Third Great War: A Short Story
. Like those dissenters battling Mother Country were her children.
“Freedom becomes fragile when we alienate the past. The Third Great War was born out of the world’s ignorance to remember our tribulations. We easily forgot our history in the mass of pleasurable indulgences, and we became delicate. But never again. William Montgomery?”
I removed my hand and turned to face her in attention. She pulled out brass wings and the five flags of United States, Mexico, New Australia, Japan, and Canada.
“Are you ready to become American?”
I could only give a hasty nod. If I had opened my mouth, I’d succumb to my emotions. Roberta, standing a bit behind the president, was sniffing and crying.
“Then, son, raise your right hand and repeat after me.”
I repeated every word of my sworn declaration clearly with my eyes never wavering from …show more content…
She goes forward. Backward. Diagonal. In complete circles!” TOO THIN Larry was my superior. He was bald, six feet seven inches tall, and I could see every bone in his body. Hence his very self-explained name. “Whoo whee, she is one mean bull!” He slapped the topside of the wing. “But you treat her like a lady and she’ll love you forever.”
“How does she convert to a water vessel?” I asked as I skimmed through the manual. I was sitting down below with my manual as TOO THIN instructed on the mechanics of the plane.
“For water missions, we use the Stratosphere Jump. The plane auto shifts into water mode during jumping. We also utilize the Jump to travel from one side of the earth to another.”
“The what?” It sounded like something Charlie would get giddy about. He probably already knew what it was.
“The Stratosphere Jump is a vortex of vacuum molecules. They’re basically molecules without a nucleus. Nothing inside. So when matter enters the vortex, the molecules accelerate the matter in the direction it is traveling, trying to fill in that empty
“Freedom becomes fragile when we alienate the past. The Third Great War was born out of the world’s ignorance to remember our tribulations. We easily forgot our history in the mass of pleasurable indulgences, and we became delicate. But never again. William Montgomery?”
I removed my hand and turned to face her in attention. She pulled out brass wings and the five flags of United States, Mexico, New Australia, Japan, and Canada.
“Are you ready to become American?”
I could only give a hasty nod. If I had opened my mouth, I’d succumb to my emotions. Roberta, standing a bit behind the president, was sniffing and crying.
“Then, son, raise your right hand and repeat after me.”
I repeated every word of my sworn declaration clearly with my eyes never wavering from …show more content…
She goes forward. Backward. Diagonal. In complete circles!” TOO THIN Larry was my superior. He was bald, six feet seven inches tall, and I could see every bone in his body. Hence his very self-explained name. “Whoo whee, she is one mean bull!” He slapped the topside of the wing. “But you treat her like a lady and she’ll love you forever.”
“How does she convert to a water vessel?” I asked as I skimmed through the manual. I was sitting down below with my manual as TOO THIN instructed on the mechanics of the plane.
“For water missions, we use the Stratosphere Jump. The plane auto shifts into water mode during jumping. We also utilize the Jump to travel from one side of the earth to another.”
“The what?” It sounded like something Charlie would get giddy about. He probably already knew what it was.
“The Stratosphere Jump is a vortex of vacuum molecules. They’re basically molecules without a nucleus. Nothing inside. So when matter enters the vortex, the molecules accelerate the matter in the direction it is traveling, trying to fill in that empty