Charlie & the Independents

Running from a supermarket robbery Charlie was afraid.

“It almost seems like the world is coming to an end,” he said to his cousin Lucia while explaining what had just taken place at the store.

“Don’t worry Charlie, God will send us angels from heaven. It will be like our very own encounter with aliens. All we have to do is trust him Charlie, you just wait and see,” Lucia replied.

The next day at midnight, Charlie got up to get a snack when he heard a loud noise in the back yard. Peeking through the window he noticed people outside near his pool.

“Hey, it’s him.”

“Who?”

“It’s him. The kid that asked us for help.”

In a ball of light the voices and rays from outside appeared in Charlie’s kitchen.

Afraid and shocked, Charlie ran to hide in the bathroom.

“Yo, kid, it’s us.”

“Who?” Charlie asked.

“The heroes you drew in art class. The Independents. That’s what you called us.”

“Wow, Lightning Jack, Charger Tracey, and X-Ray Mike,” you’re my characters. I made you to help me bring stability back to the world.

“And that’s what we’re going to do kid,” Lighting Jack replied.

“My cousin was right after all, wow, look at your wings,” Charlie said, observing his heroes.

Lightning Jack stood tall, “Did you really think that your trust in God would let you down?”

“Yeah, now tell us what you want us to do Charlie, we’re here to serve you,” Charger Tracey explained.

“Well, I want to get things back to a balance. Give people some hope. We’re losing hope and it’s killing us all slowly.

“Hey, Charlie, I see right through you my man, we got you covered,” X-Ray Mike said pumping up his sneakers. 

“Before we go out to save the world little President Charlie, as the independents we can’t unite until you put on the unity ring. Then we go shake things up bro,” Lighting Jack explained.

Charlie put on his unity ring and watched his independents shine like rays of light, bringing stability back into the world by fighting crime with pure vibes of powerful rays.

The rays were so powerful that the sun’s energy began to magnify slowly killing the negative energy fields.

Charlie began to feel all of the world’s pain.

“We have to unify,” he shouted, pointing his glowing ring to the independent’s unity balls.

“Each ball will destroy the demon vibes Charlie. We will unleash the positive gamma rays at your command,” X-Ray Mike said while preparing to annihilate the demon droids that were eating away at the human race.

Lightning Jack bolted through the clouds creating glowing rain while Charger Tracey began to charge the atmosphere.

“On your command Charlie, we will unite to blow like fireworks on the 4th of July.”

Seeing the clouds forming in the night sky, Charlie felt the Shekinah Glory. He felt his entire being filling up with positive energy.

“Independents Unite!” Charlie shouted as a huge ball of light blinged from his glowing ring into the night sky.

At that very moment, Charlie and the independents opened up the heavens and watched an army of angels destroy the evil forces and in the end, after the dust settled, there was peace.

“Well little President Charlie, our work is done. Anytime you need us, just put on the unity ring and we’ll come running. For our first battle together we’ll call it Independence Day.”

Charlie’s cousin Lucia was right after all. All he had to do was trust in God. By trusting in God all things were possible.

Charlie & the Independents