★ Four - Rock Around the Clock

[redwhiteandhero]

[Phone]

So this prom isn't just for the high school kids, right? I've always wanted to go to one! They always seemed really swell. The kids have lots of fun.

But I need a date! So who wants to go with me? I'm a real good dancer!


[Later, Phonecall to Canada]

Hey. I need to talk with you.

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[redwhiteandhero]

But Lithuania told me we beat the reds, so it's all good now.

[balzams]

Uh... well...

[He really don't know what his feelings on this are]

It doesn't really matter what happens in the future. Mayfield is Mayfield...

[redwhiteandhero]

What I mean is, we're cool.

[balzams]

So you're not going to call me a communist or anything like that?

[redwhiteandhero]

Not unless you act like one.

[balzams]

Honestly? We might just hate communists more than you do.

[redwhiteandhero]

Not likely.

[balzams]

You weren't there, okay?

[redwhiteandhero]

Don't give me that crap. I was there. I am there.

[balzams]

On the other side of the ocean! It's not like you actually had to live through it!

[redwhiteandhero]

I still have to deal with it. Constantly looming over my citizens.

[balzams]

And my citizens actually had to deal with it!

You can't say the threat of it was worse than living through it!

America that doesn't even make sense

[redwhiteandhero]

I can and I will.

[balzams]

Are you serious?

[redwhiteandhero]

Of course I'm serious.

[balzams]

Oh really? Please, regale me of all the horrors that the Communist regime forced on your citizens.

[redwhiteandhero]

Sending spies to my country. Stealing my weapons and threatening my people. Infiltrating my government and attempting to sabotage my economy.

[balzams]

Breaking promises, blackmailing the people in my government and rigging elections, mass deportation and exile and things I don't even want to think about and pretty much crashing my economy overnight.

So screw you!

[At which point he promptly hangs-up. This is far more rage than he's used to and he really needs to stop before things get too bad]

[redwhiteandhero]

No, screw you!

[Yeah he's aware he's talking into a dead receiver, but he has to get the last word, dammit.]