Sunburn

I watched inception and made a video which... I guess... none of you would care about.












I think this morning I woke up with an idea, which didn't come from my dreams, or anyone else's dreams.

What if you saved the world and no one knew about it? And no one believed you? And you were sent to jail and lived alone until 80, haunted by your memories and realities, and you wrote a novel to be published after your death?


This would be it.

But inspiration doesn't stick with you. This idea will be nothing in a couple of days, whether I act upon it or not. It won't hold out until november. Not that I would want to write another novel, that is.



But I can tell you what happens through inappropriate narration.

There's this guy and he serves in the army with his best friend, in a world war between the two superpowers remaining on earth. And they complete a couple of scouting missions in preparation for one epic large scale battle which will decide who lives and who dies. There is no winner in this battle, only the bigger loser.

And during these scouting missions they're all in the same assigned squad, and one of these guys in the squad has a cultural background of the enemy supercountry, and protagonist doesn't trust him one bit, even though everyone else thinks he's brilliant. And he is brilliant, he proves to be the perfect soldier/leader/strategist, and he's promoted really quickly and by the end of the few scouting missions he leaves the squad and becomes part of the team HeadQuarters, in charge of tactical missile launches and SDI missile defense.

But protagonist still doesn't trust him and thinks it's a huge mistake to put him in charge, but no one will listen. He talks to his best friend about it who's like "dw he's good you're thinking about it too much".


And protagonist is kind of a scientist/inventor in his spare time, and he invents a "bomb suit" which he wears under his normal armour. He kind of tells everyone about his bomb suit and how it's lightweight and potentially life saving but as usual no one listens.


And then it's the battle, and stuff happens and the squad ends up pinned down in a trench, and they call for reinforcements and HQ is like "okay" but no one comes to save them, and they call for artillery/missile/air strike support to distract and disarray the enemy so they can get the hell out of there and HQ is like "okay" and they can hear missiles being launched from HQ. And then they can see the missiles which kind of go straight up and then down again onto the friendly army. The missile intercepting system doesn't stop the missiles, seemingly sabotaged. And in short half the entire combined army is destroyed by their own firepower. And then they can see one particular missile heading straight for them and they touch necklaces and kiss photos of loved ones and make the cross over their shoulders and stuff like that, and then the whole squad is taken out. Protagonist is knocked out, magically saved by his bomb suit.

(if you didn't figure, the guy that was promoted to HQ was an agent of the other supercountry and betrayed them all)


He wakes up staring at the grey night sky. It's night time but there's so much smoke etc that it blocks his view of space. He wanders the battlefield and sees things which no one should ever have to see. He doesn't know how long he spends wandering the horizons of destruction. He doesn't even notice when he collapses and passes out.


He wakes up again in a POW camp. They have surrendered and lost the war. There is only one superpower left on earth now. Now everything has been truely globalised.

The superpower which won the war is kind of a jerk and corrupt and life kind of really sucks for 50 years.

But protagonist stays being a scientist/inventor guy, alone, and inventes a time machine after these 50 years. He uses it.



He wakes up in the army again before everything, and his best friend is there, and he is absolutely amazed that time travel has worked and confuses the hell out of his friend who does not believe he has come from the future.

They complete a couple of scouting missions, exactly the same, and he has suspicions of that other guy again who will now be known as X. And X is a brilliant soldier/leader/strategist as usual and gets premoted really quickly. Protagonist discusses his mistrust with his best friend again, and tries to explain what he has learned from living in the future. Friend is kind of like "you're mad get the hell away from me"

And he decides to take it into his own hands, and confronts X.
"I know who you are and why you are here, X"
"what are you talking about"
"You don't need to pretend"
"what??"
"I'm going to stop you"
"seriously what are you talking about"

and then protagonist eventually murders X. Does not try to deny it. People do not approve. Goes to jail. Eventually he realises people aren't going to believe you when you say you come from the future. Is still in jail while the epic superbattle happens again.

Stuff happens and he's really anxious for all the people he knew even though they didn't believe him or want to be associated with him and thought he was crazy.

And then news has it that they have won the war and he reflects on how he has saved the world by murdering X.

After a few more years he eventually gets released from jail but life kind of really sucks when you're a convicted murderer and he lives a hard life alone until he's 80.

Decides to write a novel.



I'm not even going to bother trying to edit this. if you see any spelling mistakes/awkward syntax, sorry in advance (well not really advance since this is at the end)