The De-Evolution of Man:Political Satire, Corporate Satire and more…

The door closed leaving Megaman alone with his thoughts.  Who is the strange woman that greeted him, was he a prisoner and if he is, where? What had happened to him? What injury caused him to end up here, wherever here was, a hospital, prison or worse?

He had been in a coma that seemed assured, since the lovely woman, whom referred to herself as Ima Nuts. Ima Nuts was a lovely woman; she had an innocent appeal about her. Megaman felt an instant longing for her company, a rumbling in his stomach, almost nervousness, a desire for her acceptance. A desire to be with her, to protect her, to hold her, to give up his pursuit of saving the world for her, all this, despite only being with her for just a few moments. He wanted to be by her side again, he longed for her.

What was the strange feeling that had overcome him?

He surmised he must study this further, but now determining his location and developing an immediate operational plan to extricate himself from this situation, after all he had a world to save.

Ah, he thought a television; this just might provide insight into the date and time, even his location if it had changed drastically. For instance he thought if the local broadcast is in Indianapolis, then why he was still located at home, well not home since home would be in the Pronghornian star system, so far from home he thought  And so far from accomplishing his mission, saving planet Earth from the imminent destruction looming on the horizon in the year 2012. Focus; turn on the television, there a remote control devise. Now how to turn this on lets see the power on button seems like the best choice. Ah, but is this some sort of a trap, perhaps meant to detonate an explosive device, thereby killing him and all of the occupants of this building. No, he must take the chance, no other way to determine his location. He could bust open the door and just find his way outside, but breaking down the door with his super strength may cause more damage than detonating any explosive device that the remote linked to and then he’d be charged for the damage?

No. No

No better just try the remote.

Click.

“President Obama is due to speak in just a couple of minutes. He has said he has an important announcement that directly relates to National Security.” The television announcer said.

The view switched from the stone-faced and grey-haired newscaster to President Obama followed by Vice President, Joseph Biden, and then Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, Attorney General Eric Holder and then Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. They all took erect posture behind the President as he stepped in front of the podium and began speaking. “ Good Morning my fellow Americans, we are faced at the current moment with a threat to our national security that we have never encountered before, a threat so dark and sinister, so threatening, yes a threat so threatening that immediate action is required. I ask for bi-partisan support on this, it crosses all party lines and requires our immediate reaction, to save this great nation. We uncovered this plot with extraordinary cooperation between our FBI, the CIA and various other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. I am sharing this information with the American people, in hopes that we can bring the perpetrators and most importantly their leader, who refers himself to as Megaman.”

“What the prong?” Megaman jolted upright in the single hospital style bed and focused in more intently on the Presidents speech.

“My Secretary of Homeland security will explain how we uncovered the plot. Janet.” The President stepped to the side and motioned for Janet Napolitano to step forward. She stepped forward officially and began immediately. “Ladies and gentlemen of the press, my fellow Americans this indeed is a grave day for our nation, the recent attacks against our sovereignty by these aliens, led by this man that befriended the President and many members of our own government. A man that turned against us, but through the courage of our brave government employees, we have uncovered the plot. Our first indication of the plot to destroy our great nation came from a tip from an Energy Department Engineer researching an alternative energy source. The 4 billion-energy grant given to this man, named UFO Phil, was going well with the help of “good aliens”. One day Phil, based on the audit conducted by a vigilant Energy department employee, could no longer generate electricity.” Janet took a breathe and a sip of water from the glass on the podium.

Then she began again. “Pardon me, This raised an alarm with the Department of Energy investigators. Phil was questioned and released. But we had every indication to believe that Phil was telling us the truth when he said that the “good aliens” wanted us to have the technology, but the “bad aliens” didn’t and they had stolen all of his aluminum foil so that he couldn’t make the necessary electrical generating helmet necessary for his experiments. We were angered, the technology had such potential for resolving our energy crisis, billions of taxpayer money was wasted and the helmet may have fallen into the wrong hands.

The results were shared with all agencies and several other similar incidents were identified as possible connections.

First, the recent attempt  to break into an airliners cockpit seemed at first to be an unrelated incident despite the man that perpetrated this act claimed to be an alien. Initially determined to be a hoax, but after correlation by our investigator and after sharing vital information with the CIA, FBI and Department of Homeland Security.

Second, the crash in the stock market originally believed to be a computer error or a “fat finger” mistake was indeed Megaman. Megaman and his group had taken our grant money, 4 billion of it and sold short on the market, causing the crash. What’s even more appalling we have reason to believe they never intended to share their energy generating helmet. In addition, we have reason to believe that the state of our economy is directly related to these “bad aliens” and not any greed or corruption by any member of the banking community. Eric will fill you in our efforts from the legal community.”

Eric Holder the Attorney General stepped forward and quickly stated. “We are exploring avenues at this very moment to locate the star system these aliens come from and demand restitution for the monetary losses we have suffered as a great nation…We also believe they have stolen this energy generating helmet and taken it to the state of Alaska, where they plan to..”

Megaman turned the television off. He fell back on the bed and went limp. He was a criminal, wanted by the entire world, disgraced and shamed. This couldn’t be good for his plans to save the world.

The door opened to his prison.

Written by Greg