eatthepen | Chronic Swanicles 5 (Reply)

Originally I wrote this one to celebrate Cohost getting audio posts, and voice-acted it, but idthink there's a way to host audio on dw, so here's the transcript instead. The prompt for this one was 'Mech pilot doing kick flips off of expended flechettes.'

"Corporal Swan."

"Ma'am."

"About this proposal you've filed for a… recreational activity?"

"Yes, ma'am?"

"I am aware that your recent, ah, improvised deployment method was… how shall I put this? Disturbingly successful?"

"Thank you, ma'am. And thank you for considering my suggestion."

"'Consideration'. Well, I read it. Proposal rejected."

"That's disappointing to hear, ma'am. Is there anything I can say to lead you to reconsider?"

"Swan I am not going to squander literal tonnes of solid ammunition on a recreational activity. Those AP-FC-1s cost enough to fuel your mech for a week."

"But the combat applications are proven! And consider the potential for use in marketing and-"

"-recruitment, yes, Swan, I read your horrible little letter in full. I am not moved by your promises of 'sick flip tricks' and 'going viral on Instar'."

"But ma'am-"

"No, Swan. Also I don't think even real skateboarders have used the word 'radical' since the twenty-five-nineties."