Jump Starting The Universe by John David Buchanan
Universes collide. Most beings throughout the universes are aware of that phenomenon, but people on earth – not so much. Certainly not Mark and Blackie or Wayne and when they rushed to load Wayne’s Chevy Nomad they didn’t have any idea the green tinted light bathing them in the parking lot was more than an impending hail storm. It was a mixing zone. A tiny sliver of space occupied by two overlapping universes.
When the universes pulled apart, the green light disappeared, and so did Mark, Blackie, Wayne, Amelia (who had just joined them), and a 1957 Nomad station wagon. There was no more parking lot, no more bar, and no Hell-Otis highway.
Celestial context now put them smack dab in the middle of a high plain on Alphus Nebulum. They had no idea where they were, or that they would soon be arrested. Lucky for them a prisoner in the cell next to theirs offered them his used Jump Starter. They escaped and were on the lam. After meeting some of the most interesting beings in that galaxy, they used the Jump Starter to avoid a unit of very angry soldiers. Nita came along for the ride, but now, they were lost again.
Wayne said he had an uncomfortable feeling that things were going to get weird – bass players are sometimes remarkably clairvoyant – although weird might have been a bit of an understatement. They met Tugurro, struck a business deal in lieu of payment for their lunch, and stayed at the strangest hotel they had ever seen. An emergency forced them to leave unexpectedly, and they found themselves smack dab in the middle of a meteorite shower.
After spending time with Sly and Vanessa, they returned to the Hotel Phoenix, assured that their previous experience was a fluke. It was there that they witnessed an attempted murder, and having been tipped off by the local police that the assassin’s boss didn’t care for witnesses, they fled. It pays to have friends, friends who can look after you when you don’t know what’s about to happen. Paxim may be the second best swordsman in the solar system.
They used the Jump Starter again and landed on Gafcon where Blackie met Joules at the city library. They became close friends and when Joules was attacked by Shumbrans, they all jumped-in to help her. It was then Blackie suspected something about Nita, and they all got to witness Joules use a talent she had suppressed since her childhood; a talent that would come in handy on more than one occasion.
After the incident at the museum, the six of them planned a trip to a lake in the mountains. On the return trip Wayne quickly realized they had a problem, a very big problem. Blackie had a ridiculous solution; regrettably, it was the best option they had. Mark gave him grief over it later. Given the same circumstances, you would have too!
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