"Ah'm a Mad Hatter with a Blastive Gun..." Copyright (c) Kim Schoonover.
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"Ah'm a Mad Hatter with a Blastive Gun..." Copyright (c) Kim Schoonover.
They say, "A moment of pain, an eternity of pleasure," or at least, something
to that effect. Well, its a bloody LIE. Both parts are, in fact, or at least
were for me. Getting bitten actually didn't hurt at all, really, especially in
comparison to all the times my crazy friends and I all bit each other as a show
of 'go die, but I suppose you're too lazy, so I'll just hurt you instead.'
No, the turning into a vampire, this was a clean bite, and anyone who's ever
tried to cook and has had a baby brother would know that getting cut with a
butcher knife is a lot less painful than having a hand slammed in a car door,
causing two of the fingers to get ripped out of the sockets, taking three
agonizing months to heal, and then still hurting every time writing is
attempted, which, when one is still in school, just happens to be every day...
And then, even as an undead, when the same thing happens AGAIN, why, it hurts
just as much, and everyone just laughs, like its just fine. Even in this day and
age, when the cars bloody fly.
And what about the 'pleasure' bit? I haven't been even remotely happy once,
and while I never was a generally happy person, thats still saying something
because it's been a bloody one thousand, six hundred years. All I've really been
was bored out of my wits, just like that 'infinitely prolonged' guy in the
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or whichever one that was in... its been so
long I can't remember. Thing is, though, unlike that Wowbagger guy, I can't just
go around insulting everyone, as much as I'd like to. See, there's a bloody ban
on space travel. I even got out my bloody large hat and umbrella and engaged the
station guy about it in nice, loud, ear-shattering debate, eventually resulting
in my being thrown out of the damn station and nearly falling to pieces in the
sun. That was when the bastard realized I was a vampire and peed his pants. Ha,
serves him right...
But still, I don't understand it. We have the technology for space travel,
folks have does it before, even going to other galaxies. I guess its just that
everything has been made a figurative utopia on this stupid, bloody planet, so
of course, why would anyone even want to leave? Note the word 'figurative' I
used. Most of my kind has been wiped out, and although a lot of them probably
deserved it, there were some nice people killed in that slaughter so many years
ago after the Blastive Guns were invented. I think there were about two, if I
remember correctly, and I probably don't, as in, most likely there was only one
or I was imagining things. But see, I'm not the only one who finds this place a
bloody, living hell, or whatever stupid figure of speech would apply in the case
of someone who's already technically dead. A goodly chunk of the younger
generation think the rules are stupid, too, and just want to get out there. They
just can't. Well, couldn't.
Which, of course, led to the inventions of several different time machines,
which work based on several, entirely different key principles, all around
the bloody same time. Did I mention that the technology level is a bit high?
We can bloody go back in time, fly around, blast vampires into globs of flesh of
the sort previously found only in video games like Quake and Doom, both the
thirds, that I liked when I was a kid, and yet we can't even fight a
middling-level race of aliens that's been terrorizing the rest of the galaxy
since a more powerful, good group fell to pieces for some long-forgotten reason.
Go figure.
That's why the space travel ban, of course. The bloody authorities are
afraid. Honestly, they should be more afraid of Blastive-Gun-carrying
maniacs who are using time travel along with the galactic drift principle to
move to different and hopefully more interesting locations, if they're lucky.
Also, chances are, they've probably already irrevocable changed history, and if
they haven't yet, well, they will. Just give them time, and there's no lack of
that. Not for any of us, not any more. Although thats irrelevant to the point of
this... what was the point of this, anyway?
Well anyway, I have a Blastive Gun myself. I also have some pretty strong
beliefs, which is probably fairly evident by now, and I intend to make a point.
I'll just put on my nice, large hat, grab my umbrella, and Blastive my way to
the bloody authorities in their nice, overly gardened governing estate and tell
them what people think. Or something along those lines. Perhaps if that fails
I'll just go back in time and see how much trouble I can stir up for everybody
and even perhaps try to make things right. It'd be about time someone did
something, regardless...
I suppose, in ending, that these writings shall be my testimony to the fact
that I AM BLOODY PISSED OFF.