Thursday, October 19, 2006

Eve of Destruction

There were so many bulbs that it was hard to keep track of which one was which. These were all different in some way or the other though. Like for example, Bequito the 100W had a slight greenish tinge, whereas Juiko the 100W had an orange tinge. Ofcourse there were 60W, and 200W as well. The 200W were just a bunch of snobs in the 60W's opinion. Looking all big and glowing so brightly, they were just a bunch of show offs in the 60W's opinion. The 100W didnt care much for these things, they would just interact amongst themselves and not have anything to do with the 60's or the 200's.

Today was one of those days when the 60W's were kinda in a bad mood and felt like taking it out on the 200W's.

So they decided to use the mega beam and annoy the 200W's. The mega beam shined a beam of anti light which would reduce the brightness of the 200W. This was a trick passed on from the early 40W, which are now nearly extinct.

So Eioeer targetted the beam at one of the 200W, they really didnt know any of their names since they were all snobs. As soon as the 200W realised what was happening, all the other 200W's turned towards the 60W. And then the chase began. The 60W were smaller and lighter so they cud get away, this is how they always managed to escape.

Suddenly there was a lot of smoke in the room, and Gibrala, the monkey entered. All the bulbs panicked for Gibrala was a terror. He would just break them into pieces without any sense of compassion. Gibrala headed straight for the 200W bulbs. The only defense mechanism that the 200W had was to shine extremely brightly so that their surface gets too hot to touch. But that required atleast a few minutes, and Gibrala was already running towards them.

The 100W were meanwhile trying to act dead. All of them just went off, and lay like zombie bulbs. The 60W were already on the run so they just continued running. The 200W couldnt act dead now since Gibrala had already seen them, so even if they acted dead now, he would still come and destroy them.

It was too late, there was no hope, this was going to be the end for some of them, what a painful way to go, to be shattered to pieces on hard ground. They just lost hope and stood where they were, and didnt even bother to try and escape.

Gibrala came and picked one of them up and held it close to its face. You could see in Gibrala's eyes his love for destruction, the saddistic pleasure he was going to get from throwing it to the ground.But just then, one of the 200W came up with a brilliant idea, it started flashing, on off, on off. Seeing this, all the other 200W started flashing. Gibrala was distracted. He looked confused. But as brilliant as the 200W thought this idea was, it backfired. Gibrala went so crazy seeing all the flashing that he decided to randomly take out the bulbs.

Bulbs were flying in all directions, one of them hit the wooden pillar on the side, the other hit the fan on the roof, and another went crashing into the window. It was total mayhem, glass pieces everywhere, 200W were getting destroyed by the second. Seeing this carnage, the 100W and 60W decided to step in and stop this disaster. But there wasnt anything they could do.

They just gathered around with full determination and then realised all they could do was flash or shine a light at Gibrala, which would probably only make him come and take them out as well.
So they just stood there, and saw the 200W's getting maimed.They felt sorry for them, but they were also scared.

Then, in the complete randomness of events, one of the 200W went straight up in the air, and fell right on Gibrala's head. It burst open on Gibrala's head causing Gibrala to go completely bonkers and start running around. But there were glass pieces all over and it pierced Gibralas feet, he tripped and fell right on top of millions of shattered glass pieces. Now Gibrala was really hurting, he had glass pieces pierced all around his body and in one final act of desperation, he tried to head towards the exit, but the glass pieces in his feet were too painful and he fell again, on top of more shattered 200W bulbs, and went still, and then there was silence...

There were a few 200W remaining and they were too shocked by what just happened that they decided to switch off and stay that way. The 60W and 100W bulbs were equally shocked by what had just happened, and they went off one by one as well. Slowly the room got darker and darker...till was completely dark.

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