The Battle of the Heads

   I seem to be the only one that realizes just how horrible our government is. You can't travel outside of the city to see what the world is all about and you can't fall in love or have your own family. You can't even choose a profession it is all decided for you. My father, James, is a mechanic but has the brains to be a rocket scientist, my mother, Diana, is a nurse but should be a brain surgeon and the only reason they aren't what they should be is because if they had those jobs they could single handedly change the city. My father and I always work on cars together we both love it. I could do it for a living but my father, even though he won't admit it because it is against the law, hates it.

   You see it's illegal to say anything bad about our government and if you do the next day no one ever sees you again. We can't have our own religion it's God or death and if any one knew the thoughts in my head I wouldn't have lived past yesterday. I get straight A's in school and have a brain that shouldn't even belong to the smartest person in the world. I have a plan to break my city free of its prison but I need a position of power and the only way to get that is to be absolutely perfect. Which is harder than it seems. I have to play stupider than I am and let our leaders, we call them the Heads, think that I will do anything they want me to, all the while keeping my head straight and true.

   This job that I need oversees the entire city's regulations. The title is, fittingly, called the Warden. In order to get this position of high honor I need to be appointed, not by the people as it should be but by the Heads. They choose based on performance and technique. Luckily for me the Heads are already putty in my palms, although they think it the other way around. The biggest problem for me is they won't pick a new Warden until the current one retires, which no one thinks he will, or dies.

   While I was working with my father on the cars I found a strange substance that was insanely flammable. The only reason I know is because I almost burned all my hair off, see I had drained it out of the car and put it into a bucket. There was a surprisingly large amount of this green goop in the car, I had to use two and a half buckets just to get it all out. After I had done that I forgot that I had meant to move it into the safe just incase it was really dangerous or something. I left it was next to my generator that runs extremely hot, the generator had already been running all day and was a lot hotter than usual. The nasty goop had only been sitting there less than ten minutes and all of a sudden there was a mildly mild explosion that had just enough umph to scare the crap out of me and my father and also knock all of our tools off of the wall. I was pissed, it took a long time to organize that wall and I had just recently gotten it perfect, but then I got to thinking. No one has any clue what this goop is and if I mix it in with gas and delude it enough so that it will easily pass through the cylinders of the Wardens hot running V8 engine then I could possibly scare him enough to make him retire by thinking someone is out to kill him.

   Then it hit me. If he didn't, and even if he did, the Heads may request that the explosion be looked into and if they did that not only would it lead to my family it may tear us apart. Of course the goop did come from some person's car. I honestly don't know the owner. And then I could say all of our goop exploded when the first bucket did. I had to try it, this was my only option to get me one step closer to the freedom of my city and being able to lift all of the obscene laws.

   In the following months I tested my theory with small amounts of the goop and gas so that when I had the opportunity to rig the Warden's car I wouldn't mess up because the chances were I would only get one. One day there was a meeting with the Heads and the Warden. This would be my only opportunity.