Gone with the Wend

OK, for those of you out there who still doubt me when I say this book has virtually no chance of being published: Prepare to be convinced.

We've made it to Lost Earth, where Boston Thomas and Co. must convince the Mechanoids (my transformers I talked about earlier) to help them, despite the fact that the Mechanoids forced humanity to leave five millennia ago.

It turns out Callatron is a Mechanoid as well: an espionage model designed to gather intelligence, and what better way than to pose as a space reporter (She's a futuristic Ian Fleming). She transforms into something kinda like Megatron, with a big honkin' gun for a right arm, called a 4.4 Magnum, the most powerful armgun in the galaxy. ("Do you feel lucky? Well do ya, cyberpunk?")

The Mechanoid capital is where Chicago was, but it's no longer called Chicago; they honored the Great Programmer by naming the city after Randar's wife -- it's The Wendy City.

And the leader of the Mechanoids? Well, the elders are a collective of Apple G6s, but the military commander is Stoopsimus Prime.

Like I said, I'll have a LOT of editing to do.

Word count: 45,463.