BRAVO Chapter Two - (post 5)

Go to the start of Chapter Two..

BRAVO Chapter Two - (post 5)

Karloff listens intently to what the Major and General Ratz have been discussing. In his own mind, Karloff thinks that he knows more about the aliens than the other two put together. After all, he muses, I am the one who controls the film footage of the young men. He waits for the right moment to say his piece.

Ratz falls to the floor and quickly picks himself up, dusting down his huge frame and finishing the neat vodka with a slurp and a gulp. “Psychological warfare!” He screams towards the fireplace and throws his now empty glass into the flames. “Bah, we have waited so long to take our revenge, all this time we have waited to show the world…” He stumbles backwards again and lands in one of the leather seats. He screws up his face and ignores the other men’s stares.

Karloff seizes the moment, he takes up a new position, leaning on the arm of General Ratz’s chair. Quietly but clearly, he starts his pitch. “General,” he begins. “The Major may be right!”

Ratz stares at Karloff but doesn’t speak. He’s starting to think that the Major and Karloff just might have something to contribute. He used to trust them in the days of the glorious revolution; in fact they were his right and left hand men. So, perhaps they still have a trick or two up their sleeves, he concedes. He can see that Karloff has something to say and he sits back, sinking further into the lush leather seat.

“General,” Karloff begins yet again. “General, The Major may be right! If we attack our enemies with weapons they can see, alien or not in appearance to them, they will fight back and after a period of time our plans will fail – just another conventional war."

Read on ...