Runner up for Most Thought-Provoking '03
Escape
By: Hacker
Everyone, doesn’t matter who you are, has their own
means of escaping reality.
For the Maximals, they can only hope for a moment’s
chance for when they can go off in their little worlds
and enjoy the peace that resides there.
Everyone is different, so it is only fitting that each
of these different characters and personalities has
their own, personal world.
Now, even though it may not show in every character
that they do indeed have this world, you can probably
be able to tell by the way they act.
Since they are in the middle of an on-going war, you
probably won’t find them off day dreaming on a beach
chair out in the warm sun. You could probably find
this special place of theirs in just the simple and
most common things they do.
For Rhinox, stopping and smelling the roses are his
personal escape. Not to mention his impulse to always
create some new device to aid the Maximals in their
never-ending fight.
Dino-bot trains like there will be no tomorrow if time
allows. Though this statement is a lot more truer
than one would think. Some of the characters do die,
but why waste that time worrying about the inevitable?
Better to spend time thinking of other thoughts than
dwell on thoughts that might later distract one to
their death for sure.
Rattrap spends his time playing poker with the
computer and playing his favorite game of shooting
Waspinator on a downloaded arcade game.
Optimus, the leader of the group, loves to read and
you can most certainly find him reading anywhere when
there is not a battle to be fought.
Cheetor, a playful young bot, loves to just laze
around in the sunshine, if there is any to spare.
He’s got the right idea if you ask me...
But almost half of his free time, he spends that
trying to improve himself and tries to earn respect
from the other members of this crew.
Depth Charge, the poor soul, doesn’t have a past time.
But if he did, was hunting down Rampage. He knows
what he has to do and he knows the fight will be to
the death. So you must think here, what does he spend
the time thinking about? Perhaps all the lives that
do not have the time to think about what they want to
do in their spare time. They do not have to escape
from the troubles of everyday life, because it was
stripped from them in a single moment.
And last but not least, the two couples of the
Maximals. Blackarachnia and the noble Silverbolt, and
Tigatron and Airazor.
They have found a rather odd love at a rather odd
time, but is it the love-found bots who have found the
best use for their free time?
Loving instead of fighting sounds better, but
sometimes loving can lead to fighting.
So who’s got the best free time out of all of the
Maximals? That’s an opinion you’ll have to answer
yourself, for the Beast Warriors have already found a
simple pleasure in what they do in their own free time
and it suits them each just fine. Sure, some of the
things they do is not always necessary, but they have
found that it makes the life that’s they’re living,
worth while to stay and fight the good fight.
What do you do in your free time?
What’s your escape?