Harry and his closest friend and partner Oggy the dishwasher decide to go for a walk through

the desert.

"Oggy, you are the only person I can trust it seems. I feel like the whole world is falling

down on me," Harry confesses, his eyes looking downward.

"You don't have to say a word, Harry. I feel all of your sorrow inside of me. Your heartbeat

and lifebreath are my heartbeat and lifebreath."

After several hours the two men become very thirsty.

"Isn't there a way that you can drink the water out of a cactus?"

Oggy shrugs his shoulders.

Fearing they might die of dehydration, the men resort to drinking each other's urine. Harry

kneels down in front of Oggy and drinks.

"Mmmm, thank you Oggy. Now your turn."

Oggy does the same and for a moment they feel better. They continue their journey, occasionally

passing by the bleached white bones of humans past. They finally come to the large, ruby red

pyramid.

"Here it is, Harry. I told you it was here."

"How do we get inside?" Harry asks.

"Nobody knows. I was hoping maybe you held the secret."

The men notice a rectangular indentation near the base of the pyramid, about 5 feet 8 inches

high.

"Try standing in the rectangle. Maybe it will open some sort of a portal."

Harry stands in the rectangle and sure enough the pyramid begins to crumble.

"Get out of there, Harry! It'll crush you!"

Harry dives out of the way just in time and rolls into Oggy's arms. The pyramid crumbles as the

desert floor shakes and shifts. After the smoke clears all that is left is a large, metallic

red sphere. An almost electrical humming can be heard and felt all around the area. Harry and

Oggy slowly approach the sphere.

"GYYZZZAAA STOP RIGHT THERE."

A robotic voice commands them.

"HARRY AND OGGY. I AM MILO LEE SAMPSON MACHINE MAN. TELL ME YOUR DESIRES."

"Uhh.hh..hhh...hello Mr. Sampson. We desire to enter the sphere."

"YOU MUST FIRST EAT OF THE RED SACRAMENT."

The men hadn't noticed before, but a flaky, bread-like residue is left on the ground in the

area near the sphere. Harry scoops up a bit and eats it, as does Oggy. The food has an almost

undetectable metallic aftertaste.

"Ok, Mr. Sampson. Now may we enter the sphere?"

Without a reply, the gigantic sphere opens up into a many pointed claw from the top, much like

a Venus Flytrap. The men are suddenly filled with incredible warmth and love, as a red

pulsating heat and light stretches within their bodies and across their plane of vision.

Harry turns his head in the direction of Oggy as a slow motion strobe light pattern manifests

itself in this split second of time, the tiniest spilling of adrenaline in Harry's chest

cause the boys for a moment to feel as though they were acting out a silent movie in reverse.

A huge smile creeps up on Harry's face. The top of his head emits a beam of light upwards

while a sensation of warm water flows downwards, hugging the back of his neck and cheeks,

making its way down his spine, coming back around and meeting in the center of his chest.

He feels like a newborn baby being cradled in his mother's arms. But the molecules that hold

his body together are moving farther and farther away from each other.

"This is it!" Harry screams, his voice seemingly coming from underground.

To be continued....