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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4877761" data-attributes="member: 3285">Evil Stars: Part 5 – Billy Smash!Bekleys Auto Repair appeared to be just another small shop on Toronto’s south side. With its crumbling facade and dirty windows, few people gave the store more than a passing glance.  Inside, the repair shop looked even worse, with its peeling wallpaper, creaking floorboards and layers of dust thick enough for mice to ski on. Many of the people in the neighborhood wondered how Tom and Rose Bekley could support themselves with the meager few customers who wandered in every few weeks. Naturally, the police checked by occasionally to make sure the Bekleys weren’t selling drugs, or fencing stolen goods. But everything was legal and quite innocuous. The auto parts worked even if they were highly overpriced. There just weren’t any customers.However, Tom and Rose secretly worked for Majestic-12. Green Box #14 was a standard example of the storage facilities maintained by the Majestic-12 janitorial staff. Jim-Bean and Hammer dragged Billy into the room between them.  A nervous Star entered accompanied by Archive. Hammer nodded at Tom.  Tom nodded back and flicked a supposedly “broken” light switch behind the counter. It opened a reader for a Majestic-12 cistron in the bathroom.Hammer held up his cistron to the reader.  The wall slid back to reveal a hidden passage that led to a small elevator. They clambered into it. The elevator descended one hundred and forty feet down into the sub-sub-basement. The center floor of the warehouse had a small elevator capable of moving a six-foot square box. Below were three work areas. They dragged Billy to the labs.  The small testing and processing lab was common to Green Box facilities. A workshop filled the remaining space. It was stocked with raw materials and electronic replacement parts. At the end of the room were three ten-foot by ten-foot specialty rooms with double airtight doors. They trussed Billy up, upside down, hanging from a hook in the holding tank.  Hammer replaced Billy’s plastic handcuffs with steel-alloy manacles.  When they were sure he was secure, they closed and locked the massive door. Archive scribed something in chalk on the doorway.“What’s that?” asked Jim-Bean.“A ward,” said Archive.  “Just in case.”“That door is made of steel alloy. If that doesn’t keep him in there, nothing will,” said Hammer.They brought Star to the barracks.  After letting her clean herself up, she sat down in the kitchen. Hammer listened to her story while Jim-Bean and Archive raided the armory. “We were hired for the job by Howard Finley,” said Star, taking a drag on a new cigarette. “Finley arranged for us to leave the country for awhile when we were done.”“So you were paid to steal the creature from us?”Star nodded. “He paid us a total of $40,000, cash. Not bad for a couple of hours’ work. That doesn’t include the one-way airline tickets to get us out of Samson for awhile.”“Tell us about your boyfriend in there,” said Hammer. "I was dating Billy.  He's the leader of Satan's Sadists.  I don't know what I was thinking..." Star sighed. "But that's when things got weird.  Brianne Lochnar, the lead singer of God’s Lost Children, hired Billy's gang as security.  We traveled from place to place, and for a little while everything was good.  But then the monoliths started."“Monoliths?” asked Hammer. "Lochnar goes on these meditations between sets.  But it's more than a meditation.  She visits ancient burial mounds.  Sometimes there’s monoliths already there.  Other times, she hires concrete trucks and everything to build them. She even hires artisans to chisel words into them, I don’t know what they say. Then she sacrifices...things.  I never saw the rituals until the last time, and that's when I wanted out.”“What kind of things?’ asked Hammer.“She sacrificed…” Star shuddered.  "Kittens. She slit the poor things’ throats.  The sound was horrible!  Horrible!" Star shook her head.  "I freaked out.  Billy slapped me then.  I'm convinced Lochnar would have killed me right then and there if it wasn't for Billy, but I heard them whispering and I knew it was time to run.  So I fled, and Billy's been chasing me ever since--"The whole place shuddered just as Jim-Bean and Archive entered the room, loaded with explosives.“What was that?” asked Jim-Bean.There was the sound of sparks and a muffled explosion. “Billy,” said Archive grimly.  “He just set off the ward.”Hammer checked his pistols.  “I’ll take care of it.”Star’s eyes widened.  “He got out of that room?  The steel alloy room?”Jim-Bean shrugged as Hammer left to investigate.  “Hammer’s taking care of it,” he said confidently.</blockquote>

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