Black and White

Corner Prey

Back in Pittsburgh people were asking to hear what was happening from a politician holding something behind their back that wasn't notes to a speech or a police officer worth their salt with more than pepper spray after being defunded. For everyone staying, being left behind with a mass of people lined up to receive benefits which had zero safety regulation got to see what life was like where everything was provided and nobody had to work. Federal officers thought it might be a good idea to issue guns to people who had never fired but still could because it's easier to point and shoot than to use negotiation tactics. Everyone loves a man in uniform even more when he steps out of it. He stood in front of HQ with a bullhorn and talking out of his behind. He might've been able to do a carnival pitch with a clown's teeth to knock out, hit the nose and hear it honk.

"Customize gear, build rank, bullets don't kill people, they kill aliens! It's about to be a doozie giving lil Susan an uzi. She'll put them to bed snoozing. Want to go again. I'll give it to you for a bargain. Don't be selfish and use any bullets on yourself. If it's red you're dead, find out if any one of your split personalities is psychotic, no background check required, prices so low you'll look crazy not to buy it. I'll run out before each of you has got one, hurry before it's gone. Who cares if you can't shoot no one's no ones going to miss anything except a good time so hurry up and buy, don't leave empty handed. Empty that banana clip this here is life insurance that eliminates the cost of a funeral, you will never have been more alive, the dems want to take away the second amendment march right into your home and crack the safe like they would have to do in the event of the only person who knows the code dying which is preventable with a firearm, make that trigger happy, deFUNd the police, if things look bad get a bigger gun, I keep my strap-on me, no homo. Take a knee so the firing line behind can pop off a shot. One at a time!"

Guns were spread out across folding tables in someone's yard. Some of them had sentimental value having been involved in various shoot outs so the proprietor made sure they went to a good home. Fire sales get more insurance money than if the store's stock sold out. A dark sun shines through rain clouds, the streets would be taken back, there would be less crime now that it was preventable. Concealing a weapon leaves it up to the robber to pick a target but not with an assault rifle. Drones fight each other with remote viewers/controllers. A bullhorn brass cone reloads powder kegs and amplifies voice. Left foot forward, snake on a belly, unable to trust the honor guard, Britain's police didn't have excessive force without a government private army there was even less reinforcements. Buck shot the almighty dollar rings at the check out, the judge empathizes with a criminal who is a sociopath, this is not a drill, people are already spun out waiting for the end, open alcohol containers pass down a line until they're all gone. An Irish goodbye whiskey pours out at a popular funeral with many in attendance the less social quietly slip out the back. Heaven opens its gates for the looters trying to survive.

Skydiving becomes dying when a UFO hits the plane. From the lowest levels of the atmosphere the space invaders glide down like on skates. Landing in the Philadelphia football stadium jump off to the cushiony ground with the help of a disproportionate ratio of gravity to weight. Without any agreement of who is top dog although the aliens intend to bring their way of life to a new planet. When they finally made the return journey home it would be the future so it was necessary to make the most of the time here. Tuning to the tone of humans who were a bunch of knuckleheads scraping against the ground barely scratching the surface, following instinct that has nothing to do with survival. Speeders depart from the mother ship's hanger along with larger command ships to direct orders to their soldiers using their claws like a mole would burrow underneath the concrete taking control of all three levels. There was no need for bullets with these fingers that were educated well enough to never pour its own length of intoxicating drink. Mankind's last stand to establish dominance will answer to no master. There would be no pick to break rocks if there is a better way with technology that at present is pure skepticism. There were heroes on both sides, both as some aligned with ideals other than their own.