Category : Stories
Sub Category : Comedy
Edison sat in a dark room of Seminole Lodge. The tragic loss of his wife Mina weighed heavily on his heart. The war had taken far to many lives. And for what, the control over American power? A part of him just wanted to give it all up. He lost his passion for electricity and inventing. All that was left for him in victory for this war was the revenge on the Westinghouse Boys for taking his wife.
It was one of the coldest winters that Fort Myers had. Soldiers of the E.E.L.C. patrolled the grounds of the estate, bundled in thick rubber lined gear. The padding was to keep them warm. The rubber was to give them some protection against electric guns. The same guns the soldiers carried.
One soldier, on the south end, lit a cigarette. As he took a satisfying drag, he heard a sound like a horn blow nearby. Out of the night came a large group of Westinghouse Boys. They were marching up towards the soldier. The soldier raised and fired his gun. Bolts of electricity sailed through the air and nicked a Boy in his knee. A few other Westinghouse Boys fired back. Before he got hit, the soldier called out. Another soldier, in a nearby tower, rang the bell to alarm everyone. The battle was on.
Edison quickly stood and ran to a window when he heard the bell. There he beheld the forces of the Westinghouse Boys encroaching on his estate. He raced to the roof and manned the electric turret he had built up there. He fired upon the group, taking out a row of Boys.
In less then an hour, there was heavy casualties on both sides. However, The Westinghouse Boys had still not breached the walls of the estate. Then the secret weapon came into view. The horn blow heard earlier was not man made. Turned out, it was an elephant. General Tesla was riding on the resurrected Topsy the elephant. Now more green then grey and bolts in her neck, Topsy was made into feirce weapon. Tesla commanded and Topsy charged straight for the estate. Electric bolts had no effect on this monsterous beast.
Edison went down to the first floor to meet the intruders head on. Topsy crashed through a wall and Tesla's maniacal laugh rang out in the estate. Edison fired an electric pistol at Telsa but missed. Topsy began stomping towards edison and edison rolled out the way.
He dug into his pocket and found an invention he was toying with. Edison had made a pen shape laser that worked well as a pointer. The real fun however was the effect it had on cats. He wondered if it could distract Topsy in the same way.
Edison points his laser pen at a far wall. As soon as Topsy spots it, she charges over to the wall and paws at the red moving dot. The structure of the estate trembled. Tesla yelled out to Topsy to stop. The elephant didn't listened.
Edison moved the laser to another wall and Topsy chased after it. The structure was giving way. Edison stood up and tried to move out the open wall, but Telsa fired an electric bolt into Edisons back. Telsa hopped off of Topsy and tried to escape himself. Too late, the entire estate fell down on all of them.
The morning sun had poured it's light over the Seminole Lodge grounds. Corpses and debris was all that was left. After this great tragedy, the american people was fed up with electricity. Too dangerous many believed. Household power was thought to be lost.
Then a young writer by the name of Lovecraft presented an old book to the nation. He said that the power came from some old gods. Of course, religious organization protested against it. However, Lovecraft delivered what he promised. By the next generation, free power was offered to households nation wide. Religion was all but forgotten and peace reign for many years.
Till another writer came up with a new religion. A man named L. Ron Hubbard brought forth Scientology and with it came the most horrific war humanity has ever known.
