“Why is it always in the last place you look?”
Waldo* #quote
I've seen documentaries that tell me of animals that can see colors
we can't. I wonder what those colors must be like and what it would
be like to be able to see more colors. How would rainbows change, how
would art? I won't know though unless some scientist makes a device
that hooks into my brain to let me colors. Maybe some year I'll get
more colors in my world for Christmas. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
Soda Wars
Dark Vendor walked through the soda-ship after the rebels in the
front corridor had been subdued. He boarded the soda-ship easily
since it floated through space with 7.5 ounce Diet engines. He
wondered if they moved so slowly just to appear like a civilian ship
instead of a warship. Either way his six-pack armada captured them.
The rebels looked at Dark Vendor's long dark brown cape and
aluminum-alloy armor and cowered. Some uncanny aura came from him,
especially from the large tin can that covered his head with small
eye holes. The can caused a deep echo when he spoke.
“Rebels, you have opposed us for too long. Surrender now and I
will spare your lives.” Dark Vendor raised his voice so that any
rebels remaining in the ship would reveal themselves. Clearing the
ship hall by hall would be difficult.
In a quick moment several gunshots took out the guards around Dark
Vendor and a young woman came out in combat gear. “Never! I am
Princess Zuke Sulo”
Dark Vendor laughed while he pulled out a small can of root-beer and
opened it. From it exploded pressurized carbonation that then stayed
in place spinning in the air like a blade, never falling to the
ground. “You wasted your shots on those guards? I wield the power
of the root beer side of The Beverage. Princess, such weapons pose no
threat to me.”
She shot a few more shots and with the powers of The Beverage Dark
Vendor slowed down time and deflected the bullets while they flew
through the air so that they bounced all around the walls and into
the bodies of the rebels cowering on the ground.
Dark Vendor then said to her, “Want to try again Princess?”
The Princess almost dropped her weapons in disbelief. “I never
believed in The Beverage before. But that...how?”
Dark Vendor then told her, “I can teach you. You can join me and
bring your royal family to glory and your entire lineage will follow
the ways and learn obtain the power of root beer side of The
Beverage.”
“If The Beverage is real,” the Princess pointed her gun at Dark
Vendor's helmet while speaking, “Then the old bed time stories my
tutor Sodi One told me could be true. Help me Sodi One.”
She remembered the story her tutor told her about The Beverage where
a hunter killed a monster made of carbonation by thinking of hope,
happy memories, and focusing on a pure motive to shoot the monster.
She did just as the tale commanded and shot the bullet. Out came a
bullet that transformed into “mountain spring water” and it
traveled through the air. The carbonation blade of Dark Vendor
couldn't stop it and it changed course to go straight into his helmet
and went straight into his lungs.
While he began to drown from The Beverage bullet Dark Vendor
gurgled, “I'm going flat...”
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