Chapter 22

Wednesday, November 28, 1979

For the first time in either one of my lives, I awoke snuggled up to a pretty young black woman. Missy was snuggled up to the other side of her. When I opened my eyes, I saw Missy looking at me, so I gave her a smile and said, {This seems natural, even though she's in another body, doesn't it?}

{Yeah, it's still our Sharon. You know, she could probably mold her body to look like the old Sharon. She could probably even change her skin color.}

{Let's get up and get some coffee going. We should let her sleep for a while.}

Missy and I got up and I got a pot of coffee going. When it was ready, I got us both a cup and we snuggled up on a loveseat. {Sharon and I talked about her changing her new body, but we decided against it. Sharon says she feels like it would be dishonoring Shaniqua's memory to change the body significantly. It doesn't matter to me what her body is like.}

{You're not going to miss Sharon's big tits?}

{Of course I will. Sharon had a beautiful body. I don't know how to explain it, but Sharon will be beautiful to me no matter what body she's in.}

Missy grinned and said, {That's love.}

It wasn't long before Jude joined us. We included her in our snuggle and not long after that, Sharon came out. Jude got her some coffee while Sharon settled onto my lap.

{How's the new body this morning, love?} I asked.

Sharon grinned and gave me a soft kiss before she said, {The new body feels just fine. It's still weak though, so I have to take it slow.}

{Don't worry about it being weak, Sharon, } Jude said. {We'll work on that.}

{Oh, I'm working on it right now. I've had a couple of cans of energy drink already and I plan to eat a big breakfast. I'm working on my muscles as we speak.}

Sharon did eat a big breakfast, then she said she was going to lie down for a while. When I asked her why, she said she was still exploring Shaniqua's memories.

The rest of us discussed going in to work for a while. Bonnie decided she had some things she needed to take care of and Missy wanted to look over some new properties one of her assistants had found. Tiffie had been studying under Bonnie, so she accompanied them.

Jude, Cindi and I decided to stay with Sharon. We didn't accomplish much, but we did do a lot of cuddling and that is worthwhile any time.

It was late afternoon when Sharon came back to where the rest of us were talking. She looked beat, but she also looked like something was bothering her.

{Is something wrong, honey?} I asked.

{Yes and no. I was poking around in Shaniqua's memories and I came up with a couple of things that bother me.}

{Like what?} Jude asked.

Sharon gave out a big sigh and snuggled in on my lap. {Well, first off, there is a fairly large group of people here in the bay area that are calling themselves the Aryan Majority. Shaniqua stumbled onto them by accident.}

I figured I knew the answer before I asked the question, but I asked it anyway. {What is the purpose of this Aryan Majority?}

{From what Shaniqua was able to find out, their ultimate purpose is to rid the United States and maybe even the world of anyone who is not Caucasian. Shaniqua's memories specifically include Jews, Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics. They throw in homosexuals of any race or gender for free.}

{Honey, there have always been and will always be hate groups. People with small minds think they are the only ones who should be allowed to live.}

{I know that, Mike, but these people are different. First off, they are very organized. They have a political arm and I guess for want of a better term, a military arm. The political arm is working for laws to support their beliefs. The military arm is planning to start a systematic assassination of all leaders in the different ethnic groups. From what Shaniqua was able to find out, they are going to start the killing on January 1, 1980. That's just over a month from now.}

{Do you have any idea who their first target is?} I asked.

{No, but I have some names of prominent members of the group. There is a state Senator, a couple of Judges, the mayor of Oakland, and the mayor of San Leandro. There are also several names that are just names to me.}

{You said a couple of things bothered you. Were both of them about the Aryan Majority?}

{No. Do you remember the evil we felt when we were coming through Redding a while back?}

{Yeah.}

{Well, Shaniqua was a very powerful telepath. She could actually feel that evil even here in the bay area. She was a little braver than we were and she did some probing to see what she could find out about it.}

{So, what did she find out?} Cindi asked.

{The evil isn't coming from just one entity. Shaniqua thought there were about a dozen of them. Her memories of the probing seem to indicate that they are all aware of each other and that they are working together.}

{What are they working together to do?} I asked.

{Shaniqua wasn't sure. She tried to probe for any other telepaths in the Redding area, but she couldn't find a single one. She was aware of several in this area. She was even aware of us and thought at times about contacting us. She was very shy though and she was afraid to contact any other telepath.}

{Was she afraid of the people up in Redding?} Jude asked.

{Deathly afraid of them. She thought if she could find another telepath in that area, she could probe them for information about the evil ones. When she couldn't find any others, it scared her even more because she thought the evil ones had probably done away with them.}

{Could she tell how strong they are?} I asked.

{No. She didn't think that any one of them was stronger that she was, but she wasn't sure of that.}

{So, now we have two things to worry about, } I said. {the Aryans and the evil ones. I'm afraid we're going to have to do something about both groups.}

Sharon went back to the bedroom and said she was going to do some more digging. All of our immediate family got together that evening and discussed the things Sharon had found out. We decided we needed more information before we tried to figure out what to do.

Thursday, November 29, 1979

Missy, Jude and I were up first of course and we discussed what we could do to get more information about the Aryan Majority. We came to the conclusion that we'd have to scan some or all of the people Shaniqua was aware of and see if we could come up with information about what they were planning.

Missy, Bonnie, and Tiffany needed to go into work again, so after they took off, the rest of us talked over what we were going to do. Sharon said she felt even better and stronger than she had yesterday, but she wanted to continue working on her new body and she wanted to sift through more of Shaniqua's memories. Jude and I decided we were going to pay a visit to the Mayor of San Leandro. Cindi said she'd stay with Sharon.

We went to the city office building in San Leandro. This was before all of the security measures were installed in later years. We looked at the directory and found the mayor's office was located on the third floor.

The hallway on the third floor was approximately ten feet wide. There were benches located down both sides of the hall, none were directly across from each other. We found the mayor's office and sat on one of the benches outside. We were lucky. The mayor was in his office.

Jude and I intensified out link, then invaded his honor's mind. It was a quagmire. He was talking with one of the leaders of the Asian community. His thoughts didn't match what he was saying at all.

The Mayor was saying, "Mr. Kuan, I can understand your concerns about racial prejudice. Let me assure you that this administration is sympathetic to your situation. We are doing and will continue doing everything in our power to make sure that any type of prejudice will soon be eliminated."

He was thinking, "Yeah, once we get rid of all of the gooks, we won't have any reason to be prejudiced. I'm going to make sure this little yellow bastard is at the top of our list for elimination. I just wish I could be the one to stick a knife in his gut."

{Shaniqua was right, } I said to Jude.

{Let's do a complete scan and see what kind of information we can come up with, } Jude said, nodding in agreement.

Jude and I were both feeling queasy by the time we finished with him. We did come up with quite a few names of members of the Aryan Majority. {Should we just turn him off?} Jude asked when we had finished scanning him.

{No. It may come to that, but I think we need to have a family meeting first. All of us need to talk over how we should attack this.}

<So, what's going on?> Ken asked when we were all gathered in the living room.

<The body Sharon is now inhabiting belonged to a girl by the name of Shaniqua Rollins. Shaniqua was probably about as strong a telepath as Cindi is. All of Shaniqua's memories are still intact, so Sharon started sorting through them so she could get a better idea of who the girl had been.>

Everyone seemed intent on what I was saying, so I went on. <Sharon came on two sets of memories that bothered her. The first has to do with the evil we felt when we were going through Redding a while back. The second concerns a group in the bay area that calls itself the "Aryan Majority".>

<Oh, shit!> Tim said. <Any group that calls itself the Aryan anything has to be bad.>

<Too true, > I said. <We'll talk about them in a minute. First, I'd like to say that the evil we felt in Redding doesn't appear to be an immediate threat, but it is something we'll have to do something about in the near future. It seems that Shaniqua was able to find out that this isn't a single entity as we had thought, but is a group of around twelve, very strong, telepaths. Shaniqua thought they were all working toward some common goal, but she didn't know what it was.>

<And you think they may be a danger to us?> Ken asked.

<I do. Shaniqua couldn't find a single telepath in Redding that wasn't part of that group. That tells me that they are either subverting them into their ways; killing them off; or the other telepaths are fleeing the area to get away from them.>

<I can see that, > Thelma said. <Is there anything we should be doing about them right now?>

<No. I think we should all be thinking about them though. With twelve strong minds linked together, they are going to be a formidable enemy. Someday we're going to have to take them on.>

<What about this Aryan Majority?> Tim asked.

<They are an immediate threat, not to us, but to thousands of others in this area. Their master plan is to rid the United States of anyone who isn't Caucasian. They intend to start this by executing the leaders of all of the minority groups. From what Shaniqua was able to learn, they plan to start these executions on January 1st.>

<Mike, there always have been and always will be hate groups. Do you think these people are a serious threat?> Annie asked.

<Yes, I do. For one thing, they are a large group. For another, they are well organized. For another, they have some very influential people as members. Right now, we know of a state senator, two state representatives, half a dozen California mayors, two US senators, half a dozen US representatives, and one cabinet member who are members of the group.>

<That is impressive, > Annie said. <Do we have any idea who they are going to hit?>

<Not really, > Jude said. <When we scanned the mayor of San Leandro this morning, he was talking to a Mr. Kuan. As he was talking he was thinking he was going to see that Mr. Kuan was at the top of the hit list.>

<Did the mayor know who had this hit list?> Annie asked.

Jude and I both smiled. <You're having the same thoughts we had, > Jude said. <There are only two people who have the complete list for the bay area. They are Senator Thurston and a guy by the name of Tommy Johnson. Evidently Thurston is the head of the political arm of the group and Johnson is head of the military arm.>

<We need that list so we can get these people some protection, > Annie said.