Chapter 1: The Continuity of the Travel
When Jack's plane landed to International Airport of Timbuktu he got some difficulties in breathing: the air isn't as oxygenic in 3000 meters as on the sea level. When he had acclimatized to the low oxygen content it was time to get lost.
As impossible as it sounds like Jack Pentagram got lost in Timbuktu. In fact he didn't do it himself: when he took a taxi, four local criminals kidnapped him. They hit Jack and his world became dark, too dark.
Later Jack recovered consciousness in a small room with a dead skunk. Jack felt strange pain in his left arm. He looked at it and almost passed out: his arm was gone and it had beep replaced by a mechanical arm. Now Jack didn't know what to do. Somehow Jack didn't go mad and started to think about the purpose of life.
Six days later Jack woke up to redity and tried to stand up but because he hadn't eaten for six days he just fell back on the floor. Lying on the floor he thought he would die but the he got an idea. If Jack wanted to stay alive he had to eat the skunk. Jack looked at the skunk and finally lifted it up. He saw how millions of bugs dashed here and there in all directions on the skunks almost bald skin. Jack whisked the bugs off and started to pluck the skunk.
After eating Jack didn't feel any better but now he was able to move faster and he started to examine the room. He didn't find any windows and there was only one door which was locked. In a frenzy of despair Jack hit the door with his mechanical arm. The door crushed and Jack was free to go. After three hours of walking he met a dead hermit. Jack didn't think that hermits should decay in a ditch so he took the corpse with him.
Quite soon Jack entered a small cave. He let the hermit down and started to light a fire. When he had made that he looked around. Jack saw that the cave was inhabited. While Jack was wondering the hermit had melted and it was looking at Jack standing in the middle of the cave. The hermit coughed once and Jack almost bounded to the ceiling. When he had calmed down they had a discussion about all that had happened while hermit had been very stiff.
When Jack and the hermit had stopped the hermit cooked a great meal.
Two hours later the hermit and Jack started to talk about the future. Jack knew well he had missed his flight. The hermit seemed to ponder something and finally he said: - If you want I can disintegrate you to your particles and then move you to a place where you want and then materialize you back to a human.
Jack didn't have any reason to refuse so he just answered: - OK.
The hermit rooted in a chest and finally took a roll of parchment. He opened the roll and started to read out strange words with stranger language and Jack felt how his mind got a mental association with some much strongen mind.
Few seconds later Jack noticed that he was on Helsinki-Vantaa airport in Finland.
Chapter 2: The Home-Coming
Jack didn't have the faintest notion idea of being in Finland. He was sure that it was a poor joke which the hermit had done. Jack decided to wait until he would teleport to some other place. Jack sat down.
Five hours later Jack wasn't as sure as sooner but he still waited. After three more hours he took a cab.
Jack paid to the cab-driver and started to think what to do next. He had only ten dollars and the clothes he was wearing. If he had just walked he would had 20 dollars more, bu no. Jack started to beat his head to the nearest tile wall.
After about 30 hits Jack heard a strange voice calling him. He stopped beating and saw an elf. The elf gave Jack an inflatable rubber boat and a pair of oars. The elf said nothing and gave Jack also a couple of power pillers. Then the elf just vanished in thin air.
Jack understood that this was his destiny and took one piller. He felt how he became stronger and stronger. He inflated the boat and started to baddle across the Atlantic Ocean. Two weeks later he finally arrived to the New York Harbor.
Jack still had few power pillers left and he took one and started to run home. He had 3000 miles to run but somehow he ran it all in four days.
Slightly winded by the running Jack walked to his house but saw a "Sold" sign and went to meet his lawyer. The lawyer couldn't to anything so Jack tried to draw selling money from the back but for his misfortune the back went insolved and he didn't get the money. On the side Jack's deposit had ceased to exist.
For a few days Jack suffered from severe depression but the he read an article about doctor A. B. Normal's deep-freezing scrutiny. Doctol Normal was looking for a brave man or woman to be his assistant. Jack knew that it ment "to be a guinea-pig" but volunteered anyway.
As Jack had known he had to be frozen but he had nothing to lose, so...
Chapter 3: After the Deep-Freezing
Three hours after doctor Normal had frozen Jack he got a telegram. He found out that his application for a grant had been rejected. Doctor Normal went mad and when he had shot three dogs, two old women, one policeman and twenty-four innocent bystanders the national guard showed up and after two hours of wasting time one sniper sent good doctor to meet his creator.
But now there was none left who knew how to use the deep-freezer. The national guard decided to do nothing. Jack had been left to his fate.
Probably it was Jack's luck that there was fumbling with power transmission and the deep-freezer turned off. Jack started to melt but the trouble got fixed and the deep-freezer started again. Fortunately, the voltage was too high and the deep-freezer exploded as well as all other domestic appliances in the neighborhood.
After Jack had melted he started to think what had happened. His mechanical arm had not worn well - it had been shattered - and when he looked at the deep-freezer he felt very lucky.
Without any primary target Jack went out and walked towards traffic lights. The light was red and Jack saw a taxi which seemed familiar. Jack went near by the taxi and suddenly a door opened. Inside the taxi Jack saw a Timbuktish gangster who said to Jack: - Step in, I have a mission for you.
Chapter 4: The Man without Destiny, part 1
In Timbuktuu Jack's arm had been fixed. After a short training Jack was taken to speak with the Timbuktish gangster. He explained to Jack that he could either be a brave pioneer of science or he would be Puppy's Best. Turning into dog's food didn't appeal to Jack so he chose the first alternative, but reserved also rights to choose the other one if he changed his mind.
Now Jack was taken to India's top secret Research Station of Mutation and Other Genic-Bottomed Disturbance (RSMOGBD).
In RSMOGBD there had been developed a theory about making a human immortal. Animal tests had been a success but testing with a human stopped when India's organization of human rights attacked RSMOGBD and stole some top secret material which leaked out to news. Operation had to stop and all non-needed employees where executed.
Jack was their first volunteered-or-not tester. They told Jack to strip down to the skin. Jack obeyed the order and after 30 minutes they let Jack see a mutator. The enormousness of the mutator made Jack to think about what he was exactly doing. He didn't get answers but he was closed into the mutator.
The engine started and small room where Jack was in began to fill with purple, smelling-like-shit gas.
Chapter 5: The Man without Destiny, part 2
Jack was totally nonplussed. His last recollection was purple gas but how had he come to this large white room? Jack shook his head without outcame. He tried to see the walls of the room but he didn't succeed.
Jack had an idea about being in Heaven but he didn't find any harps or harpists so he dismissed that theory. Jack started to walk.
Several hours later Jack hadn't still found anything. He started to believe this place was Hell. Suddenly he saw a flickering figure of a man. Jack startled and started to look for a defensing weapon but he saw nothing. Quickly, the figure disappeared. Jack sighed with relief.
Jack had nothing to do so he sat down and prepared himself for eternal loneliness.
Hardly had 15 minutes passed when Jack noticed that surrounding area started to change. One-sided whiteness got various tones and endless horizon seemed like waving. Jack jumped up wondering. Soon everything was a mess of colours. Jack started to fear he was going crazy.
More flickering figures appeared and disappeared and Jack's anxiety got worse. Then he awoke.
- Congratulations, you are now immortal, was the first voice which Jack heard. Jack was a little confused. - And now that mission...
Chapter 6: The Man with Destiny
Jack looked back on how he had got into this situation and drove his work time car Wade Madre.
- Your mission, the Timbuktish gangster had begun his explanation, - is to save the world from the most disgusting creature that ever has been on the earth.
- And what could that be?
- It is a Swedish transvestite. It calls itself She-Man. That creature must be destroyed!
After a short inducing the gangster gave Jack a combination of drivers license and license to kill: the driver's license to kill. Jack flew to Sweden and started to search She-Man.
Jack saw strange moving on the bank of the road and stopped. He looked carefully the thicket but saw nothing. He had just started up the car when something jumped onto the bonnet. Jack knew it was She-Man and accelerated. She-Man bumped against the windshield. Jack braked and took his very effective pistol.
Jack opened the door and shot straight four bullets in She-Man's head. Jack looked down to his accomplishment and was proud of it. Then he peacefully put the barrel to his mouth and pulled the trigger.
This was his destiny.
Epilogue
Jack woke up in a dim-litted room. He had a clear vision of blowing his head off. Apparently, something had gone wrong.
- Don't worry, someone said. - We made you immortal, you think you could kill yourself that easily?
Jack noticed obvious flaw in his decision.
- Now come, we have a mission for you.