Doug Donnan
Executive
Editor/GTNW
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donnan.doug@yahoo.com
*Author's Note:
This is another 'Mini-Cine'
proposal in the
works. I hope that you enjoy...
"Jaeger-bomb"
by
Doug Donnan
[ Red
Alert Confidential Conversation /// Houston Texas & Yucca Mountain, Nevada
]
"Whataya' mean it crashed?"
Colonel Molanari exploded into the phone. "That's one of our latest
Jaeger-UAVs.
A prototype
'thinking' drone. Do you have even the slightest idea how much those brain
birds cost us to hatch mister?
Was the damn thing
fully armed?"
"Uh, yes sir...it was loaded for
bear. Cost? Well, er...not exactly sir," Lieutenant Wordsworth
replied as he pulled
the cell phone
away from his ear and struggled to make some adjustments to his desert
'cookie-dough-camo'
thermal imaging
scope. "But we've turned up the sweep capacity of our HEL-MD Drone
Killer's Laser and I'm
scanning all
around and about the periphery here at the base of the mountain to try and get
a fix on exactly where the
drone went down. I
figured that If we--"
"Mountain?" Molonari
popped. "What mountain? Where in the hell are you right now
lieutenant?"
"I'm out here at Yucca sir,"
Wordsworth gulped. "Yucca Mountain... in Nevada."
There was a distinct moment of silence and
then...
"Yucca Mountain? Jeezuz Christ
you idiot," Molonari choked the handle of the phone with a white-knuckled
death grip.
"That's where
the damn NRC stores all the Goddam HLW shit!"
"HLW...shit?"
"High...Level...Waste...nuclear
reactor waste. The damn drone flew into Chernobyl Mountain out there for
Christ's sake!"
There was a deafening blast of static and
squelch on their phone connection. Suddenly, sporadic spitting of just barely
audible crackling
words from the trembling lieutenant:
"Uh---well, then uh---Houston---I
think---we've got us---a big problem----"
_____ The End _____
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