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LOCATION: The Throne Room in the Palace in Washington, D.C.
THOSE PRESENT: President E626, Miss Stein, Suspected-Spy General AutomatedTeller, Special Agent vorlon_mi, and Major Tribute.
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The President sat on his throne in agony. An impacted wisdom tooth was causing him no end of pain, and on top of that, gave him a speech impediment. He was listening to the briefing from Special Agent vorlon_mi and Major Tribute, but he wished that they would finish already and go away.
Special Agent vorlon_mi said, ‘ . . . so you see, Mr. President, General AutomatedTeller is innocent of any treasonous acts. He is a loyal American!’
The President looked at Major Tribute, and asked, ‘Do you agwee, Major?’
Major Tribute replied, ‘Yes, Sir, Mr. President!’
The President thought about it for a moment, but his train of thought was broken by a loud commotion outside the Throne Room. Suddenly, the doors swung open, and General CommandoBob marched triumphantly into the room.
General CommandoBob said, ‘Mr. President! Please forgive this breach of protocol, but I bring you a most special present. It’s something that you’ve wanted for a long time.’
The General nodded to one of his men stationed at the door, and four rowdy, cheering, singing American Infantrymen dragged a bound and bloodied Wang Kon into the Throne Room!
Forgetting his pain, The President smirked maliciously, and said, ‘Well, well, well! If it isn’t my old pal, Wang Kon! What’s new, Wang?’
Wang Kon glared hatefully at The President, but remained silent.
The President said, ‘What’s that, Wang? You say that you wish to congwatulate me on being the bettew man?’
Wang Kon remained as silent as the oak.
The President glared at General CommandoBob, and asked, ‘Why is this pwisonew standing in my pwesence? Thwow him to the fwoow!’
The General nodded to his men who threw Wang Kon to the floor.
The President looked down at the kneeling Wang Kon, and said, ‘The wast time that youw people twespassed into Amewican tewwitowy, I contacted you, and demanded that you withdwaw fwom ouw tewwitowy. Do you wemembew what you said to me?’
Wang Kon continued to glare at The President.
The President continued, ‘You said, My tewwitowy, youw tewwitowy, what’s the diffewence? Well, Wang, youw cities awe ashes! Youw tewwitowy is now my tewwitowy! Your citizens are now my swaves pewfowming menial tasks wike the beasts of buwden that they awe! You awe beaten, Wang! But I am feewing magnanimous today, any wast wowds, Kowean?’
Wang Kon looked hatefully at The President, and said, ‘If you have even a shred of human kindness in you, then grant me an honorable death!’
The President mulled this over, and said, “Not today! Maybe tomorrow, we’ww see!’
Wang Kon spat on The President’s shoes.
The President said, ‘Genewal! Stwike him vewy woughwy!’
The General slapped Wang Kon upside his head with the back of his hand.
The General looked at the President, and asked, ‘And throw him to the floor, Sir?’
The President, who was lost in thought while looking at Miss Stein, replied, ‘Hmm?’
The General repeated, ‘Throw him to the floor, Sir?’
The President replied, ‘Oh, yes!’
Two of the Infantrymen roughly picked Wang Kon up, and just as roughly, threw him to the floor again.
The President said, ‘Puww his head up!’
The General grabbed Wang Kon by the hair, and lifted his head up. The President belted Wang Kon with a right cross that crumpled Wang Kon to the floor.
The President looked down at the fallen leader, and demanded, ‘Who is the spy that you planted here?!!’
Wang Kon shook his head, and said, ‘I planted no spy.’
‘Genewal, take him to the Maximum Secuwity Pwison. Maybe a few months of back-bweaking labow will woosen his tongue.’
The General said, ‘Yes, Sir!’ Lifting Wang Kon roughly by the collar, the General said, ‘Take him away, men!’
The Infantrymen grabbed Wang Kon, and dragged him away.
The President said, ‘Weww done, Genewal. It appeaws that Genewal AutomatedTewwer is not the spy at aww. Which bwings me back to who is? I know that thewe is a spy awound hewe, and I won’t west untiw he’s exposed!’
General AutomatedTeller breathed a huge sigh of relief, and said, ‘Thank you, Mr. President.’
Suddenly, another loud commotion in the hallway, and into the Throne Room marched WarMaster Marsden!
He saluted The President, and announced, ‘Mr. President! As ordered, I bring you Smoke-Jaguar!’
4 Infantrymen dragged a bound, gagged, and bloodied Smoke-Jaguar. The WarMaster ordered his men to throw the captive down at The President’s feet. The men roughly threw him to the floor.
The President smirked, and said, ‘Today just keeps getting bettew and bettew!’
Smoke-Jaguar struggled to his knees, and tried to say something through the gag.
The President nodded to the WarMaster, who took the gag out of the Mayan leader’s mouth.
Smoke-Jaguar said, ‘Just give me a quick and honorable death that befits a true warrior!’
The President said, ‘Twue wawwiow? You? Youw peopwe? It’s enough to make me waugh, Mayan!’ The President laughed condescendingly, and said, ‘My awmies have buwned youw cities to the gwound. So, whewe is youw mighty cuwtuwe now, Smoke? I’ww teww you whewe it is. It’s gwound to dust beneath my feet. I now contwow the entiwe continent! Youw people awe my swaves! What do you have to say about that?’
Smoke Jaguar said, ‘You have no honor,
Ezekial. If you did, you’d kill me now!’
Outraged at the mention of his first name, The President viciously slapped Smoke-Jaguar with the back of his hand. Glaring hatefully at Smoke-Jaguar, he said, ‘Say that name again at youw pewil, Mayan!’
Smoke-Jaguar snarled, ‘Kill me like you killed Wang Kon. I heard what you did to him! Where’s your humanity,
Ezekial?!!’
Fuming, The President said, ‘Once again, youw infowmation is wwong. Wang Kon is awive and weww (well, cwose enough anyways). He has been sent to ouw Maixmum Secuwity Pwison!’
He turned to the WarMaster, and said, ‘Whewe is his daggew, WawMastew?’
The WarMaster gave the weapon to The President who studied it.
The President looked down at Smoke-Jaguar, and said, ‘I was going to wet you wive, Mayan, but you wewe wawned not to use my fiwst name!’
The President advanced towards the Mayan, who remained kneeling with a proud look on his face.
The President said, ‘I wiww wet you wive if you teww me the name of the spy that you pwanted hewe!’
The tension in the room was thick enough to cut with a knife. All eyes were on The President and Smoke-Jaguar. No one noticed the terrified look on Miss Stein’s face.
Smoke-Jaguar returned The President’s stare. He then smirked, and said, ‘Find the spy yourself, you dishonorable slug! You wonder why Arabia and France hate you so much. How do you know that they didn’t plant a spy (or spies),
Ezekial?’
The President screamed in anger, and was about to bury the dagger into the Mayan’s heart, when out of nowhere, Miss Stein rushed forward, cried out, ‘BELOVED!’, and threw her arms around Smoke-Jaguar’s neck, crying.
Turning, she looked at The President through her tears, she said, ‘Leave him alone, you bully! You’ve won! Isn’t that enough for you? You want to know who the spy is? I AM! And no one ever suspected me! You always said that you loved my exotic look, but you never realized my skin is like my Beloved’s skin! I AM A PROUD MAYAN WOMAN, AND YOU ARE CRAP IN BED! Not like a real Man like my Beloved! Do with us what you will, you heartless bastard!’
Stunned by the betrayal, The President said quietly, ‘Take them both to the Maximum Secuwity Pwison. Make suwe that they awe sepawated, and have no contact, vewbal ow othewwise, with each othew fow the west of theiw wives.’
As the prisoners were roughly escorted away, The President slowly walked back, and sat on his throne. He didn’t even notice a group of technicians enter the room. They busied themselves with hooking up a computer.
The President finally noticed them, and quietly asked, ‘What are you doing?’
Head of Science dimaliok turned, and said, ‘This is your computer, Mr. President, and with the aid of the brilliance of Albert Einstein, it is now hooked up to the Internet!’
‘Internet?’
‘Yes, Sir! Watch!’
Dimaliok typed something on the keyboard, and presently, an adult website appeared on the screen, complete with pictures of naked women.
The President perked up, and said, ‘Now THAT’S what I’m talking about! Leave me with this marvelous machine!’
Dimaliok bowed, and said, ‘Of course, Mr. President!’, and the technicians left the room.
Ignored through all of this, General AutomatedTeller cleared his throat. ‘Mr. President, I have something to report that I think you’ll want to hear.’
Absently, The President said, ‘Yes, General, what is it?’
‘The Astronomy Department reports that the closest star system to our own is a place called Alpha Centauri, and they have discovered a planet there without any evidence of sentient life. If we could build a SpaceShip, we could travel there, and have the entire planet to ourselves.’
This got The President’s attention. ‘All to ourselves, General?’
‘Yes, sir! We have launched some preliminary rockets, and our scientists are quite excited about the results. The early launches were failures until the Scientists discovered that we needed to build the rockets out of Aluminum. We have found a deposit of Aluminum just outside of Thunder Bay. Our loyal American Workers have already built a Barricade on the Deposit, and we have garrisoned 3 vMech Infantry in the Barricade. The Resource is yours, and will remain yours. Arabia and France have nothing that can touch us. The next step would be to see if we can send a Rocket into space, and have it orbit the Earth. We are continuing our Research to this end.’
'Very good, General!' The President turned back to the screen. ‘General? Do you understand how this Internet works?’
‘Not in any detail, Sir, but I do know that the citizens of your Empire are quite thrilled with it. In fact, most of your cities are currently celebrating a We Love The President Day!’
‘Really?’
‘Yes, sir! In fact, we have entered into our Golden Age! Everyone is happy, and everyone is working harder! You should tour your cities, Mr. President, and see for yourself!’
‘I might just do that, General. Thank you. Dismissed! Oh, and General?’
‘Sir?’
‘I’m not very good at apologies, but I am sorry for suspecting you of being a spy.’
‘Thank you, Mr. President.’ He saluted and left the room, leaving The President staring at the computer screen. He marveled at what he saw. He just wished that this tooth would stop throbbing.
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On to your posts:
Originally posted by
WarMaster Marsden:
But no problem, I am just making a suggestion.
I appreciate the vote of confidence.
I don't think you would have disqualified my entry because you played 20 turns. Remember, I didn't continue from where you left off, so I'm exactly sure about the legality about the whole thing. Moot point, anyways.
Originally posted by
Citizen killerkid:
I'm impressed Experiment 626 could think of that many U.S cities.
What exactly are you saying, Citizen?
I didn't do it alone. When I got to about 50 cities, I thought that it would be nice to have a city named after a city from each state in the real-life U.S.A., so I googled, and found lots of State Maps to help me out.
Also, not all cities are named after U.S. cities. Captured cities (Korean) are names after Canadian cities, and the only captured city (Mayan) was named Tijuana.
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I will probably play Friday night, so I (as always) will stop by here first before playing for any last-minute advice.
I'm going to
now.
Later!
