take up your arms: abridged, X

I. hear the clink clank sizzle and the frantic taptaptap; the smith shop works overtime (we're always caught off guard, un prepared, we'll be prepared this time, we're prepared for this)

II. count off, a one two three a one two three four five six a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand; there's a rotten apple within the mix, black to the core, twisted, grotesque, sink your teeth into it and it'll bite your tongue off instead.

III. troopers gather, here's the plan:

we'll jump onboard the speeding train; target's on the last one at midnight, mid way across the Atlantic- or was it the Pacific? (how would I know I'm not a geographer) (who has the map give it here) (oh god oh god oh god) (christ, calm down!)

IV. change of plans, here's what we'll do instead:

we'll set off in glow-in-the-dark hot air balloons, raze the night sky in neon shades of blinding yellow blue pink and green

it's a race against the clock, raze against the crock - if we're victorious we'll float home in the glow of the red dawn.