Van Man
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About
Van Man
May 30 1977
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits.
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.
The Spirit of the RMS Titanic
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.
Timeline
1912: RMS Titanic sinks on April 15, with great loss of life.
1977: Van Man was born in California at an unknown location inside of a UFO. His mother was an alien/mouse hybrid. He was put into an incubator because his fur was turning yellow. He stayed in California for 4 days and was sent to Area 51 where he had lived until the age of 18.
1981: Titanic's birth at Belfast, Ireland.
1985: At 8 years old, Van Man started his interest on the RMS Titanic when the wreckage was found in September.
1989: Van Man was 12 years old when the Rescue Rangers was established.
1993: Van Man met Gadget at Go-Coaster at Toontown, Disneyland.
2004: Van Man joined the Acorn Cafe in New York City in January.
2011: Writing started on his Titanic and Close Encounters of the Third Kind project.
2012: Writing will be completed with pictures.
Chapter 1
In 1990, Van Man, is a 13 year old boy living in Ohio. The story starts just after the funeral for Joe's mother, who was crushed to death in an industrial accident. She was not supposed to have been working that day but Louis Dainard, an alcoholic who had been drinking that morning called in sick. Louis' daughter, Alice attends the same school as Van Man. Four months later, unlicenced Alice uses her father's car to take Van Man and his friends Charles, Preston, Martin and Tom to an old train depot to shoot a zombie movie on Super 8 mm film. During the production, they witness a pick-up truck drive onto the tracks towards an oncoming train, causing a massive derailment. The kids approach the truck and discover Dr. Woodward, their biology teacher, behind the wheel of the truck. He instructs them to forget what they saw - otherwise, they and their families will be killed. The Air Force arrives to secure the crash site while the kids flee. However, the commanding officer, Colonel Nelec finds one of the used film camera boxes that the kids left behind.
After days of strange phenomena (pets running away, microwaves disappearing, car engines vanishing, people being abducted), the Air Force deliberately starts a wildfire outside the town to give them a pretense to evacuate the entire population to the local Air Force base. While there, Van Man runs into Louis, who tells him that a creature abducted Alice.
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Inside one of the larger cubicles, which had been designed to resemble a small chapel, a strange service was taking place. Twelve men, in red jumpsuits, holding helmets, with life-support packs on their backs, were kneeling in front of another man dressed in a white jumpsuit.
"May the Lord be praised at all times," the priest intoned.
"My God grant us a happy journey," the astronauts responded.
"Lord, show us your ways." "And lead us along your path."
"By the guidance of a star, grant these pilgrims, we pray, a happy journey and peaceful days so that with Your divine angel as their guide they may reach their destination..."
In another cubicle, Van Man was now dressing in a red jumpsuit similar to the astronauts'. He caught sight of the twelve astronauts filing out of the chapel , and then he and the master of the ceremonies left their cubicle and joined the procession. The procession was now surrounded by dozens of little visitors, chittering and blinking. Obviously, they wanted the line to halt.
Two of the humanoids entwined themselves around Van Man and separated him from the others. Then they left him standing there alone, as if free to make up his mind.
Van Man turned and took the first step forward. Then he started walking slowly, then faster toward the ship's negative gravity zone, and the fiery lighted opening.
