5. The Dangerous Business of Going Out Your Door...
...Is Actually What Awaits When You Return! 🛸 Episode 5 of the Intergalactizen's Guide to Taming Earthlings: Season 1
[Setting: Modern England, mid-summer
[While Jerry levitates in his bedroom for reasons he still cannot understand…he watches a 3D virtual reality helplessly of ex-con Freddie searching the neighborhood for Jerry’s best friend Declan.
[Simultaneously, the oblivious Declan attempts to follow the absolutely insane instructions about how to find an enchanted wand in the nearby Forest of Bere that will make his wife believe everything he says (so that he can convince her to move before people find out he accidentally demolished the wrong house).]
As Jerry continued waving his arms and legs around in the desperate hopes of bumping into something that could give a clue as to where he was, he muttered to himself, “Fuck virtual reality.” Jerry was finding it hard to locate his phone when he didn’t even know where the floor was anymore, or whether he was actually moving, or whether the entire vision of Declan’s world around him was moving, or both.
Below Jerry, the entire expanse of Declan’s neighborhood lay spread out, a perfectly pastoral, peaceful place, except of course for the banging sounds of Ever-Ready Freddie beating down the wooden fence at the back of Declan’s house in his search to murder him.
Declan himself was now several blocks away though, and he couldn’t hear any of that commotion because Declan was in the habit of forgetting to take out his earplugs when he was done with his daily demolition work.