Professor
Goetz had been a recluse for the last year. He began to look
gaunt, scraggly and his bathing habits were called into question. James Goetz
was noticing the lack of self-care his father was applying. Some thought
professor Goetz might have been stricken ill. Others may have been led to think
a sickness of the mind was at hand. In reality, young James Goetz knew the
truth. The truth was his father was burning the midnight oil from both sides of
a candle. Professor Goetz was
holed up in his New Jersey laboratory once again. The United States Government
was concerned of another internal conflict. The thought of further civil war
would decimate them and perhaps even leave them susceptible to outside forces
such as Great Britain looking to regain their colonies as they had done this
country, or the emerging powers of Russia or Germany. If such chaos from a
young man spraying graffiti or blowing up Bridgeport, Connecticut as recently
occurred, was so simple to accomplish, surely a manner to prevent this again
was necessary. This is why Goetz had been once again commissioned to save the
world.
Busy
in the private New Jersey Goetz laboratory, James Goetz was watching his father
craft fully build a large metal object. Young James Goetz was intrigued by the complexity
of this weapon. By the looks of it, the appearance was almost human, only it
was made of metal. A table in the Goetz New Jersey was covered in complex spaghetti-like
metal called wires.
Professor
Goetz put it together and turned it on. This eight foot tall, human-like
machine stood attentively. Professor Goetz told it to walk forwards. This large
machine proceeded forward. Professor Goetz commanded it to stop. Young James
Goetz watched this machine stop.
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James Goetz inquired to his father the source of power of this machine.
Professor Goetz chuckled, “remember the Lakeland diamond”? How was this
possible? The Lakeland diamond had caused
so much trouble. It caused deranged postal service men to come out of the
woodwork. It caused politicians to lie, cheat, and steal. It almost caused an
international incident. I thought the Lakeland diamond was sent back to its
motherland to prevent another incident,
questioned young James Goetz. “It was, but due to escalating tensions in
the world, the President of the United States commissioned your mother to bring
it back and hide it in Florida.” She did”, said professor Goetz.
Professor
Goetz had traveled down to Florida while young James Goetz had been at school
in Bridgeport, Connecticut, bring it back to his New Jersey lab in order to
create a robot that could be weaponized and bring peace to the United States.
Only the Lakeland diamond diamond was the right size and shape with the
necessary power to bring to life an inaminate object as big and powerful as
this robot.
Young
James Goetz now had a very serious concern and that concern was the United
States using it, instead of defense for offense.
The
robot was now fully functional. It was time Professor Goetz transported his
creation from New Jersey to Washington, D.C. While Goetz created it, he
did so for the United States government. The robot belonged to them. What they
did with it may have been a great conceren to James Goetz New Jersey, but there
was absolutely nothing he could do about itother than put his total and utter
faith in the United States government and gthe President to do the right thing.
The robot was designed for peace. Hopefully, this is what it would stand for.
In a world that is becoming smaller and smaller and more unstable, peace woud
onlyu last so long. Hopefully lang would be subjective to that of a small child
and not an elderly statesman who keeps wondering “where did all that time go?”
James
Goetz returned to Bridgeport, Connecticut from New Jersey to finish school
