The Outback: Raven/Rich

Hero-type seeks post-Apocalypse merc-work worth a weight in Australian maps in-defense of village consciousness coaching.

Australia-set hero and villain tale. Thanks for reading (Happy Autumn, all) 

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"It was in the Outback that I, Rich, thought myself a simple cool Selfie-man of racer visage and off-road dirtbike and offroad-auto focus for armed post-Apocalypse heroics and vigilantism arm for earning money racing with wanderers and daredevils while protecting the meek from the reach of a new Earth hideous-one who called himself the Raven, a beard-man who was anything but Facebook-like."

RAVEN: You seek to secure this settlement of helpless-ones from my gargoyles?
RICH: I recount watching an old Earth cartoon as a lad, called Gargoyles, ok.

RAVEN: You're got quite the dart-mouth for things of shield-prayer as racer, fool.

RICH: I'm just a masked-racer in this new Earth seeking paid-heroics against ya.

RAVEN: You fail to down my racer-minions while securing this village with guns?

RICH: Then you run over it all with your post-Apocalypse beard grin, right?

RAVEN: You've guessed my omen metaphysics here, Rich (ok!).

RICH: I can't lose...I don't lend my skills for pay without promise of chance, sir.

RAVEN: We'll see (Facebook-like).

"Fortunately for me, Rich, the contest for payment and heroics was shrewdly-sought, by me, in-defense of this helpless settlement in the Australian Outback, one of those rare-bastions of lands of domain where survivors of the Apocalypse tried to negotiate some Selfie-survival in a Blue Planet of depression lacking waterways and cyber-roads of super-market conveniences of the heart (ok). I downed Raven's racers and used sharp water-guns loaded with HCL to disorient his gargoyles of Hell who'd not relent on fury and evil lest they be served some adequacy in heroics by some mercenary or hero type 'character' with good language for football (Selfie-like)."

RAPUNZEL: Thanx.

RICH: Well-come to ya.

RAPUNZEL: Our village saved.

RICH: This stew's superior, my lady.

RAPUNZEL: Facebook-like?
RICH: I recount a pre-Apocalypse Earth of banks of straight credit for sovereignty.

RAPUNZEL: Abyss memories, prince.

RICH: Maybe I should become a storyteller, fancy an opus on the size-of-kings.

RAPUNZEL: Selfie-like.

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)