Sunday, August 19, 2012

HARRISON BERGERON SEQUEL!!!


         HARRISON BERGERON SEQUEL!!! (Sequel is a weird word.)

         Harrison Bergeron awoke with a jolt, bright blue eyes peering into his own.
         “Oh thank goodness you’re alive! I was beginning to get quite worried!” Mindy-The-Ballerina’s high-pitched voice interrupted his thoughts. “Now I fixed up your shoulder with my spare tutu, but we need to get moving quite quickly. We must lead a revolt!”
         Soon after they left the TV Warehouse, Harrison had gathered a large group of people to be in the revolt. They all removed their handicaps and headed towards the center of Washington D.C. More and more citizens joined them in their march. Soon the walk turned violent and they started lighting everything-cars, trees, buildings-on fire. Police and FBI agents rushed to stop their protests, but they continued to push towards the center. Soon after robots were sent to destroy the group. There were too many people for the automatons to overtake, and so the machines retreated.
         Reaching the White House, Harrison motioned for the crowd to quiet down. The hush was vociferous. (A/N I was going to say “The silence was deafening” but I didn’t want to use a cliché. So there, Fielding.) “General Glampers! Come out and face me.” After a few minutes of awkward silence, one noise broke the silence: a faint click against Harrison’s back. He twisted around and grabbed the gun, bending the metal like it was a hot CRUNCH bar.
         Then all Hades broke loose.        
         General Glampers leapt atop his head, clinging to it as if she was a newborn koala and he was her mother. She clawed at his face whilst he tried to shake her off. More robots poured into the crowd, overpowering the people on the outskirts of the group. Soon the statues came alive and Abraham Lincoln began thudding towards Harrison.
         By the time Harrison managed to get General Glampers off his head, it was too late. The statue army formed a circle around him, stepping closer and closer. The stone form of Abraham Lincoln plucked him off the ground. Lincoln dangled him from his ankles, swinging him back and forth. Eerily calm, the statue said, “The government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth, and that is why you must perish from the Earth.” He started swinging him faster and faster, until Lincoln let go and sent Harrison flying.
         Eventually the government was able to calm down the group. One-by-one handicaps were replaced on the people until the entire group was back to normal. That is, until Harrison Bergeron came back.

DUN DUN DUUUUUUN!!!!!!


(A/N Fielding, Al and I decided to do the same general plot but did a different POV. You never specified that we could not have the same ideas. So technically it should still fall under the category of an individual assignment.)

4 comments:

  1. Interesting that a story about freedom, or the destruction of freedom, ends with Lincoln doing the destroying. Ah, that is if Harrison doesn't come back to life again like a Christ-like hero.

    What happened to the parents, they didn't get to watch this time.

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  2. The parents weren't relevant in the second part of the story. I suppose that's why I didn't really include them... :/

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  3. They, the parents, should still be watching television.

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  4. dude that sucked. you shouldn't have included the name of the ballerina, only Harrison, as he symbolized unique differences. the pace of that moved way too quick from getting shot and then going to dc to revolt.

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