Oh no! The war was still going on! Bombs! Bombs rolling everywhere! Ah Tok watched in horror as bombs the size of cannon balls rolled down different lanes at great speed. He put his hands over his ears, lay flat on his tummy, and waited for the earth-shaking explosions to occur. His eyes were glued to the bombs flying down the lanes. He figured he might as well witness the sight of the blasts since he was going to die anyway.There was a loud “bang” as one bomb hit a few bottles lying in its path. However, strangely, the bomb did not explode into flames. The white bottles were all knocked down, but they were not broken.
Ah Tok was startled by loud cheering coming from a group of people who was pointing to a screen like that of a radarscope. There were little X’s all over the screen. These must be soldiers checking the location of their targets. Ah Tok looked around bewildered. These soldiers were all over the place, throwing bombs down different lanes. There were sounds of explosions all over. Ah Tok’s eyes darted from lane to lane as he kept his hands over his ears. This must be the end of the world!
When Ah Tok found himself still alive and in one piece, as bomb after bomb was being thrown down the lanes, he began to notice that all the targets of the bombs were just white bottles. These soldiers must be fighting a different kind of war. When the targets were all knocked down, the soldiers seemed to be very pleased and got slapped on the backs by their comrades. Ah Tok also observed that supplies of the bombs were arranged neatly on racks all over the place. The bombs seemed to come in different colors too.
Ah Tok had never seen soldiers handling bombs like the way these soldiers were doing. He remembered seeing bombs dropped from the sky and devastating a few villages at one time. These soldiers however, got into a funny stance when they rolled their bombs down the lanes. They did not even care to take cover. Ah Tok noticed another strange thing. The targets could never be destroyed. Those that were knocked down were replaced by new ones that looked exactly like them.
This must be some crazy new warfare. Whatever it was, Ah Tok did not want to be part of it. His whole village went up in flames when bombs like those the soldiers were rolling down the lanes dropped from the sky. His family perished with the villages that were destroyed that fateful day. He was fighting deep in the woods then and escaped death. No, no more bombs! Ah Tok rushed out of the bowling alley, with his hands over his ears and tears flowing down his cheeks.
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