Star-Runner

An American academic is immersed into a cyber-adventure of chase-and-death after engaging with a terrorism-financing she-devil!

A survival fantasy-adventure tale inspired by the civilization-labyrinth themed democracy franchise Tron. Enjoy! 

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A capitalism-cyber scholar at the University of Colorado named Amlan Satan (code-name: Storm-Shadow) finds himself marked by a gang of psycho-terrorists employed by blood-diamond barons investing in terrorism-financing and threatened by Satan's brand of anti-terrorism academics.

Satan is a real nerdist of capitalism grids and simply considers himself a diplomat of modern civilization agility and cash dynamics and does not consider himself a threat to anyone, but this gang of psychos have nevertheless targeted the poor nerd.

SATAN: I just finished a nice little kids' stick figure comic-book pencil doodle of the eccentric Batman and his heroine-wife.

Satan the Colorado-scholar's simply minding his business at his academic institution when the psycho-gang finds him and declares him an Enemy-of-the-State for his apparent failure to honor the radical excitement of terrorism-financing, and therefore he's been considered worthy of bloody murder. The psychos sent to murder poor Satan include a maniac-girl named Virginia who's wielding a pair of very large scissors, spelling doom for the Satan of Colorado. However, she's arrested and interrogated by the Colorado campus sheriff and requests an audience with Dr. Satan while she's incarcerated safely/securely.

SATAN: What the hell do you want, psycho-girl?
VIRGINIA: I want to play jacks-and-ball with you across my jail food-slot (safely!).

SATAN: What would that reveal exactly?

VIRGINIA: I want you to see if you can grab more jacks-pieces with the hop-ball than me!

SATAN: And if I do?
VIRGINIA: If you succeed, you'll have a dream-sleep tonight and envision a cyber-grid for escape.

SATAN: Who'd be my stalker-pursuer in this 'cyber-grid' in my dream-sleep, should I defeat you in jacks?

VIRGINIA: First you must win in jacks; afterwards, I'll give you a special herbal dream-induction pill.

Dr. Satan manages to defeat the incarcerated Virginia in the simple jacks-ball pick up contest and therefore earns the right to take her herbal dream-sleep pill to be induced into his night-adventure that evening, which he concedes to do given the strange 'challenge' posed by this psycho-girl who obviously wants to 'test' his academic mettle now that she's been jailed, and he honestly feels safe engaging with her in a psychological manner and dreaming of a potential 'cyber-matrix' while sleeping to simply put this terrorism-theater behind him.

When Satan wakes in this dream-sleep, he finds himself wandering around a completely cybernetic grid which resembles some kind of alternative universe constructed of lines of laser-energy and planar fields of marked grids which have to be respected for any 'star-runner' or bike-rider who's mission is to evade the Hunters who track/chase them along this geometric cyber-grid.

Satan is escorted into the executive office of this cyber-challenge system called TRON and meets the head master named Clu who explains he must evade the Hunters during his grid bike-run lest he be sent to complete oblivion, and Dr. Satan (Amlan!) remarks how remarkable this entire 'cyber-estate' appears.

SATAN: To endure this chase-game on this cyber-grid of death-hunting, I have to ride my cyber-bike like an acrobat.

Dr. Satan is offered some pre-chase training aboard his special big cyber-bike and quickly adapts and learns to bow and weave through the various geometric lines and corners and edges of complete cyber-shape contours and discovers he's quite good at being something of a thinking acrobat on his cyber-bike...a real dancer!

Satan avoids the hunters on their own cyber-bikes from the very start of the grid-chase experience. It dawns on Dr. Satan (Amlan!) that this cyber-hunt experience is nothing less than a soul-immersion into the metaphysical experience of 'becoming' an acrobat of cyber-bike riding and maneuvering. He has to evade the bright orange Hunter-bike aboard his handsome/dashing blue cyber-bike, and ultimately he's able to speed past and around a corner to evade the orange Hunter-bike by creating a special/swift turn-ride of ultra-diagonals.

DR. SATAN: I give thanks to Jesus for this metaphysics ability to transcend grid-Hunter bikes with lines of dreams.

"When I woke from this horrific dream, I learned I 'passed' young Virginia's magic-exam intended to prove I'm a real dancer."

DOCTOR: So what's the message of this Colorado hunting mission?
VIRGINIA: We sought to prove Dr. Satan may be humbled by cyber-imagery!
DOCTOR: How's that?
VIRGINIA: He'd been studying capitalism dynamics in labyrinths --- shapes of dollars.
DOCTOR: So?
VIRGINIA: He needed to find his own strength in grid-flexibility --- a motion test!
DOCTOR: You sought to 'test' a government analyst of terrorism-financing?
VIRGINIA: Sure.
DOCTOR: Why?
VIRGINIA: We wished to see if he's a real 'thinker' of capitalism geometry.
DOCTOR: Since Satan passed this imagination-test, what's your statement, Virginia?
VIRGINIA: He's managed to escape a true Death-Game of capitalism-dawn.

DOCTOR: Cool.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)