After the year 2901. When the planet earth became one big government. All the other planets as while, with everybody trying to be the best planet there comes conflict. Even though war is something that has been around for ages. All of my life I had being seeing war all the time. Like the war that we are still in with venus for crashing a S-129 ship into the biggest building on earth. The government says that they hate us and everybody there needs help from their leaders but people don't see why we are really there.
Look some people on earth say we are in war because other planets hate us. They say that we get into war because they would take our freedom. I thought the same until my friend Edgar. Told me the real reason why there is war while that is what we how we see it.
It all started after high school. Me and edgar were two regular kids in high school. Doing teenager stuff. Going to parties, smoking weed,getting at the girls. After high school i had got a pizza delivery job. Had a little apartment with my wife. We barely had enough to pay rent, i would do little jobs on the side just to have money to eat. My wife ,she was a writer well at least that is what she would tell people when they asked her what she did for a living. She only got published once, but all the money she got went straight to the debts we had. I would try to sell her books outside of stories but nobody would even read the title. I never saw edgar after high school. He moved out of the district and i never saw him again.
One day when i was outside the store. A brand new cadillac drives by me swerves in a parking lot. Nobody got out of it. It just stayed there for awhile. I just could imagine what a car and how me and wife would go rides, drive into the sunset.
The door finally opens. A black shiny bot steps out. A hand with what looked like rock for a ring grabs the top of the door to get up. A face pops up but the sunglasses reflects the sun directly into my eyes and i got blind for a second. When i get my vision back i seen my old friend Edgers face smiling, walking towards me. "Josh,that you?"
"Edgar ? what you doing here."
"I came back after my uncle ripped me off of a grand."
"A grand?"
"Yeah, that's why i came back to the district, to see how my old friend is doing."
"You should come over and hang out sometime."
"Why don't we hang out right now?"
"I can't i got work right now"
"Fuck that shit. Your boy is back in town let's go smoke some weed or something."
I didn't want to go, but edgar always knew how to talk people into doing things. "Alright let's go."
We got into his car. We started catching up. He told me how he and his uncle bought guns in police auctions and resell them online. He said he had a lot of money until his uncle stole one grand from him. He wanted me to help him but I didn't know anything about guns. I didn't even know how to shoot them. He pulls out a machine gun and starts shooting in the sky when i told him i would join. Edgar was one crazy motherfucker.
He tells me to meet him at this little office he just got. That day when i got there, there was a post-it note on the door that said "AEY". I push the door open with force , because there was something in the way. When i walked in he jumps up and hugs me. He saying that we need to celebrate. I ask why. He said that he got a deal to sell arms to the us army!
He showed me a list on computer of all the guns the army needs and all we have to do is talk to the right people and we would get it. We were the middle men. We only got a little bit of the profit but man they were more than what i made a year. I now could make more than i made in a year in a month. We are going to make big money.
Edgar started to show me what deals were the good ones for us and which ones were not good for us. I started studying on all the other guns, body army , grenades, and even helmets. We make money to make sure the guns that someone has go to the people in other planets in war.
Thing we did was not illegal but it wasn't all the way legal. We didn't care nobody cares where the guns come from, they only care if they got guns to fight with. Everybody in the army did not like us but they know they needed us to give them the guns. It wasn't only us that ranguns as they called it. It was people all over the universe. People from Venus,pluto,jupiter, and even planet J-19. We worked with mostly everybody, especially J-19. They had the cheapest weapons.
Everything was going good until I found out that edgar ripped off his uncle and not the other way around. I kinda really didn't care but I realized he could rip me off. After i heard it i made sure to make a contract where i got my half of the profit and he got only his half. When he signed it, i felt that he felt disrespected. I didn't care though as long as i got my half.
One day, we made the biggest deal we had ever made. The U.S army wanted x- amount of pistols, i forgot how much it was. The pistols we ordered came from planet J-19. the U.S army was asking X amount for it and we knew where to get it for so much cheaper. This deal was the biggest deal we had ever made. When we shipped them we had to celebrate.
We go to the biggest club on earth. We party all night but around 2 in the morning we get a call.
"Sir, your shipment has been stop and being help in planet J-19."
When we heard that we couldn't imagine why. Edgar being edgar was so mad he gets the top that we were sitting on at the club, and throws it across the club. We leave the club before anybody saw us. We start heading to the office to try to figure out what happened but before we could turn on the car, we get another call and it was a mad general in the middle of venus.
"Where's my pistols? I heard there in planet J-19. you better not send me guns from cheap planet J-19."
I had nothing to say but "sir we could handle this and call you later." I didn't know how to get those guns at of planet J-19. until edgar explained how he was going to go over there and do it himself. Planet J-19 wasnt the nicest planet. They hated us to just like most planets in the universe. But who cares right we need those guns in venus before they have no more guns but most important so we won't lose our deal.
Three months later when i got the call from the general thanking me for the guns, i try to call edgar. He didn't answer. I assumed he was having the time of his life in planet J-19.
I never got the call from edgar. He never came back. He had the money. I never got the money. I did get locked up though now i'm in jail for selling the guns to them. I told them everything but they tell they have no record of an edgar and how i'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison. I don't care if people who read this and think it's all bullshit and they still support war, all i care is what the fuck happened to edgar.
