Shafin Ahmed, “Marwan’s Innovation”

MARWAN’S INNOVATION

Shafin Ahmed Regardless of the Earth being a motherload of conflicts, the new species on Mars, known as Mashiro, is becoming a universal power through their advanced way of life. Which has been outside the knowledge of humans for thousands of years. These aliens on Mars are similar to humans, as they talk, eat and die, and have human-like faces; despite their bodies being like, as if, they are wearing gowns at their graduation ceremony. However, Mashiros are completely against the human way of reproduction. Instead, they prefer procreation through automatic DNA factories, where the Mashiro people can literally buy babies through certified qualification. On the other hand, humans on Earth have lost their scientific progress, due to continuous wars and conflicts for over thousands of years. It’s the year 3000, but on Earth, it feels as if you are still in the 20th century; where dozens of people have to die because of silly viruses. In other words, humans on Earth have become uncivilized, in front of highly advanced Mashiros, who are on the brink of becoming a universal power as they are more advanced in science and technology than any other species. In fact, the Mashiro people don’t rule them by themselves. They have a capable leader known as Marwan the Magnificent. Furthermore, Marwan is not the only one who is worthy of recognition on Mars. Marwan also has an advisor, who is known as Pasha, and is equally as important as Marwan, as he is responsible for running the government’s military, foreign affairs, and Mars’s well-being as well. One day on Mars, Marwan (the alien leader of Mars) came to his

throne with Pasha (Marwan’s advisor), by flying a horse, which looked like a brown unicorn. Besides that, Marwan’s throne looked like a golden rocket with a garden and a sitting area, which is literally standing in the middle of the clouds, and from a big distance, Marwan’s throne looked like a golden palace with a golden dome in the middle of the sky. As if it was a palace designed for a person who would probably go to heaven. At the same time, Marwan’s throne was always full of calming noises and beautiful music, like chirping of birds and oriental beats (eastern instrumental music), which make your heart dance with joy. As every morning, when Marwan and Pasha got situated in Marwan’s magnificent throne, as usual Pasha stood next to him. Out of the chirping of birds and music, Pasha said to Marwan, “Our magnificent Leader, I would like to inform you that our great robot scientist has invented something amazing.” This information was not something usual for Marwan. Therefore Marwan replied, “What is it, don’t we have enough amazing stuff already?” Pasha replied: “Yes, but regardless of us having infinite amount of amazing stuff, like cities overneath the clouds, automatic reproduction factories, robot scientists, gravity control technology, through which you and I are flying right now; but did we have a war spaceship that could fly as far as Earth?” Marwan replied, “Noooo waaayy! Were our Robot scientists really able to invent such a thing?” Pasha replied, “Yes, our Leader, we can now be a universal power with the capability to control over space. Especially, we can crush the disgusting species of Earth known as humans who create babies through a disgusting way and most of the babies are aborted. In other words they are heartless savages, therefore I think we as Mashiros should guide and civilize them. And to do that, we must crush their armies.” At that moment, Marwan was looking at Pasha awkwardly. Then, Marwan came out from his throne and came closer to Pasha.

Thereafter, Marwan replied by raising his voice. “I will not take over others, just because their way of life is ugly, or they are uncivilized, or maybe they kill each other and abort babies.” The music and chirping of birds suddenly stopped. Pasha was also shocked by seeing Marwan speaking by raising his voice, because he had never seen Marwan speaking like that before. At that moment, Pasha was standing like a statue, as if he would die out of embarrassment, as he had never dealt with someone disagreeing with him like that before. Thereafter Marwan and Pasha did not speak, and then both of them went to their palaces afterwards. The next day, instead of visiting Marwan’s throne, Pasha went to the Military headquarters. “But for what?” Marwan asked. The chief general Yazdaghar, who was in charge of Martian military intelligence, replied, “I think Pasha went there to do something against you, as you disagreed with him yesterday.” Marwan replied “Why? Is Pasha unaware of the fact that taking over others by force is against Mashiro Philosophy?” Yazdaghar replied, “I have no idea.” Meanwhile, Pasha and other Martian officials decided to overthrow Marwan, in order to fulfill Pasha’s dream, which was to launch a full-scale invasion into Earth. Regardless of knowing that this type of forceful takeover was forbidden in Mashiro philosophies. So, to deal with a possible resistance against Pasha for violating Mashiro philosophies, Pasha launched massive propaganda through Martian media, exposing human ugliness and criticizing Marwan for not invading the Earth to civilize humans. The next day as the propaganda spread, most of the Mashiro population was convinced by Pasha’s propaganda, which was laid down against Marwan and humans, for a good purpose. Meanwhile as Marwan was going to his throne, he saw some clips of the propaganda in his digital necklace, from which he gets every upcoming news. After seeing those clips Marwan

said, “What a beautiful deed you have done Pasha.” Marwan shouted and told some of his soldiers, “Go arrest Pasha.” But after a while, instead of the soldiers coming back, he saw something big and dark coming towards Marwan’s location. Marwan said what is it? But as it came closer, Marwan was clear what it was. It was nothing else but a unit of Martian forces sent by Pasha to arrest him. This situation reminds him about the time, when he refused the advice of Pasha to invade Earth, and not only that he refused his offer awkwardly by raising his voice while replying to Pasha. Marwan said to himself, If I hadn’t rejected the advice of Pasha that day, this rebellion would not need to happen, I really forgot the fact that Pasha is equally important as me. As a result of not finding any alternative, Marwan had to surrender. As Marwan knew that nobody would resist Pasha being the next leader, as he had launched propaganda against Marwan earlier to prevent any kind of resistance from the Mashiro population. Therefore, after arresting Marwan, Pasha exiled Marwan to eastern Mars, as there was no significant infrastructure there. The next day, Pasha quickly prepared the Martian military with the warspace ship that Martian robot scientists had recently invented, with which an expedition into Earth would be done. And after a week of preparations, Pasha did send his full military to invade Earth, and this expedition was greatly supported by most of the Mashiro population, as well. Meanwhile, Marwan while being in Exile was accompanied by a group of soldiers to the Martian’s Eastern military headquarters. And there Marwan gave an infamous speech. Marwan said, gesturing to present Eastern Martians officials, “Will Mashiros be introduced to the Universe as Hypocrites? Don’t you all see that Pasha is acting against our philosophy by sending the Martian military to invade Earth, by force?” Every-

one who was there realized that Pasha was wrong and Marwan was right, therefore everyone who was there pledged allegiance to Marwan. As a consequence, supporters of Marwan organized a strong army of four thousand and launched an attack on west Mars, in order to take back Marwan’s throne from Pasha. But they were soon repelled in the middle of their journey to west Mars, by Pasha’s robot forces, which were far more powerful, unlike a Martian soldier. Meanwhile, Yazdaghar had joined Pasha and signed on to become his advisor. On the other hand, the Martian military had reached the topmost atmosphere of Earth and now could be seen by humans. Furthermore, the people of the Earth were tense as they saw spaceships coming towards them. Many people panicked, and left their homes to find shelter somewhere. As those spacecraft came closer and closer, people wondered what it really was. Some people, who were Agnostics, as usual, said, “Don’t know.” People who are religious said, “It must be the ultimate punishment from God.” Atheists said, “It must be some asteroids that look like UFOs.” But in reality, it was aliens that came to invade Earth from Mars, who were indeed million times more advanced than humans. At that time, John (200th president of America) and Putin the XIX were considered the custodians of the Earth. And both of them were unaware of aliens coming towards Earth until they saw Martian military in the sky. Meanwhile, on Mars, Marwan found something unexpected, that could solve all the problems at once. The multifunctional necklace that Marwan had on his neck contained a brown diamond, from which he could ask it to do anything. By the way, Pasha was unaware of this diamond. Therefore, without wasting any time, Marwan told it, “Lucky Diamond, I wish that all the troops that have been sent by Pasha return from Earth, and stop their mission.”

Therefore, in a matter of time, the people of Earth saw from their rooftops that those objects were no more coming towards Earth. Instead they were going back towards space, which shocked John and NASA, as they were terrified by this. Putin was informed of this and became disappointed, as he had had a dream since he was a child to meet an alien. The Martian forces unconsciously retreated, regardless of being one minute away from invading the Earth. Pasha was also shocked by this, as he watched the whole scenario live on a big screen like a movie. He sent signals to complete their mission, but unfortunately, nobody expected Pasha’s signals. Ultimately, Pasha lost his confidence and decided to run away from Marwan’s throne, as his troops were no longer listening to his orders. As a consequence, Marwan was able to come back to power, and entered his throne room without facing any resistance. This situation led Yazdaghar to feel a dagger in his heart, as he betrayed Marwan by siding with Pasha, and now that Pasha was gone he had nothing to do but lock himself in his own prison. The next day, the Mashiro population began to question Marwan for the reason why he stopped the mission for civilizing Earth. In return, Marwan said, “I will not civilize Earth by taking over them by force, but I will do that by the power of a book, which contains the secret of wisdom and success, including philosophies and unknown sciences that will civilize and benefit all the species of this universe, including humans! Therefore, we can be a universal power without wars and bloodshed by taking over the minds and hearts of all the sensible creatures of the universe through the power of this book.” At this moment everyone was stunned by this innovation. People who had questioned Marwan clapped and broke into tears. So therefore, within a couple of weeks, envoys from Mars had gone to Earth to meet with John and Putin, so that they could come under the fold of Marwan’s book and follow its guidance. Ultimately Marwan was finally successful, regardless of John rejecting Marwan’s book, but his people didn’t.

As a result of his denial of Marwan’s book and its laws, John was overthrown by American civilians in a bloody coup. Unlike Putin, who without a doubt accepted Marwan’s book, and soon became a patron to promote Martian ideas. For example, Putin the XIX stopped sexual reproduction from Russia and started to build DNA factories according to Marwan’s book. At the same time Putin established a strong communication system between Mars and Earth, which improved Earth’s economic and technological conditions immensely. Therefore, as a result of Marwan’s innovation, Mashiros didn’t need to be imperialist to be a universal power, since Marwan was taking over other creatures like humans through winning over their hearts and minds, instead of through violence and war. Which also brought about the ultimate alternative of Pasha’s evil ideas. And at the same time, Marwan’s Innovation finally brought an end to the whole conflict that took place between Marwan and the people of Mars, for civilizing the people of Earth.