THE FAMOUS FOUR ?????/mmmm

[izzyb]

This offering is from left field, unlike anything I've seen on this forum.
There is minimal bondage or tie-ups in the traditional sense, but I had a lot of fun writing it.
I hope everyone enjoys it.

Part 1 of 6 .....

Andrew (13), Skyler (14) – the de facto leader of the foursome -, Kyle (13) and Freddie (13) were all members of the 1st Portland Scouting Group. They were inseparable, sharing all their adventures together, most of which involved camping trips. In this trip in question they were to share the most craziest, out-of-this-world experience of their short lives. To this day, none of the band of four are able to explain just what they encountered in the woods.

They dubbed themselves ‘The Famous Four’ in honour of the long ago television series The Famous Five, whose characters also got up to many hi-jinks and were involved in some scary and hair-raising adventures.

The four boys had been members of the Portland Group for a couple of years and were reasonably proficient in most of the skills and crafts and each had earned half a dozen badges. Canoeing and rafting were particular favourites of the group, as well as the bush walks and camping which they thrived on. Of course knot tying is an essential element of a scout’s kit bag of tricks and they practised this on each other quite regularly.

Skyler was the oldest and tallest – at 5 foot 9 inches – of the quartet and his jet black longish hair made him an imposing figures to his scouting mates. Freddie was the pee-wee of the group, standing at just 5 foot nothing and being the smallest, the freckle faced, ginger haired boy was often the object of their pranks and their tie-up games.

Andrew and Kyle were twins, sharing the same blue-eyed, fair features, topped off with dirty blond hair which was always exquisitively set in place. They were also the most adventurous of the foursome, often getting into scrapes.

The scout uniform which they wore, representing the Portland Group, was a fawn shirt and dark brown trousers or shorts. The seal of the Portland Scouts was prominent on the left chest. The badges each boy had been awarded were proudly displayed on the right sleeve and their ties were of a cyan or turquoise colour.

On the camping weekend in question two tents were pitched at dusk, before darkness set in. Skyler and Freddie (the long and the short) in one tent and the twins in another. A campfire was set up and lit as the temperatures would drop once the sun goes down.

As the boys were settling down around the fire, ready to prepare their meal, they were startled by a loud noise a fair distance away in the woods. They were not at all concerned as there were no known wild animals roaming the woods, aside from the occasional raccoon or squirrel. Moving on with the meal preparations, Andrew noticed the bushes nearby swaying unnaturally in the breeze as if a small animal was foraging around for some food.

Sitting alongside Andrew was his twin Kyle, who thought he saw a pinpoint of light moving through the undergrowth. He pointed it out to his compatriots who also saw the light. It disappeared as quickly as it appeared so the boys thought nothing of it. However, a few minutes later, the light reappeared, then another came into view. A third light, a fourth light and several more joined the procession. The lights followed no definite pattern, popping up and dimming at all levels from the ground to the tree tops and in a random sequence.

All four boys were fascinated by the light show and stopped preparing the meal while they watched the lights dancing, dimming and moving at various speeds through the bush. The boys didn’t feel threatened by the lights but couldn’t work out what, or who, was controlling the lights. Freddie offered an opinion that the moon was shining on leaves of bushes however, as the moon had not yet risen, that theory was quickly squashed. No other explanation seemed to satisfy what was occurring.

All of a sudden, all the lights switched off and there was a deadly silence as the boys stood transfixed, wondering what was happening. The events which then unfolded sent shivers down the spines of all four scouts.

[Snozzberry]

Great beginning, definitely needs more chapters. The boys went into the woods because it was there. The lights were definitely miniature flying raccoons that needed to be recharged.

[Redman]

Your famous four aren't the only ones transfixed by the dancing lights. I am eagerly awaiting the next chapter.

[Kingdro]

I hope a lot of extreme ties and stinky socks are in their near future

[izzyb]

Part 2 of 6 .....

Kyle was the first. In a fleeting moment he was thrown onto the ground on his back with arms and legs stretched out in an X formation, as if he was tied to stakes in the ground, as scouts are occasionally prone to do. “Stop clowning around Kyle” said Skyler “We’ve got a meal to prepare.”
But, for some reason, Kyle didn’t answer and also could not move a muscle. Why??

While Kyle was stretched out on the ground small, bright green fluorescent bands appeared out of thin air and hovered above Kyle’s wrists and ankles. None of the bands touched Kyle but were simply suspended in thin air.

“What the hell” exclaimed Skyler, as the other three boys stared with eyes agape at what was happening to their friend. No-one could fathom what was happening. They didn’t have long to ponder as all three boys then suffered similar experiences simultaneously.

Andrew was suddenly sat on the ground with his hands behind him and legs straight out in front. The fluorescent bands hovered around the boy, above his hands and legs and a large square green light floated close to Andrew’s mouth. He was effectively bound and gagged, also unable to move.

Freddie was also lying on the ground on his back and with arms alongside his body, but the green bands hovering over him were much thicker than all the other bands. He was being wrapped up.

Skyler wasn’t spared either as he found himself upside down, in thin air, with his hands behind his back. The bands were over his legs and hands with a separate thin band extending from over his legs up to the treetops. He was bound hand and foot and suspended upside down in thin air with his floppy black hair also upside down, nearly touching the ground.

All four boys were unable to move and couldn’t speak. They were in suspended animation. They could look at each other but their vision was the only sense available to them.

After about a ten minute period all of the green fluorescent bands went POOF! They simply vanished without a sound.

Skyler was dumped head first on the ground and the other three were able to stand up and stretch their aching limbs without any impediment. They all felt like they had been tied up tightly for hours.

All four boys were speechless, not due to the green bands, but by the events which had just occurred.

Freddie broke the silence with “I dunno what just happened, but I’m getting the hell out of here.”

[Snozzberry]

A foreboding omen of what's to come if they stay in the mysterious forest?

[izzyb]

Part 3 of 6 .....

“I’m with you Freddie” agreed Andrew as all four scouts fled the scene. They left behind their tents, food and the campfire without a second thought as they sprinted away from the scene. They had run about fifty feet when each boy ran slap bang into an invisible barrier and all ended up on their backs or behinds. Without thinking, the boys then reversed course and ran at top speed in the opposite direction. Lo and behold, the same thing happened at fifty feet from their campsite.

Shaking themselves back into normality, the boys tried to process what had just occurred. “I reckon we’ve run into some type of force field.” Skyler offered.

“Come on, Sky, be sensible. Force fields occur only in science fiction movies, not in real life.” Countered Kyle.

“Well, do you have any other plausible explanation.” Skyler continued as he pushed his hands up against the invisible barrier. The other three did the same.

“Oh God, we’re trapped by an army of ET’s” blubbered Freddie.

Skyler replied with “Maybe Freddie’s got a point, I mean it all adds up. Those green bands seemed to tie us up and now this barrier. What else could it be?”

“Yeah, I’ll give you the theory about the bands and the barrier but we haven’t seen any little green men, have we.” Andrew was not convinced. “It could be some secret government experiment and we’re the guinea pigs.”

Skyler was the voice of reason. “All right, let’s think of this logically and work out what we can do. I say that the next time we see all those lights, we’ve got to try to grab one or two and figure out what they are. If they are ‘little green men’ as you say Andy, we’ll try to communicate with them, or it, and ask what is going on.” “For now, let’s have some food and hope like hell I don’t end up upside down again.” Faint laughter from his three mates.

The four scouts were literally imprisoned by an invisible barrier which had been set up by unknown persons or entities. They had no idea who or what they were dealing with or how they would break through the barrier. The owners of the dancing pinpoints of lights had the ability to tie up the boys without even touching them. As much as they had practised and liked their own tie-up games, this was on a whole different level. When you cant see or know your assailant it can be a very frightening experience.


Their meal of mainly tinned food was consumed and the boys went into their tents in an attempt to either escape their tormentors or at least get some sleep. But sleep didn’t come easy for any of the boys as they were lying there, with one eye open, waiting for the next episode of this bizarre event.

Shortly before midnight, all four were fully awoken when they noticed a number of green fluorescent shining lights just outside their tents.

These were the green bands – more like orbs than bands - with which they had been tied up earlier but were of a more structured form, almost as if they were living organisms of some form. None of the boys were brave enough to venture outside their tent to get a closer look, for fear that the shining orbs might snatch them, tie them up, or something worse. The eerie part about the whole experience, even when they tied up, was that the lights, the bands and the orbs made no sounds whatsoever. Silent assassins, thought Skyler.

The boys became even more terrified when some type of projectile emerged from the orbs, grabbed the tents, pulling them out of the ground and the tents disappeared into thin air.

One of the boy’s suggestion was that this event was some type of government experiment. With the tents vanishing into thin air before their eyes, this was no government sanctioned action.

The boys were now without shelter, left in the open, encircled by a force field of some nature and at the mercy of …? Who knows. There was no more sleep for the young teenagers as they huddled together in a quivering group of four.

Fearing the worst, the scouts had some relief when there were no further surprises for them during the night. Dawn broke to a sunny day and the boys would normally go exploring through the woods on such a picture perfect day. But they couldn’t. They were trapped, not knowing what the day held in store for them.

The first order of business for the boys was to see if they could find a way to get to the other side of what they knew now was a force field. They tried to find a gap in the barrier with all four boys pushing their hands against something they could not see. No gaps.

An attempt was made to dig underneath barrier. Each boy scraped away the dirt as best as they could, some reaching a couple of feet under ground level. The barrier appeared to have penetrated the ground to a considerable level so there was no escaping by digging a tunnel.

Could they climb over it? To test this theory all four boys threw rocks into the air but all that happened was that the rocks bounced off the barrier and returned to earth. The barrier must be dome shaped. There seemed to be no way to penetrate it or climb over or under it.

When their exploratory acts had finished the boys sat down in a semi-circle to discuss what they could possibly do now. Before they had a chance to discuss much, the dancing lights reappeared, shining as brightly as ever even though the sun was now blazing down.

As they agreed last night, each of the boys attempted to grab one of the light sources but failed miserably. Just as Skyler and the others put their hands around one of the lights, ready to grab it, it shot off in another direction literally at the speed of light. They appeared to be not living organisms but simply light sources which someone or something was controlling.

When the game of ‘catchee’ was over, the boys were left scratching their heads. Then it happened again as the green bands came into view.

[Snozzberry]

This is getting more and more exciting but I suspect that Marvin The Martian has something to do with it.

🖐🖐

[izzyb]

Part 4 of 6 .....

Skyler was the first to be taken. He was lifted off the ground by an invisible force and sent crashing into a nearby tree. The 14 year old was left standing in front of the tree and half a dozen green flashing bands pinned him to the tree, again without touching him. A large rectangular band stopped inches in front of his face. Skyler was now tied to the tree and gagged.

Seeing their leader dealt with that way by the silent intruders sent the other three scouts into panic mode. The boys were helpless to resist as, one by one, they suffered the same fate as Skyler. Kyle was pinned to a nearby tree and gagged by a large green band. Andrew and Freddie tried running away and running in circles in a vain attempt to avoid being the next victim but it was pointless. The green bands located a smaller tree to which Freddie was tied, while Andrew was actually lifted several feet off the ground when he was tied to another tree.

Once again, none of the boys could move a muscle and they could not speak, just stare at their other three mates who were in a similar position.

Skyler was trying to rack his brain, thinking just what entity had the power to do this. He was inwardly impressed by their efficiency but still dreaded what the final outcome would be. Would they all be transported off world if extra-terrestrials were responsible for this. If a government body was responsible, what could be their purpose in tying up four young boys. He just didn’t know. Skyler did have a sobering thought that at least they hadn’t been harmed by this unknown entity, they had simply been tied up.

While Skyler had been deep in his thoughts his eyes were scanning the clearing in front of him and he couldn’t see any of their camping equipment anywhere. He also witnessed some wider green bands making their way towards his three friends. One by one, the bands settled in front of the faces of the other three boys. He also noticed a wider band making its way towards him.

For a fleeting moment he believed he saw one of the green orbs transform into something else. It turned into a very small green figurine scurrying around the clearing but his vision was then obstructed by the wide band in front of his face. His eyes were still open but his vision was totally obscured. He was blindfolded with his eyes wide open!

This was getting weirder and weirder by the second.

Now bound, gagged and blindfolded all Skyler and his three mates could do was to wait until they were released.

[Snozzberry]

Great story, I'm so fascinated with it. I knew it, they're green they are MARTIANS, Marvin The Martian is their leader.

[izzyb]

Part 5 of 6 .....

Skyler then felt a couple of strange sensations around his feet. It felt similar to, but not exactly like, someone was trying to tickle him but the feelings were centred in his lower legs. In addition to this, he felt like his feet were becoming wet.

Yes, he was standing in water! The water kept rising, over his feet, over his ankles and up his feet until he was standing in a couple of feet of water. How can this be?

In a flash, the green bands were withdrawn from the bodies of Skyler, Andrew, Kyle and Freddie simultaneously. Their ropes, gags and blindfolds all fell away into thin air and the boys could now stand up and move about. As Andrew had been tied a few feet above the ground he fell face down into the water.

None of the boys could understand what was going on. They huddled together in the clearing, trying to get some comfort from each other’s company. Meanwhile, the water kept rising, slowly, but definitely rising. What was weirder still was that the water was only within the circumference of the clearing. The woods and bushes outside the clearing looked to be dry as a bone. It was as if the invisible barrier had closed in to just the edges of the clearing.

As the water kept its momentum going Skyler reached down and felt the water and tasted it. It was not water. It looked like water and moved like water but the liquid which was now swallowing them was definitely NOT water.

The boys also noticed that in the liquid several dozen of the small lights were moving about underwater. They were swimming, having a wonderful time.

The level of the liquid now reached almost up to stomach level and showed no sign of abating. Freddie cried out “Because I’m the smallest I’ll be the first to drown. I wish I was ten foot tall.”

The liquid kept rising and rising and was almost up to chest level. Even though the boys loved canoeing and rafting, this was like being up the creek without a paddle.

Skyler scooped up the ginger haired Freddie to keep his head above water but, as they were contemplating how they could swim in this enclosed area – POOF!

The liquid was all gone. Vanished. The clothes of all four boys were bone dry as if the water/liquid had not been there in the first place. The barrier also seemed to have resumed its original place.

Skyler wanted to make sure that his mind had not been playing tricks on him when he believed he witnessed a small figurine moving about the clearing when he was tied up. “Did any of you see one of the orbs turn into a very small figure moving around the clearing just before we were blindfolded.”

“Yes I did” confirmed Kyle, pleased to know that he wasn’t the only one seeing a little green man. “Yeah, me too” said Andrew, and Freddie also nodded his assent.

“Whew, for a moment I thought I was going crazy. Maybe we’re all going crazy, I just don’t know anymore. The sooner all this ends, the better.” Skyler then told his mates that all of the camping equipment was gone.

All four scouts, even Skyler, were close to breaking down in tears when they heard a sound in the distance and saw a flash in the sky. Could it be that their ET visitors had taken off, back to their home planet? They could but hope.

Kyle picked up a rock and flung it as far as he could. Instead of bouncing off the barrier, its trajectory carried it further out into he bushes. ‘Hey guys, I think the barrier is down. We can get out of here.”

Before they could flee Skyler called the other three scouts together and issued a cautionary note. “Guys, I reckon we should keep these crazy happenings to ourselves. Our little secret. Just imagine if we told our parents or our Group Leader what we saw, or thought we saw. They wouldn’t believe us. Hell, we can hardly believe it ourselves. Right? Everyone agree.”

“You’re right Sky. If we told anyone we saw little green men, dancing lights and glowing green bands that tied us up without even touching us, can you imagine what they’d do. They’d whisk us off the nearest psychiatrist and end up locking us away in the loony bin.” Andrew agreed. “It’s certainly a whale of a tale we can tell our grandkids.”

...... Part 6 to come ......

[Snozzberry]

This is a great little story. I'm eagerly awaiting the next chapter.

🖐🖐

[Redman]

This is really different, and I'm here for it! Very well done, @izzyb

Also, because I can't resist...

[BDBrit]

It was a pleasant surprise to come across a story with more supernatural elements. I look forward to the final part.

[izzyb]

Part 6 of 6.....


Skyler was still not satisfied. He wanted answers. Without going to the authorities with their own ‘fanciful tale’ the teenager put on his best thinking cap and went through, step by step, the events which had transpired. Only clear headed reasoning would solve this puzzle.

The small figure he had glimpsed darting around the clearing was indeed an other-wordly being. The crash they first heard in the woods and the ‘meteorite’ were the beings’ craft landing on Earth. Of course such a craft is going to make a noise and a crater when it lands.

The dancing lights could be easily explained. They were directional finders used by the beings similar to how humans use torches to find their way in the dark. Even though the lights were as bright as ever even under the blazing sun, it may still have appeared dark to the visitors.

Why had he and his three friends (and the two boys) been tied up? Maybe the beings had probed their minds and therefore knew about their liking for tie-up games. Or maybe they simply wanted them not to interfere with their explorations on this strange new planet. Why were they tied up in different positions in the first place. Maybe they wanted to find out the limitations of the human body.

Kyle’s X shaped bondage would give them an indication of how far the human body could stretch or expand.

Andrew had been tied in a tradtionial manner, i.e. hands behind and legs out in front. This was just to keep Andrew immobilised whilst they went about their business. As Andrew was the only one gagged, the beings seemed to know that he was always the most vocal of the four, perhaps not realising that none of them could talk anyway. That made perfect sense as he had also wished he could gag Andrew to keep him quiet. Many, many times.

The wrapping up of Freddie may have been to see how much the human body could be squashed without hurting the wearer.

As for his own upside down tie-up, maybe they wanted to see if anything fell out of the top end!

The two boys the beings encountered at another location may have been too inquisitive when they spied the ‘little green men’ and they were tied together to keep them well out of the way whilst the beings made a day long exploration of their surroundings.

The blindfolds which were applied in their final session was another question. The answer could have been that the beings didn’t want prying human eyes to witness their work, such as how they generated the water or liquid which had threatened to engulf the four boys. And why was the liquid poured into the clearing in the first place? Perhaps they wanted to see how humans would react to different stimuli and, when the boys simply stood and let the liquid gradually rise, they had seen enough.

The invisible barrier was obviously made out of materials that no human knew about or could comprehend. How the scientists of earth would love to know its composition!

The tents and camping equipment which had vanished were obviously taken back to their home planet for further analysis. What strange objects these humans possessed!

The glowing green fluorescent bands and their ability to paralyse their victims was something even Skyler could not explain in a rational sense, though he wished he had some of them to use on his mates.

The vanishing trick (e.g. their tents) was another unsolved mystery. He had seen magicians make objects on stage disappear, but there was always a logical explanation for their 'trick'. This was different. This was the real deal.
What was abundantly clear though was that these beings possessed technology far in advance of what mere humans had. Also, they could move at incredible speeds, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

There were a lot of maybe’s in his theory but he had solved most of the puzzle, thought Skyler triumphantly. He silently wished he could meet up with his tiny visitors some day in the far distant future – on a more friendly basis.

If they had gone public with their experiences they would indeed have become The Famous Four.

Maybe.


THE END Maybe?

[Snozzberry]

What a phuntastical story, I sure hope it does continue as it's so much fun to read and Skyler's questions must be answered.