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08/27/00 Keep Your Enemies Even Closer. By Eddie Nambulous Enemies. They say to keep ‘em close as your pals rather than as far away as you’d like a hela-monster. I’m not so sure I agree. But let’s discuss … Who do you consider your enemies? Paranoidiacs justifiably think everyone in the world is against them. The government is an enemy, so are the so-called "peace keepers" like the cops and the coast guard. Then there’s our families, friends, our school teachers, the bankers, the garbage men … I mean, who isn’t against us? But even if you agree with all of the above or wanna pick and choose your paranoia like a salad bar – one thing is for sure – the Gua are our enemy. Big time! So how do we deal with a guy like Joshua? Anybody who reads this column or Foster’s journal knows about the famous alien who’s locked horns and minds with Senor Twice Bless’d over the past two years. Joshua has set us up and saved us in the past. He’s helped himself, he’s helped the Gua and, though I gotta say I still wouldn’t trust him as far as I could nudge him, he’s definitely helped humanity in staving off the Second Wave. But that doesn’t change the fact that Rico Guave is one-hundred-percent, hailing-from-Abel – alien. Or maybe the best way to look at Josh is that he ain’t all alien? Now don’t get crazy on me … I mean his consciousness sure isn’t split. Far as we know the J-Alien is full-blooded Gua. But if you think about it, the Gua are in husks made from part their DNA and part our DNA … so even if they’re Gua-in-mind, in a way they aren’t all Gua-in-body. So how much of our physicality and our culture is wearing off on them? And is Joshua an exception or is he something more? Could humanity be infecting Josh? (cont). Are the Gua who are here on earth in danger of becoming a whole ‘nother species? If Joshua is being "infected" by humanity could he be the first "Gua-man?" Truth be told, I’m not even sure I like where I’m going with this. I mean, we want those damn aliens gone, we don’t want to start mixing with them and creating some kind of sick hybrid – but we can’t escape the fact that they’re using our bodies and may even be liking it. To go out on a limb … I think Joshua and Foster’s "relationship" (if you could even call it that) is a kind of a positive spin on keeping friends close and enemies closer. One could reason that, because they’ve both been after the same thing at times and had to butt heads over it, that they’ve come to understand each other a little bit better. And maybe that means that Joshua has seen how wrong what the Gua are doing is? So is Joshua also our enemy? That’s really hard to say. He seems to believe the invasion is a mistake for the Gua. More importantly, he seems to believe in Foster as representative of the best humanity has to offer. Foster was the only survivor of a Gua experiment to test the will of humanity. But he did live … so that means that one in every one-hundred and seventeen of us has Cade Foster potential. I believe Joshua recognizes that fact and I think that’s why he keeps Foster close. Maybe he’s subscribing to the same principal – as long as he has some loyalty from Foster, Cade can’t annihilate all of Joshua’s people. Food for thought. We haven’t heard from the renegade alien for some time now. And maybe he’s out there working against us? Maybe he’s had a change of heart and wants to help to take us down, if the Gua even have that all-important organ? Who knows? But if you’re reading this, Joshua … thanks for being better than your leaders. But don’t think we aren’t watching our backs. You never shoulda made an enemy of a paranoid.
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