Hi, this story may seem silly and rushed because the limit was up to six pages and was done the night before it was due. Please tell me what you think and what I should change. Thanks! --(≧▽≦)-
The Ripple of an Action
Alex just came back to the military to find himself in the middle of a huge party after another successful victory without any casualties. People were slapping him in the back shouting to come join them. This wasn’t unusual for Alex, for most of his childhood, he was trained in this military base after all he was the son of one of the most famous military generals in the world and he was pretty much going to be one very soon. He was named after Alexander the Great in hopes that Alex would become a military genius like his dad. He never really knew his mother because she was soon separated from her because of his strict military training. He went over to one of the groups, as a result, he got more slaps in the back and a bottle of beer shoved into his hands. His back was starting to hurt and at this rate he probably was going to be drunk as well.
“How do you do it Alex?”, asked a colonel, “You're the first one in world history to ever make such a military feat multiple times in a row”
“Well”, responded Alex, “ It took me almost two decades of training in military tactics, psychology, and doing many many simulations to get where I am now”
“Man, all we need is a person like you and almost all military problems are solved”, said a lieutenant, “With you, our country will be invincible”
“Well I wouldn’t be so sure,” replied Alex, “Every man has their own weakness, their achilles’ heel”
“Well you're way too good to be considered a man”, said the lieutenant, “In fact, I’d consider you to be a superman, an achilles without his heel, you’d be the most utopian leader I’ve ever met!”
“I agree,” followed a major, “I bet you’d be able to condemn all of our enemies”
“Oh, I’m not that good” replied Alex
Then there was an announcement
“General Alex please report to the generals’ lounge”
“Looks like you got promoted a bunch of ranks”, said the colonel
“Well, I gotta’ go”
As Alex entered the lounge, he expected the room to have the best technology with this and that and whatnot, but surprisingly, it was quite archaic. The lounge had several leather couches, a coffee table, and a big shelf full of books on military tactics.
Waiting on one of the couches was the president.
“Come on in Alex,” said the president, “Take a seat”
Alex obeyed, not that he have much of a choice anyways.
“Alex, you were promoted to a general because I believe you have the potential to become an amazing general,” said the president, “and I also believe you have the power to defeat this new threat”
He snapped his fingers and out came his assistant. The assistant was silent and her movement was very lithe. She quickly entered, put documents on the desk, and left.
“Recently,” said the president, “We have been receiving threats from an enemy”
“Who?” asked Alex
“Oh, it’s not exactly a who, it’s more like a what”
“What do you mean?”
“We have been receiving threats from aliens and it plans to dominate our planet and enslave us all”
“What! What should we do!”
“Well, that what for you to decide,” said the president, “The entire world is counting on you to save us all. You’re the only one who has the greatest chance of winning. Their technology is centuries ahead of ours and I believe all we can do now is rely on your head”
“But this is all too sudden how much time do I have?!?!”
“0048 hours, the world is depending on you. You are dismissed”
Alex left the room in shock. How was he going to win against aliens who have technology centuries ahead of theirs. This was completely different than a war against another country. Both sides usually had about equal resources and men and was basically a battle of wits. This time, it’s against an unknown enemy, with technology that was going to obliterate them and who knew how much of them are there?
Alex knew he couldn’t do this. This was completely out of his league. All he can do now is wait for the whole world to end while everyone was either living happy unsuspecting lives or were counting on him to let them continue their normal lives. Alex was feeling very melancholy of the position he was in. All he could do now was enjoy his life while it lasted.
Alex walked down the streets as he attempted to brainstorm a plan. All he was able to come up with was to try and make peace. How was that even possible, he’s facing extremely hostile aliens here. He continued down the streets. There was really nothing he could do. Then from the corner of his eyes, he saw the president’s assistant. What was she doing here? Did the president decide to dismiss her too? She seemed to be trying to avoid eye contact with anyone. Something was weird. She crossed the sidewalk even though it was redlight. Alex could see a truck was coming and if she continued walking, she was going to be run over. He tried to shout and warn her but she couldn't hear. The truck was coming closer so he ran as fast as he could,the president’s assistant was frozen in shock as she realized she was going to be run over. Alex jumped and pushed out of the way, just in time before the truck ran over her.
They fell hard into the sidewalk and when the recovered from the shock, they gazed at each other. Alex broke the silence.
“Are you okay?” asked Alex
“Oh, I’m fine, thanks.” she replied
“Why are you so distracted?”
“Well, it’s nothing, I’m very grateful of you for saving me, I’ll find a way to thank you properly”
Before Alex could say anything else, the assistant got up and quickly walked away.
“She is one weird person,” thought Alex, though it didn’t really matter to him as he realized the world was probably going to end tomorrow anyways.
He walked home and got his possibly last dinner and went to probably his last
sleep. This had to be all very bad a dream…
He woke up the next day, remembering what happened yesterday. He slowly put
on his uniform and went to the base.
He arrived at the military base to confess to the president that he can’t do it and the world was done for. On the way to the base. He practiced his confession. The people at the front of the base entrance told Alex to go straight to the lounge and that the president was waiting. He felt so helpless as he walked towards the lounge. He opened the door and the president's assistant suddenly passed besides him and put a note into his coat pocket.
“Right,” he thought, “the assistant is a weird person”
He saw the president sitting there, beckoning for him to come over. He seem quite happy, probably expecting his non-existent master plan to defeating the aliens. Before the president could speak first, Alex spoke.
“I’m sorry sir,” Alex started, “I have to tell you that it was very magnanimous of you to promote me to a general so suddenly but I can’t do it, I can’t beat those aliens, we have no chance at all, I can’t do anything, we are doomed.”
The President looked confused.
“Alex, what are you talking about?”, asked the president, “We have just received a message from the aliens saying that they won’t bother us. They said that you were a genius and they realized that they were no match for you once you revealed one plan how you could defeat them out of your other possible one thousand plans you had in mind. I was going to tell you that you did amazing and I was planning to award you the Medal of Honor. Was what you said supposed to be a joke to scare me? You did a great job acting.”
Alex was shocked. What was the president talking about? The world is going to end in no more than an hour! How could the president be so calm was what he said supposed to be a joke? Was everything he said from the beginning a joke?
Alex was dismissed and left the lounge. People were at the front of the door and jumped on him.
“You did it Alex,” said the lieutenant from yesterday, “you made those aliens bow before you!”
Everyone was cheering and happy after the news was released. Even the news
featured him as the one who is the almighty strategist who saved the world. Alex was really confused. He was bombarded by reporters for almost the entire day.
Alex came home after a long day with interviews he had no idea how to answer. How had this happened. He reached into his coat pocket and remembered the assistant’s note. He took it out and read it and he was shocked. The note said that the assistant was actually the alien king's daughter in disguise and as thanks for saving her, she convinced her dad to not enslave the world and made up a fake message that was sent to the whole world. So it was real. Alex was shocked, happy, confused ,and every other emotions he felt. He was grateful for what was happening. He guessed that not everything had to be solved with strategies. Sometimes good things will happen if you do the right thing. He lived happily ever after and lived as the alien king’s honored guest and fell in love with the alien king’s daughter. The End. (LOL, I said “happily ever after” and “the end”. Make up whatever happy ending you want (they had babies (LMAO)), make a sad one if you want to. I got tired. Hope you liked it. -(≧▽≦)-/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿ ̿̿ (╯°□°）╯)