan Hickman (Invincible, The Walking Dead) presents a chaotic vision of every single mythological deity descending to our hilarious little human world, and causing a huge riot seeking all the worship. Originally a monthly title but later bimonthly as Hickman left and Mike Costa (I dunno some GI Joe comic from Boom) took over to expand on the pantheons, and with this expansion came a new series of alternate wrap covers that are the subject of our second image post: the art of German Nobile.

I mention again for posterity's sake that I do not own any of these images, and with that if you've never checked this out before, enjoy:










- AA

sábado, 28 de junio de 2014

Image post because I'm in a transitional slump!

I'm not gonna go into why I've been quiet for so long, didn't really enjoy going TMI with my health issues like last time. I can only say I've been either too busy or not busy at all, and it's just an all too real corner I feel like I have to jump out of for good. There's this however, broke the ice with my creativity with this personal project: sometime ago I had decided to start collecting every one of these little propaganda pamphlets and leaflets those Christian ‘Aleluya’-types (any denomination) hand out at the train, hospital, anywhere on the street they felt like spreading the word, and then on an odd day like this scan them up. Not that it was a spiritual experience but it felt nice because as I was collecting these I'd notice they don't get very confrontational if you just reach out, give them a quick silent smile and a nod thanking them when they hand you the leaflet, and then you both go your merry way. Nothing extraordinary, but it's just that typically I'd have lousy experiences dealing with those sacraclowns if I'd just try to ignore them instead.

Bears mentioning I don't own any of these images, enjoy:
Hmm...I though I had more...oh well.


- AA

viernes, 16 de mayo de 2014

New Killer Affirmative Action Stars!

Yes it's been a while since an update, couple of reasons. One of them more of an excuse than anything actually, I had a temporary gig at my office that worked with a full-time schedule. The other real reason is I really am putting off posting more Ultra Alma chapters. I'm not sure why and how, but for now I want to drop that someplace else, and maybe add some other focus and original content on this blog.

That said, I'm not here this morning just to offer an explanation. I'd like to show some of you to what happened in the wonderful world of videogames yesterday:





Wild out!

Yesterday Ubisoft made official the announcement of Far Cry 4, set to be released for all consoles except Wii U this November. This time the action takes place in the fictitious region of Kyrat on The Himalayas, currently terrorized by a ruthless, self-appointed king. More on this as it develops or just wait until E3. Is the villain sitting there on a smashed Buddhist sculpture and subjugating his pet Tibetan with a live grenade that bad king we have to take out? Who knows! But hey man, can't wait to play this! Stoked to find out what's the story there! A very evocative image on the part of Ubisoft for this big announcement! It should be pointed out that this series has been good at this since the first game setting a huge benchmark with graphics and tropical jungle scenery. The sequel had been a little misguided and I can't say much about it because I haven't played it myself, but by 2012 the third game placed it back on top with not just with the killer graphics again on a large open world environment full of action and different strategies for combat, but also the most dreaded cut-scenes shot for a videogame featuring the game's antagonist Vaas Montenegro, played by Michael Mando:


Far Cry 3 had been a huge hit, so you can guess Ubisoft would follow the same formula for the eventual sequel by focusing on a new sociopath criminal from a very real and dangerous underworld...

...unless you're a wasp and you have a Tumblr account!

Shortly thereafter the game's big announcement and fans rejoicing and hyping and pre-ordering, the White Knights stormed the blog scene! Clad in their shiny new magical White Guilt armor to declare they are once again offended by modern chauvinist action games, controversy will be made, and their voices will be heard! Once this manifestation was done they removed their armor in order to suit up in their hipster 'gaming journalist' fedoras to declare the world that a great controversial wrong had once again been made!

What's the controversy? Well for starters the villain is sitting on a decapitated Buddhist statue, which is of course shocking enough to get people's attention. One would assume Ubisoft did that on purpose! But does this warrant such youthful controversy and call for change in behaviors? If those hipster clowns were to enter a goth kid's blog and saw pictures of him smoking fake weed while decapitating Catholic statues, and then posing his head on top on the figures giggling, what kind of fit would these Knights of Gaming throw? Oh I'm sure they'd call for his head on a self-righteous holier than thou typing walls of shit, and in turn the kid would be enthused to know he got the attention he never thought he needed!

The other item of discord would be the subjugated Tibetan holding a grenade, yeah that's just heinous! You know the cover of the third game also showed Vaas posing with a half buried man's head in the sand and behind him people hanging upside down on some trees in a very serene beach. It was scary but no controversy at the time, however there's apparently something horribly wrong with the world with this new one. There's something too wrong and too offensive with showing a Tibetan on his knees holding a grenade. It's just too vile, even for a villain in an ultra violent series of videogames like Far Cry. It's cool to run around showering mercs and modern Somali pirates with a flamethrower, stab them hundreds of times right after sneaking at them from above with a machete like Jason Vorhees, consume hallucinogenic drugs to either heal, gain strength or even sexual potency with a female guerrilla leader, but you know Tibetans on their knees forced to hold grenades, that's just not gonna fly here, man.

How much is too much? I hate to use the word context but here's where the argument by the Knights fails incredibly hard, if you take a closer look at the bad king sitting there, you may notice his detailed facial features by the excellent work on the textures. To me he appears to be an Asian, and judging by his hairstyle and pimp clothing, Id say the developers might be channeling the disturbed masochist Kakihara from the Takashi Miike yakuza movie Ichi the Killer. The Knights however are not noticing this and they put the Guilt on display believing he's as Caucasian as them and the image is just wrong in this day and age, even if it's meant to be the ruthless antagonist.

True enough this isn't the first time Far Cry gets some controversial heat, the third game as successful as it turned out also faced similar criticism by having a set of privileged Caucasian tourists victimized and among them the protagonist taking a sudden lead with the natives in the struggle against the pirates. The writer for that game's storyline then annoyingly explained that the whole thing was meant to be a parody of the Mighty Whitey concept. And before I had read about the controversy I already had assumed that this idea will continue with the fourth game only thing with monks instead of natives. Maybe it'll be twice as over the top, even self-aware and comical on some points.

Whatever the case Ubisoft accomplished their goal yesterday of starting the hype, and we're just living in an age where everyone's outrage will be heard, but hopefully it'll continue to be ignored. Because it's fun.

-AA

miércoles, 30 de abril de 2014

Let's get cold! Let's get liberal!

Some commentary for this morning concerning what's on TV again, namely RT News again. It seems as though they themselves recently have also committed a cardinal sin, this one from Spider Jerusalem's Church of Journalism: they have become the news. How come you haven't heard about this yet? Well unsurprisingly they are the only ones reporting it. Same way some of their coverage on Ukraine and Crimea consisted on them pretending to be John Stewart by constantly calling out Fox News with fact checking and some humor, it was detrimental for anyone interested in wanting to watch actual news as it is right now. True enough they would however have a good reason to do this as John Kerry himself last week blasted them as a state-sponsored propaganda bullhorn for Pussy Riot's #1 Fan and sexiest lion tamer of our times Vladimir Putin. Personally I don't believe that's true, and whatever business Kerry has condemning a media outlet with a liberal bias is really glaring. But you see that's the thing, RT is not a trustworthy news source but not because it's propaganda, but because they have the exact same deal as Fox News, it's strongly biased and will constantly behave in its contrarian views separate from other networks.

I'm not sure what MSNBC has been up to in maybe the past two years, while CNN has been riding high on the revival of Tales From The Crypt with its new host Nancy Grace, so I've narrowed down my choices for news networks between these two extreme factions. It's very entertaining and you people should try it, you'll see it's kinda like hanging out with someone bipolar! Most of my interest in RT has been their advantage to cover on Edward Snowden and the Ukraine situation, and from that very situation is when the cracks began to appear on their reporting. Sometime after Viktor Yanukovich left for Russia they began tossing around the term Neo Nazi without regard and suddenly all the effort and sacrifice for the Orange Revolution was seen as a hideous mistake. Never mind all the swat beatings and Orwellian text messages, the protestors had accomplished their goal and took Kiev...and that's terrible! Apparently they also tried to snipe one of their reporters on the scene, and they're very sure it was them during the time when the best the protestors had were hunting rifles against AK47s and sniper rifles once their top military man resigned and all knives came out. You'd think they would go into all this with at least a sense of betrayal once they started to see all the paramilitary movement fearing the worse from the Russia military making their moves and Putin making his statements, but no, it all just came bizarrely sudden. One second they were with the protestors showing us viewers some of the uglier riot scenes with police brutality and shootings, the next the opposition were a bunch of Nazis that had violently taken over. But then came the Crimea referendum, which Obama himself blasted as a facade while RT presented a city making a drastic decision in a drastic situation, and thankful that they could make such decision.

Between all this their coverage had some brain dead moments like pro-wrestling or gangsta rap. The network needed a rival and Fox News was gonna be that rival, whether they liked it or not! At the top of the headline news breaks they would have long segments devoted to how their wacky Neocon bias is the biggest evil of Evar that there is. And much like Vince McMahon to Dixie Carter, Fox News responded with...going about their business and not even mentioning them on their network!

So here we are today, Putin sanctioned on a daily basis because he still needs Ukraine, this hipster American division for a Russian news network is seeing Neo Nazi futbol ultras crawling in their Veggie Lo-mein, and all the while what they really end up showing us is the paramilitaries sent to anyplace now peacefully protesting the people in charge at Kiev not being interested in using violence on those people. How did John Kerry arrive to the conclusion that it's Putin's propaganda machine that now got them up in arms instead of reporting the news I have no idea. It's The Idiot Box, and today I turn it off.
- AA

jueves, 24 de abril de 2014

Well that was a waste of fear!

So hey, apparently I'm doing alright. Expect me to go on that tirade again 3 months from now for my next check up! Although I'll wise up and use jivelournal when I get those brainfarts.

Moving on, enjoy this week's chapter.

Ultra Alma (9)



Vladimir va entrando, inexplicablemente sus ojos y los del cardenal Guerrero se encadenan tan pronto se encuentran, y cuenta como ocho caballeros bien armados y listos para el fusilamiento delante suyo. De estos unos van saliendo del elevador de carga a su izquierda, uno otro al lado de Vladimir y Braulio. En la pared detrás de Guerrero otra cruz bien grande y a la derecha un ultimo mural con imágenes de varios jóvenes transformados en túnicas blancas tratando de alcanzar en las nubes un Dios blanco sin la barba. “¡Hasta aquí ustedes llegaron! ¡Les doy una ultima oportunidad de que suelten esas armas y enfrenten su juicio!” – el declara señalando con un revolver.

“You said earlier you were gonna put us in coffins now you wanna judge what fu-…” – Vladimir piensa en voz alta perplejo antes todas las ametralladoras que lo tienen a el y Braulio en la mira.

“¡Mira puñeta que suelten esas escopetas ya!” – un caballero con apariencia de pandillero calvo pero aspecto y tono caribeño les vuelve a reclamar con furia, y se abren las compuertas del elevador de carga al lado de Vladimir y Braulio.

“¡Muahahahaha!” – se i.e. malvado otra vez Braulio sacando el dedo malo en ambos brazos. Antes de que los caballeros puedan manifestar su disgusto y ya acabarlos los azota una masa de colmillos verde como el Papuropus con pelusa de pájaro chango oscura y en cuatro patas como un perro.

“Now!” – grita Marion haciendo su movida ciclónica descargando sin piedad al mismo ritmo que Braulio. Mikhail se mueve rápido pero ni puede creer lo que ve, son dos las criaturas y tienen como el hocico de gavial en un agrandado cuerpo de perro de ataque. Los caballeros de verdad ni saben que hacer así que reciben la balacera o se los llevan los perros por la boca a la vez que dan rasguños mortales en un ataque incesante. Vladimir luego ve la dueña de los perros ir saliendo del elevador por ultimo cargando otra Protecta y con un traje apretado idéntico al de Krajnoc pero con las mangas de los brazos largas hasta la muñeca y guantes de cuero en las manos. Se ve alta de atletismo como jugadora de voleibol y de la misma edad que ellos con pelo largo en trenzas blancas. Por su transformación no puede definir si fue de tez blanca o negra con facciones mestizas en su cara que también parece perdida de adicta observando la trifulca. Dos caballeros muy malheridos se salpican entre ellos, uno blanquito bien joven llorando y se arrastra con una punzante herida de garra en la espalda llamando a su mama, el otro es el calvo caribeño de horita. Le falta el brazo izquierdo, aun en furia y con unos tiros que le alcanzaron las piernas.

“¡Nonononono papito tu de aquí no te vas!” – de la nada la alta grita con una rabia alcanzando su escopeta y les entra a tiros de gracia maldiciendo bien fuerte como si los conociera. Balas ahora se salpican hacia ese entorno y Vladimir vuelve a encadenar una mirada fastidiosa hacia el cardenal. De la misma manera que ninguna bala lo toca y las garras no lo alcanzan, ninguna de sus propias balas de revolver impactan a Vladimir, el solamente esta ahí parado con una cara perpleja hasta alcanzar su escopeta y cortarle la corrida con un tiro en el pecho. Lo detuvo pero no lo derriba, notando eso Vladimir se fue a la carga otra vez con el enfoque mientras el cardenal detona sus ultimas fallidas balas. Recibe otro impacto completo de la escopeta en el pecho pero aun así permanece de pie, uno por el hombro izquierdo lo empuja y desarma pero el aun ni lo tumba. Así se queda bien pendiente de quien lo castiga hasta que se apunto alto a la quijada. La alta de repente al lado de Vladimir mirando al cardenal, increíblemente seguía con vida, sus últimos momentos ve como las criaturas terminan con el escuadro devorando. Su furia cae y entra la angustia viendo como unos muy malheridos tratan de arrastrarse a el pidiendo ayuda pero las garras o colmillos los detienen. Los había perdido a todos ellos, se le hace posible acordarse de todos y cada uno ante el. A unos los encontró en las calles y selvas, a otros los rescato de incidentes como los de San Juan hace unas horas, y la otra parte fueron los voluntarios. Jóvenes excepcionales de sangre elite, con una valentía para encontrar la liberación de todo lo que les rodea y enfocar esfuerzos contra la verdadera y creciente maldad de La Plaga. “¡Cilix Guerrero!” – Mirelka Lesnar lo llama, el reconoce su voz y ese tono de tecata Boricua en furia, Vladimir nervioso pero permanece tranquilo con la atleta apuntando a ese caballero y una mirada de odio en sus ojos. “¡Mucha gente a muerto por tu culpa!” – Vladimir piensa esto se debe tratar de venganza luego de escuchar esa.

“¡MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMiry!” – Braulio gozante se avecina al lado de ellos.

“¿La conoces?” – Vladimir le pregunta.

“¡La conocí en la publica de Rió Piedras que me metieron después de caerle encima a Renecito! ¡Ella es bien cool, ella es cheerleader! ¡Nos presento por un hospitalillo bien bueno por el Condado y nos explico todo!” – y escuchan un rugido doloroso de Guerrero poniéndose de rodillas para mirarlos a los tres, ya el capto lo que fue tan mal. Sawney Bean no solo estuvo casualmente destruyendo La Perla para algún inversionista, extendió una trampa para Los Ángeles al ellos entrar a San Juan. La jugadora mas preciada del año en esta liga profesional esta aquí ahora para recuperar la otra inversión que han hecho en nuevo talento porque Homeland Security les abrieron la puerta a ellos y a esos vampiros. El los mira a ellos tres, son igual de jóvenes que su hermano Cadmo. Le llega a dar una última pena que no pudieron hacerse sus compañeros y los acólitos suyos. Estos son los peores tiempos, les hubiesen perdonado lo que hicieron en el rescate. Le quiere decir algo a Vladimir, viéndolo confiado agitar el manojo del cañón en la escopeta para preparar otra descarga y sincronizando la mira con Braulio y Mirelka. Le gustaría insultar y maldecir hasta su ultimo momento y dejarle saber que si su hermano sobrevive este incidente, lo va a buscar a el y todos ellos y los va eliminar. Desafortunadamente el cantazo en la quijada lo dejo balbuceando, y de verdad le dolió el intento.



Lo hartan a tiros. Braulio conectando en el hombro anteriormente impactado hasta lo despedaza fuera del cuerpo. Vladimir con el cuello y calva lo hace rebotar hasta voltearlo y dejarlo bocabajo. Ahí se detienen, observan a las criaturas devorar lo que queda, Mirelka se percata de Vladimir dando unos pasos atrás algo nervioso de esos animales. “Mira chico esta bien…” – ella le dice. “Son rottweilers cuando los expones. Los entrenan para que les caigan encima al primer pendejo que vean con la armadura esa puesta.”

“¿Me puedo quedar con esas mágnum suyas?” – el pregunta señalando las pistolas de carabela.

“No, si te vas con los militares no puedes andar armado. ¡Pero hey, yo si! ¡Entonces, si quieres, te las aguanto y después te las vendo cuando salgas!”

“Ah okay…” – Vladimir pensante, no es mala idea. Mikhail y Remy se van acercando, Mikhail verifica los ascensores de carga mientras Remy maravillado como siempre viendo la escena. Le sorprende una palmada en la espalda por parte Marion con aire de victoria.

“Now that’s kicking their asses!” – Braulio dice, el y Marion y Remy se chocan la mano.



“¿Ven aca y que es eso de que ‘cuando salga’?” – Vladimir pregunta, ya todos en el ascensor subiendo hasta el último nivel indicado. “¿Va haber un juicio por…lo que paso aquí, y en Plaza, y en Puerto Nuevo? ¿Nos…nos van a arrestar?”

“¿Qué? No…” – Mirelka maniobrando contestar mientras inspecciona las pistolas carabelas y bota los casquillos de bala usados. “Lo que quieren hacer es sacarlos a ustedes de aquí y llevarlos a área 51 y hacerles un par de preguntas y tu sabes, para que se reporten con sus familias…”

“¡Acho lo sabia! ¡Esa base de verdad existe!” – Remy interrumpe.

“Si, eso es protocolo, después de eso ustedes salen y los mandan a algún sitio donde no le hagan daño a nadie por New York, Ohio, Michigan, Nova Scotia…chacho un montón de lugares donde nos esconden. Uno de verdad aprende que pequeña es la isla una vez llegas a una de esas ciudades…”

“¿Y…donde es que tu vives?” – Mikhail le pregunta curioso.

“Weird Revolution, Ohio. Bien lindo el sitio. Supuestamente fue donde primero se soltó esto en los Estados Unidos. Pero después los de New York se ponen a chavar que ni que de verdad fue con ellos. ¡Tu sabes, como cuando se ponen a discutir donde fue que Colon entro primero a la isla!” – se escucha el indicador de que llegaron al piso. “Okay, si me hacen el favor y dejan las metras en el piso. Marion, Braulio, eso incluye a ustedes dos…” – se abren las compuertas y los reciben dos fortísimos de Homeland Security armados pero no en una pos amenazante, mas bien sorprendidos de buena manera al verlos al aire libre en lo que parece la amplia cima de la ciudadela gótica y señorial pero también modernizada funcionando como pista aérea. Hace un día bien bueno con el cielo azul y despejado en una localización silvestre verde.

“You kids alright?” – uno de ellos pregunta.

“Probably…” – Mikhail contesta pero nadie lo escucha.

“Okay guys, let’s all just put the guns down and walk over to the helicopters you see over there. We’ll talk about this, we’re all going home, and it’ll all be alright…”



Mucha actividad desde que se despegaron de los monitores de vigilancia, mas helicópteros y escuadros, mas soldados de Homeland bien armados supervisando la escena y unos caballeros que llegan con solo espadas correteando por el área desesperados buscando un quehacer con urgencia. Dos grandes carpas verdes con la bandera de Estados Unidos fueron levantadas, al borde de estos caballeros, frailes y monjas recibiendo atención medica por parte de compañeros o soldados. “Aquí los dejo…” – Mirelka dice separándose de la escolta en trayectoria a la carpa con menos actividad sobresaliendo. Ella se va dirigiendo a un helicóptero de personal con la misma fachada que el uniforme suyo y un Union Jack. Ella camina en reversa y les sonríe llegando esperando a que aterrice su pon. “¡No les mientas! ¡Díganle todo lo que sepan!” – le hace señas a Vladimir haciendo juego con los gatillos de las pistolas.

“¡¿De donde esa diabla encontró esas pistolas!?” – escuchan a un caballero comentar.

“…no! ¡Imposible!” – va entendiendo otro.

“¡Por el alma de esa adicta, será mejor que Cadmo no salga vivo de esta!”



Solo más soldados y los jóvenes en esa caseta, una rueda de aplausos y algarabía tan pronto Yokaira y Lulu emotivamente se lanzan a Remy. Yokaira envuelve sus brazos en llanto al ver a su hermanito otra vez, Lulu y Vladimir se miran, ella sorprendida y fascinada al haber visto este muchacho regresar con su amigo ileso de esta situación. Vladimir tranquilamente le devuelve la sonrisa rascándose el pelo. “Dude…” – ella empieza a decir levantándose. “Thanks, seriously…”

“It’s…it’s alright…I tried…” – el contesta a sabiendas de lo que el piensa que paso de verdad.

“Tried how? You did it man! You brought him back safely!”

“Yeah but it was just so weird!” – el explica. “We just…went through all of them! Even he was able to get a few shots in!”

“¡Acho Leo este tipo se guillo!” – Remy entra a la conversación. “¡Le cayo a machetazos a un chorro de kinkyboys y le voló la cabeza a cuanto lagarto y caballero de la mesa redonda que se encontrara!”

“¡No me digas!” – ella contesta con una actuación de maravilla con las manos en la cintura.

“¡Si bien cabron! ¡También estaba este ultimo tipo con dos súper pistolas disparando directo, sus balas ni le caían, era bien demente!”

“Coooooool…while you guys were busy with that I fought a giant toothless Russian with lightning powers.”

“…what?!” – Vladimir contesta sorprendido.



Mikhail fue a Viviana, Marion fue a Hilary, Braulio sin saber que hacer entre todos ellos. “Mik…” – Viviana apenas puede hablar al momento. “Braulio esta detrás de ti…”

“¡Lo se Vivi, lo se! ¡Esta bien, el me ayudo! ¿¡Pero dime que fue lo que te paso!? ¿¡Te hicieron daño, te violaron?! ¡Por favor dime!” – el le aguanta las manos preguntando bien preocupado.

“…me partió un rayo.”

“¡¿Qué?!”

“Y-yeah, guy had a thunder gun…”

“The fuck?!”

“Where’s Vlad?”



Un trío compuesto de dos monjas y otro fraile luego entra, este fraile un hombre de cara fuerte cuadrada y aspecto conquistador, llevaba su cabeza tapada en con la capucha pero se distingue su recorte rubio militar y el ojo derecho con un parcho. Con una percibida tranquila furia, el observa a Vladimir y Lulu con sus manos hechas en puños. “You hungry or something?” – los soldados fueron veloces en actuar y de repente tuvo a uno en la cara. “Now you get the fuck outta here or I’m leaving you blind.”

“¡Por favor señor, usted debe permitirnos hablar con Leonisa Feliz!” – sin entender nada de Ingles, una de las jóvenes monjitas le suplica al soldado.

“¡Atacaron a su hermana y la dejaron muy mal herida! ¡Ella necesita verla en este instante!”

“Oh for fuck’s sake!” – en un buen repente Lulu se queja indignada. “You people listen to me, if you think I’m just gonna lock myself up in a dungeon she’s running, then you’re wrong! Dead wrong?”

“¿¡P-pero, que?!”

“¡¿Que ella acaba de decir?!”

“Look ladies, please shut up and get out of here.” – instruye un soldado.

“Yeah, shut up and get out of here.” – Vladimir dice tranquilo haciendo señas directas al encapuchado.

“You really think you’ll get away with what you just did?” – el encapuchado sin reaccionar contesta.

“What’s that? ‘Shut up and get out of here’? Yeah that’s right. I’m a minor, please leave!”

“Look bro…” – interviene un soldado. “You know for a fact everything that just happened here could’ve been avoided.”

“Well please, accept my deepest apologies and if I may, a little criticism: you were too slow to react.”

“Noted. Now you’re also aware, that you forewent the proper management of these kids. You almost hurried them into your group with absolutely no information. You failed to tell them they had options. You fail to inform their parents. And finally, you failed to keep them out of harm’s way. You just kept on talking, talking, and talking, forcing yourselves into their lives. Now it’s our turn to talk and get some of their feedback. You’re the ones who abolished rights from your lives, but that does not mean these kids and everyone else you manage to round up like slaves will have to do the same.”

“And you’re also aware that they were only put in unspeakable harms way because you people breached us!”

“Hey buddy, fuck you!” – escuchan a Braulio contestando.

“And you’re gonna let that little creep just walk out of here?!” – en furia reclama el encapuchado señalando.

“You knew I was a snake!” – dice cantando al hacer su entrada un Americano con el corte y fachada política Aria. Viviana, Mikhail, y Braulio se llevan una nueva sorpresa al reconocerlo. Cada día unos años atrás su programa de análisis político en una cadena noticiosa Estadounidense les llamo su atención con sus teorías sobre la invasión de los Estados Unidos por Méjico por el uso de la migración ilegal. También variaron los temas y la controversia con su mentalidad derechista hacia cada aspecto social en un fastidioso ritmo, siempre de pie, sus brazos nunca se paraban de mover y señalar a la nada explicando el deterioro de la nación Americana, y su pelo canela al parecer tenia vida propia. Cuando Barack Hussein Obama obtuvo la presidencia en las elecciones del año 2008, calladamente Curtis Masters y su sindicado programa de discusiones políticas en GCN, ‘Hour of the Master’ desaparecieron de la televisión. “Gutten Tag, Steiner!” – pero aquí acaba de reaparecer, mas altivo y en las buenas como nunca engabanado y con el mismo colorido en la piel que sus soldados.
 
(continuara)
- AA