Cyber Fear

By Andre Barker

...but they were wrong.

The Inner Circle is a criminal organization, created by the local gangs to prevent continuous warfare amongst themselves. In short, The Curst Flats was now governed by vicious, but highly sophisticated gangsters.

The streets and all public places were now suddenly red danger zones. Places where drugs are sold openly and anyone could be kidnapped to the local slave-pens.

And this is where we meet Alina Perito, a beautiful nineteen year old student who had been earmarked by The Inner Circle. She is not only a prime candidate for the slave-markets, but also carries a unique DNA set that The Inner Circle needs to strengthen its grip on The Curst Flats.

Once Alina meets Alek, it becomes a fast moving journey of extreme resistance and red-hot action as the two of them show The Inner Circle they are not all that.

Welcome to a world unlike any other you have ever visited in a book.

We hope you can take the intensity and velocity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bakerman Books
• Release date: Apr 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463942550

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Foreword

In 2041 the world is not what it once was. Things have changed so dramatically that someone from the twentieth century would never recognize the world he was so used to in his day.

In the Southern Republic, a land filled with controversy since the beginning of time, there is an area called The Curst Flats. When the corrupt Zhwando government lost control of The Curst Flats in 2021, it was immediately replaced by The Inner Circle. The Inner Circle was a much more effective government than the Zhwandoes ever were, but there was one problem.

The Inner Circle was the organization created by the criminal gangs of the area to prevent continuous gang-war.

In short: the Curst Flats was now ruled by vicious gangsters.

The citizenry had become mere fodder in the battles that now rage in the townships and cities of The Curst Flats. These are battles fought by invisible enemies that cares not one bit for the people of The Curst Flats. And the people are helpless.

The first rule the Zhwando government brought in was that no citizen should own or have any type of firearm, whether legal or not. In a campaign that lasted two years, guns and ammunition were forcibly removed from the hands of all private citizens. Criminals were of course allowed to keep theirs.

And now the citizenry are powerless against the violent and uncaring soldiers of The Inner Circle.

Since the beginning of time this part of the Republic had been occupied by the fierce, but peaceful Atana people. The Atana worked willingly with the Europeans who colonized the land. In doing this they reached great heights and became known all over the world.

After the 1994 incident, the Atana, with the Blondes, were fiercely oppressed by the corrupt Zhwandoes. The Atana swore revenge against all their enemies.

In addition to all of this, young women and girls are now kidnapped from the streets of the townships. These girls are sold as slaves or forced into prostitution.

This is the tale of such a girl. Welcome to a world unlike any other you have visited before. Welcome to The Curst Flats.

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Love

André Barker

Friday 03 April 2020

Are You Bullet Proof

One

When Alek got onto the Metro train, he made sure that he got a seat where he could easily watch her, but without her seeing him.

She was a beautiful girl and he thinks he fell in love with her the moment he saw her that morning on the campus. How else? She had a face that could only have been created by the greatest artist in heaven. Add to that her permanent smile and one suddenly had beauty beyond compare. For real. And she had this walk on her that gave one no choice but to notice her. It was as if she was walking to some masterful jazz permanently playing in her head.

Really, this girl was the pinnacle of female beauty.

Most importantly, the flexi-drones marked her as a positive, so she is exactly what he wants.

In more ways than one.

The train gives a mighty jerk and then it pulls off to speed over the rails to their destination. From where he sits he can clearly see her. She is sitting in her seat, looking down at the screen of the phone in front of her. There are ear-buds in her ears, so he has to assume she is either listening to music or watching a movie on her phone.

What a beautiful sight.

He was definitely going to make a point of having a long conversation with her tomorrow. He doesn't want to bother her here on the train, as she is on her way home after a tiring day at university. She has other things on her mind now and an interruption would be rude. Always start fresh on a new day was always his philosophy.

And then all the poetry he had in his heart at that moment, all the beautiful fantasies that were already flowing through his mind; come crashing down to the concrete of reality.

Two huge men with cold eyes were approaching her through the crowd of people on the train. He could see how people quickly and fearfully opened up a path for these men.

No wonder.

These two were criminal gangsters. He immediately recognized them as the worse type you get. They were not only gangsters, but highly trained and not like the usual street-scum that one encounters in the townships. Both were dressed in the charcoal colored pants with the blue stripe of the Doombringer gang.

Damn, Doombringers.

Slave hunters.

From the easy way in which the two moved, he could clearly see that they are in the gym a lot. They were big and strong like the front row players of a rugby team. It even appears as if they were enhanced.

Most importantly, they were clearly coming straight for the girl. Yes, she was definitely their target. It is general knowledge that once the Doombringers target a person, that person is literary doomed.

Damn, this is not good. This is not good at all.

Two

There's a scared murmuring in the carriage now, as people slowly, but surely start to move away from wherever the Doombringers were going to. None of these commuters want to mess with Doombringers or draw their attention in any way. This meant...

The girl is on her own.

She, herself is not even aware of what is going on yet, due to the loud audio in her ears.

As the two huge gangsters sit down next to his love, Alek gets up immediately and hastily walks over to her.

Ignoring the Doombringers, who sits virtually on top of her now, he lightly touches the girl's shoulder and smiles down at her. She looks up, recognizes him and immediately smiles beautifully back. She also immediately takes the earphones from her ears and keep them in her hand. Good, she can still remember him.

Can you come over here with me? He says. He had already taken her hand and tries to pull her up from her seat.

She now looks about as she senses the fear in the carriage. Then she sees the two Doombringers sitting tightly next to her on both sides.

Everybody living on The Curst Flats knows about the Doombringer gang. Of all the gangs they are the most feared, as they abduct people, especially young girls directly from the streets to be sold into slavery.

A girl like her would truly be a great catch for such a gang, as they would get a huge price on the slave markets of the Middle East for her. But she could also be used on The Curst Flats if they are so inclined. Slaves are used in various sectors on The Curst Flats, especially the underground entertainment industry.

And now the action starts.

With him interfering, the one Doombringer immediately puts his one arm over the girl to prevent her from getting up and going with Alek.

The other Doombringer violently pushes Alek away from the girl.

Go bother someone else; this is not your affair, foont. The gangster says in his rough street voice as he looks up at Alek. His voice makes it very clear that there will be dire consequences should he pursue his quest of getting the girl away from them.

It is also clear that everybody in that coach knows what is happening here. No one is looking towards them and the people closes to them slowly moves away to other more crowded parts of the speeding carriage. It is also clear that no one in the crowd will help the girl or even attempt to help her. The crowd can even attack the gangsters as a whole, but every individual is too scared to do that, which means the crowd is too scared to do that.

Ah, sorry, man...I'm getting in your space. Alek says as he passively starts to back off.

This is The Curst Flats and the gangsters rule here. The gangster smiles knowingly to himself as he sees Alek showing the action one would expect of him in such a situation.

Alek looks at the girl and sees the absolute fear on her face now that she realizes the serious situation she is in. Everybody knows there is no escape from the Doombringers. They use high-tech gadgets to catch and secure their quarry. The men themselves are well trained and experienced. They have a counter measure for anything a potential slave might use in trying to escape them.

The Curst Flats is dominated by gangsters. The people living on The Curst Flats are only there to be customers and victims of the gangs. The powerful gangsters know people are very scared of them and won't do anything to help the girl.

Hi there, girlie. The Doombringer with his arm on the girl says as he looks at her with a friendly, smiling face. We have something very nice for you, but you will have to come with us to get it. No-no, we won’t accept no for an answer.

The girl looks with extreme fear on her face up at him.

Is what she had been fearing her whole life long about to happen to her? Is she about to be taken into slavery where she will live a life of misery and never see her family again? Slaves don't live long. They have no rights and no benefits. But the short time that they do live is pure hell.

Oh God please help me in my hour of distress. Alek hears her murmuring the prayer of the persecuted.

Alek turns around and walks straight back to the gangster that chased him off before.

Three

Are you bullet proof? Alek suddenly asks as he looks down on the gangster. There's a slight smile on Alek’s face now and the tone of his voice had changed. It is now cold and calculated. Calculated to produce anger.

He knows that his lack of fear will anger the gangster even more than his arrogant outlook. But anger in the gangster is exactly what he wants. Anger makes one careless.

Foont, are you here again. DIDN'T YOU HEAR ME THE FIRST TIME? The Doombringer almost screams now, as his big Rapid Fire Blaster appears in his hand as if by magic.

This is what Alek had been waiting on.

Alek's movement is fast and violent. His movements are so powerful that a surge of pure energy seems to ripple through the train carriage now.

He grabs at the gun hand, hitting at the one nerve between the ring finger and middle finger. That will make the gangster loose all control over his hand.

The gangster's hand muscles go slack all at the same time and he loses control over his gun.

Alek makes another violent movement which causes the gun to fly up into the air and then roll over the floor of the train carriage.

A collective drawing of breath goes out from the other passengers, who now look even more out by the windows or at the small screen of their phones in front of them. Whatever is happening here, they do not want to get involved. This is a matter of life and dead for all of them. A man is going to die here today and a girl is going to be taken away into slavery. They admire this young man who is trying to save the girl, but they don't want to get involved.

They know that one single young man doesn't have a chance against the Doombringers.

Before the Blaster had reached the floor, Alek had already pulled the now very surprised gangster up onto his feet and away from the girl.

What looks like a thousand very fast, but also very powerful blows explodes over the big man's chest, his stomach and in between his legs. When Alek delivers the last blow, the gangster falls down to the floor on his knees, with blood streaming out of him like little rivers of red.

With a surprised look on his face the gangster looks up at Alek, before darkness grabs him and pulls him into glorious unconsciousness.

Anyone who is looking now would see that it now looks as if the Doombringer is made up purely of blood. He looks like a figure made out of red clay. Blood is gushing from his mouth and seemingly even from his eyes. The front of his shirt and pants are soaking in blood. Small pools of blood are forming all around him on the floor of the speeding train-coach.

If anyone on the train has the speed vision enhancement done to their eyes, that someone would have seen the detail of that series of thunderous blows Alek had just given the man.

Each blow had a certain movement to it, done in such quick succession that it looked like one movement. First the fist exploded against his flesh, next three fingers came out to look for specific nerves and blood vessels. Thirdly those fingers made a complex movement to deliver unbearable pain to the nerve endings and break the vessels to release blood.

So although his bloodied body looks terrible, it is not the blood that is the problem. The rupture of the blood vessels is so minute that the body can repair it almost instantly. The main thing is the incredible pain that now racks his body. To the overconfident Doombringer it feels as if he has been dipped in fresh, boiling lava.

This is pain his mind can't take and the brain switches everything off, as he falls down hard onto the floor in glorious unconsciousness.

The other gangster, who had only been concentrating on the girl and never even looked at Alek, now looks up at him. There is clearly a surprised look on his face as he sees what happened to his comrade. But he tries to hide the surprised look as quickly as it appears.

Seeing his mate get beaten up in such an efficient manner makes the big gangster to get up with speed.

He also moves towards Alek with such great speed that there is no possibility for Alek to get out of the way. He immediately knocks Alek down with a heavy enhanced fist. This powerful blow makes Alek to slide over the smooth floor of the coach.

A Nerve Eliminator appears in the Doombringer's hand. This is one of the favorite weapons of the Doombringers. Anyone who is not willing to come with them gets shot with this gun. The invisible ray it emits causes incredible pain all over the body and causes the nerve endings to fry up, making you to lose control over all your muscles. The effect lasts for ten minutes and in that time you are put in a slave harness that will leave you under the complete control of the slave hunters.

With the Nerve Eliminator the gangster was firstly going to switch off all the nerve endings in Alek's body, so that he would be powerless. And then he would cut him into little pieces with his big knife. Right here in front of everybody. Once again people would see that the gangs would not accept any resistance against their reign of terror. Here on The Curst Flats they can do whatever they wanted to do.

People must simply accept that.

Four

The gangster will soon find out that he is mistaken today.

His assumption that he was dealing with an ordinary citizen here, will today cost him his life.

As Alek slides over the floor, after the powerful blow the gangster gave him, he picks up the fallen Blaster. While still sliding over the smooth floor he aims and shoots directly at the gangster's hand. The Nerve Eliminator flies from the Doombringer's hand, leaving his hand bloodied.

People are screaming and scrambling away trying to leave the coach as quickly as they can now. They are also openly looking at the fight now. This is the first time they see something like this. They had never seen anyone openly fighting or resisting Doombringers or any other gangster for that matter.

Phone cameras are suddenly recording and there are even two camera drones in the air near the fight.

Alek drops the Blaster and runs full speed towards the big gangster who is still looking at his bloodied hands, where the Eliminator had been seconds before. Alek jumps on him and brings him down to the floor of the train coach. Then he starts hitting him in the face with his bare fists. These are hard and brutal blows that echoes through the train-coach.

But the Doombringer brings his legs around and locks it over Alek's body. With a powerful movement the Doombringer brings Alek over his head and make him fall away from him. Before Alek can react, the gangster moves and picks him up with both hands and lifts him up to the ceiling of the train-coach. He knocks Alek's head hard against the metal ceiling.

But with both his hands holding his adversary up, the Doombringer's face is now fully exposed. Alek hits his nose with a rabbit fist. The shock and pain that goes through the gangster makes him to forget everything for a while and he let go of Alek, making him fall onto the floor. Alek is up immediately.

He hits out at the gangster's face. Very hard. With the sound of the blow vibrating through the carriage. The gangster tries to hit out, but Alek grabs his arm and turns it violently to one side.

Then the gangster screams out in pain, as the loud crack of the bone in the arm can be clearly heard.

There's a slight smile on Alek's face as he now smacks the gangster violently and continuously in the face, making his cheeks glow red.