Pine-Barrens: A Detention Mystery

A Story by Abishai100

Homeland detective-exorcists investigate an 'invasion' lore in Jersey invoking images of a 19th-Century (London) imp culturally 'chess-tied' with Luciferian banks.

A grand Homeland epic superstition 'faerie-tale' featuring the horror-avatar Creeper (Jeepers-Creepers) and a reference to the cryptic-imp specter Spring-heeled Jack (old-London lore) and drawn loosely from varied The X-Files (Fox-TV) media/storyboards. Thanks for reading!

DISCLAIMER: This work of 'fanfiction' contains images/references with no commercial/explicit ties to any representative person(s)/body and is therefore cast as purely a 'personal' expression (for 'open' allegory).

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AMLAN: This Pine-Barrens axe-hands zombie-specter is Spring-heeled Jack.

MARCUS: Amlan thinks our 'Creeper' is that old-London imp (Devil?) reborn.

EZZY: If it's true, we'll need to add 'exorcist-IQ' to this detective-story, friends!

DANICA: Perchance this is social-media citizenry comment friendly (for lore).

AMLAN: If Spring-heeled Jack was the Devil, tied with other 'stuff' on Earth?

MARCUS: Maybe the Devil sought post-WWII Roswell-invasion paranoia too.

EZZY: Well, let's say 'Creeper-Jack' is some (half-known) Earth coverup.

DANICA: A conspiracy blending aliens and Lucifer sounds Facebook-joke like!

AMLAN: We'd make for a cool X-Files fan-forum comment for the Pine-Barrens.

MARCUS: Let's doubt 'Creeper-Jack' is (also) the Jersey Devil (Facebook-like).

Our Homeland quartet of would-be heroic detective-exorcists (Amlan and Marcus and Ezzy and Danica) drew inspiration from varied media and folklore to blend a special inquiry-worksheet panel-sets to erect this stranger superstition 'image' of the haunting/sighted zombie-specter named 'Creeper' as a reincarnated Spring-heeled Jack (a 19th-Century old-London street-imp messenger of traffic and life/superstitions 'terrorism' or 'invasion' paranoia). Our Homeland quartet of detective-exorcists called themselves the 'Reliables' (a loose team-nickname 'cool'-reference to the conception of structured/patterned pro-civilization logistics Rationalism or 'defense-statement' for mysteries of invasion/terrorism/perturbation inquiry. Amlan had been an avid-fan of X-Files (paranormal/alien/conspiracy franchise) comics and video-games and wondered if this 'Creeper-Jack' was a manifestation of Lucifer (the Devil) seeking some Earthling social-media/cyber-net activity superstition 'challenge' for all things relevantly Rationalist for bureaucracy's veils (or unwinding).

AJAY: I'm Amlan's twin-brother, separated at-birth, Reliables.

RELIABLES (Amlan/Marcus/Ezzy/Danica): You've read our pre-work files online?

AJAY: In deed; it's great, Reliables; I sought to reunite with my twin-bro now!

RELIABLES: So, you're intrigued by our 'Creeper-Jack' theory (Pine-Barrens).

AJAY: It's a note to think those Jersey-woods are haunted by Jersey-Devil IQ.

RELIABLES: And you concur with relevance-image for Spring-heeled Jack!

AJAY: In deed; that 19th-C. London-imp was perchance Lucifer, for terrorism!

RELIABLES: You (also) liked our post-WWII Roswell-invasion 'paranoia' language.

AJAY: In deed; if Lucifer hates Man, he may create 'mysteries' of fear/doubt.

RELIABLES: What added hypothesis do you offer, to join our team/force, Ajay?

AJAY: What I'd tell Ajay...consider me a 'sleuth' for this Pine-Barrens disclosure.

RELIABLES: Bureaucracy-gold (for social media comment, awesome).

AJAY: Good to complement your 'leviathan' font (let's proceed, heroes).

Well, as the curious eccentric 'sleuth' (Ajay) joined the Reliables, our Homeland quintet now sought a special Pine-Barrens 'dry-excellence' for explorations of the Devil's interest in invasion/terrorism/superstition fears and fog for Homeland/Earthling consciousness. Did the Amercian government (itself) cover-up some finding concerning Roswell-marks revealing some 'tie' with some religious dogma implications for violations/temptations of mankind-civilization 'vanities' concerning the extra-terrestrial space-race, and if so, would Lucifer (the Devil) manifest himself as a 'culture' provocateur, or even 'terrorist' (like Spring-heeled Jack) to create Pine-Barrens goosebumps in the 21st-Century of 'incomplete-distances' to transit-securities for 'psyche' light?

CREEPER-JACK: Welcome, Reliables!

RELIABLES: You know our team-alias, Devil?
CREEPER-JACK: I'm psychic, almost like your Earth God(s).

RELIABLES: We've the hunch you're Spring-heeled Jack...or Lucifer masked!

CREEPER-JACK: If I was, I'd require special exorcist-statement 'stands' for IQ.

RELIABLES: We don't doubt that; you're behind vanishings/decapitations!

CREEPER-JACK: Bloody-murder tracks and disappearances in the Pine-Barrens?

RELIABLES: This Homeland-Jersey forest is 'rich' with Jersey-Devil lore, Jack!

CREEPER-JACK: I'm no angel; my message concerns superstition of the dark-IQ.

RELIABLES: We've grounded your bat-wing flight in the forest with flare-light.

CREEPER: Unlike that London-Jack, I wear hat-and-coat; and axes-hands.

RELIABLES: This is quite a traffic-image for superstitious 'alien' stuff, Jack.

CREEPER: It's why I require (now) a 'special' exorcist-statement from you now!

RELIABLES: Perchance this will spare us and make for bureaucracy-art(s).

CREEPER: Proceed (for bureaucracy-direction)!

Wow, after our Reliables grounded the bat-winged soaring 'Creeper' with flare-gun shots, forcing a humility and exorcist-statement stand reception from the eerie/mysterious Pine-Barrens 'invader' with decapitation agenda for superstitions and bad-celebrity, they proceeded to attempt this special statement-stand 'defense' of Earthling culture, probing into Creeper-Jack's intentionality and cause for Homeland/American culture deformity in the 21st-Century.

The Reliables (Ajay/Amlan/Marcus/Ezzy/Danica) proudly declared modern Homeland/American/Earthling culture of social-media, consumerism, sportsmanship, networking, and religious lifestyle inventions signposts for all things psyche-cultivating and charged the 'Creeper' with creating a dark-magic 'devilish' paranoia image of the frailty of fortune and transit (through Pine-Barrens hyperbole and bad-news for everyday folks!).

CREEPER-JACK: You insist I'm Lucifer, Reliables.

RELIABLES: You must listen to our Earthling divinity-stand for net-chess IQ!

CREEPER-JACK: Proceed, with caution and preparedness, heroes.

RELIABLES: We've this Joe Montana QB-trophy (card) for Super Bowl lore, Jack.

CREEPER-JACK: I know it; a Cali-Homeland sports-gem for memoirs/IQ.

RELIABLES: We reference a media-fortune 'event' (Super Bowl '23), Devil.

CREEPER-JACK: I know it; 49ers-Bengals contour for diligence-style (duality!).

RELIABLES: Montana's late-game drive made for structure-chess in teamwork!

CREEPER-JACK: You claim this Earth-culture 'image' for traffic/life hype.

RELIABLES: Perchance you sought to 'blur' such fitness (in the past/present)?

CREEPER-JACK: If I am Lucifer or Spring-heeled Jack, you've made cardboard!

RELIABLES: Self-exile to the deep-ocean abyss as a (private) nihilist, Jack.

CREEPER-JACK: Why'd I forego a 'challenge' to Earthling-matter?

RELIABLES: For an 'organic' distance in Selfie-cubits.

CREEPER: Damn; bureaucracy-readings (in transit-bread).

RELIABLES: Farewell, Devil.

CREEPER: Farewell, Reliables.

Wow, after this micro-celebrity 'miracle' in those haunted Pine-Barrens (Homeland-Jersey), our heroic detective-exorcist Reliables quintet made for quite the secret journal post-write invoking all forms of conspiracy and transit-superstition image for a Homeland/Earthling 'confidence' in contact and invasion-paranoia for (generic) 'antiterrorism' parentheses. This would be nicely fitted into existing varied sci-fi/fantasy/metaphysics comics of the unusual variety, for Ajay, who was an amateur-artist of oddball-storytelling.

AMLAN: What's it, bro?
AJAY: A female-version of the Devil, as a 'premonition' messenger for Creeper!

AMLAN: To keep his ID secret while basking in our (own) relief (self-exile).

AJAY: A quality 'art(s)' for the Earth-superstition of 'transitory' customs.

AMLAN: Hmmm, maybe Lucif was behind Roswell-extreme language(s), Ajay.

AJAY: It's a mad world of incomplete-distances, Amlan...to field goal image.

AMLAN: Bureaucracy's corals, bro (awesome).