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Wade Jia

Short Stories
- Last Trip
- The Elementals- Jak's Story

The Elementals- Jak's Story (8 ratings)
         by Wade Jia
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Anyways, as I walked to the nearest working all-unit store, I noticed the carnage that the explosion had caused. There were large metal crates scattered in the middle of the road. Those metal crates probably contained foodstuffs, and weighed only about two tons, which isn't a lot compared to the ten tons of Peredurian import boxes.

As I shifted through the rubble, I found that one of those boxes was blown open by the force of the explosion. I looked inside and I was very surprised. It was as if I had found a literal treasure chest! There was a lot of the newest, top of the line, X-14 Lasrifles! Their market value had to be over one trillion credits! I was now an even richer rich man, if I could get that ten-ton box to my hideout. That should be no problem with my 'amazing' powers, right? Nope, even my powers have limits. I might be able to make the box feel like it only weighs 400 pounds, but I would still have to carry 400 pounds nearly a mile to my hideout. It would also look suspicious if I was lugging a large box onto a magnarail or a hovertaxi. As I pondered how I would get this huge box to my hideout, I saw what seemed to be someone's hovercar buried in the rubble. That might be the answer to my problems. Immediately, I ran over there and started to dig the h-car out. Enough of the rubble was cleared, so I just pulled the car out. There wasn't a passenger inside, so I used my skeleton key to open the door. This just happened to be an older model, with key locking doors. I opened the back trunk, and poured all of the contents of the metal box into it. The car adjusted the back trunk so that it would be able to carry all of the stuff I was dumping into it. Now I have to find out how to sell them...

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Driving home in my new car and with a bunch of new guns, I passed many Peredurian Police Hovercars. They were probably too busy trying to help the injured citizens from the attack of the big blue bomb. I turned on the onboard computer and asked it to find out what that big bomb was. I hope it didn't have any radiation, since I was exposed to it for so long. After awhile, it came up with some results. It seems that there is this new terrorist organization, the Flagship Rebels, and they seem to possess nuclear weaponry. This bomb that exploded didn't have radiation contained it. This bomb was probably for show. Total fatality numbered up to around three thousand people. That may seem a lot, but with over a billion people in each city, this was one of the smaller terrorist activities. I wonder what the Peredurian police are going to do when they terrorist unleash their nuclear weaponry. This would be the best time to build a bomb shelter...

Nearing the building in which my hideout was located, I saw that it had suffered minimal damage. A few dents here and there, it wasn't so bad. I entered in my access code, which was ******** (you don't think I'd actually tell you), and the titanium coated steel doors opened. I parked the car near my storage depots and waited for my bot to take all of my stuff out. Slowly it rumbled out.

"HEY, JAK! WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO TAKE YOUR ILLEGAL GUNS OUT OF YOUR CAR?" it boomed.

"Hey, Sharky, turn your stupid voice down. You know I won't get into trouble.

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