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Day 6 - Write a scene with people talking, but without any actual dialog
I'm calling this one Betrayal.
Story Note: Tonya is a character I originally created for a Mutants & Masterminds game was set in the Marvel comics universe. It was set just after the Civil War storyline. Part of her background was that her mutant powers started to kick in early, leading to her being spotted and forcefully recruited into a villain's band of so-called revolutionaries. She has "electro-magnetic" powers. Unlike Magneto she can't throw metal objects around with her mind, but she can mentally make simple radio connections and she can also mentally manipulate electronic systems. In the chaos of the 'civil war' Tonya's able to contact the authorities so she can break free...
Not entirely satisfied with it but this is the third or fourth variation on it I've written (I also wrote a version for the "A scene with only dialog" prompt that I'm even less satisfied with)
Oh, and some use of Four Letter Words.
Yadda, yadda, yadda. Grown ups like to hear themselves talk. PsyMinder finally finished her oh so rousing speech, please put me down or at least in therapy if I ever start talking like that, and lets me slip ahead to take down the security systems. Sloppy of her, not only failed to touch up the brainwashing, she didn't even bother with the traditional dire threats if I failed. Heh, guess I have been showing off the mad skills too much lately.
Sucks to be you Mistress, thanks to those idiots in Stamford I've got a ticket to freedom. The phone booth may be abandoned but the line is good enough. One set of signals back to look like I'm working and the next to my new best friends.
Yadda, yadda, yadda. Government grown ups like talking even more than the anyone but heroes. Yes, yes, tell the nice super-SWAT that I'm Kid Sparkler, already told them that. Oh, and they know my name's Tonya Thompson, their investigators must be so proud that they can look up what a simple Google search would find.
Jackpot! He tells them they like my offer of the rest of The Barbed Helix handed to them on a silver platter. Blah, blah, blah, try avoid the property damage, blah, blah, given them a chance to surrender, blah, blah just do your job don't be a hero. Well, pff, yeah, they don't have their underwear on on the outside. Oho! Sucks even more to be you Mistress PsyMinder, they're breaking out drones and everything.
Jerk. I give Mister Gung Ho Team Leader the frequencies for the Helix Comms and do I get a thank you? Not that I was expecting one. Much. Well, maybe a little. Don't tell me to get off the line and wait for pick up. Like I'd be so lazy anyway. Hacked into every microphone on his truck before I even said hello. Let's see what the cameras see.
Oh great, he's going to talk to them. Hello bog standard Reject Evil and Be Good speech, wonder if it will be speech one or -- oh, maybe I could like him. That was a refreshingly simple surrender or we'll shoot threat. Don't normally get that from the Good Guys. Like they're going to, yeah and there goes PsyMinder into Standard Pseudo-Revolutionary Speech T--
Oh! Did they really? Replay! Replay! I'm free! Hallelujah I'm free! Thank god for snipers, told you armor without a helmet was stupid ya old bitch!
Oh hell, what did he just say, which camera. Oh hell, different camera! Don't want to see that! Why'd you have to do that FireMind, they're gonna kill you now. PsyMinder's the only one I wanted dead. What'd he say again. He didn't have to tell me to be quiet like that. Only wanted him to give another chance to surrender.
How the hell can that one walk like that, and keep calling in fire. Over, it's over. Looks like a war was fought there. At least all I've got to do is sit here and wait to be picked up. All I'll have to do is register like a good little superhuman and I can finally go home and try to forget any of this ever happened.
Oh, Mister Patronizing Gung Ho Team Leader, yes it's got all initial caps, finally remembers I'm here and asks if I'm still listening. I consider trying to annoy him by pretending I actually got off the line when he told me to. But somehow tweaking him doesn't seem as amusing anymore. Less yadda, yadda, this time and nice to the point where exactly am I and wait for pickup.
Ah, and now he calls for my pickup. Oho, using a different encrypted channel? Didn't even bother telling me to hang up again. Hasn't he noticed I've already been talking to him on a private channel? I could try breaking it, but why bother when I'm already listening in on his own bleeding micropho-- oh he didn't just say that.
Oh. Did I just say that aloud over the command truck speakers? So, stay and tell him just what I think of telling my pickup to say I resisted or run. I do wish I had the up to date codes so I could see his face as I crashed his computers... Wait, crash... Heh. Thank you for using borrowed Army drones. Cheapskates really ought to have changed software by now. Yes, I do believe the face Gung Ho has when told the drones will land on his truck is almost as good as when I tell him I've got a recording of him ordering his guy to off me. Just wish I hadn't given them all the safe house locations... Got to learn to hold back girl, clearly the Good Guys aren't any more trustworthy than the Bad Guys...
In case you're wondering, not long after this Tonya bother changes her "professional" name and takes her first opportunity to get off Earth. Then again, being Marvel Earth mid Civil-War storyline that's a pretty rational choice for a mutant teenager to take. And if the "Good Guys" seem a little blood thirsty for Good Guys, keep in mind that the Marvel Civil War was touched off by a hero villain fight leading to a kaboom that killed 600 civilians, with part of that count including a portion of a school. Even the supers recognized as Good Guys took a hit to their popularity with the general public.
ravenswept's 30 Days of Flash Fiction MemeMy 30 Days of Flashfic Index Page
Day 6 - Write a scene with people talking, but without any actual dialog
I'm calling this one Betrayal.
Story Note: Tonya is a character I originally created for a Mutants & Masterminds game was set in the Marvel comics universe. It was set just after the Civil War storyline. Part of her background was that her mutant powers started to kick in early, leading to her being spotted and forcefully recruited into a villain's band of so-called revolutionaries. She has "electro-magnetic" powers. Unlike Magneto she can't throw metal objects around with her mind, but she can mentally make simple radio connections and she can also mentally manipulate electronic systems. In the chaos of the 'civil war' Tonya's able to contact the authorities so she can break free...
Not entirely satisfied with it but this is the third or fourth variation on it I've written (I also wrote a version for the "A scene with only dialog" prompt that I'm even less satisfied with)
Oh, and some use of Four Letter Words.
Yadda, yadda, yadda. Grown ups like to hear themselves talk. PsyMinder finally finished her oh so rousing speech, please put me down or at least in therapy if I ever start talking like that, and lets me slip ahead to take down the security systems. Sloppy of her, not only failed to touch up the brainwashing, she didn't even bother with the traditional dire threats if I failed. Heh, guess I have been showing off the mad skills too much lately.
Sucks to be you Mistress, thanks to those idiots in Stamford I've got a ticket to freedom. The phone booth may be abandoned but the line is good enough. One set of signals back to look like I'm working and the next to my new best friends.
Yadda, yadda, yadda. Government grown ups like talking even more than the anyone but heroes. Yes, yes, tell the nice super-SWAT that I'm Kid Sparkler, already told them that. Oh, and they know my name's Tonya Thompson, their investigators must be so proud that they can look up what a simple Google search would find.
Jackpot! He tells them they like my offer of the rest of The Barbed Helix handed to them on a silver platter. Blah, blah, blah, try avoid the property damage, blah, blah, given them a chance to surrender, blah, blah just do your job don't be a hero. Well, pff, yeah, they don't have their underwear on on the outside. Oho! Sucks even more to be you Mistress PsyMinder, they're breaking out drones and everything.
Jerk. I give Mister Gung Ho Team Leader the frequencies for the Helix Comms and do I get a thank you? Not that I was expecting one. Much. Well, maybe a little. Don't tell me to get off the line and wait for pick up. Like I'd be so lazy anyway. Hacked into every microphone on his truck before I even said hello. Let's see what the cameras see.
Oh great, he's going to talk to them. Hello bog standard Reject Evil and Be Good speech, wonder if it will be speech one or -- oh, maybe I could like him. That was a refreshingly simple surrender or we'll shoot threat. Don't normally get that from the Good Guys. Like they're going to, yeah and there goes PsyMinder into Standard Pseudo-Revolutionary Speech T--
Oh! Did they really? Replay! Replay! I'm free! Hallelujah I'm free! Thank god for snipers, told you armor without a helmet was stupid ya old bitch!
Oh hell, what did he just say, which camera. Oh hell, different camera! Don't want to see that! Why'd you have to do that FireMind, they're gonna kill you now. PsyMinder's the only one I wanted dead. What'd he say again. He didn't have to tell me to be quiet like that. Only wanted him to give another chance to surrender.
How the hell can that one walk like that, and keep calling in fire. Over, it's over. Looks like a war was fought there. At least all I've got to do is sit here and wait to be picked up. All I'll have to do is register like a good little superhuman and I can finally go home and try to forget any of this ever happened.
Oh, Mister Patronizing Gung Ho Team Leader, yes it's got all initial caps, finally remembers I'm here and asks if I'm still listening. I consider trying to annoy him by pretending I actually got off the line when he told me to. But somehow tweaking him doesn't seem as amusing anymore. Less yadda, yadda, this time and nice to the point where exactly am I and wait for pickup.
Ah, and now he calls for my pickup. Oho, using a different encrypted channel? Didn't even bother telling me to hang up again. Hasn't he noticed I've already been talking to him on a private channel? I could try breaking it, but why bother when I'm already listening in on his own bleeding micropho-- oh he didn't just say that.
Oh. Did I just say that aloud over the command truck speakers? So, stay and tell him just what I think of telling my pickup to say I resisted or run. I do wish I had the up to date codes so I could see his face as I crashed his computers... Wait, crash... Heh. Thank you for using borrowed Army drones. Cheapskates really ought to have changed software by now. Yes, I do believe the face Gung Ho has when told the drones will land on his truck is almost as good as when I tell him I've got a recording of him ordering his guy to off me. Just wish I hadn't given them all the safe house locations... Got to learn to hold back girl, clearly the Good Guys aren't any more trustworthy than the Bad Guys...
In case you're wondering, not long after this Tonya bother changes her "professional" name and takes her first opportunity to get off Earth. Then again, being Marvel Earth mid Civil-War storyline that's a pretty rational choice for a mutant teenager to take. And if the "Good Guys" seem a little blood thirsty for Good Guys, keep in mind that the Marvel Civil War was touched off by a hero villain fight leading to a kaboom that killed 600 civilians, with part of that count including a portion of a school. Even the supers recognized as Good Guys took a hit to their popularity with the general public.
