“I am the
terror that flaps in the night.”
Batman*
Still hanging
with CJ. The reason he is staying an extra day more than planned is
not because of a failed doomsday device we were creating.
Anyway onto the
flash fiction!
Humanity's
Wrath
The bombs fell
all around the outside of the Martian capital. The humans had been
bombarding its shields for days. And that was after they had bombed
the cities around it. Since the explosions didn't break through the
shields they just stopped on top of the shield. The explosions looked
like mixing, swirling, dancing fiery clouds. The martians may have
called it beautiful if it didn't terrify them.
When they
realized that as soon as their shield ran out of energy that cloud
would erase them they surrendered to the humans. Within the day their
king met with a human general.
The meeting
place was docking bay of the spaceship of the general. The general
didn't care much for formalities. Except for the formalities armed
guards.
“King
Gojlkihgf. I've been looking forward to meeting you.” The general
wore all his decorations on his clothing along with a smile.
“I have not
been looking forward to meeting you,” the alien king replied, his
Martian accent being particularly thick.
The general
laughed. “You should be happy. The people of Earth would want me to
push hot iron through each and every one of your eight eyes before
even starting to speak with you. You should be glad you got me
instead of another general because I'm the only one that wouldn't
have ordered you to be immediately tortured. You have no idea how
much humankind wants you to suffer.”
“The bombs
you have dropped on my cities have given me an idea.”
The general
shrugged. “Bombs are the quick way to go. The terms are simple.
Complete surrender of everything you have an own and all your
people.”
“Those terms
are ridiculous. You think I would give up my people to you legally?
That would make them slaves.”
“Would you
rather have me bomb them into nothingness? Of course maybe what the
other generals are doing to your people will change your mind.”
“Your
generals could not be doing anything to my people that would
justifying signing away ourselves.”
“Our generals
are doing the same exact things you did to us when you attacked.”
After a quick
moment of silence the Martian King spoke, “I accept all the terms.”
The Martian King remembered of his earlier invasion of Earth, his
mass bombing of all the continents, his landings into the capitals
and the mass torture camps he employed through the war.
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