Travis S. Taylor One Day on Mars

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"Old habits . . . new habits, I just can't help it sometimes." He took a long
draw from the scotch he'd just poured himself. "Damn, I needed that."
"How about that?" Elle held up the gift so that the light from the hyperspace
tube would reflect on it better, giving her a better view of it.
"Two of the most idealistic and naive fools to ever shit between two shoes,
wouldn't you say?" Scotty grinned, sighed, and took another drink.
Elle examined the picture closer. It was in a nice Mars cherry-tree wood frame
and covered with an anti-
glare pane of glass. The picture was of the newly elected Democrat President
Sienna Madira shaking the hands of freshly congressionally approved Supreme
Court Chief Justice Scotty P. Mueller. The chief justice had just sworn-in the
new president and they were shaking hands. There was handwriting on the
picture that amused Elle to no end. She laughed at it.
The best minds are not in government, if they were business would hire them
away. Thanks, Sienna
Madira, President of the United States of America.
"You know I stole that from Reagan?" she said and laughed again.
"Of course I did. I'm the Republican, remember." The former chief justice of
the Supreme Court of the
United States of America laughed. "Jesus, were we naive. I must say though, I
like your hair a lot better now."
Elle looked at the picture and at her reflection in the big window. Her hair
was longer and the gray streaks had long been removed and she had been rejuved
a couple of times since then. She actually looked younger, but she felt so
old.
"I need to tell you that we got intel reports just before going into
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hyperspace that are kind of grim."
"How grim?" Elle's heart sank a little deeper.
"Some of the soldiers holding the city domes started shooting the hostages.
Tens of thousands dead at least." Scotty said.
"Goddamnit, I didn't authorize that!"
"Well, you did leave behind the more, uh, zealous freedom fighters and they
decided to pay back
America in their own way. It's not the first time this has happened. Remember
the tortures and murders of the Desert Campaign?"
"I didn't authorize that either! Those Marines were fortunate I showed up back
then when I did or there wouldn't have been any survivors from the prison
camps." Elle sighed and leaned back in her chair, exhausted.
"But you still toyed with them in order to manipulate them. Their minds were
twisted to aid in our plans.
It had to be done back then just as we had to make a big statement today."
"Think of all the lives that had to be lost. What a sacrifice. I'm going to
Hell, Scotty."
"Madam President, you did what had to be done to achieve the freedom that our
forefathers fought so hard to protect. We simulated this thousands of times.
Without the mass carnage humanity just wouldn't have paid attention and the
new Free People wouldn't understand just how hard it is to acquire and hold on
to true freedom. A bigger war is coming, but for today we did what we had to.
It was necessary and I
think God would understand." Scotty swirled the ice in his tumbler.
"Maybe. I have some thoughts on how to prevent a full-scale system-on-system
war. Perhaps there are new allies that will arise from today's events. But
that can wait. Perhaps God will understand our hard
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choices, if he exists. He sure did his share of murder in the Bible. I know
I've sold myself on that one. It helps me sleep at night," Elle, said and took
a long drink from her glass.
"Elle, I haven't known you to sleep since we first thought of this so many
years ago." Scotty almost smiled at his longtime friend and leader.
"We've been planning this a long time, haven't we, Scotty?" Elle yawned.
"Yes we have, Madam President. And it took all those years of planning and
plotting and scheming and faking our deaths and hiding and running, but
America, a true America, is going to go on. Thanks to you. Thanks to your
brilliant plan, your sacrifice, and your resolve. It has been a long time
coming, but we finally had our day. Our last day in our home star system. We
are leaving the old world to attain a new one."
"A long wait for a long day. But it is more than that, Scotty. One day we will
return and right the Sol
System and return America to its original greatness there as well. One day on
Mars the true voice of freedom will be heard again. One day on Mars liberty
and the pursuit of happiness will prevail again!"
"Yes ,ma'am. One day."
"Here's to it." Elle held up her glass and tapped it to her friend's. "Here's
to a new America, to the Free
People, to the lives lost and the suffering souls, and to those that fought
today, this long day, for that one
day on Mars!"
THE END
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