By Stan White & Lou Porzilli
© 1999
Headlining the Global Nightly News: War between Robotic and World Government Forces continues in Central Eurasia. Global News is also first with an exclusive report from the Argentinean retreat. Refugees crowd into free cities and…
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It was his first trip back…the crew had partied through the night.
With Billy navigating, they hit a satellite.
It was his first trip back, when he took out the satellite
That controlled the warring robots and was making them fight.
It was his first trip back and he ended the war.
Even, if by accident, he ended the war.
Ended the war
An accidental hero.
People came to celebrate, but Billy couldn’t see himself as a hero.
Everyone he ever knew, or wanted to, his family, too, was gone.
Time had slipped away (Repeats)
Time, time.
This is a special report from Global Nightly News: War has broken out in several areas of North America, Africa, and the Pacific Rim. In an effort to secure land, formerly held by robotic forces, rival factions are arming and moving into the undefended territories.