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Homer, nervous puttering around in the China Sea, takes Simon, Lee, Alex (who appears
to have been working out and is much more muscular), Gen, and DaFeng to Monkey Island.
Lee is wearing an outrageous sleeveless short cut shirt with a half of it semiómesh.
Lee pretends, as they launch a dinghy to visit DaFeng's tribe, they are on Treasure
Island. Simon says, "Ah..die off." Alex, wearing a cap, an open jungle
jacket with no shirt beneath says, "What a dink." The guys good naturedly
tease each other. Lee bounces off the walls, mentioning snakes which makes Simon
nervous. Alex wonders if they deliver pizza. DaFeng gets a sudden chill. DaFeng hits
a gong at a temple, the best way to call the tribe to him. About four come out, one
is called Che. One (Che?) gets shot by youngóish somewhat Oriental looking jungle
fighters. DaFeng gets Simon down but Lee and Alex are captured. Gen asks a drinking
Homer if he heard shots. The jungle fighters take the two to a fort where an old
man leader with glasses is. He feels that no amount of education does these wild
boys any good. A buck toothed boy is grabbed by DaFeng and Simon gets his rifle.
The boy tells DaFeng that his tribe is no more: either dead, slaves, or reóeducated.
The Kamir Rouge owns this island. The boy tells Simon that he ran from Kamir Rouge
once before, "Have you already forgotten?" Simon tells him nothing is forgotten
(an earlier adventure). DaFeng hits the boy down. Lee and Alex are only in their
bathing suits, tied to a horizontal piece of wood while a man with a spiked tool
threatens torture. The boys who warned DaFeng and Simon are being tortured behind
them in some cave. General Fan questions them; Alex tells him they were on their
way to Disney World and took a wrong turn. A boy pushes Lee's head back when he makes
a similar comment. Fan seems to stick Alex but is only really punching him. Fan tells
his boys to put Alex and Lee in the pit. Kimi, a boy is an aide to Fan. Their first
target is Vietnam and then Asia, spreading out from the islands. Alex is a clone...a
later batch than Hotachi's and the last group with special powers. There are other
half naked, tied, long haired boys in the pit with Alex and Lee. Simon puts on the
captured boy's uniform and his gun. DaFeng has the boy gagged and in only his shorts.
He could "finish him off right here" but he is hoisting him up on a thick
vine, head facing the ground. Alex's spectral self astral projects to DaFeng and
Simon to tell them what is happening. Simon has seen Alex do this before but not
this clear. The two boys leave the fighter hanging upsidedown and Simon looks back
at him, smiling. |