L.A. Thunder
Vanished
Washington, Missouri
     Eleven year old, Jason Hollister always had a curious mind, and an
uncanny talent for building things.
   When he and his friends build an igloo one snowy morning in
Washington, Missouri, he finds a stone glittering beneath the surface,
and when he picks it up, the beauty of it captures him, until his tomboy
friend McKenzie asks to hold it. Once he puts the stone in her hand
she vanishes, or so Jason thought, until he learns later that she is at
home, safe and sound. After the strange encounter, he decides to
distance himself from her.
   Years later, he gets a call at work from a woman claiming to be
McKenzie. She tells him she must meet with him, and tell him something
important. Jason agrees to meet her at the park.
   As a strange woman he has never seen before approaches him, he
is startled when she claims to his childhood friend, McKenzie. Jason is
instantly angry, and tells the woman he doesn’t like the sick joke
she’s playing, and tells her to go away, but the strange mystery woman
keeps showing up in the strangest places, begging him to save her
from the stone she is trapped in.
   As Jason finally feels his resolve melting, he talks to his two best
friends from childhood, Chuck Gibbons, and Spike Manitou, who were
there years ago, when he found the stone. They offer their help, and
when his receptionist Jane Harrow witnesses the strange things going
on in her bosses life, she too offers to help.
   As his group of friends, encourage him to find McKenzie, and bring
her home, he doesn’t have a clue what he’s up against.
   The stone is playing vicious tricks on him, and suddenly he’s seeing
McKenzie everywhere, and finds himself falling in love with her vision.
   When time runs out, Jason suddenly finds himself fighting against
the evilness of the stone to win McKenzie’s love, and save her from her
perilous life.    
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Jason,

Every time you touch the
stone think of me, and
maybe it'll speed my return
along, and I'll be able to
come back and tell you
what I was trying to tell you
yesterday. Carry the stone
with you, it's the only place
it's safe.

McKenzie