Battle
One hundred gazillion delicate flowers and one hundred gazillion ants get into a chicken fight. There is big money riding on this, the delicate flowers are on each others' backs, but ants, all ants, are already and have long been in the habit of carrying each other, for long distances at that. The height differential between delicate flowers and ants is not compensated for at all, since this is nature we're talking about and there are no such things as pretensions of fairness. The ants are big for their species, but the flowers are low-altitude feisties. In the pre-game huddle, the ants decide upon the merits of the Climbing Up strategy. The vote may be close, but it is a number greater than their capacity for counting, so no agreement is reached before the whistle is blown. A big breeze comes in, the delicate flowers show a bit of sway, a cat walks by and freaks out the ants, and just when it's looking like we're going to be in it for the long haul, the special feature is interrupted by the goddamn regular programming, just because we didn't buy into the public tv pledge drive last month.
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