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3.14 LEGACY By Eddie Nambulous Sometimes I can say things that are sorta shocking. You know the stuff you'd never believe. The kind of thing you'd have to question. And that's the way I want it. 'Cause it's the best way we can all save the world - by exposing the truth, especially the shocking stuff. By "Believing the Unbelievable." But I have a confession to make and this is one you'd never expect. I love soap operas. I mean the big, glitzy, eighties dreams. You know Joan and Heather and Victoria and Larry. The real classic stuff. The best and the brightest. The second-wife turned me onto 'em. They're fun, free and can make you forget you live in an Airstream the size of a postage stamp. I always thought it would be so cool to be one of those characters, to live in a fictional world where your problems never had to do with the stresses of everyday life. Well Eddie's here to tell ya, it ain't like that. Not where the Gua are involved. If ya think about it, Team Foster has it's own former-vixen (screw that, she's still a vixen, just not in a Versace gown but rather DKNY-militia-chic!). That's right, I'm talking about the Big J, my one and only gal-pal of alien-busting - Jordan. J's from a family not unlike those who populated the network's biggest cash-cows in the decade of decadence, so when Nostradamus implied her soapish-roots may have been more genuine and dastardly than we could ever have thought, it was time for a little infiltration - Dynasty-style. That's how Cade and J hit their first and possibly last ball. It came lush with hotties in tight-and-expensive dresses and buff-gents in their evening best. There was a boardroom scandal, a love triangle, a snarky best friend and even a case of alien-induced amnesia. Talk about not being ready for the unexpected. Jordan and Cade were at a party with the devil and they couldn't even remember who they were ... or had become ... dang, it get's complicated when you try to put it down on paper. Jordan lost her memory first. Cade suspected the alien on the inside was Papa Radcliffe's old friend Keenan Barton, and Foster had already dissolved Jordan's former best-bud Sabrina. Thing is, with Jordan's mind wiped she had to be convinced that she was a great warrior with the home-made militia to back her up. Radcliffe had a secret vault where Cade had found some alien-related files. Seems J's daddy knew about the Gua - or was involved with them. We were worried that Radcliffe was a traitor, knew J wouldn't take well to the news. Inside the vault she explained what the maps meant - they were of worldwide shipping lines, a major fiber-optic company and of huge plots of land. This mind-wiped Jordan didn't believe in aliens. But the contents of the vault clinched it -- the Gua wanted Radcliffe because it would serve as the perfect launching pad for an invasion. Mabus wanted Jordan's company to help make Earth his. And Jordan just wasn't buying Cade's all-to-true story. She couldn't even remember when her family died. The aliens had implanted new memories. Cade told her the story - how her brother had killed her parents. It was hard to force the pain on her again - part of him probably wished he could forget his own. But Cade knows Jordan well. They're two peas-in-a-pod when it comes to what the Gua has taken from them. And he knew that Jordan would never want to live in some false fog - even if it spared her the pain of her reality. Something he said must have gotten through. Tara Barton was Gua and she'd taken Cade hostage. Jordan found Cade and rescued him - even if she didn't know why she was doing it exactly. Cade forced the Gua to reverse the memory-erasing process. She was okay. But then Cade got zapped too. Now he couldn't tell who he was! For a brief time Cade thought he was on his way home to Hannah. I pitied them both. These were my friends and I'd seen them hurt time and time again, seen them fight and win. Seen them lose too. Tell ya the truth I would have liked for the Dynasty-dream world to have been the reality. But then we'd all be facing a really dark future. And Cade and Jordan would be blissfully unaware of how they could have stopped it - and I don't think either one would rather be dead. They're fighters to the core - so the false world had to end. They did what they do best - they fought the impossible odds and won. These two trust each other with their lives. And I feel the same. This ain't some fictional soap opera. It's a blood-and-guts war to save all our lives. To save our planet. Sure Cade and Jordan are the star players, but they know how serious this score is. Some might say they were born to fight for it. Turns out Jordan's dad wasn't a traitor, he was a pioneer, an alien hunter before Cade, before me, before his little girl Jordan. He left a warning for his daughter on a video tape. He told her the legacy of Radcliffe was to defend the earth from this invasion. He told her she was strong. They say the truth shall set you free, but for Jordan the truth has chained her to a war she's vowed to fight to the death. Now she knows how deep her roots go in this fight ... and her family's legacy continues. This is for the Radcliffe's: May their deaths be avenged. Eddie READ CADE'S CORRESPONDING JOURNAL
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