Morbidly Obese Ninja, The by Carlton Mellick III
Author:Carlton Mellick III [Mellick, Carlton III]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Fantasy, Humorous, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781936383573
Google: DCgwKQEACAAJ
Amazon: 1936383578
Publisher: Eraserhead Press
Published: 2011-04-14T05:00:00+00:00
âIâm sorry,â he said. âIt would go against the ninja code. My code.â
âScrew your fucking code,â she said, throwing a pillow into his face and pulling the covers over her head like a 5-year-old.
Basu put his shirt on and went into the other room. Oki wasnât asleep on the couch where they had left him. The blanket was on the floor. The front door of the shop was wide open.
The bus hovered in open space between two buildings, so Oki could not have run away. Basu walked through the front door out onto the porch. Oki was sitting on the edge, staring down at the abyss below.
Basu sat next to him. His weight rocked the bus back and forth as he plopped down. He put his finger up to Okiâs cheek and wiped a tear away.
âYou heard us?â Basu said.
The machine boy nodded his head, still glaring down into the abyss. Basu was surprised he had been able to hear them. He wondered if the Kakera Corporation supplied the boy with superior hearing, perhaps so he could hear danger when it was coming his way.
âShe wants to kill me,â Oki said in a croaky voice.
Basu grunted. âI wonât let her.â
âYou want to kill me, too,â the boy said.
Basu looked away.
âI donât want to kill you,â he said. âBut I donât have a choice. Itâs my duty.â
Okiâs watery eyes shivered at Basu. âBut why? Why is your duty so important?â
Basu slapped Oki across the cheek.
Oki jerked with shock, then trembled beneath the ninjaâs fat angry face.
âHave some dignity,â Basu said to the scared little boy. âJust as my role in life is to follow my companyâs orders without question, it is your role in life to be a piggy bank. You were born to hold information and you will die once that information is needed. Accept your fate. It is the honorable thing to do.â
Oki took a breath and wiped tears from his eyes. Basu stared down into the abyss below, watching his plump feet dangling in space.
âItâs a long away down, isnât it?â Basu said.
Oki nodded.
âWhatâs down there?â Oki asked, his eyes still tearing.
âMiles down are the old streets,â he said. âWe donât use them anymore, except for waste disposal. You can still see the streets in smaller towns, outside of California, where buildings are far apart and only thirty stories tall.â
âThirty stories tall?â Oki laughed through his tears. âYouâre making fun of me.â
âNo,â Basu chuckled. âThere are many buildings out there that are even shorter than that.â
Oki smiles. âI wish I could be on a building less than thirty stories high.â
âWhy?â Basu said.
âSo I could see the ground,â Oki said.
âThereâs nothing great about seeing the ground,â Basu said.
âI donât know,â Oki said. âIâve never seen it before.â
Basu looked down into the abyss. After a hundred stories, all he could see was a single point. The ground was farther down than his eyes could see.
âThere are a lot of things Iâve never seen,â Oki said.
Basu didnât know what to say to him.
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