The Raisin

By p a anders

"The raisin production plant will be operatonal in three weeks, Mr. Gaeta", the underling informed his superior with an air of complacent authority.

"I want 6,000,000 units to be delivered to the wholesale facility in two months", Gaeta replied. Gaeta was the kind of persom who never commended his underlings for their successes. Rather, he would place another burden on their shoulders. Many a crony had caved in under the weight of the stresses of the raisin project.

Gaeta had staked the entire resorces of the Corporate Guild to this latest project. For 15 years he had been laboriously developing a dispersal methods for the raisins. He needed to do this in order to attract his customers. If the porject was successfull, he could stand to gain millions of dollars in revenue.

If he failed, however, he would be ruined and The Corporate Guild would surely fire him. Then, he would be forced to sell groceries to the people who had once worked for him.

Three months later....

"WHAT TO YOU MEAN, WE DON'T HAVE ANY SALE FIGURES?", Gaeta demanded. "Sir, Lockheed Martin has alrady developed our porduct." "Damn them! Damn the world!" Gaeta spluttered incoherently, "This is impossible...I will not be defeated, not be Lockheed, not by the President, not by anyone! How are the levels of bombardment?", he asked his secretary "43 MeV per square cm." "Very well", Gaeta concluded. Gaeta was furious. The world was agianst him. Life was no longer worth living. How dare the rival companies undermine his products! It was time for him to wreak his havoc upon the world. With the help of his raisins, he would have the last laugh. "Iniatiate Order 45c.", he ordered his secretary

All aroung the world, there seemed to be aruoras all over the world. Beautifull cascades of color shimmered over Miami for the first time in centuries. A pleasure barge in the Indian Ocean witnessed a purple curtain falling on the backdrop of Sri Lanka.

The world was ignorant of the threat. The raisins--Radiation Activated Invasive Semi Independant Nanobots--had been unleashed

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