“I can see my house from here!”
Icarus* #quote
If you ever look outside and see a seven foot tall alien wearing a
top hat, remember that it's just as afraid of you as you are of it.
Anyway onto the flash fiction!
PogoCop
Jerry surfed the channels as usual when an ad for a new movie
appeared. Since this was the first time he saw this ad he gave it
some attention, unlike the past two hundred times he saw those
insurance commercials.
“In the future New York is devastated by crime.” the narrator
speaks in the familiar dramatic voice present in nearly every action
movie trailer. “The police are brought to their knees by the
criminals of this violent new age.” The screen showed a ruined New
York. It achieved this by panning through famous locations and
showing them in disrepair. Computer graphics editing of real life
images really helped along the way. “The only one who can New York
from the brink of death is a man who almost died himself.” The
narrator continued.
On the screen appeared a man with his center body replaced by a pogo
stick. His center body compressed as he jumped incredible heights.
More scenes flashed by and showed that most of the man's body had
been replaced by the various mechanisms of pogo sticks. His arms were
made of pogo sticks. Even though his feet seemed partly made of
“normal” prosthetic, they had the end pieces of pogo sticks on
the back assisting his jump. Each finger was a spring connected to a
massive chamber spring in his arm. His whole fist or an individual
finger could supposedly launch with the collective power of the
entire mechanism.
The narrator finished his exposition, “PogoCop, once an ordinary
man, was brought back to life by the union of a prosthetic company
and a pogo stick company seeking to invent new prosthetic where the
user would have the strength of a hundred men. And they succeeded.”
The trailer ended declaring the movie release date and the fact it
would be in 3D. Jerry thought for a moment he might see it, but he
then decided he wouldn't since this was the second time they were
remaking PogoCop.
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