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Topic: GENEROUS (10/14/21)
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By Art Westefeld
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When he broke the kiss, Dirk grinned. “Thanks for making breakfast, dear.”
Jenny smiled up at him. “You're welcome, love."
The phone interrupted with the ringtone that indicated some government official needed to speak to the leader of the Light Force. Dirk snatched the phone. “Megawatt here.”
Megawatt was surprised to hear the president's voice on a Sunday, but realized that crises don’t take the Lord’s day off.
The president's deep voice resonated. “When can you get your team to the White House?”
“About 1:00.”
"Sounds like a plan."
Megawatt turned toward Coldfire. “Make sure you wear your morphing belt to church. The president needs the whole team."
Jenny nodded and served breakfast, which she had prepared with her flame power.
At church, Dirk used telepathy to inform the other five Light Force members of the president’s summons.
Flanked by more Secret Service agents than they’d ever seen, the Light Force dropped into combat stances when they saw Allah’s Fist sitting in front of the president. Diamond leapt in front of President Hand shouting, “Sir, get down!”
Lion Lord, the leader of Allah’s Fist, held up his hands and spoke quickly. “Diamond, we’re invited just like you are."
Megawatt stepped between the men. “Diamond, if he’s right, we should all calm down.”
Diamond demurred.
President Hand spoke. "I invited them because I wanted all the super help we could get. The world’s in peril. I need everyone on board to assist. This video was sent to world leaders about four hours ago.”
Hand turned the monitor on his desk around and hit play.
The dozen powerful people stared at the screen as an alien spoke. Its voice droned in monotone English. “Humans, I am Commander Eal of the Star Empire. In less than one Earth day, we are coming to assimilate your world into our empire. If you cooperate, very little about your lives will change. If not, we will annihilate large portions of your populace. Our advance squads will arrive in the places you call Washington DC, Moscow, and London. We don’t usually destroy worlds, so my government is giving you this generous warning.”
Christian and Muslim leaders stared at each other and spoke as one. “They’re not taking the planet from us.”
Hand smiled. “Thought you’d say that. I propose that the twelve of you split up into three groups and give those squads a welcome that will show them the answer is an unequivocal "no!”
Lion Lord spoke before Megawatt. "We’ll gladly fight off these infidels, but work with them?”
Hand reached into a drawer and placed papers on his desk. “Thought you might say that, too, so I’m offering pardons to your group if you help.”
Megawatt fumed silently, but only responded, “After this, it’s back to business as usual, agreed?”
"Agreed."
Moments later, the teams were chosen and the Light Force carried those from Allah’s Fist who couldn’t fly to Moscow and London.
Before long, landing crafts the size of 747's arrived in the three cities and serpentine aliens slithered out. In Moscow, Lion Lord used his massive strength to push the aliens back into their ship. Amazing Girl did likewise in London, as did Diamond in Washington. Coldfire sealed the ship in Moscow, while Megawatt in London and Blue Flame in DC did the same. The remaining six costumed allies backed their temporary teammates as needed.
When the ships left, Commander Eal broadcast to the world. “Humans, you have made an enemy of the Star Empire. We will leave you for now, but we will be back, ... unannounced!”
An hour later, President Hand addressed the nation and the world. “We have been able to defend our world because two implacable enemies generously decided to make peace for the greater good. We need to learn from their example…”
Megawatt ignored the president and whispered to his counterpart, “Those pardons excuse federal crimes. Time to go back to prison for the state crimes you’ve committed.”
Lion Lord looked at Megawatt. “We just helped repel an alien invasion and you want to slap us back in prison?”
Megawatt appeared to give the matter some thought and allowed, “Ten minute head start.”
His wife leaned over and responded, “Ten minutes? You're being generous.”
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